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DARLINGTON
HERALD.
VOL. I.
DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER l, \m.
NO. 12.
The South is going to boom,' aiserti
he Stockholder. Its cotton crop ■will be
vorth, approximately $500,000,000. , It
irill be the biggest yield on record.
Another tale dear to the youthful hear!;
has been torn from the page* oi history,
and relegated to those of legendary tra?
dition. William Tell is no longer adus^
torical character. At least he is not in
Switzerland, where one would naturally:
suppose his fame was certain, for the
Government has ordered the story of?, his
assault upon the tyrant Gessler and hi*
wonderful skill at archery to be expunged
from the school books on the ground
that they have been proven fletitiou*, 1
The Empress of Russia, who, as the
Princess Dagmar, was one of the royal
beauties of Europe, is now so thin and
haggard that the friends who have not
seen her in half a dozen years do not rec
ognize her. Since her accession she has
lived in continued terror of assassins
tion, cither for herself or for her hus
band and son; or in still more grim com
panionship of the fear that his conscious
ness of perpetual danger would unsettle
the Emperor’s wits.
The Millers’ National Association at
Minneapolis, Minn., passed a resolution
asking Congress to enact a law establish,
ing uniform weights and measures of the
various products of the United States,
and especially fixing a standard for each
of the divisible parts of a barrel of flour,
cow largely sold in sacks. The Ameri
can sack holds ninety-eight pounds of
flour, or half the contents of an Ameri
can flour barrel. The European sack,
which is used in the export trade, holds
280 pounds.
Professor Jacob Grimm, the author of
the most learned German grammar and,
jointly with his brother, the best Ger
man dictionary, says: “Among all the
modem languages none has, by giving
up and confounding all the laws of
lound, and by cutting oil nearly all tho
Inflections, acquired greater strength and
vigor than the English. Its fullness of
free middle sounds, which cannot be
taught, but only learned, is the cause of
»n essential force of expression such as
perhaps never stood at the command of
any ether language of men.”
Why so many bald-headed men are
bachelors is thus explained by a recent
writer: “There is a great deal of capil
lary attraction in love. Girls adore a
handsome suit of glossy hair; it is lovely.
And when a lover comes to woo her
with the top of his head shining like a
greased pumpkin he is at disadvantage.
Just as the words that grow and thoughts
that burn begin to awaken in her bosom
a sympathetic thrill she may happen to
notice two or three flics promenading
over his pUrcnolojyc&l ♦gans, and all is
over. Girls are so frivolous. She im
mediately becomes more interested in
those flics than in all his lovely language.
While he is pouring out his love and pas
sion she is wondcrftg how the flics man
age to hold on to such a slippery sur
face.”
A fire broke out a few days ago in a
town in Hungary and the account of it
which appeared in the newspapers, said
that the Mayor called a meeting of the
chief inhabitants to consider whether it
might not be advisable to pul! down a
bouse or two to prevent the possibility
of the flames reaching a certain quarter
of the town where the buildings were all
of wood. This, says Max O’Uell in a
Loudon letter, would read strangely to
Americans, who if their houses take fire,
have but to touch an electric button on
their own premises^ and lo! all the doors
at the fire station fly open, a whip
touches tho h arses and sends them for
ward, the harness comes down on them
as they p&ss ont, and in twenty-five sec
onds the engine, iuUy equipped, is on it;
way to tho scene of the fire, which has
been shown on an indicator also con
nected with the button pressed by the
householder. 1 saw the performance foi
myself at Pittsburg, and it was the near
est approach to phantasmagora that ]
.ever expect to seecn this planet.
Says the New York Tribune: “Austria
has just played her trump card in the
Balkan question by closing her frontiers
to Servian swine. Hogs constitute the
principal, and, in fact, almost the only
article of produce in the Danubian States,
and to forbid their importation in and
through Austria is to shut them off from
every one of their markets. By thus
paralyzing Servian trade Austria has
shown that she has plenty of resources
for bringing the Belgrade Government
to its senses without burning a single
cartridge. Almost every Servian raises
hogs, and tho infuriated pig-breed
ers, salesmen and drovers who con
stitute the main part of tho population
are now assailing the Radical Adminis
tration and asking where the benefits
of Muscovite protection and patronage
are visible. Dependent ns the Servians
are on Russia for their religious welfare,
they are equally dependent oa Austria
for their material prosperity—a fact of
which they had lost sight since Milan’s
abdication. The close of the Austrian
frontier will tend to convince them that
the sale of their produce is of more vital
Importance to them than mere Panslavist
♦beorie? and doctrines "
CREAM OF LOCAL NEWS.
The Happenings of This And Adjoin,
ing States Chronicled.
Now Pny Attention and Listen, For
Every Ono of These Items Will
Interest You, Whether Healthy,
Poor or Wealthy, Lame,
Helt or Blind.
VIRGINIA.
Early Wednesday morning the hand
some residence of J. M. Kent, at Harri
sonburg, was tired in several places and
burned to the ground. Kent's former
home was burned in March last and other
fires, evidently the work of incendiaries,
have caused alarm. There is talk of
forming a vigilance committee.
Richard H. Ivy, a young clerk in ths
Southern Express office at Richmond,
sued out a writ of habeas corpus against
his wife for the possession of their one
child.
A verdict of $6,000 has been given at
Wythville against the railroad in the case
of Cupcnhavcr vs. the Norfolk and West
cm for damages.
Judge Diggs, of Lynchburg, has de
dared the law prohibiting the passage of
freight trains through that city on Sun
day to be unconstitutional.
A colored mun was found a* his dooi
in Lynchburg badly shot and in a dying
condition. The circumstances surround
ing the affair are mysterious.
