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The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-18
Mtnersvule.
.ssociated Labor Press :.

l-..,--, lby ASSOClaIeQ LaDOr freSS.i --....
= MINERsvILLE, April Il. The Anthra-
cite coal trade is quite active, from the oper-
ators standpoint, as all the coal shipped to
market is readily sold and none allowed to
accumulate, but the outlook for the miners
is as blue as ever, half and three7quarter
time work and starvation wages prevailing
The employees Of Markell & Co., and Coke
Bros, at Jeddo and Drifton, Luzerne county
have gone out on strike. The men CLAIM
that the wages; paid for mining, driving gang
ways and other narrow work, has brough
their wages down even lower than paid al
other collieries. Unless the companies ac
cede to fair proposition made by the EN-
ployes the strike promises to be of lonl
duration. - sirT ,h.
A number of Hungarians have been dis
charged at Logan colliery, Centralia, anc
other men given work. The Huns left fol-
their native land. s..
Large accessions are being received to the
ranks of the Miners and Laborers' Amalga
mated association, nearly 5000 new member
being taken in last week. FREE PRESS.
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ssisi j pIIAAs IIA Dus's.pI|il@||'sasi.! H labor,
bhow1 ~ during 5heIaast AAesn years

yuvw5 ~ uulAi4 sl~s'a .1Es
the Commissioner never thought OF
woman and her interests, and it was
only last year that he condescended to
notice our sex at all. The zeal displayed
By the Womsp,s Hational industrial
League, ii ifts wdrk Il III behalf Of woman,
thedata and STATISTICS gstherAy for TRIP
committees ion edheatbn : ana labor OF
the senate and house by me, and the in
terest manifested in the national lcoun-
cilsia the right of woman pa 4 bread
winner, has suddenly awakened in the
mind Of the commissioner Of labor the
COZ con ngictionlthat wonan as 4 Nage-worker
deserves passing notice at his hands,
He forseb apparently that the females
outnumber the male population by tens
ofthpusanas in all our large sitiess AND
that she demands and is entitled to her
share ia the disrIbotioa Of ledsernmeat
favors. There was no one to gainsay
his.statemsnts IN his state reports They
10 !
may be right or wrong, but the bureau
|ioft labor and it's workings are Of national
Importance, and woman demands her
share and her own department, presided
over by alwoman in this bureau Of labor
That position We are going ID have; We
will demand it first, then battle for. i
afterward, supported BY the labor organ.
izations Of the Ieoqqpntry.1gul,
If the appropriation for the labor
bureau was too small letit be increased
Appropriations are lavishly made fol
every worthy purpose; $4,000 goes te
investigate the silk worm, the bird, the
fish, and the insect come in for the
bounty of the government. Is woman
of less valuesthan these2-sW have {
labor to perform, at least I have, and
Intend to do ) it without fear, favor o.
affection, have battled for years single
handed and alone in behalf of the wagt
element of the country. 1 have worked
without an appropriation and without
bureau. The good 1 have accomplished
is known to the press and the people o
the country. I will have an indepen
dent bureau of my own, until the right
of woman are extended by the bureau o
labor, satisfied that I shall succeed IL
the elevation of the wage woman tt
places of profit and responsibility in tn
industries Of the country.
+ .! CHARLOTTE SMITH.
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The InternationaIs.
TBy Associated Labor Press, |

10y taSSOClHIUu IdUUT TTUSS,I
CINCINNATI, April 14.-fhe lnternationals
held meeting last Sunday at Druid hall,
with good attendance. Those present we're
members of the various labor organizations
of this city. The extremely dull times have
had the effect ofgreatly increasing the mem
bership of the Internationals in this city and
vicinity, The conservative Socialistic party
is also rapidly increasing in membership.
M. D. &.
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They Need Organization.
IBy Associated Labor Press !

10y ]
BALTIMORE, April 1.-THE Baltimore &
Ohio railroad company discharged $50 en-
ployes from the Mount Clare shops in this
city last week. That is the number fur
nished to the daily press. but report says that
the discharge includes at least 300 hands. 1t
is further stated that the company has plenty
of work on hand, and that the discharge was
made for the purpose of hiring the men over
again at lower wages. The bounced men
have been making only nine hours for some
time past, and it is said that the hands will
be offered work again in few days at the
same pay, but to work ten hours.
G. SIS.
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low wages of the parents.

