FERMENTED AND DISTILLED LIQUORS, STATISTICS OF (ante). An account of the liquor traffic in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1872, based on the internal revenue report for 1872, and the census returns of 1870, shows the following figures: Number of distilleries 3,132 Number of breweries .. 3,421 Number of licensed retail dealers.. ........ 161,144 Number of wholesale dealers 7,270 Sales of retail dealers, est., $5,000 each $805,720,000 Gallons of distilled liquors produced .... 69,033,533 Barrels of fermented liquors.... 8,039,969 Total, imports added, gallons .... 337,288,066 Total cost • . 735,720,048 From the official report of the United States internal revenue department for the year ending June 30, 1879, it appears that the revenue derived from distilled liquors in that year was as follows: Brandy distilled from apples,• peaches, or grapes $919,052 53 Spirits distilled from other materials 46,790,411 30 Rectifiers' special tax 160,123 21 Retail dealers 3,903,036 24 Manufacturers of stills, and stills and worms manufactured... 3,525 85 Stamps for distilled spirits for export 17,212 20 Warehouse, rectifiers', and dealers' stamps 292,907 90 Interest on tax upon spirits -74,899 48 Total revenue from distilled spirits, year ending June 30, 1879 52,570,284 69 Revenue in the same year from fermented liquors 10,729,320 08 Total revenue from both kinds 63,299,604 77 The National Temperance Almanac for 1880 says: The select committee of the British house of lords lately made a report in which it was stated that the amount expended in that country for intoxicating liquors rose from £84,222,171 in 1860, to £147,288,759 in 1876. The consumption of alcohol as a beverage rose from about four gallons per head
in 1856 to nearly double that sum in 1875. From other sources it is learned that in the year ending Sept. 30, 1878, licenses were issued in the United Kingdom to 2,641 common brewers, not licensed to sell beer by retail; to 99,337 victualers; to 28,453 keepers of houses where beer may be drunk on the premises, and 6,691 where beer may not be consumed on the premises. Licenses were also granted to 14,948 victualers and 7,158 keepers of beer-houses who brew their own beer. The quantity of malt consumed by common brewers during the year was 50,302,815 bushels; by victualers, 6,704,340 bushels; by persons licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, 2,868,767 bushels, and by persons licensed to sell beer not to he drunk on the premises, 594,083 bushels. During the year ending on the 31St 1879, 58,543,252 bushels of malt were made in the United Kingdom, and the duty charged amounted to £7,939,099. The total amount realized for brewers' licenses was £411,831, and the declared value of beer exported from the United Kingdom was £1,918,886.