2. That w e arc in favor of the repeal of all laws
granting licenses to Saloons, or for the sale of
or other Intoxicating liquors by the drink, or w hat
is commonly culled tipplinu. and for a law presi ril>
>u/ HVUIb-h peindilci ior the violation of tiie same,
so that IntoT.cating liquors cannot b 1 sol-.Ux q t
in certain prescribed qUant.t ■' say of a qyurl or
more, mid that not to b? drank on the premises of
theaelier,
3. That we are opposed to the form ilion of a pro-
hibiiiun political parly in Tennessee at present, but
are still in favor of keeping this great moral ques
tion free from the mire of n >litics, and to this end
have re peetfullv requested each of the great ]>olit
iciil parties of the state to engraft the foregoing
principles in their platforms at the next meeting of
their state conventions.
THE Clior REPORT.
AV.\miin’GTON, November 10.—The depart
ment of agjicu’-ture reports the yield of corn 19.9
bushels per acre on about 5,000,090 acres, reported as
abandoned before ripening, on the acreage planted
the average w ould be I>.<> bushels per Acre, the same
ft« in issl. Tiie corn surplus states average slightly
Lss than In INM, thirty-one other states in r . The
tinal ncurd w ill be ch mged only by slight adjust
ments. All acreage is counted that was allowed to
ripen, the crop, h »wcver, small. The averages of
some of the states of larger production areas Di
lows: New Yurk, 35 bushels; Pennsylvania, 32;
Maryland,‘27: Virginia. 17.5; North Ca'rolina. r:.i;
Georgia.il; Texas. 17; Tennessee. 21. Kentucky,
I**.3; Ohio, 25; Michigan and Indiana, 2"; Illinois.
