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painful after painful. What makes your
mouth 80 gressy?"

Fuspefation, sab.
I" Well, what makes that ham-ooie
stick out from under your coat ?
""Oh, sees dat dar amt no use az,
gym wild yer. / doan min argyin vac
er man dat's got p'ints an gogafy, put
woan waste mer bref wild er puscon wnat
amt got no reason erbout him."
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AN OPEN SWITCH.

The switch had either been left open
by the workmen or opened by other par
ties, and the train dashed at full speed
upon the open switch and into the
shanty cars. The engine was thrown
upon its end and badly damaged. The
engineer and fireman were fastened
down in the cab and it was the work OF
two hours to extricate them. Fortu-
nately for them fire did not break out
The baggage-car was broken and the
baggage. master thrown ont, but not IN
iured. The conductor WAS bruised and
cut about the head. but not seriously;
Two of the shanty-cars which were filled
with workmen were split open and the
men pitched out on either side. 1t was
almost q miracle that none OF them were
killed. The passengers were shaken up
considerably. II is not known how the
switch come TO be open.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16

THrwEATHER IN RICHMOND YESTERDAY
was clear, being cold at morning and
night and mild during the day.
Range of the thermometer at the front
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fne, s..T5stA25; extra, ea50as3,75
family, tiAs4.50; patent family, cSun-
try, "a. 75se5 Is.

COTTON REPORT
Market steady.
QUOTATIONS.
MIDpLrSg, &c.
Low MDpLNo, &c.
Coop ORDINARY. So
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BALTIMORE.

BALIlMOhE.
BALTIMORE, December 15.-Cotton
firm; middling, $50 Flour dull.
Wheat-Southern firm; Fultz, 95c.a
s1.02 Longberry, $50. asl or; No. 2,
CSC. steamer No. red, 94c. western
easy No. winter red, spot, SOFA
97c. December, 96ia97c. January.
Tia9sc. May, sl.03,asl.04. Corn
Southern fairly active; white, 63a5Sc. (;
yellow, 53a5Sc. steamer, b0a55tc. !;
graded No. 2, size. western weak !;
mixed spot, $50. ; year, DC: asked
January, 56ia56Ic. May, 56is57c.
steamer, SIC. Oats dull and easier /;
ungraded southern and Pennsyl-
vania. 49a5lc. do. western white. BOA
5Ilc. do. do, mixed, 49ia50c. graded
No. 2 white, sic. do. do. mixed. 49ia
5oc. Rye firm Hay steady. Pro-
visions quiet. Butter firm. Eggs quiet !;
strictly fresh, 26a27c. ice-houss, 19a2oc.
Coffee dull. Sugar steady. Copper
steady. whisksy active. Freights to
Liverpool per steamer quiet grain, I'D.
Cork for orders, "a 80. ala. Cd. Receipts---
-four. 5000 barrels wheat, 1900 bush
els !; corn, $4,000 bushels; osts II 900
bushels; rye. 1000 bushela 6hiP'
ments-Flour, 1900 barrels; wheat
10000 bushels; corn. 1000 busheiA
Hales-whsat, 1900 bushels; corn.
10000 bushels
CINCINNATI.
CrcrSxArr, O.. December Is -Flour--
Demand fair; family, g. 7ose4; fancy,
"a 35sSl.6 Wheat in good demand
and Arm; No. red, 81. Corn eesy
No. 2 mixed. 6ls52c. Data dull NO Z
mixed. 47s47ic- Pork quist = 30
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16
MONEY AND ExcHANaE.

