Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-05
Items of Interest.

Judge Love, OF Keokuk, has accepted
a professorship in the Iowa University
Law School.
Secret service officers arrested foul
connterfeiters of United States coin ir
New York, Wednesday.
A three post military company is tc
be established in the Black Hills.
Col. Eads has completed 1900 feet o.
the provisional jetty at the mouth o.
the Mississippi.
The Republican State Convention o.
Nebraska is to be held at kearney
Junction September 10.
General Joseph E. Johnston, oi
Georgia, has been elected President Of
the Arkansas Industrial University.
A Tennessee physician is in Minneso.
ia hunting rattlesnakes for the oil,
which he uses for rheumatic purposes,
Dennis Powers, of Eau Claire, Wis,
has committed suicide because his son,
aged thirteen, picked mans pocket.
Wheat is now purchased by the cargo
in Chicago and forwarded direct to
Antwerp on account of parties in
Europe.
Bishop Ame5, of Georgia, has de-
clined membership of the Sioux Com
mission, his church duties claiming all
his time.
Professor Janney, tbe Black Hills
geologist, reports that he has discover
ed two hundred miners in the forbid
den territory.
English capitalists talk of completing
the Kansas City and Keokuk railroad,
in which 81, $780, 900 has already been
sunk.
A white boy named Hamilton and a
colored one named Mason fought at
Danville, KY, Wednesday. Mason's
throat was cut.
The early construction of a narrow
gauge railroad between Atoka, Choc-
+, tow Nation, and Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas, is contemplated.
The New York Democratic State
committee will meet at Sarato Springs
August Is, to arrange the time and
place for State Convention.
Captain Eads, the engineer who is
attempting the improvement of the
mouth of the Mississippi, is extending
his jetties at the rate of 200 feet per day.
Our university athlete explains that
an effeminate fellow is called spoon
because there is something ladie-like
about him.
A Tennessee mule met a singular
death lately. 1t was caught around
the neck by black snake and choked
to death.
Chinaman married negro woman
in Arkansas year ago, and they now
have baby which has light hair and
is as white as snow.
The United States consumes about
200, 100000 pounds of coffee yearly.
The joint consumption of This country
and Europe aggregates about 500, ,000,-
900 pounds.
Those who expected that the tunnel
ing of the Hoosac Mountain would de-
velop rare minerals were disappointed.
The rock consists almost wholly of
mica schist, talcose schist and slate.
The old Rush mansion in Philadel-
phia, the former property of Benjamin
Rush, signer of the Declaration of
Independence, was sold at auction,
Tuesday.
Fall River manufacturers have de-
clined to call a meeting to meet dele
gates of operatives, the delegates being
composed of outside parties, but each
treasurer or agent is willing to consult
with his own operatives.
At the commencement of the last
century the population of Iceland was
only 10000. In 1854 it was $4,000 and
now it is 10000. The number of Ice
Ianders in. America is not more than
500, including small colony in Cam
ada.
Over fifteen thousand pounds of gum
powder were exploded at one time in a
hyeraulic gold mine in California few
days since. 1t was done for the pur-
pose of loosening the hard baked earth,
that it might wash more easily.
Four public schools for kindergarten
instruction are to be established in
Boston at the beginning of the next
sthool year, Children are to be admit |
ed at the age of three years, and con-
tinue the course of instruction for four
years.
The Fall River (Mass. manufacture
ers have declined to call a meeting to |
meet the delegates of the operatives,
the delegates being composed of out
side parties. Each treasurer or agent |
is willing to consult with his own oper-
ators. ..-.
The exploration by the Hayden ex-
pedition has been successful, and the
discoveries made are OF much value.
Peak, one of the highest
in the Rocky Mountains, has been pho
tographed at last under circumstances
Of unusual difficulty. l