Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-02-28

Dushel higher than wheat, In Iowa seven
cents higher and in Kansas ten cents
higher. The prospects for fruit in
southern Illinois and southwest Missou-
ri are fiattering.
LOUISIANA.
A mass meeting of citizens opposed to
the present usurption of the government
of the State was held at the Exposition
Hall Thursday evening, under the aus
pices of the Committee of Seventy. One
thousand to twelve hundred persons
were present. Several addresses were
delivered and resolutions adopted. The
preamble recounts the election of 1872,
the famous Durell order and subsequent
action of the United States authorities
Hereunder, and the action taken by the
people endeayoring to obtain their rights,
and declares, "That we repel with in
dignation and contempt the entirely
false imputations, that we acquiesce in
or are content with the ignominous
government which has been Illegally
and wickedly set up to bear rule over US,
therefore
Resolred, That we shall continue our
efforts to remove the intolerable, re-
proach and shame which have been put
upon US by the violation of law and
constitution and the abuse of power
until the hope of success shall be wholly
destroyed.
Resolped, That we claim now at the
hands Of Congress, as we have in the
past the recognition Of the government
elected in November, 1872, of which
Governor McEpery is the head, or in de-
fault thereof that the present govern
ment be suspended by military or pro-
visionaf rule, and a new election under
federal auspices, as the least that can be
accorded us.
The Woman's Temperance movement
is spreading. It is even making its way
into Kentucky, the very of home Old
Bourbon. At the East, in Massachu-
sets and New York, the movement has
been insugurated, and what is peculiar
in the movement in those States is, that
it originates in the cities. Thus far in
Ohio the crusade against the grog shops
has been waged only in the villages and
the lesser cities. No place of twenty
thousand and upwards has been visited
by the moral cyclone. We have more
than doubts as to the efficacy of the
work in the cities. Public opinion is
not so readily, nor SO directly concen-
trated in large city as a small one. We
do not think the rowdy element in the
cities would insult the woman. The
very novelty of the proceeding would
divert the vagabonds from any idea of
violence. But the evil is so hydra-headed
in large cities thatit seems utterly futile
to attempt its eradication by means that
in the rural districts prove so efficient.
There is one great good this revival of
temperance has produced. Undoubtedly
the liquor law of Ohio. which is so eff
cient and which is also sojust, will not
be fnterferred with by the Legislature.
Had iS not been for this movement that
law, in all probability. would have been
SO amended as to very much destroy its
effect, if not entirely disarm it.. AS mat
ters now stand there is no prospect it
will be amended, and if that law can be
allowed to stand through one Democra-
tic Legislature it will be safe, compare
lively.
NEW YORK.
The question of burning instead of
burying the dead has become topic of
discussion on this side of the water. Dr.
Thompson's Contemporary Reuiev paper
has been reproduced in the March num-
Der of the Popular Science Reuieao and
the New York World publishes articles
showing the deleterious effects on the
living of burying the dead. One corres-
pondent of that paper offers to join a
society for the promotion of cremation,
the members of which would all be
bound to each other to perform the rite
for its own members. He says that he
would gladly will his body for that pur-
pose and leave sufficient means that his
body might be burned. He adds
''There are doubtless many thousands in
the community who entertain the same
views ana could come together, organize
and effect the desired end if there were
only some strong hand to take the lead.
If this system were only made practica-
BILE aad once fairly introduced we would
soon see many thousand converts to
cremation"
Up to Saturday night 75O,0 900 tons of
ice had been gathered in the depots
along the Hudson and the season is con-
sidered over. Last year a million and a
half tons were stored. The Hudson
River is open to point two miles north
of Newburgh.
The depth of snow on the Pacific rail-
way, in the Rocky Mountains can be
imagined when it is known that the
snow plows frequently are propelled
by seven locomotives. The snow piled
up by the sides of the track is twenty
feet high. Contrary to the usual exper-
fence Of the country this winter has
been the severest ever known in those
mountains.
The churches are said to be moving in
the interest of temperance, The trus-
tees of Trinity are reported to haye de-
cided to no longer lease the property of
the church for the purpose of liquor
selling, and inquiries are being made by
other. churches that members may be
prevailed upon to stipulate that their
property shall not be used hereafter as
saloons.
The New York dailies are unanimous in
their praise of James Gordon Bennett OF
the Herald, for coming SO nobly to the aid
of the poor of that city with influence
of his paper and $50, 600 for the establish.
ment of soup houses. The condition of
the poor classes, as revealed in the cases
of destitution which come to light daily,
Is exciting the deepest sympathy among
al. charitable persons, and every effort is
being made to alleviate their sufferings
The number of families in affiuent cir
cumstances before the panic, but wht
have been reduced to poverty since, 1!
very large, The suffering, however, il
greatest among the laboring classes. Case
have been discovered where whole fami
lies have been starving foa weeks on on
meal per day. Other cases where no fooo
had been taken for three or four day:
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