West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-11
What we License.

Creek. Philip Mathews shot Chas.
Maze with a musket loaded with
shot. Whisky wasthe cause of the
trouble.-Pt. PIT. Register.
STABBED-John Johnson was Sc
verely stabbed in a drunken row,
on Christmas day, at Table Rock,
Raleigh county. The Inder gives
particulars.
WHISKY AND PIsToL. A recent
Enquirer dispath from Charleston,
says; Bill Fauber shot John Flow
ers through the heart, at Browns
town. Flowers was drunk and as
saulted Fauber, who killed him in
self-defense.
AGAIN.-Mr. Cornelius Huff a
prominent citizen of Wyoming
county, met his death through the
oft repeated careless act of putting
his foot on the cock. of gun while
blowing in the muzzle. He was
drunk, and the loss ! to the commu-
nifty is to be charged up against the
whisky revenue.
ASTONISHING. You would be as
tonished to look over our exchanges
and note the number of murders
and other crimes that have been
committed during the past few
weeks in this portion of the State.
And nearly every one of them caus-
ed by the parties being intoxicated.
The attention of the Legislature is
called to this fact.-Kcyser Echo.
DRUNKEN SHOOTING MATCH.-The
Marshall Herald notes a serious af-
fray at Loudensville,, on the Sat
urday before Christmas, growing
out of drunken scrape at dis
graceful shooting match. Besides
indiscriminate knock-downs man
named Hammond shot several
times, and severely wounded anoth-
er named King,
RIOT. -Under this head the Noun
tain Herald gives particulars of a
dlsgraceful fracas on Monday after
Christmas at Hinton, during which
much cudgelling, pummelling and
shooting WAS INDUCED in, resulting
in the wounding severely of special
policeman, Fred McCreery, and an
unlimited amount of disgrace and
disorder.
KEYsER ECHo.-We are glad to
see the Keyser Echo CALAMITY OPP
posing "What we license" In his
last, brother Fague says: Some of
our license friends are fearful that
if no license is granted the drug
stores will sell whisky to all who
want it. We think such fears
groundless. Our druggists will not
sell without prescription. and the
physicians of Keyser will not give
prescriptions for whisky merely to
make men drunk. Calm your fears,
and vote down license.
ANOTHER FRosTBURG VICTIM
The Piedmont Observer gives partic-
ulars of the death of Daniel McNa-
mara, under circumstances identi-
cal with those of the death of young
Hodgett, a few days ago. Like
Hodgett, young Mcnamara was
drinking in a saloon till late at
night, bought a bottle of whisky
and started for home In the morn
ing his dead body, with the bottle,
was found by the track. Whatever
mystery there may be in these
deaths, it is agreed that the whisky
traffic is the murderer.
RowDYIsM.-On Sunday evening
Christmas day--a great crowd of
young men and boys, apparently
under the influence of whisky, as
sembled on the platform, at the
Grafton Hotel, where they carried
on in style that would have dis
counted the carousals of a frontier
mining town. A number of knock
downs occurred, while the air was
made blue with the furious oaths of
those who participated in the dis
graceful scene. This discreditable
conduct was kept up when the
evening trains came in and passen-
gers hardly knew whether it was
safe to get out on the platform or
not. Such exhibitions of rowdyism
should not be tolerated five minutes
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