Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-17
NEWS BRIEFS.

The Connotson Valley Railway extsn-
sion has been completed to Coshoct0H.
A whole Iamily, named Hegnsr, and
several visitors were poisoned at Fos-
ter's Crossing, Ohio, by drinking butter
milk.
Burglars ransacked the store of J. l.
Thornburg, of Windsor. Ind, and then
applied the torch. Tho loss amounts to
$4,000.
Gov. Butler, has asked Secretary Fol
ger to prevent the landing Of pauper
emigrants within the limits. of Massa.
chusetts.
The Massachusetts, Senate has passed
bill for the payment of q dollar ton
bounty on bests raised for sugar-making
purposes.
The delegates to the Democratic State
Convention from Crawford County havs
been instructed to vote for Judge Hood
ly for Governor.
J.D. Watson, the lobbyist, convicted
of Offering bribes to. members of the
Legislature, was placed in the penitsnti-
AIRY last Thursday.
John J. Knox, Comptroller of the Cur
rency, has been designated by the Prssl-
dent to act as Internal Revenue Com
missioner for ten days.
The number of crsss awaiting the ac-
ton of the Supreme Court continues to
increase year by year. There are now
S71 cases On the docket.
The Georgia election returns for Gov
ernor we're opened by the Legislature
Wednesday. The vote steod-McDaniel,
%, $50; scattering, 1884,
Miss Sarah Cochran, OF Vincennes'
committed suicide on Sunday because
her beau had taken another girl on an
excursion to Evansville.
DIR. Miller, the Superintendent of
Longvisw Asylum, and Archie Stewart,
the steward of the institution, have
purchased two thousand acres of land in
Florida.
Contracts have been made for the
building of the Columbus and Eastern
Railroad. The ties are to be laid by
October l, and trains will be running
November l.
Ben: Perley Psore has severed his
connection with the Boston Journal as
its Washington correspondent. de
served the Journal in Washington con-
tinuously for thirty-one years.
General T. w. Bennett, the retiring
Mayor of Richmond, Ind, was in Office
for six years, and during that time liq-
Undated the entire Indebtedness Of the
city, which amounted to $4,000.
In the contest for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Kentucky
the number of delegates pledged to Jones
has been increased to 199. Knott now
has $50, Buckner 125, Owsley 6s, Jacob
IA.
A bill has bssn passed by the Psnhsyl-
vania Senate, prohibiting the manufac-
ture and use of any device for the pur-
pose of surreptitiously destroying hu'
man life and injuring property by explo-
sion or fire.
A bad collision occurred one day last
week en- the Third Avenue Elevated
road in New York. The engines were
demolished and sealding water was
splashed upon the crowded street be-
low.
1t is estimated the Florida Ship Canal
across Florida can be dug for $4,000,
900. The company has been organized
and S26,000,000 of the capital stock
| taken. 1t is TO be completed in three
years, and will be deep enough to float
the largest ocean steamers.
Mr.. C. Easthope, of Niles, o., bought
King Ashsntes, at the sale of Jersey
cattle in New York, paying for him
$3.50, the largest sum ever paid at an
auction sale. Si1ty-one head of cattle
brought S32,oS2. At the sale Of Short
horns in Lexington thirty-one head
brought s14,605.
At meeting of the B. & o. Directory
| President Garrett reported that the
sterling Four-and-a-hslf Per cent. bonds,
recently placed in London, were taken
by the most substantial class of English
investors. The contracts for building
the new line from Baltimore to Philadel-
phia will be given cut soon.
A collision on the Chicago and North
western road, near Madison caused the
death of Fireman Nichols, and the seri-
Gus injury of beth of the engineers and
one conductor. Several passengers were
slightly injured. The Coroner found
that the accident was due to culpable
negligence. --..
Dodge City, Kansas, was in the hands
of desperadoes last week. A feud arose
between the friends of the two caHdi-
dates for Mayor at the recent election,
which has deepened until the worst ele-
ments have taken up arms. A band Of
"vigilants" threw open the Jail, and
drove number of people out of town.
The citizens consider their lives and
property unsafe, and petition has been
sent to the Governor to place the city
under martial law. 1t is the headquar-
ters of the cowboys.
Words of Wisdom.