Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-08-20
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In the Labor convention in Cincinnati yester-
Gay, resolutions declaring IL to be the duty of
est industry pursued by its citizens, and that ali
duty On shipbuilding material be removed were
referred to committee.
a resolution recommending all organizations
OF protective associations to adopt the eight
hour rule, was also referred.
The fourth and fifth resolutions of the plat
form were adopted. An amendment to the sixth
resolution, that the accumulated wealth of the
natlon, which ts the result Of labor already per-
formed, should be a taA on q graduated basis,
30 ies ss 60 make the burden Of taxation bear heav
Inc n0ns share 0f the fruits of Ano-ican toll,
was presented by Mr.. Coffin, and was warmly
discussed.
Mrs. Hathaway favored the amendment, de-
women, who are always at the very bottom Of
the pyramid Of oppression that rests upon the
vention adjourned.
The chair announced that the Labor Assem-
bly, of Cincinnati would pay all debts contracted
by the congress during its session.
THRwoRKING PKoPLR-A strike of the labor
ers, 100 to 125 in number, on the Montclair rail-
road, n. j., in consequence OF the failure Of the
contractor to pay their wages, is reported. The
work in the middle Of June, and many are in a
destitute and suffering condition. A few days
ago, however, one-third of the wages due was
the entire amount dae was liquidated. 1t is
stated that the principal contractor, who
received 90 cents per cubic yard for
has occurred at Is cents per cubic yard
The line runs through a dense woods, and the
sub-contractor does not receive enough money
from his principal to pay the men for the severe
hQullnQ taking mi sfu md
grubbing. The strike of the coal miners In Clay
county, Indiana, which commenced June LIST,
an continues. The miners demand 81 a ton,
while the operators offer IS cents q ton until
November LIST, and then an increase Of7h cents
until December LIST, when another increase of
X cents is to take effect.
The LATEST SwINDLE-A day or two AGO q
death occurring in the family residing in the
mourning were exhibited. Very soon after a
well-dreseed man called at the house and asked
= to the church the deceased belonged to.
Upon receiving the Information he remarked
that he was an elder OF the same church, and
suggested that if the matter of the burial was
left to him he would have it attended to at a
very moderate amount. He then summed up
the entire cost to be but SIl.I5. which he
received. He did not make his appearance at
the house Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
MAN named j. &. Telfree lately ATTEMPT
ed to commit suicide at Muskegan. Michigan
under very singular circumstances. He had been
robbed Of 1852, his entire capital, and seeing no
his body without killing himself. He then threw
himself into a river which was not deep enough
to drown him, crawled to the shore, cut his neck
In barn on the following morning. He is not
likely to recover.
A CENSUS Of Great Britain is to be taken next
year on the Photographic" or instantaneous
plan. Blanks are to be left at each house du-
ring the last week of March next, to be filled up
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profession or occupation, condition, relation to
the head OF the family, and birth place of every
person who abode in the house on the night Of
will be collected during the ensuiae week, and
they will give accurate returns Of the p0pula-
ton on that night.
A CONNECTICUT BOY who had the western
fever and went to Omaha, writes that five hun
dred men are out Of work; that wages run from
AS to the " garden Of the West, y he says that
wild lands in Nebraska are like certain sand
plains in Connecticut, where tho winters are
severe and drought and grasshofpers use up
what grows in summer.
The Boston Journal is gratined to hear that
houses Tor the storage OF Ice are being erected
near all the ponds and rivers where it 6 possible
to obtain crop, 20 that another season the pub
lie will be relieved from the unjust charges
that the ice now supplied to Boetoaians is snow
ice, the genuine ice being reserved for shipping.
HoRsE-RACINa ABUsRs.-The Rochester
Jnisn says" IL the public have become 80
brutalized as to witness the driving OF horses
until and after the blood spurts from the nos
trils OF the poor animals-as the audience did
at the late Buffalo race-itfs time ths Ct this Kind
Of amusement was stopped at any poist where
the law can take hold"
THE recent severe drought will probably lead
to the pretty general adoption Of plan for irri-
eating the soil, in future similar emereeucies
from wells by the aia Of force pumps. few
wells, sunk in different parts Of farm, and
good force pump connected with each, would
cost but q comparatively trifiing percentage of
the profit derived from their use in time Of pro-
tracted drought.
~Such a dry summer as the present has not
been known up in New Hampshire since John
II. warland edited the Claremont Eagle, some
twenty-five years ago, when he said IL was so
dry that he had to soak his pig to make him
hold swill. =
~If, as Lucy Stone says, "the cradle is the
woman's ballot box" there has got to be Q law
passed In Indiana against repeating" A
woman there has just cast three votes ut once.
SThe Paris Soir tells a story Of q conscript
who the other day asked his sergeant how far it
was to Berlin. "Berlin, conscript, Is $50 900
Prussians off"-a mode OF measurement not
foreseen in the metrical system.
ga preacher near Troy, named RiRhtmeyer,
got right In the miro by taking one OF the ladies
Of his flock by her hand and asking her how she
in q n m hQf0ra n church