The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-03-09

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, tha
sober man In quaint. old Melrose, Scotland,
is the exception.
The town of Union. Me-, boasts OF q
citizen who in three days drank twenty-stx
gallons Of cider.
New York consumes 80, 000, 600 barrels OF
beer annually. The rate OF increase Is
5000, 600 barrels year
The value of the food products OF our
country for single year Is about $500 co.
600. The cost of alcoholic drinks Is about
81, 49,, 600 900. ,..... -,.ss.s
Every lawyer in jackson, Miss, has been
retained to defend druggists OF that city
who have been indicted for the charge or
unlawfully selling alcoaol.
In two days OF the civil term Of court ju3t
closed at Bangor, Me-. sixteen DEGREES OF 9i-
vorce were entered. Eight of these were 1or
cruel treatment and intoxicatlon.
The Iowa Supreme Court has decided THAT
a firm Of wholesale iquor-dealers q St
Louis can collect for liquor sold to an Iowa
saloon-keeper in violation OF the prohibitory
law.
An official in a Texas town recently wrote
to the local Treasurer asking that mis- 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
oh iQ no
by the people. ,-.s
A United States revenue inspector while
collecting in the western and northern sec
tions of Pennsylvania discovered $500 speak
easies." These places are mostly grocery
stores, cigar stores and drug stores.
Some Of the Scottish temperance societies
ale organizing Burns Temperance Demon
strations" in order that the name and In
fluence 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 quart OF
whisky by some strangers, and coroners
Jury rendered a verdict Of death from an
overdose OF whisky"
Suit was begun by Ms. Frederick Wehr,
of Porterville. Penu., against A. w. Mar
SHALL druggist OF Gnat place, LOT ptu,oVo
damages. Her husband was recently found
frozen to death near his home, and sne
claims that he got his whisky from Mar
shall.
illinois has the unenviable distinction OF
being the stronghold Of the whisky po yer.
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 $685.
464. 3lo.
The temperance people OF Toronto, Ohio,
after trying all legal means to drive saloon
keeper out Of town. warned him to leave or
his mouse would be burned down. No atten-
ton was paid to the notice, so on Tuesday
of last week the saloon was Quilted by fire
OF incendiary origin.
The last day has passed for filing applica-
tions for liquor licenses in Philadelphia
Penn. The entire number filed is: Retail,
3Ol4, wholesale, 56l. Last year 1853 retail
license applications were filed and 1858 were
granted; while 1918 wholesale licenses were
asked for and 53S were granted. The license
faa fo~ l>-<s ~l>saaa 10 now &11n0.