Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-22
NEWS ITEMS.

swer Andy Johnson's speech.
The new Commissioner of Pensions
will enter upon his duties about May l.
The Sandusky Register proposes
Marx for Governor.
St. Cloud, Minnesota, had .ll2 cop-
secutive days of sleighing last winter.
Leander C. Dyer, of Tennessee, has
been appointed Consul at Odessa. 4
The snowis ever foot deep on the
Allegheny mountains, near Hazleton,
Pa.
Strawberries from Santa Clara, Cali
fornia. in San Francisco, at 81 % per
pound.
Dan Bryant, the we'll known min
strel performer, died Saturday of
pneumonia. TIL i
Algernon Sartoris, President Grants
son-in-law, sailed Saturday for En-
gland.
At present, about 10000 children in
the schools of New York are studying
German. 9zHC FtFSEsfs
,, The winter wheat is generally re-
ported 10 be i'm excellent condition
throughout the country.
Russia proposes 10 dig canal 750'
miles long, connecting the Black Sea
with the Caspian.
1t is reported that the Kansas Pacific
railway has been sold to the Union Pa
cific company, and that both lines will
be operated by the latter management.
General Alexander Shiras, Commis-
sary General OF Subsistence, United
States Army, died in Washington,
Wednesday morning.
A stage from Downieville, Cal., to
sacramento, was stopped last week by
lhighwaymen, and Wells, Fargo & Co. g
treasury box WAS taken, containing
So, 800 in gold dust, bars, and coin.
Ten irches of snow fell at Boston
Tuesday of last week, and fifteen at
Fall River. All trains from the South
and West.were delayed.
Governor Hartranft of Pennsylvania,
has signed the bill repeating the local
option law, and the license act has gone
into effect.
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Louisiana dispute seats twelve Demo
Gratis in the House and one in the Sen
ate, making Republican majority of
two on joint BALLOT
The Governor of South Carolina has
decided to veto the onerous tax bill
passed by the Legislature at the close
of its recent session.
ry,,,1 ,,nrIorarc ua,pa1l
Burch and Hardee, sentenced to be
hung at Charleston, South Carolina,
Friday, 10th inst, have been respited
for one week by the Governor.
The Superior Court of Hartford,
Conn.,, has enjoined the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railway from
issuing free passes to members Of the
Legislature which meets in May.
The two largest mixed colleges in the
eounrry are Oberlin and Michigan
University. OF the 1880 students al
Oberlin 633 are women; of the 11ol al
Michigan University IO0are women.
The special tax stamp OF the series Of
1876, for the payment of taxes on spir.
lituous and fernented liquors for the
year commencing May 1, has been is
sued to the various revenue offices.
Governor Jacob, of West Virginia
will, it is said, disregard the injunction
i Wheeling, recently awarded. The re
moval bill takes effect May 20.
The Catholic clergy of Cleveland viii
avail themselves of the provisions o.
the Geghan law to celebrate mass ir
:. the Work House of that city. i.
!, Mrs. Sarah Files, the oldest person in
e Clinton county, Ohio, died at Whining
y ton on the 9th inst. She was one hun
t Idred years, five months and twenty
: days old at the time of her death.
: s5 All the clerks in the Psstoffice De
. partment implicated in the recent mai
5 contract frauds have been dismissed by
y the Postmaster General.
1t has been decided by the Treasury
Department that different laws exempt
from taxation all property in the shape
of legal tenders, National bank notes
: fractional currency, and several ,Othel
r forms OF national credit. [5i
Ex-Represcntaiive John. Cessna, o
. Pennsylvania, has filed an application
!. for appointment to the office of FRS
I Assistant Attorney General, vice Glenn
I ent G. Hill, resigned.
!, Hon. W.sS. Groesbeek has contribu
! ted $4,000, the interest of which is tG
. be devoted to furnishing first-class mu
b sical concerts in the Burnet Woods
!. Park, Cincinnati. The money is to be
Y Il L.,
More Mexican raids in Texas are re
ported. On the night OF the I'd inst
the town of Roma was surrounded by
band of forty or fifty robbers, but fled
: on learning that a company of soldiers
I. was preparing to receive them.
1 The license act, repeating the Local
J Option law of Pennsylvania, will be.
I come law on the 18th inst unless We.
toed prior to that time by the Cover.
l nor. A strong pressure is being bro't
j to bear upon the Governor both for
and against veto.
Strawberries, the first OF the season
of English growth, made their appear
ance in the London markets on the 23d
of March tnis year. They were sold at
. the rate of half crown 10 five shillings
, for small baskets containing from six
, to nine straw berries.
The New York Supreme Court has
. decided in test case that a husband
who, prior Dshis marriage to second
i. wife, without her knowledge decided
his property to his children by previ-
Gus wife, cannot thereby deprive his
second wife of her right of dover in