ISCESSQQ THE STRIKE. NOTHEB TALK BETWEEN POW DEELT AM) GOULD, Bfcldertble PmrfM Made In e jotUUaai fr a Settlenent j Arbitration. LU50IS MILITIA ORDERED TO EAST 8T. LOUIS. k S!tnUa at the Scene of the Trenblfi-Ulstorj of I he IIhU of Ubor. Smw Yobb. March 30-10:30 a.m. Jr. Gould ia in hie office tbia morning idy to mt the cemmtttee oi ice Zniohta r.r Labor, tint nottrflhatand- jif tbe fact that Mr. Powderly last light Mkrd for a conference this nomlng l 10 o'clock, no memberaof he committee have aa yet appeared, lor hae they eent any communi. a h that Mr. Pnwdnr. Din hu caused the delay, ind .hat the committee of Knighte will be m hand me time thie morning. Mr. lonlJeiL.'i-Mes hiinselt aa perfectly rilling ti do all he consistently ean to oring about a eatislaclory agreement run r. rowoerir. ........ .. . At 11 o'clock Mr. Powderly, fteoom ranted by Mews. Tnrner, Bailey, ilavae aid McDowell, walked from their hotels to Mr. Oonld'i office, whare the met Messrs. Jay Gould, (it once Ooold and n Vioe-Preeident iiopkina. They are nowln confer ; The question ea to the genaral prin ciple ol arbitration ia being thorough ly disenseed at the conference between , Mr. Uonld end tee committee oi toe Knishta ef Labor to-day. The caution ' )eian at 11 o'clock, and still continut a. Mr. lloxla at Bt. Louie ia connected with the committee by a direct wire, , and ia takim an active part ia the conference. A jrant'eman who has ' been In the committee-room all morn ' iDgstatee that the outlook for an attree : mcnt aa to the manner an1 conditions of a settlement by arbitration are very favnrahlii ...... ' At p.m. Hi" comerennsj ami continues, and the discnesion ie cover ing a ti ry wide field. Congressman O Neill's bill baa received considerable attention, .and General Kwayne hit been before the body giving his views aetoita merits. Owing to the great number of nutters that are being dis cussed, it is not likely that the gentle men In conference will be able to fin inh their labora to-dny ; but op to this time considerable proprees toward an agreement has been made, and it is not thought that a decision as to v hetTier-wr not the differences can be Bottled by arbitration will be arrived ' at to-day, but the details will have t) bearraeg'd to-morrow. ; li.'SO o'dork p. m The conferencj just now adjourned to meet again to ; morrow morning. It is sta'ed that considerable progress has been mule in nego i at ions for a fc'.t'cment by . arbitration but the wbolo matter iain such a crnde e'nte at present that no - detai's if reiul'i of the day's labor will be made public. TUB BB8ULT Or Till CONKRKKNCK. - In an interview just held with a gentlemau who has been prtasnt at ta-day's conference and it mils very close to Mr. Uonld, It waa learned that ; the committee o! the Knight) oi Labor j submitted a proposition for arbitra tion, which has been referred to Mr. ,11. M. Hoiie at St. Liuis. As Mr. ; I Uonld deblUml to act without the ad 1 vice of Mr. lioile, the meeting wai J adjourned t await its arrival. Nbould Mr. lioxie reply this evening hie ' views will be at once snt to Mr. ' Powderly and bis associate, and, , should they so desire, they are at lib t erty to make the matter public Mr. Gould and Mr. Uoxie both eiprosced themselves as willing to receive any : of their employee and to hear their grievances, e These, employe! must, : however in) eauh' casw btlong to the class maklnjt complaint. For instance, should toe engine m desire to arbi lute any matter,1 tha complaint must be presented to the company and all negotiations oe earns a on. with tlis em ploy is complaining, no questions will be asked as to whether they are Knights of Lb;r or not, bat they must be employes tf the company and no committee will be received which contains any but employee. BOX IB TO GOULD. : I The following telegram was received ' to-dy by Jay Gould from General i Manager lioxie of the Missouri I'at ific ! railway: : . or. bourn, aiu., March im. ; ' To Jay tlould, Now York: The moTammit ol freight trains yes 1 ; terday was largely increased on all ' linee. One hundred and thirteen , trains wrs moved In the ayr-tain. The f lntt rnaliinal and Great Northern and i tbe M'saonri, Kanaaa and Tcxa in ! Texas wore thoroughly onened, except i at Alvarado; alo theeut re Iran Monn : tain and rthe Miseouri Tat itlc to and including Kaghu (.'it and Atchison, and toecsn'ril branch'. The MiRsouri, ; Kansas and Texss is now open, except : at Parson', Alvaiado and Hannibal, where the authorities have not yet curtrclled the mob. At Texarkana : and Pa'.eetine,' two of the worst points, the authorities have now obtained control and protect oar trains, and the situation, at Kansas Uity and Atcbbon is greatly, improved, sod eo far as re ported oar trains to-day are an molested, " u. m. roxis, titatral mbit Miiiourl Pacilc R. R. Ksioirja or Ubib vkby BaTicavr. The members of the Knishte oi La bor i n this city are reticent about til k- , ing about the trouble upon tbe Gould