Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-04
BRIDGEPORT.


BRIDGEPORT.
And now winter lunges in the lap of
spring'-we hope she won't worry the
young miss by tedious dissolutiOn.
We saw about 250 avoirdupois
preacher come down ker-fop on his
what.shreWd Spectators call'bottom' in
financial parlance-he cody rested on
the ice and frigidly calculated merely,
"WelI, raley J" We regarded it as a
practical way of spreading the gospel.
Communion services were held in the
| Presbyterian Church on last Sabbath;
Rev. Schaffer of Barnesville assisting
a work of lively interest is in progress
in the church; services are continued
this week. There were twelve addi-
tions ON Sabbath-nine on eXamina-
ton and three on certificate 'ls
The spelling school at Commercial
| Hall, last week, was success in num-
bers and interest. Sam. Dean and J.
l.. Nanpelt were the leaders ofthe con-
tending hosts; they were opposed be-
fore as aptainS-Vanpelt being victo-
rious. This time Sam came off crown
ed with victory--preferrihg ito die
with his face to the foe,' rather than
live to fight another day. 'Tis sweet
they say to die for ones country-and
while we beg to be excused-we say to
you, pick your flint and try it again,
and may you get John l.. 'Pelt the
next time .sp-i, ,-..,f .at..si .s.uls4
Wheeling don't like too much of the
good thing-CapitoL and Soup house
proved too much, and in view of the
approach of the Legislators, the city
abolished the sOup-ranche. We once
heard Of landlord who boarded a
large share of a Legislature, posting
/ this notice on the dining-room door
''Gamblers and pick-pockets will not
press into this room at the first table
with the Legislators--aS it puzzles the
landlord to tell one from the other" A
| little hard on the traulps, but it is best
the soup business was discontinued.
We have never witnessed grander
display of resistless power than that
exhibited on Monday night of last
week by Wheeling creek. The sight
was terribly sublime. Great ice
bergs lay as a blockading squadron
athwalt the creeks mouth and secure
ly aground and against the dam. But
the rains above had so swollen the
creek that it came crashing down with
full ten feet of perpendicular rise crush
ing and carrying all opposition before
it as so many toys. Away went the
icebergs and acres of heavy ice with
them till full fifteen acres of broken ice
was piled up below the dam, and then
turning it crushed out. All opposition
in that direction for a considerable
space finally came to rest by blowing a
wide furrow through the heavy river
ice for some distance above the bridge.
Our friend, We local of the Aatelligen-
Ger, says: Our suburban friends can be
told by the color of the mud on their
boots, Bridgeporters by their yellow
clay, Martinsvillians by their brown
loan, and the Islanders by their dark
compost, boot top deep If Col. Cam
brownies were there and he were asked
by what deposit he would recognize a
Wheelingite's foot, he would say as he
did at Waterloo, when he was sur
rounded by the English, and his old
guard was hors de combat, he broke
his sword and exclaimed 'naerdev
The German, Valentine Voght who
was struck by an engine on 18th uit.,
at Bridgeport, was buried at Martins
Ferry on Monday last. He was appar-
entity well of his injuries on Thursday,
but violent attack of Pleura-Pneumo-
MIA carried him off suddenly. . l.. d
We are sorry to record the serious
illness of our young friend Tommy
Clark, son of VIM. Clark, Esq, of Mar
tins Ferry. Thomas has been at La
fayette College, at Easton, Pa, and has
Overworked himself, and his lungs are
seriously menaced. We invoke the
return of thy wonted health and vigor,
Tommy. ,.-...-..5...l ii.
A man made from the dust of the
earth just now, with modicum of our
recent weather, might well be said to
belong to one OF the naircd races.
Wenever till recently saw the utili-
ty of tramps. Always the charges for
footmen on the river bridges have
been regarded as outrageous-but
since Wheeling has established her
soup houses it is estimated that the
number of unfortunate pilgrims sent
free, by official authority, back across
the bridges that the company won't be
able to declare dividend for ten years
to'come;and the result is foot travel for
the past year won't average more than
penny. Hurrah for the tramps!
We saw two tramps, fond 'parient'
doubtless, of the male kind, and two
months-old boy, trudging toward the
Whee ing soup house. We at once
thought they might be the ass.tute
editor of the Steubenville Gazette and
his precocious son. We We're deter
mined to know, and we hailed them:
"Speil calendar" and the big one
spelled it correctly-so we knew it
wasn't the smart un we supposed; then
we concluded it was Setback Nasty Jim
and Charley Ross, may be. gH =.
Everybody will be glad to learn that
Robert Woods is nicely recovering
from very severe attack of diptheria.
Hiram Smith, of Martins Ferry, is
recovering from recent severe attack.
A number Of our people were sum
moned before the Grand Jury yester-
day, at Steubenville, in the Alice Mar
tin abortion case. 'l1 'H
We See our enterprising Grocers,
Junkins, Bates d Alexander, have Sc.
cured the services of Mr.. Stone, for
merry of Wheeling, recently Railroad