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VOL. XXVIII-NO. 245
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER <), 1886.
The October Report of the Department
of Agriculture.
A Bitter AHurlt on .Volin II. .Initios—Hob Smith*
■rn’s Shi truer—llnrrj Jackson Will Not Hon
for Mayor—A Mean Thief- Personal Mention,
Special to Enquirer-Sun.
Atlanta, Ga., October 8.—Following is
an advance copy of the October crop re
port to be issued by the agricultural de
partment on the 10th :
COTTON.
The estimate of the prospective yield of
cotton in the state, based upon its condi
tion October 1st in comparison with an
average crop, falls two points below the
estimates of last month. There is a small
decrease in all the sections except south
west Georgia. This is probably due to the
drouth which, except in the extreme
southern portion of the state, along the
Florida and coast line, has been general.
The dryness of the month, however, while
it caused some shedding, has doubtless
been of more than compensating advantage
by facilitating the opening and gathering
of the crop in good condition.
The condition of the lint in the portion
of the crop gathered to this date, is ex
ceptionally good;
The prospective yield is, in north
Georgia, 79; in middle Georgia, 80j in south
west Georgia, 78; in east Georgia, 71; in
southeast Georgia, 86, and in the whole
state, 79.
CORN.
The yield, or prospective yield, in com
parison with that of an average crop, is in
north Georgia, 80; in middle Georgia, 91;
in southwest Georgia, 92; in east Georgia,
98; in southeast Georgia, 94, and in the
whole state, 91.
The crop on uplands is generally very
good, while that of the bottoms is usually
quite poor, owing to protracted wet
weather and repeated overflows in the
earlier part of the growing season.
MISCELLANEOUS CROPS.
Rice—The yield, or prospective yield,
compared to an average, is, in middle
Georgia, 96; in southwest Georgia 99; in
east Georgia, 8S; and in southeast Geor
gia—to which belongs the larger part of
the acreage of this crop—100.
Sugar Cane—The prospective yield is, in
middle Georgia, 91; in southwest Georgia,
89; in east Georgia, 98; in?southeast Geor
gia, 92, and in the whole state, 91.
Sorghum—The prospective .yield is, in
north Georgia, 96; in middle Georgia, 98,
in southwest Georgia, 82; in east Georgia,
94: in southeast Georgia, 100, and in the
whole state, 94.
Sweet Potatoes—The prospective yield
is, in north Georgia, 79; in middle Georgia,
88; in southwest Georgia, 85; in east Geor
gia, 91; in southeast Georgia, 95, and in the
state, 87.
Turnips—The season has been too dry
for the success of this orop. The reports
indicate less than three-fourths of an
average crop for the Rtate. The prospect
is, in north Georgia, 76; in middle Georgia,
64; in southwest Georgia. 68; in east Geor
gia, 65, and in southeast Georgia, 88.
Tobacco—The yield, or prospective
yield, compared to an average crop is in
north Georgia, 102; in middle Georgia, 94;
in southwest Georgia, 94; in east Georgia,
92, and in the whole state, 95.
STOCK HOGS.
The number of stock hogs, compared to
last year, isj in north Georgia, 88; in mid
dle Georgia, 91; in southwest Georgia, 87;
in east Georgia, 80; in southeast Georgia,
88, and in the whole state, 87.
The condition of stock hogs, compared
to an average, is, for the respective sec
tions, 93,98, S9, 82 and 97, and for the
whole state 92.
Cholera is reported as having prevailed
some time during the year, to a greater or
less extent, in all parts of the state, but
with most disastrous effects in some por
tions of north, middle and southwest
Georgia.
A Now Field of Labor.
Atlanta, October 8.—Rev. Dr. J. G.
Armstrong entered into the service of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society to-day
as one of its general agents in the south.
That he will make a marked success in
the profession of life assurance there is
no doubt. Dr. Armstrong is a muchly
wronged man.
Ilo Won’t Haro 11.
Atlanta, October 8.— Strong efforts
have been made to induce Captain Harry
Jackson to make the race for mayor, hut
he positively declines to do so. Captain
Jackson would make a good mayor. He
said “If the solid men of Atlanta—the
men who have made the city what it is—
should say to me that it was my duty to
be a candidate for mayor, I would, per
haps, agree to do as they wished. In that
case 1 would make a personal sacrifice for
the sake of fulfilling a duty to the city. Mv
candidacy for the office of mayor would
be like my going into another war to be
shot at. I would be a candidate because
the interests of the people with whom I
am allied demand it. Nothing else, as I
have already said, would induce me to
seek or to hold office.”
Tom Kipper.
Atlanta, October 8.—The Israelites of
this city are observing Yom Kipper. It is
the day of atonement., and is observed gen
erally throughout the world.
