Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-07

outlook to one of anxiety and trouble. The
laboring element is so FESTIVE that It does
not receive the benefit IL thinks 1t should
have from the changed condition OF affairs.
A few months ago this expectation was
reasonable, but as thugs now are It Is not
so clear that new struggle is not before
the business of the country. AT all events
these strikes will bring all such questions
to an issue, and determine what the out
come shall be. The rapid spread OF the
strikes shows thai q deep-seated feeling OF
wrong exists.
One of the many recent letters from Cam
bridge, Mass, says: Friday, the day Long
fellow died, was in the morning, one of those
cold, cloudy, dispiriting days which are pc
eulisr to Boston and Cambridge, but in the
afternoon the clouds broke away, the sun
shone bravely. and through all the brightness
came the tolliBg bells, telling TO all VINO
heard their seventy-five mOurnful strokes
that that which had been dreaded so long had
come to pass. People walked slowly and 81
lently by the familiar old house, where DO
licemsn was on guard until evening came on.
Everybody who knew the poet loved him, ana
on,the day Of his funeral there stood about the
gates a vast crowd of men, women, and chil-
Gren, humble, most Of them, and poor, VINO
waited reverently to see the last that earth
could see of him whose fame had been the
fame of Cambridge, and whose passing &C
quaintance had been the honor of their lives"
The English papers are quite vigorously
agitating a reduction of wine duties and the
removal of the determinations In favor OF
French wines, and complain that wines
which to-day are infinitely better than they
were twenty years ago are scarcely ever seen
in England The Spanish and Portuguese
wire growers assert that much OF the french
wine which is imported at shilling per
gallon duty is the same to which admittance
is refused at less than $50 per cent. more.
The English colonial wine growers are also
complaining at the manner In which the
French treaty differentiates against them.
The Gallo wines are poor In alcohol and
come in with the shilling duty, while the
colonial wines, which are rich in spirit, pay
for their potency half a crown gallon.
French protection has been the commercial
death of the colonial wine growers. Should
the pending negotiations with France, how
ever. fail, other wines would find their way
In. The Standard says: "The effect of ad-
hitting these wines into England at lower
duty than the present would be to speedily
displace the vile 'clarets' with which the
British stomach has of late years been so
iniquitously deluged."
Some interesting. statistics of the vast
coal industries of Pennsylvania for 1881 are
just issued from the office of the Secretary
OF Internal Affairs. In the anthracite re-
gions 3l9 collieries have been in operation,
employing rs. 1859 hands and turning out
1899, 12S tons at a cost of 500, 454, ISL in
wages, or 81 06 So per ton. There were 382
bituminOus colleries in operation during the
year, which produced Is 692 923 tons of
bituminous coal, at a cost in wages Of
Sl4, $40 ,O57, an average of half mill over
90 cents per ton. In the anthracite collieries
the employees worked on the average a trifs
over 275 days during the year and produced
373 IA tons each, earning on an average
1897 50 in wages, or q fraction more than
81 A for each working day. In the bitumi-
nous mines the workmen had an average of
PIT days. work during the year and pro-
duced 442 81 tons each, earning an average
total OF $407 90, or a little over 81 81 for
each working day. As a large proportion
Of the employees are "helpers," or BOYS
under age, who are paid small wages. the
actual earnings of adult miners are of course
considerably in excess Of the average shown
by the statistical returns.