The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-01-20
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sss aud Texas have passed frat rate
local option laws. Are the other
Southern States content still to carry |
corn in one end of the sack and p rock
in the other for the sake CT being con
seryative?
That this country is gradually inn
proving il a.tonaperance point Of view
is evident. Those Who remember tho |
amount Of drunken laUIes5ness at any
gathering thirty years ago. in the de-sI
Of free whisky and free sAts, cannot
but be struck with the decided i:n-t
Provement brought about by The q
temPts of reform, feeble tough taeyI
arc, on the part Of he temperance
people
The friends Of Chris.ianisy are fast
waking uPtot' e fact Shat ST onG drink
is the most eEec.:Ta weapon N theI
hands Of sa. IL in these Gz-s.
The I'm. vii soon cora~, 70 hops
Nben 2 Christian nan aHI :. :smret.
ance uau will be Eynoryn-o~e.
Il au attempt was mad foi~tro-
duce into this country some re- nem-
ical compound which was know 4 to
possess All the deadly power OF fasc;-
nation that alchoholic liquor la e, and
the friends Of humanity were 10 call
upon the General Assembly to .. thor
ize the voters of each locality t,a de-
eide whether they would :Eow the
deadly compound ret2iled enti, dngIy
before their children, would cur learn
ed lawmakers, demagogues, as some
Of them are, hesitate to pass b; rs Civ
ing the voters Of each locality the op-
ton Of deciding sor themselve wheth
er ornot they viii have their wn own
and the children of their ] eighborz
tempted to crime and DEATH
Shocking!-A Drunken Y TomaD.-
Yesterday evening about e, o'clock
says the Constitution, a ! oIiccman'
attention was called 10 . J handsomely
dressed lady passing along Whitehall
street in sin intoxicated condi ion
Going up to her the officer asceT
tanned that she was Imost beyon,
navigation. C1ll1ns = hack, thougl
greatly agains- herHiH button the va,
the woman begged so ard to be ta&eI
home that tie Office consented al
drove to her house- where she va
taken in charge BY he family. o
her way hom,. she ezI. .ress great indig
nation at tbs treat3 lo n5 she had T,
cieyed, and threat q ed to sue the city
She said II at she W; s a bankel's Vii
in an adj 3iuing c y and that she
have redJ ess for the gross insult haapa
upon hec. She de ned being drunl
though he said sht- had been drinkm
chamPa 5ne.
A ge atleman = ho lives i'll Atlant
and is 2 cquainte1 with the lady, say
that ht story a out bsIn@ banker
wife is trae. H,,.t also says that he
family moves IL he best circles of St
cietv -, the town from which she cam
to At 2 1ta, but Z is that this is nc
! he FRS time she has been taken hom
N s,n IN 5oxicate6 condition.
Sle was neatly sad han -lson1ly dres.
ed il, . bea1tiful silk al 1 her hand
were loaded with rings. He. conve
sation indicated tLatsh5, vas, or la
been. a lady of culture and rein,
ment
Here a good Ies sou for the ten
perance 1aople.
The fuabamaL gislature is seekiin
reformmf ;on in the 7se Of whiakey !
that St.sle. A bill. has passed the Sc,
ond reac ing- 10 7 1nish drunkenness
any person Eouad huDk, by = fnc {
not less than I'VE, lor more than fit
dollars for I e FIR and rot less tbs
q fifty and no. nor. than ore buadre
7 dollars for eace-U. ere oEense. II fiu
, and costs are =, -tp. id, it tpunishes wit
I hard labor for x ountry 1T forty CT
} a day. This is Il = ,od biz, and s5rik,
p at the root Of the Z vi, and sb0u!d I
adopted by every tate III the who
Union.
' A Request-Tbc Wounan's Chri
+ tian Temperance Q oion, beng deep
G impressed with the dangers ard di.=
e pations attendin., le Christmas hoi
i day, da most ur emily request Il
o heads Of families q throw all their i
!. fuence during tn ssc holidays in fav,
5, Of temperance an jsDlFiety, especial
- in discountcnancl e the 4ze OF VIZ
Il and intoxicating i u ors. we also +
"a speetfulIy ask the a ni5ters Of al 4.
,t nominations 70 read .ur petition fro
% the pulpit on the sa obath precedin
II Christmas,