Personal Mention.
Atlanta, October S.—E. B. Freeman
and T. S. Chancellor, former,y of your
city, are registered at the Kimball. Mr.
Freeman is representing C. L. Woodbridge
& Co., of Now York, buttons and dress .
trimmings, and Mr. Chancellor, Kinsely,
Todd & Co., silks, fancy dry goods etc , of ;
the same city. They ure visiting the prin
cipal southern cities, and report business |
good.
Bob Southern’ll Sentence.
Atlanta, October 8.—Bob Southern was j
yesterday convicted in the United States .
court of conspiracy and sentenced j
to pay a fine of $500 and be confined in jail
for nine months. Southern is the husband |
of the famous Kate Southern who killed
Nancy Cowart at a dance at her father’s
house a number of years ago because she |
was dancing with her husband and for
which crime she worked several years in ;
and was par- |
the ;
second day of April, 1883, j
Deputy Collector Bledsoe ana Deputy
Marshal Campbell made a raid into Gilmer j
county and seized a still belonging to a ,
brother to Southern, who was arrested, i
The officers traveled all night, and next
day reached the home of Martin Teems, of J
that county, who runs a government dis-j
tillery. Bob Southern and two of his
brothers rode up and entered the house,
going into the room in which the officers j
had left their carbines and pistols. When j
the officers went back into
the room they found a pistol j
f one. No one could tell who had got it. i
'he Southern .1 boys showed that they ;
were seeking trouble, and after making
various threats went off. During the night
a fine buggy belonging to the officers, and
which had been left out In f! yard, was
cut to pieces. The evido v showed that
the Southerns had done t... work. A man
named Burrell swore that the Southern
boys went to his house and told him t hey
intended to cut up the buggy, and asked
j him to go with them. He went and they
made the buggy look like it had been
through a Georgia cyclone. They cut
great gaps in I lie horse and left a note tied
lo his (ail, tolling the revenue officers to
steer clear of that county.
Yesterday's Proceedings of ilte Conven
tion at Richmond.
Fail fill' Vs
III use (a tibia Hum
I n I miltin',I mi,I l!> In
'solutions
.. Etc.
Richmond, Ya., October 8.—It is under
stood this morning that the committee on
credentials of the Knights of Labor had
An Attack on Mr. .Innii'H.
Atlanta, October 8.—Quite a stir was
created in Atlanta to-uiglit by the circula
tion of a pamphlet entitled the “Truth,”
published by the “Dollar for Dollar Assn- | completed the consideration pi the ease ol
elation,” or in other words Mr. James the St. Louis delegates, and that its report
Findley, a wealthy and respected eitiz.cn would be ready for presentation as soon as
of Atlanta. It seems that in the failure of j the convention hud assembled, rhe eon-
the John H. James bank, Mr. Findley lost 1 test Is not one that has aroused such bitter
$35,000, and he took this method of re- I feeling as was created by the efforts of the
venge. The pamphlet says Mr. James was ] J°h, n Morrison representatives of the se-
i iaiinnnts asserted title by virtue of certain
| swamp and other selections under grants
to the slate of Louisiana. Commissioner
1 Hparks holds that the French grant is a
complete title, protected by the treaty of
1803, ai.il not needing legislative or other
> i onllrmat: in by the United Blates, nnil
Hint the lands, being private property at
the date of the state grants did not pass
under tbe.se grants. The amount
involved in Ibis decision reaches several
million dollars.
PROTES 1 AMT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Tin* t’l'firi'i'illiurs Yi*1criluy In lln* Chicago Con-
LV
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The Chicago Packing Houses Return to
the Old Hours.
ol Is Hu' llv.ult Sn Fur.
unit thi' I’ulim Called
,i Poll:im Where II Will
considered by the unsuspecting people of
Atlanta a pure, noble and honorable
man. “He who started with his
paltry $6009 and in a few
short years by honest, hard labor and bold
financiering, according to his own state
ment, amassed a banking capital of $200,-
000. Ever and anon the columns of the
local press were singing his praise far and
near, hut one day came the announcement
the ‘corner bank has suspended.’ Then
comes the troops of creditors and they are
promised they will be paid dollar for dol
lar. Rut where, oh! where is the dollar
for dollar?
“Probably |the driver and oc
cupant of some four wheeled vehicle
which moved silently in the darkness of
midnight through the lonely streets of
Atlanta and deposited heavy bundles in a
certain residence on one of the most
prominent streets might givo us the de
sired information.”
It concludes by asking, “Will he pay
dollar for dollar ?” and hopes that some
more wise and far-seeing than they are
may be able to solve the enigma. ’ The
balance of the pamphlet is taken up in
printing the accounts of Mr. James a:
his bank published by the local and
foreign press for years past and com
ments thereon.
