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Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
TELEGI AMSIN GENERAL.

The Kansas State Grange yesterday de-
clared in favor OF prohibitory liquor law
and thorough education of the masses,
Two thousand girls, employed in mills at
Kingston, near Philadelphia, have struck.
The petroleum combination are arranging
fer an advance in prices.
William Pierce of Claremont, n. H, was
killed by Il shaft in grist mill yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
INDIANA.

indianapolis, 20. Rockstrans Touring mill
at Rockford, Indiana, was burned this morn
ing. Loss $4,000 to $4,000. No insurance.
A miller and another party have been arrest
ed on the charge of having set fire to the mill.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

There are several important matters yet re-
naming to engross the legislative mind, aad
he who looks for an adjournment rcxt week
may b0 disappointed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

The union religious services tomorrow af-
ternoon will be held at the Methodist church.
q. half past two o'clock. They will be Of a
social character, and all are invited.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

James L. Gates of Fast Vassalboro' who
recently sold out his stock OF goods to the
firm Of Lewis & Gates, has bought cut Jesse
Dorman of North Vassalboro' and will soon
open business at that place.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
PORTLAND.
he Court,

Portland, 20. The in train on the Maine
Central Railroad this afternoon, struck a
wagon at Woodford's Corner, killing the oc-
cnpant, Mr.. Emerson, of Stroudwater
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

The meetings at the First Christian Union
Church on Cuslnoc Heights continue to in
crease in interest. Some dozen or more new
voices have recently been heard in the social
meetings.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
lIlttD.

In this city, .0th inst, jeremiah Chandler, aged
about 80 years.
In nallowcll, Dec 22i. Mrs. Martha Shaw, widow
of the late Caps VIM. >. Shaw, formerly of East
Winthrop.
In Starks, 18th ult, Charles stinson, aged SO years
and month.
In Brunswick, l7ta inst, William Hunt aged 81
years and months.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

There will be preaching at the Winthrop
Street Univcrsaist church tomorrow morn
ing, by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Hinds, but there
will be no service in the evening.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
Zoral amo State Mems.

Our eastern and seaboard exchanges say
that it has been hard winter for fishermen
and traders.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

Kimball. over the Express Office, has taken
some fine photographs of Rev. Mr.. Earle.
We presume they are fer sale at his picture
rooms.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
FROM CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco, 20. The car shop. machine
shop and several cars of the San Francisco
and Northern Pacific Railroad at D0nnhue
have been burned. Loss $4,000
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
Cincinnati Produce Market.
Cincinnati, Feb. 90.

PROVlSIONs-quie:.
PORK-l5 cog
LARD-steam ass kettle 9-- T..
BULK MEATS-shoulders Jlg a. clear rib si!es
.laa-; clear sides Sz1a
BACoN-shouders G-a IL clear rib sides s.. q
-; clear sides 0-aSi4
WHIokEY-9JG-.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

The Reform Club meeting is adjourned Tor
one week-to meet one week from this eve
ming.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

For the dispatch OF business in legislative
Committees, all parties concerned are some
what indebted to the prompt activity Of the
Committee on Business, who have been yery
vgilant in keeping the ''pot boiling in every
committee room.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

The people of Knox county are talking
about the erection of county buildings.
Messrs. Foster & Dutton, who built the court
house at Skowhegan, are to make proposals
for furnishing the materials and erecting the
Structure.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
A correspondent of the Brunswick Tee
graph has this outburst of ''poetry' on the

NoDIc AHuTOsCOg6Iu. /.
The dashing Androscoggin is my name
Born on the mountains side;
Iwander through the heart OF Maine
To Merry meeting tide.
Molechunkemuuk-M home,
Is first to check my coRrse.
Then speed l on DER Rumford falls
Till auburn needs my force.
Then Lisbon claims a helping hand.
And Brunswick dams me twice;
! leap their barIiers-I am free,
And put out for Merrvmeeting bay " here |
get married 70 old kenuebcc.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21
The Farmers ia Council.

The Agricultural Committee of the legisla-
,ure had full meeting last evening in the
Judiciary room at the State House. There
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-21

FREIGHTs-Graln y steam, l2'i gid y
HI 4a3Gd.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20
Who Strikes +?

