Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-25

The earthquake and tornado in Alaska
did destructive work.
Twenty-ene persons were drowned off
Cape Clear by the laundering If the
ship Galatea, bound for Bombay.
John c. Calhoun, a nephew of the null
liication Senator, imagines himself to
be Jesus Christ.
A runaway train of coal cars dashed
from sixty foot trestle into the new
coal tipple of the Keystone Coal Compa
ny, opposite Steubenville, making a
frightful wreck.
Frauds in homestead entries in Dako-
ia are being ferreted out. Five indict-
ments for subornation of perjury and
one for forgery have been brought in by
the Grand Jury at Yankton as a result
of the Investigations.
A twelve year old boy named Willie
Marshall was suffocated by coal gas at
New Bridge, n. J. The servant filled
the stove in the boys sleeping room,
and the lad was dead when he was dis
covered by his parents.
Charles Hayward, a well known bank
thief, has been arrested in New York as
being one of the three burglars who rob-
bed the Middletown, CT, bank last July.
He has been fully identified by the
cashier, and will he taken to Connecticut
for trial.
The official returns of the vote in Cal
ifornia show that Henry Edgerton, Re
publican, receives 507 more votes for
elector than does Judge Terry, the low
est on the Democratic ticket, and is
elected. The other Democratic electors
have majorities ranging from 81 to 143.
Governor Huyt, of Pennsylvania, has
issued a proclamation announcing the
election of Republican electors in that
State, and of Henry Greene as Supreme
Court judge, John A. Lemon as auditor
general, and nineteen Republican and
eight Democratic candidates for Con-
gress.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road Company have completed their new
line from Chicago to the Missouri river,
and transferred their freight and passen-
ger business for the Black Hills country
to that route, which involves only one
hundred and seventy miles of staging to
DeadwoOd.
The coroner's jury in the case of the
Chinaman killed at Denver, Col, on
October 3lst by a mob have cenSured
the city government for inefficiency and
incompetence, and that the mob could
have been suppressed by the regular po-
lice force had they fearlessly arrested
the ringleaderS
United States Marshal Wharton, in an
interview with New Orleans Times
reporter stated that the Republicans
propose to contest the seats of the Dem
ocrats returned as elected from the
Fourth and Fifth Congressional dis
tricts of Louisiana, and may also decide
to contest the First and Second districts.
He says the late election was farce.
The men and boys killed at the Stel-
larton coal mine explosion and fire num-
bered fifty. The disaster makes thirty
widows and one hundred and ten or
phans. Seven hundred men, who with
their families number at least two thou
sand persons, are thrown out of employ
ment, and terrible suffering must ensue
unless prompt and substantial aid is
rendered.
At meeting of the Republican Cen
trail Committee in New York, the follow
ing was submitted and referred to the
committee on Resolutions: Resolved,
That in the opinion of this committee,
steps should be taken by our representa-
tives in Congress to so amend the Con-
stitution of the United States as to pro-
vide that the President and Vice PreSi-
dent on their retirement from office
shall be admitted to life membership of
the Senate"
A wing of the Minnesota State Hos
pital for the Insane at st. Peter caught
fire on Monday night of last week, and
was entirely destroyed. Six hundred
lunatics were confined in the building,
and although every effort was made to
drive them out of their rooms, many re-
fusee to go, and some are known to have
burned to death. Others, including many
women, rushed out into the snOw-cover-
ed grounds and wandered away. Many
of them believed to have perished
from cold, and the total number of deaths
from the disaster is estimated at from
twenty to fifty.
%, for the good old days OF muSh and
milk! With the advance of alleged civ
ilization corn is being gradually crowd
ed from the table, except the green and
toothsome roasting ear, until some Of
the favorite appetizers of fifty or even
twenty years ago will at the present rate
soon become almost unknown. The pone
and the corn-dodger, and the johnny
cake, and the bowl of mush-among the
most delicious and wholesome breads |
ever eaten-seem to have had their day
in this part of the country. and are only
occasionally seen. This well illustrates
the old saw that change is not always
improvement. The corn-cTib should be
IA store-house for both the stock pen and
the etable.-[StOckman.