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The thing contemplated or done in
"the London season" may be termed
generically, in the language of the
press, fashionable arrangements Any
one taking up The Morning Post on Mon
day can read a list of them for the ensu-
ing week. lie will see that, if he
chooses, he can in the next day or two
attend balls" mission meetings."
small musics,r sales of dolls" prom
enade shows" receptions" scientific
lectures Cricket Matches "bazars,'
afternoons" concerts" charities"
shooting at clay or real pigeon, "dra-
matte matinees,' polo" races" or
musical soirces in the East End Some
of the arrangements" are private, and
can only be attended on invitation;
others are open to all. There is also the
third class, such as the bazar or charit-
able concert, which is public on one side
and private On the other.
In order, therefore, to enjoy an unfet-
tered selection from the list before him,
the person above mentioned must be
what is called 'in society" This status
can be attained by any man whatever
who possesses a suit of evening clothes
and a fair amount of Such a
one will have no difficulty in getting an
invitation to an ordinary dance in the
less fashionable circles. Once there, he
must get introduced to one or two of the
matrons present who stand highest on
the social ladder, and, if possible, have
ugly daughters. He must dance, or pre-
tend to dance, assiduously with the chill
dren, and take the mothers themselves
to supper. If one of the latter gives a
dance herself, or is asked for mems
names by a friend, the aspirant will not
be forgotten, and will get his name
down on a list He has then merely to
continue this process as he rises in the
world, with a proper devotion to cards,
ETC.. and in a couple of years no ball or
drum will be inaccessible to him.-The
Argonaut.
, 1886-07-14

CONGRESS seems to stand hot weather
well; it is the public that is getting tired
, 1886-07-14

Satisfies show that in the whole OF
Europe the women have a majority OF
4,57g. 900.
, 1886-07-14

CONGRESS is beginning to nibble a lit
tie around the edges of the tariff.
, 1886-07-14

Wedding and visiting cards in great
variety at the leader office.
, 1886-07-14

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None but time tried and fire tested companies
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
, 1886-07-14

In all its branches by w. ELLIOTT, on Eighteenth
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All kind Of wagon work done first class.
, 1886-07-14
MONROE LIQUID ERASER COMPANY.
La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Cd EENpArR $40 Invested returns : 90
OIC DAWN in ten Ia twenty DAYS For
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, 1886-07-14

CHEYENNE. WYOMING. operated by the Pa
cific Hotel Company. Iesses Of all Hotels and Eat.
III Pacific Railway Company. Transient rate So on
, 1886-07-14
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

ID. q. BAIRD and A. z. CAMPBELL), At
torneys-at-Law and Notaries Public, CLey-
second floor, st hbins 4 Post \ bank block.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
Beaten but Still Active.
Vacksburg Prohibjtiomi8tS Enforce the
Sunday Loa0.

VIcKsBURG, MISS, July 18-Al-
though the Prohibitionists were
beaten at the polls yesterday, by a
vote of six to one, they have nei-
Their lost heart nor abandoned the
fight. While they bow to the
will Of the majority and recognize
the supremacy of liquor influence
in politics for the next two years,
they fall back on the liquor law it.
self, and demand that all its pro-
visions be enforced. Before a Ii
cense can legally issue under the
present law, a petition signed by
25 property holders must be filed,
recommending the applicant as of
good character, and bond of So
900 must be filed, evidencing that
he will keep an orderly house, will
not sell liquor to drunkards or mi
nors, and will keep closed on Sun
day. This law has been dead
letter. The attention OF the Chief
Of Police was called to the fact last
night, and he this morning ordered
every bar room closed, and for the
first time in the memory of the
oldest inhabitant, a day passed in
which no liquor was sold in Vicks-
burg.
At the election yesterday, the
best element of the white and col
ored people stood together for Pro-
hibition, while the city hoodlums
and cross-road bulldozers drove the
lower order of negroes in gangs to
the polls, and voted them for Gree
dom and free whisky,"-M Y.
Times.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
JUSTICE
By the Providence of God and the
Favor Of the Court.
An Ioaoa Judge Brands the Liquor
DeaJers as Murderers and their
Trade as Satanic.

