Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-02-28
Very truly yours,
G. w. ANDREWS.
NoRrH LEw1sBURG, Feb. 16, 1874.


over 20 years experience the reputation
of our village for drinking and drunken
ness You know also, that few places
are so highly favored with so many no.
ble christian men and women. Urbana,
Mechanicsburg, West Liberty, Belle
fontaine and Marysville, about qui-dis,
3ant from our town, have contributed
very largely to our shame and disgrace
ful ANNOYANCE. by the young men they
r,ou in upon us every Sabbath, some OF
whom are representatives of the ELITE
of your eity,
But. thank God, the time has come
Cor our deliYerance from this burning
shame and terrible crime. The tidal
wave of the Womau's Temperance Ke-
form has reached US. In the name OF
our God We have set up our banners.
Unconditional Surrender is our
watchword. Oar weapons are not car
nal. but spiritual, and mighty through
Cod. Our faith is strong. The pres
ence of the Holy Spirit is with us in
power. and in liberty in song and pray
or such as | never before witnessed or
felt. The whole community is most
profoundly stirred. Now is the ordeal
Of Indictment in the Temperance reform.
The wavering are becoming strong
those who have not been known or
identified as Temperance men, are en-
listing under our banners. The respec-
liability of drugstore teetotalism Is be.
coming terribly damaged. Some OF
Them have manifested an unusual con-
Germ for the fair name and piety OF our
rood women, lest they should sing and
Drav to be heard OF men.
God bless our heroic women. They
have felt this curse in the blasted hopes
and ruin of their loved sons; in the DIS.
honor, burning shame, wretchedness and
poverty of a drunkards home. Just
like their noble natures, which have en-
dured with such long-suffering these
hnrdens-for curses at home, they re-
turn songs in the dram-shop-for the
robbery of their peace, comfort and qui-
Of. their thrift and their very homes,
they return prayer. :,
Go on mothers, daug hters, sisters
heapina Goals of fire upon the guilty
heads Of respectable rum-seliing drug
pists, and the more open but less dan
lterous saloon keepers We have opon,
ed the campaign. Rally we towns ana
villages of old Champaign, and contin-
lie the war until this devastating curse
shall be driven from our midst.
A. U. B.
TEMPERANCE IN SrRINGFIELD.-Ihe
Temperance feeling is up TO fever heat
in Springfield. The large Temperance
meetings which have been held in the
city for some time past, were followed
by daily prayer meetings, and on the
18th inst, the entire day was occupied
with a prayer meeting, changing lead
ers every hour. This meeting was
largely attended, most of the business
houses being closed.
The ladies Temperance phaianx is
now fully organized, and daily visit the
saloons in the city, singing, praying, and
appealing to the dealers to quit their
rn;nous aud destructive business. Last
Saturday the city was literally crowded
With neople from the country and else
where, to witness the novel scenes trans
wiring No pen can adequately de
scribe these scenes. They must be
seen to appreciate their force and pow,
er The liquor dealers OF SPringheld
mnst have hearts of stone, if they can
LONG withstand the tears, the entreatles,
the singing, and the prayers OF the army
of ladies that are after them. May their
noble efforts be crowned with entire
success.
Among the many thrilling incidents
attending the Woman's Temperance
movement, reported in the Cincinnati
Gazette, from numerous towns in the
State, we give the following description
of a scene in Hillsboro':
Turning corner on last Saturday
forenoon, l came Unexpectedly upon
some fifty women kneeling on the pave
ment and stone steps before this store.
A daughter of former Governor of
Ohio, was leading in prayer. Surroun-
ding her were the mothers, wives and
daughters of former Congressman and
legislators, of our lawyers, physicians,
bankers, ministers, leading business men
of all kinds Indeed there were gath
cred there representatives from nearly
every household of the town. The day
was bitter cold. A piercing northwind