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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02
PRoH,e,TIoN IN ILLINOIS
Making Ready for the state Messasg -
Convention.

Making Ready for the state Meeting ~
Convention.
Active work has been begun by the po-
litical Prohibitionists of Illinois for the
Presidential campaign. Tho State
Convention has been called to meet in
Springfield on the 10th of May. and
the State Central Committee has issued
an address, urging that County Com
vention and Conference combined DO
held in each county before that date.
The address contains most explicit die
rectiOns to workers
1t is believed the plan Of preliminary
organization will bring together
the largest delegate Convention
ever held in the country by
the Prohibition party. Tho
State has been divided into five dis
tricts of twenty counties each. Five
organizers will push the work. holding
at least two conferences q week in each
district. Great efforts will be made to
raise a large campaign fund at every
meeting, and these Efforts will be fol-
lowed up by systematic canvassing In
each county. Cook County (Chicsgo)
will raise funds to keep two organizers
busy until after the State Convention.
They have begun work already.
The State Committee directs that the
financial plan of the National Commit
tee shall be followed out for the State
of Illinois. 1t advises the contribution
of ten per cent of all collections to
the National Committee. twenty per
cent. to the State Committee and the
rest to the County Committee.
The State Committee hopes to put at
least twenty tents in the field after the
Springfield Contention.
Leading Prohibitionists OF Chicago
are considering the ACCESSIBILITY OF
starting local and county paper.
through which to fight their home bat
ties They hope to give it circula-
ton of $4,000 or 10000.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

1t (prohibition) has an illustrious ex-
ample in the AbOlitionists. They, too,
were called fanatics, dreamers and
cranks. Critics, on the one hand, called
their claims Utopian and impossible OF
success; on the other they were chided'
with aims of self-aggrandizement, po-
litical success. But Abolitionism grew.
But the Prohibition party Is
more than a sentiment in this. that it is
willing to grapple with all the parties
now existing, challenging all and COM
promising with none. 1t contends with
these for the reins of Government, and
in time will dare TO do what no other
party will-make the whisky traffic in
famous. Conserrator Negro Or
gan), Chicago.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02
THE SALOON.
Those Who Served It in Fear Will Laugh
at Its Calamity.

Those Who Served It in Fear Will Laugh
at Its Calamity.
The saloon has few friends-nOne to
be proud OF. There is nobody. whose
presence is not a menace to the COM
munity, who would not like to see the
saloon 60. and go to stay. 1t has been
law breaker. 1t has been a place
that has thrived either on the weak
ness or the vice of humanity. 1t has
not given value received. 1t has been
the rendezvous of the criminal, the
friend of no one but the poor-house
and the prison. If all this was not
enough to condemn it and to secure
sentence of Punishment, then let it be
remembered that the saloon has not
the decency of conscious indecency.
1t thrust itself forward and a law
breaker itself, sought to dictate legis-
lation. The foe of good government,
it brought it's stencil and its ill-gotten
pelf into politics. and actually COM
manded all parties to do obeisance to
it. 1t forced the issue. In its fool
hardness it left the choice between its
supremacy and extinction. If it had
possessed the modesty even of half
common sense, it might have fingered
in Iowa for some years yet. 1t was
as impudent as vile, and now it has
got it in the neck, and good enough for
it. Even its victims are glad to hear
the door of the saloon 60 shut with a
vigorous bang. Those, too. who
served it in fear, laugh at its calamity.
The friends of the saloon-who are
they, anyhow?-IoUa Home Journal
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02
PROHIBITION NOTES.

