Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15

JOHN IIANE1 udS iColS uCu I1c pOblLlSl
of master mechanic on the B., z. & c
road
THE Daughters of Rebecca, Bellaire
will hold festival on the 23d and 24tf
inSts.
The Cambridge oil and gas compan )
has let the coatract for well in thai
place.
HOUSE cleaning has commenced, anc
the same stale old jokes are being re-
printed.
LAST Friday, April 9, was the 2lst an.
niyefsary of Lees surrender at Appor
mattox.
The hens are now working on two
big contracts-Easter eggs and crop OF
spring chickens.
THERE is always a silver lining to
eYerything-spring poetry was nipped in
the bad by the snow.
WILL do you good to look through F.
Troll s. Sons store room. They are a
credit to St. Clairsville. 15.1t
THE assessor is out on his peregrina
tions, seeing what lis fellow citizens
ought to pay taxes upon.
THERE has not much been said lately
about the fruit crop, SO we are to pre-
sume it will be abundant.
On Sunday, April 25, the Bellaire Odd
Fellows will hear a sermon by Rev Il F
Keller, of the NJ E church.
MEASLES are epidemic at Fairview,
Sewellsville, Smyrna and vicinity. Sew
eral cases have proved fatal.
Miss EMMA R. RICE formerly of this
place, has been appointed to clerkshIp
in the U. s. Navy department.
ALL last week the fields were covered
with the snow, and the roads were al
most impossible on account of mud.
THE talk of work commencing On the
Ohio Valley railroad is being revived
Congressional election approaches.
THE ladies of Rose Hill A. NJ E.
church, of Bellaire, are arranging for a
May festival. to be held on May and s.
DAGS-Specialp prices to country merchants
III for good COUNTRY GATHERED RAGS. Ad-
dress, T. o. JOHNSON, Newark, .. 25-3m*
ASK your neighbOr about the Pearl
shirt. F. Troll & Sons is the only place
in st. Clairsville where you can get
them. 4152t
IT is now positively stated that Albert
Meter, Cincinnati banker, has pur-
chased the Martins Ferry water works
bonds.
THE Tribune has been figuring on the
amount of money expended in the sixty
saloons in Bellaire, and places it at $2,-
790 per week.
The cantata, Lilly Bell, the Culprit
Fay" will be rendered by some of the
pupils of the Bellaire schools, on the 10th
and Both insts.
THE natural gas men, who are prepar
ing to furnish the factories of the river
towns with gas, have headquarters at
Martin's Ferry.
CARPETS and Oil Cloth, largest stock
we ever had; in fact, everything that be-
longs to carpet department.
415-2t F. TROLL s. Sons.
THE locomotive of the Wheeling Creek
coal works was sent to the shops at Lo-
rain. which stops operations at the mines
for three weeks.
MRS JOHANNA BRIcELAND. mother of
Wm. Briceland. of Martins Ferry, died
on Wednesday of last week. from pneu-
monia, aged about 60 years.
ELwooD TAYLOR, son of Jesse Taylor,
of Crabapple, who went to Kansas some
months ago, died there, and his remains
were brought home fer interment.
STELLA SMITH, formerly of Warnock,
but now of Caldwell, whose son died in
the war, has received a pension of ST.
009.6O. and will get S12 per month.
WE have received copy of the annual
report of the board of managers of the
Ohio penitentiary, sent US by George W.
Weir, life convict from this place.
In connection with the celebrated
Balls health corset, wenow have Thomp-
sons glove fitting. the best two corsets
in the world.
l5-2t F. TROLL & Sons.
THE feather bed renovators are abroad
in the land. Last spring some of them
took off feathers to ren0vate and forgot
to bring them back. Better to be sure
about it.
THE hest looking young woman in
town and the one having the most ad'
mirers does net don her finest suit and
parade the street all afternoon to attract
attention.
JOHN OvINGToN, c. & p brakeman
attempted to get on the pilot of an en-
gine in Bellaire, Thursday, but missed
htc fnofipo a1d raooived q oarioDe mnund
on the left leg.
On application of the directors, and by
order of the common pleas court, the
name of the Htna Iron and Nail Co, OF
Bridgeport, has been changed to the
Etna Iron and Steel Co.
DRESS GOoDs in endless variety, wash
goods. mixed goods and all wool novel;
ties. Fine black all wool Dress Goods q
speciality.
15-2t +. TROLL q Sons.
THIS springs "sweet girl graduates
of the Bellaire schools, faced the county
examiners here on Saturday. They are
required to pass examination before tho
county board, to entitle them to certifi
cate of graduation.
FROM the report of Joseph Holmes, oi
New Athens. in the Cadiz Republican
we take the following March weather
items: The highest temperature was Y
on the 10th; lowest, 10 on the I'd; mean
for the month, 1868, being 10 degrees
warmer than same month last year
rain or snow fell on II days a total OF
rain and melted snow of 2K inches
There were IA cloudy, Is fair and clear
days.