The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-30
URHANCOCK LETTER.
A Quiet observation-disclosures Items
Terror Pinnacle and Mount Ararat
--CharlestOn and GOmOrrah.
FAIRvIEw, HANCOCK COUNTY. !
December 2Stb. 1874.


December 18th, 1874.
Editors of the Register:
The municipal policy, as well as tho
strong public sentiment, of Hancocb
county, has long been one of decided re-.
preston of all kinds Of immortality and
| lawlessness. No Intoxicating liquor has
been lawfully sold for a beverage within
our limits for good many years, and the
Illicit sale of the same ha, been well nigh
repreSsed. To this cause we refer the
unusual immunity our community boasts
from rowdyiSm during the elsewcre rowdy
holidays. Christmas has come and gone
and not black eve cor head put on in
the county. So we co right on detailing .
for the readers of the REGISTER the quiet
and ordinary things of this most even,
plarv neighborhood.
The supper in the Court house last
Wednesday evening by the Disciples
church was handsomely attended, and
Welded Il handsome revenue. The
Christmas evening jolliticatlOn given by
the Prcsbvterians at the same place. fol
the entertainment of the Sunday school
children. WAS very largely attended, and
gave great satisfaction.
The third wife of Mr.. John II. Camp,
bell. residing three miles east of thi,
place died the day before Christmas -,
puerperal fever. The two former wivc,
died of the same disease, and the first one
Just that day thirteen Years from the
death of the last.
Robert L. Cassiday, Sergeant Of the
town of New Cumberland. was brougt t
before Justice Puyh, # this place, on Sal
urdav. on warrant issued by Justice
Atkinson. on oath of one Miller. charged
with CARRYING concealed dangerous YEA
pons, and with threatening t. shoot Mil
Ter Cassidav does not deny carrying
the slaughter weapon, charged, but aver,
that he does - 10 protect himself from
the violence of New Cumberland roughS.
4 hearing before Justice Pugh is set for
next Saturday.
\ something pleasantly commemora-
tive of the good old time, took place near
our village on Christmas. 1t was u
shooting match of the old fashion, the
prize being n. silver watch. Mr.. Paul
Jones name suspicious Of victory was
the winner.
Mr.. Marion Geer, of this county, and
Miss - Scott, of Fayette county, Pa,
teacher of a school in this county, were
married in Pittsburgh the day before
Christmas. Mrs. Geer will continue her
school engagement to the end OF her
agreed term This is not the first, or the
second time that just such climax has
been effected in this county. II has com"
Ia be nearly the certain road TO matrl-
monv for Pennsylvania young ladies to
come to Hancock county and tax" Il
school. 'AMILLIS'
=. ST think | see something more
than q clever hoax in the astounding Sto-
~ Of John Forsyth, the unhappy martyr
"a meteorological fury and his own min
rralucical ardor as well a to the law :
blind vindictivcne>s.J Terror Pinnacle
YOU will remember, he demonstrates to
t.. the exact antipode of Mount Ararat.
Bythe same token Charleston : tn" an
,ipode of none other place than ""in"T-
rah. Now. j, it not a burning shame
that 50 distinguished nm antlp"d" a that
of Ararat should be thrown int" IN"
Capital background, by 80 abomlhanlr
an sntipode as that of Gomorrah! All
antipodes are alike, You know.