Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-13
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
RRIDGEPORT.

Rev. Chalfant, formerly of this place,
was in attendance at Mr.. J.T. Bags fu-
neral.
Mrs. Ruth Mckinley, of Springfield,
Ohio, was present at Mr.. Bags funeral.
Mrs. Mckinley is a sister of Mrs. J. T.
Baggs, and was once a popular school
teacher here.
The many friends of Wm. F. Humes
and wife will hear with pleasure of her
return home from Sharon, Pa, much
improved in health.
Henry Helling, of Martins Ferry, has
been very i'll, but is now better.
Bridgeport Glass Works, after thor
ough repair, started up again on Tues
day.
Henry koehnlein, prince of good
fellows, lost very valuable horse, by
snag in his breast.
A young man at the 1Etna Mill had
the misfortune to get his arm caught in
the cogs of wheel, crushing it, render
ing amputation necessary.
W. W. Baggs will take his brother
Thompson's place in the R. J. Baggs
mill.
Oscar Townsend and J. L. Green, Of
the Cleveland, Lorain S Wheeling road,
were down on Monday.
The unusual symptoms and strange
capers of Mr.. Butcher, one of our popu-
lar school teachers, says all are to be at
tributed-not to "a theory" nor vet is it
"a condition" as Grover would say, but
to the fact that it is great big girl.
DEATH OF j. T. BAGGS.
However familiarly we talk of the in
evitable that awaits us all, and try to
reconcile ourselves to the fact that 'we
all do fade as leaf"-we all must die
still, somehow, when the dark angel
spreads his unwelcome shadows across
our dOorstepS, it is none the less shock
ing, none the less startling. So was it
in the painful suddenness of the taking
off of our good friend, j. Thompson
Baggs. On Tuesday last he was in his !
usual health and pursuit of his ordinary |
avOcation day he was dead! With |
few chosen friends we had enjoyed an |
evening of pleasure around his hOspitahle |
board-a few hours only thereafter the |
death-damp was settling on his face. |
He died of nervous exhaustion from
over work, and sank peacefully, as he
had lived, to rest-tO sleep. He was
buried on Friday afternoon, as univer-
sally mourned as any that have gone be-
fore. Mr.. BaggS was man who enjoy
ed the confidence and respect of all.
All men spoke well of him. He was in
many regards remarkable man. First,
he was an honest man-and more, he
was Christian gentleman in
of well matured convictions
his church, which was very
precious to him, and unf1inching in his
devotion to his cOuntry-''to the right,
as God gave him to see it." In mechan-
les he had but few equals-devoting
much study and labor to the solution of
profound questions involved in his bust
ness, perSevering, an active inventive
genius, ever on the go, he exercised his
nervous man-and he died! Mr. Baggs
was member of the well known lum-
Der firm of R. J. Baggs & Sons, and was
y years of age. He leaves wife, ,daugh-
'er of the venerable J os. Williams, now
If Barnesyille, and two daughters
Neva, wife of Arthur Walling, our pop
liar Company's telegraph operator, and
Miss Mary. We are glad to say Mr..
3aggs had wisely provided for the future
If his family by life insurance and 9TH
srwise. Green be thy memory, and ever
resh in the hearts of thy friends! T.
TWENTY of the leading business men
# Coldwater, Mich, who went to In
Ian territory to hunt, were arrested as
respassers, and will be taken to Wichi-
q Kan for trial