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The National tribune., 1884-09-11
THE HOOKING VALLEY WAR.

The mining troubles in the Hooking Valley
are Of much more serious character than is
customary in strikes and other forms of labor
and wage disputes. Both sides present streng
arguments and appeal to the bar of public
opinion for justification. In the first place,
there are unusually thick veins of coal in the
Hooking Valley region, which admit of the
miners standing up to their work, and so ac-
complishing a great deal more than they can
in the narrow veins where they have to work
in q bent position and spend much more time
in digging away the rocks and clay on the
sides Of the veins in order to get room enough
to work at all. The Columbus & Hooking
Valley Company, which is powerful organiza-
ton, with several million dollars capital, com
plains that the iron-clad Miners Unions would
allow them and the public no benefit of these
great advantages, but insisted on the same
price per ton as in the poor, thin veins. The
Company resolved to force war to break the
Unions and so got ready quantity of mining
machines, and made arrangements for laborers
to work them, and then ordered such reduc-
ton Of wages as must certainly produce a
strike, which it did. as soon as the men went
OUT of the mines the company put in the ma
chimes and the green men, with certain pro-
portion of skilled men, called shank bosses,
TO superintend them. As the coal business has
been very dull, it was thought that things could
be got along with until the green men became
sufficiently expert in the use of the machines
and all the coal wanted could be produced
On the other hand, the old miners, who had
been brought TO the valley by the company
under tacit agreement of steady employ
ment and who had established themselves in
homes, with their children at school, were dis
mayed at the turn things took, and began ae-
tive aggrcssions against the men who were
taking the employment away from them and
support from their families.
There has been great deal of marching of
militia, constabulary and strikers, and much
shooting; but, so far, only one man has been
killed and half dozen or so wounded. The
country is thoroughly excited; people have
taken sides strongly, and the Governor of Ohio,
who has responded to the demand for troops to
protect life and property, is at his wits end to so
steer his way through the tempestuous waters
as to avoid any disastrous influence upon the
coming election.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11

THE Washington Herald, the organ Of the
Regular Army and Navy, comedies with the
views exprest by US in regard to the Greely
sensation, and says very forcibly:
These men should be justified by the whole
country with accord, no matter by what
means they preserved life, if they were driven
by starvation to such an awful means Of subsst-
ence. And was it more horrible for them than for
asy one else? 1t is certainly bIood-curdling TO
hear il mentioned. and the actaal deed must be a
fearful retribution in itself. These men who placed
themselves ia such position of hardship and toll
for the benefit of the many who sit in comfort by
their firesides, and thus cry out against them on
their return, when all should be rejoicing at the
reunion of those who had feared never to meet
again; who had dragged through weary days and
months until scarcely remnant Of life remained
who would not have despaired? Il must have
been very pluoky aad courageous spirit who kept
alive single spark of hope. or retained wish TO
live amid those dire misfortunes.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11

can be doubt that Mr. vanderbIls wgl soon Be
IN comfortable circumstances A knowisdxs Of
horses has enabled many man TO keep the wolf
from the door.
New York manager Is tryiag the experiments
Of women ushers. They are comely dam..l.. a.
tired IN black dresses, white fred caps and ioux
white aprons So far the experiment. is a succesx-
and the severely innocent look with which thav
paralyze young dude. who takes advantages az
their having beekoned him to a seat to try "a
mash them, is better than any part Of the persorr
anee on the stage.
Two brothers bore eloquent testimony IN a New
YORK Police Court, tho other day 70 the desolation
o house without worlan 10 take care OF il Thefx
sister was their housekeeper and had been arrested
FOR being overcome by liquor on the street. They
came to beg for her release.
Mother Is dead" said the elder. and Ienngs
Is our housekeeper. You can imagine what a
home is withotss q woman. Everything Is wrong.
and here It Is sunday and we haven't clean shirt
or collar m the house. We can't do without her.
VIII you please let her come home with usqu
g I don't see why two young fellows can't rs4
along without a woman IN the house. rensnrked
the magistrate. Bachelors do, and some of them
do their own housekeeping"
They Oughs 70 be pitied, {" said Jennie's brother.
" for they must have iine-looking home II takes
woman to handle things. Joe and are Jagged
out. Everything we cooked stuck fast 70 she pan,
the TIRE went out about 20 times and came very
near blowing up the house by putting kerosene IN
the stove hiy hands are biistercd For God's
sake let her go. Judge, or we will go mad"
Young woman. said the Justice 70 the sister,
who was brought from prison, your brothers
can't do without you. They want y0u home.
where you viii and everything upside down.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11
TITS wEFK.s p.prn

