New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-12

and malicious. One Sunday. lOs ins;snte. q few ~
them collected q, q shaniy where woman sold rum.
and It Was not long before the vile stuff like heat sp-
Piled to invisible ink. began TO bring out distinctly ala
the old srudges and hard feelings they had ever had
Two Of the company. enlightened by This womgns
bad rum suddenly remembered that they had 40 old
Quarrel which might well BE- settled al cace. Att
,bey went. and in less than five minutes one OF them
had his death wound. The conclusion OF this littis
affair Al the shanty was, that one man WAS killed aud
the other ia now serving long term IN tho State
Prison So that our female hquerseiler has quite emo
be herself by the large and quick results OF her bust
ness.
No, quite 50 glazing and staring were the fftnts
Of smother lquer.scllers traffic A poor fellow not
30 wears old was found in sad condition by The road
side He was taken to house and Csred for by his
boss, but in the afternoon he swallowed whole
quart Of rum obtained of hquorseller, and in few
hours he was dead The business WAS done up VITA
dispatch; il not left 10 Enger; and when the poor
fellows body buried, | noticed that the liquor
seller followed the procession sfar of Ia this
respect he showed good taste but is 80 curious that
voa cannot happen upon this liquor business IN any OF
IFS phases when ii has not q mean, hsng-dog look
1t never appeared well at its best.
Not far from live. sterling friend OF Temperance.
He has spples. but in private way he washes AM
squeezes enough of them to make his vinegar ratbr
than send them to the still. as our folks call 4.
He has cordwood but refuses TO sell Il to the siLl Va
one occasion he had soldering iron which the distGer
wished to borrow, as that would save him trip "t
several miles 10 the village but our told him. he
would not lend his bis soldering iron TO mend up his
worm if he had to 60 to China to get another one la
NJ. H. al al a.,M ,i,yhf la
still while the owner Of should 30 to the moon to get
a soldering iron He wished him, the said distler, To
understand tina, service. labor, favor or raw
material of any sort belonging to him, the said anti
ds,iler was with his consent 10 contribute TO make
dupkaris This was straight cut, as il should be.
Near by was a tayern-stand which Dad no license to
sell Intoxicating liquors and yet our temperance friend
had reason to believe the master the house did sell
such liquors His reason tor so believing was that he
had seen men 90 into the house sober and come out
drunk and on several occasions he had seen the lani
lord place decanter on the counter, out OF which he
had poured liquor for customers and for which he had
received paw In addition to this he could smell
alcohol and further, he could see that the liquor
affected those who drank IL.
Fully believing il to be plain case of violation of
the law he determined to 60 before the Grand jury to
make complaint. II with great difficulty he could
get before that august body on any conditions. When
he had stated the case the foreman, man who can
stand straight under brandy than any man in the
county questioned him. with discriminating accuracy
and profound wisdom that would have edited John
b. Cough as TO whether he kner that liquor 10 be in
toxicatingl Did he taste il Could he say positively
that he smelt that liquor He was TO remember he
was on OATH would he dare to swear by the Almighty
God that he knew absolutely beyond the possibility Of
mistake that that liquor which the man without
license had no right to SELF
This put the matter in a light So satisfactory to tho
Grand jury that that venerable guardian of the pub
nc veal summary dismissed the complaint. Our
friend told Us he was in doubt whether this summary
dismissal of the complaint was owing to the learned
perspicuity of the oremans question, or to the fact
that nine of the members of the Grand Jury were
either Iouorseers or owners of diseries or tavern
stands There, by the by was beautiful piece OF
administrative ability first on the part of the Sheriff.
in seeing sharply to that the liquor interest should
be fully represented in body to which 1t furnishes
large an amount of business and second in the fore
man. in treating this uneasy reformer that happened
to buz into the ury-room, as he would fly or mus
keto that might light his And, by the way,
il is said that although iquor-selers numerically
constitute very small part Of our community, by
some means or other you can hardly overhaul the
names of Grand Jury, but you will find one more
iquor-sellers. How does that happen Can there be
an understanding on their part with the Sheriff that he
il to look after this matter