Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-03-18
Town and Country.
HAVE you noticed the robins?

YESTERDAY. March II. was "St Pat
rick's Day in the morning"
THE Bellaire schools will hold vaca>
tion from March 26 to April 4.
THE discordant croak of the frog
would be sweet music just now.
WEST WHEELING is a voting precinct,
by special act Of the Legislature.
The saloons in Bellaire will be the
only places open after candle-light.
THE streets of BeIlaire will be dug up
this summer to lay natural gas pipes.
THE wOrkingmen of GAINESVILLE are
organizing into the Knights OF Labor.
THE postofice and depot in Barnes
vile have been connected by telephone.
MRS MARY KNoUFF, an aged lady of
Wayne tp, died on Sunday of last week
The Wheeling natural gas company
has contracted for 30 miles Of 1215 inch
pipe.
THE voters at Martins Ferry will have
four or five municipal tickets to select
from.
Four Barnesville firms will manufae-
ture large number of berry boxes this
spring.
r. T. HOWELL bought the furniture
OF the defuuct Bridgeport reading room
for $50.
DIR. STRAHL has decided to locate in
Quaker City, for the practice of his pro-
fessiOn.
A LOUISVILLE correspondent says the
growing wheat was injured by the late
freezing.
LEWIS MORRIS, near Barnesville. lost
q little son from measles, on Sabbath of
last week.
THE grindstone artist, who asks for
scissors to grind, is harbinger of spring
now on deck.
WARREN LODGE K. of P. dedicated
their new rooms on last Friday evening.
at GAINESVILLE.
THE convention calls at Bellaire were
printed in all the city papers, without
regard to politics.
REMOVE all decaying vegetable matter
from the cellar now, and then sprinkle
the floor with lime.
REV. BOYD will preach his farewell
sermon in the Baptist church, at Norris
town, on the 2Sth inst.
THURSDAY night, burglars made an
unsuccessful raid on several Martins
Ferry business houses.
Mr.. BERRY, of Columbiana county,
hac haGn anpOintaA GfnraLyaonar af
ser's POwhatan distillery.
PARMELIA MCDoNoUGH has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Kennon, in the
place of her deceased father.
WE would direct attention to the
statements of the St. Clairsville and
Flushing banks, in this paper.
1t is said that Rev. A. B. Fortney. of
West Wheeling, will be appointed chap
lain of the Ohio penitentiary.
THE colored Methodists at Bridgeport
have pui chased a lot. and are raising
funds to erect church thereon.
THE remonstrance against the passage
of the ChildreD's Home pike bill, was
circulated in Bellaire last week.
ABOUT 1000 citizens of Barnesville
and vicinity signed the petition for the
construction of the Children Home pike.
The Salvation Army has organized at
GAINESVILLE. and are holding daily meet
ings. They have struck good deld for
work.
REV. HIssoM closed his revival at
Burr's Mills with 20 accessions, and com,
rnnn0o6 Sabbath ..f
town.
THE Bellaire groeers who have agreed
to close early, can put in the long sum-
mer evenings watching each others
stores.
The farm of the late Joel Haines, near
Louisville, sold for $50 per acre, Selden
Haines, one of the heirs, being the pur>
chaser.
THE Louisville schools, W. c. Gilles
pie teacher, will close on Friday, with
an entertainment in the evening by the
literary.
ELDER W. G. TODD has preached his
farewell sermon at HendrYsburg. He
went to Flushing, to take charge of R
w. James store.
MARSHAL BURKE, of Bellaire, landed
Moss Davis in the county Jail, to worH
out a fine and costs, for drunk and re
sisting An officer.
THOMAS H. HUGHES. the we'll known
Wheeling merchant tailor, died sudden
1y on Wednesday of last week, from ap
oplexy, aged 63 years.
4 SLIGHT explosion at the Crysta
window glass works. Bellaire, Wednes
day last, scorched George Currans, bu
did no other damage.
SILAs CoNowAY, sent to the Ohio pen
itentiary for attempting to kill Marsha
McCOnnaughey, of Bridgeport, is EN-
ployed in the bolt department
LEWIS WooD, aged Ga years, died a
his home in Warren tp., on tbs 5th inst
after an illness Of IS months. A wifi
and ten children mourn his death.
Rev. PAINE, Presiding Elder. report
1,4OO conversions and accessions to th
M. E. church, in the Barnesville District
with several meetings still going on.
PLEASE let up Oh that chestnut abou
the year having but 325 days because tn
other 40 days are Lent. Our grandfath
ers were boys when they first heard it.
The festive candidates are now shak
Tag hands with their many friends. Th
greatest question in town seems to b,
who will the new mayer and council be
S. r. c., of Bridgeport, advertises /
the Wheeling Register, for the acquaint
ance of a young lady to marry hin
What's the matter with the Bridgepol
girls.
AT called meeting of Martins Ferr
council last week, it was ordered tha
the money for the first interest on wats
works bonds, be deposited in a Ne,
York bank.