Hon. F. NJ. Hubbard, District Judge of TIE
eighth juicial district Of Iowa, in passing
sentence upon some liquor dealers for vio-
lation of the prohibitory laws OF the State,
said:
"While there are crimes known to the law
which are punishable with greater severity,
there are none which involve more of those
qualities known as despicable meanness
and audacity than the selling of intox icat-
ing liquors. There is something in the ia
king of human life so instantaneous that
it shocks and terrihes the minds OF all ; and
yet we look upon the man who takes hui
man life quite as surely, but by slow, lin
gering process, if not without condemna-
ton, at least without horror You who
stand before the court for sentence, are in
every moral sense, murdererS, and you are
within the spirit, if not the letter, guilty OF
manslaughter; for the law says that whoev-
er acceerates the death of human beng
unlawfully, is guilty of the crime. Your
bloated victims upon the witness stand,
and who undoubtedly committed perjury to
screen you from the law, not only abund-
antly testified that you are accelerating
death, but that you are inducing men to
commit still greater crimes than your own.
You still maintain the spirit OF respectable
ity, but how morally leprous and scrofu-
lous you are inwardly. The ruin, poverty,
and idleness which you are inflicting upon
this community declare as from the house
tops that you are living in idleness and
eating the bread OF orphans, watered with
widows clears; you are stealthily killing
your victims, and numbering the peace and
industry OF the community, and thereby
converting happy, industrious homes into
misery, poverty and rags. Anxious wives
and mothers watch and pray in tears night
ly with desolate hearts, for the coming
home of your victims, whom you are Turing
with the wiles and smiles of the devil into
midnight debauchery.
You are persistent. defiant law breakers,
and shamelessly boast that in defiance of
the law and moral sense of the community,
You will continue in your wicked and GRIM
inal practices. 1t has, therefore, now be-
come the imperative duty of this court to
let fall upon you SO heavily the arm of the
law. that you shall either be driven from
your nefarious traffic or ruined in your for
tunes or wicked prosperity. You have be-
come stencil to the nostrils of the COM
munity, and all good men are praying that
you be speedily reformed or summary de-
stroyed. BY the providence of God and the
favor of this court, these prayers shall be
speedily answered by signal and exact JUS
tce for your crimes. And finally, let me en-
treat you, if you are not lost to every senti-
ment OF humanity, desist from yonr crimi-
nal vagabond traftic and betake yourselves
to some honest calling for livelihood, that
you may yet become virtuous, useful citi-
zens, and entitled to the respect of Chris
tan cOmmunity,"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
l Democratic Paper Sees
Its Duty and Does 1t.

The following extract is taken
from the Oquaka, Illinois, Spectator,
which has been a staunch Demo
cratic paper for 80 years:
"The publisher Of the Spectator,
believing that the prohibition by
law Of the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage
is of more importance than any
other question now agitated in pol
itics, and satisfied that the Demo
cratic party Cat least in the North)
will do nothing for this principle,
feels it to be his duty as a profess
ing Christian and Temperance
man, to withdraw from that party
and hereafter support Prohibition
lists for Office. We therefore 60 over
to the third party and hereafter
will stand up and be counted among
its supporters. If our votes accom-
plish nothing for Temperance, Gas
some claim) we will at least have
the satisfaction of knowing that we
did what we believed to be right"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
COLD COMFORT.
Norm Onism Fallen Upon Bad
Times.

In the midst of the heated term
though it be, the Utah Saints, who
love polygamy and contemn Fed
eral law, have but the very cold
est comfort. For year and half
well-nigh everything has gone
against them, and every fond hope
of deliverance has been blighted.
At present, their only expectation
is from the indifference or dilator-
mess of Congress. The Idaho
prisons being full to overlooking,
a procession of elders has started
for far-ot Detroit and solitary con-
fnement at hard labor. Nowhere
do the Democrats arise for their
help. The new Governor bids fair
to match his ssalwart predecessor
in resolute and radical action.
Marshal Dyer is just as sharp 8
thorn in the side as was Marshal
Ireland, and his motto seems to be,
Not day without catching polyg-
amist. A fearful tremor, too,
runs through Mormondom lest the
children and youth stampede in
body to the Gentle Sunday-SchooIs
and day schools. Indeed, so dark
is the time that even the inspired
and lynxeyed Desert NoUs, scan
ming the horizon, spyglass in hand,
can light on no crumb of consola-
ton this side of New Zealand, and
predicts that those tremendous
earth-throes are the forerunners of
the crack of doom and the final
wind up of all anti-Mormon pros
perity !-Independent.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
Useless to Kick.

