Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-11-19
Temperance And Whisky.

Erastus Kerr, young man living
in Coshocton, fell dead on the street.
Cause-intemperance.
The wife of Ed. Owens, formerly
Marshal of Bellaire, obtained judg-
ment of $500, before Esq. Powell, last
week, against saloonist John Zelch,
for selling liquor to her husband.
The town council at its last meeting
repealed the Beer Ordinance Those
VI ho are in the habit of imbibing need
no longer to go into the dark alleys
to ''tip her up.'-G Dresden Monitor.
The widow of the late Hiram Hit
has commenced suit under the Adair
law against Adam Fleek, owner of the
saloon room in the Lansing House.
Damages claimed, $4,000. Atherton
and J. B. Jones for plaintiff. New
ark American.
The Toledo Democrat notifies the
coming Legislature that one of its du-
ties will be the modification of the
Adair LIQUOR law. so as to require
written warning to precede liability.
Perhaps another round of the crusade
would wipe out all the temperance laws
on the statue book.-lO. S. Journal.
A dispatch from Delaware says a
saloon keeper, by the name of Hurley,
was sent to jail for twenty days for
violating the beer ordinance. Last
nigat two hundred men went to the
Mayors house and demanded the re-
lease of Hurley. That official imme-
diately accepted the situation, went
with the mob to the Jail, and caused
the prisoner to be set at liberty
Nothing further transpired to-day
Much indignation is felt at this yield
ing to mob law.
The license State of PENNSYLVANIA
spent during the year 1870, for liquors
ofall kinds, 1852, ,633, ,945, and for
school and school purposes, $55, $780,
420. She has engaged in the liquer
business $4,000 persons, and but 49,
$40 school teachers. Her statistics
show "a, 1000 criminals, four-ffths of
whom were made by drink Pittsburg
Christian Advocate.
Those who think that prohibition is
the question of primary importance,
and that no party which is not resolv-
ed upon it ought to be supported, will
vote against both of the existing par
ties in the vain expectation that a great
political party can be gathered upon
that issues. But those who aim to pre-
mote temperance, and to diminish
intemperance, by practicable and eff
cient means, who seek the substance
and not the shadow, will support the
party whose general character and
tendency are guarantee of all reasena-
} BILE reforms Harpers' Weekly.
CeURT.-The Temperance people of
Greenfield are having regular set-to
in court with their old enemy, Clinton
the obstinate Saloon Keeper and
, ssdruggist," 10 who refused to surren-
, der to the "Crusaders" last winter, af-
ter all the other liquor-sellers had
come to terms. He was tried last
} week on three indictments for selling
liuuor contrary to law. The jury ac-
Quilted him iu one case, and disagreed
in the other two. He was then broufiht
to trial on the charge of keeping q
nuisance" unher the 4th section OF
the liquor law The trial commenced
on Friday last, and is still in progress
to-day, (Tuesday) as we go to press.
The Prosecuting attorney is assisted
by Col. Maynard of Washington and
VIM. H. Irwin, Esq. of Greenfield
Judge Stafford, and H. L. Dickey, Esq
of Greenfield, are Clinton's attorneys
Many of the leading ladies of Green
: field are in attendance as witnesses
, and the trial excites great interest. II
: will probably last day or two longer
! -THillsborO News.