Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-12-18
Neighborhood Notes.

John Brunner, of Noble county. has
shipped 1000 pounds of dressed fowls
this season.
The Caldw well Republican wants build.
ing association in that city.
Arrangements are being completed foI
the erection of large Touring mills at
Mingo.
Two hundred trees have recently been
planted in the Cambridge fair grounds
Two Guernsey county saloon keepers
have brought suit against the treasurer,
to recover the Scott law taxes paid by
them.
Solomon Mercer, Of Guernsey comfy
has applied for y patent for a road scra-
per.
Augustus Springer was shot and kill
ed by Charley Miller, ia the house Of
David Sarchet, jr., at New Philadelphia
on the night of the 9th. Springer had
forced an entrsnce'to the house. All the
parties lvied in Cambridge up to q few
the killing was deemed jnstifiable.
There are at present only five prison.
ers confined in the Jefferson. county Jail
Last week a steam heating apparatus
was put in the Jefferson county jail at
Steubenville.
bridge hid her child under some snow
with the expectation that it would per-
ish. 1t was found, and will lvie.
A farmer named John Anderson, of
near Cadiz, was robbed of $500 on the
night of the 5th inst. He had just sold
some stock, and was made to deliver to
four masked men, who held revolvers
at his head.
The Caldwe Journal advocates a
Farmers Institute at that place.
1t seems that Cambridge is to have
hall. W. b. Cosgrove. wholesale gro.
Ger, is to erect new building, the Sec
ond story of which is to be arranged for
an opera hall.
The saloon keepers OF. Guernsey counr
ty were mulcted in various sums in
common pleas at Cambridge last week.
Some of them also got several days with
the sheriff.
The Caldwell Republican says that
corn is being shipped to that town frop
the West and sold at SO cents per bushe I
which is cheaper than local. raissrs can
sell it at. .'
James Hunter, the first white mals
child born in Steubenville, died ut Ell
more, Ottawa county, Monday Of last
week, aged 81 years.
Wheeling is doing some big kicking
on the big gas bills. q
A social event. at SteubenviIle last
Thursday was the marriage of Miss Ma
ry NJ, daughter of c. B. Doty, Esq.
principal owner of, ther Jefferson iron
works, to Baron Isaac Frederick Lager
felt. yice-consul from Sweden aud Nor
way, at Pittsburgh. -
At Toronto, Jefferson county, on Sun
day evening" the Calumet Pipe Works,
the largest in the country, were burned
to the ground. Loss, 100000; insure
ance, $4,000.
There are 265 conxicts in the Mounds
vile penitentiary. There ia only one
female prisoner.
The Harrison county commissioners
advertise $4,000 infirmary bonds for
sale on the 9th inst. They are payable
in February, 1887.
The superintendent Of the Gxdiz schools
has introduced light dumb bells In the
public schools, and the boys and girls
are trained in systematic exercise.
The Quaker City glass works'have or
ders ahead for over a month.
A young volcano has been developed
at Steubenyille. A dill OF cindsr and
Stag has been burning for three years.
and wagon broke through it, revealing
the smouldering 6re. t.
Steubenville parties are to erect q
$4,000 skating rink at Wheeling.
| Albert Peoples, of Miller's station,
Harrison county, on the Pan Handle
read, was fatally injured in an attempt
to board freight train at Cadiz juno
ton, on Saturday.
BY the giving away of bridge, near
Newcomerstown, Monday of lass week,
Dennis McMurphy, aged 20. Jesse Pratt,
aged 20. and an Aultman traction en-
gine, were precipitated IL feet into the
river below. The two young men we're
killed.
Officer Kinney, of Steubenvills. was
assaulted Saturday night while on his
beat aid severely hurt on the head by
being struck with = brick. He fred his
revolver at the mlscreants but without
effect. Sunday B.. Walker and Bob Ny
ers we're arrested for the offense.