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Year: 1873

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charged. If they wanted an advance Of
e. only the day before payday p would
be deducted, and they would only receive
! 3Ss. 'a h


Mr. ElliOt-Surely that is not the gene
/ raj prsctlcei .s.,. ......
| Mr Mcdonald SAid it was the practice
in $40 collieries until the recent Truck
Commission. 1t was still . practice in q
great number Of instances By doing this
/ the owners of mines had, In his opinion,
contracted very immoral habit among the
workmen, by leading them to get into
debt. When the price Of coal was low,
thousands Of men were driven from the
country to Iowa and other parts Of Amer
lea, but about 10, 900 had returned since
the rise in the rate of wages. He had pre-
viously visited all the mines between the
Atlantic and the Pacific. Taking into con
slderation the comfortable houses provided.
the wages paid at this moment in England
would stand on par with those paid in the
coal mines of America. In the gold mining
regions the wages were much higher, and
in the copper mining districts lower. The
wages paid to laborer in purely agricultu-
raj districts Of Scotland averaged l2s per
week In East Lothian, where there were
furnaces and mines, they reached from Dos
To 24s.


BY the Chairman He believed that the
output Of man who worked eight hours q
day was equal to that Of person who Was
engaged for greater number Ut hours. Ii
was impossible for a man to continue work
ing ten or eleven hours a day. He might
stop that time in the mine, but he would
be for two or three hours practically doing
nothing. He did not think there was any
reason to fear that the miners would be-
come extinct. Men employed in other
trades did not take to mining 30 much AS
they did a few years ago. The mining
popJlace were occasionally brought into
the pit, but not many.


BY Mr.. Elliott-He did not attribute
the high price of coal to the high profits
divided among the colliery proprietor, nor
was it owing IN the slightest degree TO any
combination among them.


Mr. Nivian-To what cause do you at
tribute the rise in the piece Of coal


Mr. Mcdonald In the first place, to
the enormous increase III the iron trade,
which has amounted to between 80 and 40
per cent. in the last two years. In the
second place within the last ten years
stocks have not been laid down-the cause
being that they we're not remunerative
when laid down. In many cases the coal
is deteriorated in value by being laid down
as much as 80 per cent In the next place,
up to 1864, when emigration set in, there
vas always among the mining populace
surplus stock Of labor This surplus stock
Of labor has been drawn off, and some 80,
900 men have emigrated in the last ten
years. When the plethora of demand came
we found the stocks empty and the reserve
body of men on whom we formerly de-
pended gone, and the result was that the
price Of coal went up. Before the rise in
price am satisfied that Goals were sold at
less than the cost of production
Year: 1873

When the six o'clock express on the Hud-
son River Railroad left New York on Christ
mas eve, Mayor Eastman was one of the
passengers on he first car ahead of the Sleep
er. Two or three seats from him sat finely
dressed and noble-lookiny man, who gave
ightful shrek, and snapped and barked like
dog. The passengers in the car rose to
their feet, some. of them making for the door
panic stricken. The stranger seized hold of
the back of the seat in front OF him, and bark
ing agaio, grated his teeth in a fearful man.
ner, and closed his mouth on the top of the
seat back, tearing out strips of wood with his
teeth, and splitting them out ON floor
Mayor Eastman and one or two othe rushed
forward to him and endeavored to hold him.
but was unsuccessful. His strength seemed
superhuman. His eyes rolled wildly, and he
seemed to be in the greatest agony. A cup
OF water was brought him upon seeing which
he seized the edge of the metallic cup be-
tween his teeth and bit piece out OF it az
clean almost as if it had been cut with
knife.


A brakeman now arrived and aided the
passengers, when finally, by overpowering
numbers, the unfortunate man was compeil
ed to lie down in the seat. BY the time the
train reached Peekskil re had quieted down
considerably. All efforts to ascertain who he
was proved unavailing. The mark on the in
side OF his hat showed that it was made in
Utica. He had several oxes with him filled
with Christmas gifts. Some of the passen-
gers thought he had the delir;um tremens.
while others felt convinced that it wa case
OF hydrophobia, Several times it was feared
he would bite or otherwise infict injury up
on those who were endeavoring to hold him.
When the ain left this city he was sleeping,
but he was closely watched. He was evident
y gentleman of considerable means. Mayor
Eastman and Mr.. Charles Chichester both
say il was the most fearful scene they ever
witnessed
Year: 1873

