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The Trouble in the Pennsylvania Coke
Region.

PITTsBURG, February 7th.-The CONNER
cidt GGzettes Mount Pleasant (Pa) special
says The strikers held meetings at differ
ent places throughout the coke regions to-
day, and decided to march in a body to
Scottdale tomorrow, to attend mass
meeting. The week closed yesterday with
several occurrences of a character which
shows the determination and desperation of
the strikers. A number of men who have
been working in the pits received letters
bearing the insignia OF death, with coffins
and daggers rampant, while the inscription
warned them to stop work Immediately,
under penalty of death. The missives
were spotted with blood. and present
ed very sanguinary appearance At
noon yesterday, forty strikers discovered
three men at work loading stock and coke
at Boyles Bridgeport works. The work
men started to run, when the strikers gave
chase, firing at the fugitiyes, and abandon
ing the pursuit when they were satisfied
that the men would not attempt to work.
The night previous, when the cars were
run into Boyles works, band of strikers.
armed with guns and revolvers, lay behind
the ovens nearly the entire night, to pre-
vent any attempt at resumption of work.
The miners are thoroughly posted on every
movement OF the operatives, being in con
slant communication with friends in Pitts.
burg
The Boycott Against the Mallory Steam
ship Company.
DALLAS TEX, February 7th.-The mer-
chants here have been visited by com
! mittee of the Knights of Labor, who ex
planned to them the cause of tie boycot,
against the Mallory Steamship COMPANY
| and requested them to withdraw thei
patronage from that line. The commftte.
received from majority Of the merchants
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WASHINGTON, February 7th - Senator
Colquit, OF Georgia, will introduce in the
Senate, this week, bill establishing local
option in the District of Columbia. The
bill provides for vote by the people upon
the question, and is extremely rigorous
Under its provisions no intoxicating liquors
can be manufactured within the limits of
the District Of Columbia, or imported
therein, and if it becomes law no wines
can be used at the state dinners of the Pres
ident. The bill has been submitted to sew
eral Senators and Representatives, and it
is said that its main features have been ap-
proved by many of them. Senators Blair
of New Hampshire and Hoar of Massa-
chusetts are quoted as saying that they
will favor it.
The Trouble in the Pennsylvania Coke
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E,0P 5sBg--A LODGING HOUSE WITH
Il 20 rooms; well furnished and all occupied:
good location. Inquire 8 A B." this office.
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E,oR SALE-A NICE GENTLES
Il Horse, suitable for a family. For tsssg9s
particulars inquire at the New Home kSA
Sewing Machine Agency. sos J street ia y7-tf
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ENOR SALE-SI, ,S0O-54 ACRES FINE sxe.
Il Fruit land; good House and Barn: -
acres IN Altalta; 100 Choice Trees: all can -
be irrigated. Address A. SCHWALENBERG
Clipper cap, Cal. ia3O-ow*
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Prospect of Dull Times in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, February 7th.-The Re
publican Senators have decided not to al
tempt to pass any silver or tariff bills. and
as the House is not furnishing the Senate
with any business, there is little work for
the latter body, except to discuss, in one
way or another, the several nominations
pending before it. Unless Edmunds' scheme
abruptly breaks down from sheer weak
ness, the Republican majority can find
enough material in the list of appointments
to furnish subjects for debates until next
summer. Edmunds idea of sending Gar
land a slbpena, directing him to produce
the withheld papers, is still entertained
Local Option Proposed for the District of
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1he New York Cigarmakers.

New YORK, February 7th.-A meeting
OF the Progressive Union of the cigar
makers was held to-day, to hear the re-
port OF the committee which was in con-
terence with the manufacturers on Friday
last. The proposition of the manufactur
ers was accepted, and committee will
wait upon them, and visit the various
shops, and endeavor to arrange scale of
wages based upon an average of all the
shops. 1t is believed the Proeressives will
return to work when this committee has
reported.
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New ORLEANS, February 9TH. = The
steamer 4. B. Ward, Jr, at this port from
Puento Certes, reports having left in thai
port the steamer Waikua, lately bought by
the Honduras Government. The vessel
will be well armed for war service. as great
fears of filibustering party are enter.
tanned. Suspicion rests on the steamship
City of Mexico and the schooner Cefalu,
The latter came into Honduras port from
Bluefields without clearance, and had to
furnish bond of 81, 600 for her release
The bond was furnished by the American
Consul, w. C. Burchard.
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FOR SALE-T0 LEf.

