2 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. STATUS 0F STRIKE. Conferences at Wilkesbarre and New York. A FIGHT TO THE FMSI1 ASSURED. Mennn hllp TKrrr Mnrp f'nlllrrlra Are Oitenril, MnkltiK Mnrlvrn In All, Willi ii Knllj llniinil of ail.lMMI Toll". tVlLKKSHAUHI-:. IM.. Scit. 17.-ritt-iilt'iit (toiiiicrs of tiio Aini-rlcnu Kcilciiiiloii r l.nlior nn.l N'ntioiinl I'rt sidont Milt-lu ll and Niitlonul Tri'fis lirvr WlNun of ti I'liltcd Mine Work ers, toKctlicr wlin tin' district invsl Ui'iits of llic c;iim urbanization In the nutlinx'ltu r).'lon. sin-lit the best part of the day In t-oiifoivniv here. Alter the meeting linne of those who partieipateil was in a eoiiiiuniileative uiikkI. President Mitehcll said It was the regular monthly meetini; of the ex ecutive board of United Mine Workers and Mr. Coiupers and Mr. Wilson, Imp. pt liiiitf to he coming this way, stopped over. Mr. (ioinpeis was n little more talka tive than the others. When asked what was the object of his visit to strike headquarters, he replied: "1 simply came up here to look over the strike situation. I I'u nl everything In excel lent shape. The strike Is being ably conducted, and I learn that there la ample relief for all the strikers." Mr. (jumpers, was asked whether the federation will be assessed to support the miners, lie said In reply that the trades unions n w comprising; the fed eration are making voluntary contri butions to help the miners and that If It is necessary to jrive additional aid It will be done, "lint at present,' he continued; "the miners are well able to take care of themselves." Mr. (iompers said the annual con vention of the federation would not be called at an earlier date than Novem ber to take action on the strike. NO CONCESSIONS. Cnafrrrnrr of l.millnK Anthracite I'onl Komi I'rrnltli-nt . NEW YORK. Sept. 17. At a confer ence of the leading anthracite coal in terests held at the Philadelphia and Heading company's olliees President Itaer of the Heading road. President Truesdale of the Kclaware, Lacka wanna and Western, President l-'owler of the New York, Ontario nnd Western. President Walters of the Lehigh Val ley, '1 'resident Olyphaut of the Hela ware and Hudson, Irving Stearns of Coxe Bros. & Vo. and John Mkle of B. G. Markle & I'o. were present. The two last named represented the independent operating interests in the hard coal industry. The precise subjects of the confer ence could not be learned, but it was stated In advance of the meeting that no concessions would be granted and that recent events of a seniipolltieal character would not be seriously con sidered. Following a meeting with J. 1". Mor gan, John Markle made this statement: "1 do not think it necessary to repeat that all talk of concessions on the part of the operators is foolish and certaiu ly without foundation. Our position now Is the same as when Mitchell made his original propositions and no different than when the strike began. "We said then that we would make no concessions, and we repeat It now. There Is no reason why this should not be understood. The operators have shown that they mean It, and I repeat It only by way of emphasis. "There is just one way to end the Btrike, by the men returning to work, mid every day they remain away by giving ear to Mitchell's specious prom ises will only entail further loss and suffering to them. Conditions are Im proving daily. More men are returning to work and more coal Is being mined." Tlirre More Cullterlea Stnrtnl. SCK ANTON, Pa.. Sept. 17. The Del aware nnd Hudson company has start ed up three more collieries, the C'o ningham, at Wilkesbarre; the Plym outh No. i! and the Olypliant. 