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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08
The Womnns' Movement.


Temperance meetings are constantly I'D
in large numbers of the leading towns nd
cities, as well as the smaller places in Oio,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, ito.
While it subsidies nowhere, so far as wean
learn, it seems to be continually deepeing
aud spreading in all directions.
AT Connersville, Ind, all the druggists
have signed the pledge, and the salonisis
are weakening.
Only one slloonist holds ont 10 Bollron.
tanc, o., but his place is so closely lick.
eted that he docs very little business.
AtYorkville, Ill.,, the movement Cos on
steadily. Oae saloon keeper has been iued
SOU loisolling unlawlully.
In Milwaukee, $4,000 has been ub.
scrlbed to erect temperance hal-tbc
Turner's lifl having been closed against
them.
At Otlumwa, Iowa, all the saloons have
ceased selling anything but wine and beer,
though the iempeSnce advocates propose
to stop the sale Of thse beverages.
At Dcnuison, o, theast saloon is closed.
In all fifteen saloons hay, been closed, four
drug store have discontinued selling liquor,
and probibitory ordinance passed by the
Council glory enough for ,wo weeks
work. An enthusiastic iubile meeting
was held Tuesday night
At Ripon, Wis, the temperance feeling
is represented as being at white heat
The saloon keepers now refuse to admin the
ladies for prayer, aud they pray on the
sidewalks. There is to be a temperance
ticket nominated A fund Of sl04, 900
has been pledged to press the war.
The mayor Of Cincinnati having brbid.
den the women to pray upon the sidewalks
or streets, the Gasetie of that city says
Mayor Johnston's first communicate and
later proclamation have acted like oil upon the
temperance fire nowraging in our midst, which,
tanned by the breath OF prayer, has bhad up
into cOnflagration, the like Of which Nnnot
be found in the annals OF our city. 1t has CON
irmed the jealous ladies in their determination
10 strive for the suppression Of the evil Df in
temperance, strengthened those who wee va
cillatiug, and brought scores OF new recruits to
the front The display Of enthusiasm and
earnestness at the Ninth street Baptist church
was Of such gigantic proportions that we hardly
dare attempt to depict il. Hundred, payers
were offered, the doxology was sung again and
again, and recOurce was always had u the
grand old meter when thoughts grew to- big
for utterance.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

The Washington annual meeting Of the
friends of the American Tract Society, was
held in the First Presbyterian church. Sun.
day evening Associated ustice Strong, of
the United States Supreme Court, presi.
dent, presided. John II. Vassar, General
Gordon, of Georgia, and DR.. Rankin de-
livered addresses. The receipts for the year
were s566,629; expenditures, s564,7lo.
Donations aud legacies we're sll6,s73.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

1t is matter for cODgratulation that
the Farragut bounty money is at last 10 be
paid. The whole amount, which is some.
what less than three.quartcrs of million,
is small recompenSe for the services Of
the men concerned 10 the capture of New
Orleans, which dealt such heavy blow to
the confederacy, Many of those who aided
in this great work have gone with the great
Admiral beyond the reach of earthly re.
wards, but it is only justice to the gallant
officers and men who are left that their
claims should be as promptly met as they
are cheerfully recognised.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

The Portland Press puts the truth
in this rather Frenchy but yet forcible
style
an Messieurs lnaationsts to the edge of
VIVA. an abyss you are leading u.s. To the
lnhnlte mercy Of kind providence we owe N
tnat the public has escaped in state of tolera.
Ole ylgor and health from a cruel war bnt
you are making ready for trials that NAV vet
cause US TO look back 10 the war as to haicyon
days, There was something heroic in The
armed conflict, but no light Of patriotism and
glory VIII iliumine the dreary scenes Of uni.
te,1al distress, elyii commotion and hopeless
bankruptcy, for which your imitation Is delib'
erateiy .preparng. The cry OF a maddened
po,puiace Is the most terrific of ali sonnds
Would that you could hear it in ina ination hs'
lore Inc roar breaks in dread reality upon YOUR
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

