Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-01-14
BELLAIRE LETTER.

The o. =. Netrs has found anothe
evil to defend.
Much ado about nothing-the fuss al
the newspapers make about king
Morgan.
Prof. Burns looked in upon ou
schools on his return from Wheeling
last Friday.
The Clipper B. B. & &. Club contem
plate giving some kind of an entertain
ment at an early day.
"Spivins" brought ont his first ISSUE
of the 'Bellaire City COMMERCIAL on
Saturday. He is solitary in his defense
Of the council.
The Belmont Dramatic Association
will present Romance and Royalty
or the Young Nirginian," at School
Hall on the 18th inst. Well tell you
what we think of their talent after we
see them play.
Prof. E. Leon the champion rope.
walker of the civilized, and probably
also of the uncivilized world, if Blouden
is dead, and if he isn't, then next to
the champion, is making his winter
quarters here. He talks of coming up
and giving your village thrill and if
he does your citizens will have the
pleasure of seeing the most breath-sus-
pending recklessness ever exhibited.
Last Friday an old gentleman named
James Greenlee, who resided at Pipe
Creek, left Bellaire to walk to Bridge
port. He had walked up the G. & P.
Il. R. as far as the Indian Run, when
the I1:10 train was backed up, and he
not hearing the many alarms that were
made, was run over by one of the
coaches. His head was almost totally
severed from his body, and his body
and limbs were bruised and crushed in
several places in a most horrible man
ner. Mr.. Greenlee was probably sixty
years of age. He was buried at Shiloh
yesterday.
For two days past our citizens have
been enjoying-so far as it was possible
for them to do so-the coldest weather
that it has ever been ours to expert
ence, and if we thought it would con-
tinue long we would take our summer
clothes and go to Greenland to spend
the remainder of the winter. We saw
q thermometer that said it was s. be-
low zero, and we heard of one that was
I4O. When we heard of that latter one
we asked our informer if he ever saw
a man with both arms and both legs off
carving his head in his teeth, and he
said YES; so you will know how much
of his l4o story to believe. Our ice men
are taking advantage of the cold spell
TO get in their harvests. We hope
enough will be housed to prevent repe'
tition Of last summers monopoly of the
ice trade. One dealer made 1900 pei
cent. on his entire crop last season!
The most reprehensible of the many
blameworthy acts of our city officials
was their recent aiding of woman
without character to blackmail young
man., If this was done unknOwingly
then it was all the more reprehensible
thatthe fine was not returned: Under
the circumstances no attention what.
ever should have been paid to her COM
plants, and if any thing was done ii
shonld havs been to incarcerate her, OF
send her away at first, as was finally
done.
Another proper thing on the part OF
the most wise and impartial sons OF
wisdom who engineer the official ma
chinery of our city, was the making
and attempt to enforce an ordinance re-
qniring citizens to keep the snow from
their pavements. We would suggest
to their most potent majesties the pro-
priety of passing an ordinance forbid
ding Providence to snow at all in Bel
laire, under penalty of heavy fine.
Had there been any possibility Of Its
impartial enforcement the passing OF
the ordinance would not have been so
ludicrous. We would like to ask the
council by what prerOgative they pro-
pose to make their subjects have their
houses decorated in certain way, by
Il certain painter, at certain price, all
of which is dictated by council? We
would also ask for what reason they
paythe city money to man to circu-
late epetitions among the people praying
for change in the names Of the streets,
a thing of the most trivial cost, and
yet by their own parliamentary vote
sink large sum of money in worth
less pile of stones and clay? The truth
of the whole matter is that Bellaire has
no single official in an important posi-:
tion who is more fit to fill it than an
oyster is to fill the chair of the Pope at
Rome. The state of things is disgust
ing, and would be ludicrOus were it not
damnable. SNAP.