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Appeal to Miners and Other Working
men.

By the late Convettion of the Miners
National Association this resolution was
passed:
Resolred, That the Secretary be in
structed to draft,an appeal, and publish it
in the Miners National Record, and at the
same time request all labor papers friendly
to the miners to publish also, for the pur-
pose of raising means to support the fam
lily Of Mr. Parks, and those of the other
men in prison for the same cause, and urk-
ing upon all workIngmen, citizens Of the
State Of Pennsylvania, the Importance of
signing the petitions now out, praying for
the pardon Of those men, that they may
be released from the service Of a term in
the penitentiary, imposed, AS we believe,
wrongfully on them and be it further
Resolved, That the officers Of this organ
ization be hereby instructed to see that the
families do not suffer till returns are had
to the appeal so sent out.
The story Of Mr.. Parks imprisonment
is known to most of the miners
of the country, and the circumstances
under which he is now IN prison.
1t has been told in all our labor journals.
He and his companions are in the peniten-
tiary simply because they endeavored to
make strike for an advance of wages a
success. This annoyed their employers,
and under the Conspiracy law of Pennsyl-
wanna there is a chance of convicting inno-
cent men of crime when placed upon trial
before men who do not understand trade
disputes, when no crime has been commit
ted This is how it is in this case. No
crime was perpetrated, but they are in
prison, and the families need help. The
members of our Union, and the miners
generally, have promised help for that
purpose. We send out sneets with this
call, that those who can assist may use
them in getting subscriptions and sending
them on to this Office. 1t is just possible
that the efforts now being made may OBJ
tain pardon for the prisoners, but no re-
lance can be placed on this. Let the sub
scriptions be taken up just as if no hope
of this kind was entertained, as the money
raised will be required anyhow. Anything
more we deem unnecessary to say. believ-
ing all who can will lend helping hand
by contributing their mite.
Respectfully yours.
JOHN JAMES, Secretary.
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LABOR ITEMS.

The State Grange in Texas has lately
purchased foundry in Jefferson county,
and propose 20 manufacture their own
farming implements.
The wages Of laborers in the city Of New
York has been raised to 600 per day.
The defeat of the Tammany candidates.
no doubt had good deal to do with the
action taken.
The operatives Of the Harmony Mills,
at Conoes, numbering ., 900, have accepted
the IL per cent. reduction, and continued
work, Monday, without interruption.
There il to be further reduction of IL
Der cent. in the wages Of the operatives II
the cotton factories at Augusta, Me. Thi
makes . reduction Of 80 per cent
within the last two years, and it IL sai6
that many of the operatives at present ar
making barely enough to pay their board
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DISPUTE IN THE CAMBRIDGE BUILDING
Difficulties having arisen in the building
trade at Cambridge, and the bricklayers
having struck for higher wages, The en-
ployers belonging to the Builders Associ-
alton invited the carpenters and brick
layers to a conference, which was held at
the Great Northern Hotel last night The
bricklayers abstained entirely from at
tending because the invitation was not
sent to the society, but there was a good
representation Of carpenters, who had re-
Gently asked for a raise of wages After a
long and amicable conference it was agreed
that future meeting should be held be-
tween members of the association and two
carpenter delegates from each firm to
discuss and settle the working rules and
wages.
OoMMITTAL OF TWENTY SEVEN MEN FROM
INTIMIDATION.
A case under the new labor laws came
before the Motifs county magistrates. at a
special sitting at Nottingham on Friday,
and excited great interest. Twenty
men and two women were charged, under
the 9TH section of 38 and 80 Wet, cap
So, with attempting to intimidate work
men in the employ Of Messrs Sylvester &
Bridget, lace manufacturers, of Linton,
near Nottingham. Some months ago a
strike occurred at Messrs. Sylvester &
Bridgett's factory, and the places OF the
men who left were subsequently filled
by non -unionists These latter have been
subjected to great annoyance by the union
lists Of the district and their friends, who
have followed them in crowds, hooting and
yelling, when the left work, and the
neighborhood has constantly been the
scene Of uproar and disorder. The evil
dence on Friday was very voluminous, and
went TO show that the defendants had
been amongst those who had followed the
workmen and had used threatening Ian
guage to them. The proceedings against
the two women were withdrawn, but the
whole Of the men were committed for
trial at the assizes.
LONDON, Oct 30-The Leeds Mercury Of
to day says that the large iron producers,
Blockow, Vaughan & Co., employing in
their collleries, mines, and works nearly
10, 900 men, have notified their employees
at the marlborough, Wilton Park, and
Eston Works, in Yorkshire, that, owing to
the depression Of trade, their engagements
must terminate on the 18th of November.
Forty-6ve furnaces in Middlesbrough
district are idle, and will not be put in
blast till trade improves.
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DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 10-On this after
noon the Pullman car works were the scene
of curious explosion. A large escape
pipe, six feet square, leads from the plain
ing machines on the ground floor to the
roof, terminating in dust-box, which is
cleaned out regularly twice a week. A
short time before the accident, quantity
Of shavings, which lodged in the lower end
of the fue, caught fire, and were finally
brought under control. The danger in
this direction being averted, 10 workmen
ascended to the cupola for the purpose OF
sweeping out the dust which had been col
lncting for several days past. No sooner
had they begun to sweep the dust into the
fue than asmouldering fire below seized
upon the floating particles and sheet Of
fame dsrted up the fue to the dust-box
which was torn to pieces with thunder
ing report which was heard for block
around. The unfortunate workmen wers
hurled about the roof in every direction
scorched, blackened, and in some case
mutilated in q frightful manner, who'll
pieces of fesh from their arms and face
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United States Hardware in Australia

