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Year: 1870

Coal MonspoIists as Their Old Game.
The following delectable piece Of informa-


ton comes to us through the Pottsvllle (Pa. J


Min-rs' Journal -


From private letter received here from New


York we learo that the prices OF the Pennsylvania
Coal Company for September have been advanced
thir'T ocuts per ton over the prices for August


When 1t is understood that this intelligence
comes from an organ of the Pennsylvania coal
monopolists proper weight will be placed upon
1t. But taken 10 connection with the following
paragraph, which appears in the Same column
Of the same paper, 1t is plain that the whole
scheme Is simply an excuse to raise the price
Of coal:-


Scranton coal Will take place In New York on
wednesday Of next week. August 81.


1t Is in this way the bulls in the coal market
prepare the way for rise in the price Of the
article, and compel consumers to submit to
the advance. Now, it is well known that
there is no real necessity or excuse for this
advance, except to crafty the avarice of the
coal operators and monopolists. The fact that
there was already large stock on hand at
places of shipment prior to the resumption Of
work by the striking miners is sufficient to
disprove that the enhanced price is warranted
by lack Of supply. On the contrary. the
various wholesale coal marts have been
overstocked all summer; so much 30
that II has been difficult to obtain transporta-
tion to Eastern markets, aud now that all the
mines are again doing full work, with several
months to spare before navigation closes, it is
apparent that the whole plot for bulling up
prices is but narrow and sordid one. The
advancement in the price of coal at the mines
is always taken advantage Of by the local
retailers to pinch the poor consumers. For
instances If the price is advanced by the COM
panies thirty cents per ton the retailer
improves on this at the rate OF fifty or hun
dred per cent, and thus the poor become even
tually the greatest sufferers.
Year: 1870

WHAT THEY THINK IN MADRID. Madrid
they have still In mind the great subject Of the
candidacy for the Spanish throne, and humble
the name Of Hohenxollern. They seem to
fancy. indeed, that this great war Is waged on
that point; thai Prussia Is fighting that the
Prince may be Q candidate, and France fight
ing that he may not; and rs the general
appearance 10 that Prussia may win, Prim
stands ready with proposition for q plebisci-
fum 10 carry the Prince In with the popular
voice
Year: 1870

ANOTHER MODEST POLITICIAN. Aaron F.
Perry declines to allow bis name to be used
before the coming Republican Convention in
the Ohio First district. The mania for decli :
nation seems to be very general this season
among republican Congressman in the West.
The ultra protectionists do not seem % like
the way the tariff cat is jumping among the
Western people. That's what's the matter with
Schenck.
Year: 1870

THE Work of removing tae rocks at Hell
Gate is going on bravely at the rate Of sixty
explosions day; but we would urge General
their own lives and of the lives Of people living
In that vicinity. Frequently some of the men
are injured by the explosions, and the build
ings in the neighborhood are endangered by
the falling fragments
Year: 1870

WHY cannot distinct issues be made in the
forthcoming Congressional canvass all over
the country in favor of the abolition Of the
onerous duties on coal and shipbuilding mate
rials, reforms which the people demand, and
out Of which they were cheated at the last
session Of Congress by the chicanery OF poll
ticiana2
Year: 1870

"THE TARIFFl" "THE TARIFF" is the burden
of most of the electioneering speakers thus far
in the West. The Eastern capitalists will
have to send some very heavy arguments
into some parts of the West to keep the West
ernors sound on the high tariff question.
Year: 1870

THE FORESTS along the boundary of New
Brunswick and Maine are now on fire and the
woods about Ottawa are still burning. Num-
bers of people who lived In the suburbs of that
town have been rendered homeless and are
living in tents supplied by the government.
Year: 1870

TIE NATIONAL BANK GoLD NogHs, which
Comptroller HMburd is preparing, are to be
printed on yellow paper. Thus the public
will be again enabled to carry yellow boys in
its pockets without feeling the weight of gold,
Year: 1870

