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W,tt& (Heocgra Hjeleg&spli »«& Bxmcrtsti & Mesus^ttg^K,
aujf wikdbuhbhbn.
Until we meet again! That ia the meaning
Of the familiar words that man repeat
At parting in the str©6t. .
Ah ye*, till thenTbut when death mter-
ua aenndei', with what ceaseleaa
pain
We wait for the Again!
The friends who leave uado not feel the
sorrow „ . . . .
Of parting, ea we feel it, who must stay
lamenting, day by day,
And knowing, when we wake upon the
We shSfnot^nd in its nccustomed place
The one beloved face
It were n double grief, if the departed.
Being released from earth, should still re-
A sense of earthly pnin,
It were a double grief, if the true hearted,
Who lored ns hore, should on the farther
•bore
Remember us no more.
Believing, in the midst of our afflicUons,
That death is a beginning, not an end,
Wo cry to them, and send
Farewell?, that better might be called pre
dictions,
Being foreshadowings of the future,
thrown
Into the vast Unknown.
faith overleaps the confines of onr reason,
And if by faith, as in old times was said,
Women received their dead
Pntsad pp to life, then only for n season
Onr partings are, nor shall we wait in
vain . .
Until we meet again I
[Atlantic Monthly.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Talbotton will be made a money
order office on July 1st.
Tbx Gainesville Southron reports
lively ruction recently between Fledgcr,
the negro chairman of the State Radical
committee, and J. E. Bryant, In Atlanta,
few days ago. Accordingtotho Southron,
Pledger sailed into Bryant with a bi,
stick and accelerated his circulation to an
abnormal degree,
Dublin had four spring fights last
Friday night, but up to date not one spring
chicken has put in an appearance.
The Dublin Post says: Inspector Wil
liams telegraphed yesterday fromSavsnnah
to Captain John Frey, chief inspector At
lanta division, of the arrest of William
J. If. Smith, late mail carrier from Ten-
nille to Wrigbtsville, Ga., on a charge of
robbing the mail. Smith was taken to
Savannah before United States Commis
sioner Picket, and, waiving examination,
gave ball for his appearance when re
quired.
An alligator known to bo twenty-two
years old, was caught In a steel trap near
Talbotton, last Sunday. He was five feet
four Inches loDg, and In 1861, escaped
from a pond belonging to Colonel Levi B,
Smith.
“Jack Plank’’ writes as follows from
Macon to the Savannah News:
Tho railroad commission comes In for
some pretty sharp criticism in connection
with this Atlanta extension. There will
be no more perplexing problem brought up
for consideration before our political so-
lons Ilian this whole question. One of the
strangest surroundings of this subject is
thatsome communities and men who were
clamorous for the creation of such commis
sions are now bitterly opposed to the whole
scheme. What effect this will have upon
the mind of the average legislator Is to be
seen. The Atlanta Constltutionseems to
think that a man ought to be very thank
ful and complacent because the execution
er has not hurt him yet, although tho
knife Is whetted and ready at any mo
ment, upon the flimsiest excuse, to strike
his head off. True, he is thankful, but
not very complacent. “Walt uutil you
are hurt before you holler,” may be a
very conclusive Constitutional argument,
but not an available one to a man with
Ms head off. Personally, perhaps, there
is not three other men In Georgia more
respected and esteemed than the three
which constitute the railroad commission.
It is not the men, but the law, the people
«ry out against.
W. D. Panes, of Gwinnett county,
registered at an Atlanta hotel a day or
two since, though be has no hands. He
writes with his mouth and the stumps of
bis arms.
The ltcdaltr reports four daylight rob
beries In Atlanta last Tuesday, but only
two arrests. It also says two Tennessean
stock dealers had $694 stolen from them
at the Air Line House Tnesday night
hut the police restored it to them the next
day. It does not, however, report any
arrests.
Sats the Savannah Aeics, of Wednes
day: “There were sales of thirteen hun
dred shares of Central a few as high as
163, the operations for tho day being as
follows: Central common opened at
161| bid, 152 aakod, and closed at 161
bid, 162 asked, an advance of ten points
on the opening of quotations. South
western 7 per cent, guaranteed opened at
185 bid, 188 aaked. and points during the
day, closing at 137 bid, 130 asked, with
■ales of some 200 shares. There is a very
good demand for new Savannah bonds
Just now. Some $15,000 were sold yes
terday, some bringing 86$.
The Athens Banner “ventures the as
sertion that there is not a court of the
same grade in the State in which as much
abuse is heaped upon plaintiff, defendant,
Witness and brother lawyer, as is the
case In the Superior Court of Clarke
county.” It was not thus in “the better
days of the republic.”
Tax Marietta Journal has the follow
ing:
A Romantic Marriage. — Early
Wednesday morning there appeared in the
streets a rustic couple desiring to be unit
ed in double blessedness. The mother of
the girl accompanied them and seemed to
be engineering the affair. The young
man was iboeless, hatless and moneyless.
A large black patch adorned the kijee of
his bridal pants. He was otherwise plain
ly dressed,like wise his intended bride. He
said his age was only ID years, but his
■lxe and physiognomy indicated that he
bad not seen over sixteen summers. The
girl looked to be about twenty-three years
old, and seemed eager for the nuptials-
Her mother bought the license, and sev
eral citizens consolidated tbeir nickels
and bought the young man a hat and pair
of shoes. I*, seems the girl had stolen tbe
young man from Mr. Asa Darby’s house
at night and eloped with tbe boy, and tbe
boy deemed it bis bounden duty to
succumb. After several unsuccessful at
tempts to get some one to perform tbe
marriage ceremony, they finally persuad
ed Bev. J. H. Harris to tie the knot,
which was witnesacd by quite a,crowd at
tbe clerk’s office of the court-house, and
then and there Uriah Evans and Sarah
X. Cantrell were made husband and
Wife.
The Albany yews' says Mr. V. A.
Clegg’s steam saw mill, in Lee couuty,
was burned last Monday, causing a loss
of $2,000, dh which there was only $700
Insurance.
We quote tbe following from the Sum
ter Republican:
ATouou Littk Darky.—On Mon
day as tbo freight train from Macon was
approaching Americus, a two year old ne
gro child was plavtng on the track near
tbe residence of Mr. Thomas Gresham.
Tbe train thundered on, the cowcatcher
striking the little n-g and sending him roll
ing about ten or fifteen feet away. Tbe
little fellow jumped up and ran to tbe
fence, where lie stood looking with aston
ishment at tbe train. The engineer, wbo
had not seen the child in time to stop tbe
train before It was knocked from tbe track
did so,but finding out that he was unhurt,
sped on his way to Americus with a glad
heart. It was a remaikable escape.
Shootino In Webster County.—On
drew a pistol and attempted to sboolHar-
rell, but was prevented by parties pres
ent. Harrell went to his father’s place,
four or five miles from Preston, and, on
Monday, was plowing in tbe field, where
ho was followed by Smith, who bad pro
cured a shot gun, loaded bo*h barrels with
buck shot, and sought Harrell to kill bim.
