St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-02-04
The Liquor Traffic.


The Liquor Traffic.
A LITTLE INSIDE HISTORY.
Mr.. Editor :-Newspapers afford tn
means of ventilating many wrongs
/ Permit me to call the attention of citi
ZenS of Caledonia County, Us we'll Il
those of neighborii.g State, to SOM
facts in regard to the liquor traffic.
Those gentlemen who served on tn,
grand jury i'll June. 1874. recollcct tina
the names of Hayes & Co. of Manches
ter. y. H.. and Maxwell x Son. of Bos
ton, Mass, were found very trequentl,
on the books of the United States !
+ Canada Express Company. These firm
consigned .irgS. boxes. etc. of whiskcy
rum. etc, to notorious drunkardS IN,
rumSellerS in this couRtv. Such pack
age WAS often accompanied 10y il &c
o. d." bill. and when the miscrahl,
man t" whom the package was con
signed, raised funds enough (Which h,
often did 10y drpriving his wife an,
little ones of necessary food and cloth
img.) he paid over To the express com
pany his cash and took his liquor
1t turned out in that investigation
that the United States \ Canada En-
press Company consisted ot Is. L
Cheney ot Boston. and Nathaniel Whit,
of 4 'nt,.,,,I NJ, ll.,,.,- L..
been Il director of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company. and Processes To h,
Il >tanch temperance man. Mr.. Whit,
has been the temperance candidate tul
Governor of New IIamp>hire Tn,
grand jury found some seventeen indict
memt> against these gcmtlcmcn. ;l> man.
agcl> of the cNpIc>> company. tol
knowingly transporting iutoNicatin.
liquor into this state contrary To tn,
General statutes.
1t was then proven that To one station
III this county. over one hundred pack
ages of liquor Were brought 10y the cN-
press company for such men :lS Leonard
Willard of st. John>bury. III less than
three months. To another station !;
small one about fifty packages were
brought i'll about seven months These
packages came marked in all WAYS. Ia
Nh Robin. Nj. swallow. Mr. Bruin. Mr.
Hay ford. Mr.. Tobias. etc. When inter
r"gat"d lay the grand jury the agent
confessed that he did not know any
such men that some one came. paid
the &C. o. d." bill. and took the lipuol
away: hut he could not for his life rr-
member VIII" paid the bill. etc.
Another agent told at once that his
Mr.. Cameron WAS Mr.. Su-and- SO. The
superintendent Of the Express Company
"A gentleman of high order-waS in
formed of the state of affairs. and he
SAID this violation of law should be
stopped. He issued circulars. calling
the attention of the agents To the law
of Vernon! III reference to the subject.
Notwithstanding all this the ENprcs>
Company still continued to transport
liquor To men who cannot get liquor in
our county. and W ho are known in many
cases to their agents. as notorious
drumkarlS.
The state officers of this county are
efficient Temperance men. and stand
ready to enforce the law-hut this leak
through the Express Company they are
unable to stop. The question rs to the
indictments against the Express Com
pany. WAS argued before the Supreme
Court i'll this place, in August. lS7l. but
no decision has been rendered. Still
the rum comes III. The dry citizens of
this place go to some smaller station
now and then. and those from others
come here.
| do not intend to east reproach upon
all the agents. but denounce the con-
duct of the managers of the company.
as Illegal and rcprchensible. The agents
at Manchester must know that the only
business of Hayes X Co. is selling liouor.
The jugs i'll which the liquor comes SAY
that Hayes X Co. are wholesale liquor
dealers. And the same may he said of
the agents in Boston. Not only this.
but the bills that accompany these
packages specify that the agent is to
collect So much money for so much
Bourbon whiskey, etc.
One thing | must say to the credit of
some of the large wholesale liquor
houses -they send no liquor in small
packages, sc. o. d." know of Young
boys less than sixteen Years old, send
ing t" these liquor houses already
for II gallon of whiskev. and
getting 1t, too. In this public way |
desire to call the attention of temper
lncc men throughout the state to this
subject, and commend their earnest
support to its suppression.
E. MAY.
st. Johnsbury, Feb. |, 1876.
Deliver us from Doctors who work
in the interest of science:
DIR. Francis NJ. Bowling of Cincinnati.
takes up the case of Mr.. Carruth, editor
of the Nineland Independent, who re-