The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-13
TEMPERAMC !!
Continuance of the Crusade.
Report of Progress in Ohio and
Elsewhere.
Now York.

New YORK. Morch l2.-Msurioe
SANDS, owner OF the Harlem distillery.
which sells at retail at Wholesale prices.
attended q temperance meeting LAST
evening 10 the Second Avenue Meiho-
dist church. oi which ne is q member,
and said to his pastor. THAT prayer
meeting Sunday mas killed my bnsi-
meas dead as hammer; haven't taken
in fifteen cents all day" Brother
Sands is expected 70 surrender,
even sooner than already promised,
VIXEN he 6uds other business.
The sisters OF the Secoad Avenue
church have formed q praying hand,
and late in the evening had a oOnsul'
tstion with Dlo Lewis, who With
PbUbe W. Conseus, was addressing the
temperance meeting IL the Bcokmsn
Hill Methodist church.
Delmonico having promised 10 re-
ceive the women politely, they are
now considering tho propriety OF sing.
ing and praying in bis aristocratIo re-
eort. The prayers OF the sisters OF the
18th street Methodist church have
closed the Westside saloon, Another
saloon in Brooklyn was visited BY the
women yesterday, and the proprietor
and his family Joined in prayer in their
private apartments to which the lsdies
had been invited. IL Long Island the
people arc moving actively, and at the
m Getting in Manhssse!t last night, It
was agreed to appoint q holiday when
all the liquor in the tc~n would be
thrown into the sound
Cincinnati.
Ciyc,yEAII, March u According
to the arrangement made yesterday,
five ladies called at David Blacks. for'
mer chiCf Of police OF this city, at No:
II K street, this morning, and ssksd
him to sign the pledge not to sell liquor.
He consented without urging, immedl-
ately locking HE door and taking his
sign down.
Cincinnati,
CIyrIYSATI, March 12.-Ths GG-ths
has dispatches from Washington c. L
denying the report published this morn.
Ing, that 1--WE saloons had started in that
place.
Col. :. O. Fisher, late Commissioner
Of Pateo:s, presided at a mass meet-
ing at the First Baptist church Los
nirht. The attendance At that place
and Wesley Chapel WAS large. One
committee Of ladies reported fourteen
saloons visited. All but
TWO dealers express desire TO
quit business. Another reported vis-
It's TO fifteen places on Main street,
two Of them refusing them admission.
4 guug OF 200 boys and men followed
them, hootiDg and yellilling. but the
police interfered and quieted them, One
of the worst districts in the city, next
to the river, was visited, and the COM
mlttee reports q polite reception there.
All report that they were invited BY
many to call again.
cleveland,
CLEVELAND, March l2.-The interest
in the women's temperance movement
continues without abatement, and
prayer meetings ale held daily in q
number OF the churches. Alsrge mass
meeting was held in the First Baptist
church this evening, and tomorrow q
meeting OF ladies will be held and q
iau OF operations adopted. o
Lafayette, Ind.
LAFAYETTE, IND, March l2.-Thc
temperance excitement here oontinuss
unabated The county commissioners
to day refused six applications for per-
mils, some OF them on mere technical
points Five or sir more will be acie
upon tomorrow and all will probably
be rejected. The ladies are working
earnestly and quietly. The city has
been divided into thirteen precincts, and
committee OF ladies appointed TO cir
culste pledges. Oue OF them is a total
abstinence pledge, another asking
voters 10 sign no more applications for
permits, and the third 3 petition 70
Cc'Trees.