This week Howard tells very graphically Of
the movements preliminary to the grand assault
OF Missionary Ridge, and makes a valuable
and instructive comparison of Grant and sher-
nan. ilius.rataa with pleasant little pen
picture Of the meeting Of those two great com
manderz "CalIetonD carries the movement
against Fredericksburg little farther, and
outlines VITA a few strong sweeps Of The pen
the beginning Of that series Of disasters in the
nl-delivere5 assault Of Franklin's Grand d.
vision o. The len a relief 70 this 1aournful
story is given by Prof. C. A. Hobbs's account Of
TIE landing on Iatagorda Island and TIE cam
paign waica followed against Fort Esperanza
and Iuaianoa, where the fun and frolic greatly
outweigiad the bioo8shed. In Fighting Them
Over VIC have very interesting discussions q
the battles al chaupio1's Hin and Moscow.
and other incidents Of the war which have
come to the Surface in these columns recently.
The editorials. GAR, "Honsshola.' Answers
70 Correspondents Agricultural Topics, and
''News Of The Week /" ere ali well prepared and
Of special iatcrest
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The National tribune., 1884-09-11
The Outbreak at salisbury.

To THE EDITOR: l was q prisoner at Sails
bury, \. C.. from Oct. z, 1851, until Feb %,
1854 The reason l was there the four DAYS
after the main batch had gone, was that VISA
detailed by W. II. Howert0n. N D., c. s. A.,
stationed at Salisbury, to take charge Of tha
sick that was left on the 22d. was present
on the 25th Of November when the break was
made, and helped to make the charge on the
guard; also, the charge on the bake-house, and
out distance over the railroad when to oTI
horror, we saw the young hounds that gloried
in shooting down a Yankee who had nothins
but his hands 70 defend him, coming on double
quick towards Us. We supposed they wers
gone. Seeing the situation did not allow mach
time 70 consider, we made q hasty retreat "a
the old pen, where the Johnnies poured old
spikes, nails, and anything thsy had to fli
their guns with, into US from each triangle Of
the old sfOekade, making it very unpleasant
for 3 spell. I heard Major Gee who was in
command at Salisbury. offer 800 Ia gold foI
any Yankee N possession OF N gun. but al re.
manned true and the Major has his 800 vet,
If he did NOT gamble it in c. S. A. bonds. FroEz
my record there w-as q killed and 63 wounded
] would Ike to ask. also If CoInFade d. Ro.
mine knows the whereabouts Of r. A. Casseu
Box 1052, CswegO, y. Y. given to me in Sails
bury Prison, or Robert Monk, of the S9sh
Mass. Would be pleased to hear from them on
any eomrade who was n prison at Salisbury
AHsis VU A4dJ Ill AiLoW me- Was tuS latteSl
man IL the prison, and my headquarters waa
at Hospital No 9 one Of the old wooden build
ings. BY principal diet was seorns. learned
to eat them just the SAME as the other pigs did
/ made coffee OF reasted aeorns; would roast
lot and give myself credit with five-ceHt cup
Of peanuts, and found that they beat nothing
all hollow. L returned on one leg, but l did
not have the goGt in the other; was slightly
afflicted with gangrene on the largest toe on
my right foot.-E. ". AlcELRoY, Co. 3, 45sa
Pa, Marietta, Lancaster Co, Pa.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11

THE fact that inoculation with the cholera
bacillus has not communicated the disease to
animals so treated has been used as an argu-
ment against DR.. Koch's claim that the comma
shaped bacillus discovered by him is the cause
of the cholera DR.. Koch, however, has made
a plausible answer to the objection by asserting
that none of the lower animals have ever suf-
fered with the disease. If this be true, and
DR.. Koch would hardly make so positive an
assertion in regard to the exemption of the
lower animals unless he was sure of his ground,
the only argument against the bacillus theory
falls through.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11
THE DISMAL SWAMP.