A reporter for the Atlanta Con-
StitDtlon has been interviewing the
saloon keepers in regard to the new
Prohibition law. This is a fair
sample: "You believe then that
Prohibition will prohibit" "Of
course 1 do; and I can't see the
wisdom OF kicking against an &C.
complished fact. The thing for the
citizens of Atlanta to do now is to
shut up on the subject" One of
the best lawyers Of the city said to
a reporter: ct is useless to kick
against the law. No scheme to
evade it will be sustained by the
courts, and no man need hope to
escape detection if he undertakes
to execute such a scheme" -Ten1-
peTance Advocate.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
Hold the Fort.

At recent meeting of the
Brooklyn, On. W Young Mems
Prohibition Club, 1870 new mem
bers were received, running their
membership up to AL.
The meeting was enthusiastic
and full of work.
Among the resolutions offered
and considered, the following was
presented by P. W. Scofeld:
"Resolved, THAI since the Prohi-
bitionists of Alabama have, within
the last few days, come out from
their old party affiliations and held
a State Convention, and placed
themselves in line with the Ma
tional Prohibition party, pomi-
mating their own ticket, we send
to them the hearty good will and
congratulations of the Young Mems
Prohibition Club of Kings County,
nearly 800 strong. We call upon
them to hold the fort for the new
non-sectional party Of the Union,
and to get the young men Of the
State to help them"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
A ssGeOrgia Treat
The Marietta Times Indulges IN q
Little Dry Humor.

Senator Blair does not propose to
have this glorious country pay for
an international drunk, on the occa-
sion of the dedication of the Bar
tholdi statue. At his instance, the
appropriation bill was amended so
as to provide that no part of the
S56,500 intended for the inaugural
ceremonies shall be used to pay for
"spirituous liquor, or tobacco, or
stimulants, or narcotics in any
form" At the Yorktown celebra-
ton, Uncle Sam spent $500 in
treating on the American plan.
At the American reception Of the
French statue, each participant
will be entitled to the privilege of
a Georgia" Times.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
Clogs the Wheels.

Workmen must stand up against
the evils of intemperance. 1t is a
monster destroyer, not only robbing
them of manhood and honor, but
also of the very means Of earning
an honest living. The manufac-
ture of intoxicating liquor repre-
sents but very little productive la
Dor, and its consumption does moth
ing but clog the wheels of COM
merce and progress. Remove the
curse of drink, and the workmen,
and, indeed, all our people, are rails
ed to the higher plane, in which
all people become thinkers and
workers. The sequel is clear
John Jarrett, in Age Of Steel.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
The Atlanta Prohibition Trouble.

ATLANTA, July 14.-The iniunc-
ton case Of AL. Bronck VS.. The
City of Atlanta, seeking to prevent
the interference of the police au-
thorities with the sale of whisky
wines and beer by the quart. by
the plaintiff, was tried to-day be-
fore Judge R. A. Clarke, of the Su-
perlor Court. He refused to grant
an injunction, and the CITY will
now proceed to prosecute Bronck
for violating the Prohibition law.
Temperance Advocate.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
Liquor and Labor.
From the Atlantic Monthly.)

