Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-12-17
NEWS FLASHES.

The West is rapidly gaining on the
East in the matter of manufactures.
The original Declaration of Inde-
pendeDce was printed by'a woman.
One good result. Before the panic
there were 5000 saloons in Chicago;
now there are only $500.
Thirty thousand idle men in Dundee,
Scotland, is the result Of another strike.
OF the eighty-three thousand work.
men in New York city, only thirty-six
thousand belong to trades unions.
Development. The valuation of prop
erty i'm Indiana has increased from
s4S4, ,0O0, 900 in 1860. TO 1881, ,0O0,O0 in
1874.
The Ohio Penitentiary has, at this
time, Within its walls, 1861 convicts-
the largest number ever there at one
time.
Two members of the new Pennsyl-
vania House of Representatives, both
physicians, have died since the eiec-
tion. -=--....---
An equestrian statue of the late Ma
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Cincinnati, has been received in Wash
ington.
M. Bernhard, the Westenberg, Min
lister Resident of the Netherlands at
Washington, has been transferred to
the Dutch Legation at Rome.
On Cuban hotel tables butter is serv-
ed in bottles, end is not ofen reached
for by North American guests.
Berea, Cuyahoga County, is agitated
over proposition to annex the Bald
win Univeeity, located there, to the
Ohio Wesleyan University, at Del
aware.
Florida papers predict that at least
! 900 places to plant orange groves will
be purchased along the st. Johns dur
ing the next three months.
The loss of the colored assailants in
the attack on Vicksburg Monday, is
at seventy. One white was
killed and two wounded.
Minority representation increases the
membership In the Illinois
Legislature to sixty-nine, when it'll
would have been but fifty-four by the
majority rule.
William Sharon, the wealthy San
Francisco banker and probable United
States Senator from Nevada, is native
of Jefferson county, this State, and has
a brother l.. c. Sharon, now living in
GalIia county.
A political society in Washington,
called the Democratic Jackson |
has changed its name to
the Jackson Democrats, etc, because
Donn Piatt persisted in referris 10 it |
IS the Dem. Jack. Ass. @ rs9
A patent has Just been securssf tor
butter and other perishable |
articles, fresh and sweet without the
use of ice, by simply lining packages
with the pulp of poplar wood, which |
IS furnished in sheets suitable for the
purpose.
John d. Lee, who is accused Of hav-
ing been the principal actor in the mas |
,acre of Mountain Meadow, and is now
In jail in Utah, wants his trial hurried |
lp-so that he can prove his innocence
Of the charge, and do something to sup
port his sixty-twO children. He also
wishes to leave his progeny the legacy
)f spotless name.
The Presbyterian Cook Book, pub.
ished for the benefit of the Ladies' So
,iety of the First Presbyterian Church
,f Dayton, has been a great success. A
hird edition of it has just been printed.
t has just been printed. 1t has brought
o the Ladies' Society profit Of 81 500.
The white Good Templars of Mary
and are in q state of indignant excite
nent over the recognition by the Chief
remplar of colored lodges. They should
that there should be tenn
,erance in other thing as well as in the
lse OF intoxicating liquOn.
The Herald says that during the past
leven months twenty trials by jury
we're heard in the Superior Court of
,leveland, of cases brought under the
Adair law. Fourteen of these resulted
q verdicts for plaintiff, four for disa-
and two in verdicts for the
efendant. The verdicts for damages
anged from $50 to 81 500, and the sew
raj amounts were a. follows: One $40, Il
wO $75, two 500, two $137 so, one
$50, one $3.50, one 1862 so, one $500, one ,
625, one 500, one 81 500. The aggre-
ate is $4,737 so, and the average
33S 80. In two of the above cases new
rials have been granted, which are
ct to be had.
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