Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-06-14
BRIDGEPORT.

.eS ren0efeQ tne entertainment very
creditable affair, which was highly en-
joyed by large audience.
At meeting of the School Board the
old corps of teachers were re employed
except Mr.. Joiner, of the colored school.
who goes to take course of normai
j. w. West takes his
place. d. P. Pratt, Supt., Misses
Csrrie Cooper high room, Rettie Laf-'
ferty next, then Annie Hartstien, Lens
Adolph, Nors Jones, Mary Clayland,
Aggie Reed, for Union School, and
Libbie Newiin, for Etnaville, and
Prof. Sehofield, music.
The average attendance during the
past year at school shows the reason
ableness and eminent need of the COM
pulsory education law recently passed
and soon to be enforced.
On account of the illness of Mrs.
Chalfant Rev. Gledhill, of the M E.
Church, filled the Presbyterian pulpit
on Sabbath night.
The recent rains have swollen the
river to coal-bOat stage, and large
fleets laden with black diamonds are
passing.
The festival at the Presbyterian
Church yielded $1l0.
The West End NJ. E. Church hold a
festival next Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings. We don't know what the
Lord would do, these iimes, IL the
strawberry crop would fail.
VIM. Alexander is again upon the
streets after months confinement to
his house.
Mrs. R. J. Alexander is rapidly con-
valescing from her recent severe ill
ness. al
Old Mother Jones has returned from
long visit to her son in Washington
City. 7 sr
Extensive arrangements are on the
tapis for the Masonic Celebration, on
the 23d inst, at Martins Ferry.
James T. Kerr, of Martins Ferry,
the successful candidate for army
honors, at Bellaire, leaves for West
Point, on Friday. Success to you,
Jimmy, and may still further honors
lie thinei Eddie Capehart left for
Annapolis last week. We wish him,
as ne deserves, abundant prosperity In
his new effort.
On last Sabbath we witnessed a
splendid piece OF surgery by DIR. w. l..
Atlee, of Philadelphia, on the person
of Mrs. Stephens, of Wheeling, former
iy of our place. Mrs. Stephens health
had manifestly declined during the
past year, and her case proving to be
ovarian tumor, her Physician, the
veteran Frissell, secured the services of
the great specialist, Atlee, on his way
home from the National Medical Con-
vention, at Chicago, to operate on her,
which he did on Sabbath morning last
in the presence of a number of invited
friends. II was an eminent success and
dextrously and neatly done-in all
lasting only half an hour. Chloroform
being administered, with careful assis-
tants, an incision was made little to
the one side of the medium line of the
body, low down, when the tumOr pre-
scented which was emptied OF its con.
tents by a proper Instrumentation the
tumor proper, huge sack, pear shap-
ed, stem down, a1d attached to the
growth, was carefully drawn ouI
through the incisiOn, 4 inches long,
and after proper legation, was cut
from its attachment, and the patient
carefully dressed, pat TO bed and com
fortably provided for all within half III
hour. She was entirely unconscious O
pain, and is reported doing handsome
lly. The tumor and contents, the, lat
ter larg ely albuminous, weighed l6 lbs
Until quite recently this form of mala
dy was regarded So formidable as to
forbid surgical interference-but nov
Il Is successfully attacked with tn,
knife-and though it seems herOi
work, as 1t is, the operation is beccm
ing not only quite common but is ais,
divested of much Of its horror by 1t
very marked success. DIR. AtIee is on,
of two brothers who have given mucl
sttention to this class of diseases, an,
w. L., the present operator, has per
formed this operation, OvariOtomy
oftener perhaps than any man living o
dead. He is master of bis art and en-
! joys his well earned laurels With mod
esfy and ease. He is now ripe in year
as In ex xperienee-yet- competent q
ever and honored by all his fellows.
Mr.. Card, the chief engineer of tn
IT. V. R. R., arrived in town, with hi
assistants, on Monday, preparatory {
commencing work on this end of tn
road. We hope this will prove a win
lining Gard, as he has such competen
Chamberlain to help Bagg-s the enter
tprise. ,5.,ast. 81, =, So ~.
The problem of the average Martin
Ferryan is not "who killed Cock Rot
lin," but who killed, and especially cal
the old bull with q canceFous neck
bought by Q Martins Ferry butcher @
an old Quaker? 1t seems an old farm
er had an old animal IS above, badl,
1 diseased with cancer, which be refuse,
for q while to part with at all, but a
last, on assurances that the schirr0uset
old fellow wOuid not be butchered, b
was sold for few dollars, and taken t
Martins Ferry. Soon thereafter b.
disappeared, whether to the CASTRO
tnomic regions OF the denizens of y
ancient village, or, whether the stom
aehs of Wbeeling's elite were reeale,
with cut of meek or nothing is on
iof those things no fellah can just nov
And still they all press for an answer,
"Who did eat the bull with cancer?"
4 ,a While yet in despair rai
iaCi They gag and declare
To the ragged edge" of Q psike they dis
l. pose ~. ---s1r
Every time they think of their cancerou
bull-doze, re ls -..-.
| 49, While still through to the skies
The inquiry flies, i ..- -. !
+. And yet no one replies,
| However fond of mince pies,
/ Or to speao out an answer by nod or b
back, J fA-
Who did eat the bull with cancerou
/ -as-H4 neck? fa fIAiu bHH
And still, as in each others faces thel
/ ~ look Hlt -a
With form of expression akin to hook
They wish for wilderness wherein to hid
| Forever from forms like him that's jus
| gsE dled, a ..a.. -r-.E