Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-05
NEWS ITEMS.

Lyman Tremain, ex- Congressman
from Albany IN. W district, died
Saturday, aged sixty years.
The Porte mas suppressed the Turk
ish Legation at Washington and many
COnsulates.
Agell. the runaway secretary of the
Pullman Palace Car Company, was
living 10 Lisbon under the name OF
Seymour, and professed to be an Eng
lishman.
Thanksgiving Day was celebrated at
Mount Gilesd, Ohio, by u sham battle,
during which several persons were in
jured, and i'll feeling arising came very
near converting the affair into a serious
conflict.
Lewis A. Cooley, until recently the
publisher of Godey's I.sdy'5 Book,
died at Philadelphia on Friday, aged
seventy five. He had been suffering
diseases, but his death was not anticl-
pated by his friends.
A call signed by a number OF prOmi-
nent citizens of Virginia is published,
stating that they have organized them
selves into a society to preserve the
credit of the State, and inviting the CO.
operate n of every citizen.
t. electric light is,beyond question,
bound to be a Success. The London
Times composing room is lighted with
it, and a CORES pondent says it is as
adjustable as gas, as daylight in brilli-
ancy, and at less than third of the eX
pense of gas.
| O'Conner, the Fenian now confined
at Spike Island, has been notified that
he will be released on condition that
he leaves the: Queens dominins.
Kelley, another of the imprisoned
Fehisns, will probably be released on
similar conditions.
The family of Herman Miller, Cleve.
land, have been seriously poisoned by
eating potatoes, supposed to have been
'doctored for bugs" with Paris green.
Two men in Jail at Bellefontaine,l last
Thursday night, attacked the Shersf
as he entered the Jail, knocking him
down, and one of them made hi:
escape.
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rested at Washington last week, on the
charge Of conspiracy in connection with
the alleged frauds in the building o
the Chicago Custom House. He wa:
released on s., 900 bail.
The citizens of Memphis made Thanks
giving Day the occasion for a genera
mass meeting to acknowledge theil
gratitude for the aid afforded to then
in their recent distress.
The Secretary of the navy says the
condition of the navy has been consid,
rably improved. There are now OF
commission twenty eight cruising
ships, one steamboat and five sailing
vessels. In case of necessity ninety
one war vessels of all classes, including
monitors, can be put in service.
A farmer of Ashville, N. Y, caused
the death of his daughter, eight years
old. by swapping a cap on a gun which
he had taken down to clean. A neigh
Dor who had borrowed the weapon
left heavy load in It. The ramrod
which was in the barrel, passed entire
ly through the body of the child, max
ing a frightful wound. She died soor
after.
The depression of business in Great
| Britain, which is rapidly decreasing
the wages of the laborers, or entirely
closing up Industrial establishments OF
all kinds, is converting the people from
their free trade doctrines into advo-
Gates of retaliatory tariffs. The Ken
tish hop-groWers, at meeting on
n
pointed a committee to advocate the
tariff question. They attribute all the
Ievil5 Of which they complain to the
tariffs of foreign countries.
After the death Of William G. Rails
ton of San Francisco, his friends pre-
sented his widow with money and
property to the amount of $500, 600.
About year ago she came under the
influence of an adventurer who has
dissipated more than half of her for
tune, and now proceedings have been
commenced in the Probate Court for
the appointment of Il guardian of her
property and person, on account of her
mental Incompetence to manage her
estate.
1t will be remembered by our read :
erS, perhaps, that james NJ. Hunter,
of Philadelphia, was convicted of the
murder of Armstrong. The fatal blow
Was struck in Camder, New Jersey,
and death ensued in Philadelphia.
Counsel for the defendant have been
arguing the question of Jurisdiction be-
fore the Supreme Court of New jersey
their point being that as death did not
take place in New jersey the New Jer-
sey Court had no right to try the man
for murder. The point was made in
the first stages of the trial, and was
then overruled. 1t is announced that
the decision of the Court will be rend-
cred this week. 1t is curious an d an
important question.
Rev. james w. Stephenson, of the
NJ. E.. Church, and located at Piqua,
and Presiding Elder of his district was
arrested Friday night in Dayton, for
drunken and disorderly conduct on the
streets of that city. 1t is said he has
been accustomed to go there and take
periodical sprees, under an assumed
name, for sometime past. On the
other hand it is claimed he was severIy
suffering from ague and took whisky
to relieve him, from the effects of
which he became intoxicated and
crazy. On Saturday morning be was
finad tnn dollars and oOsta and loft for