The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-07

made at the Wooley headquarters, on Gen.
ter street, now presided over by one Char
les II. Wooley, brother of "Ben."
Wooley. 1t is said here, as well as else
where we have official authority for
it-skirmishers are thrown out by the party
expecting attack, one standing at, or near,
the main entrance, to guard against all
cowans, and that due and timely notice
may be given of approaching danger in the
shape of policeman another is placed in
the rear, near the sink. with his hand on
the pitcher ready to spill 1t at moments
notice, while the proprietor, as command
ing officer, takes his place between the two
lines of skirmishers, prepared TO give the
necessary orders to them. The officers APP
preached, the main guard gave the alarm,
Charles II. said "wiggle waggle", and the
man at the pitcher "wggle wagglcd." Re-
suit sink swims with whisky, policemen
pull none.
The force now divided, and attacked by
detachments. Millington and Crawford
making descent on Wales street, while
Perkins continued his inquiries on Center
street. On Wales street, the objective
point of attack was "Ceph. Stones" known,
at times, as "Home Rest" "Saints Rest"
or some other kind of ''Rest, and at others
as the "White saloon" "Whte house," or
the "Whited sepulcher,' as any or all
names may seem appropriate. Here the
"wiggle waggiug" tactics we're pursued
and the sink, not the officers, got the
whisky.
In the meanwhile the ubiquitous Per-
kins was cribbing Cushman's Center street
rancho. As he was endeavoring to shadow
certain pipes from the point of delivery
to the point of intersection with the ardent,
he was reinforced by Millington and Craw-
ford, and a sink suddenly sunk, disclosing
the long sought, but now found, barrel.
The barrel said "star water" and looked
star water, but its contents were rather high
colored for this kind of water, looking and 1
smelling considerably beerish, and with the
beer the officers retired on their laurels.
Peace once more reigned in Rutand's |
Warsaw. All was quiet ON the Potomac,
save when disturbed by the sly ingress and
egress of some thirsty mortal. Some two
hours or more passed in this way, when
two of our fellow citizens concluded that |
q little exercise would not come amiss.
Benjamin H. Wooley took up his line of |
march from the headquarters of that name |
on Center street, proceeding westward to |
Merchants row and then up that street. |
AT the same time, Harry w. Nye was TAX
ing his little exercise down Merchants row. |
The time of starting being identical, and |
the line of march continued, would natu- |
rally bring Wooley and Nye face to face,
If not in actual contact-and both posi- |
tons were reached in front of the Bates
house on Merchants row. 1t may be pre-
missed that these representatives of two DIFF |
ferent elements were usually as friendly |
as could be expected under the circum-
stances, and were accustomed to indulge
in their little jokes one with another, and |
so the following spoftiye scene occurred
Ben. (loQuitur)-"I want you to under
stand that l am out of the liquor business. +" |
Quoth NYe-"I am glad to hear it; but |
how about the others ?" Interlarded with |
naughty words, Burley Ben replies: eff
you ever sign any more complaints to
search my premises, I'll kick your -
-, and if you say much, I'll hit you a
clip now" Nye rises to explain, he COM
menced to respond, but his exact language
wac lost, Just at that point &c .-.--~ no
nose came in violent contact with Ben.s
fist, his hat flew high in the air, his body
swayed to and fro and gently passed from
the sidewalk in and over the gutter to the
street, but not entirely losing his perpen-
dicularity. He gradually gathered himself
together, retired to drug store to stay the
current flowing from his bleeding nose,
and then betook himself home and thence
to a lawyers Office, 10 invoke, it is sup
posed, the tcrrors of the law. In the |
meanwhile, Wooley had retired in good |
order, belaking himself to a Justices office,
where he essayed to have himself fined
and be done with it; but the justice didn't
believe in this er parte way of doing bust
ness and thought he wouldn't. The up
shot of the matter will, probably, be de-
veloped in police court to-day.