Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-12
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rEurAnASca Mass MEEr1No AT RISING

TEurERANCa Mass MEETING AT RISING !
sUS, CECIL Co., MD. -,
Friday morning last. q public Temper
ance demonstra,l u was opened at Rising
Snn. Cecil county. Md. After organization,
a business committee was appointed, con-
slstng of Geo. b. Passmore. Rev. s. A.
Ciaey, H.. Brinton, j.. d. McCIenaghan
and Rev. Jos. Cook. tH
During the temporary absence of this
committee, Rev. Orr L,wson, at Oxford,
delivered brief address on the ,od effects
of Local Option.
q The afternoon session was opened with
4 pray or and singing, followed by discussion
4 OF the resolution, which was participated in
z Nv Revs. S. A Gsyley, Joseph Cook, j. B.
j Mann, VIM. *. Bingham, Orr lawson and
4 Mr., Geo. Balderston. @#
After addresses on temperance and such
objects, a preamble and resolutions were
& adopted thanking the visitors present. for
Z their attendance.
The evening session was occupied by in.
& teresting addresses by Rev. J. B. Mann,
& Rsv. S. III. &. Smith, of Philadelphia.
Saturday morning session was consu med
q in tom pc rance addresses and discussions,
participated in by Rev. Elm Kirk, Rev. J.
H. Mann. Rev. l., G. Rutter, Rev. Joseph
y Cook, l.. X. Passmore and Geo. Baiderston.
In tho afternoon, the resolution reported
4 by the oomInittee, was amended Dy the lol-
q lowing, which was adopted
R5solved. That The citizens of Rising Sun
y and vicinity, Cecil county, Nd, In conven-
3 ton assembled tho 9th and 1th OF February,
n 1914, especliuliy pray your honorable body
4 10 pass n law granting 'the citizens OF each
county IN the State the right to determine
wheihor 1ntox icating liquor shall or shall
not be vonded in their midst
81 After several addiesses, the business
a acornmittee reported The following resolu-
IA ton, which, after discussion was adopted
"A the sense of the Convention
II RcsJlDed, That there Is now no necessary
connection between the retail trade In In
4 toxicating drinks and tho proper entertain
a mant of travellers.
n In the evening, spirited and Garnet ad
"A dresses were delivered nv Rev. John Gray,
Rev. Elm Kirk, and Rev. Joseph Cook.
Resolutions were adopted thanking the
Choir and the Rising Sun Band Tor their
musical entertainment. Interesting letters
& containing salutatIons OF encouragement
and mpathy wero read in the course ol
the convention. from Rev. Thos. l.. Poul
n SON. OF Baltimore, III. X. Bechtell, OF Wesi
a Nottingham Academy, Md, and hev. A.
II D. Davis, Georgetown Del.
Il The attendance during the afternoon and
evening sessions was large. In word. the
Convention, in every respect, was an entire
success.
M The season has been SO mild In Paris that th,
+ government has opened n school OF insectology
|b N the LuXemDourg, ana hltcnen daraeh
versailles. So these palaces, though deprived o
n oval servants, are still made useful. The Acad
emy has also INDUCED in peculiarly worth not
ug-no less than a ponderous and learned disser
N tltion on cats. NJ Lenormant, the Psychologist
tarted it. In his Assyrian researches he foan,
that the cat lived emi lenty respected in the Val
lev Of the Nile three thousand years before tn
Christian era. The Egy ptians employed them il
huuting-and above all i'll hunting serpents.-
They were quite favorites and constant compan
ions. What dogs are TO us the cats were to thos
curious old salmon-complex people. Whe
that race died out the knowledge OF the cat die
with them The Greeks and Romans at frs
y we're entirely without them. No sculpture show
them; no old writings attest their domesticatior
Z But in time The cat was introduced from Syrl
aud 50 carried to the West, and brought over her
.nong other blessings OF Europe by Columbu