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THE FALL RIVER STRIKE.

The Cotton Spinners Resolve to Stop
WOrk-Immense Interests Involved
The WorkpeOple Intelligent
as to the Possible Results
to Themselves, the
City and the
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The death of Colonel Felix Lebauve robs
north Mississippi of one of her best citi-
zens-best in the best sense of the word.
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Inquest Of the Mysterious Huh Murder

New YORK, June 18.-The Jury and
coroner, accompanied by Police Captain
Williams and several detectives, visited the
house where the tragedy occurred and close
ly scrutinized the surroundings of the room
which the body was found, and the broken
trunk, etc. After this examination Nancy
Francis (cook), repeated the story of finding
Mrs. Hull murdered; Nellie West, another
colored servant, told of finding the front
doors partly open, and Captain Williams de-
scfibsd the condition in which he found the
windows of the back parlor and bed room.
Tie officials then returned 10 the coroler's
Office and found it filled with peeeis inter
ested In the case. The coroner stated that
the tEial-room at the police headquarters had
been secured and the inquest would be con-
Slnued there tomorrow. DR.. Hull had long
consultation with the counsel of the family.
The inquest was postponed till to- morrow.
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GENERAL THOMAS LoRINs, at one time
major of mounted riAemen in the United
tates army, and major-general in the Con-
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The history OF the Of great discoveries az
lords no parallel to the trum phs over competition
ana prejudice. accomplished By this powerful Jet
harmless Seatahle agent, which instantaneously
changes any obnoxious color Of the hair into black
or brown magnificent as any that heaven ever be-
slowed upon the head Of man or woman: Manufac-
New York. Sold BY all Druggists. Applied ey all
hair Dr6Ssers. Fi - ti.-t
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means the mines to men and women alike.
1t Is the same as death sentence, only the
halter and the ak kill quickly, while Siberian
hard labor takes i've or six years to torture its
card. l have toiled In the Lake Balkal
mines. For four years | worked in a pit and
never saw the sunlight. / worked and slept
as many other women worked and slept, SIX
hundred feet under ground. Separated in
small parties, we toiled by day, picking and
sitting the ore which the picks of the men
mined out. At night we slept on heaps of
damp straw, In caves followed out by the
miners. Patrols Of soldiers went up aod
down the galleries of the mine necessarily,
and woe befall the man or woman who was
found idle. The lash or the rod was their
portion.
STIRRING Us TO WORK.
"In that dreadful section, where the horrors
of the quicksilver pits burrow deep In the
fozen earth, winter Is nine months long. For
weeks the days are only FIVE hours in length.
But what mattered it to us? Even In the
hight of the brief midsummer no warm
breath of the sun reached us. The same wet,
frosted, chill air blew in the long galleries OF
the mines. The same icy water streamed
down from the walls and puddled the irreg-
ular floor. The dim, sIckly CLEAN of u lam
tern was our only substitute for the sun. Sir.
it was so terrible that the very soldiers who
guarded US more than once revolted against
the confinement. and demanded to be al
lowed a weeks furlough. The guards were
kept in reliefs of eight hours, the barracks
being above ground at the head of the shafts.
The soldiers and their officers were all practi-
cally exiles. You see me to day, sir, thanks
to the Ural mines, prematurely old woman
| lost my hair, my eyebrows, my very eye
lashes. My body became mass of sores,
my joints stiffened and swelled, my sight
tailed me, my hearing, smell and voice
were gone. l was a living corpse, SCARED
with the wounds OF my taskmaster's whip.
when an order was received at Pleinovhik
for my release. Men once sent to the mines
are never set free. Women rarely. But the
devotion of my Ivan, who had emigrated to
this country, secured the support Of higher
authorities, and my freedom was granted me
ON condition
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wONDERFUL CHANGES
Christadoro,s Hair DYE

have occurred In thu country during the last three or
four years, but none more wonderful than the Revo
lrEtioBs in Color. produced among the Heads Of u.
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PREaCRIPrInN FREE

For the speedy Cure OF Seminal Weakness. Loss of
Manhood, and all dIsoroers brought By indiscre-
ton or excess. Any druggist has the ingredients.
Address DAVIDSON CO.. 10 Nassau ST.. New York
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WERE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN.

