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2 THE WEEKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN, ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 10,1SS'.U STRIKING THOUSANDS. IDLE STREET CAR MEN IN NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN CITIES. I- SUPERST1TIONS ABOUT EGGS. Scotch Fishers' Views A boat the Causes of Contrary Winds. Thrr# Was Probably Never a Uoro Ex tensive Street Car Strike—Extent of the Idle Lines in New York—Scenes and Incidents. - Tho street railroad strikes which were in augurated in New York city and Brooklyn not long ago, may perhaps bo considered the most extensive on record. Some idea of the importance of the strikes may l>e gathered from the fact that in Now York tho aggre gate nnmiver of miles of tied up roads would amount to something more than 125, and the number of strikers is set down at between 5,000 end 0,000. In Brooklyn the uumbor of strikers is given at between 700 and 800, operating about forty miles of road. Tho roads tied up in New York on tho first morning of tho striko included tho First and bocond avenues, Fourth avenue, Sixth avenue, Broadway and Seventh avenue, Eighth aud Ninth avenues, '.Tenth § avenue Or Belt lino, Forty-second and Grand streets, Forty-eeeond street and Boulevard, St Nicholas avenue and One- Hundred and Tenth street. Central Crosstown (Eighteenth street), Grand street (erosstown), Avenue B and D, Cortlandt street and Grand street, Avenue C and Pnvonia ferry, Madison and Chambers streets, Harlem bridge, Morrisania and Fordham, One Hundred aud Thirty- eighth street and Port Morris. The most important roads in Brooklyn simultaneously tied up on the morning that the order to strike was given out were the Atlantic avenue, Bergen street and Butler street lines. The reasons for tho inauguration of tho strikes were many, but the chief grievances of the men were too small wages, over lengthy hours, und the refusal of tho companies to arbitrate with the executive boards of their unions. The men claimed that the companies had violated the state law by comiiellin; them to work longer than the time prescribed by tho statute. Tho companies virtually ad mitted this some time ago, but made no move to remedy the grievance. Tho men further objected ,to the so called ironclad agreement into which the companies had induced them to enter, and which they claim made them no better than sorts. New' York city looks curious and unnat ural during a street railroad strike.. Its streets, especially Broadway and tho leading avenues, aro usually almost impassable from the great number of cars constantly passin; to and fro. Frequently there is a blockade, and tho spectacle is presented of a string of • horse cars a quarter of a mile long, so close together that the horses on one car will nose A SCENE OS’ THE STRIKE, the clothes of the passengers standing on the back platform cf the car ahead. Foot pas sengers who wish to cross the street are obliged to cross tho platforms of the ears, or stand and listen to the swearing and shriek ing of conductors and drivers until the blockade is loosened. This condition of mat ters is not much improved, however, oven when tho cars are not running, for then the ccrtmen and truck drivers usurp tho tracks and make Rome howl with their tremendous expletives and superlative swearing. But a New York man becomes so used to the din of elevated railroads, the mighty roar of legions of rumbling wagons, the constant jangle of street car bells and the eternal growl of tho fog horn voiced drivers, that the comparative silence of a small city pall- upon him as much as does a scrunching barrel organ upon the nerves of a virtuoso. One of the most marked characteristics of a New York man is that he positively will not walk anywhere if be can possibly ride. He will pay five cents to ride two blocks on street car. But another equally marked characteristic of a New Yorker is his good humor in an emergency. During a surface road strike, if he is too far away from the elevated roads, be will pick up bis heels audf strike out tor his office or store without growl, and when many thousands of busi ness men awoke on Jan. 29, and found that most of the street railroads in the [city wero tied up, they simply said, “Let ’em strike,” and. struck out for down town as bravely as six day pedestrians. There have probably been more broken heads in New York and Brooklyn during this last strike than in any other tie ups on record. The police were ordered to prevent violence