Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

found in Napa county, California.
Eight Conservatives took their seats
in the Louisiana Senate on Tuesday OF
last week.
Saddle horses are selling at S25 a
head In Texas. y5h -iSl
The resignation. of Senator Booth
makes Romualdo Pacheco Governor OF
California.
The Texas Senate has passed a bill
repeating all laws requiring hotels to
procure licenses.
The Michigan railways are open
again, and passenger traius running on
time.
The current of conversions from Ro-
man Catholicism to the Greek Church
of Russia is still continuing in Poland.
A twelve foot vein of bituminous
coal has been found near Fort Worth,
Texas. e
There are over sixteen hundred con-
victs in the Texas penitentiary. Two
new prisons are proposed.
The Mayor of New York has appoint
ed Gen. Fitz John Porter Commission
er of Public Works. 4E
The contracts awarded for carrying
mails on the Mississippi river, this
year, are s50, 600 less than last.
AT indianapolis, Monday night, a
man named Lewis Bishop cut his wife's
throat because she refused to live with
him any longer.
The Canadian Parliament has passed
a law providing for union OF all the
Presbyterian churches in British Prov
inces of North America.
Tests of all the various irons made in
the country for car wheel purposes are
about to be made at Altoona by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Twenty six twenty-dollar gold pieces
were sawed from a pine log, In which
they were embedded, at a Georgia saw
mill, few days since. 80
A couple of San Francisco capitalists
have bought about two million acres
OF Oregon lands At the cash gold price
Of one dollar AN arree.
The proprietors of the Park Hotel,
Baltimore, have elused their house to
the public to escape the penalties of
the Civil Rights bill.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, forwarded on Tuesday
$1,000 to the grasshopper sufferers ol
Kansas and Nebrasks, making Sl2 1901
sent from the Tribune dollar fund. gf i
Last years wheat crop in Minnesota
Is found to be about twenty-five per
cent less than the year previous. On
ly about three million bushels of wheat
yet remain in the hands of the farmers.
The New Orleans committee of Sew
enty has adopted resolutions rejecting
the Wheeler compromise, and announ-
cling unutterable opposition to the KelI
logg government. "a Il
Thirty warriors, captured last De-
cenDer on the war path, are now be-
ing tried by court-nartial ut Fort Sill. |
Tnose convicted Of mlking war upon
the whites will be hung.
Nantucket, Mass, has had terrible |
experience this. winter, having been
ice-bonnd for three months, and depri-
we'd of comm uHication with the -conti- |
nent. "a 2 .As-
A very busy season is anticipated in
fitting out sperm vflalers this spring,
stimulated by the small stock ofsperm |
oil and the high price which it com
mands at present.
The mean temperature in Minnesu-
ia during the past winter has been
two degrees colder than that of any
previous record in forty-two years
since the regular observations at Fort
Smelling were instituted.
Out of a total of 5,O25 cared for last
year in the Irregular National Homes
for disabled soldiers, sixty-nine were
disabled in the Mexican war and the
war of 1872, and the remainder i'm the
war of the rebellion.
In Chicago the purchases oflive hogs
for packing alone, down to last Satur-
day week, footed up to thirty million
dollars. This does not include the
money paid for dressed hogs, or those
purchased for shipment.
Notwithstanding the compulsory
school law, the average attendance atl.
the New York public schools during
the past month was 90, ,825, or 205I less
than in January, 1874, while the num-
Der enrolled is greater than last year. Is
A large field of cryolite has lately
been discovered in Nevada. This val {
liable mineral, which has become an I
important source of sodium and its I
compounds, in.l metallic aluminium. Ia
has heretofore only been found, In con. +
siderable quantities, in Greenland. i