The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-12
GIN ERAL NEWS.

by the people upon the question and is
extremely rigorous. Under IFS provisions
no Intoxicating liquors can be manuiactur-
ed in the limits OF tie District of Columbia
| or imported therein, ard If it becomes a
law no wines can be used at the state
dinners Of tlic President.
Senator Blair, from The committee Oh ed
ucation aud labor, has reported iavorably a
bill providing that the nature of alcoholic
drinks and narcotics and special instruc-
ton as to their effects upon the human
system in connection with the several
divisions of the subject of physiology and
hygiene shall be included in the branches
of study taught in the common schools of
the District of Columbia and the Terri
tories and in the military and naval
academies of the United States and i'll all
the Indian and colored Schools in the Ter
ritories 1t provides that after January /,
1888, no certificate shall be granted to any
person to teach in the public schools of the
District of Columbia or the Territories who
in physiology and hygiene.
The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union have this year added new
department to their work, called ''Thc De-
partment for the Promotion of Social
Purity" cooperating with the White
Cross Army. This department aims to OK
hibit the relations existing between the
drink habit and the nameless habits, out
RACES and crimes, which disgrace modern
civilization, and especially to point out the
brutalizing influence of some liquors upon
the lower nature. The study is to be con-
Quoted by means of mothers meetings,
leaflets, pamphlets, ETC., cooperating with
the White Cross Army and circulating its
literature. 1t seeks to establish a single
purity as equally binding upon men and
women 1t has in view a distinct effort to
impress upon the minds of men and wo-
men, youths and maidens, the absolute
purity in word, thought and deed. 1t will
endeavor to secure legislation of charac-
ter calculated to protect the honor and
purity of women and girls, and render
them safe from the depravity of brutal
men.
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock
died suddenly on Governors Island, New
York on Tuesday afternoon. He was 62
years of age. The cause of his death was
malignant carbuncc ON his neck, caused
by diabetes; but he appears to have been
in failing health for some time General
Hancock was commander of the t. s. Mil
itary Division of the Atlantic, with head
quarters at New York He entered the
Army i'll 1874 having graduated at West
Point, and served through the war of the
Rebellion with distinguished honor, and
was Il conspicuous figure at the historic
battle Of Gettysburg. He was the eandi-
date of the Democratic party for President
in $780, but was defeated by Gen. Garfield.
His last appearance i'll public was at the
Clover Club dinner, in Philadelphia, a
best of health and was the hero of the
hour, yet in conversation with personal
friend, he said he had had premonition
that his end might be sudden, and in all
probability that would be his last appear
ancc in public. There has been Il remark
able fatality of late among public men.
The funeral will take place tomorrow.
Services will be held in Trinity Church,
New York, Rev. Morgan Dix officiating,
after which the remains will be conveyed
by special train to Philadelphia, and
thence to Norristown, where the intermcnt
will take place i'll the Hancock mausoleum.
There will be no military display at the
funeral, as it was the desire of the deccas-
ed that the obscquies should be of the
simplest character The only troops III
line will be those accompanying the body
from Governors Island to New York City.