Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-08-25
The story of I Strike.

The story OF ! Strike.
Persons who had occasion to visit the
Schuylkilll coal region at any time from
May to August, saw oil about them the in
furious effects OF the miners strike. Tour.
lists for pleasure, except n few hardy ones,
stunned the region as pestilentiaL Trade
having almost stopped, even the adventur-
Gus commercial traveller gave the disturb
ed district the go-by Storekeepers did
barely enough business to live on. Hotel
proprietors were in dispair at losing the
rich patrons WAC customarily came with
every summer to the breezy mountain tops
or cosy hooks where their hostelries are
situated. On piazzas usually promenaded
by opulent old Philadelphlans, their
buxom wives and blithesome daughters,
sullen miners were seated, aglow
with fiery rotations from Astounding bars,
and discussing their grievances with tire
some iteration, The wives of these idlers
were wearing out their lives in squalid
houses, desperately striving to make their
scanty supply Of food go the round of a
brood of hungry children and the latter
were as tattered and dirty and pinched as
the poor little ones who fish through the
cutters of New York for a living. As the
strike continued and the boarded earnings
were withdrawn, dollar by dollar, from the
savings banks, the peril Of actual stalva-
ton set in and all through the richer adj
jacent country these women begged for
money aud food TO keep the souls aud bod
les OF their households together II the
visitor, tired of contemplating all this
squalor and Indebtedness, turned FOR
relief to the local newspapers that
he found lying about his inn, he
there discovered new new cause OF de-
preston in the grandiloqUent appeals of
editors column after column to the min
ers not to give an inch, but to fight out
their battle 10 the last man and the last
dollar. The same k-heroic sentiments
were enforced in strings Of doggeral from
strikers, with 'the gift The rest Of these
in1ammatory journals We're mainly occu-
pied with high-hown accounts of the mon
stei reception accorded to this or that we'll.
fed and comfortable president OF some
lah0r-union, who had been up to see the
miners, and conjured them by all that was
sacred to starve rather than yield. And
they took these apostles OF liberty and
equal rights at their word, and did starve--
until early this month, when they made a
clean back down from their ultimatum
aud were glad to accept the terms that the
mining operators or owners gave them.
GEN MoITKE. "A Berlin letter says of
the Prussian chief.of-staff Gen. Count
Moltke has become more taciturn than
ever, and as this is well known scarcely
anybody ever speaks to him but every body
waits until he speaks. People here are 20
accustomed to his pecuiarities and solitary
habits, evidentl, the result of his constant
ly bordering over bis duties, that they even
feign not to see LIN when he passes Yet
he can express himself very fluently and
very clearly on occasions, as | myself an
testify, having heard him once explain The
topography of the seat of the Danish war.
Some few days ago the tacit convent IN
was broken by an individual who claim 70
be one of the grandees OF the Bourse.
"Well, he said, on meeting the General in
the street, chow are things getting on,
General" "Thank you, sir" replied the
General, my rye crops are getting on
beautifully, but my potatoes are very back
ward The Bourse gentleman disap-