Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-10
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GREENETILLE.
YRS. Ward Gets Her License and is
Herself Again.
several Correspondents Contrib ute
Hints About the Social Condition of
GreeneVilIe and an Ugly, Growing
Sat is Iet ont OF the wallet

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GREENEvIiI.E, March 6, nOon.-Yes-
terday, Mrs. Ward obtained renewal Of
her license for twelve months. 1t is said,
that, holding the document in her hand,
she appeared on the front porch of her
saloon, with child by her side, and sung
"glory, glory, halleiujah,' having caught
up the refrain from the ladies who have
sung il so often in front Of her place of
business. This morning Mrs. Ward seems
| exceedingly jubilant over her success, and
has been more than once on her porch, Civ
ing the ladies .'Wee bit of her mind" as
she. expresses it. The country customers
of Mrs. Ward are being embOldened and
some of them press on within her saloon,
needless Of the circumstances of the
ladies. Though certainly having ample
cause for Encouragement, the ladies are,
outYardly, as resOlute as ever. This morn
ing, they are fitting up ! new and large
tent. Mrs. Ward will not permit them on
her pavement, nor within her saloon, so
they have to content themselves with seek
ing signatures TO the total abstinence
pledge, and frequently singing, with an oc-
casional Offering of prayer.
HDECIsIyE sKIRNuSHING.
GREENvILLE, March, Z noon. = Mrs.
Wards saloon is still open, and for aught
there appears to the contrary, win probably
remain open indefinitely. The ladies are
in their tents, which have been repaired,
and keep constant in efforts to secure sigma
lures TO the pledge. This morning about
twenty ladies arrived from the neighbOr-
hood of Home and TCSculum College, to
spend the day in aiding their Greenyille
sisters in fhp crusade
TIT FOR TAT.
This morning young man passed by the
ladies' encanpuient, seemingly destined for
Mrs. Wards saloon. The ladies' stopped
him, talked 10 him affectiOnately and pre-
sented the pledge. Afler some hesitation
the young man signed it and started back.
The ladies then gathered before the tents
and loudly sung, GLORY, glory, hallelujah."
Soon after this, two TOugh-lOOking country
men from Lick Creek, rode up, hitched
their horses behind tie encampment, and
despite the eXpOstulatiOnS Of the ladies.
stalked in Ms. Wards open door, and took
their drinks. As they went out Mrs. Ward
came out on her porch, and loudly sung
the same refrain, ''Glory, glory, hallelujah.'
ROUGH.
There are number Of the ladies' before
the saloon Of Campbell, in the other end of
town. Their experience IS much the same
as is that Of the ladies in front Of Ms.
Wards. II is expected large number of
the Lick creek men VIII be in town to DAY,
and trouble is anticipated, IS they are a
rOugh-and-ready class, and not disposed to
be interitred with, even by the ladies.
There is. it appears, legal aspect being
given 10 the Mrs. Ward siege by some Ofthe
persons prominently engaged in the effort
to close her saloon. IL IS reported that they
are about filing an Injunction in chancery
to compel her to close up. Her friends
scout the idea as having 10 warrant of law,
Mrs. Ward having kept strictly within the
law.
SOCIAL CONDITION OF GREENEVILLE.
Another correspondent under date of the
9th inst, saws: The excitement il Greene
vile is high, a good deal Of bad feeling is
being aroused and it is feared that it will
yet result in something very serious. 1t is
not war between temperance and intem-
peTance. or between the friends of each
cause, but a dispute, as to the best manner
of managing the cause. There are great
many here, who are fast friends of the tenn
perance cause and are anxious to see tenn
perance principles prevail, but doubt the
of the mOdUs Operaadi Of the
ladies.
RADICALIsNI.
AL who do not see proper to sign the
pledge immediately, and chime in with the
plan adopted, are prescribed and de
nounced as enemies to the temperance |
cause. This is not done by the ladies |
themselves, Of course, but by those, or |
some Of them, al least, who have enthu- |
siastically espOused this plan, and some of |
heir proceedings are calculated to give Of |
tense and wound feelings. For instance, |
let gentleman pass along when the ladies |
are assembled, and refuse to sign the |
pledge. no matter how temperate, moral or |
even pious he may be, and they will some |
lines commence singing, "Oh turn, sinner, |
.Un,' or some similar song, which looks a |
little like an attempt at insult
BAD FEELING.
The excitement growing out of these |
things is not only in the town but it is
spreading in the country, and bad things |
are said in the temperance speeches and |
sermons that are delivered against those
hat do not join in the movement.
Another correspondent writing under
late of the Ith says The aCgresSOrs in this /
y at lltlLlltE ItS cNl itl lllph l4Ctttl al We
leutrsilS are met on lie street and askedtO |
sign the pledge-aSkeI, urged and badger
ID. If we do not exactly wish to sign the |
pledge, we are, so far sSthe cruSading ladies |
an control such matters, Ostracised social
", morally aud religiOUSly.
the CAT OUT OF THE WALLET.
la the excitement, the life of SObriety /
md temperance goes for naught with many,
while the libertine and drunkard, of yes
er,lav, is received in everlasting habita-
ions. and all because he has signed ''the
,ledae.n Then again, bad blood is engen-
Tered among the men in town. Those in
ayor of the crusade, cTiminate, and those
imposing, recriminate. / hardly dare, for
he sake of the town, to tell you how very
lnpIeasant and undesirable the social CON
Iition of Greeneville is at present. 1t sur
,asses anything yOu might reasonably sur
Mise.
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