The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-28

NOhOANSA"OAO NONollu6 III tLO AAOuoC'
The result is predicted by many,
but of course not known.
The "Adair Liquor Law" passed
April Is, 1870, to take effect from
and after July 4, 1870, amending
sections seven (7) and ten (1O) of a
law passed May l, 1854, is creating
great excitement among liquor mer-
chants, etc. II reads as follows:
"Sec. 1. That every husband,
wife, child, parent, guardian, en-
plOyer, or other person, who shall
be injured in person or property or
means of support, by any intoxicat-
ed person, or in consequence of the
intoxication, habitual or otherwise,
of any person, such wife, child, par
ent, guardian, employer, or other
person, shall have right of action
in his or her own name, severally
or jointly, against any person or per-
sons, who shall, by selling or giving
intoxicating liquors, have caused the
intoxication in whole or in part of
such person or persons; and the
owner OF, lessee, or person or per-
sons renting or leasing any building
or premises, having knowledge that
Intoxicating liquors are to be sold
therein in violation of law, or hav-
ing leased the same for other pur-
poses, shall knowingly permit in.
toxicating liquors to be 80 sold in
such building or premises, that have
caused the intoxication, in whole OF
in part, of such person, or persons,
shall be liable, severally or jointly,
with the person or persons selling
or giving intoxicating liquors afore-
said, for all damages sustained, as
we'll as exemplary damages; and a
married woman shall have the same
right to bring suits, and control the
same, and the amount recovered,
the same as if femme sole," etc.
The second section prescribes the
mode of collecting fines, damages,
etc.
Making the property holder respon-
si6ls for damages is the sticking
point.
The above has been law for al
most tt0o gears, yet but little atten-
ton was paid to it, until one or two
suits had been instituted against
liquor sellers, which were carried
up to the Supreme Court of the
State, where few days ago, decis-
ions were rendered in accordance
with the intent of the law, hence
judgments sustained for heavy dam
ages against the parties prosecuted.
Two bills have been already in
troduced, one in the Senate, the 9th.
er in the House, to modify the law
to certain extent, or repeal it i'll
they can, and the friends of modifi-
cation, as well as its enemies, are
rolling in petition after petition,
signed by hundreds of citizens from
almost every precinct in the State,
praying for the Legislature to heed
their petitions. Petitions come in
every conceivable shape, for in
stance, large de'nyohns, chuck full of
powerful gutter and curb.stone ar
such, as hic! hic! ETC.,
with the following directions: "Hon. |
j. c. Dusenberry, Hotel, Col
umbus, o. Charges on Demyohn
paid"
The last-named petitions are Anti.
ProhibitiOnists, and God knows your |
correspondent is afraid that the
Anti's will succeed. This question
is of great importance, and every |
man, woman and child, that feels an |
interest in the good of the present
and the generations to follow, ought
to assemble together in every pre-
cinct in Ohio, and send delegates to
Columbus at once, to use their in
tiuence with Legislators to stand by
and protect the present Liquor lato
from any infamous schemes or modi-
fications.
The friends of modification are
working day and night, devising
means and plans to carry their
point. Quite large and spirited
was held in one of our
Halls a few nights ago, for that pur-
pose and elected delegates to go to
Cincinnati to excite the German ele-
ment in their favor, in order to
strengthen their lobby. They also
a Committee of twelve to
call a State Convention of Anti-Pro-
to be held at Columbus
at once.
Friends of the Adair law must
come to its rescue, or it will be lost.
Saloons have already beon closed in
this city, and they are receiving Or
ders almost daily to shut up shop,
from the parties thst own the prop>
erty, and occasionally from damaged
parties and ruined families. Some
are brave, and hold out faithfully,
but they are becoming so strict, that
1 married man must produce per-
nit from his wife, with her photo
graph OIL it, before he can get
lrink, and single gentlemen are
to have permits from
heir sweethearts, with photos attach