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through failure in business. of late years
he has taken to drink lie asked me for
twenty-five cents with which to get some
thing to eat. let him have the money 1--WE
were on the Bowery) and watched him. lie
entered low saloon, a noted resort Tor
thieves, where they sell full glass OF wills
KEY for five cents. lie was one who com
menced to drink respectfully now, with
the appetite on MIN, formed in those elegant
saloons, and little money, he is forced into
the lower dcns, there to quench his madden
ing, almost uncomfortable, thirst.
The recent device of the saloon keepers in
putting up the word " hotel on their build
ings in order to get license under the law
viii, do no good A hotel is place where
traveller can have ali his wants supplied
eating, drinking, bathroom, washing, re-
gister, etc; and putting up three beds hired
from a furniture dealer as they arc, Is only
an attempt to get license by false pretences,
and it is our intention to indict certain par
ties on that charge.
There are two laws on the statute books
which, if they were well enforced would
substantially lend the sale OF liquor the
civil damage law, and the law against the
adulteration of liquors. By the former the
wife of a drunkard can sue the liquor dealer
for furnishing the liquor; if he has no
means she may sue his landlord. Several
suits have been successfully brought under
this act in Brooklyn, and | have thirteen
more nearly ready to go into court. In
1857, law was passed providing for the
punishment of persons who adulterate Ii
quors. The amount of impure liquor sold
in New York is really astounding. The poor
never get the pure article. They drink
brandy and whiskey which is made at 81
gallon. To start liquor store with good
liquors would cost $4,000, but dealers in
the adulterated article will set you up for
SOS. If genuine goods were sold the price
for brandy, per drink, would have to be 81,
instead OF 25 cents pure whiskey would be
25 cents, instead of 10; pure rum 80 cents,
instead of 10, and pure gin so cents, instead
of ten. Though that law was passed twenty
years ago it is still in force. or rather 1t only
needs that some one shall see that it is en-
forced to make its wisdom manifest How
many places think you, could keep open. if
compelled 10 sell only pure liquors? Not
one-tenth of the present number. In the
| lower haunts all liquors are manufactured
with the aid of these different favOrs, OBJ
tanned principally from firm in this city.
Cocculus indicus. fOxglove, green copperas,
henbauc, lime, nutgalls, oil of vitriol, nux-
vomica and opium are some of the many
poisonous drugs used in the manufacture OF
adulterated liquors.
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The New York Erenmg Pos. is informed,
a, it says, upon good authority" that the
late strike was decided not upon any grounds
Of expediency or reason. but by mere chance
in fact by the flicker of a bar-room candle.
Seven men, who in some way had influence
enough to bring the strike about or to pre-
vent it, discussed the question in bar-room,
by the light of a candle. They had no de-
sire to strike for higher wages, their only
grievance being that certain men had been
discharged whom they wonld like to have re-
instated. After debating the question for
time they agreed to cast the candle on the
floor If the flame should 20 ont, they
would continue to work. They made the
experiment the candle flame expired. and
the men brought upon themselves the evils
OF an unnecessary strike, and on the country
the consequences which followed. The case
is fair Illustration of the absence of de-
liberation and forethought which leads to
nine out of every ten Of the strikes that &C.
cur in this country.
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Notes Of the Strikes.

