Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-07

inc this evening al the tow hall, to see about
building railroad from this city through
Cherry Valley and near Leicester and Spencer
villages to East Brookfeld, by which the route
of the Boston aud Albany railroad can be
Strengthened and several miles in distance
saved There is no doubt hut this will be at
some sacrifice in the grade, but they hope to
find such a route by a new survey as to induce
that road to change its route and pass through
several fouriShing Villages where extensive
manufactures are carried on and which are not
now accommodated by any railroad There is
much spirit manifested, and Spencer will no
doubt join them in the enterprise, aud a survey
will soon be made.
TEMPERANCE CONVENTION IN LEICESTER.
The Worcester Central District Temperance
Union held quarterly session in the town hall
in Leicester yesterday. On account of the rain
there was not a large attendance, yet quite a
number of prominent advocates of the cause
Were present. In the absence of the president,
Deacon j. Mcclellan of Grafton presided, and S.
ID. King of Sutton acted as secrctaiy. After
prayer by Rev Samuel May of Leicester, and in
tr0ductory remarks by the chair Mr. May, from
the committee on resolutions, presented an APP
propriate series, which were were read and laid
on the table for discussion:
The sixth resolution is us follows:
Resolved that we regard the alleged corruptiOns
of the ballot in the late voting upon tine sale of
beer ETC. at Worcester and Lowell A inst consn of
alarm and anxiety, and we recommend that the
tsends of temperance in those localities vigorously
prosecute the investigation to fr'i exposure of
the iauds and eOrrupiOns in question: so us if pos
sible TO render the vote invalid in those wfrds
where .-audr'ent voting is proved.
Before proceeding with the discussion, reports
from the towns were called for, and Mr.. VIM.
Mecorney was called upon to speak for Worces-
ter which he said was rum from top to bottom :;
we had over six hundred grog shops, and the
number was increasing daily. At the last cleo
ton on the beer question, the beer folks got men
to vote on others names, and votes were cast on
names of those who had been dead from three
to five years. The Temperance men were trying
TO have something done to have the voting de-
clared invalid but the city government would
not probably do anything about it. Mr. May
followed, urging the friends of temperance in
Worcester TO pros cute the matter of the Illegal
voting, as did also Messrs. S. S. Foster and Geo
H. Sicans OF this city, the latter abiding to the
alarming increase of beer saloons here of late,
private residences being fit 1 up in various Sec
lions of the city for the purpose.
Mr.. lthel johnson of Webster gave a
favorable account of the progress of the cause
in the various towns comp ising the first south
ern judicial district of the county, all of which
had vOt no by a large maiO,.t y on the beer
question. The results of the good work prose-
cuted by the temperance men and organizations
there had been evinced in the great decrease in
the number of cases for drunkenness before
Judge JillSon, being now only about five month
ly in those towns where there were before twenty
or thirty From various other towns the reports
were not so favorable, though Grafton, Millbury
and Leicester had made some progress, as repre-
scented by Dcacons Mcclellan and G0Odell, and
Rev. MeSSrS. Coolidge and Holmes.
The afternoon was devoted to a discussion of
the resolutions, participated in by Reys. Samuel
May and A. H. Coolidge of Leicester, W. Mecor-
ney and 5. s. Foster of WorceS 3r, Johnson of
Webster, and Rev. j. o. Knowles of Worcester,
all agreeing in the main, in their support of the
resolutions, but Mr.. Foster proposed going a
little farther, and while advocating those pro-
posed by the committee as all light far as they
went, offered the following supplementary resO-
luton, as essential to the completion of the ideas
he would propose:
Resolved that the man who, at this Late day, in
dulges II the use of intoxicating liquors bev-
erage, has no just claim to recognition Chris
tian or a patriot.
Rev. Mr.. Knowles, who spoke at some length,
by special invitation OF the convention, liked
Mr.. Fosters resolution, and agreed with that
gentleman in his remarks as to the necessity OF
the creation of public sentiment favorable to
the thorough execution of the law, before it
could be enforc 4 as it should be. The commu-
nifty should be educated up to such point that
both liquor selling and liquor drinking of all
kinds should be brand as Infamous.
The resolutions were all adopted by a unani-
nous vote, and the convention adjourned after
decidn. that the next meeting should be held
in Mlllbury on the second Thursday in Septem.
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