THE STORY TOLD | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 28, 1881

THE STORY TOLD.

The Russian River Flag uses its irony to good purpose in the following item:—

We fear that the Petaluma Courier is incorrigible. That paper rejoices in the recent destruction at sea of 1,000 barrels of whisky. Bless poor Shattuck's soul, he could not have been himself when he shouted jubilate over that event. Think what that thousand barrels might have effected! There could not have been less than twenty drunks in each barrel, or a grand total of 20,000 drunks, all lost to a Christian community. In this number of drunks were certainly 5,000 fights, including five murders, 1,000 black eyes, as many torn coats and abraded trousers; all this would make work for lawyers, jailors, doctors, and tailors, thus making things lively for several useful classes of our people. It is a severe blow to the prosperity of San Francisco generally, and to prison-keepers in particular; still some persons rejoice in this calamity.