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Show Reckless Shooting. Balt Laks, Oct. 12, 77. Editors Herald: It .has now become a very common com-mon affair for men haviug deadly emnity towarda each other, to aettle their quarrels with Sre arms on our moat public thoroughlareB. In exef ciaing ths rights of free American citizens, however, they generally con trive to endanger the Uvea of persons who are peaceably attending to their business. It ia more than probable that any parties desirous of relieving the world of one another's presence by Ruch violent means, would find little objection raised by tho quiet members of a peaceful community in fact, a general and heartlelt sigh of relief would bo fetched from the bosoms of all at such a happy result; but when the lives of any nuoiber ol persons are endangered in the good work, it becomes a matter of public w t;l fare that those who wilfully risk the lives of peaceful citizens for a little personal gratification bhuuld have the severest possible punishment tjiven them aa a reward tor theii rei klessness. It i a delightful state ot affairs when an individual cannot walk along ono ef the publio streets without beiug liable at any time to involuntarily interview a Btray bull from the pistol of some facetious and sportive gentleman. Such were the risike in the shooting between Noun uan and Richardson ou Thurrday, and such the risks of the shooting ol Sullivan by Hob be aomo time ago, and though perhaps the shooting of Sulli-vun Sulli-vun might be esteemed justifiable, still Hcbba should have been pun-1 pun-1 w bed for bis foolhardiness in shooting in Buch a publio place. Some extreme ex-treme meadurts should be taken to : put a stop to these affairs of bonor(?), where the chances are almost ten lot one tbat a disinterested person will sudor. Sisbad. |