Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-06-03


ever. The New York Carpenters report a
general acquiescence in their demand for 81
aday. Only one or two employers refused
it. A number Of New York coopers still re.
main on strike, and their employer having
heretofore got bis barrels in country shops,
arrangements have been made to got the
workmen at them to strike also, unless those
shops refuse to supply him: The carvers
Of New York, mostly Germans, are contem.
plating strike for $3.50 a day. They now
receive an average Of %, and their trade
union numbers about FIVE hundred members.
The masons in New York, now getting $3.50
o day, have demanded S5. A calony of New
York mechanics, last Tuesday started with
their families, to settle at Atchison Kansas.
They number nearly 200 persons. The coal.
beavers strik, at Jersey City, continues, land
there has been some rioting, arising from
attempts to prevent new hands from going
to work. A large police force is at the Jer.
sey City coal docks to preserve order, and
severel arrests have been made. The strike
at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Of eight hun
dred laborera, for 81 day, continues, the
Park Commissioners refusing the increase
demanded. The Mahoning Valley, Ohio,
over thousand coal miners have struck for
an increase Of 20 cents per ton in their wages.
The brick moulders and their laborers, at
Louisville, Kentucky, are on strike for high.
or wages. The moulders ask an increase
from 90 day (the present rate) to $3.50
and the laborers from % (the present rate)
to $2.25. In Washington the plasterers'
strike is nearly ended, the employers hav-
ing generally acceded to the demand. The
Edgfeld Cotton Factory, in Connecticut,
has stopped work for the present At Erie
Pa, the coal.heavers have struck for higher
wages, and work is at q stand still. It is
announced that one-sixth Of the population
Of San Francisco is out Of employment,
and all accounts from California ore dis.
couraging to those who intend to emigrate
there. The excessive emigration has al
ready more than supplied the demand for
labor. At Windsor, Vermont, it is said
that seventy-6ve of the peniteutiary prison.
ers are employed in making scythe snathes,
and make ten thousand annually. This is
complained Of as serious interference with
the regular trade. At Elgiu, Illinois, in
match factory, where $50 persons are EN-.
ployed, one-half are women. Females are
gradually working their way into this trade.
New York, three women have formed o
partnership as designers and engravers on
wood, and advertise for business. The gen.
eral strike at Bologne, in Italy, continues,
and oil the trades are engaged in it. Busi-
ness is said to be at stand still. This is a
strike against taxation more thanlow wages,
though the latter is the moving cause for it.
In Austria great discomfort is said to be pre-
vailing among the working classes, owing to
low wages. In Lynn, Massachusetts,, the
shoe manufacture is said to continue very
active, and although the season is 50 late,
orders are continue to arrive to large ex-
tent All kinds of manufacturing in New
England, are reported to be much brisker
than they were few months ago.
tut
Josh Billings ON Tomatoes.
It Is now about 8 or eleven years since
folks began to banker after the Tomatoes.
About that time some doktor ov pills dis
sekted one ov these vagrant vegetables and
discovered some doktor stuff in them.
As soon az the folks found out they was
6zic, they begun to be very sweet on the TO-
mater.
At that time they was in the habit Of
growing in sly places, where thay want
afraid, over behind stone walls, among bro
ked jugs, ded kats, and old ipjin rubber
boots, for people wouldn't let them grow in
gardens emmy more than they would kama
dy thissel.
Thay was vagabond weeds, and even
wood hog wouldn't eat one ov the berrys
that grows on them emmy quicker than he
would bawl Of red stocking yarn.
But it was decided that there was sum
pills in them, and thay was put to nuss, in
pots and vases, and lived on the phat Of the
land, in hot houses, along side ov tiger lillys
and roses ov sharon.
1t td0k most folks ls months ov persever.
ance and SEQ sickness to get the tomatoze to
go quietly down, and from vile weed more
smelling than deceased clam, the tomatur
haz actooally got tew be more houored than
Q buckwheat slapjack, or even pumkin pi.
This shows what love aud edecshun will
do.
! haven't emmy doubt that if Professor
Ratsbane would say Professionally that
wasp nests was good 10 make mustash
grow black, half the men in the country
would get wasp and go into the nest bust
ness.
l don't believe o tomatur will keep man
emmy more healthy than red clover will, but
I am just like every one else, I wanted to
get some better than I was, and ! went to
school to the tomatur, and Rave got learnt
how to eat them, if they are filed with salt
and pepper, and soaked well in good slider
vinegar. -.
But tomatose have worked themselves up
;rto uoroseorv and nm nok Tho n0u TO in.