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Show I i I Eight Wet Cities. $ f From the following eight "wet" I 'cities Alexandria Manchester, Now-I Now-I j rt News, Norfolk Petersburg. Ports-i;lliouth, Ports-i;lliouth, RIohmond sand Roanoke the i'oKBr a co,lrL cxpdnsea wero ?122,-IM;5Bo6 ?122,-IM;5Bo6 for tho year eVirtlnS September , mg 1st, 1809. During thaV. year the com-' II m mltments to the penltentlarj from these eight cities wore 2C9 The above eight whisky cities, with less than one-seventh of the population popula-tion of the stato, sent over one-third of all state prisoners to the penitentiary peniten-tiary and Incurred one-third of all the state's criminal court expenses. And yet, some people are afraid it will ruin a city to wipe out the saloon, the breeder of crime and the rendezvous of criminals! |