Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-06

REAa the prospectus of the Pittsburgh
DispateA.
HAVE YOU laid in your diary, almanac and
calendar.
ALEAP YEAR party is on the tapis in 81
Clsirsville.
WnERE will we all be a hundred years TO
come?
Miss ANNE SrEESRoD, daughter Of Daniel
Steenrod, on Monday, gave an elegant birth
day party to her young friends
MIL. B. HoGUE, who has been in South
ern California for several months, returned
home last Thursday.
WE direct attention to the advertisement of
the sale of the farm of the late Levi Beans,
situated near Morristown.
A SPIRITED election is expected to occur at
the -Etna Mills on the 18th. The questions of
reduction of salaries, and boring for gas well,
are agitating the stockholders.
On Monday the stockholders of the LaBelle
Glass Works, at Bridgeport, elected directors
as follows E. p Rhodes, W. ". Holloway.
E. G. Cate A. H. Baggs. R. Farley, John ".
Schultz, and ". D. McAfee.
ANOTHER large railroad meeting was held in
Bridgeport, on Tuesday evening, in the inter
est of the c., T. V. & W. Railway. Bridge
port is determined to have that road. She
ought to have it.
By card in this paper our readers viii
learn that Mr.. S. Gressinger has become agent
of well known Marble Establishment in
Steubenville If you want anything in that
line call and see him.
CAPT. ALEXIS COPE, who retired from the
Collectors Office with a splendid record as
public officer, will resume at once the practice
of Law. His friends will find him at the old
stand
IHE hOnlS lHsuIdllCc NOinpdIE Vi -Nc"
York has our thanks for beautifully illus
trated and ingenuously designed Calendar for
1876. The Home is a good company.
THE Coshocton Democrat man, gently re-
minds his subscribers and duns them thusly:
Comeye sinners poor and wretched,
Rich and ragged. lean and fat;
Come and pay US what you owe US
For the COshoctOn Democrat.
THE Stockholders of the st. Clairsville &
Cadiz Pike held their annual election on
Monday. The new officers are as follows.
John Watson, Pres't. 7 Henderson, Sec'y;
George Brown, Treas; John Patton and Wm
NJ Campbell, Directors.
II some yards with southern exposure the
honeysuckles, lilacs and roses are in leaf. DR..
John Alexander presented us on Tuesday
with sprig vf honeysuckle in full leaf, and
also a peony. Dandelions and pansies adorn
the fields and woods. \ few more days Of
such unprecedented warm weather as we had
last week, would bring the fruit trees into
bloom
CHARLIE RHODES, of Bridgeport, was caned
with handsome gold-headed cane last week,
by the attaches of the firm of Z. p. Rhodes
& Co.; the consequence was that Charlie
drove nobby turnout of four-in-hand sor
rels, on New Years day, and called on thirty
five or forty of the sweetest girls in Wheeling
and Bridgeport. Happy Charlie!
The Wheeling Sunday Leader has turned
over new leaf 1t came out last Sunday
with handsome new dress and with an addi
ton of eight columns to its size The man.
agement of the Leader displays the right kind
CT snap to insure for its readers high-toned
and spicy Sunday journal. johnson is a boss
gentleman and we are heartily glad to note his
success.
He sat on the curb-stone near Giffin's cor
ner, about midnight, and sang the old year
out. This was his song:
''Tis mid (hic) night and the setting sun,
Is rising in the wide, wide (hic) west;
The rapid rivers slowly (hic) run.
The frog is on his (hic) downy nest;
The pensive goat and sportive (hic) COW,
Hilarious (hic) hop from bough to (hic)
bough.
The St. Clairsville Mutual Horse Thief De-
tective Association, met at the Court House,
January 3, and elected the following officers,
to serve the ensuing year: Joshua Worley,
Pre- st; VIM Chambers, Vice Prest: D
Bailey, Sec'y; A P Blair, Treas Managers
"A Gifin, Daniel Steenrod, VI G Overbangh,
John B McMechen, Jas Mellor. This is live
organization, composed Of the best men with