'ibis company now has six collieries and three washerles in operation. The Ontario and Western company has resumed operations at the Pine Brook nnd West Hldge collieries in Scrautoti and the Johnson No. 1 and No. - iu Priceburg, Just north of the city line. This company now has three mines and three washerles going. Al together the companies having head quarters here claim to be operating nineteen collerles and twenty-one washerles, with an estimated daily out put of JO.IHMJ tons. IVuna) IviimIii'm w ( niiitul. lIAHUISBUKd. Pa., Sept. 10.- The atato capitol commission has awarded the contract for the new capitol, for which an appropriation of $l.iHi,tmn was made by the last legislature, to George K. Payne & Co. of Philadel phia. The contract provides that the building shall be constructed of gran ite, that the dome shall be of the same material and that the structure shall be completed by Jan. 1, l!M)ii. SeoretHry Hoot Iteturnri. NKW YOKK, Sept. Kl.-Seeretary of War Ellhu Hoot returned from his trip to Europe on the steamship Kroouland. Mr. Hoot was unaccompanied by his wife and daughters, who remained on the other side, to return. Mr. Hoot said, early In October. The secretary left at once for Washington. tils TIioiinuimI 1'eoiiltt luiit-ltii. CALCUTTA, Sept. lit.-Twenty-llve villages have been swept away and 0,000 persons have been rendered home less by floods due to the overflowing of rivers In the southern part of the presidency of Bengal. Belief camps for the sufferers have been started. C0NDEN8ED DISPATCHE8. o I n 1 1 1 r Kventa of the Week llrlofly nit Terel Told. Many English pig Iron furnaces aro miming full time to meet American orders. The Dutch states general was opened at The Hague by Queen Wil hclniinn. Adjutant General Alexander C. Oll phant of New Jersey has died of paralysis. Cholera on the transport Sherinnn caused the death of a sailor. Other enlisted men are a filleted. United States Senator Thomas It. Bard was reported to be dangerously 111 with pneumonia at Los Angeles. Cal. Prom 'loo to l.onn Catholic converts lire said to have been murdered by Boxers In the Chinese province of Szcchuen. Tnriln. Sept. Id. Married women have been barred as teachers in public schools nt Salt Lake City. Nine vessels of the French cod fleet foundered in the North sea, nnd fifty fishermen were drowned. A band of marauding Yaquis were attacked by Mexican farmers near To inatal and six of them killed. Three large steel turret steamships from Glasgow, Scotland, passed up the St. Lawrence river to engage In the grain and ore trade on the lakes. A treasury warrant for $3!i,.Sii) was forwarded to Mrs. Ida S. MeKlnley, widow of the late president, for salary which would have been due 1dm on July 1, 1W2. Momlnj, Sept. IS. Secretary Shaw decided to release $4.immvmk of United States treasury holdings to relieve the stringency In currency. The damage to the warship Brooklyn during the recent maneuvers Is esti mated at $l'J.r(ixi. She will be laid up for three mouths. An English mail train 20." miles from Madras dashed over a bridge which had been undermined by floods, Fifty passengers were drowned. Unusually cold weather was reported In Kentucky, west Tennessee, Missis sippi and Arkansas, and frosts oc curred at several points In the south. President Diaz has laid the corner stone of the new general postollice building. The building Is In the new business center of the City of Mexico. SnKirilnv. Sept. l.'l. Charles B. Andrews, former chief Justice of Connecticut, died at Lltch tleld. A jury nt the Old Bailey (London) court acquitted the Prince of Braganxa of a criminal charge. A three-month-old baby, alive nnd healthy, was found In an nsh can by a New York policeman. Frank Holmes of Birmingham tried i to swim the English channel, but abandoned the attempt after being in the water two hours. Two hundred men and women were thrown out of work by the burning of the Eastlake Woolen company's lar gest mill at Bridgeport. Conn. Friday. Sept. 12. The B. H. Gladding company of Providence. H. I., dry goods, failed; lia bilities, $,70,000. Experts estimated the damage done to the Kent (England) hop growers by a storm