RAID OF FIFTEEN LADIES ON TWO BAR KEEPERS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1092, 31 March 1880, Page 4

RAID OF FIFTEEN LADIES ON TWO BAR KEEPERS.

Everybody knows that the ladies of the United States are full of resource, which fact was, perhaps, never better exemplified than when some of them shut up the liquors in various towns by the ingenious process of assembling in the street, and praying both the publican and his customers out of all countenance. This, however, seems to have been a slow and uncertain method, quite unworthy of the * ardor of the ladies of Fredericktown, Ohio. Little did the two bar-keepers, of Fredericktown imagine what ah experience was imminent when on a recent evening the bell of the Baptist Church began to ring at an unwonted hour. But it was a signal, and “ fifteen women, armed with hatchets, responded quickly.” Prompt action ensued.' Moving in a body to one of the bar-rooms, they found that the prudent proprietor had looked his door and fled; His locks, bolts, and bars also flew, at the* .instigation of the hatchets, and in a trice every cask was staved, and every bottle broken. The conquering band then moved upon the other establishment, the proprietor of which remained to treat with the enemy, and managed to save his casks, on condition that they were sent off by the next train. "His bottles, however, perished, and after seeing their contents drain safely into the gutter, the ladies warned a couple of suspected druggists to look ' well to their ways, gave three cheers for themselves,- and went home to put the babies to bed. ' .