Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-08-26
our NEW YORK LETTER.

weeks have been a little more
eventful than the dull season of
midsummer. Already the weather
is beginning to break, and several
pleasantly cool spells have occur
red. 1t is generally said that the
next winter will be an unusually
severe one. The mortality caused
by the heat of this summer has
been frightful. In some parts of the
city, and especially in the tenement
house regions, over a hundred chill
dren succumbed every day. For
several days the deaths averaged
two hundred per diem.
Questions of politics, as the fall
months approach, are agitated in
New York as in Tennessee. State
politics are in something of mud
die, however. There are not less
than seven or eight available can
didates for Governor on the Repub-
lican side, and almost that number
of Democrats who yearn for the
honor. None of the candidates are
much ahead of the others. Tilden
is the only very prominent man
spoken of on either side. New
York was in an excited and wrath
full state over the Great Steal-the
River and Harbor bill. There is
much desire for new party, as
both the old ones have compassed
all the infamy in their power. The
Anti-monopoly League is develop
ing a stronger front, and have con-
Guided Il treaty with John Kelly.
After one of the longest and most
stubbornly fought battles on record,
the striking freight-handlers on the
piers of the Erie, Pennsylvania, N.
Y. Central, and other roads, have
at last been virtually beaten. Many
of them have returned to work at
the old rates-17 cents per hour,
many have found other and better
and many are still unem'
ployed. The strike has cost the
roads an enormous sum, and at one
time it looked very much as if cap
itaI would succumb to labor, but by
dint of numbers, they succeeded in
out longer than was possi-
BILE with the starving strikers. 1t
was the most orderly and well-con-
Quoted rebellion ever instituted.
Only two braWls took place-one
when the new men employed by
the railroads fired on the strikers
the other towards the close, when
some emissaries of the roads ap-
preached a clump OF the more stub
born rebels, rendered desperate by
and endeavored to sub
orn them, but were promptly and
knocked out of time and
rolled in the mud.
There is much sympathy express
cd, chiefly among the Irish, with
Arabi Pasha. At closely packed
mass-meeting in Cooper Union a
week or SO ago, three cheers for
Arabi Pasha" were given with the
widest enthusiasm.
Mrs. Langtry, the English beauty,
n nlnRIH0 nndElf
the management of Mr.. Abbey.
The london Times remarks that
America, being new country, has
been rather deficient in ruined cas-
ties, etc, but that she may soon
have an opportunity OF possessing
"ruined A66ey."
The Elevated Railroads still con-
tinue their usurpations. A force OF
police are kept constantly on the
watch, night and day, at the Bat
terry Park, and when their eyes are
turned a gang of laborers begin
tearing up the park to plant new
station. They are driven away,
and the watching begins again.
Two horrible accidents have occurr-
ed this past week. \ woman was
run over and crushed, and brake
man was hurled from the track
down into the street and killed.
The summer resorts are crowded
this season. S. II. WYATT.