Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-01-26


The Methodist Book concern COM
mittee brought their deliberations to a
close in New York Friday evening.
The following is the substance of the
resolutions arrived at: The charges
made by Or. Lanahan and the replies
thereto have been withdrawn, and DIR.
Lanahan is to be retained in his posi-
ton. A subcommittee of four, of this
Bishop Scott is to bea member, will be
appointed, whose business it will be to
investigate the general management of
the Book Concern, anc also the method
of bookkeeping in use in the establish
ment. They will be authorized to call
to their assistance two experts, to be ap-
proved of by Bishop Scott, and should
any question of law arise it is to be re-
ferred to Judges Reynalds and Faucher
for decision. The subcommittee are to
report the result of their labor to the
next general conference.
A party of married gentlemen in New
Lisbon made arrangements to have a
sleigh-ride, supper, etc., few days
ago, Without letting their wives know
anything about it. The ladies, howev-
er, discovered the secret, and procuring
sleighs, went to the place where thesup-
per had been prepared, appearing just
as the gentlemen were preparing to sit
down to a 'ssumptuous repast." With
out saying word to or recognizing
their liege lords, treating them as per
feet strangers, they sat down to & finish
ed the supper, the crestfallen men not be-
ing allowed to pick the bones. After
feasting, music Was called in, and after
dancing for a short time, the ladies re-
turned home, leaving their husbands to
enjoy themselves as best they might.
There are 131 persons in nine town
ships of Wood county, o., over the age
of 20 years. The Oldest person in the
county is Deborah Berry, of Henry
township, who is lis years old. Two
are 9O,and Is are over so years of age.
| A Sunday school scholar, aged seven.
ty years, received a handsome present
in Marietta, for faithful attendance every
Sunday during the year 1870.
TwENTY-FIyE-C CENTS. .-Thisamo
will buy a bottle of Mrs. Whitcomb':
Syrup, the great soothing remedy fol
all diseases incident to infants and
children. t m
"I believe in going to the bottom @
| thingsw as the schOOl-marm said WheI
she laid refractory pupil over he
1 knee.
How menY people thare il hooz sole
hang in them like the pith in guse
xviii. ~
A woman at Oberlin, Ohio collected
money for the soldiers orphans an(
used it to buy a bonnet. She said or
phans, after they got used to it, coult
lget along without bread, but woman
must have bOnnets or starVe.
Miss Georgiana CroWl is clerk of tn,
court in Columbiana county.
Mr.. Thomas Creighton, aged seven
ty-siX years, and Mrs. Kerr, aged sew
enty-two years, were recently marriet
near Calcutta, Columbiana county.
A LIVE Hog EATEN BY RATS
4 J. Barr, of Trenton, writes us that
short time since John Blotter had
hog, that would clean $50 pounds, shu
UP in a pen, and that the rats attacke,
it and eat out Of its back a space fou
inches wide and ten inches long, ant
would doubtless have killed it had
not been removed. They would get o.
| its back and eat to their satisfaction il
spite of all his hogship could do to pre-
vent it, IaLscUyytIcus AdrOc0fe