lover was to, and of course did, meet ber
T-ey were married on the same day, and T.
may be added, that their journey will be bacs
to the old country. A serious Temporary
sacrifice was involved, of course, in the fair
voyager's bold trip to this country on such an
errand; but, as already noted she is now an
helress; her array of travelling trunks is
spoken OF as something wonderful, and the
reunited lovers will return to their native
,aiiu, as husband and wife, in the glow of
ry gentility. M
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE s5Oo.-Buy for song, a
stylish broken down horse, one that is pro-
nounced played out from lameness cure him
with bottle or two of Centaur Liniment, and
pocket the difference. The Liniment is simply
one OF the wonders of the world. Dumb beasts
neigh out their gladness, and the sore manned
and crippled of the human family hobble in
and go on their way rejoicing. Yes, it is won-
derful
Year: 1873

No man can influence his fellows with any
power who retires into his own selfshness
and gives himself to a self-culture which has
no further object. 1t is not an unreasonable
demand of the majority, that the few who
have the advantages of the training Of col
lege and university should exhibit the breadth
and sweetness of generous culture, and
should shed every where that light which en-
mobiles common things, and without which
life is like one of the old landscapes in which
the artist forgot to put sunlight Warner.
Year: 1873

A San Francisco gentleman found a Celes-
tial visitant in his peaceful bed-chap,ber, one
night recently, not an angel, but a hinese
burglar, and on inquiring whence and what
art thou? the visitant laid his mead open
with hatchet. He was not disabled, and
for 20 minutes the two struggled for the wea-
pom, which the burglar was at length forced
to relinquish, and after getting his own head
split and wrist hacked, he leaped from the
window and escaped.
Year: 1873

pUr THEY DOWN Remember that ifcoughs,
.olds and other affections of the lungs and


throat are not met in the beginning with the


nropsr antidote, they may soon become fatal.


fat them down with Hale's Honey Of HorehoWnd
and Tar 1t is infallible. Sold by all Drug
gists
Year: 1873

Anew endeavor to make martyrdom popu-
lar is going on in England. Enthusiastic
Catholics now wear hair shirts, and when
habit shall deprive these of their discomfort
ing potency some hing more dsagreeable will
be invented. A shirt made from curry-combs
with the scrapers inside, might answer.
Year: 1873

A system of condensed gardening for ladies
Make your bed in the morning; sew but
tons ON your husbands shirt; do not rake
grievances; protect the young and tender
branches of your family; plant smile of
good-temper on your face; and carefully root
out all angry feelings, and expect good crop
of happiness.
Year: 1873

respect the man who knows distinctly
what he wishes. The greater part of all the
misc ief of the world comes from the fact
that men do not efficiently understand their
own aims. They have undertaken to build a
tower, and spend no more labor ON the ,oun
dation than would be necessary to erect hut.
Goethe.
Year: 1873

An ingenious mechanic invented machine
to register the number of revolutions made by
the wheel of carriage, SO that it's owner could
tell just how many miles it was driven. A
stable-keeper once had one put upon a car1i-
age that he kept for letting, and by this means
he could tell just how many miles any one
went.


Two young men once hired it to go to a
town some ten miles distant Instead of
simply going and returning, as they promised
to do they rode to another town, some five
miles farther, thus making the distance they
passed over, going and coming, some thirty
miles.


When they returned, the owner of the es-
tablishment, without being noticed by the
young men, glanced upon the face Of the n,ea-
suring instrument, and discovered how many
miles they had travelled.


"Where have you been?" he then asked
them.


'ewhere we said we were going,p was the
answer.


"Have you not been farther than thatp"


"Oh, no. they answered.





"Twenty."


He touched) the spring, the cover opened,
and there, on the face of the instrument, the
thirty miles were found recorded.


The young men were struck dumb with
amazement, at being discovered in an attempt
to cheat the owner of the carriage. They had
told falsehood, thinking that no one would
ever find them out. Little did they imagine
that they carried with them, in that silent lit
tie box, an invisible witness which would ex-
pose their wickedness.


