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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

A MEETING of the Bellaire Gas & Oil
Co. was held Thursday evening, and it
was decided 10 push matters.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

THE sound of the moving machine
was heard on almost every farm in the
county this week.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

The oil well at Armstrong; Mills
has been finally abandoned. 1t was not
torpedoed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
Monday, August Sd, 1855.

At o'clock in the afternoon, the following
described premises, to>wit:
''Situate in Pease township, Belmont
county, Ohio, in sections 80 and "a, township
8, range 2, containing about one rood of land,
and being the same property conveyed by
Joseph McConnaughey and wife to Sam
uel Ochsenbein, deceased, by deed dated
November Gath, 1873, and recorded in volume
SO, page 351 of record of deeds of said
county and state. Also, parcel of land in
section 81, township 6, range 3, in Riehlsnd
township, said county, containing acres, 2
roods and 4 perches, and being the same prem
ises described in q deed from Isaac AmmOns
to last named samuel Ocbsenhein, dated,
September 9th, 1857, and recorded in volume
40, page 500 Of record of deeds of said
county. Also, another 'ract of lano in Sec
tion 26, township q, RANGE 8, in said county,
containing 40 acres, and icing the same tract
of land described in deed from Isaac AM
mons to said Samuel Ochsenbein, dated Sep
tember 5, 1857, and recorded in last named
records, in volume ~, page 693.
Appraised as follows: First tract at $500;
second and third tracts at S2S25.
rerms-One-thirdc cash on day Of sale; one>
third In one year, and one,third In two years,
with interest, secured by mortgage on prem>
LEROY G. SEDWICK, Sheriff
BY F. r. Sedwick, Deputy.
Mcdonald. Plffs Atty. s-td
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

COMMON PLEAS COURT adjourned for
the term on Monday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
Monday. July 9Th, 1885,

belmont county, OnlO, VIII OueT dt puOuC
at the front door of the court house, Of said
county, on
Monday, July eth, 1885,
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the following
real estate, to wit:
Situate in the township of Richland, county
of Belmont and state of Ohio, and known as
being two several tracts or lots: First tract be-
ing part of the southeast quarter of section S2,
township and range 3, beginning for the same
on the dividing line of the quarter of said sec
ton at a stone at the northeast corner of John
Watkins tract of land. and thence south 81
rods to the creek (called Little MeMahOns
creek); thence down said creek east - rods to
stone; thence south "a deg. east l.S6 rods
to an elm tree on the south side of the said creek
bank; thence north Is deg. east Il rods to a
stake in the road leading to ST. Clairsville:
thence with said road north 65I, deg. east
rods to a stake; thence north degrees
east 3D. "a rods TO stake in the above describ-
ed road in the line dividing the four quarters OF
said: section; thence with said dividsion line
west A. 50 rods to the place Of beginning, con-
tanning acres and ) perches, more or less, as
SURVEYED by Saul X. Ruggles, Sept. 10, 1872.
Second tract-Being part of the southeast
quarter of section -, township b and range ),
beginning for the same at station /, a stone
planted on the south side of Little AeMahOn'S
creek ION the edge of the bank and being sta
ton in first tract): thence south 81 deg east
206 rods to stake, station ,, which line be-
ing extended south 81 deg. east $50 rods from
station will strike an elm tree, station in
first tract) from station 2: thence south 10 deg.
west % rods to a stake, station ), standing on
the line of the lands of Alex Wiley (trom
Heaton's line); thence with said Wiley's line
north so deg. west 7.9O r0ds to a locust post,
station 4; thence with the fence now standing
north u deg east 27.72 rods to a stake, station
), north side of Little McMahon's S creek; thence
east 1912 rods, crossing the creek to station
l, place of beginning, containing acres and
10 perches of land, as surveyed by Isaac NJ.
Riley, April 20, 1875, witE instrument adjusted
so as to correst deelination of deg. : min.
east from the magnetic meridian, being the
correction from the magnetic course required
to track and follow lines of lots adjoining tract
number 1 and John Watkins lot, formerly
surveyed by Saul h. Ruggles and conveyed
according to his survey.
Appraised at $500.
Terms-Cash.
LEROY c. SEDWICK, Sheriff.
q. W. Carroll; Plffs Atty. 25-td
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