Z Fresh Milk Cow INQUIRE at xSE23E
CAPITAL SOAP FACTORY, Front EM
and o streets fe6-lw AA
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i assurances of support and sympathy, and
| expressions of belief that their cause for
complaint was just and deserving of sup
port. few merchants were non COM
INITIAL
, 1886-05-07
4 wIDF

August Spies, one Of the more moder-
ate Of the Socialists. arrested for partici
patton in the murderous work of his co
agitators, has given utterance to the mild
est possible formulation Of the creed Of
the faction to which he belongs. To an
cnterprising reporter, who interviewed
him in his cell, Spies said II am opposed
10 present laws. | am opposed to all laws,
l consider them inimical to social
growth" The doctrine here put forth is
clear and simple, and finds natural express
sion in violence and CRIME. The time is
not ripe for its p%romulgation in this
country, and the subsistence of the
riot under a repression by no
means vigorous or arbitrary, shows a
disposition on the part of all classes of
citizens to respect the law, 1t is even
probable that the outrages committed
under cover of the labor strike has had
the effect of Fastening the end of that
movement, which, however mistaken, was
never intended to afford a pretext for the
go,
Inauguration of a carnival OF crime. The
ircnzied fanatics oil anarchy mistook tue
general spirit oil discomfort manifested oy
the striking workmen Tor a lar oineren,
ieeiing oil hatred Tor all SOCIAL oruer anu
adherence OF the ordinary restraints Vi
law "hoDy ignorant Oh 'ne people
among whom tney nave sought sne''e'
IRON 'ne consequences oi crimes eon"i'
yea III o.her iahus' 'ney sought . turn 10
ue'es'aplea ccoun. 'he conius'on inciuen' 10
the strike, anu IL IL wen that tue true
character of these wOuld-be leaders and
, 1886-05-07

One railroad board here, knowing that
the growing Of wood, when set about in
in earnest, is neither a slow nor difficult
task, has established in Kansas the larg.
est artificial plantation of forest trees in
North America. These railway gentle
men themselves gave OF the contract
for planting over a square mile of land
with young saplings Of the catalpa and
a%ilantus and their president, observing
the success Of their experiment, and i'm.
pressed with its probable excellent finan
cial results, has had planted at his own
expense, as a speculation, as much more.
These are situated near the little town
OF Darlington, Kan.-Forestry commits
sioner Phipps, in Toronto. Can Globe.
, 1886-05-07

Uncpln's Famous Address nj G Gettysburg.
The celebration at Gettysburg was on
Cemetery Hill. I was sent 10 report il
for The Philadelphia Press. / sat behind
Mr.. Lincoln. Mr.. Everett delivered the
Grafton. remember the great orator
had a way Of raising and dropping his
handkerchief as he spoke. He spoke for
two hours, and was very impressive,
with his white hair and venerable figure.
Ho was a great orator, but 1t wa like n
Dit Of Greek sculpture-beautiful, but
fold as ice. 1t was perfect art, but with
out feeling. The art and beauty of it
captured your imagination and judg-
ment. Mr.. Everett went over the cam
paign with resonant, clear, splendid
rhetoric. There was not a word, or q
word, or a sentence, or p thought, that
could be corrected. You felt that every
gesture had been carefully studied out
beforehand. 1t was like a great actor
playing a great part.
Mr.. Lincoln rose, walked to the edge
of the platform, took out his glasses and
put them on. He was awkward. He
bowed TO the assemblage in his homely
manner, and took out OF his coat-pocket
a page Of foolscap. In front of Mr..
Lincoln was a photographer with his
camera, e~ndeavoring to take a picture Of
the scene. We all supposed that Mr..
Lincoln would make rather a long
speech-a half-hour at least. He took
the single sheet Of foolscap, held it
almost TO his nose, and, in his high tenor
voice, without the least attempt for
effect, delivered that most extraordinary
address which belongs TO the classics OF
literature. The photographer was bust
ling about, preparing to take the presi-
dents picture while he was speaking:
but Mr.. Lincoln finished before the
photographer was ready. l remember il
was a beautiful October day, and there
were 1000 or 1000 people present. Very
few heard what Mr.. Lincoln said, and it is
a curious thing that his remarkable
words should have made no particular
impression at the time. The noticeable
thing was the anxiety OF all on the plat
form that the photographer should be
able to get his picture. l remember we
were all very much disappointed at his
failure, and were more interested in his
adventure than in the address. John
Russell Young.
, 1886-05-07

