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President Vanderbilt refused to restore wages in the face of menaces, but held out good promises for the future, if order were preserved, which promises were amply redeemed afterward. Trains were stopped at Syracuse, Buffalo, and West Albany, but the strikers were dispersed without bloodshed or serious destruction of property. On the Erie road, a great meeting of firemen, brakemen, and trackmen was held at Hornellsville on the 20th of July, and a strike resolved upon, making known their demand for larger wages, which the company declined to comply with. Gangs of strikers took possession of the trains and tore up railway tracks, but militia arriving from Rochester, and Governor Robinson, of New York, issuing a proclamation offering a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of any one interfering with railway trains, the mob were speedily cowed. The firemen and brakemen agreed to go to work again at the 10 per cent reduction, while on the company's part it was stipulated that no men were to be discharged except those who had destroyed the company's property.

In Ohio the Lake Shore road was visited with a strike at Cleveland; and on July 21st to the 25th, mobs gathered at Newark, Toledo, and Cincinnati, and elsewhere, mainly composed of roughs and tramps, striving to close up factories and rolling-mills. Governor Young ordered out the militia and issued a proclamation, and this, with public meetings of the citizens, soon put down all violence, limiting the evil accomplished to the stoppage of freight between the West and the East.

Chicago was the centre of one of the most furious mob movements, mainly engineered by the most radical of Communists, and was only saved from pillage and conflagration by the prompt organization and vigorous handling of its police force. Yelling crowds patrolled the streets, seizing upon arms and ordering all the workmen in machineshops, factories, and elevators to quit labor. The mob was harangued by Communist orators with such words as these, "We know what we are fighting for and what we are doing: let us kill those d-d aristocrats." It was at one time feared that Chicago would be a scene of blood, and the Governor of Illinois telegraphed, like the Governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, for the aid of Federal

troops, which, however, was not ultimately required. At St. Louis, the Working Men's Party, as it was called, almost put out of sight the railroad strikers by their high-handed movements, by closing mills and factories, and compelling laborers and mechanics to stop work. Numerous strikes occurred throughout Missouri, but these, as well as the St. Louis movement, were soon put down.

The whole country by the second week of the strikes was aroused to such indignation at the arrogant despotism of the strikers, and the violence, destruction, and bloodshed they had been guilty of, that there is no doubt the rioters would ultimately have fared more hardly at the hands of the people than of the soldiery, had they not been promptly put down by the show of military power. The blockade of supplies put the strikers in the attitude of saying to the producers of the West and the consumers of the East, “You shall suffer, and if need be starve, until we get our wages advanced. No more food shall be taken to market until we grant permission." The press of the whole country, almost without exception, enforced the true view of the case, and the prompt and vigorous action of the general Government in placing the whole power of the military at the points where it was most needed, proved that our republican government, contrary to what is sometimes asserted, is not weak nor halting in the presence of popular violence and insurrection.

No language, says a modern critic, supplies so many illustrations of the art of carrying things too far, as the German. That language has seven deadly sins, viz.:

1. Too many volumes in the language.

2. Too many sentences in a volume.

3. Too many words in a sentence.
4. Too many syllables in a word.
5. Too many letters in a syllable.
6. Too many strokes in a letter.
7. Too much black in a stroke.

"As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Booke; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, God's Image; but he who destroys a good Booke kills reason itself. A good Booke is the precious life blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured on purpose to a life beyond life."-Milton's Areopagitica.

TOM BROWN used to remark of bad wine (such as was ordinarily served at taverns in his day, as it still is in our own), that it was a better argument for sobriety than all the volumes of morality could afford."

[From the (official) Statistical Abstract of the United Kingdom, 1877.]

QUANTITIES OF WHEAT AND FLOUR IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1861-1876.

FROM WHAT
COUNTRIES.

Austrian
Territories
British N.
America
Chili..

Denmark
Egypt
France
Germany
Holland..

