The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-30
ST. LOUIS NEWS.
MUDDY CHRIsTMAs-wErw WITHOUT
AND DRY WITHIN.
The Werkingmen's Party The sausE,
American steamship Lsue-A
Baby show.

commenced my faSE feHer Dy telling you
what delightful weather we had been having in
St. Louis, and this time 1 shall have to COM
mence by telling you what
MISERABLE WEATHER
we have been having. The people OF St. Louis
have not seen the sun thi4 week. and the week
is now nearly over. sunday 1t was cloudy all
day Monday it rained from the time for sun
rise to The time for sunset Tuesday it drizzled
during the forenoon and rained and drizzled
all the afternoon. Wednesday was anothe
drizzling day throughout and to-day was little
bBtter than Tuesday. Three days and three
nights of incessant drizzlipg in Christmas
week.
"a WET cHR1sTMAs
without and dry Christmas within was the
general cry the next day and so it was. No ice,
and no skating No snow. and no sleigh riding
Sloppy streets. and no buggy ridlngl Mu ddy
payemen g. and no promena1ingl No fire.
works, and no cannon shooting Umbrellas took
the place Of overcoats. and no feathsred bats or
fowered bonnets were to be seen. All who
could staid al home. and considered themselves
lucky in not having been invited out. Christ
mas turkeys and fresh oysters wer scarce at
dinner tables. and there was little pleasure in
drinking champagne and sherry cobblers. The
saloons suffered. no one attended the NJ atnees.
The polire had little to do, for there we re few
drunks and fewer fights. and the fire depa rt-
ment was not called out q single time. For
Christmas, it was an exceedingly dull day all
around. as the hackmen, who are always busiest
Christmas night. will tell you. The streets of
st. Louis are now fearfully muddy some of
them covered with two or three inches of LIQUID
mud. and New Year day will probably find
them In the same condition.
ball was given at the Masonic Hall last night
for the benefit of Harry Easton,
THE LEADER OF THE RAILROAD STRIKERS L N EAST
ST LOUIS
last summer. After the strike was over, and
when a number of those engaged in 1t were
arrested Easton fed from the city He walked
from East st. Louis to st. Charles. Missouri
and got q Job there, but was dischar ged again as
soon as his employer learned who he was.
From St. Charles Easton went to Hannibal
Missouri. aud went to work on railroad there
but he soon met with the same fate there that
had befallen him In st. Charles. His identity
with the East St. Louis strike was discovered
and he lost his situation. After this he wan
dered about the country for several m onths do
ing little work here and there. and finally re-
turned to East st. Louis and gave himself to
the county officers. The excitement created by
WGy
and Easton was permitted to go his way. He
came over to st. Louis, and has been here ever
since. He has a great many admirers, and as
he can find no employment, they have per-
suaded him to try the lecture field. He has
prepared o lecture ON the subject OF strikes,
and expects to start out ON his new career some
time next month. The ball given for his bene-
fit last night was attended by between two and
three hundred persons, principally train men
and their friends. Only few of
THE EAST ST. LOUIS STRIKERS
were ever arrested, and the arrest of these was
effected by the United States authorities. The
charge against them was interfering with the
traffic on the Ohio and Mississippi and the St
Louis and Southeastern Railroads. both OF
which were In the hands OF receivers and in
charge of the United States courts. The men
were all let off with light punishments, and
since then no arrests have been made either by
The State of Illinois or the United States Of
THE LEADERS OF THE STRIKE ON THIS SIDE OF
THE RIVER
only few were punished. Several negroes and
two or three white men were sent to the work
house for raiding couple of bakeries. but they
are all out again. and none of the others have
been tried.
The real leaders of the strike we're also the
dozen Of them were arrested after the strike
and kept in a calaboose several days. when they
were released on bail. and since then nothing
has ever been done with their cases. The men
still continue active members of the Working
mems party, aud are now talking very loudly
of suing the city for their arrest and imprison-
ment last summer.
THE woRKINGMEN's PARTY
claim to be gaining strength every day and ex-
pect to carry the CITY next election. They have
lish weekly, and claim to have the membe ship
and support of thirteen trade unions. They
have weekly meetings in every ward in the city
their strength. At the last school election they
carried five of the twenty eight wards Of the
city. and were not we'll organic d then. they say
Your CORRESPONDENT attended several Of their
meetings lately and satisfied himself as to their
real strength e. IS party in ST Louis The leaders
TO the end OF every meeting. They failed to
harmonic on any matter brought before them
and compromises were effected only alter long
| up powerful par y and keep 1t tog, ther for
any great length Of time afterwards. then the
leaders OF the Workingmen's party IN s Lonis
may r, alze their expect atoms, but do not be-
lieve that any such calamity is iu sto, e for the
people of tbs city. for i would be nothing less
affairs.
The last grand jury of this city recommended
WHIppIEG-POST
for the punishment of certain offenses, in"lud-
ing wife beating and pet thieHtry when COM
mitted BY a profess ional sneak thief or shop
litter. The judges Of both the State courts hav-
ing jurisdiction in criminal cases ate in favor
of the whipping post as me4ns Of pun 'shment
as ara several other prominent citizens tha'
have been interviewed on the SUBJ .ee, but the
people generally seem to be opposed to it, and
| there Is very little prospect of any such law
being enacted Years ago the penalty for wife
generally was a certain number OF lashes on the
bare back IT the public whipping- post but now
prisonment in the Jail or workhouse. The jail
is altogether to- comfortable a place for hard
ened criminals and the workhouse is generally
SO crowded that the prisoners are nearly always
rel ased before the expiration OF their term Of
| sentence TO make room for new prisoners.
Mr.. John Viii @,
THE WIDOW OF THE POLICEMAN KILLED BY
FKANK RANDE,
the desnarado several weeka aoo In q pawn-