rkmtnwestern system ot railroad j un til eome aenoue ronciunon is ar rived at. . William Brown, one of the oldest and most esteemed men in the order N in this vicinity, expressed hltrsjlf as follows, howevef: "It is aa abeolute neceesity that this strike should end. it ia not settled quickly there is no : ing what the result will be. The : ,1 people are excited all over l" V untry, and ttie nneatiners and I V'x'- trng-which bat existed in St, ! , ' a7 k-1 u lon8 tlie atrikiug roads ! . . li-' or ,atr reeuit in a colli fLLK: the strikers and the au ,7Z. iVr,,!1 train is once fired ' ! ?ii"A"g where the trouble ! TtUI BUS, UU V r' 7 ,i riota of 1877 would it plav ta Ki.:nt. n( r.n. , be but srnaentlyl ray ;,i,. " . .v.1 ..it.Z.A ...iJ neither we nor gether and by Tnf mutual c-.msions, t?,? tosnend."-, v -v thie thing tj danger ol Mr. Irons .ef using l .U n.mnA Mtoi 5y tne .-.i L-..;.. vn..A ? msn U,. 4k. I. lw ill. wrJ wouid ikot dare to do it"; eveVvl in a moment, and. if tbe district held him. its charter would be tik awav. We can stand kicks on ems things, bnt in a matter like this, which affeHa not only the welfare ol tbe en tire ordr, bat the whole foiotrv, we could a fiord no Inanhordinat on. AT ST. L0U8. mmm p t. Kt. Lovia, Mo. March 33. The (all ni of a drlsalmi rain this morning, th di-agreeebleneea of which is aug mented br a cold north wind, haa m, ved np to thie boor to keep indoor t ie strikers, end no crowds except oi nnll dimensions can be seen coagre Wed within env of the railroad yards. Oa this tide of the river no freight trains have aa yet started out, bnt it ie j . l . 'a . i. : i r . a - officials will make tbelr. attempts in that dlrec ion to day aa nsunl. Tbe large allseourl 1'aclnc Ireigut depot, at the corner of never t a and Poplar streets, this morning preeetti an ap pearance ot greater activity tban at any time since tbe inauguration ol tbe strike. Heavily- adentranefiT wagons are arriving auddepositingtheirgooda therefor shipment, and it looks sail the company were about to reeume freight traffic despite the h tch in the nego'.tationa lor a settlement oi tne strike. TBI SITriTION IS XAST ST. LOO IS ' this morning, to far as the strike ol the switchmen and yardmen ia con cerned, remaina unchanged. Tbe Crowds congregated around the rail road depot ro not to large and no serious ditturbanee In that Quarter has occurred, owing, no doubt, t5 the fact that none of . the companies nave attempted at yet to start out freight t tains, for the strikers insist that Such attempts will be strongly resisted by them. They ray that, they will .not return to .work, not. 1 the preliminary negotiations looking toward a settle ment of tbe strike by arbitration shall have been satiefactorily arranged, and they ordered by their local Executive Uommittee to reeume tneir autiea. ' ' MABTIN MOMS, . chairman of the Executive Committee of District Assembly No. 101, Knights of Labor, arrived from bedaiia. Mo.. thie morning, and immediately re paired to a mooting oi bis committee, wntcn is now neing neia, oe presia log. Be refuses ti make any state ment in regard to the strike, and will say nothing to reporters except that the committee hai taken no action, and will take none until the reeuit ol the con fare nee now being held be tween Mr. Gould and Mr. Powderly ebau be known. , , A XIW STBIKB. Threo hundred and fifty men em ployed by the Bt. Loois Transfer Com pany reported for duty a' the regular hour this morning, and when about to begin their du'les ol the day were told by the superintendent cf the company thet it had been decided to furnish Ibcin protection in perform ing tbelr tliittus bv detailing a squad of Deputy United States Marshals to acoompany them during the day and guard them from molestation by tbe turners. This was wnat tbe men were wailirg for and they Immediately struck, declaring that they wanted no protection. No freight can now be brought across the nvjr to this citv. for the ferry is the only means of transfer and this new strike renders it uselese, for no teams can be procured to do the necessary hanling from the railway depots to the river landing?. FBKICItrr TBAINS STARTED Three freight trains were started out Ibis morning from the Mlisouri Pacific .yards, guarded by a strong force ol po lice. There were no crowds oi any sise coogregaUd in the yards at the time and none were afminbled at any fioint along the route leading oat of be city. It is stated that the company could now run out their regular num ber of trains ooold the necessary num ber of men be procared to man them. A MABKXD CONTRAST. The situation in Eait Bt. Louis this afternoon presents a marked contract to that of yesterday. No serious dis turbance has ai yet occurred, although several at'empta by the railway com- Eaoy to start out freight trains have eon' reeiBtody the .strikers. ' An Il linois .and.KU LduIs railway engine, whtls engaged io making np a freght train, was approached by a number of stnaors, woo requested the