The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 July 1877 — Page 2

F R SA R T - The Fatiomal Binner : o " A : ‘ - ,"\*‘ ¥ . “‘f\v : b 2 B : e R, STOLJY., Editor and Proprietor, LIGONJER, IND., JULY 26th, 1877, m‘ - “No mdn worthy of the office of President should be willing to hold it if sounted in or placed there by fraud.”— U. 8. GRANT. .

: "Hs that would be free, the blow himself must strike.” :

* “Tmar country is the most prosper- ' ous where labor commands the highest reward.”—BUCIHANAN. :

THE government at Washington is sending all the available troops. into the cities where protection seems to be most urgently needed. Gen. Hancock is in command'at Philqdelph_ia. |

“Tue Government that bankrupts its people and starves its artisans and their families for the accomplishment of a theory, however correct, is unworthy their confidence.”—WALLACE.

- Tne welfare of the country demands a special session of Congress at an ear1y day, and wise action on part of our Senators and Representatives. It is an insult to American statesmanship to aver that no remedy for the evils mnow upon us could be devised, '

! Gov. WiLLIAMS, of this State, will furnish militia only for the protection ‘of property, and not for the purpose of dispersing the strikers. e claims that ‘the railroad officials and their employes must settle their differences among themselves. Correct, Blue Jeans. .

IN rorTIONS of Pennsylvania, especially the middle counties, the wheat crop ‘was almost ‘a total failure. In some cases it scarcely paid to harvest, the .crop actually -yielding less than the amount sown in the fall. The fly did a good deal of destructive work. :

Tne Indianapolis Journal very seriously doubts “the propriety or the wisdom of the action of the railroad officials in announcing the reduction just at a period when the roads would be strained to their utmost capacity o move the immense crop demanding transportation.” So do we,

It mAs been 'suggested that inasmuch as potatoes and beang are likely to become very cheap, railroad hands ought not'to grumble at a yeduction of their wages. Of course, railroad men don’t need anything besides potatoes and beans, unless it be a few coffee sacks wherewith to clothe themselves and their wives(and children. Economy must be introduced, you know, in order to enable railroad cor- l porations to pay their presidents from $30,000 to $50,000 per-year and strike 1 handsome dividends twice a year. e 4 —t 1 TnE STRIKE on the L. 8. & M.S. road is not of a violent character, except at Buffalo where a mob of outsiders caused considerable disturbance ‘and some bloodshed. At Toledo the; strikers have complete control, hut they are very orderly. At Elkhart the samé condition of affairs is noted. The men .are deterfined but peaceable. ‘Trains have been very irregular since Tuesday. A special telegram from 'Elkhart, received.this forenoon, informs us that there will be'no trains ‘over the Air Line to-day. [Possibly a train may leave Elkhart eastward this _zzening about 9:50, but nbthing cerin. ~

- Tuese railroad men ought to be ashamed of themselves for raising such -a hullabaloo over their periodical ze‘ductions of their “exorbitant” wages. Don’t Tom Scott and Jay Gounld find themselves obliged to spend thousands upon thousands each year upon members.of Congress and State legislators that these dignitaries may lend a will‘lng ear to their disinterested and unselfish schemes? To be sure they do; ~but how can this be kept up so long as railroad employes receive such extravagant wages as have been paid of late? Down with these inconsiderate mudsills! Call out the militia and the {federal troops! Make them understand that eighty-five cents is enough for a day of hard-labor, especially when potatoes can be had for 50 cents per bushel and 'beans at 4 ‘cents per “pound, Up with our bonded aristocracy! Down with bone and sinew I