After long debate and much opposi'
ton, the Shoemakers' Protective union
of New York City will take the first STEP
toward merging the union into an assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor. 1t ls re-
ported that even ex-President Sullivan
the chief adversary of this policy, has
become a convert to it.
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then we must hecome competent as soon
as possible.
also want to s,spsesd the gospel Of
discomfort" / also u1ns the laborer to
understand that he is febbed of five
eighths Of all he produces" In fact, all
that Cato says he wants to do. | want to
do. But it's all, IN my opinion. the
work of teacher, not Of . warrior. Re-
member, the people hug their chains,
Destroy their systems and they will re-
place them unless they learn better.
This point has been ignored Cato
wants to see present institutions, social
industrial and political, utterly swept
away. / do not want to see anything
put in its (sic) place" -.- III,
odf institutions governing schools.
mails, railroads, ETC., should be swept
away, and it will pain Cato to see any
thing in their place. He wants to know
what liberty is "by experience" Lib
erty, then, is the absence Of all institu-
.tions which supply collective wants, and
which prove the existence o. that unity
of interests which all social scientists
recognizes asthe very basis of the true
social structure. :.
ElsHWiH Zeno assert that there is not 81
much need for the iconoclast as the re-
former2" Most emphaticallyI ! do assert
that there is no possible use for Cato !
he states his principles correctly. The
reformer includes theiconoclast, Wher
anything is to be reformed it is under
stood that the old is bad and should b.
abolished. 3S-r@ ,s5l l,3s 800 80 - S,1 hI
"If the present system were not ba6
we should not say it must be abolish 2
How fortunate it is bad, 30 we! can wist
to abolish something. .i- ~ sis.4,,s
'There would be no necessity 70
either the iconoclast or the reformer
therefore it is right that the present sys
tenn is bad, because this makes it impos
sible possible for us to realize that ther
can be something better" 80. '%.'.
All hail blessed Bad System tina
furnishes US with the indispensable,nec
essity for realizing that there are bat
| things. ......." ri "a.
No, l don't like the alleged "syllogism;
it is sophistry run mad. When. every
thing is reformed, will it still he neces
sary to realize that something is bad
Can we not be happy unless we are icon
oelasts or reformers {; ~ j
Let US have the syllogism, if it be such
in proper form. How is this:
1t is necessary and right to have icon
oclasts to abolish bad systems.
The present system is bad.
Therefore, lit is right that the presen
system is bad" ....5
As is easily seen, the fallacy lies in th
first proposition. Is this "wrangling2
Is it not necessary to prove the truth Q
basic propositions? To what better us
can reform paper be put2 We ar
none of us 80 thin skinned that we can
not bear little shaking up. TX
Cato thinks the conclusion of dyns
mite is sweet music. 1 believe the capl
talist also regards it in that way. 1t en-
ables him to rush into print, pose as
martyr, victim of outrage, and gain tn
sympathy of even his slaves. 1t draw
lines on the issue, but it draws them il
the wrong place, leaving our felloy
slaves over the line with the capitalist
ZENo.
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City,