Harrell, on seeing Smith’s gun pointed at
him, jumped behind the mu e he was
working. Smith shot, killed tbe mule,
and then, with the remaining load, shot
Harrell, three of the buck shot entering
the groin and two entering the thigh just
above the knee. It is thought that Har
rell will die. Smith escaped, and al
though diligently sought after by Sheriff
Davis, had not been caught up to the time
the information reached this city.
An Ancient Relic.—Tbe Thomasvllle
Enterprise has seen an old gun barrel
“three and a half feet long, octagonal,
about a No. 12 gauge and very heavy.
The opening in tbe side clearly indicates
that it preceded tho days of percussion
caps and the peculiar arrangements about
tbe piece would show that it was made
prior to the use of flint and steel. The
barrel was embedded in tbe ground under
a pine tree, and it seemed evident that
the pine had grown up over the place
where the gun was buried, although tuo
pine was large enough to make twenty
rails to the cut.”
Ttventt-two negro waiters at the
Kimball House, Atlanta,“struck,’’Sunday
morning for exactly twenty minutes, just
as the guests of tbe hotel weie break
fasting.
The Covington Star says the following
bill will bo introduced in the Legislature
at Us July session:
An act, to amend tbe twenty-sixth see
tion of the judiciary act, passed 16th day
of December, 1799, and re-enacted by tbe
act ot 1810, and included in section 3580
of the code of Georgia of 1873.
Whereas, it Is painfully evident to the
people of Georgia that the system of far
ming as practiced since the war has not
resulted in much good, hut on the con
trary lias wrought great injury to the peo
ple; and whereas, the habits formed seem
to be of a nature hard to change; and be
lieving that a continuation of the present
system will only lead to bankruptcy and
ruin; and whereas, on account of this
system, many of onr best citizens have be
come discouraged, and have left the State
and sought homes in the West, which
leads to tbe belief that many more will
follow; and desiring to offer some relief
to tbe people, which would alike prove
benefit to the State of Georgia.
Be it therefore enacted by the General
Assembly of the Stale of Georgia, That
from and after the passage of thi3 act, all
cereal crops produced In this State, and
all provisions of any kind whatever, to
gether with all llvo stock, shall be exempt
from levy and sale during the period of
the next three years, beginning with the
gathered fall crops of 1881, snd including
the crops of 1884.
Be it further enacted, etc., That the ob
ject of this bill is not to impair tbe obli
gallon of any contract heretofore made:
but to slay executions on all farm products,
except lint cotton; and after the lapse of
tbe time herein specified, this act is to be
come null and void; and all executions to
be of full force and effect.
Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws
and all parts of laws militating against
this act, be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
The Atlanta Redater says Judge
Warner occasionally sits up now, and
few deys ago walked across his room
with assistance at each arm.
The Carlersville Free Press says Dr.
Felton preached last Sunday in that
place, and that “Immense congregations
flocked to hear this divine gentleman.”
Pretty steep, that. Divine gentleman!
Whewt
The Dalton Citizen reports that town
as “bilious,” and also afflicted with
broken bone fever. Also that “King Cot
ton is going to be the greatest tyrant that
ever ruled North Georgia farmers..’
The Augusta News says tho steam
ship “City of Columbus” arrived “at
New York Monday afternoon at 6:30, in
forty-nine hours from Charleston to New
York. This is the fastest steamship
time on record.”
We quote os follows from tho Augusta
Chronicle of Thursday:
The Stock Market.—The reports of
a contemplated stock dividend caused the
Central railroad stock to make another
considerable advance yesterday, and tbe
market closed at 161 bid, 163 asked
Georgia Is firm at 184 bid, 185 asked.
Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta, which
was rather weak Monday and Tuesday,
rose rapluly yesterday and closed at 60
bid, 62$ asked, with sales between those
figures. Memphis and Charleston closed
very strong at 76 bid, 77 asked, with sales
at 77. Twenty-seven shares of Langley
Factory stock were sold at 144. In
Charleston, Tuesday, ten shares of this
stock were sold at 144.
The* Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany.—Yesterday President W. C. Sib
ley, of the Sibley Manufacturing Compa
ny, received by telegraph, from Boston,
an order for $20,000 of the new stock of
tbe company. So far $246,200 out of the
$400,000 Increase has been subscribed for.
This is certainly a good showing and
leaves no doubt that the whole amount
will be taken.
The census reports last issued place
the population of Columbus at 0,152;
Athens, 0,099; Rome, 3,877; Bruns
wick, 2,891; Cartersville, 2,027; and
Conyers, 1,374.
A Chaukcey letter to tlieHawkins-
ville Dispatch, says: Mr. James Cad-
well, a very old gentleman living about
three miles from Cbauncey, had the mis
fortune of having tour huudred dollars
stoien from him a few days siucc. lie
bad deposited Ills money in the woods
for safe keeping, In Jots of about $400,
and was in the habit of visiting in the
vicinity of his money deposits every day
or two to see if it was disturbed in any
way. It is supposed that some one
watched bim in his rounds of inspection,
and exhumed one of his little baulu to
find it contained tour hundred dollars in
silver coin. No clue as yet to the per
petrator.
Tim thermometer registered 100 de
grees in the shade at this place on the
14th lost.
The Cochran Enterprise has the follow
ing from a correspondent at Gum Swamp:
“Last week as Mr. Moses Holland was a*
Hawklnsvlllo attending court he was
summoned home, to find Ms oldest son
torn into doll rags by a young mule. The
circumstances are as follows: Mr. H.’s
two little boys lmd been ploughing, and
when they “took out” the oldeat one told
the other to carry some wood to tbe
bouse and he would carry his mule. This
was agreed upon, and he rode one and
led the other. He had the bridle reins
looped over his hand, and tbe mule got
scared and jumped suddenly, pulling
the boy off. Tills also scared him, as did a
plow the boy was carrying, and lie began
running, and drug tl»e little boy about
300 yards, over the stumps, pine
roots and logs, and against a stump. Mr.
H. says that he hasn't a particle of Mde
on bim that was there when he was
bom.”
Mrs. Tiry Garrett and her daughter got
into a dispute a few days ago, tbe sad re
sult of which was as follows: Mrs. G.
told her daughter to go and cook dinner,
and tbe young lady refused to do so. Her
mother told nor if she did not go at ones
she would make her father whip her
when lie came to dinner; and so one
word brought on another, until they
(Ot up a general row andd tbe (laugh
er got the shotgun and fired on her
mother, the whole load, which contained
fifteen buckshot, peeling off the top of
for her to get over it, and there is a prob- tbe child in the yard and to the comer of
ability of both mother and daughter dy- tbe bouse sbe watched tbe little one stoop
ing. Mr. G. is a well-to-do farmer <4 low and crawl under the floor, where its
Laurens county, and Is highly respected attention was soon seemingly drawn to
by all who know him. His wife and some object well back in_ tbe corner Of
daughter are both members of the Metho
dist church and stand as fair as anybody.
We find these items in the Baraesville
Gazette:
A Little Romantic.—Last Sunday
Mr. Thomas J. Tolan engaged Judge J.