at any cost, and they have used their long night sticks with great effect. But they have had hard work to constantly repulse the surging throng of strikers, and have shown that the police forces of Now York and Brooklyn are as competent os any in the world. Reading for the Young. The Jewish Progress, San Francisco, has some good ethical reflections in the somewhat light for western vein as to deleterious read ing: Tho pernicious literature that Is Seating round and rapidly gathered up by our young fraternity is doing more mischief than is at present apparent. Those of us who have been through tho mill, as the saying goes, can tes tify as regards the bad effects of a mediocre literary absorption. Happy the i who can profit by the experience teachers, and who will place i cleanest and most beneficial r hands. It is a better gift i impress that must 1584, “preserveth same from all hurts.” Probably this was written with an eye to the “hurts” arising from witchcraft, in connection with which eggs were supposed to pos sess certain mysterious powers. In North Germany, if you have a desire to see the ladies of the broomstick on 1 May day, their festival, you must take an egg laid on Maundy Thursday and stand where four roads meet; or else you must go into church on Good Fri day, but come out before the blessing. It was formerly quite an article of do mestic belief that tho shells must be broken after eating eggs, lest the witch es should sail out to sea in them; or, as Sir Thomas Browne; declared, lest they “should draw or prick their names therein, and venificiouslv mis chief’the person who had partaken of the egg.. North Germans, ignoring this side of the question, say, “Break tho shells or you will get the ague,” and Netherlander advise you to se cure yourself against the attacks of this disagreeable visitor by eating oh Easter day a couple of eggs which were laid on Good Friday. Scotch fishers who may be reckoned among the most superstitious of folks, believe that contrary winds and much vexation of suirit will result of having eggs on board with them, while in the west of England it is considered very unlucky to bring birds’ eggs into the house, although they may be hung up with impunity outside. Mr. Gregor, in his “Folklore of the Northeast of Scotland^’’ gives us some curious par ticulars concerning chickens and the best method of securing a satisfactory brood. The hen, it seems, should be set ou an odd number of eggs, or the chances aro that most, if not all, will be addled—a mournful prospect for the hen wife; also, they must be placed under the mother bird after sunset, or the chickens will be blind. If the wo man who performs this office carries the eggs wrapped np in her chemise, tho result will be lieu birds; if she wears a _ man’s hat, cocks. Further more, it is as well for her to repeat a sort of charm, “A’ in thegeethir. A’ oot thegeethir.” There are many farmers’ wives, even in tlie ■ present day, who would never dream of allowing eggs to be brought into the house or taken put after dark, this being deemed ex tremely unlucky. Cuthbert Bede mentions the caso of a fanner’s wife in Rutland who received a set ting of ducks’ eggs from a neighbor at 9 o’clock at uiglit. “I cannot im agine how she could have been so foolish,” said the good woman, much distressed; and her visitor upon in quiry was told that ducks’ eggs brought into a house after sunset would never be hatched. A Lincolnshire superstition declares that if eggs aro carried over running water they will be useless for. setting purposes; while in Aberdeen there is au idea prevalent among the country folks that should it thunder a short time before chickens aro hatched they will die in tho shell. The same wiseacres, may be credited with the faotion Uutflf the year the farmer's udo wifo \ presents him with an ed ition to, his family is a had season for the poultry yard. “Bairns and cliuck- ens,” say they, “dinna thrive in ae year.” The probable explanation be ing that the gude wife, taken up with the care of her bairn, has less time to attend to the rearing of the "chuckens.” Beside the divination practiced with the white of an egg, which certainly appears of a vague aud unsatisfactory character, another species of fortune telling with eggs is in vogue in North umberland on the eve of St. Agnes. A maiden desirous of knowing what her future lord is like is enjoined to boil an egg, after having spent the whole day Fasting and in silence, then to extract tho yolk, fill tho cavity with salt, and cat the whole, including th« shell. This highly unpalatable sup per finished, the heroic maid must walk backward, uttering this invoca tion to the saint: Sweet St. Agnes, wort thy fast, If ever I ho to marry man, Or man to marry me, I hope him this eight to see. If all necessary rites and ceremonies have been duly performed, the girl may confidently count upon sWiug her future husband in her dreams— dreams which, we should presume, as our Yankeo friends say, would * bear a strong resemblance to nightmare.