Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-23
BRIDGEPORT.

Prof. Schofield has organized an ad-
vanced class ia music. II now num-
ber5 two score.
Nick Kuhn has put up aboGt 4 GOO
tons of the frigid luxury. The wise
acre who grum bled and predicted that
we would have no ice next sum mer TO
cool Our-Our-p paTchsd nldtt-ese- cat
nip tea-tieS buried beneath this cool
ing mass, victim OF shot gun policy.
Quarterly meeting was observed in
the NJ. g. Church on Sabbath. Elder
HOllings sWOrth officiating.
Rev. g. B. Smith has been holding a
proiracted meeting, with but little
manifest interest, at Lancaster Chapel.
Whooping cough is rapidly asserting
itself in this community most un-
fortunate thing at this season OF the
year for the little ones.
Police matters have been unusually
quiet for "a fortnight. For awhile, how
ever, our ,lorals were rapidly deterio
rating to Whet iiug'5 standard.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And ''frod" screamer5 ever and anon to bawl:
But only one, one only, Sammy Cipher Til
den
Is vouchsafed to virtGous DENNY children.
Mrs. Sophia Rhodes, long sufferer
from atrophy OF spinal cord, died at
the house 1i her brother inlay, 5. l..
Nugent.
Thos. A Conaway had his leg bro
ken in 60 i mine at Nef 5, an Satur
day.
We would say, for the benefit of tax
payers, that by addressing our reform
and retrenchmeUt" representatives in
the Legislature, at COluIU bus, d note
they will by return mil get an order
tor package OF tobacco seed, on the
Democratic Tobacco Warehouse, al
Bellaire The supply of the dog leg"
variety is complete. Any one prefer
ring this variety will please SO .'ecify.
Question Tor anatp,uists: Ii five doc
tors clip off five inches tacn, of AN old
Culerain dOnkey'5 eais, how long will
the stumps br? Auswer-seventeen
inches esrh.
From some Interesting military evo-
make in the public Square u day or
two ago, We supposed rom the size OF
the stone quarry ne had under his arm
llldk nS was dEOaL ~ dUduuOu lll6
field of honor and OF gore, for the
more peaceful scientific pursuit of ge
ologicsl study. In this We we're mista-
ken--we soon discovered he meant fur
ther 'goah' in precipiiating the afOre-
said corner stone ON the caicurium of
a negro, fer hitting his dog Boss with
a snow bail. No cards.
The greai ice blockade. in the Ohio,
was raised here at o'clock A. NJ Mon- |
day. But little damage was done
herea abonts, except the sruttling OF the |
West Wheeling ferry boat. The ice
moved little Oh the Wheeling side
during Church hours Sabbath night, |
when was announced by the boats
whistles, which caused general stam-
pede from the various churches TO the
river, but excepting some swapping of
cables little d irpage WAS done. We
have seen the Ohio on many bender
and break up, hut never efJre was the
grandeur and power of the classic old
river more manifest than in the
glorious magnificpn, of irresistible
power displayed in the moving arres of
ice borne onward crashing like the
grin,iur@ Of giant demons against the
piers Of the bridge, and t:.el on past,
dashing down TO the sea, with a ma
jesty O2ly equaiied b. its pictures
queness, and illimit,0;e bower The
testimony Of the Oldest iubahitant is
at i Tie coolest break I'D on record.
Much Of tn ice was 20 inches thick.
The creek hAi been iruz n ov,r and
largely gOrged from above, hut not +
the current of the creek r
was up stream Tor quite while, car /
-ylng lis immense cargo of ice with il. {
The or, ek had broken and WAS i'm.
gUrged near Mr.. Bates, up !
he pike, ,whicS still remains at anchor.
Miss Anuie Turner, for over two
years u resident Of California, has Just
on IL visit TO her mother, Of
he 'Shermun House. Annie has been
engaged i'll school and Eausic teaching,
- which she is much dtvOted. She
yave Us glowing insight into Califor-
Iia iie-its money diLgpr5, its
DOney makers, LIS stuck job.
Iers, the ups aud dowus- -espcGaIly
he latter; the glitter and tiGsel, Liz sIts
md shadows Of domestic and business
ife-where riches are acquired on the
asst line hnd-take wigs ard lrave
he victims bankrupt in pocket aud
to sink out of sigh to tnan-