Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-01-28
NEWS FLASHES.

Now will the indianapolis Journal
tell US why it calls the Centennial pro-
ject 'swindle?'
Lieutenant General Sheridan has
ordered General J, A. Forsylhe, of his
staff, to report at once TO him at New
Orleans.
There are now rs many Methodists
in either Africa, China or India, AS there
were III this country hundred years
ago.
One hundred and sixty-eight thou
sand cans of milk were transported
from Derry, n. H., to Boston last
year.
The printing machines of Cecheco
Print Words, at Dover, N. H., are to
be speeded so as to print $1,000 pieces
a week, which will be large. increase
over the present production.
There are now stored in the cellars of
the White Oak Vineyards, of Keokuk,
Iowa, GO, 900 gallons of native wines,
90 900 gallons which are marketable,
being Of the vintage of 1871.
Gloucester, Mass, is making active
preparations for the fishery business.
Her fleet uf fishing vessels already
numbers three or tour huddred, and
more are to be added this year than
almost ever before.
A Bourbon exchange asks: Ought
we to be educated by law" Any way
to emancipate you from your gross ig-
nOrance.
The presses of Cincinnati last year
turned out five million copies of hound
publications. The majority were
school books.
years the transit astronomers now tell
US, before we are to fall into the sun,
and become 'shriveled in fruitless
fire.
Livinnstune's Journal in Africa,
which recOunts his experiences in his
wonderful explorations up to within a
short time of his death, will soon ap-
pear in this country. s.st-.-
Michigan has a law prohibiting the
sale of alcoholic stimulants, and has,
moreover, the 5000 saloons which u.s.
uaily accompany such law.
The net receipts for the crops raised
during the past year in Indiana, act
ually averaged more per acre than the
marke: value of the land.
The cost of pauperism in Massachu-
setts last year was about 81, $50, 600;
three fourth of which. or nearly that,
was in the form of indoor relief.
Out in Minnesota the thermometer
indicated more continuous cold weather
during the period beginning December
20, and ending January II, than has
ever been known in that State.
Three hundred colored citizens who
are anxious to paddle their own canoe, !,
petition Congree to set aside some Sec
tion of the South or Southwest for the
exclusive residence and use of their
race.
Indications multiply that public opin-
ion in the Northwestern states is grad
ually re-acting from the extreme views,
with reference to railway corporations,
which were recently 80 popular in that
quarter.
proposed Improvement of the mouth
of the Mississippi would, by cheapen-
ing transportation, add at least twenty
five cents, to every bushel of grain
shipped abroad from the Northwest.
In the election for President in 1876,
the tbirty-seven States in the Union
will choose 366 electors. Those States
in which slavery lately existed will
choose 13S of them. The New England
States, together with New York, PEN
nsylvania and New Jersey, will choose
112, and the twelve States lying west
of the Ohio in which slavery did not
exist, will choose the remaining lis.
The Cambria Iron and Steel Works,
at Jownstown, Pennsylvania, are run
ming Oh full time, giving employment
to more than four thousand persons.
A general reduction in wages took ef-
feet from the 1st instant. The boilers
were reduced to four dollars per ton,
and in all other departments a reduc-
tiOn of seven Der cent was made