EARLY roasting ears on sale at the
Capital City restaurant.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

NAIFF send &c for postage and reces Vs
uutIh free q costly box OF goods which
hTnsIE will help ALL OF either sex, u
U l ttk Ismors money right away thaH
ANYTHING else in this world; for tunes avail
the workers sure. At once address TRUE 4
o., Augusta, Maine. tlI-H
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
All Sorts OF

hurts and many sorts of ans OF
man and beast need 4 cooling
lotion. Mustang I-iniment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
KINGS EVIL

Was the name formerly given to Scrofula
because Of superstition that it could be
cured by kings touch. The world is
wiser now, and knows that
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
SHEKiFFS SALE.
BELMONT. ooMMoN PLEAS.

Michael Dorsey vs.. Archibald Woods.
IN pursuance of an order of sale in the
1above entitled case, issued and to me
directed, from the court of common pleas of
Belmont county, Ohio, will offer at public
at the front door of the court house of said
county, on
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
SHERIFF'S SALE.
IN PARTITION.
BELMONT COMMON PLEAS
Louisa Bysinger

William T. Ochsenbein, ct al.
DURSUANT to an order of sale in the
i above entitled case, issued and to me
directed, from the court of common pleas OF
Belmont county, Ohio, will offer at public
sale, at the front door of the court house OF
said county, on
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
Monday, August 18th, 1885,

At o'cock p. m, the following, described
real estate, to wit;
Situate in the township of York, county ot
Belmont and state of Ohio, and known as the
equal undivided one-fourth of three hundred
and two acres of land in section number 7
township Of range 3, being for the same the
equal undivided one fourth of the lands as con-
veyed by the last will and testament OF George
W. Woods, late of Belmont county, deceased
to said defendant, Archibald Woods, and
Joseph George and Hamilton Woods, said last
will and testament being upon record of wills
of Belmont county, Ohio, page 382, book o
wills, and dated November II, A. D. 1873
proven and admitted to probate on the 2ls
day of August, A. D. 1876.
Appraised at $5425.
Terms-Cash.
LEROY G. SEDWICK. Sheriff.
By FRANK R. SEDwIOK, Deputy.
g. W. Carroll, Plff's Atty. ltd
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
SHERIFFS SALE.
Belm0nt Oomnaon PLeas.

Elizabeth W. Carroll VS.. Eliza A. Thornton.
d URUSANT to an order of sale in the
i above entitled case, issued and to me
directed, from the court of common pleas OF
Belmont county, Ohio, will offer at public
at the front door of the court house, Of said
cOuntV ON
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
Proposed Amendment to the
Constitution of Ohio.
ELECTIONS.
JOINT RESOLUTION

Senate Joint Resolution No. 2S.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

amending Section 4, article X Of the Con-
stitutiOn, relating to the election Of
Township Officers.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
Security of Transit for the United
States Across the Isthnus.

1t is reported on trustworthy authority that
treaty has been concluded between the gov
eminent at BOgota and the minister of the
United States in respect to security Of tran
sit across the Isthmus. The treaty confers
upon the United States government certain
rights of compensation on all transit across
the Isthmus of Panama with special duties Of
protection to be exercised In accordance With
the government Of the U. s. of Columbia.
1t is understood that BY this treaty Co
lumbar and United States governments
will cooperate to maintain freedom of
transit against all attacks or attempts to OBJ
struct and 1t is believed that joint con-
troll over the transit route under this treaty
will not only authorize but make 1t the duty
of the United States to give all the required
aid in maintaining the transit routes for con-
mefce, mail and passengers.
The robber Preston, who burned Colon,
having made his escape has since seized Porto.
with the help Of which it is feared he Will
make trouble unless the United States naval
forces capture him and his yessels-
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
CRIMINAL.

