Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-04-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Jacob Scheidner, of Marysville
O., was burned to death, Wednesday
Her clothing caught fire from cook
stove.
1t 10 reported that the iron m2nufac-
turers will insist upon q reduction of
the wages of the whole list of mill men
of from 10 to 20 per cent.
At a horse race in RussellviIIe, ILL.,,
James Davis and James Smith quarrel
ed. The latter was killed, and by
stander severely wounded.
Gov. Foster has respitsd john w.
Jackson, Of jackson county, found gull
ty Of murder, and sentenced to be hang
ed next Friday, until May l.
Ex-senator Thurman fell on ths stairs
in his residencs in Columbus, Tuesday
evening of last week, and broke his left
arm between the elbow and shoulder.
The New York papers generally con :
cede that the Presidents selection Of 8
successor to the late Postmaster General
Howe was satisfactory and judicious
one.
Four members of the family of John
T. Adams, in Talledago, Ala, were pOis-
ousd by eating food in which lubricating
oil had been used by mistake for cotton
seed. oil.
Wm. Reber, farmer near Circleville,
O., was beaten and robbed Of $2O in his
farmyard Wednesday night Of last week,
by two unknown men. His injuries are
dangerous.
Nathan S. Morse, the business mana
ger of the New York Daily News, com
mittsd suicide, owing to temporary de-
rangsmshs caused by overwork and nor
yousness.
Robert Love, the defeated Republican
candidate for Mayor of Steubenvills, as
saulted the editor of the Herald Of that
place and hart him severely. The Her
aid had criticised Loves course as
candidate.
Chas. Cent?, lad about sixteen years
old, living few miles from Gnaden
hutten. O., was thrown from a horse,
which he was endesvoring to break,
Wednesday evening Of last week, and
fatally hurt.
Wednesday morning Mr.. H. S. Slough,
proprietor of the fremont House, Can
billy and felled by two tramps, who took
from his pocket $15, but in their haste
left large amount Of money in vest
pocket.
Two important new lines of railways
are now being surveyed in East Tonnes
see. One is to extend from Sparta, over
the Cumberland Mountains, to the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway, near Rugby,
and the other is 70 extend from the Gin
cinnati Southern, near Sunbright, to
Knoxville.
IT has been presumed that the wheat
crop in Central Illinois had been utterly
ruined by the heavy thawing and freez,
ing, but an Investigation made this week
by prominent farmers shows that this
is an error, and that not over fifteen per
cent. has been injured, and that has been
done to wheat sown broadcast.
A day or two since Duluth lady was
passing along the street when some
fiend in an upper window threw out
bucket Of slops, deluging her from head
to foot. Wipiug the greasy stuff from
her face and neck she turned to crowd
Of men, and with clenehed teeth said
"Oh, goodnessl" Won't one you of gem
tlemen please swear for me? Oh, please
dor
The worst men often give the best ad- |
vice.
Imagination is the perfume of the
mind.
Great deeds nesd to be tested by their !
spirit.
There can be no saintliness without
humility.
Atlanta has a female barber whose
sign facetiOusly reads: MAN wants but
little hair below, nor wants that little
long," -
Young ladies nowadays change color
only twice q day-in the morning, when
they put it on, and at night, when they
take it off. \