W. I’owell to |oin himself and Miss Uar-
olino Martin, iu wedlock, and instructed
him to appear at Tolan’s brother’s resi
dence, where the important event was to
occur. The fear that the fair one might
be seized and carried away so occupied
the to-be-groom, that he decided not to
the brick underpinning. Led now by a
deep curiosity, the mother herself crawled
beneath the floor sufficiently to acquaint
herself with tbe situation, and tbe sight
that met her gaze almost froze her blood.
In a perfect coil, as though prepared to
combat some formidable foe, with head
erect, lay a huge serpent, with
tbe little child robbing its bands
gently over ita body. The ser
pent, as though apprized of the child’s
ignorance of fear and intending it no
harm, would gently move its head aside
when the band or the child passed near
wait for Judge PoweU, and left in the di- it . Mrs. Poole as quick as possible after
rection of Milner, ten minutes before realizing the awful situation, drew the
Judge Powell arrived at tbe appointed
place. But be decided to press on and
overtake the uneasy lovers. After four
miles bard presaing his steed, tbe court
reached the couple, who said they were
going somewhere to get married, but bad
no definite arrangements in tbeir minds.
Judge Powell dismounted them In the
read, in front of Bethel church, tied tbe
connubial knot, and left the young couplo
to begin life with the religious services at
the church.
Shootino Affray Last Saturday
very unfortunate difficulty arose between
two brothers in. this county, which re
sulted in each of them being shot by tbe
other. They rented the " plantation of
Mr. George Huguly, and are living to
gether on the place. William and Jeffer
son Moore arc the young men. It seems
that a dispute arose between Jeff and
William’s wife as to the ownership of
trunk key. William took the part of his
wife and a fight ensued between tbe
brothers. The fight progressed from
fisticuff to knives, aud then to shot-guns.
When both had secured a shot-gun and
got in position, they managed to discharge
their pieces simultaneously, and both
were well directed. William, the mar
ried brother, was badly wounded in the
left cheek and head, while Jeff, the single
brother, was not severely wounded In the
left arm. Both have been in bed since
tbe unfortunate affray, but are perhaps
out of danger and will soon recover.
The editor of tho Oglethorpe Echo who
attended tho Stale press convention at
Rome recently, must have eaten some
thing that disagreed with him while there,
judging from tbe following:
Now, the principal business of a press
convention is to elect officers, hear and
receive an address of welcome from the
authorities of the city, permit a few gassy
and highly inflated members to shoot off
their jaw, accept every free ride and all
the free hash offered them, and then ad
journ to depredate on some ether comma
nity the next year.
We findtbes^ddttjoaaMtem^^UM
same paper:
Cheap Whisky. —A man In this
county a few years ago opened a bar-room
with one barrel of mean whisky and did
a large business for several years, at last
retiriug well oA. Neighbors who lived
near him affirm that during that entire
time hu never made any addition to Ills
stock, but simply “doctored Up” that bar
rel and spun it out.
A Law Card.—The following, printed
upon a postal card, is being sent through
tbe State by a man who once filled the
position of Chief Justice ot the Supreme
Court of Georgia. It reads like a cross
between a patent medicine advertiserincnt
and an ciliuion from Punch:
L. E. BLECKLEY,
ATLANTA,
Will study and argue cases in the Su
preme Court of Georgia on tbe principle
of “no cure, no pey”—all fees conditional
upon success
The Atlanta Redater says: “Albert
Smith, who was confined in jail at Wash
iugtou, charged with tho murder of Trcs-
daie Callaway in March, kuocked the
jailor down Thursday night, as the jailor
was taking his supper to him, and after
shooting at the jailor once or twice, made
bis escape, and up to this lime has not
been heard from. His trial was to have
come off in June. The sheriff arrested
Mr. Hackney, the jailor, and put him in
The same paper learns from Wash
ington City that “Randall, of the Augus
ta Chronicle, has returned to Washington.
He has been lucky enough to slip in
for a position under the seargent at arms
of the Senate; which will pay him $125
month until December.”
It also publishes the report oi the as
signees of tbo defunct Citizens’ Bank of
Atlanta to Judge Hillyer, of that circuit,
as follows:
That we find, in taking a balance sheet,
that the liabilities of tbe bank, including
accounts such as Interest profit, etc., are
$805,813.49; and that the resources of tbe
bank, including cash, real estate, stocks,
bonds, discounts, amount due from other
banks, and accounts, such as salaries, ex
pense*, furniture, fixtures, etc., are $791,
709.35-leaving books out of balance,
$14,109.14. The actual liabilities are
as follows: For capital stock, $161,750.00,
for deposits, Including certificates, $322,-
493.32; for amounts due banks and
others not on individual ledger, $128,-
530.81; for re-discounts, $152,500.21—
total of actual liabilities, S765,340.34.
The actual assets, on their face, are as
follows: Loans and discounts, $252,136.55;
stocks and bonds $333,800; sundry balan
ces due by banks and individuals, $48,-
267.53; real estate, $17,859; stamped
checks and envelopes, $300; cash and
cash items,$25,742.45; overdrafts, $50,-
640.07; furniture and fixtures, $0,998.16—
total of actual assets, $714,752.56. As will
be seen from accompanying exhibits, a
large proportion of the assets are utterly
worthless, and some of them are not in
our hands. From the assets which came
into our hands we have realized as follows:
From cash and cash items, $6,203.79;
from loans and discounts, $4,570.77; from
sundry bank balances, $9,016.88; from
over drafts, $311.79; from sale of $33,000
Atlanta city bonds, $33,090; from general
collection account, $204.03; from sale of
sundry small articles, $1.30—total receipts,
$51,298.56. And wc have made payments
as follows: To Messrs. Hopkins &
Glenn, L. E. Bleckley, and Harrison
4b Peeples, attorneys, $1,200.00;
to American Exchange National bank,
iroceedsof sale of city bonds, $33,090; to
it. Y, McAllen in purchase of S.
and A. railroad, by bondholders, to
protect themselves, $3,771.48; to W. S.
Thompson, expenses incurred in going to
Spartanburg, in interest of bank.in con
nection with 8. aud A «f railroad
$17.60; to receivers for expenses in
curred iu visiting New York by order of
court, $165.75; to incidental expenses,
$15.84 — a total of $39,150.60 —
leaving cash on hand of $12,147.89
The Savannah Hews says' tbe “dredge
engaged in deepening the front of tbe coal
wharf, on the other side of the river, yes
terday brought up a piece of mahogany
14x14 inches and about twenty feet in
length, which, it is supposed, has. lain on
tbe bottom of tbe river atnee before the
her bead, and lodging In the door-lacing.
When tbe daughter found she had not ao-i tion. About two weeks
eompliahed her desire, of kilting her friend was calling on
mother, sbe tried tbe other barrel, but lier
little brother knocked up tbe gun in time
to save bis mother’s life. When Mr. G.
The Cuthbert Appeal says: A. J. Moye
sold 167 bales of cotton on Wednesday in
one lot for cash. He was foretd to send
dray to the depot for tbe amall fraction
of specie—about one hundred and 'forty
pounds.
