The Athens Post

According to the New York papers the Liquor Law, which went into legal effect on the 4th of July, had but little practical attention paid to it. Liquor was bought and drank as usual. The Herald of Saturday says:

The Maine Liquor law does not appear to have effected much towards suppressing the traffic in intoxicating drinks in this city. The public houses carry on their business as quietly and as profitably as ever, and no one seems disposed to interfere with them. Thus far not a single complaint, we believe, has been entered before any of the police magistrates for violation of the statute, nor has any seizure of liquor taken place. The Carson Leagues have either abandoned the field or are holding back for a grand coup d'etat upon some of the top-sawyers of the liquor interest. There is one case of violation of the law for selling liquor on the Fourth of July pending in the Marine Court, but the Judges and the lawyers find great difficulty in arriving at a determination as to the powers and requirements of the various judicial functionaries under the act, and it is extremely doubtful whether a decision upon these important points will be settled upon before the meeting of the Legislature, when it is expected-the law will be repealed. Our police reports detail about the usual number of cases of arrests for drunkenness, which is suggestive at once of an active trade in imported liquors, the vigilance of the police, and the utter failure of the excise law to suppress the vice of immoderate drinking.