Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1885, Page 4

P — bl » ‘ . THE DAILY BEE--FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1£85, e S ———— THE DAILY BEE. @uana Ovrion No, 914 axp 918 Fanwax B9, Mew Yoax Orrion, Roox 6 Taaowa Bomo- e, every morning, by Monday moraing 4xiy pav P00 | Thres Montha. ... 180 he Weakly Bes, Publihsed avery Wednesday Sunday. The 1n Ahe shate. s | remaln there for A FOOLISH CONTROVERSY. Under the contract between the olty council and the county commlssioners, made In purauance to an ordinance passed by the last councll, the principal cliy offices were to be removed to the base- ment o the new coutt house on the Ilst day of May. Moviog dsy has come and gone, and the city offices still remaln In thelr old quarters; and they are likely to me time unlors the 1s | mayor and commlssioners arrive at some . Manager Daily Olroulation, l.‘é.nlu. d“flb' Omahs, Neb. “Tur New York liquor llcense board re- fuses to allow any liquor dealer to become auroty for another. Thisls a rale that ought to be adopted in Omaha. —— W take it back. Nebraska demo- orants are getting to the front. Omaha has been glven & bank examliner, and Wilber and Plattsmouth have each re- celved a democratlc postmaster. Next! e S —— Waar is the matter down at Platts- mounth snykow ? There seems to be an opldemlo of resignation in that city. The twenty-four-yosr postmaster ateps down and out and, s followed by the surveyor- general, Mg, STEPHENSON, surveyor-general of Nebrasia and Jowa, has resigned. Here s & rich plum, worth $2,000 a year, for some eminent Nebraskan of the demo- oratic falth, The dutles of the office can be easily performed by an inexperienced man. All he will have to do Is to sign a receipt for his salary. Tue old adsge regarding office-holders, that few dle and none resign, does not hold good just mow. Reeignations are being sent in all along the line, but not 8o fast as the Impatient democrats wish. 1In the language of the Hon. Charles H. Brown, *‘ the boys want the offices, and they want them quick.” AcCcorDING to the Slocumb law the ap- pllcant for a liquor license cannot be the principal of the two bondsmen, and that 1o person shall be holden on more than one bond as principal er surety. The exolse board, conslsting of the mayor, president of the councll, and the clty clerk,in examining the licenees have found that two-thirds of them are void under thelaw. Thoe liguor dealers whore bonds ara defective wlll of course be called up- on to furnish bonds that comply with the law In every respect, as the bonds are an important featurs in the high license system. Asbetween Gorman and Cummings the public feeling Is decldedly with the lat- ter. Gorman Is a little too late In bring- ing his charges agalnst Marshal Cum- mings, who, by the way, promptly and satisfactorily answers them in full, and at the same time calls for an investigation. In this matter the council should eccom- modate him. If there has been anything crooked In hls officlal cenduct he should be made to step down and out, and if he has been traduced he should be sus- tained. To an Impartial man up a tree, it looks as If thers Is conslderable splite work in this ‘WHEN no other cause for removal can be found agalnst a republican office- holder, the ‘‘offenslve partisanship” dodge will be brought to bear upon him, Recent experiments with this ingenlous device shows that it can be worked suc- cessfully. One of the latest subjects apon whom it has been trled is Post- master Palmer, of Chicago, who has been suspended from office, When an office- holder is removed on no other ground than ‘“‘offensive partisanship,” you can @ot it down that as an officlal he has done his daty falthfully. £uch is the case with Mr. Palmer, who has been sn ex- cellent officer, thoroughly devoted to his duties and the Interests of the public, but belng an ardent republican he has never hesitated to exercise his privilege of hon- orably working for his party. Tuerk has been coneiderable talk about the necesslty of a larger police force, ard we have no doubt thatan in- crease of the force would materially im- prove the service, and insure better pro- tectlon to cltizens and property In the outskiris, The fact Is that the police force, while 1t ought to be slightly in- creased, should be first thoroughly reor- genlzad on & civll service basls, and graded with regard to pay, tlme of ser- vice, and efficlency, The service should be strictly non-partisan, and the mem- bers who are well qualified to perform the varlous dutles should be retained dur- ing good behavior. The system of eppoloting a lot of political favorites as policemen every time a new msyor is elected 1s slmply a method of disergsnizing the force. Some other way cf paying polltical debts should bo devised. For the