The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-04-23

100 puddlers left Pittsburg Pa, for New Zea-
land. Australia. to work in a large iron mill
lust finished there The substitution of steel for
iron in our mills is fast taking away their &C.
cupation, and driving them TO seek employment
charlottesville strike of the Power Loom
Ingram Carpet Viewers of Philadelphia ended
on the 10Th inst. in a compromise, by which
the weavers are to receive and 81 cents per
yard. The strike lasted FIVE months.-The
business failures during the seven days ending
on the 18th inst. throughout the country num-
Der for the United States 20j. and for Canada
1S--Fourteen hundred employees of the Bar
bour Flax-Spinning Company, at Paterson. n. j.,
struck on the 10th inst. for an increase of IL
per cent in wages-The nail-plate rollers
and heaters of Wheeling, Bellaire and Martins
Ferry Saturday last organized an independent
union, to embrace all the mills in the Ohio
valley. The men will leave the Amalgamated
AssociatiOn.-In consequence of the depres-
sion in the cotton trade the Wilmington IN.
c. cotton mills will shat down for so days
unless business improves.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The coroner's jury in Brooklyn, n. Y, last
week, in the case of Jos. Cohen, who died after
the roler-skating contest in New York, rem
dered verdict that his death was due to acute
spinal meningitis, aggravated if not induced by
his participation in the skating contest. The
jury recommended the passage Of a law forbid
ding managers of Kinks to allow contests of
more than four hours duration.--The wife of
ex-Surgeou-General Vim. A. Hammond died in
New York on the 18th. She was daughter of
the late Michael Nisbet. of phia.-Gen.
Logan delivered a lengthy address at the me-
mortal services held at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
18th in honor of Abraham Lincoln.-The
grand jury at Reading, Pa, on the 18th recon-
mended to the court that all tramps be BAN
ished from the County, and that all Migrants
arrested be made to do hard lahor.--Chris.
Bradford, the famous life saver, died at Pitts
burg, Pa, on tho 10Th inst. Of paralysis. Dur
ing the past seven years he, along with his
brothers Ned and Nike, saved 523 lives at the
Atlantic City beach.-The bazar for the Con-
federate relief fund, which had been open in
Baltimore, Md, for the past 10 days, closed on
the 18th. 1t was in every way a success, and
yielded over S25, 000.-The fund for entertain
ing the Army of the Potomac has reached s., S62
The fifth annual meeting of the Woman's
Silk Culture Association of the United States
was held in Philadelphia on the 10th. The
association has heretofore had one reel, but it
now proposes to establish filature or reeling
department., and to open school for silk cul-
ture in Paramount Park.-Ihe New York
State Board of Charities last week adopted res
olutions to put ell the charitable institutions
in the State in good sanitary condition before
the beginning of warm weather, in view of the
possible occurrence of cholera.-A compli-
mentary dinner was given in Cincinnati on the
10th to Hon. Geo. IL. Pendleton under the au-
spices of the Ohio Club, prior to his departure
as Minister to GerInany.-Mr. JOS Pulitzer,
of the New York World, last week transmitted
to Senator Evarts, Chairman of the Bartholdi
Statue Committee, a check for $4,000. repre-
senting the popular subscriptions received by
the World in little more than a month 10 aid of
the fund for the completion of the pedestal for
the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty.-The season
is three weeks late in Virginia. The cold
weather has retarded the grass so that graziers
of some of the Southwest Counties are buying
baled hay and hauling it from the nearest sta
ton to keep their cattle till Spring opens.-
Branch herring are being caught in great num-
bers on the Susquehanna, but shad are still
scarce.-Pleuro pneumonia is increasing
among the cattle in Galloway and adjoining
Counties in Missouri, and is creating great
alarm among stock rasers. 1t is said that the
cattle interest in the State has already suffered
a depreciation in value of over half million
of dollars.-A monument has arrived at Sell
ingsgrove, Pa, to he placed over the remains
of ex-Gov Simon Snyder. The monument is of
granite, and is in nine blocks weighing 10000
pounds.-Over 1000 immigrants landed at
Castle Garden, N. Y, Saturday last.