FEW AMI IAN EhNs
eve marched without halt to Mini Nov
gorod. The annual fair was in progress
there, and through the streets, crowded with
happy people, we were driven, handcuffed
as at the start, like sheep to the shambles. A
dead silence fell around US az we advanced,
and people drew back as from train Of
lepers. In this shape we passed into the cit
adel, where we spent week in the case
mates. A steamboat towed our barge down
the VolRa to Kama, and thence to Peru.
There we landed and our foot journey once
more began. The weather was insuHerably
hot and the steppes deep with summer dust.
We marched day in, day out, in a sutfocatinR
cloud, consumed by thirst, roasting with
fever, but still urged forward by the sharp
crack of the whip and the sharper oaths of
the Cossacks. Do not deem this eKaggers-
ton. | swear to you, by my mothers honor,
/ am telling you the simple facts of my ex
perience as one of many hundreds as I'M
fortunate as myself.
DEATHS WERE FRIGHTFULLY FREQUENT,
of course, and we halted nearly every day to
dig the graves OF comrades happier than our
selves, The ravens followed our convoy IL
an -ominous black cloud. No effort was made
to doctor the sick. Once the fever of the
dysentery became so violent that the sufferer
could no longer march he was tossed into one
of the provision wagons, where he jolted
along till the lagt breath was shaken out of
him. 1t was not until the middle of August
that our slow journey brought US to Tomsk
There we got weeks rest. Then we were
broken up into gangs of twenty or thirty,
usually three-fourths men, and sent in differ
eHt directions. OF the life that followed l
can give you but faint outline, as a circum-
stantial account of it would require vol
ume.
THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF EMPLOYMENT
for an exile to Siberia, which may be defined
as labor above and below ground. That
above ground Is stone breaking, road max
ing, work In the quarries aud on the govern
ment estates, and labor for the colonists,
themselves exiles, but of some means. Lesser
Offenders are employed at this. For the
others are tae Llibea, That is TO say, slow
death. Prince Lubomirski, the author of
The Eriles, is the only author who has ever
laid bare the lnfamy of these underground
bells to the world. Even he has not
dope them Justice, though be mas written
with magnificent Indignation of their
horrors But let me endeaVo4 to give
You and your readers some idea Of them here.
The chief quicksilver mines of Siberia are
situated In the Oral mountains. They are
worked by the worst and most heinocs Of the
convicts, that is to say, by criminals whose |
misdeeds are blood-curdlinR, and by political |
prisoners whose views are particularly inI- |
mical TO Russian Official politics. The Rus- |
sian papers declare that no women are en- |
ployed IN the quicksilver miner.
THAT 10 A LIE.
Women are working and rotting to pieces by |
inches there, - scores. All the nlhllsts |
women sentenced to hard labor Il Siberia are |
now putrefying In those mines. Hard labor
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THAT 1 LEFT RUSSIA FOREVER.

lay eleven months in a Partisan hospital.
more dead than alive, before could even
walk. 1t was nearly year before l dared
here"
Mile. Litvani is the betrothed Of Mr.. Ivan
Dolgourouki, the proprietor of the Russian
farm. 1t was ne and his friends who well
coined her so efusively on her arrival in New
York. As seon as she is sufficiently recov-
cred Manhattan island will be the scene of a
uihiliat y11arriaoo
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THE MEETING.

Inside the hall there was nothing but
unanimity, the opposition to the leading idea
being very slim. On coming to order the
respondence between the spinners and the
manufacturers, and detailed statement of
the efforts made by the former to open
peaceable negotiations for the settlement of
the existing difficulties. Secretary Howard
reclted the wrongs of the spinners-how
they were denied the chance of arbi-
tration, the manufacturers refusing all over
lures OK the kind and thus driving them to
extreme measures.
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HANDICAPPED BEHIND HER BACK.

