The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 21, 1884, Page 2

OF ni hog shy yea De tion can mov the Mr, man me - Commissioner is Al EMPERAN cE ‘SWINDLE. How the Maine State Liquor Agents Find a Way to Pocket Dollars. Special dispatch to the Banoor, Me., } or agent of ths > Mr. Wil hrewd « one, 1 Care- A Mr. just is- sued two documents which are | ble to make a row. In one, which | is dated May. 5, he says: ‘*W hen | the clock strikes 6 to-night my au- | thority as agent of the city of Bangor to sell intoxicating liquors for med inal and mechanical purposes expires by limitation, as I interpret the la It Lsellafter to day(unless r ed, of which I apprehend 1 diate danger), I become liable as a | common seller under the law.’’ But | Mr. King says he tound on investiga- | pc > mme- | tion his predecessor in the city agen- not accredited cy was Bangor’s agent tor the year preceeding He found after his election and after his predecessor’s term of office had ex- pired, a certificate antedated one year and signed by Lysander Strick- tand, Charles Marston, Liewellyn J. Morse and Moses G. Rice, purport- ing to be municipal officers ot the city ot Bangor was given him. ~~ He tound that the state agent, Mr. Clay- | ton, in addition to beng a common seller of intoxicating hquors and be- ing guilty of violations of the law, was and is now charging the city of Bangor at least five times the profit allowed by law, and that on the ar- ticle of whiskey alone, the city has paid him at least $700 per yeat more than the identical brands and age could be bought for in open pote On brandies the oyer-charge has beeneven more gross. He found also that the measures were all too smali. This, however, may have been so intended from the principles of philanthrophy toward the pur- chaser. Perhaps it was, Mr. King. } This 1s a curious development of says whac partisans here will do for their That it has been Mr. King reports there is nobody to King says: ‘It haps be well enough for me to. state that the larger part of the sale of liquors trom this agency have of the thus accounting triends. done as doubt. may per- | been to inhabitants surrounding towns, for the fact that prohibition prohibits in small towns, as put forth by advocates eb} the law. It does seem te have ef- | fect when they can procure theirrum This is the first of our new rum history. The ond is introduced by Agent King’s letter to the Governor and executive council, in statutes make it the duty of the gov— ernor, with the advice of his council, to appoint a commis sioner to of- ficers of towns, with pure intoxica-| i ting liquors to be kept and sold for | He parties { If he! the ! abroad.”* which he says: and consent furnish municipal certain specified purposes. has | no right to sell to any other or for any other does so his commission governor and counc:! furnishes no protection. Under the m case he makes purposes. from him new law | sales to other par— j ties, he is equally amendable with any other person who may keep or | sell intoxicating Moral'y he stands worse than an open viola liquors. and ter of the law, for the governor council have reposed confidence ir him, and he has not oaly the law but has betrayed dence. : missioner, in whom violated | that confi- Now how s'! our trust ands this and confidence has been placed Mr. King goes on to show that many men, saloon keepers among them, | have bought intoxicating liquors of the state commissioner for his vrola- | tion of the law. Tudge Brett ot the | police court in this city refused to prosecute the state commissioner ror com- | of caste vessels. | fore he had | due him under the agreement. It is not dealing whiskies to retain it. who purchase with those manue- tor medicinal, mechanical or them to pay from 39 ¢t So per cen the same grades can be an by a competent competent and does state liqu r comm ; and Mr. King 1s. satisfied ng on other kinds of specified law, and is artics municipal Prob- knowl- nission. vful co ody who has any abl edge of the subject will read surprise. these The legalized rum-sbops are well patron- ized and very profitable. That they cheat their customeas and those who idea to statements without authorized them is no new anybody. But here we have a official explicitly declaring that state officials, the rum selling business, are cheating. Per- haps, Mr. King, who is an astute politician, has not yet told all he knows. city also engaged in Fiippant Paragraphs. John Bright is very tond of poetry. He should visit the United States, then. along in April and May. An Fnglish journal says no poet has yet worn the Garter. The sweet singer of Michigan demolishes this assertion by declaring that she wears two. Philadelphia poets write verses to women gt years old.