The corner-stone of the Danville Mili
tary Institute was laid Thuisday with
Masonic ceremonies.
The party of Southwestern Virginia
capitalists, who have been in Norfolk
several days, have purchased tracts of
land at an aggregate cost of ncarlv $2”0
000.
Tho September crop report of the Ag
ricultural Department states that with rc
gard to corn, Virginia will fare belter
than many other States. Chesterfield,
Henry, Surry, Montgomery, and other ad
joining counties, report the bod. crop fot
many years.
T. W. 51. Draper, formerly thief en
gineer of the Atlantic and Danville road,
nos been appointed engineer of a North
ern syndicate, who have organized to
build a road from Danville to Bristol.
Mr. Draper has left with a party of en
gineers to survey the route of the new
road, which will run through Southwest
Virginia coal and iron fields. The entire
length of the line, when completed, will
be between 150 and 200 miles. It, was
thought that, tho new line to be built was
simply nu extension of the Atlantic and
Danville road, but parties in a position to
know deny this, and say that the compa
ny which is to build the new road is in
no way connected with the Atlantic and
Danville.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A boiler explosion at the gin bouse of
Hugh Boyce, asfew miles from Charlotte,
killed Will Boyce, the son of the owner.
Several others were severely injured.
Tho Oxford Land and Improvement
Company has just decided to build a
mammoth cotton factory at that place to
cost $100,000.
Arrangements for a free mail elelivcry
system at Durham have just been effected,
and service will go into operation Novem
ber 1st.
George J. Robinson, who lives near
Cross Roads church, six miles from
Wadcsboro was seriously in jured by bav
ing his right arm caught and badly" lace
rated by the saws of his steam gin, on
Wednesday moruiug. He died from loss
of blood.
Citizens of Rockingham and Granville
counties are moving actively to secure the
new railroad from Madison, in Rocking
ham count* to Oxford. The proposed
road .runs thrugh Caswell and Verson
counties, and traverses a splendid tobac
co section. It will connect at Madison
with the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley,
which runs from Wilmington to Mount
Airy, and with the Roanoke and Nmth
ern, which runs from Roanoke, Va , to
Winston, N. C.
A murder was committed in Union
county, near Silver Springe, and 20 yards
from the South Carolina Tine. The sub
jeet of the row w as a woman, about
which two negroes, Recce Bird and Jim
Caster, had a dispute, and got into a
difficulty. It was in the daik. and both
men drew their knives and pistols. Bird
shot Caster twice, and killed him almost
instantly, Castci dying with a knife in one
hand and and a pistol in the other. Bird
was arrested and lodged in jail at Mou.
roc to await his trial.
Tax returns of Charlotte township,
Mecklenburg county, show an increase in
taxable value (if $060,000. The aggre
gate of property returned this year ls$5,-
050,610. The numlicr of poll-tax re
turns is. Whites, 1,005, colored, 513.
T. T. Smith, local Richmond and Dan
ville agent in Atlanta, Ga , has been ap
pointed general Richmond and Danville
agent at Charlotte to succeed A. L.
Smith, resigned, to accept charge of tho
cotton compress in Charlotte, which the
Richmond and Danville recently leased
to a syndicate of loc al cotton buyers of
that city, who ship most of their cotton
direct on foreign orders.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The South Carolina Club, of Columbia,
will give a grand annual ball in Novem
ber, the committee of arrangements hav
ing been appointed.
The Charleston Light and Motor Pow
er Company will soon move its head
quarters fiom its present location in
Pinckney street to Marsh street, near
Hunter's wharf. The new station will,
at the start, have three l uni s the capachj
of the present plant.
Col. A. P. Buthr h<-.s Iteeu appointed
sergeant of the U. S. Signal office at Co
lunihia vice George K. Hunt, who Wed
nesdny received notice from Washingtoi
of his appointment to the charge of tin
United States signal station ut New Or
leans, and to the directorship of the Lou
isina State weather reivh e. lie hn« lefi
for New Orleans.
During the electric storm at Cohlinbia
Tuesday night the residence of Prof. E.
S. Joyues in the University campus was
struck by lightning, fortunately witbcml
serious damage. The charge entered the
house at a corner, run down through the
edge of the wall, and penetrating the
upper floor, split a water pipeTq itj
piogress to the earth. The family were
in another room when the stroke occur
red, nnd no member wns affected
Thy Governor offered a rowaicl of $luii
for the delivery to the sheriff of Sumter
County of Gib Wilson, charged with the
murder, on September 6. of Sarah Wilson,
his wife Wilson is about 21 years old;
very black Weight 123 pound?. Grins
when spoken to He was making his
way into Darlington County when last
heard of.
A new and pleasing feature of the State
Fair this year, and which is sure to enlist
the interest of the ladies generally, w ill be
the exhibition in the floral department
Premium:- ranging from $1 to $10 are <•(
fered for the best exhibits of different va
rietjes of chrysanthemums nnd roses, cut
blooms. The Hon. B. F. Crayton, of
Anderson, hag been appointed superin
tendent of the floral department En
tries w ill he received for competition up
to Tuesdw, November II, at In A M.
Further information may be obtained up
on application to Col. Thomas W. Hollo-
way, secretary, Fomaria, 8, C.
On Monday night last the store of
Withers Adickes, at Vorkville, was
broken into and robbed of goods to the
amount of $366 or $400, consisting prin
cipally of razors, knives, pistols and
watches.
Thus fai the tobacco yield and sales in
the vicinity of Florence, have been ,piiti
gratifying, one farmer having already
cured and shipped 10,900 pounds, with n
fine prospect of as much more yet to he
cured. The larger portion of this brought
60 rents per pound, showing that this
section is well adapted to the raisinng of
the finest grades.
