The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-10-14
MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN
BETWEEN TAMMANY AND The
NEW YORK COALITION.
sharp and Decisive Contest Promised
Humors OF the canvass-Intsrsstisg
ernl MetropoIitan n eutiou

Humors or the Canvnss-Iueofeotin9
Church Notss- Railroad Notes and Gss-
eral Metropolitan Mention.
NEW YORK BUREAU
RICHMOND DAILY THINKS.
October l3, is90.I
The nominations OF Mayor Grant - the
candidate Of Tammany Hall, and OF Francis
NJ. Scott a. the candidate OF the Peoples
Municipal League, draws the line Of battle,
and Is the beginning OF the campaign. Il
will doubtless be short, sharp, and decisive.
Both sides recognize the fact that neither
will have walk-over, and inasmuch ~
both have put forward their best men, tho
aggregate vote will be large and sugges-
tive one. Taken as weole the Tam
many ticket 10 a strong one. Like many
OF the race OF giants, II is weakest In tho
lead. Had the fusion ticket appeared
more formidable, Tammany would have
been shrewd enough to name some other
standard-bearer. but ss things 70 Mr..
Grant 10 deemed to have ample staying
power for the run. The other Tammany
nominations, As rule, are above the
/ tNtitet iof tudfdSttT tuu ututb8s
HuA0Rs or THE CANVASS.
Every canvass has its humors. New
York promises to contribute its full share
Of the comicalities OF the politics OF 1870.
| Not the least amusing Is the appearance Of
Delaney Nicoll on the rammany ticket
the same Nicoll who, little while ago, was
the fayorise leader OF the reformers. He
was their candidate for District Attorney
against Colonel Fellows. Ii is too much to
expect the New Workers. 20 take the ap-
preaching contest seriously. Of course
rammany has made political nominations.
Everybody expected that they would. The
surprise Of the day, however, was
the nominations OF the reformers,
orally understood that the nominations
OF the regenerators would be non-political.
| The sincere clergymen who have been be-
guiled into this curious alliance will soon
wish they were well out Of the case. Before
the campaign Is over they will be able to
sympathize more keenly than ever with one
OF their scriptural heroes. and feel what Il
is TO fall into the hands Of the Phil stines.
Colonel Bliss said in the Republican con-
yention that the fusion ticket would bo
showed under by 10000 majority. Perhaps
the figure will not be quite 30 large.
BUSINESS ACTIVITY.
| Unprecedented activity IL reported IN
nearly all the wholesale houses OF the city.
Retailers are laying In large stores OF goods
| In anticipation OF the advance In prices, aud
for the same reason private customers are
supply ing themselves with cigars, liquor,
| aud groceries, on IA scale that at any time
would be suggestive Of "a famine. The same
condition of afiaiis IL noticeable In the dry
goods and millinery trades.
CHURCH NKws.
| The receipts or the American Board OF
Foreign Missions for the year ending Sep
tember ist were xGI1,723. This amount IN
| sd9,095 In excess Of last year. During the
| year sixty-fOur new missionaries have been
appointed, twenty-five Of whom are men;
| fifty- -four OF these new recruits have al
ready been sent 10 the field. Never since
lSI, have there been 40 many appointed at
| one time.
The Presbytery OF New York met to-day
at the Scotch Presbyterian church. Ar
rangements were completed for the install
lation Of the Rev. DIR. George l.. spnring as
pastor OF the Phillips Presbyterian church.
Delegates were chosen To represent tho
Presbytery at the meeting OF the synod of
New York, which will be held In Lockport
ON October 2Ist. The General Assembly
prepared the following oyertnres, which
were considered ut the meeting:
IL
confession oi faith and constitution.
!. Methods Of establishing the orders Of
,leac0nesses In the church.
.. Methods TO increase the supply OF min
isters.
The dissolution Of the pastora, relations
Of the Rev. X. ID. Harlan, Of the First church,
were also considered.
NEW YORK PRESS CLUB.
The building fund Of the New York Press
Club now amounss to nearly $1,000 and
bids fair 10 be materially Increased before
long The Building Committee of the Club
have several projects on hand 10 swell the
fund, and In all probability at no very dis
,ant date tho Press Club Will have line
house 0f its own.
RAILROAD NOTES.
Earnings: Norfolk and Western, first
week in October. 1870, $I56, ,OGi, first week
in October, 1889, sliI.33j: Increase. s,T3O.
Chesapeake and ohio, first week In October,
1890, $3.50 lsl; first week in October, 1889,
SI3s,G7i; increase, SlJ,jO7. East Tennessee,
Virginia, and Georgia, fourth week In Sep
tember, l,,O, = ~. I22: fourth week In Sep
tember, 1879, SlGT,655; increase, Sl5,00sj;
month Of September. lssl. s0T0,G65; month
Of september. 1879, $Agi, ,,,2; increase, $il6.-
1913. Georgia Central (nei), month Of All
gust, 1880, $l5s.520; month 0f August, 1ssJ,
ssi,0os; increase. $1i,2i2.
RICHMOND TERMINAL IN DEMAND.
A Wall street news agency sends out the
following: There has been some good buy
ing OF Richmond Terminal within the lasi
few days. Ii is intimated that there In a
possibility that the Louisville and Nashville
may be seeking control, because 1t IL known
that people in this interest were negotiating
for a block OF the stock at the time the new
issue was made"
SIMMONS Pleads NOT GUILTY.
James A. simmons, indicted for aiding
and abettng General Peter j. ClaUsen In
. embezzling the securities OF the Sixth Ma.
tional Bank, appeared before Judge Bene.
diet to-day in the United states Circuit
Court, aud pleaded not guilty TO the indict.
ment. with leave 10 withdraw the plea next
Monday, when the case will be called fos
, trial.
AN INDIGNANT IRISH L.rADHk.
In L. Gill, the Irish Home Rule member o.
Parliament, who arrived yesterday, wa,
kept busy to-day ut the Fifth-Ayenue Hote
explaining the reason of the visit OF ths
Irish members here, and consulting will
! the IRISH American leaders. When showr
DunlaPs cable OF the leading article in u
days London Times, which again denie,
7 the distress In Ireland, he said the who'll
! article was malicious fabrication. III.
. forger Times would be rated n
1 it's true value by the America.
: people. lie knew well Tho responsibilit,
: OF his words. The Irish people had IN
bitter experience Of "a and ~ and the
e knew hsw the tight had TO he carried ON 1,
e 20, 'sD. and ~. They were again In tn
face Of a period Of starvation, and the,
would be well rid OF such spiritlcss rae
as the men who paid to the .andlor
: the money which was necessary 10 saw
|, themselves and their families alive durin,
!, the coming winter. IL was a question
!, whether 1900 landlcsis should be kept q
= comfort or that o,000,00o people should b
. allowed to starve. They were quite willinl
. 10 let the English Government take care q
. the landlords and to leave the tenants
- themselves.
l. CASH FOR DIPLOMACY.
q The arrest Of Mrs. Field and Mrs. Miller
"a the wives OF the absconding Americal
~ bankers OF London. who di1 h,lsiuess unde
d the name OF Field 4 CO.. promises to becosp
a ~ ...s. a La a.