Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-16
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GENERAL AND PARICpLAR

The quantity of old corn on hand /,
! quite sinall, the States of Illinois aud
Iowa showing the largest totals.
j Nebraska is now attracting consider
able attention as one of the best fields
for settlement in the Union.
/ Some ambitious Cincinnatian wants
that city to be known as the modern
Athens, probably because of her much
4 Greece.
At the end of the present session of
| Congress, Senator Schurz will resign
and return to st, Louis to publish tie
Westliche Post.
Germany is making tremendous ef-
forts to become maritime, power, and
is busted in seiziug the sees of Bishops
and Arcf-bishops.
There will be Presidential election
in uayti, this month, and the Hay
tians are preparing for a row, that
necessary accompaniment of such an
occasion.
The number OF vessels belonging to,
or bound to or from ports in the United
States. reported totally lost and mis-
oiuS uuhihS epO past hiOulAi, NdS tHcu-
ty-nine.
The land owners of Texas are tax
ing measures to crush out the cattle
owners who own little or no land.
Immense pastures are being fenced
in.
Within the past ten years the num-
Der of vessels lost on the lake was ,527.
The loss OF life amounted to 1874 per-
sons, and the loss of property foots up
$27 ,370,G ,G62.
Extremes meet. Dr. BrOwn-Sequard,
in recent lecture, stated that he once
successfully grated cats tail into a
ROSTERS comb.
The Committee on Civil Service Re-
form will soon report a bill introduc-
ing important changes la the admins
tration of the Treasury Department.
A disgusted individual has brought
suit against the Democratic Congress
sionai Committee in Washington, for
services rendered during the Presiden-
tial campaign of 1872.
DIR. Livingstone's remains were ex-
posed to the sun for a month to dry,
and then packed in a hollow tree,
wrapped round with cloth, and the
natives carrying it supposed it bale
of cloth, or kaniki.
The cranberry business has increased
80 rapidly in Jackson county, Wiscon-
sin, that the railroad company Is asked
to erect depot in the center of the
cranberry district.
Englishmen who lost by the spolis-
tions OF British cruisers under rebel
solors are impressed with the idea that
the slave of damages for Americans
should be equitsbly applied to their
own financial wounds.
Among the signs of the times none
are more pleasant TO contemplate than
those which come from many sections
in the South, indicating steady in
crease in the importance given to man.
ufacturin, interests there.
An exchange says: when you see
bareheaded man fOllowinga a COW thr'o
the front gate, and filling the air with
garden implements and profanity, you
may know that his cabbage-plants
have been set OUT
1t is singular fact that the acorn
from which the bludgeoa with which
Brooks felled Sumner grew, was none
other than the "Acorn"-the brig own.
ed in Boston, and chartered by the
United States government to take Sims
bach to slavery.
The successful operation of the storm
signal system in the United States,
and the advance in the science of mete-
Orology growing out of our meterorolo-
observations, have caused its reinaugu-
ration in England, after an abandon
ment OF ten years.
The French Assembly is considering
a law providing that every newborn
child shall have its name and the date
oi its birth tattoed on its ARM The
object is to facilitate Identification.
That would go hard with the Demo-
cratic party, here considering its num-
erous aliases.
An Oswego paper describes fire by
saying that the red flames danced ir
the heavens ard flung their fiery srm
about like black funeral pail until
Sam Jones got on the roof and doused
them out with pail of water"
The difference between having a
tooth properly drawn by a profession
al surgeon, and having it knocked out
miscellaneously by fall on the pave
ment, is only slight distinction-one
is dental and the other is accidental.
A boy who had been taught that
time is money appeared ct the bank.
the other doy, and remarked that he
had an hour given him, and he would
like to spend quarter of an hour, and
would take the change for the other
three-xuarters.
An old lBdy protected against the use
of steam vessels, rs counteracting the
DEGREES of Providence in going against
wind and tide, vehemently asserting,
Il would hae nsething to say to thae
impious vessels