The Story or A Child and a
Snake.—Tbe Cedartown Advertiser tells
the following:
Mr. R. T. Poole, well known as one
of Polk county’s trustworthy citizens, has
little boy near the age of three years,
that has been unusually backward about
learning to talk, but baa acquired the art
of endeavoring to be understood by means
of signs, snch as pointing bis finger at
such objects as happen to gain his atten-
(o while a lady
rs. Poole, the
Saturday Joe Harrell, Jr., and Dan Smith j came to the house be so severely whipped
had a quarrel iu Troton, — which Smith. the daughter that »t Is thought ImpoMlble
child’s peculiar actions led bis mother
to believe that something unusual bad
been receiving bis attention, and as soon
child away, and directed some negro
women to drag the serpent out and kill
it. With a hoe they soon brought it out,
but it quickly begun to show fight, once
jumping its full length at those seeking to
slay it. It was despatched, however, and
proved to bo of that dangerous
species kuown as tlie highland
moccasin. It was more than half
as large as a man’s wrist, and
measured nearly three feet in length. It
is supposed tbe child bad been fondling
the snake for some while, aud who, pos
sessing a knowledge of tbe reptile’s dan-
gerons character, will attempt an answer
tothequorry: Why was he spared the
deadly effects of its poisonous fangs?
A Talbot county citizen tells tho Co
lumbus limes that a sure cure for colic
iu horses is to pour cold water up and
down the spino until tho system rciaxes |
when instantaneous relief is obtained.
" A BIk Work.
Messrs. Jeff Lane, sow of A. J. Lane,
of Macon, Ga., and A. M., W. L. and G.
F. Waltbour, will leave Alabama in a lew
days for Shreveport, Louisiana, where tbe
threo last named will begin work on tbo
New Orleans' and Pacific railroad. Tho
Messrs. Waltliour will carry with them
from east Alabama and southwest Geor
gia four hundred hands, and will be at
wont on the new enterprise in a short
while. Wo are told that there will be en
gaged on this work as many as three thou
sand laborers and that the road will be
pushed forward to New Orleans with all
possible dispatch. The project is Jay
Gould’s, and of course it need not lag for
the want of necessary funds.
The stock king is accredited with great
foresight, and the fact that he is building
the road proves that “there are millions in
it.” Other people, however, could not see
it in the dividends of a road which had to
compete with river rates as this must do.
In order that this road should he con
structed with tho least cost, it must, of
course, other things being equal, take tho
most direct route, and our air line be
tween tbe termini will run it almost side
by side with the Red and afterwards tbe
Mississippi river. The South, however,
needs railroad development, and we thank
the magnates for every mile they con
struct.—Eufaula Times and News.
TO31 ARTE It'S TALK,
Well-
In Which He Describes
Known Chnracter.
Once, when I was very unhappy, I wrote
a description of tho summer visit of the
averago colored excursionist to tho city,
and I have been importuned so often to re
produce it, that I will give it here instead
of my usual batch of uousense. We have
scon him drop tho plow handles in open
field, don his Sunday-hamess, aud hie to
town on the first hint of an excursion.
That’s the word that pats tho darky’s heart
on a skewer and broils his soul in rod-hot
ecstasy. Excursion ! why a whole moun
tain of oy crops out of that one wcrJL To tho
colored gentleman of the corn field it has a
sweccter sound than emancipation, and he
hangs on to the tail of its mention in
dreamy bliss. T he cotton Held, tbo corn
field, or tho potato patch is left to hoe its
own row when an excursion is on hand.
The excursionist may not liavo bread. hi3
clothes ragged and his feet bare, yet be
saves from his scant wages sufficient of
evil for tbe day thereof. Ho cometh into
town, arrayed liko a lily of the valley, and
Solomon in nil his glory was not arrayed
liko ono of these. He wrappeth his neck in
tbo erubescent gorgeousm-ss of a rod ilan-
nel cravat, and adomothhis ebon rotundity
with a buttouiess white vest of ancient cat.
lie sportoib upon his calabash the shatter
ed remnants of a St. Patrick’s day plug,
and runneth his head far into tho cavernous
depths of the same, for the wind of the city
blowoth rode. He bnttoneth his grass linen
dnster around his manly yet ungainly
shape, by the top button; ho wearetii upon
his broad expanse of foot tho unclipped
hides of a pair of bull yearlings, upon
which he lavishetb the wealth of
a box of blacking. He encaseth bis oblong
legs in pants that nro wrinkled like unto a
washerwoman’s finger, and delusively
sprinkleth sugar in his shoes to coax, yet
vamly cjnr, the rim of his pants to proper
length. Ho wenreth socks which foUluth
l folds nnd exposeth a section of rusty lej
Thus decked out in what ho considcreth
an extremely high-toned costume, he mad
ly plungeth firstly into the nearest grocery,
and for a nickel purchaseth two excursion
cigars. Tho average excursion cigar is se
verely bereft of tobacco. It is composed
of brown papor and cabbajo leaves, with a
full guarantee to smell bad and generate
smoko. He placeth tho spare cigar tender
ly and carefully in tho upstairs pocket of his
white vest; then be lightotk the other
with tho air of a now policeman
nnd calleth for a nickel drink of stagger-
nice—corn, of course. Corn ia the favor
ite beverage of the excursionist. It pos'
ses.-oth a generous farewell and seemetli
to make a torchlight procession of his in
nards. Thus armed, tho excursionist lets
himself loose upon tho town. He walkoth
down the street with (lie importuno of a
boy with a fresh sweetheart, and the smoke
which evolveth from his cigar rivaletli iu
color and volume that which comoth from
the stack of a coal burning locomotivo.
He goeth down tho street with tho tread of
a conquering hero,and tho sidewalk cchoutli
his footsteps.
Finally he becometh weariod. He for-
getteth that in tho field that he walkoth
and worketh from sunup to sundown; but
the city’s pavement tireth Mm fearfully.
He taketh in another nickel tod.
Doggone tho expense. Ho saileth
over the town in a whirlwind
of importance. He spendeth nickels for
soda water, Thv dark}' loveth not tho
frothy effervescence, but tho white man
guzzlelh soda and so will ho. He filled his
pockets with peanuts aud cake, and look-
eth askance nt the black-blushing maidens
whoeyeth him ns ho twists around tho
street corner. Ho moanderoth tho happiest
mortal on earth—a brood, blissful laugh
spr&nleth over his anatomy from head to
toe.
He meeteth An acquaintance—perhaps
his “young master”—and shaketh his hand
“jest like white trash.” He throweth with
a flirt his plug further back on his cala
bash, buttoneth his thumbs in the arm
holes of his vest and striketh an attitude.
The brown paper found in his month
•mooketh like a well-organized tar-kiln,
and ho runneth over the “times wot
we used to hab” with young master
with r tongue miraculously glib. On tho
strength of this meeting, combined with
irevious happiness, he plungeth into tbe
iquory where the cayenno juice is slung
over the bar. He calleth upon the crowd to
;ine him. The crowd invariably jineth.