AT Youngstown, Ohio, Charles Clarke and
Michael Collins enticed Mrs. Hattie Ruby, a
widow, to an unfrequented part of the city
and committed a brutal assault upon her.
Mrs. Ruby screamed for assistance, and a
boy hearing her screams notified the police.
Clarke was captured near his victim, but Col
Inns escaped.
Five Sicil1ans were arrested in Chicago,
charged with the murder of Felippo Caruso,
whose corpse was recently discovered in
trunk at Pittsburg. Mamie Calchett, aged
twelve, saw Caruso enter the Sicilians' rooms
III Chicago, the day before be was missed. An
hour afterward she noticed trunk cores
ponding to the Pittsburg article carried into
the same house.
At Fort Smith, Ark, James Urcine and
william Parchmeal, full-blooded Cherokees.
we're sentenced in the United States court to
be hanged June for the murder of Henry
Feigel, an old Swiss traveller, committed in
Indian territory twelve years ago for Fei
gers money.
A serious shooting ARRAY occurred near
Credo, West Va, in which one man was killed
and two others wounded. The murder oc-
CURED at a house known through the sur
rounding country as the white Bear
party of five men were standing on the porch
of the house about midnight when Henry
Freese. negro, who had long been terror
to the neighborhood, slipped from behind the
house and fired five shots into the crowd.
Three of the men fell and the two others fed.
Help was obtained and the wounded men car
ried into the house, when it was found that
Charles Hamaker was fatally shot in the alb
iomen and David Stewart and Peter Can:er-
bury in the thighs.
A long standing difficulty has existed be-
tween the Hanson-Gridley families, Chicago
people living in Geneva. Ill. Threats of
shooting had frequently been made. Gridley,
while intoxicated. tried to enter Hanson's
house. The young son of the latter fired at
him twice from an upper window with shot
gun. the first charge entering Gridley's arm
and the second his abdomen. Young Hanson
is seventeen and lives with his father, who is
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
The F5giti,g in the North,~es,.

Further details of the engagement bctwoea
COOneI Offers forces and Chief Poundmaz-
ers Indians show the fight lasted seven
hours. The indians used musKetS, war clubs,
spears. bows and arrows, and every c0nceiv-
able we;A BON o. warfare. No mention is made
IN the dispatches of the killed AMI wounded
being brought back. and it is judged from the
hasty march back that they were eft LChind.
HO!h ny but the lat extremity would induce
Col. otter to leave them behind No one has
any doubt now that bloody Indian will
follow. The QucappeIle indians are reported
to have risen and left the Scherye CrOwlOOt,
chief of the BIackfeet, is related TO Pound
maker. and will. it is said. Join him aIainst
the WINES The Dominion government and
OF. otter are blamed for not securing the
ransom of Factor Mclean and other white
c. ptveS from the Indians before prec p.ta-
ting matters. Private advices from CIarks
Crossing say Middleton had begun his adj
vance, and Dattle is expecteI at any mo-
ment.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14

A BELLE OF THE RINK.-A merchant of Ta
eumseh was in the city yesterday in search of
his wife, who left him three weeks ago, pro-
fessedly to visit her sister-in-law in Iowa.
The husband supplied her with all of the
money and new clothes that she wanted, and
supposed that she had gone to visit as she
said, but after letter and telegram to her
had been unanswered he telegraphed to his
brother-in-law and found that the wife mad
not been there.
The wife, who married when she had just
entered her teens, is viVacious and pretty
brunette, and since their child, little boy,
now three years old. was born, the husband
has obligingly stayed at home evenings
with the baby TO allow his wife to go
with her brother to parties and enter
ta1nmentS. During the past winter the wife
has teen confirmed victim OF the TO Ter
skating craze and constant patron of the
c'erk more agreeable than that of her brother
and her conduct created SO much talk in he
little town that the husband Ii tie over three
weeks ago asserted himself and insisted that
she should abandon the rink. The wife took
it so much to heart that she was ill for three
days, and upon recovering proposed the trip
Ito her siSter-in-law S. and departed, leaving
the baby with her mother.
Some OF the neighborS assert that the wife
has eloped with the skating clerk but the
husband will not believe and trusts that he
ton. and induce her TO return to his home
But he has no idea where she is and has gone
to Council Bluffs in search of her.-[Umaha
Herald.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14