1865. 1866. 1867. 1868.
1870.
1871.
1873.
Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts.
612,725 1,390,935 706,819 1,250,515 1,345,786 463,683 836,243 456,966 311,240 285,208 420,192
3,387,949 5,118,698 3,198,187 1,831,897 528,456 59,601 835,006 798,505 3,396,511 3,402,690 3,782,776 2,157,170 4,315,709 4,298,315 4,069,565 2,776,975
364,246 347,341 282,311 198,231
169,862 341,999 2,097,978 1,477,536 580,349 643,347 589,951 1,677,908 1,837,587 2,207,016 902,660 1,012,642
674,325 419,148 384,894 776,175 687.763 563,007 564,963 817,173 779,884 580,243 293,432 611,283 475,354 455,394 831,850 852,030
1,474,480 3,304,579 2,322,636 367,462 10,063 33,831 1,471,756 3,237,380 1,020,289 106,701 908,847 2,361,042 1,271,794 297,928 2,112,138 2,249,252
1,359,882 1,961,835 1,857,403 2,854,424 6,058,902 8,023,530 2,140,832 846,863 2,153,350 1,060,120 182,262 4,553,781 3,259,619 1,124,712 3,573,777 1,653,800
6,658,462 7,930,849 5,728,626 6,842,721 7,224,371 6,801,657 7,873,216 7,224,597 7,546,688 4,487,773 4,258,823 5,183,601 3,019,406 4,012,066 6,613,544 3,487,672
50,872 12,794 11,708 18,786 51,615 93,096 15,938 60,132 205,760 26,308 12,398 61,912 39,378
9,823 52,472 83,127
4,540,483 5,755,789 4,538,934 5,129,410 8,093,989 9,181,432 14,166,794 10,055,338 9,187,236 10,326,844 15,689,943 17,938,977 9,693,997 5,798,976 10,157,847 8,911,788
1,297,257 316,882 11,393 1,980 133,855 863,529 452.680 2,982 43,151 8,395 16,990 643,087 1,734,640 418,420 157,217 270,473
66,352 19,280 26,810 80,479 26,808 30,009 18,244 24,509 62,955 37,322 20,538 44,582 34,058 24,077 100,052 58,420
Turkey& de-
pendencies 1,002,768 1,759,566 415,524 482,994 571,185 529,433 2,447,218 3,066,597 2,386,939 493,546 1,421,746 829,942 420,822 623,177 1,312,434 1,261,257
United St's. 15,610,472 21,765,087 11,869,179 10,077,431 1,498,579 986,229 5,091,733 6,753,389 15,320,257 15,057,236 15,625,331 9,634,349 21,775,110 27,206,052 26,372,151 22,223,403
Oth. Count's 693,574 499,361 132,908 131,448 172,379 474,391 1,253,603 890,529 418,617 211,907 722,947 1,458,296 3,442,483 2,561,529 2,870,722 6,502,006
Total.... 37,646,705 50,042,394 30,887,892 28,837,203 25,843,552 29,371,679 39,136,780 36,506,045 44,447,772 36,906,115 44,362,227 47,612,896 51,631,197 49,322,693 59,546, 621 51,904,433
QUANTITIES OF MAIZE OR INDIAN CORN IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1861-1876.

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United St's. 7,385,717 6,511,718 4,548,386 pendencies 3,734,751 2,241,368 5,880,430 4,311,795 3,697,848 5,372,873 1,030,968 4,027,131 11,008,607 11,821,280 5,548,271 2,588,028 4,053,564 1,529,765 4,448,555 9,290,280 294,263 1,766,305 6,953,811 4,799,385 4,009,770 1,354,844 23,063 7,319,246 16,980,683 10,762,353 13,454,617 12,058, 606 27,065,460 559,192 331,890 344,734 12,991 49,399 161,744 387,509 634,862 1,557,963 779,505 196,372 443,653 712,963 680,518 1,032,700 701,001 Total.... 13,244,366 11,694,818 12,736,594 6,285,938 7,096,033 14,322,863 8,540,429 11,472,226 17,664,113 16,756,783 16,825,023 24,582,670 18,823,431 17,693,625 20,438,480 39,963,369

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[Condensed, with additions, from the Financial Review, 1877.J

TABLE FOR INVESTORS.

THE following table shows the rate per cent of annual income to be realized from stocks or bonds hearing any given rate of yearly dividends or interest, from 1 to 20 per cent, when purchased at various prices from 10 to 300 per cent. This table applies equally well to both stocks and bonds, and has nothing to do with the length of time which a bond has to run to maturity.

For example: To ascertain what rate of annual interest will be realized on a bond or stock which bears 7 per cent per annum and can be purchased at 92 (i.e., at 92 per cent of its par value, whatever the par may be), find 92 in the column of "purchase price" and follow that line across to the column headed "7 per cent," which will show the correct figures-in the present instance, 7 per cent.