When the dew drops fall, the excursionist
is exceedingly unsober. Ho reeleth upon
tho pavement nnd his tongue rooleth in his
mouth. A friendly policeman heave.h m
sight, nnd they become acquainted—ex
ceedingly intimate. Next morning tho
excursionist findeth himself behind locks
and bars, minus his sinking laud but
flush with headaohe. The mayor interriew-
eth bim and plaoeth bim bejqmd the reach
of temptation for three mouths. This is
hard, bat ’tis well. What rose carryetb not
its thorn ? Tom Abtkb.
STORY OP MENA MULLER.
KIDDED
OS HER
DAY.
WEDDING
Her Bigamous Marriage and Propos
ed Return to derm any—An Order
Cabled for Second Jins band’s Ar
rest.
Frost N. T. World 10th.
Tbe body of tbe woman found murder
ed in the woods at Guttenbcrg last Friday
morning has been identified as that of
Mena Muller, alias Schmidt, alias Kettler,
tbe wife of a cigar-maker, wbo did busi
ness at No. 338 West / Thirty-ninth street,
New York city. The man who is sus*
spected of having murdered her is a brick
layer or a butcher who was known as
Louis Kettler. On May 2 the woman
sold her household goods and prepared to
sail lor Europe in the steamer Amerique,
of the French line on the following
Wednesday, the 4th instant. Her
trunk and other bagvago were
removed to the Scherer’s Hotel at No.
178 Christopher street. On Tuesday
morning the 3d inst., she aud Kettler
crossed Christopher Street Ferry to Ho
boken aud went up into North Hudson
county. At the house of the Rev. Dr.
Mahon, of tbe Grove Reformed Church at
Union Hill, they wore married, she giving
her name as Mena Schmidt, which was
lier maiden name. Thence they went to
Mis. Ganet Flock's saloon on Pierce ave
nue, West Now York. She was not seen
again till her body was found. Tuesday
evening Kettler returned to tho hotel In
Christopher street without the woman,
and the next morning had tbe trunks re
moved to the steamship wharf. He is be
lieved to liavo sailed on the Amerique.
An examination of tho passenger lists of
tho steamsr at tbe company’s office in
Bowling Green yesterday failed to reveal
his name. District-Attorney McGill, ot
Hudson county, sent a dispatch by cable
at once to Havre, ordering tho arrest of
the man on the arrival of the vessel. The
Amerique arrived on Sunday night.
After the identity of the body had been
indicated by the clues followed, it was
more positively identified by tho relatives
of the dead woman. Yesterday after
noon Maria Schmidt, the woman’s sister,
accompanied by Simon Muller, tho dead
woman’s husband, went to Crane’s
Morgue. Both positively declared that
the body was that of Philomena Muller.
Miss Schmidt says that Mena had separa-
tod from her husband. Two weeks ago
sho told Miss Schmidt that she “had at
last found a decent man who would mar
ry her aud take lier to Germany.” They
had arranged, Miss Schmidt* said, to sail
on the 4th instant. Miss Schmidt and the
husband went to the wharf of tho Ameri
que on the morning tho vessel sailed, but
Mena was not -seen. Neither of them
knew Kettler. Muller said he bought tbo
breastpin found on tho murdered woman
foj his wife, and the sister identified the
clothing.
The half-emptied bottle of Rhine wine
and the torn copy of the Slants Zeitung,
which were found iu thelwoods where the
murder was committed, lurnished the clues
which were followed by Officers Stanton
and Fanning, of Hoboken, and by Coro
ner Jolin R. Wiggins, and led to the iden
tification of tbe body. The man and tho
woman had stopped at tho tavern kept by
the husband ot Mrs. Ganet Finck at West
New York, and the woman there obtained
from Mrs. Finck the newspaper, using it
to wrap around a bottle of Rhine wine.
Afterwards they went in the direction of
tho woods where tho woman was killed.
Tho woman had incidentaiy remarked to
Mrs- Finck that she liad got the Rhine
DECTVRE OS PROHIBITION.
The Evils *r tbe Liquor TraHc—Tbe
Law Should Prohibit Its bale—Bev.
' Joseph S Key. D B, on this Curse ot
the Axe.
Rev. Jos. S. Key, D. D., Pastor of
Mulberry Street M. E. Church, Macon,
Go.—Dear Sib: Having heard with
pleasure your lecture Sunday night last
on the subject of the “Liquor traffic aud
tho right. and propriety of the State’s
enacting laws to prohibit or suppress it,”
and believing, in view of tbe movement
now on foot to bring this matter to the at
tention of tbe approaching session of the
Legislature, that your views deserve a
wider circulation than the congregation
of a single church, and that your lecture
would bo read with interest by the gener
al public, the undersigned, therefore, re
spectfully request that, at your earliest
convenience, you would furnish them
with a copy for publication.
Very respectfully,
W. H. Burden,
James M. Jones,
F. S. Johnson,
Wm. R. Rogers,
W. R. Singleton,
R. F. Burden, and others.
Macon, Ga., May 17th, 1881.
“I Don’t Want That MU;”
what a lady of Boston said to her
husband when he brought home some
medicine to cure her of sick headache and
neuralgia which had made her miserable
for fourteen years. At the first attack
thereafter, it was administered to her
with such good results, that sbe continued
ita use until cured, and made so enthusi
astic in IU praise, that she induced twen
ty-two of the best families in her circle to
adopt it as tbeir regular family medicine.
That “stuff” is Hop Bitters.”—Standard.
my!7-2w.
Wine at Union lli.'l. Tito detectives
learned that it bad been bought at Ed
ward Sabil’s saloon. Tho woman said
there that slic had Just been married The
Rev. Mr. Maoon, the pastor of tho Grove
Uburcb, had, she said, performed the cere
mony. She paid for the wine with a $5
gold piece; Mr. Sarah Rigter, who di
rected the woman and the man to Mr.
Mahon’s house, was also found. As the
couple passed the church grave-yard on
their way to tho parsonage, Walter
Bauscher, who was digging a grave, mr
ticed them. The Rev. Dr. Mabon said
that he had married a couple on that day.
He produced the record of the marriage
on the church register. It read as fol
lows: “On Thursday, May 3,18S1, Louis
Kettler, single, aged thirty-three, brick
layer by occupation, residence No. 1,511
Second avenu'e, New York, married to
to Mena Schmidt, single, aged thirty-four,
residence 1,247 Third avenue, New York.
Father of bridegroom, Louis Kettler.
Father of bride Anastasia Schmidt. Both
of the contracting parlies were born in
Katewbein, Germany.” ■
Mr. Mahon said that the women enter
ed the house first, aud asked him if ho
would perform the ceremony. When ho
consented sho called the man in. After
tbe ceremony, she went eut to get change
lor a $5 gold piece and returned with a
bottle of Rhine wine. A colored girl iu
Mr. Mabon’a employ described the man,
whom she saw us ho paced nervously up
and down outside. The detectives next
caiiie to New York. At tho Third ave
nue number nothing could he learned,
hut Mrs. Schwan, who has charge of the
tenement at No. 1,511 Second aveuno, re
membered the man aud woman and de
scribed them. Charles Rost, the agent of
the house, said that on March 3 Mrs.
Mena Muller hired rooms in tho liouse.
She told him she was married.
On May 2d she sold her furniture
and went away. While she lived
there she worked at the house of Moise
Hahn, a butcher on Third avenue, be
tween Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth
streets. Hahn described the man pre
cisely aud said be went to tho store to
take the woman homo every evening.
