The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-01-31
Lancaster and its People by case
BY NreHT-owl.

N1 BY NIeHT-owL. '-
Tie history of the rapid rise Of gam.
bling ~ our city for the last two years, as
so vividly delinealeG IN eur last issue by
contributor who signed himself "a
Citizen" has given mortal offence to some
of the sleight,of-tand gentry, and pro.
miscuous meeting was held in the "draw-
poker" room to devise ways and means
by which to ferret out the perpetrator Of
the communication and bring him ocon,
dign punishment 1t was unanimously
resolved that the writer was a person who
chad been there" and was evidently "post.
cd" and whereas, no oSone who was win
uer at the game of Faro had any reasona-
BILE grounds for complaint, therefore be il
further resolved, that the father of the
communication was a certain person who
had been a large loser in times gone by or
else tie keeper Of respectable saloon, at
which the sports had quit imbibipg.
Having thus arrived within "one" of a
definite conclusion as 10 the perpetrator
OF the Infamous deed, it was agreed that
certain hrsute individual of the frater.
nifty should indile an article giving bio
i ..
graphical history Of the offending iudivid.
ual or individua from the cradle up, tax
ing good care to reverse The Shaksperean
phrase, and ''EVerytLing exenuate and set
down all in malice"
The article was duly incubatel BY Sat.
urday noon; it teemed with bad spelling
spread itself in gross grammar, cut its
own throat and the Kings Eaglish
glowed with personalities. blazed with
metaphors known only to the sporting
world, submitted itself to the members
for their approval, but the whole matter
was finally disposed Of by verbally con-
signing "a Citizen" to the hottest corner
of tile Internal regions, and 10 more was
heard for tie rest Of the evening but
"ante, :" cent. ""deal, ""fve blind" age,
'two dollars" "three hetter," "two
keerts." take it," etc, etc. Sic transit
gloria de Iigeressei
ENTERPRISE, = One OF our most enterpr-
sing Business men, with The fear ofa thaw
more than the fearof God before bis eyes.
as The temperature Of the weather as ind-
Gated by ths Thermometer was only l6
degrees below zero, started in on Sunday
evening, I o'clock, TO Gil his ice-house
with the crystslized substance. Men were
at wock cutting ise, loading wagons.
hauling and pa king, until daylight found
large e-house well filled. Success TO
enterprise. a t...
MUss.-0n Sabbath afternoon last a
little row occurred in the alley between
Main and Chestnut streets, in the rear OF
Sbawk's block, between Captain Erwin D.
Linn and Major Rebert Shannon, he val
orous Bob showing his accustomed brave.
ry by prccipitately relreating after re.
ceiving the first discharge from the boot
i
battery of his opponent. Immediate
cause Of muss-Bob taking more than
his share of flask of rot-gut. s,l l.f
PROSTITUTES. the last few weeks a
brace of Finale prostitutes have been
promenading onr streets from ten o'clock
till daylight, shocking humanity by their
Indecent language and vulgar manners
How they sleep. when they eat, where
thsy keep themselves in daytime, how
they came here and when they, arc going
away, is not known, but it is thoug tina.
an asylum for female outcasts ora female
chsin-gaug would be an exceedingly ap-
propriate institution.
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