Worcester Daily Spy

Putting Down Liquor under the Nuisance Act.

The proprietor of one of the most popular bar-rooms in this city, was considerably astonished yesterday by a customer, who walked into the place, took a stiff horn of brandy, and then with the utmost nonchalance smashed the tumbler from which he had drank upon the counter. He was walking out in the coolest manner possible, when the proprietor asked him whether he intended to pay for what he had drank and what he had smashed. The man replied contemptuously that he intended nothing of the kind, but would throw himself upon his legal rights as illustrated in Judge Shaw's exposition of the nuisance act! The knight of the toddy stick was greatly enraged, and hinted something about exercising his right to kick the brandy smasher out doors, whereupon that individual left the premises without further argument.—Boston Herald.