Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-01-21
From he Western Recorder.
Temperance IN Quincy, &iIihois

s,atemsut relative TO the cause Of lem
nersnce in this city. In the first place,
when ! was sent to Quincy by the Con-
ference, there had not been, for near
Two wears, Temperance meeting of a.
nv kind, held in this place, if we except
| the stated meetings Of small Division
of,be Sons. who were growing "bean.
,ifully less" Nov, my good brother,
dont think me growing egotistical, be,
cause the pronoun II" is jo,ted down as
| a starting point; for it had to be used in
This instance, as at first | stood alons'
not that there were no temperance men
there. they had given up oil effort in des.
pair. The I, as above remarked, gave
notice that an old fashioned Temper
ance meeting would be held, on a given
night, and ali effort made to form 30
ciery for the propagation of Temper
cnce. The night came, some halfa do.
zen attended, and | was told nothing
could be done. I called another, with
about the same success, and was reques.
ted to give it up as useless, But perss-
u.re was my watchword. wrote noti-
ccs for the Pulpit and the Press, every
prospect sill gloomy, until in Decem.
bsr is52, some noble men came to the
rescue, and wc formed society Of foe.
The names were Joel Rice, Benjamin
f. Prentice, Mr.. Story, Eli Engls and
YOUR humble servant i. Resolutcly we
| went 10 work. Through the agency Of
Brother Rice, in calling the attention of
citizens through the columns OF the
Press, and the untiring energy of B. +.
Prentice, our President, our weekly
meetings began to increase in numbers
und we met with more rless success in
obtaining signatures to our pledge until
E,Washiugton's birthday, 22nd February
isls53. 0nthe evening of this day we
had tremendous gathering, and OBJ
,ained ITO names to the pledge; and on
the following weekly meeting, we re-
ceiyed 1870 names.
Fe So we progressed, with more or less,
| Il was going TO say success,) triumph,
until the fourth ofJuly last. We devo-
ted this day ,o,a Jubililic Temperance
Celebration. bbelieve, Brother Editor
I.llhaye coined. the word sjnbilitic, but #
ITshave; pafdonSme and 1'llTproceed.-
Wall Sir nm that day we formed such
! procession q, 8 o'clock A. NJ, as for
numbers the citizens had never before
seen in Quincy. There were at least
TWO thousand men and women. The
Ladies l hope will excuse me for not
naming them, but the women are SO
!oyeablc that | lost sight Of the ladies.
70 be sure. ! have been informed a
great many ladies were gazing at US as
we passed. In adli,ionto the two thou
sand men and women, there were up
wards of seven hundred children. We
marched through the principal streets,
with music, to the ground where our
stand and seats were erected. There
were upwards of four thousand people
in attendance on the ground. The De-
claration of Independence was read, at
ter which the balance Of tho day was
passed in Temperance speaking and
singing. The result of this days labor
was $50 names TO the pledge.
For the last few weeks we have been
holding meetings with our German
friends. We hayo obtained some fifty
names among them. We now number
some fourteen hundred strong, and the
best of all is, some who were prononn,
ced without hope, have remained firm
to the pledgcI und are induslriously en-
ipIoyed earning support for their once
neglected families. a.@
"l stop the Press" as the printers say
to announce new feature in the Tenn
perance movement a man and his
wife from Iowa have been stopping ut
tho Gault House here; yesterday he got
drunk, and lost about 800 dollars at one
Of our robbers roots, Yc!ept Coffee
Houses. His wife followed him last
night to tho den, with an iron poker in
her hand, and very politely requested
the DEVILS agent who kept tho house,
not to lie, her husband have any liquor.
But as these gen,lemou(l) always do, he
laughed ut her and ordered her out
She then, to his utter establishment and
dismay, commenced operations upon
his bottles, pitchers, glasses and grog,
as fer as she could reach, The grog
mau raised club to strike her, but Mr..
Sharpe stopped that game, aud the wo-
man finally succeeded in getting her
drunken husband away. Next morn
ling wiz: ,oduy,)ho got loose from his
better half aud made his appearance ut
The rumselIer's again, and the grogman
told him that Mr.. Sharpe had his mon-
ey, &c. Mr.. Sharpe heard Of this new
charge and walked up to the grogman's
and told him llo must retract what he
had said, or he would break up the
whole concern. The rummy declined.
/ Shurpe then told him if ho wished to
arm himself or get any help, TO go und
do so, for ho would wait mtil hc was
ready. The rummy went out, procured
| , cluh returned. and ordered Sharpe