The Press., 1886-03-25

Business men in New York tell me that the strikes in different parts of the coun- try have already seriously affected trade in this centre. In places of public resort I hear men speak of the last ten days as one of the most stagnant periods they have known in a long time. It Is a fact that there are few strangers in the city. The trains on the elevated roads show that. You can get seat al almost any hour of the day, except in the throng of the commission hours at important sta tions where the ive-eent fares are most numerous. There is all the time discus sion as to where the strikes will lead. Chairman B. F. Jones, of the republican national committee, who has had long ex- perience with strikes and strikers at Pitts burg, and who is often called in by the employers and employees as an arbitrator, told me yesterday that he thought the result of the present agitation would be to fix pretty thoroughly in the country the principle of arbitration. He has a high opinion of the capacity and ability of the men who are managing the Knights of Labor movement, and says he does not doubt that they will be able to control any unruly element that might run off toward breaches of the peace. Ex-Governor Henry Howard, of Rhode Island, said that when the reduction was proposed in Rhode Island mills last year he opposed it on the ground that it would cut off the money that the workingmen were spend ing in the stores for little comforts, and by making them begin to hoard would in- jnre business, The effect had been just as he anticipated, and Rhode Island mer- chants are complaining N r Tribune aUriter.
 OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN lD. Lo- throp S Co) for April, has a sketch "Easter Monday at the White House, " whtch gives an account of the annual egg rolling at the National Capitol jolly lit- tie true story of "A Colorado Donkey ;" and a talk about Balloons and Air Ships, " very fully illustr ated, " hich the "little men" wilt like. Mrs. Deane writes of "R4tt+rAies," and there is the fourth in- stalmapt of + T. Meade's charming Eng lish serial. HAe and my Dolls. "The Adventures of ColumbRs" find him this month in Spain. Other brief sketches with verses make up thls number of the bright little magazine which is profusely illustrated throughout. Only $1. % year.
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 Hartford Courant, 18th 0ne of our American heroes died yesterday at Seitus ate, Mass, at the age of eighty-nine. She was Miss Abigail Bates. She and her sis fer Rebecca, in the war of 1872, discover ing British force coming ashore from vessel, beat drum and blew 8 fife, and scared the British into the belief that sol diers were approaching. They fled, with apt even attempting to land. There was real Yankee wit in the performance, and the girls deserve to h@va some public re- cognition made of their seaviees Now that both of them are dead our coast Is practically defenseless.