Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-07-15
NEWS NOTES.

Inc ACTUAL pOpuldIlOn OF CnleagO, ac-
c0rding to the present census, is 5Ol,979.
Judge Hoadley, Chairman Of the re-
cent Democratic National Convention,
has sailed for Europe.
President and Mrs. Hayes leave
Washington for California about the
Goth inst, to be gone several weeks.
Secretary Sherman has instructed the
Assistant Treasurer at New York to
omit the customary purchase of bonds.
The Republicans of the Third Mime
sofa district last week renominated W.
d. Washburn for Congress. The vote
was unanimous.
The Ohio Teachers association met
at Lakewood Wednesday of last week.
Seven hundred teachers were present.
The opening session was taken up with
the discussion of industrial education.
J. Randolph Tucker, Jr., private sec
retary for Speaker Randall, died in
Richmond on Monday night. He was a
son of Col. Beverly Tucker and nephew
of John Randolph Tucker.
Major Geo. A. REYNOLDS of Parsons.
Kansas, died in Washington, last week,
after brief illness. Major REYNOLDS
was prominent politician in his State,
and ex-member of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
A riot occurred at Troy Mills. Iowa,
in which nearly 800 persons participa-
ted, and which resulted in the fatal in
jury of four men and the wounding of
twenty-five. Bad blood, involving the
tax for a railroad, was the cause of the
row.
Lawrence Il. jerome and Edward NJ.
Patched, two young bankers of New
York, were arrested one day last week
for the theft of 587,200 in stocks, which
they obtained in some unknown way
from messenger boy on Wall street.
The first election of the fall cam
paign will be held in kentucky on Au-
gust 9th. The next State election will
be in Vermont on the 9th of September.
which will be followed by that of Maine
the following week.
Paul A. Chadbourne, on account of
private business interests, has rendered
his resignation of the Presidency of Will
liams College, to take effect the next
college year.
Rev. Barnas Sears, D. D., Ii. D., for
mer President of Brown University, died
last week at Saratoga, whittier he had
gone to deliver an address before the
American Institute of instruction.
The Iowa Republican State Conven-
ton is called for August 25th, to nomi-
nate an Auditor, Secretary and Treas.
urer of State, Register of Land office,
Attorney General and eleven Presiden-
tial Electors.
Attorney General Devens has given
it as his opinion, that the Presidents
appointment of John T. Hartranft, to be
Collector of Customs at philadelphia
was perfectly legitimate and warranted
by numerous precedents.
The President last week signed the
Commissions of David u. Kew, of Ten
nessee, to be United States District
Judge of the Eastern and Middle Dis
ricts of Tennessee, and of Horace May
nard, of Tennessee, to be Postmaster
General of the United States.
OUR iron export trade with Europe is
last becoming az item Of great iInpor-
tance. Competing most faYorahly with
the foreign markets, DR.. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil is justly becoming popular, for
when once used it becomes a standard
medicine.
VIM. 7. Pelton, nephew of Samuel J.
Tilden, who achieved notoriety during
and since the campaign OF 1876, and in
PnDnpctiOn with tho cinbnr dicpotohas
died Thursday morning in New York.
PeltOn had been suffering for some
months from complication of diseases.
AN Illinois woman has named her ba-
by "Pinafore." Probably because she
never What? Well, comparatively
seldom was without DR.. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil, which is the only remedy that
has performed such wonderful cures for
whooping cough, diphtheria, colds, burns,
wounds, sores, hurts, &c.