Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-06
slESCELLANEOUS.

The Snltan OF Turkey has spent $500, :
coo on pictures this year.
The California State Senate has re-
fused, after Il long debate, to elect a
chaplain.
Babcock has till January IL to make
/ up his mind whether he will say gull
I ~ or not.
In the East Indies the ladies of the
country are subjected to the labor of
building railroads and keeping them in
running order.
The President signed the bill further
extending time of duration of the Court
of Commissioners on the Alabama
Claims to 22th of July next.
Charles W. Rhedes, for many years
auditor of the Western Division of Ad-
ans Express Company, died at Cincin-
natl, on Sunday.
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court for Idaho, W. C. Whitson, died
at Omaha, Saturday night, OF paralysis,
aged 80 years. He was en- route for
Beise City.
There vas shock of earthquake in
Placer, Nevada and Yuda counties,
CAL, last Tuesday night. No damage
was reported.
A. C. Wilder, ex-member of Congress
from Kansas, and late editor of the
Rochester Express died at the Palace
Hotel, San Francisco, on Wednesday.
The trial OF Embry, at Leavenworth,
for the attempted assassination of Col
onel d. r. Anthony, in May last, was
concluded on Friday, and resulted in
his acquittal.
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, has ac-
>cepted an invitation to deliver the
opening address of the Southern States
Agricultural and Industrial Exposition
at New Orleans, on the 26th OF Febru-
airy.
The parties who made the recent
shipment of fresh beet from Philadel-
phia to Europe, have received word
that it reached Liverpool in good con-
dition- Another shipment was made
On Friday.
Mardigras day, February 9th, is to
cumstarce in Louisville. There will
OC SloHu oliCCt pdiaOC OdAAAts tiO Oay
and bali masque at night.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of New York City, has issued an
appeal begging the women of New
York City not to set wine before their
guests on New Years day.
The Boston Post thinks it was good
joke in Speaker Kerr to az point Alex
II Sfnnhnnc hn linh
the House, Chairman of the Committee
on Weights and Measures.
"Have you any nice fresh farmers
eggs ?" inquired precise old lady at
Springfield grocery store. "No ma'am,'
replied the practical clerk, "but we
have some very nice hens eggs" She
took three to try.
During the twelve years that Mr..
Mcpherson was Clerk OF the House of
Representatives he disbursed over
st, 600, 900. The other day, when he
had final settlement with The Treas
ury Department, it was found that
there was a balance of 81 90 to his
credit.
Mr.. Benjamin Edwards, who perish
ed in public at Sardis, Miss, few days
ago, remarked to the audience: AZ
want to warn you all against sisters-in-
law. II it hadn't been for mine /
shouldn't have been here, and she has
a better right to be here than l.
The Cincinnatians propose TO inaug-
urate the Centennial year by illumina-
tions, ringing of all the bells in the city,
firing of cannon, and a grand military
and civic procession, at midnight on
New Years eve.
\. G. johnson, President of the Fay
ette County National Bank, Washing
ton Court House, Ohio, was brought to
Cincinnati by United States Marshal,
charged with embezzling $l0,0 900 of the
banks funds. The offence is punish
ed, under the National Banking act,
with imprisonment not less than tive
nor more than ten years.
Judge Myrick, OF San Francisco, has
admitted to probate will in pencil on
two pages of memorandum book, to
which the testatriX has attached no sig-
nature, holding that the fact of its be-
ing written in such a book was pre-
sumptive evidence of its being draft
of a will Intended to be executed in
more regular form.
A Georgia Judge has been led by the
visit of Mr.. George H. Pendleton, OF
Ohio, to that State, to invest the pedi-
gree of the latter. He finds that Mr..
Pendleton's immediate ancestors lived
in Georgia, and that the Ohio politician
is "no more a Northerner in lineage
than an American born in France IS o