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Year: 1878

We learn from France that the strikes in
its coal mining regions have collapsed. and
our dispatches from Pennsylvania tell us
Of coal miners strikes which have just
begun there. They do not extend very far.
In two cases they are for an advance and
in a third against n reduction Of
wages 1t does not appear that any
grave fears of misconduct are enter.
tanned, and it seems likely that by soma
compromise work will be resumed. he
details of the concessions offered to the men
by the superintendent of the Furnace coll
liery are suggestive. lie says the company
cannot afford to pay more for getting out
coal, but will charge them less for the min
ing materials, which the miners find for
themselves-namely, gunpowder and oil
This reduction will, il is calculated.
be practical advance of five cents on the
carload of coal. or over seven per cent addi-
tion to their net earnings. II will possibly
be a surprise 20 the poor fellows that toll in
the darkness of the bowels Of the earth. and
who live cheek by jowl with death In the
terrible shape of such an explosion as oc-
cuTreu III tuc LuBioh Soiiiefy stoteItats
that the company has been making profit
off the lights and explosives without
which nothing could be earned. Ii.
however, matters little to them how
the company whips the Evil One round
the stump SO long as they get an advance.
and the indications of q return to work
show the miners OF Turkey Run to be phi
losophers. The answer of Superintendent
Parrish in another case to the demand for
an increase was to the effect that the Wilkes
barre Company's greatest concord was to
keep all the men at work. The effect
of this on the men appears to
have been good. little frank
ness Of this nature can do employers
no harm. Where the inability to give
an advance and continue work is de-
monstrable few workingmen are rash enough
to tempt starvation by going on strike. It
gives US pleasure to note this common sense
spirit on both sides. Communism can have
no abiding place in the councils of working
men Of this stamp.
Year: 1878

The Hewitt committee has ceased to take
volunteer testimony from workingmen, yet
there are some large classes who were mot
heard from ut all. The owners of the thou
sands of small farms within half-day's
Journey Of New York work as hard and for
as little money as any one who put in acom-
plant. So do the thousands of car drivers
and conductors, the great body of sailors
and fishermen, the porters and clerks in
stores, and the mass of men of long
hours and small pay who occupy
subordinate positions in businesses not
strictly mechanical. There are the hosts of
professional men out OF employ and ruined
merchants these once had large incomes,
but now have the wolf at the door all the
while, and sometimes see his head inside
as they toll for whatever they can get.
There are large numbers of mechanics and
artisans who, finding trade dull in their
own line, have gone at whatever else prom
ised bread and butter, or even bread
alone. All these classes are certainly as
anxious as any one else to improve their
condition and as competent as any of their
fellows to suggest means of improvement
by LEGISLATION. There was some reason
Year: 1878

JUDGE VAN lIoEsEN's declaration that he is
opposed to dividing up estates among the law
ycrs will be commended everywhere especially
by business men, who are the greatest sufferers
from legal extortion. lie has set AN excellent
example TO his brethren on the bench.
Year: 1878

GREESPogT HARDoR must present n pretty
picture this morning. The New York and At
lantic yacht club fleets have met there on their
annual cruise, which thus far has been exceed
ingly successful and of course enjoyable.
Year: 1878

Washington, June 19.-The commit
tee Of Conference on the sundry civil
appropriation bill was in session all
last night and until 8 O'Clock this morn
ing, after reaching an agreement on
only about one-third of the items in
the conference. The committee met
again at 1890 to-day.


