Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-02-20
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
THE PRAYING CAMPAIGN AsAINSr
WHtskY.

sIRiKiNG SCENES AND INcTDFNre
INV NoRK, February 2a.-nispatrhe. e.....
Cincinnati show that the novel movement OF
the women against the rum-sellers contioaeS ~
spread IN Ohie. In Mount vernon the bo~lins
alleys, billiard saloons, and gambling places sre
all alike followed with prayer. When the war
n 20 be transferred 10 Cincinnati has not vet
uAnspiIed. The Cincinnati sAlOOn-keePers are
loud IN their
THREATS oP Insult.
ehu use OF hose pc upon the women, IN case
,ns,,a ,Sr consultation yesterday, and have APP
pointed next week A. the time for definite
new movement To the ssloops aSreasr ,cioss,
The Cincinnati brewers furnished per dav 40
much a. COO kegs OF beer.
DIMINISHING TIE TRADE
AZ THIS FEARFUL rate l. more than they pronoSe "A
stand quietly. one hundred brewers and
saloon Keepers held a similar secret session in
slsineneld last evening with similar results
sna appointments. In Nenis one OF the most
violent advocates OF tree speech and free rum
has just surrendered. His name l. PhillIns. an1
he wac proprietor OF a saloon called
"THE SHADES oF DEATH~
He swore that he would never succumb % the
power Of prayer. Yesterday he arapzea ~
rum barrels and kegs TO the streets and spilled
their contents upon the ground amid the sOngs
and halleiuiahs OF the enthusiastic women. IN
Athens, where, nine DAYS ago the future looked
20 DARK, IN nine out OF fourteen saloons the pro
Trietors have put UP their shutters. and signed
the pledge. IL T. safe % say that I've hundred
adde's were in the streets yesterday engaged in
the laudable work. Hundreds are sguinE the
pledge. one old msn who has been
HARD DRINKER FoR MANY WARS
sa'd ~ he signed the pledge, 80 rwont 10 anv
good. can't reform; but tor Gods sake, save
the boNs.' There are four praying bands In the
sittets. each numbering nfty ladies, while
smaller parties are visiting families by invita-
non that they may be enabled 10 live better
lives
ABANn oF LITTLE GIRLS
are IN The street singing temperance songs with
tNilhg eject A temperance movement WAS
insugurated in Dayton last n Chit
IHE ANTi-wBtSkN FEvER IN PTTTeRuRa.
PITTsBURG, February - - Premonftorv
symptoms OF the OHIO auti-whisky fever have
shown themselves here. The Iaties have held
two meetings, and are making prepa-ations 10
maugurate a crusade.
HOW THEY DO IN THR BRITISH rROvINcEs-
MONTREAL, February 3O.-In the Ousbsc
temperance and prohibition league, IN session
here, the report OF the general committee yec-
ommends that all ministers OF the GOSPEL deliver
al least two sermons each year 20 their cOngre-
cations on the subject of temperance and that
the congregations hold meetings a. often A.
practicable 20 discuss the subject; that public
meetings be held in all the school houses in the
province for the same purpose; that united
meetings for prayer 10 invoke Divine blessing
on the cause be held by the several denOmina.
tons, ard that at Sunday school teachers be
urged TO impress temperance principles on the
minds of their scholars one delegate assured
the meeting that he had been informed on the
best authority that the subject would be taken
Up by the Dominion government on the meet
ing OF parliament.