GEORGIA
The new Rome land company is doing
a great work for Floyd county.
A Griffin negro has been killed while
in the act of whipping his wife.
The Southern Conservatory of Music,
of Rome began ite fall term Monday in
the spacious building* just completed.
The University of Georgia opened its
doors at Athens Wednesday morning,
and all indications point to a very suc
cessful year for the institution. There,
are now on the grounds JPO men, anil
more are rolling tn w ith every train.
The Clerks of the Superior Court and
Sheriffs of the different counties of the
State met in convention at Brunswick
James K. F. Parr, of C'haham was re-elect
cd president. The delegates were given
a pleasure trip by (he citizen* on the
strainer St. Simon and banqueted at the
Ocean Hotel.
A negro man named Hannibal Allen,
working on the Georgia, Carolina, and
Northern railroad, was shot and killed by
A. G. Webb, near Elberton. The diffi
culty grew out of the negro taking a
melon from Webb's field. The coronet
returned a verdict of voluntary man
slaughter. Webb has not been arrested.
A test has just been made as lo wheth
er or not the way in which liquor is sold
in the drug stores of Athens is legal or
no'. No fight was made as In th" fact "f
selling, and tho defendants took the
stand that the way in which it wa* sold
was in perfect accordance with the city
laws. But the mayor doesn't think so,
and has fined each of the druggists $200
aud costs. The suffeiece are Drr B. P.
Sorrells. W. J. Smith and E. R. Kiuue
brew.
A wild woman was captured Tuesday
near Borne, dow it toward* the crags ami
Block's Bluff. II<1 skirls came only to
her knees, and her legs were painted
with pokeberries in flaming colors. She
wore a faded and tattered dress, and a
little piece of hat covered her head.
Whca arrested she could give no account
of herself, nor where she was from, or
her name. How long she had been in
the woods could not be found ont. She
was put in jail. She aroused the priso
ners in the jail at 3 o’clock in the moru
iug. and her wild carrying on made the
night hideous for the prisoneis.
TENNESSEE.
A company with a capital of $b'i0,000
was organized at Nashville to build a
pork packing establishment. air. Sil-
berhoru, of tbnnha, Lewi* T. Baxter,
Henry RutolT, nnd other capitalists of
Nashville are interested in the enter
prise.
The Trenton Planing Mill and Box
Factory assigned Wednesday. Liabilities
about $15,000, assets $20,003.
The ground was broken for a 139
barrel roller mill in Carnegie addition,
Johnson City, Thursday. The plant is
located in the triangle fonn-d by the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
and "Three Cs” roads on the north side
of the former. The projectors are
wealthy Pennsylvanians. The building
will be finished by January 1, 1891, and
will be four stories in heighth.
Several pomiuenf tobacco man, who
have just leturmd from a tour of in
spection over the Clarksville Tobacco
District, says that the crop this season
will Ire better than ever before. Hie out
look in the Hampton Station, South Side
and McAdoe Stations is especially en
couraging, the leaves on the tobaccc
plants being unusually large.
Considerable indignation has beet
aroused at Chattamsiga on account of tin
city council's action )dacing a license on
the gambling device of selling pools on
horse races. Tho license is $1,000 pel
annum. The city council, by its cm
mittcc. admitted that pool-selling is a
violation of the slate laws, but stated
that *hc county and state authorities h*v(
failed or refused to suppress gambling
The council, therefore, thinks the eity
should reap n benefit from the business.
Sheriff Skillcru declares he will not allow
•.he pool rooms to open.
The examination of Jud ( awood fot
'.he murder of Otis Odell at Knoxville by
Squire Maples resulted iu the discharge
of C'awood.
At Hurriman, a suburb of Chattanooga.
Thursday two little girls were struck by a
car, and one killed and the other dread
fully hurt, ou the Belt Line Railroad.
OTHER STATES.
Rose F.lirabeth Cleveland has prepared
m article upon Florida as a pleasure and
i health resort, for the October number
if Lippincott's Magazine.
Train Wreckers Oonfea*.
Trot, N. Y.,Sepl. 20. —Heed, Cain and
Uucrr. who were nirested for wrecking
the Montreal express, on the Central R.H.
Sept. 4th, have confessed. Their sole
purpose was to injure the railroad company
and they did not stop to think whether tho
the first train due was a passenger or «
freight.
Central Striker* Surrender.
Aluaky, N. Y., September lU.—Tht
order declaring the Now York Central
strike off was rend in every local assembly
between New York and Buffalo. II
emanted from ihc hvadquurteri o( DiiUlct
AisfwMy No. *‘40.
A NEGRO'S PROMINENCE.
Monotemery Proves Himself theLead-
er of His Race.
Jackson. Miss , Sept. 22.—Montgom
ery. a negro delegate, addressed the con
vention iu cupport of the committee re
port.
He proved himself by far the ablesl
man of his race who has achieved premi
nence in this state for years, being easily
equal to John R. Lynch and B. K Bruee
He said in part: “Before the trust o!
becoming « member of this honorable
body wh* conferred upon me by my constit
uents I fully stated to them my eivucst
conviction that the work of this conven
tion in ordert" be sueeeesfu! muq*restrict
the franchise by prescribing Piieh^palifi-
cations for voters as would reduce the ne
gro vote of the State.
“I entertained the tame opinion then
that I hold now that the Federal Congress
will interpose no objections provided such
restrictions arc honestly imposed for the
purpose of bringing about a fair solution
of the great problem now confronting the
people of this State.'’
The speaker went on to say how tnueh
"f the wraith and civilization of the South
was due |<> (fie labor of the colored man.
