The Washington times., 1895-04-22
LIKE WITCHES SABBATH
Pandemonium Reigned Supreme in
jackson City On the Lords Day.
As On Other Sundays, So Yesterday Law Was
Openly Violated-saloons and Gam
bling Dens in Full Blast.

Sunday was observed at Jackson City
and Rosslyn with delightful festivities.
The day was sanctified with oaths,
chips, dice, poker, sweat, crap, Eooze, and
all the amusements prohibited by the laws
of Virginia.
The only thing which marred the genial
good-fellowship of tie day was that, so
far as known, though it never might be
| known, no human being was killed
This undue dullness created the suspicion
that somebody had diluted the whisky or
changed the brand. Perhaps the visitors
OF the resorts across the river had been so
OVERRIDING themselves with fluid Internal
ity that the stuff was losing its effect.
Though it was an uudemonstrarive day
at Jackson City aud at ROsslyn, there were
several interesting affairs of the fist.
These, though, occurred between the regu-
lars of the place, and by a strange obsunacy
of Providence, 10 deaths We're permitted
to result.
Sheriff Veitch was not in attendance,
though his friends promised that he should
be on deck TO see the boys have a drunken
good time and TO see that the laws against
infamy were not enforced. Just as soon as
he had completed his religious duties
One affabe little gentleman suggested
| in alcoholic accents that Sheriff VeItch s
| religious duties consisted in looking after
| the interests of the Alexander Island out
! laws, but several thieves who happened TO
| be present said that this suggestion was
not sufficiently complimentary TO Mr.
| Veitch; that he was a personal friend OF
| theirs, that he had never asked them TO do
| It-Ia a nd
| they would vote for him on May % just
| as often as they could.
These noble utteTances were applauded.
| There could he no question about the pop
| uIarity of Mr.. Veitch Several kind
words We're also spoken for Mr.. Richard
| w. johnson, Commo nwealth attorney
! for Alexandria county.
To any person who expects only To see
| Heaven in the other life, jackson City is
| a good place to look at now. over Harry's
| place, where the safe-blower was
"pinched," there hung yesterday an
| American flag, whose stars had perhaps
| twinkled ON more bloodShed and misery
| through the war. Several gentlemen, in
most Of whom the police of Washington and
| other cities feel longing interest, lolled
and sweated in the sleepy sunshine.
Every now and then they would adj
! journ to some grOggery, operated in dis
| JluCJ NIOldJlOH Ol iAlt Id W. BuJs VI COuESe
| not without permission from the officers of
| the law, and refresh themselves at the
| fount of Bacchus Then they would sally
| forth more drunken than before, and
swear and cape and swap stories about
whose good form there might be some
| question, and listen to the dreamy splash
| ing of the waves till their thirst revived
The interior of Harry's place, the most
| celebrated dive of the kind ever allowed
to exist by the consent of the officers of the
! law, never looked more radiaDTly lOath-
| some The doors were open, the shutters
| We're drawn. and the laws bedamued with
exemplary fraukneSs. The interior was
| perfumed as it naturally would be.
Cordial juleps famed and danced in
| crystal bounds" and above the sweat
| table hung a pious sign inscribed I'm God
we Trust" Very few people in the place
| with whom The Times man talked, seemed
TO believe that sign, bat it hung theTeiust the
same. surrounded by ysomeundraped pictures.
bear-eyed wretch, to whom cropped
hair and striped suit would be chaFmingly
becoming sat behind the sweat table and
did" every body who did not do him.
Leaning against the bar, or doubled up
in the corners of the bar apartment were
several youths, whom nobody would ever
suspect of having attained their majority,
though of course they must have reached
the age prescribed by law because the bar-
keeper sold them drink and any man whosays
that a Jackson City gin-slinger would do
ANYTHING in violation of the law, ought
never to go to Jackson City.
In most of the other places games were in
progress. Poker, keno and faro could be
found anyw here. Joe's Place, though,
be it said to the honor OF the proprietor,
permitted no cards to be played there.
up the river also observed the lay quietly
and only the usual crimes aud disorders
were allowed.