The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-11-22
TIE BLACK RIvEE.

"The Cities of the Black River" is tho t.
tie of vivid lecture recently delivered NJ
different parts of England The river i: al
cohol with its three dark tributaries wine,
beer and spirits. Last year said the lee
turer, "the English people actually swal-
lowed 29,000,OO0 gallons Of wine, 965, COO, 900
gallons of beer, and 3G,O00,O00 gallons of
spirits. tho whole being sufficient to form a
miles long. In spending $4,000, 900 upon
this, the country has created the city of reel
ing men, with 600, 0OO inhabitants and l9G,
600 licensed houses to increase their number;
the city of the bloodstained hand with
its 100000 criminal inhabitants; the
city of the iron doors, with its
10000 human beings confined in prisons: the
city of the men in blue, with its 81 900 pc
licemen required mainly through drink, and
costing more than fS,OOO,O 900 every year;
'ths city of the pale cheek requiring IS
600 doctors in the United Kingdom. when
1000 would he sufficient but for alcohol: the
city of the restless foot with it's rowing
army OF $4,000 vagabOnds, and not a dozen
teetotalers amongst them; the city of the
fireless CRATE and all the misery which
helped to raise the bitter cry of outcast Lon
don; and the sad city of the midnight
street with 4Co, 600 ruined girls; tho city
of the starving poor with its million of pau.
pers; and the city of the drink-slain dead.
with its daily average of $50 victims. Shall
ii be said of this Black River
Men may come and men may go,
But flow on for ever
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Let an end be made of this idea that drunk.
enness is an excuse for crime.
Statistics show that the consumption of
alcohol in France doubled between 1875 and
1885.
Want Of work does not drive men TO drink
rs often as drink drives mep to want of
work.
ha ~ ,n'c N,riS inn
Temperance Union elected Mrs. Mary II.
Jones' of Philadelphia. as State President.
An infant organization of the W. G.. T. u.
in Falcon, Colorado, has already banished
two saloons and compelled the rest TO close
on Sunday.
A prominent Chicsgo physician, says the
LeUer, has opened private hospital for the
treatment of professional and business men
addicted to the drink habit.
A noticeable growth of temperance senti'
ment among the Indians of Southern Califor
MIA is reported by local superintendent OF w
G. I. U. work among them.
One years work of one woman, Mrs. Helen
l.. Bullock has broughtm orc than 1890 active
and nearly 700 honorary members in,o the
w c. T. u. OF New Yorl, State.
The British Women's Temperance Asso.
citation recently entertained at tea three huG-
dred travelling sfowmen and their families.
A Gospel address and songs followed the tea.
Joe Tuckfeld has discovered on the Upper
Yukon, Alaska, a breed of powerful native
who have never tasted liquor. They vii
keep themselves unspotted from the Christian
trader about four months.
1t is better to be singular than to wreck
your own life or ruin some other soul; bette,
TO be singular than to let q shrinking from
criticism or ridicule induce you to take q
course that viii lead you to sorrow as surely
as the word of God standetI,.
The Washington %. CD w c. T. u. Iva,
two "homes' under its patronage, "rhe M
tional Temperance Home" for soldiers
saiiors and ciylraaf. and tie Hops and
Help Mission, tor poor. unfortunate women
inebriates and opium eaters.
An English guidf, while showing the beau
ties of the little town Saitaire, where no
liquor IL allowed to be sold, explained thai
the rate OF f.moralityn was remarkably high
whils that of mortality was very low, being
about thirteen to the thousand.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has decided
in favor OF the constitutionality OF the pro
hibitory law Of that State in authorizing tn,
seizing Of liquor kept for sale, even though
it Is sent from another State and is owned by
persons living In such other State.