The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-06-21
OUR TEMPERANCE LECTURE.

A couple Of weeks ago a drunken man
was smoking in a theater in Cincinnati,
when a drunken officer requested him to
stop smoking The smoker felt insulted,
and demanded an apology, which the
officer refused TO make, as he bad only
acted in the performance Of his duty.
The drunken smoker out with his pistol
and shot the officer, sbattering his wrist
and putting the ball into his body.
A hotel keeper named Mcbride, was
shot and killed in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, by
drunken boarder named Bergin. There
was no provocation for the deed.
At Auburn, N. Y, John II. Barrett, a
saloon keeper, was shot daad by his mis-
tress, Cora Young. this morning at dis
orderly house in this city. The woman
then attempted suicide by shooting her
self twice in the head. She is not ex-
pected to recover.
man named Williams was found
drunk in New York City. and he had
been kicked and bruised in terrible
manner, and was ruptured, and would
have to die. He said the officers had
kicked him.
A man named Michael Moriarty, who
had a wife and six children. was stabbed,
and kicked and murdered in New York
by bar tender named Thomas Ryan.
They were both drunk.
John Young, a cigar maker, was play
ing cards in doggery in Cincinnati,
when a general drunken fight ensued.
Officers came, when Young attempted to
make his escape, and was shot through
the lungs by one OF the officers.
Thomas Mccarthy and Alexander Lit
tie got drunk near Lebanon, Ohio, and
got into fight, when Little cut McCar-
thy in the neck, and he died in few
minutes.
At Zanesville, Fred. H. Walker was
crazy with liquor, and attempted to mur-
der his brothers wife. She succeeded
in making her escape, when he shot and
killed himself
A man named Fletcher was hung in
Philadelphia for murder, and when on
the gallows declared that rum was the
sole cause Of the murder, and he warned
young men not to drink. He sent let
ter to be read at the Murphy meeting
then in progress.
number Of drunken Italians, men
and women, got into fight in New York
when one of them was killed, one Of th,
women plunging knife into the mur
dered man after he was down.
John Underwood was assaulted neal
the Fair Grounds at Columbus by four
drunken men, and his front teeth knock
ed out.
At saloon in Rondout. n. Y, in I
drunken quarrel. saloon keeper nameC
Joseph Mellert, shot and killed JameI
Malloy.
In a drunken fight at Port Clinton
one man bit another's nose off, for which
Judge Watson sentenced him to the pen
itentiary for twenty years.
A drunken man fell off the train nea
Delaware, Ohio, and was killed. Their,
was bottle of whisky in his pocket a
the time of his death.
Five Germans got drunk at Dresden
near GAINESVILLE, and on their way hom'
Christian Zeigler fell from trestle ant
was killed.
In Lafayette, near Jersey City, con
stable attempted to arrest drunken
man named Frederick Bauer, but he re
fused to be arrested, and shot at the con
stable, when the latter shot and kille'
Bauer.
A man named Henry Sickman 60
drunk in Cincinnati and knocked hi
wife down. stamped her in the breast ant
kicked her, and would have murdered
her had not the neigbbors inierfered
Some time ago drunken man name'
G. s. Miller was drowned in the Sciot'
river near Crouse's mill, in Ross county
Cornelius Curian, a peddler in NeT
York, got drunk, knocked his wife dow
and kicked her. When found she wa
covered with blood, and her jaw wa
broken.
A lot OF tramPs got into drunkei
fight in the mountains near Fairview
Pa, and two of them were killed.
Some time ago a couple Of young chap
were drunk on Sunday night. at dog
gerry in Chillicothe, when one Of then
shot the other The wounded man
named Winters, died next night.
On Sunday night, John Speilman kill
ed Caleb DeIos Weeks with q knife, in
drunken fight in bar room in Harlem
NY.
Near Flatbush, N. Y, several drunkel
men got into a senseless fight, during tn
progress of which Mike Henry received
cut in the groin six inches in length
Jack Murray did the cutting.
George Williams. a police officer il
Newark, got drunk, and got into fgh
with lot of drunken men in lrvington
and shot six times into the crowd, dan
gerously wou nding two men.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.