of rain and hail at fullv $."j(iti, 000. The battleship Wisconsin and the cruiser Cincinnati were ordered to look after American interests on the isth mus of Panama. Marconi says he has solved the prob lem of sending wireless messages more than l.."oo miles and predicts that such communication will soon be established between Europe and America. The P.oer generals Botha, Do Wet nnd Delarey, accompanied by Messrs. Wolmarans, Wessels and Heltz. ar rived In Amsterdam from The Hague and were given n hearty welcome. Thumdny, Sept. II. The cash vault of the Bank of France was robbed of SH.ooo in gold. A number of cases having strong symptoms of yellow fever have been reported nt l'azos Bordel, In Spain. President Hoosevelt has disapproved the findings of the court martial that tried Captain James A. Ityan at Ma nila. The viceroys of the Kwangtung and Kwangsl provinces of C'tina have been driven from oihYe by hostility tif the palace eunuchs. Major William D. Wilklr.s, a well known nceountant of Pittsburg, was shot and almost Instantly killed while trying to wrest a revolver from his wife. Murtlnl Inn l(epeald. CAPE TOWN, Sept. 17. Sir John Gordo-i Sprigg, prime minister of Cape Colony, has announced before the house of assembly and in the govern ment Gazette the repeal o? the martial law and the proclamation o! the peace preservation act, which enables the government to control the possession. Importation and registration of all nrms and ammunition. Ilia; Money tdr Hereford Bull. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Sept. 17. At the stockyards here Clein Graves, me owner of the Bunker Hill farm, sold the Hereford bull Crusader for $10,ooo. Edward F. Hawkins of Earl Park. Ind., was the purchaser. IlrltUu Debt Inerened. . LONDON. Sept. 17. A return of the national debt shows that the gross lia bilities March 31 were ?3,S-W,21tl ICO, on Increase of $M 1 :.t, W 7.r-10. due to the South African war. Cold Wave t'auaed Ilnmntte. SARATOGA, N. Y.. Sept. lO.-The cold wave has badly damaged the northern New Y'ork coru nnd buck wheat crops. The aggregate losses will bo heavy. IENDERSONJS OUT. Speaker Withdraws From Congressional Contest. AT VARIANCE WITH HIS PARTY. third Inn-n Tltrlrt's Cnmllilnte Ile tnlna Ilia Ilellpf In I'rotj-a-tloii nnd Une Not Think Itcilncllnn to Cnrh Trusts the l'roper Thin. DUBUQUE, In., Sept. 17.-Spealer Henderson has announced his wlth tlrawal from the congressional light after a conference of several hours' duration with Chairman Glasser of the congressional committee nnd friends. Mr. Henderson has been contemplating tills action for two weeks, but had Inti mated nothing of It to his friends until Monday. At the conference his friends Implored him not to take the nction. but to no nvnil. He said he hnd made tip Ids mind nnd no argument could cnuse him to change his decision. When asked for his reasons for his Withdrawn!, Speaker Henderson said: "My letter to Chairman Albrook Is the whole thing In n nutshell. You cannot kill the trusts by applying free trade without killing our own Indus tries. The foreign trusts are righting SPEAKER D. B. HENDEKSON. Ihe American trusts, and I don't be lieve that for the purpose of control l:ig American, trusts we should make n lunrket for foreign trusts, thereby crushing out the industries of this country. After my conference last Katurday nt Waterloo uud hearing the Views of the chairmen of my district I concluded that my views on the tariff question were at variance with those of many of my party, and I did not desire to appear in a false posi tion." j Speaker Henderson gave out an nd llress last evening which states his j views on the tariff and trust questions, :.nd because these views. In his opin ion, are not In accord with the state ! platform and with the opinions of j prominent members of his party he declines to nccept the nomination. The luldress is to the Republican voters af