Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-09-16
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All the Boston journals speak cheer
fully of the fall trade prospects.
The saw-fiend is especially buz-zy
this season making mince meat OF care
less men.
Colorado has a Beecher-Tilton mine.
They propose to get at its true inward
ness.
Gone to meet the Centennial. N.Y.
riad hordes of caterpillars are swarm
ing in and about Philadelphia.
Cosmopolis. Twenty-Five miles OF
streets, with about 5000 houses, nave
been added to London thus far during
the year.
i United States gaugers are not here
after to be paid six dollars for days
i work when they have performed no
duty. -t-5.. 5...-... .--Ir.
The Celestial denizens of California,
since 1867, have smoked and eaten
8, 800 boxes of opium, at cost OF 81
AL, ,735.
Important new discoveries of miner
al wealth in Southwestern Colorado
have been made, including iron, cop
per end coal.
A French savan explains why a mos
quito bite is more poisonous to Wo-
man than to a man. 1t is because the
bitter is female. ..
"The wish is father to the thought ~
Physicians are predicting that the COM
| ing autumn months will be unusually
unhealthful.
The Commissioner Of internal Reve-
nue. has discharged all special clerks
for supervisors. This will result In q
saving of $125, 900 annually.
A nice, quiet place Is Chicago. Six
ty-three people died there during Au-
gust under circumstances sufficiently
suspicious to require coroner's IN
quests.
Chicago real estate agents report that
negotiations in progress are increasing
in mum Der, and that inquiries are more
frequent. These are good business
signs.
Twelve hundred feet of space have
been secured at the Centennial EXPOSE
ton for the display of American sport
ing articles of every description, rare
birds and other animals.
A man in Louisville has just died
as the result of d blow ON the head
from a croquet mallet. This would
seem to prove that even croquet play
ers may have brains to be injured.
The existing gap of some two hun
dred miles between the railroads OF Or
egon and those of California is present
ly to be bridged, which will be to the
advantage of both States.
A Kentucky court has recently deci-
ded that newspaper men have rlgnt
to carry deadly weapons, if deemed
necessary for self-defense while in the
discharge of journalistic duties.
That recently discovered cave on an
island in the Mississippi river near
Davenport, Iowa, which contains the
dusty remains of past ages, is stirring
up the curiosity of scientists at live
ly rate.
The new Metropolitan Railway line
New York and Philadel-
phia will be in complete trim and open
for travel by the first of December
next. 1t will be sixteen miles shorter
than the present route.
An indianapolis dog is wrestling
with genuine fever and ague. He has
chills promptly at ten O'Clock every
morning, and several physicians are
watching the progress of the disease
upon the canine patient.
The reports of the disasters on the
great lakes for the present season show
that they already Outnumber the un-
usually disastrous season of 1874, and
are largely in excess of the wrecks re-
ported on the ocean.
Under the law. the Commissioner of
Pensions has been compelled to decide
that the mother of negro soldier who
died in the service is not entitled to
pension, because at the time of her
sons death she was slave.
Gold has lately been discovered in
several new sections inf Australia. The
season has been one of extreme depres-
sion in mining interests, but the fail
ure OF purely speculative companies
will in the end prove beneficial to le-
gitimate enterprises.
Thirty more students from the prov
ince of Shanghai, China, have arrived
in this country, to be assigned by Iung
Wing, of Hartford, Conn.,, to various
educational institutions in the vicinity.
John NJ. Tracy, former newspaper
correspondent, but now an artist
known among his friends as 'Rubens,'
is in Paris painting a battle scene for
the Centennial. 1t represents a part
of the engagement at Stone River.
Colfax has faith in woman's ability
to keep d secret. He says: "Out of all
the sixty thousand women who have
belonged to the Daughters of Rebekah,
he had never known one to break
faith; and he protested against the
miserable, worn-Out, stereotyped theo-
ry of the world, that woman cannot
keep secret"
The other day, the lion-tamer with
the International Show, at Nlnton,
Iowa, came near being victim to his
own rashness. He was performing
with the lion, and put his head inside
the animals extended jaws, when the
brute closed them with a snap. There
was a great conmotion for short time
among the showmen and spectators
but the man was released from his per-
il with only badly cut face.
The Highest Bridge I'm the World.
The highest bridge in the world will
be built at the crossing OF the Ken
lucky river, on the Cincinnati South.
ern Railway, near the Shaker ferry.
The Baltimore Bridge Company, one
OF the most noted in the United States,
has secured the contract. The bridge
will consist of an iron deck truss Of three
spans of 375 feet each, centre to centre,
supported by two abutments. The piers
will be built OF masonry to height OF
Ga feet and inches above low-water
mark will soon be determined by bor-
ings under control of the resident engf-
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