AT THE HOUR of going to press the great strike appears to be rather on the Aincrease than decrease. Nearly all the railroads in the country, except in the extreme eastern and southern portions of the Union, have been compelled to suspend operations. The téndency ~mow seems to be in the direction of a . united demonstration on part of all working-men throughout the land, A movement to this effect has already been inaugurated in Chicago, Toledo, &e., and we would not be surprised if ' in a day or 80 the strike had extended to all branches of industry in all the larger towns and cities of the North and Southwest. A better state of feel- - ing appears to have set in, however.The strikers evince an earnest purpose - 10 avoid violence and the destruction of property. It has been shown that , the Baltimore#iot was not the werk of strikers bt of amob which had congregated to cheer on the strikers. The samo development has been made with ~ reference to the ummm at fortunate collision took place between she sol y and & crowd of people, rebeen called out to suppress the strikJf‘»?m}@ﬁrwgm."gﬂﬂ‘n + el ” e o uit e ,p'y "'gé“*“&;’ﬁg“ﬁ’"‘ﬁ i it % R eST »¢'f{*“\vr¢li'£:’

~ Viewing the great strike from any staridpoint we may please, the unpleasant ‘and sad faet stares us in the face ‘thata great calamity has befallen the country. Casting the eye over a once ‘happy and prosperous land, we behold the sad spectacle of a formidable, gi‘gantic uprising of workingmen, clamorous for better wages to feed themselves and their families, the almost c¢omplete suspension of our vast railroad machinery, anarchy, and,—shall we pronounce it?—social revolution.

' It is an easy matter to express sympathy for one side of the other, or to hurl anathemas upon either railroad managers or strikers, But the free ipzlﬂgence in one or both will neither quiet the turbulent elements nor add ‘to the’solution of the problem underlying the great commotion. It will not quell the disturbance nor set the ‘wheels of locomotives in motion ; bring neither bread to the families of im‘poverished laborers nor shekels into the coffers of the railroad magnates. ' . What, then, is the duty of the hour ? To our mind it is plain, and, regarding it thus, plainness of speech must. necessarily characterize our observations. 'We mean to look facts squarely in the face and deal with them as becomes men of candor amidst a crisis of unexampled magnitude. - That business depression and distress have spread untold misery throughout the land has become painfully apparent to every observant individual. The columns of the public press teem with harrowing descrip- ‘ tions of the reign of poverty in manufacturing districts and in commercial centers. Bankruptcies are of daily occurrence. Though our agricultural regions are blessed with magnificent crops, close observers espy but feeble promises for the dawn of better days for the country at large, unless certain changes are speedily produced through - the relaxation.of the vise-like grip which holds all industrial interests in ‘bondage. = : It is of no use to dwell upon the causes 'tﬁ:at have placed the country . in its present deplorable condition, neither will it profit any one to indulge ‘ in crimination and recrimination. The evils that oppress labor and industry are upon us, and will remain there un--14l removed through the efforts of a determined and energetic people. ‘ " The whole truth of the matter is, capital has become arrogant and oppressive; labor has been cowed down and degraded. The aggregation of capital has been pushed on with gstounding vigor; the rich have been growing rfcher and the;poor poorer with alarming rapidity.’ While' labor has been ‘unremunerative, capital has enjoyed free sailing. = Labor goes begging, while capital is lured from its hiding places only by gilt-edged paper. Capital assumes no risks in reviving trade and commerce, Its exactions are of the stiffest character; it knows only demands, and makes no concessions.: ‘This state of affairs has produced a large number of modern Shylocks who know neither sympathy for the distressed nor succor for the laborer.— They demand exorbitant rewards for their capital, and “jew” the mechanic, laborer, manufacturer and merchant down to the lowest notch. Their appetite for filthy lucre is insatiable. No matter how reasonable the wages or how low the price of commodities, these soulless sharks will endeavor to put the screws down still alittle tighter. Their example finds ready imitators, and the resultis a general demand for starvation figures and paving the way for pauper labor. :

