Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-12-18
BRIDGEPORT LOCALS.

Tuesday, the 10th inst, was the
hundredth anniversary of the National
Tea Party, in Boston Harbor. What a
huge time we could have had here,
other things being equal to our supply
of water!
Tuesday, of last week, Henry, son Of
Alexander Blazier, aged IA, wss crush
ed by soapstOne in coal bank, and
died Thursday.
On Friday, Wash Lyle, whilst blast
ing coal, supposed his fuse had gone
out, found it was all right, and i'll at
tempting to make his escape, having
| lost his lamp, ran against !. sharp
block of coal and peeled the top Of his
head to the extent of half foot.
And now comes chicken-pox and
chicken cholera, the first leave their
mark on the little ones, and the latter
on the numerical strength OF our hen
roosts.
Geo. Turner, has moved into his
lneat residence, west of tOwL. a long
and prosperous life to you and yours,
George!
Mr.. Ritts has instituted measures to
collect intermediate toll. A very just
and proper measure. Put them through
Ross.
Coss and Donnelly's Martins Ferry
Bus, on its way from st. Clairsville,
turned over in West Bridgeport. Ii
was "clear as mud' TO the passengers
the failt was in broken axle.
/ Mr.. "White Feather" Il reputed
lShawnea Indian, (that is what he call
ed it) leetured to a fair audience in
Martins Ferry Presbyterian Church,
dleish. Still he sung, with fine effect,
that soul stirring stong, beginning
Neh huh nundyiehgwa howeh,
Deb guah gwaah go gwa, kuh
i Ho ne git gah syo nyon dyieh,
Oh ne gah dan dyo gwaah.
To-day, the upper II A. NJ, and down
l 9 P. NJ. trains on c. & p. Railroad, are
taken off. Up trains now are at A. NJ
and half-past 2 P. NJ, and down trains
IL A. NJ. and P. NJ.
A singular incident occurred in the
family of Mr.. Statler. of this place. lie
has two boys, aged aOout 12and IA re-
spectively, employed in the Glas;
House. The younger has unwillingly
gone to his work for two weeks past
alleging asa reason a presentiment thai
the ''stack" near which they worked
would fall down. 1t is new and mOst
substantial structure. On Tuesday OF
last week the boys went to work as
usual, the boy still impressed with {
sense of impending danger. Sudden.
ly he looked up at the stack, sprang tc
one side, and shouted the stack was
falling. On turning round he found
his elder brother had been severely
hurt in the head by one of the iron
bands of the stack, which had bursted
and fallen on his head suddenly. The
hurt boy is now very sick of erysipelas
supervening On the wound.
} No preaching in Presbyterian church
on Sabbath, nor school on Monday
cause why-high Water.
One effect of the food was to bring
dad Clip into the church. Bunyans
Pilgrim had his bundle ON his back as
he journeyed Zionward, Daddy had
his on wheelbarrow.
j We didn't meet IL man on Sabbath
of course the talk all was about the
flood; who didn't know exactly ache,l
the river would stop rising, and exact
i ly hOaO high it would be, and yet, of all
these prognosticators the writer, "bless-
ed is he that bloweth his own horn''
was alone correct. We predicted,
without mental reservation" ;" that the
river would rise on till p. NJ, Sunday
and no longer--and it would rise
just so high and no higher. Result
it continued to rise till Monday morn
ing, and just as much as it pleased, pre-
cisely, how mucn will be ascertained
when it falls several feet, exposing
again my high water mark. The
knowledge of some people is truly
Wonderful