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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-18

absorbing sincerity of their pietv All
Jav long it rained, colo east wind
rom the Banks of Newfoundland swept
mn the valley in gusts. and the chill was
well-nich uncomfortable TO me. And yet
the good patriarch preached on in his
eternal way: the services kept their us
nal proportions; for nearly six hours
men and women of three generations
sat on the wet ground, the men all bare
headed, most OF the people without the
shelter Of even IN umbrella or water
nroof. Even when bad weather pre-
walls during all five days of the sacra-
ment it does not shorten the sermons.
After the customary services Of prayers,
psalms, and sermon, tho minister
..fenced the table, that is, he spoke to
the effect Of excluding those who were
not COMMITMENTS. and encouraging
those who held tokens to come for
ward. When the communicates had
taken their seats and the elements
had been placed on the table. the min
lister came down from the tent and
read before the institution of the sacra-
mcnt 1st Corinthians, chapter xi..
verses % to 80 Meanwhile Il deacon
collected the "tokensn from those at the
table After a prayer and IN address.
the minister broke bread and gave it TO
those nearest him, and passed them
wine, and then three deacons or elders
served the bread and Wine along the
rest of the tables. Externally it was a
company of distressed, abjeet mourners
soaked in the gusts of cold rain. the
mems heads covered by handkerchicfs,
the women's by black shawls. But they
seemed entirely absorbed by their inter
Tor experiences, the tortures of CON
science, the hopes and terrors of their
faith The sacrament closed with the
usual services on Monday, and the
crowds then dispersed to their homes II
&. II, Farntam ~ Harpcr's Magazine
for March,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
Local REfS.

Next Saturday The Labor Journal of ST.
Paul will make its appearance with the names
of G. A. Lafayette and Thomas Ward at the
head of the editorial page. 1t will represent
the labor interests of the twin cities and will
start out with a very favorable outlook 1t
already has subscription of 400.
Ferdinand Ducius, the boycotted baker, and
a number of his friends, will appear before
the grand jury tomorrow to endeavor to have
the boycott committee of the Bakers union
indicted for conspiracy and intimidation.
Cabinetmakers in the employ of the st.
Paul Furniture company, Corlies Chapman s.
Drake and Blodgett 81 Osgood have struck for
nine hours work at ten hours pay.
The plumbers strike remains the same
The bosses are all working and the expect
men from other cities soon.
E. r. Harroun has severed his connection
with the GLOBE and cast his lot with the Labor
Echo of this place.
The Furriers' union has been making an
effort during the week to get it's scale of
prices recognized.
MThe Bricklayer's union has won its point
with the contractors, and everything is
settled.
The stonemasons have settled on $3.50 for
ten hours work, with nine hours on Saturday
The bakers boycott will be taken up by
other labor organizations.
The bricklayers' union has denounced the
Chicago riots.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09

Richard Davis, secretary of the Penn
syiya1lia Miners Amalgamated association,
and a man who has been actively engaged
i'll the settlement of the numerous strikes
which have occurred of late years among
miners, not only in Pennsylvania, but also
in Ohio. says:
1 am greatly in favor of an eight-hour work
day among miners. The labor performed by
miners being of hazardous nature, working
as they frequently do, in wet and gaseous
mines its effect is seen in the stiffened forms
and sallow countenances of those who have
followed mining for any considerable length
of time. Eight hours of labor under ground
is considered by old miners as sufficient labor
either to support themselves respectfully or
to be conducive to good health. The plan of
reducing the hours Of labor in the mines has
been tried in Great Britain, and it works adj
mirably. Eight or nine hours day is the
rule in large mining districts in England and
Scotland, and more wages are earned than
when under longer hours. If the eight hour
work-day is established it will have marked
effect for good socially, intellectually, and
otherwise, among thousands of miners in this
country.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
THE OTHER SaDE.
minneapolis Jourmeymen Reply to
tho WI :, 9


