The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-03-27
Local Temperance Matters,


The temperance campaign is about
over at B4rnesville. All but two OF the
liquor sellers surrendered 10 the women,
and one of these have been sent to Jail by
Judge Chambers Tor selling in violation
o!law.
The Cambridge JsEsrSon!an says ut
is alleged that the Wheeling bus drivers
have been bringing whisky into town on
their buses. The League is about TO in.
vestigste the matter.
The Martins Ferry Nsu1 Of yesterday
has the following stunning head lines over
its local report of what is going on over
there in temperance way :-viz-"Light
is breaking -" The Holy Crusaders
praying in and about the saloons"
abatement Of interest"
The NetS prints card from Captain
James Desn, who is a candidate fol
Mayor, Offering 10 withdraw and go into
a Uuion Convention representing the
law and order loving people OF Martins
Ferry" and pledgipg himself to acqul-
esce in the action Of such Convention.
The Il. Clsirsville Gazette says that the
prosecution of the case o! Gary, who kill.
ed GOtlieb Powell on the West Wheeling
lerry.bost last June, cost the tax payers Of
Belmont county about 5000, and tina,
"the whole affair was caused by whisky"
And speaking Of such expenses, we may
mention in this connection that the Cam.
bridge IimeS asserts that 'the approx
mate expense Of prosecuting liquor cases
in that county, for the year ending March,
1874, was 5000" The Bowen murder
trial alone cost 1855 60.
A Wcllsburg letter in the steubenville
Nees does not speak hopefully oil the tenn.
perance movement in that place. 1t re-
ports it "slill alive, but the prospect of
success is not very encouraging" The
writer says that "the saloon keepers have
no intention Of quitting the business until
their license expires" 1t seems that the
temperance people are divided and de-
moraliz-d in regard to an anti license
ticket to be voted on at the April election
1.-THE license men have not yet made
known their ticket"
We find by the NetsS thst Mrs Butte,
Of Sleubenville,is even more OF Scripture
reading saloonist than our brief reference
to her yesterday would indicate. She not
only cited the ladies who prayed in front
Of her saloon, whom she afterwards
invited into the house, 10 the 9th and 9Th
verses Of the VII chapter OF Matthew, but
asked them also 10 read the Goth verse OF
the l4th chapter Of Deuteronomy, which
Is as follows:
And thou shalt bestow thy money for
Whatsoever thy soul luslelh after, for oxen
or Tor sheep or for wine or for strong
drink or for whatsoever thy soul desiret6,
and thou shall cat there before the Lord
thy God and thou shall rejoice thou and
thy household"
The Macs says that the ladies "aroped
the non applicability OF these yerses 10 The
present movement" Mr.. Butte how.
ever, informed his lady visitors that bsr.
ley had been made by God Tor the mann.
facture Of beer"
"That 1t was unfit for the purposes Of
making bread or feeding stock, and that
grapes had been grown for the purpose OF
making wine, and yet the ladies wanted
both t6ese products stopped"
Mira Butte must be a very practical sort
Of a woman we judge. She reminds US
OF the woman who figures in the follow.
ing item from the Baltimore american
"a lew days ago q buxom woman
brought to the Register OF Wills, a will
made by her husband, and which she de-
sired TO file for probate. when did he
dieE inquired the sympathetic clerk 10
whom the document was handed, why,
bless you responded the woman, '6e
amt dead yet, but he gave mo that
pointing TO the willy, and he drinks A
quart oil liquor every day, and | guess
continued she, with laugh, he'll plsv
out In about three month";"
We have entire confidence that when
MIR. Butte plays out from drinking TOO
much beer, although he says that "bush.
el" Of 1t will not intoxicate, that Mrs.