Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-05
SOCIAL REFORMS.
Increasing BxciteneRs In the East-important
Temperance Movements In New York,
Brooklyn, PhiiadeIphis aud Jersey city.

earnest with the opening Of next week.
Last night the Sons of temperance
gathered in mass meeting, when in.
an address, the Rev. w. c. Steele
said that the Mayors wife, the Dis
trict Attorneys wife. Crosbv's wife
and DR.. John Halls wife, conld sweep
the saloons before them as fast rs the
women Of Ohio towns were doing.
On Monday the Seventeenth Street
Methodist Church daily temperance
prayer-ineeting viii begin, and on
Sunday afternoon temperance ex-
penence meeting will be held in the
Forsyth Street Church,
Nearly 200 ladies', of high social
standing, IN Jersey CITY, met ye.ter-
day and organized Woman's Tenn
perance league They are not con-
nected with the ladies praying bands
that visit the saloons Their plan is
TO district the city, visit families, and
urge men, women aud children to sign
the total abstinence pledge.
At mass meeting in Dr.. Cuyler's
church in Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Dir.
Talnage, Dr.. Buddington and Dr..
Duryea will speak. A few evenings
later the Catholic Temperance Union,
OF Brooklyn, will have q great demon
Stratlon in the Academy of Music, M
der the patronage of Bishop Laugh
I'm.
\ dispatch from Philadelphia says
that the womens temperance crusade
IN that city and State continues to be
the absorbing topic. The Christian
dies Of one portion Of the city have
perfected their plans. Between 500
500 women, of the best society. will
take place in the war It is expec ed
that at least 1000 crusaders wll be
enlisted within 2 week. Besides the
women's movement, another will be
started directly, under the auspices oil
temperance organizations. The plan
OF operations will be similar to tia,
adopted in Ohio.
a great public demonstration by
the Catholics Of Jersey City, N. j.
was held last evening, in St. Michael's
Church. Three thousand people were
present, The President of the Cath
ollc Total Abstinence Union of Ameri.
ca, the very Rev. Dean Byrne, Of
Trenton, made most emphatic
speech, Urging the Catholic ci liens tC
arise Immediately and do battle agains;
the great public fog Of American lib
erty and Of the Christian religion.
They owed it, he said, to the honor
of their name, to show how they could
crush ont The great evil that is now
striking terror into the hearts ofevery
American patriot and Christian man
lie called upon them to take the re-
hgious abstinence pledge, as Arch
bishop Manning had done, and a,
Bishops and priests were doing in
this country. The large crowd rose
and then knelt in front of the altar
and took the pledge.
LINCOLN, Neb., February Filth
women's temperance movement still
continues, and their meetings are be-
ing held constantly IN the varions sa-
looms. Yesterday there were thirty.
two ladies in The brigade, among
whom were many young and unmar
rled ones. The saIoon-keepcrs are
treating = m more courtuousiy than
heretofore. The Germans, however,
seem to be the least inpre>slble. Last
night, while they were praying in the
saloon Of MoIat Klentch, he extinguISh
ed the lights, locked them il, and they
were obliged o burst open the back
doors to get out The sal on-keepcrs
are much alarmed, and consultations
are going on among them a. to what
they are to do.
PRINCETON, Ill, February 27.-
The crusaders on the whisky ring
have set the ball to rolling at Henry.
A dispatch from that place, this morn.
ing, states that the ladies' have given
the rumselIers notice that on Thursday
next they viii visit each saloon for the
purpose Of holding meetings
The saloon men express themselves as
being very unhappy, but wilt undoubt-
edly yield to the ladies demand with
ont hinderng them
ATLANTIC. Iowa, February ~
The ladies opened the temperance
campaign here yesterday afternoon,
and visited nearly every saloon in the
p ace. They were received courte.
Gus y by al the saloon-keepers, aud at
one or two places were cordially in
vited 10 "take something" which they
especially declined. No impression
seems to have been made on the
saloon keepers yet, but we understand
that they intend to persevero until
every >aloon in the town is closed.
No prayers have yet been offered in
any saloon, but it is understood that
there W II be tomorrow.
IrHAcA, n n, February 27.-Dio
Lewis aud Others addressed a SYM
pathetic audience here last night. Al
ter the adjournment, circulars were
lett at nearly every horse, urging the
organization Of praying bands.
CAIRO, III February 2I-A won
dertul revival Of religion is in progress
in this city. For nearly two months,
N"ilJ "hN Hi9ht }, 'tIiSiouS IlcctlU9S
have been held in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, under the direction of
the Rev. J. L. Waller, the pastor,
Between fifty and one hundred persons
have joined tie church. Last night
the church was OVERLOOKING With
people, and we learn to-day that The
other churches will be opened at once
tor work. 8.
The temperance crusade is exciting
much attention here, and there is no
telling what day the women may en-
ter the field. 1t IS said they are pre-
pairing for the work, and wien the
time comes Will move forward.
New YORK. February 28.-There
is a pr sP=ct of large attendance
at The mass meeting in behalf of the