Year: 1877

Intelligent, sanctifying love in mated
souls makes home haven of rest and a
heaven of rejoicings. Blind love has often
turned to hate, and made many a house
hold no home, but desert waste, howl.
ing wilderness and hell on earth. Man
had better never wed than to make the
mistake of many. Woman had better die
an old maid" " than to marry drunkard
or a dough head, rascal or q rake.


Love should see with both eyes Love
has no business to be blind.


Greenwich, N. Y, Nov. IA.


EDITOR FREEMAN:-About year ago l
wrote for your paper n short account of a
few weeks spent in the Wyoming Valley,
Pennsylvania a,-somewha in connection
with n former article by Rev. +. G. Bass
on the same subject. About two months
ago l CHANGED to visit the same place again
and stop at theIvillage of Kingston, on the
west bank of the Susquchanna river. but
matters wore very different aspect from
last year.


As this valley is II kind of central point
of the vast coal fields of Pennsylvania
and at this time all the miners were on the
great strike-not single mine was at
work-all the miners were idle and very
disorderly-a number of regiments of SOL
diers were necessary to preserve anything
like decent order. A large number of can
non and Gatling guns were in position at
the depot-sentries were pacing their reg
ular beats and everything looked in first
class military order.


In Wilkesbarre on the other side of the
river, still larger amount of troops was
necessary, as more miners were idle at that
place. But about the 18th of October,
were finally perfected which
were called satisfactory and all the shafts
in that region commenced work again to
the great relief of all the inhabitants of the
valley-as the miners then had something
to do besides stealing and plundering from
all the persons in the region-and the set
would have been effected much
sooner, but for small minority that gov
erned the laboring masses. The troops
were gradually taken away and since then
every thing is quiet in all the valley.


Great enthusiasm among the miners and
the boys who do the driving, was exhibited
in getting the mules shod up and lowered
into the mines, many Of which from their
long rest had become quite antic and more
vicious than common and needed large
amount of reconstruction to get them well
in the traces for business and work.


Visited one shaft where in 1874 the
breaker, which is made of an immense
amount of Iumber,was accidentally burned,
and twenty. one of the miners were smoth-
cred to deah--a1d the celebrated Avondale
disaster, where over one hundred lives
were lost, is but few miles further down
the river.


A large amount of coal taken out in this
valley has to be transported over the noun
tain east of the river and down the Lehigh
river to get it to the sea-board and market
The Lehigh Valley railroad has track up
the mountain at an easy grade for passen-
GERS, but the distance is fifteen miles to
oain three, and takes FROM four to six en-
gines to take up common freight tram
In direct line of some over three miles
are three inclined planes of about mile
each and rise in all of near eleven hun
dred feet, with stationary engine OF SIX
hundred horse power at the head OF each
forty boilers at each engine.
Twenty-four cars Of five and one-half tons
each are taken up in each train by a two
and one-half inch wire cable, and near cne
thousand and four hundred cars are taken
ND in Il day of eight hours and sent on
down the Lehigh Valley railroad to market
one locomotive frequently taking from
ono hundred to one hundred and twenty
five cars in II train.


Last yeara large quantity OF 'he rooi oi
the mine directly under the premises Where
| stopped fell in and this year, lew days
after work commenced, more of tfell, and
shortly after several cracks were found IN
a field Il number of inches in Wldth-ohe
was near Il foot wide and on one side was
settlel some six inches and the space be-
tween those places must have settled
number of feet, but the people feared no
harm. as three hundred feet of solid each
would not fall enough to do any precepll-
BILE harm.


The Wyoming Valley M. Z. Seminary
is still in very nourisbing condition under
the management of Rev. DR., Copeland
About two hundred students are in attend
apce in that beautiful location and 1t was
,,voood fortune to attend one of their week
" literary exhibitions Of essays, music ana
declamations and would rank as trst-class
in sueb performances, and fully showed
that a power for good to the country would
onsue when all these students should make
their mark in the world


S. RUGGLEs


Roston. Nov. 26, 1877.