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

Passing Events.
Among the many celebrities going
abroad this summer are General McClel-
Ian, Thomas Mast, August Belmont,
Wayne McVsagh and Rev. DR.. John
Hall.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson has
placed memorial window in st. PauPs
P E. Church, Baltimore, in memory of
her sons James Buchanan and Harry
johnson.
The latest novelty among society
damsels in New York is complexion
dogs No girl will now appear on the
street with dog that does not match
her complexion.
-Quinine at an auction sale last week
brought 81 81 an ounce for foreign and
81 so fer American. This leaves a liy-
ing profit of sol per cent. to the druggist
at the usual price of quinine pills.
Senator Cameron will sail for Eu-
rope on Thursday of this week. and re-
main until just before the Christmas
holidays. His family will accompany
him 10 Europe, and remain there for
couple OF years.
-Tennyson, the poet laureate, lives
in retirement on the Isle Of Wight. He
keeps but one servant and b0thers but
little with company. His delight is in
counting the MUSES., and he is rich
enough to indulge his fancy.
A noted dude" has died in Philadel-
phia. He WAS babeon in the Geological
Garden. His postures and gait were ex-
actly like the current American imita-
tiOn Of the London swells, and he show
ed just about enough intelligence to COM
plete the likeness.
The total acreage of Scotland is
1S,946,6 ,694. One nOblemaH owns 1,326,OG9
acres, and his wife 1859. Another has
431 900 acres, a third 424,OOO, a fourth
37s,OO0. Twelve prOprietors own one
quarter of the whole acreage of the
country. seventy own one-half. Nine
tenths of Scotland belongs to LOO per-
sons.
Mr.. Talbot, ex Governor of Massa-
chusetts, is said to be nursing his wrath
against Mr.. Butler. Governor, to keep it
warm. Recently Mr.. Talbot met Mr..
Butler at social gathering where
dancing ruled the hour, and, desiring to
keep up the conversation, remarked:
You don't dance, Generals ?" NO. was
the quick reply. II make other people
dance"
Fred Bean, a young Iowa farmer,
desired wife, but did not take fancy
to the girls of his ReighborhoOd. He as
pired to something different, and wrote
to an Indian agent in Dakota, inquirihg
whether reasonably goed-looking
squaw could be obtained. An exchange
of letters and photographs ensued, and
he is soon to be married to the daughter
of Sioux chief.
-Voltaire's house is now used by the
Geneva Bible Society as repository for
Bibles. The British Bible SOciety's
house in Earl street, Blackfriars, stands
where, In 1873. the Council forbid Wy
cliffe circulating poGtions of Holy Scrip
lures, and where he uttered the words,
'The truth shall prevail" and the Re
ligious Tract SOciety's premises are
where Bibles we're publicly burned.
Chancellor Bradford, of Tennessee.
has decided that the Whitesides shall
not hide LookoutMeuntain under BUSH
ell. The Lookout Point story is an anu
sing one. The Whiteside family ewn
the Point, from which the sight is of in
grandeur. Bnt the White
sides keep big dog at the gate and re-
fuse to let persons drive to the point un-
less fees are paid. All Chattanooga has
risen against the Whitesides, who have
published notice warning trespassers
TO keep off their part of the mountain
top.
The first telegraphie message ever
sent by one instrument and recorded by
another was over short line erected in
New York by Prof. Morse in 1887. 1t
reads: Attention, the Universal By
Kingdoms. Right wheelr' This was FIVE
years after he had begun work on it,
and seven years before the line between
Washington and Baltimore was erected.
The latter was completed on the first
lay of the Convention in Baltimore at
" hich James X. Polk was nominated for
he Presidency. The first message was:
What hath God wrought" signed Fan
~ Ellsworth, daughter of one of the
men who was pointed out as being as
;razy as old Morse"
Patrick Delaney, who pleaded guilty
% the charge of completely in the Phe-
Xix Park plot, and who was thereupon
to be hanged. has had his
entence commuted by Earl spencer,
he Lord Lieutenant. Perhaps Delaney's
that he mad saved Judge Law
on's life at the risk Of his own, by pur-
,osely attracting the attention of the
.uard, may have had some influence in
changing his sentence from death to
,enal servitude for life. Then, too. 1t
vas Delaney who testified that Carey,
he informer, told the truth, and 1t was
or him that the Judge, in his sentence,
pity. Kelly, on being convict
d and sentenced to death after the third
rial. still declared his innocence. His
ase has been little rem markable in that
wo juries failed to find enough tssti-
nony against him to convict him, but
hat is attributed to the fact that he had
on the jury.
A brute by the name of Callahan, liy-