first year's service a8 policeman the pay ought to be say about $50 per month, for the second year §55, for the third year $60, and $70 por month thereafter, with a prospect of promotion to a lleutensncy at $76, and a captainoy at 880, This gradation of psy, acoording to line of eervice, would Insure good and faithful conduct on the part of policemen, According to the present un- just systera & man of experience, who has served several years, gots no more pay than the greenhorn who has just been appoloted. Under the system that we have suggested the average expense will be sufficiently reduced to allow a small increase of {he force without making the aggregate cost of the service much greater than it {s now. amicable understanding. Itappesrs that under this contract the oity was to ocoupy foue rooms in the new court house, but now the mayor and the committes, sp- pointed by the counoll, decline to accept the quarters assigned to them beoause the best room In the basement has been pre-empted by the county surveyor. There Is a good deal of captious opposi- tion on one slde and tom-foolery on the other, The councll at {ts last meeting adopted the report of thls commlttee, which was to the effect that unless the commlasion- ors gave to the clty the use of the room now occupied by the county surveyor, the contract between the clty and county should be annulled. This, on its face, is simply preposterous. The city can no more cancel a contract, entered Into In pursuance of on ordinance, approved and signed by the mayor, than any individual or corporation can canocel a contract with- out the consent of the other contracting party. The commissioners know this and if they accede t> the demand of the city authoritles it will not be because they are at all frightened into the bellef that they cannot collect the $6,000 which the city has obligatedit- self to pay. So far as the officials of the clty are concerned, thelr objections are of no moment whatever from a buslness standpoint, The government of the city 1a vested in the mayor and councll, and whenever the mayor orders the removal of the clty offices to the new court house, the officers will be compelled to obey his instractions. There is a great deal of risk Incurred in this noedless delay. The maln object of the contract was to eecure fire proof quarters for the clty records, and it is of the utmost importance that these records should be moved at once. All other con- slderations are socondary. We are, however, inclined to the oplnlon that this controversy can be amlcably settled 1f Mayor Boyd will take the matter Into his own hands. The commissloners reallza the fact that the olty of Omaha pays for seven-tenths of the cost of the new court house, and that any accommo- datlons given to the city are in the inter- est of the county. It msy be frivolous for the county surveyor to Insist on oc- cupying the best suite of rocms on the ground floor, but if the commissloners desire to favor him they can easily give hlm one or two good rooms on the first or second floor of the court house, which will be just as acceptable to him, There f ample room in that portion of the building, and since the clty is not likely tobe an occupant of the besement for more than three years there is no prob- ability that the room will be needed be- fore the end of that time, Thls, it seems to us, will be a satitfactory way to setile this silly controversy, which 1is liable to breed a good deal of discord if allowed to continue for any length of time. PosTaasTer GENERAL Vilas has in- formed demccratic congressmen that where there are several applicants for a postoffice the candidate considered most fit must beso designated by the member from the district. Some of the congress- men have already exprersed themselves as oppoeed to this method, as they do not care to make one man happy and Incur the enmity of scores of others, To avold this unpleasant dilemma they are endors- ing all the applicants as good. This shifts the responaibility back upon the postmaster-general, who eays that he does not propote to assume it, and that unless the congrersmen designate their selections they need not call upon him to make changes, The questlon arises who will do the endorsing business and make the seloctlons in such a state as Nebras- ka, where there ara no democratic con- gresemen? It has been intimated that Dr. Miller has bee: designated as the dlspenser of postoffices, but he recently published a card to the effect that he was nct In the petitlon-signing business, The fact Is that the democratic postoffice- ers in Nebraska are pretty much at sea. They do not know whom to ask for endorsement. In the United States of Colombla {hey treat rebels with alittle more reverity and promptness than they do in our own United States. In our country