The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-01-14
Random ThOughts.-.NO. L.
BY THE EDITOR.


On Wednesday night Of last week Dr. Got
void, of Dayton, leetnred at the Good Templars'
Hall IN this place did not like his lecture. l
do not think 1t did anything for the cause of
temperance The drift of his argument was in
tended p prove that all drinks containing the
least particle Of alcohol, utterly destroy diges-
gestiou, and much time was taken in an attack
upon sweet cider, blackberry and currant wine
&c. Now every Psychologist knows that II Is
tobacco, and not alcohol, which destroys diges-
tion, by poisoning the salivary secretion, and
Thus destroying its proper function ip the pro-
cess Indigestion. Every body knows that sweet
cider is not unhealthy. And know men eighty
years Of age, whom have seen dead drunk q
hundred times, and who have been drunkards to
my certain knowledge for period of forty
years, ana they are yethcalthy, and thei diges-
ton always good. Alcohol is dangerous enough
to the health, but these falsc statements, which
every man Of experience knows to be false, only
Injuries tho cause.
Ny opinion is that the great evil Of intemper-
ance lies in another direction. While the Ice
turer was speaking, my mind was dwelling upon
another class Of evils arising from strong drink.
thought of Andy Price, boy whom ! knew
well. He took bottle Of whisky, went along
lonely path in company with another man, both
drank from the bottle, and soon they came to a
place where man was selling whisky. They
went in, took hatcl0t and murdered the man.
And now the great State of Ohio must take
Price by the throat and deliberately choke him
to DEATH And all caused by whisky. johnny
Ryan, a harmless man, gets drunk and goes to
the house oil his sisters husband, and runs a
knife through his heart Andy Russell gets
drunk and kills Burt and has to 60 to the Peui-
tentlary. II. A. Scott gets drunk aud abuses his
family, and 10 killed by his own son. These are
matters within my own personal knowledge,
which may be ,made public. There is vast
amount of misery caused by ntoxlcation in Jack
son, which 1t would be improper to publish in
these columns.
When went home from the lecture, looked
over my exchanges for that day, Dec SOth In
the Cincinnati Gazette ! saw that drunken man
named Asbach, in Cincinnati, had murdered his
wife, and then shot the whole side Of his head
of. A policeman was passing aud heard tlle
woman scream twice, "Oh, God, Oh, God, y and
then heard a gun. lie ran in and found the man
and woman both dead, and the room bespattcred
with blood aud brains, srb
In tue New York Tribune Of the same day
saw that in Tenth Avenue, New York, at dog
gerry, two men and a woman got into drunken
fight, when Patrick Ticman. was murdered by
one George Grooming, who plunged shoe
makers knife into his breast In the same paper
is an account Of murder In Hoboken. A lot
Of dfunkards got after john Paskell. He begged
pltoously for his life, but they cut him down
and murdered him.
In the Chlllcothe Gazette Of the same day Is
an account Of two drankards lighting, when one
bit the others nose on,
And hero arc few extracts from other
papers:
"Ellen Kane was found dead In the gutter In
front of her residence on Second street, Chicago,
Monday morning. The Jury returned q verdict
of death from exposure and lntoxlcation."
"An Irlshman was Instantly killed by wo-
man, near Pitcher tunnel, on "Wednesday last.
The woman Keeps q grocery. The man was
drunk, entered the grocery, became violent In
his conduct, when The woman cut him down
with an AK ih "i
ION last Friday afternoon, while In state of
lntoxloatlon, William Weaver fell from theplat-
form of one of the cars on the ~ U. Railroad,
as tue train was starting from the Depot at
Greenylle. Two passenger cars ran over his
arm literally mashing II TO u jelly" rr
Tic fact IL, ! could I'll The STANDARD every
week, with accounts Ct crime, accident &C.,
caused by strong drink, Then what is the use
of talking about dyspepsia, caused by sweet
cldcrP That Is all gommon,' and no man Of
sense win be deferred from intemperonce by
such arguments NJ