"We stated above that capifal has become arrogant'and oppressive. Evidence of this .fact is to be found in every community, but nowhere of sueh a marked character as in ourlegislation -on matters pertaining to finance. Look at its exactions. When the nation isswed its- greenback cur--lency, bankers compelled depositors of gold to receive débreciated paper dollar for dollar, though worth but thirty to forty cents on the dollar. When the government sold its bonds during the war, it accepted in payment thereof depreciated greenbacks at par. By persistent lobbying these bondholders induced Congress in 1869 to make all these bonds payable in coin. Not satisfied with this, a bare-faced fraud was perpetrated in 1873 by demonetizing silver and thus declaring that these sanie-bonds, bought with a depreciated currency, shall and must be paid exclusively in’ gold, well knowing that such legislation would impart to gold an excessive value. And now these Shylocks have their tool, John Sherman, at work energetically destroying the greenbacks -and contracting the currency at such speed as to literally force bankruptey upon a large majority of thie business men of the country. - Lack of space does not permit us to elaborate as fully as we desire. We have but space to say that if the country is to be relieved from its present embarrassments, if a lasting remedy is to be found for the greatest strike ever witnessed in any country, speedy action must be taken on the following poipts: Sl -1, The unconditional repeal of the resumptionact. - . i) 2, The remonetization of the silver dollay, &= o e

8. A general reduction in the rate of interest, and especially on mortgage securities. Wrn : ;

4. A generous movement on part of capitalists to aid in a general revival of business, and an abandonment of their selfish course in hoarding curren¢y and reducing the price of labor, . b: The immediate concession of living ‘wages to the workingmen of the land. - 6. Cessation of the stupendous folly of railroad corporations in running competition to such an extreme as to ‘render their operations unremunera: tive. T o e Al 7. A law prohibiting the perversion of zailzond capital from its Tegitimate purposes, and protectin ecting stockholders T S g Teidb Mat e ob:

judgment of capitaists. £ return to prosperity and to permanent peace and quiet cannot be reached without the whole. -Shall these remedies be applied, or’shall indifferenge, inaction, and stupid oblivion to threatening surToundings be permitted to plunge the country into a vortex of indescribable misery and anarchy ? ;‘ i . THE GREAT STRIKE!

Bloodshed and Arson at Pittsburg Enormous Destruction of Property. THE EVENTS OF SATURDAY AND MONB DAY, - s ‘Pittsburg was the scene of intense excitement and indescribable horror on Saturday evening and all through the night and during most of Sunday. Bloodshed, plunder and incendiarism were incidents of the rule of the mob. On the arrival of a .Philadelphia regi‘ment of*State militia, Saturday afternoon, the Sheriff with a posse, backed by these troops; proceeded to the western part of the city to arrest the ringleaders of the strikers and raise the blockade of trains on the Pennsylvania ' Railroad. Reaching the vicinity of the great'round-house, the assembled ‘mob assailed the troops with stones and I other missiles. The troops, in return, fired a volley into the crowd, killing 16 ’ and wounding many more. This ren~dered the mob more furious, and the -attack upon the troops and the Sheriff's posse was renewed with stones, pistols, etc. The troops sought the round-house as a rendezvous; the building was surrounded by the howl-. -ing mob all night. In the meantimea force of rioters rushed into the central part of the city, sacked gun stores, and took possession of all the fire-arms and ammunition they could lay their hands on. During the night the mob set fire to and burned several hundred freight cars, some of them loaded, which were standing on the track in the vicinity of the round-house and} elsewhere; also set fire to and burned several valuable railway buildings,and finally succeeded in firing and destroy-ing-the round-house, with its 125 locomotives; the troops having evacuated the building, fleeing into the suburbs, being assailed by roughs at various points along the streets.. The magnificent Union depot and hotel is among the Tuins. = Some of the soldiers and quite a number of the mob and spectators were killed and wounded, both at the round-house and in the streets. The total number of persons killed is estimated at about fifty, and the number of ‘wounded exceeds this. The | loss of property by burning and plun- | der amount to ten millions or more.— Comparative quite had been restored, and up to to-day there had been no further outbreak, although the strike there and all along the line of the Pennsylvania road continues. The mob troubles at Baltimore have been effectually suppressed by the presence of arméd forces of United States regulars and State militia, and 1,000 armed policemen, who are patrolling the streets. :

