Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-01
Town and Country.

LENT begins February 7th.
LOCAL politics are enjoying rest.
WILL the G. H. see his shadow to
morrow?
If you want to do business advertise
else you'll get left.
SALE BILLS printed neatly and on
short notice at this office.
THE thermometer is one o. the most
tickle of things these days.
WILL you continue to reside where
you now do after April 1st?
Frank SiddalPs Soap for sale by
els GEO. JEPsoN.
THE balmy air of Tuesday reminds us
that spring poetry will soon be seasonal
Bile.
THE Martins Ferry Twilight Glee
Club sings at Pleasant Grove this Thurs
day. evening.
THE diphtheria epidemic has abated
in the vicinity of Glencoe, ,and the schools
are again at work.
c. PATTERSON advertises in this
paper good farm of 100 acres, near
Louisville, for sale.
THE April election will soon agitate
the minds of the weuld-be constables
and road supervisors.
GAINESVILLE is again agitating for a
glass house, and the prediction is that
they will soon get one.
A MONTH of the new year has passed.
and how many have already forgotten
their good resolutions.
THE b. & o. and B., z. & c. railroad
offices in Bellaire were connected by
telegraph wire on Monday.
A NEW counterfeit half dollar is out.
1t is made of copper alloy, plated with
silver, and is nearly full weight.
THE Atkinson railroad is to become a
part of the great Vanderbilt line from
New York to Cincinnati, it is said.
MRS. JAMES HINE has entered suit
against Mrs. c. Myers and W. l.. Mace,
at Barnesville, under the Adair law.
GEo. CHEssELL, ESQ, Admir-, will sell
some town lots in Hendrysburgh and
other real property on the 10th of March.
ENos &. JONES was sent to the o. P.
from Monroe county for perjury in pro-
curing a marriage license for another
man.
CADIZ has organized lecture associa-
tion, and will have Burdette aud Rev.
Joseph Cook among other eminent lee
turers.
BILL has been introduced in the
Legislature providing for the election of
school examiners from among the active
teachers.
JOHN HART, of Smith tp., sold three
full-blood Poland China hogs, which
weighed 660 pounds each. They were
% months old.
SOME cowardly Rascal poisoned the
cattle of Lewis Wharton, near Somer-
ton, in the field. from the effects of which
three have died.
THE St. Clairsville Presbytery will
meet at New Athens on February 14th
for the purpose of ordaining and Install
ing the Rev. r. l.. Smith.
The office of Arthur McClain, Super
intendent of the Bellaire street railway
company, was entered by thieves on Sun
day night and 500 stolen.
A SWEET singer, in the person of Mary
Hamilton, little Scotch maiden in the
4th ward school at Bellaire, was discov
cred last week. 1t is proposed to have
her tanght and her wonderful talent
improved.
WORK on the Martins Ferry and Mt
Pleasant pike is progressing rapidly not
withstanding the weather. A steam
crusher is at work, and the pike will bt
completed by July.
THE Commissioners have determined
to build bridge across Wheeling creel
arWm. Ramage's and one across McMa
hons creek at Lewis Mills. The auditor
in this paper invites proposals from
stone masons for building abutments.
A YOUNG MAN with an anxious lool
on his face entered a postoffice nea
this town recently, and inquired if Their
was any communications mailed at tha
Office for THE BELMONT CHRONICLE
He was informed that they did not di
vslge the contents of private letters a
that Office, nor hand postal cards to tn,
public to read. Served him right.