Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-10-14
THE NEWS.

The one-dOllar silver certificates are
going rapidly into circulation.
Secretary Manning expects to leave
New York for Washington next week.
| In the Connecticut election the Repub-
licaDs carried a large majority OF the
towns.
Paris green, used TO des roy the cotton
worm, is poisoning field hands in Lou
isiana.
Tue Republicans of New Jersey nom+
mated B. Frank HOwey, Of Warren Co.,
for Governor.
The Republicans of Maine are prepart
ing to support Mr.. Blaine for the presi
dency in 1888.
Hon. Jacob Romeis was renominated
for congress by the Republicans of tho
Toledo district.
The Ohio supreme court will not make
la decision on the Dow law until after the
November election.
The Grand Army parade at Pittburgh
last week was participated in by i've
thousand veterans.
There are sixty million standard doll
lars in circulation, with eighty-fye mill
lion in the Treasury.
Property owners in Cincinnati who
rent their premises for purposes of pros
titution are to be prosecuted.
The cotton crop of Texas, through re-
cent injuries, will fall far short of esti-
mates made few weeks ago.
Small boys fired at birds in the under
brush near Ozark, Me-, and killed Judge
John Walker, a prominent lawyer.
DR.. VIM. II. Allen, a physician, was
arrested at Columbus, Ind. on charge
nf robbing post-office at Waymansville.
1t is proposed to hold at Springfield. o.,
October Is and 19 reunion of the SUR
viving soldiers of the Ceder Creek cam
paign.
Hon. John G. Carlile was, without OPP
position, renominatsd for congress by
the democtats of the Sixth Kentucky
district.
volve MoDsignOr Capel. the distinguish
ed Catholic scholar and writer, in social
scandals.
The Cincinnati Saloon-keepers' Society,
composed mainly of Democrats, has de-
cided to take an active part in the fall
campaign.
The cabinet has decided that Office hol-
ders nominated to political positions
must resign, and these interested will
be notified.
Four men were blown into mincemeat
by the explosion of a box of giant pow
der, on |hcih they we're sitting, in the
Caledonia Mine. Dakota.
RIP. Wallace, murderer of the Logan
family of five persons-fa her, mother
and three children-was taken out OF Jail
at Steelville, Mo-, and lynched.
Helmes & Co., Saratoga Spring, sunder-
takers, are still pressing a bill for $500
for embalming the body of General
Grant No one seems under obligations
to pay it.
Sergeant Dangerheld, U. 5. A. on duty
at the Columbus (O.) Barracks, has been
placed on the retired list, having served
forty years. He was in the Mexican,
Seminole and Southern Rebellion wars.
The first bales of ramie and jute ever
produced in the United States are on ex
hibition at New Orleans. The profits of
cultivating these products are figured
from fifty dollars to seventy dollaas an
acre.
The petition to the Ohio Legislature
asking for an appropriation for the erctr
lou in Cincinnati of monument to the
memory of Genaral William Henry Har-
rson has already tbOut ten thousand
signatures.
Reports which reach the U. S. Treas
ury at New York from the great trade
centers show business exceedingly pros
porous, and the merchants every where
predict better times than they have had
for long time.
The report of Lucius B. Smith to the
Indiana Civil Service Association re-
specting Federal appointments in that
state shows that alleged observance of
the civil servic law by the ADMINISTRATION
at Washington is sham.
The old log house at City Point, in
which General Grant issued his last or
der declaring peace and the terms of
Lees surrender, has been sold, and will
be taken to New York and probably
erected near Grants tomb.
The steamer La Mascotte. bound from
Grand Tower, ILL.,, to Cape Girardean,
Mo-, exploded her boilers opposite Nee
ly's Landing and burned to the waters
edge. About twenty persons were kill
ed and a large number wounded.
The cut of Martha Washington, to be
used on one of the Treasury notes, cost
$500 to engrave. The vignette of Gen
eral Grant, also to appear on one of the
notes, show the side view, the only pro-
file likeness ever taken of the General.
Gov. Foraker. on behalf of the state,
and j. H. Outh waite representing the
congressional committee, having in
charge the arrangements of removing
the remains of the late Cheif Justice
Chase. have decided to bring them direct
to Cincinnati, where the ceremonie and
interment will take place.
A small boy set fire to a small leak in
the Wheeling Natural Gass Company s
mains. The leak Increased in size until
the pipe burst Thursday morning, cut
ting off the supply of Wheeling, Martin
Ferry, Bellaire and other towns, causing
mills employing several thousand men
to temporarily close down.
At meeting of the Cincinnati Bund
for Freedom and Right, German or
ganization. Harry W. Bishop. Democrat
ic candidate for Sheriff, was denounced
as temperance fanatic, and it was inti-
mated that the influence of the BuDd,
controlling seventeen thousand votes in
Hamilton County, would be against him.
Senator German. of Maryland. is said
to be working in California for the dem.
ocrats, hoping to change the majority in
the u. S. Senate and win his way into
the good graces of President Cleveland,
whose love for him does not reach an ar
dent passion. German is on the dead go,
and it is said that after he has worked
California he intends to stop over on his
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