1t has come to be settled thing in mod
ern economy that a strike is a state Of
affairs that can only be brought about by
labor in other words, capital never
strikes-all strikes are by labor. Writing
from such stand point, taught in such a
school, no wonder need be expressed that
writers always prove to their own satisfac-
ton that strikes are always wrong and
as all strikes are by labor, consequently
labor is always wrong. The people at
lar have so long been reading and lis
tsning to this style of logic, proving that
capital never strikes-could not if it would
that the most clear headed on all other
subjects accept the strike logic as q propo-
sition 30 clearly dem onstrsted as to be be-
yond doubt Perhaps the public is ex-
cusable for its blind acceptance Of such sb.
surd doctrine.
The press, almost the sole source of in
formation outside of actual participation
and experience, always distorts facts in
the interest Of its wealthy patrons, and tbs
public are mot interested enough to take
sufficient trouble to get the truth all o.
which tends to bring curses both loud ant
deep upon the devoted heads Of those VII,
are proven by inexorable newspaper logi
to be strikers, and consequently Away
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20
CHICAGO DETROIT CINCINNATI SATURDAY JUNE 90 1874

against the public-always wrong. If Labor
makes demand on an employer, which is
refused, and labor ceases to work, it is a
labor strike. If an employer makes de-
mand ON labor, and labor refuses to accede,
and work Is stopped, it is a labor strike
1t is impossible to conceive a position
from which there might result a cessation
Of work that will not be denominated la
Dor strike
New York State has an eight-hour law.
The building trades Of New YORK city
have been working under it for two years
the men were content and everything
was serene-when the master-builders de-
termined that the State law must be
ignored that all bricklayers, carpenters,
ETC., must work ten hours per day or not
at all All over the country the press
spoke Of the contemplated strike Of labor.
Labor had asked for nothing was content
to continue AZ it had been Going for two
years /; the State law was on their side yet
when told everything must be changed or
no work, it was a labor strike and not an
employers strike. Happily, however, in
this case the employers concluded strike
would not pay, and the eight-hour law is
still in force.
When times are brisk, and labor seeks
to improve its condition, and it must needs
do soor, and finds a stubborn employer
who refuses their requests or demands,
and labor ceases to produce, we are always
willing to call it labor strike, and accept
Of any other name the press or public may
please to give it but when, as now, the
labor market is overstocked, thousands of
men idle, and capital demands that wages
shall fall, that wages shall be paid in scrip
OF store orders, that employees shall quit
their unions, etc, etc, we protest against
such move being dem rinated a labor
strike, because labor will not agree to the
terms. 1t is a strike against labor, and
should be 50 denominated. Iron Moiiers
Journal.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20
New Plan for Raising Sunken Ships

At meeting of the London Inventors
Institute, I. Vafea of Liverpool, proposed
plan for raising sunken ships, and also
for preventing the laundering Of ships.
The main features Of the plan were, first
closing hermetically the matches, port
holes, and all other openings in the deck
or upper or side parts Of the sunken ship.
and after having SO closed the openings TO
pump down air to the bottom Of the shin
through tubes inserted either through the
bottom of the ships hull, or throug III the
deck, each tube being passed down close
to the bottom of the ship. The air thus
introduced rises by itself toward the un-
derside Of the deck, and, not being able
to escape presses the water contained in
the ship down and out through the role
made by accident, or through holes made
for the purpose. The vessel will thus be
rendered buoyant, and will rise to the sur
face. To prevent laundering or reduce
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20
n Y. MANW ILLANy Irtas.
JOHN HEWITT, Sec. box 679, Toronto.
A Colorado Editor Interviews a China
man.

