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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1874
Page
4
Athens editorials praise temperance gains across the state with calls for reform and a strong note on Senator Sumoper’s death. The piece discusses whiskey racketeers mixing gas with whisky, and reports on Rep. W. P. SpallaGe’s pension bill work, plus a push for inebriate reformatories and the Xenia crusade victory signals.
The Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati declares through the Cincinnati Commercial his opposition to the temperance crusade while endorsing moderate drinking as scripturally acceptable. He cites passages about wine and water, notes risks of change in water, and warns total abstinence as the only way to curb inebriety may be impractical, prompting debate within humanitarian ranks.
The century reports the sudden death of Senator Sumner at his Boston home on Wednesday afternoon. Born January 14, 1811, he studied at Boston Latin, Harvard, and Cambridge Law School, becoming a noted constitutional law scholar and editor. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1850, he opposed the slave power, endured attacks, and left a legacy as a fierce defender of liberty and international law.
The passage recalls Charles Sumner's celebrated speeches against a Kansas slavery expansion plan and the brutal 1856 cane attack by Preston Brooks. It notes Sumner's later Civil War era advocacy for emancipation, voting rights, and the Fifteenth Amendment, shaping Republican-backed reforms and Civil Rights efforts.
Reports from several counties detail local events. Joseph Strausbaugh opens a coal vein north of Wilkesville, and fatal and serious injuries follow an old portable saw mill boiler explosion near Wilkesville. Perry county creates Coal township from Saltlick township. Saloons at Zaleski closed as the W W W ends there. New Lexington ladies organize aid for fire sufferers. Col Churchill loses a finger then arm to swelling and rheumatism, amputation performed. Straitsville drug firms bought by Dr Oatley to run a first class store. Morgan county fruit prospects look excellent. long lost relatives reunite in McConnellsville. Malta township sees fatal sawlog accident near a tank. Benjamin Hough dies.
Dark week in Chillicothe with fatal accidents and a grisly infant death. A log collapse killed a man at a mill site. another man lost a hand in a sawing accident. A two day old infant was found dead in a privy after a color woman claimed someone else bore it. The coroner's jury found the girl responsible. Temperance crusaders faced insult at Emmett House amid a heated dispute over prayer and whisky advocacy.
In Coolville on March 14 1874 the Women's Temperance League reports progress as Taylor and Son sign the druggists pledge. The Men Temperance League endorses the effort and thanks the women, noting 55 county licenses for liquor. The item also references local shops, a whisky house, and commercial ads for Selig & Co. with house furnishings and carpets.
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