Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-23
Town and Country.
GLORIOUS fall weather.

GLORIOUS fall weather.
FIVE weeks from next Tuesday is the
election.
YESTERDAY, 22d inst, was Emancipa.
tion Day.
THE skating pond with thin ice looms
into view.
THE cricket has given his fall an
nouncement.
STRAW HATS and seersuckers have
been called in.
Doc DAYS are over, but we still have
the cat nights.
THE chestnut burrs will soon begin to
crack. This is not chestnut.
THE picnic and excursion season, ex,
cept for the nut harvest, is over.
THE school bell rings forth as fam H.
iarly as before the long vacation.
On September %, 1885, one year ago
to-day, there was light snow fall.
THE Bellaire Evening Tribune enter
ed upon its sixth year last Thursday.
THE Richland township trustees meet
in regular monthly session on Saturday.
THE total value of the personal prop
erty in Guernsey county, is $3,125,016.
The political war paint is mixed. and
the orator will soon be abroad in the
land.
THE new c. & P. depot at Martin S
Ferry was first occupied by the company
on Monday.
CHARLES CoNRow, of Flushing, is up
in the world. He measures six feet,
seven inches.
The grocers' union of Wheeling have
resolved to close their stores at p. m.,
the year round.
MARTINS FERRY and Bellaire are
both making efforts for the establish
ment of a pottery.
THE early flight of the migratory
birds to the South, leads to the prophecy
for an early winter.
The Mayor of Bellaire paid S16S.SO
into the city Treasury, as months fine
and license business.
The wife of Senator Solomon Hogue,
is still quite ill with typhoid fever, at
her home in Somerton.
SAMUEL ROBERTS, a Bellaire miner,
became insane last week. He was re>
moved to the asylum.
IRON columns have been put in the
Union school buildings at Barnesville,
to give additional support to same.
Don't forget the election next week.
Prohibition yes" means that saloons
must go from st. Clairsville corporation.
EVERY one writes their name plainly
to subscription list for some charitable
purpose, even if it is unreadable other
wise.
BELLAIRE council deferred action on
the Prohibition matter until the Dow
law was passed upon by the supreme
court.
WORK has been commenced on the
new machine shop of, the b., z. & C.
road, near GAINESVILLE. The building will
be 40x100.
THE New Lisbon Buckeye State was
35 years old last week. 1t is a good,
newsy local paper, and soundly Repub-
lican in politics.
A FULL vote should be out at the
Prohibition election next Tuesday. The
council should be informed what their
constituents want
THE Farmers Home Mutual Live
Stock Insurance Association, of Bellaire,
have filed articles of incorporation with
the Secretary of State.
THE Harrison county Medical Society
held an interesting meeting in Cadiz
last week. They meet at New Athens
on Tuesday, November 9.
j. r. PURNELL, M. l.. Blackburn, and
w. c. Cochran, of Bellaire, are In att
tendance this week at the Knights TEN.
plar conclave in st. Louis.
THE first heat of sheet-iron ever rolled
in the Ohio Valley, with natural gas for
fuel, was turned out at the Standard
Mill, Bridgeport. on Friday.
JOHN B. briggs, ESQ, of Monroe, was
nominated for common pleas judge, by
acclamation. by the Democrats in con
vention at Bellaire, Thursday.
J. w. WALTON, of Barnesville, recent.
ly appointed Special Pension Examiner,
has been located at Harrisburg, Pa,
where he will remove his family.
CAPT. J. B. FERGUSON, the lawyer re-
Gently sent from Cambridge to the Ohio
Penitentiary, was pardoned on Tuesday
of last week. He will go to Lancaster
A STREET fight, an assault by man
upon his wife, and four or five drunks
were the weekly grist of the police
court cases at GAINESVILLE, as published
in the papers last week.
WORD has been received at Flushing
that Benson Kirk. who left that place
for India as missionary teacher seven
years ago, was dead. He was taken ill
with cholera on July 30, at Cawnpore,
and died in few hours.
THE apples mentioned last week, have
been beaten. Mr.. NJ. G. Overbaugh, of
this place, has left some specimens of
the Mammoth Pippin" at this Office, one
of which measured 141S inches in cir
cumference, and two of them weighed 2
pounds and ounces. Next!