Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-10-30
STArh. NEWS.


has suspended.
Van Vert county is about to erect a
new court house.
Athens is getting ready for the intro
ductiun Of gas light.
Salem has population of four thou
sand and thirty-fOur.
In Massillon $1,000 was paid to
miners on recent saturday.
Alliance has twelve pairs of twins
ua Ter seventeen years OF age.
In Stirk county the Republicans
elect three of the county officers.
A welIsvilIa man possesses Rsman
coin bearing date "a. ID. so.
Ssrdusky shipped sixty tons of sill
very silicon rails OF recent day.
A Wayne county farmer raised corn
fifteen feet high the past season.
The Xenia City Council appropriated
$500 for the relief of Memphis.
Richland county ships apples to lIu-
ron county for 3O9J0 cents ii buahel.
But two political meetings were held
in Piekaway county, and they were
Democratic.
The Salem postmaster mas put up a
placsird adinonishing customers 70 lici;
their stamps.
the Plinesville sharp-shopters have
had their first hunt of the season, and
bagged ,225 squirrels.
Three ruffians wantonly seized and
beat man named Holmes nearly to
death the other day near Steubenville.
Two Jail birds attempted escape at
Urbana on a recent evening. The jaii0r
wounded both with his revolver.
Hardin county elects the entire Re-
publican ticket except Sheriff. The
Democracy have the Sheriff by ma
iOrity of two.
At Ironton, the largest and most
complete iron works in the United
States are being erected, with cash
foundation of 81, 900, 900.
The cost of the proposed tunnel under
the railroad tracks at Columbus is es-
timated at s61, ,344.
Lead ore of sixty per cent. pure iron
has been discovered in Guernsey
county. The vein is about three feet
thick and only ten feet below the sur
face.
The full capacity of the improve d
Dayton water works is 5000, 900 gallons
daily.
The corn yield i'm Athens county,
this year, is said to be exceptionally
gratifying.
The Witten6eyyer is the title of new
monthly literary paper published at
Springfield, i'll the interest of Luth-
eran) Wittenburg College.
The colored citizens connected with
the Zion Church of Alliance, have
commenced the lauddble enterprise of
erecting neat and comfortable church
for their use.
A sharp boy i'm Cincinnati was sent
after Kerosene, but he spent the money.
filled the can with water, ard his
father went over and pounded The
grocer for swindling him.
An effort is being made to ascertain
the precise location of old Fort Steuben.
at Steubenville. The fort was built i'm
1887, and destroyed by fire is 1890.
Flint of the very finest quality for
the manufacture of glass has been found
at Mohawk village, CDshnction county.
Works for the Manufacture OF g.sss-
ware will be erected Immediately.
One of the buildings of the Delaware
Flax Company was burned on Thurs
day night. Loss $1,000.
The Ohio State Methdist Episcopal
Sunday Convention meets at Chillico-
the November 4, and 6.
A petrified tree, forty-two feet below
the surface of the ground, has been *
humed near Xenia. 1t was imbedded
In solid blue clay.
Whenever Il storm is coming a pro-
fuseicurrenf OF gas is observed hy
w0rkmen in the Cleveland Water
Works tunnel.
Wellsburgers have raised the 500, ,OOO
required to secure The location oI iron
works in that place.
Bellefontains is building a SIO5, ,OOU
Court House, S35, 900 jail, a $5O,OOC
hotel and fine Presbyterian Church.
A West MassiIlon man hung his vest
on the pig-pen fence while he dug DO.
tatoes, one day last week, and i'm less
than four minutes the hoggish occu-
pants of the enclosure had covered
81 and all but an arm-hole of the vest
into their anatomy. However, 81 was
pumped out of one of the piggies.
A young lady named Eva May, OF
Perry, Lake county having cloth in
one hand and a kerosene lamp in the
other, accidently caught the cloth il
the door of the cooking stove in clos
ing it. Giving the cloth pull the
door hew open against the lamp, break.
ing it to atoms, dashing the fluid owe,
her person, and enveloping her in
flames which reached to the ceilii.g
She lived twenty-five hours, though
horribly burned.
The ChillicOthe Gazette says: Gov.
ernOr Allen has a colored man who
does his marketing and visits daily the
city for the purpose of purchasing ca tn
bles for the new Governors table
This man seems somewhat elated al
the success of his employer, and feel.
that the plain title "MajOr" is not quite
grand enough, and so, on entering the
meat market last Saturday, he pomp
ously exclaimed, ''the Government
want roast of beef"
The Akron Beacon, of a late date
says that LAS Edward Ingersoll, driver
of engine No. 13 or the Cleveland, NJ
Vernon and Delaware Railroad, wa.
descending from his engine at Millers
burg, he slipped, and, falling, broke
the socket of his left arm. No one be
ing at hand to supply his place, h,
mounted the iron horse and brough
the train TO this city, where the frac
ture was reduced. The pluck v enginee
/ than rp-nOunfad opd fr,nly hi, t.,;,, q