Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-11-26
IsELLAIRE LETTER.
BELLAIRE, o., Nov. 90, 1874.
of Belmont Chronicle

! correspondence vi bnEOulClo.
| AT tine present writing, u light rain is
failing, and has been almost without
linter.uiss:On since dark last evening.
4WcOurSe the immense rain tall pleaSes
the river men. Saturday night the
river rose two feet, and there is now
every prospect for ii fair stage of water
fQr the larger boats.
ave move and SECOND that our City
Gpflncil pass ali ordinance appointing a
iamp-lighlpr with stock of common
sense, and authOriZ, him to draw there
manac says it will be moonlight on a
certain night the lamps are left unlit,
taIth0ugh it nlay be so cloudy as to rem
der tine night as dark rs Hades. 1t
/ looks magnificent TO see citizen of a
1city, lit with gas, meandering through
fits principle business thoroughfares af-
ter night l.icking h 8 way by the feeble
hight of a bulPS-eye lantern, it rem inds
Iene 80 much of the primitive ways of
the country.
We plead guilty.: We are he; we re-
tmarked in,the hearing of the .'Intelli-
gencer correspondent that Beilaire
NEEDED street crossings. We said it in
Iadvertantly, and Immediately regretted
| it, but we will not deny it. We would
.humbly submit, though in justification
! that we are not 50 far behind the times
as tu have just discovered the fact. On
| the Contrary we have been impressed
with the belief for quite a while; and it
| finally grew So deep that We could not
lcontain ii, and iHvOEuntarily through
Ethe periphery Of our articulatOry organ
lemeSgeti the observation, "Bellaire
tneeds street crossings" We have since
Ie0ncluded that it is streets she needs.
Another thing she need5--needS sadly
wants .urgeutly--is the repeal of the
garbage and cattle ordinances, Or II
scavinger.
Col. Poormar nas invented and is en-
lgaged in 10 ,,r0viTg contriVance
whereby he can obtain a clearer and
more intense !igh: from the burning of
air than i, usually Obtained from gas
Hight.
Services were held at twelve differ
ent Sabbath Schools here yesterday.
Rev. Wallace of the U. P. Church
will preach in the NJ. E. Church at 1880
a. NJ. on Thanksgiving day.
TIE N. f. Social Society will meet
for the election of officers ON next Fri
day evening.
REr. Smith, John, we presume) 3 na-
Tive nf the Bprmu'it Islands, will de
liver lecture OH tbs, climate, customs,
uattveS, history and general belongings
ami l,apI. niagS rf his native land at
the NJ. e.. Cbur.h lecture ,lopms this
evening. Mr.. Sto ;th is tn ga:,s i in edu-
eating himself in this country, and j.
the mass Intelligent person q, African
descent il VA, ever our tor,une, To meet
Bill " ooten, (rolore,D forineriy of st.
Ciai rsville. and '5rnasner" SrobIe, of
this city, ran.:s foot race, on W heefiug
Island last Saturday afternoon. Bill
found he could make more by going
slow, and he went slow.
Prof. Weber's Bellaire music class
gave vocal and instrumental concert
at Moundsville. on last Thursday even
ing. The audience is said to have been
thelarge-t ever knnwnto have attend
ed an enteriainmel.5 of any kind there.
1t was IL repetition OF their concert here
IL few weeks ago.
A young gentleman in speaking 10 an
older one few days ago, concerning
Smith, the Bermuda lecturer, inquired
if he was, a .Darw inian," which is
slang for African. The gentleman re-
piled that he dldn't exactly know, but
he was ''some of them fOreignersp'
Our police intimate d very vehement
ly Saturday night that Beecherian art
galleries. were an abOmination intolef-.
able, and the ouly one here, recently |
is no.more.
About the only arrests nowadays
are for Sidewalk on the BRAIN"
..,. SNAP.