"The men started first and we followed on
into the city. Our female slave-drivers rode
in a wagon behiud us. A guard of Cossacks
galloped up and down on either side of us,
cracking their whips loudly to warn off all
the crowds which, In spite of the lateuess of
the hour, lined the streets. I wrenched my
ankle between two stones in the rough street,
and involuntarily cried out. One of the Co.'S
sacks slashed me over the face with his whip,
leaving this mark, which shall carry to my
grave. After that remained silent under
every distress. Some of my wretched COM
panions had not such command over them
selves, though, and they suffered pun
ishments the mere thought of which
even to- day makes my blood run cold.
After the start we marched by day and
camped at night, always in the open air, in
the forest, or on the outskirts of the villages.
Our only shelter was our clothing. Our food
was worm bored biscuit and condemned salt
beef, which was carried in The wagons IN cur
rear. Water We got from the roadside pud
dies. Sometimes, in passing through vii
lage, we would fRd bowls of hot cabbage
soup, fresh bread and jar of liquor which the
villagers had sat there for us. These would
be fairly shared among US, after our guards
had had 81: Ill they wanted, But, as may be
ina lined the feast DAYS
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TO RELEASE Us BY FORCE.

''On the night of Easter Monday, 1872, at
eleven clock, we were mustered IN the great
corridor of the Moscow Jail. Men and women
were mustered in separate gangs. l formed
one of party of twenty-three women, and
We were In charge of four female guards.
Each of US was given a black cloak with
hood, with numbered brass plate on the
breast, stout shoes of undressed leather, and
tin-pan and wooden spoon, which we
slung to our waists. After mastering US by a
written list, each of US had her hands
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WE BECAME SECRETLY BETRoTHRD.

In the intimacy born of this close connection
learned that my betrothed was an active
nihilIst / WAS Mortified at the discovery, for
l had been educated to a strict and bind be-
lief In the infalhbillty Of the car. But when
Ivan explained the tenets of his political
creed to me became imbued with his own
enthusiasm, and was soon as active worker
in the cause az himself. He obtained post
for me in the great Moscow female seminary.
There l propagatsd the nihilIst doctrines
among my pupils and was soon the head of a
quite extensive party of proselytes. The in
discretion one of my young converts betrayed
me, and not only me but the club of which
Ivan was president. A sweeping arrest was
made, and men and women to the number
of sixty were thrown into prison. The gov
eminent was not so merclless in its punish
ments at that time as now, and We would
have escaped with simple Punishment lad
net determined effort been made by our
friepda
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POOR PROPERTY.

al can assure you that the stockholders
realized nothing from their investment, while
many of them have, even to this day, to pay
interest on money invested in stock which Is
not worth one-half of what they paid for it,
and is yielding them no return. Many have
been nearly or altogether ruined by such in
Vestment. This was the actual condition of
affairs I'D to c short time ago.
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LABoR's BITTERNESS.
THE STRIKE DECLARED.

A cheer was heard within, and soon a
courier came out announcing that the strike
had been carried by a vote of 7l8 to 70, and
a deafening cheer went up from the dense
crowd The widest excitement prevailed,
and old weather beaten men fairly Rugged
each other at the prospect of fighting the
mills and probably starving their families.
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HE LANCASHIRE ELEMENT.

I'VE do mainly only one branch of cotton
manufacture, and by our mode of operation
we are more at the mercy of our spinners,
ing, as they do, from one of the most dis
turbed districts in England In the labor
QucstIou-nameIyt LauOaotItTO. rtTO PRICE of
print cloths up to about three months ago
ruled so low that we could do nothing at a
profit, and really up to that time for nearly
three years our mills may be said to have
been run for the benefit of the operatives.
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THAT 10 A LIE.

