Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-04-14
Deferred from last week.
NeighborhOOd News.

NeighborhoOd News.
Tuscarawrs clamors for a new courr
honse. -.....-
VIM. George, formerly of Cadiz, dice
near DesMOines, Iowa, March %, ageC
II years, :.
An old man aged 20 years, named
Wheeler Chapman, near Marietta, fel
in the fire and was burned 10 death.
w, B. Beebe sold to Rein Baker, 81
acres off the Upton farm, in Green tp.
Harrison county, at $50 per acre.
Chas. c. Wilson, a mailer at the River
side Mill, Wheeling, committed suicide
Tuesday by shooting himself through
the head with revolver. s.l
An agent for Pittsburgh parties was
in Cadiz Monday trying to purchase the
preferred stock of the 2. c. & st. L.Rail
way owned by Cadiz township.
Jacob Moninger sold his farm in Seutl
Strabane township, Washington county
Pa, to Andrew Dnlkie aud j. +. Shrontz
of Claysville, for Ss5 per acre.
Rubanl Moore, of Zanex yllle, was NOV
ing pan of bread which was sitting il
front of the fire, when suddenly hel
clothes caught fire when sli'. was so bad.
ly burned that her recovery is doubtful
John Rouch, an emplOye of the Balti
more Ohio Railroad, employed in the
Newark yard, caught his foot in frog
while on duty, and before he could get
loose was run over by the yald engine
and injured so that he died.
John ]. Sebold, Jos. Snellaberger, ,Mey.
er Sweeney, James Farber. Harry Gable
and Welty c. Cable, wealthy farmers in
Tuscarawas connty, were arrested On a
charge of cutting open and destroying
feeder to the Ohio Canal between Boi.
ivar and Sandyville in that county some
time in February last.
On last Monday week Miss Elizabeth
Frame, aged about 20 years, was carry
ing fire from her home to a tenant house
near Lore City, Guernsey county, when
some of the Goals fell in the dry grass
and ignited, producing a fame. In an
effort to extinguish the fire, Miss Frames
clothing was burned from her body.
She lived fourteen hours.
The commissioners of Harrison and
Carroll counties have agreed to submit
the proposition of building a $4,000
children's home for the two counties, at
the October election.
The Guernsey county agricultural So
ciety is burdened with debt, and has
given no exhibition for several years.
1t wants the surplus dog tax of the
county to help it out.
Zaneseville is thinking favorably of a
narrow gauge railroad via of Cumber-
land to Caldwell then to Bellaire, with
westward extension to Columbus,
through Perry county. All her other
railroad projects will probably be aban-
doned for this one.
1t is said that one hundred houses
will be erected in Wellsville the coming
summer-about sixty now under con-
tract.
Marietta has an electric light compa-
ny organized, with capital of $4,000.
Youngstown has just raised 100000
stock for Carriage and Wagon Works.
By the explosion of boiler at Youngs-
town, last week, twelve men were
wounded, three fatally.
Another white ware pottery is about
to be started at Wellsville. The old
school property has been bought for the
site.
NJ. Gillespie, of Center township, in
sists that he has invented an "Air Ship,
which when constructed according to
his plans, he can sail through the air
anywhere. He claims he can go to the
North Pole and back in ten day. The
shape of the ship is round like tub, 90
feet in diameter and rs feet high. The
motive power is given by six engines
run by compressed air. According to
Mr.. Gillespie's account it is wonderful
machine and can accomplish wonderful
feats in the air. He claims that he can
control it completely while sweeping
through the air at the rate of one hum
dred and fifty miles an hour.-Ohio
Patriot.
One of the editorial fraternity has
given utterance to paragraph weighty
with the truth, and will bear to be re-
flected upon by many business man:
"1t is very convenient to nave the
homo newspapers announce marriages
and deaths; it is very nice to have them
to speak well and encourage enterpri-
ses that will help build the town; it is
very convenient to have them to assist
in suppressing evils that every now and
then break out in the community; it is
convenient to have them to do thou
sand and one things which they are con-
stantly doing to benefit the public, and
for which they get no pay; but it is not
cOnVpnient for Soma who are alundant-
ly able to support and encourage their
home papers, to do 30 even to the extent
of becoming subscribers and paying for
the same"