The Superintendent of the United States
Railway Postal Service, reports that during
the strikes there was not a single letter or
newspaper lost, though during portion Of
the strike it sometimes became necessary to
transport the mail ten miles in wagons to
keep it from the fire and the mob.
Mr.. P. N. Arthur, President Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, de-
clsres that his organization was not consult
the late strikes till they read the accounts
in tn, Iapers. Still, he believes that the
strikers on early all the roads were justified
in refusing to work under the last reduction,
AMI in psrsuading and hiring others not to
tase their places. - Beyond that, - be adds,
/" they had no right to go, no matter how
much they felt aggrieyed and all those W ho
have resorted to violence have forfeited all
claims to public sympathy, and are looked
upon aud treated as outlaws"
The recent outbreak in Louisville, Ky.,
was at once followed by the enrolment Of
nearly thousand citizens for the protection
Of the city. Ex-Secretary Bristow, colonel
If one of the federal regiments recruit
ed in Kentucky, stood guard with Gen Basil
Duke, John Morgan's most dashing lieu
tenant, and ex-United States Marshal Eli
Il. Murray, the youngest brigadier in the
Union army, commanded one Of the hastily
mustered companies, while Major E. A..
Richards, who served under Gen. Lee, was
one of his fellow officers Hundreds Of ex-
soldiers of the blue and gray stood shoulder
to shoulder IN the ranks
In the United States Court at Indianap-
oils, on Friday. Judge Drummond sentenced
the strikers, arrested there for interfering
with the operation of the roads, to three
months each in the county Jail. Judge Drum
mond said We all acknowledge the
rights of labor. Ii is simply the right of
the man who performs labor to obtain the
best price he can from his employer, and not
the right of debating terms to the employer
The rights OF labor result from an agreement
made among men, not by statement, or an
order. or dictation from one man to an
other. The rights of labor, as thus under
stood, We all admit, and it is not improper,
perhaps, to call those rights sacred. But
when the right of labor consists in the
claim Of not only refusing to labor, but in
terferlng with the labor of others-in other
words, trampling upon the rights of labor
we, OF course, can have no feeling of
respect for any such right as that. Ii is
criminal it is unlawful; it puts an end to
all relations of life, and strikes at the root
OF everything in which the right of labor
consists"
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SECOND DESPATCH.
THE GREAT STRIKES.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING AT sCRANToN-wAN
AND sTARyAIIoN-THE STRIKERS STILL
OBDURATE

TERRIBLE SUFFERING AT scRANToN-wANT
AND sTARyAIIoN-THE STRIKERS STILL
oBDURATE.
NEW YORK, Aug. A Scranton letter
tells pitiiul story about miners sufferings.
Men. women and children are actually in
want of the neeessaries of life. Meat Is an
unknown luxury. Large families are living
on eighteen or twenty dollars month.
Woman and children are dying for want OF
food. The miners are determined to hold
out for better wages. Despite powerful
military protection few miners have return
ed to work. The few who seek employment
have been warned to desist by the strikers.
Col. Sayles's second Pennsylvania regiment
at Scranton, mainly veterans, having Learn
ed the condition of the strikers, will de-
mand to be sent back on the ground that
the law only empowers the governor to
call them out for ten days, while they
have been on duty fourteen days. They
sympathize with the CHASTITY misery they
observed. The Lehigh and Schuylkill re-
giCn miners and laborers are apparently de-
termined to re-establish the miners trade
union. As soon as this is organized gen.
eral strike is anticipated.
BUSINESS REGULARLY RESUMED on THE B. AND o.
RAILROAD.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-The trains of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad Co., are being
run regularly over its entire line, and yes
terday over one hundred trains were started
from various points
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\ Lo>poS despatch of August 9th says
THE late successes Of the Turks have upset
the calculations of Prince Bismarck, who is
now actively engaged in intriguing with
Russia and Austria. in the expectation of in
fueacirg the latter to consent to the passage
of Russian achievements through Seryian
territory to position of advantage on the
Turkish left flank Austria waivers in the
presence of the uncertainty Of action on the
plrt of the British Government, while the
latter is evidently anxious to let the Turks
fight it out, their successes having much re-
lieyed the embarrassment Of the Ministry.
BIT England, much as she desires to main
tain her neutrality, could hardly silently
permit an active combination of the three
Emperors to rob Turkey of the results Of her
victories
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ser,ou. state of An.ir, at scranton. Pa.

