Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-04-28
NEWS ITEMS.


The Minnesota farmers are planting
spring wheat.
The COnnatton Valley railroad has
reached Kent.
Strawberries cost about 1925 a bushel
in New York.
The frigate Constitution has arrived
at Piny Point.
The tobacco crop of Missouri for 1880,
was about 10000 hOgsheads.
There were 12l smallpox patients in
the hospital at New York City on the
10Th. E
A clause in Beaconsfield's will di-
reefs that his body be placed beside his
wife in the churchyard at Hughendon.
Floods throughout the northwest are
doing great damage. Nearly all the
rivers are over their banks and still ris-
ling. "a
Navigation was opened between Cleve-
land and Detroit last week, the ice hav-
ing drifted to the northern shore of the
lake.
The Berlin papers all express deep
sorrow at the death of BeacOnsfield.
Bismarck was greatly moved in hearing
of it.
Eight passengers were drowned on
train Eyer the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad which fell through a
,trestle into the Meredosia River Thurs
day.
A new, disease, worse than epizootic.
has broken out among the street car
horses in Chicago. 1t resembles blood
poisoning.
Parnell says the Land bill will not
provide the slightest protection to the
small tenants, but rather tend to their
destruction.
The late Senator Carpenters estate is
said to amount to s61 800. All this is
in life insurance except $4,000, which
is in real estate. I- ri
-Four hundred men have been thrown
out of employment by the strike at the
Reading Iron Works, which have been
closed permanently.
Henry Ward Beecher announced from
the Plymouth Church pulpit his belief
tnat Baptism was non-essential ordi-
nance of the church.
Gov. Foster has commuted the death
sentence of Conrad Rautertach, who
was to have hung in Sidney last Friday,
to imprisonmentin in the penitentiary for
life.
The stock of unlicensed Toronto bar
rooms is seized by the police, and once
week the contents of bottles and kegs
are poured into bath tub and allowed
to run to waste.
The President nominated Gen. James
Longstreet, new Minister to Turkey, U.
S. Marshal of Georgia, and Philip HI.
Emerson, Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Utah.
Two brothers named Nichols, aged re-
spectively IA and II, got into quarrel
at Oakwood township, near Danville,
Illinois, the other night, and the older
fatally shot the younger.
Reineke, clerk of the County Court of
Cook county, Illinois, plead guilty Thurs
day to grand larceny of $1,000 and a
SOuoplld W COnluiL 1OIStfy III cOHn6c-
ton with the tax assessments. i
The conclusion has been arrived at
by the officials of the Insane Asylum at |
Anna, ILL.,, that the fire was caused by
matches ignited by the mice, which had
made nests of scrap paper, etc.
Thursday morning a nitro-glycerine
vault exploded at Binghampton. N. Y,
and powder magazine at Bridgeport, |
CT. The inhabitants of that region
thought the Chic earthquake was re-
peated.
The notorious outlaw, Redmond, who
defied the United States authorities sew
eral years, by violation of the revenue
laws, was killed in Swayne. county, N. |
Carolina, few days ago, in an encoun-
ter with officers.
E. r. Blakeslee. a postal clerk running
between Cleveland and Chicago, was ar
rested last week on charge of syste-
robbing the mails. A number
Of letters were found Oh his person and
be confessed that he had been at it for
some time.