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THE GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, APRIL 4 1 886.-DOUBLE SHEET. . ... POWDERLY TAIiKS. I Wise I Words From the! Grand faster Workman. Meeting of the Executive Board Knights of Labor. . .1 - . i , New York Times, March 27th.l Grand Master Workman Powderly came to New York and dined at the Astor House last night. With him ame the members of the Knights of Dabor" Executive Board, and on the top floor of the Astor House, in a room secluded from all intrusion, these powers in the labor world sat in secret session till after midnight. . I Before he went to bed, however", Mr. Powderly made public an official state ment concerning the Southwestern "railway strike, repudiated certain i-tatementf attributed, to influential Knights of Labor interested in that strike, declared that the strike on the Missouri Pacific lines ' was not to ex . tend over the country, and announced that overtures would be made to-day to Jay Gould looking to arbitration. u "it Mr. Irons, who has beep in au thority over this Missouri" Pacific strike," said this r official statement given out by Grand Master Workman Powderly, "has used statements which this 'evening's dispatches attribute to liimjto the effect that the strike in his district is forthwith to extend over the whole United States, and that not omy railroad employees will be called out, but the order to go out will be given to all Knights of Labor in the country, regardless of occupation if Mr. Irons has issued these statements he cer tainly has exceeded his authority. He has no power to call out any more men than are now out. And not another move must be made without the con sent of the General Executive Board of our order, uow in session here in New York. The power of Mr. Irons does not extend beyond the limits of District No. 101. This strike origi nated in that district. The General ' Executive Board was never notified of any grievance in that district until the strike had been in progress for several - days, and then no official notice was received till we called for it. We were not; asked to .interfere, nor have we been asked for assistance.,' Districts Nos. 17 and 93 are co operating with District No. 101. They acted on their own, responsibility, and hot at the ! command or order of Mr. Irons, who has ! nd jurisdiction beyond his own district. " This , strike has extended far enough, and it must be settled where it is The statement that the strike is for the recognition of the Knights of Labor as an organization is erroneous. It is against our advice and counsel. That the men out there hae griev ances and causes for complaint we be lieve to be true ; but, whether true or not true, no harm can come qf inves tigation. -The men are anxious for' it. We see no reason why Vice President Iloxie, of the Missouri Pacific: .Com pany, should fear it. ! j. "Wc are in favor of ending this matter now, and to-morrow j we will submit this proposition to Jay Gould: "Let Gould appoint on his part a committee of three men; we will ap point a similar committee; let these gentlemen choose. a seventh to ibe as sociated with them. Let this commit tee of seven investigate th whole affair aud make recommeudatipns, and we will ugree to abide by their deci sion." "We will not ask," continues the Executive Board's statement, j'for the : xeeoguition of anv man who has been guilty of any act of violence o either individuals or property fori we are not organized to promote or shield wrong-doing' Mr. Powderly said that the proposi tion to appoint the investigating com mittee of seven would be made to Jay Gould early to-day. He hoped Gould would recognize the need for such ac tion. These are dangei ous times, said Mr. Powderly, adding tha he recog nized with much anxiety the 'incen diary talk" which Gould has lately been guilty of in parading an 'opinion from oue of his lawyers about law suits aud the grabbing of the homes pf work iuprmen who have opposed him. The temper of the counts-just bow de mands careful statements from every body, said Mr. Powderly, anl Gould as well as every other man, he averred, owed it to the country to stand for conciliatory measures instead jof reck lessly trying to array one body of men against another in bitterness. Mr. Ppwderly declared that he c0uld not believe that Chief Engineer Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, had used any such language as was attributed to him in yesterday's dispatches from the Wesjt, Ciief Ar thur being represented asbeverely crit icising Grand Master Workman Pow derly's lino" of action, and openly de claring against an eight-hour law. "I shall write at once to Chief Ar thur," said Mr. Powderly, "Slid ask