Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-12

secret session Wednesday. Of hfty-
two oranges in the State, forty-seyen
were represented.
The finances of the country are grad
ually assuming healthier tone, name
ly, a money-tone.
The Rhode Island General Assembly
has made Decoration Day a holiday
throug hout the State.
The old Hall of Representative at
the Capital will hereafter be known as
the National Statuary Hall.
Little girls will be glad 20 hear that
Florida has one hundred thousand
sweet orange trees, and plenty more
coming on.
An exchange says that the Ohio wo-
men are all going crazy. Not quite so
bad as this. It's only a mild form OF
sa-lOonacy.
There is a marked prosperity and in
crease in most of the Southern cities
that were of any Importance whatever
before the war.
To illustrate the necessity of a strin-
gent liquor law in Illinois, hen re-
Gently laid an egg with a snake five
inches long in it.
: A rubber mandatory is talked of in
Rochester. There are said to be but
three now in operation in the United
States.
All the lumber in the Minnesota
msrket-about ii ,00O, 600 feet-has been
bought by a syndicate, with view to
advance prices.
Tecumseh, Michigan, is the locale oi
furious FIG mt, all growing out of q
mans not getting the pew he bid for al
sale of church seats.
A new charter of San Francisco pro.
vides that women shall be paid the
same salaries rs men in the public
schools of that city. This il simple
equity.
For many years past in Louisiana, il
IS reported, the prospects for large su.
gar crop have net been so good at this
season of the year as at present.
The increase in railroad building in
Massachusetts, has kept exact pace with
the population, and has now reached q
mile for every four miles and hal
miles of territory.
Congress is being petitieued for the
passage of a constitutional amendment
providing that Inaugurati tion Day shall
be changed from March to the second
Wednesday in May.
Thew wife of one of the Cabinet officers
at Washington has an arrearage o
nearly four thousand unreturned calls
and Congress is to be asked to pass bill
for her special relief.
Seeing thatit is very doubtful wheth.
er Congress will get around to the leg
islation which the country imperative
ly needs, why should it bother its h eaG
about liquor commission
A call has been issued for conven
ton of delegates from TIE Northwest
ern States, to be held in the city OF
Rock Island, March "a, to consider the
project of cheap transportation.
A Troy mechanic has devised move
ment by which smoke and cinders cal
be kept out of the windows of cars,
thereby doing away with one of the
most disagreeable incidents of railway
travel.
The Cheyennes, it seems, have de
termined on peace policy. Other In
dians are not 50 wise, but there ha:
been no disturbance lately.
The Washington Manufacturing
Company, of Gloucester, n. j., oil
Tuesday discharged 700 of its employe.
who had demanded increased wages.
The investigating committee of the
Pennsylvania Legislature has made {
report to the Legislature duplicating
Dimmick and Creter in an attemt tt
obtain money from banks.
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines has enter
ed suit against Caleb Cushing, claim
ing 5000, 900 for libel in this: "That il
one of the recent bills filed by Mr.
Cushing he charges her with making g
wanton and grossly malicious accusa.
tion of himself" ,"
The Maine Solons have curious no
tions about the care of the poor. The
Legislature is considering bill tc
make railroads support persons whom
they have brought to towns, if they
become paupers.
The defense of Baez, eX-President oi
San Domingo, now oD trial in Brook
lyn, is that the plaintiff, Hatch, was
captured while aiding the insurrection
and was sentenced to death, but that, ,as
a favor to the United States, he was
permitted to leave the island. Baez also
denies the Courts jurisdiction.
A break in the Piqua hydraulic, one
and half miles north of Piqua, at
Swift Bun, caused by the heavy rains
of Friday, the Doth ult., occurred on
Saturday. The rush of mighty waters
destroyed the waste weir, and almost
destroyed heentire' premises of Wes-
ley hathaway, taking his barn and all
outbuiIdings, and leaving him entirely
destitute of feed for his stock. His
losses are estimated at from $1,000 to
5000, It seems the waste weir was
not Sufficiently, large TO pass the extra
flow of water.
:, The freight agents of the Union Paci-
fic,and the Central Pacific Railroads,
and of the Chicago roads, have finally
agreed upon. a basis of pro-rating
freights, the charges for freight to San
Francico being divided among the
companies in proportion to the lentgh
of their lines. A new tariff between
Chicago and San Francisco was drawn
up. The rates are much lower than
those ofthe previous schedule, as the
statethat they are deter
mined. if possible, to get the business
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
Little five-year old Annie, who was
suffering from bad cold, went to pay
a visit to auntie. During the day she
related her various successes at school,
and ended by saying that she could
read a great deal better than Sabina,
who was eight years old. "Well,"
questioned auntie, '..would it not sound
better if some one else said it?" Yes
Annie, with II very sober
Il think it would. l have
such bad cold that can't say it very
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