Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

The New Mexicans use the same sort
of sticks to plow with. that the Egyp-
tians employed three thousand years
ago.
The Girard Hotel, Philadelphia, one
of the best hotels in that, city, has re-
duced its price to So 80 day, the old
rate.
orders of the city of Jacksonville, Ind,
are at par, and its employees are being
paid in coin.
The New Orleans Picayune says there
were twenty-nine negroes killed in
Wilkinson county, Miss, during the
recent disturbances there.
The champion mangler of orthegra.
ply is Democratic Congressman, not
doorkeeper, who SPELLS likewise,
Liq,te,cise.
A vessel sailed from New Haven,
Conn.,, on Saturday, loaded with more
than 500, 900 worth of arms and am
munition for the Turkish Government.
The largest tree standing in the
United States is at the head of Bear
Creek, north fork of the Tule river,
California. 1t is over forty.six feet in
diameter.
Three more actions for libel have
been brought against the Chicago
Times. The com plainant lays his
damages at two hundred thousand dol.
lars.
The New York Herald "Personalist,' u
whose boots squeak, says that people
who make good deal of noise with
their shoes seldom make any with
their heads.
The first bonded Indebtedness Of
Kansas, amounting to 100000, and
contracted in 1861, was payable in tif.
teen years: 1t falls due on the 1st ei
July next.
Counterfeit five dollar bills on the
} First National bank of Northampton,
Mass, and the Merchants National
bank of New Bedford, Mass, are in
circulation.
The Centennial Photographing Com
pany is now engaged in phOtographine
all who hold free tickets, to prevent
frauds, the picture being attached tC
the ticket.
Growth. Three years ago Rosita, s
thrifty mining town in southern Colo
RADIO, was "howling wilderness;" now
it contains 400 houses and l 800 inhabi
tants.
In a recent trial in New Orleans fo
carrying concealed weapons, the proc
, being positive, everybody was aston
ished at a verdict of mot guilty." un
J til it leaked out that every member o
| the jury was armed the same way.
The daily expenses of the Centennia
: Exposition are still from $4,000 t.
$4,000. There is big fight going on
and daily becoming more bitter, be
8 tween the United States Commission
, and the Board of Finance as to th
powers of each.
The celored people of the Unite'
States who desire to erect monumen
of the Centennial in honor of Bisho
Allen, the founder of their church
have abandoned the enterprise, a
, there have been restrictions placed uI
, on its erection, to which they will NO
submit.
4 The first sack of Texas -four, shippe
from Dallas to Galveston, sold at auC
D tion one day last week, for 1905. ]
was purchased by the Brazil coffee i'm
. porters. They will send it to Dom Pc
e dro, Emperor of Brazil.
! There is now for the first time tn
q = germ of native Protestant Church il
!. !. Mexico, which, being Episcopal in il
form and discipline, will probably hav
before long bishop consecrated by tn
authority of the House Of Bishops G
the Episcopal Church in the Unite,
States.
!, THERE is seldom line of glory writ
i ten upon the earth's face, but line g
s suffering runs parallel with it; an
q they that read the lustrous syllables G
the one, and stop not to decipher tn
spotted and worn inscription of tn
: other, get the lesser half of the lesso
: earth has to give.