EUcning. -E1ehAnge quiet and steady
at 4S0a4s4. Money easy at 24aii,
closing offered OF 3. Sub-Treasury bal
snces- Coin, SlA, 1927, 900 currency,
S3,771, 900. Governments dull butsteady
per cents, 122 4i's, lob. State bonds
Quiet and featureless.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16
RICHMOND STOCK EXCHANGE

MONDAY, December 10, 1871.
SALys-FIRsr BOARD. 200 Richmond
city IS at 1l5; 1900 Virginia 3 per cent.
at 63t, 1000 do. at 63t.
Closing quotations at the Stock Ex-
change:
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RAILROAD BONDS ISSUED.
The spencer and Isvenswood Extension
of the Ohio-Nallsy Railroad.
....-l.i ..ionrnr,, 10 thu Dlsnatch

WHEELING, w. VA, December 10
Bonds of the Spencer and Rayenswood
,s;Irosd were issued to-day to the
amount of $500, 600. The road is an i'm
portsnt extension OF the Ohio River
Is;lroad into the central portion of the
state, a distance of sikty-fye miles.
The bonds are guaranteed by the Ohio
River roads,
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A SINGULAR TRAIN WRECK.
4 Passenger Train Dashes Through an
Open switch Into Car-shanties.

Opon SWItch INTO thr-sHhHtIeH'
Especial telegram 10 the Dispach.l
CHARLESTON, w. Va, December 10
Passenger Train No. 2, on the kanawha
and Michigan railroad, due here from CO.
lumbus at 10 o'clock last night, was
wrecked about two miles this side of But
falo. w. Va, at $50 o'clock. TWAS one OF
those fortunate but infrequent wrecks in
which no one was seriously injured. At
the place where the wreck occurred o
temporary side-track has been construct,
cd. and on this track we're n steam shovel
and a number of shanty-cars full of
workmen. No. 2 left Buffalo slightly
behind time, and was obeying orders
10 make up, and running about thirty
miles an hour.
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should BE Receivers, Not Givers.
Rome SentinoLl
The person who can least spare it is
often most willing to give others a piece
VI his mind.
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RICHMOND rosAcco MARKET.

RICHMOND ToeAcco MARKET.
tRepOrtsd for tho Dtspa,ch.I
DnTxBEB Is, 1890.
No auction offerings on Change or
loose-tobacco sales to-day.
Revenue collections: Cigars and cigar
cites, 81, 2sL55 (; tobacco. 81, 22s. 92-to-
IA, ss,5la47.
Private sales Filters, IA; wrappers
4-total, Is hogsheads.
Business already assumed a holiday
look to-day and but little was done.
The arrival OF loose wagons this
evening is small, but larger breaks are
expected Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday.
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK MARKET.
DECEMBER l5.-Receipts, 4l0 cattle,
202 sheep; 1850 hogs
Sales 1850 cattle ; 202 sheep; l, $50 hogs.
Prices:
Cattle-Best. 3iaic. gross medium to
good, 23a3ic. gross common to fair, lia
&c. gross.
Sheep-3a5c. gross
Hogs-4ia5c. net, few extra hno
higher.
Bulls-2a2ic. gross
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16
Ar,Nosr ALL ADVANCES,

though generally for insignificant frac-
tions, but Laclede gas and silver certiti-
Gates, Wheeling aud Lake Erie preferred
are up p Pacific Mail, Il; North Pa
cific preferred. Il Missouri Pacific. / l.,
and Canada Southern, | per cent. Sales
Listed, 1872, 900 shares; unlisted, 1000
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16

