Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-06-17
General and Particular.
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1t is officially announced that the
laying of the direct United States cable
is completed.
I Several English and Russian ships of
war are about starting on river voyages
of exploration to the interior of China.
The grasshopper depredations in
Kansas do not aggregate five per cent.
of the entire crop.
the Government Ordnance Works at
Harper's Ferry.
California pays female teachers the
same salaries that male teachers are
paid. This is but simple justice.
The aggregate number of subordi-
nate Oranges has increased about a
thousand during the last three months.
Trial of the Memphis express rob-
bers has begun in that city. Punish
ment, if guilty, is death.
Albany, New York, now has double
the population of the State of New
York in HI.
The orchards of this country are esti-
mated to contain over 20,000,000 fruit
trees.
The number of cattle from Kansas
and Missouri now grazing upon Iowa
soil is said to be immense.
'Pious Picketing' is the Saturday Re-
uiew's characterization of Moody and
Sankey revivals.
A handsome edition of Edgar A.
Poe's works, recently issued in Edin-
burg, was printed from type set by two
girls.
Say what you will about the prevail
ing style of dress for ladies, but it is the
bandsomeSt and most sensible seen for
these last 100 years.
Sweden has appropriated sos, 900 in
gold for the expense of the Swedish
Commission to the Centennial. This
looks like business.
Governor Hayes, of Ohio, was at
home, playing football with his boys,
when the nomination and platform
reached him.
All the Government bureaus are bus
lily engaged in preparing their accounts
for final settlement at the end of the
present fiscal year.
Who wouldn't be a mud-scraper
there? The street dirt in Virginia City,
New, assays at the rate of S7,54 silver
and $2,32 gold to the ton.
The cane and rice crops of Louisian-
ma are in an exceedingly promising
condition, especially along the coast
between New Orleans and the Gulf.
A quarry of lithographic stone of
very superior quality has recently been
discovered on Hardwick's creek. in
Estill county, KY.
Twenty-Five locomotives are now in
course of construction at one shop in
Philadelphia, destined for South Amer
lean railroads.
Fourteen colleges will row iD the re-
gatta of 1875. The regatta will take
place at the same point on Saratoga lake
selected.
The sale of Daniel Webster's private
library began in Boston Wednesday.
Although competition was not brisk
the books brought fair prices.
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and a party
of Sioux Indians passed through Oma-
ha on Wednesday morning, westward
hound.
Jefferson Davis has been rendered
and will accept the Presidency Of the
Texas Mechanical and Agricultural
College at Bryan, at salary Of $4,000.
There are twenty-three carriage
shops in Cleveland number Of which
manufacture work exceeding $4,000
per annum.
Nearly all the manufacturing estab-
lishments in Cleveland report a grad
ual improvement of tarde, and many
of them are now running full handed.
tits estimated that 27 ,OO0, 900 rabbits
are annually sold for food in Great
Britain and Ireland. The average
price of the meat is twelve cents (gold)
per pound.
The coroner's jury in the Boston case
of Mabel Young have rendered ver-
dict stating that the evidence points di-
rectly to Thomas w. Piper as her mur-
derer. :.
Abraham Jackson, the alleged Bos-
ton defaulter, was again arraigned in
Boston Tuesday on further charges of
fraud, and bail fixed at $4,000. He re-
turned to Jail. His bearing is cool and
A dispatch from Brownsville, Texas,
says the Sheriff there has official inf0r-
nation THAT twenty armed Mexicans
crossed into Texas on Saturday night,
eight miles below Brownsville.
There are five or six manufactures OF
condensed milk in this country. There
is an extensive trade with Germany in
this article, and some of the companies
do large business with China and
Japan.
Important changes are expected in
the Treasury and Internal Revenue Of
fees on the first of July. Senator Nor
ton had lengthy consultation with
Attorney General Pierrepont on We'd
nesday.
Information received at the National
Bureau of Education idicates that edu-
,ational organizations in many parts of
the country are putting forth every
effort to have creditable representa-
lion of education at the Centennial.
The New Hampshire Legislature has
elected p. C. Cheney as Governor OF
that State. His Inauguration will take
place to-day. Chas. II. Powers, Re-
publican, was elected Railroad Com e
missioner.
After nine days march, the Black
Hills geological party arrived last
Thursday on the east fork of Beaver
Creek, latitude 43 degrees snd so min
ties, and fixed its first permanent
amp. They have as yet found no min
,ral developments, nor have the Indi-
ms caused the party any trouble.
A writ of error has been allowed by
he Supreme Court Of Ohio In the case