SCRANTON, Aug. alderman Mahon's
jury Of inquest over those killed by the
vigilance committee brought IN a verdict of
murder against those of the committee
whose names were known. A constable
was given warrants for I. +. Hunt and
Chas. E. Chittenden, and arrested them.
They sent word t. the militia, and General
Huidekoper took them from the con-
stable The vigilance committee at once
assembled and are now under arms in the
Lackawsnna company's store. The military
are under arms ard patrols are out to bring
in every member of the company, lest they
be arres ted and taken into the sixth ward
before the alderman. 1t is the worst local
ity in town and If once there, the life Of the
arrested would certainly be taken.
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WHAT CAN Be DONE WITH SMALL WAGES
"A correspondent of the Christian Union
SAYS "A gardener has worked on our place
ever since 1866. eleven years. During that
time his wages have never been over So day,
ard that only in high price times: itranged
from 81 65 down; the most OF the time 1t
was 81 .25. His wife had no income, and did
no work except to take care OF the children
and the house, and be had no income
but bis wages. But during that time be
kept his wife and children comfortably, led
them well so that they were always healthy,
and dressed them SO that they went to day
and Sunday-schOoi, always neatly dressed
kept cow and saved out of his earnings
enough to buy two lots, and build house
and stable He saved the 81 500 with
which he did this in the first eight years. L
do not know that he has saved anything
during the last three years. But he never
drank or used tobacco. He was a Protestant
Irishman. During the same time We had
coachman who had from 81 to $3.50 day;
drank and smoked; owed every body; never
saved cent and finally. when he left. had
to borrow money to get out of town" "
George Filing ton in the Brooklyn Eagle tells
what a single man did one day in New York
with one dollar. He got shave, breakfast,
a paper collar, pack OF cigarettes, attend
ed a concert, had lunch, beer, dinner for
two, consisting of soup, fish. macaroni with
cheese, beeisteak, apples and peanuts. treat
ed himself and friend to glass of beer, got
lodging for the night and cup of coffee In
the morning
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suicide ofa wealthy Lady.

PsovlDSNcx. r. l.. Aug s-Miss E T.
Burke, wealthy lady OF Cleveland, o.,
was missed from her room at the Oakland
Beech hotel, at i;30 O'Clock this morning.
At seven O'Clock her lifeless body was found
in the water near by. She probably jumped
from the second story window of the hotel
and drowned herself. She was in poor
health
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PACIFIC COAST INTELLIGExcE.
THE DAILY HANKS TRAGEDY.

SAN Francisco. Cal, Aug. S.-John E.
Daily, who was shot by Leslie Hanks, yes
terday. was a stock broker, with family in
New Haven The real cause of the difficulty
Is reported to he jealousy concerning Ger
man actress. The cOroner's jury held Hanks
for murder A witness testified that it was
deliberate assassination.
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News by Telegraph.
The HeeseviIle Bank Robbery.

ARREST OF MAN SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF TIRE
PERPETRATORS.
MONTREAL. ?. O., Aug. s.-A young
Norwegian, named Harold Schie, an engi-
neer, has inst been arrested here charged
with being one of the perpetrators of the
robbery of the bank at Keeseyille, N. Y.
SECOND DESPATCH.
The Norwegian. Schie, arrested on sus-
picion Of being concerned in the Reese
vile bank robbery. came here with excellent
references to procure patent on horse
shoe nails and subsequently, visited Reese
Vile, where he was stopping at the time Of
the robbery. After that he returned here,
followed by the sheriff who arrested him on
bare suspicion. The general impression is
that he is innocent. Since taken to Jail be
received cable from his partner, Harwsy.
directing him to return home, placing $500
to his credit in the BANK of Montreal.
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A Noted Criminal III;

SALEM, N J.. Aug. Sweden. the
pugulist, sentenced to prison for killing his
adversary in prize fight, is dangerously
i'll in the prison hospital
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The correspondent Of the New York
Times at the seat of war, who has had
military training and appears to be very
competent observer, predicted some time
since that if 10000 Russians attempted to
force tie second line of Turkish defence and
tn reach Adrianopie, very few of them
would be able to return. lie is now OF
opir ion that the series of battles around
Plevna last week are decisive OF the prospects
of the campaign. lie has a poor estimate
Of the quality of the Russian soldiers, and
still poorer one Of the men by whom they
are led. Bat Russia cannot now afford to
retreat, and her generals are reported as
straining every nerve to retrieve their late
disaster and to deliver crushing blow before
the Turks have time to reap the advantages
which might result from their late success.
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The Boston ldreriiser presents compila-
ton from official sources, showing the num-
her and designation of damaged and retired
fire insurance companies, reported during
the first six months of this year. Verify the
fire insurance interest has been tried "as by
fire" No less than ffty-twO companies hg-
ure in this list.
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THE LABOR TROUBLES.

