A one-legged man carrying a sack of flour, his wife wheeling a baby in a cab, his fatherin-law carrying a codfish-all drunk but the baby, cab and the codfish-was a sight about fifty people witnessed one day last week-Fulton Times.

For intoxication and disorderly conduct Daniel O'Hara, only sixteen years old was yesterday arrested in Greenpoint.

Five men, all intoxicated, near Long Island City ran into and wrecked a carriage containing a gentleman and his aged mother. They were arrested.

Christian Thorsen, a cabinet maker earning good wages, committed suicide by taking strychnine with his beer in a saloon on Forty-first Street.

The son of Judge Duling, of Tennessee, was

I look upon the whole United States as one family. A very large family, it is true. But still, what injures a portion of the family injures the whole. I wish the people of the whole country could see this in its true light.

stabbed and killed while quarelling about a woman. Both men were intoxicated.

A young man at Erie took a lady out riding, got drunk, fell out and was drowned.

Near Norwich, R. I., on Sunday two hundred persons gathered at a mock funeral. All got drunk and an ogre of drunkenness and riot continued all day. The crowd danced, yelled, wrestled and fought. Seven fell down drunk among the trees while their companions danced over their bodies. A haystack was set on fire, a drunken man rushed several times through the fire and was badly burned.

June 3 is Beach Pond Race day. Drunkenness, fighting and horse trading are the diversions.

Daily papers: Mrs. McC- was Licked to death last night at by her drunken husband. (Twelve hundred and ninety-six similar cases in seven months.) Still they grant licenses. Liquor is sold according to

law. Who is to blame?

At 1:30 this A.M., John O'Keefe brought to this station, Charles Chambers, age thirty, of 170 Bleecker Street, whom he found at Bleecker and Sullivan Streets, suffering from a gunshot wound in the left leg above the ankle, which he stated was inflicted by Detective Archibald Hamilton, who was intoxicated and discharged his pistol at random in the vicinity.

One of the finest residences in Cleveland is a big stone structure, surrounded by beautiful grounds, and full of the costliest furniture and decorations. But the owner does not now live there with his family, having been sent to a retreat for drunkards, where he is confined in a barred room.

These might be multiplied sufficient for a thousand books.

Suppose a man had a large family of sons and daughters, and they were all employed in producing useful things, how quickly they would become rich and prosperous. But, if part of his family were employed in making and selling liquor to the others, what then?

IMPORTANT FACTS.

The following Church News is from the New York" World "of Sunday, September 17, 1882:

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There are more than seven hundred thousand Protestants in France."-There are more than three million habitual drunkards.

"One-half the cadets at West Point are church members."-Nine-tenths of the army officers are addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors.

"The Reformed Church in America has five hundred and nine churches and eighty

"Mamma, mamma," said the seven-year-old daughter, "Why does papa stay out so late? I am so sleepy." Mamma hides her face and evades the question. “Go to sleep, darling, God will bless you!" The child sleeps. Enter drunkard, and "with one cruel blow lays his dear companion low."-N. Y. HERALD. Little girl seven years old found wandering about. is dead; papa is in prison!" is all she says.

"Mamma

thousand, one hundred and sixty-seven communicants." America has also two hundred and fifty thousand rum shops with five million communicants to reform.

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The sale of Bibles and other Christian books in Japan is rapidly increasing."-So is the importation and sale of intoxicating liquors.

"In Berlin, with a population of one million, one hundred and forty-five thousand, the church attendance is less than thirtyfive thousand." But the attendance upon shops for the sale of intoxicating liquors is not less than two hundred thousand.

Nothing is more repressive of spiritual growth than the state of rush which is so prevalent among us."-The rush to the liquor saloons is productive of more evil than all else combined.

Did you ever observe what fine strong horses the brewers drive? And have you not seen also that the sale of liquor makes thousands of men rich. Who does the liquor man make the money out of? The very bone and sinew of the country.