The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-24
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
JUNE %, 1874
MARTINS FERRY.

James Lawless, one Of our -citizens,
seems, for the last week, to have broken
all ties that bind him to good order,
and comet like, is darling from one
thing to another, causing considerable
excitement. Together with being law
less he seems luckless. Yesterday,
be had to settle suit with Mrs. Reed
OF Bridgeport, for selling liquor to her
husband, paying fifty dollars. This is
no sooner done than Reed in person
pitches 10 and files complaint against
him for selling him liquor while drunk.
Lswless then wends his way home.
ward, and Immediately comes to griei
by letting his angry passions rise and
assaults and batters come offending
party, which little pastime costs him
one dollar. So far az we can learn,
this is the last episode of note in the
career OF Lawless, though we are in a
constant state oil watchfulness for what
may come next.
THEY say there is honor among
thieves, and we suppose there is,
though having never been personally
acquainted with any professionally
light fingered persons, we can Lot speak
from experience. However we do
know there is no honor to be found in
habltual drunkards, else police court
reports lie. Here is Amos Reed, Of
Bridgeport bringing suit for damages
against James Lswless for selling him
liquor while intoxicated. Consistency
thou art virtue," indeed, but we fail
, TO see the shadow Of consistency here.
II be did not want the liquor what did
he buy it for2 The answer to this
question will probably be chat if he
was intoxi cated be did not realize what
he was doing" Bah what excuse is
there for 4 man who puts anything into
hissmouth to steal away his brains ?
If we ever did sell liquor, which we
think not likely, and one OF our custo.
mers alter buying of US would sue us
for selling it to him, we would pay our
fine and if that man was not
very much larger than we, we would
have satisfaction some way. 1.-THE hand
OF justice would reach and take all per-
sons who are willing to sell what little
honor they have for few pence, by the
back ofthe neck and give them a good
shaking up, setting them on tounda-
ton OF self respec: and principle, it
would be better for the public good than
this eternal granting OF damages for
every supposed i'll that comes up, and
where, as in this case, the evil ia not
from one man 10 another, but is COM
, mitted by both against the community
in which they live.
AS the reports from the meeting last
night, to make arrangements for the
celebration OF the Fonr.h, are rather
indefinite, only they are 10 have big
time" we simply announce the meeting
and that there will be another at the
same place next Monday evening.
Miss AUGUSTA WIDNEY, OF Pittsburg,
formerly teacher in the public schools
OF this place, is in town, visiting some
of her friends.
The new bank, we hear, is moving
on, and more stock is being taken.
WE have been thinking Of Tennyson
to-day, and the most maI-apropoS coup
let it seems to US, he ever wrote, was ::
"Comfort-comfort scorned OF devils
| That Is truth the poet sings,
| Sorrows crown OF sorrow u
| In remembering happier things.
1t seems to US comfort ia one Of the
lost arts, as we swelter beneath the
boiling, scorching Gun. We have
thought OF Kane's Arctic Explorations,
and Snow Bound and every other book
with cool title we have ever read we
have pondered over the time when the
thermometer was down to thirty-five
degrees below zero, and we haven't found
the crown Of sorrow yet. In fact, we
don't believe sorrow ever had crown,
and we think Teunyson drew on his
imagination for his facts when he wrote
that, or else he wrote it in winter.
There is one thought, however, that
brings up some comfortable sugges-
tions. The ancient Persians, Greeks,
Pbncicians, Chinese aud some others
never heard OF fire, and facts OF the
same kind are attested Of several mod
ern nations. The inhabitants Of the
Marian Islands, which were discovered
in 1851, had no idea OF fire. Never
was establishment greater than theirs
when they saw it on the desert OF Ma
gellan, 10 one of their islands AT fret
they believed it was some kind Of an
animal that attached itself TO and fed
upon wood. The Inhabitants Of the
PHILIPPINE and Canary Islands were
formerly equally ignorant, and africa
presents, even in our own day,
nations in this condition. We
shut our eyes to their discomiorts
and annoyances, and as long as this
weather lasts we shall imagine the
centre OF Africa a perfect haven Of de-
light where fires are unknown, and the
natives have naught 10 do but to lie
beneath waving palm trees and luxuri-
ate in tropical iruite.
Mr.. J. J. AsHENHURsr and wife will
return from their trip to Springfield the
last of the week. The Nc,oS seems TO
be flourishing in the absence OF the ed
itor, and he has cause to congratulate
himself on tine efficiency Of his help.
MARTIN HoNlKsR, the man who fell
at the Blast Furnace on Saturday even-
ing, 10 much better this evening, and
hopes are entertained for his recovery.
| BELLAlRE.
Iris seldom, indeed, that the brittle
thread OF human life is drawn out to
span one hundred years By far the
greater norton of humanity die before