Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-06-07

y druggist in Washington has been
fined for selling liquor on Sunday, and
now the question arises whether soda
water is drug or otherwise.
! J. T. Rapier, colored member of the Add
congress, and for the last three years in
ternal revenue collector, died at Mont
gomery, Ala, Thursday.
There are forty-siX newspapers in lndi-
ana in favor of denomination OF the old
ticket of Tilden and Hendricks, and there
is report that Governor Hendricks has
said he would again accept the second
place
The Ohio teachers association holds its
next session July Sd, 4th and 9Th at Chau-
ttauqua. Cheap rates on railroads and at
hotels have been secured by the commit
tee and a large-siZed time is expected
The last time this body met at Chautauqua
there was an attendance of over five hun
dred.
A dispatch from Columbus says: The
straws of the political wind all point to-
ward a triple alliance between Hoadly,
Payne and Bookwalter, the latter to enter
the senatorial lists against PendletOn.'
! 1t has been discovered that the un-
known tramp who died in Cincinnati from
drinking two quarts of whisky was son
of Judge Taylor, of Chillicothe. He in
herited $4,000, which he squandered.
Henry Ward Beecher's church proposes
to make memorable his SEVENTEEN birth
day, which occurs on the 24th of this
month.
The damage in Council Bluffs from the
rain-storm of Friday night is estimated at
100000 Several hundred families were
driven from their homes.
Mrs. Susan E. Douglass, aged 81, living
near Harrisburg. Pa cut the throats of
her three children and then suicided. In
sanity.
Hon. J. Proctor Knott, Democratic
nominee for Governor, of Kentucky, is i'll
at Louisville. His condition is not con-
sidered dangerous.
Noah r. Stiner, postmaster of Sterling,
Ohio, and secretary of the Russell Wrench
Co., is missing. He has forged his fathers
name for $4,000. and other crOokedneSs
is being developed.
The commissioners of internal revenue
has issued a circular, proving that i'm
printed checks and drafts may be sent to
the internal revenue bureau at once, in
stead Of from July 1st next as originally
intended. Such as are received will be
cancelled and returned, if possible, by July
1. They may he presented in sheets or
bound in books, and will be returned in
the same condition. Blanks which have
been compressed into blocks or pads must
be separated before presentation.
Nine barns have recently been burned
in the vicinity of Muncie, Ind, and no
doubt now exists that it is result of "a
conspiracy among the labOring men
against farmers who use self-binding
reaperS.
Cornelius Moore.a prominent MaSon.and
the founder of the Masonic Review, died
Sunday morning at Windsor, Ontaria.
The Democrats of Franklin county
(COlumbus) are crazy to get into office.
The candidates are almost as numerous as
the voters.
Talmage made the great bridge horror
the subject of his sermon Sunday. The
lesson which he drew was to keep cool in
moments of danger.
The Ohio Crop Report for the month of
May will be issued on the 7th inst. Secre-
tary Chamberlain estimates the wheat
crop this year at 80 per cent. of that of
last year. which would make yield of
25.000,000 bushels. against 45,O00,00O for
1882.
The Jail at Winterset, Iowa, was broken
open early Sunday morning and John
Hammer, who murdered William Newell,
over year ago, was taken out and hung
to tree in the yard. While struggling
to get away one of the mob shot him
through the heart.