The Liquor Law.
In Edvrards''- 2 County, ailinois, ther^e has been no place for eighteen years WKere aJniah ; could .buy intoxicating liquor as a beTerage, The terms of TTourTintDtt county are from two or three days' length . The imprisonments are from btie or'^wo persons ma. period of five\ or six years. Only one person has gone to the State prison from that country>and he went outsidethe county *nd got^drnnk, went home and killed his%ife. But little litigation is hadjbefore/ the( Justices of the Peace. Tne peopteare not m debt. In /May/ 1889, therexwere but two.mortgages on record; in t ; the ,cp,unty. The pn^r expenses m the county are bat 500 pvdollu* » m a neighbouring "oran^ndttatf as 'large; wher£ they Bell liquor, they are 6000 doHar^ a year. The tax-ss assesieAa.ndjtajd.are S3 per cent. lesß thjan ,an^pt^«r courity .::.r.' . t
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 141, 22 May 1883, Page 3
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139The Liguor Law. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 141, 22 May 1883, Page 3
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