We asked him if he didn't want some
advertising done He stopped work long
enough to say that he charged dollar a
dozen, without ironing. We explained
that 1t wasn't washing we wanted, but
advertising. We told him how much his
business would be increased, how he'd be
richer than the king Of the Sandwich Is
lands in six months if he'd only advertise
This seemed to be clear to him, and his
face frightened up as he said business
belly slow nobody got no money We
calmly took out paper at that. We care
fully explained to him all about fifteen
cents line-one Of these things clear
across here every time the paper was
printed The people, we told him, would
read this and then come to him for wash
ing. He took deep interest in the whole
story, and paid marked attention to our
few remarks.
"You see, Mr.. Hong Lee" we said
thinking he was getting along first-rate iu
English, this is a paper-this here" (put-
ting finger ON it, "When people read
they rush off frantically and buy of every
body whose name they see in the paper
Do you understand n He said he did
and wanted to know how many pieces We
had-whether they were big or little We
felt discouraged. We had worked hard
for half an hour already, and he all the
time thinking that we we're talking about
washing With an imprecation ON the
whole race we went over the whole story
again, even going so far as to figure
out to him how many papers we printed
and how many we expected to print. He
was all attention as before, but when we
stopped for breath he spirited water on a
batch Of clothes through his teeth, and
then said, as coolly as q mummy, that if
we brought the clothes on Monday he
would have them done Wednesday.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20

matter Just as it is am satisfied in my
own mind, that no more important prOpO-
sition than this has been before the con-
ventlon, or one more worthy of favorable
consideration and adoption. | therefore
ask that the report Of the committee be
not accepted, that the proposition be
adopted as part Of the Organic laws Of the
State Of Ohio.
Speeches were made in favor OF the
,proposition by General Ewing, DR.. Dor
sey, Mr.. Carberry, General Voris and
others. Messrs. Campbell, Root, Alex
ander and others making speeches against
the proposition.
The question occurring upon accepting
the report, the ayes we're 47-noes, %.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20
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icine will he forwarded BY Express,
FREE!
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DO uot fail 70 send to him for trial bottle; IL costs
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The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20
THE BRICKLAYERS.
FROM sCRIBNER'S MONTHLY.

"Hp to the top u the towering wall '"
-Tis thv master maSou's rali,ing call
''Hv th, -,tffuldng, huNs. nov merrlly climb.
Tis seven O'Clock hN the tnsu-b,lrs chime
Bring tu Nuur work -p,.i muscle and hraWu.
Ana d kvtu. quick eye where the line T. drawn
cut with Yuur tempered blay> Il steel
Suuuthvr than glass from point u heel
Nov steady and clear. from turret aud ltnrt,
klu. out your challenge Mort a. mort
'Chnk ciink trowel and brick
Music With labor and art combine
Brick upon brick, hay them up quick.
But lay u the line, bays lay "a the line ~
thtery crickets all the day long
tightening labor with laugh and song
Busy a. bees upon angle amt pieT
Piling the. red bricks tier uron tier
Climbing and ciinbing still nearer the
l'rO Ider IN IN kings u the ~ork They have dome
Upward and upward the bruklayers 20,
Till men are but children and pigme> below.
While the masters order fail, ringing and short
o. the staggering carrier, Mort % mort :"
'Chuk cnk truWe and brick
Music with labor and combine
Brick upon hrick, lay them up quick
Eut lay to the line. huNs lay I" the line =
" ho are the peers u the hest in the land
" urJh, meath arrheS II honor Ia stand
rhv, the hrck-rci,iene,i, mortar stained palms,
With shoulders II -Iants and >ineaN arms,
Builders uf cities and builders ~ homes
pruppug the SKY va With spires ami dumes
Writing thereon Nith their truWel and lime
Lvstuu> uf tui iur the eyes u Time
- that the ages may read, they run,
All tnat their magical might hA- dome
So clink clmk truwel ami brick
WORK hy he masters uurk and sign
Brick upon brick. lay them up quick
But lay 90 the line. boys, IA, a. the lie
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20

Buffalo to Chicago is quoted at 25c per ton,
and grain from Chicago to Buffalo at 3ga4c
per bushel. A semi-panic is said to pre-
vail among vessel owners, many of whom
seem to consider mastery inactivity at
present TO be the only policy open. Il il
this state Of things which has awakened
attention 70 the question Of shipping by
sailing direct from Chicago to Liverpool.
One vessel at least has undertaken the en-
terprise.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20

Great depression exists in this interest
Just now, on account of the increased de-
mand for the business Offering on the part
of the railroads, and their increased facili-
ties for transportation. An idea of the
magnitude Of the interest may be formed
from the fact that the capital invested in
lake vessels amounts TO &32, 600, 900, the
tonnage to 777, 1916 tons, and the total
number Of vessels employed to. 5,5l2.
Chicago alone owns GAG vessels, aggregAt.
ing 104, ,S27 tons. Freight on coal from
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20