FORT o. RICHMOND. Dscshpss ID 10
ARxiyEn
steamship Oh Dominion, Couch, New york,
merchandise and passenger; George" W. Aiiss
Schooner Fannie Brown, sharrsst Bstessy
creek, phosphate rock. Richmond Chemical
schooner Moonlight. craamss. New Tess.
cemsn. wuaer Moore Co
SAILED.
steamer ARIEL, Deyo, Norfolk. mercnsndiso
and passengers: L b. Tstuna, nee psssnesS
Schooner Alfred Keen. Greedy Peru A0oevs
rsiirosd-giss; vessel, Curtis . Psfhsss
Pokr OF NEWPORT NEWS DscsuYss ~ ieA
fBy Telegraph
SAILED.
steamship visilsnois. New Yea. nssuoas
0 schooner A. II. Howe, New yors. 70 loaA esaA
schooner X l. Ferris New hssea. 10 tood -
SALAD
ssssmahsps Ealing, HambarS; Duns11Ds -
men Arotaa, Bremen; PisAssE hssre; w
dale. nouen--ail COAX
Bsfk 0iAciminia, SanfoA ooAl
roRr o. WEST POINT. psosssss u -
lBy rsisgsspAl
AnnIvDA
stsanship Daavtiis. bilispA nMnD9A ~
s.s.nsAip RicAnosA Jsassvs xssyssA -
ehsadiSe.
Steamship Richnsad. JsansN Nsspss -
sissnsaip psavins, BllispA nalannA -
chAadlss snd pssssassra
MEMORANDUM.
NEW yQss, Dsseehss 1A-Ausvs1 Syol -
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MARKET QUOTATIONS.
REPORTS From ALL GREAT BUSINESS
CENTRES OF TIVE WORLD.
Prices for Money. Bonds. StockA or~tn'
Tobacco, Cotton, Sc. and In Con-
nection Thsrewith the Wea-
Their Indications
rBy telegraph to the pispascs.i

II WARRINGTON, December lo.-
IflIR Forecast for Virginia Fair
weather except light rain on the
! coast northwesterly winds slight
changes in temperature light rain Tues
day night.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16
NORFOLK PEANUT MARKET.

DECEMBER l2.-Msrket steady. Sales
of several hundred bags at 3a3lc. Re-
coipts from the country continue heavy.
Prime, Be. extra prime, .c. fancy, 3ic:;
Spanish, 2s2lc. factory hand-picksd.
2Iaitc.
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sARpAsApALus AND MYRRHA

There was another, long before the
DAYS of Antony, in whose veins flowed
the blood of Nimrod and Semiramis
descended from a race OF kings VINO
knew no predecessors )" OF ac1vlizatioh
which looms dimly up to us through q
deem mist of years, majestic and mys-
terions of a time when the stored hills
~ Greece and Italy were roamed by
savaees, and the Eternal City had moi
begnn to exist-Sardanspalus, the last
King of the Assyrians. :.
What a magnificent heritage was his
line of imperial ancestry reaching
,b;vteen centuries into the past the
s,atslv civilization of Nineveh and the
;n,eIIsctnal empire of the world. Stray
traoments only OF his tragic history have
come down TO us Byron has given US a
picture:
In bis etreminite heart there is
A csraIess courage which corruption
Has not nuenched, and latent energies
Repressed by circumstance, but not De
STEPPED but not drowned in deep voluptu'
BUSINESS.
IL born peasant he nsu ocen inAH
To have reached emoire. -,
His death gives US q unit OF his hfs.
He had been shared by the Ionic eyes
of Myrrha and -,
Even for the sake Of all that ever stirred
A monarch into action, 10 forego
A trifng revel.
All the glory Of his ancestry was ior.
gotten for the velvet caress OF uie PM
hand Of his slave. When ell had been
lost he rihed the palace OF its treasures,
and in the court bnilt . funeral pyie OF
his richest furniture. and, after drain.
Ing one draught 10 the menery OF many
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16

joyous banquet past" burned hhnse'i
with his consnbines. SO died Sardsnsp,,
alus, and with him with 1900 years Of
afnriFe
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YLcuR.
We quote Fine. sa.sOssa75; super
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FORMER MRS. 0'SHEAS
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL STANDS
WITH Rl0ttT ROYAL OELlNoUENTS.
How Man, from sardanapaius to Sir
Charles Dnks. Has Biindiy Bartercd
Kingdoms for woman's Favor.
Philadelphia Presk

Beshrew my heart, but it is wondrous
strange;
Sure there IN something more than WITCH
craft in them
That masters ev'n the wisest Of us all.
RO1e: Jane Shore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
THE LIBRARY ELECTION.
The Largest Vote Recorded for Years Was
Cast Yesterday.

