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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
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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....