him if he is responsible for these pub lished statements. If I find that he is correctly reported he will find ,very quickly that I have the right in the name of two-thirds of the members of his own organization to contradict him flatly and emphatically. I have never met Mr. Arthur, but so far 1 Have had no reason to believe him anything else than a rational man: But if he has talked as .fie is reported ta-day, he surely is not rational. But of this lateri' St. Louis, Mo., March 27. Chair man Irons, of Executive Committee of District Assembly No. 101, when shown the statement of Powderly and Tur ner, telegraphed from New York and Philadelphia last night, said : "It is not necessary for me to give any au thority for an'thmg I have said. We don't have to be guided by what Pow derly, says. The General Committee has no power here, and it cannot come in here and settle this trouble unless we request it." When Mr. Turner's statement, in which he declares that Mr. Irons is one of the men who are doing the order great injustice, was shown him, he said: "I have nothing to say about that, , and ;I will not be drawn into newspaper controversy with Mr. Pow derly or Mr. Turner, and they have no right to denounce me in this manner." "But yoia made the statement com plained of I" was asked. "What I said," replied Mr. Irons, "waa that if the strike is not settled it might extend over all the railroads in the country, and I with tell you more than I said; and that is it may extend to all Knights all over the country.'' ! New York, March 27, The General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor is bow in session at the Astor House. The Board consists of Grand Master Workman Powderly, of Scran ton ; Frederick Turner, of Philadel phia ; John W. Hayes, of New Bruns wick, N. J.; Wm. H. Bailey, of Shaw nee, Ohio, and T. B. Barry, of East Saginaw, Mich. The object of the present convening of the board is to settle the existing troubles ion 'the southwestern railroad ' amicably, by arbitration. . The principal purpose which has actuated1 this "body is, if possible, to meet Jay Gould iriinend ly conference and thus smooth, over many difficulties which could hot be effected by correspondence. Although the board remained in session until al most daybreak, it convened at 10 o'clock, and after drawing up a letter, dispatched it to Jay Gould. In this letter Mr. Gould i3 asked to name a committee of three men to meet a sim ilar committee appointed by the board who will jointly name a seventh. These seven men, it is expect 1 will agree upon a method which shall successful ly find an issue out of the present troubles. Mr. Gould was not in his office when the letter was sent here, but he reached the Western Union building afterwards, and he, with his son, George, and! an official of the Missouri Pacific railroad, locked them selves into a private office to consider its contents. Mr. Powderly, in an in terview, said : "We hope to settle the Gould strike. If wo do not we have other matters of importance to attend to, which will keep us busy for three or four days at least. I cannot tell what we may do if Mr. Gould de clines to treat with us." In regard to his circular, published this morning, Mr. Powderly said : "When I issued this circular yesterday I intended it as a secret communication to the Knights of Lbor in their various as semblies. I was surprised to see it in print; but, as it has appeared, I do not deny its authorship, since it was issued on March 13th. Although it has not yet'reached all remote assem blies, I have received no less than 900 letters from 900 district assemblies en dorsing and approving its every senti ment, each under the seal of the order. Most of the letters have come from as semblies which are the oldest in the order, but many came from new branches of the organization. I con sider this circular an absolute necessi ty, for some ill advised, enthusiastic knights have been bringing the knight hood into a false position before the puolic. One of anr chief purposes in coming to New York just at this time is to undo, if possible, a grievous wrong which was done to me by Gould last fall upon the settlement of similar troubles on the Wabash road. Then the attacks upon him by the press and many so-called or would-be mouth pieces of the knights were simply out rageous. No man could .stand such libels without being jastly indignant and indisposed to treat peaceably with the men who are supposed to have at tacked him. I hope to find Mr. Gould a fair mau, and I expect that he will adopt our suggestions and be willing to treat with us as with fair men, which we claim to be. Not long ago Mr. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, is said to have made harsh statements concerning Mr. Powderly. These allegations accused him of work ing for his own interests and not for that of ie knights at large. The at tack upon the executive has caused considerable comment, and Mr. Pow derly said that he did not believe that Mr. Arthur is capable of having made the statements imputed to him. "I am not acquainted with Mr. Arthur," said he, "but if he were acquainted with me better he could never have uttered such falsehoods." Mr. William H. Bailej', the member of the board from Ohio, was indignant at the attack upon his chief, who, he said, has de voted twelve years to the knights, working solely and alone in their in terest night and day. ."Mr. Powderly knows no home," he continued, "so constantly is he called hither and thither in the interests of his men." AGRICULTURAL IMPLE MENTS. How One iMan Can Kow Do the Work of Ten a Century Ago. Agriculture, like all other of the arts and science, has seen wonderful ad vance within the last century in the line of tools. Improved machines and mechanical devices of many kinds have greatly reduced the farmer's manual labor, and made an immense increase in the power of producing with a given amount of labor. The mowing machine has almost supplant ed scythe, and the flail is fast, becom ing an interesting relic. Yet, as late as 1830, in some parishes of England, the laborers went about destroying every horse-power threshing machine they could find. Little prejudice now remains against labor-saving farm machinery, and the farmer is thought behind if he mows with a scythe or threshes with a flail. The model far mer now mows, spreads and rakes his hay with the mower, tedder and horse rake, and then lifts it from hay-rack to barn lolt with a horse-fork. He ploughs in the West at least, with a sulky-plough; then uses a harrow, cul tivator and pulverizer, all in one; and sows his seed with a mechanical seed sower. When manuring time comes in fall or spring, he can use a manure spreader if he wishes. Wheel-hoes save the farmer's back lots of stitches, or a horse shoe can be used. One of the devices that is now no longer thought a luxury is the wind mill. Any one, who rides through New England with his eyes open knows how many of these are in use. Some are utilized for cutting wood, hay and roots, and for other mechan ical purposes, but they are as to one in a hundred used for pumping water. There is almost no limit to the height to which water can be raised by the windmill, and it need not be directly over the well; in fact, it may be many feet away, provided the vertical dis tance be not great. Old Prob says, and experience proves that hereabouts the wind blows about onejlhird the time, so the tank used for smrage must hold at least three timesfe much as the amount required one day. Thus water can be stored to supply the house barn or fields, and the farmer can be almost independent of rain. The smallest mill put up, with fair winds, will store from 250 to 400 gal lons of water an hour. Such mills as farmers ordinarily use cost from $125 to $400, aud the purchaser can if he wishes easily erect them himself. "Hope for a season bids the world fare well," when a man finds himself in the relentless grasp of neuralgia, but he smiles and takes heart and courage when his wife btings a bottle of Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain. I I A bcautifur line of White Goods j Em broideries and Laces, for Summer cos tnmes. f , M. E. Castex & Co. THE CALERA EXPLOSION. A Heartrending the Dead an l Scene Among the Dying. - -Calera, Ala., March 2C.-rrThe scene ;.' yesterday, following the fatal explo-' sion of the Calera companyVsaw mill , boiler, was one of 'J thrilling interest. The explosion brought - the .inhabn tants of the town hurrying to the spot, ' where they found the surrounding, buildings in flames, the roof of the' mill scattered in all directions, and clouds of white steam, followed by I black smoke in the air. The fireman, 1 Joe Robertson, was. found lying, crushed and dead, nearly all his clothes I being torn from his body, and his flesh scalded With the muddy sediment from the boiler. Mr. Jesse Pilgreen, ! superintendent of the mill, was not 1 found. He was covered in the ruins j and the flames spread so rapidly that his dead hody could not be recovered, and was, consequently, consumed. William Fletcher, another employe, was taken out. and carried to an adja cent sawdusjt pile. Ho was badly scalded over the body and had sev eral wounds about the head. His suf ferings were I awful, the indications SX'lfwf His mother was by his side and ber lamentations :were heartrending. She knelt and in a fervent voice prayed God to spare frer boy. Berry Robert son was taken out in a