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Over 3),00'J head of ne.it cat-le aid
15000 horse* and mules died of starvation
and pestilence list year on the lower
Amazon, above the delta. The annual
floods were higher thin usual, nnl the
mall farmers owning the animals could
not afford to hire tugboats and barges
to transport the n from the narrow
ridges between the numerous channels of
the river, on which the stock was so un
?xpecte1!y imprisoned, to the upland
ten miles o: more back from ths val.9/
proper.
There is quite a gang of people in
Paris wfio thrive at the expense of tn< ,
insurance companies. Their plans rue
simple. A man lets himself be ruu over. (
" ' '^he driver*TTTitrl?complice. Th? au- .1
thorities arc appealed An insurance
incnorfnr ionA?l" />?#n
IVUVIV1 I'll MUg f
*he slight in jui / sust "inerl appeal a very ^
w eeriou* one. The pro, arc divided up. ^
/ As occurrences like this?'"amc frequent, a
suspicion began to be aroused.' - The result
was an inquiry, ending in the im- *
prrsonment of sixty-five people who were
members of the gang.
Three charitable ladies Jr. Chicago
have started a movement which prom 1
:se*t predicts the San Francisco Chronicle, ^
to be of great help to working girls. It 3
its lunch in a fine cafe, all the materials o
being furnished at C33t, with a reading- "
room Aid parlor attached. Although it ^
has been in existence oniy a few weeks, p
It is crowded at the noon hour and the
Amembership is large. Teu cents a month p
gives a girl all the privileges of the
rooms. Such a place for working girls
who live in cheap lodging or boarding tf
houses is both home and social club, an 1 h
the association will probably clo more 0'
real good than many pretentious chiri- ei
tlWi'f.hll. cn6-.fl o k .. - -1 - n ,1 '-1 J
- ? ? - rt uuU'JiCU'lUl'l LliUlH J
" money.
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It"is doubtful, soliloquizes the New il
Tork Post, if the record of eirly expenditures
of any great man begins with a
more creditable disburse neat thaa that
of Webster while a pedagogue at Frye- J
burg, which is preserve! there as a me t(
men to now. The first charge set down tn
is "for soap, one six-peace," on January 1):
*9, 18C2. Th't 'hat foliow%are not ^
"A comb/six-pence"; "quills, one-and u
six-pence"; "pencil, seven-pence"; and ,"a
book, four-and six-pence." The .
items, "a ring, five shillings," and "one S)
pair of silk hose, fourteen-anl six- si
pence," might have been given ground
for a suspicion of exl avagunco, to be
afterwards justified. ti
i The way the expenses pile up against p
the municipality of London makes this
city look like a small town, says the New "
York Adverlu>i. One district in London
has just incurred expenses upward of c
$8,000,000 for improving the sanitary n
conditions of houses occupied by the
poorer cla^fes. The mere widening of ^
the sewers is to cost $12,500,000, and a ?
proposition to extend the sewers to the
sea will involve an outlay of $50,000,000. r
An improved water supply is also con- ^
template.!, which will cost $50,000,000
more. The only American city which f,
*"*" '?y "ny claims to livair^ in this mat- o
ter is Philadelphia, where they have
%unk $12,001,00) in a City Building, 0
i it is stil! very far from completion, j
The editor of (he Guilder <cid Wood '
Worker believe in tru 1? schools. If gives (
ayoung man, in a fe v months, he says, v
instruction that 't would take bi n the t
same number of years to "pick up" hap- J
hazard in a shop, and accompanies t his (
instruction with a technical and scientific
teaching of the whys and wherefores of
his work that his shop seldom or never <;
furnishes. At the same time, it enables 1
hint to reach the stage at which he at- ?
tains a value as a mechanic that much
earlier than if he went into a shop as a ]
boy. tie can commence with the trade j (
schools in his seventeenth or eighteenth j !
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year, ana woula he just as tar as tn^ anof j
ooy on completing his trade school
course, with the incalculable advantage,
If he ha9 wisely user! his time,of possess. ,
ing the foundation for an education that '
will help him.
