Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-10-30
HALLow ZEN Friday night.


feet deep, but no oil.
THERE is talk of still another windo,
glass works in Bellaire.
THE B.. Z. & c. road is now occupying
its new depot In BellaiIe.
Nor battle of the ballots, but battla
for the ballots. next Tuesday.
IT has become cold enough for drssses
chickens, which are in the market.
SINGING and spelling schools are bob
bing up serenely in the rural regions.
SoUAw winter struck this section last
Thursday, and called out last winters
oyercoats.
FOUR weeks from to-day, Thanksgiv,
ing turkeys will be eaten-by those who
have them.
AUSTIN NJ. AULT. son of Thos. Ault,
of Bellaire, died on Tuesday Of last week,
aged 26 years. ia
GEN. WARNER had the smallest ma
jority of any Congressman elected in
Ohio this y ,ar. -
THE Hoyle-Jones manufacturing CON-
pany, of Martins Ferry, will elect di-
rectors Saturday.
Work on the Ohio river dam at
Bridgeport commenced last week, says
the Intelligencer.
SOME of the Bellaire grocers are i'm
porting potatoes from New York to
supply their trade.
II c,-r,,o>r I,as a,,rohaSad tho Wriph z
property, opposite the school house; con-
sideration, $1,000.
THE water works trustees of Bellaire
have asked the council for 5000 to pay
for additional boilers.
ALvA WISE, ESQ, of Rock Hill, husk
ed three ears of cern, and their combined
weight was 394 pounds.
CHARLES SNYDER, of Bellaire. had his
leg broken Tuesday of last week, while
scuffiing with some other boys.
A VERY interesting letter from our
Uniontown correspondent, written tor
this issue, will appear next week.
AT Don, Belmont county, manufac-
tory of heavy hardware is about TO be
started. 1t will employ fifteen men.
THE list of awards for the fair of 1884.
of the Belmont Co. Agricultural Society,
is printed On the fourth page of this
paper.
LAST Thursday night Jack Frost
marked everything outdoors as his own.
Plants that had not been taken in were
killed.
SEVENTEEN hundred and eighty-ive
feet of the Bellaire cemetery hill pike
We're completed tAis year al cost of
S3,l4S.
The Belaire glass workers who went
with William Zimmer to California, are
coming back. They are not satisfied in
California.
JOHN z. MCFARLAND, of Neff s Sid
ing, raised three mammoth pumpkins of
the California variety, weighing 65, As
and 80 pounds.
THIEVES entered the saloon of Martin
Joice, In Bridgeport, Wednesday night
of last week, but got nothing but keg
of beer for their trouble.
A COUNTERFEIT dime made OF glass
mixed with baSer metal than silver, Is
In circulation When struck with \
hammer it fiies to pieces.
THE Saturday News editor, of Barnes
vile, has been having ripe strawberries.
They We're of the second crop, from the
vines of r. IL. Taneyhill.
Miss ALLIE PICKERING. of Barnes
vile, and Mr.. Joseph Gallagher, of
Wheeling, were married at Columbus On
Wednesday of last week.
The water works question is at pres
ent overlooking everything else ia
Barnesville. Their supply from wells is
almost entirely exhausted.
JACOB BEDLIoN, of Franklin, vas Sc.
riously injured Tuesday of last week, bY
being thrown from wagon, while re-
turning home from Bellaire.
JOHN LocHARY, formerly of this coun-
ty, son of the late Patrick Lochary, was
elected Prosecuting Attorney of Meigs
county. at the recent election.
THE Prohibitionists of Bellaire, and
others who desire TO hear, will have u
temperance speech Friday evening, by
Miss Matte Mcclellan Brown.
SNOW fell at Bridgeport last Thursday
to the depth of half an inch. The first
snow of the season fell here on that day,
but not enough to cover the ground.
ABE PICKARD. who was hurt on the
c., l.. & w. road at Bridgeport some time
ago. was brought 10 his home in this
place last week, and will soon be about
The Eastern Ohio Horticultural SOci-
ETY. are taking steps toward collecting
and having cn exhibition quantities of
grain, ETC., at the New Orleans eXpOsi>
tion.
JOHN kline, of Martins Ferry, was in
Pittsburgh Thursday, and put up for
felt for fight between "a Martins Fer>
ry dog and Pat Kirley's Jack Napoleon
for $3.50 side.
DETECTIVE TRIPLEPT, who. figured in
Belmont county some time ago, killed
his man at Cniontown, Pa. some time
ago, and has been admitted to bail in
the sum of $4,000.
THE November meeting of the East
ern OniO Horticultural Society will be
held At the residence of Hon. William
Bundy, who will open the discussion on
"Our Public Roads"
ELTON MITCHELL, Bellaire boy. had
his collar bone broken last Wednesday
while playing crack the whip" at school
The school authorities have ordered that
the game shall be played no more.
A WOMAN named Snyder. of Martins
Ferry, IN ide several unsuccessful at
tempts to commit suicide one day last
week Her daughter bad recently left
home, which was the supposed cause.
The mortgage to secure the issue o
S200.000 Of bonds of the b.. H. & c. roaC
has been recorded in Guernsey. Maskin
gum and Morgan countiessand With thi,
money the floating debt will be removed
and the road placed in good condition.