Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-05-11

elected or not.
So it is Of the world. Men of real
worth are quiet, unassuming, and
hardly ever seen drunk upon the
streets, (maybe the get drunk upon
"natif') but if the wish to take q
little after council adjourns, they 60
to some private place where they
can get by the quantity, thereby
saving expenses
Now the littlc fish of the world,
tree and open hearted, get drunk
any place they can get trusted for
the "lickcr." They don't care a darn
for expenses, and nine times out Of
ten they come out ahead of the
larger fish in the following manner,
to witt three days drunk and didn't
cost cent.
By tho way We havea "river of
intemperanco" flowing through our
town which is quite an annoyance
to great number of our inhabi-
tants. Every body nearly has cross
ed said stream, and very likely
many more will do so before the
"HoIlidays" come. This stream
runs nearly entirely around our
town. 1t commencosat Davy's; runs
south to Pats; north east to SWEET s;
northwest to drug store; south west
to drug store; west to McIntyre's
north to Wades; southwest Hor.
aces; south east to II & P.'s and
f. e. S. ware houses, thence south.
cast to place of beginning; Including
the Court House and the best per.
ton of the town. Any person &C.
quainted with the geography Of our
county, and the situation of the
above named bearing trees and mon
uments, cannot fail to see the impos-
sibility of any one getting into or
out of town without crossing said
stream. 'Tis true some lump
over the stream without allowing
their feet to touch the contamina
ting mire on the shores thereof, but
others, in attempting to jump it, fall
in and don't seem to care a cuss
about getting out.
Macarthur is rather dull just now.
But the boys stir up something once
in while which is quite lively, OF
which the subj joined is O. copy
They had dance at J, Brine's, Jr.,
the other night at which happen
ed to be present. was deeply in
terested in the exercises of the eve.
ming They had u 'jolly old time, -
The music was good and the susi
clan labOred hard and faiththfuIy
until about 2 a, as., the next day
About this time one of our hardware
men concluded it was high time to
raise some of the collateral" for
the dddIer This was n signal for
general confusion and for q little
while there was the infernalist timo
of hunting hats and getting out o
there" | ever saw.
The matter was however compro.
missed and the gallant young men
returned 10 their love. The collec-
tions went quietly on and after Is
minutes Of hard labor the hardware
man turned over to said fiddler the
handsome little sum of two and
11-100 dollars 1t is but justice to
q deserving institution to mention
the fact that Tony of the Record
contributed the last mentioned
amount Of 11-100 ola dollarl
I thought after the fiddler got his
money that the music deprecated
in quality, but | might have been
mistaken 1t was not long after the
occurrence mentioned above when
the dancers began to tire Of the
sport, and after an announcement
by the manager that there would
be another entertainment given two
weeks from that night-admission
Is cents-the assembled multitude
adjourned to their peaceful homes.
So we go.
More anon. X.
LNoTE,-since the above was placed in type
fire has slightly interfered with the aforesaid
"river OF intemperance" by the burning of
Jones' alias McIntyre's and Horace's groceries
The occurrence is however providential, as 1t
will give the "good templars" an opportunity
to cross thestream without dabbling themselves
with the contaminating mires thereof. X.l
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