InPennsylvania last Sunday night, the railroad strikers placedserious obstructions upon the track of the Lebanon Valley road, prevented travel, burned freight trains, and destroyed a valuable bridge, with the purpose,it is thought, of hindering the passage of the State militia. ' The situation along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is un.changed from Saturday. The center of the excitement on that line at present seems to be at Cumberland, Md. The strike on the Western Division of the Erie Railroad also continues, and the situation is unchanged. The strike has extended to the eastern portion of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, the freight trains on which have eome to a stand-still, and to the New x§'ork Central, the freight trains being held by the strikers at East Buffalo. e The railroad employes at St. Louis have joined the general strike, involving the freight trains of the Ohio and Mississippi, the Vandalia, the Chicago and Alton and other lines centering at East St. Louis. An attempt was made by the Chicago and Alton Comany to run out its freight trains there R;londay morning, but the strikers in.terfered and held them. No violence is reported. ; : ; - The Union Pacific has®been saved from & threatened strike by a recon--sideration of the order reducing their wages. Shice :

. MR. JEWETT, President of the Erie R. R, a bankrupt road, made so by the rascality of its corrupt directory, receives. only $50,000 as his salary per year. He can sit comfortably in his’ palatial office and quietly draw almost a cool thousand a week. Already a millionaire, he cannot, of course, afford to cut down his princely salary, and as his road does not “pay,” we are told | that the reduction of laborers’ wages is an indispensable necessity! The stout laborer, you know, must learn to feed and clothe himself, his wife and chil-| dren at $6 per week; but it is all wrong to hint that $50,000 a year isl rather steep for managing a bankrupt® road. : : ' |

The chief officer of the Grand Trunk Railway reports that road as having/ lost $4,750,000 in the last two and a quarter years from competition, and that railways in America have lost $47,000,000 in the same time from the same cause. This, if wholly true, is: rather a strong point on the side of the railways in the present trbubles.—-{' South Bend. Register. 5

How so? Loss from competitionf eh? ‘'Who is to blame for this competition but the railroad managers themselves? They have been trying for years to cut each others’ throats, and now seek to make up their losses by reducing wages to starvation figures, That sort of logic won’t do. i " --‘-~—-4‘ — e i Mr. John W. Abbott, a master-ma-son at Passaic, N. J,, has contracted to send two hundred or more carpenters and joiners to work on the Manehester (Eng.) Cotton Exchange. Their passage will be paid, and th% : b{?ﬁ themselves to stay one year, with the g;nﬂeg;o ‘of two more, -They must ‘ ;76 & kit of tools Wyiﬁi aen are preferred, Wages will be abou the same as in this country, but as they can_live there ii s great deal more. Last year he sent palie Suitice T

SR R e D S eR B e e T el Sy PR S R | THE STRIKERS, . THEIR GRIEVANCES PLAINLY L e G g A O Address of Employes o Stoqkhgzyets. . e & - The following is a copy of an address from the employes of the Pennsylvania railroad, which is: said to have Ween sent to all the stockhelders of that road: | e