The superiority Of American fun is ac-
knowledgcd by an editorial writer in The
London Daily News. He holds that there
are only two kinds of American humor
TO which the E~nglishman objects. The
Jokes about counting between lovers
seated on a snake fence, or about Sun
day schools and quaint answsrs there
given to Biblical questions, leave III
cold He declares that in literature,
when Englishmen want to be even hys-
terically diverted, they must, as a rule,
buy their fun from the American humor-
ist. ave are not at present. he says,
"a boisterously comic lot of geniuses,
and If you see the tears running down
the eyes Of a fellow-countryman reading
ing in a railway carriage, if he be with.
ing with mirth too powerful for expires
sion, the odds are that he has got hold
of a Yankee book. 1t is unsafe to rec
ommend any writer as very funny. No
man can ever tell how his neighbor will
take a joke. But it may safely be said
that authors who really tickle their stu.
dents are extremely rare in England ex.
cept as writers for the stage. Detroit
Free Press.
, 1886-05-07
sntpE m rAE sPatNa rnAE.


Errutic Movements
Nobody knows when the snipe come.
Nobody ever saw them come, or leave
either, for that matter. They are as
mysterious and silent in their arrival
and departure as disembodied spirits.
They evidently migrate by night, riding
in on the first warm wave from the
south after the earliest spring rains have
accomplished their mission with the
frost in the earth. You may visit the
snipe grounds to-day. and beat them up
and down and across and back again
until your legs wear out, and never
jump a bird or hear a single "skeap," the
inevitable plant of the startled snipe.
But tomorrow you go again and you
find the meadow full of them. But If
the temperature is not just right they
are to be found only in isolated punches
OF four and five. They are uneasy in
their habits, and will flush away out of
gunshot, the first -skeap" sometimes be
ing the admonition for every jack in the
field TO rise. Under such conditions
they are up like IA brown and white
streak; their notes are sharp, disguised
and s%piteful, and of they go, flying low
at first, but grad lally ascending until
they are but mosquitoes against the
overarchins background Of blue.
Here | have known them 10 fly for
hours in the most irregular p%reregrina-
tons, making great curviforms in their
aerial diversions, now shooting off out
of range of vision, but unexpectedly
making their appearance again and inn
mediately overhead, as if dropped from
the upper spaces, so erratic and be-
wildering are their movements. At ir-
regular intervals during this flight that
distinct but far-sounding gutteral whir,
that tremulous hoo-ooooo 90 breaks upon
the ear, which wierd sound is made
every now and then by the bird beating
its sides with inconceivable rapidity with
its wings during it curvetings in the air.
There is no telling what n snipe may do;
his little shapely head is full of eccen-
trio notions, and he may drop down
within a few feet Of you, fitting dudishly
back in the reeds with the noiselessness
of n sprite, or continue his reticulated
antics in the air until he becomes the
veriest speck in the sky and then
ishes for good.
Az OlleT times. you Inu tncm laLy anu
sluggish, and lying like lead, in fact
almost compelling you to kick them up
from their wallow in the warm mud.
This is the case when the weather is
sultry and spring-feverish, developing
thus suddenly after a gradual modern
ton of weeks, during which process the
struggling sunshine and drizzling rains
together have extracted the frost from
the ground and rendered boring good for
the birds the m their slender lega
settle down. Their long journey, al
though they make frequent halts for
rest, from the south has wearied and
made them hungry, and they set TO
work most voraciously on their arrival
and %gormandize themselves on the Larvae
and a~ngle-worms, with which good feed
ing grounds most abound, into an in.
dolence and Indifference that never fails
to result in the birds VOC and hunters
profit. Their slow fip-ilap up from the
grass and reeds makes shooting no trick
at all, and under such conditions enorm-
GUS bags are often made.-Cor. Com.
mprcial Gazatta.
, 1886-05-07
A WAR.

