The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-28
NEW YORK.
The Temperau, Q Cru.sders.

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New YoRK, February q The ten.
persnce crusaders 10 New York are
patiently waiting for the storm from
the west aud expect to begin WORK in
earnest with the opening Of next week.
Last night the Sons Of Temperance
gathered in mass meeting 10 an ad-
dress Rev. William C Steele said that
the MAYORS wife, the District Attorneys
wife. Mr.. Crosbys wife and DR.. John
Halls wife could sweep the saloons
before them as the first women in Ohio
towns were doing.
On Monday in the l7'h street Aetbo-
dist church, a daily temperance prayer
meeting will be begun and Sunday
at,erooou a temperance experience
meeting will be held In Forsyth street
church.
Nearly two hundred ladies OF high
social standing, OF JERSEY City, met yes-
terday and organiz-d a Women's Tenn
perarce League. They are not con.
uec,ed with the Ladies Praying Band
that VISITS saloons. Their plan is to
district the city. visit families and urge
men, women and children to sign the
total abstinence pledge.
At a mass meeting in Dr.. Cnylers
church. in Brooklyn, next Tuesday
Dr.. Talmage, Dr.. Buddington, and DR..
Duryea will speak. A few evenings Ia
ter the Catholic Temperance Union
0 Brooklyn, will have a great demon"
8 ration in the Academy Of Muse, urs
der the patronage Of Bshop Laug hl r..
A diepatch from Philadelphia says
that the women's temperance crusade
in Thirteth and State streets continues
to be the all absorbing topic. The
Christian ladies OF one portion OF the
city have perfected their plans. Be-
tween 800 and 500 women o. the best
soc'ety will take part in the war 1t 10
expected that at least 600 crusaders
will be enlisted within a week Besides
the uomen's movement another ia to
be started directly under the auspices o.
. temperance organization on a plan OF
operation which will be similar TO that
adopted in Ohio.
A crest public demonstration by the
Catholics OF Jersey City was held last
night al ST. Michaels church. Three
thousand people were present. The
President OF the Catholic Total AhstI-
nence Union OF America, Very Rev.
Dran Byrne, Of Trenton, made most
emphatic speech urging the Catholi;
citizens to arise Immediately and do
battle against the great public foe OF
American liberty and OF Christian rell.
giou. They owed it TO the honor OF
their name to show how they could
crush out the great evil now striking
terror into the hearts OF every Amerl-
can patriot and Christian man. He
called upon them to take the religious
abo,iesnce pledge as Arch -Bishnn Man:
n,ng bad done ard as Bishops and
Priests were dong in this country. A
large crowd rose and then kuelt in front
Of the altar and took the pledge.
Dn-i.I Hrcw serI"usIy III.
The Egsainy Post learns that Dauiel
Drew is seriously i'll at his home in this
city.
Alta meeting Of the Geographica'
Society las; evening J. J. A MacG .hon.
the only C william that entered Khivs
with the Russisn expsi tion conquest
mad. an address. He vas followed by
General Sherman. who recounted some
Incidents in h,s trip TO Caucasus. and
eaid that Rlssla would be the means ot
civiliz ng all Asia
The Cass "f Judge DorreIi-1 1mpoI-
iaus Tes imO"y OF Mrs. Ga'"~'.
A Washington dispatch says that
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines, OF New Or
leaus, has been before the sub commit
tee on the case o., Judge Durrell, and
that her test mony is regarded as o.
such character as 10 require the
prompt presentation ot Art cles OF i'm.
peachment Mrs. Gaines, il seems had
a conversation about Durrell with Der
lawyer, Stone, who "a d, He (DnrrelI)
will SIT upon your Case and decide ln
YOUR Iavor upon certain coodluons,
which are: Sheriff Parker retains in his
hands S2l .OpO Tor making streets
in the property litgsted 'or
tv the Urion Company, the heirs o.
Cavalier and Davenport and Mrs
Gaines Durrell can arrange it il you
will give him $4,000; nine thousand
dollars you can have, ard the remain,
der is 10 be given 10 the above namtd
heirs. and every other lot in the two
sousres designated is also 10 be given
to Durrsll. Subsequently, at the
house Of Norton, assignee in bank
rup cy, Mrs Gaines met Durrel', who
wien asked why be could not Ct in ber
cases, ref .rrei her 10 Morton Meeting
that official he said to Mrs Games that
| il she would consent u rbe proposition
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