Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-01
INTERESTING SHORT BITS.
Newsy Items Gathered from Town
and Country-Pithy Paragraphs
Cleaned from All Sources.

T. UoOD oranges are uoW cucdptr IndI
r apples.
g THE next NJ. E. General Conference
+ will beld in Cleveland in 1896.
THE Touring mills destroyed at Barnes
vile two weeks ago viii be rebuilt al
once.
II Coal at Woodsfield since the introduc.
tion of gas dropped from 9 to cents a
bushel.
+ WHEELING people want tunnel under
, the hill in the neighborhood of Tenth
, street.
IT is said that Nathan Barber, of
Cambridge, has bought an interest in the
: Peoples Press.
II GAINESVILLE young men have organ
ized themselves into a-.club for profit
and amusement.
WALTER HILLES and two other young
Barnesville men will shortly leave for
California, where they expect to live.
THE Barnesville milestone begs leave
to "mOdestly inquire whence the great
loil boom of a few weeks ago has flown ~
A BRICK MAKING plant is, soon to be
located at Cambridge. The clay in that
vicinity is especially well suited for brick
il THE Barnesville base ball team, of
(which the town was justly proud last
year, has been organized for this season
A FIvE-DoLLAR license to be required
of hunters, is the latest offspring of the
legislative crank who does not like hunt
ing.
Col. I. Fl. ANDERSON, of Cambridge, is
at the head of a new railroad project ex-
tending from Washington City to the
Bay.
t AT Hendrysburg the word is boom"
In addition to %, foot vein of camel
local the people think there is oil under
them.
I THE late fire at Barnesville showed the
town that it wants better means of fire
Eprorection, so they are talking of water
works.
+ CLEMENT L. STEERS, young man of
Guernsey county committed suicide last
i week in room of the Arcade Hotel at
lCambridge.
/ THE Island people who oppose the
bridges had bad luck to start. The boat
they bought sank at Charleston. Monday,
causing loss of $500.
I THE bicyclist won in the race between
him and roller skater, at Wheeling last
week. The distance was miles, and the
time 1S minutes and AZ seconds.
/ a Two-wEEKs' old child of Samuel
Helm, who lives near Warnock's, died
Monday from Inflammation of the
bowels, and was buried Tuesday
CONTRACTS for building a number of
cottages at Epworth Park have been let
A new avenue leading from the hotel
right up the hill has been laid out.
LARGEST attendance yet at Franklin
College, New Athens, o., because students
see it is the cheapest, safest and best.
Next term begins April 8. Catalogue
| free.
"BUsINEss," declares many Democrat
ic papers, is looking up" Sure, it has
been looking up for year. How could
it look otherways being on the fiat of its
back?
A BOUNTY of 80 cents head has been
placed on hawks and the larger owls.
With 20 cents dozen for English spar
row heads. shooting birds will become
profitable.
DAME RUMoR says that A. P. Fulton
and Miss Ella Myers, popular young peo
pie of Warnock were married about two
weeks ago, and have so far kept the fact
secret.-Democrat.
A WARREN man recovered from the
Pullman car company for the loss of an
overcoat, but no one has yet recovered
damages for the depredations of the
Pullman car porter.
THERE is a church seating capacity in
this country of 100000 persons, and
although there are &c, 600 600 more people,
yet it is not often that anyone has to
stand up at church.
AN effort will be made to establish
base ball league to include towns in
Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky,
more especially the towns along the val
ley OF the Ohio River.
+ W. G. Warnock, of the Bellare Demo
crat, has been appointed postmaster at
Bellaire. No Democrat could have been
appointed who would have pleased Re-
publicans generally better.
MATTHEW C. MCKEowN, of Barnes
vile, has written a book entitled Some
Memories of Mining Life or Five Years
on the Gold Fields of New Zealand"
The work will soon be published.
THURSDAY, May 18th, has been selected
as the day for laying the corner stone of
the Court house at Cadiz. The Free |
Masons will do the work 1t is expected
that the Grand Master, of Ohio, will be |
present.
A FEW wild ducks have been seen
going over North during the past week.
Our spOrtsmen could not get a shot at
them, OF no doubt some of them would |
not have reached their summer home in
the North.
MARY E. JUDD, of New Philadelphia,
sus pended from pension roll from un-
known cause in 1869, has been restored
with so, 746 back pay. She is entitled to
interest, but is no doubt satisfied with
the principal.
SOME fine maple syrup is on the market
at 81 .25 gallon. 1t seems that the latter
end of the season has been favorable to
the production of syrup, and although |
nothing great. this years product will be
up to the average.