they are elevated to senate and to ocongress, and other high positlons, aud are sent abroad as our foreign representatives, but in Colombla they are taken out to sea and dumped overboard, a hundred at » tlme, to become focd for sharks, The two rebel leaders who took part In the burning of Colon have had a pericd put to their exlstence by being hanged, and others will probably be treated In the same way. To say the least, the Colom- blans execute thelr business with neatness and despatch, Ix his Irquisitive c'rcular to appli- cants for postoftice Inspectorships, Post. master-General Vilas asked, among other questions, *‘Have you ever been indicted for a crime,” &ec. That Impertinent question naturally cauted a great deal of indignation, but Mr, Vilas, who is a law- yer by profession, knew what he was about, He wanted to diminish the num- ber of applicauts, aud his question has had the desired ¢ffect. Rather than an- swer that inquiry many of the appli- cants have lost all desire to become poat— office Inspectors. They would rather serve their country In rome other depart. ment, where the Inquisitivencss s not quite 8 pointed and seatching. Tuar considerable Interest Is belng taken In sllk culture In this country Is shown by the fact that a very large num- ber of the letters racelved at the depart- ment of agricallure relate to that subject. Out of 300 letters recelved one day recently, 100 were abeut silk calture, Thene lotters come from all parts of the country, and nine-tenths of the corres- pondents are farmera’ wives and daugh. tors, who find In sllk culture an intereat- ing ocoupation. That silk can be suc- cessfally cultivated in the United States has been demonstrated In varlous sec- tions, and notably so in Fillmore county in this atate, where a Raeslan Mennonite ocolony la quite extenslvely engaged In it. Tue surveyor general's office of Nebras- ka and Iowa is temporarily vacant. There is no longer any earthly ute for It. There isnothing more to survey in Iowa, and but very little In Nebraska. It has be- come a supernumerary office, but the demooratic adminittration is not likely to discontinue any offices just at this season of the year. If it is to be continued, however, the surveyor-general’s office should be moved elther to Omaha or Lincoln and located In a government building whera the records will be safe from fire and where the government will have to pay no rent, as it is obl'ged to do at Plattsmouth. LEcISLATION regulating rallways has sgain been declared constitutional, this time In Oregon. In the United States clrcult cuurt the Hoult rallway blll, as it is called, has boen decided to be constitu- tlonal on the two disputed points—the limitation of passenger fares to be not more than four cents a mile, and the freight charges to be no higher than they wera on January 1st, 1885, with no dis- criminatlon. Therallway managers will, in the coursa of a centnry, probably ac. knowledge that the legis'ature has some powers superlor to those of the railroad companies. Pappy Ryax, the notorious brulser, has been refused a liquor licente in New York city on account of his cecord as a prize-fighter and law-breaker. This s an example that ought to be followed by the license board in every clty of tke country. In this way many disreputable men can be kept out ot the liquor busl- ness, Men who are known to be constant law-breakers and who bear a bad reputa- tion generally are too frequently granted saloon licenses. The license board ehould inquire into the character of every appli- cant, and endeavor to ralee the standard of saloon-keepers. It was entirely unnecessary for the Mormons to send Messrs. Taylor, Can- non and Caine to Washlngton to deliver to the presdent their formal protest against the enforcement of the law. Mr. Cleveland has already read and digested that protest, and when the three com- mitteemen present themselves he will probably hand them a copy of his inau- gural addrees and refer {o his declaration upon the subject of polygamy. Mr. Cleveland can’t go back on that very well. Tue Britlshers have received another black eye In the northwest territory. Chlef Poundmaker's Indians, srmed with a dime museum variety of weapons, including muskets, war-olubs, spears, bows and arrows, and tomahawks, badly defeated Col. Otter's forces. The Ca dians who fell in the fight no doubt suf- fered a varlety of deaths equal in num- ber to the different kinds of weapons used. They were probably shot, olubbed, speared, tomahawked, scalped and pierced with arrows, Gex. LooaN msy after all be re-elected to the Unlted States senate. The eleo: tion in the thirty-fonrth Illinols district to fill a vacancy in the legislature caused by death, has rerulted in favor of the re- publicans, This will give the republicans 103 votes on joint