Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16

cut through the waters of the Hudson,
DR.. William Perry, lives at Exeter, n.
II. He celebrated the ninetieih ami
versary of his birth the other day.
A socialist journal has been suppress.
ed in Switzerland for publishing an ar
ticle which expresses regret that the
kings of Italy and Spain have escaped
the hands of assassins.
What bright, spry girls they have in
Illinois! One of them now daily re-
ported attends sixty steel traps, which
are set for mink and muskrst, and the
first week of cold weather netted twen'
ty'siX dollars.
A resident of Greenup, Kentucky,
had his head split open with an ak, but
according to a local paper, CONTINUES
to improve, the extracting of two
patches of brains having given him
great relief"
A henpecked husband said, in ex-
teDuatiOn of his wife's raid on his scalp:
"You See she takes her own hair off so
easily that she doesn't know it hurts to
,, have mine pulled out"
A New Jersey woman holds that the
husband who really loves his wife will
thrash her once in while, and the De-
troit Free Press inquiries: Are we upon
the threshold of q new era?
The two daughters of Senator Sar'
gent, Of California-very quiet, lady
like girls-are studying medicine at
Howard University. The senator him
self is vigorous defender of woman's
rights.
Prof. Henry Dirk, while performing
on a trapeze below balloon at Jones'
boro', Ark, few days ago, fell a dis
| tance of one Thousand feet and was
dashed to pieces.
The ravages of the plague at Astra-
chan causes much anxiety in Russia.
| The infected district has been surroun-
ded with troops to enforce a rigid
| quarantine.
Reports from the fruit section of
| Florida show that the orange crops
and trees are not damaged by the re
cent cold snap. The weather has mod
Grated and has become very pleasant
the thermom eter ranging from 650 to
| 700.
At the Republican caucus of the
Pennsylvania legislature j. Donald
Cameron received the nomination for
United States Senator unanimously.
His friends claim he has more than
the requisite number of votes to be
elected.
Gov. GarcelOn, of Maine. was inau-
gurated on Wednesday at Augusta
In his inaugural address he congratu-
lates the people on the resumption Of
specie payments, and hopes the nation
would never again be led into viola
ting the Constitution by the passage of
a legal tender act.
Returns to the Postoffice Department
for the quarter ending September 80,
indicate that the postal revenues will
be increased about $100, 900 per annum
by the change in the mode of compen-
satiDg postmssters of the fourth class.
allowing them commission on stamps
cancelled on letters, instead of stamps
sold.
George Ensig murdered his wife near
York, Pa, on Thursday night. She
was the mother of four children,
though only twenty.three years of age,
and was living with her father, hav-
ing separated from her husband on ac-
count of his drunken habits. After try
ing to persuade her to live with him
he suddenly cut her throat from ear to
ear, causing her death in short time.
Her father attempted to seize the MUIR
derer, who wounded him and an infant
of Ensig's that the old man had in his
arms. The murderer was arrested.