The Largest Vote Recorded for Years Was
Cast Yesterday.
At the annual meeting of the Mercantile
Library Hall Company, held yesterday
afternoon, the future policy of the company
was fully and pleasantly discussed, the ut
most harmony characterizing the delibera-
tions, and great unanimity marking the
selection of officers for the ensuing term.
Mr.. Charles j. Clarke, President, and
Hon. Felix R. Brunot, Vice President,
having positively declined denomination,
the following ticket was agreed upon as en-
tirely satisfactory to all parties.
President, Joseph Albree; Vice President, ].
W. Chalfant; Secretary. W. R. Thompson;
Treasurer, A. Halsey Williams; Directors
Joseph o. Brown. Geo. 1. Whitney, Henry
Holdship, T. F. Hudson and w. N. Freer.
About 4,3OO votes were cast, the largest
representation of stockholders recorded for
many years.
A resolution expressing regret at Mr..
Clarke's retirement as President was offered
BY Mr.. c. c. Mellor. With the resolution,
which was carried unanimously, was incor-
porated a vote of thanks for the valuable
services which he had performed in sustain
ing the finances of the corporation during
the long term in which he had acted as
President and his success in keeping the
company on a solvent basis when the work
was one of difficulty and encouragement.
A resolution regretting the retirement of
Hon. Felix r. Brunot and for his long and
faithful work in behalf of the company and
the Library Association was also offered
and passed. The company may we'll felici-
tate itself upon its selection of officers; they
are all men OF probity and executive ability,
and under their guidance success is as
EuFed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
DELAYED BY THE RECESS.
The Reason Given by the Attorney Genera
for n Suplcious Silence.

The Reason Given by the Attorney General
for SuplciOus Silence.
rEPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCHI
WASHINGTON, January 4.-When Judge
Hoge, District Attorney for the District of
Columbia, was asked by DISPATCH corre-
spondent what reason he had for his long de-
lay in bringing suit against the members of
the Old Dominion Republican Club, who
have been violating the law against collect
ing campaign funds from Government
clerks, he answered that it was simply de-
lay in the presentation of the particular form
of evidence necessary for his purpose. "The
communications turned over to me by the
Attorney General, +" said he, contained mat
ters which, though pertinent in themselves,
are not in shape for our use. should be un-
willing to go before grand jury with these
cases until they had been so thoroughly
worked up as to make an indictment indis-
pensable.
sit is probable the holiday season
has had its effect upon the person assigned to
the duty of collecting this testimony for me.
1 shouldn't be surprised to see him finish his
work any day now, and when he does that
will be the signal Tor pushing the Old
Dominion cases along"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
REDRESS is ASKED.
A British Subject Appeals to Sir Julian
PauncefOrt-He Claims Masked Men
Maltreafed His Wife and Him.
self Because He Taught

WASHINGTON, January 4.-Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British Minister, has re-
ceived petition from Rev. T. NJ. Joiner,
OF Holly Springs. N. c., for redress for in
jaries received by himself and wife at the
hands of mob at Holly Springs last
month. He states that he is a British sub
ject; that he and his wife were giving
religious and other instructions to the
negroes at Holly Springs, which fact he
says, so incensed some of his neighbors that
they broke into his house, assaulted and
maltreared both himself and his wife.
The crowd was masked, and many of their
number were armed with guns and pistols.
He SAYS he had been previously warned to
leave the place, but had refused to do so.
When the mob appeared at the house they
discharged volley of bullets into the room
where he and his wife were sitting, wound
ing him in the left arm above the elbow and
also in the left hand. Mrs. Joiner received
three flesh wounds in the scalp, and was
knocked down by one of the men with his
fist
Mr.. Joiner says he appealed for redress,
first to the local authorities, and next to the
State authorities, but received no satisfac-
tion. He then came to Washington with
his wi fe to lay the matter before the British
Minister. The latter is now investigating
the case, and expects to bring it to the at
tention of the Secretary of State as soon as
he has received the proper evidence. Mr..
Joiner has been preaching in North Caro-
lima since 1862
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
KILLED HIS GRANDCHILDREN.
A Frenchman Beats n Boy and Girl to
Death With n Hammer.