Galicia is the province which Austria
received al the partition Of Poland for
her jackal services to Russia, and the
acquisition has proved a curse. At pres
ent it bids fair to become the. scene of one
of those fearful outbreaks of ignorance
and want, goaded to desperation by i'll
usuage, which have attained such lurid
fame in history. A score of villages have
already been burned, though no open re-
volt has been organized, and it is believed
that the Infatuated peasants are about to
re-enact the scenes Of crime and outrage
which forty years ago Mortified the civil
lized world. No matter how bitter the
wrongs that produce a natural re-
action in murder and rnpine, modern
Europe will not allow, much less sympa-
thize with any Instruction which ignores
in its conduct the common instincts of
humanity. Even another French revo
lution-great in aims and results as that
convulsion undoubtedly was-could not
now succeed by means of another reign
Of terror. The Galician revolt, if un-
suppressed at the outset, may involve a
general instruction among the debased
peasantry of several provinces, but it can
lead to nothing more than extensive mas
sacre aid devastation, followed by re.
newal of cruel oppression, no longer with
out protext of excuse.
, 1886-05-07

The iris Of the eye of Italians is most
commonly chestnut; according to NJ.
Mantegazza, the proportion Of such is o.
per cent, the back eyes number % per
cent, the blue II, and the gray 8. Pied
mont and Lombardy have the largest
proportion of gray eyes; Venetia Of blue.
In general, the chestnut color of hair
amounts to II per cent; her comes
the black hair, 90 per cent. then the
blonde, 3 per cent. Though in Venetia it
is 81. Black hair is rare in Venetia.
More than three-fourths of the Italians
have abundant hair. Southern Italy ex-
GELS northern in this respect; in Tuscany
the poor heads of hair predominant (58
against AZ per cent?. AS to the beard,
the color does not always coincide with
that of the locks. While chestnut pre-
dominates, this preponderance is less
marked, and one some times finds chest
nut locks with blonde and more often
brown, boards.
Bushy boards with abundant locks are
most common in the south of Italy. In
two-thirds of Italy the natives wear the
boards short, OF are clean shaven. This
practice dominates especially in Tuscany
(S2 per cent?; the Sardinians have most
long boards go per cent?. Red hair in
Italy has been a subject Of discussion
among anthropologists; some think red
haired persons are remnants of a race
almost extinct, and which extended to
the banks of the Rhine and into England;
others think red hair a mere physiology
cal accident, from which no conclusion
can be drawn. In Italy throughout one
finds a few cases Of red hair. In one
commune, SAINT Agata di Puglia, red
hair is predominant. No explanation has
been given of the fact. Badness is most
common in Tuscany. In Italy generally,
of 10, 1000 young men examined for mill
tary service, t wenty were rejected for
premature badness and ffty-two for dis
eases of the scalp.-Nature.
, 1886-05-07

A MISSIONARY lately returned from
Liberia, gives an interesting accouut of
the condition of the African Republic. but
one not precisely adapted to encourage
extensive emigration Of colored citizens
from the United States Three-iourths Of
the country is held by native tribes, and
these savages are also intermingled with
the civilized population OF the seacoast
These tribes ale not habitual cannlbals,
and il is only upon rare occasions that
they indulge in the luxury Of human flesh
as an article Of food. There ERE two par
ties in the republic, Wing and Republic
can, and il is significant the latter has tha.
given way to the former
, 1886-05-07

COMMON sense is a leading character
isiic of the American people, and its in
luence is never more potent than after a
brief interval of unreasoning enthusiasm
has been succeeded by sober reflection.
The recent riots in Chicago and Mil
waukee must convince the intelligent
masses of the danger of v%enturing to dis
regard common sense methods ever in
the assertion of undoubted rights. The
root Of the evil which has caused the
labor troubles may either be reached by
legislation or it is beyond the power of
law, and this no self respecting citizen of
a republic based upon the principle of
majority rule can well admit without con-
Tossing the failure of popular self govern
ment
, 1886-05-07

