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Show FINED AGAIN. The lightning strikers are abroad, and lightning has struck the same stump again. Last Thursday Mr. John Reed who was recently fined $90 for selling liquor, was up again on the same charge. He plead guilty and was fined $57.00 again. The law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors should be rigidly enforced, and those violating it should be made to suffer its extreme penalty. Our city officers will do well to keep the liquor traffic under control, for in some cities it is an evil that is very difficult to restrain, and if it once gets fairly started here the city authorities will experience the same difficulties that our neighbors have encountered. The witness on whose evidence Reed was convicted both times is a man from Richmond. A few days before Reed's first trial the Richmond man bought a pint of whisky off him, and within two or three hours took three small drinks of it, and treated two or three other persons. Soon after he had taken the last dose, he was seized with a terrible cramping of the stomach, and was met by Marshal Crockett, who at once perceived that something was wrong with the man. He acted very strangely, seeming delirious, but did not act like he was drunk. The Marshal took charge of him, and subsequently ascertained from him where bought the vile stuff he had been drinking. On the man's person was found a bottle containing about half a pint. This the Marshal emptied on the ground. It would have been a good thing if he had kept it and had it analyzed. Reed is reported to be a somewhat expert chemist, and it would seem likely from the Richmond's man experience that he made whisky without the aid of grain or still. There is no knowing what infamous decoctions he is disposing of in his illicit trade. We hope that legal lightening will continue to strike such stumps till they are "broke up" in this town. |