She told Hahn on leaving his employ
that she was going to Mulhausen, Ger
many, where she had property. H.
Hayton, of No. 1,294, Third avenue, is
tho expressman who removed tiio bag-
;age from tho house. The cartmau whom
le sent says that Kettler rode with him
from Fortli-scwnth aud Third avenue to
Scherer’s Hotel without speaking a word.
Scherer, tho hotel keeper, said that on
Monday evening, May 2d, the man and
the woman arrived at his place. They
called themselves Mr. and Mrs. Kettler.
The next day, Tuesday, they weiit out in
the direction of the Christopher street fer
ry. Lato Tuesday night the man return
ed alone. Scherer asked where the wo
man was. The man replied that she
intended to stay with her sister ail night
aud would join him tho next morning on
the steamship. The man ordered his
trunks to be taken to the steamship wharf
and they were taken there.
On learning these facts Coroner Wig
gins reported to District Attorney McGill,
and in the name of Attorney-General
Stockton, of New Jersey, a dispatch was
at once sent to Havre. Constable Edward
Stanton is to sail for Europo on Saturday
to secure the arrest of tlie man.
Robbery, it is thought, prompted tbe
murder. Mr. Muller said yesterday that
his wife had between $800 and $1,000
saved. She also told Mr. Hahn that she
had property at Mulhausen. The money
is supposed to have beeu in her trunk, al
though it may have beeu iu the purse she
carried into North Hudson county on the
day of tlie murder. She is known to have
had with lier $15 she received from tho
sale of her furniture, and $22 received for
a month’s work at Mr. Halm's. Neither
money nor pocket-book lias been
found. Muller saysrthat bis wife also bad
a gold watch and chain which had not
beeu recovered. Muller’s place of busi
ness was in Thirty-ninth street, but it
has siucc been removed to No. 592 West
Thirtieth street. He bad been married
to the women for six years. A year ago
be quit lier.
Bella Kugler, wbo it was thought at one
time was the victim of the murder in tbe
Guttenbarg wood, was before Judge Don
ahue on a writ of habeas corpus. It ap-
>earing that she was not restrained of her
iberty the writ was dismissed.
Macon, Ga., May 18lb, 1881.
Messrs. Burden, Jones, Rogers, etc.-
Gentlemen: I cannot refuse your court
teous request of yesterday for tuy lecture.
It was pronounced lrom notes only, bu-
I have gladly written it out with some
emendations and additions.
Flcase accept it as my humble contri
bution to tlie great prohibitory move
ment. Yours fraternally,
■ ’. Joseph S. Key.
LIQUOR OCR SHAME AND CURSE—ITS
MANUFACTURE AND SALE MUST BE
PROHIBITED BY LAW.
My reasons for using this pulpit and this
Sabbath night service in the interest of
temperance, ate found in the mtgniludo
of the issues pending and the urgency of
their demand on us.
We stand to-day, my countrymen, con
fronting face to face a most appalling
evil. Drunkenness, beastly and revolting,
has overspread our laud aud walks uncov
ered through our streets aud has come up
into our homes; and hand in hand with
this htrror come also debauchery aud
crime, and poverty and sorrow, and shame
acd death. Not to seo it is willful blind-
ness; to so.; it and not bj stirred to feeling
and action is simply monstrous.
It is the crime and curse of this day,
universal in its sweep, inconceivable lor
magnitude aud indiscribable as to its re
ality. Neither plague, nor famine, nor
war are comparable with it lor waste ol
life, and wreck ot fortune, aad blight of
hope.
Judged by any test and measured by
every standard of human judgment, strong
(h ink is doing more than they all com
bined. They are local In their sphere,
this is world-wide. They are temporary,
this continues. Day aud night the live
long year the dreadful work goes ou. No
territory is untouched, no home unvisited,
not a moment is lost.
Tho sum of this evil is absolutely im
measurable. Lord Bacon lias said with
feeling aud with power, “All the crimes
on earth do not destroy so many of the
humau family, nor alienate so much prop
erty as drinking.”
To this gigantic curse we do each and
all stand directly related. But few fami
lies, throughout all tlielr branches and
connections have escaped tlie fang of
this serpent’s tooth. Tints are we by
blood related to it. No church in this
ed function of government; that which it. To do so, or even consent to it „
obtained before craft and ambition and out protest makes even such e ! -!•/,.„ >,
lust gained ascendency. The State then ' a partaker of the crime, and a nr L,,
was simply an intermediate to keep the of the criminal. Protector
peact; and secure equality ofrlghls aud pro- l make my appeal now to Christian
tection to all. Here, then, in this first con- men and upright good citizens m*,„Ti ‘
ceptton of our fathers, we find the Char- j tbe responsibility foTiSd
tared right of the btate guaranteed to cor- , !ng rests. See what you have done r,‘
rent wroi.e. to restrain evil ,iner. •*»’« avery community yon have selected a fa.
vored few, and set them apart to the busf
ness of bar-keeping. That they ln ,v
neither be misunderstood or imposed no
on, you ciotlie them with license. The
State ts careful of her favorites. But do
not be misled. Th»se are t/our agents
your liquor sellers, your ministers. You
have ordained them to this ministry. You
have In effect laid your hands upon
them and said “take thou authority to
sell whisky, to debauch young men and
maidens, to breed strife,to impoverish and
degrade, to make widows and orphans
and to do all tlie Devil's dirty work in
this community.” “Angels and minister*
of grace, defend us.” How long will gxtd
men allow themselves to be thus misrep
resented? Down with the license ! It is
not only a fraud, but a failure. The at
tempt to regulate the sale of liquor has
always been a farce wherever attempted.
Not a court is held in all the laud, but
men are indicted for abuse of their license'
not a community that is not shocked and
outraged by the scandals of the trade.
“Regulate it,” indeed! In the language
oi a distinguished speaker, “the only way
to regulate fire in a conflagrat ion, is to put
it out; the only way to regulate water in a
flood, is to turn It off; tlie only way to
regulate the yellow fever, is to quarantine
it, and the only way to regulate liquor
manufacture and liquor dealing, is to stop
Tho plea of taxation by license for pur
poses of revenue, is plainly delusive.
You surely do not ace that tlie paltry in
come thus acquired is immeasurably
overbalanced by the increased
court costs, and jail expenses, and police
uuty, to say nothing of the loss of
labor ami waste of property. It has been
well said that it would be far more eco
nomical to pension these liquor dealers,
and support them in idleness than to sup
port all the criminals, paupers, idlers and
diseased created by litem, thus imposed
on the State.
Moscow, May 21.—The police are tak
ing precaution* against a rumored attack
ou the Jews. Some Jewish families have
a* her company bad disappeared, she was already fled and others are depositing . graphs. The books are to be rebound and
led to make an investigation. Following their valuables in banks. I replaced.
A rxw years ago rack* were put in the
care of the Erie railway for the holding of
Bibles. The jar of tbe cars has at last
worn out the bindings of the books. The
books themselves have never been looked
at, except a* a matter of curiosity by a few
Jeraeymen, who do not appreciate para-
cating drinks.” Thus are wo by grace
related to it.
