The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-06

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-A special to the
Brooklyn Eagle says that the house com
mlttee on coinage, weights and measures
to-day agreed 10 report favorablv upon
the Warner bill, which provides for the
Tree coinage of gold and silver, and the
issue OF certificates on the deposit of gold
and silver bullion, and that such ceTtifi-
Gates shall be legal tender for purposes.
The bill also prohibits any further issue
of the national bank notes.
Mining-IrOn Work.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2S-Several LEADING
citizens of this city have taken Steps to or
ganiZe a company TO deyelope the silver
mines Of Montgomery county, Arkansas,
which are pronounced by mining experts
to be quite valuable. The Laclede iron
works in North St. Louis, resumed work
to-day, after suspension of nearly a
year. They employ about 800 men.
Sill Lives.
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa, Jan. 2S.-The
boy who was believed to have been muir
dered by his father, elder Buck, the Adj
Ventlst, is alive in an adjoining county,
whittier he fled after the beating his
father gave him, to avoid a repetition of
the outrage.
Trouble Between Whites and Blacks.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 2S.-Telegrams
received here this morning state that in
tense excitement prevails in Shenandoah
county, in consequence of collision be-
tween the white and black laborers at
the Columbia furnace, near Edinburgh,
in that county.
Gov. Holiday received a telegram
from the sheriff, Joseph Slickley, of
Shenandoah, asking the assistance of the
troops to aid in quelling the riot Also
one from Capt. j. w. Magruder, of the
woodstock military company, stating
that he has not a company at the points
mentioned, and asking for orders what
to do.
The governor Immediately replied TO
Capt. Magruder, directing him to place
his command at the disposal of sheriff
Strickley and attorney Allen, for the
preservation of peace, and to keen him
(the GOVERNOR advised of events. Other
kilograms, received by members of the
from the Shenandoah valley,
confirm the above reports.
The trouble, as far as can be ascertain
ed, has its origin in the fact that John
w. Whittier d Co., prOprietors of the
Columbia and Liberty furnaces, are sub
shutting colored for white labor in their
works. These works have heretofore
been almost entirely run by white opera.
tors, who live in and own their little
homes in the neIghborhood of the furn-
aces, and have no other means of support
than their daily labor, while the negroes,
who are replacing them, are imported |
from other counties where the negro
element prevails TO greater extent than |
in Shenandoah.
End of the Maine Confusion
AUGUSTA, Jan. 2S.-The Fusionists are |
very much depressed at the reception of |
the news from the court Governor
Smith said he believed that the contro- |
versy had now ended. He said that |
while the previous opinion of the Judges |
was based on the Republican statement |
here was room for reasonable doubt. |
but in view of the fact that the court had |
decided against them on the Fusion |
statement they could but gracefully sub
nit. He had got enough of PLAYING
governor, and should go home
Major Smiths views will be adopted |
Dy the better part Of the Fusionists, who
will take their seats in the legislature.
Sawyer says he still considers himself |
Of state.
Henry ingalls,, a leading member of
he Fusion house, says he is not prepared
o give an opinion tonight, but has al
ways been in favor of yielding 10 the
,ourt.
AUGUSTA, Me, Jan. 2s.-The CAPITAL
guards and Richards Light infantry
marched out of the state house at 8
o'clock this morning.
The Fusion Legislature met in Union
"a, reporters excluded, and Immediate
y took recess till four O'Clock. The
eneral expression Of the Fusion mem
ers IS TO go into the state house. The
legislature expects to dissolve sine die
O-morrow
In. the house, Hill, of Corinth, and
lilliken, of Burnham, Fusionists, took
heir seats.
PORTLAND, Jan. 2s.-The New Era, a
Ireenback organ, submitted to the de-
ision of the supreme court, and appeals
the people; also, calls upon the press /:
publish the declaration of principles
the Brick Pomeroy league. ,
Frantic Antics of the Brokers.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-The stock ex-
lange this forenoon was a scene of great
and the subject of it, Central {
acific stock Yesterday public notice S
as given by a committee of the syndi-
ate, which bought fifty thousand shares {
Central Pacific, with the privilege of '
fty thousand more, that some would be {
ublicly sold in the ordinary way, at the {
Dening OF the stock exchange this morn |
lg.
The Evening Post says that the syndi- I
ate employed five brokers, giving each
! order to sell ten thousand shares. on
e scale of fractions, from so to 50. As r
'on as the hammer of the presiding 4
fcer dropped at ten O'Clock, and bust. 7
sssiwas formally opened, there was such 7
rush for Central Pacific as might have led | h
e spectators to believe that some one 4
the crowd Was throwing about FIVE r
lrat diamonds by the handful. Brokers I,
I'd their coats torn. and were in danger =
having their bones broken. In fact, r
e tumult was extraordinary, even for r
e stock exchange, where excitement is n
c rule. The first sale was at S1I{. ii
here was then rapid advance to ST., il
side of the first fifteen minutes. This | r,
IS followed by decline TO S41I, and at :,
20, with the price at So, the i've bro q
rs had each executed his orders and n
e fifty thousand had been disposed Of 3,
The committee had refused private "a
DIS for large amount of stock, and as "
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