- Werespectfully call your attention fﬁdﬁxrgrievances in connection with your‘road, for which many of us have been employed for years. Our wages have been from time to time reduced, 8o that now many of us do nof earn an average of 75 cents per day: We have sympathized fully wi ur Directors in all their past efforts to further the interests of your company, and accepted the situation so long as "it gnaranteed to us a bare living; but in the last move to many of us was ~guaranteed a pauper’s home, and this, -too, when your more fortunate Directors were luxuriating at summer-re-sorfs in princely style. Of this comfortable enjoyment on their part, un«derimost circumstances, it is not eur province to complain; but “when the result of this dissipation and fashionable folly is visiting the starving firesides of their empleyes, it does become us to protest. It may be that the abgve does not point to you-definitely now the present, to us, unhappy state of affairs, as influenced by the aects of .your managers. To elucidate, we will call your attention to a fem&gté, showing that it is not the depveéssion of business that compels your Directors to starve us and our families, but the unbusiness-like management of the affairs of your road. S ‘We will cite a few cases in point.— Last year your road received some—‘mark the figures—sl7,ooo,ooo tor freight shipped by the Standard and other refining interests, not owned by the Empire, Potts, or other Pennsylvania outside interests. Prior to .these large shipments being drawn upon the Pennsylvania railroad, freight to the seaboard was about eighty cents per barrel, but so soon as interests were har‘monized the P. R. R. received $2 per barrel for the same service, seveneighths of which was paid by the foreign buyers. Not satisfied with this immense increase of their revenues from a legitimate source, the influence of/your road was used to destroy the business of its best customer for the purpose of building up individual interest, from which you, the stockholders, have income. And what is the result? The traffic has almost disappeared from the Pennsylvania railroad, and in place of seven. millions income this year, in which the shipmpnts are in excess of last year, your road will scarcely receive one-half the amount. We call your attention to this fact, which alone would haye enabled your company to pay us at least enough for a living. Then, again, your road has been used for over twen-ty-five years transporting coal to the seaboard from Western mines at a price which would barely pay for motive power. Competition did not necessitate this. low service. In this item alone “millions. have been lost to. your road,” while that healthy competition in trade which is the life of a road was totally crushed out by ithe discouragements given to other shippels, oy

‘We again ¢all your attention to the existence of the many “fast-freight | lines” which run upon your road, from ' which you only receive a small pit- . tance, while others, who should have |your interests at heart, are sapping ‘the very life-blood from your road for ‘their own aggrandizement. Then in ‘the passenger service the same indifference to your own interest is clearly shown. It is only necessary to watch each through train to see how it is gverloaded with cars belonging to a foreign corporation, which pays thirty cents to one dollar and a half per car annually to their stockholders, among which you will find many familiar faces. This comfort traffic is not dlone in this drain upon your passenger trains—as the express-traffic, for which you receive a small return, will frequently, in fruit and oyster seasons, have one or two extra sections on pasgsenger schedule. llave you ever examined how much your road gets for this service? Then, again, is it good économy that your road should allow a single firmto pocket hundreds of ghd‘usands annually of what should e your earnings for a clerical transfer service? In the few of many similar points above noted, is it not pos-} gible that your road loses annually ‘ more than her present income from all other sources? 'We think we caw with justress and hope for better: things in the future, lay our grievance’ defore you; and assure you if you do not give the same vigilance to your. interests-in this company that we are ‘compelled to give in our duties upon the road, you will in a few years have ‘ « wreck beyond repair for your indifference. Do not let high-sounding tiles of positions deter you from action, ‘when you have, the examples of Jay‘ {Cook & Co., Tweed’s National Trust‘ ‘Company, Freedmen’s Bank, etc., ete., 'to tell you that high-toned reputation, 'without striet-business qualifications, [ will not suffice to guarantee success.i { . A 4

. Better to live under a strong despotic government, that can afford ample protection to the property of its citizens, than under a government which has to submit to the terrors of mob rule, and is powerless to protect. We clip the above from a communication to. the South Bend Register.— Similar-expressions have-been made elsewhere. In fact, this quotation embodies the sentiments of a large portion of bondholders who are disgusted with our present system of government and now clamor for what is commonly called a “strong zovetmpent.” or, in plain ‘terms, for a monarchy. Ordinarily, these fellows do not venture to ‘give expression to their monarchial views, but the great strike affords them an opportunity to - unbosom themselves freely. The Republic isto perish because the laboring classes protest against pauper wages. Don’t {fret, gentlemen., Republican institutions are mot.going to be exchanged for a monarchy just because capitalists are trembling for the safety of fliolrshekels, | G thor of the communieation from which the aboye quotation is an extract; is not a noted lawyer who & few years ago was so magnificently shubbed by s '“u«v "" :w& a F * m”ﬂm? i‘%ﬁ W, by o e ;%3@“4 Tt SR A k\’mu’». LA ‘ D NEE e