He referred lothc loyalty of the negro race
to the Southern people throughout the
war. and concluded that branch of his
subject by saving:
"It is but justice to my race that 1
should recall theseaffectingmemories up
on this floor. My mission here istobridge
the rbasm that bas been widening and
deepening for a generation; to divert the
maelstrom that threatens destruction to
you and yours, while it promises go en
during prosperity to me nnd mine.
The fortunes of the warlore as under our
■clations as they had existed in a greater
or lesser degree for countries. The master
and slave of yesterday meet today upon
the plane of equality, possessed of the.
lights nnd privileges unucr the common
law of Ihr land. Your proud nature re
belled and you turned front the scene iu
disgust.
At thiatjuncture an alien appealed and
ilaimcd the confidence which the. people
of our eondifionat that time must needto
place in some superior guiding hand.
The alien sought and obtained our confi
dence hut not our affections.
That, Mr. President, would remain w ith
you and yours till the memories and tra-
iitimis of former generations shall become
obliterated. We are all well aware that
our taco lias not yet attained the high
plane of moral, intellectual and political
excellence common to yours, but it isour
privilege to press onward aritfupward.
It is lack of confidence in any adjust
ment of our political economy proposed
by you that keeps up the race solidity.
Without the restoration of confidence, 1
can see no solution of this great problem.
The speaker then declared his belief
that the report of the franchist:committee
is the safest measure for thcconvention to
adopt. A wail comes from thousands of
hearts in mute appeal to the convention.
This bill was to restrict 124,334 negro
voters and 110,889 white, giving a net
white majority of 40,451. Such, 1 believe,
lo he the virtual effect of the measure re
ported by the committee.
Mr. President, it is n fearful sacrifice
laid upon the altar of lilx-rty. Many of
these men you seek todisfrauchisclknovv
personally. Their hearts are as true as
steel. Many are soldiers who have stood
amidst I he smoke of battle on hloodyfields
in defence of the flag which every Atnrr
lean proudly hails as the ensign of freedom
and liis talisman of protection in uncivil
ized lands. I wish to say to my people
we have not taken away your high priv
ilege, hut only lifted it to the higher plane
and the exalted station of the great
American birthright.
It is due tons, he continued, that there
! should be some expression on the part of
| this great body indicating that tlfe price
i* correct, that Ihecontract is ratiticnand
ai crptcil; that the problems shall become
a thing of the past and not to vex anda-
harm the public; that the two great rare*
shall peacefully travel side by side, each
mutually assisting the other to mount
higher and higher in thescale of human
progress.
GOME. NOW. NO DODGING.
Plain, Direct Questions Put lo the
Candidates for Offbe.
The Coen Creek Democratic Club at a
recent regular meeting, a full attendance
being present, unanimously resolved to
propound the following questions to nil
caudidatis soli, iting votes in this county.
It js their desii- that some friend iu sym
pathy with the Coon Crechcrs will have
a copy of tin simplest ions at eachcampaign
meeting and requite each candidate to an
swer every one without any straddle or
mental reservation:
1. How many regular meals do you eat
daily when at home!
2. Do yon ow n any stock in the Bank
of England!
3, Is your life insured; if so, in w hat
company ami on what plan?
4, Do you own any of the Suez Canal
bonds?
•5, Do you have the usual affection for
your wife aud children?
6, Are you in sympathy and full accord
with our planetary system.
7, Are you on lending terms with all
your neighbors?
8, Do you intend, if elected, to be as
friendly with common people after that
event as you were during the canvass?
9, Do you ever expert to have a grand
father and Vie numbered with the aristo
crats?
10, Do you believe iu planting in the
moon?
11, Are you iu favor of abolishing the
North Pole?
12, Are you In favor of reducing all
salaries except your own?
Traffic in Slaves Rasumnd.
Zamdau <'ahlrgram Thcslaven proc
lamation has liecn signed by the German
commanbersoftherrspertive States. Bro
ker’s houses .ire now full of slaves, having
been established nndei German license.
Permit* to recover will lead to much kid
napping of free natives. News of the
proclamation bus aprend over the whole
coast, and the tiaffie has revived to an ex
tent unknown in thirty years.
A Botanical Parade.
The second parade of the Royal
Botanic Society iu Regent Park. London,
was a brilliant- success All kinds of
vehicles wreathed in flowers formed a
charming procession. The most original
and striking device of the day was a
huge white elephant's howdah as it ap
peared in the distance of the grounds.
Near at hand this chariot was seen to he
twilled with plaited ttra.v nuj white
luaiit'Jtnt e».—C'Atwyo Ti uies.
FARMERS’ ALLLVNCE.
Meeting Of The Toxas Alhancemen.
Who Refute Certain Charm's.
A Proposition by Foreign Capitalists
To Advance Thirty-two Dollars
Per Bal« On Our Cotton Cron,
In Order to Make Bettor
Prices For Th» Staple.
FinehUrst, Dooly county, Ga . ha? an
Alliance warehouse.
West Virginia has 230 Alliance- aud
about 1,300 members.
The Alliance t'n operative A -?"' iatiop.
at Cameron, is erecting a new building
adjoining their present one Rockdale
(Tex ) Messenger.
An Alliance exchange has been urgan
ized at Asheville, N C , for the purpose
of facilitating the purchase and sale of a'I
articles used by farmers at reduced prices.
The Alliance exchange office ha? b c*
moved to the depot, where members of
the Alliance in future will find the Trade
Agent, Mr. Crnsland. - Marlboro, (S. <-.*
Democrat.
The Alliance men. of Jackson. Banks,
Madison and Franklin counties w ill estab
lish an oil mill and guano factory at Hat-
mony Grove, On. Capital stock $50,000.
The Georgia State Alliance ha? deter
mined to continue the use of cotton bag
King for cotton. Our brethren across th'
Savannah are a hard team to beat svhen
they setthcii heads. —Cotton Plant (South
Carolina.)
