Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
CONDENSED NOTES.

/ Atlantic City has one saloon to every 60 per-
cons.
Belgium has increased the number of beer
breweries by 30
The Chicago Tribune says, "A strike never
hurts the trade in whisky"
There are now 1890 breweries and 4,'9l dis
tilleries in the United states.
Victoria, Australia, in 1893 produced l5,5Ol'-
/ sos gallons OF fermented liquor
The aggregate wealth of eight great brewers
of this city is said TO be S52,2o0,UOa.
{ The Good Templars of South Africa have an
adult membership of 2,199 and juvenile OF
/ 1,4O4.
In Zurich, Switzerland, 2,79O of the insane
patients were aggravated cases of alcoholic In
sanity.
The United Kingdom Alliance annual meet
ing is announced to be held in Manchester,
Oct. %.
There were 1900 criminals convicted in Can
ada last year, of whom 80 only did not use IN
toxicants
The annual meeting of the National w. c.
T. union viii be held in the city of Cleveland
Nov. s TO 81.
There is now Royal Courts of Justice Tenn
perance society, where London lawyers may
take the pledge.
l
three-fourths of our retail liquor dealers are
Roman Catholics"
The Chicago Advance says, THE saddest
thing about the strike was the failure OF the
saloon keepers to go out"
The state prison at Trenton has at the pres
ent time ejS convicts, largely the 1rultloh Oh
the liquor traffic in that state.
The chancellor of the exchequer, England,
recently made statement that the proht5 OF
the liquor dealers were 100 to 800 per cent.
Rev. DR.. Charles S. Thompson of New York
in O recent sermon stated that ''onc brewer IN
New York has GOO chattel mortgages on sa-
looms"
The supreme court of Minnesota has de-
cided that the owner of q saloon Is responsible
if his saloon is open on Sunday whether he Is
present or not.
Baltimore, according to the report of Carroll
D. Wright, United States commissioner OF Ia
Dor, has in its tenement district one saloon to
every 10j persons.
The Woman's Christian Temperance union
of the state of New York will hold its twenty
first annual convention Oct. 2, and In
jamestown, n. Y.
Superintendent Byrnes, head Of the New
York police, says, IF we hunt vice and crime
back to their lairs, we will be pretty sure-to
find them in the ginmills."
The Chicago Lever, referring to the recent
riots in that city, said 1.-THE spirit Of alcohol
was omnipresent, and the police were almost
powerless to prevent trouble"
An Albany jury awarded $1,000 damages to
widow to whose husband q saloon keeper
sold liquor until intoxicated and killed by be-
ing over by the railroad cars.
In New York police court recently wom-
an who WAS sentenced to Blackwell's island
told the justice that that would make her
four hundred and ninety ninth trip to jail
The Montreal Y. NJ. C. a. Bicycle club re-
Quires It's members to agree that while wear
ing the club uniform they will neither smoke
nor patronize any place where liquor is sold.
During the past five years the lecturers of
the United Kingdom Band of Hope union have
addressed no less than Il, l58 schools, at which
1,890956 scholars and 5000 teachers were pres
ent.
OF total of S07 admissions to the Home For
the Cure of Inebriates at San Francisco last
year there were $50 cases of alcoholism, 1873 of
which were in delirium tremens when re-
ceived.
The Scandinavian Sailors Temperance Home
of Brooklyn sheltered in 1893 for an aggregate
of l5S88 days, 1865 sailors, and the directors
paid S43,6Sl.67 for the sailors to their families
in Sweden and Norway.
In Southampton, England. which has pop
ulat1On OF 6o,OJJ, the CONVICTIONS Tor drunken
ness are one in 4O6. In Gothenburg, Sweden,
with population OF lOl, eco, the convictions for
drunkenness are one in -j
The New York Breweries company, much of
the stock OF which is held in England has been
obliged to ask its preference stockholders to
| fund their dividends for three years and the
| ordinary stockholders to be content with moth
! ing during the same period.
The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette reported
recently on the authority of the chief deputy
| in the internal revenue department that fully
! 1000 persons in that city had paid the govern
ment tax the sale of liquor, and most of
| them were keeping immoral houses.
1t is my sincere belief that If the slave
trade were revived, with all it's horrors, and
Africa could get rid of the white man with
the gunpowder and rum which he has in
troduced, Africa would be gamer in hap
piness by the exchange.-Sir Richard Bur
| ton.