National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-16
AFFAIRS AT VIENNA STATION.-THE
WAR AGAINST WHISKY.-JUSTICE IN
1-TTE M n 81 AVE STATES

The OLD SLANE DlAlEo.
Correspondence Of the National Republican,
VIENNA STATION, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA,
SuEd ~ Evening.
This is q quiet little place to pass q summer
Sunday, barring few drawbacks, and it is
surprising that it is so indiferently appreciated
by our city denizens. But Falls Church below,
and Herndon above on the railroad, seem to
have the inside track for the present. A nice
little church edifce has just been completed
here, thanks to the zeal of a very executive
and rather irascible ScotChman, with the omi-
nous name of John Brown. But his eCcentri-
city is fairly chargeable to his name. How in
reason is man to be otherwise than eccentric,
especially in Virginia, with such fearful
namel For all that, however, he is a smart
preacher, and deserves infinite credit for this
little church, albeit a couple of little grog-
shops have sprouted up under the very shadow
as It were offs little steeple. They don't seem
TO fight grOg-shops here as vigorously as at
Falls Church, The unhappy Mr.. Fox, who is
doing his level best to graft grOg-shOp on the
latter village, ana has been hunted down In all
sorts of WAYS, legitimate and illegitimate,
seems a. last TO be fairly cOrnered in the United
States court at Alexandria, for lack OF United
States revenue license. 1.-THE way of the trans
| gressor is hard, )" especially when he attempts
| to sell liquor in Falls Church, and his name is
| Fox.
But to return to Vienna. "There are no
| SabSaths in war time" as we all OF US came TO
| know a few years ago; but this warlike little
! town does not seem TO be bit more Sabbath
caily inclined in time of peace than it was in
| time of war This evening, as John Brown S
little church was pouring out its peaceful CON
prcgation into the peaceful sunshine, quite an
! army Of people, black and white, young and
old, was encountered at its door, which, on In
curry, was found to have assembled for the
| hall h.
| a magistrates trial of case Orwell, not to
nut too fine q point on ia case of attempted
rape, the parties being q colored boy and
white girl. Well, of course, the offence was
perpetfated the night before, and justice de-
handed the immediate arrest and incarceration
of the young villain.
Not a bit Of I'll The offence, If such there
were, was attempted Just one week ago this
blessed evening, and the warrant for arrest wa!
issued on Thursday Why, then, wait q whole
week in order to arrest the boy and desecratt
the holy Sabbath day with such an abOminabl'
investigation? The law Of the land permits
such Ti-'p:ion, and that's the best that car
be said .. II. The boy was sent to Jail for tn
grand jury, of course, and will be tried mex
week, although, If what is said by these peopL
as to the character of the parties concerned
the charge seems rather thin. Guilty or limo
cent, however, he will go to the penitentiary
: A camel can get through needles eye abou
= as easily as a black man can escape the peni
Tertiary, or something worse, on such chGrg
in any Of the old slave States. Abolitionist i
the good old times, or mad dog in these snltr
: DAYS of the star Sirius, can only compare Wit
= such charge, as between the black and IN
f white, almost any where in this tolerably FIRE
country Of ours.
But all this is none Of my business. Lil1
the worthy gentleman in shakspesre's "Mea'
e ure for Measure / an mere
: "LooKER-ON HERE IN VIENNA"