The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-22
THE LIQUOR RAID.
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i, shire to be sold to be brought bacl
here, the state had right to demant
them, and the claimant must produc,
them or get out from under" with
/ the claim he had voluntarily made il
J a Vermont court. Justice Newton
SO ruled, and in the afternoon, rather
than get deeper into the scrape, Gales
counsel announced that they would
withdraw the claim to the beer, and il
was ordered to be condemned anc
spilled, which Sheriff Wilkins did,
and then Sl5. IS costs were taxed W
against Gale. Then the old complaint
against him was nolle pressed and he
was arrested under new one charging
him with being common seller, and
that case was continued for trial unit
next Tuesday.
Thomas Manning of the Elliot street
pool room was also arrested on a sim
liar complaint. The eases against the
other parties raided fortnight ago.
Patrick Manning, belong of the night
lunch room, and W. M. Adams were
continued until morrow, but it is un-
derstood that they have promised to
60 out of the business and that the
cases will be continued and finally
dropped If they keep out, as is also the
understanding about brisbane and
Wright. DeLong and some of the
Others claim that they have only sold
the Eddy hop beer and did not suppose
that was against the law.
1t is also understood that the analy-
sis of the beer seized from Estabrook
d. Co. showed 5 per cent. of alcohol I:
but If so it will be developed at the
trial if there is one Tuesday.
The usual Friday evening service
at the Congregational chapel will be
omitted this evening.
Christopher Clarke, who brought
Joe Jefferson to Northampton last
week, has been here to ascertain when
the new opera hall is to be ready.
When that time finally comes, we can
expect many entertainments OF similar
rank.
| The cold wave gives a savage fore
taste of winter. The northwest is in
the throes of blizzard, and Chicago
has experienced one Of the lighting
changes to which its temperature is
subject, the mercury having fallen 40
degrees in "a hours.
| Prof A. A. Rhulard, who is at
the American house for fortnight,
gave an exhibition yesterday after
noon at Fenton Bros. blacksmith
shop, before class OF five or SIX,
of his system of breaking and train
ing horses, the only system, as he
claims, that will make them control
able before steam and electric cars.
Among the horses he handled was one
belonging to Capt. J. q. Estey with
which he demonstrated the efficacy OF
his method by renderingjit so tractable
in very few moments that child
could have handled it. Prof. Rhulard
has had classes all round here, at
Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, and
| the last at Hinsdale and at every
place has given the highest satisfact-
ion. From Hinsdale he brings testi
monial signed by such men as &. j.
Amidon and Messrs. Worden, Sanders
and Estey, 16 of them in all, that
they consider his system the most
humane and practical I" in existence
and one that "cannot fail to have
good success. 1t is safe to prophecy
that Prof. Rhuland will have larg
class here.
The town agency was moved Mon
day to the quarters provided in the re-
modelled town hall and the selectmen
have also moved into their room there.
The agency room is 13x20 in size, not
over half what the old one was, so
that most of the goods will have to be
kept in the cellar, very likely eventu-
ating in call for an increased salary
some time: but these things we must
expect lots Of before we see the end OF
the operation. The selectmen's room
is considerably larger, 16x20, The
selectmen wanted the proportions re-
yersed and several feet taken from that
room and given to the agency but the
COMMITTEES wouldn't do it, on the
ground that the larger room was want
ed for police courts, and indeed it is
the only place in the whole building
that can be used for that purpose, ex-
cept the festival hall which is as
much too large as that is too small;
Such conveniences as Mr.. Newton's old
Office or the lower town hall offered for
that purpose will be entirely missing.
The only entrance to the agency is
from the south side of the building
through the alleyway between it and
Williston block, with all its mud, no
sidewalk being possible because of the
bulkhead entrance to the cellar. and
sibilities of the snow avalanches from
the roof that would bury deep. The
under foot difficulty can be remedied
by concreting, at cost of 500 or SO.
but the overhead difficulty and danger
are beyond remedy unless the lobby of
the opera house is thrown open, pas
sage effected by the door from there
into the little hall that leads to the
agency. But perhaps the cruelist
thing about it is the necessity which
the good probationary citizen will
be under every time he goes to get his
bottle filled. The preoccupied air with
which he used to be apparently going
to the postofiice won t answer any more.
Every time he goes to the agency he
will advertise the fact. provided he
don't get buried until spring under one
of those snow slides. In fact the
agency arrangement is much poorer
than it was before, like everything else
about the building, except the opera
house part and we expect that ,will be
about right, as it ought to be since
everything else has had to bend to 1t.
An experienced judge who looked it over
recently said it would be as well-de-
signed and we'll constructed an opera
house as tnere is OF us size anWynere
and that the stage would be better
than that at Burlington and equal to
any in New England outside of Boston.
While we are finding fault with every
thing else, and iustiafibly too, because
of the headlong and inconsiderrate
way we went into it, with insufficient
money, it is only fair to remember
that we are getting the best of what
we then voted that we wanted. 1t is
understood that the decorating of the