This article from the Schoharie Union was printed on Thursday October 15, 1885. The Schoharie Union was printed from 1863 to around the turn of the 20th century by Henry E. Abell and Charles C. Kromer.
This article is about the consumption of alcohol in Washington, D.C. This was written during the second wave of temperance, and it is possible that it may have been written because of the temperance movement. It was during this second temperance movement that temperance groups constructed public drinking fountains. An increase in drinking alcohol had been attributed in part to the lack of clean drinking water, so the public drinking fountains were meant to provide clean water as an alternative to alcohol.