The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-03-23
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The Lords side is never the whisky side.
Beer consumption is ON the increase in
Paris.
The "Whisky Trust" Directors at Chicago
decided to reduce the price of whisky.
Saturday night. tradition has it, the
sober man in quaint old Melrose, Scotland,
is the exception.
The town of Union, Me-, boasts of a
citizen who in three days drank twenty-six
gallons of cider.
New York consumes so, 900, 900 barrels of
beer annually. The rate of increase is
5000 GOD barrels year
The value of the food products of our
country for a single year is about 5000, 0OO,-
600. The cost of alcoholic drinks is about
&, 4s5, 600, 900
Every lawyer in jackson, Miss, has been
retained to defend druggists OF that city
who have been indicted for the charge OF
unlawfully selling alco lol.
In two days of the civil term of court just
closed at Bangor, Me, sixteen DEGREES OF di-
vorce were entered Eight of these were for
cruel treatment and intoxication.
The Iowa Supreme Court has decided that
a firm of wholesale hquor-dealers OF st.
Louis can collect for liquor sold TO an Iowa
saloon-keeper in violation of the prohibitory
law.
An official in Texas town recently wrote
| to the local Treasurer asking that his salary
should be sent to his house, as he had not
| been sober enough TO leave home for several
| weeks.
The Hon Carroll d. Wright, the we'll
known statistician, is authority for the state
ment that for every dollar paid in by the
| saloons for their license about S2l is paid out
by the people.
A United States revenue inspector while
| collecting in the western and northern sec
easies" These places are mostly grocery
stores, cigar stores and drug stores.
Some of the Scottish temperance societies
| are organizing Burns Temperance Demon
strationsn in order that the ''name and in
huence of Burns may be purged from the
drink associations which still misinterpret
and obscure them
William Shannon, aged thirty-six years,
was found dead in his bed recently, at Mount
Holly, Pam. He had been given a quart OF
whisky by some strangers, and coroneTs
jury rendered verdict of death from an
overdose of whisky"
Suit was begun by Mrs. Frederick Wehr,
of PorterviIle Penn, against A. w. Mar
shall, a druggist of that place for $40, OOC
damages. Her husband was recently found
frozen 10 death near his home, and she
claims that he got his whisky from Mar
shall.
illinois has the unenyiable distinction OF
being the stronghold OF the whisky power.
The Internal revenue collections Of this State
for the year ending in June were more than
twice that OF any other State-New York
yielding SIG, 565, 522, while Illinois paid S3S
464, 3l2
The temperance people of Toronto, Ohio
after trying all legal means TO drive saloon
keeper out Of town, warned him 70 leave ol
his mouse would be burned down. No atten
ton was paid 10 the notice, so on Tuesday
Of last week the saloon was Quilted by a Dir
OF incendiary origin.
The last day has passed for filing applica
tions for liquor licenses in Philadelphia
Penn. The entire number filed is; Retail
s0l4 wholesale, SOL. Last year 1855 retail
license applications were filed and 1855 wer
granted; while 1913 wholesale Licenses wer
asked for end - were granted. The licens
faa fa1 l,a IA now 21l00