Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-01-18
Town and Country.

EASTER SUNDAY is March 25th this
year.
MEN who want to do business should
advertise for it.
SPELLING BEES are becoming very
popular again throughout the country
districts.
THE work of laying the steel rails OIL
the B., z. & c. narrow gauge was CON-
menced this week.
r To-Day will restore US, according to
Vennor, to mild weather, with rains
and light snow falls.
A NEW PAPER, called the Saturday
Visitor, is being issued by Lawrence &
Crawford, at Bellaire.
JOHN G. LEWIS, of Cadiz, has rented
property in Harrisville, where he pro-
poses starting banking institution.
SENATOR H. D. DAVIS, of West Vir-
ginia, has secured an appropriation from
Congress for geological survey of the
State.
Mrs. MARY ]. RANDoLH, wife of Jos.
Randolph, former policeman of this
place, but more recently ot Barton, died
about a month ago in Flushing.
THE story of winter-killed. wheat is
being sung by some of the farmers of
this part of Ohio, and up 10 a week or
so ago the weather was on the side of
the song.
MATTHEW CHARLESTON, a miner at
Frazier's coal works, Bridgeport, had
two ribs broken and was otherwise in
ternally injured. by fall of stone in
the mine.
j. w. GIBSON, a well-known grocer of
Barhesville, made an assignment last
week to ]. w. Walton, Esq, for the ben
eft of his creditors. Assets $500, liza
bilities $1,000.
JAMES SHERRY, an engineer on the
B. & 5. W. narrow gauge, when he was
taken i'll, died on Friday, in Bellaire,
after ten months sickness. He leaves Il
wife and four children.
THE Wheeling Insurance companies
held risks on the burned hotel in Mil
waukee as follows: Etna Fire and Ma
rine, $4,000; Franklin, $500; Peabody,
$2,500; American, $1,000.
Two UNFoRTUNATEs from Bellaire
were brought to the Jail Saturday named
James Corners, for stealing an Overcoat,
Aned SIS and costs and Frank Gay, for
yagrancy, $40 and costs-stone pile.
AYERS SARsAPARILLA is the most po-
tent blood purifier, and fountain of
nealth and strength. Be wise in time.
All baneful infections are promptly re-
moved by this unequaled Alternative.
In the recent special Congressional
election, the official vote of Noble coun
ty was: For Alexander 1914, for Taylor,
2S-Alexander's majority Sc. The Of
ficial vote of the other counties has been
given.
THE directors of Union Window Glass
works of Bellaire, declared s per cent
cash and 20 per cent stock dividend on
Friday. The secretary's report showed
verv satisfactory business during the
past year.
LAST Saturday the people of MiugG
elected muL cipal officers for the first
time. The successful candidate fol
Mayor was w. C. Lloyd; Marshal, John
Deter; Clerk, R. II. Turner, and Treas
urer, A. Carson.
THE Representative from Harrison
county, Hon. S. B. McGavern, has intro
duced bill in the Ohio Legislature en-
titled "a bill to provide for the bette
improvement of the public highways il
Harrison comfy"
CONSIDERABLE excitement vas occa
stoned in Bridgeport last Saturday b,
the report that an attempt had beef
made to burn the new Nail City Glas
Works, but the report was found to b.
without foundation.
The Auditor of Jefferson county ha
been returning 5000 school children
when there were only 1000. The resul
will be that the county will have he
school funds stopped until the amour
Overdrawn has been refunded.
THE Central National, the new ban
of Cambridge, has elected board G
directors, who have elected A. J. Hutct
ison, President, and w. E. Boden, Cash
ier. The capital stock of the bank
$4,000, with privilege of increasing t
S500,000.
In short time the B. g. o. condnc
ors will he changed around considerable
The conductors and train men will max
the through run from Chicago to Bel
aire, 463 miles, being on the road sixtee
hours. A 24-hour lay over will be gi
en- at each end of the route.
THE explosion of barrel of benzir
at the Buckeye Glass Works, at Martin
Ferry, Monday evening, caused consit
cradle excitement, and for time enda
gered the works by the flames. The fiji
however, was soon under control, with
loss of $500 or $500. Chris. Ritter. /
emplOye, was badly burned about Il
face and hands.