THE Tennessee State Prohibition
Convention will meet February ~.
ALL the jnAictments against the Had
dock conspirators. In Sioux City. have
been dismissed.
ONLY f,rty-two 'wet' votes were
cast at the local option election in Sum-
ter County, Fla
In 1888 there were 80 breweries in
Iowa. At the time of the Supreme
Court decision there were only IA.
WHEN the saloon sneaks into the
back door of politics, prohibition stalks
to the front Omaha World (Isd
The mayor of Buffalo N. T.. is
wholesale liquor man. while sixteen
others of the city officials are liquor
dealers.
1t is stated on good authority that We
knocked out the Republican party in
1884 Would it not be comical II we
could knock out the Democrats this
year. and both of them in 1889?
Come to think of it, why can not We
knock them out in Cincinnati
Light.
INDIANA State PrOhibitionists, at
their late committee meeting. served
notice on all wavering Prohibitionists
that the day of fusion had passed So
it has Putting old-party men into
power is played out 1t is like putting
q club into the hands of your adver-
sary.
WELL. noy where are we? The New
York Tribune tells us that by opposing
high license we are playing into the
hands Of the lquor-dealers, and the
Chicago Tribune Rsp). January s.
tells the iquor-dealers that BY oppos-
ing high license thAy are playing into
the hands Of the ProhibitionistA" Still
trying TO carry the church on one
shoulder and the saloon on the other!
IN. r. Voice.
AREGULAR reign Of drunkenness has
been established in Atlanta since pro-
hibition was voted down, according 10
the newspaper reports An Athens
(Ga.) gentleman. just returned from
Atlanta, said that it seemed to him that
twenty-five per cent of the male popu-
lation Of the city were under the innu-
ence Of liquor. The throngs in the
bar-rooms are 50 great that people
some times have to wait IN hour before
thly can b served.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02
TEMPERANCE.
A GLORIOUS BATTLE WON.

He stood With foot ON the threshold
And cloud on his boylsh face,
While his city comrade urged him
To enter the gorgeous place.
there's nothing to fear, old fellow!
1t isn't lions den;
Here waits you royal welcome
From lips of the bravest men,
Twas the old. old voice of the tempter
That sought in the old, old way,
To lure with lying promise
The Innocent feet astray.
YOU'D think It was Blue Boards closet
To see how you stare and shrink!
tell you there's nought to harm you
It's only game and q drinkr'
He heard the words with shudder-
It's only game and q drink!
And his lips made bold to answer:
But what would my mother think"-
The name that his heart held dearest
Had started q secret spring.
And forth from the WHY tempter
He fed like hunted thing.
Away! till the glare Of the city
And its gilded halls of sin
Are shut from his sense and vision,
The shadows Of night within.
Away! till his feet have bounded
Ger fields where his childhood trod;
Away! in the name Of virtue,
And the strength of his mothers God!
What though he was branded ''cowardr'
In the blazOned halls of vice,
And banned by his baffied tempter.
Who sullenly tossed the dice,
On the page where the angel keepeth
The record OF deeds well done,
That night was the story written
OF a glorious battle won.
And he stood by his home in the starlight
All guiltlcss OF sword and shield
A Drawer and noblcr victor
Than the hero of b.oodiest field!
H. 4. MaitiGaf in II. Y O6serner.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02
,ctiOnS of the country:

SUNDAY and Monday only Of each week.
These figures show an average in
crease of a full half in the number of
arrests The police officers are very
lenient with offenders in the holiday
season, arresting only the most OBJ
streperous persons When this is con-
sidered. it is hardly to be doubted that
the holidays easily double the ordinary
average of drunkenness and of dis
rders originating in the saloons.
1t will be noticed in the table that in
Chicago, the model high license city,
with scarcely half the population of
New York, the number of arrests for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct on
December 10. IL and II and December
II, Is and 10 was three-fourths as large
rs in New York. The saloon license in
Chicago is $500; in New York it is from
$50 to $500.
In Newark, N. j., the arrests for
these offenses on December "a, 25 and
rs aggregated 81. Newark is city of
about $50, 900 population. and has num-
erous great breweries and hundreds of
saloons running almost without re-
striction and licensed at only $50 a
year. Yet the arrests for Christmas
drunkenness in this typical low-license
city were 80 fewer than in Washington.
city of about the same size, where
the license is $500 and the restric-
tons are severe. Newark's arrests are
not appreciably larger than those in
Omaha. smaller city. where each sa-
loon has to pay 81. 900 year.
In Cleveland, o.. for which great
claims are made as being an exemplar
of the beauties of the Dow law, there
were 113 arrests for drunkenness and
disorderly behavior on December "a.
25 and &c In Buffalo, which makes
no pretensions to moral beauty in its
dealings with the saloon. and where
the saloon license is only about half as
high as in Cleveland. there were only
60 arrests for the same offenses on the
corresponding days. Buffalo and
Cleveland have about the same popu-
latiOn.
Comparatively. few arrests are re-
ported from the prohibition cities of
Maine, New Hampshire. Iowa and Kan
sas In ''wide-open'' Bangor on De-
cember "a, % and 26 there were only
eight arrests for onenses growing out
of drunkenness; in Portland, on the
same days. there were nine; in Con-
cord, N. H.. there were two; in Man.
chester, N. H., there were ten; in Des
Moines there were eleven, and in Law
renee, Kan., there were six.
The prohibition city Of Topeka, Kan.
on the three days named had II per-
sons before its police Judge, charged
with drunkenness. They had to pay
dearly for their Christmas frolics, being
fined in the aggregate e200-nearly gu
apiece. There were on the same days
- persons arraigned for disorderly
conduct or resisting officers. and they
paid fines amounting to $265. One
man was brought before the court
charged with selling liquor. and he was
compelled to present . Christmas gift
of 500 to the town. Six gamblers
were fined in the aggregate $27a-M
r. Voice.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

