Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-04-26
NEWS ITEMS.


John A. Kasson, of Iowa, has accept
ed the position OF Minister to Spain.
A movement is on foot to erect an
other bridge over the Ohio at Louis
vile.
A japanese Commission Is in the
Blue Grass region of Kentucky for the
purpose Of purchasing fine horses and
cattle. Ff.
The Republican candidates for muni-
cipsl Offices at Cairo were elected, last
week, with the exception of City Attor-
ney,. who is Democrat.
Crazy Horse with about 1900 OF his
band is on his way to camp Robinson,
Nebraska, with the intention of sur
rendering.
An old man, named Montg Omery,
once very wealthy has been arrested in
Chicago, charged with stealing postage
stamps. @ - .-s- -s=z ~
Or. Ralph Wilcox, Clerk of the Uni
ted States Circuit Court at Portland
Oregon, committed suicide last week.
A man named In. Price committed
suicide in the Walnut Street House
Cincinnati. on Tuesday afternoon. dc
lived in Chicago.
The insurrectionists in Japan have
been defeated and scattered by the
government forces. The revolt is be
iieved to be about over.
4 Sitting Bull is preparing protocol t(
be submitted to the whites found with
lin his range. 1t is: 81 give you 1--WE
minutes to leave the United States
and the time is up"
A Paris firm is publishing neat lit
tie subscription book to consist of 2
parts. al 50 each. When the canvaseer
for that work comes aroand he viii
wear nine inch bomb-proof armOr.
Theodore Tilton contemplates q jour
ney to San Francisco for which, it i
Understood the railway companies OF
his route have rendered him q sleeping
car exclusively for for his own use.
A. C. Van Tine, postmaster at San
I ldusky, Ohio, convicted in the Unitet
States Court of embezzlement, has beel
sentenced to the penitentiary for on
year.
u The body of Samuel Covers, who wa
drowned in the Sciota river about thre
i weeks ago, was founsl, Tuesday, nea
i Columbus. The fingers Of the dea,
man were eaten off by fish. -TE- "a
Numerous outrages by the Apach
!. Indians In Southeastern Arizona are re
lported. Several white men have bee
killed, and large numbers of cattl
driven away.
1t is claimed by responsible partie
that the recent grasshopper reports tele
graphed to Eastern apers from Ne
brasha. are much exaggerated, an
that it il yet too early to judge.
The Supreme Court of California hi
issned a peremptory mandate to th
: Secretary OF State to issue to PachecC
Republican, his certificate as Congress
man-elect from the Fourth district.
!, The village of Sioux Indians surreu
, dered to General Crook numbere
about one Thousand persons. They turn
? ed over to the agents their arms an
upwards of ], 400 ponies and horses.
Important arrests of ,counterfeitel
Z nave Do01 mau6 1T tTr6eu cOfUt, Ia
Il ST.. Louis and Wheeling. Among tn
parties arrested, is Hon. ThOs. W
Marion, ex-member of the PeDnsylvs
MIA Legislature. ~, -r+r.- .-
, Boss Tweed has sent proposition
3 the authorities, proposing that in re
: turn for his liberty he Will give up a
3 his property and be faithful witnes
| for the public, and will make a fu
disclosure of his criminal companion
;, When pretty girl wears bangles
church and cannot keep her hand
quiet, she is morally resposible for M
: permitting young men IN the vicinit
/, of her pew to sleep during the sermon
2 The ten LoundesviIle, s. c., murde
: ors-aIl colored--sentenced to be hang
I ed next Friday, have been reprieve
! by Governor Hampton for two week
= 1t is thought the sentence of some I
J them will be commuted to fmprisoI
! ment for life. -7- -=r,-
The graduating class at West Poir
Military Academy this year number
: seventy-seven, the largest class eve
graduated. There are but forty yacar
cies in the army to be filed, cons
i, quently thirty-seven of the graduate
|, will be appointed Brevet Second Lieu
! tenant under the law, and promoted
the grade OF Second Lieutenant as va
: caneies occur. @ @