The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-02-22
The Temperance War In New
YOrk-The Saloon Keep
ers organizing.
The New English Cabinet-End
OF the AShantee Wharf.-The
President Of HOndu.
raS BeSIeged.
WashingtOn's Birthday to be Oh.
served by Congress-
Death of a Noted
Jockey.

New York, February 2l.--Rev
Henry Ward Beecher said to his con-
gregation last night that history would
not show a parallel to the effort now
being made in the West to suppress
dram drinking, which he character
lied as the scourge of the household.
1t is an evil that has defied legislation,
but now, under the providence of God,
there has arisen modern cyclone, a
perfect tempest of influence.
A praying crusade against saloons
will begin tomorrow, in this city, at
Alderman Bruch's.
Staten Island began the war yester-
day, the women taking advantage
of the absence of the proprietor to pray
in his saloon. The women of Orange,
New Jersy, begin to-day.
The strike of the cap makers has
ended, the manufacturers and work
men agreeing to price list from seven
to ten per cent under what was ut first
demanded by the operators.
Washington's birth day being q legal
holiday the gold room, stock exchange,
produce exchange, etc, will be closed
on Monday next.
Boston, February 2l.-The Supreme
Judicial Court here decided the women
can be members of the school COM
mittees. .E
The petition of the steel consumers
to Congress contains the names of
three hundred and fifty prominent
manufacturers in all parts of the coun-
try, who represent over one hundred
million of dollars capital, and employ
ing more than five million hands.
New York, Pennsylvania, New Eng
land and the Western States, are large
ly represented in the document, Their
object is reduced and specific duty on
steel.
PHILADELPHIA, February 2l.-The
ship carpenters and coopers have re-
sumed work at $3.50 per day.
LONDON, February q. The follow
ing list of members of the new cabi-
net is official:
First lord of the Treasury, Disraeli;
chancellor of exchequer, Sir Stafford
Northcote; first lord of admiralty,
Ward Hunt; Secretary of state for the
home department, Richard Ashton
Cross; for foreign department, Earl OF
Derby: for colonial department, Earl
of Carnarvon; for war department,
Guthrew Hasty; for India, Marquis of
Salisbury; chancellor. Lord Cairns;
lord privy seal, Earl of Malmsbury;
lord president OF council, Duke OF
Richmond. Lord John Meyers is APP
pointed postmaster general.
New YORK, February 2l.--The sa-
loon keepers propose to organize pro-
tective union in every ward to protect
their rights as citizens and taxpayers,
and guard their interests. They are
now considering n preamble and reso-
lutions reciting that history has shown
that the use of gifts of nature and the
products af human industry cannot be
successfully intertlicted by the enact
ment of laws; that every article OF
solid and liquid food is to a certain ex-
tent poisonous; that the policy of pro-
hibition by law in the place of the
regulation of the traffic in fermented
liquors, beer and wines, is clearly
against the bill of rights and the con-
stitution of the State.
Boston, February 2l.--The schooner
BENJAMIN Courtney, from Boston, for
Galveston, put into Falmouth, Massa-
chusetts, with the loss of her foremost,
and will be towed back to Boston for
repairs.