The Prohibition party agitation
throughout Canada is becoming
stronger and moro general. The Star
Council Of Royal Templars at Fredsr-
icIton. N. B.. recently adopted reso-
luton declaring for the immediate or
ganization Of new political party
whose principal and avowed objsct
shall be the sboliion Of the liquor
tra1dc. The PARTY has been organized
in various parts Of the dominion. The
Temperance leaders generally are in
favor Of the movement
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02
SAMANTHA ALIENS ADVICE
Josiah put your clippers on.
And cease your needless chatter;
1want to have . word with you
About . little matter.
CHORUS:

About . little matter.
IORUs:
Josiah. look me In the face;
You know this worlds condition,
Yet you have never cast vote
Right out for Prohibition.
Iheard you On Jour knees last night
Ask help to keep nom strsyfn,
And now want to know II you
VIII vote as you've been prayin'f
You've prayed rs loud IS any man
While with the tide a-floatin';
Josiah, you must stop SIGH work,
And do some better votin'!
We women pray for better times,
And work right hard 70 make EN-;
You men vote whisky with its crimes,
And We just have to take 'em.
How long, Josiah, must this bef
We vote and pray 'gainst evil;
You pray oil right. for what I see,
And vote plumb for the devil.
There now; I've said my say, and you
Just save your ammunition,
And vote the way you've always prayed
For total Prohibition.
"A. ~ Drummer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

The atlantic Monthly says Of the sa-
loon: 1T stiles progress, fosters
pauperism, brutalizes husbands and
fathers, breaks women's hearts, puts
rags on the working-man's back. dis
ease in his body and shame and despair
in his heart"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

do something more. The churches
should band together to influence the
Prime Ministers and officers of the
Great Powers to restrict free trade in
''fire-water," and this as soon as pos
slble. Christian at WOrE.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

SOME doctor in London has written
book in which he gives prescriptions
Of various kinds. Sturgeon says Of
some of them: I'VE differ from the
doctor in his permission and prescrip-
ton of stimulants. II these things are
injurious to persons in health they
must be rank poison to the sick.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

THE womes IT Connecticut report
that ont Of SEQ churches canvassed, e10
Of them use only unfermentsd wins -
communion.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

II It IL great blessing 70 . country "a
have rulers who viii make and execute good
and wholesome laws. then how much
greater the blessing to have tho Infinitely
wise and perfect God, - tho great ruler Of
this and Of all worlds! He can make no
mistake and suffer NO defeat We have new
or been able to see why anybody should
wish. II he could, to dispense with such Z
God-L T. LsdspsndesG
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

