Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-16
So let it rain and blow.

DIR. Rowles has bought the residence
of A. e. Wells. Mr.. Wells will prObi-
bly, go to Newark TO engage in the
hardware trade. Wherever he and his
family 60, they bear with them the
warm sympathies and kindliest re-
CARDS OF this community, which wish
es for them heavens richest blessings.
An atrOclous robbery-a neartless at
tempt to ruin us, by some unmitigated
scoundrel, while honest men slept, or
were at Church; while 1Uc were enga-
ged in one of these laudable ways, a
degenerate son of Adam, burglariOusly
entered out garden, and in Il spirit of
-.JeJO de se'-no, we didn't see the fell
low, either; we wish we had, as he felo-
niousiy abstracted our spring supply of
cabbage from the place that will know
that esculent herb no more forever.
The thief must have been a t0itOT, for
who else would so totally disregard our
love of garden sass as to cabbage
a fellows rations, but one up to the
business of getting do,on to deprive us
of 'our loved but lost yarb? But they
are gone-all gone! Gone where the
woodbine twineth'-we wish a wood
OtuO WOulu w llC iOuuu tuO lllIcl .
neck and choke him!-Yes, it is gone
to that bourne (all we had toO), whence
no cabbage returns-as cabbage.
Dreams of cabbage soup and cabbage
and taters, do as the garden truck did,
vanish into thin air. and leave me
alone, till the spring of discontent'
is made glorious by Early York May
every bite the thief takes of that cab
bage give him doubled and twisted
pain under the waistband of his un-
mentionables; sour ON his stomach;
produce violent borborygm and multi
grubs, awful eructatiOnsan hiccOughs:
and, may it take root in the dust of
the earth of which he is made, and
grow wrong end up,a root issuing from
every pore of his lecherous scalp, till his
head looks like a superaunuated huck-
leberry bush in hail storm, and may
it give him indigestion till pimples,
big as cabbage heads, break out all
over his body; and in the midst of the
rumble and roar he is frightened TO
death!
A case of considerable local interest
is on the tapis at Martins Ferry. Du-
ring the past, while the crusaders were
at Futterers, notorious hole in Mar
tins Ferry, in the act of praying, a
Dutchman, by his loud and boisterous
talk-evidently intended to annoy and
insult the ladies, attracted the atten-
tion of the Marshal, who demonstrated
at first, then commanded the peace, and
upon the Dutchman not only refusing
to obey, but evidently preparing to re-
sist the officer, the latter struck him
down with heavy cane. OF course
the innocent, unOfending dove had
plenty of synpathisers, who gathered
upon the street to the number of I5O.
The fellow was conveyed to his home,
a physian was called, who pronounced
the injuries not serious; whereupon he
was discharged, and doctor sent for
to sympathize with them, and help
get up case against the Marshal. And
when all was ready the affidavit was
made before Squire Eagleson, for 'as-
sault with intent to KILL Eventually,
however, on Friday last an officer dep
utied by Squire Powell, took the Mar
shal down before his honor, at Bellaire.
Many jubilant faces were seen as the
officer was taken away, and every pre-
paration made to follow him, and Sc
cure his conviction. The intention
was not to appear against the Marshal
on Friday, but supposing no one wo'd
would be nice thing just to let the
Justice hold him over in the lookup
till next day. Little, however, did
they know that one of Martins Ferry's
Hiram Smith, had author. |