The crowd then dispersed ader
'Home, Sweet Home," by the Band,
leaving pleasant memories of a most
joyous day.
NOTES.
The Committee on Arrangements
composed of Messrs. Henry C.
Shaver, Jesse Shaver, Victor M.
Stewart and the neighbors generally
desme the highest praise for their
excellent work. Nothing was left
undone that vvouid add to the interest
and pleasure of the occasion.
Quite a number of the boys who
wore the gray were present and en
joyed the day to the fullest extent.
They expressed themselves as delighted
with the affair throughout.
The Hartford Colored Cornet Band
was out iu full force and made some
good music.
I'rocTriiilo mill Fiirnilittf.
AMERICAN ECONOMIST.
A paragraph appeared iu the London
daily press a few mouths ago
staling that the farmers had given
their laborers notice that henceforth
their wages would be reduced by 2
shil ings (50 cents) per week. The
normal rate of pay for farm hands
able bodied men in England is from
$2.75 to $3, anil the notice of the contemplated
reduction of wages was accompanied
by the statement that
"greu distress was apprehended in
the rural districts during the winter
months."
Fiom some partsof Knglaud notably
the counties of Essex, Suffolk and
Norfork we hear accounts of farm
houses and fences falling to decay; of
fertile fields that are now a prey to
the thistle and the dock. The report
of the Royal Commission on labor
in significant terms to the terrible
condition into which the agriculture
of England has fallen, and points
as aample in many cases, to one in
stances of a farm, which produced to
the landlord ten years ago a rental
at $4,100 net, and which will now
only let for $500 a year, This was in
the county of Norfolk.