A SAD ROMANCE OF THE ONEIDA DISASTER.
In conversation with a very intelligent and
accomplished lady from Maine. few days
since, learned the following facts. which
throw the shadow of sad romance over the
Oneida disaster: Commander Williams, the
highest officer on the vessel, and one of the
lost, was a widower of something less than
40 and the father of two bright little chill
dren In May last he contracted an engage
ment for second marriage. which was to
have taken place very soon after the arrival
of the Oneida in this country, l believe it
was fixed for the middle of April. He lef-
the. United States for Japan in June last, and
Just before his departure he was one of a din
ne. party at which my informant and the afi-
anced bride were also present. Had he re-
turned safely, he would have known o fate
which his brave heart would not have met
with the cool courage that faced death at his
post on the quarterback Since the first OF
January. his two children and his intended
wife have died. When he left japan he had
not heard this sad news. but supposed he was
coming home to meet them all in health and
happiness. So to one at least Of the gallant
men who went down on the iil-fated steamer.
death cannot be called disaster.-T Washing
ton Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1870

INoDoRous HAIR QUA young lady at
Cavendish. Vermont, killed skunk with a
butcher knife recently. Her lover came to
see her that night, and told her he couldn' I
marry her unless she quit using such hair
oil.
Year: 1870

A woman at Hannibal. No.. read in the
papers that it was fashionable to powder the
hair for parties, so she put on her blonde hair
a quantity of gunpouder, which looked well
until she got little too near the gas, when
there was little explosive circus, and she
tainted all ever the house.
Year: 1870

The day before yesterday, while Frank Wink, .
Newark saloon keeper, and probably the largest aud
most powerful man in the city, was moving ali I'm
mense block OF granite, weighing over GOO pounds
ana measuring five feet long, one foot wide and six
inches thick, his heel caught IN piece Of wood and,
losing his balance, he fell backward on his head,
the block crushing down on top OF Inn.
The end smashed In both Jaws. 10 Is
feared lie Is ako Injured Internally and cannot
survive. lie had just previously borne the rhole
weight OF one end OF the block, While his brother
Fred, barber named Fred Getz and third man
had as much as they could do TO manage tie other
Three doctors arc attending the injured man. He
was over six feet two Inches high, built In proper
ton and weighed nearly 250 pounds.
Year: 1870

The weather in Calcutta during a week had
been very oppressive. The thermometer had
risen to LOG in the shade and been daily above
100. Several deaths from " heat apoplexy"
occurred
Year: 1870

1t is rare to find a ficld-roller upon
the farm, and yet upon many farms
it would pay for itself every season.
The implement as turned out from
the factory is rather expensive, cost


ing about $50. This is a large sum
to pay for an article most farmers


have never used and never felt the


need of. The necessity Of it is not
so obvious as that of the moving
machine, and yet it has it's place in
the routine of our labors. 1t is the
best implement for making smooth
surface for the meadow; matter
OF great Importance for the moving
machine. 1t should follow the bush
harrow always in the Spring, when
the land is laid down to grass. And
if the land is wet, and the grass
roots has been thrown out by frost,
the roller will press many Of them
back again and make smooth sur
face. 1t is also of great service in
breaking hard Jumps, when the land
Year: 1870

Grandmother's mother: her age guess.
Thirteen summers or something less;
Girlish bust, but wOmanly air,
smooth, square forehead with uprollcd hair,
Lips that lover has never kissed,
TAPER fingers and slender wrist,
Hanging sleeves of stiff brOcade
So they painted the little maid.
On her hand parrot green
Sits unmOved and btOOds serene,
Hold up the canvass full IN view
Look! there's Il rent the light shines through,
Dark with century's fringe of dust
That was Red-COat's rapier thrust!
Such is the tale the lady old
Dorothys daughters daughter told.
Who the painter was none may tell
One whose best was not over well;
Hard and dry, it must be confessed,
Flat as a rose that has long been pressed;
Yet in her cheek the hues are bright,
Dainty colors of red and white;
And in her slender shape are seen
Hint and promise of stately mien.
Look not on her with eyes of scorn-
Dorothy q. was a lady born!
Ay! since the gallOping NOrnans came,
Engands annals have known her name;
And still to the three-hlled rebel town
Dear is that ancient names renOwn,
For many a civic wreath they won
The youthful sire and the gray-haired son.
o Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy O.!
Strange is the gift that owe to you;
Such gift as never king
Save to daughter or son might bring
All my tenure of heart and hand
All my title to house and land
Mother and sister and child and wife
And JOY and sorrow and death and life!
What if hundred years ago
Those close-shut lips had answered No
When forth the tremulous question came
That cost the maiden her Norman name,
And under the folds that looks SO still
The bodice swelled with the bosom's thrill?
Should be l, or without it be
One tenth another to nine-tenths me?
Soft is the breath of maiden's YES;
Not the light gossamer sirs with less;
But never Il cable that holds so fast
Through all the battles of wave and blast,
And never an echo of speech or song
That lives in the babbling AIR so long!
There were tones in the voice that whispered the
You may hear to-day in Il hundred men.
O lady and lover, how faint and far
Your images hoyer,-and here we are,
Solid and stirring in flesh and bone,
Edwards and Dorothy 's-all their own,-
A yoOdly record for Time to show
Of a syllable spoken so long agO.-
Shall bless you, Dorothy, or forgive
For the little whisper that badc me live?
II shall be blessing. my little maid!
l will heal the stab Of the Red Coats blade,