The romantic Dismal Swamp, whose gloom
and mystery have been celebrated so often in
verse and prose- has lost about all the fascinat-
ing attractiveness which it had quarter of q
century ago. Its waters are not maIariously
deadly nor do desperate men lurk within its
impenetrable recesses -fugitiyes from justice or
slavery, robbers, or marauders, watching an
opportunity to plunder men and carry off
of juniper-or white cedar-for shingles, tubs,
pals, and arms " for telegraph poles The
largest firm in the Swamp-John F. Roger &
Co., employs about 400 hands-100 in the
shops, 300 in the Swamp getting out timber
to whom it pays an average of 81 day for
laborers and from $1.5o to s. for mechanics,
who cut down and work up an enormous guam
tity of timber every year, which is sent to New
York and Boston. AS a rule the timber cut off
is allowed to grow up again. 1t takes about 10
years for Juniper tree to grow. The second
growth is not quite SO good as the first, being
little more sappy and soggy. In many places
where the land would admit of it, it has been
drained and fine farms produced. On one of
these, owned by Mr.. Lindsay, of Norfolk, 10000
bushels of corn are raised every year.
The people employed in the Swamp do not
suffer from malarious diseases. There are vii
lages which are as healthy as any part of the
country
The National tribune., 1884-09-11
TuE PrNsIoy suRyEKrRs

As rule the less sacrifice man has ever
made for his principles, the more disposed he
is to hewl against recognizing sacrifice by
anybody else.
The less likelihood that he would put him
self in peril for his country, the more ready
he is to decry the men who did put themselves
in peril.
The more no is wrapt up in his own selfish
ness, the more he disbolieves in anybody elses
unselishness
If he IS a man whom horses could net have
dragged on to the akirmish line, he is dead
sure to be shrieker about pension enor1ni-
tie" pension cormorazts," depicting the
Treasury for yoracious pension sharks ETC.
These are rules that arc pretty near infalIi-
bic. Try them on the next pension .shrieker
you see.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11
TRIBuNETS-

To read the French papers one would think that
the lives of the people over there were devoted to
violations of the Seventh Commandment and to
sharp devices for saving monay. The jokes on the
national stinginess are about as numerous as those
on national ineontinenee. For instance, n Paris
paper says that q notary reading the viii Of a
wealthy gentleman to his heir. Presently the no
tary comes 10 the clause: "Ibequeath to the serv-
ant that shall close my eyes 100 francs" "Hfl
hello thcrei says the heir; Just read that again.
viii your" The notary complies. That's 100
francs saved anyhow, :, says the heiE; uncle only
had one eyeI Got the faithful domestic that time
didn'tI?"
There are stIn other propositions TO supply the
English language with q singular pronoun that
viii stand for both genders. We mentioned a few
weeks ago, how " thon - was urged by writer in
the Critic and hesh," hixr,n and shiInr +" had
been urged by another grammsrian for she or
she, :" his or hers and " him or her" Now a
writer in tho Csrreat suggests that we take the
French ''le - and construct scheme ike this:
"Ler-he or she.
"Iis'-his or hers.
slim ''-him or her.
His idea would be 10 write sentsnce ike this:
'' If Jane John by the train, lie viii want
to como to the house Immediately and some one
ought to go thither who knows Iin and take the
carriage to bring lis trunk" But this change
wiz never be made. We al know WHIST hard work
it is to get any change made in absurd style of
spelling. Such change suggested VIII never
find any favor ct ali.
Japan noble families are 100 and zoo years old
The advantage they have overthe English nobility
is that remember when their mothers
iicsou with the King. or their fsthers stil more
disreptuable service for the monarch won their
title for them. With nobility, as with hash and
sausage, great deal has 10 be forgotten or gnored
TO really like IT,
Louisville Ceu4isr-Journai: III Mr.. yanderbils
shall continue 70 buy horses at moderate figure
aid sell them to Mr. Bonner At fancy prices, there
The National tribune., 1884-09-11

