Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-26
ALCOHOL INDICTED.

tory of shame and corruption, of cruel
ty. crime, nge and ruin.
He has taken the glory of health from
off the cheek and placed there the red
dish hue of the wine cup.
He has taken the lustre from the eye,
and made it dim and bloodshot
He has taken beauty and comeliness
from the face. and left it ill-shaped and
bloated.
He has taken strength from the limbs
and made them weak and tottering.
He has taken frmness and elasticity
from the steps, and made them faulty
and treacherous.
He has taken vigor from the arm aud
left fabbiness and weakness.
He has taken vitality from the blood
and filed it with poison and seeds of
disease and death.
He has transformed this body, fear
fully and wonderfully and majestically
made Gods masterpiece of animal mech
anism, into vile, loathsome. sinking
mass of humanity.
He has entered the brain-the temple
/ of thought reason, and made
it reel with folly.
| He has taken the beam of intelligence
| from the eye, and exchanged for it the
stupid stare of idiocy and dullness.
/ He has taken the impress of ennobled
manhood from off the face and left the
/ marks of sensuality and brutishness.
+ He has bribed the tongue to utter
madness and cursing.
/ He has turned the lips to song of ri
baldry and revelling.
! He has taken cunning from the hands
and turned them from deeds of useful
ness, to become instruments of brutality
and murder.
He has broken the ties of friendship,
and planted the seeds of ennity.
He has made a kind, indulgent father
a brute, a tyrant. murderer
He has transformed the loving mother
into a very iend of british incarnation.
He has made obedient and afectionate
sons and daughters the breakers of
hearts and the destroyers of home.
He has taken luxuries from off the Ia
bic, and compelled men to cry on account
of famine, and beg for bread.
He has stripped backs of their broad
cloth and silk, and clothed them with
rags.
He has stolen mems palaces, and CIV
en- them wretched novels in exchange.
He has taken away acres and given
not even decent burial place in death.
He has filed our streets and byways
with violence and lawlessness.
/ He has complicated our laws and
crowded our courts.
He has tllIed to 0verhowing our peni-
tentiaries and houses of correction.
He has peopled with his multitude
our poor houses.
He has straitened us for room in our
insane asylums
He has filled our world with tears and
groans, with the poor and helpless, with
Bretchedness and want.
He has banished Christ from the heart
and erected hell within.
These are the counts Of our indict-
ment. Let the world judge of the truth
How INTEREST AccUMULATKs.-An
instance Of the steady accumulation Of
interest is furnished by the Concord n
H., Nonitor. March %, 1888 forty
years ago), Mr.. johnson Wheelock, q
revolutionary soldier. and father Of The
widow Of the late Lewis Downing. senior
the widely-known carriage builder o.
Concord, y. H., recently deceased, de
posted the sum Of one hundred dollar
in the New Hampshire Savings Bank il
Concord, the same being penison money
which he received from the government
April u, 1884, he deposited ffteer
dollars, and April Q, 1885, fifteen dol
lars more, making a total deposit of on'
hundred and thirty dollars. Neithe
principle or interest has ever been drawn
and the present amount Of the two i
sI,226.8 81, with share in an extrs
dividend TO be made. Interest grow
increasingly day and night, and know
! no Sundays
The Irishman had correct apprecia
tion of the business, who, being askes
by the Judge, when he applied for Ii
: cense to sell whisky. if he was of good
moral character, replied Faith. ye
haUnr / don't go. 4hz ,n..e.s.f., x.C - No.,