built on? found out afterward that the
title to the land was in controversy, and
no one wanted to build there until that
question was decided. Afterward l un-
derstood the title was settled, and now
buildings are going up all over it. Do
not build your happiness for this world on
a character, masculine or feminine, that
has not q settled and undi sputed title { o
honor, and truth, and sobriety, and kind.
ness, and Righteousness.
q woman, you have more need to pause
before making such an important promise
than man, because if you make a mistake
it is worse for you. If a man blunder
about promise of marriage, or go on to an
unfortunate marriage, he can spend his
evenings away, and can go to the club.
or the Republican or Democrat
ic headquarters, and absorb his
mind in city, or State and National cleo.
tions, or smoke himself stupid, or drink
aims drunk. But there is no place Of
regular retreat for you, o woman, and
you could not take narcotics or inroxi-
cants, and keep your responsibility. Be-
fore you promise, pray and think, and
study and advise. There will never again
in your earthly history be time when
you so much need God.
It seems to me that the world ought to
cast out from business credits and from
good neighborhood those who boast of
the number Of hearts they have won, as
the Indian boasts of the number ST scalps
he has taken. If a man will lie to q wom-
an and q woman will lie to a man about
SO important matter as that of q life
times welfare, they will lie about q bill
of goods, and lie about finances, and lie
about any thing. Society to-day is brim
full of gallants and man.milIiners and
carpet Knights and coquettes and
those most God-forsaken of all
wretches-firts. And they GO
about drawing-rooms and the
parlors OF watering places, shipper
ing and bowling and scraping and whis-
pering, and then return to the cluU
rooms Il they be men, or to their special
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22
Presidential Election, 1883.
For President:
GROVER CLEVELAND,
New York.
For yice-President:
ALLEN G. THURMAN.
Ohio.
For Congrcss-1st District:
GILMOR 8. KEND ALL,
Northampton.

A correspondent Of our Repuhli,
can contemporary, the Free Lance,
has made "a careful estimate from
reliable sources,n Of the vote Ofthe
First Congressional District and
according to his figures, Brownies
majority over Kendall this year
will he 179. That correspondent Is
a Brownie, who is kind enough to
impart the Information also. that
he is Democrat. At least he is
no. in full membership yet in the
Republican party, but probably ex
poets to get there, ANA like all con-
verts. therefore, naturally is a lit
tie enthusiastic. With q bosom
swelling with pride for Mr.. Brosne,
because OF his distinguished ser
vices" however, he reduces his ma
jority from 1900 in the last Con
gresslonal fight to 179. The esti-
mate of our Brownie friend is in
struct:ve ard is appended to show
to the public the desperate cause
he his esroused. BE figures thus
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22
The OlanG0ek Masis School.
COLLEGE BUILDING.
Will. OPEN SEPT. II, 1888.

Will. OPEN SEPT. II, 1888.
This is the second session oil this
school. Every advantage and IA
cility for the study OF music offered.
The success of this school last
year was very grntiying,and pros
Dects for the coming session are
fiattering.
TEnMs-Piano $40 per quarter,
Organ $40 per quarter, Special vo.
cal $3.50 per quarter, Class vocal
$l.25 per quarter.
Mrs. TiObie j. Lawrence yves
lcyan Female College), principal.
Mrs. Jennie Joynes pupil OF
Koerber), associate principal.
New upright pianos and comfort
able practice rooms. No extra
charge for use OF Instruments.
Pupils practice under immediate
supervision of the teachers.
For catalogue address MRS. lib
Bic LAWRENCE or MRS. JENNIE
JOYNES.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22
TIE The 1HIIllHlllIIIl'EEi
Sewing Machine
STANDS AHtAD OF ALL OTHERS

The latest improved cylinder shut
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set wrong, are among the latest
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Never such q record with any ether
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till You have examined this new
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| have also the patent DOUBLE
EDGED REVERSIBLE SHEARS
or SCISSORS, the best you ever
saw, never need grinding nor get
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And am still making large
amount of the best quality OF pop.
lar and oak furniture, snch as mar
| ble top bureaus, tables, stands.
tsidetoartls, cupbosfds,tr unlle bcdss
S&c. Repairing done and pictures
F. framed. Pulpits for churches made
to order.
Thanking you for past fayors, I
submit my claims to you in the tn
ture and will try aud merit q con
tinuanCe of the same patronage.
Respectfully. &C..
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22
DOVER.
Sept. goth to 2eth, 1888
$4,000 in Premiums.
Competition Open to All.

