Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-21
TEMPERANCE.

The International Temperance Con.
! gross will be held next year in Norway.
Sir Wilfred Lawson says the way to
get into the house of lords is to go into a
brewery.
The sale OF intoxicating liquors at coun.
ty fairs will hereafter be prohibited in
New York.
The queen of Amatongn. southern
Africa, has forbidden the sale OF liquor
by her subjects.
The Massachusetts, legislature has
passed a bill for the appointment Of one
or mere police matrons in each of the
nine large cities Of the state.
The temperance workers Of Washing.
ton have fitted up a hall in the central
part Of the city for gospel and temper.
ance meetings.
The local option law OF Ohio is not
likely to prove very effective as it applies
only to townships outside the towns, vii
lagos and cities.
Miss Mary Mcdowell, national organ
izer Of the Y. w. c. L. L., was rendered
a reception and banquet by the General
union, March "a.
The local option campaign in Michigan
has closed for the summer. OF thirty.
seven counties that have voted on the
question all but two gave majorities for
prohibition.
Each day new arrests for violations Of
the liquor law are made in Wichita. Kan
sas, and the Jail and city prison are filing
up with those who are not able TO pay
their fines.
The Monongahela CPa.) Prcsbytery has
adopted a resolution directing presbyter-
les to refuse lidcnsc to students of th.ol-
ogy who are addicted TO the use of tobac.
co in any form.
Mrs. Marion Baxter, of Michigan, who
has just completed a most successful lee.
turing tour in Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, began a series of meetings in
E%fingham, Illinois.
A list Of signatures to the worlds petit
ton, received at w. G. T. U. h~eadquar-
tiers a few days since. included that Of
the first man prosecuted for running n
brewery contrary to the prohibitoly laws
Of Kansas.
AS an outcome of the Law and Order
league crusade against Sunday business
in Pittsburg, Pa, a club with $50 mem
Der has been organized, a state charter
will be applied for, and there will be a
hall secured where members and their
wives can meet on Sunday and drink
liquor without interference.
The Brewers Journal Is authority for
the statement that the output of the
brev'eries in the United States in 1887
was "a 1919, al barrels, anet increase over
1886 of 2,2S7. 3lS barrels.
A bill is before congress to incorporate
the National Temperance Home for Sol.
diers and Sailors. The home is already
established in Washington and has been
in operation a year.
The emigration committee Of the Phil.
adelphia Catholic Total Abstinence Union
have ordered two thousand each Of the
tracts, "lntcmperance an Enemy to La
Dor, and Catholic Total Abstinence"
and will distribute them to arriving en-
grants.
In the recent elections in Massachusetts.
out of i02 towns, SO voted against. and 90
for license. In a total vote Of 33. 9OS, the
majority against license il 1926; an in
crease of more than 1000 over the ma
jority last year.
Boston real estate dealers state that the
question of license or no license has an
important bearing upon the value of
property in suburban towns. Where no
licenses are granted real estate is sure to
increase in value, while licenses as surely
rctard the growth of cities and towns.
Judge Stratton, of the Circuit Court at
Lamar. Mo. affirmed the validity Of the
local option election at that place, and
decided that women may work for the
temperance cause ut the polls without
eng charged with intimidaiing voters.
md that they may furnish free coffee
nd sandwiches on election day without
ncurrlng the imputation Of seeking to
corrupt the ballot.
In the "China Room Of the Brighton
Museum, in England, is a large case con
tanning various articles of china and
aarrhcnwarc made during the last hun.
ired and twenty five years, all bearing
notices and inscriptions, many Of which
-elate TO temperance. One of the most
suggestive pieces isa beer mug with the
inscription Here's best beer" while on
he inside is n china adder, toad and
title snake, life size and color.
Tho Dalrymple home, Rickmansworth,
England, was established in 1884 as an
experiment for the treatment of the dis
ease Of inebriety on sound scientific
principles. Since the spring l15 have
passed through the home. Norman Kerr,
VI. II. the consulting physician, states
he 7, su;ts confirm his own experience
N private practically that inehriyty is
often a disease amenablc to scientific
treatment: (2) that the sudden Withdrawal,
of intoXicants is quite safe.
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