Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-02-01
Late Eastern News.
Sixty.iive Cents a Day,

Lower Macungie, Lahigh county,
are at present working for lower
wages than at any time during the
panic of 1873, their pay having re-
Gently been cut down from seventy
five cents per day to sixty five. How
they manage to keep body and soul
together on such scanty earnings,
and to support family besides, as
majority of them are doing, is diff
cult to understand. The contractors
operating the mines say that the re-
duction was uecessitated by the fall
in the price of iron. Only few of
the mines are in operation, and as q
result hundreds of miners are idle.
10 add to the misery and distress of
the workmen, the storekeepers at
Macunsie, who heretofore have been
furnishing them with household sup
plies on monthly credits, decline to
do so longer, and as a consequence
the majority are really badly off,
many OF them in want and suffering
1t Is now common thing for the
wives OF miners on coming to the
stores to make their accustomed pur-
purchases, to turn about and weep
on being told that credit can no lon
ger be extended.
Miscegenation at the Capitol.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.-Fred Doug
las, the well-known colored leader,
was married this evening to Miss
Helen Nj. Pitts, white woman,
formerly of Avon, N. Y. Tue we'd
ding which took place at the house
of DR.. Grimke of the Presbyterian
church was private. Only two wit
Desses were present. The first wife
of Douglass, who was colored, died
about a year ago. The women he
married to-day is about IS years of
age and was employed as copyist in
the office while he was marshal of
the district. Douglass himself is
about 70 years of age and las
daughters as old as his present wife.
AQuestson for jews.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Jan. 25.-Jews
are discuss ins the question as to
whether the Hebrew dietary laws
are still binding, or, in other words.
whether &c cording to the laws of the
church they may eat pork. Rev.
DR.. Max Ladsbarg, the most promi-
nent Jewish eryman in Western
New York, declares that the old
dietary laws have lost their legal au-
thori'y, while others claim that the
Jews must not partake of the great
American hog.
Talmage s.Sees'' Berchcr.
New YORK, Jan. 2S.-Mr. Talmage
on Sunday admitted nearly fifty per
sons into his church. The Brooklyn
Tabernacle now has larger church
membership than any other church
in the United States, o distinction
heretofore held for many years by
Plymouth Church. Tamage is now
ahead Of Beecher by 700.
The Astoria Land Grant.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The House
Committee on Public Lands has
practically agreed to recommend the
forfeiture of that part of the land
grant to the Northern Pacific rail
road for construction o! the line be.
tween Portland aud Astoria. On
Tuesday, counsel for the Northern
Pacific railroad will appear before
the committee to discuss the ques.
ton. It is understood that Edward
Pierrepont, ex-Attorney General,
will make an argument in behalf oil
the Northern Pacific. About 5000,
600 acres of land are involved in the
forfeiture which it is proposed to de-
clare forfeited between Astoria and
Portland. As far as can be learned,
the committee has no disposition to
attack the grant to the main line OF
the road, although the conditions of
the grant have not been fulfilled.
The FEDERAL Capital scandaiized.
WASHINGTON, Jan.-TLe ma rriage
of Fred Douglas to white woman
has caused considerable of a sensa-
ton. 1t appears that the lady's age
has been understimated. She is As;
but this fact does net appease the
wrath of the colored people in Wash
inston, who generally regard the
marriage as an outrage on them and
their race. Douglas says himself
that it is nobody's business, and all
he wants is to be let alone. 1t is
we'll known that Douglass has long
been in favor of marrying whites
with the blacks, by way of improv-
ing the latter more rapidly, but it
was not expected he would wait till
he reached 20 years of age TO put
the theory into practice. This mar
riage will probably destroy the old
mans influence with his people. The
latest feature Of the case is that
friends of the new Mrs. Douglass,
who reside at Troy, New York, will
make an attempt to annul the mar
riage. The only law against misce.
genstion in the District of Colum-
Tia is the ancient Maryland law,
passed in IT'S, which imposes fine
of 500 pounds of tobacco OH man
found guilty of that offense. Doug.
last has two grown sons and one
daughter, all Of whom are said to be
surprised ana shocked at their faith.
er's freak.
False Prophecy.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-Republicar
representations of inaarmony among
the Democratic majority in the House