ballot, and if they all unite on Gen, Logan orapy other man they can carry the day. The junketing committee, now in Illinols, will confer a favor on the long suffering people of Illincis by eoming homeand voting befora any more deaths occur. _— It was Mr, Maxwell, the perpetrater of the St. Louls trunk tragedy, who wrote In a letter that St. Louis was a beastly town, and that a hundred dollars had not been spent there for public in- provements in a hundred years. Mr, Moxwell has been captured and will be brought back, Mr. Maxwell need not fear the result of his trial for murder so much as the veugeance of the indignant citizens of that beastly town. Ir begins o look very much ay if the ‘““offensive part!sanship” oharge will be sufficlent to remove any man, intended as an evasion of the clvll ser: vice law there 1s no doubt, and that It was Invented for the purposs of glving Prerident Cleveland & plausible pratext for removals that he conld not otherwite consistently make seems to be the gene- ral Impreasion, Tas oount!ng of the cash in the treas- ury has been finished, There was a shortage of two cents In the many mil- lons of dollars. Ex-Treasurer Wyman and his bondemen stand ready to make good this deficiency, It is hoped that his successor will prove no bigger ‘‘ras- cal” than Mr, Wyman. ——— Evex smong cow-dostors there are quacks, It s hoped that Governor Dawes will not give the position of state That 1t Is | T, vetorlnatlan with its handsome salary of $2,600 to any but an experienced and skillful men, as it a responsible and imporiant office. Trx heavy frost Wednesday night was not confined to Nebrasks, It extended over Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsln, and other parts of the west. Ice was formed in many places from one-sixteenth to toan eighth of an Inch in thickness. Oon- slderabls damage has been done to fralts, onrly vegetablos, plants and flowers, buv small grain has not been affected. It was ocertalnly remarkably cold weather for the 6:h of May. Tae gas blll having been defeated In the Neow York leglslature, at an expense of $70,000 for votes on the part of the gas companles, {t {s now sald that another attempt will ba made to pass & blll to check the rapacity of the New York monopolies. Under the olrcumstances it looks as if certain members of the legis- lature are anxious to make another haul by the sale cf votcs. Tre department of agrloalture Is]still wreetling with Le Dac's experiment of tea raising in this country. That lt can be grown in the United Statea has been proven, but as {ts production costs about five times as much as It is worth, the Amerioan people will continue to pat- ronize the tea-ralsera of the celestlal emplre. —_— Consclentious Thoroughness in Neb- raska Journalism. Chicaco Tribune, Mr. Edward Sprecher of Schuvler, Neb , 1s a man who has a clalm on public sympathy, so phenomeénal was a recent ead adventure in which hesoffered. Mr, Sprecher, who is & young, unmarried man, had started on horseback to attend & social gathering, when his steed became eable. Mr. Sprecher {sa hus- bandman, not a professtonal equestrlan, and In the course of the eccentsic move- ments In which the horse Indulged, he and his rider parted com- peny. Unfortunately this Incident occurred In the immediate nelghborhood of a barbed-wlira ferce, upon which Mr. Sprecher was deposited with more or less violence. As this was the first case in the nelghborhood of a rider’s impalement on a barbed-wire fence—though such fences are common in Nebraska—the locsl paper devotes considerable space to a desoription of the affair, paying speclal attention to the condition of Mr. Spen-— cer’s Sunday pantaloons. It says graph- ically that these were ‘‘ripped from Dan to Beersheba in ons direction, and torn from Alpha to Omega in another, and sn irregular abrasion commenced at or a little before the preface and ex- tended in a sonthwesterly direction clear through finls aud about an inch iato erratum.” Mr. Sprecher Is now an ob ject of Interzst to everybody in his part of the state, and, in his cwn county, a msn of more than note than the Omsha editor who expected a place in ths cabinet. Attentlon is here called to bim not only because cf the oddity of hls experlence but to iilustrate the con- sclenticus thoroughness of journallsm on that part of Nebraska The Penitentiary Management, Plattsmouth Herald. The Omslis BEE rlses to ask why the state penitentiary mansgement is allowed to remain after the direct evidence of thievery agalnst Warden Nobes was given to the ajtorney genersl, at the close of the legialature. Serator Hyers, of this county, at the he d of the committee of claims, made a thorough expose of the way the warden of the penlitentiary robbed the state, and that report ought to have been acted upon. Warden Nobes has