Omaha daily bee., 1882-09-01
SHALL BURLINGTON BUDGE IFP
That's the Size of the Conut-
drum That Convulses a
Missouri Town.
Old Bourbon Still Has Charms TO
Soothe tho Thirsty Beast.
Corresponding Of the Bee.

Correspondence of the Bee.
BURLINGTON JUNCTION, Mo, August
30.-Out county fair is in progress at
Maryville, the county seat, this week,
and our streets are quite deserted.
The all-absorbing topic of
ton here is the temperance question.
Our laws are so framed that a county
court may, in it's discretion, refuse a
dram. chop license. 1t has been the
aim of the temperance people to get al
least one of the parties, and all if they
could, to give us nominees to fill our
county court who would pledge them
selves not to grant license. Two of
the parties have, viz I: Republicans
and gre~enbackers, but the democrats
take it whisky and license straight.
They have some regular gin.mill can.
didates out. They are sanguine of
success too. They know they have
the support of the thirty-four GIN
shops of the county, and they conf.
IDENTITY expect that they and the
devil shall win. The way it now
stands, the temperance vote
will be divided. The greenbackers
offered fusion on the Offices of county
judges and county representatives In
behalf of the cause of temperance.
But the republicans (who are them
selves in the minority of the D.. as
well the G. 81, refused to fuse. They
seem to be seized with IN Unsuitable
desire for office. This state of affairs
is unwise. The temperance vote
should not be divided. 1t should be
80 arranged that there would be but
two sets of candidates, and then let
the issue be gin shops or no gin shops,
and these corrupt gin-mill candidates
would find that the support of our
temperance papers and our moral
teachers are to be preferred to the
support of the "a whisky dens. One
of our county papers, the Nodaway
Democrat of Maryville, Mo, has come
out bravely on this question, espous-
ing the temperance side fit. The
fight waxeth warm, but, let it come.
Mrs. Laura Cochran, state organizer
w. G. I. u, has been among us a
week organizing a W. G. t. u, a
Band of Hope and a Broom Brigade.
She gave a concert last night, com-
posed of Rotations from members of
the Band of Hope and drillings of the
Broom Brigade. Mrs. Cochran is a
modest lady of great worth and no
inconsiderable talent.
THE BEE to us each day
freighted with the news and items of
interest from all parts of the world.
Many of our citizens that hesitated
about taking it at first now unite in
the testimony that it is one Of the
best dailies in the west.
We are going to have a circus! On
the 9th of September, the Great (O
European Circus will exhibit its
ders and perform miraculous feats be-
fore an admiring and gaping audience.
Our Iowa man, Higley, who was
going to start a paper here 30 fast to
compete with the Post, has proved a
high flyer. He got out one issue of
his precious sheet. They got On a
drunk, left, and has failed to come
back. He never had broughthls press
here, but published his first Issue in
Coin, Iowa. Can it be that his bosom
friend S and all these staunch q men
who We're going to ''stay by HIM" 30
fast, deserted 30 amiable q creature
just as he was ready to launch cut into
Journalism to win fame for himself and
them! We hope, and think not, but
"where, oh where is he?"
Respectfully,
Jason FALL.