Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-20
G0LERAIN,

DURING the recent warm spell we
had a view of the growing wheat. and
we give II as our opinion thst il is so
per ct below what IL wa= this time last
year. There are q few fields that look
well. but they are far between. CrrwS,
blue birds and robins alan made their
appnarance-even the festive mosquito
'pnf ared on the wing; the farmer go'
out his Buckets and hastened to op n
his sugar camp. but this morning (Sst
urday) at ) o'clock the thermometer is
at zero.
ONE of our Young men has jnst r 1.
turned from protracted visit to Guern
sey county. 1t was his first departure
from the land of his birth; he says.he
did not know until he got awsy out
thore that the United States were so
big.
WE HAVE received chromo-it il
heautiful-the vignette represents To-
connective and train of cars, q raging
canal, and large mandatory. The
engine ia on a curve; perhaps it is the
big bend near Squire MAYORS; the
rear of the train. Ia emerging from
tunnel-parhaps il is the one at Come
seal Of the W. T. V. r. r. The officers
of said Company attach their names to
the bottom. We paid 500 for that
chrome. and as we have no suitable
place to hang il Up, we offered tn trade
II for a $50 horse, but said horse has not
yet trotted around.
g. D. RICHARDS. the Nebraska man.
SLAYER, has three sisters living in Mt.
Pleasant and vicinity. They are all
single: one of them ia said to he quite
gentle in her department and ladylike
in appearance; TIE other two are said
to be slightly deficient mentally and
morally.
BRANsON SIDWELL is moving TO
Flushing. We send them a good citi-
zen-but Harrison county sends US a
good one to take his place.
DIR Cope reports large amount of
sickness, principally affections of the
iungs.-Tbe son of Chas. DUNCAN, who
met with such serious accident in
December last. Is recovering very
slowly.-The wife of T. J. Major Is
quite low with an affection of the
lnugs.-The wife of Jos. Baker, nee
Brown. has been very low with puerpe-
raj fever; she in thought to be out of
danger. The doctor reports large in
crease in our population, principally
bows.
THE MAN you referred to has been
around He had Siberian apples, wild
goose and weaver plums. We were
not at home when he called; We have
several trees of the wild goose plum
thev are very free blOOmers, but pro-
duce no fruit; the weaver is far supe>
riOr. The agent had specimens of the
fruit in alcohol; il was enough to make
an old toper's mouth water to look at
them-"distance lent enchantment to
the view." They were as firm as
Connecticut nutmeg; tkecurculio could
not make crescent on them. AS he
exhibited them to q man west of here,
he unfortunately broke one of the jars,
and the tempting fruit rolled on the
floor, il was then discovered that those
beautiful plums had been produced on
a turning lathe. MOral-if you buy
wild goose plum trees get turning
lathe, or you will get no fruit. If you
cannot eat the fruit it will do for nest
eggs In the winter time.
The UNION LYCEUM that meets at
Hoge's School House, will discuss the
whipping post question on next Mon
day evening. Thomas Pyle, Moses
Hughes, W. 8. Barton and T. G. Mer-
Ger, will enlighten the public on that
occasion.
THE WIFE of Ezra Mccartney was
buried at Concord on last Wednesday.
She was the daughter Of George Cope,
late of Pennington. She leaves hus-
band and nine children, and large
number of friends to mourn her death.