Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-17
TEMPERANCE ScRsPs.

4 man named james b. Nlucauley of Rich
moud. Va. has made oath that he has not
been sober for twenty year.
According to authentic information, there
Is a license for the sale Of drink in Russia
for every 640 inhabitants in Siberia, one
for every 500 in Prussia. one for 300 in
England. one for lbs in Belgium. one for
% in Holland, one for 90 D.; and in France,
one for every -.
4 petition two hundred feet long. and
signed by several thousand citizens, is 10 b
presented to the Mayor Of Philadelphia,
praving for the enforcement Of the law
which requires the closing Of all saloons and
drinking places on Sunday.
Omaha, Neb., supports l32 saloons. which
pay 500 a year each to the school fund.
Peter Noll Of Cincinnati, on whose brow
rests the laurcls gained by manufacturing
the first glass of lager beer ever made in that
city, was waited upon by six blooming
damsels, clad in white and with blue saShes
recently, and presented with a gold headed
cane. in token of his early enterprise. in
genuity and discriminating swallow.
" Officer there is dead man lying in ny
wagon for Gods sake come with me
am afraid of him. said the rustic who left
his " GAL standing en- the sidewalk in front
of Carpenters hotel, while he hitchcd up
his horses The officer went to the wagon
and loand a dead man-dcad dunk
The New York National Temperance So
cietv is circulating for signatures petitions
to Congress to authorize the President to
appoint commission of inquiry into the
liquor question The commission is to act
without salary and the points for investica-
ton suggested are-what the effect Of pro
| hibiJory legislation has been during the pas
/ twenty years what have been the results Of
/ legalized liquor selling mentally, socially,
morally and financially and finally to re
/ commend such legislation a. may be neceSsa-
/ ry in view of the facts Another point of
/ inquiry might be added to these, how to en-
force strictly and impartial.y the laws which
uron Investigation are deemed desimble.
Hartford liquor dealers are issuing keys
for Sunday use to well known patrons, in
the clubhouse style. One establishment has
given ont several hundred keys.
4 Springfield hotel has changed its wine
to water list" which includes " well
water. hot water. cold water, Connecticut
river water. aqpeduct water, condensed
steam and melted ice They might have
added water melon and water on the brain.
The annual parade of the societies of the
Massachusetts Catholic Total Abstinence
Union, to be held in Boston on the 10th
inst. promises to be even larger than that
of last year iifty-four societies have already
reported, including several from the western
| part of the State
Although there may now be some differ
ence among good and intelligent men upon
| the liduor question as it Is presented in this
| State. we are confident that such difference
will speedily disappear if it can be shown
| that the liquor sold in New England is not Of
a superior quality to that dispensed among
the natives of the Sandwich Islands In
eighteen years of free rum-selling in the
/ Sandwich Islands, the natiye-kanaka-
population fell off $4,000 Is years more,
at the same death-rate. wouldn't leave
enough of them to properly officer the census
| bureau, and vet there are those who say
that the liquor sold to the Sandwich Island
ers was New England rum.
Suppose the Tichborne case should have
to be tried over again, by reason of the death
of Juror? One day last week one Of this
| unlortunale jury WHO Hau beeh out ior Il
lunch, was passing by big tree near the en-
trance of Middlesex Station House. 1t was
blowing stiff gale, and the juror had bare
ly cleared the spot when with crash down
came the tree with its heavy trunk and
ponderous branches. However, the peril to
the integrity of the panel is not yet over, for
some member of it may yet die of old age be-
fore the proceedings are concluded. As for
the deaths by softening Of the brain, all the
iurymen are in equal danger of it.