MAJ. C. NJ. WHITNEY, Collector of st. Louis.
Mo-, has incurred the wrath of the old SOL
diers of that city by persistently ignoring their
recommendations. They united in urging
Capt. la Tourette, who lost an arm in the war,
for the position of Chief Janitor Maj. Whit
ney gave the place to his own brother. For
assistant janitors, who get $50 month. the
GAR. and the Pensioners Benevolent Union,
of the city. recommended the following:
Henry Schmidt, wound inleg, S. pension; family
of four children; making wages now OF 81 a week
Charles a. Louch, pension s8 leg wound tending
fruit stand at present abraham Tuchler, pen
sion SIS; part OF jaw gone large family; peddes
notions. David Walker, pensioner of Mexican and
civil wars pension 81; leg wound; large family ;
wages now s. a week. Philip hfarans wounded
in both legs; three children; doing nothing.
Of these not one was appointed, but, in
stead, Maj. Whitney filed the places with ward
bosses and strikers, who claim to be of use in
a political way The thing is shameful, and
Maj. Whitney deserves the strongest reproba-
ton
The National tribune., 1884-09-11

SECRETARY LINcoLry's order directing Sergts.
Brainerd and Long and Private Connell, sur
Vivors Of the Greedy Arctic expedition to re-
turn at once to Portsmouth, n. H., and report
for duty, will meet the approval of every citi-
zen who has the honor of the Nation at heart
These men, it VIII eremembered, were given a
verbal leave of abssnce after they had recovered
from the privations of their arctic journey
sufficiently to travel, and they took an advan-
tage of the same which was never for moment
contemplated by the War Department, by en-
gaging themselves to the manager of dime
museum at Cleveland, o., and exhibited them
selves for 10 cents head. It is reported
that the three men were to be paid
$1,000 week for posing before the patrons
of the museum, and while sympathy may be
felt for the poor fellows that their dream of
wealth was thus rudely dispelled, no right
thinking person will for an instant do other
wise than applaud the Secretary of War for
putting stop to that which was at once dis
grace to sergts. Brainerd and Long and Pri-
vate ConneIl, the army and the people of the
United States.
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COMPARATIVELY few people know that such

COMPARATIVELY few people know that such
a town as Pithole ever existed in Northwestern
Pennsylvania, and yet in the Fall of 1865 it
was fourishing place of some 10000 people
To-day nothing remains of the place but the
ruins of a hotel and part of log house. Early
in that year the United States Petroleum Com
pany, composed of J. Nelson Tappan, of New
York, and others, began prospecting for oil in
that region, and before Midsummer struck
many rich wells. Then the rush began. The
war was just over and thousands of men, eager
for excitement and with plenty of money
focked to the place from all parts of the world.
Adventures, spectators, miners, oil producers
and even Indians jostled each in the mad
search for wealth. For five months this fever
ish excitement went on. Law was disregarded
as much as in the widest Western Territory.
Then a better state of affairs commenced.
Large hotels were built, banks were estab-
lished, newspapers started, and city council
was Termed. But the town held up scarcely a
year when the wells ceased throwing up their
treasure and the town began to fail rapidly,
and, now grown up with brush and weeds, it is
no easy matter to locate the place which was
but short time ago the scene of such wealth
and business enterprise.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11