-Indiana News Items. .. Rev. M. 8. Ragsdale, local editor of the Michigan City Reform Journal, was terribly caned on Saturday a week ago by Hon. J. G. Mott, son-in-law of Senator Winterbotham. The difficulty originated in the publication of articles defamatory of the Senator. Some of Plymouth’s prominent Republicans have been indulging in colored coachmen, and one who has always been loud in behalf of the African race, was heard to say that he was now ready, if he had the opportunity, “to vote the whole race into slavery again.”

~ Tuesday of last week, while Hugh Cottroll was at work in the Lockhart & Knott’s planing mill, at Waterloo, DeKalb county, sawing a piece of lumber, a piece of board flew back, striking him in the abdomen and inflicting injuries from which he died. Deceased: leaves a wife and several small children in rather straitened circumstances. - ’

__Jacob McEntarfer, a farmer, near Waterloo, DeKalb county, was arrested a few days ago by United Stateés Detective A. P. Kyle, for manufacturing cigars . without giving the required bonds or paying the special tax therefor. The cigars found in hig possession were seized for the United States by Deputy Collector Dougall. ) Fort. Wayne Sentinel: By an order of the United States Court, depositories for the deposit of funds collected by assignees in bankruptcy have been designated at Winchester, Goshen, Peru, Elkhart, Delphi, Huntington, Warsaw, Rockville, Columbus, - Newcastle, Brookyille, Bedford, Rushville and several other one-horse Indiana. towns. Strange to say, no dépository is designated in this city. e : Hen. John H. Winterbotham, State Senator, of Michigan City, had an injunction Issued against the proprietors of the Reform Journal, of that place, to restrain them from publishing an article in which he is charged with seducing Mrs. Goodwin and Mrs. Hattie Van Dusen, two married ladies of that place. Last Thursday night the office was broken into and the forms and all the papers destroyed. Itis charged that Winterbotham hired the employes of the office to do the job.. The case comes up for trial the Bth of August in the Circuit Court.

. The Labor-Troubles. South Bend Register, Saturday. , The week closed in doubt'and fear. No man can say what another week may bring forth. An army of determined and desperate men, on the lines of several great railways, defy the local police and the power of the General and State Governments. Behind them, in moral and partly in physical support, is a mightier mass of laborers, in and out of employ, and the terrible horde of tramps. In all the proletariat element of the nation there reside now, more than ever before; the awful possibilities of communism. Upon the inflammable material as yet inert in every nook and corner of the land the news of Baltimore may fall asa spark upon tinder, and wake the whole counfry to present or coming dangers scarcely less than those which So often overhang and sometimes fall upon unhappy France. We can but hope that these will be averted, and the present troubles composed, by the return of the powerful railway corporations to the old rates of pay to the humbler class of their employes. The entire Christian world, however it may deprecate organized strikes and lawless acts, must sympathize with him who, long and faithfully rendering dangerous and ill-paid service to his compa--ny, now, in a dearth of other labor, finds himself compelled to take to the i road as a vagrant, or to remain at his post, with a smaller loaf and his household daily growing hungrier and raggeder. We sympathize also with the large number of poor railways that must reduce wages or stop. But judging at this distance, it would seem. that immensely wealthy corporations,| like those whose traffic is now blockaded at a cost exceeding the savingsby low pay for many months, might continue to tide over the financial crigis by the allowance of living .wa—‘ ges .to all -their men, though meanwhile not a dividend be added to the\ coffers of the railway kings. That such solution of the present labor- } troubles may be speedily reached, all good citizens will fervently hope. 'lf not, the beginning of the end is a long way ahead, and the path to it lies thro’ untold irritation, agitation, and cost of money and human life, 1

