Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-12-17
BARNESEILLE LETTER.

DECEMBER Ii, 1874.
Editor Chronicle:
Wehad concluded te remain ON the
shell this week, but it has since occur
FED to us that we might be able to give
you an item or two, and we've craWIed
down.
Last Saturday night between eight
and nine O'Clock, man-or rather a
hell-hound in the shape ofea man
Knocked at the door of AN old widow
woman named Grimes, living in her
quiet little home, with daughter some
fifteen years old, at the terminus of
North Chestnut Street, snd asked for
something to eat. Mrs. Grimes got
some bread and meat, and partially
lopening the door, was in the act of
handing it to him, when he reached in
and struck her blow in the face. She
hallowed to her daughter, VINO was in
another room and ran out in the kitch-
en-. The field followed her, and struck
her heavy blow in the face with
something he had in his hand, break
ing her nose, and knocking her sense
less to the floor, and then fell to beat
ing her i'll the face. The daughter
coming out of the room seized the DO
Fker, and threw it at him, striking him
some place about the head. He then
turned upon her and knocked her down,
and beat or kicked her in the face sew
eral times. The daughter pretended
to be dead, for fear he would kill her,
and thinking his intents had been car
ried out, he left the house, and came
toward town. Mrs. Grimes remained
lnsensIble for some time. but the neigh
bOrs being Informed Of the affair, DIR.
Wellons was sent Who restored her to
consciousness, and dressed her wounds,
and at last accounts she was doing as
well as could be expected, and she will
prOpably recover. The daughters
wounds were not so severe. What could
have been this fiends object, no one
knows more than pure cussedness, for
the daughter informed us that he made
no effort to rob the house. Mrs. Grimes
has been resident of Barne3ville for
many years, and living, as she thought,
without an enemy in the world. The
perpetrator of this cowardly and viii
lainly act is still at large,
Mr.. VIM. Bailey, a former citizen of
this place, and son-in-Iaw of Mr.. John
IL. Piper, died of asthma, at his home
in Gallipolis, Ohio, last Thursday morn
ing, and his remains brought here for
burial Sunday:last.
We have read the second chapter of
Peter to the Barnesvillians, published
IN The last tssue of that respectable
sheet, the organ of the pure and unde-
filed nemocracy'-the 81. ClairsriLle Ga
zette.
One of our School Directors told a
pupil the other day who had commit
ted some trivial ofIense in the school
room, that he would kick him down
the stairs-but he didn't. Now, Bill,
you amt bad kind of of man, but
we object to one thing. 1t 80 happens,
when you are invested with little
authority, you become entirely too big
for your overalls.
Pete insinuates that the crusaders
broke their own windows. Indeed, he
was the one man mean enough to make
the charge the next morning after the
outrage. Now, we understand hel
'martyrizes' for the benefit of his mo-
Bile constituency 1t is said he wrote
letter to st. GlairsviIle last week, an
nounclng that he and his man Friday
had been poisoned. AS Pete has refu-
'ed "a th0ses.nei invitations to drink,
We are inclined, to think this is a put
Up job; nnless, indeed, he too, takes it
on the sly The fact is, Peter is not
,nfy dead, but stinketh in this COM
nunity, and will resort to any ruse to
evive his waning notoriety.
: -...-..-. .o-..o JIM. Crow.