RAID OF FIFTEEN LADIES ON TWO BAR-KEEPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 29 May 1880, Page 2

RAID OF FIFTEEN LADIES ON TWO BAR-KEEPERS.

Kverbody knows t-liat (he ladies of the United States are full of resource, which fact was, perhaps, never better exemplified than when some of them shut up the liquor stores in various towns bv the ingenious process of assembling iii the street, and praying both the pnhVcaii and his customers cut of all countenance. J his, however, seems to have boon a slow and uncertain method, quite unworthy of the ardour „f ||, o | a ,lics „f l'redericklowu, Ohio. Little did the bar-keepers of l-Vderiektown imagine what au experience was imminent when on a recent evening tho hell of the Baptist Church began to ring at an unwonted hour. Hut it was a signal, and "fifteen women, armed with hatc?icts,' responded quickly." Prompt action ensued. Moving in a body t„ „, le 0 f ( |,,. bar-rooms, tlmy found that the prudent proprietor laid locked his door and tied. HIH locks, holts, and bars also Hew at the instigation of the lutcltetn, and in a trice "very cask was staved, and every bottle broken. The conquering hand then moved upon thootlierestidilwliinont, the propriotor if which remained to treat with the niumv. mil managed to save lit* panic*, on oowii. iou that th.-y w.,.. tt.ni oil' by the next mm. Ills utile... however,' perished, ind after kcoiiijj iheir contents drain • \y j '■ Ihi giilior, the Indies warned I u:<peuted druggiWH t , look J-tfll to (heir way,., gave lluee cheer, for hemselviw, and went homa to put the mhion to led.