Grand display cfhve stock. roul.
try, cereals, fruits, agricultural i'm
plements,f fine arts,and the products
OF the dairy, field AMI household.
Trials eff speed every day by some
OF the best trotters and PAGERS in.
the world. Two grand musical
concerts daily. Every effort will
be used to make this exhibition
excel any ever held on this PENN:
sula. Entry books now open. AL.
entries close September 18th.
Low excursion rates from all
points on the Peninsula. See bill.
ut your nearest railroad station for
special excursion tickets. Special
freight rates to exhibitors by K. r.
Send for circular,
D. P. BARNARD, JR., Sec'y,
Dover, Del.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22
|IlIntlI]TI Nurseries.
r.

We Offer select line of nursery stock
for next fall and spring planting, con-
sistin2 OF all choice old and Promising
new varieties of Apple. Cherry. Peach.
Pear, Plum. Ounce and other fruit
trees. Grapes. CurIants. Go0seberrieS.
Biackherri IS, Raspberries and Straw
berries among the small fruits. In thr
Ornamental Tree line we have Aineri-
can White Elm, Scotch Wych Elm, Cam
perlown Elm, Carolina POPLAR, Silver
Leaf Maple. SUI ar Maple, Norway Ma
;,le. Box Elder, wide cut leaf Maple, cut
iaaf Birch, Canoe Birch, Russian Null
berry Horse Chestnut, Paulonia or En-
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Plum, Magnolia Accuninita UT Etlcnrn-
tree, &C., in this deciduous class. Xii.
marnnck Willow. American Wceping
Willow. Weeping Poplar, and the New
American Weeping Willow in Tie will
loW class. Norway Spruce, Balsam Fir,
Irish Juniper. American and Siberian
Arborv;t8. European Larch, Magnolia
Grai,diiiora, &C., in evergreens.
We propose to sell stock direct to the
planter, thereby giving to purchasers
Inc benefit of expenses OF travelling
agents. We will sell anything in the
nursery line as low as any reliable nur-
seryman will sell same quality of stock.
bTAAWBEHRIEA
Tbs. Holman Seeding beats, the
record of all the early varieties, being as
Early us Crystal City, twiee-as prolific.
and the best shipping berry known
Mr.. W. s. Emlty Phila o4, May 18th,
sold our Hoffman berries at 25 cents
ind Crystal City or Ily:lu2 at II cents
;er quart. And the Hoffman sold along
through the season from 4to 6 cents per
quart inork than the Crystal City. We
expect 10 have from 100000 to 200, oD0
plants of this variety to offer for tall
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prices to those wishing to plant largely.
Mixed plants are dear at any price: We
have aD0nt 70 varieties Of Strawberries
growing on our grounds. among which
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Oil the Eastern Shore. We Cali supply
shese varieties grown III pots during
July, August and September. They
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u lpxt fall. Our new Vegetable Plant
Catalogue including pot grown straw
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mailed free TO all applicants. Or nur.
sery catalogue and price list will bt
ready III September.
MoMATH BROS,
Onley station, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22

! BYRD anQ margaret "A. BYRD, his
wife ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Plaintiffs.
against
Andrew j. McCready, Barney
McCready, Katie McCre:dy, Hid
ridge Ovens McCready, Garnet
Fay McCreatly, Charles hlcCready,
George Lee McCready, Benjamin
Jenkins and Sarah Jenkins, BIS
wife, in. right Of said wife, and
Douglas Topping.."....DefendaDts
In chancery.
The object of this suit is to make
! partition of a tract or parcel of
land situated in Accomack county,
near Mesongo, belonging TO the
plaintiffs and the defendants.
Affidavit having been made be-
fore the clerk Of the SAID court that
the defendants, Benjamin jenkins
and Sarah Jenkins, his wife, and
Douglas Topping non-residents
Of this State, on the motion Of the
plaintiffs, by their attorneys, it is
ordered thaG SAID nOn-reSldeDt de-
PENDANTS do appear here within
fifteen days after due publication
of this order and do what is neceS-
sary to protect their interests; and
shat this order be published once a
week for four successive weeks in
the PENINSULA ENTERPRISE, a
newspaper published at Acc0,nack
q. H., in said county, and also
posted at the front door OF the
court house OF the said c0unty on
the first day of the next t. rm OF the
county court OF he said county.
Test: John d. Grant, G. G
A Copy
Test: John D. Grant, G. G.
Guuter 4 Blackstone, p. q.
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