Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-03-14

PENNSYLVANIA.
A committee of citizens Wednesday
presented Mayor Stokely with petit
tion with four thousand signatures at
tached asking the enforcement of the
Sunday Liquor law. The mayor stated
that whatever rule was laid down by
the Judges Of the Quarter Sessions he
would follow. He had been waiting
for two years for an expression by the
court. of a rule to guide him in the line
of evidence required to secure the con-
viction of offenders
MASSACHUSETTS.
The Massachusetts Total Abstinence
Society have adopted the following res
olutions:
.sResolced, That inasmuch as women
and children are the chief sufferers of
the untold evils of intemperance, it is
eminently appropriate that the female
sex should take the most active part in
the efforts of the day for the suppression
of this universally acknowledged i'm
morality, and we look with deep inter-
est on the woman's movement i'm regard
to temperance reform and cherish the
hope that Divine Providence will di-
rect and overrule it for permanent good.
"Resoloed, That in the opinion of this
board no great success i'm temperance
reform can be expected till the Christian
church and ministry take a decided
stand on the side of total abstinence
LOUISIANA.
The Times has the following regard
ing the last hours of the Legislature
''The closing scenes of the session were
marked by tumultuous excitement,
which opering out in vigorous strength
early in the evening grew in force as the
hour of adjournment was neared, and
eliminated in finale of such uproar
and confusion that Bedlam broke loose,
or multitude of bowling wild beasts.
could by the remotest possibility have
equaled the effect produced by these
solons of the nineteenth century. In
the House from the hour of opening the
evening session at seven O'Clock the work
was lively, and pandemonilm stood re-
vealed on earth. Never by any chance
were there less than twenty members
speaking at once; and by the same rule
not more than one in twenty pretended
to maintain any familia rity with his
seat, but in a promiscuous tumble all
hands roamed through space, at times
attention of the speaker, at others to use
to point of order, to make a motion, or
to do an hundred other things which no
one but Louisiana Legislature would
think of doing.
NEW YORK.
Four eonvicts attempted to escape
from Sing Sing, Thursday afternoon,
and were fired upon by the guards. One
named Joseph HOPKINS was mortally
wounded and the rest captured.
Committees representing the Reformed
Church in America and the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
South, are holding secret sessions daily,
relative to an organic union. 1t is un-
derstood that the desire is to find some
middle ground on which the churches
can meet without destroyi ing their ident-
ity.
Laborers ON Brooklon reservoir works
struck Monday, to compel an advance
in wages. The Italian portion of the
strikers soon resumed work, when they
were set upon by the Irish and German
portion. A desperate fight followed in
which all the tools were turned into
weapons and several of the participants
were severely wounded. The police
subsequently arrived and arrested the
leaders of the riot, seven of whom were
sent to prison.
The Grand Dukes Opera House has
been closed by the police, owing to the
inability of the proprietors to obtain a
license or to pay five hundred dollars
penalty for giving performance with
out a license to the Society for the Re-
formation of Juvenile Delinquents. The
Grand Dukes Opera was established in
basement in Baxter street. The owners
and performers were boot blacks and
news boys, who brought their playhouse
and its performances to the attention of
the community by voting fhe receipts
of week, sixty dollars. for the relief of
the poor of the sixth ward.
A sad affair occurred in Rochester on
Monday last. Several boys were play
ing together near the river, and one of
them named McCullock, seemed from
his actions to be crazy drunk. Though
only thirteen years of age, he had been
in the habit of hanging around the sa-
looms in the vicinity. He had some
trouble with his companions, and as the
party reached the bridge at Mumford
street, he became quite reckless. He
climbed upon the railing. and ran around
the arches in manner which made the
other lads quake with fear. Two or
three times he tried to throw himself
over the bridge, but the boys pulled him
back. He was determined to go over,
swim this season and was bound to
have one. At last he succeeded in leap
ing into the turbid waters, which bore
him at once to destruction Another
victim to the rum fiend, will probably
| be the verdict of the jury.
| The ladies who have been meeting
in private and praying for the success
of the crusade against liquor, collected
for the first time in mass meeting Mon
day and considered the best course to
pursue to win oyer those church men,
bers who lease their houses to keepers OF
saloons and worse places. Dio Lewis
| telegraphs he wants to be put where he
will do the most good in the fight soon
to begin in earnest there. Women
prayed in the churches on the Heights
in Brooklyn, yesterday. Resolutions
were adopted favoring daily and week.
ly temperance prayer meetings in diff
ferent parts of the city, the circulatior
of pledges among all classes, and remon.
STRANGE with landlords and liquor sci.
lers in bands of six women are to be as
signed to limited number of saloons
quietly to visit and try to persuade
dealers to give up the traffic.
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