Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-01-23
VOL. XLVII.
TEMPERANCE SCRAPS.

The phiianthropc ladies of Keene, n H..
have secured the opening of free reading
room. the scope of which is soon to be en-
larged. to include amusements and gymna-
sum, making place of resort 50 attractive
that none but the wholly foolish and aban-
doned will stay away from it. This will at
ford the youth of that town an opportunity
Tor improvement and amusement, something
higher than is observed in billiard and liquor
saloons.
The following paragraph is just now going
the rounds OF the newspaper press "Iem-
perance lectures are indebted to jefferson
county for the last awful example. which his
name was Robert Sixbary. lie used to be
an Indian fighter, but he chewed, and
smoked. and drank, and drank, till even his
constitution gave way under the continued
drink, and the other day he was cut off in
his one hundred and eleventh year" 1t is
a terrible thing for young man to die from
drink. bat where shall we find words to ex-
pres our horror at the fate of Sixbury.
Those Did soakers never lack for argu-
lnentS- Lately, one replied to a temperance
lecturer by the following poser III water
roiS the >oleS of your boots, what effect must
it have on the coat of your stomach
The London Iimes has been reyerting to
the secrets of sherry 1t appears that even
the sherry which comes from Spain IS there
treated with sui phurie acid until il has lost
the characteristics of wine, and is then 'ior-
titled with alcohol until it contains from
forty five to fifty per cent Of pure proof spir-
II. The sherry manufactured elsewhere
than in Spain is even worse. These facts
came ont IN the course of an inquest on a
man who was killed by drinking four gills of
this horrible mixture of sulphuric acid and
alcohol, and the Times makes them the text
of an argument in support %! the PROPOSE
ton that SHERRY should hereafter be re
cognized hy the Custom House not n a wine
bat as an artificial mixture. and taxed ac-
clrlnglv. People who drink sherry in this
country would do well to remember that
real sherry does not exist. and that the most
simple form Of the beverage called by that
name consists Of alcohol, sulphuric acid, and
other pleasant poiSJn~
The Good Templar~' Lodge in Montgomery
voted 90 surrender their charter few weeks
ago. This action WAS caused hv 4 general
lack OF interest shown by those who should
have sustained ;he Lodge
DR. stephen Smith. Of the New
Board of Health, thus gives his testimony
concerning prohibition For my own part,
lo not hesitate to say that | favor the most
stringent p7ohibitorv laws. and their rigid
execution. | would legslate in regard to
alcohol as would against cholera or the
plague There should be no compromise
with this gigantic and daily increasing evil
The war should DE one ol determination. No
legislation can be iudicious that does not ei-
fectiycly confne the traffic in alcohol To- the
Legitimate purposes Of art and science.
4 gentleman who had tarried late at
wine supper found his wife awaiting ni> re-
turn IN high state OF nervousness. said
She. Here We been waiting and rocking in
chair till my head spins round like a top 80
jess SO where I've been. responded he.
''ir'- in the atmosphere