Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-11-07
NEWS JOTTINGS.

The Fitz John Porter investigation
case has adjourned to meet at West
Point December 18th.
A computation of the amount of
freight shipped over the Culumb mbus,
Chicago and Indiana Central division
OF the Panhandle railroad from June l,
1871, to June !, 1873, made by one Of
their old reliable conductors, shows
that allowing each car to be thirty feet
in lengtr, we'll loaded, a train that
would taSe it all would extend from
Columbus to San Francisco and return,
and have good many miles TO yet
spare.
I Ex-Governor Shepherd, of Washing
ton, is sick with pneumonia.
A. w. Fairbanks, of Cleveland, for
many years one of the proprietOrs of
the Cleveland Herald, has made an as
Isignment. His liabilities are about
$50, 600, with few assets.
At Como, Miss, Wednesday, about
hundred tramps boarded the New
Orleans and st. Louis railroad train,
ordering the conductor 10 start his
train. On refusing they severely beat
hiIp, and then started the train them
selves.
At Columbus, Thursday, Attorney
General Pillars filed in the Supreme
Court petition in quo warrantO, which
is intended to settle the right OF Com
mon Pleas Judges who have been elect.
ed in the fourth subdivisions OfjUdicial
districts to hold office.
The President has signed tie com.
missioner of Halbert E. Payne, OF
Vic )nsin, to be Commissions OF
Patents, vice Ellis Spear, resigned.
The reunion of the Army of Tennessee
which was attended by General Sher-
nan and many other distinguished
soldiers closed at IndianapOlisThursd
night, with the usual tOaSt5. The
next meeting will be held in Chicago.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has de-
clared semi-annual dividend Of two
per cent. Tine Company will in future
declare dividends semi-annually in
stead of quarterly.
A prominent member of the Cabinet
expresses the opinion that, although
affairs between England and Russia
appear to threaten war, 1T will be avert
led. In relation to the purchase of war
supplies in this country and the danger
| of England claiming consequential
damages, 1t is stated that there can
be no such complaints as untilwar is de-
clared there can be mo violate II
neutrality.
A little girl named Kingsbury, at
Oil CITY, on Thursday, was so trighten'
ed by trick of the Humpty' Dumpty
troupe, in which man is apparently
beheaded, that she went into spasms,
from the effects of which she died
the next day.
Captain Pratt, of the regular army,
left Sioux City, Iowa, Friday, with
forty.nine Indian children, gathered
from agencies up the Missouri river,
for Hampton, Va, where the children
will be placed at school at Government
expense.
In the southern cities the hospitals
are closing and the business houses are
opening.
Theodore M. Vail, General Superin'
tendent of the Railway Mail Service,
has rendered his resignation.
1t is alleged that James Fl. Wheatley,
proprietor of sugar refinery in Brook
lyn, is missing with nearly quarter
of million dollars of trust funds.
The Washington Star Is Informed
that the friends of Milton Sayler strong
ly urge him to contest with Butter
worth for his seat in the next Congress
from the First district. Senator Beck,
of Kentucky, is very persistent in urg'
| ing this course. The same paper says
also that there is plan on foot that at
the next session of Congress the Demo
Gratis will pass resolution directing
the Clerk, in making up the list of
members elect to the Forty'sixth Cen'
gress, to drop those who had taken
advantage of the Supervisor law. But
it thinks this cannot be done, for each
house NUT be the judge Of its own
mem bership, and therefore the Forty
fifth cannot legislate out or in members
for the Forty'sixth Congress.
Hon. J. G. S. Blackburn, Democratic
candidate for Congress from Kentucky,
spoke at NIcholasville, that State Sat
urday. A dispatch says. "Much en-
thusiasm was manifested by the Corn
Crackers, and loud howlings almost
drowned his voice. All got drunk,
and glorious time was had"