terrible broken coddition. He was scalded and cut about the face and head and his eyes weie both closed by the heat and his recovery is doubtful. Relatives and friends gathered around and the cries of grief were! loud. Joe Robertson had but recentlv married a lovely young girl and the shock of his sud den and awful death seemed to de prive her of reason. She raved and ran about like wild, and was only re - heSf vio!encenlle was consumed and about 150,000 feet of lumber. The loss is put by Mr. 000, with no j insurance. Everything is being done by the company to al leviate the sufferings of the survivors and to comfort the afflicted relatives. The members! of the Calera land com pany were making an inspection of the property, and had just passed through the mill. As they left the building and climbed the adjacent slope for the purpose of examining some ' nlhieral lands, the explosion occurred. ' In the party were Mr. Nelson, Colo-j nel Thomas, G. dones, H. C. Moses and other prominent citizens. At a meeting of the land company held lately it wds resolved ''that, as a further evidence of the sympathy of the members; of the company here present, it is the sense of this meeting that the general managers of this com pany make suitable provisions at the expense of the company for the burial of the dead and the care of the wound ed, and to aid the families of the suf ferers." MILLER'S SUCCESSOR. Sketcli of Mr. Hearst, Appoint j ed to Fill the Unexpired i Term. Sacramekto, Cal., March 26. Geo P. Hearst, recentlj' appointed United States Senator to till the unexpired term or the late Senator Miller, about fifty-five years of age. He chief proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner, the only democratic morn ing newpaper in that city, and it is understood that he has published it for years at a considerable loss. Fortu- nately Mr. ileaist is a very wealthy man. lie is generally supposed to be worth several millions of dollars, and has been prominent in many enter prises of this State for more than a quarter of a century. He has never held any public office and has never seemed to seek any. He was near re ceiving the nomination for Governor whieh General Stoneman finally ob tained, but supported Stoneman's can didature with his newspaper and with All the power: and influence he could command. When ex-Governor Leland Stanford was: elected United States j Senator by a Republican Legislature, : Mr. Hearst was the choice of the dem ocratic minority. He has always been ! a democrat arid in full accord with the 1 party, and he is anti-railroads, anti-! monopoly and anti-Chinese. TWO WOMEN FIGHT A fUEL. London, March 25. A remarkable duel was fought on the field of Water loo to-day, the contestants being Mme. Valsayre, a native of France, and Miss Shelby, an American. The duel was the result; of a dispute on the rela tive merits of French and American female doctors. After a stormy alter cation Mme. Valsayre threw her glove in Miss Shelby's face and a duel was forthwith arranged. The weapons were swords. Miss Shelby was Slight ly wounded on the arm. The four sec onds were Americans. These express ed themselves satisfied that the duel had been conducted fairly and that honor had been vindicated and insult avenged. LEMON ELIXIR. A Christian Editor's Experience. Rev. G. K. Lynch, publisher of the Alabama Christian Advocate, Birmingham, writes: I travel all over the State; my friends say they find Dr. Mozley's Lemon Elizir a most excel lent Medicine. My bookkeeper and foreman both use it in place of calomel, pills, etc. A Prominent Minister Writes. Dr. Mozley Dear Sir: After ten years of great suffering from indigestion or dyspepsia, with great nervous prostration and biliousness disordered kidneys and constipation. I have been cured by four bottles of your Lemon Elixir, and am now a well man. f' Rev. C. C. Davish Ell. M. E. Church. South, No. 28, Tatnall St.. Atlanta, Ga. Sold by Druggists. 50 cents and $1.00 per bot tle. Prepared by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga. aprl-lm. An Alabama cotton gin manufac turer has just shipped ten of the most improved machines to Russia. They are consigned to Moscow, and it is thought that the Russian Government wants them ta experiment in cotton culture in the Black Sea provinces. ADVICE TO MOTHEBS. Are you disturbed at night ank broken of your rest by a sick child suffering knd crying with pain of cutting teeth? If so, send at once and g-et a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children Teething. Its value is incalculable. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend up on it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. 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