Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-02
Our New York Letter.

Our New York Letter.
THE CIGAR NAKERs-AN OLD swINDLE-THE
TEMPERANCE MovENENT-POLTICAL-THE
COST or sTRIKEs-THE GRAIN TRADE-THE
MEAT TRADE.
NEW YORK, Oct y, 1871.
To the Editor Of the Free Press and Times.
The cigar makers have shown more bust
ness capacity than is common among labor
ing people who strike for what they con-
slider their rights They have completed
their organization, have raised very large
fund, and have organized a provision
Kitchen" from which the needy strikers
will be fed. The provisions are bought at
the lowest wholesale price, and are distrib-
uted in such quantities IS 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
thoroughly systematic way.
AN OLD swISDLE REVIVED.
sharper under the name Of Evans is
flooding the country with this letter
NEW YORK CITY.
u. W GREEN, ESQ Your ticket, $3.50, has
drawn house and lot in Jamaica, Queen Co.. n
Y valued by comu issioner OF taxes at $500 Mr.
ray or, who had charge OF the matter died AZ ga,
va ~ ass1a go p W, upon to
you by the county c.erk The amount Is to pay
the clerk for his servic ).
c. L. EVANS.
A great many smart greenies. who know
they have no right to the property mention
80. IT, - ~ ,,;l,,l,a ., r.
-, A. r - GIN ubicb ia Tho
:: - - -, .. - ill
allow themselves to be taken in by devices so
transparent.
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Tue ihhr EhA'eA Ao' tAN'i
is still progressing, though it 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 light
Yet the league are working away as earnest
ly as though they were in possession OF the
enemy's outwOrks- They have collected
some interesting figures to show what tip
plirg houses cost the city. They charge
iour-ffths of the expenses for police, chart
ties Tor criminals, paupers, or S4,OOO,OOO
to them. to this must be added ) 900 QUO
tor salaries to extra employees IN judicial ana
other departments donations to charitable
institutions, S5Oo,OOo, or total OF S9,SOO,-
OOO. 10 Offset this there Is S5Oo,OOO col
leeted IRON license lees. These hgures are
significant. Mrs. Lille Deyereaux bake
raade temperance speech, IN tne course OF
which she SAID that between loiO and 100
forty-two women were Killed In TINS cry Dy
drunken men-most oil them kiekea 10
death.
POLITICAL
The contest. this Fall, in the city, will be
between Tammany on the one hand, and the
combined Republicans and anti Tammany
Democrats on the other. Contrary to the
usual practice, the Democratic business men
nave 'usen noit VI s"e mo- anu "a '"ey
ooro,,l;sb sometbinc The resnec,able eIa-
nent Of tho American Democracy aided
Lr rho German vote which il alwavs nm
c1mfortable in anv organization which in
cIrdes tho Irish and the entire Rennh-
I;c,n nartr ouch 10 carry the CITY and "a
jieve !, from ,be dead weiyht of Jobn KeIJv
T,rnr,anr;srD RI, am nor verv sarcn;nc
Tho Io,ds-s of T,mm,nv knou their ,1,r.-
Tho, haro .,,o roren,es ,f v,., orr n, ,bo;-
aan,,oI al - Lnou that rIeot man,
,,,ar bars ,bo;r rr;ce Wien the forcez ave
all readv for aetion and it is known who the
workers are, Kelly will swoop down with
his money and his places, and then whether
it is a success or not will depend entirely on
how many of them he can buy. To succeed,
the respectable Democrats, and the inGepen-
dent Germans must draw out of the Demo
Il
with Tammany charging through their lines,
it is very doubtful. And then the Rochester
convention so divided the Republican party
that it is doubtful whether action can be
taken which will insure full Republican
vote. | have no faith whatever in the move
ment, but do most ardently hope may be
disappointed.
rhE COST Oh sIRiAEs'
The cost Of the service OF the State mill
tia during the strikes of last Sumner-time,
say one week-toot up nearly 2'5,OOO 1t
Is rather an expensive way OF obtaining IN
" Il I...:S
da,en,;on Ioss If t;ms and evervtbing else
w;II font nm a5OO OOO OOO And il ali
a mounted 10 no,b;ne excent IN Give a lot
of demagoanes lite Scbvsb and Swinton
notor;ety Tbev are trvi,y the same rhino
over again and NAV nossiblv suceeeJ
'hh '"AiN
The papers are e1ereisedover the faet that
New York mas not had very large increase
oil receIpts OF gram, whie fhiiaueipnia' b1s-
ton and Baltimore nave tls easy 10 under
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