Tho delegation of South Carolinians
called on the President, Monday of last
week, and laid before him the deplorable
condition Of financial affairs in that state,
and were replied to in speech which was
vigorous and loug-for the President. The
seekers after federal aid were plainly told
that they had a complete state government
which was responsible for the claws, and that
he didn't see how the national government
could do anything to improve the condition
of affairs.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

The CONNECTICUT ELECTION. The result
OF the election in Connecticut, on Monday,
was a victory for the Democrats, Gov.
lngersoll having been reelected Governor,
and the entire Democratic ticket elected,
New Haven and Hartford both give Demo.
cratic majorities. The majority ip the
State is reckoned at six thousand. This
virtually secures the election to the United
States Senate of Democrat 10 place Of
Buckingham, whose term expires next
March. The dose is not palatablc, but per-
haps the medicine is wholesome and needed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

Robert b. Elliott, one of the colored
Congressman from South Carolina, will de.
liver the address at a Sumner memorial
meeting, which the colored citizens of Bos.
ton will hold in Faneuil Hall, the Nth, the
anniversary Of the death of President Lin.
coin. Senator Schurz's eulOgy upon Mr.,
Sumner, at Boston, will be delivered about
the last Of the month.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

Coon FRuIrs. New York Chris.
'iaa Advocate 4. Journal reports, as the
ascertained net result of the Womans' TEN.
perance movement in Ohio, Indiana and H.
linois. as follows; Thirty-seven cities and
towns entirely free from the liquor traffic ;
seventeen hundred and sixty-one liquor sa.
looms closed; eight hundred liquor sellers
not only reformed, but hopefully converted
to Christ.
II = tree is known by Its fruit. who shall
deny that this tree bears leaves for the heal.
Ing Of the nationsf
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

"A few years since Hangman Foote of.
fered $4,000 for the scalp of an abolition.
list. He had fine chance to take one last
week, for he dined with Wendell Phillips at
the restaurant ola Washington colored man.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

Affairs in Missouri are in doporable
condition. The laws of late have been set
at defiance, and murders, robberies, house
burning and various other forms Of crime
have ragged in all their fury. Organized
bands Of outlaws prey upon all classes and
conditions of its inhabitants. The Gov
crnor has just sent message to the Legis-
lature stating that the laws are imperative
in many portions Of the State, and asking
for an appropriation to reorganize the mill
tia. The Lower House has appropriated
$4,000 to bring one gang of outlaws to
justice, and thorough means are likely to
to be put 10 motion at once to rid the State
Of the marauders Missouri is remarkably
rich in natural resources, and the State owes
it to itself on purely selfish considerations
to put an immediate end to these depreda.
tons so as not to check the immigration
going there.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

The California legislature has teen
making some investigations into the land
frauds in that State Though the subject
was only entered upon, it was proved that
thousands and thousands OF acres of land
had been obtained through a systematic
course Of swiudIing by an organized band
of land thieves, and that in many instances
government officials must necessarily have
been accomplices in the robberies Not
only has the government been defrauded in
this way, but settlers who owned improved
farms have been driven from them by these
operations In one instance, says the Sac
ramento Union, ga settler lost a most val.
liable homestead by the forgery and back
dating Of Indian scrip that purported to
have been located on the land before the
settler. The investigation showed that the
Indian had been dead and buried not less
than FIVE years before the date of the issu-
ance of this forged scrip"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08