engineer to desert bii poet. This be rehired to da, arid (he ruea killed the engine and took It back to tha round bouee, On the Vandalla tracks a similar attampt was made to make up a freight train, but the engineer complied with tbe requoit of tbe strikers t) take bis en gine back to the round-house, and the attempt was abandoned. No opposi tion, however, was ofl'eici to tbe ef forts of the Wabaph ollicials to resume frehrut tralllc, and they succeeded in eending out a freight train. The pres ence ol tne deputy Un,t?d States mar shals had a restraining influence, and the men seem much lees rgzrei-sive to-day tban formerly, aud it Is thought that the presence ol the mil tia will not be required to protect the proper ty cf any ol the rniliotd companies. STR1RKR8 ARIiC&Tin, Warrants l ave been Issued lor the a r rent ol - 'William McOonnell and William Conroy. striking MimnirU'a c'fic erriployes, charged with obstruct ing the pusage oi a Missouri Pacific pawenger train on March 23d. Judge Advocate McUo.uy of the Knights ol Labor, who was arrested yesterday on the charge of trespassing on the com pany's property, was brought before tbe court this morning and was al lowed to give bail pending a prelimi nary examination ol the charges. . FOUB FSBIQHT TBAJKa '. this mornlnjf were made tip In the Iron Mountain yard, anit, under the protection of a small guard ol police, succeeded in passing thiongh the city without any interference from the strikers.' No crowds bad collected any wheri about the tracks and no ex citement attended the passage through the city. i ! ' . . , . STILL IN BKSMCN. The Executive Committee is still In informal eessinn, but they are not, eo far as can be learned, transacting any business. They are simply waiting the result ol tbe conference between Gould aud Powderly in New York None ol tbe committeemen-will talk about the situation. CALL FOR TKOOPS AT BAST ST. LOt'IS, . The following dispatch was sent this morning by 8 her Iff Kobiequet of fcit. Clair oun y, 111,,'to Gov. Ogleeby, but no reply bat yet been received: East St. Lou in. III., Harok .10, lags, To Oov. Odeabri t-rinfllil, 111, : Your dispatch was received too late for me to come to bpringtleld, and my state oi health is impaired so much by late vigils mat it is out oi tne ques tion for me to ga far from borne. called the : posee at East St. Louis when the emergency occurred. , Few oereocs responded and lew will, There are nine yards here. There are fullv 1500 men detei mined that cofieight trains shall move. They respect no authority, and eeem to - hold the State of Illinois in contempt t is folly to think ol moving freight 'vins here ' nnltss the sends a !1K force. All attempts to do so result in failure and bring tne MEMPHIS DAILY atthoritiee into farther contempt Enginee have been killed tbia morn ing, and the freight blockade ia com pltt except aa to the roads in tbe bands ol United Btatee Marshals. The striker aeem to have a strong respect for tbe Uniud States, bnt none lor the Slate. fbid b'biiodit. 6hrif of 8t Oalr eoaatj, 111. ORDBBBO TO BAST ST. LCtJIS. A Poel DimatcM tpecid from Snrina- field, III., eaye Gov. Ogleeby has or e'ered 8 0 men, a section r( artillery and a Getting gun ol the Fourth and Fifth Kegimenta of the militia to hold themselves in instant readioeas to proceed to Eait Lonis. it ia be lieved tbe force will be ordered to move this afternoon. 'WHAT MB. HOI IB SATS. ' Application to the Miasouri Paclfio headquarters by aa Associated Press reporter this afternoon elicited the following bit of information. Further tban this Mr. Hozie would not tlk: "Mr. Hoxle, having been named by the Poird of Directors cf the Missouri Pacific railway as its contintrnj rep resentative in dealing with tbe strike on its lines, will adopt no course ol ac tion that will be inconsistent with the position that he has heretofore When." .( FHJEK1IIT TRAINS START OI'T. . Under the protection of United States manthau at the Wabutth rail road yards in North St. Ijouis, the regular passenger and freight trains are arriving on time without any trou ble. No crowds of strikers have ot tered any resistance to the regular business of the road at this point, and acme is expected. "This afternoon the Chicugo, Bur lington and Quincy started a freight train of seventeen cars out of the rail road yards in East St. Louis, -which proceeded safely a short distance be yond the relay depot. Here a num ber ol strikers boarded the train and succeeded in detaching the seven rear cars. The engine, with the remain ing cars, escaped, having succeeded in running the blockade. ' A CIPUKll M KM AOS of considerable longthjwas sent by Chairman Irons to Air. Powderly to day, but its contents could not be learned. Mr. Irons said , nothing would be dono here until the result of the conforenco in New York was known. He gave it as his opinion that an amicable adjustment ol the existing troubles would be uflectod within two or threo days. nilSINKSN BKHUMINO. Tho ollieiiilH