Temperance Cause
Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 April 1869, page 7
ALEXANDRIA
Another large and enthusiastic temperance meeting was held at the
Court house in Alexandria on Wednesday night. Able and eloquent addresses were
delivered by T M Hill and R W Nelson, Esqs. The house was crowded to escess.
About one hundred persons have already signed the pledge.
During the meeting some of our fellow citizens of the Tectonic persuasion together with some other evil disposed persons, devout worshipers at the shrine of Bacchus, made an effort to break up the meeting , but the attempt was unsuccessful and the result proved rather disastrous to some of the party and again demonstrated to a moral certainty the fact that "the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft aglee."
After the adjournment some indignities were offered to one or two elderly gentlemen of the neighborhood returning from the meeting and the same being observed by some of the the temperance boys, they were disposed to expostulate with the rioters, but it was a no go.
The result was that that champion light weight of the anti-temperance movement made a dash at one of the "Teetotalers" whereupon, in an incredible short space of time, the said light weight measured his full length upon the bosom of his mother earth, considerable punished. After some light skirmishing, the enemy quietly withdrew. The said champion is now under surgical treatment, but after some time past, he may be in the ring again. But as yet the Temperance Cause continues triumphant in ALEXANDRIA.