Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-28
NEWS NOTES.

The flood relief headquarters in Gin
cinnati were closed at noon Friday.
A bill has passed the Canadian House
of Commons grating a subsidy OF near
ly S3O,000.GO0 to the Pacific Railway.
Oil las dropped since the early part of
January from Sl.15 to esHc- and the
feeling continues so bearish as to be al
most panlcky.
The Health Department of Cincinnati
will direct that all buildings, yards,
alleys. and streets in the recently sub
merged districts be thoroughly cleaned
up, and the cellars pumped out.
Chairman BaTnum says it Is not best
that Payne be put forward for the Pres
| idencv. He is too old to stand the ST. ain
of the campaign and the pressure of a
hundred thous nd Office seekers after he
reaches the White House.
A telegram to the daily press on last
Friday said that Senator-elect Payne, in
letter published in Now York, declares
that he will not consent, under any cir
cumstances, to the use of bis name before
the coming Democratic Nat onal Con-
vention.
The losses direct and indirect by the
| flood to the railroads centering in Gin
cinnati is estimated at 100000 Busi-
ness men find their actual damages to be
small. but speak Of large losses from the
suspension of business.
The bodies of the three members of
the Taylor family, missing from Avon
dale, suburb of Cincinnati, have been
found in a medical college dissecting
room. The theory is that the family was
murdered for the small sum their bodies
would bring for dissecting purposes.
The strange animal that has produced
sensation in Wood Co., O., by desc
Grating graves, has been caught IL trap
placed in the cemetery and baited with
ground hog. 1t is very ferocious, of a
yellow color, and somewhat larger than
d coon.
The cyclone which passed over Geor-
gia, Alabama, Tennessee, Southern Ken
lucky and North Carolina on Tuesday.
DESTROYED much property. Thirty peo-
pie are ported killed near Wilmington,
North rolina. fifty near Macon. GeOr
gia, a., HiIteen near Birmingham, Al
ALBANIA.
Sena : Plumb last week reported
from H. Committee on Agriculture Il
bill tn "ovide for the erection of the
Department of Agriculture into an ex
ecutive department, and for making the
chief officer of that department Cabinet
officer, with the title OF Secretary of Ag
ricultura, and at the same salsIy as that
OF other heads of departments. 1t also
provides for an Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, at the same salary now
paid to the Assistant Secretary of the
Interior.
The BritishCODservatives carried their
censure of the Gladstone Ministry in the
House of Lords, but the Commons on
Tuesday of last week, sustained the Gov
eminent by majority of 40, on the un
usually full vote of 573. The Irish party
threw 81 votes on the side of the Con-
servatives.
There are astonishing reports of the
fury of the Southern cyclone on Tuesday
of last week. Two millstOnes were moved
one hundred feet. the bark WAS blown
from trees, and chickens and birds were
stripped of their feathers. Twenty-Five
persons were killed and forty wounded
within "A space of three miles, near At
lanta. The town of DsvidsborO, in
Georgia, was destroyed. Gwenty-three
dead Jdies have been found in Rich
mond county, n. G. The storm broke
so suddenly that the people did not have
time to escape from their houses. AT
midnight the sky was dazzling red.