Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-08-05
Great Victories for Rum.
wuIsKEY TRIUMPHANT.

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4 Irishman, name unknown, already under
the influence of liquor, entered the sa-
( loon of John Elfers. In the saloon were
f two men named Abbott and Rapp. The
: Irishman asked them to drink though
: entire strangers. They refused and he
5 became quarrclsome and applied cpl
thets to which they replied. Thereupon
he knocked Abbott down and kicked
him breaking his jaw .Rapp came to the
aid of his companion and was in turn
roughly assaulted The assailant then
left but returned in an hour and demand
ed drink of Mrs. Elfers. she at first re-
fused, and he swore vengeance leaving
the saloon for moment, he again re-
turned with huge stone in his hand de-
clared he would knock her brains out
unless she gave him drink. Mr.. Eliers
seeing his determined mein, seized NAL
let and dealt the drunken ruffian blow
on the head from which he died in n few
minutes. This is all that need be given
in this case, the success of rum being as
sured.
On Saturday afternoon, 23d ult,, Mrs.
Riley in Manchester, N. H, was kicked
and beat with chair by her husband
till she'd ed. 1t appears further that both
were addicted to interperance, that when
Mrs. Riley was under the influence of
liquor she was very quarrelsome and that
her husband always accommodated her
with fight. 1t was splendid victory
for rum.
Two weeks ago, man named Pecor
in Colchester this State, went to market
with berries, sold the same and invested
the proceeds in liquor, went home and
borrowed some more money and went
back to Winooski, and got some more
, rum. He then went home and drove
his wife and children out of doors, and
they went to her fathers not far off. In
the morning they went back to their
home and found the husband and father
lying on the floor dead. Rum had had
another great victory.
A few days since drunken man in
New York seized a can of hot water and
dashed it over his wife who was holding
his child of two months, scalding its back
and limbs in a horrible manner Death
had not been reported at last accounts,
but the contest was greatly in favor of
rum.
In the same city on Monday of last
week James Dunn returned to his home
and beat his daughter Katharine aged
/ IA years, with loaded whip over the
head. She fell in a fit upon the floor and
died from the effects of the beating in
, two days. Rum and whiskey triumphant
this SINE
But they did wholesale business on
the 2Sth, when William Sumner, Edward
McGran and James Carlton all of Utica
n. Y, and N. Goodsell and a man nam.
ed Pannelville,- died from the eff
fccts of intemperance.
But the greatest recent battle between
man and whiskey, occurred about two
weeks since at White Hall, N. Y. 1t
was doubtful for while whether Rum
would accomplish its task. 1t was done
however, and John Kinney was killed.
Thomas Sullivan was arrested on charge
OF having murdered Kinney, Git is not
customary nor polite to charge murder
upon rum and whiskey in the courts, J
and made his statement adroitly that in
the fight he struck Kinney on the head
with his fist. But our purpose is not to
give the particulars of tie fight between
the men, but the contest between Rum
and themen. Note the number OF drinks"
it took before the men were up to the
fighting point:
after getting up on Monday morn
ing of this week L met John Kinney on
the sidewalk opposite Johnny Glynn's.-
! 1t was then about s o'clock. He asked
+. me to take a DRINK with him. l said
5 | would take glass of beer, and we
, went into Glynn's, where took the beer
with him. We DRANK two or three
times together. Dan Fish came in and
we had DRINK again with him.
| Then Kinney said to us, "Let us 90
down to the Vaughn House and have
something to DRINK" We went down
to the Vaughn House and had several
DRINKS; paid for some OF them :
! Fish left us there; Kinney and myself
DRANK again"
q Then follows the statement fthe quar-
q rel and murder. 1t will be seen that at
least seven drinks" are referred to in
the abeve, and as we read it, it did seem
as though drinks would fail this time,
but now, as on every other occasion
Whiskey and Rum were overwhelming
ly victorious.
And thus it is day after day, week
after week and year after year, that as
returns come in Rum and Whiskey are
, overwhelmingly triumphant throughout
Y the country, and we have but TO wait for
. the next batch of victims.