So God has put an invisible witness in our
hearts, to record all we say, and do, think and
feel. We never see the curious machine
which keeps the account but, nevertheless,
it is there. 1t goes where we go, stops where
stop; it is with us continually. So long
as we live we carry this invisible witness, like
the box on the carriage wheel, fastened upon
the heart.
Year: 1873

A Boston iniuister says be once preached
on "The Recognition of Friends in the
Future and was told by a hearer after
service that it would be more to the point to
preach on the recognition Of friends here, as
be has been in the church 20 years and didn't
know any one. Perhaps it would be well for
some of our clergymen 70 take up the subject
of Present Recognition. 1t might be venti-
lated to great advantage good text would
be, "Run, speak to that young man
Year: 1873

Some people may not know that the wooden
tobacco men, the gilt balls, the mortar and
pestle, the big shoe, and other symbolic signs
of tradesmen, are relics of time when the
public was so ignorant that lettered signs were
useless, and the newspaper advertising of to-
day did not exist, because people could not
read.
Year: 1873

1t is wrongly supposed by many people
that in the coal fields we have the remains
of ancient tUreStS-in other words, that
wherever there was Il forest in prlmeval
times. there now exists a coal field OF
greater or less extent. Although the coal
fields are undoubtedly due To the vegcta-
ton of former eraS. it j. far from being
the case that the priiueval forests became
converted in Il general way into coal.
Conditions of Il peculiar. and to some cX-
tent exceptional character. Were requisite
for the formation of coal fields. Under
each of the coal seams, or beds, which
form but Il small portion of the great geo
logical group of strata 10 which they for
the most part appertain, Il stratum of an
cicnt soil exists. in which there are COM
monty found the roots of ancient trees
while above the coal there iS commonly Il
laver of Shale or sandstone. i'll which not
unfrequently the trunk of those trees are
found either fallen or in their original po-
sition. and only partly converted into
coal the hollow of the trunk decayinG
long before the trunk gave way. is repre-
Sentcd by "A cast in sandstone. Originally
the trees must have stood erect above
layer of vegetable matter. their roots be-
ing embedded in the soil which forms the
deposit next the coal. The vegetable lay
erS may probably have been two or three
times as thick as the resulting coal seam,
and were reduced by pressure TO their
present thickness but such LAYERS can
not at any time have reached to the bran
ches Of the forest trees. Then the proc 'ss
of gradual decomposition began. This
only could happen when some subsidence
of the soil had caused it 70 be submerged
tOa greater or less depth. As soon as sub
rnprOppea was pompletp the fall frees
perished and began to decay. The stout
trunks above the vegetable layer were
broken off and swept away by the sea.
The forest itself, properly so-called, was
for the most part destroyed. II was the
decaying refuse of the forest, intermxed
with the lower growths, which formed
the coal seam as it now exists. Among
these were the lower parts Of the trunks
Of ancient forest trees. These became
converted. like the rest of the vegetable
matter. into cOal.-Er.
Year: 1873

Much has been said and written about
the wedding ring, but the more lovely
part engaged in the mystic matter, the
taper residence of this ornament, has been
neglected. Now this is rather curious, as
there are facts which belong to the ring
finger which render it in peculiar man.
ner an appropriate emblem of matrimo-
nial union. 1t is the only finger where
two principal nerves belong to two dis
tinct trunks; the thumb is supplied with
its principal nerves from the radial nerve,
as is also the fore finger, the middle fin
ger, and the thumb side of the ring finger,
while the ulnar nerve furnishes the little
finger and the other side of the ring fin
ger, at the point or extremity of which a
real union takes place. 1t seems as if it
were intended by nature to be the matri-
mOnial finger. That the side of the ring
finger next the little finger is supplied by
the ulnar nerve, is frequently proved by a
common accident, that of striking the ell
(boW Against the edge Of chair, door,
or any narrow, hard substance; the ulnar
nerve is then frequently struck, and a
thrilling sensation is felt in the little fin
-. and on,t 1ame side of the ring fin


snn the other side of it-Er.
Year: 1873

PERHAPS you don't know? If so, I'll
tell you.


If you are in the<sOuntry, where there
is plenty of room. the knowledge will be
of no use to you, and you had better not
waste your time in reading this article.


But if you are i'm the city you will find
it practically to your advantage to study
the rules laid down.


To begin at the beginning:


Be sure and pull your hat well down
over your eyes before you start out with
your umbrella. Button up your coat. If
it is cold weather tie on muller. IfyOu
chew tobacco take fresh quid. Slam the
door when you go out of your house. 1t
will give people inside clear understand
ing of the fact that you are proprietor and
have right to slam your own door as
much as you please.