u [By Associated Labor Press.l g5EE
KANSAS CRY, A pril "A here is no i'm
proyement in Industrial circles as yet. Even
unsk killed labor is dull III so.,...,. 5..s
7. In railroading, there IS no demand for en-
ployes. 81. IS ~ s., 3sli,f .. .sif5sa,y
Men working for the telegraph lines COM
PLAIN that they are hired for S2.s5 per day,
and then are paid off at 50. IL sTGfi r3sit
9 Jas. Scott g Son, Of this city, are sending
men to Springfel I'D Mo-, to work. Men who
have just come from there state there is nc
work there. Every man who goes has to pay
$2.S5 for a ticket, and the whole thing ap.
pears to be an outrageous swindle upon poor
laboring men, and needs looking into, Long
g. Co., of 1920 Union street, are hiring the
men. aafh fhg9aHsa Sff} t6f3lrfs3gt {If9iel
lsiIt has come 20 light that boss in one oi
the packing houses has been nfxing men's
wages at SO. .75per day, and then compelling
them to pay him 25 cents a day for the job
Organization is progressing rapidly, and we
soon expect Kansas City and suburbs to be al
strong In that direction as any city in the
west pifgrsr 4sIE4e Sun AND GLOBE,
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1uo ldUOF UuTcdu HAS W uedl Will GuS
stern realities of this world-not take
observations of the heavenly bodies.
We don't know whether the moon and
stars are inhabited or not, but we do
know this earth lis, and that the thous-
ands of unemployed men and women
living in filthy fll-ventilated rooms,
with the bare crusts to feed upon-half
starved and half clothed-living in fear
of death, but too poor to die, with the
morgue and the dissecting table await
ing their forms whom Ilife's fitful fever is
over lat least 100 bodies find their way
to the dissecting iables each week in
New York city)-fheir children crying
for rbread-the rags, sqlalor, and filth
the avaricious landlord, the miserly
employer, the snowstorm, the faded
shawl, the wasted cheek, while capital
smites labor and laughs at poverty and
desdtntion.5 ~. :. ~ ., '3'.ai}
Come down from your nigh horse, Mr..
Commissioner, and help me look into
some of the abodes of misery, and let
me devise means to do something for
their relief. Let the moon alone, the
the same little stars will keep her COM
pany for ages YET and shine down on
happier homes in the nesr future if we
but do our duty toward she poor wage
workers of our country. The commits
sioner tAme to Wellington with some
reputation as comm issioner of labor Of
Massachu / do not wish to detract
from his reputation, but the last number
of q. periodical entitled The Working,
Girls Of Boston BY. Carroll D. Wright,
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-18
10000 Coal Miners Strike.

LONDON, April S.-Forty thousand coal
miners are now on strike in Yorkshire alone
against the 10 per cent reduction in wages
ordered on April /. .
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whence they would take 5me l0f the ferry
boats and return to the Phiiadelphiasid be-
ing landed about 4 mile above che steamship
docks Organization among the K. Of iJs
still progresses rapidly, several new indus.
Ties having been connected with the order
during the week. .si,5 ss,. " '-os
The strikeof the dam,ask weayers OF the
Aramingo mills in Frankford has been
settled, the proprietor conceding everything
the weayers demanded. The owner Of the
mill isa Mr.. Barnes, Of Baltimore, wholitis
said operates several large mills near that
city. The strikers are all members Of the
Knights OF Labor oI0eI yilfsiea s.i1
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West the whsls ferming one irregular par
raleloxram covering an area Of 8 T. 67IlOO
arpents.
Seized in the above auit.
LIST. Terms: cash to pay and satisfy petit
tloners claim the sum OF s~ zen thousand five
hundred dollars with eight per cent interest
amount ct the two notes from their maturity
until paid and and five per rent attorney
fees "n the principal and interest. aud all
costs. -
ind. The purchaser tn assume the payment
ct = note for thirty seven hundred and fifty
dollars with eight per cent per annum inter
est tr"m J:nuary IL, 1882. falling duo Janu-
AIRY 18th. 1886.
3rd. The balance cash.
United STAIRS Mar>hai's Office. New Or
leans goth day Of March. 1855.
j. X. G.. PITkIN.
United States Marshal for the Eastern Dis
trict Of La. Mch-II 81
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-04-25

E ANNOUNCEMENT.-A large pro-
portion of the readers of the THibodaur
Sentinel are farmers. many of whom desire
q great deal more of farm literature than
we are able to give in our limited space.
To accommodate all such we have made
arrangements with the publishers of the
American Farmer to give it as "a premium
for one year to every subscriber of the
Mibodaur Sentinel who pays his subscrip-
ton in advance. The american Farmer is
a large Is page paper, published at Fort
Wayne. Ind, the subscription price Of
which is $l.00 per year. Every planter in
Lafourche parish should avail himself Of
his magnificent offer.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Goth Judicial District Court. Par.
ish of Lafourche.
Frank Barker 70 No. 2O67, j. c.
Rousseau d. Bros.