Moreover, we are bound together in so
ciety and government. We are the body
politic. Each person is an iutegral
part, and lints related to every
other member. “Tho cyo cannot say
unto tho hand I have no need
of thee; nor again tho head to tho feet,
I have no need of you—and whether one
member suffer, all the members suffer
with it; or one member be honored all the
members rejoice with it.”
I repeat with emphasis wo do individ
ually bear a family, and church, aud so
ciety relationship to tbe drunkenness
prevalent amongst us that links us to it as
with hooks ot steel. Now then this re
lationship cicates responsibility. Upon
whom does it rest?
Some blame the drunkard and hold him
alone responsible for Ills individual sm.
I pity him. In most cases he is an un
fortunate victim. Ho may have inherited
his depraved thirst. A lather’s evil ex
ample may have ensnared him; the gene
rous impulses of his noble nature possi
bly infilled him; a thousand evil agencies
surround and assail him. Alas! for tho
poor drunkard* Let us walk backward
to bim like the sons of Noah and drop tho
mantle of charily over his fall.
Some blame tho bar-keeper who deals
out tho impoisoued drink. I am not his
apologist. Heaven knows I have uo ex
cuse to offer for saloons or their inmates.
It is an infamous business, aud no
man who thus wrings tears, and treas
ure and shame and blood from his
follows, deserves or can expect a decent
respect. But had as lie is, your bar
keeper lias a license and so far is pro
tected and made respectable by tho very
people ho seeks to ruin. What he does
;s done by authority and consent of all
parties conccred. He pays his rnouey
for his devilish license, aud society con
sents for a paltry fee to allow hint free
dom in his master’s work.
Here then wo have reached the end of
our search and can locate the guilty
authors of this mischief. Society is re
sponsible. Public opinion does it.
Every man iu every community wlto does
not clear himself by special aud ex
haustive effort is in his measure responsi
ble for all the consequences of licensed
drinking. In the light of this conclusion
how tjocs every conscientious citizen
read his duty ?
First and ciearly set forth a pure example.
Drinking whether in public or in private
should bo abandoned. Wine should he
banished from the table and not have
place in any public hospitality. Physi
cians should prescribe it only as a last re
sort. Merchants should emp'oy only
sober clerks, and make strict temperance
the test of credit. Aiouud the fireside
and on tho huslitig's, from tlie forum,
in tlie pulpit aud the press, and
school room, tuo leaders of public opinion
should at all limes and by every means
and in every possible way protest, and
warn, and leach, aud trait), ami guard,
and guide. The price ol liberty is eter
nal vigilance. All this necessitates t.n-
otherslep—close up the bar-rooms. The
State or city that granted tlie license must
take it away, aud prohibit the sale. Pri
vate sentiment creates public opinion, and
public opinion must tule and guide in
popular governments. If society be re
sponsible for social drunkenness and dis
order, then society must meet her respon
sibilities or lake Lite consequences.
Now let us argue this question of pro
hibition by the State. Two propositions
will exhaust the discussion.
1. Has the Slate the right to prohibit
by law the manufacture aud sale of all
alcoholic beverages ? If uot, our case
fails and the argument ends, and with it
our efforts cease aud eur hope goes out.
Let us sec.
1. Civil government Is a dirine institu
tion. “Let every soul be subject to the
higher powers. For tbeie is no power but
of God; the power* that lie are ordaiued
of God. Whosoever, therefore, resisted)
the power reslstelh the ordinance of God.
They that resist shall receive to themselves
damnation.” An Institution thus divinely
established and girded about with such
solemn guarantees is not set adrift like an
uumoored vessel, aud left to tbe chances
of wind and wave. The State is not left
helpless, with uo power of self protection.
Its very existence and purpose demonstrate
this trn'b. God who gave tbe Slate
clothed it with the right to protect aud
defend itaelf against every foe that threat
ens to destroy it.
2. Civil government presupposes disor
der aud wrong doing. Designed for fallen
men, it must necessarily be a government
of control and restraint. Hence, Mid St.
l’aul: “Ruler* are not a terror to good
works, but to tbe evil.” In this scripture
reve’ation, we find the original uncorropt-
rect wrong, to restrain evil doers, abate
nuisances aud protect the helpless.
3. This right the State has claimed and
exercised at will in other things, and no
man is found to object. The publication
of obscene books and their circulation
through the mail is forbidden and made
punishable by fine and imprisonment.
This is right aud proper, we all agree.
The sale of lottery tickets and all man
ner of gambling is prohibited by special
legislation, and all Judges are required to
expound aud execute it. Does any man
deny the right or doubt the expediency?
Bigamy, seduction, Sabbath-breaking are
all named, condemned aud punished.
All these are abridgments of personal
rights for the general good, aud ail are
approved aud most heartily supported.
We agree cordially until we reach the
traffic aud use of ardent spirits. Even
here we all agree that it Is tbe monster
evil of tbe times, aud that it is fast be
coming an overshadowing monopoly
backed by millions of money, and threat
ening legislatures and courts. No sane
man cau contemplate this feature without
alarm, and yet many hesitate and doubt
aud shrink from joining in the attack.
4. Why this hesitation when the Stale
lias already legislated, not only against
these evils, but to embarrass and repress
the liquor traffic itself? The taxes put
upon the trade are repressive, and rightly
understood are more of the nature of fines
than otherwise. They are the expression
of tho public fear; they amount to a con
demnation of the ovil, and are designed to
discourage and hinder. No other indus
try is treated thus. Now then doing
this much carries with it the
right to do more and to do alt, even to the
final and utter prohibition by law of the
very existence of the evil. The right to
discriminate involves the right to prohibit.
5. But all this reasoning is simply de
signed, by showing the philosophy and
propriety of the law, to prepare your
minds for the announcement that the right
of the State to prohibit the salo of iuloxi
eating liquors has beeu affirmed again and
again by the Supreme Court of the United
States. Judge Grier, of that court, re
marks, in giving his opinion in a certain
case before him, that, “it is not necessary
to array the appalling statistics of misery-,
pauperism, and crime, which have their
origin In tbe use and abuse of ardent
spirits. The police power, which is ex
clusively in the State, Is competent to the
correction of these great evib, and all
measures ot restraint and prohibition
necessary to efleetthat purpose are within
the scope of that authority.” Judge
Catron says, “If the State has the power
of restraint by license to any extent, she
may go to the length of prohibiting sales
altogether.”
Now, then, we reach our fiist conclu
sion. The State has the right to prohibit.
It inheres in Us very organic law; for
this very purpose was the State
ordained; this very thing has she always
done, and the right to do so
she affirms by her highest judicatory.
2. This brings us then to tbe final is
sue. Having tbe right to problt tbe man
ufacture and sale ot iutoxicationg drinks,
ought tlio State to exercise that right? To
this question I answer with all the em
phasis of my judgment and conscience—
it should be done and done immediately
and irrevocably.