Almost every American in Paris who
has ridden out toward the Bots has seen
the old man in the little carriage drawn
by sheep pottering along in the avenue
du Bots de Boulogne. These sheep are
two fine fat Southdowns, but the occu-
pant is a cripple named DR.. De Reroy.
He has been by turns a soldier, n trav-
eler, a politician, a journalist and a mar
Of letters. A nephew of the Able Lem
menais, he was for a while private secre-
tary of Lamartine. also an intimate
friend Of the marquis of Hartford, at
whose place in the Bots he frequently
met Prince Napoleon. During the war
he volunteered to carry important dis
patches out of Paris for the government
of the defense rationale. He started
alone in a balloon, which was caught in
a hurricane, carried into Switzerland.
and came down in the midst of the Mer
de Glace glacier, where his legs We're so
frOstbitten hat they had to be ampu-
tated. Besides his legs. he lost his for
tune by the war.-Paris Letter.
, 1886-05-07

wailuku, the second city in the Sand.
witch islands, seems to be a very easy
going sort Of place. There are in il a
large number of wealthy people, mostly
Christians, but they haven't energy
enough to call clergymen to oniciate in
the two Protestant church edifices in
the city, which therefore stand closed,
The city contains no clergy, no newspa-
pers, no libraries, no reading-rooms, and
the citizens do not have tho slightest in
terest in news Of any kind. They spend
their time chilly in thinking what a soft
snap life is and wishing it didn't have to
end.-Chicago Journal.
, 1886-05-07

THE modest request OF Capt Eads for a
guarantee Of $4,000, 900 Of bonds to be
issued in aid Of the construction Of his
ship railway across the Tehuantepec 18th
mus, has been met by the senate commit
tee to the extent Of one tenth. This, with
a like amoun from Mexico. would give
him $3.50 200 to start with. But the
United States, under the present admins
,%raiion. will o and Mexico cannot lend
financial assistance tothe scheme sufficient
to warrant lis ommenccme without pri
vate subscription OF an immense sum.
, 1886-05-07

A NEW dramatic sensation is heralded
with a flourish Of trumpets. in the shape
OF a l!ay Of which the sccne is laid in
Athens before the Christian era. The
scenery is gorgeous, the plot intricate. the
situations startling and the morality doubt
ful-all elementsof success on the modern
stage. The cable dispatches which so ex.
tensively set forth the gloncs Of Ctito are
open TO the suspicion Of having been in
spIred by the enterprise and capital OF
some manager about to visit the United
States.
, 1886-05-07

Authors ought not to be above being
reminded that it is their first duty to
write agreeably-some very disagreeable
men have succeeded in doing it, SO there
is no need for any INT TO despair. Every
author, be he grave or gay, should try to
make his book as ingratiating as possible.
Reading is not a duty, and has therefore
no business to be made disagreeable. No
body is under any obligation to read any
other man book. Literature exists to
please; to tighten the burden of mems
mems lives; 10 make them for a short
while forget their sorrows and their sins,
their silenced hearths, their disappointed
hopes. their grim futures-and those men
Of letters are the best loved who have
best performed literature's truest office.
-Macmillan's Magazine.
, 1886-05-07

A LAW has been passed in New York
making Saturday afternoon a half holiday
for public officers and banks. which is pre-
sumably all that the legislature can do
under the state constitution. A nov
ment is on foot to extend the practical
benefit Of the act to the working classes,
but the eight hour question excludes all
other similar topics from present consid-
, 1886-05-07

BRADsrREEr's, in a review Of the state
Of trade at the close Of last week, finds
that at least DPS. 600 men at industrial
centres were actively moving to secure
fewer hours Of daily labor. or this mum
Der 5.011 were on strike. $1,000 had been
granted the reduction sought. aud io5,-
900 had simply preferred a request. with
out any threat Of quitting work in case Of
refusal The aggravated coudirion Of the
labor situation. in the opinion Of that
journal, had already caused a wide de.
precision in general trade and industrial
circles Throughout the country.
, 1886-05-07

JUSTIN McCARTm, a home rule mem
Der OF parliament, distinguished for the
breadth and fairness of his views on all
questions, declares his opirion that Glad.
stones bill will probably be defeated, but
that. sustained as it Is by the sober second
thought Of the people. 1t will ultimately
be passed in a more comprehensive and
satisfactory form. whether by Liberals or
k.. T,rso-
, 1886-05-07

WV. Reed, druggist, Of Winchester,
Ind, writes; ''One OF my customers,
Mrs. Louisa Pike, Bartonia, Randolph
county, Ind, was a long sufferer with
consumption, and was given up to die by
her physicians. She heard of DR.. King S
New Discovery for Consumption, and
began buying il Of me. In six months
time she walked to this town a d's'ancc of
six miles, and is so improved thar she has
quit using it. She feels she owe her life
10 it," Free trial bottles at W. N. Hunts
drug store.