The Alliance bank w ill be opened in
Quitman. October 1st. w ith a capital stork
of $25,000 subscribed. Her compress is
in operation, and expert* that iM.OOlj
bales will be compressed (hi* (all. -
Southern Alliance Farmer.
The Alliance store at Mineral Bluff, Ga..
which supplies that part of Fannin county,
has increased its stork fifty per cent., nnd
Manager.!. F. McNeil,v called a inn ling
of the directors on Saturday last to
arraangc for some changes in the business
of the store.
R seems that there has been some mis
nnderstanding in regard to the action ol
the State Alliance ns to covering fur haled
cotton. Some of the delegates understood
that Suh-Alliamxs could use jute or at y
other bagging, and so reported when they
went home. Each Sub-Alliance was au
thorized tn select any kind of bagging
erre/it jiilc. In (other words, they air Pol
he confined to the use of bagging made cl
cotton, unless they sec proper to do so
The language of the resolution was not
sufficiently clear and the mistake of sc, -
end of the delegates was natural. Any
thing except jute is the watchword.--
Raleigh. N. 0., Progressive Farmer.
The Men bants’aud Farmers’ Bank, of
Marion, S. C., have leased its large iron
warehouse to the County Alliance.
Last year the cotton seed oil mills paid
out for seed alone $13,762,450. This sum
was almost a clear gain to the fanners of
the south.
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TEXAS STATE ALLIANCE.
| The meeting of the mother Stale Alii
: amo in Dallas was harmonious and fully
I representative of the great organization iv
Lone Star State. The brotherhood is fully
united aud rapidly recovering territory
lost through misunderstanding and dis
scusiou. The Sub Treasury, together
with the St. Louis platform, was indor
cd, and the following resolutions passed,
the publication i« pertinent by reason of
falsehoods spread broadcast:
Whereas, Reports have been from
time to time • hculated through the press
and otherw ise derogatory of our brethren
iu charge, of the Fanner',’ Alliance Kx
change of Texas, and w hereas, such re
ports have done the brethren aud out
Order great injustice and injury, whetea*
the books of said Exchange have recently
been again examined by an expeit no mint :
ant and no fraud found; therefore he it
liemlred. By the Farmers’ Stale Alii
aucc that we declare all such reports false
and unworthy to he believed; and further,
that any one cognizant of any fraud in the
Exchange management is requested to
make known unequivocablv to the end j
that, all guilty patties may he properly
dealt with.
The following i the report oftheexperl
who examined into the exchange system
by authority of the judiciary committee
I find that the exchange did business
about twenty months and failed, nnd the
cause of the failure shall be the basis of
my report, that begin tho main object i,i
view
i You had about $83,000 paid in stta 1;
which amount was inadequate to conduct
the business proposed by the Exchange in
the State (if Texas. It would have re
quired a paid up capital of $500,000 judi
ciously managed to have successfully
carried on the volume of business propos
ed by the Exchange.
2. Your expenses were necessarily large,
to conduct stu b a volume of business,
which expense we estimate to he about
$3,000 per month.
3. We were informed by one of your
rommitt e that you sold your goods at a
profit of in per cent, above cash laid in
t house, which w^mld hardy pav unavoid
able losses and mtidental expenses, leav-
, iug no profit to pay general expenses,
thereby drawing on original investment
for about $3,000 per month.
| 4. When the mortgages were foreclosed
ou the building aud goods j n hand, they
sold at, a sacrifice of $20,000 to $30,000.
5. You were paying interest on money
borrowed to build your business house;
alsu ou goods bought and money borrowed
to meet your mercantile paper, aim not
receiving interest bom your outstandings,
made in this item a eousiderahlc loss,
6. Any one acquainted with the neces--
aiy expenses of ( allying on a voluminous
business like that begun In the F. S. A
"f Texas w ill readily concur with me in
the reasonableness of failure without the
hast reflection on the part of itsmanageis.
llrtidreil, That the Farmers’ State Alii-
auce tend Brother C. W. Macunc n reso
lution of thanks for his presence aud able
speech made to night and his explanation
of the Farmers' Newspaper Alliance: that
wherever he may go our best w ishes and
brotherly feelings shall ever be with him;
and that this resolution be furnished the
press for publication.
The following are the officers elected;
President, Evans Jones, Vice President,
I A. Anderson. Secictary and Treasure!,
S. O. Daws; Lecture!, J. M. Perdue;
Executive Committee, J. T. Crawford, 8.
O. Cranberry, and T. A. High. The del
egates selected to attend the National Alii
linen convention in Decemltcr arc J, M.
Perdue, Sam II. Dixon, L Clark, and
btnie* D. Fields.
******
MORE MONET FOR COITON.
Rev S M Adams, president of the
Alabama State Farmers' Alliance, was in
Montgomery and had a long conference
with prominent Alliance leaders at the
Alliance Exchange It is understood that
the purpose of the conference was to dis
cuss the proposition of foreign capitalists
to advance $32 per bale on 2.000,000 bales
of the present crop, and to call a meeting
at cnee of the different Allianre* to be
held in that city-. Jo fake immediate and
deffoate action w ith reference In negoria
lion? now pending. President Adam* is
heartily in favor of the proposition of the
foieign capitalists, and predicts if would
result in a great revolution of the south
"Give us the privileirc of holding ou,'
• etfo n one year, with the right to sell .it
any time during the period, and wt-would
ask nothing more," one of the grpririrvm
present is quoted as sawing
l ontmuiug. fio declared that rotto,;
ought to bring 12 renL. and would if
this arrangement could be properly con
suinmmated It is expected thai the pro
po*ed meeting of the Alliance leader; m
Montgomery will be largely attended In-
members from iliL and adjoining state,
Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi
and Louisiana.