What Wages are Paid. Pitteburgh Dispatch, J uly 21, The firemen and brakemen are paid $1,45 per day, and second class conductors $1,91, and it is claimed by the employes that notwithstanding this reduction, they are enabled to make but three days in the week, generally. They assert that their grocers have refused to trust them, and they cannot obtain an honest living unless their wages are restored to the old figures. They insist that the hands have been deceived by the officers; that the wages of the latter are reduced on the pay-rolls, but the sum reduced is returned to them upon vouchers issued by the proper officers. This they say they are prepared to prove. They also aver that Col.-Scott is responsible for the statement that”muscle—not brains—is wanted for the trains, and a pair of overalls and chip hat is not worth over fifty-five cents a day.

What Ought to be Done. Chicago Jonrnal. : ] . The railway managers of theUnited States and the railway 'employes as a class, should at once, without the least delay, meet in separate. conferences, by wise and prudent representatives of each; talk over the grave troubles now existing between them, and do their best to adjust the same upon a fair, reasonable and just basis. The great danger at present is that the prevalent strike and stoppage on the railways of the country will be prolonged to such an extent that notonly will the railway interest as a whole be ruinously affected, but likewise the general business interests of the country at large. Prompt and practical measures for a cessation of the contest should be sought for. No time is tobelest. =~ ST

GoLD discoveries are reputed from the neighborhood of Bangor, Me., and from the White Mountains—in both places rich enough to pay for working, and in the latter a regular bonanza.—HEx. v . ‘ If such should prove to be true, Jay Gould & Co. must at once organize their forces and induce Congress to demonetize gold, else that commodity mright, like silver, become “too cheap.” Diamonds alone would then presumably be desmed sufficiently precious to answer the bondholders’ idea of a non-fluctuating circulating medium, ‘Tuge most horrible incident of the war in Turkey yet reported is the burning allve of the whole populationof u_‘village in Bulgaria by the mﬁm The Turkish govA S s s i SRS S i e M R e A R i

. _ _The Berkshire Hog, - JFLo:;mmetmmeiyensm In your valuable paper I notice an articie entitled, “Points of the PolandChina Hog, by an lowa Bregder.”— While the Poland-China is a good ‘breed of swine others’ views in favor of other breeds might go well to complete the subject. I have raised quite largely of different breeds. and my success is better with the Berkshire than with any other. I will mention a few of their superior qualities, according to my most careful ebservations, being engaged, as Tam, in growing swine for profit. : - In the first place, the Berkshire is one of the oldest thoroughbred: hogs, and I have noticed that thoroughbred of all kinds grow up more uniform than mongrels, which is strongly char‘acteristie with the Berkshire. : 2. They are superior to all other breeds as breeders, as they produce large litters of pigs, which ave smarter at first and better able to take care of themselves; hence they raise more from the number of pigs farrowed.— The pigs and dam are of a mild disposition, more so than the Poland-China. 3. They are black nearly all over .and do not sunburn, even when small, and do not get mangy. I have never seen a berd of swine in lowa, that Fas white or spotted, that was not subject to mange where the white is found; will not except the white in a ?erksllire's face, if improperly -cared o .

- 4. They are fine-boned, but so well put up that they are the strongest of the hog family, and shippers say they lose less from them than from other breeds, . - _ : 5. They are less subject to disease than any other breed. - : _ 6. They are ready for market at any age. : = : 7. They raise their pigs well, and (}o‘ not get poor while suckling. - ;i -8. They mature early, and the large Berkshire, of which T write, weighs from 500 to 650 pounds when full grown, and a visit to my pens will prove it. : = i 9. They have more lean meat than any other hog. 10. They bring the highest price in market. iy - A. R. King, of near Ligonier, has a splendid lot of Berkshire pigs which he will sell at reasonable figures.

