Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-18

part Ot the UNION is tueIe tLe luoSt
drunkenness? Every school boy
will promptly answer, AT the
South, in Georgia and Texas, and
Alabama" Wrong, entirely wrong,
if the number of retail liquor dealers
is an index to the comparative So
briefly of the people. There are two
rum shops to every man, woman and
child in Massachusetts, for every
one in the three States, and yet they
together are, if anything, more thick
" studded with them than the rest
Of the late Confederacy. Texas has
one gin mill for every APO inhabit-
ants, Georgia one for every 500, and
Alabama one for every 600, and the
same of South Carolina, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Virginia, while in
North Carolina there is but one to
every 500, and even in Bourbon
country itself there is only one for
every 500. Contrast these figures
with those of the Northern States.
Here in New York we have one bar
room for every 200 inhabitants-the
same as in Ohio--and this seems to
be about the average hereabouts,
the proportion in Pennsylvania.
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
and Rhode Island, like that of Con-
necticut, varying very little from
this. Maine and Vermont make a
better showing, the former having
but one to every 600 of her popu-
lation, and the other one for every
$50. The natural inclinations Of
the people are, however, interfered
with, in these two communities, to
such an extent as to deprive the
statistics of all value.-Ne,c York
Graphic.
A RAILROAD is to be built on ice i'll
Russia. Constadt is five miles from
the coast and eighteen miles from
| the capital. In the Summer COM
munication is easily and cheaply
maintained by means of steamers,
but when the Gulf of Finland be-
comes coated with ice ,Constradt has
TO depend for transport to and from
the island upon number of rough
little sledges, never trustworthy and
always dear. The inconvenience OF
this system has led the Baltic Rail
way Company to obtain permission
of the Government to throw n light
\ line of rails across the ice to the is
land. The undertaking will not be
beset with any serious obstacles, and
it is believed that it can be success
fully accomplished in eight or nine
days. AS soon as the ice is reported
sufficiently strong by the engineers,
gangs of aborers will proceed to lay
down sleepers on the flat frozen sur
face, freezing them into position by
a few buckets Of water. The rails
will then be fixed on, and light trains
will convey passengers and goods
! direct to their destination. The
only real difficulty about the enter
prise is the ability of the ice to sus-
tain heavy weights, but it is rarely
less than yard thick in this quarter
of the Gulf of Finland, and as it Is
\ supported at intervals by sandbanks,
the engineers themselves anticipate
no trouble on this score.
WADE Hampton recently took Of
fence at something said about him
in the Charleston Mtrcuy, and dis.
continued his subscription to the pa
per. When the editor wrote an eX-
! planation Hampton replied that the
J letter was an impertinence and the
paper nuisance. Then the editor
wrote again, accusing Hampton Of
trying to kick down the ladder which
raised him to his elevated position
asserting his right as Democrat IL
good standing to criticise the acts o.
the party's servants, and closing
I with the information that his addres!
4 was Charleston, S. c..
| NONE but the brave deserve thu
hair" is the way the noble red maj
: puts it.