Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-20
A NEW ware house is being added to
The West Wheeling paper mills.

THE commissioners are holding A Sc,
sion as board Of equalization.
REV. JAMES THoBURN and Miss Bell
are expected to arrive in Bellaire TIN
week from India
THE Martins Ferry council have de
cided to issue no orders, unless there i
money to pay them.
POTATO BUGS were here before th'
tubers were up, and are now engaged II
moving them down.
BELLAIRE now has seventy saloons
If they all stay, the new tax law viii b'
bonanza to that city.
A NUMBER of Bridgeport capitalists
have recently invested in land near 81
Andrews Bay, Florida.
THERE was a white frost and cOnsiG
cradle ice on Monday morning. but nC
seri- US damage resulted.
THE Belaire graduating class has fol
MOTTO, "MeliOra post rae which means
Better things hereafter"
REV. W. H. HASKELL has been select.
Clairsville, on Decoration day.
WHITNEY is the name of a new post
Office Just established. about two miles
east OF Warnock, at MarbletOWn.
LETTER HEADS, packet-heads. bill>helds,
statements, cards, envelopes, etc, II endless
variety at this office. Samples furnished.
A COLD wave visited this vicinity on
Saturday. Fires were comfortable on
that day, and all the fore part OF this
week.
THE graduating exercises at Martin )
Ferry, occur on May IS. The class is
composed of four young ladies and three
young gentlemen.
THE East Richland dramatic club will
give an entertainment at the Vineyard
Hill school house. on Thursday and Frl>
day evenings of this week.
D. w. LOGAN. Of Bellaire, while help
ing to unload some timbers at the win
dow glass works on Friday, was badly
injured by log falling upon him.
D. W. COOPER, postnaster-elect OF
BeIlaire, has not yet assumed the duties
of the Office, on account of illness. He
is now recuperatiug IN Monroe county.
SAMUEL WHARTON. of Somerset town
ship. and N C Mitchell, Esq, Of Pease,
have been drawn to serve as petit jurors
at the June term of The U ) Court at
Columbus.
THE natural gas pipe line, to supply
the factories in the river towns OF this
county, is being laid rapidly, and they
will all doubtless have natural gas by
1st.
THE Bellaire council last week ap-
pointed John b Haney and Henry Laud-
krohn to he members of the City Board
OF Equalization for three years, and Jos
E Dober for one year.
On Friday, the Secretary OF State is
sued charter to the Young Mems In
dependent Political and Educational A.
sociation." the charter members Uf which
are several men of Etnaville.
T. J. IRWIN, Jacob Pierce, Peter O'Con-
nell and John r Keliocb. will represent
Ferry at the ninth annual con-
vention of the A G W U, at Hamilton,
Ontario. on July ).
We carry full line of stationery for COm~
mercsl printing, and our facilities for JOB
printing being unexcelled, we are enabled to
supply the public wants on short notice and
at reasonable rates.
FIFTY ACRE FARM FOR RENT, near
Flushing, Ohio; good land, in good con-
dition, and sufficient buildings Terms,
a 4 Ii az ArAg
W. Nichols, st. Clairsyiile, O. / 5 tt.
THOMAS SAUNDERS, whose body was
found i'll the river near the Belmont
mill. Wheeling. some time since, has
brother at Martins Ferry and son at
Etnaville. 1t turns cut that the drown
ed man had IS 900 insurance on his life.
WM. MCKNIGHT was severely bitten
by one of his horses on last Monday, says
the Barnesvllle Enterprise. The vicious
BRUTE took huge piece of flesh out OF
his side and laid bare the bones on one
of his hands. The wounds are ugly and
painful.
THE Wheeling bread wagons visited
Bellaire. The bakers petitlUned the
grocers' union to not handle the foreign
bread. This the grocerS agreed to, pro-
vided the Bellaire bakers buy their flour
at home, and this is why the Bellaire
mlllers laugh.
IN the case of Rees & HOff, of this
place, VS. Constantine Feetever, of Mar
tins Ferry, before Justice II I Howell,
at Bridgeport, on Saturday afternoon, in
which the plaintiffs sued for judgment
Tor professional services, judgment was
rendered IN their favor.
MRS. JOHN C. HoFER, of Bellaire,
smelled escaping gas in her room, and
lighted a match to apply to the joints OF
the pipe to find the leak. Considerable
gas had escaped, and the whole room
was Immediately in blaze. 1t was eX
tinguished, however. with but little
damage.
THE miners in all the B & 0 mines in
this county-at Bellaire. Franklin and
Quincy-came out Saturday morning,
refusing to mine coal to be shipped over
the river, where there is a strike. They
will agree to mine coal for all other con
tracts. but say they will not work against
the West Va. strikers.
Notice.
The wool growers association Of
Wheeling township, will hold meeting
in Uniontown, on Saturday, May 29th.
A good attendance is desired.
w NJ BRoKAw, DAVID LYON,
Secretary. President.
A NEWSPAPER with mathematical
bent, has made the curious calculation
that two drinks of whisky cost pound
and half of beefsteak; two beers "A din
ner of mutton chops; one cocktail an
egg plant or head of caulill0wer. "What
will you take?" stands for a nice oyster
stew for the whole family on Sunday
morning. "Set 'em up again" means
sugar in the house for month.
-Four score years and ten have not seen
the equal of Ely's Cream Balm as a remedy
for catarrh, colds in the head and hay fever;
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