4 Very Mean Man.
Atlanta, October 8.—One of the mean
est thieves on record was sent to the chain
gang for six months to-day by Judge Clark,
of the superior court. It was Tom Green,
white, who went into a negro’s barn and
pulled a setting hen off her nest, stole the
eggs, and tried to sell them to a boarding
house.
ON CHANGE.
A Flooil iif Humors Afloat lu tlie Street.
New York, Octobers.—There was again
a disposition on the stock exchange this
morning to await events, but notwith
standing the flood of unfavorable rumors
which came chiefly from the west,
the general market was firm through
out the morning hours. Later, when the
hope that something definite would be ac
complished at the meeting at the Grand
Central depot to-day was given up, priceB
declined and the lowest figures were
reached in the last hour. The market
closed steady on a rally. Reading was the
principal feature in trading, but followed
the course of the general market. West
ern Union was strong after the announce
ment that Corbin would enter the direct
ory, the belief being that a compromise of
some sort on the telegraph business would
ensue.
The opening was irregular, the differ
ence between last evening’s tinal figures
and the first prices this morning ranging
from declines of A to advances of a like
amount. New England was a prominent
exception, being 1 higher. Reading and
New England were features of the early
trading, the latter being especially strong.
The general market was barely firm. After
the first hour business became quiet, and in
afternoon prices sagged off throughout the
list, a notable exception being the Nickle
Plate stocks a d Western Union. The
market rallied in the last half hour and
closed firm. A great majority of the active
stocks to-night are lower, Maliattan being-
down 14, and New England upand Wabash
preferred 1 each, and others fractional
amounts. There were a few fractional ad
vances, conspicuous among which were
Western Union, Canada Southern and
Texas Pacific trust receipts. Sales, 394,000
shares.
CUBA.
The Ci
Strike
New Orleans, October 8.—The Pica
yune's special from Key West says:
Havana advices by steamer to-day state
that the cigar makers’ strike there, which
lias continued for weeks, will probably j
assume a very serious aspect before a set- !
tlement is reached. The strike originated j
and was confined, until Monday, to fau-I
tories working parted or inferior tobacco, I
but in consequence of no settlement being !
reached atth
tile
last Sitiid,
eding Brooklyn assemblies to obtain
recognition, and it was expected that it
would soon be disposed of and matters of
more real Importance lie taken up. Every
one is growing impatient a’ the delays en
countered, and all are beginning to recog
nize the necessity of settling down to busi
ness if they hope to conclude the session
of the convention within any reasonable
time.
At the close of the morning session it
was learned that most of the time had
been occupied in discussing the report of
the committee on credentials concerning
the St. Louis contesting delegation. The
question at issue was whether the dele
gates elected at the meeting held at 7
o’clock in the evening, or at a subsequent
meeting an hour later, were the regularly
elected delegates, The report presented
to the convention and accepted by it is in
favor of the delegates elected lit the 8
o’clock meeting. The assembly is now
ready to organize.
At" the afternoon session of the Knights
of Labor convention, to-day, Mr. Powder-
ly’s address was finally read and the re
port of the committee appointed to in
vestigate the ease of the Homo Club of
New York was made and adopted. With
regard to the nature of that report
Powderly declined to furnish any informa
tion. Committees were appointed on law,
appeals and grievenees and upon the state
of the order, and a special committee upon
the distribution of resolutions. Otner
business which came before t lie convention
was appropriately referred.
A resolution was adopted providing for
the appointment of a special committee to
take into consideration those parts ofPow-
derly’s address which relate to the educa
tion and training of the youth for the per
formance of their duties as citizens.
A resolution was also adopted authorizing
the appointment of a special committee of
five to prepare and send a telegram to some
proper person in Providence, R. I., with
regard to the limitations of the right of
suffrage in that state. The committee
drafted and sent the following communi
cation :
“To Charles E. Gorman, chairman of the
Equal Rights Democratic Association,
Providence, R. I.: The order of Knights
of Labor in general assembly convened At
Richmond, Va., endorse your efforts in tie-
half of tile elimination in unjust discrimin
ation from the constitution of your state
and pledges its moral support to you until
success is achieved.”
Tlie committee was also directed to send
a similar telegram to the district of Co
lumbia in view of the disfranchised con
dition of its inhabitants. This committee
was appointed in accordance with a reso
lution adopted at the Cleveland assembly.
Powderly was shown to-night a newspa
per containing a telegram from Montreal
to the effect that delegates are about to lie
seut here from Canada to consult with
him as to the possibility and expediency
of so changing the constitution of the
Knights of Labor as to rendre it unobjec
tionable to the Roman Catholic church.