The IroHmOBger (London, Eng.) con
tains the following rather lugubrious
statement of some facts about American
competition "We have from time t.
time drawn attention to the success with
which hardwares manufactured ia the
United States have competed with some of
the British firms in certain foreign markets
hitherto supplied almost exclusively from
this side, at the same time that United
States products have been finding their
way into our own country. The reports
to hand from the different hardware dis
tricts still show that there is little or no
revival in the dem; nd for iron and hard
ware products required in Canada. Thither
it is well known the United States mann
facturers continue 70 send the goods they
made at rates much under those wantcl
BY the English manufacturers. But this
is not all Some " The manufactured
goods sent across the Lakes into the Do
minion are said to be more handy than
the English patterns. Some time ago we
reported that the United States iron and
hardware manufacturers we're pushing
their advantage in Australia and in New
| Zealand. In those markets, likewise,
American enterprise is still sagreeably
apparent The worst Of il that not a
few of the American goods are declared, as
to quality, to surpass our own. AS to the
Antipodean markets, all that we have
here said is borne out by a communication
which has been received by hrm Of Birm
ington merchants from their agent in Mel.
borne He writes as follows You vii
notice our indent runs more on American
iron mongery than formerly. Their good
. are far superior to English made, anC
latterly they have been much cheaper
There is no comparison in the profits the.
pay us, and they give universal satisfac
tion. Small wares, locks, tools, etc, in
deed, all sorts Of American made goods
are now being sold in the market an'
when once used, seen, or sold, tive user 0
buyer will never again look AZ English
: made articles of the same class
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marked '"rhere's a fine pair of aces +"
whereupon the boy in the door responded .
Yes, and there goes fine pair of deuces. ="
An Englishman was boasting to A Yam
kee that they had book Ill the British
Museum which was once owned by Cicero.
''Oh, that amt nOthin', retorted the Y. m
kee ''ln the museum in Boston they've
got the lead-pencil that Noah used to check
OF the animals thai went into the ark !"
"won't you cut open penny for me.
father N said little girl when she came
home from school one day "Cut open a
penny What do you want me u al that
for 7" asked the father. cause, said the
little girl, 'onr teacher says in every pen
ny there are four farthings. and want In
see them"
A colored- man vhg vas lately resusci-
tated from what seemed desth, hut was
only catelepsy, was entertaining his friends
with the sights he beheld in the other
world. PLENTY colored bredren IN Heav-
en-, ! spec, Tom" ''Oh, yes r. said Tom.
"And how about hell-any down there III
asked another interlocuter. ''Oh. YES
massa, plenty of dem der too" ''Anv
white folks, Tom I'm Lord save rs. der
amt no end on EN-, but, by gosh, massa.
ebery white man done got nigger holdin'
between him and dc fire ~
The horse that frets il the horse at
sweats, is an old saying of horsemen, and
IN Just as true Of men as horses The mar
that allows himself to get irritated at every
little thing that goes amiss in his business,
Or I'D the ordinary affairs of life, is a man
that, as a rule, will accomplish little and
wear out early. He is a man for whom
bile and dyspepsia have a particular fond
ness, and for whom children have a partic-
uiar aversion. He is a man with perpet-
ual thorn in the flesh which prlcks and
wounds at the slightest movement, a man
for whom life has little pleasure and the
future small hopes.
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" OH. WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF
MORTAL BE PROUDT

