The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-15
Temnarnnce Referm.

Over $50 haYe signed the pledge
at Illiopolis, Ill. -
At Davenport, Iowa, 1,116 have
signed the pledge.
Over 1000 have signed the pledge
at South Bend, Ind.
There are five thousand red rib
bonites In Peoria, Ill.
Thirty-five hundred have donned
the bloc ribbon In Kansas City, No.
The Illinois State Temperance Re-
form Club will meet at Joliet, Feb.
1921. ---
The Murphy movement has reach |
ed MiddletoRn,a No., and $50 have |
signed the pledge.
Four thousand people signed the
pledge during Marphy's meetings
in Springfield, Mass.
Elkhart, City, Ill, has been bless
ed with q temperance revival. 300
signers to the pledge.
Rev. n. B. Seely reports over
1000 signatures to the temperance
pledge at Mexico, Mo.
Over 6,O0O have signed the pledge
In Des Moines, Iowa, and 800 at
Winterset, in the same State.
A call has been issued In Ohio for
q State Prohibitory convention in
Columbus on Thursday, Feb. 81.
At Fert Madison, Iowa, over 1000
have signed the pledge, many of
whom have been inveterate drink
ers. % $780,.
Over 5000 have signed the pledge
in Denver, Colorado. The good
work has spread to all parts of the
State. - $3.50. -...--.
Within the last two months up
ward of 10000 persons In Northern
New. York have signed the tenn
perance pledge. ~ --
There are 25,858l liquor shops in
the State of New York, 16, 54S in
Illinois, 1906 In Pennsylvania, a.
248 In Ohio, and 8, 408 in California.
Public Printer Defrees is Presi-
dent of the "Franklin Temperance
LEGION" composed Of Printers,
bookbinders, and journalists, at
Warrington.
Half q million dollars Is the reve-
nue. Virginia will receive this year
through the Mofett liquor register,
which is nearly twice as large as the
revenue under the license law.
There is q progress In total alb
stinence In Texas. Prohibition is
spoken of by some as being not far
away. Under the present local OPP
ton law thirty-four counties voted
for no license.
Rev. L. f. Cullom writes from
Opdyke, ILL.,: "The temperance
wave passed over the three little
railway towns of my charge, leav-
ing more than q thousand on our
total abstinence roll as . result"
The Springfield (Mass.) papers
report that Mr.. Murphy, the tenn
perance lecturer, left that city phys
icallY exhausted, and with the much
dreaded disease, clergyman's sore
throat. He is now at work in
Washington, d. G.
At last accounts 1900 had signed
the pledge In Morgan county, Ill. /;
Cass, {, 304 Mclean, 5000; Sanga-
mon, 1923; Scott 1000; Greene
4,7l0; Logan, IL 900; Mason, $500 /;
MacoupiD, 5000; Pike, LOO; Scott,
Zoo; Randolph 1000.
The Keokuk Northern Packet
Company have abolished the bars
from their steamers, between St.
Louis and st. Paul, and will run
their boats in future on strictly tenn
perance principles. The profits
from this source heretofore have
been about $4,000 per season.
Rev. H. Q. Turner writes from
Milton, ILL.,: "There are $50 sign
ers to the Blue Ribbon temperance
pledge IN this place, and more to
follow. Mr. Timmony, of Pitts
burg, Pa, began q Murphy meeting
In the M. E. Church in Detroit, ILL.,,
Jan. Is, and already over 400 are
wearing the badge of blue"
A committee from the Woman's
National Christian Temperance Un-
ion, consisting of Mrs. Annie Wit
tenmyer, Miss Frances Z. Willard,
Mrs. Mary Z. johnson, and Mrs. n.
r. Denman, are in Washington
City, wiih.a temperance petition,
representing twenty-three States,
and including more. than 10000
names.
The following telegram appeared
In the Cnicsgo nter-Ocean of Jan
uAry %: i<a.,
has just obtained q Judgment fol
$4,000 against William Friend, 8
wealthy liquor seller. Her husband
. well-t0-do manufacturing chem
list, we'll known In the West, be-
came Q frequenter of Friends ga
loon, and in an incredibly shor
time was ruined in body, business
aud mind, from drink. A year age
she gained . verdict for $4,000
which was set aside In the Supreme
Court on . legal technicality.
Says the New York Medica
Journal:
For the last ten years the use o
spirits has, /. Imposed upon the ma
ton 9 direct expense of elk hun
dred millions. 2. Has caused an in
direct expense OF seven hundred
mIllions. 3. Has destroyed .thre
hundred thousand lives. A. Ha
sent one hundred thousand children
TO the poor house. 5. Has commit
Sou ~ lCooS OuO uu10to Oh SuO III.
thousand people TO prisons ant
warehouses. 8. Has determined 9
least one thousand suicides. z. HA
caused the loss by fire or by vic
lenco of at least ten millions wort
ofproperty. 8. Has made two hun
dred thousand widows and one mil
lion orphans.
General Neal Dow, OF Maine, hs
presented to the Temperance Com
mitteo OF the legislature OF tina
State bill .-.-, ar..<s
Which Furnishes the first sale O
liquor by fne Of 500 and 81:
months In Jail !; q second by q Xix
fine and one year in the State pris
on; prohibits the transportation Q
hQ1errln the State; forbids the re
ception OF surety from . persO
once convicted of liquor selling
fines runners $1,000, with q year
confinement In the State prison
Furnishes drunkArds with . year i
jail unless they tell where they oh
tanned their drinks; imposes I'm
OF $500 and six months lmprison
ment ia iail for the displaying of
sign advertising liquor for sale.
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