Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-03
The Temperance Movement.

The Temperance Movement.
New YORK, March 1.-The cause Of tenn
perance was discussed to day at Fulton street
nrayer meeting. The Methodist ministers also
paid it special attention. The first temperance
prayer meeting, of i series, in tue Seventeenth
street Methodist Church, was held to-day. The
ladies also held session IN the Church Of the
Strangers, coucoctlug measures Tor the down
fall of the saoonists. Another meeting was
held tonight at residence in Fdurteenth
street. Al ctt'Jrt will be made to secure the
uuoccupicd Broadway theatre for the central
place OF meeting, Mrs Dr. Martin, of Brock
Iyn, one Of the leading temperance advocates,
proposes to fluid six good-ooking young ladies
and train them for the temperance work.
PHILADELPHIA, March no dcmonstra-
ton by the temperance crusaders Is reported
to-day. The general feeling here Is adverse to
this course of action. Mrs. Gof one OF the
leaders, is reported as having said to-day that
another course is contemplated As for her
self she is iu favor Of the ladies going in
groups Of two and three, and having personal
Interviews with the saloon keepers. The CO.
iorcemcnt of the Sunday liquor law is about to
be inaugurated here.
To-day the Methodist ministers held meet
ing, aud appointed a committee to inquire and
report what measures Can and ought to be
taken for the thorough entorcrman mt OF the law
torbiddng the sale Of Intoxicating liquors on
the Christian Sabbath.
ST. Louis, March 1.-The saloon-koepers Of
Jefferson city have been notified that II they
do not close their saloons by Wednesday they
would be visited and prayed for in tie Ohio
style.
INpIANAp0LIs, March "A meeting of two
or three hundred ladies was held this morning
at Roberts Park Methodist church, and COM
mittees appointed to complete the organization
and to canvass the entire city. An cxamlna-
ton Of the petitions on file in the commission
CIR office for permits to sell liquor discloses
the fact that many DamcS attached thereto are
those of persons long since dead, as we'll as Of
those who are doing State service in the North
ern penitcntiary, aud the larger number are
names of prominent citizens, which are claim
ed to be forgeres. The clergy Of the city give
the movement their unanimous support.
DAYTON, Ohio, March 1.-The women's
praying league this morning detailed number
of praying committees, OF three or four each,
who occupied the day visiting Among 800
saloons none surrendered. Some were willing
to quit if paid for it; others if provided with
other BUSINESS but were resolute against sob.
citation. Where permitted the ladies kueeled
and prayed They are not discouraged by their
experience, but are more determined than ever.
a mems mass meeting to reinforce the wo
mems corps 'armee will be held tomorrow.
To-day three new saloons opened.
COLUMBUS, March At ladies temper
ance prayer meeting this afternoon pledges
were adopted for citizens, property holders,
dealers, physicians and druggists.
4 - loI
appointed to select appropriate hymns to sing
during the crusade.
A summary Of the temperance movement IN
Ohio from sixty towns and villages shows that
10 ten towns liquor selling has been entirely
six places in which liquors have been sold arr
closed, aud that the work everywhere goes on
vigorously.
Whi>key dealers here say that the trade be-
gins to feel the effects of the movement.
At a meeting of the police commissioners
Mayor Bull offered resolution, which was
adopted asking the City Council TO pass re-
solution prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating Ii
quors, aud pledgiDg themselves to see that
such an ordinance is enforced.
WORCESTER, Mass, March IA mass meet
ing this evening to inaugurate a new temper
ancc movement was attended by two thousand
persons Much enthusiasm was manifested.
Speeches were made by bio Lewis and clergy
men OF the city.
OMAHA, March 2-The womens crusade
agaius. the liquor houses continues. At Lin
coin twelve hundred persons assembled 10 the
opera house last night, iu obedience to tenn
pcrance CALL
NASHVILLE, March AT an election held
in Paducah, Ky, to-day, vote was taken on
the question of suppre<sing the drinking sa-
looms of that city. There was considerable cx-
element, aud both the whiSkcy and anti
whiSkey parties worked well. The whiskey
men were victorious by about fifty majority