—fLouisville Courier-Journal. The women by some of the English poets are much older than that. verses to An exchange is anxious to know whether more women write poetry than spank the United States. So many of ’em both that it would bé hard to tell. babies in do A poet says: ‘‘Lam not dead.’’ But we can't always tell. Poets ex- it poetic believe aggerate so wildly, and call license, that it is best not to the statement quoted until it is cor- roborated by some reliable person. An Eastern poet has forth a wad of St. Vitus titled **Why Do I live?’ launched dance en- Editors all over the country have given up the conundrum, and the author himself confesses that he has no satisfactory answer for i 2 opi * taveaeed = : need Prickly Ash Bitters . for 2 years for ailments of the « vs. ver aod bowels, and find there t-no reinsiy equal to it.” or. Base, S of sie ihe Marriage Brokerage in Indis. From the Pal! Mall Gazette April 18. A curious phase of the system of light - Bombay high The detendant the el- dest of three brothers, whose mother caste in India was brought to in a recent suit infthe court. was out of the Lohana The plaintiff, who was manager of the whole caste, tamily sons were to had been put caste for misconduct. made an agreement with the under which the three be readmitted intu the caste, and married to girls ot the caste, on their giving a teastand making a present The plaintiff, be- pertormed agree- ment, lost his position as the repre- the | sentative of the caste, before he had and his carry it pertormed the agreement, successor refused to out, The plaintiff now sought to recover 5,200 rupees which he alleged was Mr. Justice Scott held that the plaintiff’s successor alone could express the wishes of the caste, and he thought the suit was not maintainable on that ground, as well as on the ground ; that the contract was immoral and contrary to public policy, evenin the his violation of law because “the ma- Present state of matrimonial rela- jor was a good fellow. Then the tons in India. To marriage bro- agent goes into a discussion ot the | kers, his lordship remarked. a legal figures and shows that the Maine has been buying whiskeys at Prices which indicate that ether the State of charging a larger percentage than the law allows orthathe is paying higher Prices than others buy for, and for that rea $on alcne is incompetent for the po- sition he helds. much e t st and ought not longer | ¢ status should not be enable them tracts such a decision futher degrade the position of wo- a decree given such as to enforce law. their con- by The tendency of would be to. still men and to perpétuate the mequal:- y of their relations. In his opinion he contract was void, and he gave for the defendant with osts, much } ae officers more n overt cw t to get back to the ¢ { one. | e Caterer says that late Suppers | }are not bad :f properly eaten. OF] it The gor suppers are They are too good, in fact. It’s dyspepsia that’s bad. | 1 *\.Q female horse thief’? has been | arrested in Southern [i That's singular. We never thought a horse thief was particular about the gender | of the animals he stole. Miss Mary Wurm has won the highest prize to} English students, the Men- | delssohn scholarship. She must be | a regular music bookworm. i this year attamable musical In some parts of Sweden it 1s con- j sidered a crime to dance Saturday | If the people there dance as | night. | poorly as some Americans do, it 1s ja crime for them to dance at any { time. “What did Ham-let?’’ asks the Hoosier. Well, Anna Dickinson did it about as wretchedly as any— body that ever tried it. If that isn’t the correct answer you may keep the chromo. 