Women are working and rotting to pieces by
inches there, - scores. All the nlhilists
women sentenced to hard labor Il Siberia are
now putrefying In those mines. Hard labor
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THE rxrER1ENcE OF NADIA 11TvAN1.

ITO commence properly, then, l must
state that my name is Nadia LItvanI. l
am Pole. born of Russian father add a
Polish mother, at Warsaw. but educated in
Moscow. Ny father held a minor govern
ment office there. Eight years ago he died.
NY mother was a helpless invalid. To sup
port her became governess in the family
of wealthy merchant of Moscow. A strong
affection sprang up between my employers
eldest son and myself, and
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THE MASTERS PLEDGE.

down, tnat as soon as business would war
rant the fifteen per cent. would be restored,
was referred to, and a long array of figures
we're cited to show that the time had come
and that they who had patiently submitted
to a reduction because they believed the
manufacturers were not able to pay the full
price ought now to receive the original
wages; that better times had dawned on the
city and It's industries. Quotations of tue
price of cotton, the value of prints, cloths,
etc., were made, showing, according to the
figures cited, that the mills were as we'll able
to pay the fifteen per cent. advance to the
spinners as they have been to pay the re-
duced wages since the cut down, and better.
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THE SUFFERINGS
or a Russian Woman, Sentenced to Hard
Labor in the Quicksilver Mines OF
Siberia, for Participation In a
NihiIist PIOt-A Blood
Curdling Story.
The Read from Moscow to T0nsk Mapped
and Marked by Graves and Blood
Tracks-Delicate Women Rot
ting Piecemeal-A Disgrace
that Civilized Nations
Should Blot Out.

New York Mercury: Four decidedly
queer-looking individuals waited for the In
man steamer City of Brussels to come into
her dock last Thursday. They might be
briefly described as a fat man, lean man,
and a very tall man, and gentleman with
thirty-inch-long yellow beard. All wore
slouched hats, aud had their legs incased 10
very tight pantaleons and Hessian boots with
spurs. As soon as the gangway was opened
they rushed aboard and surrounded lady
who stood on the upper deck with a canvas
satchel in her hand. They had previously
been gesticulating wildly to the lady. Now
they each embraced her In turn,
nIPRINTING A KISS UPON HER LIPS.
Before the bystanders had barely time
enough to be sstonished, the whole party was
ashore, each member bearing some article OF
the lady's baggage. They were driven off
in a roomy carriage, drawn by two shaggy
horses, and splashed with the mud of country
roads. A Mercury reporter found this same
vehicle in the yard of an extensive and we'll
cared-for farm, near Secaucus, New Jersey.
the gentleman with the yellow beard, and
is known in the neighborhood as the
" Russian Farm" 1t is cultivated ex-
cluslvely by Mr.. Dolgourouki and his three
queer friends. In the comfortable sitting
room of the farmhouse the reporter met a
lady of about thirty years, but who might
from her appearance have been sixty-to
judge from her wan and careworn face, hol
low cheeks and sunken blue eyes. Her hair
was very thiR and quite white, and her face
absolutely bioodless, like that of corpse.
She spoke In German, in a low but clear
voice, constantly interrupted by hollow
cough, and the hand with which she en-
phaslzed her remarks was large, hardened
BY labor.
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About seven o'clock the streets began to
fill up and all steps were directed toward the
place of meeting. There was no excitement,
no appearance of the slightest disturbance.
Everything looked as quiet as picnic. The
meeting opened at half-past seven o'clock in
the evening, and the hall was packed to its
utmost capacity. hundreds being turned away
for want of room and owing to the intense
heat. Opposite Spinners hall the sidewalk,
and, in fact, the whole street, was 6lled with
an anxious throng of operatives, eager to get
the earliest information about the doings in
side.
, 1879-07-17
read at two regular meetings previous to
the one when it is voted upon.


