Watchman and Reflector, Boston, Thursday, October 18, 1870

Boston, MA: Watchman and Reflector, 1870. 42 x 64 cm. Boston Protestant newspaper. Mr. Beecher on spitting. Very descriptive article describes habit of ""gents"" to spit everywhere, as they chew tobacco and as they smoke. Siege of Paris, discussion of present state of events in France, with 800,000 or more German soldiers on French soil. Commentary on ""drunkardness"" in England. G.B.S. writes from Liverpool about ""men and women reeling under the effects of excessive drinking, their faces inhuman in expression. Some were too drunk for words. Some were fairly frothing at the mouth.....it is a rare thing (in America) to see women in this condition.... but here in England you are constantly meeting women who carry in their faces the marks of this fearful degradation, and you frequently see women who are disgustingly drunk."" Situation in Alabama where there is so much lawlessness that President Grant has felt it to be his duty to convert her into a special military district. Newspaper, uncut, slight tears in folds, good. . Catalogs: Newspapers.