The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-03-02
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Temperance Movement.

Temperance Movement.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2s. There Is prospect
OF large attendance at the mass meeting
In behalf oi the temperance cause al
Association Hall tonight. Dio Lewis
telegraphs: II charge nothing for my
services In the temperance cause" Hun.
dreds OF tickets have been sold for he
lecture, and temperance adVocates saV
that the success or failure OF the present
movement 10 aid Of the cause In this
vicinity depends in great measure upon
the result Of to-night's meeting. The
charge OF admission 10 hear DIo Lewis
has excited the comment that those en-
gagged In the affair are not wholly con-
cerned In the fate Of drunkards. Harry
Hill, owner ol Houston Street Varieties.
being asked by some women II be would
charge admission fees, writes that he
will give his concert room without any
charge on Sunday next or any other Sun.
day following Tor the use of those really
interested In the cause ol true temperance,
and even more than that l will furnish
the orchestra Tor the occasion and will see
that good order Is preserved. He adds
that II does not look right 10 see people
who have pledged their pockets as well
as their hearts In this work to ATTEMPT
anything that looks like money making
to carry 1t on. | make the offer OF my
room in good faith.
JEFFERsoNvILLE, IND, Feb. 28.-The
women's determined and persistent war
upon the saloon.keepers Of this city con-
tinues. Every day they are re,visiting
them and singing hymns, praying and
pleading with them 10 abandon The busi-
ness Two weeks have passed since their
warfare began, and yet not one saloon has
been closed. The ladies, however, be.
lieve they are arousing a moral sentiment
that will reap rich reward before long,
The Temperance Alliance Stock Com.
pany fund to aid and prosecute the work
has increased to $4,000. The war goes
on with no great hopes oil securing sim
gle saloOn.keeper's signature TO the pledge,
San Francisco, Feb. 29.-The women
Of this city connected with the Methodist
Episcopal Church have resolvedto inau-
gurate a praying crusade. They will |
open the campaign at the Chamberlain
saloon, on California street, the place Of |
resort Of the stock brokers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-Several ladies
residing in Uniontown, near Washington.
assisted by their neighbors, have been in.
strumental in closing one liquor shop, and |
arc concentrating their efforts to suppress
the only remaining one In the village.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 2S-B. Saldefbery.
liquor dealer at Oxford, O., who has
petition pending 10 epjoin the women
from praying in front OF his saloon, sur.
rendered and poured out his liquor. Bells
were rung and great rejoicing ensued, |
Judge Barlow, OF Springfield, has ordered |
the Sheriff to close the saloons Of Lagoon |
da and the Murray Hotel, as nuisances
until the proprietors give bonds not to sell |
spirituous liquors.
NEW HAVEN, March 1.-All Of tho
Catholic congregations in this city united |
at public mass meeting this evening to
promote the total abstinence movement
as prescribed by the Catholic Total Absti.
nence Union of America, which has re.
Gently received the approval of Pope Plus
IN. All the Catholic clergy Of the city
were on the platform, and over 5000 peo.
pie In and around the hall. Rev. DR..
CarmonY presided.
James W. O'Brien, Of New York, Ma.
tional Secretary Of the Union, was the
principal speaker. BE said they had no
faith In the womans' movement. He said
the Union had enrolled $4,000 teetolers
in the past two years, and would have
1000, 900 within the next two years.
During the evening several hundred
men signed the pledge.
COLUMBUS, March 1.-The temperance
prayer meetings to day, one for ladies and
one for men, were largely attended and
intense interest was manifested. The
sense Of both meetings seemed TO be that
It would never do to let the work flag,
but rather that the time had now come
for the beginning Of an active crusade,
Rev. Mr.. Stidham, pastor OF the First
Baptist Church, in his sermon tonight,
earnestly favored the beginning Of street
work at once, saying that while PRAYER In
secret and in the Churches was well
enough, that II any particular work was
TO be accomplished 1t was necessary that
faith and works should be united. Rev,
R. W. Clark, Of Trinity Episcopal Church,
also preached In favor Of q street crusade.
A monster temperance mass meeting will
be held tomorrow evening. and is to be
addressed by Ex-Governor Dennison and
other prominent gentlemen, at which
time the programme OF the crusade will
be announced.
NEW York, March Temperance
meetings were held this afternoon in sew.
eral' churches throughout the city, at two
ot which addresses were delivered by DR..
Dio Lewis. He advocated the same plan
oil procedure as that adopted by the wo-
men In the West, but was Of the opinion
that the women here were not organized
sufficiently to open the campaign at pres
ent, and advised them 10 band together
and make ready for the fray.