Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
The woods are full of beautiful wild
flowers.
FARMERS have got their corn ground
about all turned over.
"OUR Dramatic Club" of Bellaire
will play at Dennison on May 26th.
M. M. SCOTT, ESQ, of Powhattan, has
been commissioned a Notary Public.
Ready mixed paints, all colors. al
Vests drug store. a 262 2D
The Salvation Army made move on
Bridgeport Wednesday evening, of last
week..
"ORIoN," formed from the word iron
is the latest new name proposed fol-
Martins Ferry.
PROF. G? HELLER, mind reader
victimized Martins Ferry audience
one night last week.
WORK on the foundation of the new
glass works, at Barnesville, was com
menced last Thursday.
The Independent says that not a
single saloon in Bellaire has closed on
account of the Scott law.
1t is seldom that you will feel un-
well or suffer from indigestion if you
use Browns Iron Bitters.
The Wheeling Valley Coal Works are
erecting thirty new houses, at their
works west of Bridgeport.
REV. A. G. LANE, of Morristown. has
accepted a call from the church at
Crestline, Crawford county, Ohio.
Strength and health go together
Obtain this happy physical state by
using bottle of Browns Iron Btters.
THE derrick and all the machinery. for
boring for gas at Martins Ferry arrived
last week, and work was at once CON-
menced.
JOHN S. DUNFEE, of Mead township,
has purchased farm in Kansas, and
with his family will remove to that
State at once.
WILLIS HoYLE, of Martins Ferry, ac-
cidentally cut himself very severely last
Thursday, with broad ak, with which
he was repairing fence.
OFFICER LIsToN, of the Island, was
the successful candidate for the gold
headed cane at the G. A. r. festival at
Bridge port on last Saturday night.
THE tturday Review, new paper,
published at New Athens, Harrison
county, is on our table, Moore & Will
aiams, proprietors. We wish it success.
A SMALL child of Jacob Jockey, of
Bellaire, was seriously scalded on Wed
Desday of last week, by its mother acci-
dentally upsetting kettle of boiling
water.
A LITTLE child of George Wolf, of
Martins Ferry, last Thursday morning,
upset a pot of hot coffee over itself,
severely burning the infant about the
abdomen.
The assessors are required to take in
the saloons this year and to ask liquor
dealers few leading questions. They
are asked to help pay the tax they make
hereafter.
SHOULD the Scott law be sustained by
the Supreme Court, it is qnite probable
that the Barnesville council will pro-
hibit the sale of liquor within the corpo-
rate limits.
THERE seems to be an organized band
of robbers at work in Martins Ferry
and vicinity, and they do not hesitate at
worse things than robbery. TIey
ought to be hunted down.
Hon. ID. A. HoLLNGSwoRTH has
been appointed President of the First
National Bank, of Cadiz, until the meet
ing of the stockholders next January,
vice Alex. Henderson, deceased.
A CAMBRIDGE saloohist has sold in
the last eighteen months seventy bar
rels of whisky. The Times estimates
that if it had been sold by the glass, the
dealer would have realized S25, 900 from
its sale, or nearly dollar each for every
man, woman and child of that county.
A MAN calling himself Henry Miller
went to work a short time ago at the
coal works near Bridgeport. and few
weeks ago was married to Esther j
Roberts, an excellent young lady. Last
week Miller confessed that he bad an
other wife living, and warrants were
issued for his arrest on the charge OF
bigamy and perjury.
THE Columbus Times says that Ben.
jamin Zurcher, who was sent to the
penitentiary two years ago for the mur
der in York township, this county, and
who is now confined in the insane de.
partment of the penitentiary. stated to g
reporter of that paper that he killed hi.
father because it took him (his father
all summer to make a wheelbarrow.
On Wednesday, of last week. Elmer
Atkinson, the young man who had hi.
arms crushed at Quincy, and afterwards
amputated, complained that the finger.
of his right hand were cramped, and tha
the bandage which was around his arm
at the time it was amputated was toC
tight. So earnest became his entreatie.
for relief, that on Thursday the arm,
vert taken up, the fingers Strengthened
and the bandage removed. Immediate
ly the young man felt better, and ha,
rested easy ever since.