no right to stay at the head of the penitentiary an hour, and if that evi- dence 18 not enough there Is the evidence right In the county cleark’s office In Plattsmouth where Warden Nobes tried to steal from Cass county by false charges made and sworn {0 as a claim sgalnst Caes county, presented by Nobes. It seems as ; though there is no earthly rea— ton for keeping a men in a position of importance after he has baen proved unfit and dishonest. LABOR AND LABORERS, Matters of Interest to Employers and Employed. Philadelphia Record, From a great many c'ties and towns enat and west comes encouraging news of incressing employment and batter wages. Labor {s relstively better off to- day where fuliy employed than daring the days of higher prices. The bullding aotlvity will exceed last year's opera- tions. Capitalists say prices sre down this yesr, and can't tell where they will be next yesr. Moy, 1886, is the one fixed for a gen- eral eight-hour movement throughoutthe United States. Within a few days re- ports have reached various labor head- quarters of deep interest felt in the movement. It arices out of the increas- iog employment of labor and the more frequent advances in pay. Labor thinks the demsands next spring will allow & shorter hour movement & chance. By that time builders will have supplled ur- gent requirements, The movement will ba of large proportlons, whether it suc ceeds or not, and will cocasion much temporary incenvenience. Cincionati stone nasons have organized » union of 185, Many moulders are stlll tdle. The clgar trade is active, but the locked-ont men have not been re-em- ployed. The Iuternational Assoclation gave a grand ball last SBunday. The St. Louls carpenters and joiners are organized to enforce uniform rates. e bollding trades are active, The stonemasons gained several advances witbout striking, The Kuoights of Labor are growiog repidly, Thae Knights of Labor are gatherlog In the Michigan workers, The mnegroes there are organizing. The Bay Clty sbip-carpenters struck for an advance of 26 per cent., snd got it. 'he workmen on the Denver and Rio Graode rosd are thoroughly organized. Men are plenty. Westera mining towns are overrun with men seeking fortunes or employment. The New Orleans car drivers, by con- ferance with employers, fixed the follow- ing as the rates of wages: Drivers, $60; starters, $60; watchmen, $45; hostlere, 841; all natde employes, $41 per month; fifteen hours to be a day's vorg.( The Columbus, O,, carpenters are hav- Ing s boom, The bricklayers have formed a union, The tallors are all employed, snd Assembly No, 2795, K, of L, Is fourishing. The Journeymen Horseshoers' Nes- tlonal Convent'on will be held at Mil- waukee, May 18 The South Norwalk co-operative hat- ters have begon to open branch shops The Buffalo Central Labor Unfon will start a_co-operative olothing and shee stora, The striking osrpet weavers of Yonkers, N, Y., ate reclving abundant support, The Amalgamated Bullding Trades Oouncll has {ssued orders for all members to report defects in house building, so that a record can be kept for use where it will serve the unforists most. The Brooklyn bricklayers have established nine hours as a day's work, at 42 cents sn hour. E O, Thompson, the New York tailor, Is atlll fighting the unfon. The Brooklyn bakers hold a grand mass meeting next Satur Two printers— one from the Herald and one from the World, will engage In a type-settiog race on June 4 for $250 a side. The contest iu to last three hours, solld minion type, without a paragraph. They are to cor- reot their own proofs, and one line fs to be deducted for every minute or feactlon thereof consumed. The coming sesslon of the Internation- al typcgraphioal Unlen will be an impor- tant one, and great preparations fora royal entertaloment ars belng made, The New York shoemakers, men and women, are being as compsctly organlzsd as the Philadelphi rkers, Many largs retail dry goods houees faver a half holi day for thelr employes. The Jewlsh workmen of New York intend to starta Iabor paper in the Hebrew language, and the tailors have donated $35 toward it. The grocery olerks have organized to re— duca their working hours from seventeen to fourteen. The machinists of the city are unorganized. A co operative company of watch oate makors 18 to be established In Brooklyn when thoy have $40,000 gathered up The Brooklyn Watch Case company started eleven years ago with $16,000, and is now worth $5,000,000. A co- operative ehoe factory is also projected there. The Knights of Labor Co-operative Hat company, of Haverhill, Mass., can torn out 100 dozen hats per day, and ralesmen aroe starting on the rosd. It has $10.000 worth of machinery, all pald for. Richard Trevellle, the labor leader, is reviviog New England. A co-operative shirt factory is to ba