Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
Stanley Is in Paris.

Stanley Is in Paris.
Blaine Is better, physically.
Cleopatra's needle Is again on the
rolling deep.
The debt of the District of Columbia
is $23, 3,S10, ,146. ...-..
Buffalo has two societies for the pre-.
vention of cruelty to children.
The orange product of Florida for
the year 1877 was 1900, 900 oranges.
Allison was renominated for the
Senate last week by the Republicans OF
the Iowa Legislature.
Gen. John s. Williams was elected
Thursday, on joint ballot. Senator from
Kentucky, to succeed Thomas G. Me-
Creery, by vote of l26 to IL for
Boyd, Republican.
Gen. Mcclellan was inaugurated
Governor of New Jersey at Trenton
Tuesday. The oath OF Office was adj
ministered by Chief Justice Beaseley,
and the great seal of the State trans
ferred by his predecessor, Ex-Governor
Bedle. -
The suit, at Baltimore, of Eli Strick.
er, formerly freight conductor sn the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 10 recover
damages for permanent injuries by be-
ing knocked from his train by bridge,
resulted in verdict for 5000.
The attention of the Treasury De-
partment has been directed to the
practice prevalent in The West Of
stamping business cards on subsidiary
silver coins, and efforts will be made
to prevent its continuance, If there Is
any law by which it can be reached.
The House Committee on Pensions
have heard the report OF the sub-com-
mittee, of which Hewitt Is chairman,
and agreed to report q bill In favor Of
pensiOning Mexican veterans. The
bill repeals the clause i'm the general
pension law discriminating against
those who served in the Confederate
army during the rebellion. $50
Colonel Robert Ingersoll answer
ed thus q reporter who asked him,
the ether day, if he believed In no
hereafter: 81 do not know. I ann
aboard of great ship. do not know
what port she left, or whittier she is
bound. She may go down with sli on
board, or she may reach some sunny
port. / do not know. 1t Is no more
strange that men should live agsin
than that they have lived.
A dreadful railroad accident occurred
last week near Hartford, Conn. An
excursion train with passengers that
had been attending Moody and San.
KEYS revival services fell into the
Pennington river. Two engines,
baggage car and three passenger cars
fell through the bridge.
Among the late Senator Mortcn's
papers an incomplete report on the
Chinese question has been discovered,
and it will be presented to the Senate
as an unfinished minority report. The
deceased evidently intended to frame
q paper recommending humane and
liberal policy In the treatment 81 the
Chinese question.
Col. Strong, of Merced, California,
last season raised 40, 900 pounds Of gin
cotton from 100 acres, q much larger
Weld than was obtained in the most
noted cotton growing districts OF the
country. California planters are hope
full of making the uplands Of San Joa-
quin valley great cotton producing
region.
Some months since number OF ar
rests were made at Kansas City Of par
lies implicated In series Of stuben-
dous swindling in Texas lands by
means of bogus deeds to those vhom
they induced to purchase. A St.Lou-
Is dispatch now gives the names OF nj
| ty two persons who have been enga-
ged In selling Texas lands for the past
eight or ten years, and that all the
deeds passed by them are frauduiens
and of no value whatever.
President Hayes has written . brief
letter concerning the emigration OF col
lored people 10 San Domingo and Hay
ii. in which he says: al am not we'll.
Informed as to the advantages offered
by San Domingo to Immigrants, but
nv impression Is that the colored peo-
DIE should not be hasty In deciding 10
leave this country. The mere differ
ence Ia climate is q very serious objee-
tiou 10 the removal. The first genera
tiou, In all such removals suffer great
lly. IT Is my opinion also that the
evils which now affllct you sre likely
to steadily, and I hope rapidly, d.
minIsh. My advice "a. thereisFeS
lagainst the proposed emigration"