Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-12-05

mlngS was a craven as we'll us a bully
He confessed all and cleared Meyers, hut
while awaiting his trial committed suicide
Hartford Times
4 Religious spree
From 6eorge kenuau Adventures in
Eastern Siberia IN the November Century
We quote the tollowing We had no
difficulty in getting post horses until just
before dark Monday evening, when we
reached the station Of Turinopoyorotuaya
/ lIoorin-o-po-yo-aht yaal about fifty
miles from thity, and found the whole
city in a state Of hilarious intoxication
sleighs filled with young men and boys
were cucering hther and thither with
wild whoopS and halloos: long lines OF
peasant girls in bright-colored calico
dresses We're unsteadily promenading back
and forth i'm the streets with their arms
around one another and singing lhoroYod
songs; the staton-housp was filed with
flushed and excited people from nelghbor-
ing settlements. who had evidently been
participating in celebration of some kind
and We're about starting for their homes;
the 3tationmuster, who, perhaps had not
finished his celebration, was nowhere to
be found; there was not driver about the
stables and the 'stHrosta lStOhro-stahl, q
u short fat old man. who looked like Il
burghcr frOm Amsterdam, was SO drunk
that even with the aid of a cane he could
hardly stapd on his feet In vain we
tried TO ascertain the reasons for this sur
prisiug epidimic Of inebriation. Nobody
was sober enough TO explnin TO as what
had happened From the excited aud
more or le, meahereut conversation of the
intoxicated travellers IN the statlon-house.
learned that even the village priest was
SO drunk that he had to be taken home in
a sleigh 10y the soberest of his pnrishioners
II the atatiuu-mastcr, the stmosta, the vii
lage priest, ihe drivers and all of the IN
habitauts were drunk, there was evidently
no prospect Of our beng able to get horses.
ln fact Wt ould not find anybody who
seemed 10 know the difference between a
horse and bis harness. We therefore
brought our baggage into the crowded
station-bou>a and sat down IN an moeru-
/ pied corner 10 study intoxicated humanity
and await further developments Every
person IN the house was drunk, except our
selves and one small baby.
About nine clock the noise, tmut
and shouting in the village streets began
At CiiHhl'iEt lllI NiAttAllr ltldNAfif Ntltct III
/ toxication had taken the form ~ severe
official dignity suddenly appeared and ia
"a tone Of stern menace wanted TO know
where the post drivers were and what all
/ this disorder meant, finally, when ht
had almost abandoned the hope Of even
! getting away really sober man In a rag
/ god sueep-kin coat emerged from the dark
ness and reported IN a busihess-IIke man.
ner to the saton-master that the horses
were ready for M. The drunken and iraLe
oihcial, who seemed DESTROYS Of indicating
his dignity and authority ia soue way,
overwhelmed the unfortunate driver with
abuse, and ended by hning him fifty
kopccks whether for being sober or for
having the horses ready, ! do not know
We piled our baggage into the sleigh,
climbed in upon it. and rode out of the
intoxicated settlement with thankful
hearts 4 the last faint sounds Of revolry
died away IN the distance behind us, !
said 70 Che driver What's the matter
with everybody IN this yiIHEc2 The
whole population seems 10 bo drunk
They va been c0nsecratug new
church. said the driver, soberlv
'CousecratIng new cburchI ! ey.
claimed IN amazement Is chat the way
you consecrale chmches2
! don't know, he replied Some
times they drink After the services obey
had guiana il sort Of holiday promenade
with music and spirituous reireshmentsI
and some Of them crooked their elbows too
often,
Some Of them repeated All Of
them, yon mean You're the only sober
/ a. - I'm Z Rn f.lURn How fll4A