After you step out on the crowded side
walk, thrust your umbrella under your
stick out equally, before and behind, at
right angles with your body. It's always
well when you sre purchasing, to buy as
long an umbrella as you can get. 1t will
be likely to last longer, as well as to stick
out further when you are carrying it.


Then walk as fast as you can. The
faster the better. People in cities al
ways go fast for fear time will Overtake
them.


Everybody who has the impudence to
push up behind you will get punished for
it by poke from the umbrella you carry
behind and everybody you meet will get
poke from the umbrella you carry in
front; for arranged in this way an UNI
brella acts on the principle of double
ender, and like old Gradpa Lyman's gun,
kills equally well at both ends.
II small boy or two should be knocked
over, no matter. 1t will learn small boys
to stay at home and pick up chips for
their mothers. No business out in the
street, getting in the way of peoples UNI.
brellas.


If it rains, spread your umbrella and
hold it well down in front Of you. People
who are coming the other way must keep
their own lookout. Of course you will be
going with your face to the storm. On
always is. If you put anybody's eyes 6ekt
it won't be your fault-they should have
got out of the way when they saw you
coming!


Ifyour umbrella becomes entangled In Z
lady's laces, or fringes, don't stop to dis.
entangle it. Tear along. Serves her night
for wearing such fOOleries! g :


Make your way, nc matter who a2G1
or swims, and most likely y0u VIA e.
rich, and all your relatives VIII - kQ1
ing over with joy at your dealt


find employment for yeoe,
fighting over the lucre YQQ


hind.-Kate 'sor7s,
Year: 1873

VULCAN himself, with all the swart giants
who worked at the gods smithies under


Etna, never owned such an anvil as will
soon be in use in new rolling mills at
WOolwich, England. For a long time
past the engineers have been busy at the
Royal Gun Factories of the Arsenal in
constructing this Titanic piece of IRON
mongery, and they are depOsiting in its
place the enormous plate which is to form
the bed of the anvil block. This plate
weighs l07 tons, and had to be cast of ne
cessity in an open mould. The surface
which is to receive the anvil block lay,
therefore, downward, and when after
many weeks the colossal casting grew
cool, it was needful to turn the huge mass
completely over. At the appointed time
an army of sturdy smiths undertook the
task with hydraulic jacks and cOmbina-
ton of the strongest tackle; before night
they had lifted the mOnstrOVs lump of
solid metal, twenty-five feet square, and
since then they have laid it on its bed
upon the rOck-like structure of concrete
and piles made to receive it. The anvil
block to be mounted on the huge plate
will weigh only trifie short Of 200
tons, and the steam hammer which will
strike upon is made of thirty-five tons of
solid metal, the blow, at full force being,
of course, tremendous. In fact. it is rath-
er doubtful what will happen to WOOlwich
and its vicinity when the mighty piece OF
mechanism gets to work. That the earth
around will shake and the air roll
with measured thunder seems probable;
for nothing like this stupendOus forge has
ever been set to work since the bolts OF
JOve were hammered. ThOr's famous
weapon was a mere driver of tin tacks
cOntrasted with it; and indeed, the old
NOrske god, for all his huge strength,
would be puzzled to throw this WOolwicf


tOol-which, taking all its metal work to.
gether, weighs hard upon 500 tons.
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist No. 255 Mark'
street. respectfully Informs his friend and the public
in general that he Eeeps hand all descriptions OF
medicines. and that d competent person is at all
times ready to prescribe for such sick as call at thq
store and that charge is made except the regular
price of the medicines. the rice as they would
pay anywhere else: but that ne one is visited at
their residences
Year: 1873

GREAT SALE OF HOUSES AND LoTs.-Wc
call attention to the extensive sale of hous ses
and lots by NJ. NJ. Child and CO., in another
column, for the first of May. Their lots are
well located on high and healthy ground
where they will be sure to increase In value.
The houses now pay a handsome dividend
They rent for S1.25 per week and are in de-
mand at that rate, being Situated where we
are told many more could be rented II they
could be had. See advertisement.
Year: 1873

PAVING FIFTH STREET.--The paving OF
Fifth street, which was interrupted last season
by the building of the Clayton House, Is now
about to be resumed. The stone is piled upon
both sides OF the street, between Market and
King, and in few days the laying of 1t will
he commenced,
Year: 1873

