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A Suprise.On the 26th day of May was a right day, also the birthday of Mary Hunger, commonly known as Aunt Polly, to all in surrounding neighborhood. At aboiit 10 o’clock inthe morning the near relatives and neighbors began to .come in, each bringing with them a well filled basket or bucket. At 12 a table had been prepared filled to its utmost capacity with good things; and about sixty persons partook of the same with a large amount of fragments left which was by an arrangement sent to those who Could not be present on account of sickness. The subject of this sketch was born in Washington county, Ind., on the 26th day of May, 1825, being 59 years old, her maiden name was Hopple. She is the widow of William H auger, deceased; to them have been born ten children of whom six still survive and eleven grand children. She is a lady of more than • ordinary ability as is ’known by all of her acquaintances. She could he seen passing through the crowded house as spry as those ri much her advantage in age with her white locks and broad smile on her countenance which showed her love and affection for those in her presence. It was a day to be long remembered by most of those present as all could see that Aunt Polly very much enjoyed the occasion. One Present.Curry Township, May 28, 1884.Horrible Recital from Wisconsin.Milwaukee, May 25.—There i great excitement at Oak Creek over the action of the relatives of Horace Baldwin in sawing his legs when he died last, week to make them fit the coffin. Baldwin was six feet seven inches tall, and when the day of tin-funeral came it was found that the body was too long for the coffin, and a nephew severed the feei from the body with a common saw. While at work he thotfghi Baldwin moved,and he fell in a dead faint, wh‘*n another relative finished cutting off the limbs. At one time, soon after the funeral, it was though* that the nephew would be tnobbe by the'neighbors, but the crowd was ted by the supervisors.bought their way to power in important contests. We have had, for a wonder, prohibition passed under party government several times. In some States that have no very great cities it has been kept on the statute-book, but it has been erased in most States where great cities exist. The whisky-rings wished to have it erased, and were able to buy their way to victory. Many a state politician, many a city government, is a mere tool of the whisky rings. That is a commonplace fact of polities in our yet young municipalities. Do you believe that as the cities increase iu size and party government has it in more aud more of greeed and trickery, it will be.safe to leave to the Legislatures the control of the liquor traffic? Are we to give discretionary power to Legislatures ill States whose laws are notoriously evaded or defied by the whisky-rings iu their great cities, aud whose Legislatures those cities largely control?“3. Constitutional prohibition presents the question of temperance legislation, untrammeled by any other issue.“4. It makes repeal as difficult as adoption, and so protects the expressed will of the people. As it can be passed only by the people, it can be repealed only by the people at large. Both adoption and repeal are necessarily under forms that prevent hasty action.“5 It necessitates legislation and secures a fair trial of tiie law before it is repealed, and gives agitation the fruits of its victory.“6 It closes one of the worst avenue of political corruption, for a legislature under constitutional prohi-tioD can vote only one way.“7 It undermines the distilery interest, as a steady execution of statutory prohibition has done in Maine, aud so vastly weakens the financial power of the whisky-rings.“8. The power of the whisky-rings must be overthrown, or republican government will be a farce m great cities.“We have had centuries of license and uner it the drunkenness of the law has grown up. High license will not make the rich dealers keep 'he unlicensed poor- ones in order; for the rich will sell to the drunkard ard the minor, and so be open so retaliation if they prosecute the poor dealers for violating the law.”Anin purls o ihe sea that do by t ho . houl ofdepth c neurly
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Sullivan Democrat
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Fri, May 30, 1884
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