Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1877 — Temperance in Scotland. [ARTICLE]

Temperance in Scotland.

The Scotch are a sober nation, but they can get drunk occasionally, and it appears from a return just issued that during the year ending June 30 last 54,330 persons were taken in charge in Scotland for being drunk, of whom, however, it fa fair to say that 31,146 were simply incapable, and only 28,184 were disorderly as well as drunk. Of these drunkards Glasgow claims 15,331 cases, and the neighboring burghs GoVan, Maryhill, and Partick contribute 1,983 cases between them, making a grand total for Glasgow of 17,313. These are all returned under the head of “ incapable,’’ there being no such charge as drunk and disorderly in the Glasgow police act. It is, however, difficult to believe that 17,313 persons could have drank themselves into a condition of such incapability that they were none of them capable of disorderly behavior. Edinburgh contributes 6,934 incapable and disorderly drunkards, and Dundee 8,807. The town of Aberdeen shows well on the list, with onlv 596 of both classes; Greenock gives 2,464; Leith, 1,391; Paisley, 1,693; Port-Glasgow, 923; Hamilton, 786; Kilmarnock, 735; Ayr, 699; Stirling, 671; Dumfries, 621; Forfar, 268; Montrose, 226; Brechin, 190; Arbroath, 76;Broughty Ferry, 27; Kirriemuir, 16; Dunfermline, 176; and other places in Fifeshire, 452. Perth County numbers 768, and Perth city 226. The county of Kincardine gives a total of 122, and Kinross County, 5. To the town of Lerwick alone belongs the honor of having no drunkards, of any variety, to figure on the list.— Pall Mall Oatetle.