Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-11-23
LUGRETIA MOTT.
IFrom the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. /

IVA hAieaoiPhia VI EGVe0sE
ing last, in the eighty-eighth yeor of her
age. Few women have been more richly
endowed than she. and none have exerted a
more widespread Influence upon those with
whom she was in immediate association.
1t is hard on to forty years., since, for the
first and last time, we saw and heard Luere-
tia Mott, then in the prime of life, and the
most eloquent among women. She was upon
her visit South, as she declared herself, from
the pulpit; and in a locality where slavery
existed, and where a national armory was
established for the manufacture of impIe-
ments of war. Both of those institutions. if
We may SO classify them, were contrary to
her ideas of right, and we we'll remember
how, in smooth and eloquent sentences, she
advocated Peace and Humanity. She was
addressing a people, some of whom were
shareholders, aud all Of whom were. ia some
way or other, dependent upon that which
was the chief source of prosperity to the
town-the armory, where guns for offensive
and defensive warfare were fabricated. And
they heard her respectfully. charmed with
her smooth, flowing sentences, and her rare
eloquenec of speech. We have never heard
her equal, among woman, as n ehaste and
beautiful speaker; nor her superior, in this
regard, among men. Her person, form and
f~estures wore pleasing. Her seuasenanee
was really ~chsTmi"g, sad her whole appear
anoe pFepossebsirs.
The Philadelphia Times ooroludOs a long
sketch of this emineot lady, with the follow
ing:
"a pcau!iarity got to be overlooked was
her Industry sud the somewhat homogeneous
contrast between her extreme economy and
open>handed liborality. She was always
knitting or sewing, when not otherwise &C.
cnpied. For her ~favorite carpet rags she
would not use thread, but found sravelings'
sufficient, which she would chcerful!y hand
over aftcrward SIS or $50, as it happened, to
promote some cause that engaged her SYM
patty. Waste nothing q precept that came
down from the thrift of careful and simple
Nantucket, was her motto. While her oloar.
strong, steady intellect and wonderful spir-
ituality marked the features of her higher
character. It may be safely said that the
Society of Friends, which produces some
remarkable instances Of female self-reliauce
and intellectual independence. has had no
woman representative possessing at ouee so
many hno qualities and great abilities ss
Lucretia Mott, or who might serve, with so
little objection, as a representative of the
moral and mental forces which it mas set iu
motion"
.hon6 u oHlo -FiffY>
Fonrth Annual Report.--The fifty fourth an.
nual report of the president and directors of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which will
be found complete elsewhere, cmbodies the
exhibit OF increasing business aud augmented
prosperity during the year ended September
~ last. The business of the company has
been greatly enhanced during the year, the
revenues of the Main Stem and the different
branches aud divisions ag~gregating SiS,317,>
740 10, an increase of 81, 1913, 759 81, or 90
per cent. as compared with 1879. The earn.
ings on the Main Stem we're S1I ,229, SsO.61.
an increase of 50, 365, 053 II, and tho net
profits 1881. 735 81. The net earnings of
the different branches aud leased lines showed
an improvement Of $685. ,S49.71 over 1879,
The gross earnings of the Pittsburg and Cons
neilsVille road for 1880 aggregated So, 22S.>
4Sl 90, an increase of S64e, 1858 O5 over the
preceding year. The net earnings wore ST.
Oll,S21.O9 and, deductipg increase in works
ing expenses, a net increase of 1878, SIS o..
This road, after meeting all payments for IT,
terest and sinking funds, shows an excess of
net earnings amounting to 1882, 963. go -
The Chicago Division shows gross earnings
OF Sl,54S, 99l.51, the net amounting to
than in tho previous year, ard deductirg in,
oth'b oAPCbS"o, d net gam OF
81, Gross earnings of Parkersburg
Branch were $3.50, 100 %, the oet S37lSe9..
", an increase in latter of SIG, 25O.44.-
The Washington Branch shows gross eern,
lngs OF S3l4, 5.S5, an increase of S26.>
in earnings rs compared with tho pre-
vlous yehr-the net earnings being S2f6.>
1861, an increase Of S22, 1922 IS.
baltimore Sun.
How rur pnrer,,- RI
WoRKs.-From a rocont letter of MI. David
A. Wells to Hon. Jos. r. Hawley, a member
of Congress, we extract the following:
Winter is coming on and our laborers
need blankets. They cannot effort to buy
hlgh>priced blankets. They Deed something
cheap. aud warm. But, by the operation of
the existing tariff, tho price Of tho blankets
is made far higher ,:;ee there is any warrant
toy co account ct either revenue or protec-
slc9. Good hlsnkets can be bought in Eu>
EcPe ser 80 s3Rt5 PER round, and on the i'm
pore ct soob b;a0se:: the duty is 20 cents
psr p0Ccd ond 25 per cent. ad valorcM.-
ito1 mEcS dGea this amount to? No ordi>
usTy ParsGu CEn tell, and even experts can
not rsndIiY. II amounts to near 100 psr
cent; and this form of duty was intention.
ally arranged, SC tha.the people should never
know how much they are taxed by the epera>
tions of the tariff on this commodity so es>
sential to the comfort of the poor. Under
this excessive rate Of duty very few blankets
are Imported the whole revenue received
from the import OF cheap blankets in 1878
10 being the pitiful sum of 1888, whilo
from the enhancement of the price of blan-
kets annually consumed in this country
estimated at $50, 600, 600 in valuo-the peo.
Pile through the prevention of any foreign
competition nre annually taxed to the extent
of many millions Of dollars"
The WHEELBARRow MAN IN BALr1.
MoRE.-R. Lynan Potter, who started in
September OF last year to wheel a wheelbar-
row from Albany to San Erancisno nd