started in New York to employ girls who struck and who have slnce been blacklisted. A labor organizer writer: *‘It Is unfor- tunately true that a state of dissatiefac: tion, jealousy and rivalry exlsts in nearly all our crganizations, and not only pre- vents the extension of the organization, but kills its effectiveness.” This is true, and it is & sorry fact, and one that bas driven scores of honest, able and true men out of the labor movement In dis- gust. The same cause will Lold the wage-workers of this conntry In Indus- trial subjection for years to come. American strikes fall often becauee Americsn workmen are unwilling to pay more than from one-fcurth to one-sixth the amonnt of dues that English wage- workers willingly pay. This necessitates a system of begging; of concert and ball- giving; «f urgent and plteous appesls. Wage:workers pay in twenty-five cents a week, and then dance a war dance unless they are pald 88 or $10 a week when they strike, 1t is evident to students of soclal scienca that industrial strugeles muet in- crease a8 we go on. The elements are at work for more trouble. Arbltration and co-operation are all nice to think and talk about, but they will not prevent contests, A Knlghts of Labor aesembly com- posad cf colored men has just been or- ganiz2d at Sadalis, Mo, Lait Taesday the labor ticket was elected at New Ansterdam, N. Y., by 783 majority. The well-known Parke Goedwin will lecture In New Yerk on Wednesday evening before the Soclal Sclence insti- tate, which is composed of advanced thinkers and able men who believe some way out of exlsting systems of produc- tion and exchsnge must be and can be harmoviously established. A high coal suthorlty reminds the an- thracite coal Interests that 1t is remark- able that none of the companies and in- dividuals make any systematic tests to determine the best system of mining oosl, At present they are loslng ome- hslf of their cosl and are preparing them- sclves for a terrible expensive future in the ““falls” or “‘caves” that must inevit- ably occur, Latest reports from Grea! Britain show that the Yorkshire miners are still on strike; that extensive war preparations have mado a faycrable effect on the snip- building trades; that the cotton indus- trles are depressed, and that the amourt of unemployed labor in the cltles .5 very great. The war between employers and work- men 8 to the ex'ent to which the fcrmer should be held pecunlarily accountable for injuries recelved while at work still continues. Afcer a stubborn contest in this country the states of Georgla, Iowsa, Kansas, Misslesippl and Wisconein, and the territorles of Montana end Wyom- log bave abandoned the prevaillng ex- ceptional rule and re-established the gon- eral prinolple, eo far s concerncd. By the Englis mp! Llability act 1880 a complete reversal of the Eaglish policy has been established the principle now operative belng this: When an employe 18 injured through the carelessnets of & superior whom he is bound to obey he shall not be excluded from damages because they are fellow- employes, But this statute has been rendered practically null by the permls- eion whioh is accorded to workmen ‘‘to contractout of it " The rule of mon- lability prevails {a the United States ex- cept in a few Instances. Building socleties organized and com- menced malnly by working people are established in New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohlo, Tennessee, and on the Paclic cosst. The oldest of these was the Oxford Provident, established in 1851, in Frankford, this clity, The inlt- {atlon fee was $5 aud the monthly dues $3. Inten and six months the dues and profi's brought the shares to a value of $500 each, Thers are now about 1,600 such eocieties in this s'ate. The aversge number of shares 15 1,000, at a par value of $200. They rua out In about eleven years The building assoclatlons of Pennsylvaula are disbura- iog to thelr members nearly 30,000,000 annually, aod hold about $100,000,000 securities. Prof. Thompson says that in twenty years from 1862 the Philadelphla buildiog ssscciations erected houses to the one-fifth value of the real estate of the clty. Thlladelpha promises to teach tho country how to successfully conduct co- operative enterprises for distributlve parposes. ‘The Co-Opsrative assoolation has seven branches, 833,000 worth of real estate, and did $231,000 worth of buriness during the year. It started in 1874 ln & twelve by fourteen room on Front street. While co-operation does not go to the core <f the labor question, no more than any of a balf dozen other pallistives, 1t is & good expedient to de- velop in the present transltional period from lswer (o higher conditions. It will Isy the foundation for something better, and drill the wage-workers Into united astlon, Thousanda of men