The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-30

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mons said: 1--WE came from Stat
fordshire, master. My husband has
been out here two years working,
and when he could he sent for us,
little less than seven months ago. It's
took all as he could earn to get this
bit of furniture and keep this little
home. My husband was AZ and Will
lie was but 14-Only IA, master, and
he's there too. All, who could have
thought we'd come to this !" When
asked whether if the worst happened,
she would like to take the children
back to England, she looked up with
a piteous gaze, shook her head and
said, 81 couldn't go back and leave
them here" The poor souls Thoughts
we're 1t ~, ..Ss ~ = =
which her loved ones had been raiy
an hour before. The ladies', she spi,
had been very kind, everybody gasl
kind, but. She did not fnisfthe
sentence.
We called to see Mrs. VIE, and (
Mrs. Albright, widowed wins OF
month. Wien was "a years t age,
Albright %. A bedsead, altrunk,
some chairs, a table and sto'e furn-
ished the room. Th,re wasno car
pet on the floor. The women said
they had nothing, Their husbands
had spent all they Wuld Command to
fit up their homes a mtnth ago.
Mrs. Albright's hther and mother
are old people living at Irondale. un-
able to do anything for her, she says.
Mrs. Vein is German. Her father
lives in Indiana. vas displeased with
her marriage and told her she could
never come home again. These
young women do not know which
way to turn.
The Montgomerys live north of the
railroad, near the shaft. The father
is unable to work The son. employ
ed at the coke ovens, is the supper
of a numerous family, A daughtel
is the wife of Charles Tunley, one O
the men in the mine. AS we enter
Ell the Montgomery house the grand
mother was rocking the fatherles
Tunley baby, a pinched looking In
FAINT that had been provided with
sugar-teat to quiet him. Mrs. Tune
was at her own deserted HON
There's Charley's picture" said J
father-in law. Montgomery. A
good-Iooking young fellow. but q
years old. Last December he hurf
his leg in the mine," said his father:
in-law, land has not been able Il
work much since. He got behind
poor fellow. and there's nothing 70
his wife and child. You see how WI
are here"
Across the road from Montgom
erys and still nearer the shaft is 9
house that looks like a barn turned
into a dwelling. Here lives the
mother of John Lamber's wife, {
young woman who was sitting before
the fire nursing her infant. She
said that the mother of the Lambert
boys had nothing to eat that morning
until she sent something to the old
woman, "Yes," she said, my hus
band is down there, and his brother
Henry, who leaves wife and child
too. None of US have anything-no-
body has anything that | know of
Mr.. Evans said Mrs. Lambert's hus.
band had this winter protested relig.
ion in his church and displayed great
zeal. He remarked further that
Mrs. Lambert acted strangely. There
had been a great change in her since
last night, when she was inconsola'
BILE. Now she seemed hardly like a
woman who was passing through a
terrible ordeal. He thought her
mind must be for the moment I'M
settled.
A mile below Newburg, at Inde-
pendence, is the home of Daniel Mil
Ter, whose body was taken out W
day. The widow and four littlt
children are left dependent. There
are scant comforts in this home, fol
with all Miller's work they were
very poor, and, the people say "fal
behind" They have no resource
whatever and are not comfortably
clad,
Near the Millers liye the Weavers
mother with five children, hus
band and father in the mine. No
far off are the widow and child Of
VIM. Stansbury. another of the bur.
led ones. And 80 the tale of misery
runs, including the Ogden family, the
Johnson family, and the family
wife and four children-of McWil.
liams who was cutting The ditch,
and is supposed to have knocked
down the brattis to enable him tc
mol a mora rapiJ prnuraoc ,r;4L L =.