Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-04-30
RulISELLING,

The following, from the Woodstock
Standard, speaks we'll for the authorities
in that section. Offenders are made to
pay fines, it seems, not being 'let off" on
promise of good 6ehavior. " The remark
in relation to copperheads is "hard, but, II
we presume, "honest"
We are glad to see indications Of little more
efficiency in enforcing the liquor law in this c0un-
ty and we hope it may continue. We have just
heard of two offenders who have lately felt the
salutary effects of the law the first was one
Holt, Of Hartland, who has been keeping the II.
r. House, near the K. Il. Station in Hartland.
BE was complained of not long since for selling
or furnishing, or both, found guilty, and 1t be-
ing his second oifense, was fined double PEN
atty on three or four offences and the costs, and
the same was paid few days since to the sher-
If, by whom it will be paid over to the town
treasury Of Hartland.
We now learn that third complaint against
him for selling and furnishing liquor has been
issued, and is now in the hands Of an officer, but
that Holt having got wind of the same found he
had urgent business in New hampshire that re-
qured his immediate attention, and left the
State. By SO doing he has so far escaped arrest,
as the penalty for the third ofense under the IL
quor act is imprisonment, it is possible his bust
ness in New Hampshire will detail him there for
some time,-if SO, one more rum fountain has
been cleaned out.
instance of an effective prosecution, ism the per-
son of Ezekiel Gile, of Norwich. We learn that
Gilewas indicted by the grand jury of this coun-
ty at the December Term tor selling iquor,-
that he plead guilty to three or four violations of
the law and paid penalty of between fifty and
sixty dollars including the costs.
But his not proving sufficient to enable him to
realize sufficiently the stringent qualities of the
law, he was lately arrested again by the grand
juror of Norwich for selling and furnishing IL
quor, and brought before a magistrate, when he
plead guilty to five offenses, and it being the
second violation he was fined double penalty
making in all one hundred dollars besides the
costs, which was paid to the magistrate.
We learn further that on the day of Giles ar
rest the second time, the required number of le
gal voters in that town, made a complaint I'M
der the statute with view of search of Giles
premises for more liquor, and seizing any that
might be found.
Under this process we learn that several differ
ent barrels of the D." critter" were found under
suspicious circumstances, so much so as that
the officer felt warranted in laying violent hands
upon it and transferring it to other quarters for
safe keeping. After due notice hearing was
had and the liquor adjudged by the magistrate,
forfeited under the act and by him ordered to be
destroyed, and warrant to that effect having
been delivered to the officer by virtue of it, the
liquor was destroyed in the presence of res
pectable number of ''mourners" and '.sympa-
thizing friends" So one more fountain has been
cleaned out.
We are glad to chronicle these endorsements of
the liquor law in our county, and trust these are
but the beginning With suitable prosecuting
officers, properly sustained, rum-seers will soon
learn that Jordan am a hard road to trabble "
There are quite number of these rum-sellng es-
Adjustments now lett, to which we cordially in.
vite the attention of the town grand Jurors of
their respective localities wherever yot>find a
rum hole you are pretty sure to find a nest Of
Copperheads and when the rum is split the
snakes disperse. Town grand jurors 90 Your
DUTY