of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain roads to-day made the formal announcement that its agents wou'd receive freight for ship ment to all points on their respective roads, as before the Btrike. General Superintendent Kerrigan ol tho Mis souri Pacific railroad, said this even ing that biiHincMH wns progrefwing favorably upon tho whole system. Full trulllc was not resumed, ol course, but every duy showed nn im provement. Fully 150 trains had been moved to-dny on nil the lines, and there was leas interference than on any previous duy. Tho men nro ap plying for work at mnny points on the road, and aro being engaged as Inst ns their sorvices are requiral. IX TEXAS. , Making I'p Trains at Palestine. Palistink, Tkx., March JO. At 10 o'clock vestnrduy morning Sheriff Da vis, with 201) deputies, including dep- otizod conductors, engineers and train men, took poaae'slon ol the railway yards, aud with Yardmaster Fanning ana bis assistants began to make up trains. While the force of strikers at this plies lined Spring street from the poetntftce corner to the Railroad Hotel, not the slightest attempt was made to resist the work ol making np or run ning trains. Between 10 and 11 o'clock yesterday three irelght treius arrived from the couth under guard of citiz9na from Elkhart and Sheriff Bain ol Houston county. These sre the first trains, with the exception ol the regu lar passenger trains, that have arrived here in three weeks. At 12 o'clock the first freight train to leave here in three weeks started out for Houston, and since then eight long trains have gone north, south and west. Except lor trivial c-fl'e&ses no arrests have been mule, and no violence is antici pated. 1 rams are (.till temg made tip, and yesterday it was expeoted that by this morning the yards wou'd be en tirely cleared. All trains are running in charge of armed guards. Itae Rltnalloa at Fort Worth. Fort Wobtii, Tkx , Mah 30. Su perintendent Herring and ' Assistant Matt ir Mechanic Woods lnvc received abaut 100 applications for work, moat ly Irora men at other polcti. Ten Knig'iti of Labor were r.t work yester day, but none ol them have been prominently connected withtheftriko Ju ige Williams will oippmh of the cawa of the persons charged with dis obeying tbe injunction tomorrow. AdjL-Geu. King is here. Mono cf the strikers have gone back to work yet. and will not until cflkial- 'y ordered to do to. All freight traius aremained by deputy United Hates marshals. One freisht train was scut south without guards, and when it reached Aivarado the erg'ns was "killed" and tbe train stopped. V ' IS KAKSA. Pasaengrr Train Wieened Kear Par aons. Pabsons, Kar., March 30. Pass enger train No. 154, north-bound, was ditched five miles south ol here, and the engine, mil car, and baygge car were thrown down the embankment The mail car struck against a tel graph pole and broke it. The only one seriously hurt was Mail Agent Moore, who has been aken to his homo at Oiage Minion. The track will be cleared to-day. The wreck wai caused by the fiah plate be ing removed and the rails spreading. Tbe fish plate was then spiked down so the rails could not possibly get to their places, thereby making a wreck inevitable. Great indignation ia mani fested by our cltixens at the p roetrat ors el the crime, and it la likely the guilty ones will bs arieUed aud pun ished as the detectives have obtained eome clews as to who the guilty pait ies are. rrelsbt Train Wrtenea at Kansas Kansas Citt, Mo., March 30. As a freight train ol twenty cars was leav ing Grand Avenue Depot this fore noon, with policemen on baaid, two men turned the switch and twelve freight cars and the cubotse were ditched and badly wrecked. 1 hey ar rested one ol tbe offenders, named Martin Scow, but the other, John Nocuan ol Sdalia, refused to halt and was shot in tbe hip by a Mica officer. The shooting has caused great excite msnt among the itrikers. Noonan, on being taken into ens tody, at first asserted he was a plas terer and happened to be passing and ran because be saw an officer chasing him. He weakened Utr, however, regarding his first statements. Noonan was a car inspector on the Missouri APPEAL - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1880. Pacifis before the strike. His com panion gives tha name of Martin Leon. He confesses his part in tbe wi rk. When asked why they did it he said: "Well, we conldo't stop it any other way; all the trains being lm.ded with Dolice." The com Dan v is still moving its tralna as btf-ire and without serious interference. A large crowd of strikers congregated at the yaras mis aiwrnoon, out Dispersed nnder tbe pressure of the police.