Frenchman Beats n Boy and n Girl to
Death With n Hammer.
HAVERHILL, n. H., January 4.-Stephen
La Plant, Frenchman, whose home is in
Benton. has been spending few days with
his sons family, at Center Haverhill. To-
day his son, accompanied by the mother of
the children, went to Warren, leaving La
Plant and wife in charge There were four
children. The two eldest were skat-
ing, leaving the unfortunate vic
Tins alone with the murderer
and his wife. There was some dispute in
regard to the children, when La Plant left
the room, returning with a hammer, with
which he dealt the boy an unmerciful and
heavy blow on the skull, scattering the
blood upon the ceiling and the floor. The
girl interrupted, engaged his attention, and
drawing a knife he cut her and also dealt
heavy blows with the hammer until she fell
to the floor insensible.
At this point passerby was attracted by
the noise, and La Plant was seized while in
the act of murderously assaulting his wife,
whose life, doubtless, he would also have
taken. Officer Weeden, of this place, was
summo ed, and had the murderer in Jail
here at o'clock. 1t is thought he was
drunk.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
THE MERCY HOSPITAL.
Annual Report of Patients Treated and
Donations Received.

Annual Report of Patients Treated and
Donations Received.
The annual report OF the Mercy Hospital
for the year 1889 was completed yesterday.
1t shows that between January 1, 1889, and
January 1, 1890, LAO patients were admit
ted to the hospital. Of these POI were
typhoid fever patients. The largest number
of cases of typhoid fever in the hospital at
one time was 30. This was in September,
during the time of the great amount of ILL
ness from that disease. The number of
cases in the hospital at present is 145, Of
which 26 are typhoid fever. Eleven cases
of various kinds were received yesterday.
The following Christmas or annual dona-
tIons are thankfully acknowledged by the
hospital management:
A. Garrison, 500; C. l. Magee, 500:
F. M. Magee, 500; A Friend, 500; John
Dunlap, $50; Rev. s. WALL D. D., $50; Samuel
w. Black, $50; Rev. ]. c. Farren, SIS: ]. q. POr-
terfield, $40; Mrs. Ryan Parkers, one dozen
knitted socks and So; William Barnes, Jr., IS;
Somers Bros. & Co.. bananas and oranges;
Caskey & Really, oranges; A. CLEANSER, soap
and brushes; George Eyrich. evergreen wreath
ing; Mrs. DIR. Joseph Dixon, turkeys! Mrs.
Goldbauh, turkeys; DR.. ]. n. Dixon, lfe-size
portrait of the late William Thaw; DR.. B.
Burns, beautiful landscape painting; Joseph
Horne, a box of choice cut flowers.
The fruit and flower ladies are especially
thanked for generous supply of the deli
cacies of the season all through the year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05

Mr.. Pearce said the Mills bill, If it had
passed, would have destroyed every bagging
manufactory in the country, and probably
bankrupted seyen-eighths of the manuiac-
turers. 1t would have wiped out from
T,OOO,0 900 to So, 100000 capital, land the
organization that cornered the product of
1883, was due solely to a belief that the
Mills bill was hostile legislation to inv ;sted
capital.
To Mr.. Breckenridge, Mr.. Pearce said
that before the introduction of the Mills
bill, correspondence was had among bag
glng manufacturers to restrict the output OF
the mills to about the amount demanded
by the American market, but it could not
be made success until the Mills bill was
proposed In that preliminary negotiation.
witness said nothing had been said about
prices in regard to the hemp industry. Mr..
Pearce said that if it were properly en-
couraged, he had no doubt that within three
years there would be, instead Of Il, 900 tons,
as now, from 10000 to $4,000 tons OF hemp
raised in the United States.
PLEA FOR RAW JUTE.
J. L. Bemis, of Bemis & Co.. Boston,
with bag factories in st. Louis, Minneapo-
lis and Omaha, made plea TOR adequate
rates of duty on manufactures of jute and
free raw jute.
Crawford Lyons, of Baltimore, appeared
before the committee, be said. in behalf of
the poor consumer. A protectionist him.
self by principle, he wanted to see re-
vision OF the tariff made equitably. There
fore, on carpets made from burlap, the
present duty of 80 per cent would
give manufacturers ample protection.
On linoleum and oilcloth, with the change
proposed by the Senate bill. the manufact-
urers can raise the price so as to aud half a
million dollars annually to their profits.
William Lyall, of New York, manufact-
urer of jute products, asked that the duty
on these articles be placed on a specific
basis instead of an ad valorem basis. Ad-
journed to Monday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
FARMERS WANT PROTECTION.

