Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
BRIDGEPORT.

Wheeling, on Tuesday night last.
Rev. McCleary is absent, attending
Conference.
Bridgeport's share of the spell in
Wheeling was over sixty dollars, being
one-third the whole proceeds after eX-
penses.
During Sherman's march or Atlanta,
he had line in rear of his army, with
orders to shoot all skedaddlers. There
would have been two funerals more in
Wheeling, on Saturday, if Sherman
had been in com mand Of the Wheeling
forces at the spell.
1t is said when the Calendar spawn
of the Steubenville Gazette, heard of
the invincible spoilers from Bridge
port at Wheeling match, il looked up
piteously into its anXiCus parents face,
snOle CHASTITY smile, Topped its ears
and-bray ed.
Prof. Morton, President of Wheeling
Female College, said at the spelling
match on Friday night, Il can select
six pupils from my school who cali
spell down all Bridgeport Now, be
kind enough, dear sir, to tell US who
tangnt them? Perhaps, however, you
feed them on 'dessecl ated' spelling
books and drcnch them with saffron
tea. It's good for measles, we know,
and maybe it's first rate for spelling,
too.
Levi Inglebright and Fred. Ralston,
ferrynen at Martins Farry had mi
raculOus ESCAPE from drath on Friday
last. They were in the wheelhouse
doing some repairs, when the other at
tachees of the boat, without any knOwl
edge of the whereabouts of these men
pushed the boat from shore, and
started the engine. Ralston was soon
dashed in the water and beneath the
boat, while Inglebright, chung to the
wheel which was in rapid motion, IN
til his condition was discovered. Truly,
it was narrow escape all round. Both
men were, however, rescued without
any material injury.
When Prof. Morton Dragged the 9th
er night in Wheeling, about the abili-
ty of six of his pupils to spell down all
Bridgeport, he evidently forgot that
our school Board didn't employ him
last spring as superintendent. If we
had, Wheeling might have dessicated
US.
On Tuesday Of last week, John and
Reuben Porter, while catching drift
in the river, discovered man floating
by which they brought to the Ohio
shore. Coroner Garrett was notified
and an inquest held the same evening,
which ELECTED the only fact that the
mans name was Frazier, and that he
had been drowned. In his pockets
were found three ten cent pieces, let
ter addressed to Samuel Perry, Jeffer-
son, Ashtabula County, Ohio, and
signed Joseph Frazier. The letter
states that the writer arrived in Allie
gheny safely and found the folks all
well; that he can work, but is unable
to work, on account of sore foot;
wants to know how the little ones is
and directs Perry to send him a subpu-
na by mail. He was buried next day.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch, of the 10Th
inst, by the following notice makes all
clear about the case:
! BODY Yesterday in
telligence reached Allegheny City that
the body of Joseph Frazier, drowned
in the Ohio on last New Years night,
had been recovered at Bridgeport, op-
posite Wheeling. The deceased, it
will be remembered, together with
James Buckley, were rowing in a Skif
from Woods Run, to McKee's Rocks,
when the boat was Upset and both
drowned. Buckley's remains were
never found.
Much complaint is being made be-
cause the proper authorities make no
of nj 70 tho AINStr frN-
the public road leading from the pike
give this matter immediate attention.
We fear the spelling mania is really
demoraiiZing some of our good people.
Our good brother-we didn't say he
was deacon, alter u studious evening
with McGuffey, kneIt down to his de-
VUtions preparatory to getting in his
little bed, and to the horror of his wife
and utter establishment of his children,
began
Now l lay me (spells) Ypsilanti,
pray the (spells) kalamazoo,
If [ should die before (spells) Deoder-
lied,
1 pray the (spells) MacAdamized.
Amen.
The family, much alarmed, sought
help-but a McGuffey's speller, to the
bottom of each foot made all right
with him by morning.
Public opinion Is about equally di-
vided in this latitude, between making
'ground-hog day and The birthday of
that wondrous scintilation, the 'calen-
dar' bantling of the SteubenvillelG Gazette
a national holiday, with the chances
rather in favor of the pig. Sad.
To-day, (Thursday,) our schools offer
a splendid entertainment, in music,
essays, speeches, and general exhibit
of its proficiency. Let all, especially
parents attend, you will enjoy rich
treat.
Wheeling had among her spoilers the
other night an 1rishman-sO he claim
ed to be, when he missed word he
put in Il plea of his nationality that an
IriShman was taught to call certain let
tiers by the names of certain other
letters. We would advise Capt. Black
to put that fellows tongue in rigid
gynnastic training before he again Of
fers to spell him and then remind him
this is America not Irelan!.
AS sad il sight as was ever seen in
Bridgeport, Was a father, staggering
home drunk, carrying under his arm "a
coffin for his dead child. Twice this
has happened with the same party re-
Gently.
The voice of the Turtle will soon be
heard in the land, but when, as by gen.
tie zephyrs, will our auricular append
ages be mellifiuously tintinabulated by
the softly flowing cadences of the yawpI
of the calendar sucking of the Steu-
benville Gazette in spelling match?
With humble submission to the o. V.
Ne,cs, we beg to submit that the recent
familiarities and undue hirtations of
one Mr.. Winter of advanced years,
with the timid Miss Spring are not only
very disproper and indecorous but