A special says Wilkesbarre will petition
for permanent garrison of regulars. The
troops have brought peace but secret in
timidation prevents the resumption of work.
At Scranton the miners manifest determine
ton, and will probably prolong the strike
in the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys
for six months. A meeting of delegates
from every mine in Luzerne county is called
to secure unity of action. A mammoth
store has been ed by the miners execu
tive commit. relieve the immediate
necessities of members in distress. Business
men and farmers are extending aid.
Threats Of violence when the military leave
are freely x. sod BY the strikers.
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some of the Western imitation monomaniacs
talk q great deal of indescrbable nonsense
about the cause Of the strike riots One of
their organs explains the matter in this way
"Our industrial troubles are attributable
mainly to three cooperative causes 4: ~
contraction Of the currency; (2) demonetiz-
alton Of silver; (3) the attempt at forced
resumption Of specie payments" Ii these
lunatic infationists could have their way,
the currency in circulation, the working
mans dollars, would soon be worth twenty
per cent less than they are now and they
would continue to decrease in value, while
everything to be purchased with them would
rise correspondingly in price. For the
working men, the practical result would be
great reduction OF their wages This re-
duction would be due, not to their employers,
but to the insane policy of the inflationists,
who would make the effect a. bad as pos
sible by adding deprecated silver dollars, a.,
legal tender for any amount. to their oye.-
whelming issue OF greenbacks. This pro-
posed remedy for our industrial trouble"
shows the close relation between Ii csc
quack doctors Of the currency and Bedl am
Worcester Spy.
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escaped, provided it Wa FIR his interest to
play him lal-c.

pray nm lal-c.
EEER.
We have had no famine-lOod has been
plenty during the railroad disturbances-but
there has been drOuth in beer. The beer
made in the city is very bad, and the better
class of people get their supplies entirely
from the West. 1t comes on in refrigerator
cars, and there is never large stock on
hand. The railroad troubles interiered with
transportation, and there has been a drouth.
The beer drinkers 90 up ard down athirst,
and they mourn for their fayorite beverages,
and will not be comfOrted because they are
not. There are fifty carloads of beer day,
from Toledo, Milwaukee and Cincinnati,
consumed in this city, and you can imagine
the CONSERVATION when the thirsty soul is
informed that it is out. The first carload
since the strike came in yesterday, and it
was made the occasion of jubilee. The west
ern brewers are building ice-hOuses here
now in which to store their supplies, so that
this will not occur again.
THE WEATHER
Is cooler, and business has revived pcrcepti-
bly,. There is every Indication of a good
Falls business.
Yours, ALTON.
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SINCE the Canadian Fishery Commission
has been in session, Dominion journals have
been unusually strenuous in their advocacy
of treaty of reciprocity with the United
States. They seem to feel that its fate in
some measure depends upon the adjustment
of the fishery dispute. There IS strong
feeling in favor of the measure on the part
of many New England merchants and some
classes of manufacturers, but the agricul-
tural interests IN the States bordering on
the Dominion are hostile. The politicians
in Canada are evidently anxious tc secure
the treaty and would be glad to throw in
their inflated fishery claim to secure free
market in the United States for Canadian
products. The subject will come before
Congress at the next session and a reciprO-
city treaty will probably be pressed.
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u L. 1 hECl mi
RAILROAD.
FROM NEW YORK,


NV YoRK. Aug. S.-A Washington
special says Secretary Sherman leaves for
Ohio Friday. He will make one speech and
strike the key note Of the campaign.
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The Albany Journals advice to the voters
of Ohio is-Go West
Stiles, who testified against Grover in the
Oregon investigation, has been indicted for
perjury. lie said that he swore as he did, to
rescue the Democratic escutcheon from blem-
ish.
The Columbus, (AIiss.) Iade1 has the mer-
it of frankness. Since the republicans give
up their organization in that State, it coolly
remarks that "thc causes which justified the
fraud and violence heretofore attending cleo
tons" no longer exist, and that the purity
of the ballot must be restored, and the citi-
zen protected in his suffrage
The Chicago Times. q Democratic paper,
says that "If Gabriel was blowing his trum-
pet and out .of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
were rising the dead of countless ages, Dem
ocrats would find time to fix up a slate and
arrange to hold Office
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Pr, IN our own Correspondent.
From Turkey.

