Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-08-03
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

y AoASSS nave DcSn Organized In
Montana this year.
The Grand Lodge of the Independent Or
Ger OF Good Templars of Montana meet at
Sheridan, Madison county, on Wednesday.
October IL, 1876.
1he misery, crime, and industrial embar-
rassment of this nation is in proportion to
the extent of the liquor trade.
A rum saloon near the East river excava-
tons, New York, has tbs sign "HelI Gate"
over its door. Rightly named.
In England the ~death-rate of men is high
er among liquor sellers than among any
other class except hackney coachmcn.
Cardinal McCloskey, through vicar-Gen-
eral Quinn, received a deputation from the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America.
July Sth.
There are said to be about six thousand liq-
uor dealers in Philadelphia. Of course that
little band could never creditably supply
Centennial needs.
Providence has an Independent Reform
Club" that has already taken 1000 drinkers
to save them. The Club is trying now to
raise funds to start a Holly Tree Inn.
A Grand Division Sons of Temperance
was organized in Minnesota, last June, with
twenty-three divisions. DIR. M. Il. Ander-
son, Of Minneapolis, was elected G. w. p.
and B. T. Holmes, of Faribault, G. Scribe.
The annual meeting of the Temple of
Honor of Indiana, recently held, showed
excellent progress in the past. and good
promise for the future. Special deputies
have been appointed to extend the Order
throughout the State.
A number of liquor dealers in Missouri have
organized themselves into a " College Associ-
%ation," and nave announced through the
newspapers that they intend to build and
generously endow an institution of learning
exclusively for those who traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors.
"Hee-yur is yer flags Of all n-a-a-a-tions,' =
recently. A red-irosed joker stopped him
to ask: "Have you a flag Of damnation?''
"No, sir y was the quick retort, "you
find thatin the whisky bottle.'-N. Z. Irib-
| NMe.
Mr.. Moody at the close OF his ten weeks
services in New York in giving advice to
young converts warned them from the use Of
strong drink. His words were "of all
things, don't touch strong drink. That has
been the ruin of many young converts.
Give up your right hand rather than touch
it,
The National Temperance Society printed
in the year previous to it's last meeting, 81
375,9 04 pages of temperance matter, andhas,
since its organization, sent out into the world
more than 10, SOC, 900 books and pamphlets,
The Chautauqua Lake Sunday School
" Assembly has set apart July 20 and &c
for the consideration of the question of tenn
perance in it's relation to Sunday School and
home work.
At the regular meeting of Diamond Lodge
No. 5, I. O. G. T., held Monday evening;
July 81, the following officers were elected
for the quarter beginning August /: w
C. r., H. II. Barnes; w. V. T., Charles
Barker w. S., W. III. Vance; W. +. S., J
p. Hills; w. T., G. w. Sutton; w. c.,
e. Collins; w. NJ, Daniel Milan; w. /. G..
T. w. Burke; W. 0. G., Andrew Boilan
Librarian, Fl. Fl. Barnes.
The London correspondent Of the Leed
(England) Mercury writes cit is becom
inc more and more common to find peonl.
refusing wine at dinner, not because the,
are abstainers through any moral obligatio,