are Idle, waiting for employment in teversl branches of in- dustry. The volume of business is about 15 per cent below last yoar, but, casting out the Inactlvity in rallroad oonstrac- tlon, the decline over last year in the volame of industrial activity is slight Oar loosl Iron and steel manofacturers are surprised over the action of the Amalgamated assoclation in demanding » renewal of the old scale. They appre- hend a lockont, One result ls sure to follow, viz: That the new steel process will be more rapidly Introduced. The western moenufscturers have been com- }»hh\lng of the Amalgsmated aesoclati ‘n or yoars, and had hoped that surely this yoir the workmen would reduce their pay voluntarily 10 per cent at least. The employers have never been able to agree, while the workmen have stood shoulder to shoulder through contest after con- test. The esstern Iron makers have never been serlously bothered by the union. The spirit of trades unlonlem in esstern mil's I8 tsme. Men dislike to strike, are more easily prevalled upon to return to work and are more easlly satls. fied. They are now working at $1 50 to $2.00 per ton leas than in the west, and there are very few really live branches of the Amslgamated association esst of the mountairs, e —t——— AT |APPOMATTOX, More about the Apple Tree-The First Meeting of Grant and Lee. Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer, Thera are about two or three obscure looking houees to the north behind the court house, and in a few steps one comes in sight of tha two or three memorable spots of that brif occarion, The firat is the spot where Geant met Gen. Lee for the first tims daring the war. A thorn tree formerly stood 1ight opposite where is now a largs gum tree at the roadside. At that polnt the road dropsin the bot- toms of the Appomattox river, and right at the crest it appears that Lee had either come up with his horse or had halted there, and Grant coming through the court house cluster, met Liee at this crest. They saluted each other, exctanged a few words witbout sny ceremony, and arranged where to meet to complete the event, end then Lee went off northwas to his headpuarters, which were in a pleca of clear woods sbout one mile dis- tant, on the top of the cpposite tlope, to tie right of the road. The rcad from the spot where theto gentlemen first met wiads a little downward, and is of a nearly blood-red clay: bardly any atones are to be seen in this vlcioity. The Appomattox river is such a elim little brook or creek that one has to Jook carefully to dlstinguish it at the bottom of the fields. Just beyond the stream which gives a mere fora at the road is a field of no great size which had been plovghed and harrowed a dsy or two before I came; in that fiold atand about a dozen, hardly mors, large old apple trees, probably the remnant of a former- ly laage apvle orchard, The trees sppear to have fif y yenrs’ growth. It s a tradi- tion that Gen. Lee raised a white flag, or that hia executive cfficer did so,in this field, by one f the sppla trees. The neighbors, or the more intelligent of them, think this is only the foundatlon for the apple tree atory. My driver was positive that some kind of white flag had been ralsed, oither a handkerchicf or a shirt or anything that could be found white, after a dusty march and an army deploted of every comfort, Including wardrobe. Mr Feer, however, said he had never heard anything reliable about ralsing a white flag, but that the apple orchard really marked the neutral line, and being the forefront of the confed- orates, was probably a place of gathering frcm cflicers of both sides. Besldes, in thet orcherd, and perhaps under the shade of cne or two apple trees, Lee had assembled some of his leading comma ders, and they had there agreed to sur- render. e — David Davis' Advice to & Young Lawyer, Cleveland Leader. A young lawyer friend of mine from Oblcago, about to be admitted to the su- preme court a ked ex-Judge David Davis for hls advice In regard t> his conduct on the cccasion of his tirst caze. ‘‘You need not be afraid to spaak before the suprome court avd if one of those duffars in & toge interropts youin themidst of an argumnt by some irrelevent question, dcn’t get frightened and epofl your argument by stopplog to answer him, Just eay qulet- ly, ‘Excuse ms your Honor, but I will reach that by and by, and if you don't reach it, it won't matier. You neei not be afraid that you will be c:lled up to answer it after you have taken your sest.” Theyouvg man took his advice, and galned his case last week. ———— - The Brooklyn Calamity, BROOKLYN, May 7.—From the ruins of the terrible fire in South Brooklyn on Monday, parts of two more bodies were taken out to-day making the total number of victims . 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