the Third Iowa district. He says, being a Republican, he Is n protection ist, and if he ever entertained a doubt as to the wisdom of a protective poli cy n hasty comparison between, the present and the past would blot out Mich doubt. He then speaks with sat isfaction of the tariff planks of the last two national platforms. Went 11,000 Mile to Wed. WILKESBARRE. Pa.. Sept. 13. A cable from Klmberley, South Africa, announced the wedding there of Miss Nellie Primer, who had traveled 11,000 miles to become n bride. Miss Primer was engaged to Alexander Brigham, a civil euglneer for the Beers Diamond Mining company, who found when the Boer war ended that he could not come to this country and that he would have to postpone his wedding unless Miss Primer could go to him. She traveled the 11,000 miles alone. MurKan lluya Steumera. LONDON, Sept. 10. A dispatch re ceived by a news agency from Llver ool says J, Pierpont Morgan has pur chased from J. H. Ellermau, chairman of the I.eyland line of steamers, five vessels engaged lu trade between Ant werp and Montreul. It Is understood, the dispatch says, that the vessels ac quired by Mr. Morgan will be managed by the Leylaud line. Slltlit lleatored After Six Yeara. TRENTON. N. J.. Sept. lo.-After being sightless for six years Mrs. Julia MarowskI of Ii! Turpln street recov ered the power of vision Saturday and for n few moments gazed upon tho faces of her husband and six children. The children had outgrown her mom nry. The youngest she had never i.eeu. The little one was born after she had been stricken blind. I'eary llomewurd llonnd. NEW YORK. Sept. Ht.-llerbert L. tiridgmau, secretary of the Peary Arc tic club, has received a d'-pateli from Lieutenant H. E. Peary, the arctic ex plorer, dated Chateau Bay, Labrador. Lieutenant I'eary says In the dispatch that he is on his way home on the re lief ship Windward and that all on board are well. Freealnur Weather. HOOSICK FALLS. N. Y., Sept. 17. There has been a fall in the tempera ture here, the mercury reaching the freezing point. This followed a scvero frost on Monday night, and corn nnd other field products suffered heavily. Reatoratlon of Manchuria. LONDON. Sept. 17.-A dispatch to u news agency from Peking says tho restoration to the Chinese of the south ern province of .Manchuria and tho Newchwung railroad will occur Oct. 8. A SCENE OF DEVASTATION. Deatrnrllon hy Fnrrat Flrea Worae Thnn nt Drat llrportrd. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. KJ.-Re-port8 of loss of property from forest II res continue to come In on every hnnd, but no reliable estimate of the extent of tlio damage can be obtained. A re port from the Dale settlement east of Hell's mountain Is to the effect that nearly every settler In that section has been driven from home and his prop erty consumed by the great wall of tire that swept through there. A Washougal report says that the loss of property In that section Is worse than was at first thought. The entire surrounding country, Including the Skamnka, Last Chance, Latton and l ie Bird mines, Is a smoking ruin, nnd many people are homeless. Let ton's sawmill at Benr prairie wns de stroyed, and two other mills back of Fern prairie are also in nulies. Mayor Eastham of Vnnconver has Is sued n call for a mass meeting of citi zens today to devise ways and means to succor the suffering Inhabitants of the burned districts of Clark county. A special from Kalama, where great loss of life from forest fires were re ported Saturday nnd Sunday, says: "News from the lire on Lewis river confirms the report of Saturday night and adds to the losses. The fallen tim ber has Mocked the only road leading up the river, so that the work of the resellers Is slow. A party of ten per sons with n team was known to be camping in the timbers. The charred remains of the horses and the wagon were found, but no trace of the people can be discovered. One llnnilreil Fnmlllca llnrnril Out. ELM A, Wash., Sept. ld.