The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-11-28
w. N. c.
Fifth Annual Convention at
Baltimore.

continuing five days.
Eighteen States and the District
of Columbia were represented by
delegates as follows:
Maine 1, New Hampshire 1, Yer
mont 8, Massachusetts II, Rhode
Island 3, Connecticut 4, New York
25, New Jersey Z, Pennsylvania Is,
Maryland Z, Dist. Columbia 6, Ohio
"A, Michigan 4, Indiana 6, Illinois Z,
Iowa 4, Wisconsin 1, Minnesota 1,
Arkansas !, total, 124
Devotional exercises were held
from 9 until 10 o'clock each morn
ing, and from past until 2 in the
the afternoon.
ALTO o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing, 9Th inst. after some opening re-
marks by our President, Mrs. Wit
tenmyer, the Recording Secretary
of the Union, Mrs Mary T. Burt, Of
New York, read her annual report
from the various States represented,
which contained a brief sketch Of
work done the past year, and show
ed progress over previous years.
In Maine there are ten unions, two
temperance papers and the law is
prohibitory. New Hampshire has
one hundred Unions. The law is
prohibitory, and a temperance Gov
ernor has been elected, aud the Leg
islature is IN favor. Massachusetts,
has one hundred and forty-eight IN
ions. The press favors license:
Rhode Island-Local option is the
law of the State, and tOtai abstinence
has been on the increase. Vermont
has twenty-three unions, and work is
progressing favorably. Connecticut
has twenty-five unions. Local Op-
ton is the law. New York has sixty
unions. Public sentiment in favor
of temperance is on the increase.
New Jersey has fftY-three unions.
Pennsylvania has twenty unions and
ten juvenile organizations, four tenn
perance papers, and a stringent Il
cense law is IN force. Ohio has 100
unions. No License Constitution.
Temperance work progressing. Dis
trict of Columbia has two Temper
ance papers, and the cause has met
with progress. Maryland has five
unions, four juvenile organizations,
four papers that publish items fur
nished by the State Alliance, but
only one strictly temperance. FlOri-
da, West Virginia, Illinois, Tennes-
see, Michigan and Iowa have unions,
and the prospect is very encouraging
to the cause. Miss Esther Pugh,
assistant Treasurer, read the report
of the treasurer. 1t showed that 81,
02765 had been received by the On
ion in contributions the past year,
and S665.60 expended, leaving bal
ance Of S362.17 in the treasury.
Mrs. J. Mex. Rieley, wife of the
pastor Of the Eutaw st. NJ E. church,
then made the address Of welcome.
She referred to the object Of the
convention as one that had greatly
moved the heart of woman, who had
been used as an instrument in rails
ing many from degradation and
wretchedness. The work, however,
had not been confined to the rescued
ones ruined homes had been recon
structed, and hope had inspired the
breasts Of wives and mothers by the
reformation of husbands and fathers,
IN that they we're again permitted to
assert their empire in the home cir
Gle. A great hope was also felt in
the rising generation, but the sue
cess achieved should stimulate to
higher faith and more intelligent
and persevering effort. The work
was far from being done in Baltimore
and Maryland, and because this the
convention hed been invited to the
city. The public sentiment Of Mary
land was not so far advanced on the
question of wOman's work IS In 9TH
er places. Her people were conserva-
tive, but not devoid of felements which,
if properly used. ould make her a
power in any gOoG work. Maryland
first practically unfurled the banner
Of religious liberty on this continent,
and many other facts Of her history
show that she has contributed large
" to the prosperity Of the country.
The WashingtOnian movement first
started in the city Of Baltimore
thirty-fVe years ago. Cough made
his early efforts here, and Keener
spent his life here in the Temperance
work, while his son now follows his
steps.
She referred to the efforts Of the
State Temperance Alliance, bywhich
local option had been secured in sew
eral counties. But even with the
natural advantages the city possess
es for physical cleanliness, its
schools, benevolent institutions and
CuuLCuobs uuCL6 MC46 ghO LuOubduu
drinking dens to curse it. Some of
the more elegant saloons have
Ladies' Entrance" " a comparatively
new feature. Still there must be
patronage, or such a fact would not
exist, and there was, therefore, room |
for the gravest apprehension. Balti-
more responded to the wall from the
stricken South, but a greater plague |
had spread over the whole land,
and woman should not remain indif- !
ferent. In the church where they
were assembled there rested for
many years the ashes of Asbury and |
Emory, and its doors, as now, had |
always been open to gospel Temper
Rnce workers.
Mrs. Georgia Hulse Mcleod, cor
responding State Secretary, next /
read an original poem on the sub
ject of the Women's crusade, and |
Mrs. Lathrop, Of Michigan, respond
ed to the address Of welcome, trust
ing that the convention might be q