The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-11-12


held il hall Of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association at Philadelphia. Oct.
2sth to Nov. 2, inclusive. Delegates were
present from every State and Territory
of the United States. The delegates from
Virginia were Mrs. A. M. NJ, Fultz,
Staunton.; Mrs. Judge Cochran, Char
lottesville Miss Ionic Kern, Winches-
ter; Miss Maggie Crenshaw and Mrs.
VIM. E. Peasants, Richmond.
The Springfield, Ohio, Globe has let
little light into the mysteries of the retail
whiskey traffic in that city. Quietly pur-
chasing half-hask samples Of the whisky
retailed over the counters Of ten Of the
most popular bars in Springfield, it for
warded them to Professor wayne, Of Gin
cinnaJi, for analysis. OF all the samples,
but one was found to be pure sour mash
whiskey, and that lacked the needful age
to eliminate the poisonous fusil oil. There
were some samples of pure sweet mash,
q vile article at best. aud all the others
were more or less doctored to make them
palatab!e, but compounded of materials
most pernicious to the human system.
In two years the sales Of liquors in Kan
sas are said to have decreased 10000 gal
Ions.
The number of children of school age
enrolled in the United States is estimated
atgll 100000
The United States pays $4,000, 900
yearly for the support of our public schools
and 81, $4,000, 600 for the support Of its
saloons.
Early in September, two more counties
of Georgia, Fayette and screveu. voted
prohibition by maiorities. Fayette's
majority was two hundred and forty. and
sereven's nearly two TO one.
| The w. q. 7. Z. Of San Francisco. Cal,
has issued an address to the pastors and
members Of churches throughout the state,
calling their attention t. the great increase
of intemperance, especially among the
young.
| Fifteen counties in southeastern Da-
kota grant no license. It is believed if
the question were thoroughly submitted to
the people. the universal decision in every
county would be against license.
The Rev. Wardlaw Thompson. of the
London Missionary Society, says that
brandy is tie greatest curse Of the natives
in South Africa.
A pitiful story is told Of ali aged mother
who has been interchangeable in her efforts
to secure shortening of the sentence of
her son who was serving out a six years
term in the Joliet. Illinois, penitentiary,
and was steadily failing in health. She
was on her way, with necessary documents,
to meet the governor at Springfield, when
her son died. Every mothers heart will
understand and pity this broken hearted
mother.
Five Bands of Hope are reported as in
good working condition in the hamlets of |
Natal, South Africa one, especially, the
Berea band, which at late meeting had |
go members present, and IS additions to
its membership. Both white and colored |
children join in these societies. The Kaffir |
beer is one of the greatest curses of the
colony.
Cornell, IL, during dram-shop rule OF
ten years, paid pauper bill of 81, 100 y
year. Then it changed to prohibition, and !
at the end of four years, the pauper expense
was reduced to $3.50, which was paid for
medicine. The saloon is the great pauper
manufactory.
The Current, of Chicago, declares that
IF the Workingmen Of America permit |
the abolition Of the Puritan Sabbath they
will prove themselves nation Of ounces y
And quoting or inyenting the ''claim of |
the millionaire that be cannot spare the
time between Saturday and Monday it |
says But the same millionaire goes from
Florida to the Yellowstone Park. from Bar |
Harbor and Moosehead Lake to Santa Bar
bara, and is often resting two months at |
time. The Workingman must get his San
ia Barbara and st. Augustine in weekly |
instruments and if he does not stand by
the church in protecting Sunday, the mil |
lionaire and the corporations viii soon have |
it all their own way"
Reliable data from 1887 to the present
time show that while the Germans drink
more beer than any other nation, they also
use more of distilled liquors than the
United States or England. (See McCul-
Tough for 1887 DR.. Valid, of Konigsburg,
for 1850, and Reports of the Sanitary Con-
gress at Geneva in 1882, as quoted in the
"Liquor Problem in all ages, by Rev. D.
Dorchester, PIP. 571-573.
a spelling match was held not long ago
at Paris, Texas, by the w. G. Il. U. and
the Good Templars, which. was well at
tended and very interesting. A lad Of fif-
teen won the prize, a copy of Miss Will
ards Woman and Temperance. Hon.
E.. L. Dohoney, chairman Of the State Pro-
hibition Committee, has secured the rent
ing of a hall to be used as q reading room,
and place for lectures, etc. About fifty
thousand names have gone forward to the
legislature pleading for the submission of
a constitutional amend napnt
Queen Makea, of Raratonko, incensed
at her police for permitting the increase
of drunkenness, dismissed them all and
appointed women Of mature age in their
place, interested in the suppression of the
evil. They have shown such ability and
energy in discovering frauds and In de-
stroying struggled brandy, that a decided
reformation Of morals of her people has
followed.
In the Word of God alone are the prom
Uses that never fail homes that never dis