Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-01-22
-ADvERTISING RATES
sACELL.d.rEOUS.
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ull-length portrait of the late
j. 2. Hale Is TO be placed in Repre-
lsentalives' Hall in Concord, N. H.
1t has lately been proved that fire
ctnnot advance through grass, even
VIXEN il is blowing gale, faster than
six miles an hour.
The King of Sweden has ordered
! a collection to be taken ON a fixed day
throughout his kingdom for the benefit
of the Emanuel Lutheran Church in
Chicago.
"A member of the Frence Assembly
has found out the reason why art is de-
clining in France 1t is that French
painters n longer go to church or know
theology.
-SportSmen who have returned
from Virginia and North Carolina state
that game was never before in this gen.
Grafton 81 plentiful. Deer, Ducks, and
wild turkeys abound.
The business of book making in Ger
many is almost at a stand5taI, and
large numbers of printers are depend
ing mainly for work on the catalogues
of the large millinery establishments.
One of the largest books in the world
is in process of manufacture in Paris.
1t will contain the names. of all the in
habitants of Alsace and Lorraine who
have proclaimed their wish to remain
French subjects.
Miss Mary Charlton of Chicago has
been elected third assistant clerk OF the
Illinois House of Rspr sS5ntat.ve5. Her
competitorswere all man. She Is p
years of age, ''comely in appearance
and of ample form."
A man in Evansville, Ind, recently
had the pleasure of attending the we'd
ding of his own parents. They had
been divorced thirty years, but the
number of times each had been mar
ried in tie interval is not stated.
Crtharine Oates, of Cornwell, En-
gland, Travelled ali the way to T0u-
iunne county, CAL. to marry the lover
she had not seen for eight years, and
found him welded to a Mexican ran
chero's daughter and the father ofonly
five children. = ia51 '.tLs--t
An immense number of able-bodied
men, who could do good service chop
ping cord-woOd, are now wasting their
valuable time in loafing about the va
rious State capitals. s
A number of Pennsylvanians are
spending the winter in Florida and
South Carolina. They write home ag-
gravating descriptions of the good
things set before them--strawberries
included. f--
A western genius has invented pat
ent Sc lf-raking, stem-windlng,. Dreech-
seven octave, n0n-explosIve
urchin chastiser and COM
bined hair comb, editorial protector
and hash-cutter. He expects to make
a colossal fortune. F.-ls-f d
In the clnims for depredations COM
mitted by American citizens the Mex
leans have gone back and included the
damage inflicted by Scott's and Tay-
lor's armies during the. Mexican war.
They ask for y ahundred million dollars.
Sensible. The Committee on War
Claims require each claimant TO state on
affidavit whether the claim has beeH
before any department, officer, or conn
mittee, or introduced in Congress. and
if so, what action was had On ii?
The most salient features OF the lead
market in 1873 was the increased use OF
lead for all purposes except
corroding, and the consequent decrease
in the importation Of ordinary foreign
lead. which has been counter balanced
by largely augmented home produc-
ton.
A comparison of real wages now and
in 1858, shows that the wages of day
laborers are % per cent higher, wheat
32 per cent higher, and pork 81 per cent
than in December, 1853. As E
he reduction in the meat staple balan-
.es the increase in the flour staple, real
wages have risen 25 per cent.
There is decided improvement in
he, fexenue. Collections from both
internal revenue anS iI port duties are
increasing. -. = --1'-'s1
eKiIled by visitation of Providence
through the medium of a horse,n was
he Coroner's verdict in the case of q
Georgia man who was kicked to DEATH
Since the hard times struck Nevada
hey have raised the price OF killing
Jhinamen to seven dollars.