Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

The latest name for the exchange
tiend Is 'paper-bug, and it's very
good one. Il
How tantalizing! Summer travel
to the geysers in California has already
begun.
sThe Thunder Bay Booming Com
pany' is the rattling name of new
Detroit lumber firm.
1t issaid that there are homes enough
built in Boston for five years of good
business to come.
TIE struggle between the English
Government and John Mitchell is end
ed by the death of the latter.
Ten full trains every day the year
round would hardly move the pork
packed at the West during the last
winter.
The Northern Pacific bondholders
have II ct and passed resolutions of
confidence in the road and in them
selves.
The colored people of Boston have
invited General Butler t. accept a pub
lie reception, and he has consented to
do so.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroar
his refused the petition OF the Baltimore
Corn Exchange for reduction of ele-
vator charges.
The striking Indiana coal miners
have returned to work on the fifth
basis, equal at the present price of coal
| To eighty cents ton,
Fhe monitors lying below New Or
leans have been diSarmed, and their
guns, some f, rty in number, have been
sent to the Peneacota Navy Yard.
Counterfeit scrip to the nominal
amount of ten dollars was recently
fouEd in Rhode Island church collec-
tiOn The religion of the depOsitors
Vas counterfeit, also.
There are fourteen boys in the Texas
Penitentiary, there being no house of
correction or other reformatory institu-
tiOn in the State. "
The State Treasurer of Missouri has
found in his vault several packages of
State bonds for which he gave no re-
ceipt on assuming his duties as Treas
urer. They amount to about s., 900, 900.
Over fifty members of the Indiana
Legislature have carried off books,
worth about S18 set, belonging to the
State. The Secretary of State will
probably bring action to recover them.
The real object of the Senatorial ex-
cursion to Mexico is probably to collect
data with reference to projected in
ternational railroad. Colonel Scott is
10 join the party in New Orleans.
The citizens of Ticonderoga, 'by the
great jehovah and the Continental
Congress- will set the Centennial ball
rolling on Monday, May 10, by cele-
bratiug the capture Of the foit by Ethen
Allen.
New Orleans papers not think there
will be much destruction of property
this season by an overthrow of the le-
wees by the Mississippi. The water
from above, it is thought, will disap-
pear in the low lands and through
bayous and through crevasses.
To the statement that DIR. Paul
Schoeppe is applying to Baltimore
court Tor the administration on the e5-
tate of Miss Steinnecke, it should be
added that he is at present in the 1lli-
nois State prison for swindling under
the name of Count Schulenberg.
A case of poisoning by arsenious
acid, contained in ruby.colored me-
rino frock, has recently occurred in
England. The poison was associated
with the coloring matter, which was
believed to be coralline, substance de-.
rived from coal tar, and perfectly
harmless when thoroughly freed from
Impurities. This coloring matter should
not be used as dyestuff, except when
the absence of poisonous substances
has been demonstrated by chemical
examination. H....
A st. Louis prophet scientifically pre-
diets that in June n9xt we shall have
high electric tension in the atmosphere,
many thunder storms, possibly heavy
rainfalls, and cyclones, such as water
spouts and tornados. These phenome-
ma and the present disturbed condition
of the weather are attributed to the
equinoxes of the planet Venus.
NEWSPAPER mistakes are scarcely
unavoidable. Every issue of many
journals involves the placing Of i50, 900
types. Out of that number some will
be wrongly placed, In spite of the best
care. A Pennsylvania paper made
blunder lately and yet there
wa, only one letter out OF. place. The
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