Crossley plans to carpet rooms after warm reception abroad
Singers thanked Lord Shaftesbury, the Congregational Union, the National Temperance League, Mr. Spurgeon, the Duke of Argyle, Mr. Gladstone, and Scottish friends for helping them meet influential society. Dr. Allen announced final concerts before US departure and possible new university buildings. Ransom pledged donations while Jubilee Hall givers funded by British gold. Lord Shaftesbury praised their self denial and patriotism as the audience cheered and the doxology closed.
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Crossley
Lord Shaftesbury
Congregational Union
National Temperance League
Spurgeon
Duke of Argyle
Gladstone
Scotland
Prince and Princess of Wales
Allen
United States
White
Ransom
Society of Friends
Fisk University
Africa
Anti Whisky War Slowdown Across United States
The Women’s Whisky War winds down with temperance meetings replacing street campaigns. Indianapolis focuses on licensing bans, while Massachusetts and New York show plans shifting to legal means. Philadelphia reports Sunday closing enforcement, and a general temperance revival spreads as Congress considers a five member Liquor Commission to study alcohol use and regulation.
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West
Chicago
Indianapolis
Massachusetts
New York
Columbus
Ohio
United States Senate
Senate
Congress
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Cleveland
Foreign MISCELLANY: European and global affairs summary
The piece surveys events across Europe and beyond including Spain abrogating ecclesiastical vacancy rules, Italian brigand suppression in Catanzaro, Jesuit emigration to Turkey, and a royal jubilee address controversy. It notes German civil marriage debates, church leaders in Washington, Belgian capital punishment decline, and Central Asian diplomacy with Afghanistan. It also covers French Second Chamber talks and Bismarckian tensions over the Army Bill.
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Catanzaro
Donato
Turkey
Order of St. Lazarus
Smyrna
Italy
Trieste
Empire
Canon Kingsley
Washington
House of Representatives
New York
Bien Public
Belgium
Marshal MacMahon
Paris
Sedan
M. Nigra
Rome
M. Visschers
Tallack
Howard Association
London
Central Asia
Khiva
Prince Gortschakoff
Lord Granville
Russia
Afghanistan
Cabul
India
Bismarck
Spener Gazette
Prince Bismarck
Herren Dietze
Lucius
Federal Council
Party of Progress
Berlin
Daily Telegraph
Reichstag
The
Times
7Imes
Tiberals
Herr Lasker
Temperance Movement Spreads Across Several States
The piece reports a temperance wave moving north through Ohio with Toledo Alliance and Cleveland seeing activity. Morrow’s injunction against women praying near saloons was dissolved amid triumph. Cincinnati hosts large meetings and eleven clerical sermons with one opposing. Missouri, Washington, and New York show varied actions in the campaign.
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Ohio
Toledo
Alliance
Cleveland
Morrow
Cintinnati
St. Louis
Missouri
Washington
New York
Poems by George Eliot in press from Blackwood and Sons
The Atheneum reports a volume of poems by George Eliot is in the press and will be issued soon by Blackwood and Sons. A Boston journalist notes that few daily papers in Boston devote as much space to the pulpit as to the theatre on average.
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The
Atheneum
George Eliot
Mersrs. Blackwood and Sons
Boston
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