The WATER WITCH FAIR.-The Water Witch
Fair was continued, at Institute Hall, last eve
ming, with large attendance. Another ticket to
the Washington Fire Co.'S ball was chanced of
and won By James Porter-the same person who
won a similar prize the previous night.
Year: 1873

FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL
A Dull Day in Wall


Street.
Prices Generally Lower and the Mag
mates Waiting on the Future.
THE VIEWS OF SECRETARY RICHARDSON
Money Easy and Gold


About Steady.
A NEW FOREIGN VALUATION.
"A Handsome Gain in Our


Exports.
Year: 1873

A short time ago a man entered .
smoking car on Pennsylvania railroad
with q can Of nitrs -glycenne, and the
conductor made him take it into the
baggage car. The tender solicitude with
which trunks we're handled on that car
for some time brought tears to the eyes
Of veteran baggsge-smssher.
Year: 1873

A New Haven reyiyalist the other
night painted the future state Of the
wicked in gloomy colors, and saying
that bis father died very wicked man
and had gone 10 hell, was proceeding,
when a young man rose 10 20 out.
The preacher at Ouce announced that
there was a young man going straight to
the same burning region, when the sece-
der stopped and coolly asked: We'll,
elder. don't you want 10 send some word
to your iather3
Year: 1873

4TH OF JULY AND BASE BALL-ExHIBIrIoN OF NO.
Is.


Correspondence of the Commercial,J


The 4th commenced in Newark on Thursday
night, and on Friday morning the cannon was
brought out by from so to 100 men and boys,
who fired some heavy salutes, awakening the
people long before it was light and bringing out
large number. They all seemed satisfied, how
ever, at the disturbance, especially the boys.


About nine O'Clock game Of base ball COM
nine calling themselves Modocs. When the
game had been concluded they were Moved
Docs for sure, being beaten over two to one
The firing OF cannon and crackers continued in
the meanwhile.


In the afternoon the most noted game of the
season came off between the Diamond State club
revived and the Agiles. who are striving hard for
the championship Of Newark. The game. how
ever, was all oD one side, and the Agiles were
beaten to l. The Diamond State retain the
Laurels OF last year, and are hard to beat. Their
batting was very good. making three home runs
and several third base hits. The fielding of the
Diamond State was splendid. We may have the
best club in the State.


Neither in Newark or vicinity was there any
thing to mar the pleasure of the day.


The annual exhibition of School No. is, at
Newark, under tho auspices OF the Delaware AS
sociation for Moral Improvement, took place on
the evening of the 26th ult. This school is q
colored one, and the children did exceedingly
well at their exhibition. Their programme CON
sisted Of recitations. declamations and dialogues
interspersed with music. p.
Year: 1873

CHINESE "SPoRTs. THE Cinnamon
arrested for carrying on banking
game" and whose arrest we mentioned
last week, were tried before Justice
Crowninshield last Tuesday, found gull
ty and fned-one 5000, and the other
$500. We learn that the Cinnamon in
tend to appeal to the County Court. The
evidence in the case was very conflicting,
the arresting officer swearing that he saw
them gambling, and the Cinnamon being
equally positive that they were not in the
gambling house at the time alleged.
Year: 1873

ANOTHER FIRE. - About noon on
Thursday last the residence of NJ. Lang,
in Faggtown, was discovered to be on
fire and had got under good headway
before assistance came, Mr.. Lang being
in town and there being no men in the
house. In very few minutes however,
after Mrs. Lang gave the alarm, several
men and number of women rushed to
the scene, and while the men went to
work to put out the fire, the ladies busted
themselves in removing furniture, bed
ding, clothing, etc. In about five min
utes, or probably less time, the men had
the fire extinguished and the ladies had
everything movable carried out the house.
Parties present declare that the ladies
did much more work than the men, and
that they never before had any idea that
women were so useful at a fire. A hole
fourteen feet long and seven feet in width
was burned through the roof and some
damage done by water. The amount OF
damage hasn't yet been ascertained but
will probably be in the neighborhood OF
one hundred dollars. Insured in the Liv-
erpool & London & Globe. The roof is
of shaved shingles laid close and to this
fact is Mr.. Lang greatly indebted foi
saving his house, as it burned slowly
Had the roof been of shakes and loosely
laid, as many of the roofs here are, it i.
likely that it would have been beyond
control before any assistance arrived
Mr.. and Mrs. Lang return thanks to all
who aided them on the occasion. See
card.