Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-06

Gov Dinglcv Of Maine. IN his inaugural
/ expresses the conviction that the prohlhltory
law has accompli she'd great good it has not
only diminished liquor selling and drinking,
hut it has wrought 4 change in public sen
timcnt, more especially in rural districts.
The large Villages and the cities are an eN-
ception to this state of things, but even in
these places prohibition has been enforced
with more or less thoroughne .. and with
marked beneficial results.
There Is rather remarkable bill before
the New York legislature for securing pure
liauor- to consumers in the city of New
York 1t prohibits under severe penalty,
the conterieiting Of any liquor, wine or beer;
and the seller Of any such. counterfeit shall he
held to possess guilty knowledge thereof
1t provides for board Of liquor examiners,
consisting of twenty-seycn chemists with
tweutv-lour assistants, who shall be assign
ed to duty in various wards, and who, after
preparing a schedule of the exact compost
ton of all pure liquors, shall be empowered
to compel all dealers to conform TO the
standard, unde' penalty of fine, mprison-
ment seizure Of Liquor and revocation OF IL
cen>e The xaminers may enter any liquor
shop at any time. and begin the work Of IN
~pection and analysis and they shall lnyeS-
! tigate any liquor or liquor shop upon beng
asked to do 50 by three complainantS
Charles b. is boy of fifteen. living in
western town. lie made his first journey TO
| New York. and Vi tied his relatives. many
of whom he had never seen. In the house
of one of his uncle, he sat at a Sunday din
ner where wine was drank by all-the pa
rents. children and visitors When it was
-..lt 81. 10 Il s.Np | thank
you.'' WHAT" said his uncle, "won't you
drink wine with your cousin Nellie, who *
- soon to leave Us for home Of her own.
''No. sir. said Charles, I'm temperance
boy" That was true bravery Charles was
among those he had been accustomed to res
pect. and the temptation would have been
very great to many boys. His mother heard
it and said. Charlie. l am proud of you"
( Which of You would have done a. Charlie
did Nou must learn to say no to everything
that would lead You into harm. Better to
say no to those who ask you 10 drink even
wine, for drinking wine gives 4 taste Tor
stronger drink, and then boy runs rapidly
to ruin.
Cleveland has one bar-room for every l3l
inhabitants. They have no more respect for
{ Il Son of Temperance in that town than other
Neal Dow is telling the Scotch people in
his lectures that their Presbyterian church
Is the greatest bulwark of drunkenness in the
! country.
IN Oxford correspondent Of the Utica
| Hcrad says that Miss Mulligan, young
lady from Buffalo. at present visiting friends
in oxford, offers the Sappho boys "a hose
company a fine silk banner, on condition
! they obstain from the use of intoxicating Ii
| quors when together as Il company or in
each others society" \ vote of the com
pany is to be taken on the proposition.
At Blackburn. En- gland. recently. an in
quest was had on the body Of John Eatwis-
tie, who had died from drink ing four gills of
sherry. IN analytical chemi st, Mr.. Railton,
proved that ths liquor had BEEN adulte,ated
to the extent of eighty per cent. The jury
returned a verdict in accorda nee with the
evidence, and the Liverpool de; llers who sold
the sherry are to be prosecuted
One of the opponents of prohibition, in a
speech at the State House, vest er,lay, urged
that the opposition to the present liquor law
is Of the same character as that TO the Fugi-
tive Slave law. a few years ago There is
one trihmg difference between the two laws,
which he did not explain: the Old law was
designei to keep men in bondage, while the
law of which he complains is intended to
keep M n from bondage.-Boston Traveller.
1t seems little ridiculous at distance to
read of respectable women gathering in tav
erns or in the snow outside when denied ad-
mittance, and praying and singing their way
into the stony hearts of the prophet )rs. But
those who are subjected TO it Mt clo se quar-
tiers evidently consider it no joke, an many
Of them succumb to this novel form OF moral