Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
BELLAIRE LETTER.
BELLAIRE, O., Feb. 1, 1875.

BELLA1RE LETTER.
BELLAIRE, O., Feb. l, 1875.
WORSE AND WORSE!
Of all the outrages perpetrated by
our city officials in the name of law
and order, the most fiendishly inexcu.
sable, occurred last week. A man haG
lost his wife, and upon the day of the
occurrence, her funeral was to take
place-the friends of the deceased wo
man had employed Wheeling under
taker to inter the corpse. Now, there
is law in the City of Bellaire which
although it allows of free coal hauling
or the keeping of any vehicles of a bu
siness character, yet makes it a crime
to keep hearse without paying a Ii.
cense. Of this TACT the Wheeling
hearSe owner was-very reasonably
ignorant, and he neglected to pay the
city for the privilege of burying one OF
her citizens. The officers are not fol
the purpose of telling one when he is
in danger of violating an ordinance
They very patiently waited until the
funeral cortege had started, and then
arrested the undertaken, and kept the
procession waiting until the prisoner
paid a license. of 81 90. In speaking oI
these (of late) frequently-recurring
petty acts of maliciousness, the City
Commercial, the organ of the city,
which has been rather inclined to de-
fend the officers heretofore, says: "How
long will our people submit to these
petty annoy ance? Will they not soon
seek a remedy?" Ifa remedy is not
soon found and applied, the city will
go to ruin. 1t is almost there now!
sLEIGHING DEARs.
The late snow fall has given US good
sleighing, and the merry jingle of the
bells is heard on every street. A par
ty of young gentlemen organized a
sleighing party several days ago, fix
ing for it several days after that time.
The snow, however, having only come
in order to imburse our noble city with
snow fines,' melted in the meantime,
and the young ladies of the party gave
it up, very reluctantly. What was
their surprise, on the morning appoint
ed, 10 see the young gentlemen out
with buggies, the horses being decora-
ted with bells!
in the river broke not long before mid
night ON Tuesday last. Since that sew
eral of the boats have been running
among them the Market
Boy Bellaire has been proven to be
a better harbor for winter quarters
than Wheeling, from the fact that the
current does not wash our shore. No
boats were touched here, with the ex-
ception of couple of coal barges.
PERSONAL.
We saw Ross J. Alexander, of Bridge
port, ]. H. Collins, of GAINESVILLE, w.
l.. Thompson, of East Liverpool, and
J. P. Mahaffey, of Cambridge, in town
last week.
Rev. Johnston of your place, preach
ed at the U. P. Church here yesterday.
Our Postmistress' re-appointment
has caused more comment in foreign
papers than most of things. The Pitts
burgh Commercial says, she is a mail
singer The Cleveland Herald says
she will not change her tune and all
the other papers have made some kind
of pun on her name.
lNCONSlSTENT.
That the man who puts "a thief into
his mouth to steal away his brains
does wrong, has been pretty thorough
ly assented to. In facr, anything which
for an instant deprives man of his
own right reason, which unduly heats
his imagination, which arouses NOR
bid physical excitement, and exercises
the emotions to an unhealthy degree,
is, by common consent, reprehensible
just in proportion as it is powerful.
The indulgence of the animal passions
or feelings, and the control thereof, are
the two extremes which may be met
in the most degraded and
the most elevated circles of humanity.
be it mental, spiritual
or physical, is wrong, ard how a man
can hotly and bigotedly use set of
arguments against the slightest use of
intoxicating drinks, and yet, refuting
the same arguments, defend the high
EST possible exercise of instrumentali-
ties which produce the same result, we
,annot conceive-yet those who oppose
The one the most fiercely, the most
defend the other. 1t is one
Of those things that mo fellah can find
)ut!'
hadn't already done so, we
Uould say something to the effect that
Tramp, tramp, tramp the tramps are
but on the whole We guess
We won't. There must be something
aid, though, when tramps will tramp
n such fearfully cold SNAP!
AT this season Of the year, when so
many of our people are suffering from
olds, we call attention to AYERS
jHE RRY PECToRAL as a sure cure not
My for coughs and colds, but all af-
ections of the lungs and throat. Hav-
ng used in our family for many years,
We can speak from personal knowl-
dge of Its efficiency. There may be
ther remedies that are good, but in all
ur experience this has proved to be
y far the best. Its qualities are uni
1rm and wholly reliable. 1t is pleas
mt to take, and should be kept at
Dmmand, by every family, as a pro-
ection against class OF complaints
'hich seem harmless in the beginning.
ut become affecting and dangerous
neglected.-N. H. Register.
DR. SANDERSON can be consulte per
nally or by letter at No so, North Dir. nond
llegheny City. Pa. Il
TIMOTHY SEED.--A choice lot b
Ist received by Grove the Grocer. 2t. Ii