Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-21
NEW wheat brings s. cents.
GAINESVILLE Fair next week.

Wool is stiffening up slightly choice
clips bring 81 to SO cents.
| VACATION days are shortening, and
the boys are feeling sad about it.
SALTWATER and Wheeling creeks are
said to be lower than ever before known.
The dry weather and grasshoppers are
interfering seriously with the corn and
grass.
IN drunken row at -Etnaville Tues
day evening, one OF the participants had
An ear bitten off.
A HUNGARIAN miner, name unknown,
was crushed to death at Maynard, Tues
day, by fall of sOapstOne in the mine.
The Pennyroyal reunion in Oxford
township, Guernsey county, occurs on
| Wednesday and Thursday OF this week
PROF WM. BRINKERHOFF will be in
augurated as President OF Franklin Col
lege Sep ,ember I'd, 1884 Program here
after
IT is a very good time to get ready to
make good display at the county Fair,
which will begin In two weeks from
Wednesday.
The Guernsey Times says that Judge
Frazier will resign his seat on the cont
mon pleas bench in time for the election
of his successor to take place this fall
THE MorriStown band has been engag-
ed TO furnish the music for the Mt. Hope
annual picnic, which will be held Satur-
| day of this week.
IT has been suggested that camp
meeting being in session will account
for the scarcity of spring chickens in
other neighbOrhOOds.
The next meeting of the Eastern Ohio
Horticultural Society will be held at the
residence of Cyrus Hail. Quaker City :;
subject, Tile Draining"
TRAMPS entered the residence of Rev
NJ. HeinZe at Belaire, Friday, and car
rled of everything in the shape Of eata-
bles, and also a large album filled with
photographs
Rev. DR.. MINOR preached as usual
Sabbath morning. and from the size of
| the congregation, one would judge that
not many OF the church goers attended
camp meeting.
GEN. j. S. ROBINSON, the Republican
candidate for Secretary of State, will
speak at Somerton, on Friday evening.
Sept. 18th, and at Bellaire, OH Saturday
evening, Sept. 18th.
AT the teachers examination in
GAINESVILLE last week. at tie close of the
Institute, there were about $50 applicants
for certificates in the class in common
branches, and 40'in the higher class.
BENZ. HUMPHREY has sold his interest
in the livery stable to Samuel Campbell,
who is now sole proprietor. They have
disposed of their dray to Frank Ingram,
who also carries the mail to and from
the depot.
Hon. i. DANFORD addressed a fine
Republican meeting at HendrysbuTgh on
Saturday evening. The Republicans of
kirkwOod are enthusiastic, and will
give good account of themselves on
election day.
A FIRE which might have been Sc
riUGs ole, broke out on Tuesday, in the
line fence between the farms of John
Sharp and John Orr; Mr.. S. discovered
it soon after it started and succeeded in
extinguishing it.
Mr.. J. A. WALKER, in last weeks
thTeshing within one mile of Colerain,
threshed 1863 bushels of wheat from ia
acres and 705 bushels of oats from "a
acres. He reports the quality of wheat
good. but most of it foul with cheat and
cookie.
~
bridge on Friday was the largest ever
held in this district. The officers elected
for the ensuing year were: President,
W. T. Smith. Stewartsyille; Vice Presi-
dent, Wm. Nixon, Sewartsville; Secre-
tary, w. II. Turner, Cambridge. 1t was
decided to hold the next meeting at
Cambridge in August, 1885.
THE reunion of the 126th Ohio will
occur at Flushing ON Thursday of next
week. All soliiers and citizens are in-
vited to attend. A free dinner will be
furnished to soldiers and their families.
Col. Taylor, Gen. Warner, Hon. l.. Dan
ford and other good speakers are expect
ed to be present. Excursion rates on tina
c., l.. u w. railway. 1t is hoped that
the veterans and their friends will turn
out ia force and enjoy genuine reunion.
J.E. B. MCDONALD, the Bridgeport |
attorney, met with a narrow escape from |
death at Martins Ferry ON Tuesday af+ |
teInoon. In attempting to board the |
caboOSe on the 2:30 train, he missed his |
footing, when he was struck by the Car, |
and two large gashes cut in his head, |
besides bruises on the back and other |
parts of the body. He was thrown ON |
the track behind the cabooSe, and had |
there been another car, would most |
likely have been crushed to death.
EDWARD BROWN, aged Is, of Martins |
Ferry, last Saturday, tried to grind some |
giant powder III coffee mill. He had |
something over two pounds of the arti
Gle, and had taken it to the cellar. An
explosion took place, throwing him some
feet away and set fire TO the house. The
\ Dung man was seriously and horribly
burned all over; the doctors say it will
take two or three days to determine
whether his burns will prove fatal.
Z. 5. The young man died on Monday
evening after intense suffering.
THE annual camp meeting of the
Barnesvlle district, which has been in
progress during the past ten days, closed
yesterday. In point of attendance, it
was, as usual, successful-the crowd on
Sunday, Notwithstanding the intense
heat and DUST being estimated at 1000
There was preaching on Sabbath by Dr.
J. NJ. Carr, of Salem, Drs. C. W. Smith,
and Horner, of Pittsburgh, and Revs
Scott, Paine and Rogers. On Monday,
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Socie'
ty held meeting, and on Tuesday, the
sacrament was administered
Mr.. l. H. POWERS, the we'll known
ageut of the Ohio Farmers Insurance |
company, removed his family from
Barnesville last week, and occupies the
George Bumgarner property, on East