The conference committee on the
sundry civil bill reached complete
agreement at 8 O'Clock this evening.
Their report will undoubtedly be
adopted by both Houses. 81
Year: 1878

THE editor Of a religious paper which
had one months precarious existence
in Chicago says that it is good city for
a religious paper, providing Satan has
three pages and the other page is mixed.
Year: 1878




Among the encouraging signs of an
increased impetus to business is the
demand for statesmen and clerks. Ex-
perienced men find their services
worth tie prics they ask, and even
book keepers are sought for This is
one Of the surest indications of revi-
val of trade which is believed to be
permanent, for in every branch peo-
pie are preparing for business which
will not be limited to the holiday sea-
son, bat will extend through the win
ter months, with the prospect Of great
er activity in the spring than at any
time in six years.
Year: 1878

WE SHALL KNOW.
Whom the mists have rolled in splendor,
From the valleys and the hills,
And the sunshine warm and tender,
Falls in beauty OH the rills.
We may read loves shining letter
In the rainbow of the spray:
We shall know each other better.
When the mists have cleared away,
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawnine of the morning
When the mists have cleared away.
Whom the mists have risen above us.
AS our father knows his own,
Face to face with those who love us,
We shall know as we are known,
Low beyond the Orient meadows
Floats the golden fringe of day:
Heart to heart we hide the shadows,
Till the mists have cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
When the day of light is dawning
And the mists have cleared away.
Year: 1878

Lost the brook as 1t wound its way


Like thread Of silver hue;
Through greenwood and valley, through meadow


gay,


Twas hidden away from view:
But found Il again . noble river,


Sparkling and broad and free,
Wider and fAirer growing ever,


TIL it reached the boundless sea.
lost the tiny seed that sowed


With many sigh and tear,
And yainly waited through sunshine and cold
For the young green TO appear;
But surely after many long days


The blossom aud fruit will come,
And the reApers on high the sheaves will raise
For joyful hArvest-home.
Host the life that grew by my own
For one short summer day;
And then 1t left me to wander alone,
And silently passed away;
But know shall hnd 1t further on,
Though not as 1t left me here,
For the shadows and mists will have passed and


gone,


I shall see It fair and clear.
] lost the notes of the heavenly chime
That once came floating by;
have listened and waited many time
For the echo, though distantly.
But know in the halls OF glory IL thrills,
Ever by day and night;
Ishall hear II complete when its harmony hlls
My soul with great delight.
lost the love that made my life,
love that was all for me;
oh vainly sought it amid the strife
OF the stormy, raging sea:
But deeper and purer know it waits
Beyond my wistful eyes;
shall find it again within the gates
OF the garden of paradise.
Ishalll lose this life it will disappear,
With its wonderful mystery;
Some day 1t will move no longer here,
But will vanish silently.
But know 1 shall hnd it again once more,
In beauty no song hath told;
1t will meet me at the golden door,
And around me forever fold
Year: 1878

Miss Carney walked up the long
green lane on her way home from a tea
party.


She wore brown silk dress and O
brown bonnet, and carried large brown
parasol in her hand.


The browns were of different shades.
and ran softly into each other. like the
tints upon dove.


All the lines of her figure were smooth
and rounded.


She was very pretty old lady in
deed, and must have been a very pretty
girl, though she was spinster, and
people who believed that all unmarried
women were left upon the boughs of
single blessedness because they tempted
nobody to pluck them, must have owned
chat it could not be so in her case.


Down the lane, coming towards her,
walked gentleman.


He was tall and broad, his hair was
grey, and his hat was grey and his
summer suit was grey his beard was
grey also.


He, oddly enough was shaded off into
another sort of dove.


The green trees were all about them
both, the green grass beneath their feet.
The roses nodded over the fence.


If these had been two young people
instead of two old people, one might
have fancied it lovers rendezvous, but
they were old.


OF course there could be no romance
about them.


In the middle of the lane, shaded by
great chestnut trees, stood an old house.


Honeysuckle draped the porch.


There was an old fashioned sweep in
the well.


1t was altogether thing of the past
no modern cottage of architectural
mysteries. 1t was so old fashioned that
it must have been the same when those
two people were young. Yes, when
their parents were born doubtless it
stood, by no means new house, just as
it stood now.


The pretty old lady in brown reached
the gate OF this house first.


