Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-24

The Trustees of the Ohio State Uni
versity have reelected Edward Orton
President of the University.
The Regents of the New York State
| University, last week, conferred the de-
gree of Ii. ID. on ThurlOw Weed.
California Cinnamon are packing their
traps and emigrating to the Lower Mis-
slssippi Valley, to take the place of ex-
odusting colored people.
The Brooklyn Presbytery has refused
by vote of to 9, to dismiss the speci-
! fication which charges Talmage with
making false statements about Hatha-
way.
The General Superintendent of the
Railway Postal Service has found it ne
cessary to make a reduction in the pay
of route agents, in order to come within
the limits of appropriations for the fis-
cal year.
Miss Lizzie Fulton, aged 81, committed
suicide in Wheeling early Thursday
morning of last week, by nearly sever
ing her head from her body with razor.
Seventeen hundred refugees, now at
Wyandotte, Kansas, are in deplorable
condition. An appeal for contributions
is made which can be sent to Northrup
Il Sons, bankers, treasurers, Wyandotte,
Kansas.
Z. S. Senator GOrdOn's condition gives
his friends considerable uneasinesS. He
seems to be slowly wasting away. Some
of the wounds which he received during
the war are suppurating, and are con-
slant drain on his physical energies.
Hon. Charles Foster has taken his first
step up the gubernatorial ladder by get
ting elected member of the Town
Council of Fostoria, his own town.
founded by him and named for him.
1t is limited that there may be "a wo-
man in the case" of the attempted as
SassinatiOn of the Gar. The gossip of
the Russian capital lately intimated that
an unpleasantness existed growing out
of an infatuatiOn for a charming lady OF
high birth and accomplishments.
The Duke of Argyle is expected to a.
rive in New York soon on his way to
visit his son, the Marquis of Lorne, in
Canada. He designs travelling incog.,
both because he is an invalid and in
deep affiiction from the death of the
Duchess.
Thomas Durant, of North Solon, Ohio,
while engaged boiling maple sugar in
the woods, slipped and fell backwards
into the boiling sap, and was so dread
fully scalded that he died ON the Sth
instant.
John Brown, Jr., of Put-in-Bay, Ohio,
son of Ossawottomie Brown, in letter
just published declares his intention of
volunteering his services to aid the col
Ored refugees of the South. He has a
plan of assisting emigration to Kansas
and other Western States.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee of Iowa has called State Con-
vention 10 meet in Des Moines on We'd
nesday, June 18th, to nominate candi-
date for Governor and full State ticket.
DR.. Isaac Hays, the editor of the Amer
lean Journal of Medical Science, died on
the 18th, at his residence in Philadelphia
He was the Oldest living editor in the
United States, having been on the staff
of the Journal for ffty-two years.
Brother Moody told Baltimore con-
gregation that he wondered at anbody's
unbelief that whale swallowed Jonah,
and declared that he would not be sur
prised to see man swallowing whale,
for all things are still possible with the
Lord.
VIM. r. Smith, a young man of Hart
ford, Connecticut, became impressed,
ten days ago, with the idea that his re-
ligious obligations required him to fast
forty days and forty nights, and he be-
gan at once, stopping all nourishment.
After a week had elapsed he became
very weak and was taken to the insane
retreat where food was administered
compnlsorily and he began to improve.