Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-22
NEWS ITEMS.

The entire valuation of railroad prop.
erty in Kansas is $9,676, 31S.
Mrs. Sprague sails for Europe soon,
to be gone for several years.
100000 East Indians still require gov
ernnent aid.
/ Two new theatres have been opened
in Toronto.
Three eonvicts recently escaped from
Clinton prison.
! Yellow fever still prevails at the
Pensacola Navy Yard. -.ssss,z.....
The new county building at Albany
is to cost $15O, 900.
The University race at Saratoga cost
the Yale navy $3.50.
The Alabama Claims Commission
has adjourned till Nov. 5.
A thousand marines willrembark
from Spain for Cuba, Nov. I2..-ssss
The American squadron has arrived
in the harbor of Pirasus, Greece.
Chicago is going to lose the chief glo-
ry OF its pulpit, Robert Collyer.
Considerable quantities of Tennessee
pig iron are now being shipped to the
The cost of vanity. The British tax
on armoral bearings rendered s4OO, 900
last year.
Apropos of the Ohio election, the
Democratic press mistakes moonshine
for daybreak.
Connecticut will have an old-fash.
ioned supply of apples and cider at her
Thanksgiving festivities.
The Asbury Life Insurance Company
has been placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver.
The Brazilian Government has issued
loan of s25, ,0O0, 900 at per cent inter-
est.
The Industrial Political Party has
nominated Charles A. Dana for Mayor
of New York. t.
The water in the River Nile is fall
ing, and the danger of a disastrous in
undation is over.
One hundred and ten prominent citi-
zenS in Yates county, N. Y, are pledg-
ed to support the Prohibition ticket.
Guatemala has been visited by a vio-
lent earthquake, and houses were
thrown down in capital, with the loss
of many lives.
DIR. j. c. Aver has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
Seventh Massachusetts District.
The Republicans of Washington Ter
ritory have nominated Chief Justice
Orange Jacobs for Delegate in Congress.
Washington City is to have first
class theatre, $400, 600 having already
been subscribed toward the building
fund.
W.D. Couch has been nominated
and III. L. Pierce renominated, both in
the Third Massachusetts, District, for
Congress.
The amount of coal annually raised
in the vicinity of Mauch Chunk, Pa.
has grown from $50 tons in 1920 TO s.
600, 600 tons in 1873.
Mr.. Frederick w. Seward, a son of
the late Hon. w. II. Seward, is a can
didate for the Legislature in the Sew
enth New York district.
The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor
says there are thousands of bushels of
apples in Bourbon county which are so
cheap that they will be suffered to rot.
The German saloon keepers of the
Thirteenth ward, New York, have
dominated Fernando Wood for MEM
Der of Congress from the Twentieth
district.
A Newton county (Ga.) man has
raised fourteen sons, and not one of
Them has ever used ardent spirits as a
beverage. Neither do they use tobacco
IN any manner, shape or form.
Some statistician has estimated that
the growth of our American railroad
system has been at an average Of four
and half miles per day for the last
Iorty-four years, there being now in
operation in this country about 1900
miles of railway. In the year 1880
here were but % miles Of railway in
operation in this country.
The size and cost of the Potter Pal
ner Hotel in Chicago are set forth in
he following figures: Value of grounds,
., ,000, 900; cost of building, $4,000
furnishing, $4O0, 900; length on State
treet, 254 feet, length on Monroe ST.,
so feet; length on Wabash avenue,
81 feet; distance from State street to
Wabash avenue 1856 square feet; feet Of
round covered. ", 400 feet.
The Augusta COnstitutionalist says:
All the rolling stock on the Georgia
ailrOad-locamotives and cars-is now
q use for the transportation of way and
through freights. The freight business
3 remarkably heavy on this road at
100 to 200 running on the
rack daily.