Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-07-01
BY yku BILLINGS.

| hav finally Gym tew the conclusion that
larger beer as beverage is not intoxicst-
ing.
| hay bin to,a SO by geman who said
lie had drunk 4 all mite long, inst TO Try
the txperimenk and was Obliged TO go
,ornc entirely 6obcr in the morning.
have seen this} sino man drink sixteen glas-
ses, and if he WAS drunk he was drunk in
german and l4bodv could understand it.
IL ia preper c9uW TO state that this man
Kept larger peer salop, aud colud hsv
no object III stating whktwas not strictly
thus.
believe IL to the fun extent OF thy
ability. lnevcr drunkibut three glasses "
lager in I'M lie. that mi dc mi he'd ontwist a
Tho It was hing on tho end Of string, but
was told that It was twln to my bile beiu
out ov places aud g(css tha. it was SO,
for never billed evers wuss than | did
whom go, Sum that Its. Nv wife tho,
| was go'n NV die, an( | wuss afraid that
shouldn't, fo- it did 4 PEN 20 tho every
thing Ihad ever eaten.in mi life waz cum
min tew tic surface and | do really be-
nevc ihatbmy wife hadn't pulled OH Inv
boots iestas she did thu would hav cum
thundefp up too.
,,o ,, sss + s' san "'A years ago. ari
never had So muA experience in 20
short time.
II ennY man shu,Ntell me that larg ar
beer wa not intoxicating. / shud bellsxl
him but If he shud To me that s~nzne
drugt that nitc, bu, ,hSt pas.se6mmck Vas
cutcs order, shul ~ him 10 stnte over a
fev words, lass .iSw a inan felt and acied
when hs ~xs web set ub.
Z. ~ wasn't drunk thlt mite, had some
o. tho most nateral siitptuins that . man
ever had snd.sept sob$.
Ia tue first place it BIAS about 80 rod
from where drunk tht larger beer to mi
house, and was thus over hours on the
road, and bad hole bas,cd through each
one of my pantaloon ntez, and didn't have
any hat. and tried to oAen the door by the
brll-pull. and hickupped awfully, and saw
every thing in the room 10 trying get round
on the back sds ov mk and in setting
down in = chair. didn't Wal, long enough
for II TO get exactly under me, whom |, was
going round, and set dhwn little to soon
and missed the chair about IL inches, and
couldn't get up soon enoueh to take the
next one that cum alonGs and that amt
awl my wife acd wuz = drunk AZ besst
and, az l sed before, Ibegan to spin up
thing, freely. 1
Ifiargsr beer is not isAoxicating, it used
the NOSE almighty mean. yhat know.
Still hardly think that larger beer is in
toxicating for i hav ben It'd so and an
probably the only man giving who ever
drank drank, emmy when his Diver vi" not
l don't want to say ony thing agin .
harmless temperance 0evridgs, but if i
ever drink any more il kill DO with my
hands ted behind me, an my mouth psied
open.
l don't think larger bg is intoxicating,
bu, if remember rite, blink il tastes TO
mo like glass Of soap hds that pickle
had been put tew soak
Axorns. Eaoca AAbsx-A/Asao AND
CRuxL CAP1IvisY-Ths New MANY lind. J
Cemmereisl Of June - eays/
f. 'Sone years ago Paris 81 rly married .
Miss Tate (stsp daughter q Richard Heus-
ton)osar Bloomington. h. Die staAs. Soas
time after the marriage 49iriey removed to
Illinois. where. In The lbufss Of tine. be
bought drove efsatnt, snd. after seeding
bis wife and two or lIses children back to
Bloomington 70 r. kia. with their friends
until his return, startsd With HE cattle
70 California; 4 shstt distance beyond
Salt Lake CieAe VS. captured BY the
Fiathead Indians, I'D his cattle confiscated.
lie remained in capellity soma eigh, or ten
years. During ail THU time his friends
heard not word. from Nm, and be was
to DO dead. In 4 ::mssntims his
wife sought and obtained divorce, and
was married about year Al, and removed
with her husband to lilinoh and now
comes the sorrowful part Of d stery. On
Thursday of last week, says ps Mitchell
Commercial. Shirley returned q his fathers
(John Shirley's), near Bloomington, in
bright anticipation o. q happN meeting
with his beloved wife and ehildf\n; and,
when told that his wife was m)rried, he
wept like child.
we learn that hs has written his late
we aletter. alleging that be has HE old
H., claim but the courts can afFeso no re-
ah;,ss so closely did the .redskius' 6esp NJ.
A. ~ confined. that be nsver. hsa1 . word
ale . sSon until he made M eseaoe
~. ..... . mort time ago. He besuy nron RI
49,. 49,. .,.aA s evidences - bsrd treat
nsn'' ous.s coasAsrs shis 4 imsil ns,,sr
his children. u 'ne mother Of