The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-11-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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Tho silk mills Of Dexter, Lambert d Co.,
Patterson, N. j., have resumed operations
with force of 200 hands.
The Ounard Steamship company have de-
termined at an early day to establish daily
line between Liverpool and New York.
Ono effect ofl the panic was tho throwing
ont Of employment OF at least 20 900 working
girls from the different factories at Newark,
NJ.
--Phelps, of Albany, New York, the default
ing cashier in the State Treasury department,
has been committed to jail in default of al5,-
600 bail
Tho Erie railroad is reducing the force in
the different shops along the line of the road,
and the workmen retained will be put on three
quarter time.
Tho Jury in the Stokes case returned YER
dict OF manslaughter in the third degree. and
Btokes was sentenced to four years in the
state prison Mt harl labor.
--Vhe receiver Of the First National bank ID
verifying the accounts Of the depositors and
other banks, and in about two weeks a divi-
dend Of from 40 per cent. to 80 per cent will
be made from assets already collected.
Nearly four hundred mechanics and about
q thousand aborers have been discharged from
the Washington navy yard, owing to the mon
ay running short in consequence of the large
improvements made in the yard during the
summer.
--6ome days since Mrs. L. Myers who was
held as witness on the Goodrich case, was re-
leased by An arrangement between the police
and the prosecuting authorities. She has con-
hnually asserted that, if she was released, she
would be able to put the authorities upon tho
track of Roscoe and Beach, both Of whom she
says are implicated. An officer has been dis
patched with her, and both are travelling the
country.
A meeting of the furnace owners Of Pitts
burg Pa, WAS held last week, ut which every
furnace in the city and vicinity was represent
ed It was unanimously resolved that reduc-
don of six per cent. be made ON all labor. It
was the impression of most of those who were
present that it would be very difficult to keep
tho furnaces in blast, and that a further re-
suspension.
Serious results of the panic are being felt
along the Hudson. The extensive brick yards
near Poughkeepsie have all stopped, and the
employing carpenters and manufacturers are
working with half their usual force. The OK
tensve print works Of Garner & Co., at Little
Falls, Cohoes, Rochester, Pleasant Valley,
Newburg and Haverstraw stopped Saturday,
and 10, 900 men are out of employment. The
firm paid $780, 900 a month to their employees.
Factories in other places have either stopped
work or reduced time and wages.
The effect OF the late financial trouble is
beginning to be felt by the working classes OF
New York In many trades large numbers of
operatives we're discharged at the close of the
week for want Of employment, or for want of
funds to pay them. Three shoe manufacto-
ries closed Saturday night indefinitely. The
employees in one establishment were ordered
to work at reduced wages; but the men de-
ciined to work for wages below those estab
hshed by the Crispins society, and were con-
sequently discharged. Nearly every trade is
Affected similarly.
The piano, billiard and cigar manufactu-
rers and other producers Of luxuries in New
York are conducting business with great eau
Aon. Large factories are being run on half
time and with half the usual force, while the
smaller establishments have in the main closed
altogether. This course is made necessary by
the financial disturbances, throwing out of
work large numbers OF men and women. Ar
rsngements are expected to be made whereby
most Of the factories will be able to keep their
hands at work part Of the time at least, thus
preventing great deal Of suffering.