Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-03
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

Teachers Institute is in session this
week at Scio, Harrison county.
Roasting ears are in market in the ei
ties at 40 cents per dozen.
Uhrichsville will have a new opera
house.
John Springer, aged 1Os, died at Mari
eta Thursday of last week.
Boats on the Ohio are beginning tC
bank-warer too low.
Joseph Ryder, of Newark, was the in
ventor of the guns used by the Egyp-
tian army in the present war.
The next session of the Noble county
Institute will be held in Caldwell, com
mencing Monday, September 18th.
The striking potters at Liverpool will
go to work sgain-the differences hav-
ing been settled by arbitration.
Hon. R. r. Walton, probate judge Of
Monroe county, is candidate for Con
gress.
Joseph White. of Cambridge. has ;
swarm of bees 43 years old, and Stii il
good working order.
Fine specimens of iron ore have beer
found near Cambridge, but whether il
paying quantities is not yet known.
Max Heirshberg, of Cambridge, aged
10, is considered prodigy on the piano
He plays very difficult pieces correctly.
A large balloon was found at Hope
dale, Harrison county, recently, and the
citizens would like to know where i
came from.
Forepaugh, the Snowman, offered thu
ministers of Cambridge the use of hi:
tents last Sabbath for union meeting
The offer was not accepted.
Jennie Smith, who WAS bedridden fol-
years and cured by prayer. commenced
series of gospel meetings in Wheeling
last week.
Mr.. A. II. Skunk, Supt of the Cleye
land Orphan Asylum, took number Of
little girls from the Jefferson County In
Urinary last week.
Thomas Whalan, an engine cleaner
was motally hurt at Wheeling Tuesday
of last week, by being crushed by an en-
gine in the d. & o. machine shops.
George Lyons, of Hopedale, Harrison
county, died suddenly on the 18th ult
An autopsy showed that arsenic was tht
cause OF his death.
And now it is COlumbiana count,
man. He agreed to become agent fol
some bibles. He didn't read the papers
and a few days ago a note for 800
turned up, which had to be paid.
Nj. Joseph Yingling, an aged ant
highly respected citizen of Newcomers
town, was accidentally shot THURSDAY
of last week, by an S-year old boy, will
an air-gun. The ball entered his arm
near the shoulder, making very pain
full and dangerous wound.
Near Freeport, one day last week, a.
Isaac Curtis was cutting wheat,he heart
cry, and jumping from the reaper h'
found that his little granddaughter
aged five, was under the platform. Shs
was taken out and home, and a physi
clan sent for, who gave it as his opinion
that the child would die.
Mr.. Oscar Griffin, travelling agent fo
the S. Burgess stove and tinware hous,
at Cambridge, called at this office OF
Monday to exhibit an egg which was
laid at Graysville, Monroe county, Jun,
9th. On the larger end of the shell
there is an extraneous growth making /;
very fair representation of scaffold
with rope, moose, and slip-knOt, which
the imaginative easily conclude was in
tended as representation of Guiteaui
scaffold. Mr.. Griffin stated that he hat
been offefed $50 for the curiosity, bu
refused the money. We advised him tt
sell out at the next offer.-Cadiz Repub
lican.