Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-04-24
vote. OF the Temperance Crusade.

Our Western exchanges, says the Boston
Journal, continue 10 TEEN with the reports
OF the doings Of the women engaged in the
temperance movement, and there appears
10 be no abatement either in the zeal Of the
workers or the extent aud effectiveness OF
their labors. At Dayton, o., they have kept
at work, in spite of their failure in attempt
ing TO make the question political issue.
At Chillicothe the street work iscontlnued,
and petition for prohibition has been for
warded to the Constitutional Convention,
with 1850 names attached. Al Utica, o.,
all the saloons have been closed. In Indi-
ana the work seems TO he spreading. At
Lapofte several saloonists have surrender
ed. At Fort Wayne enthusiastic mass tenn
porance meetings have been held, and the
daily prayer meetings are Kept up with UNI
abated interest. At Goshen the work has
Just commenced. AT Muncie all the sa-
looms but two have been closed. At South
Bend number Of prosecutions have been
instituted 10y the women, and some Of the
saloon keepers have been imprisoned. At
Richmond, Shelbyville and Columbus no
material changes are reported, but the work
is progressing.
In Ia number Of Illinois towns the move
ment is at its hight. Among others are
mentioned Aurora, Rockford, Urbana,
Jacksonville, Kankakec, Bloomington,
Quincy, la Sale, Peru and Dwight. At
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, anti-license petitions
are actively circulated by the ladies. At
Rcedsburg in the same State, the utmost
enthusiasm pre- walls, and large number Of
signatures to total abstinence pledges have
been obtained. In Milwaukee the move
ment is taking shape, and though II has
been confined thus far to prayer meetings
and the circulation of pledges, is is thought
probable that street work will soon be be-
gun.
AT SchoolcraGt, Michigan, the women
have won a complete triumph, and every
saloon is closed. The drug stores have
given bonds TO sell only on physicians pre-
scriptions. At Kalamazoo the street work
has just commenced. At Lyons, st. Johns
and Howells, Michigan, the movement has
been inaugurated. At Marshalltown, Iowa,
after three weeks spent in council and
prayer the women have commenced their
work. A large temperance meeting there
one evening last week was addressed,
among others, by James Fisk, ST., father
of the isto James Fisk, and the words OF
the venerable old man had mark effect
upon the audience. AT MacGrcgor and
Waterloo, Iowa, the crusade continues with
undated interest, and at Cedar Rapids II
has just begun.
The records from which the above notes
are condensed are found in single days
issue of three or four Western exchanges.
1t will be noticed that they are widely
scattered, coming from six different States,
and over thirty towns and cities. AS a one
days record-incomplete at that--of what
the women are doing in the Western towns
against intemperauce, it is instructive and
interesting. Willing prophets have pre-
dicted the speedy failure aud dissolution
of this movement; and some persons are
coming to the conclusion that it is already
over. But the indications clearly are that
the women are terribly in earnest; and
their work in one phase or another, il act
ually spreading and gaining ground.