Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-04-19
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
A farmer named Christian Rigger, re-
siding southeast of Msssillon, o.. WAS
found dead in his buggy near his home,
Of last wsek-cause. paraly- |
sis.
The attorneys of J. D. Watson, who
was convicted of attempting to bribe
members of the Legislature, will file a |
motion in the Supreme Court for a new
trial.
Wesley Altman, life prisoner in the
Ohio Penitentiary, from Athens county,
poured l2dle Of moulton iron on his
right leg and foot. He did it purpossly
to escape work.
The Connecticut House Of Represen
tatives passed. $50 to 81, bill forbid
ding the railroads of the State discrimi-
mating in freights by charging more for
a short haul than long enc.
A farmer near Urbaua believes that
he has discovered gold on his place, and
has made the necessary preparation for
mining it.
The Knoxville branch of the Louis
Vile and Nashville road has been com
pleted. The Kentucky Central extension
to Knoxville will be finished within six
weeks.
Twenty prishners oyerpowered the
guard of a Texas Jail and escaped. They
were pursued with bloodhounds and sew
entesn of them were recaptured within
two hours.
A young man named Rhodes, who was
carrying a can Of powder across field,
near Muncie, Ind, which was to be used
in blowing rp stumps, was torn to pieces
by an unaceouDtable explosion Of the
can. A companion walking Hear him
was dangerously injured.
The Official canvass of returns of the
Michigan State election are nearly COM
plete. 1t is rendered certain that the
Fusion nominees for Judges Of the Su-
prsme Court and Regents of the Uni
versity are all elected.
Peter Cooper's will has been fled. He
leaves 100000 to Cooper Union. and di-
vides the remainder of his estate, except
100000 in special bsqHests, between bis
son and daughter, Edward Cooper and
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt. His estate is
valued at S2,e00,O00.
Armed tramps, twelve in number, cap
tured freight train on the Chesapeake
and Ohio road, near Olympia, KY, and
ordered the conductor to take them to
Lexington. He telegraphed to Mt. Sterl-
ing, and had the gang arrested when the
train arrived there.
1t is said that fifty years ago shud
were so plentiful in the Savannah river
that fishermen exchanged them for corn
at the rate OF one ear Of corn for one
shad.
The largest speep ranch in the world
is believed to be in Dimmmet and Webb
counties, Texas, which pastures 00,000
sheep and is composed eff 100000 acres.
The Navajo Indians in Arizona have
100000 sheep and goats, the result OF an
investment of $4,000 made in their bs-
half by the Government three or four
years ago.
The State House bell in Philadelphia
is the twenty-first in list of large bells,
weighing $4,000 pounds. The biggest in
the world, at Moscow, weighs 443.772
pounds.
The Lancet thinks that if children
would wear woollen next the skin, and
wear longer clothing, suspending it from
the shoulders, we would hear moro of
boisterOus health and less of back aches
and pains.
Friends of Postmaster General Gres-
ham state that the talk about his becom-
ing Presidential candidate is distaSte-
ful to him.
Bishop Marby, of Dakota, now in Mil
waakee, says Sitting Bull will soon join
the Catholic Church. There are two
Thousand Catholic Indians in Dakota.
Early Thursday merning Of last week
an earthquake shock, lasting four sec
onds, occurred in Cairo, Ill. Windows
and light articles ratified, and frame
house was shaken down.
Stillweil II. Russell, the Texas U. s
Marshall who dsfrauded the Govern
ment out Of $4,000, has received SEN
tence Of two years in the penitentiary
at Chester, Ill.
A st. Louis rough, named Pete Con-
nelly, refused to pay for drinks ordered
and was struck over the head with y
base ball bat by the saloon keeper. The
blow caused death.
The passenger conductors on the JEFF
fersonville, Madison and Indianapoli:
Railway have been discharged, and theil
places are being filed with baggagemsr
and freight conductors.
VIM. G. Coup has sued the Wabash
St. Louis and Pacific road for Sl0O.O0(
damages, real and consequential, suffer
ed by the plaintiff from An accident to q
train upon which his circus was beins
transported.
One thousand barrels of bonded whis
ky were shipped last week from. New
York to Bermuda. The sending of bond
ed whisky to Mexico has been found t.
be imprscticable for the reason thai
there is no warehouse system in thai
country.
| SOME one has said: ut may be tha
the diamond is the stone for an engage
ment; but give us the old cobbleston,
in free fight"
i No more popular delusion exists thar
In regard to the Queens surname. Peo
pie generally believe it to be Guelph
i There are some, however, who know
that. in marrying Prince Albert of Co
( burg-Gotha, the sovereign took the sur
name of her husband, Victim, which hal
Tor upward of 450 years been the famil.
cognOmen of the house Of SaxOny. AnC
the Prince of Wales and all the rest o.
her children bear that name,