Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
NEWS ITEMS.

A receiver has been appointed to
wind up the sffairs of the Peoples Sa-
wings Bank of New York.
ALI hsrbors on the Nova Scotia coast
are still open, and vessels are arriving
and departing.
An official Statement of 179 savings
banks in Massachusetts, for 1877 shows
deposits sggregating S244, 596 is, against
$243. $40, ,642. IS for the previous year.
A fire at Sweet Water, Tenn, on
Christmas night destroyed FIVE stores,
two warehouses, aud several other
buildings. Loss $4,000
George A. Bailey, late publisher OF
the Congressional Globe. died at Deer
ing, Maine, on wednesday, of last
week.
The Dominion Cabinet has passed
an order in council asking the home
Government to remove all restriction
on cattle landed in the United King
dom.
Colonel E. W. G. Green, late pub
fisher of the Philadelphia Sunday
Transcript. died Thur|d V. He was
Pension Agent durirg President John
sons Administration.
A heavy snow storm was prevailing
Thursday at Cheyenne, and was ap-
paSentIy coming east ward. The
weather thrOug hGut the northwest wss
cooler and Threatening.
The Supreme Court Of Dakota Terri
tory has decided that officials elected
in counties in the Blsck Hills last No
vember were lawfully elected and are
entitled to the offices.
1t IL now understood that the alb
seconded Excise Cn1 missioner Murphy
OF New Y"5k has tskrn refugr in Can
ada, and il is said he proposes to offer a
mpromise and, if accepted, he will
return.
Figures from the Bureau of Statistics
show that our cheese export is becom.
ing very valuable. In 1860 we export
I'd 1855, 799 pounds; in 1865, SO, ,OS9, 46S
pounds; III 1870, 81, ,296, ,327 pounds; in
1877, 107 1864 ,666 pounds.
A convention of colleges organized
under authority of land grants from.
Congress was held at Columbus, Ohio.
Thursday. Representatives were pres
ent from Illinois, Massachusetts, Iowa,
Missouri. New Jersey, Virginia, Penn
sylvania and OHIO.
About one hundred unemployed Ia
borers waited on the Mayor o. Toronto,
Thursday, and stated that they must
have work or they and their families
would staTve. A majority of them
were set to work breaking stones.
While fifty convicts were being trans
ferred from Auburn to Clinton prison,
New York, Thursday, Richard Kavan-
agh jumped from car window while
the train was under full head way near
Fort Ann and escaped.
The Bureau of Statistics publishes a
statement of the leaf tobacco trade
fromethe year 1890 to 1877, inclusive.
| The first year shows tine exLorts tu
have been 118, ,460 pounds, & the present
year 282, 1856. 426 pounds; heavy ratio
of increase being exhibited in the pro
gress of the entire time.
Chas. III. Merriman has been appoin-
ted Receiver of the Economics Life
Insurance Company of Providence, r
l., the Commissioners representing its
insolvency, and the Company war
therefore enjOined from proceeding
further in transacting business.
James O'Neill, and engineer on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, was shot
and Instantly killed ut Bloomington,
Illinois, in the street, while returning
to his home, having just arrived on his
train' The mott Se tor the deed is not
known, nor is there any clue to the
sutbOr OF the murder.
Tie New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Comd tny's report
shows that the net earnings for the
past year have been a little Iess and
the gross income $3.50. 600 less than the
year before. All EXPENSES have been
met and regular Intends paid. The
r al is in excellent condition, and its
facilities were never bettrr.
Gen. Thomas Ewing made speech
toa large assembly at Louisville ou
Wednesday evening of last week, on
the occasion of n serenade, in which ne
aenOunoed'the Eastern press with the
strongest emphasis, and spoke Of his
perfect faith in the passage of the Spe
Gle Resumption Repeal bill by the
Senate and its approval by the Presi-
dent.
Colonel William Randolph Berkeley,
an eminent lawyer of Farmville,
Virginia, was killed on Thursday in
his Office by Captain William H. Kan-
nedy, who fred the fatal shot as Col
onel Berkeley opened the door in
answer 10 Kennedy's knock. The
murderer then fred another ball into
his own head. Berkeley died instant
ly, but Kennedy was alive al the i st
accounts, though it is supposed that ht
cannot live. He Was formerly q
resident OF Richmond, and it is stated
mad made three previous attempts OF
his life. Colonel Berkeley leaves
large family. He was a member OF the
law firm of Berkeley & Berkeley, OF
Richmond.