Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-25
NEWS ITEMS.

com menced at the San Francisco mint.
The steamship Britannia, which
arrived at New York Monday from
brought $500, 900 in silver bars.
Ex Governor Dennison will resign
District of Columbia, July l, and go
back to Columbus and practice law.
Republicans are encouraged by
advices from Oregon which represent
that the party will undoubtedly carry
the State at the June election.
Galusha Grow is looking up for the
Republican nomination in Pennsyl-
vsnia at the approaching gubernatOrial
convention.
at the time of his death Brigham
Young owed the Mormon church about
81, ,000,0 Property valued at 500, 900
has been turned over by the executors
to the Church authorities.
George t. Hathaway, treasurer of
the Border City and Sycamore Mills,
at Fall River, Mass, is said to be a
defaulter. The amount is not known,
but is said to be large.
Some twenty or thirty young men of
Wheeling West Virginia, have been
indicated for playing poker on Sunday.
They have made up a pool and will
contest the prosecution.
Charles Dim nit, who has been on
trial at Batavia, Ohio, for robhing the
safe of the County Treasurer of S24, 600,
was on Saturday found guilty and re-
manded for sentence.
DIR. Firestone of Wooster, the gentle
man to whom the Board of Trustees of
the Central Insane Asylum rendered
the position of superintendent. Satur-
day sent a telegram declining the cleo
tion.
Charges made against Gen. Mitchell,
of Columbus, o., of misappropriating
funds of the Home Building AssOcia-
ton, of which he is President, are pro-
nounced false and malicious by all the
directors of the association.
President Orton, of the Western
Union Telegraph Association, died of
apoplexy Monday morning, al seven
O'Clock, at his residence in Brooklyn.
He was one of the leading business
men and capitalists of New York.
The scheme for the colonization OF
colored people of this country in Africa
has always been viewed as ehimerical,
but it is again made practical expert
meat, the first of series of ship loads
having sailed from Charleston, S. c.,
on Saturday.
Henry T. Porter, an attorney of Mt
Vernon has commenced suit on his
own account against the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company for services
rendered during the past six years,
claiming Judgment in the sum of S51,-
9l6.
The Wisconsin State Treasury re-
ruined specie payments on Saturday,
paying all drafts in gold when asked
for. The State Journal also resumed
specie payments, paying editors and
employees their weekly salaries in gold
to the amount Of one thousand dollars.
Columbus, Ohio, evening papers
Thursday published interviews with
banks of that city, in which they
declare themselves ready to resume
specie payments at any time.
Blasius Pistarius, the ex-priest, re
Gently convicted of murder, has ad.
dressed accommodation to President
Hayes demonstrating against taking
his case to the Supreme Court, and de
manding to be executed without de-
lay.
The body OF John Wallace, the West
Virginia murderer, which was buried
in an obscure corner of a country ceme-
terry, near West Alexander, Pa, was
disenterred and spirited away one
night last week by unknown parties,
probably medical students who want
ed subject"
The San Francisco Bulletin says ex-
Congressman Vance, ofOhio, is certain
ly in the city or suburbs. Letters and
kilograms come for him addressed to
the Lick House, care of w. II. Lamb.
They are taken away by stranger to
the manager Of the house, supposed to
be a non resident.
Leonard Stroud, farmer of Geauga
county, Ohio, had dispute with his
wife concerning some property on
Thursday, and after stabbing her COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
The wife died.
Theodore Tilton has been interview.
ed and disclaims any agency in the
publication of the late card. He de-
signs going to Europe at the close OF
his lecture engagements, aid willspend
all the time with his daughters in Ger
many. The story that Mrs. Tilton will
accompany him he declares to be a
fabricat on.
A terrible cyclone swept over the
country east and west of Sioux City,
Iowa, Sunday afternoon, killing four
and irjuring forty persons, and doing
great damage to property, many
houses being blown down, and fences
and trees prostrated. The property
loss is estimated .at half a million
dollars.
The Cincinnati Gazette, of Monday,
contains the 70 lowing speci from
Wheeling. Yesterday, al Taylors
town, Washington county, Pa, few
miles from this city, a COW owned by
Robert Hail, farmer, gave birth to
fifty calves, ranging in size from rats
to opossums. The COW died shortly
after giving birth to the calves.
Saturday night, at SteubenvilIe three
burglars were caught in the act of
rObbing the store OF Mr.. Stokely, by
a man named John Elliot. The burg
lars turned upon him and beat him
until his life is despaired of. The
burglars have been arrested and bound
over to Court.
Six new first class passenger coaches
are under process of construction at the
Panhandle shops at Steubenvill, Ohio,
for use on the through express trains,
and it is said they will be followed by
four others. In addition to these, the
Pennsylvania shops at Altoona are
making six new coaches for the Little
Miami division.
A colored delegate from Urbana, o.,
to Sunday School Convention in
Atlanta, Ga, has been invited to re-
main at home because, as the white
Atlanta Sunday School secretary
writes, the time has nor yet arrived
down there for conventions where