The Portland Gazette

Intemperance. -The Grand Jury of Philadelphia County have presented the "large number of Tippling Houses within the county, as a great and growing nuisance, which demands the especial and active exertions of the citizens and officers of justice to diminish and suppress." To this cause they principally ascribe the very abundant use of spirituous liquors, producing drunkenness, assaults and batteries, violations of social obligations, breaches of every domestic tie, pauperism, and their accompanying miseries and vices.