KENTUCKY. 



LABOR, MOVEMENTS OF. 453 



A meeting of Prohibitionists was also held 

 later in the year, in Louisville, which adopted 

 the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That we deem it expedient that a State 

 Convention be called for the purpose of nominating a 

 State ticket representing the principles of the Prohi- 

 bition party, and that we recommend said mass-con- 

 vention to be held in the city of Louisville on Feb- 

 ruary 19, 1883, at 12 M. 



Resolved, That this Conference earnestly and cor- 

 dially invite the people of Kentucky favoring the pro- 

 hibition of the liquor-traffic, irrespective of all political 

 sentiments and affiliations, to attend this convention, 

 and that each county be urged to send a delegation. 



ELECTION RETURNS. The election on the 7th 

 of August resulted in the choice of Captain 

 Henry, the vote being as follows : Henry, 115,- 

 681; Jacob, 75,464; Alexander Lush, 4,392. 

 The act providing for an additional tax for the 

 common schools was ratified by the following 

 vote : for, 114,324 ; against, 97,636. For Judge 

 of the Court of Appeals in the Third Appellate 

 District, Joseph H. Lewis received 26,715 votes 

 and W. E. Russell 19,709. For Judges of the 

 Superior Court the following were elected: 

 First District, J. H. Bowden, by a vote of 43,- 

 721, against 218 ; Second District, A. E. Rich- 

 ards, by 48,411 votes; Third District, Richard 

 Reid, by 52,222 votes. In November, Republic- 

 an Congressmen were elected in the Ninth and 

 Tenth Districts, an Independent Democrat in 

 the First, and Democrats in the other eight. 

 The following are the returns by districts : 



FIRST DISTRICT. 



Oscar Turner, Independent Democrat 8.705 



J. E. Grace, Democrat 7,627 



H. H. Houston, Republican 5,803 



SECOND DISTRICT. 



J. F. Clay, Democrat 5,747 



Others 2,380 



THIRD DISTRICT. 



J. G. Halsell, Democrat 18,546 



W. G. Hunter, Republican 18,356 



SIXTH DISTRICT. 

 John G. Carlisle, Democrat 



SEVENTH DISTRICT. 



J. C. S. Blackburn, Democrat 11,789 



J. W. Asbury, Republican 6,651 



EIGHTH DISTRICT. 



P. B. Thompson, Jr., Democrat 11,202 



R. L. Ewell, Republican 10,335 



NINTH DISTRICT. 



"W". W. Culbertson, Republican 11,217 



J. Smith Hartt, Democrat 9,948 



TENTH DISTRICT. 



John D. White, Republican 14,240 



G. M. Adams, Democrat 



FOURTH DISTRICT. 



T. A. Robertson, Democrat 5,878 



W.H. Parrish, 1,964 



FIFTH DISTRICT. 



A. S. Willis, Democrat 6,492 



Silas Miller, Republican 8,557 



J. M. Hunter, Prohibition 835 monies. 



ELEVENTH DISTRICT. 



Frank Wolford, Democrat . . .11,999 



D. R. Carr, Republican 9,934 



MISCELLANEOUS. A crime committed in 

 Boyd County created great local excitement, 

 and attempts were made to lynch the supposed 

 culprits, Neal and Craft. The local authorities 

 became incompetent to protect the prisoners, 

 and Judge Brown called upon the Governor for 

 troops to protect the court and prisoners dur- 

 ing the hearing of an application for a change 

 of venue, to take place before him at Catletts- 

 burg on the 31st of October. Troops were 

 furnished, commanded by Major John R. Allen. 

 The place of trial was changed to Carter County, 

 and the prisoners were directed by the judge 

 to be taken by the troops to Lexington, for 

 safe keeping until the trial. The troops were 

 threatened while embarking on a steamer with 

 the prisoners, by a mob from Ashland, and, 

 while passing down the river, were attacked 

 at that point by members of the mob from a 

 ferry-boat, who fired upon them, wounding 

 several. The troops returned the fire, killing 

 some on the ferry-boat and on the wharves. 

 After this the prisoners were taken to Lexing- 

 ton without opposition. 



On Saturday, August 19th, the one hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the battle of Blue Licks 

 was celebrated on the battle-field with ap- 

 propriate and numerously attended cere- 



LABOR, MOVEMENTS AND AGITA- 

 TIONS OF. The partial failure of the crops in 

 the United States in 1881 was followed in the 

 spring of 1882 by an increase in the price of 

 all kinds of provisions. This bore heavily upon 

 the working-men of all trades, whose wages 

 had been adjusted to the lower market rates 

 of good seasons ; at the same time employers 

 were not disposed to grant any advance in 

 wages, for they were all feeling the burden of 

 a depression resultant upon a diminished de- 

 mand for their goods, and were anticipating 

 further declines in the markets. The situation 

 created great discontent among the working- 

 men, which found expression in combined de- 



mands for increased wages, and, when these 

 were refused, in strikes. Numerous establish- 

 ments in the different manufacturing centers 

 were individually affected by these strikes for 

 a longer or shorter time. In many instances 

 the strikes were met by combinations of em- 

 ployers and lock-outs. In a few instances these 

 deadlocks occurred on so extensive a scale that 

 they prostrated a whole line of business, as in 

 the strike of the iron-workers of the West, or, 

 like that strike, and the strike of the freight- 

 handlers of the railroads terminating in New 

 York city, affected very large districts of the 

 country. 



THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. A new element of 



