Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-17
miscellaneous Foreign News.


Lancaster, Euelaud. if carried into effect, will
stop $3.50 900 spindIes 10 one district, sud
1900 600 10 another. Both parties to the
quarrel seem equally observation-disclosures to eu
frce. and the other 10 resist. The masters at
Manahe ster have IT, jected proposition of their
employees for reduction of five per ccot. or
to refer the matter to srbtrators The masters
in their reply uotify the uen that it strike
occurred at any OF the mills where notice had
been gwen OF the ten per cent. reducIion' me
remainder of the trade shat lock out at the
earliest possible momeut. The notice of reduc
ton expires to day, aud strike which Will III
feet thirty thousand persons, Is certalu.
The time for The surrenderng OF tha Cuban
Insurgents having expired military operallnns
will De commenced against Maseo aud other
chief, still 10 arms. The mother, dauehter
ADD brother of Ma.eo have already surrendered
and departed for Jamaica.
| Switz ,rlapd has accepted the propos'uon OF
| TIE U.uted States t. participate IN he loter.
nation a Con srsss to fix the relative value OF god
and SILVER.
The te,ms of settlement between Nicaragua
and the German government in regard 10 The
attack uppp German Copsu E.seustruck, 10
Niosrspus 10 1876 include a note cfreeret t'r
hat affair. the 81 ute the Germao tl.g, $50.
ONO indemnity 10 be paid to the Germ 40 cupsu
the re.trlai md pun hmept OF the parties guilty
| ~ the A., ok; OH rwise an addiloDa lod unity
| Of 5000 to be paid the Getmao government.
| Grn. r,aiilo was formally Installed as Pres-
| dent of The United States Ct Columbia April D.
| The French exploring Cum misslon are busy
surveying the Panama route for canal.
| LONDON, April 1.-THE Dotlces OF rcduc
| ton 10 the wages OF cotton operatlses IN Iln
c.shire e1pire 10 day aud to morrow. The
refusal oftbe masters at Manchester yesterday
| 10 agree to FIVE per cent reduction and their
| resolution that if strike occurs at any or the
mills where notice has been given OF the ten
per cent reduction the remainder OF the uade
shall lock out at the earliest possible NJ Jment,
lesves little hope of avertiog a struggle which
will involve the stoppage OF two Euodred thou
sand looms and six million spiDdles aud leoder
| idle one hundred and twenty thousand working
| people The cCuocil of the operative splnucrs
after their interview With their masters yester.
day resolved to recommend the members Of that
association to accept the proposed reduction Tor
the present and call representative meetlog
of spiuuers for Sunday to decide upon future
course. The operatives at AccrlDgicn atd
districts, Church, HarWood, Eoheld aud Pres
ton are wiliioG to accept reduced wages and
| reduced time, but there Is 20 n0pa or the uas'
tiers accepting such proposal. The Blackburn
and Burnley operatives resist compromising
y, consequently 10 night, 10 all probsb 'lltJ, VIII
begin the most gigantic strike aud lock out that
has ever occurred in the county OF Lancaster.
Instructions have been issued to the operatives
by committees 10 the various trades as to how
to proceed. Where no notices are posted thu :
will 60 90 working, where potices are pasted
they will respectfully request the masters tl
remove them. If tbis request is refused they
will leave work quietly as Oh Saturday blight
The operatives are particularly err )lned to co
courage no riotng or misbehavlor any where
Looms not affected by the strike will subscribe
three pence per week for the strikers; Inc
Oldham district is DOT yet affected directly, tu
owing tn the intimate business rclstloCS De
tween Oldham and Black burn, short time il
not stoppage will be necessltased 10 maDy Of
the Oldham mills.