The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
NEWS.

in the United States showed an average OF
forty-one pounds to the population. In
four years the consumption has increased
from forty-one pounds per head to ~fifty-six
pounds. According to the last census
Great Britain consumes siXty-seven pound
of sugar per head.
The Commissioners of Immigration of
the State OF New York have reported to
the Secretary of Treasury that during the
year 1884, there arrived at the port of New
York 330, 030 immigrants l ,144 persons
were found to be either convicts, l%unatics,
idiots or persons unable to take care of
themselves and were returned to the coun-
tries whence they came.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has already
begun work on his Grafton to be delivered
in Boston, October 22d, on General Grant,
and it is said that it is Mr.. Beecher's inten-
ton to made this Grafton the most finished
of his oratorical efforts. He is in the en-
ioyment of excellent health. and both
physically and mentally is in condition to
carry out his intention.
About two hundred newspapers come to
administrations they We're nearly all paid
for. the expense often coming to as much
as $4,000 per annum. Colonel Lamont. as
soon as he took charge of things, reduced
the subscription list nearly seventy-ive
per cent. But there are just as many pa
pers as ever. only they are free.
The great International Yacht Race on
Tuesday. was a failure, owing to an acct
dent. Just as the starting signal was
about to be given. the Puritan attempted
to cross the bow of the Genesta, ''fouled"
her, and carried away her bowsprit. The
movement of the Puritan is said to have
been legitimate. but the result was unfor-
tunate. and the race was unavoidably post
pohed until to-day.
In a speech in New York state on Friday
St. John said: "Thc Republican party
will never win another national victory.
and | will tell you why. No party can
live which burns its opponents in efiigy for
opinions sake. Oh. but Won say this is
the work of the rabble, but not one Re
publican paper, from the New York
Tribune down, has ever printed a word in
condemnation of it."
4 terrible tornado struck the town of
Washington Court House. in Fayette
county, Ohio, about eight o'clock on Tues
day evening. Forty stores, three churches
four railways depots and over two hun
dred dwellings were destroyed. Five per-
sons were killed and about 800 injured.
four perhaps fatally. The loss on prop
erty is estimated at 81. 900, 600. Damage
was done in other places in Ohio, houses
being unrooied or destroyed and persons
injured.
The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union will be represented at the
Centennial Temperance Conference in
Philadelphia, and will hold a large number
of meetings in all parts of the country dur
ing the centennial week. A very interest
ing programme of exercises has been ar
ranged and published for local unions to
follow, with variations. Saturday, the
Goth inst, has been designated as ''Chi!-
dren's Day" with special preparation
therefore .-Aduoeate.
In the North Ohio Methodist Episcopal
Conference at Berca, Ohio. on Tuesday, a
resolution declaring that no Methodist
preacher occupying the pastoral relation
has a right to become a candidate for a
political Office was defeated by Il vote of
81 to So. A heated discussion was precipi-
tated by the resolution. Bishop Morrell,
of Chicago, declared that no Methodist
minister has a right to minglc in politics
a resolution declaring the Conference not
responsible for the individual or political
alliances Of any minister or iaylnen was
then adopted.
The New York Prohibition State Con
v%ention, in convention at Syracuse this
week, nominated II. Clay Bascom. ofTroy,
for governor by reclamation. The plat
form denounces the liquor license system
as a failure and crime; expresses preference
for national over state or local prohibition,
condemns the Republican and Democratic
parties for sHbserviencc to the liquor in
terest, and declares that a separate Pro
hibition party is al imperative necessity:
holds that the ballot should be given to
women; endorses civil service reform and
insists that all measures of good govern
meDt would be safer in the hands of a
party drawing its support from the sober,
industrious and intelligent class which is
sure to form the bone and sincw of a dis
tinctiyely temperance organization than in
the hands of any party controlled by OF
allied to the liquor power.
GEN. Grants Last Message Concerning
Alcohol.
General Grant, a few days before his
death, being urged by his physicians to
take alcoholic stimulants, mentioned tc
Rev. DR.. Newman his reluctance to do so,
and wrote the following, which we have
been permitted to copy from the original
'JUIY I, 1885.
"Alcoholic stilnulantS are not good fol-
me. can feel it or did the few times
took port-wine. 1t simply heats me, and
leaves me weak for a time. | worked a
0oo1 faur bours m 1av and Nrnta a sbnr,