Powderly said he had received no infor
mation with regard to it. He also
denied the truth of the statement pub
lished this morning, that he called last
evening upon Bishop Kean, of this city,
for tlie purpose of consulting him with
reference to the affairs of the order with
reference to the position taken by the
Knights of Labor upon the color
question. He said ne had called
socially upon the bishop, ns he
had been accustomed to call unon the
clergy of any city in which he happened
to be, but that lie had no conversation
with him concerning the Knights of
Labor or tile color question. Now that iL
is known exactly who are qualified dele
gates, it is found that the total number en
titled to seats in the convention is 755.
The number present is 710.
Chicago, October 8.--The house of dep
uties ot the Protestant Episcopal conven
tion began its third day’s session this fore
noon. Thu committee on amendments to
the constitution reported that they had
Dr. Swoue’s resolution on the subject of
uniformity in the marriage laws before it,
and reported that they found no constitu
tional question in it and asked to be dis
charged.
Rev. Dr. Hall moved that it be referred
to the joint committee on marriagu and
divorce. Agreed to. *
The same committee reported that they
had a resolution of tho diocese before
them regarding the reduction of the num
ber of deputies. They reported that the
change was inexpedient. Adopted.
The committee on the state of tho church
reported t hat the secretary of the house be
directed to summarize the statistics In the
reports of the several diocesses and the
missionary jurisdiction and publish them
as adenda to tho fiscal report of this com
mittee.
Rev, ltr. Gray, of Tennessee, moved that
in order to bring oriiot; out of chaos, tho
house grant permission to use for the next
throe years the first prayer book of Ed
ward VI. In support of the resolution, l)r.
Gray said it afforded the relief
sought. A meeting should begin with
the Lord’s prayer und end with the third
collect, so that a shortening was obtained,
while for tho addition of a magnificent
benediction and nunc demittis were
gained. It was a book thoroughly script
ural and l here was nothing in it that was
not wholly authorized by holy writ.
This was seconded by Dr. Huntington,
who moved that it lie laid on the table.
Agreed.
A message was received from the house
of bishops which said that they had con
curred in message No. 2 of the house of
deputies, amending message No. 2 of the
house of bishops.
Tlie president said the house of bishops
having concurred in tlie motion of the
house of deputies for a joint eommitte of re
vision of the prayers of tlie prayer books,
he would appoint tlie following commit
tee : Rev. Dr. Huntington, Edgar V.
Gould, Judge Shellley, Judge Gilbert, Dr.
ohattuck, and Messrs. Hale, Hart, Nash
and Packard.
The house of deputies then ad
journed, and being joined by
the house of bishops, resolved them
selves into a board of missions. Right Rev.
Lee, of Delaware, presiding. The order of
business observed at the preceding session
of the bourd of missions was adopted. Tho
secretary proceeded to read the annual re-
F ort of tile secretary of missions, review-
gthe work of the preceding three years.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
■'ini.. Visited liy a Terrible Coullugru-
tlllll 8011.(100 I.UHK.
HIS SEVENTH COMET.
E. K. liitinard, nr Ilia Van
Dlseovcr* Ills t.iist Fpoll ill
.5—Its I.ooatidti am) Appeal
Nashville, Tenn., October 6.—E. H.
Barnard, of tlie Vanderbilt University ob
servatory, lias discovered his seventh
comet in ten hours thirty-six minutes of
right ascension and north declination, no
immense joint meeting oT I degrees, and fifty-eight minutes. The
anufacturers and operatives, held j position this morning was right ascension,
.inday at the Albania Theatre, j 10 hours 38 minutes, north declination. 1
the manufacturers of Vuelta Abago
tobacco joined issue with the
others and closed their establishments in
order to prevent their operatives contrib
uting toward the support of the strikers
degree and 8 minutes, its duily motion
therefore, 2 minutes of right asccnsio
toward the east and 10 minute
are toward the north. The appare.i
motion of this comet is, therefore, in t l
Special to the Courier-Journal.
Gallatin, Tenn., October 6.—Poor ill-
fated Gallatin was visited by another con
flagration this morning at 10:30. Tomkins’
opera house, A. G. Harris’ grocery, Myers
& Johns’ dry goods house, Foster &
Holmes’ drug store and W. C. Blue & Sons’
furniture and undertaking establishment,
on Main and Water streets, were burned
to the ground, with nearly their entire
contents. The brick storehouse, owned by
Mrs. M. J, Lucas, and occupied by L.
Lipman as a drygoods store, was also
burned. the merchants saved but
little goods, as the tire had
gained considerable headway before tlie
alarm was given. The lire originated in
the back part of Tomkins’ opera house
from some unknown cause. The loss foots
up nearly $60,000, and the most substantial
block of buildings in tlie town destroyed.
