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

A case of sunstrOke occurred at Logan
Ohio, on Saturday.
Serious floods are reported throughout
New England and Canada.
The colored press of the United States
has arranged programme for the annua
meeting at st, Louis on the second Tues
days of July.
Nellie Hubbard, the daughter of ex
Gov. Hubbard, who four years ago, eloped
with her fathers coachman, has secured g
divorce from him.
The Charleston Is. c. Presbytery has
erased from the church constitution the
clause forbidding a man to marry his de-
ceased wifes sister.
The new Postmaster General has re-
fused to recognize the right of Chalmers,
of Mississippi, to control the Federal
patronage of that state.
Contracts were let on Friday for build
ing new county Intirmary at Marietta,
Ohio. T. B. Townsend, of GAINESVILLE, gets
the stone and brick work.
There have been more deaths in Xenia,
o., within the past three weeks than ever
known before in that length of time. The
principal cause is pneumonia.
Mrs. Lucy Cook Boggs, wife of John
Boggs, Esq, and aunt of Mrs. ex-President
Hayes, who was named after her, died
on Monday, at her home near Chillicothe.
George K Nash's duties on the newly
created supreme court commission have
compelled him to resign the Craftsmanship
of the Republican state executive COM
mittee.
The two-cent stamp to be used for let
ter postage after October will bear the
profile of Washington, like the three-cent
stamp now in use, but in. other respects it
will be different.
Pinkeye is raging among the stock in
different neighbOrhoods throughout Law
renee county, Kentucky. Several valua-
BILE horses have died, and great apprehen-
sion is felt by stockmen.
The Atlantic House, in Abba, Iowa,
burned down Monday morning, and the
guests, VIM. McGill, Charles Quellon and
Carl Speigel, perished in the flames. The
proprietor narrowly escaped.
A dynamite cartridge was found Mon
day in the basement of a factory in Brook
lyn. One hundred girls We're at work in
the upper part of the building. The cart
ridge was sufficient to demolish the build
ing.
In the Chalmers contest election suit in
Mississippi, the supreme court of that state
has decided that the certificate of election
being issued, the case is beyond all juris-
diction but that of the house OF represen-
tatives
1t is said that the defendants in the Star
Route trial expect to hang the jury. They
will sue the New York Times for half a
million dollars damages and other papers
that have urged their prosecution for pro-
portionate sums.
Fred. Douglass, who is now over sixty
wears of age, is said to be about to marry
a very handsome young woman several
shades lighter than himself. His wife,
the partner of his many troubles and tri-
umphs, died over year ago.
After the verdict against Brady, the
Phoenix Park murderer, Friday, the fore
man of the jury found letter at home
making frenzied appeal for the return
of verdict of not guilty, and warning
him that otherwise he would be killed.
The probable decrease in the area of
wheat in Great Britain is fifteen
per cent. There is also reduction of the
area in Russia. In Austria and Hungary
the full breadth has been shown, but the
condition of the plant is not generally
favorable.
The officials of the Northern Pacific are
responsible for the statement that large
will be established at
various points in the Yellowstone country
along the line of the road, with view to
the shipment of dressed beef to the East,
md that by this means great saving VIII
be made in contracts for shipment OF 1--we
stock
The existence of societies in Ireland
having as their object the murder OF land
ords and their agents, has been discovered
N Ireland. Three glnboats are cruising
near Cork, awaiting to intercept vessel
rom America having a consignment OF
nfernal machines. The President OF the b
Reichsrath received letter in Vienna :
warning him that an attempt will be made \
ioon to destroy the Parliament building
The structure in consequence Is now en-
irely surrounded by mounted ponce 9