Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-03
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
WHAT is BEING DONE AMONG ITS AD-
vOCATES.


long abstainer.
The license fee in north Denver has
been raised from S400 to So, 900.
There are 703 societies connected with
the Scottish Band of Hope union.
The British Postoffice Total Absti-
nence society numbers 5000 members.
The penitentiary population of Kan
sas has fallen off 60 per cent since 1880.
An antitreating bill was recently de-
feated in the Massachusetts legislature
In 1898 the United States had one
liquor dealer to every 272 of the popula
tion.
The Rev. DIR. Theodore l.. Cuyler has
sailed for Europe for an absence of sew
eral months.
New York state is credited by the in
ternal revenue department with As, 56G
retail liquor dealers.
In Charlotte, N. c., city ordinance
has been enacted filming minor S25 OH
being found in saloon.
Fifteen brewers and vino merchants
in Great Britain died last year, leaving
between them $50, s33, 500.
Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt Of Bos-
ton, who has been spending the winter
in Honolulu, has returned.
The Iowa legislature passed bill
prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors
of less than 16 years of age.
The Century Magazine proposes to
make on its own account a thorough in
vestigation of the liquor traffic
In Liverpool recently $50 temperance
sermons were preached on what was OBJ
served as Temperance Sunday"
The distillers of the province of On
tario last year used 4S, 5S1, 600 pounds of
corn and 8, SS3, 900 pounds of rye.
In the late state election in Rhode Is
land the prohibitory party vote was
2,217. The vote of 1898 was 3, EGG.
A recent shipment of California
brandy to Germany consisted of 163, 454
gallons, valued at wholesale at SOL, 997
The prohibition town of Pullman,
Ills, with population of 1000, gets
along with q police force of two mem-
bers.
Within the limits Of the Toronto
presbytery there are 800 licensed hotel
keepers, six for every Presbyterian min
lister.
By a recent order of the state attor
ney general every place for the sale of
liquor in Fort Scott, Kan, has been
closed.
A giant cask recently set up i'll wine
hall in Paris is nearly 23 feet high and
holds about $50 hectoliters, or 20, 452
gallons, of wine.
Pauper lunacy in Scotland, says Mr.
Wallace, inspector of poor for Govan,
has increased very considerably during
the past 20 years.
Timothy Hogan, who died recently at
Poole, Ireland, in his ninety y-third year,
took the pledge from Father Mathew
and never broke it.
The grape and orange growers near
Tallahassee have now decided to enter
upon the manufacture of wine from
grapes and oranges on large scale.
The women of Huron, S. D., have
caused the arrest of the chief of police
for not enforcing the laws and closing
up the saloons and other dens of vice.
The British Army Temperance asso-
SIooioii eiiif' yNdi " 81
of So, 500, which is included in the army
estimates, to help defray its working
expenses.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, has a wholesale
brewer as a member and chairman of
its board of education and poor out
look for scientific temperance instruction
in it's schools.
T,, t~o lrcf,-r or
court Charles Johnson of Wichita, Kan,
has filed suit against DR.. Leslie Kee-
ley of Dwight, Ills, for 500, 900 for
ruined health.
The leading brewers of the province
of Ontario have recently formed them
selves into an incorporated body called
''The Brewers Association of the Prov
ince of Ontario.
Thomas Whitaker of Great Britain, a
prominent temperance lecturer 81 years
of age, recently offered to run race
with any one who frequented public
houses for the same period
A single brewery in the northwest
provinces of India, where many are suf
fering from hunger, daily uses an amount
of grain to form malt for beer that
would feed 20, 900 each day.
There is an organization of girls in
Cromwell, Ia, the members of which
have pledged themselves never to marry
a man who in not total abstainer from
liquor, tobacco and profanity.
The fourteenth annual national tenn
perance camp meeting under the aus
pices of the National Temperance soci-
ETY. will be held at Ocean Grove, N. j.,
the first days of August, 1894.
So many accidents have been caused
by drunken employees ON the Trans
andes line in Chill that the directors
have decided to discharge any one who
shall be caught under the influence of
liquor.
The president of the Ohio Wine and
Spirit association announced at its an
nual meeting that every member of the
Ohio legislature had been interviewed,
and all agreed that there would be no
legislation hostile to the liquor inter-
eSts.
1t is currently reported, says The
Brewers Journal, that Governor Till
man of South Carolina, the enthusiastic
advocate of the "dispensary" system of
retailing malt and spirituous liquors, is
candidate for the senate of the United
States.
The grand lodge of Good Templars of
England had membership Nov. /,
1892. of SO, 1872; admitted, reinstated