Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-18
MuzzLE your dogs.

MuzzLE your dogs.
J. C. SNYDER, of Bridgeport, got run owe
by tie cars at Bellaire Wednesday. He i
probably fatally injured.
QUITE number of threshers of the Bell
aire Manufacturing Co.'S make have been ship
ped to different parts of the country lately.
TIE EeGder: Bellaire at the present rate o.
progress will not even be prepared to celebrate
the one thousandth anniversary of our birth a:
nation.
ONE day last week Mayor Oliver, of Ster'
benville, planted tree in the Court House
Park, at that place, in commemoration OF
Robert and Daniel McCook.
THE Steubenviile Gazette thinks ''things
sounded as if he'll had been let loose" Friday
night. They have no police in that city. II
is SO moral, you know, they don't need them.
THE fisticuff between two colored individ-
uals, Wednesday noon, created quite an ex-
citement. They were taken before Mayor
Riley who fined each So 90 and trimmings
J. w. MCFARLAND offered quite a respecta-
BILE assortment of goods at auction, in the
room under the National, last week; but ow-
ing to the lateness of the season, and people
Just having passed through a surfeit of sales
and auctions. he had slim houses, and light
bidders, and concluded to abandon the busi-
ness here for the present.
A son of Mrs. Pennington met with what
might have been serious accident, last
Thursday. At noon, while playing ball on
the school grounds, ''Val" Walker became
excited over the game, and, in his usual reck-
less way. thrust a sharpened stick in the jaw
of young Pennington, striking the inferior
n,azilar vein, causing the lad to bleed most
profusely.
JeHN MCSwEENEY, of Wooster, Ohio, has
been in attendance on the Medill Will case, as
a counsel for the defense, since Friday last.
Mr. ,McSweeney is one of the first lawyers of
the State, and as a criminal lawyer has, per-
haps, no superior in the country. He impress
ed our people most favorably by his dignifed
mien and splendid ability.
The SwEENEY-BAKER LIBEL SUIT.-The
case of James W. Sweeney VS.. Lewis Baker
& Co., the former proprietors of the Wheeling
Register, for damages for alleged defamation
of character, came TO an end in the Circuit
Court Tuesday. The history of this case is
doubtless familiar to the majority of our read
ers. The jury were out about an hour and a
quarter, and returned verdict for the plain
tiff, assessing the damages at $4,000.
HENRY LASH, of Colerain, exhibited, few
days ogo, Eusus ndturds of unusual interest.
A large calf with two perfectly formed heads
and necks, with every organ perfect in each.
The union was symmetrical and both were so
nicely Joined to the shoulders no distinction
could be made in them. The cow, valued at
$75, lost her life in consequence of the mon-
strosity, which also died.
DAVID Comfy, of near Holmes church, in
Jefferson county, was at the dedication on
Sunday, and brought with him three canes,
taken from the timbers of the old Holmes
church, which was built in 1903, and which
was the first NJ E. church erected in Ohio
One of these canes he presented to Bishop
Simpson, one to Chaplain McCabe, and one to
Rev. A. H. Norcross, who will no doubt pre-
serve them as mementoes.-Cddiz Sentinel.
TIE editor of the o. 7. Neacs has just pass
ed through his molting season, and now steps
out, fops his wings, and jags us with his gaff,
thusly:
The greenhorns who run the st. Clairsville
papers, mistook the picture in the Bellaire
Leader last week for the photograph of the
editor We knew it wasn't his likeness the
minute we saw it.
Bro. Gaumer, pass the hanker-wiper down
this way, we're ruined.
THE residence of Mr.. Fl. II. McFadden,
editor of the Steubenville Gazette, was dis
covered to be on fire on Sunday evening last.
Mr.. McFadden and wife were in Cincinnati at
the time and the house was in charge of a
steward. Although the flames were extin-
guished before they got under much headway,
the injury to his furniture by water will go up
in the hundreds. The origin of the fire is not
known.
Col. ELIJAH GRIMES, for many years a
citizen of Cambridge, died on the morning of
9th inst, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs
A. E. Cook, in GAINESVILLE, aged SO years. Col.
Grimes was one of the early settlers of Bel
mont county-coming here from Baltimore in
early life. He kept hotel at Morris;own for
eight or ten years, and afterwards lived at
Hcndrysburgh and Fairview. He served in
the war of 1912, being for time in the ma
rine service on Lake Erie, and was also All
Aid-de-camp on Gen. Scotts staff, and distin-
guished himself as patriot and brave man.
The new NJ. E. Church, at Cadiz, was for
mally dedicated on Sunday, May 7th. The
Church services for dedication were conduct
ed by. Bishop Simpson, assisted by the minis
tiers present, and by the Trustees. The name,
''Drummond Church,. is cut in marble and