Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

Additional local on second page.
BLIND Tom is attracting audiences i
neighbOring towns.
THE Commencement exercises prope
of Bethany College occur to-day-ThurS
day.
THE West Virginia Medical Societ
held its 23d annual meeting in Wheeling
last week.
A LARGE number of walnut logs, som
of a very large size, are being delivered a
the Northern depot for shipment.
COME to The CHRONICLE for your joI
work. 1t employs skilled job printer
and prices are as low as in blacksmith
offices.
THE coming reunion of the Society O
the Army of West Virginia is to be helc
at Parkersburg at date to be hereafte
named.
ELwOOD DEAN, a prominent ministe
of the society of Friends, died at hi
home in Chester Hill, Ohio, on the 7tl
inst, aged "a years.
CAPT. w. III. LITTLE, of Bellaire, in
dicted for violating the pension laws
was released from jail under $3.50 bono
on last Friday.
ACCORDING to returns made to the
Auditor of State, this county has 50 sa
looms against 100 last year, and the tax
amounts to S25,399.
Mr.. J.H. PAXTON, of Franklin College
and Miss Carrie Johnson. will be married
at the residence of the brides mother, al
New Athens, this Thursday evening.
EDGAR BURNS had his hand cut off by
a saw in Exley's planning mill, Martins
Ferry, on Friday. He is an aged man, and
it is feared that the injury will prove ia
tai
THE storm on Sunday evening was
very heavy in and about Wheeling. The
lightning played several peculiar freaks,
but did no great amount of damage ex-
cept to delay trains.
EDWARD HARDING, who was recently
arrested for robbing the mail en route be-
tween Cadiz and Piedmont, pleaded guilty
in U. S. Court and was sentenced to one
year in the Dayton Jail.
JACOB JARVIS, the Surveyor of Harri-
fon county, is serving his 14th term as
County Surveyor, and when he finishes
his present term, he will have held the
office AZ consecutive years.
JAMES REYNOLDS, Roadmaster of the
c., l. and w. died at his home near Ra-
VIENNA, on Friday morning, after brief
illness. He was 30 years of age, and well
known along the line of the road.
THE National Educational Association
meeting will be held at st. Paul, begin
ming July Sth. A number of persons are
going from this locality via Pennsylvania
lines, owing to the low rates, mention of
which is made elsewhere in this paper.
THE Farmers Picnic to be held in Mil
ners Grove, near Morristown, July 4th,
is reported by the committee to be in a
prosperous condition. They have the
promise of several noted speakers for
the occasion. A good COrnet band will
be in attendance. They invite everybody.
TIM WOODRUFF, Wheeling nailersu-
icided by jumping into the river on
Thursday. He was fairly well to do, but
was seized with the fear that he might
become poor. He was 81 years of age,
and leaves wife and one child in mod
crate circumstances. He had previously
threatened to suicide
THE WoOdslield Spirit has it that
scheme is in the air now to abandon the
B., Z. and c. Railroad from Captina to
Cumberland. The balance of the road to
be changed to a broad gauge and extend
from Cumberland by way of Batesville,
Noble county, to Captina and Powhatan
to connect with the .. r. r.
T.J. DUFF, of Wheeling township, in
telling tree recently upon cutting into
the heart, which was slightly hollow,
struck gas reservoir, from which es-
capped flow of gas, which when lit
made flame two feet in length. 1t is
presumed that it was OF the same origin
and character as "marsh gas"
A BALL nine from New Athens played
a picked up nine from this place on the
fair grounds last Saturday afternoon
The game did not abound in brilliant
plays, but was fairly good taking into ac-
count the circumstances under which it
was arranged. The score stood st.
Clairsyile 10, New Athens 10.
On Wednesday night of last week a
thief stole pocket book containing $500
from the house of John Davis, of Etna-
vile. The money had been placed un-
der the lid of piano, and as nothing
else about the house had been disturbed,
it was thought probable that the act was
performed by some person who knew the
location of the money.
HARRY SEYBoLD, late Clerk of the
Bank of Wheeling, who stole $4,000 last
August, was arrested at Winfield, Kans.,
last week, and brought back to answer to
the charge OF being defaulter. After
the discovery of his crime he was arrest
ed, but was released under $4,000 bond.
At the time of his hearing he did not
show up, and his bond was forfeited The
case will now be re-opened and he will
probably serve time.
THE terms of consolidation of the
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