THE eITUATIoN IN ASIA NINoR-TtRhisH FL
NANcEs-CARE FOR THE sICk AND WOUNDED.
TREBIzoSDE, July e, 1871.
To the Editor Of the Free Press and Times.
The Turkish government is so careful that
no bad news gel abroad that it is very dill
cult to gain accurate information, and more
difficult to forward it by telegraph. War
kilograms must be adapted to the taste OF
the government before they are forwarded,
and no news except that which has received
government approval can be published in
the country. Yesterday l attempted to send
a telegram to Erzeroum in English, and was
informed that no kilograms excepting in the
Turkish language would be received for
Erzeroum or Batoum. How this limitation
is likely to help the fortunes of the Turks
in the war it is difficult to see.
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TIKkl-H flNAN'Es. .

1t is marvellous that the Turks, with so
little money, can carry on such war as
this. Two years ago Turkey was accounted
bankrupt Since that time she has not at
tempted to pay any part Of the interest on
her enormous debt Of more than thousand
millions of dollars. During this whole
period she has been at war, first with the
IIerzegoyinian insurgents, then with Servla.
and now, lastly, with Russia. Borrowing
money has been impossible, her regular rev
enues are no more than enough TO pay civil
expenses, and how all these rifles and can
non and cartridges are paid for - matter
of wonder For about year an irredeem-
able paper currency has been issued, and has
nothing on which to stand except that 1t is
receivable for taxes and all dues except
those for telegraphlc dispatches and
customs. 1t is printed on largo
pieces Of very poor paper when
goes to pieces after two or three months
circulation. The modern gold and silver
Turkish coins are models of beauty, but
the paper currency is rude and clumsy to
the last degree Gold. silver and copper
still circulate to some extent. each different
sort having its own peculiar value Paper
however, i. the standard in trade, though
curiously enough, a hundred piastre paper
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The action of the Ohio State Convention,
in giving an honest and decent endorsement
to the President meets with decided approval
here. No one can know how much the money
and business centre of the country Is inter
ested in the settlement of the troubles
that have so long Frustrated business
Hayes's po Icy, as it is called, has certainly
given the South peace, and has restored comb
dencc in theIfuture of the South: South
ern merchants are here buying goods, which
is enough for the business man. lie comes
with a smiling face and look Of confidence
that he has not worn since the war. Speak
to him about his affairs and he says, 81 know
now what We are going to get, and he buys
and trades accordingly. Hence the business
men are all enthusiastic supporters OF the
Presidents policy, for they see in 1t an
escape from the terrors OF the past iour
years.
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Our New York Letter.
THE CROP PRoSPECr-THE LABOR TROUBLE
PoLITICAL--JAY GOULD PouNDED-BEER-
THE WEATHER.

THE CROP PRoSPECT-THE LABOR TROUBLE
PoLITIcAL-JAY GOULD POrNDED-BEER-
THE WEATHER.
NEW YORK. Aug. !.
To the Editor OF the Free Press and Times.
1t is curious, but the mercantile reporters
know more about the crops than do the men
who grow them. Dun. Barlow Il Co. re-
port that the wheat crop in the West will
make an average of twenty-five bushels to
the acre, and that the other crops promise
an equally large yield. Ii this be the case,
and they know, the yield will be simply
enormous, and there is no reason why the
West should not be enormously rich, this
season. And it will not be big crop with
no price to it. The granaries in this country
are bare, and the Crimea, the great compel
itor of America in grain-producing, is, this
season, practically barred out. The Turkish
war has shut that off, and America has this
year to feed the world. Hence there cannot
be that diminution in price that otherwise
would follow crop 50 immense VIC have
our twenty-five bushels to the acre with the
price the same that it would be were it only
the average of nine or ten. The West will
be made rich this year, and there cannot but
be general prosperity.