RAID OF FIFTEEN LADIES ON TWO BAR-KEEPERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 92, 17 April 1880, Page 1

RAID OF FIFTEEN LADIES ON TWO BAR- KEEPERS.

Every body.knows that the/ ladies of the:Uni.ted States.ar;e fulh'of.oresourep, which fact -was, perhaps,-never better txemplified than when* someHof them shut up the liquor. stores *in various . towns by the;ingenious iproceßß of assembling in the street and praying both the publican and his .^customers out of . allcountenance. Thie^ however, seems to. have been ,a( slow jandtuncertain, method, quite unworthy ofoftie ardour . of the ladies of Frederic^Wwh, Ohio. Little did the twor.barffc'eepera of Fredericktow^. imagine.! wlhat* an experience, was imminent- When on a reoent evening the belkof-the Baptist Church begun to ring at! an unwonted hour. But it was a eingalyiand l< fifteen women,, armed with hatchets^ reeponded quickly.'^ ; Prompti? aptibniu ensued. Moving in a body to, one of 7 the barrooms, they found - that) the; (prudent proprietor had locked his! door and fljd. His locks, bolts,, ahd.tba'raalso 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 establiahraentj the proprietor of which . remained to tr,eat with the enemy, and . managed to save his casks,'oh?condition that they >were Geat off><-by?<tiie next train.: His bottles, however, perished, ajd after seeing their; contents drain ■a e!y into the gutter,' the ladies warned v couple of suspected'druggisfii to look well to their ways, gave threa cheers /or themselves, aod -went home to put the babies to bed. (