1. Because it is a monstrous evil.
Strong drink costs $1,009,000,000 a year
in money; it makes 50 per cent, o!Our
of our pau
per cent, of our
murders: it makes W' per cent, of our
crimiuals; it sends forth 95 per cent, of our
vicious youths, composing an army of
drunkards 600,000 strong, and it sends
ono every six minutes into a drunkard’s
grave, or about 100,000 a year. The sum
total of tho waste of the country’s mate
rial resources equals the overwhelming
sum of $2,000,000,000 annually. These
figures are absolutely beyond comprehen
sion, and so the facts with which wo deal
are beyond the power of computation
Hear the trumpet tones of a distinguished
American orator; “The truth is,
dear Christian friends, we have no realiz
ing sense of the magnitude of this evil. Wc
profess to believe that tbo drunkard
cannot Inherit eternal life, but, dying as
such, must be lost eternally; do we act as
if we believed that drunkenness was car
rying one hundred thousand souls annu
ally to tbo grave and to eternal ruin?”
“Think you, we would stand
by aud see one hundred thou
sand die annually of yellow fever,
when we knew we had the power to
prevent it? How long would a law re
main on our statute-books which permit
ted pec pie to sell the germs of that dread
disease?
“Wo talk of one hundred thousand
drunkards dying annually, but have wc
any just conception of what that means?
Did you ever stand and watch tho passing
regiments on some great day of parade,
and did you not tire as you stood seeing
the apparently never-ending ranks of the
military as they inarched? Yet It is uot
probable that twenty thousand ever pass
cd before you. Suppose tbese one hun
dred thousand poor drunkards should pass
in pro'cession before you on their way to
the grave what a strange, sad sight!
“They would come from all classes of
society, from the highest to the lowest.
See those poor, degraded women- among
them—and for the entire day yon will
see them pass. Then, remember, there are
the same number preparing to fill their
places for each succeeding year.
“Consider further, the half million or
more of wives aud children made misera
ble by tho ruin of husbands and fathers,
and you will obtain some Idea of what
this accursed business is doiug to destroy
body aud soul, and to fill our laud with
unutterable misery, saying nothing of the
worse than waste of hundreds oi millions
of dollars.”
Now then, standing, as we do this day,
in tlie darkness of this overshadowing
curse, I demaud in tbe interest of human
ity that if the Stale have the power to
Holnbit this wasto and ruin, she exercise
2. I claim furthermore that the State is
the natural guardian of its citizens, and
as such cannot permit ono class to prey
on the rest for private gains. If this
much protection be not granted, what is
the State worth to us ? It is a delusion
and a farce. This sentiment is universal,
and under Us prompting our recent Legis
lature appointed a commission of three
geutleineu to take charge of the railroads
in the State with almost abso
lute powers of control. My couu-
trymen, shall our auxiety for tbe
public safety, and our zeal for equality
and justice to all, exhaust itself in guard
ing a few great corporations, when iu
ev;ry village and hamlet of the State,
the deadliest foe of life and properly is
securely entrenched and deliautly at
work? Shall one hundred men in
this city be allowed like hungry heartless
wolves to fatten on tbe life-blood aud
heart-Uopes ol the community ? Never.!
never! if the State be our protector aud
guardian she must revoke these liquor
licenses, and prohibit tbe sale a. d thus
give equal protection to all. To the
Legislature soon to meet we make our
appeal. They must hear us.
3. 1 am profoundly impressed that we
are forced to choose between prohibi
tion and license; and all history and ob
servation attest that a licensed bar
room is an unmixed evil. It casts
around dram-selling .tbe protection of
law, and by so much give* it a quasi
respectability, which to sty tbe least for
it takes off tbe odium and horror which
would otherwise attach to the business.
The traffic is a sin against God, and
a crime against scan. To legalize it doe*
not change tbe fact, It i* still a tin and
crime. By this act the State becomes
responsible. Nay, more, tbe State becomes
partaker of tbe crime of selling, by pro
tecting the criminal who, sell*.
But there is a graver aspect to this ques
tion because a more personal one. What
is the Stain government but tbe expres
sion of public sentiment, and what is
that but the aggregated individual seuti-
ment. - Note this question. Is this a
Christian State, ana are we a Christian
people? Then It no true Christian can
sell liquor, uo true Christian can license
But you say “prohibition does not pro
hibit,” and hence you reluctate. Why
not be consistent? Do the ten command
ments prohibit? “Thou shaft not steal”—
has that effectually prevented then ? No;
but it has made it difficult and dishonora
ble, and thereby bas greatly reduced the
amount of it. Have the statutes in your
State code removed ail crime from your
midst? Shall we therefore abolish them,
and because they fall of absolute success
make uo effort at good order? What
blindness then and self-delusion in those
who oppose prohibition by the State, be
cause 1*. is exceptionally unsuccessful.
Duty Is oun. Let us stand by the prin
ciple, and uot be moved by doubt or fear.
But “prohibition” does prohibit. Had
wc timo and room for proof, it is at baud
overwhelming and Irresistible. To Hand
up in the face of this “great cloud of wit
nesses” aud persistently cry “failure,”
“failure,” is either criminal ignorance or
willful misrepresentation.
But if it be such a deplorable failure,
why is it so opposed by manufacturers and
dealers ? Every effort of the friends of
prohibition sends terror and contusion
into their ranks. I have before me now
an editorial taken from tbe Chicago
Brewer, which tells the secret. Hear it;
“Brewers, the fanatics are closely at
your heels, handed together in every
State like a- pack of wolves! In nearly
every Legislature the past winter prohib
itory amendments to the organic laws
have been pressed to a vote, and in sev
eral large brewing States they have only
failed to become laws by ojc or two
votes. This was (he case iu Missouri,
Wisconsin, Nebraska and otter States.
The defeated enemy, like the militant
church of which they are an advance
guard, will renew the attack next winter
with fresh reinforcements.
"The fanatics have flooded the country
with their temperance literature, in which
they have willfully misstated facts aud
misquoted Scripture. The National Tem
perance Association last year circulated
80,000,000 printed pages of temperance
literature, at a cost oi $7S,000.
“They put It into the schools, into fami
lies, and everywhere that it would possi
bly be read. They are thus rapidly aud
surely educating the masses of tbe people
to their false theories and Puritanical in
tolerance, with tlie avowed ptnpuae ot
driving out all malt liquors aud closing
every brewery.
“Brewers, you must meet this mass of
temperance literature with solid aud con
vincing arguments, or your trade in a few
years will be ruined.”
Ab, yesl “ru'u the trade.” They see it
and confess it, and the hope of accom
plishing this result only gives fresh inspi
ration to the friends of prohibition. Aud
now let me say, in conclusion, tbe issue is
made up nnd tbe lines are distinctly
drawn. We have sought Jo suppress this
great evil by moral suasion, by argument
aud appeal, by temperance societies and
pledges. These have failed. While wo
wrote and spoke, the tide has risen on us,
until it now seriously threatens to destroy
us. We are tvearied out ’and hope
less of all these temporizing efforts.
We strike now at the root of the evil.
The manufacture and sale of iutoxlcatiug
liquors must be suppressed by law. To
this we are henceforth committed. We
stand for the rich!, for equality, for puri
ty, and may the Great God, our Father,
defeud aud guide us!
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