Oh, Why should the spirit o. mortal be proud
Like a fast flying teor, fast hying cloud,
A flash q lightning, brake Of the wav
Tie pa ed rom life to his rest IN the grave.
The leaves 4 the oak and the willow hall fade,
BE scattered around and together be laid
A. the young and the old, and the low and the high
Shall moulder - dust and together shall lie.
The child that a mother attended and loved;
The mother that infants affection proved;
The hu- band that m ther and il tant who best-
Each, all, are away 10 the dwelling Of rest.
The maid on whose cheek on whose brow in whose
Shone beauty and pleasure her trumrhs are by;
And the mem ~ Of those who loved her and praised.
AIe alike from the minds of the living erased.
The hand Of the king that the seeptre had borne;
The brow Of the priest that the mitre bad worn;
The eyes Of the sage and the heart II the brave,
Are hidden and lost in depths Of the grave
The peasant hose lot was 20 SOW and to reap;
The herd sman who climbed WITH his goats to the steep
The becgar who wandered in search Of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
The sal I who enjoyed the communion of heaven;
fine sinner, who dared 10 remain unforgven;
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and the just
Ha quietly mingled 4 cir bones In the dust.
So the multitude goes, Ike the flower and the weed
That wlther away to let Others succeed;
So the multitude comes, even those We behold
To repeat every tale that has often been told
For the same thing our fathers have been
We see the sshts cur fathers have seen,
We drink the same stream and feel the same sun,
Aud run the same course our fathers nave run.
The thoughts thinking our fathers would think,
From the death shrinking from they, too would
.hrink,
t. the life We clngtng to, they, too would cling,
Blu. il speeds from the eaTth like bird the wing.
They loved but the story We cannot unfold,
They sc0rued the heart Of the naughty cold;
They zrieved, but vail from their slumbsr Will
come,
They loved but the voice Of their gladuess dumb.
They died ave the, died; We thing, mat nov,
" no walk the tuTf that lies over their brow
Who max in their Ssllings transient abode,
Meet the changes the met 90 Their pilgrimage road.
Yes hope and de poudcnce ara pleasure and pain,
Are mingled together Ia sunshine and rain,
nd the smile ami the and the and the dirge
Still follow each over like surge upon surge
is the twink Uf eve. tis the draught of breadth,
F. ON the If health To the paleness Of DEATH
rom the gildtd saluun to the bier I'D the shfoud,
Oh. WHY should the spirit Of mortal be proud
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Estimated upon the basis that interest, when due. is
credited savings account, and Invested in INVEST
MENT CERTtFIC ATES. whenever sloo Is thus accu-
mulated.
ANY holder OF Certificate has the privilege Of eN
amining the condition of the trust at any time on call
ing the office Of the Trustee.
G rtifoates forwarded, and interest, when due, rein
vested if desired remitted BY draft express to
any part Of the United States. Address
SYDNEY MYERS. Manager.
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The Chief of the Cleveland Fire Brigade
has publicly protested against the erec-
tion of any more wooden buildings in that
city, which he declares to be as dangerous
as was Chicago prior to the fire Of 1871.
The whole Pawnee nation, consisting OF
700 Indians, 16 wagons, % horses, several
hundred ponies, many thousand dogs. and
an in6nitesimal amount of sundries,
passed through Crete en- route for their
new reservation in Indian Territory.
The Workingmen's Association of Adri
an. Mich, have loaned that city $2, 600
at per cent. interest.
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DETROIT SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13 1875

