Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — TEMPERANCE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

No liquor is to bo sold on the lands of the Rugby community. When Gen. Grant turned down his wine-glass, the act was scarcely the muscular force of a cradled infant; but the moral force he put into tbat act has turned down a million glasses.—Ex. The Chartreuse liqueur, of which the exiled Carthusian monks who are settling at Brighton are the manufacturers, is said not to admit any dilution of its strength, and to be so powerful that an ordinary wine glassful intoxicates. A temperance congress, under the auspices or the New York state temperance society, will be held in Cincinnati, December sto 12. Mass meetings are announced, and ministers are requested to presch temperance sermons Sunday, December sth. The progress of temperance principles and customs, even in fashionable circles, is marked by the fact that, at the banquet of the Bar Association of Cleveland, the other evening, at which several hundred ladies and gentlemen sat down, no wine was on the table, and none was obtainable. —Signal. Rev. Dr. Newell,of New York, says: “I know of a father in this city who had eight sons. He said to them: ‘Drink moderately, my sons, and it will be well with you; in immoderate drinking lies the danger.’ The father lived a moderate drinker; but his sons became sots, and forty of his descendants have found drunkards’ graves.” Moderate drinkers, sweeten your next glass with that fact.