-Fully 100 families have been burned out In this vicinity. The total loss Is estimated nt $J(Hi,0fKl. DEATH OF JUSTICE GRAY. Appointed to Supreme Cnnrt Ileneh lr Trealilent trthnr. LYNN. Mass.. Sept. M-Justlce Ilor nce Cray, who retired from the I'nited States supreme bench recently, is dead at his residence in Nahant of paralysis. He had been In poor health for some I time. Since his retirement he had been staying at his summer home. Judge Ciray was bom In lloston March 2i, ISU'S, and was graduated from Harvard college In the class of 1X415 nnd from the law school In 1SI'.). He was admitted to the bar in is'il. lie was reporter of the supreme Judi cial court of Massachusetts from ls."4 until lsiil. He was appointed associate Justice of that court In VMM and chief Justice In l"-7.'$. President Arthur com missioned him as associate justice of the supreme court of th United States Icc. 1!). 1NM. In lssi) Justice Cirsy married Jean liette, daughter of the late Associate Justice Stanley Matthew i, who sur vives him. Ilrnouloua C ore of t'nneer. LONDON, Sept. 1.1. Tho Dally Chronicle says that n Mrs. Notterman has returned to her home In London from a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, where, to all appearances, she was mi raculously cured of an Internnl can cerous tumor. Mrs. Notterman was un it vaillugly treated for cancer before go ing to France by experts in the London hospitals. On entering the waters at Lourdes she experienced a fainting sen sation, accompanied by pain. In a few minutes this passed away and with it the swelling of the tumor. Both at Lourdes and since her return to Lon don Mrs. Notterman has been exam ined by doctors who pronounce her ab solutely cured. She attributes her cure to the agency of the blessed Virgin. Her case created n great sensation among the English pilgrims. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. C'loalnii Stock Quotatlona. Money on call slrone at 10Til3 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, Slj'yali per cent. Sterling exchiiiiKe steady, with actual lousiness In bunkers' bills at H.siiViM.sioTi for demand and nt ti.yss'Mii.&jM for 0J days. I'oBted rates, i4.V!'43Vi and 4.SiJ. Commercial blllu. H.MVj'u4.('2. liar silver, Dlc. Mexican dollars, 4u'c. Govern ment bonds steady. State bonds Inactive. Kuilroad boada Irregular. Closing prices: Atchison 103? PucWc Mail .... 44'i C.,C.,C. & St. L.liil'i, People's Uas ...107 Ches. & Ohio... K-'!i Reading 7;JVi Krie 41 Rock Island ....ly."4 Uen. Klectrlc... li'2 St. Paul S9 Lead 21'i Susar Heflnery .liM1, Louis. & Nash, l'.l's, Texas Pacltic .. Manhattan Con KM Union l'aclllc ..llo' Missouri Pac... l'Jt'4 Wabash prof. .. 53 N. V. Central... MS'i West. I'nion ... UiTi Ontario & West 3i Neir York Murketa. FLOUR Firm nnd fairly steady; Min nesota patents, fcl.MKiM; wlnor straights, $a.4--'':l.i: winter extras, U'u3.2l winter patents. tJ.tkwXHO. WliKAT Firm from tho atart, 8elling up on prosptets for ruin In the iiorth.wc.si, for':a buying and liht otY-rlm;s; Lc cember, 7:) i:t-lti 741 ; May. 74", u 7.i'v- K1K-Steady; stale, fi.i' u.V.c, c. I, f.. New York; No. 'i western, ule., f. o. b., ulbmt; No. 2. ;V.'n jiUo., track. CORN Opened easy under large Chl-c-aKo receipts and favorable weather, out eventually turned strong with wh.at; De cember, A'M-'n 4H".e. ; January, 4S''HMJi OATS Quiet, but steady; track, white, state, Wi-i'ic.; track, white, western, 4j. 37 PORK Firm; mess. JlS.2:u 19.2:; family, LAHIj Quiet; prime western steam. Ho. l.t'TTKIi-Steady; atatu dairy, lii-uiic; extra creamery, SEtc. I'll EKSl'- Firm ; new. state, full crenm, small, colored, fancy, P7nc. ; small, white, luTsC. ; large, colored, l'JVsc. ; laruu, while, lU'-.e. KOOS Steady to firm; state anil Penn sylvania, Still e. ; wvsieru, candled, 2r. SUOAU Raw steady; fair retinitis, 3c; centrlfuiial. 