Brookville American, June 25, 1858
Daring Outrage
Some miscreant burglariously entered the Hall of the Sons Temperance in Blooming Grove last Friday night and deposited therein a bottle of whiskey and filled the tumblers on the stations with the same.
It was doubtless done for the purpose of diverting suspicion from a member of the order whose trial was pending under charges of converting the ante-room into a tippling shop in which he kept liquors stored, under lock and key, for the accommodation of himself and friends.
Said charges were proven to be true, we are sorry to say, afterward upon trial.
The individual who committed the burglary is marked and will doubtless give employment for our prosecuting attorney.
A grand celebration of the events of American independence will come off at the junction of Eli's Creek with the east fork of the Whitewater -- midway between Fairfield and Dunlapsville -- on Saturday, the 3rd of July next.
The people of Union, Franklin and Fayette counties have determined to make a grand rally and celebrate the glorious Fourth in an old fashioned patriotic way, with music and banners and joyful demonstrations. All that can are requested to bring their baskets well supplied that there will be a bountiful repast for all present.
Committees have been appointed to arrange and carry out the celebration corresponding with the greatness and gloriousness of the occasion. Among them is an efficient vigilante committee, and no liquor will be permitted on the ground.
Note: Eli's Creek was named for Eli Pigman, whose father Adam Pigman owned the land where the grand fiesta was held.
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