Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-11
Town and Country.
ISLAND Fair this week.

ISLAND Fair this week. 4..f.a,E =
THE Bridgeport schools will open mex
Monday. -''-' 80.
THE street fakirs did a good husines
about town last week. IfE go
TEACHERS examination at st. Clairs
Vile Saturday of this week. if Lii't
THE big harvest moon makes the night
endurable, after sweltering all day.
OYSTERS made their appearance il
town last week, and they. were excsllen
ones. #S-aAzek s5id8
Miss JESSIE CouTHouT will appear be
fore Bellaire audience this. Thursda.,
evening. 5s-7 -sizass
DIR. Moses REED. an old and respecte,
citizen of Barnesville, died Thursday o
last week. zE-
THE Smyrna Fair will lbesheld mex
week. commencing on Tuesday asd last
ing three days. iaisi lffnssDsl
Docs killed twelve head of fine sheeI
for Giffin and Kerr, of Maynard. one
night last week. afFsEaVssl
THE Republicans of EtnaviIle- vii
raise It's foot pole on Saturday, and /;
big time is expected. ...-,- No.,
THE mind of the ladies is not so mucf
bothered with politics as it is about tn,
style of the fall bonnet. n. sos.
Mrs. NELLIE WATKINS, an old lady o
of West Wheeling, died suddenly Frida,
morning, aged 10 years. t-- p
THE oil contractor, c. Robinson. is thi
week sinking well on the farm of Jacol
Ramsey, near Jacobsburg. 81
The Steubenville Gazette is easil,
pleased. 1t hoisted a rooster over the
Vermont election returns. :.
THE turnip crop is failure. as the
grasshOppers eat up the plants as soon as
they came through the ground.
THIS is said to be 'cool September,
but there seems to be something wroD,
about the weather all this year.
HOWARD Butte, aged 81. an industri-
Gus young man of Bellaire, died Wednes
day evening, from typhoid fever.
WILLIE EBELING, aged 10, of Martins
Ferry, fell from walnut tree Wednes
day of last week, and broke his leg.
THE NJ. E. Sabbath School of Bridge
port picnieed at Ridgeway grove las
Wednesday. About 800 were present.
AN important river improvement is Il
be made this fall-the rebuilding of tn,
dam across the back river at Bridgeport
E. P. LEE, ESQ. local of the Barnes
vile Saturday News, had his right hant
crushed in a press last Wednesday even
ing.
HON. L. DANFoRD addressed reusinJ
Blaine and Logan meeting in Barnes
vile on Tuesday evening. The ball il
rolling.
The city's exchequor was increased
somewhat last week from fines from TIN
fellows who cant attend Fair withou
getting drunk.
THE badge man seemed to do NOR,
business than any other fakir at the fail
Every man, woman and child seemed c,
want badge.
The familiar tone of the school bell
calling the youth of the village to go t.
work again after the long vacation, wa.
heard on Monday morning.
A CORRESPONDENT from Bellaire t
the Wheeling Register, says: "The Bel
laire Democrat is recognized as the organ
of Democracy in this county"
FRED. DOUGLASS has positively agree,
= to speak at Martins Ferry, on the 22t
Emancipation Day. This announcement
in itself will bring large crowd.
THE Board of Managers of the Bel
mont Co. Agricultural Society will NEE
on Saturday, to pass on the premium lis
and settle up other fair business. 3
SNEAK thieves and burglars and a
other kinds of thieves were here duriB
the Fair in force. and piled their ayoca
items industriously in the neighborhoo'
THE Ohio Valley Wine Co.. of Martin
Ferry, have received several new cash
OF capacity of $500 gallons each. tt
casks are said to be larger than the @.
P. depot at that place. sA EHk
A PETITION was numerously signe
on the Fair grounds, Friday, asking Go
Hoadly to offer an additional 81 900 r,
ward for the arrest of Emmet Mitchell
who shot Charles Griffith.
WIN. J. CLARK, formerly of Bellair
died Thursday at Brilliant, suppose
from drinking too much ice water. +
was member of the Bellaire G. A.
Post, and was buried by that body. =
THE B., z. & C. stockholders win me
at Woodsfeld, October 1st. and vote 6
the proposition of issuing 100000
bonds, at 6 per cent. to run for such tin
as the stockholders may fix at their NEE
ing. p- s-F--
A GLANCE at the published 'premiu
lists of other county fairs will show th
that there is not one more liberal in th
respect than the Belmont Co. Societ
This is especially the case as regards Il
floral hall exhibits.
THE Barnesville glass works. with
pots, opened up last week under favor
BILE auspices, with all positions filed, al
will most likely remain in full blast /
the next summer stop. A car load
glass is shipped every three days.
THE barn on the farm of G. W. Linz
sey, about mile south of Armstrunl
Mills, was destroyed by fire on Thursd
night, together with hay and farmil
implements stored therein. As the faI
was unoccupied, it is supposed the [
was Of iacendiary origin.