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Show The Con! Miners' Strike and the Credit Sjulem-Ilic Lutl Scar. rottsville, Pa., 1G. A dispatch says that the secret of the long continued con-tinued strike, and the nimeis living liv-ing so comfortably and keeping up a bold front, is in the credit system, always al-ways pursued by the merchant!. It was impossible at the outset to refuse trust to regular customers, who had always before paid promptly, and as no one knew bow soon the suspension suspen-sion would end the merchants were induced to keep on throwing good money alter bad in the desperate hope of a favorable turn in the financial finan-cial tide bringing it all back again; but the crisis is at hand. The wholesale whole-sale dealers have taken alarm, and arerefubing to sell goods to this region re-gion except for cash, and without fresh supplies the retailers will soon bave nothing for their customers but Pmnty fliiolvoa. Oao fixm of g-.nrftl dealers ia credited with $2,(XX) already al-ready invested in the strike. Many others have $o,000 to $0,000 on their books. Jhon Siney, president of the national Labor association, is quoted as Baying that the strike is on its last legs. - Philadelphia, 16. The Beading railroad has adopted a plan of running run-ning pioneer engines ahead of all passenger trains. The miners are becoming very sick of the contest, and are leaving in considerable numbers num-bers for other ports of the country. It is said that the way they anatha-matize anatha-matize the Miners Union is something some-thing fearful, but they know better than to bolt. Not enough of them will leave to make any material difference dif-ference in the quan'ity of coal mined. |