(From the Atlantic Monthly.)
What lesson lies in the drink
bill of American workingmen, for
instance At a moderate estimate
it amounts to between four and
five hundred million dollars year.
While labor is throwing away that
enormous sum annually, with what
show of consistency can it lament
its condition One years remis-
sion of that destructive self-indul-
gence would solve every labor prob
lem extant, would provide fund
for the establishment of co-opera
tive works, for the sustenance Of
the sick and aged, for the mainte-
nance and education of orphans,
for libraries and scientific schools,
for all manner of helps.
At present, the working man can
hardly make both ends meet. Is it
not because he insists on creating
capitalists out of the saloon-keep-
ers, and, not content with that, on
submitting all his rights of citizen
ship to the same.objects of worship?
The saloon in politics is the most
hideous abuse of the day; but
where would it be if the working
men withdrew their support from
it? 1t keeps them poor. 1t keeps
our politics corrupt. 1t supplies a
constant stream of base adventur-
ers, who disgrace the American
name at home and abroad. 1t
makes the terms "public office"
and 'public plumber" synonymous.
1t STILES progress, fosters pauper-
ism, brutalizes husbands and faith
ers, breaks women's hearts, puts
rags on the working mans back.
disease in bis body, and shame and
despair in his heart. Yet when
labor is most disturbed when the
demand for advanced wages is the
loudest, when strikes are most fire.
quent, when hunger and misery
are most rife in the homes Of the
poor, the saloon fourishes still.
There may be no bread at home;
but there is always beer and whis-
ky at the bar, and the men who
consider themselves the victims of
circumstances OR the "thralls" of
capital, squander their earnings,
and spend their savings in these
dens. Can there be serious labor
question while this state of things
continues? Can workingmen talk
gravely Of their wrongs while it is
plain to all the world that if they
only saved the capital they earn
they would be comfortable.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
Sound Doctrine from LabOring
Men.

We clip from the Labor Advocate,
the following resolution, unani-
mously adopted by a District Con-
vention Of laboring men, recently
held at Coalburg;
Whereas, we believe the use of
intoxicating drinks is not only in
furious to the workingmen but
highly detrimental to the public
good, and our greatest enemy. Be
it resolved, that We oppose its sale,
use and production by all honora-
BILE means.
This is one of the wisest
boycots ever placed by any
body Of workingmen upon any
business or people not in sympa-
thy with them. Ii is step in the
right direction and toward high
er plane of morality and true citi-
zen8hip: one that true laboring
N en- must approve, and one that
will meet the hearty commenda-
tons of your noblest and best lead
ers all over this land Of ours.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
COngratula lions.

Since his nomination for Cover
nor of New Jersey, Gen. Clinton B.
Fisk has received letters from L.
700 clergymen, and 5000 women,
congratulating him on the brave
stand he has taken for temperance,
and urging him never to give up
the battle until the saloon is driv-
en- from the land. One hundred
temperance meetings are being
held every night in New jersey
Independent.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
J. H. CAMMAcK,
J. A. BLACK, Com,
II. c. BossINGFR,

11C|'~'AN J
The above is subscribed to b,
the following persons:
Rev. j. NJ. Sloan. T. A. B. I<incaid.
Rev. W. p. Walker, James King,
Rev. Geo Martin, q. W. Kirk,
John Davies, j. d. Walker,
). r. Hall, X. Delabar,
r. n. Wakefield, j. H. Cammack,
A. j. Klingel, Jas. S. Herrell,
g G. Beatty, H. c. Bossinger,
j. 7. Rucker, r. 7. Robertson,
I hos. Medford, Zenas Martin,
Geo y. Flooding, Jas. E. Blanchard,
]. L. Crider, t. j. Bullock,
Rev, j. A. Black, j, ~ Potts,
Robert Odell, j. d. Ellins,
Rev. l.. H. Jordan, c. H. Ricketts,,
Harvey w. Taylor, G. c. Ricketts,,
Matthew Moore, M. c. Hungerford,
r. &. Wolcott, w. C. Wheaton,
+ van j. Davies, L. r. Beckner,
j. A. Snider, j. d. Wellman,
w. II. II. Holswade.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-04
Huntington Prohibition Club.