Dr. W. Tomkins owned the opera house
and store rooms of Harris, Myers & Johns,
Foster & Holmes and .1. \V. Glasgow, val
ued at $25,000, and hud insurance of $12,-
| 500. Harris had $65')0 insurance oil bis
stock of $9000. Myers A Johns bad $17,-
(1110 worth of goods, and were insured for
; $7000. Foster A Holmes suffered a
net loss of $3500. .1. W. Glasgow’s
, ... , I stock of cigars and wines, valued at
(trrldtt Ohsrrvulnr). j j 1800i woro nl | ] osl; i llsuru „ ce f1000. W.
[ C. Blue A Son lost three frame business
! houses, valued at $3000, as well as coffin
lumber to the extent of $1000. The Lucas
House was fully insured. Lewis Tom kins,
son of I)r. W. It. Tomkins,was caught under
tlie falling wall andlwas horribly crushed.
I It. took several minutes to get him out.
lie was terribly burned about the face,
; head and body, and is dying to-night. W.
i E. Cantrell, Jesse Moore and several others
were slightly burned while trying to rescue
Tomkins.
i mi ul October
The strike has extended to interior towns, ! direction of the sun, and should its east
the rough clement taking advantage of I motion continue, it will soon pass froi
excitement *■ —I an ~ i—,„.i i_ . —,i
A CASE OF REHYPOTHECATION.
Soeil Mo roll ii ii I III t lie Millillc of
Very lab I'mlloiiruont.
the general
depredations. Highway robberies and as- | ern pnrtoi't
sasinations ocetir daily. A riot has been i and was fou
apprehended several days by the authori- '■ on the ntort:
ties of Harthona who have token j is close , l.
precautions to keep the available | sunset. Iti
ivil guards under arms, while \ half hour
committing | sight. The comet is located in tlie south
e constellation of tlie Lion,
i whilst seeking for comets
lg of October 5. Its position
east-, mi horizon, just before
u only be seen for about a
>re I iie sunlight blots it from
counted police are in readiness for any j view. When discovered Mr. Barnard
emergency. The following cablegram was was sweeping the eastern sky in a limited
received last night, via Havana, by the ! space between the dome of the observatory
president of the cigarmakers’ union: j and a large mass of trees. There was scarce- j
“Tlie cigarmakers and strippers of San- [ ly time for the seeker to get tlie large telo-
tiago de Lasvegas are out of employment j scope of tlie observatory upon it before ;
and destitute. Eight thousand men and daylight. However, an approximate posi-
300 women are without bread for their tion was obtained. This morning it was
families, and ask their brothers in Key observed ns soon as it rose from the hori-
\Vest for relief and transportation. An- j zon, and the observations continued, and a
the penitentiary and was
doned. On the night of
nounce to Tampa and New Orleans.’
The l.n Mascotte Disaster.
St. Louis, October 8.—The following
deaths occurred yesterday among those in
jured in the La Mascotte disaster, making
the total number thirty: Marshall Wade,
colored, of Walnut Hell, Tenn.: Robert
Rice, colored, ol Cape Michael; M. G.
Sherer, of Cincinnati; Levy Chatham, |
colored, of Paducah, Ky. George S. David- j
son, the boat’s captain, islin a very pre- 1
carious condition and is not expected to
live. The coroner’s jury to-day returned a
Chicago, Octob-.. 1 0. Tho fact is made
public this in ruing that James W. Sykes, j
the Michigan avenue seed merchant who
made an assignment last. Saturday, was i
arrested late Monday night by a deputy
sheriff on two capiases issued from the
superior court, but suppressed. Mr. Sykes
succeeded in securing securities, and was I
released on bail amounting to $17,500. The !
papers in the case were still suppressed
yesterday, as it was reported that one of
the attorneys thought the matter would
be settled out of court. The arrest was
made on complaint of the Merchants’
Lean and Trust Company and tlie Hide
and Leather bunk. The first of these '
banks held Mr. Sykes' paper for $20,000
and the second for a smaller sum.
.. . , Mr. Sykes refused to suyunytliing on the !
Its cometary character, therefore, re- subject, and the lawyers are equally taei- ,
mauled uncertain. Further observations ; turn; but Mr. John W. Deane, president of
made its motion a certainty. Its appear- ; the Merchants’ Loan und Trust Company,
mice is that of a mass of bright haze, I the lurgest creditor of the firm of J. W. j
strongly condensed in the middle with j Hykes & Co., said: “The capias was issued
HmaJl and dimcult nucleuH, and a very i because we were convinced that the ban ks 1
faint, short tail pointing away from the | had been swindled. Both the Merchants’ |
sun - ] Loan andJTrust and the Hide and Leather
~ _—~~ 1 banks are in exactly the same situation.
