Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

$1,000. In 1868 he won a race at Chica.
go in 2:24A. He was twenty-eight
years of age at the time of his death
When in his prime he was the peer OF
Goldsmith Maid, Dexter, and American
Girl
In the upper branch of the General
Assembly, Saturday, a bill was passed
providing for the using of the surplus
dog tax for the maintenance of schools
at Children's Homes.
Rev. John Miller, d. D., late Professor
in the Theological Seminary at Prince
ton, n. j., has been formally deposed
from the ministry for heresy by the ses-
sion of the Presbytery of New Bruins
wick.
Republican Senators held a caucus
Saturday, in which, although no pro-
gramme was adopted, it was agreed that
the obnoxious features of the Army bill
should be opposed in every legal way.
Senator Window thinks the seemingly
accidental beginning of the exodus OF
colored people from the South to the
| West is one of the greatest of providen-
tial benefits to this country, if the mat
ter now begun is judiciously and care.
fully managed.
A prominent Democratic Congressman
! from one of the middle States tells Sec
retary Sherman that unless there is a
speedy change in the present Democrat
ic attitude they will not be able to carry
half dozen districts in all the Northern
States at the next election.
John G. Thompson, whose opinions
are more or less valuable because he is a
faithful echo of Senator Thurman, is un-
able to think that the recent election in
Ohio will have any effect upon the State
election in October. Mr.. Thompson
shows his greatness by being most san
guine when the outlook is the darkest.
N. Y. Tribune.
Ex-Secretary Gorham of the United
States Senate, a few days ago, at the
close of his administration, during which
he had handled many millions of dollars,
found that exactly one cent was due him
by the Treasury Department. A check
was made out for that sum, and the
COMA big, old-fashioned copper-was
sent to him and will be kept by him as
a mementO.
The property of the Steubenville Fur
mace and Iron Company, consisting of
one blast furnace, coal shaft and coke
oven, and about 200 acres of coal land,
was sold at Sheriff's sale on Tuesday of
last week, for $59,5OO. The property is
nearly as good as new. The original
cost was $215,0OO. The property was
purchased by the Steubenville creditors.
The present appraised value of the prop
erty is $4,000.
IN the case of Graham, the accomplice
of Hunter in the Camden murder, who
sought immunity from trial because of
his evidence ON Hunters trial, the Su-
preme Court of New Jersey has declined
to advise the Attorney General to enter
nolle prosequi. The pith of the deci-
sion is that the confession of an accom-
plice may constitute an equitable claim
to mercy, but such claim cannot be
treated as a legal right, and Graham's
prosecution therefore ought not to be
dismissed The case is thus remanded
to the Camden court, and Graham will
be tried for murder.
Hon. j. J. Burns, State Commissioner
of Education, has received a letter from
John d. Philbrick, of Boston, stating
that the contribution of the State to the
Educational Exhibit at the Paris Exhi.
bition had returned to Washington, and
from there it will shortly be forwared to
this State. Mr. Philbrick cOngratulates
the State Commissioner on the award OF
the gold medal to the State, and gives il
as his opinion that it is well-deserved
recognition of the progress and condition
of the free schools of Ohio. Forty years
ago, says the writer, under the lead OF
Samuel Lewis, the first Superintendent
of her schools Ohio adopted a shoool
code which was in most respects the best
then existing in any Of the States in the
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