Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-24
TEMPERANCE NOTES.


Frank Murphy the eloquent temper
ance orator is going to Texas
The Washington D. c., commissioners
are executing the license laws very
rigidlv, after being well pIodded by the .
Temperance folks.
Cadet Henry l.. Sherman OF Michigan .
has been dismissed from the naval .
academy on charges of drunkenness and /
disobedience,
/ In Tennessee there is a law in exis-
tence that no drinking-salOon shall be
licensed within five miles OF school
house This explains the simultaneous
/ burning of five school-hOuses in the
/ counties of Wilson and Davidson, but
whether the school boys or the saloon
keepers are the guilty incendialies is
not known.
The law passed by the last Massa-
chusetts Legislature, by which the fine
passed for single otfense of drunken
ness was reduced to 81 without costs, or
imprisonment not exceeding 10 days in
case Of nOn-payment, and 10y which it
was hoped drunkenness would be de-
creased, has been found to have the very
opposite effect in Boston, the number Of
arrests for intoxicatiOn from May %,
when the law went into effect, to Nov
% being 6O76 as against 1856 for the
same period last year. The assumption
by the state of the costs has also increas-
ed the expenses Of the courts very much.
Jerry Williams, of Louisville, KY,
{
, fond Of his young sister, and when he
heard that John Watson had talked
against her, he sought him out with the
intention of killing him. These two men
stood Just outside saloon, Jerry reiter-
2 ating the accusation and Watson strenu-
a ously denying it, when Charley Williams
! brother OF Jerry and the girl, stagger-
a ed up to them. He was quite drunk,
a and, just as he Joined the others, he
! heard Watson say "Who told you l
I said she wasn't good girl !" Charley
q did not know that his sister was meant,
o but III recklessly jocose way he cried
i {" I said she wasn't, and / can prove it. ,
q Then Jerry stabbed his brother to death
It Policeman Martin of st. Louis, who
IS committed suicide Immediately after
( being dismissed from the force, was moi
o the victim OF persecution, which The
telegraphed news of the event implied
t, He was drunkard, and his selgean
d had been several times compelled to re-
port ham for misconduct. One night h,
ie saw the sergeant go into q low resort
le This was his opportunity for revenge, 1t
3 thought, and, after waiting half an hour
t, he led the horse to the station, and salt
I, that the sergeant had LETT it wandering
" while he drank in the house. The trut1
T. was that the latter was i'll the plac
ut searching for witnesses in an importan
l case. The failure of this effort nearl
] crazed Martin, and when the commits
is sioners disgraced him he shot himsel
n 4 trial Of interest to people who drin
en- German wine has just been conclude
g. at Freiburg, in Baden. Tho accuse
"a were the members of the finn of Dul
ey lacher Brothers in Kippenheim, cor
or were charged with adulterRting or tat
to ricating wine on large scale. A gTel
part of the wine sold, however, consisted
it has been now proved, OF mixture
water and spirit, which was poured upo
raisins, allowed to stand for time, the
a'' drained off and cleared, and finally mi!
al ed with q small quantity Of natural win
eu When red vine was ordered the mixtm
'ln was cOlored with some inferior SPANS
%S or French wines OF, il darker til
iiyS was wanted, with an extract Of blaC
no elderberries. In five months the fir
W it was proved, had purchased suffiCie
lo- spirits of wine for the manufacture
IN 653, 900 gallons Of their wine, and enoue
ny, tartaric acid for the fabrication Of 494
Gu: e.. 900 gallons.
,bo John T. Card has for the past thr
,an years represented the township Of Va
1ar CHAN, as first deputy at the York coun
W council in Canada Residing within
nj few lots of him is Levi Snyder, a farmt
= whose properties Throughout the count
avI are valued at $4,000 OF late yea
off Mr. Snyder has been addicted to drin
tar ing. Being declared incapable OF ma
n aging his affairs, Card was appointed
So look after them. Not long ago Ca
Nv was given power of attorney by Snyd
tIs the suggestion for such being backed
hor by the wife of the latter. A month sin
nte Mrs. Snyder sent her two daughters
old a young ladies seminary; at Whitby, a
,o ON afterwards made preparations for u 81
1ra. posed trip to Florida. While these p
a. parations we're being advanced, Ga
yig mortgagod some Of Snyder's Ian
; ;rS' raised money by promissory notes a
' in2i borrowing from friends of both famili
had aggregating in all something in
l foIi neighborhood of $4,000. Recently
o l met Mrs. Snyder in Toronto, and Il
in% stopped at one of the principal hott
pIi92 where they registered as man and wi
raa The following morning they left
Jolf Whitby. There they took the two cl
mo dren, aged eleven and thirteen yes
aaeo and have not since been heard from.
the 800, c--proorr,,