11 test. 3';c. ; refined steady; crushed. f.l5e. ; .powdered, 4.7.V-. Tl KPKNTINK Firm at 4 Ti4'Je. MOLASSES Firm; New Oilcans, 30'tr 40e. RICK Firm; domestic, 4'4'ii8c. ; Japan, 4r mV. TALLOW Dull; city. SViiTic; couniry, &7w'u eC. HAY- Steady; shipping, UfjTOc.; good to choice, 90c.li II. Live Mock Market. BATTLE Market Bteady; choice. $7.1(K(i 7.25; prime $il.23'u6.75; (jood, $j'(5.7j; veal calves. MnS.5u. HOGS Market slow; paime heavies. JS.05 ffiK.lu; mediums. s; heavy Yorkers, 7.!i' 7. MS; light Yorkers, $7.6y(j7.7i; pigs, V.Mij. IM; roughs, 7't7.50. SltKKP AND I.AMnS-Market steady; beat wethers, tV.lu.ti 4.2.1; lulls and Com mon. t.'Mj2; choice lambs, .75yJ. son coal as run, Valuable And Timely Emergency Hint! For Houtokeepcrs. The furnaces and ranges designed for antiiracite will burn any grade of bituminous coa! which reaches this market, says the New York Times. If intended for that fuel they vould have been made somewhat different as to their draught openings, fire pot linings, and smoke exits, but the dif ference is not so great that as an emergency fuel for two or three months or longer if necessary, the New V'ork householder cannot do very well with soft coal as a domestic fuel in both cooking and beating. There are rea sons, perhaps, why the coal dealers have not made this fact more generally knowni but fact it is, and the prudent householder may find specific infor mation on this point useful. Soft coal in a range or cook stove will meet all the requirements of do mestic use if ordinary intelligence is displaed in the management of the fire. The same is true of hot air furnaces. With the low-pressure boilers used for steam heating some what more trouble may be expected, but this is largely a question of the type. Even in such devices soft coal can be burned without an amount of inconvenience comparable to that of an uncomtoriably low house tempera ture. Probably the great -st difficul ty will be that experienced in chang ing the habits of servants who have never known any fuel except anthra cite. Care must a'so be taken in keeping oven temperatuie unitorm. Soft coal ignites very quickly, dies down with equal facility, and needs constant watching and frequent re plenishing to maintain even a meas urably constant fire. In these re spects it more resembles wood than anthracite, but it burns very nearly as well in an anthracite range as in one built for a inatket where only soft coal is used for a domestic fuel. In an anthracite heating furnace soft coal needs to be treated very differently from anthracite, but the difference consists in the management of draughts and checks. In the fesd door of every furnace there is a slide damper to admit air over the fire. When anthracite is used this is opened only if it is desired to deaden the fire and lower the temperature of the houre. With soft coal it must be left open all the time. The great volume of gases involved Irom it in the cook ing process, which is the first stage of its combustion, calls for more air than can be had through the body of the fuel, and unless this :s supplied above the fire the greatest value of the fuel is lost up the chimney in uuconsumed gases. Too much air for good com bustion can be admitted over the fire, but this is not likely to be the case if the slide damper in the feed door of ) a furnace built for anthracite is left wide open all the time. The draught opening in the ash pit door, on the other hand, needs to be less wideiy and continuously open than lor an thracite. With the same amount of bottom draught in the smoke pipe, with which hard coal, soft coal would simulate the combustion in a blast furnace and call for constant stoking. The householder must also remem ber that the check draught in the smoke pipe, which with anthracite is usually kept open in moderate weath .tM CHICHrSTCR'S ENGLISH Pennyroyal pills tHlnT and Only Uenuln PrTrVBArt. Aiw rsiuhis. I. .