Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-04-20

81, 900 fine.
Medill, OF Chicago, says the India
napoIis Sentinal's ory of crooked
bond transaction by Blaine is false.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has declared semi-anuual dividend Of
per cent, payable May 1.
The election in jersey City, last
week, resulted in the choice of Charles
Zeidler for Mayor. He is the first Re-
publican elected to that Office for years.
General John Mcdonald was sentenc-
ed ,on Thursday. by Judge Treat, of the
United States District Court at St.
Louis, to three years in the penitentl.
ary and $4,000.
The funeral services of the late A. T.
Stewart took place in New York,
Thursday, Bishop Potter officiating.
Governors Tilden and Rice headed the
pail bearers.
There is round of criticism because
it costs 81 5000 year to educate a boy
at college, when it did not cost Daniel
Webster's father one-fifth of that sum
for that statesman's expenses.
The Virginia Republican Conven-
tion, held at Lynchburg, Thursday,
did not instruct delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention. A majority of
them, however, are believed to be in
favor of Blaine.
An Illinois girl is woking night and
day to get it ready for the Centennial.
She has got 6,044 pieces all sewed in,
and has only ,096 more to sew. She is
sure it will take the rags off of all the
other bed quilts on exhibition.
Detroit Free Press: The remains of
yet another great city have been dis
Sea. 1t is becoming more evident that
Cain and Abel and Gideon WeIles had
other boys to play with them.
One hundred tons of ore from the
mineral lands of Tennessee will be ex-
hibited at the Centennial Exposition.
1t will be taken to Philadelphia next
Monday, and ten cars will be required
for its conveyance.
One hundred and fifty different spe-
cinens of Tennessee marble are now
on exhibition at the State Capitol.
They will be sent to the Centennial
Exposition, provided a suficint amonnt
of money is raised to send them and
assure their return.
From Fun: 81 say, Mrs. Mccarthy,
this 'ere's a very bad cabbage" Mrs.
M: "Shure now, and is it, honey :?
Then pick another. Bless yer, young
cabbages is like sweethearts; you mnSt
thrya hal-a-dozen fore We gets good
wan."
New Orleans Republican: Married
women generally get their letters when
the time comes for them to pack away
their husbands overcoats for the sum
mer; and perhaps they will also find
two or three which the gentlemen was
asked to mail the fall previous.
Thursday morning a man named
w. w. Reynolds, OF COshocton, fell
| from a Pan Handle train bound west,
while the train was crossing the Ohio
River bridge at Steubenville, and WAS
drowned. The body has not not been
recovered.
The South Carolina delegation to the
Cincinnati Convention is uninstructed.
Resolutions were adopted expressing
appreciation of the high character,
statesman-like ability and consistency
of Senter Morgan, and thanking Pres
ident Grant for his faithful execution
of the laws.
! Sir Stratford de Dedcliffe, in his old
age, after q life of great activity in
Cabinet politics, turned himself toward
religious subjects, and wrote a Lot very
brilliant but pious book. GuiZot, after
his long political career, gave US IA book
of religious meditations, very mild and
pious. Thurlow Weed, in his old age,
attends the Moody and Sankey meet
ings regularly. Will he give us a
book?
THE personal paragrapher of the
New York Herald was summoned to
the presence of his chief the other
morning, and furiously asked how he
dared pen a reference to anybody
lingering in the lap of May" "Be
me pa-a-a-rsonil rifferince. Begorra,
but twas schipp ov me mimri.' He
was cautioned to contine himself to
squibs about the pea crop in texas, and
permitted to retire.
GEN. BUTLER's wife, who died on
Saturday, last week, was warmly es-
teemed by every one who knew her as
most worthy wife, mother and friend.
Throughout her husbands turbulent
career she has been followed by all of
his friedships and touched by none of
his enmities. Thousands who have
never sympathiZed with Gen Butler In
anything will unite, when reading the
account of her death, in sincere sympa-
thy for her loss.