She lifted the latch and stood looking
down the road, thinking that it must be
that the handsome old gentleman in
grey had lost his way and would inquire
of her, for the lane was no thorough
fare because of fence and gate and a
sign. with "All persons are forbid to
trespass upon these grounds" nailed
upon it.


The old lady's father had put up the
sign the day after the peddler had stolen
all his pears.


No neighbor minded it. but strangers
did.


So the old lady waited courteously to
tell the stranger that he might take the
short cut through the orchard If he
chose.


"He walks like somebody I know.
Who can it be ?" she asked herself.


Then she suddenly blushed, and
looked prettier than ever. Yes, certain
". it could not be because no one hao
desired to pluck her that she remained
a faded rose upon the branch-Misi
Carney, not Mrs. anybody.


On came the old gentleman in hi
gray coat, and as he looked at the LITTLE
old lady he doffed his gray hat.


Madam" he said, "this is wher'
Mr.. Edward Carney used to live,
know. Does he live here now"


But the old lady looked at him will
sudden start.
"Oh |" she cried, and added, "No
he does not"


"He is -" began the old gentle
man.


"It is his tombstone that you can se
under the great willow in the highes
part of the churchyard," she said
pointing through the trees. "He wa
| eighty when he died"
Year: 1878

Lord Derby of England once wrote a
book without placing any punctuation
points between the sentences and at
their ends, but in an appendix to the
book placed number of marks, to be
used when and where and how the
reader would see fit.
Year: 1878

Two skulls OF stays, with their
horns so firmly locked together that
they could not be separated. were
found one day in the mountains OF
Colorado. 1t is quite plain that they
once belonged to couple OF stays
who had terrible fight in the soli-
tude of the mountains. After the
combat had been kept up some time,
their horns became 80 tangled and
locked together that they could not
get them apart. 1t is very probable
thatwhen this happened, they stopped
thinking OF fighting, and tried their
best to get away from each other.
But this was Of no use. Their horns
were 80 firmly interlocked that they
could not twist nor pull them apart.
So they stumbled about, for the rest
OF their lives, with their heads close
together. We cannot know how
long they lived this way. They may
have been able to eat a little grass,
if both OF them agreed TO put down
their heads at the same time. But at
last they died. And how curiously
things turned outl Each OF them
hoped to kill the other, and yet the
result OF the quarrel was to bind
them together as long as they lived
and even death did not part them


And, il they thought that no one
would ever know OF their fight they
were mistakeni The record of the
combat-their two skulls fastened
together has remained for many q
long year, and will reman for many
year to come. 1t was truly 9
strange end to fight.


Shakespeare makes Polonius say
..Beware


OF entrance to quarrel; but, being In,


Bear't, that the opposer may beware OF thee"


These stays did that with q ven
geance; didn't they?


1t very often happens in othel
fights or disputes that the fighter,
cannot stop and separate just wher
they wish to. Something is apt L
get hopelessly interlocked and tan
gled, such as goodwill, or self-re
Ispect, or fairness, or honor. Still
Year: 1878

From the Lancaster, Pa Express, Oct 1oJ


Anthony Roming a well-to do farm
er, living In Lancaster county, Pa,
about four miles from Morgantown,
has just had series OF remarkable
dreams. A correspondent gives the
following:


"oome time ago he awoke his wife,
and, considerably agitated, told her
he had dreamed that some thieves
had stopped his son, who had started
on his way to market, shortly after
midnight, with load OF produce, and
robbed him Of his cash and severely
beat him. His wife replied that IL
was only a dream, and recommended
him to be composed, and go to sleep
as soon as he could. He did so, but
shortly after again awake her and
said that for the second time he had
had the same dream. She observed
that he had been so much agitated
with his former dream that she sup
pored it had dwelt upon his mind
and begged him to try and comp ose
himself and go TO sleep, which he did.
A third time the dream was repeated,
on which he arose. and, IL being then
after three o'clock, dressed himself.
At breakfast his vision was the sole
object of conversation, and in the
forenoon word was brought to the
house that his son was attacked on
the road, robbed Of some ten dollars
in money, and severely, though not
dangerously hurt. After the excite
ment which this intelligence had cre-
ated had somewhat subsidized, Mr..
Roming described more minutely the
appearance and dress OF the two men
who had attacked his son, and on be-
ing taken to the spot, pointed to the
exact place where the wagon was
stopped, and described how and
where his son was attacked.