being literally blown off by the explosion,
while all were terribly burned, some al
most beyond recognition. The cupola i'm
mediately caught fire and was nearly de-
str"yed before the fire department sub
dued the flames. The worst injured are
L. Marie, very badly burned about the
head and face; John T. Loyett, burned
about the face feared he will lose his eye
sight Geo. Meridans, hands both SO bad
ly burned that most of the flesh actually
fell from the bones w. Gerke, burned so
badly that his life is despaired of. His in
Juries cover almost his entire person.
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THE IRON TRADE.

1t is worth noting in these times Of gem
eral depression that Messrs. Bell Brothers,
OF Middlesborough, are about To blow III
two of their large new blast furnaces at
Port Clarence. This firm is blowing out
two old furnaces The Rosedale and Fer
ryhill Company have blown la two blast
furnaces. This firm has now eleven fur
naces, six Of which are IN operation.
The wages of the iron workers at
Phoenlxvile have been reduced as follows:
Boilers TO S4 per ton puddlers, To S3.15
per ton boilers helpers, to 33 cents per
heat puddlers' helpers to 81 cents per
heat all other labor seven and one-ha
per cent.
The iron furnace at Lebanon has blown
In and the Allentown Company's mills have
resumed.
The rolling mills at Black Rock, New
York, are idle.
FOREIGN.
A dispatch from London dated the 30th
ult., says that the large iron producers,
Bolckow, Vaughan a Co., employing in
their collieries, mines, and works nearly
ten thousand men. have notified their EN-
ployes at MiddlesbOrough, Wilton Park.
and the Eston Works in Yorkshire, that
owing to the depression of trade, their en-
gagements must terminate On the 18th of
November next (to-day).
Everybody in the North of England j.
fully aware of the miserable condition Of
the iron trade at present, but few persons
have the bOldness to predict the time
| II, ..l-
place in this gigantic industry, upon the
prosperity Of which the inhabitants be-
tween the Humber and the Tyne mainly
depend. Of the l5g blast furnaces in the
North of England, ll2 only are in opera
tion. In the finished iron trade many of
the rail mills have been idle for a cansid-
erable time, and some Of the works will
shortly be entirely closed for want Of
orders. Another ugly feature is that the
works that are engaged are not making
like the profit they should return. and day
after day III consequence Of financial com
plications there are the most damaging
rumors which seriously interfere with
business and completely blast confidence.
/ No sooner is one financial difficulty ar
ranged than another is reported, and ira
ders are in a state Of doubt and trembling
apprehension. The only consolation that anx-
ious inquirers obtain is that the worst has
not yet been realized 1t is no use dis
guising the fact, patent TO the most ordiu-
airy observations, that the winter before
us will be one Of great severity CONNER
cially, and that thousands of men will be
thrown out Of employment 1t behooves
every one in the North u help his neigh
bor to the fullest extent and We are glad
to say that this has been done nobly in
several cases-in order to overthrow the
anxious and depressing times. Early next
year there will probably be a change in
the right direction, and once on the pros
porous road the district will again success
fully compete with the world -Engineer-
ina.
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The miners of Park county, Ind, after
being idle since last June, have again re-
sumed work.
A coal mine been opened OH Horsehead
Creek, near Fort Smith, Ark. 1t is semi
anthricite, of excellent character.
The Indianapolis folks are talking of
constructing a narrow-gauge railroad to
the coal deposits in Davies County. Btu
minous and camel coal are found together
in the same vein, which is five feet in
thickness
The four shafts Of the Chicago & Will
mington Coal Company, at Streator, ILL.,,
are being operated to their full capacity,
giving employment to 1,O0O miners and
laborers. The price paid for mining is 80
cents in witer and 80 cents in summer The
company also owns three or four shafts at
Braidwood.
CoLoRADo CoAL.-An estimate of the
coal mined from the coal formation OF
Colorado Territory has lately been compiled
BY Capt. E. L. Berthoud. The comPlla-
ton embraces eighteen coal mines, extend
ing from Canon City to the st. Vrain river.
The total amount mined from January lst,
| 1874. to October LIST, 1875, foots up oil, l04
tons. valued a. 81, ,O44. $40.
COLUMBUS, o., Nov. 8.-The coal strike
in the Hooking Valley continues. The
operator who last week accepted the de-
mand of the miners has Withdrawn his
agreement, because the other operators re-
fused the advance to 60 cents per ton.
The miners at the Tunnel mines, in Perry
county. who have been paid 81 cents, are
an 4 strike for 68 cents. Five coal trains
on the Hooking Valley Road have beer
withdrawn.
FOREIGN.
At a conference of miners recently helc
at Shrewsberry, England, it was stated
that the entrance fees ON behalf OF nearly
thirty thousand members had been paic
into the National Union, and also tha
s4OO. 600 had been paid to the men OF
strike in South StaffordshIre. This Is on
of those items which 90 to show with wha
earnestness the workingmen in Englan'
sustain their fellow-workmen in their re
distance to the extortions of their employ
! ers. Il is great pity that men canno
come together as men, and base their rels
: tions on grounds that would render sue
contests unnecessary.
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HENRY CAREY BAIRD.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9, 1875.

