, 1872-10-21
The "Sunday Law'' Generally
Observed in the City,
DR.. FoWler'S Views on The Situation---
Legal Aspect Of Affairs.
MIR. Hesing's Opinion, as Expressed
in the Staats zeitung."
Startling Result of the Drought
on the Police Docket.

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YESTERDAY.
LITTLE sPARE KEDLETH GREAT FLAME.
II the proprietor Of the saloon where Rafferty,
was drinking at the time he shot officer O'AIeara
had had any idea that the indirect result of Lis
presence there vas to be the closing of his sa-
loon, and the taking away of his Sunday profits.
be would have rapidly seized 1lr. Rafferty, by tie
nape Of the neck and have kicked him out into
the ditch. When he gave that individual his
last glass Of wliskey, he had no idea Of the mis-
chief that lay hidden in the pale fluid. Fatal
draught!
We have long been listening to the muttering
OF the gathering storm. We have had public
nestinss, resolutions by prominent citizens,
committees, discussions with the Mayor, police
orders. and supplementary orders, interviews
and letters, and at last the tempest has come,
rather Huddenly-so much so as to take by
surprise both the drinkers and the furnishers of
Liquor, the latter having no opportunity for con-
certed action, and, therefore, agreeing III clos
ing their saloons yesterday, and taking the week
to consider what they shall do on thenext Lords
Day.
Not everybody reads the papers, and there are
nnmhers who are ignorant of what is going On
IN at political meeting, and what they learn
there is often apt to be q little one-sided. Con-
eequently yesterday morning number Of men,
who look upon Sunday drink as quite as neces-
Eary to their comfort as Monday OF Thurs
day one, gotup in utterignorance of the changed
condition Of their affairs During their long lives
they had never seen such thing as the abso-
lutte closing Of saloons. They had heard the mat
ter talked Of, but they had listened to other
suggestions, which to them seemed equally ,ab-
surd. They remembered that proposition had
been made that foreigners should not vote; but
nothing ever came Of it. So imagine 1Ir.
Schmidt getting up in the morning. eating his
breakfast, and then taking his pitcher and
starting of for the saloon, to get his days sup
ply Of beer. He finds the front door shut, but
that does not distress him, back door is just as
good if it leads to the bar. He tries the side or
back door, but that also is closed The alley
gate is fastened The fortress is impregnable.
Ee meditates, and comes to the conclusion that
there is death in the family, or that the whole
establishment has picnic or the smallpox. So,
alnce there is another place only few doors of,
he goes to that and finds it also hermetically
sealed, no more to be opened than Herring
safe or the heart Of ta1-co1lector.. Then he
puzzles over what all this means. Per-
haps he ties . another i; Plsce, b1t =. N more ore
etory. He refuses to believe it. It is incredi-
ble- It is against religion. It strikes at the
very foundation Of belief. But the saloons are
closed, an ugly fact which cannot be gainsaid,
and he goes home with pitcher as empty as it
Was when he started.
Fancy his return, the horror Of his wife, the
xmazement of the children, and his own refec-
tions during the day as he asks himself whether
the result Of q long civil war, Of the loss Of
Z hundred Thousand lives and Of millions of
treasure has been that he, an American free
man, is deprived OF the inestimable blessing OF
come to this? Had he left despotism abroad,
where beer drinking was allowed, to come to a
republic where it was not permitted? That WAS
what came from the defeat Of Fred Gund. He
never would have sanctioned any such proceed
ings-
who did read the papers, and we're aware Of
what was going On. Some we're wise, and laid in
their provisions " Saturday evening, but 9th !
ers, animated by false hope, took no such pre-
caution, trusting that the order would not be en-
forced so Eeyy rigidly. after all But they fonnd
to their hor1pr that it Was no matter how many
places they might try. They we're seen during |
the morning prowling around saloons. They |
slipped down alleyways, climbed over back |
fences, and tried kitchen doors. But all in vain.
Finally they gave it up as bad job, and fell |
back on the drug stores, which temperance |
and found expensive consolation there. The |
aPothecaries were radiant. It is an Ill wind, |
etc, and this one filed their sails. They were |
continually relieving human distress from bottles
labelled "Laudanum," !" and Castor OIL" THE |
nilment known az druggists pain in the stom- |
ach," )" ragged fearfally yesterday. The temper
anee people looked sourly at these performances,
and the next move will be to forbid them to sell |
medicines Of that kind, except On a physician's |
prescription.