The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-04-20
Temperance Facts and Figures.


If saloon keeper and minister
both vote the same way, both advo-
cate the same cause.
There is more food in a bushel Of
barley than there is in II, 900 gallons
of the best beer Baron Hon LieJig.
There is call issued for a State
Prohibition Convention to meet in
Raleigh, n. C., on the 9th of April
next
There are 224 cities and towns in
Massachusetts where prohibition pre-.
walls, and 1l6 where licenses are
granted.
"All crimes on EARTH" says Lord
Bacon, edo not destroy so many Of
the human race and ALLEVIATE Sc
much property as drunkenness"
What beer infdelity will do for a
country Is shown in Germany, where
the number of criminals has increas-
ed from 1882 in 1875 to 600,642 in
1878.
Eighty-seven indictments were
found by the grand jury at the recent
term of the circuit court Of Raleigh
county, this State, forsy.seven Of
which were for unlawful retailing.
"If there is any place in the world
where there ought to be a ringing ut.
terance on temperance and heroic
action, it is the Sunday School. PIP
S. Henson
The Chicago Tribune says there
are 100000 male adults in Illinois
who drink liquor, and 100000 total
abstinence men, and that there are
10000 drunkards in the State.
A gray-haired drunken woman
dragged through the mud to the Cen.
trail Station was one of the sensation.
al sights Of to-day in Seneca street.
Cleveland Raindealer.
The "Moderation Society,"" of New
York, have put a straight jacket
in the shape of a pledge-upon 95,
900 total abstainers, 10000 not td
drink jim business hours, and 10000
not 10 treat or be treated.
Taxes were paid on 13,374,000 bar.
rels of beer during 1880, or 414,000,.
600 gallons. At &c glass this would
bring 375,000,000, or one quarter
more than the total expenses Of run.
ming the United States Government.
The Liquor traffic corruptsa the
ballot and legislation, multiplies and
sustains gambling-houses and broth
els, defeats juitice, lessons protection
to persons and property, and per-
verts and obstructs the objects of all
good government.
The Internal Revenue statistics
for taxes for the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating drinks for the
year 1880, in two States of nearly
equal population were as follows:
New JERSEY under license, s9O2,35S;
Maine, under prohibition, 1892.
Eight whiskey licenses were grant
ed by the Commissioners, in Wetzel
county.-Democrat.
Do you think those eight licenses,
sufficient to develop the hidden re.
sources of grand old Wetzel?-Frse.
man.
The whole amount of tax on spirits
and liquors collected in the country
is over s62,0O0,000 per annum, an av.
erage to each person ofover S1.50. In
New jersey the average is two dol.
lars; in Maine the average is three
cents.-Me,o York Independent.
The Legislature of Wisconsin has
passed a bill prohibiting the practice
of treating" The bill provides that
any person who shall ask another to
drink at his expense, or any person
consenting to drink at another's ex-
pense, shall be liable to arrest and
punishment.
At Montreal, the Catholic Church
and the Dominion Temperance Ali.
ance, Protestant organization, have
begun jointly to prosecute a vigorous
war against the liquor criminals, and
in particular against the liquor res.
stanrants and saloons. The Rector
of Notro Dame, the largest Cathedral
in Canada, before an audience of TO-.
600, denounced the saloon. keepers as
valtures living upon immortality and
misery.
The Legislatures ofNew York, New
Jersey and Missouri now have bills
pending before them to establish the
whipping'post for the punishment Of
wife-beaters. Kansas covered the en-.
tire grounds by banishing liquor So,
looms. It is the use of bad whiskey
that makes wife-beaters. Wife-beat.
ing, children.beating and peniten.
tiary-flling are all the Legitimate