(., ton hrurrlit 6A VJWl ' Clllt HKSI KK'S JKNGLIN1I (fryrS- 'B KM) m-l Uuld Biviailta boita. -..uv.iHnuwt.ii, sitr mo uiacr, nniM fanccr-ova Nubllltlona nnd ImlUa Uobb. buj of jronr DrmcxiH, or tend 4. im tumpa for rrtlculMr, TettlnouUU mai " Krllef for Ladle,"! itttmr, by r tura Midi 10,OUUTtt,imuDitU. 80 LI by ' tlecUuo UiU paper, ' 11 rw.,..i... . nirnnuir ' nvmietl 0 A LEX AN DJKK imOTUEKS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. FresL Every Week. ,TT3Sr-2 OOOX33 A. SPECIALTY, SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco 8ole agent 8 for the following brands of Ctgarr Hor.ry Clay, Londros, Normal, Indian Princess, Sarceos, Silver Af Bloomsburg Pa. IV YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, ITlATTirVG, or OBI, ClOTBI, 70U WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT Doers aboie !nrt :'I'nNJ. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. er, cannot be opened much, if any, with soft coal, or the house will fill with smoke. The best way is to leave it closed altogether. With attention to these dttails. which reveise the customary practice with anthracite, a furnace may be run on bituminous coal so as to keep a house entirely comfortable. It will be found difficult if not im possible, to keep either a range or furnace fire over night with soft coal unless one has a watchman on duty to look after it. Aj an offset to this, however, we have the case with which a fresh fire of soft coal may be light ed and its almost instantaneous re sponce in heat imparting efficiency. Jt kindles nearly as easily asshavings, and thi coke of the previous fire does not have to be removed from the fire pot. All that is necessary is to shake down the fine ash and make the new fire upon what remains. With a little judgment, one having a small supply of anthracite available may run his furnace thiough the day anil evening with soft coal, and by adding anthra cite at night have a fire in the morn ing. But with no anthracite at all he can, with a little more trouble thau he is accustomed to, keep his house comfortable with soft coal. Within the next thirty days these facts may be of great practical interest to the househclder. Most of the rumors of strike settlement now in circulation have their oiigin in schemes of politi cal advantaue, and whatever the re sult, anthracite is likely to be costly and hard to get 'except in a small way lor some months to come. It is very certain our people need not go hun gry or cold, and equally certain they will not. Potato Crop is Blighted- Assistant John F. Stone, of the Cornel, N. Y., experiment station, re ported on Friday that the faimers of New York state will lose one half of the potato crop as the result of blight. The blight is described as a fingus disease, and it is attributed to the constant wet weather. If the plants had been sprayed with a solution of copper sulphate, the crop might have been saved, but now that the blight has fully taken hold there is no hope. The blight is said to be sweeping in a northerly and westerly direction, and is bound to do great damage. The Markets. DI.OOMSBURG MARKETS. CORItr.CTKO WEEKLY, RETAIL PRICES id a6 30 5 16 6 to S 1 00 lJutter, per pound f'-Kt!") I'cr dozen I .ard, cr pound 11am, ivr pound Heef (quarter), per pound .. Wheat, per hushel Oats, do Kye, do Flour per Mil May, per ton l'otatoes, (new), per bushel Turnips, do Tallow, per pound Shoulder, do Side meat, do Vinegar, per qt llried apples, per pound...., Cow hides, do Steer do do Calf skin Sheep pelts Shelled corn, per bushel Corn meal, cwt llrnn, cwt..., Chop, cwt I... Middlings, cwt. Chickens, per pound, new., do do old.. Turkeys do Geese, do 3S 60 440 14 00 40 40 06 11 13 s 07 3i 05 80 75 90 a 3S 3o 1 60 140 12 10 "i is 08 3 S 4 45 3 o 4 S Ducks, do COAL. Number 6, delivered do 4 and 5 delivered,., do 6, at yard do 4 and 5, at yard....
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