Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-06-15
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We will give full account of the Conven-
tion next week.
''OH, what will we do with all the children
till school begins:''
SUNDAY was hot enough to have made
christians of us all.
STRAWBERRIES with trimmings, cheap
three boxes for quarter.
/ Ii was 93o in the shade on Monday-the
warmest day of the season.
Miss EVA RICE is spending the heated term
at home. She can still make music.
F. NJ BARNES is about starting up a new
sheet in Bellaire, called the Adpertiser.
| w. B. HEARN, editor of the Cadiz Repu5-
kcan has gone on centennial jamboree.
CLIFF WILLIAMS has opened q new barber
shop under the Frazier Hotel. He can shave.
IT used to be, your dog was expected to
watch you. Now they say, watch your dog.
STRAWBERRIES are very plentiful in the
Wheeling market, and prices are extremely
low.
BOYS can now spehd at least half their time
clubbing fhe young apples and cherries from
the trees.
Hons. E. V. Cleaver and VIM. Bundy were
in town during the past week, and made us
pleasant calls.
| Ii is too warm for some in cities, and too
warm for some in the country; too warm for
some anywhere.
| On Saturday, peas sold in the market at
Wheeling at 15c. per quarter peck, and butter
at 15c. per pound.
w. Fl. HENDERSON, of Colerain, and his
daughter Mary started for the Centennial, cia.
Buffalo and Niagara, on Monday.
/ COMMENCEMENT exercises of the Hopedale
Normal School will take place on Friday the
23d The Society entertainments will occur
in the evening.
II is said that the lawyers of the United
States cost six times as much at ministers,
and the ministers cost good deal more than
the gospel.
If boy complains of .'burning and smart
ing" on his back on Monday morning, don't
ask him if he was in swimming on Sunday.
Give him cream.
/ HEARD you that sound on Saturday last?
1t was boy of eighteen being shaved. 1t was
beyond description-worset than tearing shin
giles from house.
IT is a. good thing to 60 prepared for sudden
attack of cramp collie and cholera morbus.
Some persons carry bottles the year round,
and never dream of danger.
THE Free Masons are expecting to cele
brate st. Johns Day, in befitting way, at
Marietta Their Lodge there, will be one
hundred years old on that day.
WESTERN pork raisers are tickled over the
prospect of European wars. They have not
forgotten former prices during our little un-
IpleasantDess with the South.
Wool thieves are abroad in the land Quite
a number of farmers north of here have been
missing fieeces of wool. Keep it under lock
and key, and your gun loaded.
The Cincinnati Light Guards, numbering
fifty men, will pass through this county along
the National Road on Thursday. The citi-
zens of Bridgeport will take care of them
at night
Our readers will do well to notice the new
advertisement of Cover, Luke & Co., Wheel
ling. They offer the Taylor Self-Dumping
Hay Rake. 1t is a superior Rake and just
what the farmers need to save labor, time and
expense.
JAS. F. PATTON, who handles dry goods for
j. s. Rhodes, of Wheeling, was in town on
Sunday. There is a bunch of dry goods
about St. Clairsvilie, that James likes to inves-
tigate occasionally.
i A CLARIoNET and two horns, with big fat
,men behind them to blow them up, treated
our town to some very fine street music on
Saturday last From whence they came or
whittier they travelled deponent saith not-but
they could toot.
IT must be pleasant to some of our country
Ipeople to sit in their doors of evenings and
read over the patent medicine advertisements
lpainted on their barns and gates and fences.
Pills, liniments, vermifuges, hair dyes, and
lpiasters, worlds without end.
No DANGER of your creditors disturbing you
i if you can only manage to walk on the sunny
side of the street. You might lie down and
sleep in the middle Of ten acre field, and
not one of them would call cut to see you, if
the sun happened to be shining. Beautiful
sunshine!
A reception was given to ]. P. Mitchell
and wife, nee Miss Bess Milner, at the resi-
dence of the groom's mother, Mrs Porter
Mitchell, near Mt. Pleasant, on Tuesday eve
! ming large number of invited guests were
present from Martins Ferry, St. Clairsville,
Mt. Pleasant, and deher points.
/ The Guernsey Times accounts for John
Belknap Longley's growl at Congressman
/ Danford in this wise:
"We presume our Congressman has recon-
mended somebody for office without duly sub
mitting the matter to Brother Longley, with
Jim. Anderson In the Chair"
Profs Peaslee and Ten Brock, with their
, full chorus and leading singers will give We'd
, nesday, Thursday and Friday, this week, in
Wheeling, the grand Opera Of Belshazzar.
The whole piece is one of surprising beauty,
full of the lvelest historic incident and thrill
ing reminiscence. The music is simply grand,
and we know it will delight all who hear it.
NOTHING short of good sized earthquake
conld scare some of the pestiferous agents and
patent-right men away from us. We were
J visited by one, a few days since, that looked
as though he had had his spine injured by
running against wagon tongue, in attempt