— Queen. THE FRAUD OF 1876. Editor Dana Places the Facts Before the People. BRAND TRIBUTE TO THE MEM ORY OF TILDEN. How tho Fraud was Perpetrated, by a Man who is in full Possession of the Facts—-The Glory of tho Man who was Cheated—Tho Inaflsceable Shame of Rutherford II. Hayes, ex-Fresident. Old Times Recalled. The ceremony of seeing the presi dent nowadays recalls an old time president’s fashion of receiving guests who called at the White House. When George Jones called at the White House he was informed that President Jackson was at home. Thereupon he went up stairs to the big room on the second floor and there obtained a magnificent view of the back of the president’s head. The ex ecutive was sitting in front of a grate fire, with his heels on the man telpiece and his hat balanced over his eyes. He bad slid down on the chair until his head was almost out of sight, and ho was smoking a long clay pipe. The secretary and the caller ap proached him from behind, and the secretary said: “Mr. President, this is George Jones, of New York.” ” Without turning his head or turn ing around the president put his hand over his right shoulder and Mr. Jones laid, his own hand in it confidingly. The president gave his hand a hearty shake rind said hi a cordial voice: “How d’ do, sun? Pull up a cheer.” —Washington Letter. Tobacco should be credited as a part of the discovery of Christopher Co lumbus. When he first met the In dians they “were imbibing the fumes of tobacco in . the shape of a cigar.” This cigar was not wholly pf tobacco, though. It was a stalk or straw tube filled with Ibis weed. But the Indians smoked pipes chiefly. New Yoke, Feb. 11.—FbUbwh'g is the full text of the speech of Eriito* D< na . eHve.ed at thelanquetof the Hur era Democratic club on the anni \ ersary t f th - ■ irth of Samuei J. T lden. Ktfe ring to the fraud which was per- 1 etra.od in 187k, the president of the club introduced Mr. Charles A. Dana as the man w; o at (ho time find ever since until the pre ent had mist; vigorously demounted he crime. Mr. Dana sad: Me. Chairman and Gentlemen—It was my parti ular fortune during the. days .from whore records Mr. L'aytt n ha just real mod pregnant chapter 10 be in constant and intimate associa tion with Mr. Tilden. Those days, as Mr. Wattirson has remarked, were days of anxiety, doubt and trial. 1 lived near him. and he came to my house i on- stanth. in the evenings. He could come •here and converse upon these subjects without res ra‘n;,and what he said there was of great intere .t to me at the time, ndTnbvv repttit it for the first time. It has never been necessary for me to men tion it b fore, and I am sure it will be of interest to you. These meetings at my house occurred during the whole period between the meeting of congress and the final deci sion of the electoral college; and e pe- cially during that time when it vva3 doubtful what would be done; before the electoral commission was thought of or formed, and during its formation and during its action. There was one sentiment dui ing all that time which Mr. Tilden expressed to me—and these conversatkns were gen erally in th * pre k n. e of- members of my family—(here was me sentim- nt that he solemn!;" and constantly expressed, end tha. war this: "That there should i.ever l e shed a drop of llood in this country through any agency or procu e cent of mine.” [applause] and that si ntiment is ihe key to his whoie conduct during th it entire period. Whatever he did was in spired by that sentiment; whatever he refrain; d from doing was inspired by that sentime, t; wk tever he said was inspired by that sentiment, aud, abo.e all, whatever he refused to say. [Ap plause.] One great charge again-t him—and in thisies ect no m. n has defended him v\ itii more energy, and fidelity than my f.iendfrom Kentucky, wh> is present, and whose defense will procure the ad miration of history—I say, one of the great charges' against him was that he refused t > v say any more. But I tell you. gentlemenjfrrnat whatever lfe refused to say v. as especially animated by that sentiment: ‘'The e shall be no civil con flict gr wing out of any word or ac ion or slept at I may make.’ [Applause, and c ie- of “good ! good !”] More than tins', we discussed the elec- tora. commission. &n i while he would never cond mn explicitly, while he never said o me in these confidential conver sations t at that pi ui of the elec oral tomini si. n certainly ought not \o be ado.-ted. yet the whole bearh g of his mind, and t e whoie c miction which dwell with him all the time, wa- that the constitutional method was tha right method to st nd by; ;hat these extrane ous devices rumped up for t’ne occasion were not good for the country. Well there were many who found fault with him at that time. There ware many who thojc lit that he ought to ha e taken a diiTere t attitude, and asserted his rights and • liv ged the country into agitation and led it to that extreme wh oh he so poin.ediy and con t ntly rejected—the ex Mite of e vil conhict. But, looking back at it as we see it now, I think we shall admit that Mr. Tilden was : :gh; If there are an v mlemon here who belonged to that mb:e decidedly war like school at that time, i t ink they will a so admit that Mr. Tilden was right, and that the opinion < they then held w ro wrong. [Appause.] 1 am also d eply.convinced that-, in his judgment, as a constitution .1 lawyer, »n the adhe e coto what he constantly ad mitted to bo the eonv.ction of bis mind, that tin* constitut oual method was ihe right n ethed. and t at the the electoral commission was not the proper 'bins* to adopt. 1 think that we are all.convinced now that he was ri .ht. He could not say this openly. He could not go to .he public and claim that that was >.is con vie ion. Cur f iends in congress 11 ost of them, the mo r emin nt of them, were more or less c> mmitted from the very beginn'ng to the plan of. the electoral commis ion. They w ere deluded bv the cunning of the devils whi h (ontrelle i the repub ienns of that,time into the ; e- lief that pos ibly some chanc ? might turnout in fa\or of 1 he right cause. They supposed that Da id Davis would be a mem er cf the commi sion, a great rna iT of them, and that he would vote according to law and fact an I justice. Th y were deluded in that David Davis was put out of the way. and Joseph Brad.e - fgroius] was put in his p ace. [More groins for Aliunde Joe. j But suppose -let us think cf this for a moment — suppo e tha constitutional method had be n adhered tc, what would have happened ’j he senate would nave decided that there were certain states in which the senate and house of re;.re eentati es were both agreed. T hey had their vo es. and it was agreed that : ho votes should be counted There were ceriain other states where thev disa greed, end with that disagreement those votes could not be counted We mu t r member here the ear y con viction with which the lepubh acs started’ out—that the president of the senate was an autocrat in the matter and that he could count the vo*es and tha there would be no appeal f.om his count JBut that ha! to be aba- dos ed. Th mist dist'nguishrd republicans in th house. Mr. Conkling ;-.nd Mr. Biain among the number, were opposed to th plan cf the senate as impractr able, a they had to give in.' Suppose then that the democratic m.ijovicv in the house of reprc-Eenuti-.es had taid : -We will ad here to tho constitutional method: we will see th t the votes cannot be counted. They would ali have ..greed to count cer tain votes and there would have been cer ain stales in respect to which they could not agree. These states coulu not becouited. and these states not being counted there could not be any kind of a resale. The con.-e ,uence would have been that there would have been no ejec tion and the election of president would have passed to the hou e of representa tives, where the democrats had a iuajor- itv, and where Tilde.1 would have been elected. That’s all. Is not that so. [Ci ies of yes. yes it ia ] ??o, even in this cons itutionil opinion, whi h Mr. Tilden never withheld from me, but which he could net express to the public, and whic i he never did ext press to the public—even in that he was entirely right. Our friends who were deluded into the electoral commission were following a demsiun that- cast upon the country a shame end a disgrre • taac can n.