Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Robert Dale Owen and Mrs. Abra-
ham Lincoln are regarded as hopeless
ly insane.
John ID. Lee, the Mountain Meadow
butcher, has been taken to Camp Dong
lass for safe keeping.
Ex-Governor William A. Graham,
of North Carolina, died of organic di-
sease of the heart Wednesday.
jeff Davis has accepted an invitation
to address an agricultural fair at Rock
ford, Illinois, September IA.
The anual reunion of the Army of the
Cumberland will be held at Utica, New
York, September 18th and 10Th.
Isaac NJ. Singer, the sewing machine
patentee, had an income of 100000
when the extensions of his patent ex-
pired.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, during
his recent visit to Europe. received the
the annual gold medal of the Irish EN-
igration Society.
Mississippi is becoming fruitful in
good works, and expects to make q
million dollars on her peaches alone,
next year.
The distillation of peach and apple
brandies is about commencing in Della
ware. 1t bids fair to be larger than
ever before.
What is one mans poison is another
mans bread The distillers of Ohio
are advertising their readiness to buy
sprouted wheat.
This. now, has the real flavor of gen.
uine Irish wit. The Hibernians of
New York city speak of the EDITORIAL
department OF the Herald.
The clerk HalIeck, who committed
the Treasury robbery, was an appointes
of General Spinner's and from his own
town in New York.
The Massachusetts, mills have receiv-
ed an order for twelve hundred bales
of goods for China. This comes of the
cheating propensities of English manu-
facturerS.
A brighter face is beginning to be
put on affairs by the Western papers
since the rain ceased. The farmers
think in many instances that they see
their way out after all.
There are but twenty-eight persons,
firms and companies in Chicago who
pay taxes on $4,000 and upward of
personal property. Only five are assess
ed on s100, 900 and upward.
That new California telegraph COM
pany promises to send ten word mes
sage from San Francisco to New York
for one dollar, with prices to other
points proportionally low.
Before the present year closes the
whole track of the Inter-colonial Rail-
road will be laid, and the cars will run
from Montreal to Halifax. tits claim
ed to be the best built road on the con-
tinent.
Fourteen million two hundred and
ninety-eight thousand postal cards
We're issued last month. This is the
largest number ever issued in any
month before, and showStheirgrowing
popularity.
Shearman says that Beecher doesen't
kiss any more than any other preacher.
This makes the annual number of cler-
ical kisses in the United States 1885,
4S6, without counting the legitimate
domestic article.
The rapacity of sunfish, bass and
pickerel in Lake George is so great that
fishermen declare that of the seventy
thousand or eighty thousand trout
placed in those waters by Seth Green,
scarcely one in thousand will come to
maturity.
In store window at OsWego there
has Just been placed on exhibition q
musket of the Queen Anne pattern
which was captured by Aaron Burr,
while serving under Benedict Arnold,
at the attempted stOrming of Quebec,
on the night of December 31st, 1775.
The gun weighs twenty-seven pounds.
In the garden of the late Andrew
Johnson's residence is a magnificent
willow, grown from a twig taken from
the willow which bends over the grave
of Napoleon Bonapart on st. Helena,
and sent to the exPresident. A twig
from this noted tree will be planted
over Mr.. Johnson's grave on Johnson's
Hill.
There are at least 800 American girls
for the operatic stage in Italy.
A three years course for a pupil costs
about IS goo in gold. Then the girls
come back too high-toned to sing in the
village choir, too dramatic and squally
to please in psrlor, and unable to sing
in opera without paying for the privil-
ege.