Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-09
A COEUMN OF IT'S.
Notes That Will Interest Our
Readers
The National Temperance. Advoeate's
Compilation of a Months Progress
IN Prohibition and Temper
ancs WoEk.

/ -OuI FOsUDJ DTltlbn Troops IN l00lA.
| Is, 600 are teetotalers.
! There were 1851 commitments to
the Massachusetts prisons in 1892.
"A local option bill has been intro
duced in the Minnesota legislature.
! -Four saloon keepers were recently
elected aldermen IN Syracuse. y. y.
The city of Ithaca. y. V. with I3.-
900 population and 30 saloons, has voted
! no-license.
The Norwegian Total Abstinence
society has about 100. 900 mem bers In
S53 local unions.
In Sweden. out of 30 towns. II have
adopted the Gothenburg plan of dealing
with the liquor traffic.
/ lied lodge of Good Templars at Win
| terthur, Switzerland.
Queen Victoria possesses large wine
cellars at st. James Palace, Windsor
Castle and Buckingham Palace.
! The Brewers Journal for March
/ gives list of nine well-known foreign
brewers who died during the preceding
month.
| milwaukee, sent len refrigerator cars
decorated with flag, and iilied with
beer for the inauguration at Wash
/ ington.
-Medford. Mass, which had gone
for license for eleven years, at the re-
cent election voted for no license by
/ 791 to 1856
/ l1ls u IL
res for drunkenness in London are at
the annual rate of one to every 175 in
/ ha bitaEts.
! Tile average amount received from
grocers licenses for the sale of liquors
in Scotland and ireland the last five
years is E43,O0
The borough of PenargvI. Pa,
elected an entire prohibition ticket at
recent local election. Roversford. Pa,
did the same.
-Saloonkeepers and liquor dealers
took prominent part in escorting
President Cleveland to the capitol on
Inauguration day.
-Tammany took to Washington
from New York 17.2So bottles imported
beer and other Refreshments" for the
Inauguration trip
The Akron Iron company, with a
force of $50 men in their rolling mill.
estimates that drink decreases the pro-
ductive power of their men fully - per
cent.
The president of the South African
republic never takes wine or spirits. II
would be fortunate if as much could be
said OF the president of the American
republic.
w. T. Stead, of the Review of Re
views, referring to British politics
says: The Unionists stand to win,
and they have staked their chances on
the publican"
The governor of Texas asks the
legislatuae of that state for a state ine-
briate asylum. 1t would be still better
to ask the legislature to abolish legal
lied Misunderstanding.
Count Leo Tolstoi. who spent his
time and fortune a year ago in alleviat-
ing the sufferings of the starving Rus
slams, asserts that drunkenness was one
of the great causes of the famine.
The New Bedford. Mass, chief Of
police, by direction of the prohibition
mayor, recently raided the largest drug
store in the city and seized six sleigh
loads of various kinds of liquors.
DR.. Danford Thomas, of London.
says he holds annually over 200 inquests
on infants suffocated in bed. most Of
the fatalities occurring on Saturday,
and generally by intoxicated mothers.
Tho Chicago and Milwaukee Brew
ers' association have fitted up hand
somely furnished rooms, including bill
lizard tables, smoking-room, etc, in
which to entertain their friends during
the Worlds Fair.
Investigation by the Swiss Federal
council shows that the Swiss consume
$4,000, 900 litres of brandy yearly, and
that in consequence the number of men
fit for military service is decreasing
Max Leob is trying, through the
Court of Common Pleas, to compel the
usually willing excise board TO grant
him license to sell liquor in the Flor
ence building in this city, under the
Fourth District Court.
The New York State Brewers and
Masters Association requests the
brewing trade generally to aid in Sc
! curing the passage of Senator Roesch's
bill to compel excise boards to grant
license in no-license towns.
A bill recently introduced in the
Pennsylvania legislature. and which
ought to pass. provides that persons
addicted to the use of Intoxicating Ii
quors shall be ineligible to any office
erested by statutory provision
The liquor men of Vermont have
made test case for the Supreme Court
against the prohibitory law, claiming a
violation of their rights by the State
under the 1&th amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States.
-All-night liquor licenses for Carne-
gle Music hall and the Leaox lyceum.
of this city, have been agreed upon by
the Aldermen's Excise committee. and
await the approval OF the full board and
the mayor TO become operative.
O-Rev Alfred Edward Ormond,
} Harris, vicar of Stoke, near Rochester
England, was recently found guilty, il
: a Court of Inquiry. under the Clergy
Discipline act. of drunkenness whit.
: conducting two funerals and one divin
service.
Bishop Vincent recently rendered
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