These facts are true, and some five
miles intervened between the dream
er and the tragedy.
Year: 1878

al can not do much" said a little star,


ITO make the dark world BRIGHT
My silver beams cannot struggle far


Through the folding gloom of night;
But I'm only a part of God. great plan,
And Ill cheerfuly do the best l can"
"what is the use," said a fleecy cloud,


OF these few drops that hold;
They will hartlly bend the lily proud,


Though caught in her cup of gold;
Yet am part of Gods gr' at plan,
So my treasure I'll give as well as can."
A child went merrIly forth TO play;


But thought, like a silver thread,
Kept winding in and out all day


Through the happy, golden head.
Mother said Darling, do all yon can,
For you are part of Gods great plan.'
Sac knew no more than the glancing star,


Nor the cloud with its chace full,
How, why, and foi what all strange things were,


1e was only child at scnooi
Bu she thought, 1T is part of od's great plan
That even / should do all can."
She helped a younger child along


Whe" the road was rough to the feet.
And she sang in her heart little song


That we all thought passing sweet;
And her father, weary, toll worn man,
Said, "a will do likewise the hest that can.''
Our best? All. children the best of us


Must hide our faces away,
When the Lord of the vineyard comes to looK


At our task at the close of the day;
But for strength IRON above ctis the Masters plan
Well pray, and well do the best can
Year: 1878

Do little helpfnl things and speak
helpful words whenever you can.
They are better than pearls or dia-
monds to strew along the roadside OF
life. They will yield far more val
liable harvest. as you will fud after
many days.
Year: 1878

erly taken care OF, seems to last for years.
And to my mind when grass grows and
yields as il does here, is evidence that stock
can be raised and made profitable business.
A cow that costs but from twenty to twenty
fl We dollars out in the interior of the state
readily sells at from thirty to thirty five dol
lars here. Such is the comparative valua.
ton, not only on hay and cattle, but on ev-
cry kind of country produce


And now we kindly ask our county author
tiles to lend US some assistance, give us roads,
don't take our taxes from year to year and
when asked to spend little money in our
behalf throw wet blanket on the whole en-
terprise. This is not working to help our
situation; we must have little encourage
ment. When men work at the greatest dis
advantage, enduring privations and hard
ships in their endeavors to open up piece
of land and let the people see that they in.
deed are in earnest Don't stand back till a
mans courage is almost exhausted, but pro-
vide some kind of a road so that a man can
at least get team and plow to his land


GKo. NJ. SMITH
Year: 1878

A friend sends us the following,
which he cut from a late copy of a
Baltimore paper, to illustrate the
uncertainty of mems judgment in
selecting sites for great cities, and
to show how futile nature some
times is when pitted against enter
prise and money. The article will
be very suggestive TO many of our
readers:


There are dead cities which have
not only been abandoned, but them
selves have disappeared as com
pletely as Babylon-vanished like
the baseless fabric of a vision that
leaves not a wreck behind-Mary-
land herself has furnished the site
Of more than one of these phantom
boroughs, of which scarcely tomb
stone remains to mark the spot
where their former inhabitants were
buried.


