CONSUMPTION OF DISTILLED SPIRITS, WINES AND MALT LIQUORS.

Quantities of distilled spirits, wines and malt liquors consumed, and the average annual consumption per capita of population, in the United States during each of the fiscal years from 1875 to 1893, inclusive.

*Since 1886 includes domestic spirits exported and returned. +Product less exports. NOTES.-1. The production of domestic wines from 1875 to 1892 was estimated by the department of agriculture. by Mr. Charles McK. Leoser, president of the Wine and Spirit Traders' society, of New York, and other well-informed persons, and the production for 1889 (opposite the year 1890) is that officially reported by the United States census. 2. The consumption of domestic spirituous and malt liquors from 1875 to 1892 was obtained from the reports of the commissioner of internal revenue. 3. The consumption of imported liquors and wines from 1875 to 1892 was taken from the official returns made to the bureau of statistics by collectors of customs. 4. In computing the quantity of sparkling and still wines and vermuth in bottles, five so-called quart bottles are reckoned as equivalent to the gallon.

SALES OF MALT LIQUORS---1888-94.

The Brewers' Journal for October publishes the following statistics, compiled from the report of the commissioner of ir 'ernal revenue, of the sales of malt liquors in the various states and territories and in the leading cities of the country for the year 1894, as compared with the six preceding years. For the first time in eighteen years there is a decrease in the sales of malt liquors. The states showing an increase are Missouri, Texas. Rhode Island and some others. The six states in which there has been the largest decrease are Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan. The net decrease for 1894 as compared with 1893, is 1,038,273 barrels:

STATES AND TERRI-
TORIES.

1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. 1893. 1894.

* Incr❜se

over '93.

Alabama...

Alaska.

Arizona.

Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. 14,900 18,075 30,713 39,095 36.385 44,284 37,438

-6,846

California.

Colorado...

Connecticut.

369 777.797

139 722,110

-230 -55,687

185.328 -46.364 252.726 8,387

13.546 -717

33,914

34.779

34.755

45,561

47,643

54 637

1,888,697 2,002.858 2,182.678 2,608,916 2.935,686 3,392.912 3,310,298 -82.614

110,447

112,329

493,087 563,572

576,547

636.808

174,339

112,470

615,576 -21.232 134.676 5.285

15,285

9,700

302,895

294.947

360.130

122,860 135,407
497,306 518.414

194,637

541.641

1,010.576 1,017.191

953,467

526.226 519,913
317.642 313,074

540,426

216.565
554,324 603,161 631,227 608,856 -22,371
990,435 1,127,109 1,241,431 1,244,780 3.349
604,557 632.399 717,593 661,567

356,655 -3,475 257,418 286,909 268.867 -18,042

-56,026

325,819

99,095

-47

364.433 374.966 415.791 391.572-24,219 1,539,752 1,649,112 1,801,693 2,038.393 2,038,902 2,075,238 2,174,313 26,437 32.180 33.233 37.277 36,868 41,213 41.166 124,158 136.681 129,916 146,341 138,035 156,457 164,220 7,763 7,598 9,576 5,873 6,665 6.639 3,965 2.721 -1,244 353,505 327,193 397,983 365.280 443,143 404,240 363.833-40,407 1,312,266 1,353,615 1,498,288 1,609.350 1,790,808 1,911,540 1,903.291 -8,249 5,008 5.625 5,985 6.802 6,566 6,676 4,579 -2.097 7,890,181 8.139,282 8.435,111 9088.103 9,488.301| 9,826,898 9,677,265 -149,633 2,201,689 2,113,772 2,301,413 2,636,668 2.634,446 2,720.975 2,612.176| -108.799 49,654 63.802 87.782 94.190 88,297 102,905 68.939-33.967 2,496,386 2,364,924 2,658,195 3,118,248 3,129.394 3,535,493 3,447,288 -88.205 75.754 74,378 80,266 101,379 133,075 159,426 190,049 30,623 13,810 9,040 5,136 5,279 9,571 4.292 102,115 82,872 -19,243

-408,502 2,450 2,728 1,673 -1,055 24,569,682 25,098,765 26.820,953 30.021,079 31,646,476 33,822,872 32,784,599 -1,038,273

385,988
515 965
873,974

379,178
393,707 395,303 302,473 313,499 291.033 -22,466
481,943
537,993 540,951 559,401 567.711 533.704-34.007
867,039
833,278 865,416 987,561 1,022,856 1,038 434 15,578
1,327,358 1,340,449 1,508,144 1,702,106 1,788,285 1,827,222 1,824,972 - 2,250
462,985 466,206 492,873 590.788 602,310 662,667 637,181 25.486
1,366,769 1,490.850 1,673,685 2,034,696 2,634,860 2.761,714 2,656,994-101,720
1,089,002 1,049.979 1,115,053 1,251 848 1,222,905 1,310,782 1,200,719-110,063
332,155 320,008 356,284 439.064 443,985 521,810 453,402 -68,408
277,592 261.913 278,953 320,893 326,813 385,423 349,398-36.025
196.457 200,916 231,718 214,233 360,130 222,616-137.514
1,286,121 1,364.980 1,527,052 1.877.157 2.066,592 2,153,096 2,029,893 -123,203
878,869 889 557 1,003.524 1,015.542 1,103.840 1,161,019 1,042,297 --118.752
182.579 206,121 199,059 257,418 286,909 268,867 -18,042
4,244,791 4,253.759 4,257,978 4,448.314 4,573.019 4.833.960 4,986,148 147,188
1,409,478 1,296,458 1,458,846 1,705,915 1,658,529 1,759,922 1,758.090 -1,832
301.304 289,784 338,387 433,443
341,796 427,926 427,533
407,675 478,432 479,217

514,080
509,234

429,452 583,499 433,610-149,889 563 071 591,158 605,183 14,025 569,976 511,937 483,521 -28,416

1,407,744 1,496,527 1,613,215 1,824,950 1,849.282 2,042,300 1,974.038 -68,262

Troy. N. Y.

187,361 202,870 235,707 231,011 248,089 245.793 -2.296 236,805 230,472 246,488 276,069 273.349 920.261 256.808 -33.453 191,133 194,447 215,406 183.033 187,770 193.347 5,577

* Numbers marked with a minus sign (—) indicate a decrease.

HIGH AND LOW LICENSE.

The following table, compiled by the New York Voice, shows the number of arrests in the high and low license cities for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

*Municipal census of 1892. victed only.

+Including 541 wholesale liquor houses. The number con

§ Includes fourteen months.

Nine months only.

The following table, compiled from extra census bulletin No. 70, shows the amount received from saloons in licenses and the amount paid for courts and other purposes, made necessary very largely by the retail liquor traffic:

Tennessee makes $22,923 profit on its penal and reformatory institutions.

MILITIA FORCE.

The militia force of the United States according to the latest returns received at the office of the adjutant-general, United States army, for the year 1893.

*Includes general staff, signal corps, hospital and ambulance corps, naval brigade, cadet corps, etc.

No organized militia.