Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — A Simple Government. [ARTICLE]

A Simple Government.

The village of Chincbteague, on the Virginia island of that name, is without other government than that administered by a local justice of the peace and a county constable, although the place has more than 1,000 inhabitants. Good order prevails, however, in spite of the fact that a great many men are idle for many weeks in summer. A strictly enforced local option law might be esteemed in part the cause of the prevalent good order, but for the fact that the working of the law is considerably mitigated by a lively “jug trade” with the mainland.