Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS IkEMSs
The Hot Springs of Arkansas are fif-
ty-four in number.
Of22l ,042 teachers in this country,
I27, ,7l3 are women.
Two soldiers wounded in a recent
fight with Cheyennes have si:ce died.
A general Indian war on the Kansas
frontier is pronounced imminent.
Rev. DIR. John Halls old church, in
New York, has been sold for s2i0,O0O.
DIR. Glenn, of California, has just sold
his last years wheat for S50O,OO0.
The sale Of mining shares by one San
Francisco firm in 1874 amounted to $65-
OOO, 900.
The back war Iness of the peach buds
in Pennsylvania is supposed to have
saved them so far.
California; s annual exports amount
to about $50, GOO, 600, and her imports to
$27 ,000, 900.
1t is said that change of fifty votes
would have given the Republicans the
Connecticut Legislature.
The fruit crop in Southern Indiana is
killed by the late freeze. fhe orchards
in the high lands do not escape.
The centennial anniversary of the
capture of Ticonderoga falls on the 10th
of May.
1t is estimated that but three per-
sons out of every hundred who try
business in New York succeed.
Over foul. hundred thousanp copies
of Guizot's History of France have
been sold in this country.
Mrs. Mary l.. Hardee, widow of the
late Gen. Hardee, died few days age
at st. Augustine, Florida.
Ex Senator Carpenters friends are
pushing him forward as the next Re-
publican candidate for Governor OF
Wisconsin.
In the interior late of New York,
and in the Adirondacks, the ice still re.
mains from two to three feet in thick
ness.
The 10Th OF May has been designated
by the Com nander-in-Chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic as Decora
tion Day.
William Dodson froze to death Satur.
day night, at Leavenworth, Ind, with.
in few steps of his house. He was
drunk.
The ceremony of placing the red be.
retta on Cardinal McClosky will take
place in the New York Cathedral on
the 22d inst.
| The election of Tammany Sachen
has resulted in the complete triumph o
the John Kelly ticket over that led By
Controller Green.
The damage to the California frui
crop by the recent severe frost in tha
State is supposed not to exceed ten pei
cent. of an average crop.
Messrs. Maynard and Oorth, Ambas
sadors from the United States to Turkey
and Austria, sailed Wednesday in the
steamship Russia.
Bernard Quigley was fatally stabbed
in Brooklyh Tuesday night by hi.
brother-in-law, John Myers. The mer
quarreled over the merits of theil
wives.
The Winchester Arms company ant
the Providence Tool company havejus
shipped cargo of rifles and ammuni
tion for the Turkish Government, val
ued at $629, $50.
Willard Carpenter, of Evansville
Ind, announces that he will give
81 ,000, 900 to found free college fol
poor students, their clothing, tuition
aud food to be furnished for nothing.
The Virginia Legislature recently
authorized the city of Richmond to use
her credit to the extent Cf 81 900, 900 in
finishing the Western connections o
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway.
The New York Woman's Suffrage
Society celebrated the Concord anc
Lexing ton Centennial Monday evening
by addresses and other literary exer
cises.
Budd Doble, with his palace car, con
tanning Occident and other flyers
reached Chicago on Friday, over the
Northwestern railroad, and went East
Immediately.
The famous race-horse, Kentucky
owned by August Belmont, has died
at the Nursery Stud Farm, Babylon
Long Island. Kentucky was bred by
John McClay, in 1861, on the Ashland
estate, in Kentucky.
Four United States soldiers had s
desperate encounter with party of In
dians twenty miles south of Fort Wal
lace, in Kansas, ON the 18th inst, il
which ten Indians wee killed. The
soldiers made their escape in the dark
ness.
Oscar Burton was killed at SOmer
vile, Tennessee, Monday, by a maj
named Doyle. Burton last fall had ,
named Rives, during which two of thu
Riveses were killed and the other dan
gerously wounded, Burton being sho
nine times, and supposed to be fatal,
wounded.
1t has been said that horses are al
most human, and any man who has
had any man who has had any expert
ence with them knows that they re
quire comfortable quarters to keel
them in good spirits just as much a
men do.
Reports from sixty-one towns in Ohio
and thirty-one in Indiana indicate tina
the peach crop will be complete fail
ure. Apples are but slightly injured
but other fruits are either totally de
stroyed or greatly damaged. The whea
also has suffered much from the unseas
lonable cold.
The late cold snap has damaged tht
Delaware peach crop to very grea
extent, and not more than one-fourtf
of crop is now anticipated A Viii
mington dispatch of the 18th says or
chards in the peach-growing districts
yield of 4, ,0O0, 600 baskets of fruit would
not now justify an estimate of 1,000, ,00(
baskets. Orchards that would have
brought 5000 twenty-four hours age
could be bought now for $500.