RECIPROCITY.
Mr. Blstn* Again Expreego* Himself
on the Subject,.
Bap Harbor. Me . Sept 20 —Serrfta'}
Blaine has written another letter in w hich
he urges his well known'reriprn, ity views
It is addressed to \V. ty. Clapp, of tin
Boot and Shoe Club, of Boston, in respon: ■'
to an invitation to address the club. En
gagements preventing his attendame. he
set forth his views at length He is op
posed to free sugar, and says iu admitting
sugar free without receiving any lino-fits
from Cuba, we aicgiviiigSpaiii tne posi
tion of vantage which we now occupy.
Continuing he says: “The many forma iu
which our business interests w ill iic promo
ted by reciprocity cannot he known until
the active commercial men of the United
States shall have developed those form?
by investigation nnd experience. Wr shall
not realize (he full lienefitsof the policy in
a day or a year, hut shall wc therefore
throw away countless million* of trade, in
addition to the sixty millions we have nl
ready thrown awav. nnd then ignorant),
declare without trial that "The sy -tem
won't work?’ Finally there is one furl
that should havegreat weight, espe, i.illy
with Protectionists. Every Free Trader in
the Senate voted agnist the iceiprorilv
proposition. The free.trade papers
throughout the country are show ing de
terrained hostility to it. It is evident
that the free-trade Scnatois and the free
trade papers have a specific reason for their
course. They know and feel that w ith a
system of reciprocity established and
growing their policy of fire trade receives
a most serious blow. The protect j,,|ijst
who opposes reciprocity in the form in
which it is now presented ktioeks away
one of the strongest supports of hi? sys
tem. The enactment of recipioeiiy is the
safeguard of protection. The defeat ol re
ciprocity is thcopportunityof fur trade,"
HOW DRUGS 00 TO MARKET.
FIRST FRUITS.
A Behooner Load of Ban»uu* and
Coeoanuts.—A Chat About
the Fruit Trade.
The first cargo of fruit for this season
was received in Charleston Wednesday.
The arrival was ntyout three weeks earlier
than usual, and the fruit was in remark
ably tine condition, having made the trip
from Baracoa, Cuba, in six days. The
-chiionrr wa? consigned toll. Bayer&Son,
and brought 105.000 coeoauufs aud 2,000
hum he? of bananas. The cargo was trans
ported from the the quarantine station to
the city in lighter*. Over three-fourths
of tlir entire receipts were shipped to the
interior by Thursday evening, at least half
"f the goods being shipped as far west as
'-■t. Louis.
Mr. Henry Bayer, of the firm ffj II
Baser A Sou, said : ‘ The consignmtiit ol
.roil wr have just received 1 can safell
say i? a? tin; as any that has ever been rc
ecr., d here. There will bra good crop 1 d
line banana?. ^Bnt the buyers can lookout
for a scarcity of potatoes and apples, and
i i onfequint advance in price. Potatoes
ind apples will be higher this year, I
think, than theyhave been for years Belli
toveien and domestic grape* are plentiful
this year at low price?. Pears are rather
high and not many are offered. There
has been a very short crop of most kinds
of fruit. We propose to tun a regular line
• >f vessels this season for our banana, nut,
and tropical fruit trade, and expect to
keep the market well supplied,''
The Strangest Fish'In the World.
The strange*! fish in the world is said
to be the humble herring. He is as
common as mud, and as cheap as dirt,
but be cannot be beaten for flavor; and
it is claimed for him that he supports
more persons than any other creature in
the world—in the catching, the preserv
ing, the selling, or tho catiog. Another
curious thing is that he assumes so many
thapes and uames. Catch him in one
dace and he is a bloater; in another, a
iodger; in n third, a sprat, and, when
pmng, he is taken from the Thames and
.ailed whitebait, while across tho Chan-
tel in Brittany, before he is more than a
ample of inches long, he can bo found
tinned and labeled in pure olive oil as a
lardine. He is a wonderful fish and from
.he out-and-out genuine ancient and fish-
4ke smell during the herring harvest
;hat obtains in the neighborhood about
Amsterdam, it is not very hard to believe
•hat that ancient and bighly-respcctable
.own is really built, as they say, ou hcr-
•ing bones.
Once upon a time the herring used to
»e wo-shiped in Holland, a custom that
obtains to day in Scotland iu a very prac-
lical manner. They have a cheerful
nethod at some of the fishing ports in
:hat country of insuring luck before they
dart out with their boats on a fishing
:rip. Each man thrashes his wife, and
;hc one who first draws blood is sure to
lave the biggest haul. For sclf-protec-
' Jon the women invented a peculiar
ncthod of lacing their corsets, which
ihus beenme known as herring boning, a
erm now in every day use among »ea
’uring men. The men will not. go out,
lowcver, if a woman wiahes them “good
uck, ' or if a rabbit or a pig crosses
their path, being perfectly sure that they
»ill have nothing but their labor for
.heir pains.—Ntu> York Timet.
It Is not true that the ram fails alike
upon the just aud the unjust nowaday*.
It falls more upon the just, because thti
itliM Itllow htMtolea UU.umbrelU.
? REFARING MEDICINAL BARK?
AKn HEEBP FOE EXr'' , »TATION'.
>001° Como tn Sktus. Somo In Cask*.
