Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-01-11

p90fs qUfeTIy CTCSGu theTr doors on
Sabbath in Baltimore Immediately after the
election of the Assemblymen and Sheriff in
that City on temperance principles Viii
ners about civil war and blood-shed, will
paste this fact III their caps. The Constitu-
ton and liberties Of the Marylanders are not
" under the hay" yet!
A POOR MAN was found dead in Cumber-
Hand with a jug at his side, not long since
He was laid upon the butchers SHAMELESS in
the Market House and a verdict returned
accordingly. Did Cumberland or the dealer
give him burial?
A Dos brought 1901 at a public sale in
Moore County last month. Ten were sold
yielding the sum ofSl54O! Moore doge have
their day
A DRUNKEN MAN had his bowels ripped
out with a knife the other day in an ARRAY
before the door of a licensed grog den. The
dealer had proved a good moral character"
and men have the " natural and unalienable
right to drink that which transforms them
into madmen and murderers; SO say the anti
prohibitioners!
Presses that have published over and over
again that the Prohibitory Law is unconsti-
%tutional until it has become stale, will confer
a favor upon their readers if they will put
on their goggles and see if there is anything
unconstitutional in the laws against gamb-
ling houses, obscene publications, the sale o.
tainted meat, arson, bigamy and so on to the
end of the lesson.
The QUARTER SESSION of Alamancc put
doVn the old grogshop in Graham and pur
up a netC one! 1t is surmised that the new
official will learn the slight of fourishing til
toddy-stick under the old master. Whoop
:" that Chaps the climax" Regulation
CRoAKERs, who have not a dollar at stalk
in society, having paid their all in tithes t
the drunkery, 60 into a whining lamentatiol
about the ruin which they say will inevitabl
follow in the footsteps of Prohibition. Aw
full no more drunkards to choke HelPs blaz
ing throat-no more paupers to whine j
rags-no more lunatiCs to rob night of il
stiffness with their horrid howl AMI screech
!, Mournful! Get your Grape, gentlemen.
DRUNKARD MANUFACTURES are doing
thriving business they are protected by I'll
e5is Of an infamous legislation, and a big
tariff is placed on the manufactured articl
IF too much licensed liquor is found aston
ach Of one of their Keeling crafts, he is visitc
4 by the grave displeasure Of the authorize
$ and sometimes placed in quarantine und
4 lock and key. No wonder that the Prohil
). ton principlei is obnoxious to the worthless
& Rum.
Lewis RED HOUSE has been thronged
late by a club of catty-cornered eye brow
fellows who feel interested for the farmer
: the price of corn and rye will go down
the stills stop" Levi concurs in the OPP:
ion. Now, GLevi will send one half bust
:. Of corn to the families robbed of life's Co
j mon comforts by the bald-faced whiskey,
neighbors will believe he feels for the Fl
mers. Pass the hat, JEFF, at the next club
the members of the bar are in a sympath
ing mood.
ELL shoulder my musket," exclaimed
is cock a-doodle-doo fellow, the other day,
by the midst of an argument with a temperar
friend on the prohibition policy, so dru
then that he could scarcely shoulder a broo
straw. Mind, Philip, and see that thy /
don't cackle before the egg Is laid.
ed
A SPIRIT RAPPER wants to know if
temperance agitation in n. G. will ever
mount to anything. The ghost in attendal
: at the sitting was undecided. The "a;
M answers-yes. Freemen will rap the d.
out of hogshead, barrel, cask and Jug.
WINTER is hard upon us with its blasts
.t The keepers of low drunkeries are advises
CHI furnish a pile of straw for packing az
I've their manufactured article such nights
as we have had of late are too cold to be,
the ditch. A few pennies may be saved
of acting in the premises.
ON "HAyE we a Bcau-born among US %
i S ladies decide in the affirmative, with a 81
!. of triumph.