Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-01-24
Neighb0rllOOd Notes.

A malignant type of scarlet fever,
which was imported from the west, is
abroad in Center and Wills townships, in
Guernsey county, and has assumed alarm
ing proportions. Says the Daily Times:
THE symptoms appear suddenly, and de
velop rapidly into the worst stage, the
throat fills up, the face turns purple, pu-
pills of the eyes contract, high fever pre-
walls. with vomiting. Unless it is check
ed. the patient dies within 4S hours" Al
ready several have died, add the schools
have been closed. and other measures
taken to prevent the spread of the peSti-
lence
The Deersville. Harrison county band
has ordered a new set of instruments, at a
cost OF S265.
President Arthur has nominated Reu-
ben 4. Allen. OF UHrichsviile. to be Indi-
an Agent. at the Blackleet Agency,
Montana Territory.
The next Guernsey County Fair will be
held at Washington, October 1st, 1884
Jona' han Pose was elected President: A.
P. Frame, Treasurer. and Y. d. Craig,
Secretary The financial statement shows
S421 SO in the treasury.
An association, for the purpose of run
ming a stock rancho, in Kansas, has been
formed in Cambridge.
At the delinquent tax sale held in
Guernsey county, Tuesday of last week,
only seven pieces of farm lands and nine
of town property were sold.
ID, D. Taylor has made up his new
bond as postmaster at Cambridge. 1t is
verified in the sum of S122,000.
Burglars raided the store OF d. c. Good
heart, in Batesville Noble county, few
night ago, and got only S15 for their
work
Ex-Lieut. Gov Richards will be can
didate for the Republican nomination for
City Solicitor o. Steubenville, says the
Gazette.
Iriska Haverfield, aged IA, a daughter
of Capt. George A. Haverfield, former
treasurer of Harrison county, while at
tending boarding school at Cincinnati,
eloped with W. p Baird, of Chattanooga,
Tenn. The escapade was quite romantic,
as both parties were in hiding from detec-
tives, land had to resort to various DISCUSSES
THE Commissioners uf Noble and
Monroe counties, met at Summerfield,
yesterday, to agree apOn bill to be
presented in the Legislature, providing
for joint Childrens Home for the use
of their counties.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by
ghOuls on last Thursday night, to steal
from vault in the chapel OF Mt. Calvary
cemetery, the remains of the Late Rt. Rev.
Whelan, late Catholic Bishop of the Dio-
cese of Wheeling.
Caldwell wants to be lighted with gas.
Railroads put some snap in town.
The grand jury of Monroe county only
found four indictments There were no
liquor indictments.
Longfellow Stevens, of Macksburgh,
Noble county, a few days ago struck a
vein of coal oil which is running thirty
barrels per day.
John Hess, Monroe couhty's notorious
horse thief, last Thursday, completed his
sixth term in the Ohio Penitentiary, hav-
ing put in, in all 81 years in that instltu-
tion. He never committed any other
crime than horse stealing.
There have been but sixty deaths in
the corporate limits of Fairview in the
past ten years.
Cadiz has not had a police court case
since last October. Happy Cadiz.
Sixty civil and seven criminal cases
were set for hearing at the present term
of Noble county common pleas.
Noble Co. Republican: Israel Wilson, of
Jackson township, killed hawk with an
ear of corn that measured feet from the
tip of the wings. His hawkship was
after chicken, and Mr.. Wilson, feeding
his stock, noticed it, and, fortunately Tor
the chickens, struck it with the ear of
corn.
The strangest thing about the above
item is the extraordinary length of the
ear of corn.
B. c. LCKens, of Noble county, had a
horse stolen on Saturday night, Jan. 18th,
and W. Buflingame, of the same vicinity,
+ lost sleigh the same night. No clue to
the thief.
From the 1st to the 18th of January
only two marriage licenses were issued
by the Probate Judge of Guernsey co.
Joshua Taylor, of Wills @township
Guernsey county, has eve which gave
birth on the 14th inst, tb lamb having
one perfect head and neck back to the
brisket and shoulders, then two bodies
with eight perfect legs and two tails.
This freak of nature died soon after
birth,