Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-16
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
THE latest joke on the stove pipe
to put it up without swearing.
TEE glass workers of Bellaire ar
leaving for work at other places.
Mrs. CORA E. LITTLEToN, of Bellair,
died on last Thursday, aged 20 years.
THE time of the sweet girl graduate
is almost here. No patent on this item.
SOME of the citizens of Bridgeport
want the town divided into three wards
BELLAIRE council will be asked tt
donate toward the new city directory
and REMEMBERING of streets.
THE Bellaire colored folks will hold
a grand masked carnival at the ElysiaI
rink on the evening of the Goth inst.
THE St. Clairsville and Cadiz mail
route has been let to Messrs. Samuel
Shrives and Jas. Morris, of New Athens
A LETTER addressed to Franz Cer4
venka, supposed to have been mailed in
Poland, is held in the st. Clairsville
poStofnce.
Two CAR LOADS Western grain-ear
corn and choice white oats, on hand and
for sale at OsBoRNE's Grocery and feed
store. 1t.
TEN degrees below the freezing point,
amt so bad for the second week in April.
Mercury marked that two mornings last
week.
THE Etna mill, Bridgeport, has re-
ceived an order from California, which
will keep some parts of the mill busy
until June.
AT last weeks meeting of the Martin s
Ferry council. an ordinance was passed
establishing board of three trustees of
the water works.
JOS DUFF, an employe of the Bellaire
steel works was seriously burned one
day last week, and was taken to the
Wheeling hospital.
USE the 'Sherwin Williams Paints. No
soap mixture or so-called chemical
paints, but pure honest goods. Sold by
4-16 st. II. West g. Son.
REV. ELIJAH HENDERSON, pastor of
the second NJ. E. church, Bellaire, was
reappointed to his charge in that place,
at the recent conference held at Lex>
ington.
a CoLERAIN correspondent says he
has it on good authority that charter
has been applied for, for a railroad from
Kidds mines to Cadiz, by way of Har-
risville.
IT is now the City of Martins Ferry.
At the recent election the proposition to
advance the town to city of the
second class was adopted by vote of
$50 to 90.
AT their meeting on Monday, the
township trustees rented the Office of d.
H. Milligan, ESQ.,, in the West block,
where they will hold their meetings
hereafter.
FoREPAUGH's bill posters were ID
town Monday, and every available space
is bow covered with paper, telling that
the show will be in Wheeling on the
27th inst.
The. Wheeling & Pittsburgh coal
company has contract for $4,000 tons
of coal to be delivered this summer. This
will keep all mines on the c., l.. & w.
road IN operation.
JOHN ROBINSON. of Georgetown, has
the contract for furnishing the stone for
the new nail works at Benwocd, and
Charles LandkrohD, of Bellaire, has the
contract for the masonry.
JOHN ACTON, of Hendrysburg, has
become mentally deranged. He was ali
industrious student, and too close appli-
cation to his studies, if is said, unbal-
anced his mind Gainesville Republican.
THE schedule on mail route from St
Clailsville to Uniontown has been
changed. Mails now leave Uniontown
at a. m., and arrive at ST. ClairsviIle at
IL As a. N. Leave st. Clairsville at 8 d.
m., and arrive at UniontoWn at As pm.
THOSE who claim to be posted are
looking for splendid crops this year
Their theory is that very cold weather
with plenty of snow mellows the ground
kills insects and their eggs, and en-
riches the earth.
On Monday of this week, Sup't Green,
of the Childrdn's Home, received large
number of shrubs and eVergreens. from
his friend, Gen. Tidball, of Fortress
Monroe. They will be used to beautify
the Home grounds.
E. w. JOHNSON, formerly of this place
was the Democratic candidate for treas
urer of CadiZ township, at the recent
election. Of course he was beaten, a.
that township is reliably Republican, buI
he ran few votes ahead of his ticket.
JOHN V. SHORE, of Mt. Pleasant, O.
was arrested in Wheeling last Saturday
on complaint of George Z. Stifel a. Co.
charged with stealing various article.
from their store. He was held in tn,
sum of $500, and was released on bail.
EHUGH TARBoT, an employe of tn,
Wheeling creek mines, Bridgeport. wa
so seriously injured last Friday by tn,
coal cars passii G over him, that one o
his legs had to be amputated. Drs. Wag
ener and Todd performed the operation
THE Gould sisters. at the rink on Fri
day evening drew about as large Grove
as was ever in the building at one time
The little ladies were splendid artists oI
the dizzy wheels, and were warmly ap
plauded, especially in some of thel
double acts.
AT the Democratic election held il
Monroe county, on the 9th inst, to nom
mate county ticket, 1852 votes wer
polfed. The candidates were numerou:
and in some cases 800 votes nominated
Lyons was nominated for Represents
tive. and Hamilton, candidate for re
nomination was deserted because he ha
voted for Payne for Senator.