And frcshen the gold OF the tarnished frame,
And gild with rhyme your household name;
So you shall smile on us brave and bright
A first yOn greeted the mornings light,
And live untroubled by woes and fears
Through second youth of Il hundred years.
Year: 1870

is plowed for hoed crops, or for
Spring or Winter grain. These
Jumps are severe obsticle to the
progress of crops in the soil, and
whatever aliment they contain is
lost to the growing crop. The roll
er is good pulverizer. Then in a
dry time it greatly assists in the
termination of seeds. Wheat, rye,
and other grains, come up much
better for the pressure Of the soil
around them. Then the labor of
cultivation is economical by having
the field laid as smoothly as posi-
bic. You can see the rows very
distinctly, and begin the cultivation
sooner, and bring the cultivator
much nearer the growing plants,
leaving much less labor for the hoe.
This makes a large saving in the
item of labor. 1t is Of still greater
service i'll disposing of the small
stones in the gravelly loans on
many fields; it will bring all of these
on level with the surface and put
them below the cut of the moving
machine. This saves the disagreca-
bic labor of picking stones, which
has probably weaned more boys
from the farm than any other work
We have found SO great advantage
from the use of the roller, that we
should not know how to dispense
with it. If a man has capital, let
him by all means get the best pat
tern, with cast iron cylinders. If
not, he can make a wooden roller
that will do good work and last
many years, with very little outlay
of money. From large tree, three
feet through at the butt, cut off a
section of eight feet, make it as near
cylindrical in shape as possible,
drive i'll two large iron pins exactly
in the center, hang it in frame and
put on a pole for the team. A roll
cr made of hewn stone is still better
for it is heavier and more durable
Get roller if you have to make ii
with your own hands.-41merico1.
Igricu/taHist.
Year: 1870

You must have meat every day of
the year. Your children should
have some animal food during the
autumn, winter and spring. But
meat is very high. A sirloin steak
costs in our market from thirty-tive
to forty cents a pound. And even
this is not the most expensive part
of the animal.


But do you know that in an OK
which, dressed, weighs 500 pounds,
only a very small part brings this
high price? And do you know that
that small part is neither the most
nourishins nor the most palatable?
While certain portions of the animal
sell for thirty to forty cents pound,
there are portions, not one whit less
palatable than the tendcrloin (whcn
properly cooked), that can be
bought for very small price. Take,
for example, what is called the
shank; the very best can be bought
for three cents pound, and a single
pound cooked in a stew, with dry
bits of bread, will make a meal for
yourself and your entire family.
The French soldier understands bet
ter than anybody else the secret of
getting much out Of little.


When You 90 to market for meat,
don't buy tenderloin, but buy what
are called coarse meats. Purchase
for your dinner five to eight cents
worth, say ten cents worth Of the
cheap, coarse bits. Among our
foolish people the competition is so
slight over these coarse meats, that
the butchers have to put all the
price on the small part that is
in active demand, and sell all the
rest for a mere nothing. | can
not 60 on to tell You lust what
pieces you should buy, but buy such
picccs rs are sold in the Boston
markct-the highest market in the
United Statcs-tor three, four, five,
or six cents pound.


Good solid meat is sold for these
figures, and only needs to be steam
ed, or to be made into a stew, to be
rs tender and delicious rs the ex-
pcnsive parts Of the creature. The
neck of the chicken is the most de-
licious part of the animal. The
neck of a beef, when made tender,
comes near being the most delicious
part of the animal.


Leaving the meat, let us speak of
the vegetable food. Oat meal, in
the form Of porridgc, or in the form
of cakes, is one of the most nut,i-
tious of vegetable foods. 4 pound
of oat meal is worth, as nutriment,
six pounds of superfine white flour,
and pound for pound costs less than
wheat flour. 1t is most substantial
and nutritious food.