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24.33 26.66 30 33.33 40
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38.46 46.15 57.69
35.71 42.85 53.57
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8.82 10.73 11.76 13.23 14.70 17.64 20.58 21.47 23.52 26.47 29.41 35.29 44.11
8.33 10 13 11.11 12.50 13.88 16.66 19.44 20.27 22 22 25 27.77 33.33 41.66
7.89 9.60 10.52 11.84 13.15 15.78 18.42 19.21 21.05 23.68 26.31 31.57 39.47
7.50 9.12 10 11.25 12.50 15 17.50 18.25 20 22.50 25 30 37.50
7.14 8.69 9.52 10.71 11.90 14.28 16.66 17.38 19.04 21.42 23.80 28.57 35.71
6.81 8.29 9.09 10.22 11.36 13 63 15.90 16.59 18.18 20.45 22.72 27.27 34.09
6.52 7.93 8.69 9.78 10.86 13.04 15.21 15.86 17.39 19.56 21.73 26.08 32.60
6.25 7.60 8.33 9.37 10.41 12 50 14.58 15.20 16.66 18.75 20.83 25 31.25
6 7.30 8 9 10 12 14 14.60 16 18 20 24 30

13.63 16.59 18.18 20.45 22.72 27.27 31.81 33.18 36.36 40.90
12.50 15.20 16.66 18.75 20.83 25 29.16 30.41 33.33 37.50

11.53 14.03 15.38 17.30 19.23 23.07 26.92 28.07 30.76 34.61
10.71 13.03 14.28 16.07 17.85 21.42 25 26.07 28.57 32.14
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5.88 7.15 7.84 8.82 9.80 11.76 13.72 14.31 15.68 17.64 19.60 23.52 29.41
5.76 7.01 7.69 8.65 9.61 11.53 13.46 14.03 15.38 17.30 19.23 23.07 28.84
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5.55 6 75 7.40 8.33 9.25 11.11 12.96 13.51 14.81 16.66 18.51 22.22 27.77
5.45 6.63 7.27 8.18 9.09 10.90 12.72 13.27 14.54 16.36 18.18 21.81 27.27
5.35 6.51 7.14 8.03 8.92 10.70 12.50 13.03 14.28 16.07 17.85 21.42 26.78
5.26 6.40 7.01 7.89 8.77 10.52 12.27 12.80 14.03 15.78 17.54 21.05 26.31
5.17 6.29 6.89 7.75 8.62 10.34 12.06 12.58 13.79 15.51 17.24 20.68 25.86
5.08 6.18 6.77 7.62 8.47 10.16 11.86 12.37 13.55 15.25 16.94 20.33 25.42
5 6.08 6.66 7.50 8.33 10 11.66 12.16 13.33 15 16.66 20 25
4.91 5.97 6.55 7.37 8.19 9.83 11.47 11.95 13.11 14.75 16.39 19.67 24.59
4.83 5.88 6.45 7.25 8.06 9.67 11 29 11.77 12.90 14.51 16.12 19.35 24.19
4.76 5.79 6.34] 7.14 7.93 9.52 11.11 11 58 12.69 14.28 15.87 19.04 23.80
4.68 5.70 6.25 7.03 7.81 9.37 10.93 11.40 12.50 14.06 15.62 18.75 23.43
4.61 5.61 6.15 6.92 7.69 9.23 10.76 11.23 12.30 13.84 15.38 18.46 23.07
4.54 5.53 6.06 6.81 7.57 9.09 10.60 11.06 12.12 13.63 15.15 18.18 22.72
4.47 5.44 5.97 6.71 7.46 8.95 10.44 10.89 11.94 13.43 14.92 17.91 22.38
4.41 5.36 5.88 6.61 7.35 8.82 10.29 10.73 11.76 13.23 14.70 17.64 22.05
4.34 5.28 5.79 6.52 7.24 8.69 10.14 10.57 11.59 13.04 14.49 17.39 21.73
4 28 5.21 5.71 6.42 7.14 8.57 10 10.42 11.43 12.85 14.28 17.14 21.42
4.22 5.14 5.63 6.33 7.04 8.45 9.85 10.28 11.26 12.67 14:08 16.90 21.12
4.16 5.06 5.55 6.25 6.94 8.33 9.72 10.13 11.11 12.50 13.89 16.66 20.83
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4.05 4.93 5.40 6.08 6.75 8.10 9.45 9.86 10.80 12.16
4 4.86 5.33 6 6.66 8 9.33
3.94 4.80 5.26 5.92 6 57 7.89 9.21
3.89 4.74 5.19 5.84 6.49 7.79
3.84 4.67 5.12 5.76 6.41 7.69 8.97
3.79 4.62 5.06 5.69 6.32 7.59 8.86
3.75 4.56 5 5.62 6.25 7.50 8.75
3.70 4.50 4.93 5.55 6.17 7.40 8.64 9.01 9.87 11.11
3.65 4.45 4.87 5.48 6.09 7.31 8.53 8.90
3 61 4.39 4.81 5.42 6.02 7.22 8.43 8.79
3.57 4.31 4.76 5.35 5.95 7.14 8.33 8.69
3 52 4.29 4.70 5.29 5.88 7.05 8.23 8.58 9.41 10.58

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