New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-22
ARRAYS. =- Gold. iiii 1874. ia Thermometer. SSi0


or, ooS' o]Ns
six persons having been burned to death
on Saturday by fire which broke out in a
mining blacksmith shop 1900 feet under
ground, at Gold Hill, Nevada, there is
popular demand that this particular sort OF
smithies be abolished There have been 80
many fatal fires kindled by this dangerous
cause it is not surprising that the miners are
at last discouraged.
A correspondent in the South exposes
one of the plumbers of farming in which
Southern planters still indulge. He shows that
the hay crop among others is wholly neg
lected in spite of the fact that grass springs
spontaneously there, and that the South
buys its hay from the West thousand
miles distant where hay crops are made
profitable on more costly land and by higher
priced labor.
A curious phase of the troubles of Western
farmers is presented in Iowa correspondence
of THE TRIBUNE, printed on our third page.
1t may surprise the farmers to learn that
portion of their hardships results from their
own extravaganza. Yet, as presented by this
careful and intelligent writer, the case is
plain one. 1t may be urged with justice that
the lavish management complained of is, after
all, far behind the average of this money
spending generation.
Arkansas offers to the MANNED halt, and
rheumatic Bethesda for all their woes.
Very little is known in the Atlantic States of
the mineral springs which are reputed to have
H. md a
benefit on those afflicted with divers diseases
by publishing volumnous correspondence
from this new land of healing. The descrp-
ton of the hot springs and of the routes
thither, printed on our third page, is COM
mended to the careful attention of those who
are seeking relief from some of the Ills to
which flesh is heir.
The Massachusetts Republican State Com
mittee did not find itself, the other day, able
to stand up against Federal official influence.
In reorganization an attempt to exclude
these officials from prominent places was
summarily hooted down by two indignant
f1ce-holders one of whom was Supervisor
Simmons, who refused to be DISTINGUISHED"
Supervisor Simmons does MT care much for the
spirit of the regulation concerning Federal
officers and local Offices; and his associates in
the Massachusetts, Republican Committee might
be better off if they had more backbone.
Once in a while we have casual glance of
the horrors of the cOolie trade by the an
nouncement Of the wreck of one of the ships
therein engaged. Another of these crafts has
lust been lost at sea, bound, probably, from
Macao to South America. More than four
!
hundred coolies persisted with the wreck. by
the burning of the Dolores Ugarte, four or
five years ago, five hundred Of these unfortu-
nate creatures were destroyed. When one of
these disasters happens, however, it only incl
dentally shows anything of the enOrmity of
this branch of the slave trade.
After all the bother about the sO-called
Manitoba troubles" that little belligerent
speck has disappeared without an explosion.
Let us add that the denouement is eminently
satisfactory to Americans. The alleged kid
nappers have been formally tried and sem
fenced to "a hours Imprisonment, and are now
at liberty Gov. Austin of Minnesota fra
"ternzed" with the court, and all went mer
rily at dinner in which Judge, counsel. and
ex-prsoners hilariously mingled. This is much
better than border war. Meantime, Gordon,
indicted for perjury, courts seclusion in the
Manitoba Jail.
Incidentally, the glimpse of life and business
in the Pennsylvania oil regions, given on our
fourth page, affords striking contrast with
the glowing pictures of wealth and busy thrift
which those districts once furnished. The
total oil product is now about $4,000 barrels
in each twenty-four hours; the demand is
about 10000 barrels day; that tells the whole
story. Prices are low spectators are storing
for future rise in the market and all sorts
of rings and combinations are making things
uncomfortable for the well-Owners For a
settled industry, it must be said that the oil
business, just now, has as many troubles as
ck-jObbing.