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


feet ON advanced vegetation. Thou
sands of birds perished from hunger
and cold.
RELLAIRE LETTER.
BELLAIRE, o., April l9, 1873.
SPELLING SCHOOL.
On last Thursday evening spelling
school was held at the public school
house on Gravel Hill, the proceeds for
the benefit of the Union Sabbath School
which meets in that room. Two match
es were held-Miss Carrie Sarwash and
Miss Anna Faris Choosing up first,
and W. S. Workman and ID. j. Smith
for the second trial. G. II. HOge pro-
nOunced the words to first classes, and
w. A. Grouse to the second. Captain
Sarwash ex-spelled the rest of the com
batants the first time, and G. w. HOge
got the easy words the second. The
proceeds were 81 45, which, as one gen.
tleman remarked, will pay the SUBJ
scription to Sunday School paper for
a. long time-for small school. Mr..
Smith-not the only original, but
merely little ripple in that wave of
the ocean of Smiths which comprises
such as have not John for their first
names-got his and e mixed in Re
lief, and as he stepped down and out,
remarked, Relief at lastv One young
gentleman who was troubled with a
sore eye (it was - spelt tractable,
't-r-a-c-t-i-b-l-e,' and was informed that
it was his that troubled him. You
observe that the wit of the above is all
in your eye. We neglected to state
in the proper place that the admission
fee Was too little nickels. !,
LECTURE.
Prof. H.. n. Mertz, of the Ritchie-
town public schools, Wheeling, gave AN
experimental lecture on Chemistry at
the School Hall on Friday night. His
audience was not even moderately
large; but the only consolation left to-
thuse who did not go is that they will
never know what they missed. Ofthis
number we were one, but We have
heard the lecture and the accompany
ing experiments SO highly spoken of
that we are pretty well assured that we
ought to have gone. We hope that he
will repeat his lecture.
CLEARED.
The three young men, Thos. Bran
men, John Poorman and Charles Brad
ford, who were charged with robbing,
or assisting to rob the Bellaire postoffice
in October of last year, were before the
U. S. District Grand Jury for the South
ern District of Ohio, at Cincinnati, on
Friday .he 9th inst. The Jury failing
to find true bill of Indictment, their
bond WAS released and they were set al
liberty.
BURGLARIES.
On last "Wednesday night the stores
of w. G. Garrison and w. NJ. Faris,
and the carpenter shop of +. ID. Hayes.
Were broken open and entered by three
burglars. An unsuccessful attempt was
made on the same night to enter the
grocery of Gill Il Walker. There are
suspicious characters in the city who
50 closely resemble the burglars that at
! first it WAS almost decided to arrest
them, but on second consideration it
was concluded that if they were arrest
ed before conclusive evidence WAS es-
tablished, they wonld be free from
the weight therefore yet remain at lib
erty. although little if any doubt exists
as to their guilt.
AN ACTUAL FACT.
One day not long ago an Irishman
entered an uptown grocery, purchased
and paid for twelve eggs, pound of
cheese aad half pound OF crackers,
and stood before the aStopished grocers
and devoured the whole lot, sucking
the eggs without so much as even
warming them in the sun. Then he
made pathetic remark or two about
the delicary of his appetite, picked up
his pick-aXe, and crept out into the
heartless world, a poor delicate orphan
lad of not n ore than two hundred
avoirdupo,s.
! Personal.
County Treasurer Kelley was on our
streets on Tuesday last.
Hon. Isaac Welsh, State Treasurer,
has about recovered from his late siege
of rheumatism, and was in the city
last week.
j One day last week lower town
butcher let match fall, after lighting
( his cigar, into little pocket which all
of our butchers have on the front of
their aprons, and before he discovered
the mimic cOnfiagration il kindled; all
the change he had collected that morn
ing Was in ruin. We. believe this il
what they call practical sermon on
the evils of smokiDg-Or else of carry
Ing your shinplasters on the outside OF
, butchers apron, we don't know ex-
actly which.
STREET RAILROAD.
Enough of the stock of the Street
Railway Company, which was incOr.
porated by 6. w. Hoge. A. w. Ander-
son, Isaac Booth and A. Sheets, la [
; fall, has now been subscribed to assure
the ultimate success of the project. The
contract will be let to Col. Hathaway,
of Cleveland, whose experience in such
affairs is probably second 10 that of no
mans in the world. The fact that the
Colonel thinks the road will he source
of profit instead of expense "a soon as
it is fairly in operation, is conclusive
evidence of the truth Of that belief. We
are glad to see that the spirit of pro.
/, gress is not yet died clear out in Bell.
aire, although her council has spoilt
her only available steamboat landing
A., by heaping stones thereon in wild pro-
land con- )fusion-
THE WEATHER
: is subject which is rapidly increasing