Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-31

| New York Letter.
THE GIG 'R MAKERs-AN OLD sWINDLE-
THE TEMPERAE MoVEMENT-POLITI-
CAL-THE COST OF STRGKES-THE GRAIN
TRADE-THE MEAT TRADE.
New YORK. Oct, 27, 1877.
THE CIGAR MAKERS.
The cigar strikers have shown more
business capacity than is common among
laboring people who strike for what they
consider their rights. They have COM
pleted their organization, have raised Il
very large fund. and have organized
"provision Kitchen" from which the
needy strikers will be fed. The provisions
are bought at the lowest wholesale prices,
and are distributed in such quantities as
will keep the strikers in good condition.
They have also secured the services OF
physicians to attend the members of the
strikers families, and, in short, have gone
into the business in u thoroughly systcmat-
ic way.
AN OLD sWINDLE REVIVED,
A sharper under the name of Evans is
flooding the country with this letter:
New YORK CITY.
G. w. GREEN, Esq. Your ticket,
$3.50, has drawn house and lot in Ja
maica, Queens Co., N. Y, valued by COM
missioner of taxes at 80, $780, Mr.. lay
lor, who had charge of the matter, died at
Savannah with yellow fever. | will upon
the receipt of $40 additional have the
property conveyed to you by county clerk.
The amount is to pay the clerk for his
services. G. j.. EVANS.
A great many smart greenies, who know
they have no right to the property men,
toned, but who are willing to take advant-
age of what they consider the mistake of
the careless Mr.. Evans, send $40, which
is the last of it. 1t is curious that people
will allow themselves to be taken in by
devices so transparent.
TIE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
is still progressing, thought has not made
the Roadway that its projectors 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
us earnestly us though they were in pos
session of the enemy's outworks. They
have collected some interesting figures to
show what tipping houses cost the city.
They charge four iflhs of the expenses
for police, charities for criminals, paupers,
or $4,000,0O0, to them; to this must be
added Sl,000,00O for salaries 10 extra en-
ployos in judicial and other departments;
donations to charitable institutions, $500,
900, or total of $5,300,000. To offset this
there is 100000 collected from license
fees. These figures are significant. Mrs.
Lille DevereauX Blake made II temper
ance speech, in the course of which she
Said that between 1870 and 1875 forty-two
women were killed in this city by drunken
men-most of them kicked to death.
POLITICAL.
The contest, this fall. in the city, will be
between Tammany on the one hand, and
the combined republicans and Anti-Tam-
many democrats on the other. Contrary
10 the usual practice, the democratic bust.
ness men have taken hold Of the matter,
and if they m Ike II fight in dead earnest,
they may accomplish something. The re-
spectacle element of the American democ-
racy, aided by the German vote, which is
always uncomfortable in any organization
which include sthe Irish, and the entire
republican party, ought to carry the city.
and relieve it from the dead weight of
John Kelly Tammanyism. But am moi
very sanguine. The leaders of Tammany
know their power. They have the rcve
nues of IL vast city ut their control, and
they know that Il great many men have
their price. When the forces are all ready
for action and it is known who the work
ers are, Kelly will swoop down with his
money and his places, and then whether it
is ~ success or not, will depend entirely
Oh, how many of them he can buy. 70
succeed, the respectable democrats, and
the Independent Germans must draw out
of the democratic ranks quite thirty thou
sand votes, and with Tammany charging
through their lines, it is very doubtful.
And then the Rochester convention so di.
vided the republican party that it was
doubtful whether action can be taken which
will ensure full republican vote have
no Elith whatever in the movement, but
| do most ardenlly hope may be disap-
dointed
THE COST OF STRIKES.
The cost of the service of the state mi.
litil during the strikes of last summer
time, say one week-foot up TO nearly
$275, 600. 1t is rather an expensive way
of obtaining increase of pay. Probably
the cost of the strikes in the state, counting
destruction and detention loss of time and