Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-13


Rochester, New York. were blown
down Thursday. Loss $4,000.
- A war OF races is said to be impend-
ing between French and English speak
ing electors in Canada.
z 9Ig'he- Phelps -Bowles libel case in
IA verdict 1f 500 for the plaintiff.
The table on which Pemberton sign
ed the capitulation Of Vieksburg is now
doing duty in abeer saloon.
The rush of visitors TO Florida the
past season has been unprecedented, the
total number being estimated at 49,
600. - So ~,
The owners of the poisoned cargo of
salt. brought to New York. hope that
IS per cent. Of it may be- found free
from arsenic.
OF eighteen fishing boats which were
out in the gale of Thursday, off st.
Joseph, Mich, three were lost, with
eleven men on board.
State Treasurer Isaac Brandt, OF
Iowa, has been found guilty of embeZ-
vi SlUtOs ocNcu
ments against Brandt are pending.
A barge laden with ire n, bound from
Ontario to Charlotte, was abandoned
during gale Thursday, and is suppos
ed to have been lost, with four persons.
Pennsylvania Railroad company has
declared a semi-anpual dividend OF
four per cent. instead OF five, as hereto
fore. -,.,r -. -,
At Galveston, Texas, contractors
have commencek building the first sec.
tion of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railroad IFS .efsf yasrsss
Philadelphia claims to have larger
proportion of houses owned by those
who occupy them than any other city
in the. Union.
The public debt decreased s., 2,325, ,346
amount of the debt, less cash in the
Treasury, now, is 81, 2,l3l 300, ,i31.
The City of New Orleans defaulted
on interest on bonds maturing Satur-
day. The Louisiana Levee company
also failed to pay interest on its bonds
A consolidation of the Union Pacific,
Kansas Pacific. Denver Pacific, Colora-
do Central, Boulder Valley and Arkan-
sas Valley railways is impending. z
Several dwellings and other build
ings were unrOofed in Dayton by Sat.
urday's gale, and ore OR two persons
severely hurt. I1f 4tErsts
/ Several scientific citizens of Cincin.
natl are arranging for a trip to the an
cient mounds around Fort Ancient,
ChiIlicothe and Marietta. GE
Miss Hattie Rhinehart, of Ada, Har.
din county,. has brought. suit. against
! D. II. Hayden for $4,000 damages. fol-
breach of promise of marriage,
Three young Americans of Canton,
aged from II to ID, started for the Black
sbut Were ovenhsuled BY
rahxious parents at Mansfield.
AM exchange says: sAIatrimony
er says whiskey will do the same thing
and besides, it is much cheaper.
Money wasqnite drug in the be
ginning of the Revolution, fer George
III. offered $50, 600 for the head of John
Hancock and found no takers.
z The entire Republican ticket wa.
telected in Richmond, Indiana. This
is a complete revolution in the muni
cipal affairs of the city. ..
Baltimore ships $4,000, 200 cans o.
oysters annually, and constantly EN-.
ploys 10000 men in sharpening oyster
knives and soldering up the cans.
The freshet in the Missouri river has
caused a break in some of the railway
tracks near Omaha. a large force is al
work repairing the breach.
The twenty days extension of time
granted VIM. NJ. Tweed to file an ans
wer in the civil suits against him has
been reduced.
The landlords of Brooklyn are corr.
planning that they cannot let their
houses at any price. A great many
dwellings are vacant.
4 The Toledo House of Correction will
be opened this week, with g. w.
Howe, of the Lancaster Reform School,
as Superintendent, and J. A. Smith, al.
so of Lancaster, as assistant.
The Pittsburgh African Methodist
Episcopal Conference, which embraces
part OF Pennsylvania, Virginia and
Ohio is in session at Youngstown, Bish-
op Paine, of Baltimore, presiding.
Judges Brooks and Dick, in their
charges to grand juries in North Caro-
lima, have declared the criminal feat
ures of the Civil Rights act unconstitu-
tional, as no law could say men are
socially equal.
In New York Thursday Cardinal
McClOskey united in marriage General
Adam Badeau, United States Consul at
London, and Miss Marie Elise Niles,
daughter-of the late Minister to Italy.
w. p. Jenney and party, VINO have
cen appointed 10 n AXE a geological
examination of the Black Hills coun-
try, have gone to Fort Laramie, where
an escort of six companies of cavalry
will be furnished them.
A Nashville rlerk was very much
astonished the other day, while wash.
ing his face, by the appearance through
his mouth, OF a mimic ball which was
lodged In Dis head eleven years ago at
the battle of Pine Mountain.
Mr.. John +. Hartley, who the other
day resigned his position of Second AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, goes
to Europe on special confidential mis-
sion for that department. He is very
old, has been thirty-six years In the
Treasury, and has been Assistant Sec.
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