Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-23
The Temperance Crusade.

THE war against rum is still being prose
cuted in various sections of the country with
varied success. At Pittsburgh large meetings
are being held and the street prayer move
ment has been attempted, but with poor sue
cess . At Fort Wayne the women are making
it hot for the saleon-keepers, having begun a
large number of prosecutions for violations
of the Baxter law. The prayer movement
has been fully inaugurated in Kalamazoo,
Mich. If this remedy fails, sterner measures
will be adopted. The ladies of Lansing,
Mich, have abandoned the prayer-cure'
and are now devoting their atterl-
ton to committee work. 49,. The work
still goes on in many Ohio towns.
but with Indifferent success as regards the
closing of saloons. At Worcester, Mass, the
work is being vigorously pushed. The wal
has spread into Maine, and enthusiastic tenn
perance meetings are being held in Bangor and
other towns. The ladies OF Mllwau,
Zee, Wisconsin, are busily engaged III
the work Of circulating pledges. Temper
ance mass meetings are the order OF the day
in Chicago and Cincinnati.
AT Lafayette, Ind, the saloon-keepers al
refuse admittance to the ladies, and Their
PRAYERS are offered on the sidewalks. The
prayer movement has opened in Oshkosh,
Wis Large temperance meetings are being
Foreign.
THE London Times Calcutta correspondent
telegraphs that the distress from the famine
is increasing in Tirhoot, and that, according
suffering from starvation -. The report
comes from Spain that Marshal Serrano has
made overtures for peace to the Carlists,
which have been defantly rejected. =.
THE French Government has practically
taken the position that it can do no wrong.
A circular has been issued prohibiting news
papers from making attacks upon the septen-
nat, and declaring that President McMahon's
powers are incontestible. The septennat, OF
term for which the Presidents powers were
fixed, was . measure of questionable expedi-
ency and some of the more independent OF
the French papers were disposed to advocate
it's repeal. But discussion of the measure
is prohibited. and Mcmahon must be permit
ted to exercise those powers unquestioned
The Ecclesiastical bills have passed the
upper house of the Austrian Parliament, and
all the Bishops have withdrawn from tina!
body.
HoS. JOHN JAY, United States Minister to
Austria, has sailed for home.
OVER fifty workmen were recently killed by
an explosion in a coal mine in Lancashire
England. The remains of DIR. Livingstone,
the great naturalist and African explorer
reached London on the 18th of April. The
day was one of solemn parade and mourning
in that city Archbishop Llorenti, of Cuba
has been sentenced to imprisonment or ban.
ishment from the island. The trial of Arch
bishop Ledochowski, of Posen. for violation
of the ecclesiastical laws, resulted in convic.
ton, and he has been sentenced in contu.
maciam to dismissal from his see.
THE Spanish authorities in Cuba have sen.
fenced to death an American named Dockery
al agent who was in Havana on business in
connection with the settlement Of property
claim, under the protection of special treaty
-. Another ocean steamer is reported lost
the French steamship Amerique, en- rost,
from New York to Havre-which sank when
within 100 miles of Brest, France, on the
14th. All on board we're saved, except the
second officer. The total gross revenue OF
the United Kingdom in the year ending
March 3, 1874, amounted to Ell, 1886. 900, ex-
ceeding Mr.. loves estimate f3, 574, 900. The
total gross expenditures for the same year
we're $76 1880