Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-20
LIFE m LONDON.
Rouuhs on the Rampage In the
Seven Dials.
A Characteristic Night Seens-A figh'
With the PoIiee-A Blind Girls
Brave Champion.
Cor. Nev York Sun.

Cor. Nev York Sun.
LONDON, January 2.-She was tall,
slender and pretty. She gazed at q
kind looking young man with indescrib-
able love. HIS left arm supported her.
Amt she brazen faced Lass said .
woman In the crowd, ITO turn her lover
upside down in company with those
ere Humorous heyes?"
This re mark was lost on the lass, who
still continued to stare at her compan-
ion with gaze of admiration, scrutiny
and anguish. He was speaking to her.
"Pll blow your brains out !" exclaimed
an invisible squesky voice. Izlug-
boom-then BARK. The crowd
laughed. The squeaking voice, tho un-
musical strains and the bark were issu-
ing from an i.inerant "Punch and
Judy" which had anchored between
The Grapes and The Crown, two large
and popular saloons occupying two OF
The seven sides of the we'll known Seven
Dials.
1t was on Saturday evening. The
The place swsrmed with people: Re
spectacle wOrkmen and forbidding,
looking rHfiians, steady women aud
rihald hussies, inebriated guardSmen
and blue-ribbOned regulurS, elbowed
each other. 1t WAS startling carnival,
a show of all the most melancholy as
poets of the lowest orders, of their good
qualities, and Of their
UnbOunded Depravities.
Suddenly there was a rush. down
came tue little theatre, Toby, and all the
Door parsphernslia of the play. To
crown all, the gas set fire to the curtain.
There was cry of terror echoed by the
DESPERATE yell of the stage manager
crushed under his burning house. The
roughs, however, pursued their advant-
age. They placed themselves behind
each other, and made = telling charge.
The pavement aud cutters were streWn
with bOnnets, hats, broken jars, and
damaged baskets. The tendere,t
couples were forcibly severed. A few
iunUcents called for the police. This
satisfied the miscreants that the road
vas clear and that they could follow up
their operations. A piercing scream
was heard. The companion OF the
strange lars had been tioOred, aud was
being kicked like dead cur. Tue
poor girl stood unprotected among the
widest villains Ia the world-a crew Of
thieves, ticket of.leAve men and I'M
penitents OF all sorts, such as can only
be encountered in those ATTITUDES.
Then something strange occurred. Sac
could have tried To run away, or come
to the rescue of her friend, but after her
sgonizing cry Of despair OH being torn
from him, she had remained nailed TO
the spot. An unhealthy, rickety,
villain seized her from behind, but
went no fur. her. aye drain creaper,"
aid sn unassuming citizen in artisans
clothes. aye let go, or by 'evens--"
The mediator did not look much OF
A Bruiser.
His challenge was accepted by the
scrofulous villain. He was going to
kris his unfortunate victim, vino Was
defending herself Ms awkwardly as posi-
hlp, when there was an iron grip OF his
hand. There was hardly any scuttie.
The bully tried to free his hand. He
might as well have tried to pull 1t from
the grip of wise.
There vas the ground and the Draw
Ter fell to the pavement. His hand had
been crush ed ~ etiectually rs though d
wagon load of stoue hal passed over IL.
Next time" said Goliath, Eye art
str etched sent to penal servltudel, nv
lad, mayb We will serse me, for doubt
whether ye will be liable 10y ard labor
rodsplay yer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the
suvntr's 'ospitalty, but in future W
will perhaps respect poor blind girl"
Alas, it was too true! The pretty, in
nocent lass, with curious looks, spark
hrg with pO gnant longing, was totally
blind. She could Hut see whether she
uas loved, and she thought nobody
could see hnw much she laved, Hence
her perplgX-d stare when on the arm OF
her friend. Her gallant protector had
III, covered her misfortune. he was not,
however, TO be left in quiet possession
of his triumph. Indeed, Seven D;als
would soon lose its right to fame ifsuch
mail skirmishes could settle its spirited
community.
The ARRAY
hal drawn us from The Grapes and The
Crow II TO Little Earl street. which near.
~ fronts LeOnard's coffee bar, another
lace of the dial, where Ieet0tallsm unit
I'd to speculation pursues q bold cam
paIgu against the liquor trade by means
# tia, cocoa and coffee 1t Id per mug,
Id of steak and kidney pudding at 4d.
Little Earl street on u Saturday nigh,
ore Of the most busiest lanes tina.
rmseinstion can conceive. TIE side
Of the thuroughfsre are occupied by III
IL broken line of trucks loaded with
cheap wares. The foot path Is an inter
lninable row of small shops, carrying
10 commerce at equally low figures.
Tie screams Of the cOstermongers aud
'rsders, competing for public favor, tn
binding and whistling gas, the unSsvory
and hostile fumes issuing rom decayed
vegetables, strongly salted fish, second
hand clothes, seasoned food, inexpensive
boots and rancid cheeses, the unmusical
cries of the women, their dl-hevelled
lair, their abbreviated garments, and
the bare-fUOted ard ragged children,
happier than kings, create all indescri-
bhble Saturnaila.
At the top OF the street, on the left
hand side gong toward The Grape,
here Is sinister site named Moul-
mouth Court. 1t has narrow, low and
dark egress on Little Earl street. aye
bloody mutilator," said an ugly msu
10 the artisan, 81 tell you this: We
won't disfgure hanother gentleman In
yer days"