TOTAL NUMBER OF CHURCHES IN THE COUNTY.
CHURCH BUILDINGS AND DENOMINATIONS.
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SENTENCE OF SALOON-KEEPERS.
Hon. N. M. HUBBARD, District Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Iowa, in passing a sentence upon some liquor-dealers for violation of the prohibitory law of the State, said:
"While there are greater crimes known to the law which are punishable with great severity, are none which involve more of those qualities known as despicable meanness and audacity than the selling of intoxicating liquors.
"There is something in the taking of human life by violence so instantaneous that it shocks and terrifies the minds of all, and yet we look upon the man who takes human life quite as surely, but by a slow, lingering process—if not without condemnation, at least with horror. You who stand before the court for sentence are in