The Pittsburg Calamity—What Was b : Deéstroyed, - Special to Chicago Tribune, July 22nd. ( The railroad buildings destroyed were as follows: Two round-houses, one machine-shop, superintendent’s office, car repair-shop, blacksmith shop, ‘three or four oil-houses, Union Transfer depot aad offices, the Pullman Car Company’s laundry and offices, 'dispatcher’s office, powder-house, Union Depot Hotel, Panhandle railroad en-gine-house, general offices and freight depot, and the freight depob of the Adams Express Company. The total destruction of the property of the PennsylvaniQ railroad and freight left in its charge, and also that of the Pan‘handle railread, including the 125 locc# motives, cannof be {ess than ten million dollars. A low estimate of the value of the: locomotives at the present time would place them at two million dollars, though they originally must have cost over three million dallars. The Union depot and hotel destroyed, owned by the Pennsylvania ‘Railroad Company, cost in the nei%;borhood of six hundred thousand dollars. The grain elevator cost over one million, and was owned jointly by the corporations of the Pennsylvania Company, though ostensibly it was run under the title of angther corporation. The freight-sheds of the Panhandle railroad were very complets, and they were filled with valuable fr-eitght, all of which was either stolen by the mob or destroyed by the fire demon. The dispatcher’s office on Washington street was destroyed, and in its wake followed several small dwellings located near the brick yard. All is in direst chaos. @ s

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THE MARKETS. - LIGONIER. GRAIN AND SEEDS.— Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 70c; Oats, 28c; -Corn, 50c; Flax Seed, $1 50; Clover Seed, $6 75; Timothy Seed, $1 75, ; Propuce.—Hogs, live, ¥ cwt $4 00, Shouldeérs, per pound, 7¢; Hams, 12¢; Bees Wax, 28¢; Butter, 1214; Lard, 10c; Eggs, {8 doz, 09¢; Wool, Ib, 40@ 00c¢;: Feathers, 70c; Tallow, 08c; Apples, dried, s¢, green, 4 bu.ooc; Potatoes, 20; lay, marsh,s6; timothy $B.

KENDALLVILLE. . GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, white $1 20, red $1 25; Corn, 60e; Oats, 33¢; Clover Seed, $0 00; Flax, $1 50; Timothy, $2 25. : OTHER PRODUCE.—Hams, @ 1b tic; Shoulders, 08c; Lard, 11c; Tallow,6c; Wool, 40c; Butter, 11¢; Beeswax,2s¢; Apples, dried, 4c; green, ¥ bu,, Fsc; Potatoes, 40; Eggs, ¢ doz. B¢, .

- CHICAGO, July 24, 1877. - GRAIN' AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $137; | Corn,49c; Oats, 29¢c; Rye, 55¢; Barley, 41c; Clover Seed, $750 @ 7 60; Timothy, $1 61@1 64; Flax, $1 30@135. : 5 S PRrRODUCE.—Mess Pork, Bewt,sl2 00 @ 12 25; Lard, $8 00 @ 8 82; Hams; -green, P 1, 9@ 10¢; Shoulders, 05¢; .Butter, fair to g00d,20@23, choice,l6@ 18¢; Eggs, P doz., 12¢; Potatoes, 40, - PourTry.—Turkeys, dressed, §§ 1, 10c; Chickens, "8 doz. $3 00@$3 25. | . TOLEDO.—JuIy 24,1871, ~ GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber, $14214, N 0.2 Wabash, $1 45: Corn, 52c; Oats, 39¢; Clover Seed, $5OO, ~ LIVE STOCK MARKETS, | CHICAGO, July 24.— Cattle, heavy, B cwt, $4 84,@4 97 good to choice §410@4 25, common to fair $3 78@3 98; e Dl o SR exira heavy $4 80@5 15, common o mm‘#’yﬂmmgﬁﬂ%@ @505, Sh wmv«m @"?@ Wﬁ cattle $3 40@375. Sheed, fair o zood. | ST T o, ly*%mf« 5 00, LAIODA, Gyerags 3%»%#**»{%3‘%%@3345 ' goodheavy 8860, ]

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