Daily Colonist (1874-06-16) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1874-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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San FbanoiSOO, June 15.—The stoamor Great Republic brings Yokohama dates to May 23rd:

The Govorumont after countermanding tho Formosa expedition was compelled to resume it as tho troops declared positively they would go and refused to obey all orders to tho contrary. Tho Government took the mutter in baud and sont them to Amoy, where it was intended thoy should remain till the Government heard from tho special envoy sent to Pekin on this particular business, Thia plan was changed and nows readied Yokohama on tho 23rd of May that the expedition had just tended at Formosa without opposition.

Thero is a decidedly improved ohange in tho demeanor of tho Japanese Government towards all classes of foreigner;*.

Eighteen Japanese, wrecked on tho coast of Coria, wcro bchoadod because, thoy wore Japanese,

Tho Coreans aro building forts and drilling troopo for defense against tlio Japanese. '

Eastern States-

New York, Jnno 15 — Special correspondence from Charleston says: South Carolina has moro criminals in offico than any other State, and that official records show one-third of the persons holding minor positions havo been indicted for offences during their term of oflieo.

A Famous Octogenarian— Unpublished Reminiscences of Dickens—A Remarkable Plea for Total Abstinence, y^/ty

Gcorgo Cruikshank, the veteran caricaturist, has been lecturing on temperance in Manchester, England. Ho said ho recollected gontlemon coming to dine occasionally at his father's houso, and ho was often surprised on coming down stairs of a morning to find somo of them rolled up in the carpet in au extraordinary matter. His own father took much drink and shortened his life by it. Ho shortened his Jife by the fashion of tho day, and left him uneducated. He had deter miner!, if possible, to show to the world tho oviln of drink, and, when he became an artist, to paint a series of pictures which would show the oilects on society. He had watched the effect, both among tho higher and lower orders. Ho had gone much among the lower orders and had studied them, and he found that among them thero were no thieves without drink.

He believed that though whon a man became a teetotaler it did not make him perfect, still thore was not among total abstainers one single house-breaker or garrotor, and no cases of brutal assault or of murder were to be found among them. With regard to religion and education, he could tell, from many instances that ho had soon among okrgymen, that religioner education, even education of the highest class, was not altogether a protection from tho ovils of drink. He could tell awful stories about ministers of the Gospel, but the explanation waa that drunkenness was a species of insanity. He had been told by those in charge of lunatic asylums about London that very fow would be in those institutions but for drink. Alcholic liquors were recommended to keep up strength, but what kept up his strength?

He had not taken a drop of wine, beer, or spirits, or of any alcoholic drink, for twenty-seven years, and ho would bo eighty-two next September if ho livod till then.

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