Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-02
NEWS ITEMS.

San Francisco.
Lieut., Butler, son of Gen. B. F..
Butler, has resigned his position in the
army.
A tree fell upon and killed John
Lstta and two horses near Dennison,
during the storm on Wednesday of
last week.
McLin and A. Morton, that active
Florida fraud agent, are soreheaded
Republicans.
The claim of Mrs. Dahlgren, for the
Dahlgren gun, is to be referred to the
Court of Claims, with limit of $685.
Prof. John Trimble, Professor of
Greek for twenty five years in Kenyon
College, at Gambler, Ohio, died Tues
day of last week.
The Rev. John Jasper, the Rich
mond darkey preacher, who believes
that the sun moves, is to make a lee
ture tour shortly.
The President did not feel inclined
to make either Wells Anderson Collec
tor of the port of New Orleans, and
gave the place to one George l.. Smith.
The funeral OF Rev. John c. Sinclair,
an old and well known Presbyterian
minister, took place in Wheeling, w.
Va. on Thursday.
William Evarts. son of the Secretary
of State, died on Friday at the residence
of his father, in Washington City, aged
twenty-seven.
The first rain of any consequence for
eighteen months has fallen at
Honolulu, removing fears of water
famine in the city.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has issued circular which
says the compensation ofa Gauger shall
in No case exceed S. per day.
1t is reported that Beecher will soon
begin a suit against Frank Moulton
and the Tiltons, both Theodore and
Lizzie.
A Saratoga dispatch says that John
Morrissey is rapidly sinking. He was
stricken with paralysis on Saturday,
and has not spoken since.
Friends of the Texas Pacific Railroad
say the prospects of the passage of the
bill guaranteeing payment OF interest
on bonds of the company are continual
~ improving.
The President and party on Saturday
made brief tour of the Pennsylvania
mining regions, were enthusiastically
received, and returned to Washington
in the evening.
A genuine case of leprosy is reported
in Baltimore, the first ever known in
that city, the unfortunate victim being
Abraham Brown, bricklayer and a
native of New York.
In England, tbs said, orders will be
shortly issued for the immediate
formation of the Second Army
Corps, and the raising of the battalions
of that corps to the war establishment
The fifty-ninth anniversary of the
foundation of Odd Fellowship was
celebrated at Toledo on Friday by
numerous Ohio and Michigan lodges.
The occasion was also duly observed at
many other places, North and South.
H. J. Jewett has been elected Presi-
dent of the reorganized Erie Railroad
Company, the name of which is to be
changed to the New York, Lake Erie
d Western Railroad Company.
The Treasury Department has a |
number of letters inquiring at what
rate the Mexican silver dollars are re-
ceivable, and says as they are not legal
tender in the United States, persons
who accept them at their nominal
value do so at their own risk.
A tight-rope performer, while walk
ing backward on tight rope at Cat
asaqua, Pa, on Friday missed his
footing and fell fifty feet to the ground,
receiving injuries that it is supposed
must prove fatal.
The Syndicate formed to assist the
Secretary of the Treasury in preparing
for specie resumption will take fifteen
millions of the A per cent. bonds dur
ing the month of May.
British shipping interests on the
Continent of Europe are seriously affect
ed by the Russian preparations for
putting cruisers afoat. Merchants at
Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg and
Bremen are refusing to consign their
goods on ships flying the English flag
when the voyages will occupy any
length of time. K. g
Reports from all parts of the country
represents that much damage was
done by the storm last week to pro-
perty of nearly all kinds, and especially
the crops. Houses, fences, trees,
bridges, &C., were blown down. Several
lives were lost,
tits reported that there are 1000
armed and drilled Communists in
Chicago. The Superintendent of
Police urges vigilance and coucentrat-
ed action on the part of law abiding
citizens that these people may have
their plans nipped in the bud.
William H. Vanderbilt, President of
of the New York Central Road, started
for Europe on Saturday. He declared
the trip is for recreation, but among
the rumors afloat is one that steam
ship line is to be started in connection
with the road.
Nathan Matthews, of Boston, who
in 1870 was worth from six to seven
millions, has gone into BANKRUPTCY in
of the enormous shrinkage
in real estate during the last few years
Practically no change in the Eastern
situation. The Grand Duke Nicholas
has been promoted to the rank of Field
Marshal General and retires. General
Todleben takes command of the army,
and Bismarck has ceased his effort as
mediator.
The bee raisers in Los Angeles
county, CAL, have recently lost by
death 10000 stands out of 25,000, re-
yield of 10000 pounds of
honey year, worth $4,000. In San
Diego county just south of Los Angeles,
the loss is about 1 ,250, 900 pounds.
TAKE AYERS SARsAPARILLA to pu-
rify the blood and purge cut the hu-
mOrs, pimples, boils, and sores which
are merely emblems of the rottenness