Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-13
IN FORGE AND FACTORY.
IN FtELD AND FOREST AND ALI
AROUND.
vEhsx the Millions Are Doing ant
ThiukinG Abomt~-iEbor lte"hs
and News.

81 DIS fGI lI1t. oDG ia Viz tIibibl AIo
aaid 1T Ia getting to bc a pretty state
Of affairs when men. who never before
baa any experience at gas fitting until
ahev came here, "a few months ago, IN
dertake 90 fix rates as they want them.
The employers claim that the men
IMAGINED they were worth 1896 after a
Democratic city n0minee raised the pay
of his employees 10 that hgurc. Ihey
claim chat the increase was made Tor po-
fajcal eject. The strikers say that the
bosses raised their charges 80 per cent
recently, and that they deserve some OF
9hc advance.
will India be formidable competitor
for the cotton growers Of this country
asked the Atlanta Constitution man Of
q. J.. Raumer. OF the Russian imperial
household, NO; there is no part Of the
world where cotton equal To that in
America can be grown. They have tried
Sea Island cotton in egypt, and il will
not grow there in such perfection rs 1t
will here. Labor is very cheap in Rus
sia; from 80 10 40 cents a day with board
To 40 cents without board What can
= man have 10 eat in Russia on 40 cents a
daYf' He viii have wheat bread and
Observation-Disclosures in December
and mutton once q week and on holt
days.
Arthur Quill, in Denver News: Cow
boy wages are not now nearly as good as
aa boy were IN the early days. Former
Ey 6. good baaJ would get $50 a month
1.G toard, while . new hand would get
from $35 to 80. Now top wages are from
2E1 To S35, aud new hands from $50 to
So. The days for raising cattle Oh the
same extensive scale as formerly arc
drawing TO q close. consequent on the
settling UP Of the country. Thc bulk Of
the cattle In Northwestern Texas today
"a held in large pastures. and the same
will be the case all over Che range country
before long.
Pittsburg has nc card engraycrs. A
stationer gays: II have spent weeks in
Philadelphia and New York trying, on
The part Of the firm, 30 get an engraver or
two 20 come here 10 locate, but they
went do il. We have offered them good
salaries bat it won't work. There is
pictitvof this work to be done here, bat,
as say, the gentlemen in the east get the
money for it,
The Baltimore Critic asks: "Who pay
your taxes. Who supports your courtsT
Who is foremost arlopgour best citizens?
WHO are CIR best citizens2 Ansn err
THE workingmau who quietly attends to
his dates and supports his wife and fan.
Iy 0n big earnings. The laboring man ~
The man Of The day and tho hope of the
future OF America.
The New England Dressmakers' union
has been organized at Boston. There are
1900 persons in the profession there.
Persons between 10 and 90 years Of age
&re eligib'c. Headquarters win be opened
where all literature pertaining to the oc-
cupstion will be kept on hand. Sick ben
elts will be paid.
A New York mining exper. brought
natives al work developing silver mines
for The government 300 miles northwest
Of Tien Tsin. FIFTY thousand dollars
worth of machinery has been brought
from the United States.
Chattanooga, Tenn, has been buying
1000, 900 pressed brick annually in the
north al a cost {. o. b. Of from 500 10 $35
per 900. Lately they have discoV-
cred clay at home that makes rs good
brick as the northern article and "A big
Aiin has been erected
Pittsburg glass packers have gained all
advance Of 8 ccuts per gross for electric,
Gre proof, dual Nos. ! and . headlight
and Buffalo chimncys Nos. I and ? and
% ) cents for No. 3 Rochester, Nos. /
aiid 2 incandesccnt and globe.
Buffalo coopers receive 8 cents for pat
emit hoop. s for fat and 10 for round hoop
barrels. Some have struck for 9 cents
for the patent hoop vessel Lockport
coopers get 8 cents for patent hoop and
10 for Hat hoped barrels.
San Francisco harness makers awe
struck against a reduction TO 81 for four
traces for double harness and other like
cats. The former wages were 81 and
81. 10 or the traces and the men could
make $3.50 per day.
The Seaman union Of sydney, Aus
e~ralasia, ordered the Chinese hands on a
steamer 10 be discharged. The owner
refused the demand. and obtained enough
andidonai %0nunio men 10 load the
boat.
The Grief, one of Germany's armed
cruisers, is the fastest in the world. Its
displacement is : 600 tons. and its indi-
Gated horse power ia 5,400. Recently it
covered t~wenty-four knots in an hour.
Isaac :. Dcmont of Chicago, won a
prize of $500 for being the fastest short
Aand writer at the recent stenographers'
convention mt New York. lie took down
1881 words in five minutes.
The Shoe and Leather Review says the
sensible fashion of wearing rubber over
shoes in wet weather does not prevail in
England 10 any such extent as in the
United States.
A pittsburg coal firm has sent a barge
OF coal 10 New Orleans, This move will
probably kill the Coal Trust which
controls the fuel in New Orleans, Mem
phis and othet cities,
Lewiston and Auburn, Me-, bricklayers
have struck for a nine hour day. They
promise to resume If the employers will
agree 10 allow the reduction in time next
year.
At Aberdeen, ID. T., The Farmers Ali
.nce aud the Knights have agreed to sup
xlFs no man for office who shall not nledpe