An Important Land Decision. : We submitted the facts to our attorney,
Washington, October 8.—An important j Judge Smith, and lie told us there was am-
land office decision has been mude by i tile grounds for criminal proceedings, and
series of accurate positions obtained. The
short time it was under observation on the
5th it was not possible to detect its motion.
vr’rOint evonerHline-the officers of the La J? 110 °. m F e decision lias been made by i pie grounds for criminal proceedings, and
Maseott^fromall'blameaud'^severelv crftL Commissioner Sparks, involving the title we took steps accordingly. It was, we
St nntZ Fhrandd. nf t he Faclp far I to curUun valuable lands in the vicinity of think, a plain swindle. The firm borrow-
not * ^O^L^vered in part by the town | ed tnonejy to the extent of $37,000 from
his treatment of the survivors and for not ; ’ t - Carroliton
attempting to run the burning boat ashore, ! u y buildings’
and recommended that his license be re- -- ■
voted.
A Disabled Steamer.
London, October 8.—Thefteamer Deak,
from Glasgow, September 20 for Mobile,
arrived at Falmouth to-day with her high
pressure piston and cylinder broken.
and upon other parts
and improvements of
great value, including the race course,
ML Airy Ridge cemetery and
shell road and the railroad from New Or
leans to Lake Ponchartrain, This property
has been claimed and possessed since the
tlie banks, putting up ns security ware
house receipts for seeds, and when we
came to look for the seed there was no
seed in store belonging to the firm. It has
been a customer of the Merchants’ Loan
and Trust Company for two months, and
bore the best possible business reputation.
middle of the last century under a French Mr. Hykes has, we think, been guilty of a (
grant which has been surveyed and segre- j crime, and we are going to try to send
| gated from the public domain. Adverse him to the penitentiary to suffer for it.” I
Chicago, October 8.—Fifteen thousand
employes of twenty-one pork packing es
tablishments at the stock yards have al
most unaniinosly resolved not to return to
the packing district Monday. Yesterday
after dinner hour almost simultaneously ii
notice ippeared in the different houses
stating but on and after Monday, Octo
ber 11, ^86, the proprietors would operate
their n uses on a basis of ten hours for a
day’s work. To tlie notice
was appended the signatures of
twenty-one packing firms. Tho matter
has been re irded by tlie men as a bluff,
hut the poi mg of the notice had a demor
alizing eifr it and consequently became the
topic for discussion and tho resolution on
tlie part, of the non not to return Monday,
or until the lor xout is over. The resolu
tion, however, they ati not likely to keep,
and Monday will probt lily bring on the
packing district an army of men. The
question as to whether the hog men will
allow the beef men to work is now being
discussed. The prevailing impression is
that the locked out men will notallow
anybody to work in any of the packing
houses. Should they conclude to prevent
the heef men from working about 20,000
men will be thrown out of employment.
Chicago, October 8.—A great strike of
the employes of tho Chicago packing
houses against t he proposition to return to
tlie ten-hour working day began this
morning. The packing house owners had
put up printed notices notifying their men
that, beginning next Monday, they would
lie expected to work ten hours instead of
eight hours a day. This mumbling
a committee of 1500 employed by
tlie Chicago Packing ami Pro
vision Company waited on tlie foreman
of the works, and demanded that the no
tices be taken down. The demand was re
fused and the regiment of workmen at
once left the building and were soon joinod
by 800 men employed in the Silver Ham
Works. Thus reinforced, tlie large force
went in a body to the Armour Works to
induce the men there to stop work. There
is great excitement at the yards, but no
trouble lias yet occurred.
There seems no way to avoid a crisis.
The packers seemed determined and the
men said they will never accede. The
Chicago live stock exchange held a
meeting last evening to consider the mat
ter. Repsesentatives of the heef killing
house said they did not anticipate any
trouble in view of the possible shutting
down of the pork packing houses. A reso
lution was adopted asking the shippers of
live hogs to the Chicago market to care-
full watch events and in no case to glut the
the market, but to Isend only enough hogs
to supply the eastern demand.
This afternoon a large body of additional
workmen went out on a strike, and a riot
occurred at tlie works of John Morel',
where a number of persons were hurt. The
entire police force of tho town of Lake and
two Pinkerton men, armed with rifles,
have gone to the scene.
Hundreds of men wore standing about
the Pinkerton headquarters this morning
making application for positions as guards.
Mr. W. A. Pinkerton was reticent
as to his intentions, hut said lie had not yet
received any call for special police for tlie
purpose of guarding the stock yards. The
crowd of strikers failed to induce the Ar
mour employes and the Anglo-American
workmen to stop work and departed with
out attempting anything compulsory.
Everything is quiet at tlie yards.
