Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS,
Evansville has fifty lawyers.

Evansville has fifty lawyers.
Jimmy Blanchard has been ecogniz-
ed by his mother.
1t is OF no use to ask for places in the
Interior Department.
The wife of Senator Thurman Is ser
iousiy ill at the present time in Wash
ingtOn.
The pay of West Point cadets is to be
reduced fifty dollars year, and OF Pro-
iessors, twenty per cent,
The Bucyrus Changers have got con-
troll of the CraW ford County Agricul-
tural SoCiety, and are 10 put stop to
hOrse-racing.
Charles A. Gautier, the old and well.
known resturantkeeper of Washington,
has been appointed keeper of the House
restaurant.
General James Packard, ex-Repre-
sentative in Congress from Indiana,
has been appointed Internal Revenue
Agent.
General Babcock has retained ex-At.
tOrney General Williams as his counsel
in his approaching trial at st. Louis.
A Jersey magistrate has sent a dem
tist to prison Tor thirty days for con-
tempt of court, by '.jawing."
A petrified girl has been discovered
in an Arkansas cave. Stony hearted
lasses are quite common.
The New York courts have decided
a # fri0
furmances on Sunday.
Five thousand fools assembled in
Houston, Texas, the other day, TO see Il
ciscus get off railroad train.
''Of the making of books there is no
end" Twenty Thousand aew volumes
were copyrighted last year.
According to their own statements
there are now living three thousand
to July 4, 1776.
The daughter of rich Michigan
banker sings i'm an Indiana saloon. She
was married in haste and repents at her
leasure.
A son of Dan. VOORHEES, is playing
Hamlet, in Indiana, where his father Is
reputation serves in some degree in
stead OF genuine histrionic ability.
Ex-Governor Austin, of Minnesota.
has been appointed Third Auditor of
the Treasury, vice Allen Rutherford
re signed.
General Fitz John Porter is in Wash.
ington for the purpose of making per-
sonal appeal to the President to reopen
his case.
THE Democratic fashion of turning
Union soldiers out of place and filling
the vacancies. with late Confederates,
must not be forgotten.
Another effort is being made to buill
. branch of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon
and Columbus railway from Millers-
burg, in Holmes county, TO Dresden, in
Muskingum county
A California inventor has patented a
Icontrivapce for driving sewing ma
chimes, which does away with the
treadle. 1t is driven by and runs like
clock work.
An immense herd of Buffalo has ap-
peared in the vicinity of Cheyenne, u
Circumstance which has not occurred
before since they were driven from
there about twelve years ago.
The Khedive's heir-apparent is to
visite the Centennial, to which he will
contribute some of the famous Egyp
tian fiesh-pots, and few of the bricks
made by the Israelites, without straw.
The heaviest special co-partnership
ever organized in America started Out
in New York with the New Year. II
includes the combination of seven cap
italists, who contribute an aggregate
$500, 900.
One of The important points OF con-
trast between the days of 1776 and the
present time is found in Wall street.
When the Declaration of Independe nee
was signed there was not bank in
America.
Three barns have recently been burn
ed in the vicinity OF Marion, and in
cen,iiary materials have been found
adjacent to numerous dwellings
frainps are said to be doing this out of
spite.
The Directors OF the Wheeling and
Lake Erie railway have authorized /
their Excessive committee to contract
with Gen. III. Mckee to build the road
from Martins Ferry 10 Zoar,