Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-08-21

h and gentleman-a bright scholar, an
i will no doubt give great satisfaction
{ He has been teaching in Germany dr
! ring the last three years.
) From the Ohio Valley NewsJ
i Wm. Love, an old citizen of Dee
Run, died on last Thursday. He wa
in the 9Sth year of his age.
The Steel works are progressing raI
5 idly at present. Hiram Frazier, tn
. Brick mason is pushing his part of tn
9 contract with his usual vim.
The Ohio City Iron and Nail Work
will start with to 10 Pudding FuI
! naces heating Furnaces and 40 to 3
: nail maehines-;,nd the necessary mucI
and nail plate roll trains, which ar
now being fitted up by Totten 4 Co
Pittsburgh. Arrangements are beins
made tc secure the services of ThOma.
Earnest, the we'll known nail machine
builder to lit up an assortment of the
new nail machines purchased from the
! Winslow Barb Nail Co. Both Whee
ling and B3r1 nails will he tnauuf;ict-
/ ured, tlie uniy difference IN either be-
ing ;he form OF the cutting knives.
GUERNSEY COUNTY.
| From lhe Times.
District Court meets in Cambridge on
the 22,l of september and the Court of
! Common Pleas on the 18th of October
next.
Mr. Chris Sutton, of Elizabethtown,
is past eighty years of age, and moved
at the rate of one half acre day du-
ring the late harvest.
Mr.. II. Clements, of Washington, is
six weeks older than the State of Ohio,
and can jump up and crack his heels
together three times without stopping
He had the cholera many years ago.
T. Corwin Taylor, Esq, of the Sec
ond Auditors office, Washing ton, d.
c., has prepared and copyrighted a
blank consolidated application" en-
bracing al the forms necessary to COM
plete Il claim for arrears of pay or boun-
ty under an net of Congress, the use of
which greatly facilitates the settlement
of such claims.
From the Jenersonian.l
a Cambridge Hotel entertained
twenty-five hundred and ninety-five
transient guests in one hundred days.
A horse was stolen from a man by
the name of Ungemach, at Chandlers-
vile, on last Thursday night. The
thief also on the same night broke open
store and shoe shop at that place and
helped himself to new outfit.
In the Jail of this county there are
now confined four prisoners, two ne
gro militiamen, a boy and man by
the name of McQuade. The boy is
confined for the alleged stealing Of a
watch from his uncle. The boy claims
that he sold the watch to his uncle for
five dollars, that the uncle paid two
dollars of the price and that the watch
was only reclaimed to secure the other
three dollars. The case will perhaps
cost the county fifty times the value of
the old watch.
HARRISON COUNTY.
[From the Republican,
The firm of McFadden, Kinsey & Co.
)f this place, have bought about three
Thousand pounds of wool in
Harrison county this summer. :
The Smyrna Fair is to be held on the
9TH, 10Th and 17rh of September, 1878.
The name of the society is the Still
water Union Industrial Association.-l.
It draws its support from Harrison, ,and
Guernsey, and Belmont counties. L
From the sentinel.l
Work has been commenced on the
lew school building, and it is expected
hat it will be ready for occupying
ONE time during the coming Fall.
James Wilson, a prominent citizen
f Mooretield township, died very sud. 6
enly on the morning of the 4th, of
Of the brain. His wife was
n confinement, and Mr.. Wilson had
one to summon physician, and also
eighbors. Shortly after the birth of
he child, he complained of feeling pain
nd in about two hours was q corpse.
Ir. Wilson was a good citizen, and was
ighly esteemed by his acquaintances.
NOBLE COUNTY.