Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-27

A BICYCLE CLUB is to be organized a
Martins Ferry.
VENNoR predicts that October will ID
cold, wet and stormy.
KEY. in this county, is to have a tele
graph office, the wires to he ready b,
election evening".
A NUMBER nf St CIIirsyi!le propl,
are in attendance at The Barnes vii !,
Fair this week.
GEORGE BAKER, aged II, of Bellaire
fell from walnut tree last Saturday. nd
was perhaps fatally injured.
THE thanks of the Office "boys" are due
to Mr.. Thomas Malone for pitcher OF
most excellent sweet ranbo cider.
THE low Ia;e Sunday excursions to
Sandusky aud Putin Bay via B. & o. r
have been withdrawn this season.
ONLY sixteen plain drunks ornamented
the Bridgeport lookup Sunday morning
the result of Saturday nights spree
The professional men and clerks of
Martins Ferry will base ,all one dav
next week. IL will be an interesting
game.
C..L TAYLOR is doing Jefferson coun-
ty this week in IA political way. He
commenced in MI. Pleasant Monday
evening.
JAS. F. ANDERSON, ESQ, of the Bell
aire Independent, !e I on MOu lay. ac-
companied by his wife, for IA two weeks
trip through Dakota.
CHAs L. YOUNG, of Columbus, Ohio,
deputy grand master of Ohio Odd Eel
lows, made professional visit to the
lodge at Bridgeport last Saturday eve.
FOR SALE.-Three pure-bred White
Pekin brakes; also, few pure-bred
Partridge Cochin Chicks. w. B. GIL
MORE, st. Clairsyille, o. 9 27-2t
THERE are twenty district and county
fairs going on this week in this state, OF
which the following are in this neighbor
hood: BarneSville, Snithfield, Washing
ton and UhrichSville.
PREPARATIONS are still going on at
Bellaire for the big bi-centennial cele-
bration of the Germans on October Sth.
The Germans of Wheeling will not cele
brate until the 1lth.
CAPT. ALFRED Z. LEE. late consul ger-
eral at Frankfort, Germany, and formerly
connected with the Ohio State Journal,
has accepted position as editorial writer
on the Cleveland Herald.
THEOBALD KLEE, Pultney township
farmer, from eight potatoes planted last
spring, cut in 3S pieces, each piece with
one eye, OF the white Star" variety,
raised two full bushels, and wants to
know who can beat it.
THE tenacity with which people abide
by their early faith in Ayers Sarsapa-
Iilla can only be explained by fact that
1t is the best blood medicine ever used,
and not approached in excellence by any
new candidate for public favor.
The camp meetings of the Second and
Third NJ. E. churches, embracing the
churches of Bellaire and Bridgeport.
have just closed very successful series
of meetings, securing S353.36, and ex-
pending Sl40.14, leaving balance of
S213.22.
THE American Express Company's
agent, Mr.. r. H. Rhoades, was in town
Tuesday and established an office at the
Northern depot, to be opened October
1st. The Americans lines reach all the
principal points in the United States
and Canadas.
BY announcements elsewhere it will
be noticed that Gov. Foster will address
the people at Barnesville on Thursday |
of next week. All the region round /
about that town should turn ont and |
hear an able exposition of the political |
questions of the day.
The B. & o. and Penn'a railroad COM
panies have signed an article of agree
nent, ceding rights aud privileges to
each other, in regard to the building of |
the c., l.. & W. branch from Bridgeport |
to Bellaire, and it is thought the work
will soon commence.
AT the Laughlin Mill gas well, Mar
tins Ferry, work is going on smoothly
They are down 800 feet, and have struck
several small-veins of gas, one of which
having become ignited, blaZed up eight
feet, threatening the derrick. but the
,la re was extinguished before any dam
lge was done.
DR.. S. F. MINOR, of the M. E. church
# this place, started to Conference at
canton on Tuesday. He will be return
ID here next year without doubt. 1t is
that Rev. Williams, of the Dis
rict north OF US, will succeed to the
Eldership of the District vice
fray whose time expires by limitation.
THE County Republican Executive
Committee have been able to secure the
erviceS for two speeches, one at Mar
in's Ferry, Thursday evening, the other
It Bellaire, Friday evening, of the dis
inguished and eloquent Judge w. II.
Vest. Perhaps no man in Ohio carries
he force with him as a stump speakert
hat Judge West does. He is regular
sledge hammer"
IN the naval cadetship examination
or this district held some time ago, in
Charley Cooper, of Steuben-
lille, received the appointment, but re-
using to go, Frank Pierce. of the same
lace. being second, was appointed; but
fter going to Annapolis, changed his
mind, and returned without attempting {
he second examination. Charley Car
ahan, of Cadiz, being third, was sent
or, and Will Johnson, of Steubenville,
as been notified by Col. Taylor to hold
imself in readiness, if Carnahan fails :
0 CO. or to pass the second examina-
ion.
Personal Mention.