Shortly bofore 2 o’clock nil tlie men em
ployed by tlie following stock yard pack
ing firms refused to work and joined the
strikers: Armour A Co., John Morell, .1.
T. Hickey A Co., John Cudahy, tin: inter
national Provision (lompany and tlie Anglo-
American Packing Company. There are
between 6000 and 7000 of them, making
about 8000 in all who struck during tlie day.
Some of Morell’s men, after going out,
decided to return to work. Tlie strikers
at once invaded tlie place to compel
them to < | ii it, and employed violence,
which for a time took on the dimensions
of a serious riot. Police arc now at the
scene and hope to restore order.
Affairs became more quiet after the ar
rival of the police. It was found that
I some of the Morell employes were in
jured by the attack made upon them, hut
1 none seriously. Three hundred Pinkerton
j men are guarding tho houses to-night. A
representative of tlie Silver Ham Packcry
house declared Hint New York and other
j eastern buyers were semliiif;' their orders to
j Kansas City, which necessitated a change
I to tlie hours here. Armour A Co.
posted notices to-night notifying their
\ men to come and get their pay to-morrow,
i It is deemed possible that the houses nil
i contemplate keeping closed down for a
| short, time at least.
ON THE TRACK.
The Races at Llltoulll I’.-irl. Yesterday.
i Cincinnati, OetobenS. Latonia Jockoy
[Club first race, 11 miles; War Sign won,
I King George 2d, Hanta Anota Bell 3d; time
! 2:11.
j Second race, for two-year-olds 6 furlongs;
Wary won, Clarion 2d, Passion 3d; time
j 1:171.
Third race, for maiden three-year-olds
: and upwards, J mile; Andelia won, Evan-
' gc-linc 2d, Longaiight 3d: lime 1:311.
i Fourth race, for two-year-olds, 6 fur
longs; Cotta won, Paten 2d, Alleghany 3d;
, time 1:154.
Fifth race, 1 1-1(1 miles; Beaconsfleid
won; Wanderer 2d, Wahoe 3; time 1:511.
The Conilcmnod Aonr.-liists.
Chicago, October s.- -The crowds which
besieged the criminal court tin's morning j
for admittance to Judge Gary’s court room [
were larger than at any time (luring tlie
anarchists' trial. When court was opened
Geo. Engle, one of tlie defendants, began
a speeeli in answer to the judge’s inquiry
us to why sentence should not be passed
upon him. Engel recounted his experi
ence in Germany where lie
was born and described the
hardships which the people were forced
to submit to there. He came to this coun
try, sought work in Philadelphia and Chi
cago, and found the same state of affairs
existing, Capitalists became rich by the
oppression of tlie working classes. He
then made a study of the question, read
Henry George's books and became a social
ist. Engel’s speech closed with a tirade
against capitalists. Fielden, who followed
Engel, made quite a commonplace address,
after which court adjourned till 2 p. m.
Tlie Toltmvo Crop.
Baltimore, October 8.—The Baltimore '
Journal of Commerce will publish to-day 1
special reports from the tobacco growing !
sections of Maryland, Virginia and North
Carolina as to the injury to the crop by j
the frost and the probable yield as com
pared with lust year. The acreage this I
PRICE FIVE CENTS
year 1h reported much less than in 1885,
and owing to unfavorable weather not
much over two-thirds of a crop bad been
expected prior to the frost. While con
siderable of the crop has alreidybeen
gal In-'.-t d, the frost seriously damaged
wlnit was still in the fields and still further
reduced the yield. In some instances the
crop is stated as large as last year and tlie
quality as good, but nearly all the reports
claim I lie yield will lie much reduced, the
esfimates running from one third to two-
thirds of a crop and with the quality,
especially in parts of North Carolina and
Virginia, very poor, in the great Durham
district tho yield is estimated at not over
40 per cent, of an average and of a very in
ferior grade.
FACTS FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
AV lint Is Trauspiring on I tic Ollier Side of the
Wilier.
Delhi, October 8.—The ill feeling re
cently aroused between Hindoos and Ma-
homedans hero over mutual violations ot
their respective religious principles culmi
nated in a riot last night. Several persons
were killed. The native religious agita
tion is continually gaining dangerous ac
tivity. The cause of much trouble is the
fact that the butter in common use has
been found to have been adulterated with
pigs’ fat. At Bombay a society has been
organized to propagate hostility to the
Mahomedans and to inoculate general
knowledge of tlie Hindoo religion.
Kiudilliil.
A COTTON MILL BURNED.
London, October 8.—The Lawrence Cot
ton Mills, and four houses at Chantey,
Lancaster, ’have been destroyed by Are.
Thu loss is $1,000,000.
Fruni-o.
DELES8EP8 COMING OVER.
