Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-11-24

towns in our country whose citizens
prefer shaving paper, and lending their
mLney at high rates of interest, to in
vesting in business that would furnish
employment to others, and make them
an industrious and enterprising people. /
Bellaire has now two Glass works, in /
full operation, bottle factory, and roll
ing mill, be- sides planning mills, sash fac
tories &c. A company has been organ
lied, and stock taken for another Glass |
house. This will make three extensive |
works of this kind here.
BELMONT WORKS.
The Belmont Glass works were estab-
lished about three years ago, by COM
pany made mp of glass blowers, mainly
from the Wheeling works. They sue
ceed so well that during the last year
they have put up large building in
which to furnish and pack their ware.
During this summer they have erected
new furnace, the capacity of which is
ene-third greater than the old one. Both
furnaces are kept in full blast all the
tine. Perhaps an idea of the amount OF
ware made may be obtained when it is
known that Il requires from six to eight
hands consta iy employed to pack it
ready for shiI ing. This company has
g patte.n shop in connection with their
works, where fleir patterns are designed
and made. Ii looking over their sam
plies, the eye is not wearied with seeing
the same designs all the time, but is
pleased with an almost endless variety
of styles, both unique and beautiful, and
not surpassed in quality.
Persons visiting Beilaire should not
fail to call at these works. The genial
Secretary, l.. d. Willisms, to whom we
are under obligations for his kindness in
showing US around, will be found ac-
lcommodating, kind, and courteous.
AGRICULTURAL WORKS.
Col. Pcorman has succeeded in getting
: company organized and chartered,
which intends to putting up extensive
works, for the purpose ofmanufacturing
agricultural implements. We under
stand that in connection with these
5 there will be a foundry, which
: will turn out all kinds of castings. The
Col has gone into this with his usual
vim, and if energy and enterprise have
any virtue in them he is bound to win.
Bellaire will reap more substantial ben
eft from these works than from dozen
Court Houses and County seats, if il
, were possible to have so many. The
a town is alive to its better interests now,
d and we expect TO see her come out
splendidly ere long.
d The B. & o. r. R.. Co. propose remov
II ing their shops from Wheeling to Ben
n wood, opposite Bellaire. This will bring
> part of their shop hands down there
d and furnish work for many of the Bel
~ laireans.
: The Improvements have not been con
= fined to machine shops ard glass work.
4. alone, but new dwellings and stores hav'
d sprung up in every direction. Betwee1
b fifty and sixty new buildings have beeI
5 put up this summer and still they build
l. The buildings are all good and substan
r tial, no mere temporary shells to be con
stantly burning up or blowing down
thus being not only terror to the peo
n pie, but disgrace to the town.
e The School House is going to be &
d magnificent structure, an ornament tt
v the city.~We didn't learn the exac
p lsize, but to say the least of it, TITS big
t. thing.u About the fact of the matter
g is, Bellaire sis big thing" Fifteen
years ago, she was only dirty little
itown. with less than one-third hel
e present population. The Railroad
e gave her start, and propose to &c
's ahead. Let her go.
e WHEELING.
It's no use to try to do Bellaire all uI
at once, so we start for Wheeling at six
,lo'c,ock, and, (as fellow traveller put it,
Alter the ''tarnalest site oi
: stopin' and startin', and backin', and
fizzin' and fryin' and puffin' and blowin'
aud foolin' around" We bring up at the
Grant House about eight o'clock. Don't
we wish TREY would ever get the bridge
done, SO we could go to Wheeling with
: out being half worried to death. Our
troubles soon vanished after setting
, down to one of those well-filled tables
. that Lewis and Woodmansee always
keep waiting to cheer up belated trav-
: elers. Their meals are stylish enough
: for the most fastidious, square enough
: for the most practiced, and substantial
enough for any hungry farmer or me-
: chanic with charges that no human can
) growl at. Behind the counter we fin d
: that genial soul, Milt Lewis, always
ready to give you drink of good cold
: water-nothiDg stronger-and couple
of the finest tooth-picks you ever saw.
: If you don't find things just SO, you can
!. charge it to "me the undersigned"
We picked up the following on ;he
streets: A few evenings since there was
quite an excitement in one of the fash
ionable churches. After all had been
comfortably seated, and the minister
had commenced his sermon, something
cracked" overhead. In a moment every
ore was at the dooi crowding to get
=, out. Women screamed, and so did the
men and babies. 1t is said that one
young man picked his gall up under
his arm and never stopped running until
he was square away from the church.
. A later report, and one that wos vouch-
: ed for, is, that she picked him up and ran
with him to place of safety; neither of
them are able to tell which report is
correct. Collectively they all ran, indi-
| viduallv oil stOod their Urouud We