Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-04-12

, Legal Blanks OF all klnuS,
Come to THE CHRONICLE office.
CLEAN up-white-wash-paint.
BASEBALL and fishing are in the air.
BELLAIRE is about TO organize new
brass band.
THE bleat of the tiny lamb is now
heard throughout the land.
THERE will be twenty one circuses on
the road the coming season.
The Martins Ferry 1.-TWO Orphans"
company will play in Bellaire.
Mr.. c. Y.LUCAs, the we'll known mu-
sic dealer of Wheeling, has made an as
signment.
JUDGE ST.. CLAIR KELLY will begin
q term of the common pleas at Woods
field, on Tuesday the Path inst.
J.. II. COLLINS, formerly of Barnes
willie, has been elected President of the
Columbus Times newspaper company.
ABNER LODGE has been commission
ed postmaster at Oakdale Oafferty sta
tion), this county. A very proper ap-
pointment.
THE professional card of DR.. S. l..
West appears in this issue, and those
in need of his services will do well to
call upon him.
WEIegret to learn that Mr.. Jas. 3.
Gorrell. a well known citizen of Bellaire,
is lying very low with consumption at
bis home in that place.
THE opening days OF the week were
springs brightest and balmiest. They
seemed to WOO the gentle grasshopper
to 60 forth and make grass.
THE organ grinder put i'll his appear
apce last week, and now all that is neces-
sary to assure us that spring is really
here is the appearance of the gay and
festive fly.
SUNSHINE can dry up our mud, but it
can't cart it away. Possibly the town
dads will leave it to be blown into the
eyes of the villagers during the balmy
spring days.
DIR. B. T. TALBOT, Dentist, appears
with card in this issue. He is located
nearly opposite this Office, and will
promptly attend to any dental business
entrusted to him.
THE vote for the new Infirmary in
Harrison county, gave majority Of over
1900 in favor of the proposition. Only
one township-Stock-gave majority
against the proposition.
MEssRs. JAMES HARRISON and Mat
thew Hay, of Bellaire, have received
letters patent for shoe button that is
all made of one piece, and is said to be
most complete and durable.
JOHN NJ. FARE, a driver in the Laugh
lin Mill bank at Martins Ferry, was Sc
riously injured about the head and
shoulders last Friday, by being caught
between the cars and entry of the mine
a BELLAIRE girl wrote her lover a
letter which fell into the hands of the
wife of man of the same name. and
came near upsetting tie family until the
real owner appeared and claimed the
letter.
THE knights of Pythias fair at Bel
laire closed on Wednesday night of last
week. 1t was the most successful affair
of the kind ever held there. Miss Emma
Reed, with ticket 45s, drew the 5000 gold
watch.
On last Wednesday the wife of Ed
ward Wagner, book-keeper in the
Wheeling Volksblatt Office, presented
her husband with triplets, two boys anG
girl. We always knew newspaper mer
were bound to be lucky in some things
The store of Brown & Lawrence, in q
little town near Athens, O., was blown
up on Sunday night, causing damage to
the extent of 81 500. There were soms
cans of powder in the store. to which il
is supposed burglars attached Lighted
fuse.
FRANK HINDMAN has been engaged
as architect for the Barnesville Glasl
Works, and with Col. Milt. Lewis wen
to Pittsburgh and other eastern citie
last week to inspect glass buildings
When they return the Board will adop
plan for the Barnesyille works.
DIR. w. W. WATTERAs, near Atalissa
Iowa, died March 22d, 1888, from par
alysis, aged IA. He formerly resided a
Belmont, where he practiced mediciR
for number of years. He removed {,
Iowa in 1851. He was at one time on
of the associate judges in this county
His wife, the daughter of the late Wm
Gregg, of Belmont, and seven children
survive him.
WE call attention 10 the advertise
ment In another column of the Powell
Plow Sulky. 1t is highly commended b
farmers who have used them. ANY ploI
can be attached to it. 1t is readily con
trolled and makes plowing easy. 1t vii
be on exhibition next Saturday, lat
inst. at the farm of Isaac Haines, nea
Louisville, between i and o'clock ]
No., where its practical workings may b
ObserVsd