Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-07-22
BRIDGEPORT.

BRIDGEPORT.
We have population of about $500; !
a rapid increase lately: business is pros
parouS, our town unusually orderly. not-l
We have II saloons, bel
sides few localities to hear from. and
if any place can beat one saloon to every
200 inhabitants, why let the next Demo
cratic Convention go there; if not,
Bridgeport is your elysium, Democratic
friends.
The daily Wheeling Leader made its
Oh our streets on Monday
evening. 1t is fully dolc7a to the stan
dard of other Democratic mud ma
chimes"
So many of our people have been and
are excurting lately, that it bothers one
to tell whether he is at home or away;
indeed, so strong was the doubt in one
case, that the eXcurter found himself in
another mans house, where the other
again. As both had just come from
The Lake, of coursee there was a breeze
IN that house.
Wouldn't it be well for Republicans
to sit down very squarely on the DEM
ocraic "hog swash" dispensed every
Sunday 10y certain Wheeling Sunday
papers, notably the Leader. Give it
big letting alone.
Mrs. Beebe, of CadiZ, sister of Mrs.
DR.. Rowles, is visiting the latter, and
nursing her through severe illness.
a Garfield Glee Club is being organ
lied at 1Etnavi!le, and we predict no
better music viii be rendered this cam
paign than it will discourse. In addi
tion to being enthusiastic Republicans,
they are mighty sweet singers, and
they'll help put Garfield to the front"
A very orderly colored camp meeting is
in,progreSs in the Grove, Martins Ferry,
and will continue over next Sabbath.
Good preachers and excellent singers are
i'll attendance.
The Daily Leader says "Gmfield's let
ter of acceptance don't amount TO a hill
of beans" If it did, Charley, you couldn't
it-tO0 much like casting
beans before swine; Democratic swine
at that.
For such mud machines, as Don Pi-
att calls such papers as the Wheeling
Register, and Leader, st. Clairsville Ga
Zette, and Bellaire Democrat, hinging
their filth ut Garfield, reminds one OF the
unkempt boy with an elder Squirt-gun
trying to throw muddy water over the
dome of st. Peters.
John Schaffer, saloonist, near the
Bridge, purchased the Zimmerman prop
erty at Etnayille, for $1,000 reason
able price for that valuable property.
Mr.. Shaffer will soon remove there,
while Mrs. Zimmerman will go West.
The IEtna Mill has started OFF on a
renewed lease of prosperity, with most
encouraging prospect for continuous
work. Long may she and her noble 0p-
eratiyes wave with increasing good luck.
Almost everybody knows old man
Mollit, the veteran toll keeper of the
Wheeling Bridge Co., and all viii be
panied to learn of his prostratiOn from
paralysis of his left side, rendering him
almost helpless. His advanced age
about 70, p:ecludes much hope of even
a partial recovery.
p. E. Orr, our School Sup't, was in
town on Monday, looking after a dwell
ing and other interests, preparatory to
opening school.
Thurman said III his maudlin Colum-
bus Hancock speech: Hancock is the
prettiest man the sun of heaven ever
shone on'-and now, Durbin Ward and
Henry Clay Deane are mad.
The Demmies have been smoling a
Major Generals grin, averring Senator
Cameron had soured on Garfield, and
would not support him. Cameron him
self says: This is id nonsense; if
10000 majority in Pennsylvania for Gar
field is any indication of my estimate of
the fight, then-why, yOu hear it-that
figure is what propose to work for i'll
my State" And now, the poor Dem
mics are mad again.
We would rather trust the Unrepent-
ant rebels.-Gazette.
OF course you would. and always did.
Your party in National Convention at
Chicago SO said; when the pretty su-
perb" Hancock had his leg broke at Get
tysburgh by the Democratic party, it
resolved the war was failure, and the
handsomest man God ever made, Han
cock, was Lincoln hireling.
We will give a large and elegant litho-
graph portrait of Gen. Hancock for eve
ry campaign Observation-Disclosures.
Ycu fail to tell US whether the picture
will represent "the superb just after
the Democrats broke his leg at Gettys-
burg, or when he surrendered, uncondi-
tionally to his old leg-breakers, at Gov
ernor's Island, the other day.
Garfield left the field before powder
began to burn.-GaZette.
In the language of the recent Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency, HOr
ace Greeley. when speaking of one of his
Democratic allies-''Y ou lie, you villain
you lier' Garfield was burning pow
der. literally, in Eastern Kentucky, at
Mission Ridge and Chickamauga, to save
this Union from a Democratic rebel
lion, while the same Democratic party,
to whom "the superb" surrendered the
other day, was breaking his leg at Get
tysburgh, and shooting Rice's leg off en-
tirely, and while the snivelling sneakS
that now assail Garfield. were resisting
the draft. running to Canada, or howl
ing for peace on any terms, and resolv
ing the war failure, and Hancock and
Rice Lincoln hirelingS.