Paris, October 8.—M. DeLosseps will
attend the celebration of Bartholdi’s statute
of liberty which takes place at New York
October 28.
Itidinirhi.
THE OENERAL’H COLD RECEPTION.
Sofia. October 8.—General Kaulbars
met with a cold reception at Sistova. A
meeting of 1000 inhabitants declared
against the intervention of Russia. Gen.
Kaulbars notified tlie officers of the Bulga
rian army at Sistova by letter to meet
him and hear a message from the czar.
The officers ronlieil that he should address
the 11 ,. rian government.
The Earth Still quaking.
Charleston. October 8.—There were
ttirec shocks at Summerville last night.
Reports differ widely as to the intensity of
tlie shock, some residents declaring that
they were more severe than any disturb
ance since August 31. while others report
that they were slight tremors. No one
was hurt, however, and no damage done
to property. A slight shock was also felt
here at 5 o’clock this morning by early
risers, but it wus not generally felt.
Charleston, October 8.—There were
no new eurtbqunke disturbances here to
day. Business is steadily growing better.
The receipts of cotton this week were 29,-
759 bales as against 26,176 bales in the cor
responding week last. year. All the cotton
pr jsses are working lull time. The steam-
snip ,/u.jtsman cleared to-day for Liver
pool with 5719 bales of cotton. She was
loaded and cleared in five days. There
.-oi'.ld be no better refutation of tho charge
that Charleston’s facilities for doing busi
ness have been destroyed by the earth
quake. The committee on relief are push
ing their work with great energv. They
acted to-day on about 200 applications for
money to repair houses.
Charleston, October 8.—It now ap
pears that the report of the earthquake
j shock on the Savannah railway to-day was.
unfounded.
Kmulmilnl for OongreNN.
! Hartford, Conn., October 8.—R. J.
j Vance was nominated for congress by the
■ democrats of tile first district yesterday.
Lincoln, Neb., October 8.—The demo-
I cratic congressional convention of the
| second district last night nominated W. A.
: McKeyun, of liedcloud, for congress.
St. Louis, October 8.—The united labo-
part v yesterday nominated congressmen
| as follows: Eighth district, Rehurd Winds;
ninth district, Geo. W. Davidson; tenth
j district, N. J. Hatch ford.
Boston, October 8.—The republicans of
j the third congressional district have re-
j nominated A. A. Raney for congress.
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I New York, Oc(
I bark Montreal arrivi
| of a Mexican captain anti (
i Colon in August in comma!
j Davidson and a crew of fo
leaving the port theoap,.;..i
| stricken down widi fi-rer.
! became delirious and j-.imj
| and was lost. The s!.ev.' t.-
and the chief officer dint,
maining men were unable to inn .age the
vessel, and she drifted at ! lie i ,-y of the
I wind and waves. Caught in a hurricane,
she lost all her sails, and finally beached
I near Campreki, Mexico. Here she was
i found and taken charge of by Captain
j Hutora, a Mexican, who reefed her and
brought her and the sick crew to New
Orleans. The euptain claims heavy sal
vage.
The Nrlirnsloi llnuiiirratH.
Lincoln, Neb., October 8.—The demo
cratic state convention met at Hasleny’s
last evening. The following state ticket
was placed in tiie field: For governor,
Jas. I.. North; lieutenant governor. C. B.
Babby; s cretary of state, Richard Thomp
son; treasurer, J. F. Hale; auditor, Thos.
E. Singer; attorney-general, \V. L. Greene;
land commissioner, Thos. W. Smith;
superintendent of public instruction, L. A.
Cooley.
lie- Hissing Anrliorla.
New York, October 8. No news has
been received by the Anchor Line Com
pany of their overdue vessel, the Ancho-
ria, and no particular anxiety is exhibited
by tlie company’s representatives, as they
say nothing short of a collision could dam
age her, and this is not likely to occur, as
tiie route taken by these vessels renders
them unlikely to encounter other ships.
Judge lolili to be Opposed.
Montgomery, Ala., October 8.—The
independent executive committee of the
fifth congressional district met here to-day
and nominated P. A. Wood, formerly of
Autauga county, for congress, in opposi
tion to J. E. Cobb, democratic nominee.
The independents have only recently or
ganized.
Hanged for un Old Crime.
Charleston. October 8.—At Edgefield
to-day, Wright Weldon, colored, was
hanged for tlie murder twelve years ago of
John Loqrane, a well to do farmer. On
the gallows Weldon made a confession,
charging that a white man hired him and
other negroes to commit the murder.
A Thiers Trick.
Chicago, October 8.—An unknown thief
threw red pepper in the eyes of Tom Don
nelly last night and robbed the place of
diamonds valued between $400 and $600.
