Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-11

Louis, Cincinnati, Toledo and the other
great centres are importing on their own
account from Europe, and are handling
domestcs as well as New York. Conse-
quently, the mourners go about the streets
oi the metropolis. And all this because
the city has depended upon her natural !
advantages" and forgotten that enterprise .
can do away with disadvantages, and /
remedy what nature has left undOne. /
New York has got to do dosomething to hold !
her supremacy.
STRIKES
The strikes are virtually over The |
longshoremen had the hest chance of all
the trades for success, for while Il factory
may shut down and do without operatives
a newly-arrivCd ship must be unloaded at
once, and it takes skilled labor to do it, but
they, with this advantage, were forced to
succumb to hard times, and they have gone
to work again. The c6opers have resumed,
not as body, but i'll squads, and, in short,
the strikes are at an end The strikers
discovered what they ought to have known
all along, that with $4,000 unemployed
men III the city, they are at the mercy of
employers, and will be till labor is in de-
mand again. 1t is the old story over again,
capital can lay still labor cannot. But for
heavens sake, do your bestJO keep impe-
cunious young men from coming to New
York this winter. l say il, and know
there are $4,000 men out Of employment
/ here to-day, and the number viii be dOu-
bled in two months. And they embrace
all classes Of people. There are clerks,
( salesmen, boOli-keepers, everybody. For
( instance, the Grand Opera House adyertis-
/ ed for 200 young ladies for the ballet in the
revived Black Crook, and the morning
brought 500, all eager for positions at $500
per week. These were not bad girls-they
were girls who wanted something to do TO
keep soul and body together till there was
work at something else. POO were taken
600 hundred were left out in the cold cry
ing from disappointment. An advertise
ment of two lines in the Herald for 4 clerk
wanted will bring thousand applicants
by nine the next morning. My young
friend you have got anything under hea-
ven to do keep out of the big cities.
SCORE ANOTHER FOR BERGH
Henry Bergh. the friend of dumb ami
mails, has achieved another triumph.
Heretofore he has only been able to convict
the drivers of stages and cars who have
oyer-worked horses but last week he got
the iron claw of the law on a proprietor
and brought him up with n round turn.
This as it should be, for the proprietors
compel the drivers TO overload the stages.
Now let him get after the street-car COM
panies 1t is nothing uncommon to see n
pair Of horses going up steep grade with
4 heavy car loaded with 50 or 90 passengers
the poor beasts straining every nerve and
brutal driver lashing them as though his
heavy whip could add to their muscular
force. Bcrgh has only commenced his
work in this city. But it does do one good
to see 1.-the, active man dart out of crowd
his horses, off his cart and march him be-
fore masstcate. Il is 4 sight calculated
to restore ones confidence in human na-
turc Bergh's police are all dressed in
plain citizens clothes, but when one holds
back the lapel of his coat and displays his
badge, the brute who is abusing other
brutes knows who he is and he becomes as
meek as a lamb. | shall, one of these days
write full account of Bersh and his mis-
sion, hoping to stimulate other men To be-
/ comes Berghs.
THE LIQUOR DEALERS
have taken alarm and are getting out their
licenses as fast as possible. The courts
are determined TO enforce the law at all
hazards, and the conviction of Schwab,
which was made 4 test case, has shown
them the futility Of opposition. The rum
mills, the small thieves. Boss Tweed, and
all the dangerous classes, sigh for the good
old times when Barnard was on the bench,
/ There was no trouble for them then. They
/ had the courts and everything else. Will
| the new Democratic administration restore
| them any of their lost privileges ? We
| shall see. \ great many Republicans in
the city were willing to take the chances in
November Possibly by another Novem-
Der they may change their minds.
! BUSINESS
/ Is slower than last week, which is one Of
those things that cannot be accounted for.
J Certainly the purchases have not been so
| heavy rs to have supplied the country with
! goods. How long this stagnatiOn is TO
continue no one can tell, nor can any one
give a reason for it. But it is, and that's
all that can be said about it.
THE WEATHER AND HEALTH
; Is dciciously cool, but altogether too dry.
( The city is not healthy. Diphtheria is al
most an epidemic in Brooklyn, and small
2ox is spreading in the city too rapidly for
| the peace of mind Of the citizens. There
! is no especial alarm, but 4 feeling of un-
| easincss is developing. An experience
similar to that of Philadelphia two years
ago is dreaded. Some calamity ought 20
be expected to follow suck an election rs
that of last fall, and the citizens may con-
crltulalc themselves that it is nothing
worse than smallpox and diphtheria.