The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-29

rugality in regard to the expansion OF Ger
ain liquors. 1t was on the whole an OK
'ccdingly able and interesting discourse,
The Mcthodists hope to commence the
,rection Of their new church early this
summer. provided we decide to have any
summer this year. 1t is to be on the east
side of The liver, opposite the Brandon
House aud facing Tic park. The lot has
been vacated by the old Morrill, house,
which has been moved around the corner to
Inc foot of Franklin street, and it now adds
'athcr to the length than to the beauty OF
hat street. This leaves the Melhodists the
finest site for u church that there is in town.
SOCIAL.
The youthful element. about thirty strong
md mainly from the Graded school. con
rregated themselves in the band hall last
Wednesday evening, and after listening to
a few sweet strains from the fiddlcrs yio-
lin the business Of the evening commenced.
rhe musical chime of the smallest hour of
the twcnty-four sounded through the de-
serted hall, further movement having been
postponed for one week. One of the High
school bows Informed us that Mr.. Cillcy, the
intimated the next day that there
mint be too much of good thing. Not
Il
these innot ent enjoymcnts, say fifty or sin
~ each term. but when they become a reg
iilarly established institution ii might be
well to skip night once in while
EXPLANATIONS.
We see by your paper of last Thursday
that Or c /. Case rises to explain. He
thinks we were sadly mixed in our report
of wha; Prof. Seeley's letter said of the
LIQUORS submitted to him for analysis by
DR. Case. We hope that we were, but we
surely reported exactly the impression con.
yevcd TO US by the reader of the letter, and
we think that others must have received
the same impression. We should have
been pleased had the doctor made it clear
in his explanation that we were even as
badly mixed. as he admits that his own
LIQUORS are. Whether or not he did make
this apparent. we will leave to You to say
after stating the case. 1t having been in
timated that pure liquor could not be found
in Brandon, DR. Case, to show, we suppose,
how nearly pure his own liquors were or
that they contained no strychnine, sends
certain samples to Prot. Seeley. 1t was
moi. we think, stated that these were SAM
pies of the liquors retaiied at his drug store
nor in fact that they ever saw the inside of
the store, bnt of course it was intended that
such should be considered matter of
course. The question then, as we under
stood it was, how pure are these samples,
and the answer as ace understood it was,
(talling brandy for instancc,) 90 per cent.
is brandy, as for fhc rest the deponent saith
naught Taking DR.. Cases explanation,
which is of course correct as he has the
letter before him, the answer is that bran
dy had So per cent. of alcoholic strength.
Now the question recurs to this humble
correspondent, what went to make up the
remainder of the required strength of the
"brandy?" If the question be not too per
tncnt, nor the answer likely to prove an
unpleasant one for the meditation of the
"brandy" customers, DR.. Case may now
have the floor.
Explanations seem to be in order now
Widow Gray has called TO request that We
make Il contradiction. We stated last
week that three of her hens had commenced
to lay. but it seems that this was an cx
mcnccd laying. The gossip originated il
the fact that the hens got to cacklng three
times one day, because "Speckleback
gave false alarm. Mrs. Gray thinks til,
report was circulated at the instigation o.
some of Ben. Buffers friends, in hopes o.
influencing the president against vetoin!
the initiation bill.
TEMPERANCE DEBATE.
The attendance at the meeting of tn,
Farmers and Mechanics Club, last Fridal
evening, and the interest in the temperate,
debate, suffered somewhat, we are in
formed. from the entertainment given tn
same evening by the Wallace Sisters, il
the Town Hall. We regret that we ar
unable to give full report of the debate
being out of town that day and evening
We have but few notes taken at our re
quest by n friend these few, however
Subject to any explanatory we feel con
fident may be relied upon with as much as
surance ms though taken by THE glen
special,
Mr. c. p CASE
came to Vermont four years ago, at whic
time he was much in favor of the Vernon
liquor law, hut he has now lost all conf
deuce in it as a reformatory. Men cant h
leglslated into goodness nor cOerced int
moral rectitude. Vice and drunkenness
can only be prevented by educating I'll
masses mp to a higher moral sentiment, an
this can't be accomplished by law, but b
moral suason alone. And, (to help tn
thing along we supposc) he was in favor c
a Incense law. Look at New York state
they have a strict license law, and yet, i
| proportion TO the population, there is t
much whiskey drank in Vermont as
! New York.
JUDGE JUNE,
won d say that he knew. and every OF
ought to know, that New York is the mo-
drunken state in the Union. lie then rea
numerous scriptural quotations, all SHOW
ing most conclusively, that the Bible nj
only does not tolerate the use of spirituol
liquors as mans beverage, but mos; Ell
phatically prohibits it.
MR.. j. S. CILLRY
thought there had been great amount {
useless twaddle upon the adulteratlon
spililuous liquors, but to him it mattert
very little whether liquor was adulterat,
or not, he was satisfied that it could bril-
misery to all who touched it. that il cou
ruin a mans body and damn his soul, an
this was enough for him to know. III
question then was, what can be done
stay this great evil. He believed in NOR
suaslon, but he also believed in legal su
sion with snap to it. There are mi
who cannot be reached nor moved by al
amount of moral suasion, you may talk
them for ever, and if such men persist
doing anything that endangers the pub
safety, the only remedy that will prove
licient is law; and for such the law
made. eve regret that no more of NJ
Cilloys argument was furnished us, as '
were informed it was one of the most
teresting, sensible and effective yet d
yanced,)
MIR. MEACHAM,
the Herald representative, next attempt
, to put himself upon better standing wi
: the temperance people of Brandon.
proposal of the week before, for building
prison the size of Rutland county, and /
prsoning for life every one who sold
i drank spirituous liquors as being absout,
the only efficient method for the prevent