Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
Notes and Comments.

Il Notes and Comments.
Forged letters don't pay as pelitica
investment.
The Governors of fifteen States were
chosen on Tuesday.
There will be no Electoral Commits
sion needed to settle this question.
Tilden has his revenge. For further
information apply to Montgomery Blair
The Moravians have sixty-five church
es in America, and about 10000 mem
bers.
One man in Kentucky will send $4,000
turkeys East this fall for Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
The number of emigrats who landed
in this country during the month of
September was 54.875.
The two hundred and ninth annual
session of the Friends yearly meeting
of Baltimore, began on the 26th ult.
The Hon. VIM. E. English to the mod
ern major general on Governors Island /:
"What are the wild waves saying?"
Take down the campaign banners.
Hancock is a gOod-looking man, but his
picture has been On exhibition long
enough.
The 18th Of next February is fixed for
the marriage of the pretty Princess Ste
phanie, of Belgium. to Prince Rudolph,
in Vienna.
VIM. P. Adair. Cherokee Chief, who
commanded brigade of his race in the
confederate army, died at Washington,
few days since.
Lady Fitzwilliam has been the victim
of heavy diamond robbery, some of the
brilliants having history traceable TO
the days of William ".
Geneva has romance based upon an
English clergyman who married lady
artist who colored his photofraphs and
fell in love with his picture.
Italy is to have an international or
universal exhibition in 1885, to be held
in Rome. A committee has been form
ed to perform the neutrality-suspicious..
A few weeks ago a man died in Swift
zerland who was in his 103d year, and
it is said of him that few days before
his death he accomplished mile walk.
He who designs the best monument
for Victor Emanuel in Rome is to re-
ceive prize of $4,000 francs. The COM
petition is open to sculptors of all ma
tions.
A boy stole away from Cincinnati
school and spent the day playing ball for
which he was mildly reprimanded by the
teacher. He Immediately retired to an
ante-room and shot himself.
David Davis and Ben. Butler got
down on the wrong side of the fence
again, but the Tribune says 1t is whis-
pered that at midnight the Judge pain
fully commenced to reascend.
John Duff, builder of the Hannibal
and St. Joe and Union Pacific Railroads,
died at Jamaica Plain, Mass, on the
morning Of the 26th ult., of pneumonia.
He leaves property estimated at $4,000
900.
The infant Princess Paulina, Of Hol-
land, was driven to church for her bap-
tism in carriage drawn by six horses
The young Queen, her mother, acted as
godmother and presented her for bap-
tism.
Thomas Jefferson, crippled old black
shoe-black at Vicksburg, has just re-
ceived as his pension allowances for SER
vices in Company b, United States vol
unteers, during the war, the sum Of
So, ,543.
The Herald charges that John Kelly's
nomination of Mf. Grace for mayor of
New York is responsible for the ire
mendous falling off on the Democratic
vote, and that John Kelly is the traitor
who has betrayed his party.
A faint hope prevails that the result
of Tuesday will open the eyes of South
ern Democrats to the folly of their alli-
ance wit that wing of the party that has
never done anything but drag them
down to defeat and disaster.
There is said to be scheme on foot
in Western Pennsylvania to secede from
the Eastern portion of the State and
State, to be known as the State of Allie
gheny, with population of l,454.196.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carrie, of Westbury, L.
l., celebrated her oath birthday on Tues |
day of last week. Three other ladies |
sat down to dinner with her, and every |
one was over 90 years OF age, yet in |
good health, and all in full possession of |
their mental faculties.
Says the World: probably NO intelli-
gent person who has thought about the
matter doubts that the election of Cen
eral Garfield. which seems to have been
effected last week, is virtually the re-
election Of General Grant" What sort
of Democratic organ is this this that
gives up the election Of 1884 four years
in advance?
Mr.. Edward Atkinson says that there
is growing up in the South a middle
class, composed of small farmers (both
white and black), laborers, tradesmen
and others, who, with the leaders in
business and railway en-
terprises, are becoming dissatisfied with
the taxes imposed upon them by the
Bourbon political managers. 1t is this |
class that will eventually break up the
'olid South.