Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-03-11


slfthe 60 in Bellaire, for the past week
BRIDGEPORT will vote this spring OF
proposition to erect a new town bal
and jail.
T. W. EMERSON. ESQ, lectures on the
Mound Builders" at Bridgeport, thi:
evening.
HARRY SEDGwICK, of Martins Ferry
has returned from Cleveland, full
hedged NJ. D.
GROVER is to be the new name Of Til.
tOnvilIs. above Martins Ferry, in honor
OF the President.
FIFTEEN hundred people attended the
Catholic church bazaar in 0ellaire, on
Saturday evening.
BURGLARS got fine gold watch frsm
the house of Martin McGinty, Bellalre,
on Thursday night.
WHEELING per cent bonds Of 1885,
to the amount of $4,000, were sold On
Thursday, at premium.
SUNDAY was a bright spring day, but
"the beautiful" fell during the night, and
pretty nuch all day Monday.
Dr.. WIN. PIPER, of Glencoe. is the new
trustee of the Children's Home. vice
David ConrOw, term expired.
CONRAD LONG. the Martins Ferry
hard ware man, will erect three story
brick business block this season.
TIE Bridgeport experimental gas
works, to manufacture gas from slack
coal, is said to be great success.
SAMUEL STRAIN and David Williams
are the Republican nominees for council
from the Sd ward, Martins Ferry.
A MEMS prayer meeting has been or
ganized in the NJ. Z. church. All are
invited; meets each Friday evening.
Thousands of testimonials certify to the
prompt cure of all bronchial and lung affec-
tons, by the use of Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
some Binety new books have been ad
ded to the Bridgeport school library, in
cludipg copy of Chambers Encyclo-
pedia.
IT seems that natural gas is to be piped
to the Wheeling and Bellaire factories.
Contracts binding for three years are to
be made.
HARRY E. ALEXANDER, of this place,
student at Westinghouse efferson college,
has been chosen editor-in-chief Of the
College Monthly.
PURITY" Truth" and "Love," are
the strange devices displayed on silk ban
ners, in Hon. Ross J. Alexander's Law
office, al Bridgeport.
THE Sunday Register correspondent
mentions W. o. Umstead and A. Will
liaIns, as Democratic candidates for mar
shal of st. Clairsville.
THOMAS ATwELL and Napoleon Cox,
both of Etnaville, had fight in Mar
tins Ferry rink, when the latter threw
the former, breaking his leg.
M L Blair, alderman 9th ward, Scranton,
Pa, stated Nov. q, 1888: He had used DR.
Thomas Electric Oil for sprains, burns, cuts,
bruises and rheumatism; cured every time.
Rev. DIR. TRUMAN, of Bridgeport, is
home from his pastoral charge at Wells
vile, because of illness. He is IA years
old, and has been preaching for 55 years.
The swapping boys Of the Bellairs COB
let works struck Monday, for an increase
from 80 cents to 81 per day. There are
35 of them. and the works were closed
down.
Rev. SLATER Blown, of Colerain tp.,
on Sabbath last commenced a series of
sermons at Maynard, on the Realities
of He'll" He will continue on alternate
Sundays.
Take Ayers Sarsaparilla in the spring of
the year to purify the blood, invigOrate the
system, excite the liver to action, and restore
the healthy tone and vigor of the whole phys
sical mechanism.
PRIVATE DALzELL. who is said to be
broken in health, is trying to get his pen
sion increased from Sc to $50 per month.
His father, aged S5, is in Washington.
looking after the matter.
s. G. GRIFFITH, teacher Of No. 8. Great
Western. closes this week. Mr.. G. is a
successful instructor, but his school has
been considerably held back by measles
and other illness among the pupils.
THE strike at the Bellaire steel plant
was settled Monday. The wages of day
laborers was advanced from 81 25 to
81 80, and the night hands were advanc-
ed from 81 40 to 81 so per day.
SAM JONES made the following remark
in a sermon at Chicago. and it is 80 APP
piicable everywhere, we print it: Most
of yon fellows say you belong to the
church, but you act like the church be-
longs to you"
The B. & o. railroad is threatening to
tear 9p its track through this place and
build a new line through Georgetown.
An engineer will be here this month to
survey the new route, and stakes have
already been ordered.-Cambridge JEFF.
Mrs. LYDIA A. ARNOLD, wife of W
81. Arnold, editor of the CadiZ Sentinel,
died on Sunday of last week, from pneH-
monia. We extend to our editorial
brother our heartfelt sympathy in his
great bereavement, the loss of a loving
companion of twenty years.
The ordinance to tax shows, &C., came
up in Bellaire council last week, for final
passage. The city fathers got into a
fearful wraDgle about it. indulging in
some very expressive language. The or
dinance was finally amended so as to tax
shows, skating performances, concert sa-
looms, &c, one dollar for each day, and
then passed.
PlOws! PlOWs!
R. B. Caldwell, Louisville, Ohio. has
transferred the agency for the Wizard
Chilled Plow, Batavia, N. Y, to Bentley
& Coffiand, Bruce station, who take
pleasure 10 announcing that they have
on bands stock Of these celebrated
plows. with points and repairs Call
and examine the Wizard Plow" before
buying. 1t is the best plow made. ga st
FROM the report of Joseph Holmes, of
New Athens, in the CadiZ Republican,
we extract the following concerning the
February weather: Mercury was highest
on the 11th. being Sc degrees above zero
lowest on the 5th, s below; rain or snow
fell on IL days, a total fall of rain and
melted snow of 1.94 inches, being an inch
below the average; there were II cloudy,
IL fair and 3 clear days