- IILST0BT OP 1UE K. OF L. Philadelphia was the birthplace of "Tbe Noble Order of the Knights of Labor," and its founder waa Uriah 8. Sevens, a tailbr, who was born in Cape May ciunty, N. J., Anguft 3, 18-'l. In 1869 be collected together the first body ol laboring men nnder the above-given tills, though tbe Hist properly organized local assembly waa not created until 1873. It wis largely composed ol clothing cutters. The order spread rapidly, fur aa sxm as its general objects wera made known to wage-earners their sympathies were inevitably enlisted and they taw in the plans t-OLtimplsted by the found ers the mennn of affecting what prob ably could not be achieved by separ ate trade orzanizatioos. Well enough in their ay as they were, they were far behind the scheme of the Knights, which wis to knit in one common brotherhood all be dies of wage-Mrnrrj from the Atlantic to tbe Pacific, so that, if necessary, the power ol the union could be brought to btar, through indirect inflaenoe, with its whole weight upon the capi tal it t, against whom his employes were straggling even were be in tbe most remote corner ol the land. Whether right or wrong, this ia the logical result of tha principles of the order. Ita present leaders declare that their methods are conseivative. They believe that arbitration can set tle most disputes between capital and labor, and they, permit or order a strike only when negotiations fail. Along with tbe wsapon of theatrike goes tha boycott; that is, tha prohibi tion of all members of the order from buying the goods manufactured or old by tbe person who may be placed under tbe boycott Tbe last resort of the order Is the extreme form of the boycott; that is, to pnt under the ban not onlv the goods ol the capitalist originally boycotted, but the goods or business of any firm, company or per son (not connected with the Knights) using the goods or helping in any way tbe busiaees ol the object ol the orig inal beyoott. The Knights say that this measure of coercion is not ap plied until every other attempt to set tle the dispute fails. Its effect was feen when this city, at the word of the Executive Committee cf the car drivers' organization, was stripped ol n'l means of surface railway communi cation in order to enforce the sur render ol the cross-town railways, which had not yielded to the car drivers' demands when the lines run ning north and south did so. It is tho ca'ise ol the blockade on the South western railway system, where the sins ol the Texas Pacific are being visited upon all its connecting linee. From Philadelphia the order of Knights of Labor spread to Pittsburg, and thn it seized a firm hold on the coal and iron regions oi Pennsylvania. In 1878 a convention was held for the formation ol a General Assembly of North Amer ica, and Mr. Stevens, who had presided over Local Assembly No. 1, was chosen as General Master Workman, the head ol the order. He served a second term. From this time on the progress ma le by the Knights wai more rapid, probably, tban that which hai ever attended any similar association. thb declaration or principles of the order contains many demands which ths large body of the people would regard as just and proper. Its aims are stated to be: "First, to make industrial and moral worth, not wealth, the true standard of individual and national greatness ; second, to secure to tbe workers the full enjoyment ol the wealth they create, sufficient leis ure in which to develop their intellec tual, moral and social f Acuities ; all ot the benefits, recreation and pleasure of association; in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advanoing civilization." In order to secure these resnlts the fol lowing demands are made "at the hands of tbe State:" The establish ment of bureaus of labor statistics; the reservation ol public lands to actual settlors ; t'ae abrogation of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labor and the improve ment ol the administration ol justice; legislation to protect the health and lives of those engaged in indtK'iei and lor proper indemnification in case ol Injury; the recognition ol uniorsol laboring men; the compelling of cor porations to pay employes "weekly, in lawtul money, for the labor ol the preceding week and securing to me charjics and laborers a that lien upon the products ol their labor to the ex tent ol their full wages;" the total ab olition of ibe coutrert eye em; the establishment of compulsory arbitra tion between employers and the era ployed; the prohib.t'on ol the hiring out cf contract labor, and "that a gia ' uated income tax be levied." ' officsrs op thb ordbr. The crder is composed of local as semblies which send delegates to the district assemblies, aud the latter are represented in a general assembly, which is the supreme legislative body. The local assemblies are com posed as far as possible of members of one pellicular trade. Where this is impracticable a "mixed" assembly ia organised. ' The local assemblies regulate their own Initiation fees and annual dues, but each Knight pays 24 cents a year to the General As sembly. These contributions form the fund from which are paid the ex pense of the officers and organizers, boycotting, maintaining strikes, etc. The Goneral Assembly meets an nually. It ehocsea officers