Your committee further recommends as
follows:
l. That after the adoption OF the Con-
stitution and BY Laws. the Society at
once proceed to elect officers for the en-
suing year.
2. That the most feasible plan for dis
seminating Information relative to the re-
sources OF these counties will be by the
publication of small pamphlet. contain
ing map, and properly descriptive of
them, for free distribution.
3. That the following committees
should be appointed:
A committee to superintend the collec-
tion Of the necessary material for the pro-
posed pamphlet, and cause it to be done
at the earliest day possible, and to report
progress at every meeting.
A committee to ascertain the probable
cost Of 1000 copies of thirty-two page
pamphlet.
A committee to solicit pecuniary aid, by
annual subscription or otherwise, as may
be deemed best, and to secure the cooper
alton of the people Of the counties OF ISL
and. Clallam, San Juan and Whatc0m.
Very respectfully submitted.
d. w. SMITH,
Com. THos. PHILLIPS.
ALLEN WEIR.
, 1879-07-17
NEW YORK, June 27, 1879.

THAT ASHLEY BELT AGAIN.
We sent it away across the sea a
few weeks ago, and here it comes
back again. Sir John Ashley, l
unanimously vote you a nuisance,
reconsider the vote, and lay the mo-
ton to reconsider on the table--and
by every parliamentary rule you
ought.to suhside! We don't want
your spangled goat skin. 1t has al.
ready done more to demoraliz New
York than any other yard and.a.quar
ter Of leather that was ever tanned.
1t cost us over sixty thousand dollars
hard earned money; it emptied great
lakes of whiskey and whole CULTS of
beer down our peoples throats; it
has already ruined splendidly made
men, and cut off ten years from the
life Of nearly every contestant; it
made night rovdies out of respectable
husbands and fathers; it engendered
extravagant hopes in the breast of
our young men, and-well, what has
America ever done to YOU, anyhow
You are a patriotic Englishman, l
believe You want that belt to stay
in Britain 4? Allow me, from the
the recesses Of my magnanimous
heart, TO suggest that Weston has
now
''BeCome so rich
That no might be sent
BY pocket borough
Into Parliament
Send him to Parliament by all means.
Send him to the psnitentiary if he
won't go to Parliament; offer him a
prize to discover the source of the
Nile; send him anywhere, offer him
anything, but don't let him bring that
thing back here
But if the worst must come, then
| submit that New York has had its
share. You take it, Chicago;-or
SAY you want it and thus get St.
Louis to grab it We stood by you
at the time of the great fire. You
can balance the whole account now,
and it needn't cost you cent. Phil.
adrlphia, you take it, and display
your enterprise and brotherly love at
one swoop. Won't you have it, Sac.
ramrnto, dear |! You know how to
manage Kearney, and besides you
have a strong Constitution, just made
to order, and you are able to st and
more than the res: OF US. Who of
,uu will take the belt ? Don't all
speak at once
a friend deprecatss the foregoing
ard saws he thought / was patriotic.
thought so too, but il patriotism
consists in burrahing because that
skin OF a nanny-goat is coming back
20 America, then | want to be put
down a. the scsliest, most yenornous
old copperhead that ever bissed at
our great national trade mark, copy.
right secured, yslept "Ths American
Eagle :"
, 1879-07-17
ART. II. MEMBERSHIP.

The Society shall be compos of snc''
persons--male or ienalr--over the ngc of
10 years. as may be elected members nc
corling to its Constitution, By Laws and
Regulations.
, 1879-07-17
PILOTING.

kCiCE to Steamboat men or Com
manders of Governments Vessels.
MASTERS OF VESSELS, REQUIR-
-lNl- lug the services OF pilot to Alaska.
or any OF the inland waters Of the Coast.
can be accommodated by applying to the
Undersigned, whose experience as pilot on
U. $. Government and other vessels. eX-
tends over period OF twelve years. Apply
by telegraph or mail. j. w. KEEN.
Skagit City, Washington Terry. [2:3m