ANY scheme which looks to robbing the
greenback of its legal tender quality, or OF
forcing the holders of it to take from the
government in exchange for it anything which
is neither legal tender nor convertible into
one, is scheme for repudiation pure and
simple, be it disguised as it may
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rs Clark street, Chicago.
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TABLE Of increase OF "IRVeStmeRt Ger
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bearing interest. payable In quarterly In
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per annum. showing the accumulation OF
sums invested for the benent Of ChiIdreH
or others
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An attempt is being made to secure the
erection of cotton mills in Little Rock,
Ark.
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~ E&A2Y.

N 7. DE-, !. IN I1OhN1 '5S- =
We The undersigned. having been appointed
5@aalso1t Of the accounts Of the Secretary and
i1ss2a'er Of the Monroe County COOPERATIVE
--e Insurance Company, for the year 1874, do
gs'.l'y iRat We have examined above accounts
. 'ae Secretary and Treasurer and compared
.-a With the vouchers, and find them correct
" '5ove stated.
THEODORE SCHOCH,
P. SIMPSON FETHERMAN,
.'0iaafy at Auditors.
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Auditors Notice.
Auditors Notice.

Estate Of GEO. HENRY HUEBNER, decd
Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned
having been appointed by the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, to
make distribution of the funds in the honds Of
Abel Storm, Executor, to and among the per
sons entitled thereto, will attend to the duties
Of his appointment on Saturday, February 9th,
1875, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. at the Registers Of
foe, Stroudsburg, at which time and place all
uersons having any elains against said fnnd
vim present the same or be forever debarred
from eonsine in for any share thereof
JOHN APPEEZELLER. Auditor.
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Registers Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all persons interes-
ted in the estates in the respective decedents the
following accounts have been filed in the Regis
ters Office of Monroe county, and will be pre-
of said County at Siroudsburg, on Monday, the
I'D day of February, 1875, at 10 o'clock, A
NJ
Account of John Peters, Administrator of
the Estate Of William F. Peters, decd
Final account of Samuel T. Strunk, Admin
istrator of the Estate of Henry Strunk, decd.
First account of Amadus Woodling, Admin
istrator of the Estate of George Woodling,
decd.
Account Of Isaac r. Transue, Administrator
of the Estate of Frederick Transue, decd
J. APPENZELLER, Register.
Registers Office Stroudsburg,(
Jan. %, 1875.