Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-22
BRIDGEPORT.

BIS1DGEFOh
We presume we but re-echo the one
common opiAion that the recent freeze
has killed all our early fruit.
Wheeling Creek was frozen over, on
Sabbath last.
w. w. Holloway retired from the
School Boar,i on Monday night and
E. p. Rhodes took his place. Mr.. II.
has been a jealous and earnest worker
in the rause and we part with him re-
luctantly. Mr.. Rhodes is an old and
sincere friend of the school, and his in
tiuence will be again felt for good
Present Board-E. p. Rhodes, Ross J.
and VIM Alexander, Burgett McCOn-
aughey, T. B. Smith and j. NJ. Todd,
all good men.
An effort is being made TO build a
German Lutheran Churchs st 1Etnaville.
Books are already open for subscrip-
/ tiOns and liberal amount secured. 1t
is proposed 10 consolidate the Lutheran
church organization at Martins Ferry
with this. We hope this may be ac-
complished and the work speedily ac-
complished.
The many friends of Capt. VIM.
Sharon. of CoIerain, will be panied to
hear of his serious illness. A violent
head affection resultingfrom cold is his
trouble. We wish him Il speedy re-
covery.
The recent freeze destroyed a large
proportion of ho;-beI plants.
John Rhodes, our clever little Tele-
graph operator, has gone fro:d us for IL
while to nurse a sick wife at Waynes-
burg, Ohio.
Everybody knows Frank Cooper OF
Colerain. No cleverer fellow than
Frank lives in the county. Frank has
always been remarkable for his indus
try and energy as farmer. The past
winter Frank has improved his time
and having an ardent love for chemis-
try, made considerable progress in that
department of science. The other day
Frank mixed a quantity of powder and
shot together, and then asked some
civil rightStesS to an exhibition of his
skill as an analytical chemist. He ask
ed them how he would separate this
compOund; of course they couldn't tell
and Frank proceeded to demonstrate
by spreading all On paper and then ap-
plying taper. The separation occur
red-sO did the eyebrows and eye-lash.
es from the place where the wool
ought to grow.' Frank don't expert.
ment now, nor demonstrate. Frank
carries his hand in a sling, now, and
his auditors cant see it to look at any
more experiments. Frank has con
fsl., h.lrr t.Str
tical science.
The ladies held a meeting last week
in the crusade interest. We hear it i'll
timated that they contemplate another
street campaign. We hope they won'1
do it. The day of this movement j.
/ past. Its power is gone.
i We understand the notorious Lari
mie, of Larinie's Varieties, Wheeling
is talking OF starting up a concern o
that kind here. We opine if he does
there will be in a week more variety
impaired to his varieties than the mos
variegated Imagination of any man car
conceive of. 1t will take Bridgepor
boys about a week to give it a proper
airing. They are fond of varieties.
We saw Ann Eliza lately, the It'll
rib of Brigham Young. She is lectur
ing in the small river towns. We Car
describe her in no better way than t.
say she looks for all the world as if sh'
had just come off the staff of Johr
Brigham Longley.
We saw the body of young maj
named Hess, of Wheeling, in transi
home from Indiana, said to have beer
killed accidentally by base ball bat
An unanswerable argument against th'
folly of that dangerous game.
VIM. Brjnton, the efficient Secretary
of the LaBelle Glass Company, buriet
his dear baby boy, Johnny, last week
/ Johnny was a peculiarly sweet anC
bright child, and with its sorrowins
parents we will miss, for aye, his wei
come smiles and happy little pranks
Rest in sweet peace dear boy!
Ross Alexander informs US of a das
tardly robbery of his uncle Neiswange
in Kansas City. On his way home un
der gas light he was severely assault
ed with bludgeons, in the hands of tw'
ruffians. He lost a valuable watch anC
some other valuables, beside being al
most beatersto death. At last account
he was slowly recovering, but was no
!, allowed to talk abont the outrage. Thi
may interest some of your readers.
The Engineers with a full comple
ment of a sistants are now surveyin,
the narrow gauge route. They icf
Bridgeport week ago, and are bus.
and apparently in dead earnest. l
I, really seems AS if this improvement
! will be made whether our people he'll
! it materially or not. Anumber of prom
inent men connected with the enter
prise were here last week looking owe
things, and they declared they woult
build the road help or no help from us
Success to them,