Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-28
Progress OF the Great WOmen's Move
ment-What They Have Done,
and What They Expect
TO Accomplish.
New Phases Of the Movement Develop.
ing, and New Localities Be-
sieged by the Praying
Army.
Little Rock Invaded with the PrecurslYe
POstal-Card - Enthusiasm EV.
eryWhere Unabated-
How will it End9
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK, February 27.-The tenn
perance crusaders in New York are
waiting for the storm in the west, and
expect to begin work in earnest with
the opening of next week. | asst night
the Sons of Temperance gathered in
mass-meeting, and in address Rev. c.
w. Steel said that the mayors wife, the
district attorney wife, Mr.. Crosby's
wife, and DR.. John Halls wife, could
sweep the saloons before them as the
first women of the Ohio towns were
doing. On Monday, in the Seventeenth
street Methodist church, temperance
prayer-meeting, will be begun, and Sun
day afternoon temperance-experie
meeting will be held in Forsyth-street
church. Nearly two hundred ladies of
high social standing in Jersey City met
Yesterday and organized a woman's
temperance league. They are connected
with the ladies' praying band that visits
the saloons. Their plan is to district the
city, visit the families, and urge the
men, women, and children to sign the
total abstinence pledge. At a mass
meeting in DIR. Cuyler's church, in
Brooklyn, Tuesday, DR.. Talmage, DR..
Buddington, and DR.. Duryea will speak.
A few evenings later the Catholic tenn
persnce union, of Brooklyn, will have a
great demonstration in the academy of
music, under the patronage of Bishop
Laughlin.
ITHACA, N. Y.
ITHACA, N. Y, February 27.-Dio
Lewis and others addressed a sympa-
thetic audience here last night. After
the adjournment, circulars were left at
Il L fI,o o,,f
zation of praying bands. The women's
temperance movement is fairly started
here. AT nine o'clock this morning the
bells were rung and the people, in large
numbers, assembled at Library hall.
Dio Lewis explained the manner of or
ganizing and conducting the movement,
and short speeches were made by cler-
gymen and prominent citizens. The
ladies of leading families were on the
stage, and also spoke.
PHILADELPHIA, PENN.
New YORK, February 27.-A dis
patch from Philadelphia says the wo-
mems temperance crusade in that city
and State continues to be the all-ab-
sorbing topic. The christian ladies of
one portion of the city have perfected
their plans. Between three hundred
and five hundred women of the best
society will take part in the war. It
is expected that at least one thousand
crusaders will be enlisted within a
week. Besides the women's move
ment, another will be started under the
auspices of the temperance organiza-
tion. The plan of operations will be
similar TO that adopted in Ohio.
JERSEY CITY, Nj,
JERSEY CITY, February ga great
public demonstration of the Catholics of
Jersey City was held last evening in st.
Michael's church. Three thousand peo-
pie were present. The president of the
Catholic total abstinence union of
America, Very Rev. Dean Byrne, of
Trenton, made a most emphatic speech
urging the Catholic citizens to arise and
do battle against the great public foe OF
American liberty and of the christian
religion. They owed it to the honor OF
their name to show how they could
crush out the great evil now striking
terror into the heart of every American
patriot and christian man. He called
upon them to take the religious absti-
nence pledge, as Archbishop Manning
had done, and bishops and priests were
doing in this country. The crowd rose,
and then knelt in front of the altar and
took the pledge.
COLUMBUS, OHIO.
COLUMBUS, February 27.-The ladies'
temperance prayer-meetings are held
daily, and still draw large houses, the
one to-day being the largest of the sea-
son. The executive committee of Ia
dies has been increased to about two
hundred, but still no active campaign
has been agreed on. Mass prayer-meet-
ings-one for men and one for women
are to be held on Sunday.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
INDIANAPOLIS, February 27.-The
prayer cure movement is rapidly taking
shape here. A joint meeting of all the
committees has been called for Monday
of next week. At meeting held last
night it was agreed to copy and publish
all signatures to liquor petitions, and in
case of forgery to prosecute the forgers.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
LITTLE Rock, February 27.-All the
saloons of the city received postal-cards
to-day announcing that unless they
closed by the first of March a COM
mittee of ladies would wait on and pray
in each.
AT OTHER POINTS.
CHICAGO, February 27.-A dispatch
from Ottumwa, says small party of Ia
dies and gentlemen visited the saloons
and principal business places there to-
day, and invited the persons to attend the
revival meetings now in progress, and
promised to visit the saloons again.
At Fort Madisol, a few days ago, the
saloon-keepers received postal-cards
warning them to cease operations, or
they would be visited and prayed with
to-day. These cards were afterward
ascertained to have been sent by some
person as a joke, but, hearing of it, a
number of ladies organized q prayer
band, and visited three saloons and
held services. In each one they were
met by crowd of loafers, who danced
while they sung, and drank while they
prayed, but the women stood their
ground and prayed till the confusion
ceased.
At Atlantic, Iowa, the women have
organized, and will visit the saloons to-
morrow