Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-11
NeighborllOOd News.

AbsalOm Kearn, a prominent citizen
of Carrollton, committed suicide. on
Monday of last week. Cause, family
troubles and liquor.
Salem, Columbiana county, is one of
three towns III Ohio that is out of debt.
Tuesday night of last week boy
named George Collins, of Wellsville,
while out coon hunting fell from tree
a distance of twenty-five feet, breaking
one leg in such a manner as to render
amputation necessary.
Little Charley Kinsley. the partly pet
rifed child of New Philadelphia, is
growing softer. The case seems to be
yielding to medical treatment, the hard
ness of the flesh and rIgidity of the
| limbs have disappeared to considera-
bic extent, and encouraging hopes are
entertained of the little fellows ultimate
recovery. He has been under the pres
ent treatment about ten months.
Benjamin Robinson, of Sandusky, has
been sentenced to the Penitentiary for
five years, for shooting with intent to
kill. After receiving sentence, Robin
son was removed to Jail, and i'll the pres
ence of a few frieLds was married to
Miss Etfie Coon, to whom he has been
engaged for five years.
| E. N. FalkersOn, of Clinton county,
put up at Dayton hotel the other night
Patterson blew the gas out in his room
when he retired. The physicians had a
fine time pumping life into him again
next morning.
A BEAUTIFUL singing bird whose ev-
cry feather is white except one or two on
each wing, is seen frequently in the yard
of John Gallup. 1t is mated with arob-
Iin.-Cambridge News.
Mrs. ISAAC CowGILL, of the vicinity
of Fairview, died last Wednesday, at the
advanced age of eighty years. She has
lived ON the farm where she died ever
since her marriage sixty years ago. Her
husband, Mr.. Isaac Cowgirl. survives her,
taged observation-disclosures, 4th.
J.K. NORTON, ESQ, of Flushing, Bel
mont county, Ohio. who was here last
week, showed us copy of the record of
successive military courts held in Cam
bridge from the year 1929 to 1886, with
many other items of interest. This book
is now in the possession of j. L. Rivers,
Esq, Of this place. Times.
THE trial of Mrs Smith at Coshocton
for the murder OF her husband is pro-
crossing, and is attended with good
deal of interest. The testimony of the
attending physician attests the finding
of sufficient poison in the stomach of
the deceased to cause death, and all the
testimony So far appears to be against
the prisoner.
THE Cambridge Jeffersonian has this
to say of a former st. Clairsville boy:
"Dr. w. II. Dunham has returned from
Cincinnati, where he has spent several
weeks among the hospitals and medical
colleges, frightening up his ideas of dis
eases and their best remedies. The Eli
quirer, in referring to this visit, pays
the DIR. a very handsome compliment
and expresses a wish that he might To-
cate in that city"
On last Friday morning at Steuben-
vile, John Winn, a boy about II years
old, was terribly burned by the explo-
sion of a can of powder in Market
street shop. The boy at the time was
HOiulHS Iic Call III ulS utuUS, duu IL Is
supposed that spark from lamp fell
into the can. He was blown distance
of several rods. The skin on his hands
was burned to crisp; also, portions of
his body. But little hope is entertained
of his recovery.
Miss Ross FOSTER, of Summerfield,
Noble county, died on the oath ult., un-
der peculiar circumstances. The Re
publican says: On Saturday she was
pronounced much better, and all her
symptoms pointed to a speedy recovery.
On Sunday she seemed still TO improve.
DR.. r. b. Taylor went some time during
the day-Sunday-tO make his regular
visit, and Dr.. Taylor of East Union be-
ing in town, accompanied him to see the
case. The coming of two doctors alarm
ed the patient, and convinced her in
spite of all her assurances, that her case
was hopeless. From that time on, though
her fever did not return, she grew stead
lily worse, and died on Tuesday about
noon, the victim of fright.