Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-12-10
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

| The Superintendent of the Michigan
State Prison has organized an orchestra
among the cOnvicts.
The area of the Indiana coal meas
ures is said to approximate one-fifth of
the entire area of the State.
A Maine factory hss turned cut over
two hundred tons of starch this year,
and feels quite stuck up about it.
The receipts of the internal revenue
for November have been 81 900, 900 in
excess of the same month last year.
Puff! The number of cigars, eheroots,
etc., on which taxes were collected
during the last fiscal year, was 1885,
697, ,498. -rasr lii.- Gi
The civil service rules which have
been extended to the Boston Custom
House do not seem to be in good work.
ing order. . ......,.., .-.....
Chicago and Cincinnati alone are pay.
ing out an average of $500, 900 daily for
hogs, alone. This is the way to revive
business. y - '-f -i
American apples of this years
growth are now selling at moderate
rates in the provincial towns of both
England and Ireland. .-.-.s p. p 81.
Of the 1885, ,241 names on the roll of
Government pensioners, 115, ,023 are de-
pendent widows and relatives of our
dead patriots.
}. The East feeding the West. Fifty
thousand barrels of potatoes have been
shipped Westward from Buffalo, within
hAr l1 xy< alr,
Carl Schurz, the man without--a local
habitatiOn, is wandering abOnt the
country telling the people that .'hOme
is the pillar of the State"
The history of our country since the
rebellion has shown that the thing that
takes the longest to be effected by imam
cial Instability is real estate, y 7.4-
The project of connecting the three
principal rivers of Western. Germany,
the Rhine, the Ems and the Weser, by
q canal, is under consideration.
A returned miner who has been pros
pecting' in the Black Hills, reports that
nothing but pocket-gold can be found,
and it not in paying quantities.
False prophets. The spiritualists pre-
dict the election, in 1876, Of Thurman,
of Ohio, as President, and of Jerry
Black ms Vice President of the United
States. .-,..-, E. .
Suicide in this country appears to be
upon the increased three
hundred per cent. in the last seven
years. ~ ~rst efrf -f'3 So -
A remarkable unanimity of opinion
seems to prevail in the larger English
cities as to the prOpriety of introducing
the lash as punishment for crimes Of
violence.
Nine million acres of public land
were disposed of last year, of which
nearly one million were entered under
the Timber act, which requires the
planting of forest trees.
Receat atexperiments have shown that,
to keep a railway track in perfect or
der, IL must be used at least once in
hours, while once in twelve
hours is better still. us sr1 -
A new disease called "thorisis," said
to have its origin in dried sausages, has
appeared in New York city. Thou
sands of infinitesimal living insects are
found in the thrOats of those afflicted.
The route to the Yosemite Valley Is
to be kept open, this winter. Hitherto
it has not been visited by tourists in the
cold season, but the scenery is said to
be grander and more beautiful then
than ever.
Nothing is lacking to the manusac-
turing independence of Michigan but
in textile fabrics, Although 1t raises
wool, yet 1t depends upon
other States to manufacture it for the
people.
The Ohio coal measures occupy o =
space of $50 miles In length by SO in
breadth, the area being bounded by the
Ohio river from Trumbull county ON
the north, to the mouth Of the Sciota
on the South.
The Occidental and Orient Steamship
Company have just filed in San Fran
cisco an act Of Incorporation, the capital
stock of the company being fixed at ten
million dollars. The line "a in opposi-
ion to the Pacific Mail.