Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03
Neighb0rlloOd News.

Some miscreant wantonly shot ant
killed a horse belonging to John Laurel
residing near Elm Grave, east of Wheel
! ing, on last Friday night. The hors'
was valued at 500.
A laborer on the T. Y. Railroad re
eeived sunstroke on Wednesday last
which proved fatal, the victim, an En-
glshman but ten days in this country
dying at 10 o'clock the same night. The
men made up collection and paid fol
his funeral.
Saturday afternoon number of young
boys were in the river bathing near the
To mill. Suddenly one of them, John
Smith by name, sank under the water
and was drowned before he could Le
reached. What the matter was, is nCt
known, but it is supposed to have beer
cramp. The lad is the son of widow
living in North Wheeling, and she was
completely heart-broken on hearing OF
the sad intelligence. Efforts were made
to recover the body, but they were una
vailing-Wheeling Register.
Mrs. r. J. Carrard, Bellaire, met with
a painful accident last Friday. She
missed her footing while at the head OF
the stairs, falling down to the bottom
breaking her wrist and sustaining Other
painful injuries.
James X. Buchanan, of Woodslield
has been appointed guard at the Ohio
Penitentiary, and reported for duty OIL
Monday last.
The Life of Peter King, jr, the Mon,
roe county murderer, has been publish
ed and is offered for sale.
Mr.. VIM. F. Hines, who resides three
miles west of Cadiz, has sold his farm
containing t02 acres for $500, to Aaron
Ross.-Republican.
Mr.. Samuel Dickerson, of CadiZ town
ship, Harrison county, sold recently to
the Adams Bros, of Archer township,
4l2 head of fat sheep, the average
weight of which was Ill pounds. One
hundred of the lot had an average
weight of 122 pounds. Talk about your
nice sheep!
Mr.. G. w. Henderson, of the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, and Miss LOra w.
Toland, of Harrisville, Harrison county.
were married on Thursday last at the
residence of the bride.
A boy at a show at East Liverpool,
this State, thought it funny to give the
elephant lot of tobacco in cake. The
usual result followed, and the boy was
buried next day. Moral-never give an
elephant chew of tobacco until he asks
you for it.
DIR. A. Day, of Olive, Noble county, a
Young man perhaps So years old, died at
his residence in Olive, Monday morning
of last week. Mr.. Day had for year OF
more back been addicted to the exces-
sive use of opium.
Stephen NJ. Archer, of East Union,
Noble county, sold in Cincinnati, last
week, ten hogsheads of tobacco that
sold from Sc to $1S per hundred.
Henry Hayes, jr, of Carrollton, has
been arraigned for the murder of VIM.
Mcdowell. Trial set for the Novem-
Der term.
On the night of Sunday, the 10th inst,
Mr. Maughiman, who lives near New
Cumberland, lost 27 unshorn sheep. A
stranger had entered the field and let
them out, driving them to New Hagers-
town. They were sold to man named
Johnson for 800, on Monday, and short
ly after Mr.. Maughiman came up, lden-
titled his sheep and took them home.
Guernsey county has eight inmates
at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home, though only entitled to five.
A test case of the coastitutionality of
the railroad law by which taxes are vo-
ted by the people of Guernsey county
will be made and presented to the Su-
preme Court by some citizens of Wills
township Guernsey county.