Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-29
Items of Interest.

Confidence in railway stocks is re-
viving.
Oil of burgamott sells at S. and s. 80
per pound, gold.
A worm or slug Is destroying the
pear trees in Vermont.
There are 40, GOO tons of coal on the
wharves at Richmond.
The Rhine river and its tributaries
are to be stocked with 100, 200 young
Ishad.
j Bridgeport Conn has concluded to
use gasoline instead of gas for its street
light.
A man in Iowa has just applied for a
patent on plow, to be worked by wind
power.
A great falling off is reported this
Sum mer in the sales Of books and mag
azines to tourists.
Several horses were made deaf by
lightning in stable In Lancaster, Pa,
few days ago.
The Sandusky (Ohio) Register is the
latest paper communicated by a Ro-
man Catholic priest.
In view of the cheapness Of divorce,
Indiana jurymen consider $3.50 as fair
tariff for breach Of promise.
1t is generally believed in Boston
that Governor Castor will not sign
the warrant for young Pomeroy's exc
cution.
George 8. Jones, of Hillsboro, Or,
has sent 136 kinds of insects to Wash
ington by order Of the Bureau of Bug
ology.
Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the boy
murderer, has whiled away his leisure
hours in Jail by writing tho story Of his
remarkable lie.
Presbyterianism numbers In all the
world over 100000 members, with a
probable aggregate of 10000, 900 of Pres
byterian population.
In nest of robins found on a farm
at North Dartmouth, Mass, are three
white birds and one cream-colored.
The old birds are of the common hue.
The great unwashed of New York
are gradually being cleansed. Last
week 69,402 persons patronized the
public baths in that city. The largest
number bathing in one day was 16, ,264.
General Frank P. Blair left no estate
and was dependent for support upon
the Office of Insurance Commissioner
when he died. He leaves a wife and
eight children.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey have
been invited by the Round Lake CAM p
Nicotine, e. Lo1l Il -, A.,
meeting on their camp ground in Sep
tember next.
There has been discovered in San
Francisco an insect, new to science,
which is believed to be a species Of the
very valuable cochineal.
A monarchist journal in France says
that the only wall. in Toulouse that
resisted the flood were those construct
ed under the old monarchy
A Georgia farmer has raised from
one grain OF wheat 191 stalks and 100
heads. The largest head has 1S5 grains.
This is the most remarkable reproduc-
ton on record.
Dsnbury, Conn.,, ha. just welcomed
the return, through Executive Glenn
ency, Of one of its oldest inhabitants,
who has passed over forty years OF
his life in prison for horse stealing
Queen Victoria has been invited toI
be personally present at our Centennial
next year. Everybody would be glad
TO have that good lady come over and
visit us.
The chronological Secretary of the
Mt t,tA -
declares that the potato bugs which are
ravaging the crops there are mere im-
posters and not genuine Colorado
beetles at all. y i
Fish and game are remarkably
abundant in Southern Florida. During
a late surveying expedition three Indi
ans, in fifteen days, killed thirty-seven
deer, and great varieties of fish exist
in proportionate abundance.
Russia and Germany intend to grant
military furloughs on large scale next
year. One of the Vienna papers urges
Austria to follow the example and
prove that the alliance between the
three Emperors Is worth something.
Frederick K. Thorpe, aged thirty,
dentist, of Clevelind, committed sui
eide, on Tuesday, by hanging. The
verdict of the Coroner's jury was that
the act was done while the deceased la.
bored under mental depression, caused
by sickness.
A gambler in Iowa, to escape arrest,
to cross a river with pock-
et-book between his teeth. His strength
or skill not proving adequate, he was
obliged to open his mouth in order to
call for help, and his pocket-book, con-
tanning 81 900, went to The bottom.
San Francisco values herself at $780,
10000. Among the wealthy corpora
tions are the Hibernian Bank, assessed
s13, ,030,147 the San Francisco Gas
Light Company, 100000; the Odd
Fellows Savings Bank, So, 349, ,577; the
Consolidated Virginia Mining Com
pany, $1,000,000. Sharon, Jones and
Ralston are assessed q half million
Zach.
An unknown man attempted to steal
, ride on Lake Shore freight train at =
on Monday night, and hid
n car loaded with lumber. The
of the train caused the G
umber to slide on him, crushing him a q
gainst the end of the ear. He was Il
lead before he could be extricated. He s.
vas apparently about twenty-five years c,
4 age.