One hundred years ago girls wer. not1 j
allowed to attend any of the public
schools of the country, \fthcn the first
ligh school for girls was opened in Boston,
in 1825, there was such an outcry
against the innovation, and so many girls ,
applied for admission, that after a yeat I
or so the scheme was abandoned, and j
was not attempted until IS53 In 1774
the first noadr.ny for women was opened '
by Mornvi ins in Pennsylvania ; in 1789
the first seminary for women in New
England was inaugurate! in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, an I Mary Lyon, in 1
183??, founded a college for women in
that State on the broadest bisis ever be- ,
fore attempted. Oberlin College was
opened on the co-educational plan in
1833, and Antioch College in 1852. But
these were innovations whicK met with
much discussion and opposition, even
ft-uong women themsslves.
80UTHERN STATE NEWS
Our Coterie of Common wealths Represented
Here.
Happenings of the Day Reported
and Notes of Industrial Progress
Find Space.
VIRGINIA.
The mayor of Roanoke. W. E. Evans, 1
will be married on Oct 1st to Miss Rosa
Roberts, oi balem.
The Fats and Leans, of Lynrhbuig.
played their much-postponed gome of
all. The Fats won. t
A familv <-?f ?--- ? * '11
J ? . >.-.uvru.lnC9 were Killid
near Lecsbuig, Loudoun county by
r". E. Rumll They were moccasins.
The Trince EiTwaid fanncis a it having
{ood crops.
Ilia "Vounjj Men's Reform Society, of
-yiuhbutg, ha.-. Applied for a chsiter.
I he organization now numbers forty,
ud is do ng much good for young men.
The wcik on the Baltimore and Ohio
xteosion to the Midland connection has
ecu coiumeuced.
Four decrees for divoice were eutered
i the Hustings Court, of Danville,
hursday.
The Bntish steamship Pathan,
.702 tons, 54 men. G. Rav, raas}v,
at Newport News. Thursday, eleard
for Liverpool, Eng., with a cargo of
.000 b des of cotton. $130,000; 101 cases
f shuttle blocks. $1,500: 8 tieices of toacco,
$418. Total. $151,94?.
The "Mikado" is to be sung by chilrcn
in Charlottesville in October. The
roceeds are for the Piedmont Hospital.
The Chuicli of the hedeemer (Episcoal)
at Aldie. was dedicated last week.
The New York Stock Exchange has
sted Norfolk and Western $4,000,000
dditional preferred stock, making the
ital enli >tcd $4n.000.0 These shares
ave been sold and are a part of the 85,00
shares recently ofTeied to stcckholdrs.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A coriespondent says Beaufort is en>ying
fine fish and shiimps in plenty at
lis season.
Gallney City has voted to issue $20.00
of water works bonds.
The people of Lautens are prepaiiug
1 a stock show on Sept 25. There will
e exhibited tbe thoioughbreds of the ]
aunties of Lauren*, Gicenvillc and 8parinbuig.
The iaec tiaek is being preaiecl.
A commission has been issued to the
at^City PhCsphate Company, of Green- I
fa"ur'c phosphates nnd
il, $100,000.
Over live hunditd lice birds were
sought to C'hnr cston, Thursday, foi
lie. One firm alone icceived a conignment
of cue bundled dozen.
The railroad commission will soon heai j
ic arguments of the fertilizer men of
olumbia. who are asking for andueon
of local freight iRtcs.
The corner stone of the new Epistoal
church on Su livan's Island was laid
unday afternoon with impressive cerelonies.
'Ihc Hev. Jas. Kcrsliaw, of
umter, delivered the address.
The Ashley River Railroad Co. has
ommeneed the construction of their 5
lile extension.
The reorganization of the Yorkville
Ipoke <fc Haudle Co. for the purpose of
mtting its plant in operation is tslkd
of.
Wadmclaw and other sea coast islands
iroduced beautiful Le Conte pears this
ear, mauy weighing over a pound each.
The Charleston Water Works Co. will
ink an artesian well, 1 nving let contract
or boring of same to .1. I\ Miller & Co.,
t Chicago. HI., at $44,000.
The first tobacco sales warehouse ever
stiblishcd in South Carolina will be !
peced at Florence, October 1st, by R. \
i Croxton. of Danville. Va !' is ware !