Take notice that acting Under a writ of Fl
Fa emanating from the above entitled and
numbered suit l have seized and will offer
for sale at public auction pursuant to law to
the last and highest bidder at the Court
House, in the Town of Thibodaux on Satur-
day the End day OF May, 1855, between the
hours of ii o'clock A. NJ. and 4 O'Clock r.
M. the follow ing described property, to-wit :
list. A certain lot of ground situated in the
Parish OF Lafourche at about seven miles be
low the Town of Thibodaux measuring sixty
feet front on the public road by a depth Of
lands OF Bush tGrovo plantation Of DR.. Ed
mond Souchon. formerly, aud below and IN
the rear by lands of Mrs. Edmond Thibo-
daux. Together with all the buildings and
Improvements thereon.
End. A certain tract of land situated in
the Parish OF LafOnrche ON the left bank of
Bayou Lafourche ut about seven or eight
miles below the Town of ThibOdaux and back
of the lands Of widow FrancOi, Bourgeois
measuring two arpents front less q few feet,
more OF less. and less one eighth Of an ar
front by twenty deep on the lower line be-
longing to Pierre Break the whole in con
formity with existing lines. Together with
all the rights, privileges and a~ppurtenances
t~hereuntO belOhging or in anywise appertain.
ing bounded above by lands Of Bush Grove
plantation of DR.. f. Souchon formerly and be
low oy lands Of said Bush Grove plantation
and Pierre Breaux.
3rd. A certain tract of land situated in this
parish on the right bank Of Bayou Latourche
at about seven luil-s below the town OF Thib-
oaaux measuring half All arpent more or less
front by forty arpents in depth bounded
above ny lands formerly belonging to Mrs.
Hypolite Gucdry now the property of Braud
g. Lreendrc and below by lands formerly be
longing to George Toups and now the proper
ty Of r. NJ. Boudreaux. Together with all
the buildings and improvements thereon.
Terms ami conditions OF sale cash on the
spot in United States treasury notes, to paw
principal, interest and costs il the above snit.
March 2Sth, 1885.
THEOPHlLE THIBODA UX,
Sheriff.
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UNITED STATES MARSHALsS
SALE.
Charles Emmanuel vs Paul Octnre
Rousseau ct ais. No. 1OS9S.

In the United States Circuit Court for the
9Th Judicial Circuit and Eastern District of
Louisiana.
BY virtue OF a writ of seizure and sale to
me directed in the above entitled suit. l will
proceed to sell to the highest bidder, ron Sat
urday, the second day OF May, 1885, at il
O'Clock A. NJ, at the entrance to the Court
House in the Parish of ILafOurche, at Thibo.
daux, La, the following described property.
viz.
A certain sugar plantation situated in the
Parish of Lafourche, IN this State, on the left
bank OF Bayou LafOurche, at about ten miles
below the town Of Thibodaux measuring nine
arpents and three quarters more or less front
by eighty arpents in depth, except the lower
QUE arpent, more or less front which has a
depth OF only sixty.two and ! arpents, said
plantation being known as the Ariel Pjant.-
ton. ana being bounded above BY lands of
tic widow j. b. Champagne and below by
lands OF Valerie RObichaux. the lateral lines
con verglng so as to give AN area of about sew
en- hundred arpents, together with all the
buildings and improvements thereon, ma
chinery, crops. carts. wagons. implements of
husOandry tools. mules and other live stock
and everything to said plantation belonging
or appertaining without exception or reserva
ton. subject to the right granted by Mrs.
Ewing under agreement dated February q.
1877 recorded in said Parish in b. NJ. ~ folio
656 to Charles Morgan to dig, excavate aud
carry on inc earth during q period of ten
years, from a tract of land forming part of
said Ariel plantation opposite the side tract
and flag station IN that plantation and near
the 47th mile post and is bounded as follows. |
u plat annexed to said agreement on the
or lower side by a line 3l5 feet long.
Immediately above the plantation road mark
ed A.. b. aud running North and South on the
or upper side by a line of (525) feet
marked Z. ID. and running North and
south ON the northern or railroad side by a
Inc OF 800 feet long marked A. c. and run
ming East and West, and on the southern or
Bayou Lsfourche side by . line Of s22 feet
long marked b. d. and running East and
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Fastest p. o. La, March Is, 1885.
TT. Himel, Esq.
Labadievill., La,
Dear Strive have had a good opportunity
to test your cane .scraper' and find it to be
all that you claim.
But for the uuderfOot condition Of our plan
ters, and poor prospect Of getting any help
from the commission merchants would have
no trouble in selling all that you can make.
The machine can scrare fall plantin. "a we'll
AS Spring. | consider it worth twice the
price you AJAX for it.
In a crop of $50 acres plant cane it will pay
for itself three times in ~scrapir.g that amount
cane.
Very truly yours,
I'm 2l-So. JNO. Il. MARSH.
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At . nesting Of the Directors Of Thibo.
daux Bridge Company, held Apri! 2, 1886, .
dividend sf75 cents per share, was declared.
being three per cent on the capital stock, of
said company. of the earnings Of three months
ending March 81, 1885.
+. ZERNOTT,
+. u. CURTIs, President.
secretary.
4tAp4'S5.
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NOTICE.

