Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-09-24
Town and Country.

ELECTION two weeks from next Tues
day.
The corner stone is laid, now for the
election.
FARMERS are about through with fall
wheat sowing.
CUTTING up the corn will be the next
farm work in order.
PROF. A. A. CLARK will take charge
of the Woodsfield schools, Oct. 1.
THE BARRIERS union at BeIlaire adopt
ed resolution to close on Sabbath.
A PITTSBURGH ball club downed the
Bellaire Globes 22 to on Saturday.
WARN days and cold nights are given
for the reason of the prevalence of colds.
THREE young men report catch of
35 bass from Wheeling creek, on Friday.
On October 10, General A. J. Beaver
will address the Republicans at Bellaire.
FIRES were not only agreeable. but
were q necessity on Wednesday morning.
WIN. HABERFIELD, of Wheeling. is
after He'll. of Bellaire, for $500 boat
race.
BETHEL claims to have the finest sta
ton house on the line of the B., 2. & C.
road.
The small boys hands will soon take
on the hue Of mahogany gathering
walnuts.
SLUGGER SULLIVAN is advertised to
be in Wheeling with a minstrel troupe
this week.
CHARLES FRY. Bellaire, has a patent
on fruit jar cap, which is thought to
be valuable.
WIN. FNDLEY and Bellaire City will
likely have trouble about stone quarry
of the former.
ZILoH's hall, Bellaire, has been leased
TO Cincinnati manager, who will open
il next month.
THE St. Clairsville Presbytery will
meet at Bethel church on the first Tues
day in October.
THE coal mines on the B. & o. are
again in operation, the miners receiving
80 cents per ton.
SMILEY BUCHANAN, of Barnesville,
well known here, will teach at Bsileys
Mills this winter.
WINTER fires will soon be lighted.
Sound your chimneys for defects, and
avoid CONGREGATIONS.
COUNTY fairs are coming off in vari-
Gus parts of the State, at the rate of half
dozen or so every week.
Miss MAGGIE MOORE, of East Rich>
hand, has been elected primary teacher
for the Bellaire schools.
THE cold nights are beginning to have
their effect, and the forests will soon
don their autumn robes.
ROBERT PETERS, q well known colored
man of Bellaire, died on Mopday, from
an internal hemorrhage.
JAMES HYATT, q driver at a coal
works in Bellaire, had his leg broken be-
tween two cars, on Thursday.
GAINESVILLE corporation has no debt
and S5,S50.71 in its treasury. The school
district, however, owes $4,000.
THE Martins Ferry school boards
dead lock is broken, and Daniel johnson
elected janitor at $50 per month.
ALBERT KEcK, of Benwood, going to
work Tuesday morning, was struck by a
B. & o. train and instantly killed.
The Bellaire bottle works are running
to their full capacity, with orders ahead
to keep them going the remainder of
this year.
Miss LOUISA BRANT, of Martins Ferry,
on Saturday evening, broke her arm at
one of the rinks. This Is the first one of
the season.
The Quaker City glass works have
contracted with coal firm at Quincy
for coal delivered at their works for 80
cents per ton.
CHARLES W. TROLL has purchased
Dan. McBride's back lot in the east end.
ON which he will erect residence, and
remove to town.
CHARLES CAPsTACK and Otto Pack,
of Barnesville, were arrested last week
at Cambridge, on suspicion of several
jobs of burglary.
NEXT Wednesday is the last day for
Squire Mayes and his Gretna Green
marriages. After that license is neces-
ssry in Pennsylvania.
SABBATH night twelve prisoners made
their escape from the Jefferson county
Jail at Steubenvllle. There are ho Inn
portant enes among them.
ISAAC M. RILEY. editor of the Gazette
and Democratic candidate for State Sen
ator, is seeing Harrison county people al
the Jewett Fair this week.
THE enumeration of Martins Ferry
school district is-white males S97, fe'
males s55, colored males 81, females 33
total 1,792. Last year it was 1,7S4.
FIVE boys will be employed at the Bel
laire postofice as messengers under thu
10 cent quick delivery rule. They viii
receive cents for each letter delivered
AN explosion of fire damp In the mine
of the BenwOod Iron Co., Friday. csuseC
the death of three miners. Fortunatel,
1t occurred Just after most Of the miner
bad left the bank.