The jury in the Tichborne case were allowed
three hundred guineas each for their ten months
OF service, or somewhat over 81, 500. They
petitioned in open court, early in the trial, for
two guineas day, and were as good as prom
lsed 1t by the bench, but " the present govern.
ment eoolly observe that they don't find
any record of such promise on the books Of
the treasury, and don't know anything e5out
It, As the jury were picked business men,
whose time was particularly valuable, they
think 1t pretty tough.
when Sumner visited Europe, the first
tune, he took with him letters from Judge
Story AT one time he was invited to sit with
the lord chief justice of the kings bench
During the trial point arose which seemed
novel one, Tb lord chief justice turned to
sumner and asked him II there were any Amer
ican decisions on that point. "No, your lord
ship he replied, :" bat this point has been
decided in your lordsbip's court in such a CASE"
giving him the citation. This remarkable readi-
ness gave him eclat throughout the kingdom.
"A trunk, whose mysterious and sckening
stencil had awakened the drest suspicious, was
recently attended into st. Louis by detectives.
30 horrible was the efluvia that the baggage
master pat out his fire and retreated from tho
car nothing but the assurance that the trunk
contained the evidence Of deed Of darkness
induced him to leave 1t there. The owner was
pointed out and Swallowed to his hotel by de-
lectl'e the trunk was taken to private Office
IND opened by Jimmy. A sight revealed itself
II which the stoutest man fell back 10 astonish-
nent' with his hands over his face an evil
'dor seldom indeed equalled. The trunk held
= horror lit held--balf dozen Limburgsr
'heeses No more.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-25
For The Cecil Wing
LICENSE 100 YEARS AGO.

In reading over some of the writings of
one of England's greatest poets of the last
century, we were not little surprised at
finding the following verses, that are so
aptly descriptive of many towns that may
now be met with in our State that we SUBJ
nit them for publication in your columns,
with this explanation, and your readers can
make their own applications: G.
Pass where we may, through city or
through town,
Village or hamlet, of this merry land,
Though lean and beggard, every twentieth
Conducts the unguarded nose to such a Whit
OF state debauch, forth issuing from the
sites
That law has licensed, as makes Temper
ance reel.
There sit. involved and lost in curling clouds
OF Indian fume, and guzZling deep, the
boor,
The lackey, and the groom. The crafts
man there
Takes Lethean leave of all his toll;
Smith, cobbler, joiner, he that plies the
shears,
And he that kneads the dough; all loud
alike,
All learned and all drunk! The fiddle
screams
Its wasted tones and harmony unheard:
Fierce the dispute whate'er the theme;
while she
Fell Discord, arbitress of such debate,
Perched on the sign post, holds with even
Her undecisive scales. In this she lays
A weight of iuporance. in that of nri6e.
And smiles delight with the eternal poise.
Dire is the frequ ent curse, and its twin
The cheek distending oath, not to be praised
AS ornamental, musical, polite,
Like those which modern senators employ,
Whose oath is rhetoric, and who swear for
fame
Behold the schools in which plebean minds
Once simple are initiated in arts,
Which some may practice with potter
grace,
But none with reader skill It's here they
The road that leads from competence and
To Indulgence, and rapine; till at last
Society, grown weary of the load
Shakes her encumber'd lap, and casts them
out.
But censure profits little; vain the attempt
To advertise in verse a public pest,
That, like the filth with which the peasant
feeds
His hunrgy acres, stinks and is of use.
The excise is fatten'd with the rich result
OF all this riot; and ten thousand casks,
For ever dbblng out their base contents.
Touch'd by the Midas finger of the State
Bleed gold for ministers to sport away
Drink and be mad then, tits your country
bids.
Gloriously drunk obey the important call!
Her cause demands the assistance of your
throats;-
Ye all can swallow, and she asks no more
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-25
In THE SCHOOL.ROOM.
BY EMILY l.. WHITING

The last little foot had battered away,
And sound into silence had faded;
The last good night kiss had been pressed
on my brow,
The room was all darkened and shaded
And !! sat at my desk thinking over the day,
Its tolls and its pleasures, it's labor and
play.
l said to myself-and prayed for His aid
That my work should be holy and pure,
Should be free from all motives unworthy
His name,
From all thoughts that could stain or
allure;
That my teaching might guide to Him who
would hold
These children so dear at rest in His fold.
l prayed that my work might be earnest
and true,
Ever seeking, with tenderesJ care,
To guide them Alright on the life paths
below,
For life more divine to prepare;
That never a precept of mine might be
given
That should lead them away from the
pathway to Heaven.
So said, as l sat thinking over the day,
And prayed the dear Father above
To guide evermore each dear little one,
And encircle their lives with His love,
To help them whenever with life's labor
oppressed,
And at last send His angels to call them
Illinois Schoolnndster.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-25

