Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-05-19
NEWS ITEMS.

A plot to assassinate the King of Italy
has been discovered.
The Governor of New York has issued
an order forbidding lotteries.
The sale OF furniture from the late
Fernando Woods residence in Washing
ton took place last week.
The Marquis of Salisbury has been
definitely selected to lead the CoRserya-
tive party in the British House of Lords.
Mrs. Marion Hackett was shot dead
one day last week, in New York by
her husband, who is confirmed drunk
ard.
The Washington female lawyer. Mrs.
Belva Lockwood, has been denied ad-
mission to the bar of Carroll County
Conrt. Maryland.
Z. Judge Benedict, New York, has issued
bench warrants for the arrest of all
steamship masters indicted for over
crowding vessels. - aEE
Coal has recently been discovered in
large quantities near Emerson. in Mani
toba, and the bewildered farmers are ask
ing fabulous prices for their lands. q
James r. Turner was instantly killed
at Memphis while charginga a soda foun-
tain by candle light The fountain ex-
ploded, and the top of Turner'S head was
blown of.
The limited express from Washington
over the Pennsylvania road. Wednesday
OF last week, made up a loss of l5 mill
utes between Philadelphia and Jersey
City, running the 80 miles in 50 minutes.
Reports received at the State Agricul-
'tural Department show that during the
past year the number of hogs raised in
Ohio has decreased ab0ut 20 per cent,
while the number ofsheep has increased.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided that the Northern Pacific railroad
has tile right secured to it by its charter
to survey and build its road across the
Grew Indian reservation on the Yellow
stone river, Eastern Montana.
Catherine Marshall. the fourteen-year-
old faster of Glasgow. who, it is said has
not eaten anything since the beginning
Of the year, has been induced to eat b,
the threat OF sending her to the insane
asylum if she longer refused.
A bottle, tightly corked. and contain
ing note, has just been found on a sand
bar in Texas. The note signed by Aaron
Scott, who lived near Little Rock. In a
few hurried lines he stated that he was
about to be murdered. The body has
not been found.
The city of New York has spent $780,
900 on the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
has been contributed by the trustees and
members of the association. The yisi
tors during the year ending on the 1st of
May were 1,200,373, including S,577 on
pay days. The building has never been
large enough for proper exhibition of
the collection, and bill appropriating
100000 year for four years only awaits
the Governors signature to become
law.
A new and destructive insect is re-
ported on the farm of Emmor S. Jones,
in Chester county, Pa, where it has
nearly destroyed his fields of young to-
bacco plants. 1t somewhat resembles
the Colorado potato beetle, with a hard
and unyielding shell. Its operations
are directed to the roots of plants, which
it nips off and then. throws the rest of
the plant out Of the ground. 1t bur-
rows like-the mole under the surface of
the pIant-bed. and can be tracked at its
work By the movement of the earth.
When disturbed it ceases operations and
rolls over as if dead, but resumes busi-
ness when left alone.