In spite of the unusually hot weather for
the second week in September, there was a
very gratifying show of activity in all depart
ments of business, and prices generally made
an advance This was more noticeable in
wheat, oil and corn, in all which strong ad-
vances were made, followed by falling off
Wheat closed II cents lower than the week
before, and the bears are now talking of 20
cents bushel at Chicago. There hardly seemed
any reason for the heavy advance in the price
of corn,-5 cents on September deliveries and
81 on 0ctober,-because all reports concur in
making the crop an enormous one, and the hot
weather was just the thing to secure the largest
yield. Pork dropt rs cents barrel, and lard
18 cents per cwt., the decline being due to the
recent.corner, as well as the splendid corn crop
Cotton fell of s cents per cwt. Oil ran up to
90 cents barrel, but afterward fell off TO S6.
Iron, steel and their products advanced slightly,
and several important factories resumed work
The National tribune., 1884-09-11

BIT Of Grape on his left arm They first
marched around the Battle Monument, with
uncovered, heads, in memory Of their fallen
service, and then sat down to banquet pro
vided for them at the expense of the city Of
Baltimore. "old Defenders Day" was great
occasion in Baltimore each year. The celebra-
tion began in 1912. when there were some ], ,232
members. This year not FIVE could be found,
and the celebration had to be abandoned, much
to the regret of the Baltimoreans.
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g table of the losses will show j:
ONLY nEpAYmENrs.

Suppose that man does now receive pen
sion of few dollars month during the last
years of his life.
At best that is only partial repayment of
the sum actually due him from the Govern
nent according to fair construction of the con-
tract with him. He gave three years of his life
to the Government at a pay which, reduced to a
gold basis, did not exceed s. per month. Had he
not been in the service he would have earned
from double TO sextuple that. There were very
few who entered the army that did not make
large pecuniary sacrifice in doing so. No man
who was any account as soldier received any,
thing ike the pay in the army that he could
have got in civil employment.
at best he can receive his pension but few
years.
1t is now 10 years since the war ended, and
the men who fought it through are all the way
from 40 to 65 years old. The great majority
of them are much nearer so than no. When
we add TO this the injury done the vital pow
ers by the wounds, strains and hardships of the
terrible campaigns which characterized our
war, the bodily deterioration that followed
imprisonment, we have to add from 10 to 20
years to the age of every man who served a
full term of enlistment. This makes the ex-
pectation of life very short indeed in those
whose systems are so run down that they
pass the rigorous examination of the Surgeons
of the Pension Bureau. If we deduct still
farther the weary years of waiting that nearly
every one of them passes before his pension is
allowed, the amount received by the average
pensioner is wretchedly out of proportion to
his services and sacrifices to the country.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11
CHAMPIONS HuL.

To THE EDITOR: Comrade j. B. Harris, of
the 34th Ind, fixes the date of the battle of
Champion Hills, Miss, on June Is, 1863 Ny
company roll says May 16, 1863. And he says
that Gen. Logan's command was not in the bat
tie. If it was June Is, 1863, we were not there,
but il it was May 16 1863, we were. Please
answer through THE TRIBUNE which date is
right.-M. S. EAsLAND, Co. ], 31st Ill.
Tie battle of Champions Hill was fought
on the 10th of May. There was 40 engagement
there on the 18th of june as the army was at
that time in the trenches around yicksburg.
The brunt Of the battle was borne by Hoyey's,
Crocker's and Logans commands, as the follow
The National tribune., 1884-09-11
THE LIFE oF LOGAN.

During the past week we have received by
every mail orders for the Life of Gen. John
A. Logan" and applications for agencies.
commendations of the book, as book, and
pleasant reports by agents of their success in
selling it. 1t makes an exceedingly pleasant
occupations TO take vacation of a week or
two among ones neighbors, sell them book
that they all want, and make money enough
for a nice little nest-egg.
The National tribune., 1884-09-11
PARTICULAR NOTICE.

Once more we must say to our correspond
ents that they only waste their time in writing
anonymous lettds to us, or those written on
both sides of the paper. The first we viii not
use under any circumstances; the next we can
not use. They have to be rewritten before
being given to the printers, and this trouble
and expense our correspondents have no right
to put us to-