E8~A country pedagogue in Henry coun-
ty, requested all his scholars to "write
piece under penalty of a thrashing. A
rising genius got off the following:
"Lord of love,
Look down from above
On us poor scholars;
We have a fool
To teach our school.
And pay him fifty dollars"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-25
Amendments to the License Laws
Passed at January Session, 1865.
Chapter 2553, page 4l4.).

Chapter 233, page 4l4}
AN ACT
To add additional section to Article ftysix, of the
Code of Public General Laws, entitled Licenses, SO
to empower trader to sell the license TO trade with
the stock of goods.
SECTION s. BE il enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the following section lie added to Arti
Gle htysx of the Code Of Public General Laws, ent
tied Licenses:
3. Be it enacted, Any trader who has taken out
license to sell goods chatels merchandise, spir
uous, fermened liquors. lager beer, in this State
shall have the privilege to sell out said license to any
party purchasing his stock of goods and purchasing
renting his place of business and the party purchas
ing continue to sell under the license of his prcde
in business until the expiration of said license
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OYSTER and Eating Houses.

The license to he paid by the keepers of oyster and
eating houses is S5050 throughout the State.
Females vending millinery and other small articles
whose stock is not $500, pay license of $3.50 only
but if that amount they required pay the
licenses other personsoaths to be made to
tho of stock at the principal the year
The Clerk shall issue license to any person sell
spirtuous fermented liquors from whom the grand
jury has recommended license to be withheld a
person license been suppressed by Court
without a special order of the Court.
The seth section of the Code, which required
applicant for license to open oyster eating houses
procure the recommendation of two neighboring free
holders and also to make oath before the Clerk Of the
Circuit Court of his county, &c. to the annual value
of house, is repealed.
The above licenses retailers and oyster and eating
houses 60 into effect on the LIST of May
The keepers of every stallion Jack shall
before being permitted to stand station such animal
pay the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Of the
counties in this State the highest which he intends
to ask receive for the of and the
receipt of the said Clerk with the seal of his Court
attached thereto for said shall be the license
staoniDg standing such stallion jack for year
from the date thereof Provided that in shall
the directed to be paid by this section for such
license be less than ten dollars and that every stallion
jack upon which the said paid shall exempt
from all other State tax.
Any owner or keeper statoning standing any stall
lion or jack without a license shall forfeit and nay
twice the authorized and required be paid the
last preceding section, onehaf to the State and the
other half to the informer.
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Chapter $40, page 6l2, Act of 1861
AN ACT

To repeal Act entitled An Act to regulate the ssr-
ing of license for the sale of spiruous termented
liquors within the borough of North East in Cecil
county, passed at January Session. eighteen hundred
and sxtyour, chapter three hundred and rtyeight
and to enact the following in lieu thereof
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Act entitled AN Act 10 regulate
the issuing of license for the sale Of srtuous fer
mented liquors within the borough of North East, in
Cecil county, passed at January Session. eighteen hun
dred and sixtyfour chapter three hundred and forty
eight be and the is hereby repealed and the fol-
lowing enacted in lieu thereof:
SECTION >. And be it enacted That the Judge of the
Circuit Court for Cecil county shall before the first day
of May in each and year after the passage of
this Act furnish to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Cecil county, the names of two persons householders
in the village of North East to whom and to whom only
the said Clerk shall issue ordinary license, to vend
fermented and spirituous liquors. which person shall
comply with all the provisions of the Code with
to ordinary licenses.
SECTION. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
W. W. SCOTT,
Mar. IS, 1S-4-5w. Sheriff of Cecil county.
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Licenses to Ordinaries and Tav-
ern.K eeners.