-ver be obliterated. They were.no^ entirely wrong, but -o it went, and yat, looki; g at the verdict of history after these yi ai’3 ha re passed.whai is it . J Here we are met to do honor to the memory of Tdien, .hed feared candidate, over thrown in that contest What as to him who succeeded in his pla.e [groans an 1 cries of “ohthe wretched, infamous and contemptible creature, where is heV f A voice: “liais ing chicken?.’’] He had the presidency. He wielded an immen e power for four „ e»rs. He was at the hea l of the great republican parry, but to day the e is not an A meric-n chi en. whatever lie may profess, who does nit regard hiui with shame and loathing Justice is done.and thus his ory will vindicate the name of Tilden. That n nv? will remain immor tal, honored and respected forever by the American people, while the name of the in amous usurper will go down to an unutteiab.e shame that nothing can ob literate. THE RIPPER CAUGHT But Not Before Another Wo rn an is Murdered. London, Feb. 3!.—A murder, similar in it? details to the Whitechapel crimes, has been dif'eovered in Dundee. A man and woman, name3 unknown, arrived there three weeks ago and took a Louse. They said they were from Lou don. The r suspicious actions attracted the notice of the police, and when the woman suddenly disappeared the man u ns arrested and the house searched. In a box in the lasement the woman’s Lody was found, with her head cut off, leg3 ampu'atel and stomach ripped up. The work bore many indicati. ns simi lar to that perpetrated by “Ja k the i.ipper, 1 :.nd there is reaeon id relieve the prisoner is that man. A PRIEST ASSASSINATED. Horrible lleed of a I.unntlc—1 he Wretch Under Arrest. Memphis, Tenn., feb. 11.—Father Ashiield, one of the priests of St. Peter’s Cathe-i: al, has b en assassinated by Will Peed, a semi-lunatic. Peed has been befriended by the priest, who had got him out of jail, where he was con fined for lunacy. Sunday night Reed appeared at the door of Father Ash field’s house an 1 called for him. He was sent away by Father Mo;an. In the morning the sexton heard a noise at the the door, and foun i Peed there. The former then went for a policeman, and while he wa3 g ne Re d lipped in and ran to 1 atlier Ash fields door and knocked. When the pried, opened the door Reel stabbed him in the hear . Peed is under arre t. THE WOOLFOLK CASE. Judgment Kevertu-d and a New Trial Ordered for the Prisoner. Atuanta, 1 eb. 1?.—The decision in the Woolfolk case has been rendered in the supreme court. The decision was based upon three grounds, being questions which may ari-e when the case is tried again. The court below erred in admitt’ng the testimony tl at the l.at dreggei out of the well ten days after the murder be longed to the son of Silas Woolfolk. It also e red in refusing to rule out Davis' te timony. which was that the day af’e-r the killing some one stopped him and eaid: “Teil everybody that the Woo’folk family are ail killed but one. a d that oi.eth t got away was Tom Wcollclk, and he killed all the rest.” The ourt also e red in admitting the te; timony-of Howard, the fa her of Mr3. Woolfolk . th it Mrs. Woolfolk had said to him the Sunday before the mur ’.er: “1 don t know what to do: my life is in ■ian_ger from Tom Woolfolk. The way he treats in ■ I expect to be killed.” The tup erne court held that it was proper lor the coroner to atrip Tom Woolfolk to discover evidence of his guilt. In reading the de ision Just'ce Sim- n.on: raid that Judge Gustin should have stopped th» argument of counsel (at the state wh> n the ap, lause and cries of “Hang him!” arose from the crowd, and should have shown to the jury thst r.o matter whatever position the mob might enter’ ain >. ho law would protect them in niaking an impart'al trial. The decision is a long one, covering 80 pages of typewriting. The judgment is reversed, and a new trial ordered. How WooUolk Heard the New*. Macon, Ga., Jan. 11.—Tom Woolfolk received the news of his new trial with out the slightest change of color or evi dence of em-tion. He said he al wavs felt confident a new trial would be grant 'd, and if he t ay fce tried elsewhere than Macon, ho says ho wi 1 not be con victed. He reaiirms.his innocence, and ro s not believe heaven wi.l surer him to hang. THE BEST METHOD. The most agreeable, as well as the most effective, method of dispelling Headaches, Colds, or Fe vers, or cleansing tho system is by tAing a few doses of the pleasant Cal fornia liquid fruit reme dy, Syrup of Figs. It acts gently, yet effectively, strengthening the organs upon which it acts, so that Tegular hhbUs may be formed. 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