Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-03-04
Town and Country.

JUST four weeks from next Monda
until the spring elections.
TEE Barnesville bicycle club has bee
organized with seven members.
II is just one year to-day since Cleve
land was inaugurated President.
SOME of the township schools are clos
ing their winter terms this week.
S. R HEATH has been appointed post
master at Heath, Belmont county.
BELMONT has two pool rooms, whicI
seems to be enough for that place.
WM. COATES is proprietor of a new
shooting gallery in Martins Ferry.
GOVERN your thoughts when alone
and your tongue when in company.
THOMAS O'HARA. of Bellaire. died
last Wednesday. from consumption.
GAINESVILLE wants one of the school,
examiners appointed from that place.
TIE LaBeIle glass works, Bridgeport,
is having big trade on fancy shades.
THE farmers of this county ara in
good spirits over the wheat prospects
The small boy is already counting the
days until the regular spring vacation.
CLOVER SEED for sale by NJ. Y. Rusk,
Fsirpoint. D. 2'25 ct.
AUNT NANCY SHIP, an aged colored
lady at Barnesville, died from pneumo-
mia.
n ,,iI h,, k,,ir
this spring; the population is Increas-
ing.
A CHAUTAQUA reading circle is a re-
Gently organized institution at Barnes
vile.
PROF. GEORGE DAVIS, of Olivet, has a
singing class of go members at Loyds-
vile.
WHETHER to license or prohibit the
concert saloons, is the question in Bel.
laire.
THE weather prophets say this will be
one of the severest months in the calen-
dar year.
Mrs. MANLY FLOYD, a colored lady
of Martins Ferry, died on Wednesday
of last week.
THE Cald well wooden mill is filling an
order for 10000 wooden skirts for Coll
umbus firm.
THE new pike from Martins Ferry to
Mt. Pleasant will be completed by the
first of June.
THE Orrison farm of 90 acres. in
Wayne tp.. has been sold to Joseph Will
cox for $1,000.
TRAMPs are numerous in Bellaire, and
are given five minutes to leave the cor
porate limits.
AN old saw: "It March is full of wind
and rain. the farmer will have a good
crop of grain"
REV. c. c. HAYES, of Bridgeport, has
been authorized to sOlemnize marriages
in West Virginia.
THERE are only 2S days in February,
but it managed TO crowd in little of all
kinds of weather.
PITTSBURGH parties have the machin-
cry at Heatherington's, in Bellaire, to
drill for gas or oil.
CoNeER, the Monroe county wife mur-
derer in the penitentiary, is in the prison
asylum for the insane.
1t is to be hoped that the late cold
wave is the tail end of winter. The win
ter has been long enough.
VIM B. GRAHAM, an old citizen of
Washington to-, is slowly recovering
from stroke of paralysis.
THE colored Baptist church. at Bridge
port, has been engaged in a successful
revival for the past month.
HARRY EARL. aged six years, son of
Robert Maiden. of GAINESVILLE, died from
Group. on Monday of last week.
SMITH s. Sons. of Bridgeport, received
the last consignment of machinery on
Friday, for their new roller mill.
A BELLAIBE paper is responsible for
the item that St. Ciairsville will soon
be visited by the Salvation Army.
JOHN MCANDREws. working Oh the
b. d 0. track at Barnesville, was struck
by train, and laid up for several days:
TIE spring poet will soon put in an
appearance. Our bOuncer goes by steam,
and be or she will be summarily dealt
with.
V. Il. ROBINSON. and his sons Samuel
and William. with their families, left
Centerville last week, to seek homes in
the far west.
A PURSE of $500 was raised in Cald-
well. for Rev. E. r. Jones, in apprecia+
tion for his services in the Al. E. revival
now going on.
Miss ELLA WEBSTER, daughter of DIR.
J.V. Webster. of Flushing. has returned
home from Lake Erie Seminary, on ac-
count of illness.
PENNYRoYAL Posi- G A R, was mus+
tered in at Fairview on Thursday even
ing. by Commander d d Taylor, of the
Cambridge Post.
THE increasing business of the Flush.
ing bank has necessitated the employ
ment of teller. Ephraim Holloway
fills the position.
FRANK EVANS. of Waverly. O., for.
mer Barnesyills boy. has been licensed to
preach. and will enter the ministry OF
the NJ. E. church.
THos. BIRD, of Martins Ferry, has en-
tered suit against Mayor Mitchell anC
Constable Welsh, for alleged illegally
impending his cow
A DIFFERENCE-The devil AS a gen
tleman differs from some other gentle
men in that ne has cloven foot Will,
they have a cloven breath.
THE reason given for Senator Hoguei
opposition to the Children's Home pix,
bill. is that he is respecting the wishes o
large majority of his constituents.
r. b. MITCHELL, city treasurer o
Bridgeport, had an alteration Thurs
day, with Justice +. H. Robinson, strik
ing bin in the face. He was fined 81
and costs for the assault.