The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-12-23

sit down on natural advantages
and allow eartmel, middleTen and
leeches generally, to sack the sub
stances out Of The grain trade.
In the meantime, Baltimorc and
Boston arc building elevators and
reaching their long railroad arms out
over the country; and Canada IS ar
ranging TO improve her river and ca
nal system so as to get better conDec-
ton With the great West and clip the
metropolis still more.
New Iesk is the great CONNER
cial center of the continent, and al
WAYS ought to be; but there has got
to be a change Of tactics or she will
lose her place, sure.
ADJUSTMENTS AND LUXURIEs.
As Gull as are the times aud as
hard as money is to get, it is a singu-
lar thing that the places Of amuse-
ment are better patronized than ever.
The opera, with seats at 81, is crowd
ed, the theatres are full nightly, and
the drinking houses and the more
fashionable restaurants, where a din
ner costs 81 to Sc, have lost none OF
their patronage. And the retail
stores are doing exceedingly we'll
There has never been a time when
the fashionable retailers sold more
costly goods than they have this e a
son. The jewellers are selling enor-
nous quantities of expensive goods
and the importer Of silks and laces
and that class, never sold more.
And the question is, who buys them!
New Workers, as a rule, are econo-
MIXING. but nevertheless the goods
20. One standing an hour at the
bars of any Of the great hotels, and
seeing the amount Of brandy on
lsumed at 40 cents q drink, wouldn't
suppose the country was suffering
from ~staguation in business, and
that there was universal distress in
the city. Nor would they suppose
that 30, 1000 men were out of work on
the island, ana that their wives and
children were actually suffering for
bread. The two extremes come very
close to each other.
LABOR
continues unsettled and unsatisfacto-
~. The employers are d~ischarging
vast numbers of men and reduc ng not
only the time but the wages of those
they retain. The poor fellows, driv-
en- to madness, strike-;he factories
close, aud then comes hunger, cold
and desperation. This will be the
worst winter New York has ever
seen. Laboring men who have some
thing to do out of New York are
very lucky.
BEECHER-TILT0N.
Public interest in the great scandal
is being revived, the matter having
come up in the courts. Moulton has
settled the libel suit Of Edna Dean
Proctor by paying the costs already
incurred and counsel fees, amount
ing in all to about $4,000. The pub
lie take this action of his as = con-
fession that her case was good, but
it will be remembered that be never
asserted that Beecher bad had crimi-
nal intercourse with her-only that
Beecber told him so. This be still
asserts. He settles because by CIV
ing this publicity his counsel advise
him that be has laid himself liable to
Miss Proctor.
There will be a happy time getting
a jury in the main case. Where can
twelve men be found in Brooklyn
who have not formed an opinion in
this case 4? 1t will take months to
empanel a jury, if it can be empan-
eled at all. | predict the trial will
be a farce, and that the public will
be left at its conclusion NJ. nearer the
truth than tits now.
BUSINESS
Is still abomindbly dull, though there
is something doing all the time. The
Wholesale people are laying back
quietly and waiting, and the manu-
facturers float along by discharging
half the workmen and reducing the
time of those they keep. Oh for the
good old times when things went
with q jump.
PIETRO.
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