Thibodaux Benevolent Lodge, No. 30. wi
meet the second Sunday in each month ut 3
o'clock p. n.
BY order of the w. NJ. feb-l9-8A
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We will furnish the TH1BoDAUx
SENTINEL aud Chicago Weekly
News, for one year, to any subscrib
er for So.
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A Controversy as TO the Conduct OF the
Lfberator.


EKw YoRK, April 90 The Telegram
prints the following csblegram:
LONDON, April 20.-Mr. Yates. in his
"Reminiscences" alludes TO Dan OConnell,
the youngest son Of the liberator, who still
lives here in green old age. BE is = wonder
ful Old TelloE, full Of IRE YET, but he seldom
makes himself heard. LstTeTly, Earl Mains
ister' resuTTtcs Dan, who ap.
peer5 TO day in letters defending
the name Ct his brother The Earl IN his
hook gives sn account of a duel between
Lord Alvanley ana Morgan, comments
rather slightipgly upOK tbs latter firing his
first shot before the signal, and states that
~ The seoess4 exchange OF sbots Morgan
jumped bsok, greatly startled. This i'm puta-
iion upon HE brothers. manhood roussd gll
0COunelps ire. immediately be addressed
a long note 10 Lord Nalmssbnry,
pr1uouncing his account unjust and
untrue, and IN contradiction with
the accounts OF the seconds Of both parties,
published IN ihs Times in ISIS. he backs up
his statement with qu0tauOa from Avian.
ley's second 10 show mat The FIRST hIe wss the
result OF mistaken understanding 2s 70 the
signal sacs admitted by Lord AlVsnley
himself and he repubhshss the full account
Of both seconds TO prove the injustice Of the
chsTge that his brother was startled.
O'Connel concludes his letter TO Malmes-
bury thus You viii perceive that in
neither account IS there word 10 the effect
that my brother jumped back. o. the con-
trary both accounts agree that he insistsd
on the exehsnge OF two shots putting aside
the question of the first shot fired by aim
though Lord Alvenley was satisfied with one
shot. With reference to the first shot fred
by my brother, you will zee that Colonel
Hedges says tins signal was actually given
and that in addition it was agreed
unanimously that Colonel Damsr should
rot be intlusted with the duty OF giving the
signal a second time. This certainly looks
az il the mistake which Lord AlYsnley
thought my brother had committed was due
to blunder OF the part OF his lordshIp's
second"
Mslmesbury's reply was brief thanking
0CoDDell for his correction, snd declaring
that his own account was copied from diary
written at the time OF the duel from hear
say, not from personal knowledge. He does
not see, however, anything derogstory to the
courage or character OF the combstants in
his publication. de certainly had no such
Intention with regard 10 Morgan O'Conneli.
Mr.. 0'Connell closes the correspondence
by courteously maintaining that the Earls
statement that his brother jumped back,
startled, seemed likely TO be taken as CT i'm
pnialion upon his coursge; but as such in
ter ton has been discleimed by his Lordship,
while accepting the account of the seconds
as the true one in fact, in justice to all
parties he must publish the whole CORES.
rOndeuce
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How Lincoln Heard "Dixie "
fphfradofnhfa TirooS

i is easy for me to recall an instance only
q night or two before Mr. Lincoln was as
sassiDRted. The President had returned
from Richmond. and = crowd called with
bard TO tender congratulations and a sere-
made. The man who was so soon TO be the
victim of the asssssin's bullet appeared in
respouse 10 calls. and thanked the audience
for the compliment. Several members of
his Cabinet surrounded him, and it was 2
very inter estiDg and dramatic occasion.
Juss as be was closing his brief remsrks
Mr.. Lincoln said: 4 see you have band
with you / should like to hear it play
Dixie l have consulted the Attorney Gen.
ersl who Is here by my side, and he is of the
opinion that Dixie belongs TO Us. Now play
H." Tne band struck up the old tune, and
Played il as / have never before or since
hesrd il rendered. As the strains OF the
mugc rang out upon the air cheer after chssr
went I'D from the throats of the hundreds
OF happy men who called &c congratulate
Mr.. Lincoln upon the rsturn Of peace.