The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-10

had been cutting them up, says Mr..
Moring, and he counted on a bargain
in that quarter. He was not mistaken.
The revenue man had a still that he
would sell cheap-for twenty dollars
Mr. Moring bought the still, moved II
to Cedar Fork and started operations
For six years it fiourished and might
have been thriving yet had not two
of the interested parties. fallen out.
Their ordinations and recriminatlons
caused trouble The matter rang 10
the four corners of the earth, the Off
GERS came and now the Jail yawns.
The Roman Republic lasted some
six hundred. the Cedar Fork com
munity" some six years. Disaster fol-
lows confidence!
Said one witness named Parker: l
didn't have nothing to do with it, l IL
an elder in the church.
"a man came to me and he says.
DO YOU want some whiskey, and i
says, L amt got no money. Ihen ne
saws. Have you got any meal? ana l
saws. Yes Then he says, You put
two bushels of meal in the shed ana
look there in the morning
What did l find in the shed? Two
gallons of corn"
II was i'm evidence that two bushels
of meal made three and half gallons
of whiskey. Less expenses, there was
a fair margin on this rate for the
stockholders.
Also it appeared that after business
had gotten a little dull, the still, which
had formerly been stationary. became
a movable neighborhood convenience.
IT went around the country like q
threshing machine, making short
stops turning meal into corn" at q
toll, and moving on to the next stop,
II was i'm evidence that o none occasion
its stand was at Sunday school.
In spite of all this there was surprise
when the sentences were announced
and Indignation at the result. The par
ties with the exception of the two ne
g-roes employed at the still as laborers
looked to be prosperous and self-re-
specting citizens. Their attitude was
that of men engaged I'm working out
an economical reform, who were gross
ly interfered with by too paterna
government.
"God gracious" said one witness
there are lots more stockholders thar
us
In passing sentence Judge Purnel
took occasion to score the waits law
saving that the facts disclosed the ne
cessitv of a centralized form of govern
ment that the Watts law did not oper-
ate. it was not popular and because Il
had to be enforced by elective officers
that. by virtue of the fact that they
were elective, the officers We're afralt
or 10th to perform their duties.
Other Cases and Their Results.
Other cases of less interest trieC
during the day were as follows:
United States Circuit and Dlstrlc
court met at o'clock a. m. with Hon
| orable Thos. r. Purnen. judge pre-
| siding. when the following cases were
| disposed Of
United States VS.. Geo. McDermid
/ Moore county, retailing; case CON
/ tinued to December term.
! United States VS.. Marshall HoWell
| Johnston county; sci ia dismissed.
/ United States VS.. Alonzo Cox, wake
/ county, retailing, pleads guilty; Judg
ment suspended upon payment o
/ costs.
United States VS.. Alfred Warren
/ Wake county, Illicit distilling; pleads
guilty: judgment 80 days and pay
/ fine OF 500 and costs.
United States VS.. Bud Johnson
/ Johnston county, pleaded guilty o
working at an Illicit distillery; Judg
ment suspended upon payment of cost
/ and fine of 500.
United States VS.. H. G. Moore, Har
nett county, retailing; pleaded guilty