To the Editor Of the Globe:
In Friday mornings issue Of the GLOBE ap-
pearCd card from the boss plumbers or
master plumbers so called, in which they call
our requests upon them for settlement of our
different ''serieS of outrageous demands
We ask the public in all fairness to give our
side of the story a hearing. We presented to
them, the BOSSES a plain statement of our
greviences, but received the cold shoulder
from the start. They say they will resist to
the end. Very well the end will see who is
justified. They call upon the public to hold
from them patronage to which they are not
entitled under the circumstances. They claim
for themselves that they are practical work
men. They do not say whether they are
plumbers, machinsts, sewer divers, book
keepers, etc., but come out to the public and
say tive are all practical workmen.'
They are now trying to work pub
lie opinion in their favor. but we
will catch them at it. They say that parties
are conducting plumbing business who en-
deavor to secure q Temporary advantage
by acceding to such eXtortions as required in
the present emergency, they think unworthy
of your support. Now. we would ask them
are such men as E. Z. Sykes & Co., H. l..
Peterson, A. Abercrombe, Charles Ruel
Jorgans Il KlebZn and many others who would
be willing to concede to us our just Dues were
they not held by that iron rule which governs
them? Why, but dav or two ago one of their
would stick by us tooth and toe-nail, yet his
signature was there with the rest They claim
that they are right in the premises but if the
public knew as much about our grievances
and what they, the public have to pay for we
say it would not take long to settle this con-
troversy. We do not like to bring these mat
tiers through the papers, but we are forced to
do it by the tyrannical attitude shown us by
the boss plumbers. They lay great stress
upon the words irrespective of class or kind
{rnf liz hot
pei them to pay men $3.50 per day whether
the men are worth it or not. This statement
is false. We do not compel them to pay men
$3.50 per day if they are not worth it and are
not competent workmen; and, also, discharg-
ing men for incompetency does not and will
OF effect other men working in the same
shops. MIR. Kearney made statement to-
day that any man that went back in his en-
ploy would have to go back Internationally.
We would like to inform Mr.. Kearney
that he IS not the only man in this country
that is engaged in the plumbing business;
and furthermore, we don't think that any of
his men will go to work again for him on his
conditions. We will buy Mr.. Kearney a
bugle or a small drum. for we think that he is
small enough to play on one or the other. Mr..
Kearney also states that the nine hours and
eight on Saturday were conceded to the men,
We will emphatically state that it is false;
that the boss plumbers would concede us
nothing whatever, to which we can make
affidavit to. We are not through if you are
not, gentlemen. Journeymen Plumbers and
Gas Filters Association No. IS of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis May z.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
SEN MAHONE
Declares He rs a Thorough Believer
in the Eight.HOur Inv

A few weeks ago l made report to the
United States senate from the committees
on education and labor. upon the petitions
and memorials OF workmen, laborers and
mechanics of Philadelphia, New York and
Brooklyn, who asked for the passage of a
law to pay the claims of those who have
been employed more than eight honrs upon
government work in violation of the eight
hour law. The committee made a careful
investigation into the conduct of the officers
OF the government who have had charge of
men entitled to the benefits intended to be
conferred by the eight-hour law, and found
that since the time of its passage the law
had been disregarded evaded and violated.
AS early as 1869, six months after the pass
age of the law, it was ignored by the officers
OF the government. Complaints were made
and proclamation was issued by President
Grant on the 10th of May, 1862 directing
that men upon government works should
be employed not more than eight hours a
day, and that there would be no re uction
III their wages on account of the reduction
OF the hours of labor. For little after
wards the law was enforced, but very soon
the officers of the government returned to
the old practice, and in May, 1872,
PRESIDENT GRANT
was compelled to issue another proclama-
ton to the same effect. In that year con-
greSs passed another law requiring the ac-
counting officer of the treasury to pay en-
ployeS all sums withheld from them by rea-
son Of the reduction of hours from the time
intervening between the passage of the
eight-hour law and the dates of the presi-
dents proclamation. Under this act
many claimants were paid, but consider
able number were not paid, and their claims
still remain Oh file in the department.. The
bill, which we recommended for passage,
declares that the men who worked more
than eight hours ought to be paid extra for
the time they were so employed. l am a
thorough believer in the eight-hour law,
and L think it should be enforced by the
government Wherever it has been en-
forced under my observation, it has been
successful, and l do not think that the adj
ditional cost of governmental works is enough
to take into consideration. The govern
ment ought to set an example to private
employers to be fair and just and generous
with their men. and, as long as have
Vote in congress, it shall be cast for the
benefit of the WOrkingmen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
Congressman COmstOck.
Hon. Charles G. Comstock, manufacture