For instance, there is the vener-
able city OF Saint Mary's, the CAPT
tai Of the province of Maryland,
where all the old time dignitaries
nsed to gather during the sessions
Of Court and Assembly and hold
high revels in their velvets and
laces. 1t is not an odd trick of
fortune that both jamestown and
Saint Mary's, the original capital Of
Virginia and Maryland should have
vanished so utterly from the face OF
the earth that the distinctest traces
we now have of them is the mellow
tilth and the darker color of the
waving grain over the places that
once were populous? Saint Mary's
was a city of great expectations.
Baron Cecilius had such hopes of
it that he esteemed a town lot with
in it's limits the best present which
he could make to his friends and fa-
vorites. Who would own a town
lot in St. Mary's now? The Protest
ant element was too strong for it
the planting interest preferred the
stronger lands of the Patuxent; the
centre of population moved rapidly
up the bay, and an irreverent Assem-
bly, suddenly decided that the capi-
tai should be removed to "Anne
Arundel town, upon the Severn"
The poor people of Saint Mary's
sent up quaint and pathetic Pc
tition to the Assembly not to destroy
Them. They offered to make roads, |
to establish ferry at Drum Point;
to run stage line from the Patux-
ent. They got down on their knees
to the Assembly almost, but with
out avail. The fiat had gone forth
the capital was transferred, and
Saint Mary's with its State House
and all, crumbled into undlstinguish-
able ruin.


Another city that was expected
to become the eastern shore rival of
Saint Mary's, and later of Annapo-
lis, and which, it as thought, could
not fail to become a great CONNER
clal emporium, so eligibly was it
situated, was the town on Tredavon
Greek, called Wilhamstadat, and
now known as Oxford. 1t had
much commerce at one time, and
many servants were landed there
and sold, and thousands of hogs
heads of tobacco were put on board
ships there.


And Elkridge Landing too. Do
the young men who 90 to catch
gudgeons at the Relay ever think
that ships used to sail mp that
stream from foreign ports, and that
the post town across the way was
once commercial emporium, the
rival of Annapolis and Joppa, and
the superior of Baltimore At one
time more tobacco was shipped
from EIkridge than from any other
port IN the State.


About 1850 the story goes, a
European capitalist came to Mary
land with money to invest in town
Year: 1878

THE Scientific American calls at
tention to the neglected flax and
linen industry Of America new
field awaiting the employment of
labor, capital and inventive talent.
Forty years ago nearly every farm
er in The country knew how to raise
and prepare flax for domestic use.
Year: 1878

The newspaper business is as thankless as any that can be imagined. The editor may take fancy to particular individual and compliment him or her for years, which is sure to excite the envy and enmity of others to his detriment, and then If by any chance an item finds it's way into his col umns that is susceptible of construction tbat is not exactly to that friends credit, he or she immediately forgets or ignores all former courtesies, of which he or she was at the time of their publication so proud, and concludes that the paper has always been and still is working in the interest of his or her overthrow and ruin. For much that the editor does for his friends he expects no remuneration but their gratitude; aud it often happens that even that is denied him by those who have saved up dozens of scraps clipped from his paper containing pleasant squibs concerning themselves. and for which, in their pride, it hes never oc. cured to them that they were under the least obligation of gratitude.
Year: 1878

CoxfuSIsM. Our dispatches today as we'll as the indications for many months go to show that communism is growing in this country into such proportions as to demand earnest and patriotic study and attention by the right thinking portion of all classes.

 or ali the isms that have cursed the world this is the most dangerous, and notwith- standing its threatening and terrible ten- dencies there are yet political demagogucs who are ready to truckle and pander to it for power. Willing, for the sake of peace and pap to sacrifice all that has been achiev- ed for good government and free institu tions; all the accumulation of public and private property and undermine and over turn society itself.

 The dangerous classes always find dema- sogues of smooth exterior and plausible manner to lead them. and take whatever spoil results from their tempo ary successes.
Year: 1878

GOVERNMENT FREIGHT.-The trains of Gill Hag=art and others are due here with supplies for the government, consisting of conimissary and quartermaster's stores, all which were purchased in the east by the government and shipped by rail to the ter minus of the road near Garland and thence by freight teams. This was probably an experimental shipment, and if the route is found to be cheaper than by California. other supplies will probably be brought through the same channel.