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FHOM C ANN ELTONop nuroasi—dibtdrdkbs op thePEACE* AND SABBATK-BR1AKIR8CtJRSE OF A OROQOEKY — AN APPEAL,CaoneUoQ is a flourishing village onthe Kaoawba river, twenty-seven miles from Charleston and fiovonty-threo miles from Lewieburg. It bos a meeting house, a poetofBcc, four grocery stores, and ORO drug stove, and should have t«;o school houses, but is without tbero, for reasons unknown to the writer or any one in town. The county and town are responsible for this deficiency. The vil-Inga and vicinity contain more than one thousand inhabitants, of which ono hundred and fifty arc children, growing up in ignorance nod vice. The influence of stated preachingnnd sabbath schools do much good;, but what a curse to a town is a groggery, and a greater curse to a community are the venders in and tho frequenters! of thatgraggery !Moored on the river bonk, iu tho heart of tho town, at a piece of land owned by Aaron Stockton, is a wharT-boat owned by Hobcrt F. Reynolds, of Kanawha. This contains, or rather if, the groggcry to which reference is made. Every Sunday the citizens have to wit-•ness more or less of drunkenness and rioting from this boat. Last Saturday evening and Sunday, June T71b, we would especially place on record. The trouble bogao by a stabbing a flair, in which one Jake Wilkcrson, being drunk, stabbed one Robert Stockton, who pro-iu ; which affray ended in theformer being stoned nearly to death bytho looters-ou. This occurred near the drug store. Saturday night tho town was disturbed with shouts and language bo indecent and vile, mingled with oaths so profane that even proihno men were alarmed. During Sunday there werethree or four outbreaks, proceeding from the boat. The town was disturbed, and people returning from meeting were annoyed by the firing of pistols and shouts of men half-clothed, running about the town, Tho principal disturber* were William Stockton and Robert t'arlcy. There is no etcuso for fhnn ; but the greater sin lies at tho door of the vendors of tho health- and soul • destroyingiquor.Isn’t it tltno the Supervisors of tho county took action in the matter oT liquor-selling ? Isn't it lime the magistrates and constables, elected in May, were qualified, in order to enter upon their duties'/ Immediate action is necessary. If tho matter is passed by in silence, enterprise will be dwarfed, hopes of communities and families will he blighted, poor-houses and towns will be full of paupers, and fathers and sons will go to drunkards' graves.Let all law-abiding and temperance-loving citizens be thoughtful on this subject, and especially those iu authority. In behalf of education and religion ; in behalf of those too wenk to resist temptation ; in behalf of widows sorrowing for wayward eons; in bohaIT of wives and mothers; in behalf of every community, every good and noble enterprise, nnd every effort towards developing the resources and wealth of the county and State, we make this appeal, nnd protest against the pale of intoxicating liquors.VOX POHIM.
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Charleston West Virginia Journal
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Wed, Jun 27, 1866
Page 6
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