Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-09-11
STATE NEWS.


STATE NEWS.
Judge William Devol died at his res
idence in Washington County, on the
31st ult, at the Scriptural age-seventy
years.
General Goldman has concluded the
work of investigating the financial af-
fairs of Fairfield county, and filed his
report with the County Commission
ers. The total deficit in the county
funds amounts to the enormous sum of
$142, ,245 II.
Mr.. Joseph Clingan, aged eighty
three, died at the residence of his SON.
in-law, Rev. w. n. Taylor, in Mt.
Vernon, few days ago. He was a
citizen of Wooster and had lived there
some sixty years. He printed a news
paper in Wooster in 1918 and was one
of the proprietors of the Wayne coun-
ty Democrat when that paper was es-
tablished in 1926.
Last Saturday, cOlored man of
Troy, after working in the hot sun all
day, ate ten ears of green corn, four
cucumbers, and drank pint of whis-
ky. He then laid down and died, and
people there call it case of cholera.
Deacon A. w. w. Hickox, of Con-
neaut, Astabulg county, now in the
seventy-niuth year of his age, is prob
ably the Oldest printer in Ohio. In
1921 he established the first paper
printed in the county, and has follow
ed the business since that time.
Rev. Matthew Gardner, of Ripley,
aged eighty-three, for over sixty years
a minister of the Christina depOmina-
ton, fell and broke his thigh while at
tending Christian Camp Meeting at
Hyannis, Mass, last mouth.
The Wa, rem Chronicle thus pays its
respects to the postal authorities of the
nation: We have heretofore advertis-
ed the list of letters remaining in the
Warren postoffice at a certain date
Hereafter we will not. Reason: The
f,anking privilege has been abolished.
No dead heads i'm the postal depart
ment. The country resident subscriber
pays postage on his local paper; the
newspaper publisher pays postage on
all his exchanges. Sponging played
All right. 1t is a "poor rule that won't
work both ways" The Postmaster
General says he won't pay US for pub
fishing the uncalled for list. Goodbye,
Cresswell & Co.
William McDairmid was the devil
in the Edinburg printing Office which
published the first of Sir Walter
Scott's Waverly Novels. And, now,
at the age of eighty. he recounts the
"reminiscences of those by-gone days to
his fellow typos in the office of the
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
A crowd of Morgan county people
"went west" last Monday. They pro-
pose to make Oregon their abiding
place.
"Black Band" is the name of new
post office in Tuscarawas county, so
called from the abundance of black
band ore found i'm the vicinity.
Judge A. S. Dickey, a prominent
citizen of Ross County, died of cholera,
in Ripley, Brown county, few days
ago.
Akron purchased two hundred and
seven thousand three hundred pounds
of wool during the season just closed.
Orwell, Astabula county, will have a
brass band convention, on the 4th of
October, on the fair grounds. Cotton
batting for ear-stuffing is in great de-
mand there.
Jefferson county has peach tree
sixty years old, which bears fruit
every year.
Athens county has two men aged
ninety-four and ninety-twO years.
The attention of Republicans at the
places where tie Hon. j. Ddlbar is TO
speak during the coming week is call
ed 10 the importance of seeing that
arrangements are made to enable every
voter in the vicinity to hear what he
has to say. Mr.. Dunbar spoke a num-
ber of times last year to the people Of
the Southern part of the County, and
made for himself the reputation of be-
ing an able exponent of republican
principles, as well as an able and pleas
ant speaker.
Hon. l.. Danford in his speech at
Martinsferry on Friday evening pledg-
ed himself in the following words for
the repeal of the increased Salary Bill
"Let me say to you that as a Repre-