West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-06-01

muitiform compensations in imme-
date blessings,
Hear the reports from all along
the advanced posts, by the Nat.
Tenn. Advocate:
DELAWARE.
A local option bill, prepared by
the State Temperance Alliance of
Delaware, has passed the House of
Representatives by vote of IL to
8. ct was lost in the Senate and a
very stringent license law substitu-
ted,-ED)
MISSOURI.
The Committee on Constitutional
Amendments in the House of Rep
resentatives, has reported favorably
the concurrent resolution submit
ting to the voters a constitutional
amendment prohibiting The manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating
liquors in the State.
TEXAS.
An Austin telegram announces
that on the 9th ult, bill to submit
to the people a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the impor-
tation, manufacture, and sale of in
toxicating liquors in this State, ex-
cept for medicinal and sacramental
purposes, passed the State Senate
by vote of twenty-three to seven.
NEBRASKA.
The Legislature has passed a
stringent license bill, requiring, in
cities of over ten thousand inhabi-
tants, a license fee of 81 900; in the
rest of the State, $500; thirty petit
TONERS to certify responsibility ;
three bondsmen to justify in $1,000
each soloon-keepers and bondsmen
to be responsible for all direct and
indirect damage; no blinds, paint
or covers on doors or windows Of
saloons; no games in the building
no sale on Sunday; and druggists
must comply with all these require
mentsS keep register of person
fage, sex, dateand amount sold, and
swear once month to city clerk
that it is correct. The effort to Sc
cure entire prohibition was unsuc-
cessful-the vote was forty-nine tC
twenty-eight; necessary to pass, fif
ty-one, thus lacking two.
ALABAMA.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Tuscaloosa
says; alabama is now witnessing
the most remarkable social and 20
litical movement that has stirred
her people since the momentous
days of 1860, when the secession
whirlwind swept over the State
Petitions signed by almost every
class of citizens, without regard tC
politics, race, color, or previous con
dition, have gone up to the Legis-
lature, asking for the prohibition
or regulation Of the liquor-traffic
There is scarcely a county in the
State which has not its protected
district--some church or school
within five miles of which
liquor cannot be sold,-while sweep.
ing prohibition bills have been
passed for ten or fifteen countless
ARKANSAS.
The gratifying announcement
is made that the House Of Represen-
tatives, by a vote Of sixty-six to
seventeen, has adopted a joint reso-
luton submitting to a vote Of the
people the question of forever pro-
hibiting the manufacture and sale
of liquor. The Senate, we regret to
learn, has refused to concur
KANSAS.
The Supreme Court Of Kansas,
with concurrence of all the justices,
has pronounced the prohibitory
constitutional amendment adopted
in November last, valid. 1t declares
that penal provisions of the dram
shop act were not repealed or affect
ed by means Of adopting the amend
ment, SO that persons selling liquors
after the taking effect of the amend
ment are subject to the penalties Of
that act, Commenting upon this
decision, the Topeka Capital says :
''The last hope of the whisky
power in Kansas is gone. They