Grand Rapids, Mich, says:
l believe that all laborers who wish to earn
their living and thrive, desire to work at least
ten hours day and get full pay for it. When
employers are so scarce that it be neces-
sary to reduce the hours of labor so that all
can find work, it is like parceling out short
rations. The Importation of laborers and the
financial legislation Of the last twenty years
is at the bottom Of all orr labor troubles.
The prices OF labor and its products must 60
up and down together-they are inseparable.
No employer can pay more per hour for eight
hours day than he Can for ten, and if there
is any profit in his business, not so much The
time has gone by when employers can reason
ably expect large profits by giving employ
ment to laborers in this country unless they
hold monopoly on their product. AS man
ufacturer, do not object to the running of
our machinery only eight hours day, if our
helm can afford il
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
Editor Armstrong.

Thomas A. Armstrong, editor of the Ma
tional Labor Tribune of Pittsburg. Pa, and
a strong champion of the workingmen,
says:
am most assuredly in favor of an eight
hour work day. For a time it will undoubt-
edly increase the cost of production, but that
matter will regulate itself as it did on the in.
PRODUCTION of the ten-hour system. The most
important reason for the reduction of the
hours of labor is in the need of workingmer
for greater leisure for intellec tual and mora
Improvement. The condition of the laboring
man at the present time is from bad to worse
and from worse to bad again. The cause of the
present industrial distress may be summed
up as usury of money, usury of corporations
and uSury of land.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
John Costello.

President John Costello of the Mononga-
hela River and Railroad Miners association,
and a prominent labor leader of Pittsburg,
says:
+, The Introduction of labor-saving machinery
will necessarily cause lessenfng of the hours
of workingmen everywhere. 1t is really a
question of less hours Of labor, whether eight
or some other number.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
Col. SchoonaaIker.

Col j. M. Shoemaker, one of the
largest coke operators in the Connellsville,
Pa, district, says:
Personally favor the eight-hour work day.
I think that the matter should be settled by
each firm and their employees. Men cannot
expect the same wages for eight hours as for
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
SH0RT-DAY SYMPOSIUM
Opinions of Several Prominent Men of the
Country on the Eight-Hour
Movement.
Rev. R. Heber Newton Calls Over-Pro-
duction the Most Mythical Of all
Myths.
Edward Everett Hale VI axes a strong
Plea for the Short Day in Fac
tories.
The Views of Senator Malone, Rep
resentatives Bayne, Weber, Com
stock and Others.

I'VE are forced to curtail local labor news
on account Of the publication of the views OF
noted men on the eight-hour day. several
pertinent communications will appear in these
columns ut Il later date.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09

Is the title of the new artists proof engrav-
ing of Edwin Deugle's famous COW pictures.
Price, $50. These advance in price so
soon we recommend our customers to buy
at once. Stevens tE Robertson, II East
Third street, ST. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09

change of base. the Fall River manufacture
ers may live to bless the day when they in
troduced before their rivals the eight-hour
system.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
Congressman Weber.

Hon. J. B. Weber of Buffalo, N. Y,
farmer and merchant, writes:
I am in favor of the eight-hour work day.
1t is clearly in harmony with natural law and
in accord with the trinity of human want
physical, Intellectual and moral. 1t is most
appropriate that the movement for the res
toration of this natural order of things should
originate among laboring people, who have
been the greatest sufferers by its violation
In my opinion the eight-hour rule will not
materially increase the cost of production,
and most likely not at all. Better work will
be done. If any increase should occur there
will be accompanying advantages which will
more than compensate for such increase.
The most valuable element in this republic
consists in the moral and intellectual power
of its citizens. These elements do not figure
on ass essor's books or in census reports, but
unless workingmen can have greater leisure
intellectual and moral improvement and
power must continue to suffer loss. The
present system darkens and blights the home
and drives pleasure from the abodes of toll
1t calculates accurately the product of labor;
but it forgets, and leaves out of the account
the welfare of the producers. Let us have
better and more natural order of things
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
9TH ERR OPINIONS.
CONGRESSMAN Bayne.

