Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Home Correspondence
JESUp III 1878.
JESUP III 1878.
The New Ycar--Oyster Supper--A
Whisky War.

Mr.. EDITOR AS nothing calls to
sterner duty than swinging of the quill,
we assume the scribb.er's occupation and
proceed to give you Il faint idea of Jcsups
affairs since the light of the new year
first burst upon us. Our inhabitants are
usually well. Yes, well physically, intel
lcctually, and wondrous increase of
strength morally. The animals of tie
lower creation are all dropping since the
last storm.
The first day OF the year found us
"happy" in the midst of holiday luXuries.
The good people of the Baptist society
furnished bivalvcs, in no moderate guam
titles, at Farris' Hall, and realizing for
their trouble and expense about $40
THIS day, so far from being given entire
~ to the vanities of life, gave birth to
many excellent thoughts and wise reso-
buttons, which we hope will be faithfully
preserved until the great End; it also in
augurated a grand revolution in the do
minion of ''drugs'---a revolution that has
long been wished for and expected. In
the evening Of that memorable day, it
WAS rumored about town that loct~r Of
medicine lay picked in shopkcepers
brine. The picked individual WAS
sought out by the authorities, brought
before the magistrate, convicted Of IL
msdemcanor and fined $50 and costs of
prosecution, standing committed until
paid. lie obtained the necessary amount
probably of the pickler) and settled with
the State From this transaction has
risen the revelation. On the following
Saturday (Jan. y, upon information filed
by the 'doctor,a an arrest WAS made of
our city "druggist' for setting ;ntoXica
ting LIQUOR. The court bound him over
on bail Of $780, to appear the Goth inst.
The Tuesday after, search warrant WAS
issued and the bible Repository search
ed for ardent spirits. The officer found
said spirits in four separate kegs and two
long necked' bottles, which he gently
laid in his sleigh and drove away, leaving
the bibles behind him.
How strange that our people are una
bic to see the consistency in one man
keeping in his establishment u little of
the good old Book for the souls sake,
and little Of the good old rye" for the
stomachs sake 80, consistency, thou
art II jewels.
Again, ou Tuesday p. NJ, was the
druggist" arrested for the Keeping of
strong drinks for sale. and again bound
over in the sum Of S100, to appear on the
9Th and say why these liquors should
not be held subject to the law. Lawyer
Jamison appeared yesterday, in beh If
! of the defense After earnest pleading
on either side, the Justice declared that
| the liquor should be held, subsequently
giving orders that the long necked bottles
| he returned, but the casks and contents
| be destroyed according to law, on the
18th. Accordingly, today, about 3
O'Clock =. NJ, Jcsup was not the land
Glowing in milk and honey" but tho
land flowing in brandy, whisky and rum;
Jesup, the Pearl of the West. Subsr-
ouently the Doctor was tried for selling
| of whisky, and was convicted and fined
| $40 and costs.
Thus it has been 70: the past two
weeks First the Doctor arrested, then
the Druggist-whisky versus whisky
| until yesterday morning, when, in be
half of George eldest son of the Doc
tor, Miss a d. Falford commenced suit
against the druggist" claiming damages
to the amount Of $4,000, done to the
| Doctors business and good character
| The several results we can scarce con.
| lecture and as to the last, we hut little
care; but if men bodily bid defiance to
| all law, they must expect sometime in
! the course of their illegtimate business
| to be called before tie bar of justice and
hear their fate, for It is often that the
tide in the affairs of men revcrses, and
the wave that seems to bear them on
ward to prosperity and Independence,
carries them to the bar, then to the dun
geon And while we would condemn ev-
cry unlawful act, we are ever willing to
give the devil his due"
January Nth, 1879 NJ, Y. l..