Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-07
TEMPERANCE MISCELLdNF.

TEMPERANCE MISCELLdNY.
In Fort Wayne, Indiana, 5000 have
signed the pledge, and the revival is still
progressing.
Thirty-fve counties voted in favor O
the Local Option law at the recent election
in Texas.
The Murphy Temperance movement
has heen inaugurated in Salt Lake City
and hundreds have signed the pledge.
The Life. Boat is the name of new
Temperance quarto-monthly, edited and
published by Rouzer 6 Mowry, Dayton,
Ohio. The first number sparkles with
good things.
It is estimated that our city receives
from license fees 100000, and pays fol
paupelism and crime $7,000,0OO. The
enfo1 cement of the License laws would
greatly reduce this last sum.
The National Temperance Society an
nounces neat pamphlet edition of the
address on the 6 Wine Question:" recent
ly delivered in Cooper Institute by the
editor of The Christian ADVOCATE. Price
ten cents. Address J. N. Stearns, So
Reade Street. N. Y.
MI. P. r. Barnum last week caused
quite sensation in Bridgeport, Conn,
by asserting during speech on Temper
ance that the assessors had raised the
tax lists Of certain property owners solely
because they were temperance men. He
said he knew from personal experience
that this charge was true.
II made $4,000 by rum-selling in five
years." said well-known resident of
Schuyler County, reformed liquor seller,
at Maxwell meeting few nights ago.
During the past five months I have
returned that, and $4,000 besides, to the
families of men / know were wronged by
the place kept. In helping to forward
the Murphy cause l will use all I have if
necessary
"What does Satan pay you for drink
ing?" asked one gentleman of another.
g He don't pay me anything2" was the re-
ply. well you work cheap; to lay
aside the character OF gentleman; to in
flict so much pain on your friends and
civil people; to suffer; and lastly, to risk
losing your own precious soul-and all
for nothing! You certainly do work
ceap-very cheap, indeed!''
II have been counsel in twelve murder
cases." said ExCongressman Horace
Bemus, Of Hornellsville, at q meeting on
Thursday night. SIN every case rum was
at the bottom of the crime. l bought
supper for man tonight who was worth
$50, 900 eight years ago. His wife was
a judges daughter. She is in a pauper
asylum for the insane to-day. Every uol-
lar Of the $4,000 went for rum.
DR.. Willard Parker, in recent lecture
in this city, made a notable statement
"Alchol,' he said, ''is generally regarded
as a stimulant, but it is not. 1t is simply
an irritant, like grain of sand in the
eye. It may act as stimulsnt in this
way, but only by everlasting the nervous
system and proving waste instead Of
help in the end. We commend the state
ment of this eminent physician to the at
tent&on of certain prctentious physicians
who have advanced contrary opinion.
1t is said that Prince Gortschakof, the
Russian Premier, never uses wine or to-
bacco, and that he is vigorous at the age
Of seventy-eight. DR.. Cuyler said re-
Gently, that he had preached for thirty
years and had only lost two sabbaths
during that time by i'll health. He at
tributed this to having kept these rules:
Use no stimulants, take abundant sleep,
never touch sermon on Saturday night
Edgar Allan Poe was drunkard, and
died at thirty eight. Lord Byron was a
drunkard, and died at thirty-six
To quote Napoleon, "Christ's greatest
miracle undoubtedly is the regin of char
ity.' There is no sin, no wrong in human
nature, or in human life, but tie love of
the Christ has shown its power to uproot,
subdue, and overthrow. And this, not by
force, which is unequal to it; nor by fear,
to which some are not susceptible; nor by
exhortations to prudence, which many will
disregard; nor by abstract ideas of virtue,
which only few appreciate; but by the
controlling and elevating power OF a new
love, capable of coming to all, which swal-
lows up all lesser attractions, as the sun
puts out the stars.-W. j. Savage.
We find in the Troy Times a graphic
report of the new Temperance Reform
movement in progress in Western New
York. We quote: One of the first con.
verts of Francis Murphy in the southern
tier was William H. Maxwell, of the Ell
mira Advertiser. II was drunk thirty
years." says Maxwell, in one Of his tenn
perance lectures, l had the delirium
tremens six times and been in county
Jail in every State in the Union but six
for drunkenness" Since his reformation
he has lectured almost every night, and
reclaimed over 5000 drinking men in
this region. 1t was through his efforts
that not drunken man was seen in
Hornellsville at the time of the Erie
strike. His lectures are the wittiest,
most eloquent, and effective of any of the
Murphy speakers in this part Of the
State.
Drunkenness.
The following is an extract from one OF
the lectures of J. J. Talbot, who died late