The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-01-17
DRoueHr Observation-Disclosures

DRouGHT -Nothwithstand-
ing the fact that Jupiter Pluvious piled
his vocation with unceasing pertinaci-
ty last Sabbath day and poured copious
quantities of aqueous fluid upoh this
bailiwick, it is reported that a great and
blighting drought during that day pre-
,ygiled throughout our clty-why which
was thus Is because our new Marshal
is, SO far as the performance of his off,
cial duty is concerned, strictly and
pointedly "upon It." On Saturday eve-
ming he visited the various places In
the city where the flowing bowl Is wont
to be filed for barter and spoil, and
then and there issued o prenuncia-
mento or ipsc dirit that hereafter those
places of resort for the imbiber of ar
dent "nose coloring'' should be closed
upon the first day of the week, COM
monty called Sunday, under penalty of
punishment and fine upon We proprie-
tor of ye aforesaid imbibulous resorts.
The pre- prietors generously and unani-
mously responded, ats a whack9'
and the thing was done. But the
winged god of news, yclept Mercury,
was siuggard upon that holy Sab
bath morn, and thusye rummy-nosed
topers had not heard of the base usur-
pations of the new-fangled Marshal,
and accordingly arose from their
couches, and pursuing the usual bent
of their inclinations, sailed forth in
quest of their morning decoction of
benzine. But, alas! for vendor! alas!
for man, The old thing wouldn't
work. The erstwhile willing doors re-
fused to yield to the trembling touch
of the es ger topper, and his pleading
cry for admittance was only answered
by hollow echoes from the deserted
halls where but one short Sabbath ago
the Bachannal's voice mingled with the
merry chink of glasses and the sonor-
Gus cry Of ''Set 'em up, Barkeep"-
I'm point of fact, so far as the saloons
Were concerned, it was a earn still
morn-not ''barkeep" stirred, not
spoon stirred, not even a goose-but,
why proceed TO again tear agape the
bleeding wounds and recapitulate the
narrowing disappointments of the for
lorn topers who that day wandered up
and down." the maddest men in all the
town. Ere the morning was hal.
spent the lovers of the '1oh-be- Joyful
had formed mournful procession and
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vibrating. like a clock pendulum, be-
tween the several saloons, mechani-
cally but hopelessiy turning the door
knobs as in days of yore; but it was no
go. Myers gentlemanly bartender,
Mr.. Shaffenberger, turned them. away
with the information that he "didn't
propose to gif dat MARSHAL feller lie
shance NIT writ of eorpeus on him."
Grouse said he was law-abiding eiti-
zen and they couldn't come into his es-
tablishment on that holy Sabbath day
without walking over his cold corpus
unless they got q permit from the
IMarshalv Rogers said he .svas lin
cal descendant on te side next NIT his
mother TO Shon Rogers yot purned
Bokahontus on te prush-heap along NV
dem revolutionary vellers, and any
tam doper vot wouldn't respect tie ooly
SS6bath Shouldn't haf lager peer und
yiskey undiess ,he comes in NIT te
pack door und divides te money NIT
dat MARSHAL mansr' Tally said he had
Sufficiently large bills Tailed up
against most of these fellows without
laying himself liable to be compelled
TO contribute ruinously heavy amount
of amalgum to the city's Golfers. Tay-
lor said, SO far as he was concerned
their genus anser had gone through a
thorough culinary process-in other
words, atheir goose was cooked, and
they could just walk off on their left
ear or he'd put putty nose onto some
of them" This slightly provincial
but eminently suggestive admonition
was sufficiently comprehensive to those
nomadic searchers after "eiixir,n and
they turned sadly and hopelessly away
and at last sought their various abodes,
sober but sorrowing men, feeling that
blight had fallen upon their young
lives and that henceforth the Sabbath
day would bring to them a burden too
grieyous to be borne-unless they were
sufficiently thoughtful on Saturday
night to provide themselves with a
glassometer whose eapacious sinnards''
<yo,,Id oonfoi,, n r,o,,arn,,o 1.,.a,,@;&,- 1fi
"corn juice" In the meantime the
worthy and yigiiant guardian of the
law, Marshal Cartwright, insists that
t:the Sabbath shall be respected or he
will jug every id saloon keeper with
in fifty miles of his beatv'
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