New-York tribune., 1884-01-13

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member of the general family OF that NAME at the mead
OF which was Howell Cobb, served clerk OF the Con-
federate Congress during most OF the War.
The enormous increase OF litigation 10 O sub
eet OF public apprehension. showing predatory spirit
among the people and the lawyers The law Is device
10 Keep the peace so a. to prevent robbery and blows
but the peace, like other clements OF civilization, has
! become costly While once men became great generals
aud swept the laws they become great lawyers
and are more terrible than the enemy friend told rne
that some time ago trademark OF .s adopted by
| n distant firm OF manufacturers, and initiated by
! another firm equally distant His customers who
controlled his business IN that quarter appealed TO him
for redress. Both the infringers were confident and
went TO law. Before the came TO trial it
found that the law expenses for nTnger amounted
TO about $500 and his ardor began to cool wnen he
reconed that he had successfully purloned the trade
mark he could not have made that amount of money in
four years. he settled by paying the legal fees the
other side which amounted 70 81, 200 more, thereby
losing the expected profits OF six years work. The
other side then settled on similar basis. Arbitration
has become very common among business threaten
ing suit respectable neutral mutual friend cOnsenting
TO save the tigsnts time, money and passion.
Miss Emma srsiton OF this city, writes letter from
Seville describing the Government cigar factory OF spain
700 feet long and almost wlde very dirty and In the
vestibulc $50 young girls making cigarettes all talking
loud they want to- 100 girls In the next room doing
the same. and the next floor 5000 women close
sardincs I'm box in single room, making cigars, some
having their babies with them month Old and dogs
lying the tobacco stems. The women divided up
into each table, three each side and tie mis-
trss Mt the top Around each table shelves against
stone pillars which lay children's shoes, socks and
clothes There stone jars OF water here aud there
for drinking, and the air Sitting, and the buzz OF
conversation only broken by the wall OF the babies The
flooring dilapidated and 1t possible for an in
cautious visitor 10 fall through Two other side apart
ments 100 feet long were both packed with labOIers.
The factory consumes 10000 pounds Of tobacco day
and employs 5000 persons, who receive 30 cents
day for twelve hours work The matrOn each table
gets her pay from tho women she commands. The girls
| aud the superintendent had very little
A tobacco mau IN this city tells me that the usually
splendid tobacco crop OF Wisconsin frosted by tho
short last year. and only about $4,000
saved ~ which 1000 housed nc stOughton in
the warehouse OF "A Ncw-YOrk cigar-nlaking firm Por-
tons of the Pennsylvania tobacco seemed to mildcw
when suspended at those parts which rested upon the
beams of wood We export cigars and tobacco from
New-York 10 Tahiti, through San Francisco.
Mt T. r. Flower, the banker. who Is Democrat, said
to recently: consider the threatened agitation Of
the tariff question TO be potent OF the disturbance
in confidence. and the knocking oft OF lab Or In great
many districts which might else keep the people active
As TO Mr. Hewitts remark, 'Wo want the materials
free and the product taxed he does not state what the
material s IN this city the cotton cloth is the
us; in Pennsylvania tin plate IS the
material out OF which they manufacture cans etc; yet
tin plate is manufactured article IN aspect, being
made of iron and tin. while cotton cloth on which we
print Is step above the cotton. Now" said tNr
Flower, we could do very well along the seaboard by
bringing In the raw material such wool FROM Austria
liza and pig iron from SPAIN it would be cheaper for
than pay the railroad freghts from the interior Of the
country; but where is that going to leave people who
| own iron-Ore beds aud farmers who shear American
wool Don't you that this system must either be
tonal get disturbed every point Smith Weed for
instance, who makes iron Lake Champlan, would not
agree to let bring the material higher grade
of iron from Canada which would drive his ont OF
the market. thiuk 1t Is perfectly easy" said Mr..
Flower TO reduce taxation sixty millions without inter-
tcring with labor st all We might take thirty millions
of tobacco two millions OIL sugar. half million on hu
hair" and he enumerated series of articles such
az potatoes that do not remember. lie added Be-
fore this agitation against the manufactures goes far
the Presidential nomination will not be very sangune
thing !n the party stirring up Nr Flower said that
manufacturing centre at NewYork represented one
thousand millions of dollars and those centred at Phila
depha represented hundred millions OF dollars
The question raised recently whether Henry Ward
Beecher was younger older than his sister, Mrs.
Stowe It was found that Mrs. Stowe born In 1872
| and Mr. Beecher in 1913; he IS little more than one
year the younger. Catharno Beecher born nearly
twelve years before her betterknOwn sister. While
Caharine lost lover Professor Fisher OF Yale Col
lege by shipwreck when che still very young, Mrs.
Stowe married It appears, widOwer II we are 10 trust
Mr. +. D. Mansded's Memories which say that Pro-
fess0r Stowe had for first wife handsome NewEng-
land lady." Mr.. Stowe ten years older than his
WIFE who wrote great work the age OF oty, and
her second important novel, Dred" az the age of forty
four The Beecher family 10 owe their literary
vitality 10 their ransplantaton TO the West where their
father, Lyman Beecher, went about 1892. and he
mained there many years. Mrs. Stowe lived in Cincn-
natl about seventeen years. till the time that she
planned Uncle Tom" which novel was not drawn from
Eastern Virginia slave but from Kentucky.
md the escaping slaves who up through Ohio and
| Indiana. Among these was " Eliza Harris" whose feat
Of crossing the river with her child floating cakes OF
Zee Is fully testified TO IN the recently published remi
nlscences OF Levi Coffin the president Of the Western
Underground Railroad who sheltered her at his house
| The New-York and New-EnSland Railroad might have
paid It's xed charges and kent ont of receivers hands
had the rates OF freight 1t received been consistent with
the amount carried The Pennsylvania Railroad
It very Large portion OF its Boston traffic. but the New
England haul being short compared to the long haul
from the West the fraction the young road received was
too little In the aggregate to meet the Interest, taxes
! etc.
find In business circles great difference Of opinion
concerning the benefit injury OF cheap interest One
successful told that IT unfortunate In every
respect that or per cent instead Of or per cent
had prevailed since It lost the benefit OF stable
fined domestic class, who had about settled down 10
steady habits and the encouragement OF social and IN
telectual things, but were now compelled 20 buster
about and find means OF meeting expenses An
other equally successful told me that the evil
local and not national Said he The rate OF interest in
the West and South is what II is In New-Iork At
yicksburg Miss, money earns IL per cent year; In
New York per cent? at Dayton Ohio per cent can be
obto,ned; further Northwest 10 per is the ratio.
Now the remedy for this state OF things conceive, is
change in the basis OF National banking Under the old