Mr.. Gundlefnger, OF Nebraska City, is lying
very low, the result of injuries sustained by q
barrel of Oil falling on him.
This lie the way they do in Red Cloud, ac-
cording to the Argus: "A trio named Daley,
Hall and Johnson, all swindlers and dead
beats, caught j. B. Kelter Tor tenderfoot for
a better name) to the tune OF $50 on Saturday
last. Our efficient sheriff was notified and
very soon had one of the beautiful group in
custody, and when the fellow was brought up
before Judge Yeiser his honor promptly said
$50 and costs is your punishment, besides re-
turning the amount obtained from the vic
tim All of which was complied with. Red
Cloud is certainly not healthy place for such
characters.
The Odd Fellows of Friend have decided to
put up substantial building this year.
The Sons of Veterans of Dorchester talk of
erecting monument in the cemetery to the
memory of the unknown desd"-soldiers
who died in the room and whose graves are
unknown.
The barn of Hon. V. P. Peabody, near Ne
maha City. was recently destroyed by fire.
The following was burned: Three horses
two COWS, one calf, buggy and harness, 500
bushels OF corn, loo bushels of oats, fifteen to
twenty tons of hay, two barrels of meat, one
barrel of flour, set of carpenters tools, about
all his agricultural machinery and many
other valuable articles.
Governor Dawes has appointed the 70 low
ing ladies and gentlemen to act as delegates
to the national conference of charities and
reform, to be held at Washington, ID. c., June
4, 1855: Prof. J. A. Gillespie, Omaha; Gen. o.
o. Howard, Omaha; DIR. II. p. Mathewson
Lincoln; Mrs. o. c. DinsmoOr, Omaha; Mrs.
Angie f. Newman, Lincoln.
Large parties are being organized in north
ern Kansas to go into western Nebraska,
some for permanent settlement and others to
secure timber culture entries.
The Ninth cavalry, colored regiment, is
coming from the south to be stationed at
various posts in the Department of the Platte
The boy Charley Daley, under treatment at
St Josephs hospital Omaha, for a malady
said to be hydrophobia, is dead.
W. S. Stretch. an old-time newspaper man,
is about to start daily paper at Falls City.
Mr.. Lewis Wood, near Table Rock, is GU,
four stacks of hay by the fire fiend.
A little twoyear-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Rist, of Pawnee county, fell into
tub of scaldng hot water and burned itself
one suffered greatly for several hours, when
death relieved it from torture.
James Loeb took to Pawnee City seventeen
wolf scaps and thereby placed S34 down in
his jeans.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
CAPITAL BRIEFS.

