Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-29
MOVING TIME next week.

THE young men of Bridgeport have
organized Shakespeare club.
WHEELING and Steubenville are to be
connected by telephone this spring.
SToRE-Box loafers, like the ground
hog, saw their shadows last week and
went in.
THE Standard Iron Mill at Bridge
port commenced to manufacture iron on
Monday.
F. NJ. TANNEHILL, of GAINESVILLE, has
been awarded a patent on car axle lu-
bricator.
TwENTY-THREE car loads of export
cattle were fed at the pens in Bellaire
last Saturday.
THE city council of Bellaire has order
ed FIVE hundred pound bell to be used
as fire alarm.
Wanted-Ag coed girl to do genel al
housework. Address, Box 81, East
Ricbland. Ohio.
Now is the time to plant your spring
advertisements. They will return you
many times the cost.
The very best iron preparation, and
the one having the largest sale, is
Browns Iron Bitters.
GEORGE NEFF, a miner at the Frank
lin mines, was injured last Wednesday
by fall of sOapstone.
SOME sneak thief stole a quarter of
beef from Sheriff Sedwick on Wednes
dav evening of last week
COMMON PLEAS COURT adjourned on
last Saturday. District Court will con-
vene next Tuesday, April Sd.
IT is rumored that the B. & o. are
about to remove their machine shops
from Wheeling to MoundsVille.
THE C. & P. accommodation leaving
Martins Ferry in the afternoon, now
carries "pony" mail to Bridgeport and
Bellaire.
ONE day last week Robert Crozier, of
Mead tp, took dose of rat poison, mis-
taking it for cough syrup. AntidOtes
saved his life.
A FIRE in Bsrnesville last week de-
atroyed the smoke house and about 1000
pounds of meat, the property of John K.
Reed. Loss $500.
THE Monumental Fair at Bellaire
opened on Monday evening, and has
been going on all week. 1t is open from
10 a. m. until 10 p. 10.
DANIEL FUsNFR, of Bellaire, has been
appointed master mechanic for the Ma
Iietta & Cincinnati railroad, with head
quarters at Cambridge.
MCCARTHY and McCombs, the Pro-
tective Association swindlers, who were
operating in Bellaire some time ago,
are in Jail in Wheeling.
THE petition for the establishment of
the Cambridge and Wheeling mail route
over the National pike has been reject
ed by the P. o. department.
MORRIS V. MILLER, of Bellaire, was
reelected President of the c. & P. Life
Insurance Association, at its annual
meeting held last week in Pittsburgh.
THE city council of Cambridge has
brought the newspapers down on
their back for contracting to have their
streets lighted with gasoline, instead of
by gas.
DIR. J. NJ. ToDD, of Bridgeport, one
day last week successfully removed a
small but very painful tumor from the
arm of Mr.. Lewis Jones, manager of the
Etna Mill.
TIE village school house at Harris
vile, in Harrison county, was burned
to the ground on Monday of last
week, caused by defective fiue. Loss
about S1,8OO.
CAPT. R. S. MOORE, well-known cit
izen Of Martins Ferry, will remove to
Allen county, Kansas, the fore part of
April, and engage extensively in the
nursery business.
THE new part of the Etna mill, en-
bracing the plate sheet and muck mills
is off, because of the giving out of the
cylinder and engine. Seventy;ive. men
are idle in consequence.
On last Thursday evening an alarm of
fire was sounded, which created censid-
erable excitement until it was found
that it was only fiue burning out in
VIM. Campbell's residence, Main street.
THE marshal of .Bellaire brought
Charles Martin up to the county Jail on
last Thursday, in default of 5000 bond,
on the charge of robbing a roommate, a
Monroe country droYer named Hess, of
$40.
CALDWELL REPUBLICAN: There is
strong possibility the 80 miles of Wheel
ing & Lake Erie road intervening be-
tween Bowerstown and Wheeling, by
reason of its great cost and uncertain
profit, will not be built. In this event
the Duck Creek road to Marietta will
be the main line line of the w. & L. E."