Huntington Prohibition Club.
: The following declaration of
principles was set forth by the cit
liens whose names are attached, at
meeting held at Good Templars'
Hall, July 26th 1886.
JAS. S. HERRELL, Clerk.
We, the Temperance people of
Huntington and vicinity, in mass
meeting assem- led, SET before the
public these our honest convic-
tons:
Resolved, LIST. That the traffic in
intoxicating liquors is the great
est evil of modern times, and that
its baneful influence touches every
avenue of our National life. It
corrupts the ballot box, debauches
courts Of justice, increases crime,
induces riot, anarchy and blood
shed, wastes our resources, makes
bad trade, increases taxation, fills
our penitentiaries, alms-houses and
lunatic asylums with its unfortu-
nate victims, is the greatest enemy
to the Christian religion, and car
ries want, shame and misery into
the homes Of our people.
End. That principles of honesty,
of philosophy, of business interest,
of human kindness, and of politi-
cal economy, demand that the
whole traffic be suppressed.
3rd. That if it does produce
crime, then to license it and take
fee for protecting it is to become
a party to the crime, and we have
the horrifying spectacle of our own
beloved State fostering crime by
law and then prosecuting the Grim
inal,
4th. That we believe that ma
jority of the voters of West Vir-
ginia are in favor of prohibiting
this traffic.
9Th. That since 1880 every Legis-
lature has been importuned with
petitions, in some instances $4,000
strong, asking for the submission
of this matter to a vote of the peo
pie, but owing to the influence of
the liquor traffic there was not a
requisite majority in favor of sub
uniting the amendment.
9th. Therefore, resolved that we
form ourselves into an organiza-
ton to be known as the Hunt
ington Prohibition Club" of which
anyone may become a member by
subscribing to the principles en-
braced in the following resolu
ton:
7th. That we, as independent
citizens, henceforth will vote for
NO man for Office unless we are as
sured that he will use his vote and
influence in every honorable way
for the suppression OF the whisky
traffic. Especially will we apply
this rule to our State Legislature,
our County Commissioners, Prose
cutting attorney, Circuit Judge and
City Council,
J. H. CAMMACK,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-17

Coleman has had rain and rcjoices.
Callahan wheat crop will be light
Abilene has joined the building
boomers.
Two wool smugglers wcrs captured Mt
Brownsville yesterday. -s-.--- AZ
The city Of Terrell abolshes a regu-
larly elected school board,
Coleman reports an unsuccessful at
tempt at jail delivery yesterday.
Cleburne concerted successfully to
uniform her Light Guards this week.
Cotton planting is progressing in La
mar county and slightly rushing the sea-
son.
More convict laborers were taken to
the Burnet quarries from Coleman inns
week.
Hunt county fairly blossoms over with
crop prospects. wheat and oats espe-
Cially.
A colicky baby at Brownsville was
killed by giving ii teaspoonful OF WIZ
ard oil.
Kingston has subscribed $4,000 to Sc
cure the line of the AtchisOn, Topeka
and Santa Fe.
A negro preacher at BRENNAN, COnvic-
ted of raping l5-year-old girl, was SEN
fenced for 30 years.
COrwin has been severely handled by
a twO-days' hail-stOTm, and crops were
fairly beaten out of time.
Cattle trains are passing over the Mar
row Gauge to find their way East, via
New Orleans, since the strike.
The "blue and the gray" one minus
n 40 voted
side by side at COrsicana recently.
quarters Of the Oklahoma boomers, Joe
Works, secretary, holding the fort.
Terrell and MneOla pit poor little
rOOsteTs against each Other for the fun Of
it on the 10th, 2lst and 22nd instants.
Corpus Christi wants rain badly; has
IL good real estate boom, and is hope
fully waiting the advent Of the new rail
way line.
Camille Gonzales was hung at Bracket
Yesterday for the shooting of Peter
johnson, November |, 1881, at Mud
Creek, Is miles west Of Bracket.
A broken rail threw the west bound
freight. on the Missouri Pacific, of the
track near Dangergeld, early yesterday
morning. Cars wrecked; no one hurt.
There is hitch in the arrangements
for the Dallas fair, the machinery men
protesting against the location selected
for the grounds and declaring they will
not exhibit.
The Southern Pacific passenger train
was badly wrecked near Sulphur Mine
Station, west of Houston, Thursday
night. Foreman badly injured, no pas
sengeTS seriously hurt.
All native Texans who attend the San
JacintO celebration at Dallas on the DIST
are requested to report at $50 a. N. on
that day at the Federal court building,
corner of Elm and sycamore streets.
James Slater, of Longview, attempt
ing to board a moving freight train
from the front of the CabOOse, was
thrown under the train, which was run
ming 20 miles an hour. The brake beam
hanging unusually low turned him over
n few times and rolled him off the track
stunned, senseless, bleeding and badly
bruised, but no bones broken.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-17
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