Of those dependent on the trade. lie
these state the terms upon which they viii
enter the lists, and make a march upor
the tariff.
Very truly yours,A
JOHN JAMEx, Sec'y M. N. A.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-20

the risk Of minimum, the ships are pro
vIded with air tight covers, which when
forced over the openings coniine the air
therein, and keeps the ship always buoy
ant
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21

PINCHBACK, who claims TO be both
Senator and Representative from Lou
isiana, made a speech in New Orleans
on the 18th inst. to d Republican club,
and he said be believed with President
Grant that it was time for the Repub-
liean party 10 unload" But he ap-
pears decidedly opposed to be unload
cd himself, for he is reported to have
said Of his chances of admission to
Congress.
Should | be sent back from wash
ington on personal grounds, / will
make a clean breast of what | know
sufficient to make the Republican party
quake"
We hope Pinch. will be sent back and
allowed to tell what he knows. Very
likely he could tell some ugly stories.
He declared in his speech that if he had
been allowed TO stay on the returning
board, the Louisiana mUddle would not
have happened, and the lives of those
innocent persons in Grant parish would
not have been sacrificed, and that every
Republican in Office in the State Of
Louisiana owes him Pinch.) his posi-
ton. He is reported to have made the
following emphatic declaration:
But from this day forth he intended
to be a man In spite of Governors, Sen
ators or party, and what he considered
right he would do. and he intended to
stump the State advocating such prin-
ciples. The day Of party tyranny must
end here and at once the air was preg-
nant with danger, and seditous ele-
ments were creeping in"
If Pinch. has the Republican leaders
at the disadvantage he intimates, they
will likely purchase his silence in some
way.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21

IN his late speech in New Orleans,
Pinehback told his colored brethren
that the masses of the North viewed
many of their actions with alarm, and
that the signs of the times indicated
that it would be only by a judicious use
of their privileges of freemen in the Sc
lection of the next Legislature that
they could hope to regain their just
place in the estimation of their fellow
men. The colored men of other South
ern States might profit by giving heed
TO this warning.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Gen. Wilder thinks Sweetwater, within
ten~thousand inhabitants.
A house occupied by William Stearns, in
Jackson, was struck by lightning during
the storm Tuesday night, the 18th inst. the
electricity entered 2 sue and came down
the stove pipe tearing it and the stove to
pieces and striking the floor of the room,
setting it on fire. The flames were soon ex-
tinguished.
An earthquake shook up Dyersburg a
little Sunday evening, the 18th inst, about
2 O'Clock. Troy was disturbed at the same
tine. IS the shock was observed at both
places, Il muSt base bsen a true vibration
OF the earth's. crust. In the mind OF science
the wonder Is that these terrestrial shocks
are not more frequent and more severe.
The Chattanooga Times ofthe 18th inst.
saws: John Daley, a we'll known citizen Of
Hamilton county, was drowned yesterday
afternoon in the backwater near the cross
ing OF the last Tennessee road aud Mccall
lie avenue. He was not aEars on the depth
Of the water and drove into a hollow filled
with water. The team he was driving were
also drowned.
\ NEGRO man who lived near Cottage
Grove, in Henry county, was shot and killed
while sitting BY his Preside a few nights
since by some unknown party. The Paris
Ip~teliigeHcer says: Strong suspicious rest
upon 4 certain party, who is still at large,
and We do not deem It proper TO say more
at present. As we have 20 doubt the case
viii be worked up and the guilty party
brought to justice.
Sometime ago three men with their faces
BACKED, went to the house of q newly ar
rived German, in Lawrence county. and
caHed hi;Il ouT 10 The fence, wheIf one OF
them put a pistol TO his bead, and the
other two proceeded to the house to rob il,
1t having been rumOred that the German
had a large amount of gold in the house.
They searched the house without finding
anything except a watch, which they took
18th ,oIge c~arpenter's tools.
Clint L~ouderniik has succeeded, through
his counsel, in having his case in the Kings
ton Court continued until the next term Oh
the Circuit Court for Roane county, upon
afadaviL alleging that a fair trial could not
be had, owing to The preJudieed and in
famed condition of the public mind toward
him. Mr.. Love, the hero OF the pursuit OF
the band, and the captor of Mangrum, was
present in Kingston as a witness.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21