Rom« tp Bate? v’erfumes Soaled
In ('ow? Horns 3lu?k Caddie*
Raibadoes aloe.; i? usually imported in
grnird* oi calabashes, into which rcrppta
rles the juic': is poured when in a semi
fluid couditiou. Each gourd when tilled
weighs from ten to thirty pounds, ac-
cording to size. Socotrine aloes come*
to us from Zanzibar, somefiniee tn skins
and casks, but now mure generally in
krg;- ( containing from ? p v?tiiv five to too
pound- . -u cb* -I?. Lc.lcJiiij f(o m fifty to
?ov«ntv five pounds When a vessel put*
into the island of Socotra aud aloe? i?
arJreci for, cs rii» dmg 1 not kept ready
for -ale, 'he leaver- of the plan» are forth
with cut and rite juice allowed to drain
into goatskin sack*. There are taken on
’card and fastened to the mast, or else
oheir, in rip b a position that they are
conr'autlv exposed to the sun. By this
ntciior the ptocess of drying is facili
tnted
The bulk of medicinal bark* are ini
potted in bale? and serons. We need,
however, only make mention of the oin
ehonas The South Ajnortcan barks are
first of all rut up into lengths and made
in*o bundles of nearly equal weight?
These are then sewn up in spe-dnlly pre
pared canvas of a coarse teytore, and
conveyed to the depots on the backs of
donkeys. These are furthei enveloped
in coverings of fresh hides, and by the
drying of these, hard, compact package?,
called ferons, are formed, varying in
weight from 156 to 176 pounds. The
East Indian or “Druggist’s’’ quill bark is
now largely imported in cases or chests,
each containing about one hundred
weight and three-quarters.
There are ?ovcral varieties of opium,
the official ones being the “Smyrna" and
the "Constantinople.” Although the
former variety is imported from Smyrna,
it is collected in Asia Minor, and comes
to us thence via Turkey (hence called
“Turkey" opium) or the Levant. It is
packed in cases, each containing 140
pounds. It comes in irregularly rounded
flattened masses, varying in size, and
seldom exceeding two pounds iu weight.
Each cake is enveloped in poppy leaves,
nnd studded with reddish-brown chaffy
fruit or certain species of rumex ordock.
Constantinople opium is packed in
smaller masses, and the midrib of the
poppy leaf wbii h envelopes the cake is
placed over the center of the mnss.
Aconite, buchu and senna leaves are
imported in bales; those cf TinnivclU
senna weighs from two aud a quarter to
three and a half hundredweight; of
Alexandrian, about 250 pounds.
Oilr, such as caraway, anise, bergamot,
lemon and cajeput, arc imported in tin?,
coppers, lead tins or bottle?. Oil of
roses come? in vases holding from fifteen
to fifty ounces; Malaga olive oil in bar
rels of from forty to sixty gallon', or iu
stone crock? of five-gallon capacity.
Tamarinds ate shipped in kegs or bar
rel? holding from a half to three and a
half hundredweight. Vanilla beans are
packed in tins. Each tin contains
twenty-four bundics, each bundle weigh
ing eight ounces.
Quicksilver comes in irou flasks, some
weigh twenty-five, others revonty-'eveu
pounds; while calomel i« imported in one-
pound bottle*, of which fifty are packed
in each chest.
Of the roots, aconite, alkauet,gentian,
liquorice, orris and other? are imported
in bales; ipecacuanha in scions; caluraba.
East Indian and African gingers in bags;
f’oebin nnd Jamaica gingers in barrels.
The jalap plant, from which the tuber
cles are obtained, grows in Mexican
wood? at an elevation of (iOOfl feet. It
obtains its name from Xulapa, or Jnlapa,
a city of Mexico. The tubercles, com
monly called root?, are imported in bags
or bales, weighing about 150 pounds.
The roots of Jamaica sarsaparilla, being
lengthy, are folded up and packed into
bundles, frem one foot to a foot and a
half long, and four or more inches broad.
These unfrimmed bundles are then
tightly packed into bale? to the weight
of about a hundredweight and a half.
Several varieties of rhubarb root are
brought into the market, the cases vary
ing in weight from 160 to 300 pounds.
The best known is the so-called “Turkey"
rhubarb. This is imported from Russia,
but collected in (.'hiua. The roof is dug
up, washed, bored, threaded on string,
and hung up in the sun to dry. It is
then taken in horse linWeacks to the
dealers, whence it is conveyed in chests
to the Russian depots, each chest being
coated on the outside w ith pitch, and
enveloped in hempen cloth nnd a hide;
nnd on each is fastened a paper label,
having the year of collection aud con
tained weight of root printed on it. The
Russian Government has a ten-yearly con
tract with the Bueharians, engaging to
purchase (by barter) all that they can
produce.
Of the perfumes, civet is brought over
in cows’ horns. The opening is covered
over with skin, on which are marked the
number and weight. Each horn is wrapped
up in a coarse cloth, and contains from
one to three pounds.
Shanghai exports the bulk of Tonquin
musk. It reaches our buyers in boxes
which are known as “caddies." The
term is derived from the Chinese weight
catty, which is equivalent to about one
pound and a third. The boxes are made
of brown cardboard, nnd usually measure
nine by five by six inches. Externally,
they are covered with the usual silky pe
per of Chinese manufacture, and. a*
might be expected, the designs upon
them are gaudy in color and very quaint.
The colors most in use are ted, blue and
greeu. Each box contains a soft leaden
receptacle; in these ate placed the musk
pods, severally wrapped in rice-paper.
About twenty-five to thirty of these pod*
are packed in each caddy, the weight
being from twenty to thirty ounce* net.
Some idea of the immense value of this
importation may be gained from the fart
that from Shanghai alone, in 18S7, 2,
334 caddies of musk were imported, th
market value of w hich would be neatly
$800 001) —-1 ynrtpipn-
!“• Upward of 10,000 German families of
the colonial agriculturist class have, dur
ing the last two years, emigrated from
Southern Russia to America.
