Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-07

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will have twenty pots in operation afte
the lst Of September start.
GEORGE RIcF. of Martins Ferry, fc
wife beating. was taxed S15 and costs
Monday, by Mayor Mitchell.
I'm. RILEY, ESQ, last week sold hi
residence in the west end to Hon. Dan
iel Peck, of Wheeling, for S4,250.
THE Mayor of Bridgeport had gooC
run of business Monday, assessing fine
and costs to the amount Of over $50.
CORRESPONDENTS from New Athen
cav the wheat in that vicinity average
fully 20 bushels to the acre, the best TO
years.
PROF. E. B. THOMAS, who has been teach
ing at Glencoe for three years past. has beel
elected principal OF the school at Clsrington
Monroe county.
A BOAT club is to be organized at Bel
laire, the money fer the boat house anC
other arrangements having been secured
by subscription.
JOE BROWN, of Etuaville, jumped
from train at Martins Ferry, Monday
evening, and was badly cut and bruised
aboHt the head.
The Turner's of Bellaire. Steubenyillt
and Wheeling, go to McKeesport, Pa.
by special train on the 10th. where there
is to be big meeting of Turner's.
TIE steel works at Bellaire are Row
reported AS turning out an excellent
quality of steel, and the managers OF
the factory are greatly encouraged.
THE soap man who sells people SIC
bills for fifty cents. did fiourishing bu.
siness in Martins Ferry, Monday, but OF
course no one got any of the SO bills.
THE boys Democratic club had the
first torch light procession of the season
on Saturday evening, but were as quiet
about it as if it were a funeral process
sion.
QUITE scare was occasioned in Bel
laire SUNDAY, by the death of woman
who had Just come from Germany The
doctors pronounced her death from chol-
era morbus.
DIR. LEVI BURsoN, of Delaware. Ohio,
will speak at Plainfeld meeting house,
Sabbath, August oath. Quarterly meet
ing will be held at PlaiBfeld, August
9th and 2Sth.
THERE were ~ deaths in Wheeling
during the month of July. which is almost
double the number for the same month
last year, and Is more than during the
month of June.
Two C. & P. brakemen were arrested
In Bellaire Monday, for breaking into a
freight car and stealing a cady of tobac-
co. The tobacco was found at their
boarding house.
Important
Our next winter supply of yarn. re-
ceived, all colOis. Now is the time to
buy, prices are very low.
s 7-2t. f. TROLL u Sons.
ADELINE RIKER has sued her hus4
band, William H. Riker. in Cincinnati,
for divorce and alimony, alleging ex-
treme cruelty. The parties were former
preprietors of the Carter House, Be laire.
LAST Thursday, Mrs Mary A. Sanders.
of Bellairs, widow of the late John w.
Sanders, received $1,000 from the Mil
waukee Mutual Life Insurance Co., the
full amount of the policy on her hus
bands life.
DIR. ARNOLD, the celebrated elocution-
ist, met with hard luck Saturday at
Weston, w. Va, having his entire outfit.
including his musical instruments, at
tached for debts. The DIR. is well known
in this vicinity.
A SOCIAL gathering, for the benefit of
the NJ. E. church Of Bethesda, will be
held Saturday on the Burr's Mills camp
meeting grounds. Refreshments will be
served. and the grounds illuminated
with Japanese lanterns.
Two B. & o. freights collided near
Norwich last Saturday, badly wrecking
a number of loaded cars. which took
fire. Tue Cambridge ire department
went out, and got the fire out by Sabbath
morning. Loss to the company, S75 900.
A LOCAL writer from Amber, in this
tells this one: Peter Davis, a
young man of this vicinity, killed a
eight (S) feet long last week.
Discovering it to be unusually thick, he
cut it open and there were four a. full
grown squirrels in it."
CHARLES TOCAs, a young cOlored chap,
who was a waiter at a restaurant in this
city, was married last week to Miss
Hogan, a white girl, ut Little Washing
ton. Pa. The affair was quite surprise
to the friends of both parties, though it
probably should not have been, as they
were known lovers.--Bellaire Indepen-
dent.
OK Tuesday of last week the First
National Bank of Cadiz and the banking
house of Rein Welsh 6 Co., were con-
solidated, the former taking the good
will and business of the latter. Mr.. d.
B. Welch has been elected President of
the bank, vice General Hollings worth,
whose resignation was accepted Tuesday
of this week.
ayers of the Belmont Co. Agricultural
Society last Saturday. it was decided to
remove the armOrv building, recently
to the hill on the fair ground.
to be fixed up for an agricultural and
ball. The present building
used for that purpose is to be removed
farther down the hill for an agricultural
implement hall. Extra stalls and cattle
pens, and also new walk to the grounds
will be built at once.
THE Board of Visitors were at the
Children's Home last Wednesday. Miss
Jane Edgerton, of this place. whose
broken limb has not sufficiently recov-
cred to permit her to attend, was the
only absentee. The Home was found to
bs in a fiourishing condition, with no
sickness, except some chronic skin af
fectiOns. There are 70 inmates, 50 boys
and Is girls. IL of these being boarders,
belonging to jefferson county and to
the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home,
at Xenia.
On Sabbath. August 10, the c., l.. &
w. Railroad will run an excursion from
Rridpeport and intermediate points to