Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-05-01
The Coal Trade.

The troubles 10 BarbadUcs continue undl
Unfinished.
The Coal Trade.
| A writer 10 the Cuuberlau News of Satur-
day says: "The Borden company closed ope
rations on Wednesday indefinitely. The Frank
lin aod Pi u tx resumed work lew days ago
at old rates, to supply certain pressing but linn
! tied orders, proposing to stop again as soon as
they shall have shipped four or five thousand
tons. The New Central company, having some
important steamship supplies to furnish, will
resume work Tor limited time on Monday
next. The Hamburg aud 1Dman lines Of
steamships have turne their consumption to
the Clea field region. These lines were always
furnished from our region. The price made
was fifty cents per ton below the lowest offer OF
Cumberland coal, and it Is not improbable that
the bulk of this important hip trade will
be wholly lost 10 our region.
1.-The high rates OF freight imposed by the
Consolidation company and the high wages
paid the miners are direct causes Of this most
serious blow to the Cumberland trade. The
Clcarfeld production is running more than
double what it was last year. while our o~n
OUTPUT has declined about 50 900 tons com
pared with the same pcrou OF 1878. A fur.
| Their enormous loss oi trade for our field Is now
almost inevitable, aud II seems certain that
the mining population will learn from hard ex
perieDcc the lessons which the most reliable
COMPANIES have endeavorcd to submit to their
own reason and judgment They will believe
when 10 , late that their work was only to have
been saved through fair and necessary conccs
sion affecting the cost of production.
The QUITO is most gloomy ooc, and
without immediate cooperation on the part +
the miners the year will lie inevitably lost.
The News says: Tine Central Goal Com
papy will resume operations 90 Mooday next,
at 65 ceuts per ton. Tn" management state
that the resumption Is bui temporary, as they
will shortly close up agaln, and Tor this season
| If h. present situation as to mining and freight
! prices conllnuc.
"rhc situation intcn>fes. A bad outlook ls
the ouiy one we now see.
The Annapolis correspondent Of the Balti-
more Sun says "Mr. John z. Poe, counsel
for he consolidation Coat Company and the
| Cunt,cr,anl and 'lermsnt R!iIroad Company
lately the Cumberland aud Pennsylvania Rail
| road Company, and transferred to the Cohsoi-
| datiOn company, made an argument before
| Governor Carols th: pas week, Tor the our
pose of Inducing him to instruct the attorney
general 10 With Id The proposed suit OF the
| STATE against the company, which has been
commenced to deprive it Of its charter for al
Icgci evasion of tho law passed at the recent
session OF the Legislature, fixing the rate Of
| freight for coal at two cents per ton per mile.
The Cover or suggested as a compromise that
the railroad company continue shipping COAL
receiving two cents per ton for freight and al
forwards bring suit against the coal companies
for the recovery Of the additional one cent per
ton. and thus bring the question before the
courts for settlement Ii is understood that the
Cumberland aod Piedmont company declioed
to acccde to the suggestion, and is still exact
ing the three cents per ton freight, and that
the suit against it will not be Withdrawn by the
attorney general. Ii is stated that all the coal
companies in the Cumberland reglou, except
the Maryland, which has stopped operations
and the American. arc now shipping coal from
their mines at three cents per ton per mile to
points where it either reaches the Baltimore
and Ohio road or the Chesapeake aud Ohio
caual. The NV Central will commence ship
ments to day. The suspension OF operations IN
| the coal region originally resulted largely from
a strike on the part Of the miners against re-
| duction Of their wages, and since theo the
trouble about the freight has been dlsadVan.
! tapeous clement
Shipments of coal from Cumberland, Md,
for the week ended April 29. amounted 10 ~,
529 tons cwt. by the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, being an Increase of 74l9 tons Is cwt.
as compared with the previous week, and al
| increase Of ., 255 tons II cWt. as compared with
The corresponding period Of 1875 The Con
| solidation Coal Company sent out 81 boats du-
| ring the week, the Borden company l6, the
Blaen Avon 9, the New Central 2, aod the To-
dividuals I; total g6. A large shipment con-
| - bo I,ol.v tlo
| coal trade.
The new Catholic Cathedral at Savannah,
terday morning. There was an immense at
tendance from other cities. Archbishop Bay
ley, of Baltimore; Bishops DUNLAP, Of Mobile;
Lynch, of Charleston; Nerot, Of St. Augustine;
Gibbons, OF Richmond; and about thirty cIer.
gymen from all parts OF the country were pre-
Sent. The High Poutfcsl Mass was grand, and
also the Ii st prod lctlon 10 this country OF Carol
CIR eth : grand mass, with organ and an orchcs
ira of twcn.y-cight lnsrum ;Dts and chorus Of
sky voices. The dedication sermon Was
preached by Bishop Lynch. of Chareston
greeting to Bishop Gross, by Father Reilly. OF
Atlanta. \, the evening service, Grand Pom
riicaI Frspcrs, the sermon was preached by
fdtHcf " aS TlCll, III bihllllulc. ia III slohlsts
from Charleston, Macon, Augusta, Atlanta
Columbus, Dallas and other points were pre-
sent.
The Finance Committee Of the City Council
Of Columbus Ohio having failed TO make pro-
vision for the payment Of the police the Police
Commissioners issued an order directing the
Superintendent to dsband his force this MORN
ng