The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-25
Temperance News and Notes.

1cHIpeTaHCc -NC"S hutl NOtcS.
All conventions or religious denominations
held in Nebraska during the past year have
declared against license.
Professor Stewart. of Liberia, estimates
that for every missionary VINO goes to
Africa, 10000 gallons Of liquor are sent 10
that country.
The eastern insurance companies have
given notice to the brewors OF Dubuque,
Iowa, that they can no longer take risks
upon their property.
In a recent speech at Carnarvon. Ireland,
Sir George Trevelyan said there hnd been no
public house on his estate for thirty years;
Among his tenants there is no pauperism and
absolutely no discomfort.
Mrs. Mary Clement IIenvitt, organizer for
the worlds W. {. Il. u, is now in Ponca,
India, where shc was we'll received. From
thence she goes TO Bombay and afterward to
Calcutta, visiting the towns en- route.
The six powers contiguous to the North Sea
Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland,
Germany and Denmark-have entered into
an agreement whereby the sale of spiritu Gus
liquors to fishermen and other persons on
board vessels is prohibited.
The Worlds w. e. 7. q. petition placed
in circulation in Ceylon by the Misses Leitsch,
missionaries at Oodooville, received l5,O0J
signatures within six weeks. many OF the
natives signing their names with prayer
for the success of the work.
An important feature Of the Swiss Alcohol
Act, recently passed, giving tho government
control over all alcoholic DRINKS sold IN that
country is that ten per cent: OF the net rev.
enue which the cantons will gain from the
alcohol tax is to he spent in unfolding to the
people the effects Of alcohol.
The new Chairman Of Cook County Prohl-
bition Club made it q condition OF acceptance
that several representative w. c. I. U. wo-
men be appointed on the Executive Com
mlttee and that delegate be invited from
every W. G. U. in the county to serve as
regular members of the committee.
Friends Of temperance will be rejoiced to
learn that the issue of rum is to be discon.
tinued in the British army in India, and that
the canreen for spirits will soon be thing OF
| tho past This is q long step in the right
| direction, and is due TO his E1cellency, Sir
| Frederick Roberts, commander-ln-chief.
The white ribbon is slowly but surely en-
| circling the world. A temperance society
has been formed in the Girls Mission School,
| Samokor, Turkey, the white ribbon is donned
| bv it, members, and all have enrolled their
nnnes upon the Worlds w. C. T. U. petit
tion.
| S. A. Haincs, Of Nctherwood, n. j., for
| thirty years q commercial traveller, hos
originated temperance organization which
he has nameI the "kings Temperance
Army" The only requisite for membership
is u pledge not to drink into1icants, and
each member is expected to get ten Others
The especial object is to help his fellow conf
mercial travellers.
Senator Blair has presented TO tho United
States Congress petition asking for the sub.
| mission to the several States All amendment
| 10 the Constitution of the United States for
the prohibitian of the manufacture. iinporta.
tion, exportation transportation and sale or
all alcoholic liquors as beverage in the
| United States. IIo also asked for the appoint
ment of u national commission to investigate
and report upon the alcoholic liquor traffic
A Change Taking Place.
In two recent articles in the New York
Independent, Dr. Ezra M. Hunt, its sanitary
editor, invites attention to the general
awakening Of the public and legislative mind
as to the evils of alcohol in its use rs bever-
rge-an awakening not confined to our own
country, but including notably Germany,
Switzerland, and France. He chronicles the
| fact that the recent session OF the Alcohol
Congress at Zurich commanded the attend
ance of many leading physicians and states
men of Europe; and that there was unan-
imous conclusion denying the claims OF aico-
J hol to alimentary value He also shows that
medical profession concerning the medical
use Of alcohol, that the conviction Is becom.
| ing generally prevalent that, as compared
| with an earlier period, even in the treatment
| OF disease, the occasion for its use is greatly
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