Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-03-13
NEWS ITEMS.

Congressman Acklen, of Louisiana, ,is
very i'll. His recovery Is considered
doubtful.
The recent facial attack OF erysipelss
is said to have utterly ruined the smile
of Schuyler Colfax.
Michigan Republican State Conven
tion met at Lansing, and nominated y
State ticket, Thursday.
The widow and daughter of Baysrd
Taylor arrived at New York from
Germany, Thursday.
A very destructive lain storm pre-
vailed in the interior OF California,
Thursday.
Thomas .Jefferson's Monticello es
tate will be sold by the Virginia State
Com missioner on March 20.
The late Jim Fisk's 800, 900 opera
glass, set with diamonds, is the first
prize 10 lottery at the Orthodox He-
brew Fair ia Boston.
Randall and Bllck burn are the most
prominent candidates for the Speak
srsbip of the next House of RepreSnta-
tives.
Major Reno has been com pletely ex
Onerated by the court of inquiry which
investigated his conduct in the battle
of Little Big Horn.
Mr.. Thompson, of the Eighth Ken
lucky District, will be the youngest
member Of the next Congress. He Is
OnlV thirty-thre0.
There will be three Isrselites In the
next COngress-Senator Jonas, and
Representatives Edwin Einstein ana
Leopold Morse.
Wade Hampton has resigned tht
GOvernOrship of South Carolina, anu
has been commissioned as U. Slater
Senator.
The news of the death of the AmeeI
of Afghsnistan is again confirmed. All
ter his death bloody conflict broke
out among the followers of the various
pretenders to the throne, which ended.
in victory for Yakoob Kahn.
An Auburn clergyman, who claims
to have learned the secret of the un
happiness in the Dickens household
says that Mrs. Dickens persisted in
criticising her husbands books, as well
as his naughty manner.
Chas. P. Stickney, the default ng
Treasurer of the Manufacturers Ga.
Company, of Taunton, Mass, has beeu
sentenced to five years imprisonment
with one day Of solitary confinement
Miss Ewing, the daughter of General
Tom Ewing, is described as one of the
most charming young women in Wash
lington. A correspondent speaks en-
tbusiastically of her large dark-brov c
! eyes, her rippling chestnut hair
straight nose and fweet smile.
French engineers are discussing the
practicability of . railway across the
Desert Of Sahara, and think one can he
built and maintained, Notwithstanding
the heat and absence OF water. Tht
distance from Algiers TO Timbuctoo
across the desert, is 1900 miles.
Rev. John Henry Newman, who ha,
been rendered Cardinals hat, il on,
OF the most gifted and eloquent of En-
giish catholics. For a number of year,
he has lived in compartive retireinen
! at the Oratory Of Birmingham.
THE commercial intercourse OF Chin,
is mainly with England and her colo
nies. More than two-thirds OF her ex
ports are In tea. The bulk of import
from England has been in manufactu
red cotton and wooden goods. In 1877,
the quantity Of tea exported to En-.
Iglsnd and dependencies was I3,243. .05,
pounds, valued at $685. ,36l. In tn,
same year England exported to Chins
manufactured cottons valued at 92
838, ,685, and woolens valued at es4s,
057. Senator Hamlin stated the yalu,
OF our imports and exports In 1878 Il
be s24, ,0OO, 600. About e, 500, 900 of oui
lexpOrts ne said wore of cotton goods
4 Of the North.