Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-11-03

Trade,
the CIGAR MAkERs.
The cigar makers have show
more business capacity than is com
mon among laboring people VIII
strike for what they consider thei
rights. They have completed thei
organization, have raised q yer.
large fund, and have organized |
"provision Kitchen" from which thu
needy striker will DO fed. TIL,
provisions are bought at the loves
wholesale price, and are distributed
in such quantities as will keep til
strikers in good condition. They
have also secuted the service Of
physicians to attend members Of
the strikers families. and, in short
have gone into the business in &
thoroughly systematic way.
AE OLD swINpLE REVIVED.
|. A Sharper under the name o.
Evens is flooding the country with
this letter.
New YORK CITY.
G. w, GREEN, Esq;
Your ticket, 9i50, has drawn house
and lot in Jamaica, Queens Co, N. T.,
valued by Commissioner of Taxes at
$4,000. Mr., Taylor, who had charge OF
the Mister, died ut Savannah with yell
low fcvc. will upon the receipt OF
$40 additional have the property con-
yeyed to you by County Clerk. The
amount is to pay the clerk for his SER
vices. c. l.. EVANS.
a great many smart Greenies.
who know they have no right to
the property mentioned, but who
are willing to take advantage of
what they consider the mistake of
the careless Mr.. Evans, send $40,
which is the last of it. 1t is curl,
Gus that people will allow them
selves to be taken in by devices So
transparet.
the TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
Is still progressing, though it has
not made the Roadway that its pro.
jectors hoped. 1t is very hard to
keep the attention of New Workers.
to anything but their business for
any length of time, and then think
what an enormous thing the rum
interest is to fight. Yet the League
are working away as earnestly as
though they were in possession of
the enc my's out works. They have
collected some interesting figures to
show VIII at tipplinghouses cost the
city. They charge four fifths of the
expenses for police, charities for
criminals, paupers, or 1900, 900. TO
them; to this must be added ST..
BOO, 900 for salaries to extra employ
ses in judicial and other depart
donations to charitable in
situations, $500, 900, or a total of
$4,000 900. To offset this there is
$500, 900 collected for license fees.
These figures are significant. Mrs.
Lille Devereaux Blake made a
speech, in the course of
which she said that between 1870
md 1875 torty-two women were
Tiled in this city by drunken men
most Of them kicked to death.
POLITICAL.
The contest, this fall, in the city,
will be between Tamnfany on the
ne hand, and the combined Re-
'ublicans and Anti Tammany Dem
crats on the other. Contrary to
he usual practice, the Democratic
BUSINESS men have taken hold of
he matter, and if they make fight
'eafah GartnstA theX. ma, .ai,f{ Y;,99lEA!}
y, aided by the German vote, which
always uncomfortable in any or.
anlZation which includes the Irish.
nd the entire Republican party,
nght to carry the city, and relieve
from the dead weight of John Z!
ely Tammayism. But | am not /
Try sanguine. The leaders of Tam Z
any know their power. They have
'e revenues of vast city at their
ntrol, and they know that great fl
any men have their price. When n
G forces are all ready for action, N
d it is known who the workers L
e, Kelly will swoop down with O
money and his places, and then t,
letler it is Il success or not, will h,
pend entirely upon how many of m
I'm he can buy. TO succeed, the nj
pectable Democrats, and the in. of
pendent Germans must draw out ia
the Democratic ranks quite thir.
thousand votes, and with Tam :
ny charging through their lines, ri
very doubtful. And then the Ly
chester Convention so divided ed
Republican party that it is we
btful whether action can be tax. ID
which will insure a full RepubIi. en-
vote. | have no faith whatever Blu
he movement, but | do most ar. ma
t'y hope | may be disarpo intcd. an'
THE COST OF STRIKES. Gu
he cost of the service of the qua
e militia during the strikes of dec
summertime, say one week :
up nearly S275,O00. 1t is rath. 81.
III expensive way of obtaining p'"
Ease of pay. Probably the cost oOt
ne strikes in the State, count. this
destruction and detention. loss Ha,
me and everything else, will no,
up S5,OOO,OOO. Aud it all ~ ,
lnted to nothing except to give "i :
OF demagogues like Schwab WE
owlntOn nOtOriety. They are MI
g the same thing over again niue
nay possibly succeed. that
THE GRAIN TRADE watt
G papers are exercised over the I'm IN W
hat New York has not had a 1 ,
large increase of receipts of ,a
while Philadelphia, Boston 81 ~ q
Baltimore have. 1t is eesy to effort,
tand why this is so. New Every
has laid down on her "nation. furnisl
and has failed to ing. ,
late the outside world, The and Gel
IDS running into New York
anaged in the interest of one Tho
- those running into other annea,