Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-12-10
NEWS FLASHES.

WuUur r. SCOry, proprietor OF Tie
Chicago Times, presented his bride
with half interest in that paper.
David A. Gage, ex-City Treasurer oil
Chicago, has been acquitted of charges
of misappropriating city funds.
The Quakers of Philadelphia are con-
tributing with rather moderate gener-
osity toward fund for a statue of Will
liam Penn. kat-s S
The manufacturers of artificial ice in
San Francisco arc said to make net
profit of $50, 900 per annum on their
patent.
The Rev. John s. Glendenuing has
been acquitted by the Jersey City Pres
bytery of all the charges against him OF
seducing Mary E. Pomeroy.
The New York police have been in
structed to enforce the law against Sun
day theatricals.
A single shipment of $4,000 kegs oi
nails for st. Louis was made from
Wheeling Wednesday.
The indications are that the Constitu-
tional Convention of Missouri has been
defeated by eight votes.
Five thousand dollars was paid to
Bishop Alemany for performing the
marriage ceremony of Miss Sharon, ol
San Francisco.
Judge Durell, of the United States
Circuit Court, has forwarded his resig.
nation to the President, and Walker
Fearn has been named as his successor.
The President, it is said, will accept the
Resignation rendered.
In the Jefferson county, West Vir.
ginia, Circuit Court, last week, Daniel
Ames, formerly Mayor of Harper,s
Ferry, obtained divorce from Mary
Clemmer Ames, the literary celebrity,
who is now residing in Washington.
They are having curious variations in
their weather in Maine. The mercury
was Is deg. below zero at Presque Isle,
on the morning of the 23d ult., and at
BiddefOrd, on the 25ih, pansios and
dandeliOns were found in full bloom i'll
the open air. - =
The Portsmouth Tribune regrets to
learn of the serious illness of Hon. E..
E. White, of Columbus, of whose re-
.covery there is said to be no hope.
st. Louis papers estimate that there
are twenty-five thousand people out of
employment in that city who are COM
petent, and would work if they had a
chance. ~ =
Charles A. Eldridge, of Wisconsin,
so soon to become an ex-Congressman,
is a candidate: for the Clerkship of the
coming Bourbon House of Representa-
tives. .tt .,., s.. .,--..
There was a,grand parade of knights
Templar at New Orleans Friday. The
prize for the best drilled and appearing
Commandery was awarded to that Of
st. Louis. - ''-'.- 7'.'''' -''.'
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
have reduced their employees working
hours at the company's shops in WASH
ington from nine to eight hours with
3 corresponding reduction in wages.
Mrs. Daniel Logan, wife of a wealthy
farmer of Montgomery, Ohio, weighing
$50 pounds, was instantly killed Thurs
lay night, by accidentally rolling out
Of bed, breaking her neck In the fall.
The earnings of the Michigan Central
.ailroad for the first week of November
we're over one hundred and thirty-twoI
thousand dollars, an increase of sixteen
md a halfper cent. over last year.
A Wisconsin court has. decided a test
ase that boats mus: pass railway
ridges 1T their own risk, that such |
ridges are necessities, and that dam
ges cannot be collected for injuries oc- /
to them by water craft. |,
Since the recent elections, the Board
# Managers of the Soldiers and Sail
rs National Asylums have received
from ex-rebel soldiers for
Omission into these asylums, to be
ared for at the Government expense.
ONE of the applicants demanded this
rivilege as right, and not as a charity
The Pittsburgh iron puddlers have
sjected the manufacturers proposition
, pay five dollars per ton for bolling,
nd the result will be a general suspen-
ON of the mills to-day, excepting one
/ two, which will continue to pay the
resent price Of six dollars per ton un-
| their contracts are filed. 1'he sus-
ension will throw abont 10000 men ,
Ut Of employment. Il