4 { arrived in first distinguished they liked this country, but about the two white elephants. The Siamese embassy New York last Sunday and the question put to the not ‘how ambassadors was Why, it was called the stirrup cup, Ivanhoe, a tendency to stir up the whole crowd to sing- You bet it was rightly called the stirrup cup. Prohbi- tion Home Protection party has held because it had ing and having one more The Pennsylvania state its convention. Its name there packed the things to suit itself by an overwhelm- got early. hall, and run ing majority over all. “How do you treat typhoid fe ver?’’ is the title of aa article in a medical journal. With contempt, ' man, w.th contempt and coldness, | we have notoing to do with at. At} least that is our theory. Benjamin Wallace, the wealthy | New York soap manufacturer who | disappeared recently under myste- tious circumstances, has returned {home. It snouldn’t be thought sin- | gular tor a soap man to go off sud- | din’. Mr. Talmage deciares from his pulpit that he doesn’t believe in ghosts, and yet he affirms that Til- den should be nominated for presi- | dent. Come, come. doctor, your theology and your politics don’t harmonize. The Oil C dazzeled by the reports of the splendor and style which the emperor of Japan i that he keeps a house-keeper and two girls. Ay, that he has pie every day. The United service appears to be on pacificterms y Blizzard, puts on, is led to lieve man, and we heard States diplomatic | now with every government except its own. Oh, well, a United States consul has jto do sowethig to kill time. if its onlv to kick himself with | a Patagonia. \ east | preached last Sunday on ‘the moral | Several mimsters down of the walking match." As it was | a specetal of needless human and | suffering of a few gamblers, we| 2 haven’t been able to see much | ‘moral’ init. 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TEIR CULTIVATORS The new Weir all Iron and steel combined cul- tivators, the new Pekin, all iron and steel com- bined cultivators, Butord Rock Island, Weir, Furst & Bradly, Canton, Chpder & Morrison Plows. Headquters tor BARBED WIR The Bain Farm wagon, the Racine Spring Wagon, the Baker Grain Drill, Harrows of all kinds and a tull line of TOP BUGGIES, and Iron, Steel Nails, and wagon wood work, the only exclusive line of Shelf Hardware in the city. R. R. DEACO NEW ELHV ATOR. WE ARE IN THE GRAIN) MARKET Alive and kicking. Best facilitie for handling Corn in Bates County. DUMPS We carry our corn up by machinery, d No danger to team or wag Location, North Mai W. J. CIGARS, Public Sauare, Butler, easy and safe, only 5 teet high. empty aload of corn in two minutes. ; Highest market price cash up no bling, Hicnest weights. Tr 'once. Wehave regenerated the Gr. vin Market of Butler, and have } } worth thousands of dollars to the farmerso! Bates county. In addition sof Grain LEFKER & CHILDS & Uf BUCKEYE LINDERS. corn we handle ail other k BENNET!, WH REEVES & C0., Columbus, Ind. | WARDWARE. TABLE i | GROCERIES. } i AND MO! I NAILS. WiDging en STRAW \consy”™ IRON, STALKER succes For 1884. IN STEEL. WIND Always in the Lead! The self-swi device saves leveling Stacker, z saves workin, tes saves one man more than IRON, any other Stacker. Man on the stack pulls cord ‘hich r = nee arty Or aloe mame ss pushed woop The new botsting a places all straw and chaff in center of stack from start to finish, Ne : other can do this. AND The new stacker-head Pry eceers straw and chaff falling through lower It iting eta tl to start pears J, as stakes, derricks or props to fix or take 0! loads down low on wagon; mo top-heavy trap upsetting and shaking to pieces. It is the most PUM perfect and handy quachine built, . Send for Catalogue No 3, or call on Benastt, Wheeler & Go., Butler, J NELW a0 WrE1.ER / WAGON WOODWORK. HAISH & COs, BARB WIRE, L take pleasure in annou the poblic that L have | Butier to make it my future home and have the fargest and best as- b sorted stock Of cloek=, watches and } acles ever srougit will sell had many e many jewelry and speet to this market. whi eap foreasn. avi ars experienc: in ft ture of watches and ¢! in Eu- rope, lam now prepa te repair watches and clocks. no matter tow complicated nor how baiiy th have been abused. By ? 1 htem to me, you can have then p uitgood running order sud gitar: tee satistactio FRANZ BERSHARDT Butler, Mo