The license to ordnarieS and tavern keepers to sell
spiruous and fermentsd liquors. lager beer in guam
titles less than pint, at time rs follows
Provided that the applicant shall first lie recommended
TO the Clerk by two respectable freehoders of his I'M
mediate vicinity and shall make oath before said Clerk
that he has bona fde land without intending to evade
the requirements of this artce provided and
maintain six good beds with sufficient covering therefor
and three than sufficient for the private
of said ordinary keeper, with stahling and proven
der for five horses least and if said applicant resides
in the city of Baltimore that he has provided and
poets to maintain twelve good beds with covering
aforesaid. and six rooms.
The said applicant is also to make oath before the
Clerk the of rent annual value of the house
in which the business to be authorized by the
license may be done, or intended to be done.
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The applicant must either mako oath, as heretofore
before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county
where he is engaged business of the amount of goods
kept hand at the principal season of sale or the oath
may be administered by Justice of the Peace, when
the person wanting license applies through an agent
If the latter be adopted the following form will
be deemed a sufficient compliance with the act:
Cecil County, to-pt:
On this - day of - 1874, before the subscriber,
Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and
for said county, personally appeared and declared
that he intended to apply for traders license, under
the second of the Act of January Session. 1855
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil county, and
that the amount of the stock of goods gener
ally kept on hand by him Tor by the in which
he engaged in it be Partnership at the princi
pal of sale Tor if the applicant has not previously
engaged in such trade that the amount of goods which
he intends to keep &c. does not Tor will noD exceed
s..
Sworn before
II the oath be administered before Justice of the
Peace of the county in which the application is
made there must be attached the certificate of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court of the county in which the Justice
resides.
Persons may sell salt to flesh in March, April and
May without license Vendors of cakes and venders of
beer and cider who makers of such beer and cider
ager beer excepted not required to pay license"
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EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY j. l.. HANNA.

The Educational column is conducted in the interest
Of teachers of public schools. Such facts concerning
individual schools are likely To interest the public,
encourage pupils. aid teachers in securing good
discipline and progress together with articles upon the
subject of common school education, furnished by
pnblshed.
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Chapter AS, page s6S.)
AN ACT

To add to the tenth section of Article So of the Code of
Public General Laws subsection requiring license
to enable any person to act as Real Estate Broker.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That there ba added to the 10th section of
Article fftysix of the Code of Public General Laws
sub section to read as follows:
SUBSECTION l. Anyperson applying for the same and
paying the sum of fifty dollars, obtain license for
carrying the business of Real Estate Broker and
individual, co-partnership firm who shall carry
the business of Real Estate Broker without license
shall be subject TO the penalties imposed upon other
Brokers by section seventeen of this Article.
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Chapter lis, page 33S.)
Az Arr

AN act
To amend section of Article ftysx Of the Code OF
Public General Laws entitled - License relating to
the issuing of licenses by Clerks of Courts.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland
That section of Article ftysX of the Code of Pub
lie General Laws entitled License, be amended and
re-enacted 5 to read as follows:
All licenses shall be granted by the Clerk of the Cir
cult Courts Of the counties and the Clerk Of the Court
of Common Pleas in the city of Baltimore except where
different mode is specially provided, and all licenses
granted by the said Clerks shall expire the first day
of May thereafter except licenses for fisheries and
horse licenses and if granted for part of year ratel
bic shall be charged therefor
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NOTICES., &c.

Maryland That the following section be and the same is
hereby added to the Fftysixth Article of the Cod" OF
Public General Laws, to follow the second section
thereof:
Any license may be obtained by partnerships or firms
we'll b, Individuals but in all the names of
all the partners of any firm shall he set forth IN full in
the license and license shall protect person
tending to under the unless he Is named therein
is entiteda representative assignee under the pro
visions hereinafter contained this article, and the
Clerk issuing the license shall upon the record of
license the full of all the members of copar-
nership To which such IA license is issued
SECTION 9 And be it enacted That this act shall take
effect the thirtieth day of April next.