Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
HARRJSON q CARsON.
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
DECORATION DAY next Tuesday.
CUoUMBERs have put in an appear
ance.
A wRY face and q rye breath go to-
gether.
The stomacb's greatest friend is
Peruna.
SQUIRRELS are reported to be scarce
this year.
"a RAIN of terror" is what the farm
ers call it.
THE hat that gives you headache is
felt hat.
THE base note of the animal kingdom
the donkey.
MAY poetry will probably not come
until July this year.
A POST of the G. A. r. is to be organ
lied at Burr's Mills.
THERE are $50 pupils enrolled in the
Martins Ferry schools.
JAMES ADAMS, of Wheeling, was Wis.,
iting in town this week.
MARTINS FERRY wants a fire depart
ment. also water works.
GEORGE Cook and wife, of Bridge
port, were up over Sunday.
-Peruna and Manalin are the two
kings of the Materia Medicd.
COMPLAINTS are being made that the
continued rain has rotted the corn that
was planted.
THERE are how five posts of the G. A.
r. in Belmont county, and all organized
within yeaE.
JEPTHA KIRK, of Morristown. is on
business and pleasure trip at different
points in Iowa.
CHICAGO beef dealers do not think
the price will go down any in the next
two or three years.
GEoRGE MUTH has been reelected
chief of the Bellaire fire department, and
confirmed by council.
JOHN MARTIN, a son of the founder of
Martins Ferry, died on Thursday night
of last week in New Orleans.
JOHN F. KELLY, ESQ, of Bellaire, is
spoken of in connection with the Demo
cratic nomination in this Congressional
District.
SOME of the physicians in Monroe
county have boom in the prescription
line, issuing them for whisky at twenty
five cents each.
SILL make a note of this" as the
sharper said, when the farmer who did
not take the papers, wrote his name on
piece of paper.
CHARLES Fl. GOODRICH has sold the
Monroe Gazette to John w. Doherty,
Mayor of Woodsfield, and bid goodbye
to his readers last week.
ACCORDING to the returns of the as
SCISSORS there were more deaths than
births in Bellaire last year. There were
236 births and 26l deaths.
MAYOR MITCHELL, of Martins Ferry,
believes in enforcing the laws. He fined
y saloon man S25 and costs for keeping
open after hours last Friday.
SENATOR HoLLINGswoRTH has been
selected by the Republican Executive
Committee to act as temporary chair
man of the State convention.
JOHN TROLL, of the Ohio Valley &C.
ment works, has agreed to give 1000
barrels of cement, equivalent to $1,000,
to the Ohio Valley r. &. project.
THE Cambridge Jeffersonian says that
Hays Burris, of Washington township,
has paid six hundred dollars for half
interest in one of Closes fine wool rams.
Mr.. L. SPENCE, Martins Ferry, has
contracted for an electric light machine
to be placed in his machine shop. 1t
will be Slight machine of 1000 candle
power per light.
THE Martins Ferry News says that
Updegraf reports his fences in Jefferson
county in very good condition, notwith-
standing the frequent recent assaults
made upon them.
The Union Steve Works, of Martins
Ferry, was organized Tuesday of last
week. by the election of John Armstrong,
President, Wm. Ritcliff, Treasurer, and
Joseph Medill, Secretary.
THE first monthly report of Mayor
Cooper, of Bellaire, shows fines, licenses,
&c, collected to the amount of $366.20,
as much as has been collected qsarterly
before his administration.
AN incorrigible youth named Nell
horn, Of Archer township, Harrison
county, shot several times at his father
one day last week, while he was trying
to take revolver from the boy.
ENGINEER WRIGHT, of the Northern
who took the engine down to Bridge
port on Saturday, made the run back to
St Clairsyiile on Sabbath afternoon
in forty minutes. including seven stops