Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-08
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

1t is reported from Sonora that the
Apaches are raiding again.
Senator Thurman has been on a
stumping tour through Connecticut.
On the way from Texas to Wichita,
Kansas, are 100, 900 head of cattle.
san Francisco is said to be progress
ing faster than any other city in Amer
lea.
The gold fever at Yankton, d. T.,
has eliminated in a newspaper-The
Black Hitler.
The Wilmington and Reading rail-
way has been seized by the Sheriff, and
will be sold April %.
Extensive and valuable deposits of
lead and copper have just been discov-
cred near MankatO, Minnesota.
The snow has mostly disappeared
in Southern Minnesota, and the farm
ers have commenced seeding.
The number of Immigrants who
arrived in the United States during
1874 was 270,Sl4.
st. Louis claims a population DOW Of
400, 900, an increase since the census OF
fiftyseven per cent.
Four fine bridges have been swept
away by ice and high water on the
Elkhorn river in Nebraska.
The Republicans of bridgeport Conn,
has nominated P. T. Barnum, the
Snowman, for Mayor.
Wm. McGipniss, son in law of VIM.
NJ. Tweed, is a Corsar"ative member
elect of the Lou, ,i.1u' legislature.
Ths sugar makers OF Verm ont
aven't made any this season.
The public debt of France now
amounts in the round NUN Ders to ST.
800, ,O00,0 900.
In Minnesota recently, 1t is said, 500
locust eggs were found in single peck
of earth.
Professor F. V. Hayden, United
States Geologist, says he does not be-
lieve there is any gold in the Black
Hills.
The Virginia Senate has expelled
Senator g. w. Graham for alleged CON-
plicity in the sale of a naval cadetship.
The Executive committee of the
Evangelical Alliance has decided tO
hold its biennial conference in Pitts.
burgh.
The Louisville and Nashville railway
has compromised suit against the
company for $15, 900 by paying $500.
The Utah Northern Pacific railroad
is to be extended twenty-five miles
north from the frontier Of Idaho al
once.
Phil Sheridan's famous Winchester
horse is suffering from rheumatism, In
the Generals stables at Chicago. He
is tenderly cared for.
Michigan, on Monday, elected two
Regents of the State University, two
Supreme Judges, and twenty-nne Cir
cult Judges are to be elected.
The inquest at Boston over the body
of Mrs. Bingham resulted in verdict
of death by violence at the hands O.
George PembertOn.
The Boston school fathers have very
sensibly decided in favor of having
sewing taught to the girls of the lower
classes in the grammar schools.
Who cares if Connecticut does &C
Democratic? A prophetic lecturer in
Western New York is going to bring
the world to an end on the 9th of next
month.
The effects of the spring freshets il
its tributaries is beginning to be felt in
the lower Mississippi, which is over
flowing its banks and opening the
levees.
In Connecticut man on trial for his
life is no longer necessarily subject tC
the whims of jurors. His case may be
given to two judges, at his own elec
ton.
Two full-grown otters, driven by the
cold from creek in Indiana, recently
walked deliberately into a dwelling
house for the purpose of warming them
selves at the fire.
The New York Mail says that the
manufacturing interests of Buffalo,
Pittsburgh, and Wilmington, Del, are
down for large Spaces" at the ap-
preaching Chilian exposition.
The early completion of the Cincin-
natl Southern Railroad is determined
ON. 1t is expected that the line will he
finished through to Chattanooga with
in the next twelve months.
Borax Lake, California, is fifteen
miles long by seven to nine miles wide,
and contains deposit of borax of al
most incalculable value, enough, it is
said, to supply the world.
AT Shamekin Pa, the Miners
continue joining the Miners Union,
there, and it is supposed they
will suspend work in all the mines
soon.
The Missouri Legislature adjourned
sine die al noon Monday, and was i'm
convened i'm special session
by Governor Hardin, to legislate upon
several important matters.
Starch.
According to the census of 1870,
about six million dollars worth of
starch was manufactured in the United
States. About one--twelfth, or half
millions worth, was in New Hamp-
shire. Coos county takes the of all
)ther counties in the State in the man.
lfacture of this article. The farmers
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