Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-01-03

terviewer that the Ways and Means Com
mittee will pursue a conservative policy.
He thinks Pendleton has the greatest
strength in the Ohio Senatorial contest,
and that if a new man is taken up it will
be Thurman.
At a turkey shooting, near Paris, KY,
three colored men settled dispute with
pistols One of them fell dead, and an
other died within an hour. The third was
not hurt.
Representative Price, of Wisconsin,
will urge bill before Congress providing
for the payment of ten dollars a month
during their life to every soldier or sea-
man who served ninety days in the late
war.
Mrs. Rosecrans died last week in
Washington. She had been on invalid
for year or more she was the daugh-
ter of New York lawyer, and had been
married to Gen. RosecranS for forty years.
Congressman Wilkins, of Ohio, thinks
that if Thurman should be elected to sue
ceed Pendleton in the Senate, he will be
nominated by the Democrats for the Pres
idency.
Six thousand six hundred miles of rail
roads have been built in the United Stat
during 1883 at cost of $165 100000. In
1882 there were II 600 miles and $500 in
in 1881.
A snow slide struck the shaft house of
the Mendoza mine in Colorado and car
ried it down the mountain. Of the four
teen men inside eight were killed and two
badly hurt. Four dug themselves out.
In Yazoo City John Posey, of the firm
of Williams & Posey, thought himself in
suited by the remark of a negro butcher
named James, and organized party of
friends to administer punishment. But
James was ready for them. John Posey,
Carnot Posey and Jasper Nichols fell rid
died with buckshot, and two others of the
attacking party were wounded. James
was afterward killed while resisting ar
rest.
Democrats in Washington recognize
that the tariff issue in an extreme form
has peen thrust into the approaching
Presidential campaign. 1t is recalled that
Carlisle's speech upon taking the Speak
er's choir contained the promise that he
should favor moderate policy upon the
tariff question which has been kept.
Chairman Buckner, of the Committee
on Banking and Currency, doubts wheth-
or any banking legislation can be secured
during the present session, but he will
introduce bill providing for the issuing
of Treasury notes without legal-tender
quality, to take the place of bank notes
going out of circulation.
Col Henry R. Rathbone, of Albany. N.
Y, killed his wife and committed suicide
in Hanover, Germany. Mrs. Rathbone
was daughter of ex-U. S. Senator Har-
riS.
A dispatch from Baltimore says the
Ohio Senatorial contest is attracting much
attention among politicians there.
The Ohio Bar Association decided to
recommend to the Legislature that seven
or more Circuit Courts be established, and
that the Supreme Court be relieved of
certain appellate cases.
Gov Irwin, of Idaho, has returned a
check for his quarters salary to the U. S.
Treasurer, with the statement that he has
been unable to attend to the duties of his
Office since July on account of sickness
and cannot conscientiously accept the
money.
A Washington dispatch says the winter
will be spent by Congress in skirmishing
fer position in the next Presidential con-
test. The invitation of the Democratic
Clubs of Philadelphia to Speaker Carlisle
to meet them in January is interpreted as
an effort to harmonize the Democratic
factions on the tariff question.
A mob dragged from a saloon in Nc
Dade, Texas, three men who had been ac-
cused of stealing, and hung them to a
tree. Six friends and relatives of the
dead men later in the day attacked some
of the mob. Shotguns and six-shooters
were used, and when the fighting ceased,
there were three more dead and one NOR
tally wounded. The bodies were all laid
in row in the market house.
The Pons comet. which, when visible
in 1872, had but one tail, now has two.
1t can be seen With the naked eye early
in the evening. -.
Postmaster Gresham is preparing
bill for introduction into Congress, ex-
cluding newspapers publishing lottery
from the pound rate.