Baron Liebig »»y* horseflesh it more
ttjjfiletpm* rir»u either beef oy^uttoa._ t
THE WORLD OFPOLmoS
Th“ MBBsachueet** Democrat* st’d
I B«-r'iblicaDs Both Convene and
Nominate Complete Tick***—
Brazil Election.
Gen C. II Enueh?. who is running fes
Congress in i>!ii'\ was one of the youngest
enlisted soldiers in the armv He is said
to hue commanded in battle more ♦bait
4.000 men "ben he was but 22 v»fi,«
old.
The reappearance '•! Ex-Geverm i
Robinson. <>f Kansa", the leader of th*
Free State fight an Abolirionie* and
Republican, a* the Democrat!'! and Re
submission!?!? candidate for Govenjer n
a notable event in the politic*] history of
the time*.
Th*’ New Hampshire Republican State
Convention nominated Hiram A. Tuttle
'or Governor.
A Brazilian cablegram say? Ihc of
ficial annoumement is made that th"
elections arc finished and that the majority
secured by the Government prove* c«n-
,'lusively that the people arc in favor of
the maiotainsnee of republican insrifu
tion?.
Tbe Massachu'-etts democratic ?♦*•*
convention met at Worcester and nomi
nated the following ticket Governor,
William E Bussell, of Cambridge, Lieu-
tenant governor. John Corcoran, of Clin
ton secretary of stale. Elbridge Cusbmsn,
Lake Village. treasurer, William D
Trefrey, of Marblehead; auditor, Edwin
!, Muon, Holyoke, attorney general,
Uisba B Alaynard, Springfield.
George W. Fremont ha? announced
himself a? an independent republican
candidate from tin Manassas. Va., distth *,
the convention having ad journed without
making a party nomination.
The Massachusetts republican stat-
convention me* at Boston and nominated
the following ticket: For governor. .1
Q. A. Brackett; lieutenant governor,
William 11. Haile; treasurer, George A
Mardi'it; secretary ol state, William M
Olin. Boston; attorney general. Albert E.
Pillsbury, Boston; auditor, J, H. Gould,
Medfield.
The Raleigh, N. • News and Observer
prints a private letter from Senator Vann-,
in which, after mentioning his well
known opposition to the national banks,
he says: Rut 1 do not favor tbe imme
diate and mrcouditional abolition of the
national hanks. It. would Ik: the greatest,
blow that, the prosperity of the country
ha* received since the demonetization of
silver, mid would bring ruin tomultiplied
thousands of debtors. They imist, bo
abolished in a proper m,,] 1. lut'nl, 'V,1 IT
and something else provided to take
their place. We can no more do without
banks and bankers than we can without
our merchants anil inejchandifr. Surely
the late Democratic State Convention
meant nothing more titan this. If so, (
claim that I am fully in accord with
it.”
The Diary of a Tree.
If is not known fo every one that *
tree keeps a record w ithin it* stem of
the rharaeler of each successive season
since it began its growth.
If a peach tree, for instance, bo ex
amined after it has been cut, down, the
ring of wood formed in each year will
show by its amount whether tire summer
of that year was warm or dry, or other
wise favorable or adverse; and by rim
condition of the wood the character of
the winter will be denoted. Severe
early frost will leave a layer of soft, <lc
cnying wood; the latter frosts will be in
dicatcd by a change of color, if nothing
more.
If a summer has been so dry a* to
cause a total rest.between the growth* of
June and September, tbe annual ring for
that year will be a double one. and some
time* barely distinguishable as one, tmf
liable to bo taken, by a not very clo.-c
observer, for two different, years’ growth.
At a late meeting of the. Botanical
Society of Edinburg, Sir Robert Christi-
son gave the results of measurement* of
large trees of different species made
annually on lines of girth marked per
manently with paint. In the very un
favorable season of 1879, tire dofleienry
in summer temperature was nearly ten
degree.
In seven oak trees, of different species,
the deficiency in annual increase of girth
was ten per rent. In cloven other de
eiduons trees it was forty two per cent.,
ami in seventeen pines it was twenty |rei
cen*^differeni species of the same family
giving very nearly similar results.—
Prairie Farmer.
Weather Wisdom
Lauiue. in his “Weather Wisdom,”
says:
A deep blue colored sky, even when
seen through the cloud*, indicates fair
weather; a growing whiteness, an ap
proaching storm.
When the sky in rainy weather is
tingod with sea green the rain will in
crease; if with deep hluo it will be
showery.
A bright yellow sky at evening indi
cates rain.
A pale yellow sky at evening indicates
wet weather.
A neutral gray sky at evening indi
cates fair weather.
The same in the morning indicates wet
weather.
Haziness in the air, which fades tho
sun's light and makes the orb appear
wbitisli or ill-dufiued. or at nigbt tbo
moon and stars grow dim, indicates rain
will follow.
Light Without Fire.
To obtain a light instantly without
the use of matches, and without the dan
ger of setting things on fire, is acrording
to tho Mining and Scienlifc Pre**, an
easy matter. Take an oblong via! of the
clearest of glass, put into it a piece of
phosphorous about the size of a pen,
upon this pour some pure olive oil heated
to the boiling point.the bottle to bo filled
about one-third full; then cork tightly.
To use the light, remove tho cork, allow
tho light to enter nnd then recoik The
whole empty space m the bottle will then
become luminous, and the light obtained
will be a good one. As soon as the light
bermire* dim its power can be increased
by opening the bottle and allowtcg s
fresh supply of air to enter In very cold
weather it ts sometimes ireressary to heat
the vial between tire hands to increase
the fluidity of the oil, and one bottle will
Inst all winter. This ingenious contriv
ance may be carried the pocket, and is
used by watchmen of I’ai'is in all maga
zines where explosive or inflammable tire-
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