Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-03
BRIDGEPORT.


ed. 1t is great beauty, and will stand
about It's feet high.
The Etna Mill will suspend opera
tion for time, us this is the slack time
of year in iron affairs. The operators
hardly regret it because of the intense
heat.
Mr.. HOlloway's newly modelled busi-
ness house is rapidly reaching compile
tiOn, and presents a fine appearance.
There are two unoccupied rooms in it,
affording some energetic party splen-
did chance to engage in any kind Of bu-
siness, extensively, if desired.
The cucumber now strikes baek.-N.
Y. paper. 1t struck friend of ours Just
forninst this part.
Lips is noun, and yet they often
make conjunctiOn.-Wat Observer. Re
minding one of a collision of double-rig-
ged smacks.
EbeneEer Edwards, an operative of
the Etna Mill, became Overheated, drank
freely of water, was seized with cramp
while at work, was taken home, where
he soon died. His fellow wOrkmen dis
charged their usual benevolence in con-
tributing literally to the wants of the
occasion. We will bel pardOned for say
ing that the kindly disposition of the cit
iZenS of 4Etnaville manifested toward
each other in affiictiOn and trouble is
surely something out of the usual order
in society, and is worthy of all cOmmen-
dation, and affords an example of true
sympathy rarely met with in this wick
ed world.
Mr.. ThOs. Williams, a shearer in the
Etna had his thumb well nigh severed
by his shears.
Gems. Ewing and Rice take well in
this SectiOn.-Bellaire Leader. They'll
take" to the woods i'll October.
We have failed to observe any refer
ence to an Investigation in the House of
Brigadiers looking after the reason aChy
some of their number shot off their con-
federate Rice's leg? Can't Proctor
Knott be delegated to write report on
the subject-and, if Knott, why not?
The starch was taken out of the tail
of the Republican shirt by the nOmi-
nation of Ewing and Rice.-Bellaire
Leader That isn't what ails the Dem
Ocratic shirt-soap and water offer some
improvement, however.
By the way, wasn't it thoughtful in
our late lamented Legislature to enact
TRAMP law" just before adjournment?
1t was fortunate for the people any how.
Elwood Dunlevy has severed his con-
nectiOn with the house of 5. A. JunkinS
to accept, a perhaps more promising pO-
Sition in the - Glass Works of Bell
aire. We commend Elwood as capital
fellow, trusty friend, and honorable
dealer, and wish him and his new house
abundant prosperity.
1t is proposed, we understand, to have
The-man-not-afraid- of "a piece Of five
shilling-calicO,O of the FostOria Democrat,
and the remains of the widow, which he
claims to possess, travel as a Slde-shOw
with Ewing and Rice over the State
the Democrat hero to present each one
of the faithful, in attendance, with a
piece of the dreadful calico frock, as a
Ewing chrome, to each of his friends
present. This ought to insure big hOus-
es. OH what an inspiring scene it will
be when the widow and Tom and JON
gee and the Fostoria Democrat chap,
along with the three, will give as cost
ly premium chrome piece of the wild
ow's 75-cent frock calico, about which
the five-shilling chap, nOt-afraid-Of-a-
Observation-Disclosures, of the FostOria
Democrat makes such a bleating blow.
Our community was startled last week
by the announcement of the sudden death
of George Shriver, of Martins Ferry,
well and favOrably known to many all
over the county by his genial, generous
disposition, fair dealing and honorable
af ~, afrr.a
integrity. George had long been an in
valid from lung disease, to which he at
last succumbed very suddenly. He was
buried in the Peninsula cemetery, and
his funeral cortege-the largest we ever
saw in Bridgeport-fully attested the
esteem in which he was held.
There live in Martins Ferry, as else
where, creatures wearing the semblance
of men, but whose moral stamina con-
sists of love of bad whisky, hatred of
"the id niger" as they boast, and of
course vote the Democratic ticket. Two
of these specimens getting well primed
with the spirit, went to the colOred
camp meeting last Monday evening, in
the grove, for the avOwed purpose of
cleaning the niggers out" and proceed
ed to begin-and that was all. 4 stall
wart son of Ham continued the chapter
of events, crowding the roughs into a
fearful pummelling. But still, after
wooding up, they renewed the chain of
events in another onslaught, and got for
their pains another wholesome thrash
ing, with the assurance that there's
plenty more of the same sort left wheii
called for. But we take breath and in
quire can it be possible that two great
braggart bully Democrats can thus be
trounced by one colored man, and Sam
Cox take no notice of it-Or the st.
Clairsville Gazette not yawp 'frOd?
Verify we have fallen on strange times.
Philadelphia Wool.
July 1-Wool-Quiet but steady
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