The comptroller OF the currency has ap-
pointed Kent X. Hayden, of Omaha, TO be
national bank examiner. He will be assigned
to the district of Kansas and Nebraska.
Lieutenant Commander Nichols. command
ing the "Pinta," writes TO the navy depart
ment from SItka. Alaska, undertake of March
3lst, and says the Chiliots are somewhat un-
easy and say they will have no more white
men among them. Russian citizens and mis-
sionarles have been having some trouble
owing to the alleged encroachment of the
missionaries on lands claimed to be within
the town units. The matter eliminated in
an injunction prohibiting missionaries doing
work until the case is settled by the court.
The president has appointed Horatio p.
Lowry to be quartermaster in the United
States marine corps, with the rank of major,
and Richard S. Column to be assistant quarter.
master with the rank of captain.
Secretary whitney has written to John,
Roach repeating his demand for another trial
trip of the Dolphin. The secretary is under
stood to have stated in unequivocal terms
the necessity for another trial trip before the
vessel can be accepted.
The district authorities are enforcing the
new gambling law with great vigor. a young
man was fined in the police court 800 and
sentenced to Jail for one day for having per-
mitted game of seven-up to be played in his
bedroom. The game was of an entirely So
cial character. The police apparently claim
the right to enter houses without notice to
enforce the law.
Col Moneypenny, Indian commissioner I'M
der President Buchanan, has arrived to assist
in pushing the charges against Agent McGil.
licuddy.
Capt. Louis Brechemin, assistant surgeon
department of Dakota, has been ordered to
relieve Major James HI. Bill, surgeon, depart
ment of the Platte, who becomes a member
of the army medical examining board at New
York city.
Postmaster-General Villas dolTed his coat q
few nights ago and signed the appointments
of one hundred postmasters.
President Cleveland will hereafter receive
no callers on Saturday. He finds it necessary
to devote at least one working day of every
week to the transaction of public business
without interruption.
VIM. b. Mcconnell, of Fargo, Dakota, has
been appointed TO be associate justice in Da-
kota, vice \. a. Hudson, whose commission
has expired.
Advertisements win soon be issued from
the navy department for proposals and plans
for the construction of the four new nava
vessels which were authorized by congress.
The naval advisory. board will not be con
Gected in any way with the construction of
these vessels. The new vessels will consist OF
two cruisers, of not less than 5000 nor more
than $3.50 tons displacement costing, exclu-
5ve OF armament, Sl,l00,OJ0 each; one heavily
armed 9unboat OF about 1000 tons displace-
mcnt, costing not more than $3.50, 900, and one
light gunboat Of about 500 tons, costing
S215OOO.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

Ponca capitalists are building number of
cottages to rent.
The police of Omaha have been raiding the
opium points of that city.
Thieves broke into the residence of Rev.
Father Cusson at Nebraska City, but only
secured small amount of money.
During recent storm Thomas Harris barn.
In Maple Creek precinct, Colfax county, was
struck by lightning and one of his horses
killed. Although the barn was filled with hay,
some Of which lay on the beam along which
the fluid passed, it was not fired. and Mr.. H.
did not know that it had been hit until next
morning The horse was insured for hum
dred dollars.
Schuyler has been passing through mad
dog scare. The upheaval has, however, about
subsidized and the canine is again allowed to
and come in accordance with his own swee
will.
The Talmage Tribune learns that Rev. Tan
ner, for the past eight years pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran church, of Usage pre-
cinct Otoe connty, has received and accepted
q call to go to India as missionary. Rev.
Tanner is dearly loved by the German peas
antry of Usage, and his going will be sad
loss to their religious and social circles.
Eight young wolves were recently captured
three miles west of Weeping Water.
The matrimonial market in Otoe county was
never better. The bachelor ranks are thin
ing out at rate astonishing to the natives.
The creamery near Dorchester is making
arrangements to commence operations at an
early day.
Dorchester reports more fruit trees deliv-
cred in that vicinity than ever before in the
history of the town
Fifty prairie scho oners passed through
wisner last week, the majority bound for the
White river country.
A strange woman arrived in Omaha few
days ago, destitute and apparently very Ill.
Arrangements were made by the authorities
for taking her to the county poor house. On
her arrival there the woman was found un.
conscious, and at her side lay living, healthy
child but few minutes old. Mother and
child were removed from the vehicle and
given comfortable quarters in ward in the
almshouse.
Eighteen obliQue-eyed Celestia.s stood up
before Judge Stenberg a. Omaha last week to
answer the charge of being keepers of opium
joints or smokers of shop" The obtained Q
continuance for a few days and readily fur
nished bail in certificates of deposits or So
gold pieces.
A confidence man was taken in by the
authorities at Omaha the other day. He had
on his person big roll of money issued by
the Confederate states in the early days of the
war.
Fred Stuhberg, a German, from Illinois,
went to bed the other night in an Omaha
hotel, and after turning OF the gas gain
turned it on. He was found next morning SO
far gone that the doctors could not save him.
Adams county, says the Hasting Democrat,
Is not only recognized as great grain and
stock producing county. but she also has the
faculty Of producing more newiy-born people
in q less time than any county in the state.