Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06


Northern lake islands will be almost q
total failure this year.
Not exactly building on rock. The
aggregate church debts Of New York
cliy count up into the millions.
General George Crook has assumed
command of the Department d the
Platte. |
The annual loss resulting from trans
fers and transhipments of merchandise
in New York is said to be s3O, ,OO0, 900.
Four New York fire Insurance COM
panies have withdrawn from the
National Board of Underwriters since
Saturday.
The regiment Of the Pennsylvania
National Guard, which has been doing
duty in the coal regions, returned tol
Philadelphia yesterday.
The spring meeting of the Nashville
Blood Horse Association will begin
Tuesday. Over hundred fleet horses
from various States will be present.
Kentucky farmers have commenced
sowing tobacco seed again. The gen.
eraI impression is that the cold wealth
er killed all the plants.
Thequestion of granting to woman
license 10 preach has been decided in
the negative by the Northern Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Conference.
An association of brewers out West,
spiritedly threatens to publish q black
list of ali the Temperance agitators' in
the country.
Three English steamers are at Gal
weston, loading with cattle for England.
This is a new outlet for Texas cattle.
They 60 in the steer-age.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
made an entirely new classification of
the Collectors districts. They are ar
ranged in seven divisions.
Bismarck has placed number Of
gunboats on the river Rhine for the
protection of his forts. He means to
hold fast to frances khine-ho.
Andy johnson evidently agrees with
De Quincy, who asserts that no man is
Thoroughly civilized who has not been
drunk once. He is at itagain.
Lee, the Mountain Meadow murder
er, is draining the Ices of existance. He
had an apopletic fit in prison, the other
day, and is not expected to live.
Friction matches, according TO the
National Board of Underwriters, cause
nearly one-third of the fires in New
York.
The compulsory education law of
Massachusetts has increased the attend
ance in the schools of that State forty
per cent.
japanese bricks are sold in San Fran
cisco cheaper than the home product
after paying an advalorem duty of
twenty per cent.
ga foreign company, with a capital of
$20, 900, 600, has been organized for the
purpose of investing in Louisiana land,
and of pursuing agriculture as science.
Not more than ten per cent. of the
logs cut last winter in Western Michi-
gan can be run out this spring, unless
an extraordinary freshet should come
in June.
A man named Monk, of Canada, is
agent for scheme of buying Palestine
from the Turks, for the glory of God.
1t is to be done with other peoples
money.
The cotton, sugar and corn are COM
ing forward rapidly in Louisiana, and
should the season prove favorable, it is
said there Will be an increase in the
harvest beyond that of several years
past.
A new thing for the West. The
Methodists have purchased about 400
acres on the Lake shore adjoining Lake
Forest, Illinois, where they propose
to mt up religious summer resort.
Governor Hartranft is said to possess
the inkstand which the siSners of the
Declaration of Independence used when
they appended their names to that doc
ument.
Mr.. Estilette, the new Speaker of the
Louisiana House of Representatives, is
a native of Illinois. He is forty-two
years of age, WAS graduated al Yale in
1857, and was rebel.
Daniel O'Leary, of Chicago, has walk
ed ll5 miles In y hours and SO min
utes, thus beating Weston, whose best
time was % hours, 50 minutes and Al
seconds.
A resolution was adopted by ex-Con-
federate soldiers, at Nashville, Mon
day, inviting everybody, regardless of
past differences, to unite in decorating
the graves of the Confederate dead.
Col. E. NJ. Yerger, formerly of Mis-
sissippi, died suddenly in Baltimore
Thursday. He is the same Yerger who
was tried by military com mission for
killing Col. Crane, at jackson, Miss.
An eel of immense size came in con-
tact with mill-wheel Gin Mount joy,
Pa, and caused the stopping of the ma
chinery. 1t issssaid to be the largest
fish of the sort ever seen in that neigh
borhood.
John III. Conner has been arrested fcrt
embezzlement at the instance of the
President of the National Stock Yards |
company, in New York, of which com.
pany Conner was for many years the
Secretary and Treasurer. Seventy-one
thousand dollars are missing.
Bridging the bloody chasm? At an
exhibition of Photographic portraits in
Baltimore the other night, the portrait |
of Grant was furiously hissed, while
that of Lee was loudly cheered.
THE Kentucky papers now say that
the cold sEap did not kill the tobacco
plants, as it was at first feared it did,
and now the Western New York pa
pers say tina the fruit in that region
was not forward enough to be injured.
In raising tomatoes for profit, plant
in rows four feet apart, alternating with
rows of peas. The peas protect the to-
matoes. The rows should be east and
west. When :he peas !are picked re-
move the vines and take a ligat pIow ,
and turn furrow away from the toma-