The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-03-06

City Hotel, and asked the bar-keeper, Doc
Sample, if they could hold religious services
in the saloon. He replied in the negative, and
commenced disrobing himself, taking off his
coat and vest, and remarked: Ladies it's
about my time to battle" The ladies there
upon retired, feeling assured that Sample
designed insulting them in the most shameful
manner. The news of the occurrence spread
like wildfre, and soon a large crowd of citizens
collected in and about the hotel deter
mined to avenge the insult. The excitement
was intense. and threats we're freely made to
attack the house and lynch the brute, but at
the earnest solicitation of the insulted women
the crowd finally dispersed without committing
any violence.
At Coshocton, Bucyrus, Dresden, Della
ware, Dayton, Shelby, and other Ohio towns
there is no abatement in the energy and en-
thusiasm of the crusaders. In the latter town
knitting parties have been organized, who visit
the saloons and spend the evening. At an
immense temperance rally in Dayton, the
question was put as to whether ladies' should
move on the saloons or not, and every person
in the church, male and female, arose
to their feet to signify that they
we're in favor of it. The German pa
per in Dayton has issued an inflammatory
proclamation, calling ON Germans to organize
a regiment to "resist the rapid encroachments
upon the laws, civil liberty, liberty Of con-
science, and the domestic hearth" This Is
;ptarprokoI nj M oktap,nk = ~ oo~ro tl,a u,op,on
but they won't scare worth q cent. In SPRING
field, Ohio, the ladies' have fitted up the Epis-
copal Church as permanent headquarters. 1t
is furnished with q kitchen. beds and toilet
conveniences. The City Council having passed
an ordinance prohibiting the women from Wis
iting the saloons, they have been going about
the streets for several days, praying and sing
ing on the sidewalks and in the cutters. In
Columbus, Ohio. the friends Of the temper
ance movement have been holding a series Of
meetings to encourage the good work.
In Indiana the crusade is spreading, the
movement having been started in several
W during the past week. The work has
been fully inaugurated in Richmond. At
some OF the saloons the women have been ad-
mitted, and at others they have been turned
away. While a praying band was kneeling in
the snow in front of a saloon in that town, the
other day, many in the crowd jeered, and one
man dared to make insinuations against the
purity Of the ladies' character. This was re-
scented even by the Incorporate men, who
threatened summary vengeance could the per-
son be found out. This conduct upon. the
part Of some Of the saloon-keepers is rousing
the entire city to indignation and co-opera-
ton.
At Lincoln, Neb., q saloon-keeper forcibly
elected the women from his house. They
then fell upon their knees in front Of the sa-
loon, and vowed a determination to haunt him
day and night till he gives up the business.
In Sturgis, Mich, the crusaders have
achieved a great victory. Every liquor estab-
lishment in the town has been closed, the
proprietors signing a pledge to forever abstain
from the Ubiquitous business.
Tn temperance advocates in New York are
moving, and the Legislature is to be asked by
monstrous petitions to pass q local prohibition
law.