Cracked wheat, or whole wheat,
when properly cooked, is really one
of the most delicious articles offood
ever eaten by man. One pound of
cracked wheat will give as much
strength of muscle and nerve as
seven or eight pounds Of common
bakers bread. Hominy, samp, aud
hulled corn are among the most
substantial and lasting Of human
foods, and are very cheap compared
even with wheat.


One pound of cheap meat boiled
to rags, with quart Of white beans.
and eaten with brown bread, will
make dinner that a king might
luxuriate upon. Your family of
seven persons would not be able to
consume such dinner.


Butter, poultry and potatoes are
most expensive articles of food. A
single bushel of beans, properly
cooked, with condiments, will fur
nish not only more palatable food,
but will furnish more nutriment than
ten bushels of potatoes.
Year: 1870

From the new 1Ork W Orlu'I


For one reason-apropos of manacles
we shall be glad IL it turn out to be
true. n We have heretofore blushed under
the belief that the enormity Of manacling
prisoners of war of rank was rather on
our sholders, and have found consolation
in one notable instance in the fact that
the shame of it was due, not to regular
soldiers but to such as we have spoken
of as civilian busybodies. "0n the morn
ing of the 23d of May" says loyal his
torian and gallant man-for such were
both Dr.. Craven and Mr.. Weeds dear
friend Halpin--" on the morning of the
23d of May yet bitterer trial was in
store for the proud spirit Of the captive
"a trial severer, probably, than has ever
in modern times been inflicted upon any
one who had enjoyed such eminence.
This morning Jefferson Davis was shack
led" ..a.af tst


At the end of exactly the period when
in ancient days, even of civil war, the
expatiating sacrifice was offered and the
sins of all washed out, we read of this in
cident in our modern story with pang
There is not a true-hearted man. or wo-
man in the land, be their political preju-
dices what they may, who does not wish
this deed of unnecessary cruelty had not
been done, and it is one of the admins
tration secrets, which has been most
carefully guarded, by whose order or at
whose instance it was done. We doubt
not the truculent civilian busybody had
his share in it, or some amateur soldier,
who either had personal wrong to
avenge or a political end to gain. On
the 22d of May, Colonel Roberts, Of the
regular service, was relieved OF the com
mand Of Fortress Monroe, and in his
room was put New England hero
baptized, oddly enough, Napoleon Bona
parte (Oh, st. Helena and Sir Hudsonl) }


who was smarting under the recollec-
ton that, but one month before, he had
been soundly thrashed by the rebels at
Farmville, in the very last skirmish in
Virginia. Co-incidentally with him
came, so says Craven, Major General
Halleck and the Hon. Charles A..
Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, under
whose immediate inspection the prison
ers were landed and marched to their
casemate. We do not read that they
went away, and have right to infer
that they did not, until the voluntary or
delegated work was done, and they had
| listened with delight, not all like Henry S
on the eve Of Agincourt, to "armorers
closing rivets up on the wasted limbs
of feeble prisoner in their hands. 1t
is sad thought think of it as we may
The deed was, according to the Talley-
rand formula, worse than crime-a
huge, stupid blunder, having for its direct
and permanent effect the awakening of
pity and sympathy where according to
the current judgment of the North,
neither was due. The whirligig of even
so short a time as three or five years
works odd changes. The manacled pris-
oner of 1865 was released from all GUS
tody-loyal Radical men of the North
gladly entering the bail and becoming
responsible for him and his good beha-
vior: and the whole world of humanity
and chivalry will agree with us in saying
that the consciousness Of the sureties is
more. to be envied than are the ghastly
memories of those who ordered the
shackles and superintendent the black
smith t baF
Year: 1870

believed, this privilege was denied them
and they were closely watched in the
monastery where they were lodged In
this emergency one Of them, Bishop Ca
sangin, had recourse to stratagem. He
declared himself too i'll to leave his bed,
and having thus disarmed the suspicious
of the orthodox ecclesiastics, he quietly
got up, disguised himself it is presumed !
and, in company with the Archbishop of
Diarbekir, by the aid of borrowed pass
ports, succeeded in escaping to Naples,
intending to take the steamer thence to
Constantinople, If this story be true,
the freedom of opinion accorded to the
members of the Council would appear to
be somewhat delusive. In fact, one
might almost suppose it was the Council
of Trent, and not that of the Vatican,
which is now in session
Year: 1870

Forming the best and most comfortable line TO
New York, Boston, and Northern and Atlantic
cities, with magnificent Palace Combined Day
and Night Coaches. through to New York
without change.
Year: 1870

of second story window and falling
twenty feet on brick pavement. The
fall knocked out some of his front teeth
and thoroughly wakened him up He
afterwards went to the front door and
Year: 1870

Whirled Back and Forth Under the Wheels of


Running Train and Uninjured.