and an Executive Committee that is intrusted with the direction and governmect ol the affairs oi the order. Tbe present General Master Workman, Tf ranee V. Powderly, ol Sctauton, Penn. ; gen eral worthy foreman, Kicbard Grif fiths. Chicano: irener! fecretary treasurer, Frederick Turner, Phila delphia; general auditor, John G. Caville, Brooklyn; secrttaiy ol In eurance Association, Horner L. Mc Gaw, Pittsburg, Ia Executive Board Mesers. Powderly and Turner, John W. Hays. New Brunswick, N. J.; W. H, Bailey, Shawnee, O, ar.d T. B, Barry, F'aet Sarins ir, Mich. Co-operative Board John J. McCartney. Ba'- tiuiore, president ; J. P. McGaughey, Minneapolis, Minn.; Jonn oamuei, St J-ouis: Peter D. Cattaoach, Troy, N. Y.: Hnah Cameron. Lawrence. Ka.. and Henry Mente, Ithaca, N. Y. The headquarters of the order are wherever the secretary may live. At present thev are at No. 202 Sprnce street, Philadelphia, the home of Mr. Turner, a perfect tvre of an oia-iain ioned three-stcry Philadelphia dwell Inc. - General Master Workman Powderly receives a salary of $1500. and the secretary-treasurer gfrts $1200. The members oi the Executive Board are paid like mechanics, 13 and expenses for every day of actual work in ib cause. Delegates and organizsrs of new assemblies are the only other members who receive pay, and then they set it only when laboring. stbixoth of thb obdir. It is impossible ti estimste closely the strength rf the Order of the Knights ol Labor. Though all the trades unions are not embraced in the order, there are thousands of men be longing to those separate bodies who are members of the common brother-ho-Kl. Naturally tbe Knights desire t) keep their strength unknown to outsiders, lest by a knowledge of the full extent ol the power which would have to be met, capital in some cases might feel justified in meeting a con test or in prolonging its resistance to labor's demands- There sre said to be about 6OC0 local assemblies of the or der in the country, and it ia believed thtt a modest estimate would put the average membership at 100 to each as sembly. Oi course many of tbe local bodies number fewer members, bat on the other laid there are many which contain several hundred on their rolls. Not less than 500,000 membes may be credited ti Ibe order throughout tbe country; careful inquiries lead one lo place tbe present maximum member ship at not over 1,OCO,000. The st ength of the order, however, is rapidly increasing; in fact, admission of new assemblies baa been suspended until Jane, first, because there is so much to be done in writing np the rolls of thotO recently organic to, and, second, because the order d tes not care to weaken itself by admitting labor trades which might tax toe whole organization for support in a possible contest over Unreasonable demands. Tbe Brotherhood ol Loco motive Engineers and the Amal gamated Iron and Steel Workers are the two moat powerful unions of la boring men ia the country, bat they are not, as bodies, members of tbe Knights of Labor. Tbe Knights are believed to be strongest in the Middle States. They are weakest, in point ol Among the cities, New York, without doabt, iursUbee the largest number to the order.' i There are fully 60,000 members here, aa nearly as can be as certained. Throughout the country the cigarmakers furnish the largest number of m ambers to tbe organiza tion, and after them eome, in regular order, tbe car drivers and anthracite coal miners. ' In New York City the quota of Knights furnished by the printers undoubtedly exceeds that supplied by any other class oi wage earners, but tbe carpet workers a-e alsostrongly organ;zed. Belore this ye a is out these proportions will probably bs changed. Tbe telegraph brother hood is likely to be iu the organizt ticn, and a strong effort is being made to make the railrjad operators uniti with their commercial brethren. Ac tive prcsslytiBg, moreover, is going on among the brakemen, g te men, tick et sellere, station men aud every other employe connected with tbe railroads. The order embraces many other than manual laborers. In the membership are merchants, employers of labor in numerous trades and caanufictories, arch tects, clergymen, phisicians. newspaper men and, more than might be expected, Congressional end State legislators and members of State and municipal governments ere Knights cf Labor. The only businesses which are it-barred from admission are those of the banker, stcck-broker, lawyer aud iquor dealer. With regard to the last business toe exclusion Is so wide as to keen out all persons who derb" j&y profit or income from the (ale otTf x iciting drinks. Many women 'are members of the organization, and or of its fundamental principles is"eauai pay for equal work." Infereotiallyithel rignt oi sunage is conceded o women, and the Michigan branch of the order recently adopted rrsalutions specifical ly favoring the extension ol the ballot to female citizens. NBW FEATURES STRIKES. The insurance department is a new