Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — SUNDAY LAW IN LOUISIANA. [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY LAW IN LOUISIANA.

It Passes Both Branches of the Legislature —Saloon Keepers Will Fight It. [New Orleans special.] The State Senate, by a vote of 25 to 6, passed the Sunday law’ as it came from the Houuse, with a few minor amendments. The law prohibits the opening on Sunday of any place of business whatever, except newspaper and printing offices, book stores, drug stores, apothecary-shops, undertakershops, public and private market?, bakeries, livery stables .railroads, whether -steam or horse, hotels, dairies, boarding-houses, steamboats and other vessels, warehouses for receiving and forwarding freights, restaurants, telegraph offices, and theaters, or any place of amusement, providing nd intoxicating liquors are sold on the premises. The bill will go back to the House, where it will probably meet with little opposition. The law will be vigorously contested before the courts by saloon-keepers of this city and others. “ A JVDGE in lowa has entered a decision that a husband is bound to tell his wife where he spends his evenings when he is away from home. This is all right, but it will have the effect of compelling the recording angel to work over him, and yet an Open confession is good for the soul. A Texas farmer says that three good bull dogs roaming the yard at night will do more to keep a man honest than all the talking in the world. The funniest thing isn’t a frog. The man who said it was never had seen a fat woman ’ try to run. ‘ “