Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-12

ST. ClalrSVille, or William Lee, Sr, a
GAINESVILLE, o. 1-tf.
OUR country cousins are preparing 70
the maple sugar harvest.
INDICATIONS are that the moving sea
son here will be lively one.
BELLAIRE's new skating rink on In
dian Run will be 75x2O0 feet.
THE Salvation Army again threatens
to make descent upon Bellaire.
TIE country schools are closing theiI
winter terms with the usual treats.
The English sparrows have commenc.
ed active operations on spring work.
THE fruit men have been examining
buds again, and it is the same old story.
TIE moulders at Woodcock's foundry,
Bridgeport, went out on a strike last
week.
NEXT Monday the groundhOgs six
weeks viii be up, and he will come out
again.
]. N. WOOD, of Bellaire, has been
granted patent for a mold for glass
lamps.
ROBERT G. MILLS, of Franklin, has
lately succeeded in getting pension of
S2,965.
w. r. MOORE, of Martins Ferry, has
received patent for an improved egg
beater.
The political reform meeting in Bel
laire last Friday, was attended by about
dozen.
THE Bellaire stamping works received
an order last week for 1000 dozen OF
lanterns.
GEO. SIMMONS, a Bellaire mailer, has
obtained patent on a self feeding nail
machine,
THE Second Adventists have now set
May 18th as the day the world is to wind
up affairs.
A FREIGHT wreck on the B. & o. at
Glencoe, last Thursday night, broke up
several cars.
NEWSPAPERS are agitating whether it
would not be good policy for towns to
tax roller riDks.
SINCE the Bellaire steel works went
on double turn, the pay roll amounts to
$4,000 per week.
THE Enterprise window glass works,
Bellaire, closed down last week, for an
indefinite period.
ABOUT $50 was netted for the poor, at
benefit in the Bridgeport rink on last
Friday evening.
HENRY He'll, the Bellaire Kid, has
given out that he has retired from pros
fessional rowing.
OVER 200 have united with the various
churches in Bellaire, during the revivals
of the past winter.
THE Bellaire steel works turned out
230 tons Friday, the largest days work
since they started.
THE Martins Ferry storekeepers post
the following notice: No water works
argument in here"
JESSE RAMSEY, aged II, son of John
Ramsey, OF Jacobsburg, died on the I'd
inst, from rheumatism.
JOIN HAHN, of near Wegee, last
Thursday bought the Day farm of Y
acres, on Pipe creek, for $4,000.
THE Martins Ferry water works prop
osition excitement grows more intense,
as the election time approaches.
THE river and harDer bill. as it was
finally passed in Congress, omitted the
Bellaire ice harbor appropriation.
THE Bellaire steal works started to
run full double turn last week. for the
first time since the plant was built
Miss KITTIE MORGAN, of Martins
Ferry, aged 10 years, dropped dead from
heart disease, on Saturday evening.
J.C. BETHEL and Joseph 81. Shannon
a=o contestants for the Flushing post
Office. ana each have a long petition.
ELI GARRISON and Wesley Barnes are
preparing to emigrate from Wayne tp.
to the Shenandoah Valley this spring.
FRIDAY night. John Cook, who lives
about 3H miles west of Bridgeport, had
~ sheep killed and "a wounded by dogs.
THos. K. SHELDON, ESQ, manager of
the Bellaire bottle works, and wife, cell
ebrated their silver wedding on Tuesday.
A WAGON load of petitions for post
offices and "sich," it is said, have been
forwarded to Warner from Bellaire alone.
TIE recent revival at Barnesville
makes a new M. E. church necessary,
owing to the large increase of member
ship.
ALL the different labor and trade or
ganizations of Martins Ferry have been
organized into the Ohio Valley Labor
and Trade Assembly.
The county commissioners will meet
at Bellaire on the 28th inst, to deter
mine upon the adyisability of bridging
McMahon's creek on Union street.
IF any enc were to say skating rink
was a nuisance, he would be immediate+
ly bounced; it is good form to say: "Tbe
craze might be for something worse"
THE Sheriff of Harrison county arrest
ed Amos Curley, of West Wheeling, last
Friday, and took him to Cadiz, charged
with violating the liquor laws at Free
port.
Mr. JOHN BIGELow, of this place, j:
negotiating for the lease of the Nationa
Hotel in st. Clairsville, and if satisfac
tory arrangements can be agreed upon
be will take charge of that popular hos
telry at an early day.-Bellaire Indepen
dent Saturday