THE discussion in Congress of the
mileage question has revealed some
important facts in connection with this
subject. A short time ago the Hon.
A. Herr Smith, Of Pennsylvania,
showed that he received $3.50 for his
trip to and from his home in Lancaster,
Pa, when it could be made for $3.50,
and showed also by official data that the
actual expense of both coming and re-
turning of all the members and dele
gates of this Congress was but $4,000,
and that a saving of nearly 100000
could be made by reducing mileage to
actual travelling expenses.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21
SUMMERS SUCCESSOR.
How washburn's Election Was He
ceived- I'm washingten-Charges of
Fraud. Corruption and Ingrstitude
Freely Made.

HON. Washburn's Election was He
eeived. I'm Wasbingten-Charges Of
Fraud. Corruption and Ingrstitude
Freely Made.
- From the Cincinnati Commercial
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Mas
sachusetts people in Washington are IN
a high state Of excitement over the an
nou1cement that Gov. William B.
Washburn is elected to succeed Sum-
ner in the Senate. OF the eleven Rep
sentatives from the Bay State. onlyfour
viz: the Hoar brothers, Gooch, and
John N. S. Williams, are pleased at the
result. Many of the best informed
do not hesitate to charge that Wash
burns election was secured by fraud
and corruption. They denounce WASH
burn in the severest termsfor accepting
the position, as they all assume he will.
They claim that he sacrifices Dawes for
the sake of his own advancement, and
hold that this is a heinous offense, In
view of the, circumstance that Dawes
has uniformly stood Washburn' sfriend,
and has made him all that he Is, prac-
tically. 1t seems that IN all of
Washburn's career Dawes has
been chiefly instrumental IN ad-
vancing his political fortunes.
and the remark is indignantlymade to-
night by men of prominence IN Mas
sachusetts that if it had not been for
Dawes Washburn would still be In
Greenfield making pals and tubs. 1t
seems that Dawes would not have felt
particularly hurt if Wendell Phillips,
Emory Washburn, OF some such per-
son had been agreed upon by way of
compromise. The talk is loud and
long, and threats are freely made that
to punish the men who have thus sold
and delivered Dawes, a Democratic
Governor and Legislature viii be elect
ed in Massachusetts this fall, through
the efforts and assistance of the Dawes
Republicans, and as a consequence a
Democratic Senator chosen from that
State the coming winter. Dawes
friends have freely asserted during all
of this Senatorial struggle that he
would never consent to come back 70
the House; that if he failed to be elect
ed Senator he would retire finally from
public life. The concluding part Of
this assertion is repeated tonight with
great emphasis. 1t is a little peculiar
that while the opinions of overy other
Massachusetts, Congressman are quoted
tonight, no reference is made to Bout
well. They don't count Boutwell, any
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21
4 CONFIRMED INVALID.

NIVHH ~ NH"NH4I~tt
WASHINGTON, April lS.-Alexander II.
Stephens left the city last evening for his
home in Georgia. Before taking his de-
parture, he was called upon by a company
of friends, and during the conversation re-
marked that unless his health should be-
come improved by the trip he never again
expected to visit Washington. He is a
confirmed invalid, and has not been in his
seat on the floor Of the House for the past
two months. In frame he is a mere
shadow, but his intellect seems as bright as
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21
LYNCHHUsC, VA.

10 the Union and American:
LYNCHBURG, Va, April III write to
you from the City of Hills, amid rain,
storm and mud, surrounded, however, by
millions Of pounds Of tobacco, and the
Shrill shrek Of one hundred locomotives
trying TO run into Danville. The city is
full of strangers, attending the annual Ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Of Virginia. The attendance is very large
aud It's membership is composed of some of
the first men of the State. The order in
this State is in a very fourishing condition
and is very wealthy.
We have just finished our new registra-
ton, and the city is s~ignaIly Conservative,
and Ee are greatly rejoiced thereat.
NANNAHOB.