Thomas M. Bayne, lawyer and member
of congress from Allegheny, Pa, says:
''When 1 was boy, which is not very
many years ago, twelve hours were the mini
mum Of a days labor in almost every depart
ment of industry, and as many as fourteen
and fifteen hours were not unusual. We
didn't prosper as we'll in those days as we do
in these, and yet ten hours are now the usual
and general allotment of time devoted to la
Dor. In view of the tremendous results
achieved by machinery in almost every
branch of work, 1 apprehend that we could
now get on well with eight hours of labor.
The reduction of the hours Of labor will, in
my opinion, be highly beneficial to the masses
of the working people. Sore will doubtless
abuse the Opportunity thus afforded but these
will be a small minority. The application of
improved machinery has so largely reduced
the cost of production that more, by far, can
be accomplished now in eight hours than
could be a few years ago in twelve. This is
clearly shown by the present comparatively
low prices, especially of manufactured prod
ucts. I therefore think that although gen.
eral, abrupt reduction to eight hours would
work some disturbance, it would be but tenn
porary, and as soon as the REIMBURSEMENT had
been fairly accomplished we should prosper
just as well as if we continue with ten hours
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09

four correspondent misinterprets the
GLOBES meaning. The GLOBE asserted that
the workingmen of Chicago were responsible
for the riot in the sense that they afforded
the anarchists the opportunity to create trou-
BILE and then made no egort to suppress nor
to rebuke them. ED. GLOBE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
COOPER ALTON.

A Minneapolis Society Orgaoized--
ITS Principal Objects.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09


In the evening of May small number of
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-07

THERE DIED the other day rather pecu-
liar character, who was known to Wash
ipgton people rs Little Jimmie Mclean"
His father was formerly chief clerk of the
Agricultural Department, and, although
Jimmie was twenty-five years old, he never
walked a step in his life. His body was
fully developed, but, owing to the softness
his bones, it was as flexible as India rub
ber, and his limbs and body could be doubl-
ed and twisted up in all sorts ofcontortions.
He parents lived near the town of B!adens.
burg upon farm, and shortly before his
birth-in fact while his mother was waiting
for the physician 10 arrivc-the house was
discovered to be on fire. The expectant
mother was carried out through binding
snow storm into carriage and taken to the
nearest neighbours, which was more than q
mile away. The child was born while they
were on the way. Coming into the world
under such trying circumstances, Jimmie
never attained meutsl soundness, and, while
his body had all the appearance of maturing
his bones seemed to be made of gristle. Of
fers have several times been made to him to
join travelling show, but he and his family
have always refused to have his affection
made matter Of speculation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-07
DRY GOODS.
JANDKERCHIEFS.

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Those who have suffered from colds and find
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We also hsvc large variety Of choice colorings
prices.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-07

MEXICAN PENSION BILL.-As stated in
Yesterdays GAZETTE the House of Repre-
sentatives passed the Mexican pension bill.
The following is the text Of the bill.
"That the Secretary of the Interior be,
and is hereby, authorized and directed to
place the names Of all the surviving officers,
soldiers, and sailors who enlisted and served
in the war with Mexico for any period dur
ing the years 1S45, 1916, 1S47, and 1S4S, and
were honorably discharged, and their sur
viying widows, on the pension roll, at the
rate of SIS per month, from and after the
passage of this act, during their lives
t"Sec. .. That the Secretary ofthe Interior
is authorized and directed to make such
rules and regulations as are necessary to
carry this act into effect: Horided. That
where it shall appear that discharge ia
lost, secondary evidence may be permitted
ard where it shall appear an applicant has "a
received a land warrant, that shall be suth
cient evidence of an honorable discharge.
unless the. evidence shows that ne procured
it by fraud And prorided further, That this
act shall not apply to persons under politi'
col disabilities.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-07
By Green & Wise, Auctioncers.

DY VIRTUE OF DECREE of tho Circuit
ID Court of Ale1andria county, rendered on the
25th day of May, 1885, in the suit of Robertson
vs.. Robertson, the undersigned, special commits
sioners in the said decree named, will, on SAT-
URDAY, the 17th day of April 1886, at twelve
o'clock M, in front of the Market House. in the
city of Alexandria, sell at public auction, to tho
highest bidder, all of that VALUABLE TRACT
OF LAND, lying on the waters of the Potomac,
in Prince William county, which was heretofore
sold in the suit of Robertson vs. Robertson, to Z.
conveyed to the said WILTSHIRE tract to be sold
containing 295 acres.
Terms Of sale: One. fourth cash, and the residue
in six, twelve and eighteen months; the purchaser
to give bond and security for the deferred pay
ments, and the title to be withheld until the
whole Of the purchase money is paid.
C. E. STUART,
EE MEREDITH,
Commissioners