Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-29
NEWS ITEMS.

Henry Armitt Brown, prominent
young lawyer and orator of Philadel
phia, died last week in that city. He wa:
identified with the Republican party
in politics. His last public effort waI
the delivery of the orltion at the Valley
Forge Centennial.
An assemblage of the most eminent
lawyers from all parts of the country
convened at Saratoga last week FOL
consultation as to the organization of q
National Bar Association. They as
sembled in compliance with circular
which had been sent to leading mem
bers of the profession with view Oi
keeping out disreputable characters.
William Niblo, the veteran theatrica
manager and founder of Niblo's Gard
en-, died in New York city Wednesday
aged eighty'nine.
Lazzaretti, the fantaic of Grosseto, in
Italy, who proclaimed himself prophet
and king, was killed at the head OF
three thousand deluded followers, who
first fired upon the gendarmerie, after
being ordered to disperse.
Ferdinand jefferson, who has been
connected with the State Department
at Washington for twenty-five years,
died on Saturday, aged seventy. Since
1874 he has been chief of the Bureau OF
Archives.
John E. Leet who became insane
under the inquisition of the Potter
Com mmittee, is still in the Bloomingdale
Asylum, and though he refuses to TAX e
any nourishment, the doctors think he
will recover.
The celebrated trotting horse, Edwin
Forrest, which made 2:149 Friday in
the great exhibition trot at Hartford,
Conn, was bought Saturday, by Joseph
Harker, of New YOrk-probably for
William II. Vsnderbilt's stables-for
Sl7, 900.
A man named John Casey, said to
belong at East Liverpool, COlumbiana
county, Ohio, was killed in Detroit,
Michigan, Friday. He was partially
intoxicated and bothering an apple
womsn, when three men passing asked
him to desist. Casey struck at one of
the men, but missing him, was him.
self struck on the back of the head by
one of the men, with cart rung, from
which blow the doctors pronounced his
recovery impossible.
A convict in the Ohio Penitentiary,
on Saturday, got suit of citizens
clothes and pass from the foreman
and cody walked out.
The shoe shop and brush and chair
factory of the State Reform School at
Lancaster, Ohio, burned on Friday
night. Loss $4,000.
Hattie Gray, of eighteen, shot her.
on Sunday because her.parents objected
to her marrying the man of her choice.
Hon. Charles Foster spoke at Spring
field, O., Saturday night. He defends
the motives of the President in his
Southern policy, while admitting lis
doubtful character as a partisan meas
ure.
Cadet James Todd, of Indiana coun'
ty, Pa, is believed to have committed
suicide on Tuesday night of last week
1t West Point. He had been sick at
the hospital and disappeared, leaving
letters threatening suicide.
The wheat crop of Great Britain Is
estimated at IL SOC, 600 quarters, leav'
ng 100000 quarters, necessary for
The supply, to be drawn rom other
A reunion of the surviving members
If the 18th, 10th, 55th, 10lst, 123d, Hath J
md 179th regiments of Ohio Volun' !
eers will take place at Nevada, Wyan'
lot county, on Thursday, September
9. Among the many celebrities who
will be present to participate in the eX'
,rcises are eX'GOvernor j. G. Lee,
General w. H. Gibson, General 1. NJ.
Kirby and Colonel II. II Sage.
An American named Fowler, resid'
ng at Boulogne, France, crossed the
english Channel on Tuesday of last
week on an apparatus consisting of a
mall double canoe of India rubber, in
lated, and having board between the
wo boats upon which he stood and
added his passage in eleven hours
nd twenty minutes. The sea was
cry calm. !.