Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-02
Barnesviile Items.
THANKSGIVING

THANKSGIVING
Was generally observed last Thursday
oy most of people, business being sus-
Jended pretty much all day. Union
religious services were held in the NJ.
Z. Church in the forenoon, after which
turkey dinners by those fortunate
enough To nave gobbler were INDUCED
IN, While the less fortunate gave thanks
ior 6ountlful supply oi p-bone and
navy Deans. In Jne afternoon we had
tsireet bear dance" which delighted
The youth and old age of our town, ana
the Keeper OF bruin scooped in many
| oickels ior making them dance and
light ike de devil" In the evening
large audience assent bled in Hunts
hail to hear Prot. MdIsh's lecture.
Inc Prot was appreciated if the fire.
Iuent applause Is any testimony. Prol.
burns OF your place also favored the
| audience with some choice readings
and recitations. We, Tor one, pro-
| nounce Burns host i'll himself-d fine
reader and a good recitationist. Come
AGAIN, Prof, we will welcome you.
POLICE COURT.
Stuart Goens, dun-colored barber,
Was brought before Esquire Floyd one
lay last week, on the Charge of attem pt
20 shoot and XIII Joseph jackson, also
lcolored. The particulars as we learned
them are that there has been "a grudge
between them for some time, and at a
corn-husking at Merida B4iley's, some
TWO miles from town, Goens was intent
ON having satisfaction, and approached
jackson with revolver which he
pointed al his 'giZzard" and pulled
the trigger. Fortunately for somebody
the weapon uIio>ed fire, when jackson
thinking "thin-s Di.iiiug went to
see her. Quoting t,Ielr language) and
took the pistol from him. jackson had
GOenS arrested on the above charge,
resulting in his being bound over to
Court in the sum of $500.
james Pryor, Caucasian of bantam
proportions, who plays the trade of a
plasterer, had been ON a bender for
some tiDe, and WAS making himself
very obnoxious about the depot last
Saturday, when he was politely order
ed away by policeman Shipley. This
he seemed not inclined to do, and
drew a revolver on Shipley, who in a
twinkling relieved "Jeems" of the
weapon and escorted him to the lock
up. In the Mayors court the charge
Of carrying concealed weapons WAS pre-
ferred against him, Little Pete" lei
him off with a dollar and costs.
Ferdinand Chesterfield Peterson was
in the lookup Sunday for drunkenness
Poor Old "Ferd," decentralization has
taken possession of him, and he has
: been Gagged SO often that the place
= seems like home to him.
: ONE DOLLAR AND COSTS.
] Yes, that is all it costs for all manner
of misdemeanors that come before the
court of Lift Peter" 1t matters
not If the case be plain or complex
drunk, boiSterouS riot or street
j brawI, Little Peter has but one fine
4 "a dollar and cost. 1t is hoped wher
\ Little Peter comes up at the Judgment
/ bar he, too, may get off for "a dollar
and cost"
DILUTED THINNESS.
We have a clever set of Councilmer
5 up here. Some time since it was dem
>, unStrated that more ciSterns were Z
: necessity in case of fires. At this time
: Main street had the honor of having al
the cisterns, which were made at the
cost Oh the corporation. feOple on ON
C er streets petitioDed the council to 10
Y cate cisterns in their neighbOrhood
o which, after good deal of briggling
this body of sages graciously consented
, that they might have them, provided
i the people would dig them at their OWL
e individual expense, and we art
I ashamed to think some have beer
fools enough to do it.
ACCIDENT.
- Last Friday, while engaged in tear
ing down an old tobacco house on tht
i farm of Henry Acton, near Hendrys
: burg, an old man named Gilbert Don
t nelly fell from tie pole, distance o
twenty feet, and was so badly injured
that he died in few hours. Deceased
4 leaves "a wife and family of grown-uI
D.. children.
, BACK AGAIN.
n The Eddy delegation to st. Clairs
+, vile, last week, have, we believe, al
! got back safely, but as yet the long rol
e has not been called.
e JOE BOWERS.