The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-18
NBIGHBoRHooD NEWS.
MARTINS FERRY.


peratine, and fills one with a wild un-'
rest. The western prairies, they tell us,
are one UNMARRIED level, so far as the eye
can reach. So seems life here, dead
level, one can readily judge OF the future
by the past. Nothing will happen,
nothing does happen, and nothing never
has happened. So many days work IN .
wear for man, SO many meals to get and
so MANY dishes to wash for a woman,
continual round, tho same thing over
and over; only this and nothing more. .
ONCE in awhile some one tries. In his
wsv 70 get out of the beaten track, and
do something to break the monotony.
This time it was Alex. Craig. He was
uncomfortable, and thought he would
make things lively. He succeeded. de
selected one Mrs Moore as fit subject
on which to practice He reviled her. He
said all manner Of evil, not against her,
but to her face. Mrs. Moore did
not understand that this young
man was only trying to make things a
little lively. So she had him arrested,
and Mayor Dean fined him one dollar
and costs for this, his one effort. So, you
see, it does not even pay financially TO
get out of the beaten track over here IN
Martins Ferry.
| THE most active and most numerous
portion of our population are mosquitoes
| The little customers are everywhere IN
swarms. At night they sing the opera
!. Robert le Diablc," in your ears, and the
moment YOU kill one on one side OF your
head it is singing at the other with a
voice rs musical as steam whistle. We
are confdentially told that the only way
to get rid of them is to saturate cloth
with kerosene, and cover your face
closely with it. This will attract Them
and they will light on it in swsrms.
Then set fire to the cloth, and let them
sing their own requiem.
ABOUT two months ago the bonded
warehouse on Deep run, short distance
from here, owned by James West u Co.,
was broken into some of the liquors Stolen,
and then the house burned On Saturday
Inst WIN. McIntirc and VIM. Manly, of
Jefferson county, were tried before
Squire EaglcSon on Il charge of burglary
and obtaining forcible entrance into this
warehouse, and taking certain liquors
therefrom. They were found guilty of
the charge, and required to give bail in
the sum of 5000 each for their appear
ancc at the next term Of court. Failing
in this, they were sent to st. Clair6viIle
to Jail to await trial.
WE were in a store to-day where a
| lady was trading. She handed the store
keeper a ten dollar bill, out Of which he
was to keep fifty cents. He counted back
the change to her, a good deal Of which
was in small bills, and she gathered 1t
up without looking at it and stuffed 1t
! into her pocket book. In the course Of
an hour she came back and told him he
! had given her wrong change. She knew
| he had. and she wanted dollar and u
half. He protested his innocence; said
! he was sure. and the lady waXcd wrUth,
and said it was hard to be cheated
out of ones money. On inquiry
made in an indignant manner, the mcr-
! chant found she had dealt in three places
after she left him, and on going homo
found she was dollar and Il half short,
and she was determined to have that
money if she had to 90 to the Squire, and
then she wcpt. We generally have much
| feeling for our own sex when in trouble,
| and only that it would have been folly,
as she weighed fully two hundred, we
would have wished to have shaken her.
! Why cannot women learn some sense in
! trading, and count their money when
! they receive change? Oh, says one, that
would look mean. What if it does look
meann 1t wouldn't though, accidents are
! liable to happen with the best Of calcula-
! tors. and if change is counted nj the time
and found wrong Of course, be it accidcn
tai or dishonesty, there is no alternative
! but to remedy it, If women have too
! delicate feelings to count their money at
| the time, let them have too much respect
for the feelings Of others to GO go back
where they are not sure and accuse u
man of stealing and set their loss down
to their own toolishncss.
The temperate" people still keep up
| their excitement over the election and a
meeting Of some kind is held almost
every evening. The opposite party seem
! to take but little interest, and accept it rs
settled fact that Tomorrow the new
! constitution will not be- passed nor the
! license movement voted down.
THE iron interest is dull, our manufac-
turcrs say at the present time pig iron
can be bought cheaper than it can be
made, and that their employees are max
! ing more than the stockholders. 1t is
expected the trade will brighten up about
! The first of January. The railroads have
been holding of against laying new
rails on their tracks almost a. long rs it
can be done, and of course when they do
, make purchases their consumption ofiron
, will be large. Although the closcn"s,
of money will for the present
prevent new roads being completed. old
ones will have to be kept in repair, and
this forms the one brigh: spot on which
the iron men build their hopes.
SIxTY-FIvE people in the world die
every second, and yet the people of Mar
tins Ferry are comparatively happy.
Only sixty-fve out Of every thousand
are said to contract marriage. We were
going to become of the wonderful num-
Der Of old maids and old BACHELORS but
We remember Whom the gods love die
young
WHILE 50 many new houses are being
put up there is subject of which it may
I be- 1urouDStO speak. WHY are there not
more painted floors? We see kitchens
covered with rag carpet, thick with dust
! and half covered with grease. and we
sigh for the cool, clean, painted floor, Of
Yankecdom. Paint your kitchen floor
some medium gray or brown and YOU can
mop it and have it perfectly clean in
| trn minutes, and save a
world of scrubbing if you
have had bare floor and a world of dirt.
if YOU have had your kitchen carpcted. a
dining room with floor painted, one
board grained like maple and the next