Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
NeIghbOrBeOd Notes.
New Athens is talking of organizing
a brass band.

No" hbHCho 10 I1IAluS VI oibduiLluS
brass band.
Last Thursday, the Odd Fellows of
Wheeling celebrated the Gath anniver-
sary of the establishment of their lodge,
At the Opera House.
Wm. Ferguson, of Benwood, was 10
have been married last Thursday even
ing, but died ON the mOrzing of that
day of pneumonia.
One hundred and fourteen have taken
out license in Wheeling to sell beer, ale
and liquor.
| Alex. A. Griffith. of Beallsville, has
been granted patent for a road grader
and scraper.
Que Wheeling firm annually cuts and
sells 100000 railroad ties. Part of the
lumber for these ties comes from Mon.
roe and Washington counties, this State
Dan Lee, of Carroll county, has pur
chased 10000 pounds of wool of the
new clip at soc. per pound.
John Andrews, well known man Of
Weusville, dropped dead ON the street
from heart disease.
The Riverside Glass Works of Wheel
| ing have rented the Brilliant Glass
Works from the Receivers and started
them up on last Monday.
The CAPTAIN of the Salvation Army
at Pittsburgh, was knocked down in
Allegheny and several of his members
abused, one day last week, 10y party OF
roughs.
The new opera house in Steubenville
is to be opened in June 10y the Opera
House Orchestra, of Wheeling.
Geo. Kerns, of WellsviIlr, thought il
would be d great scheme to stop the
| fly wheel of an engine with his foot
He is the sadder and the wiser now, and
will get along hereafter by the aid of a
wooden foot.
Z. W. Lee, of Can roll county, clipped
Is Atwood sheep, which averaged 1914
pounds-of wool per head. One fleece
weighed 251a pounds.
Jordan Blizzard. a colered man, the
Oldest man in Guernsey county, and
probably in the state, died on Wednes.
day of last week. He was said to be 125
years of age.
81. N" is lifting the veil in Guernsey
county towns.
West Cambridge has boom in the
shape of new flour mills, which are to
be built Immediately, at a cost of
$4,000.
At meeting of the Directors held
last Thursday the Guernsey National
Bank declared dividend of three per
cent.
Some thieves near Quaker City have
killed a large number of sheep for their
pelts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Miner a cousin of the
famous confederate General, Stonewall
Jackson, died near GAINESVILLE last week,
aged SO years.
Jas. K. NARROW, OF Caldwell, an &C
count of whose arrest for barn burning
we published last week, was recognized
to court in the sum of $4,000. 1t is said
| that others will be implicated when his
trial comes off.
Mrs!Eleanor w. Irwin, of Jefferson
county, Ohio, died a few days since,
aged 1O4 years. One hundred years ago
having removed there from Washington
county, Pa.
The Grand Jury of Tuscarawas coun-
ty in session last week adjourned with
out finding single Indictment Either
model county or well selected jury.
Bertrand V. Mirabeau, one of the
oldest steamboat captains IN the United
States, died at his home in Wheeling on
Thursday. aged IS years. He was ma
tive of France, and served when mere
lad as a soldier under the first Napoleon.
He was formerly a resident of Marietta,
during which time he introduced the
tomato as an article of food into this
part of the country.
Samuel L. Beck, of Cambridge, has
been awarded one of the honors of his
class by being chosen valedictOrian of
his society for the June commencement
at Delaware college.
Thursday night professional burglars
entered the business houses of s. B.
Lawrence and d. E. Patterson, in Wash
ington on-the-pike. Lawrence's safe
was forced open and some valuable pa
pers taken, but no money. At Patter-
sons some tobacco, crackers and other
small articles were taken. They found
no money in either establishment, and
went off apparently disgusted with their
nights adventure.
The Guernsey Daily Times of Satur-
day says that officers Stottlemire and
Moreland returned from Belmont coun-
ty Thursday evening. They were after
Dave Burt's gold watch. and they got it,
after a tramp of several miles through
the mud. The man who had it knew
whose watch it was, bnt he carried it
away and said Burt might come after it
if he wanted it.
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