The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
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T., where he has received an appointment
from the New York Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference. Press
A laughable incident occurred at one of the
school districts in Londonderry, N. H., at its
recent school meeting. Two of the promi-
nent candidates for the prudential committee
were husband and his wife. Some of the
voters voted for the wife, supposing they
were voting for the husband, not observing
the christian name. When the vote was de-
clared it was much to the chagrin of some Of
those who voted as above stated. The wife
came out victorious by six majority and has
accepted the position and qualified. She has
already hired the teacher for the summer
term.
On Friday of last week stranger entered
the First National Bank at Woodbury., and
giving his name as Jonathan Hendrickson
presented note for $75 to be discounted,
purporting to be Endorsed by G.. B. Coles d
Co., of Camden. Jonathan Colson, one of
the bank officials, who is father-in-law to Mr..
Coles, pronounced the signature forgery.
Hendrickson was arrested and Mr.. Coles was
telegraphed for. Mr.. Coles, on reaching
Woodbury., said he had drawn no such note
Hendrickson was committed to the Glouces-
ter county Jail to await trial at the next term
of court
At Portland, Oregon, the grand jury which
adjourned January 18th, made the following
recommendation g 1t having been found i'm
possible to suppress, we recommend the
licensing of houses of il-famen This is the
legitimate fruit of the "high license " liquor
ordinance of the above named city. The ar
guments in favor of licensing the liquor
crime are applicable to any other criminal
act the efforts of our christian statesmen -
to legalize ''the sum of villainies must re-
joice the heart of every panderer to mems
evil appetites and desires. - Toledo Good
1emapsar.
DUBOIS, Pa, April 17.-It is q notorious
fact that there are more unlicensed than
licensed liquor saloons in this town. The
numerous houses of ill-repute sell liquor in
discriminatory, the druggists sell openly and
disappointed applicants for license run their
establishments without fear of the law. The
town has over 5000 population and there are
twenty-five licensed hotels. In addition to
these there are about thirty illicit establish
ments. At secret meeting held here on
Wednesday, the licensed liquor men organ.
lied a law and order society to wage war
against their rivals who carry on an Illegal
traffic.
LONDON, April 18.-An extraordinary step
was taken to-day by the federal council Of
Switzerland to promote the cause of temper
ance. The measure was forced upon the
national legislature by one of the most severe,
prolonged and intelligent agitations against
the use of alcoholic drinks ever carried on in q
modern state. An incontestable array of
statistics was last fall placed before the coun.
ell, showing that since the era of low duties
upon imported spirits their consumption
among the peasantry had so enormously
increased that the rate per capita was
greater than among any other European PEG.
pie, and there had been in the same period
an exactly corresponding increase in the i'm
providence and poverty of the people. The
federal council appointed a special official
commission to investigate into and report
upon the entire subject. This body after
many weeks of patient labor handed in its re-
port yesterday. This not only confirmed the
allegations made by the temperance aRitators,
but supplemented them by Official informa-
ton of the most startling nature.
The commission states that in some dis.
tricts of Switzerland, where the peasantry
were formerly noted for their energy and
thrift large numbers of the people have be-
come lazy, shiftless and besotten and great
numbers of competencies have been dis
sipated away, leaving behind a universal de-
gree of poverty of a kind which has engen-
dered crimes of violence comparatively I'M
known in these districts formerly. They
also aver that most of the unusual poverty
which has of late been driving the young
generation by thousands to America from so
many of the once prosperous sections of the
state is directly traceable to the decay brought
about by the common habits of drunkenness
introduced among the heads of families after
the Inauguration of the era of cheap rum.
The commission cite scores of cases in which
entire estates have been squandered by in
temperance and its consequent improvidence,
leaving the children nothing but debt, pau
perism or flight
"The chief devil, says the commissioners,
(which has done this disastrous work is the
cheap brandy of France. This detestable
drink has been allowed to enter Switzerland
under such an insignificant duty as to offer
special inducement to the manufacturers to
make the utmost possible out of the inviting
market The brandy agent has established
his trade in every place in Switzerland where
there is human soul to drink. The result
has been this alarming increase in brandy
drunkenness. which has of late years grown
upon our people, with its attendant curses.
We find French brandy selling everywhere
in Switzerland at a franc per itre. Its cheap
ness has enabled it to displace even the soup
and the coffee which formerly were doled out
to the laborers in the rural fields, and the
French brandy bottle is now found upon the
table and in the cupboard in hundreds of
peasant homes where formerly alcoholic
drinks were seldom, il ever, SEEM"
After long series of such statements, many
Of than, ba;pu of ON alnoef iucradib1a uafyvA