Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-07-29
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
HARRISON COUNTY.
Cadiz Sentinel, 22d inst.

Cadiz Sentinel, 22d inst.
Misses Anna BeaIl and Iona Hoffman
are rusticating in Belmont county.
| A great deal of cholera infantum is
prevalent just now among the infants.
Ferguson & Rife are now paying 90
cents for new, and 95@S1 for old wheat.
A third of the increase of population
in Cadiz during the past decade was In
cOlored people.
Nearly ten per cent Of the people of
MOorefield township bear tbs title Of
Moore. The township is well aamed.
Harrison county contains 209,862
acres of land, of which 1891 is eulti-
waited, 122,553 is pasture, 1926 wood
and 1 ,402 waste land.
We forgot last week to notice the
marriage of Wp- Knox of this place,
and Miss Booker formerly of st. Clairs-
vile, which event took place at New
Athens on the 7th, Rev. Armstrong Off
ciating.
A five foot vein of coal, said to be the
best in Eastern Ohio, for smelling pur-
poses, has been found west of Moore
field, on the c., T. V. & w. X. r., on the
farm of Mr.. James A. Smith. \ Cleve-
land Company have. WI. e.nnderstand.pur-
chased the farm. and will, We are i'll
formed, open mines in ashort time. The
coal was found at depth Of $50 feet.
Republican, s2d.
Major Townsend will speak at Cadiz
on Thursday evening of next week
[29th].
There seems to be an unusually heavy
crop of grasshoppcFs in Harrison coun-
ty this year.
As some persons have been disposed
to question the truthfulness Of the state
ment of the yield of wheat on the SIX
acres owned by Mr.. F. TimmOns, close
to town-339 bushels-we are authoriZ~
ed to state that the figures given were
machine measure" and that the actual
yield was therefore more than SSS
bushels.
The wool buyers of this place are fire.
quently heard repeating the words Of
Othello-"My occupation is gonep It
is singular fact that the middle OF Ju-
ly finds the wool clip of Harrison county
still in the hands of the growers. The
same fact exists throughout most of the
wool growing counties in the State. The
tone of the Eastern market is strong,
though no advance in pricoe is reported.
George McIlravy was brought into
Court on Tuesday afternoon, this week,
and had hearing before Judge Lem
mon, the question being whether hs
should remain bound over to appear at
Court to answer to the charge of larceny.
The facts brought out in the trial,
both from McIlvary's own testimony,and
that of Wheeler johnson, and Others,
were substantially the same as were
published in this paper last week. The
S40Os was lost in the game of three-card-
monte, in side tent at Boyd s. Peters
show. George had refused to tell
Wheeler johnson as to how the money
had been lost, for the reason that he
confidently expected to receive a draft
for the full amount from his friend who
had gone with him to the tent, and he
had gone to the Postofice, day after day,
on the arrival of every mail, with that
expectation.
The question of law involved in the
case was as to whether George could be
held to answer on the charge of larceny
If he had received S400 from Wheelee
johnson in Nancy, with the express
understanding that he was to return the
identical notes, and had never let thens
60 out Of his possession, the case, as it
resulted, would have been larceny. But
instead of receiving money, he received
a check from Johnson on the Farmers'
and Mechanics Bank The check WIS
not returned. He was to return money.
Therefore his offense was not that u
larceny, but but Of embezZlement, 6
breach of trust, or of obtaining menW
under false pretenSes. This was, sub
Stantially, the ruling Of the Court and
George was therefore released, the
charge against him being larceny only.
NOBLE COUNTY.
Caldwell Republican, 22d.
The oats crop is not turning out rs
well as was expected in several sections
Df the county; plenty of straw and bat
little grain.
The Trustees of Beaver township, at
l meeting held last week. adopted res
)lutiOn appropriating $500 to defend the
,he railroad injunction suit
Hon. C. Hare has returned from WIS.,
t to Kansas. He is delighted with the
country and will make that State his
nome after the election next fall.
Jack Spears from $50 dozen Of wheSs
got los bushels Of wheat;
which he sold at S5 cents. The grain
hus far threshed in the vicinity OF
Caldwell, is turnining out better than
Vas anticipated at cutting time.
James Gore, of Olive townShiF lass
yeek, ,threShed go dozen of wheat which
Tieided 2271a bushels of grain Three
hundred dozen of wheat belonging TO
Rufus and Smith Tilton, Of the same
ownship, yielded 1919 bushels.