The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-06-14
A TEMPERANCE LECTURE.

clip from our exchanges accounts Of the |
results OF drunkenness, which we in
tended to publish. We have used some
of them, but they so accumulate that we
could fill two such papers as the Standard
every week. We therefore will make
only brief mention Of some of these
cases
At North Hudson, New Jersey, a new
saloon was opened, and general drunk
was the result the first night A fight
was begun. which lasted half an hour
Tumblers, bottles and knives were used,
and all were disabled. One man had
seven gashes in his face and neck, and at
last accounts he was dying.
At Cedartown, Georgia, William Meeks
was hung for the murder Of John Nc
Cormack. On the gallows he said all his
trouble was caused by whisky.
In New York City Thomas Cusick and
his wife were both in the habit of getting
drunk. lie kicked and beat his wife to
death, in one of their sprees.
Austen Humphreys was hung at Sand
wicb, Ont, for the murder Of Frederick
Apple On the gallows he said: at was
all through liquor that came here"
John Ryan was murdered in Leroy
street, New York, by two rufians. The
trouble arose in a saloon, over a game Of
cards.
At Pompton Plains, New York, some
70 -,
wagon. The driver, Simon Damarest.
stopped at a tavern and got drunk Ap-
preaching the railroad, the drunken
driver urged the horses furiously against
passing train. The tongue ran through
the driving wheels Of the locomotive.
the wagon was torn to pieces, the horses.
two men and a woman were instantly
killed, and two more dangerously hurt.
Here is SO awful and unprovoked a
murder, that we give the account as we
| Tipped 1t from one of the daily papers !:
ST LoUIs. May 20 A most unprovok
d and wanton murder was committed
n Eist Cdrond-let. Ill, opposite South
| st. Louis yesterday A man named
| Henry Jrtiries, under the influence OF
| liquor met y negro called Georg.. walk
NJ along one of the streets of the village
nd peremptorily ordered him To get out
Il the way and let shite man pass The.
negro promptly obeyed, and Jcffries
pissed on To "a saloon near BY, where he
related the circums tance. and said that
he ought to have killed the id mig.
GER" The barkeepar advised Jeffries To
20 home and sleep off his drunk, but in
-tead of this, he went out on the street,
md. after proceeding a short distance,
'aw the same negro leaning against the
fence in the yard OF friend lie order.
ID the negro to come to him. but the
blac< man refused and ran into the house
IF his friend. Jrffries followed but was
holding the door shut. Jsffries then
.tepped back pace or two, drew pis
tol, and fired two shot through the panel
# the door, both OF which took eff f-ct in
Georges head, killing him instantly.
Jeffries Immediately fled. and, at last
accounts. had not been arrested.
A man named Golden died in New
York about ten years ago. leaving two
| sons, John and Edward. lie left them
considerable property, but they spent it
III in drink. About two years ago John
|
.olved to stop drinking, butsix months ago
ne again commenced, and few days ago
lied alone in a cellar way, a drunken
pauper
At Sidney, Ohio, John Mulligan at
tended Democratic convention, got into
fight, got his head badly cut, and
when he got home drunk and
bloody, his wife was so frightened that
she swooned away. aud died ia q short
| time.
Charles Zimmerman, a saloon keeper
in Cleveland, shot and killed himself
A drunk man named billiard Drake. at
Muncie, Indiana, fell in cattle guard. the
train ran over him, and both his feet
were cut off
In drunken brawl in Brooklyn, Pat
rick Conway and his wife killed man
named Daley with an AK.
A few Sundays ago two young men
we're riding in buggies near Miamitown
10 miles from Cincinnati, and got into
quarrel about passing each other on the
road. They stopped at a grocery, and
soon got into fight, when one struck
the other with his whip. fracturing the
skull. and he died the same night. The
murderer was drunk.
We have large pile of clippings left
for next week.