feature oi the order. Membership is not compulsory. By the payment of $1 25 any one between the ages of eighteen and fifty may secure to his heirs 1500 on his death. Tbe insur ance paymenta are made, by assess ment npon the members whenever a death occurs. Tbe local assemblies may order strikes without permission I from the Executive Committee, but ui: less they are authorized no awitt- ancecan be commanded from other assemblies or the higher bodies. Only when the resource of the district have been exhausted by a strike is the financial aid ol (he whole body railed UP Ml. The ooperative branch ol the order has not met with any impoitatit suc cess in trying to introduce the co op erative system in business, but in eou.e of the eina'l towns aud villages co operative stores have been established and maintained. A great deal ol ie crrcy Is still kept around the order, but it is far lees mysterious than when it wasstaitcd. Then even tho name ol the organization wastuppresiedaml members were forbidden to acknowl edge their membership. To-day they aro not permitted to say who is a mem ber, though they may acknowledge their own connection with the order. DEMANDS ON TUB NATIONAL GOVERN MENT. Ol Congress the most important measures demanded are the adoption ol the fiat money system, tbe wiping out of na'iocal b.'nks, tbe control of railioada. telegraph and telephones by the government and the creation ol postal savings banks. This part of the platform is adopted in full; "the establishment ol a national monetary system, in which a circulat ing medium in necetsary quantity shall issue direct to the people, with out the tnterventioa ol basks; that all the national issue shall be lu'l le gal tender, in payment of all debts, public and privae;aad that the gov ernment shall not guarantee or recog nize any private bank, or cieate any banking corporations. "That interest-bearing bond?, lills of credit or notes shall never be is sued by the government, but that, when need arises, tbe emergencies shall be met by issue of legal tender, non-interest-bearing money. "That the Importation of foreign labor under contract be prohibited. "That in connection with the post office, the government sball organize financial exchangee, safe deposits and facilities for deposit oi the savings oi the people in small sums. "That ths iravernmeBt shall obtain possession by . purchase nnder the tight ol eminent domain ol all tele ffranhs. teleohnnes and railroads, and that hereafter no charter or license be Unnad ta anv rnrnoiation for construe tion or operation of any means of trar sporting intelligence, passengers or freishr. ... "And while making the foregoing demands upon tbe State and National government, we will endeavor to as sociate our own labors. . "To establish co-operative institu tions such as will tend to supersede the wage system by tbe introduction of a co-operative indof trial system. "To secure for both sexes equal pay for eanal work. "To shorten tha hoars of labor by a general refusal lo work for more tban eight boors. "To persasde employers to agree to arbitrate all differences which may arise between them and their em ployes in O'der tha' tbe bonds of sym pathy between them may be etrengib ened and that strikes msy ba tender ed nnrecesea'y." - Sore Eyes Hi.; cyc are always iu ympathy with tho body, and afford an excellent index ot its condition. When I lie even he-come weak, and the lid inflamed and sore, it Is an evidence that the system has become disordered by Scrofula, for which Ayer'l S'.irsaparllla it the bent know n remedy. Scrofula, which produced a painful In flanimuiioii in my eyes, canned me much ulfuring for a number of year. By the advice of a physician 1 commenced taking Arer'a Suniiarilla. After Using this medicine a short time I was completely Cured My evet arc'now in a plendld condition, and 1 am an well unci strong; as ever. Mr. William liae, Concord, X. 11. For a number of years I was troubled with n linmor iu my eyes, and w as unable to olitiiiu any relief until I commenced Ukliur Ayer's Sai-saparllla. This meiliiMno has elfec'led a complete cure, and I believe ft to lie the best of blood purifiers. C. K. I'pton, Nashua, X. 11. From childhood, and until within a few months, 1 Iihvo been afflicted with Weak aud !ire Eyes. I linve used for these complaints, with beneficial results. Ayer'l Siirnaparllla. and consider it n grout blood purifier. Mrs. C. Phillips, Glover, Vt. I suffered for a year wllli Inflamma tion In my left eye. 'Three ulcers formed on tho ball, depriving me of sight, and causing great puin. After trying many other remedies, to no purpose, I' waa Anally Induced to use Ayer's Saraaparllla, and, i By Taking ! three bottle of this medicine, have been entirely cured, ily sight has been re stored, and there ia no sign of Inflamma tion, sore, or ulcer In my eye. Kendal T. Bowen, Sugar Tree Kldge, Ohio. My daughter, ten years old, waa afflicted with Scrofulous Sore Eyes. During the last two years she never anw light of any kind. Physicians of the highest standing exerted their skill, but with nn permanent success. On the recommendation of a friend I purchased a bottle of Ayer's Sar saparllla, which my daughter commenced taking. Before she bad used the third bottle her sight was restored, and she ean now look steadily at a brilliant liht with out pain, lie r cure la complete. W. E. Sutherland, Evangelist, Shelby City, Ky. Ayer's Sarsaparllla, Prepared by Dr. 3. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mast, old by all Druggist. Trice II ; six bottles, S. DEMOCRATS TO THB FRONT To Ml persona seeking Government Km rloyment In any of tho departments , Wanhington, or any other poritions and the Government, I willstnd lull inntruc-.ion M to bow to irorKMl to obtain tun su e, and Blank Forma of Aipllent nn rocelpt ot On Dollar. A on rem JH O k LZl 15 nit J- ,avvj,. .1 ll . fc I if:; la Jim Jf ..UlW r ffl 5,5 2 . t'Jkm'mk m , al V ' x vav W. W. BCHOOLIIBLD. . ' L3UI8 EstablistLed 1863. . i ... I CSolfctoio. 25fi and 258 Front M. H. COOVEE & CO. ' MASUFACTTjRERS OF ' Door, Saab, mtndis Monlriliigv all kinds ol Door and lVlndew Frames, IIra4'ketH 8orollWork, Rouen and Dreaaed Lumber, Shingle, Lalbm Wafer Tankik All kinds ot Wood Work Kxecuttxl at Short Xotltf. Nos. 157 to 173 Washington St. : Memphis. Tud. MEISTER'S. MASONIC U. 0. PKAKCS. EC Fearce & Co. Cotton Factors ti Commission Xlerch'ts No. 376 FRONT STREET, MEMPHIS. TENN. Cottwei Wa-rBiae Km. His ssajel I'aion trrroot. To Gas Consumers . OF THE CI1 OF MEMPHIS. FOR all r consumed on and sfler tbe 1st of Apr I, proximo, by ro towers of this Comi'iny, the pio will be Two Dollar sad Fifty Cents tier thousand eubio feet, bat where the bills ere paid within the irit (re business days of ch month a Discount ot Fitty Cents per thousand feet will be made, making- net pr ceel TWO DOLLAHe' per thousand oubio feet. HCMFHIS GsM.IKHrr. By 8. ESSLEY, President. Joa. OaAIO, Beeretaiy. Memphis, renn.. Ma-en , issn. I A book of 100 pare. I KWiVri k t 'Iho best book fur V"e,s . an adv.. User to eon- lrt(seiasiMsiiakSult. be) he ener. new paper and estimates o the eost of d-vertismaj- The advertiser who waotr to spend one dollar, finds In it tneinlormstion he re quires, while for him who will inreit on aui dred thonsand dollars in r avertisina, a s-hene let alieated whioh will meet hi every reuleeinent, or ean be made to do so by slight oru.na' easily arrived at br corre spondence. One hundred and fifty-thre editions have been issued. Bent, postpaid, to any address ior ten cn.s. Arply to GEO. P. KOW ELL A CO.. NEWrjPAPte AD VERTISING BUREAU.lOS-iirueeet. (Print In Hons. Son N'w VotW. RECEIVER'S OFFICE Exchange National Bank KOBFOLK, VA.,Fb. 16.18M. PROPOSALS will be received at this office until Saturday, March Z7, 1886, for the parches of the hereinafter mentioned prop erty in it entirety, and also for pieces or parcels of the same reference being bad to descriptive list of (aid property which lists, sutiot terms of sale, will be furnished npon application to the andersifned. The right to rejeot any and all bid is reserved: Via: ! The extensive and valuable property lo cated in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., known as the "Boaboaid Gotten Comprea Company of Norfolk, Va.," consisting oft 1. TherancAtM, which, among eLber priv ileaes, authorises the storage of cotton and other merchandise, hi the Ueu ef negoti able receipt therefor. ., , 2. It pUtU, which consist of Three (3) first-elas improved eottan eons presses i two (2) steam tugs; three (3) transportation barges. All the adjunct necessary to a weH quipped establishment -of this character. Its fire proof warehouses, seven (7) in num ber, of enoaelty for storage ef 34,000 bale uncompressed cotton. Its four (4) frame warehouse tmstaJ roofs) capacity, many thousand ton of fertlli airs.ialt, eto. Its wharves and docks, which afford ample room for berthing at the same time ten sea goinv, steam or sailing vessels. The area at the warehouse and dock property in Ports mouth is about 6 acres, together with all it o her property, which is fully described la the list above referred to. WM. II. PETERS, Receiver. A Valuable Patent. Danajr (Bone) t ern and Pea Flan. r. HAVING perfected my invention. I wi'h i plaoe it before the puhlio. especially UdPafaotarers. As a Corn Planter, it is a perteot Piicoes open lb drill, dhtributes the seed aeri rately, nniniured, and covers the same, thereby one man performing the work ot three. The- have been used in this section tor over i di?cii years with per 'ect satisfaction, uan rive retpuisible testi monials. Address , JOHN H. DAXCY.Daneyvitle, HiTVanr) cntinlt. 'I - est , J. -si m ', J 1 i jj; i. .1 HANAUKR. v ' B. 0. MILLER, . ,. it. i . ; . i . i , . SPoosr St., Memphis, Terni. STOVES, T1MV1KE, i LAMP STOCK, OILS, REFKIGERATOHS, ,w. Water. C'oolcrb,' Bath-labs. IVronght Steel Ranges. . Send lor Illustrated Catalogue. 257 Main St.Memphis TE3IPLE. JOtUi L. MoCLKLLAN.