The Portland daily press., 1879-05-28
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY sS.
Gleanines from the Mails,

IT il said that the recent strike of the carpet
weayers near Philadelphia is to be settled ami
cably by an agreement between the employers
and employees. The masters asked for re-
duction of half cent yard, and the weavers
went out and held meeting which resulted
in sending committee around to see the en-
ployers and arrange scale of prices for the
year. All the larger manufacturers agreed to
restoration of the half cent for the rest OF
the year. This agreement of the manufac-
turers and workmen placed the former in a
position where no one could well undersell the
rest and where all could deal with the jobbers
without fear of strikes. The arrangement is
satisfactory to the workmen, and no trouble is
apprehended.
At Mondays session of the Philadelphia
and Baltimore conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church the following re-
port of the committee on the colored exodus
was accepted: While recognizing the privi-
lege of freedmen to locate wherever it seems
best to them, the report sets forth that their
interests and habits have been formed in the
South, and advises the exercise of great delib-
GRAFTON and caution in con sidering the advan-
tages and disadvantages of leaving that section
of the country.
The production of the salmon eanneries of
the Pacific coast last year was 5S4 900 cans or
2S,032 900 pounds. Specimens weighing 60 to
IS pounds were caught by the Oregon fisher
men. A popularity of the Oregon salmon is
their contempt for all the anglers lures.
There is no salmon angling on the Oregon riv-
ers. They are sometimes caught by trolling at
the mouths of the rivers, but they never take
the anglers fly.
Missouri finances are in so doubtful condi-
ton that the state treasurer estimates that the
appropriations will leave balance of $4,000
the treasury at the end of two years, while
the state auditor asserts that there will be
deficiency of S141,0
Jennie Smith and Cove Bennett, on trial last
week at Jersey City for the murder of the for
mer's husband, were found guilty of murder
in the first degree Saturday, and were re-
manded for sentence. Their counsel took 16
exceptions to the judges charge. The pris-
oners received the verdict without apparent
emotion.
There died in England a week ago country
gentleman, compared with whom most of the
House Of Lords are parvenues-the 49th John
Harvey of Ickwell Bury, in the county of
Suffolk. He was descended from the family
of Harves or Nerves in France, and he still
possessed small property which had come
down to him, from date anterior to the con-
quest, in Normandy, being probably the sole
Englishman holding such relic
Gen. Grant leaves Yokohoma by the next
steamer, about the last of June, aud will reach
San Francisco in the neighborhood of July
Doth.
Speaking of William Lloyd Garrison the
Boston correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican recalls the fact that so many of the
old anti-slavery champions still survive, or il
dead have died at good old age. He says
Mr.. Garrison began to be an abolitionist ear
lier than most; but many of his associates
were older than himself, notably Mrs. Child
Francis and Edmund jackson, Samuel j. May
Samuel Sewall, Bronson Alcott and Elizur
Wright Mr.. May and the Jacksons are dead
but the others survive and SO do others of the
faithful few. Mr.. Emerson, who early iden-
titled himself with the anti-slavery cause and
with that of the Indians whom the Southern
whites were prosecuting, is seventy-six years
old, and both Longfellow and Whittier, anti
slavery poets, have passed their SEVENTEEN
year. Mr.. Alcott, who is often spoken of as
'above forescore," will not be eighty until the
18th of November next. Mr.. Garrison has
long been an invalid, but most of those have
named are well and active, though more OF
less touched with the infirmities of age
The grand colossal statue of Liberty, which
is to adorn an island in New York harbor, the
gift of Frenchmen to the United States, is
having a hard time in reaching perfection.
The model of the torch-bearing arm was at
the Centennial, and the head was at the Paris
Exposition. AS funds are wanted to complete
the work a lottery is to be started in Paris to
raise three hundred thousand francs which are