The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-02-07
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.

EDITED BY THE woMEN's CHRISTIAN
TEMPERANCE UNION.
/ Red used on railroad signifies danger,
and means ''stop 70 So it does on a mans
nose.
More than thirty of the mining compa-
MES of Colorado make total abstinence a
condition Of employment.
The New York asylum for the insane
shows that out Of 254 patients admitted,
over n per cent. were drinkers
About three hundred employees at the
New York post office are members of the
temperance societies of that city.
The buildings formerly used in Kansas
for breweries are being turned into facto-
ries, pork packing establishments. and the
like.
A statute of the United States says you
shallnot sell Intoxicating drinks to Indians,
and Gov. st. John adds the apt question,
whether white man is not as good as an
Indian.
Sixty-seven moonshiners illicit distillersl
captured in the mountain region of Ken
lucky. were sentenced in Covington in
December. to various terms of imprison-
| ment.
| A New York chemist says he wants
nothing more than three pals Of watel
and twenty cents worth Of drugs to maxi
six gallons of just such champagne as
fools pay dollar pint for.
HON. T. L. FRELINGHUYsEN ON THE
LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
IF men will engage in this disastrou
traffic, if they will stoop to degrade thei
reason and reap the wages Of iniquity, lie
them no longer have the law book as
pillow, nor quiet conscience with the
opiate of court license"
1 TOO MUCH WHISKEY IN KENTUCKY.
The whiskey dealers Of Kentucky ar
loaded with more whiskey than they ca
pay taxes on. According to the report tn
distilleries of that State produced $4,000
600 gallons in 1882. and thus so complete
ly glutted the market that only 100000
\ gallons were made during 1883. The Pre-
4 byteriaa.
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4 A boy who would scorn to read til
Police Gazette will take respectable refug,
as he thinks, in Peck's Bad Boy Blu
soon the bad boy appears in the Gazet
and everybody wonders when the mischit
Twas done. The Milwaukee incendial
fires have been traced to gang of Mi
waukee boys-the compatriots Of Peck
and in their 'sdens p all grades Of vi
and mischievous literature had place.
LIQUOR CRIME.
The pen trembles, even to shudderin
as it records the fearful brutality of tt
drink inspired man, who in this city fe
: days since, nearly murdered his sunni
haired, four-y ear-old daughter. The faith
was angered because his drunken slet
II was disturbed by the means Of the sit
10 child. He sprang from his bed, and cate
l. ing the child up, choked it until the bIOt
spurted from it's little nose, eyes, and cal
after which he dashed it, stunned and
g most lifeless, upon the floor. His wi
l. pleaded with him to desist, but he reptile
3 with an oath and told her that if she ev'
opened her lips about what had occurre
he would cut her throat Union, Signal.
BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, ON THE LIQUC
TRAFFIC.
S To the Episcopal Temperance Conve
q ton in Philadelphia he said: "There is
t subject which lies at the root of all cleric
8 work and of all Episcopal work, and OF
the philanthropic and literarary instit
tions which you have in this country-th
!. is the battle with incompetence. Y
may build as many churches as you lik
you may open as many free libraries
you please, you may enlist new armies
lay soldiers of Christ, but so long as y
permit intemperance to continue its raw
ges among the people without a suprer
effort and struggle upon your part, t
church viii be useless and your sermo
will be useless
, 80. if the entire church of God would e
list in the battle against the legaliz
liquor traffic with the earnestness, tt
conservation of brain, purse and heart tn
is now given to other forms of chur'
:, work. the evangelization OF the wor
would be accomplished immeasurab
sooner, than by all the agencies now
work in indi Inference to the cause OF thre
t fourths Of the world sin and crime. =
q | Union Signal.
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!, THE wHIsKEY RING IN CONGRESS.
The bill now before Congress, extendil
J the bonded period two gears, on which Il
whiskey interests will concentrate the
II powers, contemplates the relief OF the d
tillers to the amount Of 1927, 100000 wor
! Of taxes which otherwise must be pa
within a few months. This, however,
Ionly fraction Of the real demand. ~
acerepata of the tax on whiskey in bon