Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-03-25
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
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1 A meeting of Manufacturers and Min
J ers interested, was held in Philadelphia
on the 18th, and a resolution adopted
for the formation of National Indus
trial League, to prom ote protection for
our manufactures.
The cotton trade in England is very
dull, and the foreign papers report that
very few of the large manufacturers are
running their mills six days in the week
The majority of the establishments have
been open only four and five days in the
week, and now the time is generally to
be reduced to three days.
4 We have reports from Memphis. New
Orleans and other parts of the South.
that negro labor is in greater demand
this spring than ever, and higher wages
are offered to colored hands for planta-
ton and other work than in any previ-
GUS year. This is the very best sign of
the growing prosperity of the Southern
States. There are enough hands, black
and white, now in the South to raise
!. four million bales of cotton this season,
and if that amount of the great South
ern staple is prepared for the markets of
1hO "OAA0, ~ Will 6ArC bAC OOublcEA DcO-
pie sufficient supply of ready meney
to form splendid basis of future power.
Quiteextensive preparations are being
made for engaing in the cultivation of
silk in California. One firm in Los An
gelos County is putting out 1000 null
berry trees, as a first installmeat toward
making silk on very extended SCALE
They have beautiful rancho at San
/ Gabriel Mission, nine miles aboue Los
i Angeles. They have hired forty families
of Chinese, skilled silk workers, who
are engaged for four years, and will be
comfortably housed in adobe cottages,
| with ample gardens. At the expisRtion
of the the term, each family will be en-
titled to a deed of ownership for its
house and garden.
THE WORKING NGPEoPLE.-TheGe German
cabinet makers of New York have
struck for an advance of wages. In that
city there are l07 shops, in which The
cabinet makers, numbering about 2500,
and belonging to an association, are en-
played. The journeymen are now earn
ing from eighteen to twenty dollars per
week. The strike is for general ad-
vance of about fifteen per cent. The
men employed in each shop, however,
will determine the price to be paid. The
/ gas 6lu StcdLu uILcko vi 4tSn 4 IL Is
stated, will on March I'D strike for an
increase of fifty cents, 81 so per day
The stone rubbers' strike in New York
still continues, the unemployed men be-
ing supported by the hands who have
work. The printers strike in New York
is not yet settled; eight bosses decline
acceding to the demands of the men,
and it is asserted that the men must
establish a cooperative printing estab-
lishment, in order to obtain the con-
tracts now held by the employers.
North Carolina, through her State his
torian, is making an appeal to the North
for aid in developing the gold mines of
that region, arguing that under a system
of free labor and the skill and energy of
Northern mechanics the mining enter
prise of the State will be revived, Min
ing operations were commencedi in North
Carolina in 1904, and until 1927 all the
native gold sent to the United States
Mint came from that region. Between
1904 and 1861, North Carolina furnished
SO, 113 1894 of gold for coinage, of which
81, ,44O, ,9OS were sent to the Philadelphia
mint, and S4, $40, 731 to the mint estab-
lished in 1885 at Charlotte. The whole
amount produced in theinterval of fifty
seven years mentioned is estimated at
S12, ,000, 600. The balance of s., ,O00, 900
not sent to the mint, it is stated, was
used by jewellers, by whom it was pre-
ferred Oh. account of its purity and fine
ness. The largest single nugget ever
found in any part of the world, weigh
ing twenty-eight pounds of pure gold,
was found in Cabarras County, in 1903.
Manual Labor.
The Philadelphia Ledger, in discus
sing about the disposition to shun labor
and to flock to the cities, says:
The degradation of the laboring class
es in Europe comes not from the nature
of their toll, but from the absence of all
other elements from their daily life
Man has a various nature, requiring
variety of occupation, and his intellect,
heart, Imagination and taste are grive-
ously wronged when his life is devoted
to the one pursuit of earning subsis-
tence. But in this country, none are
thus debarred from eultivating every
part of their nature. All are within
reach of fair share of outward good
The demand for labor is uninterrupted,
and the openings for enterprise are far
more numerous in branches of manual
industry than in any other. Material
wants rouse the world to activity. La
bor shows forth in its true dignity when
is united with it-when the
the farmer utilities the principles of
and the mechanic studies
the laws of matter and motion, and both
cultivate the perceptions of beauty and
taste the best specimens of human ma
ture will be developed. The introduc-
tion of drawing into mechanical pur-
suits cannot be too highly priced. -.
OUR BooTs AND SHoEs.-The Scien-
life American says: 1t is somewhat sur
orising that, with all our boasted i'm
we have not yet produced n
proper covering for the foot. Barbarsus
people, if their climate admits, ge with
bare feet or wear sandals, covering only
The sole and a portion of the leg, while
civilized humanity develop their feet in
material neutrality-suspicious. to air or mois-
lure, and generally uncomfortably hard
and rigid. The color and polish of our
boots are directly calculated to attract
he SUMS rays; and the enamel on pat
mt leather harden and solidify the sub
stance, closing the pores and making
sir-tight cases for a portion of the body
which exudes more perspiration than
my other, and is subjected to greater
train. Our boots in summer parbol
,ur feet in a warm bath, and in the win
er freeze them in an icy envelop. 1t is
loubtfuli if wet feet are, in themselves,
'ery conducive to disease, some medical
nen to the contrary notwithstanding;
ut cramped confinement of the feet,
n an icy cold envelop generated by per
piration and chilled by the external at
nosphere, thus shutting the imprisoned.
eet almost air-tight, is as unhealthy as
t is uncomfortable. For hot weather
here is hardly any shoe so agreeable as
hat introduced within the past three or
our years, known as the army shoe, anu
used by base ball players
I is of a heavy canvass and unblacked
sather. 1t is cool and remarkably easy