Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-01-08

Is the month of Janiveer."
NEIGRBORHOOD NEWS.
Il BELMONT COUNTY.
From the o. V. News.l
Hiram Frazier has completed tn
mason work at the furnace. 1t vii
soon be in full blast again.
There we've more drunk men in Mar
tins Ferry on last Thursday and Fri
day night than the "oldest inhabitant'
has any recollection of, on previous oc
casions.
The Pike Commissioners now run
lining the through land route to Chin'
inform us that they intend to repai
the road lust as soon as possible. Posi-
lively, we rejoice to know it.
bridgeport Standard
On Wednesday evening party o
| friends met at the house of Rev. Mr.
Lauck, and, after spendinga while IL
social intercourse left behind them sub
stantial marks of their esteem in the
shape of eatables and wearables.
The events of this week in Bridge
port have been the auspiciOus inter
marriage on Thursday between two ol
our leading families, noticed else where
and the reunion given by Mr.. A. j
Baggs and wife to their numerous
friends on Friday evening.
]Enterprise.l
A MEAN THEFT.-Tuesday night
some base fellow took his lowest lessons
in meanness by stealing turkey from
Professor Collins, the blind music teach
er OF this place.
FELL ON THE ICE.-On last Saturday
evening, Mrs. Mary E. Piper, wife O1
VIM. Piper, on West Chnrch street, in
going from the house to the well slip.
ped and fell, striking her left side on a
bucket which she was carrying, break.
ing two ribs. The injuries were pain
full, but we are glad to learn that she j;
improving.
Rev. J. A. Swaney, d. ID. will fill the
pulpit of the M. E. Church until after
conference. Rev Swaney preached
here last Sabbath and made favorable
impression upon the congregation.
NOBLE COUNTY.
From the Republican,
Geo. Morris, of Point Pleasant, has
purchased 300 hoesheads of Tobacco, at
a price not exceeding S3per hundred.
Lanson ]. Thompson, little 12-yea,
old lad, living near Carlisle, has trap
ped in the past month, eighteen rab-
bits.
MORE CORN.-James and Robert
Spence, farmers residing in Stock tp.,
planted, last Spring. one acre of the
common old-fashioned yellow corn,
from which they received at harvest
ing time, one hundred and fifteen
bushels.
NOVEL HOG PEN.-Wm. CunHiag-
ham, of Olive township, has a novel
hog pen. 1t consists of the stump OF a
poplar tree cut thirty-twO years ago,
20 feet around, with hollow Of six
teen feet. This Fall two hogs were faSr
tened in it, and one of them got so
large that it was necessary to cut down
the side in order to get his pigship out.
SAD ACCIDENT.-An infant child of
Henry Stackhouse, of Marion township,
on the 10Th, fell out of the cradle where
it had been placed by its mother, to
sleep, into a kettle of boiling apples,
that had been taken from the fire and
set on the hearth to cool. The infant,
about ten months old, was so severely
burned that it died from its injuRies in
4 short time.
GUERNSEY COUNTY.
From the Times.
We regret to learn that the dwellingI
IF Mr.. Gibson Silket, in Jackson town.
ship, was burned on Sabbath last, with
Ill its contents, during the absence ofI
he family at church. Probable loss
3, 500.
Timothy Shryock, iiEaBg one mile
outh of Bridgeville, 81 healiag town.
hip, is said to be the oldeE man in
Guernsey county. He is in his one
year, and was a soldier in
he war of 1872, under the command of
Captain Beymer.
Rev. w. M. Ferguson, of Washing-i
on, has consented to deliver lecturea
n this place on Tuesday evening. JAM
9th, for the benefit of the A. M. E. |
church. His favorite subject now is,
Ruth, the MOabitess, or Virgin Mary
If the Gen tile World"
Leander Woods, of Belmont county,
vas examined before Justice Ruth, of
dillwood township, last week, on
barge of basterdy, and bound over to
court in the sum of $500, in default of
which he was committed to Jail. He
till abides with Sheriff Hanna, await
ng the action of the Court of Common
Pleas.
From the Jeffersonian.
T. G. Marsh has received an order to
,urchuse fifty hogsheads o. a certain
grade of tobacco. He has not yet de-
,ided whether to buy or not. Wheth-
sr he buys depends on the price att
which tobacco can be obtained.
On last Saturday a child of Mr.. Con-
way, who lately removed from Mariet- |
"a TO West Cambridge. died at the lat. |