Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-27
BELLAIRE LETTER.
BELIAIRE, O., May %, 1875,

The scholars of the public schools had
May party and picnic in the woods
on Cemetery Hill, on last Saturday, ut
which little Cora Carr presided as
Queen and Peter King Morrison, Esq,
as Prince Consort. The Committee of
arrangements consisted of Misses Ella
GOrby, Nellie Hoge, Alice Fitton,
Belle Montgomery and Ida Thompson.
The affair was quite a success, not only
for the young children, but also for the
children of a larger growth who still
carry young hearts. A drunken man
presumed to dispute the possession of
the swing with the scholars, and Prof.
Melville had to exhibit his muscle as
an argument in favor of the rights of
the children. This he successfully did,
and the youth with the benZine fled,
and has not been seen since.
The sacrament of the Lords Supper
will be administered at the NJ. E.
Church next Sabbath forenoon.
Rev. G. G. Waters, of this city, will
lecture on Temperance at the Presby-
terian Church on next Thursday eve
ming.
Prof. Frank Barr, q celebrated Pitts
burgh elocutionist, will deliver "A lect-
ure, illustrating it with select readings,
at the Presbyterian Church next Fri
day night, the proceeds to go for the
benefit of the Church interests.
The Young Mems Prayer Meeting
of the Methodist Episcopal Church OF
this city, will have an excursion and
basket picnic to Lockwood's Grove on
next Saturday, the 29th inst. The
round trip costs fifty cents, and the
proceeds go toward beautifying the
room in which the Prayer Meeting
holds its sessions.
Two couples have joined hands aid
fortunes since our last in our city. Mr..
Jas. Dixon and Miss Mary Allen were
4 married on Tuesday evening, and the
other couple were Israelites, whose
names we do not know. They were
married on Sabbath evening.
The stock in the Street Railway is
about gobbled up. The Cummin's
heirs, who own extensive lands north
of town, on the line of the proposed
railway, last week granted the right ot
way, and subscribed literally to the
stock, thus placing it on the most staple
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work will be begun on the road.
Cadiz has set bad example-that i.
the temperance folks of Cadiz have
On last Thursday evening a butcher ir
the lower town refused to sell man d
Quantity of ice. The man took offense
J and collecting a crowd of his rowdy
companions, they went back to the
butchers and after nearly tearing dow L
his shop, chased him until he escaped
under cover of darkness. This mob die
MT meet in printing Office, though. -
Neither do "the most respectable o
our citizens" say "well DONE" Still il
was no more mob than the Cadiz one
mot whit.
A young man living in the country
a few miles from Bellaire lately cut die
f Sam Patch, if not in the recklessness O
his feat, at least in the trifiing reward
He jumped down a precipice twenty
feet in height, a1ighting on ledge O
slippery rocks, all for ground squirrel
And when he ALT the ground squire
was just scampering into hole in 8
stump, beside which he had been stand
ing before he jumped!
Barney Sewers, a colOred boy whose
gun went off last fall while he wa:
hunting, the shot entering his head
was buried Sunday. The wound was
thought at the time to be necessarily
/ fatal, but skilIful surgery and won.
derful constitution brought him
through, and he was so far recovered
as to be able to go about his work, the
only difficulty being a slight paralysis
of one side. After being about month
well he was attacked with peculiar
malady in the head, and gradually
sank until released by death from his
terrible sufferings.
Jimmie" SelIars, the popular pho
tographer who caters to the taste for
fine art which he has himself created,
has free show every once in while,
consisting Of stereOptican exhibition
from an upstairs window of his gallery.
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