AEricuIturists Ask for an Advance Of the
Thrift on Barley.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
ERIE, January 4.-The farmers in the
northern part of Pennsylvanis and the bar.
ley-growing sections of Ohio and New York
are organizing for protection. The farmers
in Erie county have forwarded memorial
to Congressman CuIbertson setting forth
that they are suffering from Canadian COM
petition in barley at the present rate Of i'm
port duty on grain. They ask Congress to
advance the duty on barley to 25 cents per
Dushel and the duty on malt at proper.
tionate rate. The malsters cay that the de-
preston Of the barley growing is due to the
fact that corn, rice and alOes are being sub
stituted for malt and hops in beer making.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05

clare it is hopeless; that their miseries can
be in no way alleviated unless
he intervenes. Thev charge that
the employers, in working mines with
Italian and Polish laborers. are forcing
wages constantly nearer the starvation
point The Emperor has remitted the me-
mortal to Waybach, directing him to en-
deavor to get the consent of the masters to
arbitration in some form.
The National Zeitung, commenting on
President Carnot's speech, says: France
is the only great power that the Emperor
has not visited. His reception in Paris
would, of course, be absolutely impossible,
but President Carnot might visit Berlin,
and he could be assured of a sympathetic
welcome there as a sincere friend OF Euro
pean peace"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
COULDN'T PAY OUT.
Tho Whitley Harvester Company. of Spring.
field. Forced TO the WalI-GenerRl Keifer
Appointed Receiver-PrecipitnIed
by a PittsburE Firm.

field. Forced TO The WRlI-Generni helfer
Appointed Receiver-PrecipitaIed
by a Pittsburg Firm.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH:
SPRINGFIELD, O., January 4,-General
j. Warren Keifer was appointed receiver
to-day for the William N. Whitley Com
pany, manufacturers of harvesting ma
chlnery, and claiming 10 have shops which
are exceeded in size only by the Krupp
Gun Works at Essen, Germany. The shops
cover 10 acres, almost Solidly, and were
built eight years ago, regardless OF expense.
William N Whitley lost about $500, 900
in the Harper wheat deal. The Whitley,
Fassler, Kelly Company, which preceded
the present firm, went into the hands OF
William n. Whitley, receiver, June 8, 1887,
A few months later compromise was
effected by which the indebtedness was
scaled at 90 cents on the dollar, and the
property mortgaged TO the extent of 81, ,50O,-
600, and bonds issued for this amount, with
A. S. Bushnell and John Foos as trustees
for the creditors.
These bonds were to be paid in five INSTALL
ments on the first day of January each year.
One year ago $50, 900 of the amount then due
was defaulted, and this year the whole
amount, 100000, was allowed to be de-
faulted.
The appointment of receiver to-day is
only remotely connected with the previous
failure. The beginning of the end was the
attachment by Howe, Brown & Co., of
Pittsburg, of lot of machines which
had been shipped to agents in
that city. Their claim against the
Whitley Company amounted to over $10,-
600, but the suit was only for $4,000. The
bringing of this attachment suit stirred up
creditors all over the country, and the major
part of them have been IN the city, at one
time or another, since then.
By request of the firm a meeting of the
creditors was held yesterday, and General
Keifer was unanimously chosen TO act as
receiver, and lie was appointed to-day. The
creditors will make arrangements for con-
tinuing the firms business.