Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-06-04

:, 5.S56, 767 pounds of tobacco was pro-
duced in Noble County in the year
1878.
( THE season is auspicious for the i'm
provement of our highways. Work
lduring the summer on the roads will
be of more utility than fall work.
THE Fair Grounds are beautiful in
their summer costume. There is no
lovelier place in this locality.
THE new Treasury safe was received
and placed in the vault last Thursday.
No burglar need apply!
THOMAS ARMSTRONG, who for some
| time past has been in the Asylum at
Athens, has been transferred TO the
water cure (Dr. Shepherd's) near
Columbus.
TIE Cambridge JeGersoaia'l says
that a party gets old newspapers from
his Office to place over cucumber
ground. The insects are destroyed.
Strong paper.
Hon. J. DUNBAR, of Steubenville,
and Gen. Jas. Riley, late member of
the Constitutional Convention from Co
lumbiana county, were in attendance
upon Court in the damage case Of Id
dings against the C. & p. Railroad Co.
IN another column will be found a
letter from our friend r. S. Lacey,
Esq, of Washington, to the Cddtz Re
publican. The subject of it is of con-
siderable interest to our people who
take pride in the success of her sons.
Mr.. L. measures public men accurate
ly, and as he has had every opportuni-
ty to see them as they are, his opinion
is entitled to consideration.
JUDGE MILLER, in his address at the
Temperance meeting at Cadiz a short
time since, said, that no question that
had been submitted the people of Ohio
for their consideration and their votes
during the past twenty years, was OF
equal Importance to them with the
question now before them, of License
or no License.
WHILE an attempt was being made,
on Monday, to raise the body of the
drowned hoy, Sproul, by the firing of a
cannon, George Poorman, who was
ramming a charge, came nearly losing
his life by its premature discharge,
caused by The thumber lifting bis
thumb. PoorInan;s hand and arm
were badly lacerated and his neck and
face burned and filed with powder.
THE Probate Court issued marriage
licenses during the week, as follows:
John w. Stephens to Martha Ellen
Campbell, John F. Clifford to Mary al.
Ault, Renaldo Runyon TO Mary j.
Dysart, Isaac T. Craft TO Emily c. Nor
ris, Benson Moore 10 Claretta Jane
Harris, Jesse Gill to Ellen Coss, James
A. Hynes to Adaline Coffman, John
Lookabaugh to Mary J. Shivers, Wm.
Little to Catherine Saxon, George Lor-
ber to Mary Darmer, Jesse B. Doudna
to Eliza Jane fowler.
WE are indebted to John III. Kip
part, Corresponding Secretary of the
State Beard of Agriculture, for a copy
of the Premiums of the 25th Annual
Fair of the Ohio State Board of Agri-
culture, to be held i'll the city of Co. |
on the 7tb, Sth, 9th, 1eth and
l1th days of September, 1874. The
Premium List is a very liberal one, in
viting general competition in all de-
The grounds are being |
put 10 tip-top order for the Fair.
a FIvE-YEAR old son of the Rev. W.
V. Milligan, of Cambridge, was found |
dead in a pool of muddy water in
stone quarry, near the town couple
Of weeks since. Another warning to
parents that small children should not
De allowed to wander away from home
protection.
ST. CLAIRsvILLE streets, especially
n the evening, when children are apt
% be out, seems to be given up for the
display of fast horses. Before any ac-
,ident happens, we think it would be
we'll for our Marshal to make an eX-
nipple of some country gents who per-
list in running their horses through
ne streets in violation of the village
ordnance.
VALUATION of the property of the I
central Ohio Railroad Company, sub i
act to taxation in Belmont County, f
which is placed upon the duplicate as t
ollows: !
3ellaire City, 5 $3.50 ,
'ultney Township 59.9S9 ,
&c 1866 :
smith S6,7S9 ;
Warren 3,249 :
City, 14,1M !;
TOTAL, $40, ,OO2 J
Against a valuation of $412,S72 of
asst year-making an increase of t
27,13O.
THE following business was transact :.
d in the Probate Court during the ;
week ending June I'd: '
John Bethel appointed Guardian of :
edgar Bethel ct. al; Bond 500; NJ. c.