Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-01
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BELLAIRE, July 23d, 1872.
fReeeiyed too late for last weeks =
The indifference with which the best
material interests of our growing town
and neighborhood has been treated by
the Board of Commissioners has been
the occasion of considerable remarks
and animated version. The enormous
expenditure upon the Bellaire q Wegee
turnpike is causing some inquiries to be
made that are not hattering to the
credit of that Board as managers at
least. Spending nearly sixty thou
sand dollars on four miles of Road is
enough to excite remark, especially as
not a man inside of the limits that paid
for it had. word to say about it, nor
was the advice of any one in said limits
asked.
A Pontoon across the mouth of the
creek inadequately supplies the place
of the Bridge.
One of the new enterprises that claim
attention in our town is the Ohio Glass
Company. They have one of the finest
buildings for the manufacture of glass in
the west, with all the necessary out
buildings for packing, asserting, storing
&c. They will soon be prepared to
manufacture glass under the manage
ment of Mr.. Cassell as President, and
the books in the competent hands of
VIM. Kelley, Esq, the success of the
concern is assured.
The Bellaire Window Glass Manu-
factory is progressing as rapidly as the
nature of the work will admit. They
expect to be fired up about the first of
October. This is to be a large estab-
s-h tho f1v-,f of tho bind
in Bellaire, but under the supervision
of such Skillful men as have it in
charge, no fears of its success are enter
tanned. These Glass Works.. NJ.
Sheets, President; J. Sanders, Secretary
now make five first class estab-
lishments of the kind in our town, viz !:
The Belmont Glass Works, the Nation
al Glass Works, the Ohio Glass Works,
the Sullivan Glass Works and the
Bellaire Window Glass Works. Out
siders will conclude that our people
are vitreously inclined, but, like the
razor strop man, we intend to have ''a
few more of the same sort"
The political atmosphere appears to
be thickening up; Office seekers are
very busy; the dear people never had
a more willing set of men to serve them
and merit that was scarce discoverable
before, now looms up in wonderful
prominence;I each candidates peculiar
fitness can now be clearly seen and we
wonder at our obtuseness that we had
not discovered it long ago. Our country
cannot come to harm cared for by such
champions as are now coming to the
front; Ahem
We have had fine stage of water in
the river the past week; vast fleets of
coal passed here (this time without any
accident on the bridge pier.) The daily
packets are making their trips regular
" and business is lively in all its de-
partments.
The health of our place is extraordi-
nary for the season, but few cases of
sickness of serious character, in fact we
have a place that is good to settle in by
all classes except doctors. aT
Bellaire, July 30th, 1872.
On Saturday evening, large audi
ence assembled in the City hall to hear
the Liberal Republican champion hold
forth, Mr.. VIM. HOge acted as chair
man, and III. Waddell as Secretary
Col. Poorman opened the meeting by a
speech of an hour and a half, after
which an effort to form a Greeley and
Brown club was made. the success of
which was doubtful. When / left, at
least, the success among the Republi-I |
cans was especially limited, to say the
least of it. The Co.'s effort was misera-
Bile failure, rehash of all the vile stuff
that has been uttered by the Democrat
ic party for years, completely falsifyingl
Ill that he said less than one year ago |,
1t the Noyes meeting; so palpible was
This fact that nearly all of his best
friends left the meeting in disgust. 1t
was singular and strange to see the Col.
,heek-by.iowl, and hand shaking, and
being applauded vociferously by all the
of the old mossy-backed Dem
)crats here; it was a dirt eating affair
IN both sides and will do no harm to
he Republican cause here. Col. Poor
nan ought to have known that the Re
publican party here or elsewhere can
lot be carried in his or any other ones !
,reeches' pocket, that greater men than :
le have essayed it, and miserably fail
.d-as he will.
Our correspondent here gives an ac-
cunt of the assembling of the dele
.ates to the convention, which we are c
ompelled to omit Tor want OF tlme.-N
Ed.
For the past two weeks our citizens t
ave been suffering great inconveni- $
nee from the loss of the bridge across S
he Creek, compelling them to cross OH a 1
ontoon improvised for the occasion. g
he building of the two new glass fact s
ries on the South side of the creek and s.
auling to and fro from other establish G.
1ents has been greatly embarrassed 81
hereby, besides the great inconveni- g
nee TO the country travel. Had the a
epairing of the bridge been placed in Q
be hands of competent mechanics as
yas desired and requested of the. Com > >
lissioners, we would have suffered
ut little Inconvenience thereby and a -
ivirg of several thousand dollars =
'ould have been effected. a,
SPARTAN N -