The Milwaukee Wisconsin tells this singular
story


Certainly the most singular escape from acci-
dent the Wisconsin has ever been called upon
to record took place at the Union depot yard,
near Greenwich street. train of fiat cars
loaded with snow taken from the yard was
moving out at the rate of five miles per hour A
German, upon whose hands time hung heavily,
and who had no doubt been drinking, came
down Greenbush street, smoking n cigar. He
saw the train, and the idea struck him that he
would take ride. Selecting the fifth car from
the end, he made jump and landed-hat on the
rail fairly across it, between the fourth and fifth
cars. The wheels struck his head and pushed it
Oft against the snow, but turning the man so
that his head came on the track. The wheels of
the next car struck the head, throwing that off
and turning the feet on again, and so until
every set of wheels under the cars had spun the
body around throwing first the head and then
the feet of the unfortunate man upon the track
and into danger.


Captain Galloway and his brother, who were


near the spot at the time, saw the affair, aud
say that the mans body, by the action of the
wheels kept going about like a top. They got
to the spot as soon as they could, expecting to
find the man cut to pieces. Lifting him up, we
may judge of their surprise to find that he was
only severely bruised. Carrying him to q
saloon, the German soon came to himself and
| only complained of feeling sore and bruised
! How he escaped death is certainly miracle
and cannot be explained. All the time, and
| until he was taken to the saloon and recovered,
| the man clung to his cigar. When fully recov-


cred and questioned as to his feelings while in
| so dangerous place, the man said he realized


1t fully, and expected the next pair of wheels
| that reached him would cut off his head or his
| legs but after little he grew accustomed to it


and believed there was no danger. He said he
! thought he was under the train about three


quarters of an hour, and would scarcely believe


that the whole thing occupied but a few
| seconds. However, short as was the time, he


does not care to be placed in the same situation
|
Year: 1870

A LADY Exposed All Might TO n Severe Gale.


The San Francisco Bulletin of March Ii says;


A very singular and very painful occurrence
took place at Point Lobos on Wednesday, Mrs.
White whose husband drives one of the Omni
buses on the Point Lobos road, left her house at
10 o'clock on Wednesday morning to go to the
beach to procure some mussels ior cooking. In
going down the cliff or embankment, which is
very high and abrupt, she descended part way
and found herself in position from which she
could neither advance nor retreat. IL was i'm
possible to get either up or down, and impossi-
bic to call sufficiently loud Tor help to make
herself known. AS she designed to go but
short distance from the house, and as the wea-
ther was fine she had started out without either
shawl or bonnet, and had not even told Mrs
Cotter, with whom she was living, where she was
going. After an absence of several aours Mrs.
Cotter became alarmed, and a search was in-
stitnted, but she could not be found. Mr..
White was absent and knew nothing of the
circumstances until evening. On his return
the search was renewed and Kept up all
night. Daylight came, and brought no tidlngs
of the missing woman. AT about III
o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. White
was discovered in her perilous position in re-
cess among the cliffs, nearly frozen TO death.
Wednesday night was one of the most cold and
disagreeable of the season. The wind blew
terrific gale, and in the morning heavy shower
of rain fell. How any human being could have
lived through the night in such an exposed po-
sition is a mystery. Mrs White was discovered
by Patrick Cotter, who descended and at very
great risk to himself succeeded in carrying the
inanimate lady to place of safety.


During the night those who were engaged in
the search we're several times within ten feet of
Mrs. White, but they we're unable to see her,
and she was unable to see them or to make her.
self heard. She states that she at one time saw
Mr.. Cotter going to the spring for water, and
did her utmost to attract his attention, but did
not succeed


Although she has received all the care and
attention which 1t was possible to give, her con-
dition is still very low, but it is believed she will
recover