...L: I. ... l .1.. I i g 4-d 1
lUUbe, VXIILXl 15 illK'HUV iiUlMRU, is IX'ICM j
ip with tlie late.-t appliances aud is well 1
ighted ami ventilated A large number j
>f buyers will alt<n?l the opening to arc !
vhat South ( aroliiins farmers ran do in [
ohmco eultivHtion. I bis ofcning will |
uatk the beginning of a new era in the |
igriculture and business of ecntial South
Jarolina.
Uni'ed States Senator Butler lias pie- j
ented the Columbia giaded school a li
irary of nearly three hundred volumes
vhivh Supt Johnson has properly accnowledged.
State Secretary Winn, of the Young
Men's Christian Association, has interest- 1
:d himself in procuring a suitable gym- j
lasiutn foi the Columbia Association, and i
t is promised that this wdl be done be J
fore the end of autumn.
A special fiom Greenville, says: Hu- j
loll I egon, who owned two saloons and i
ather property here, has disappenied, j
having left luie Sunday, aiul when Inst !
heard from he whs in Atlanta All his j
propeity lias been attached and both his '
places closed.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Winston's now municipal building was
begun Friday.
There a.e now forty government distilleries
iii active operation in Stokes
couu-y.
Some red foxes have been turueo loose
in Wake county by sportsmen, in order
that they may breed. They afford better
sport than the g:oy fox .
Two compani s have applied for franchise
to build elr..'real indroads at Newberne.
W P 01 fi|i?rv? & Co , c?
are changing their corn mill to a rice
mill.
Frank Fries, of Winston, was elected
president of the Roanoke & Southern at
Roanoke, Va.. last week The road will
probably he extended South via Sal sbuty
and Charlotte
Marion Ihttler, President of the Stale
Farmer*' Alliance, said last Friday in regard
to the threatened c Hon pickers
strike: ' We will try to induce the colored
AllirflCtf to consider its hasty, ill
?MK?i - 'JWP
tuned and improper action. If persuasion
is of no use and the strike is called
tor North Carolina, then we will crush it
out."
Dr. Will-am H. Htrgraves, pastor ofthe
only colored Presbyterian chuich in
Louisville, Ky., has b en called to the
j chair of moral and mental science and
, Christian evidence in Biddle University,
at Charlotte
The Governor is heating a good deal
onw about the Atlantic & North Carolina
railway presidency matter. It was
thought to be a back number, but appears
to be a sort of isMte Washington
Bryan, who wa> piesident up to 1889,
wants to get in that place again, while
the prcscu' incumbent of the place. W.
R. Chad wick, has his supporters.
Asheville lias thirteen boya at tafe\
University, and the Citizen saye ,
North Carolina will be ranretti<V[\ -41
over 100 new students. TTila>lam\ / to
< hangc and shows the progrfh^Latlha
West. Doforo th? ?? ?"
came from the East. " I
A Raleigh letter sa-s; A rumor reached
here that ex Catholic Priest, John J.
J. Boyle, who created a sensation here
two years opo, ? now located in West
Point, Va., where he is eugaged in keeping
books. A negro nanr.d Charles
Young, who was his servant and who accompanied
him when he left this city,
has returned here and brings this information.
He says that Boyle has been wandering
nil ovtr the United States.
The 1st National bank of Elizabeth
City has been authorized to begin business
by the U. S. Comptroller of Currency.
Capital, $50,(<00; president, Chas.
H. Robinson; cashier, Samuel A. Qra
ham.
The colored people of Ashcville have
to thank George Vanderbilt's mother for
a bona fide gift of $10,000 in cash, to be
expanded in the erection of a twentythouaand-dollar
Yov.ng Men's Christian
Association budding, for THi CtflUfio,'
and George Vauderbilt individually, for
brick enough to build it. They have
also to thank R. U. Garrett, of Asheville,
and his friends for the five thousand-dollar
lot, on which the building will stand.
The buiding will be located in Eagle terlace,
and work on it has already begun
in the same locality. A twelve-thousand
dollar hotel for the colored will be built
by a joint stock company. All of them <
reside in Asheville.
OTHER STATES.
The Polk County National Bank of
Bartow. Fla., has been authorized to bc?in
business by the U. 8. Comptroller of '
Currency. Capital $50,000; president, '
A. A. Parkei; cashier, Wairen Tyler.
Iu a Ihiee-corneied tight at Corsicana, '
Tex.. Deputy Sheriff Chubley was bhot 1
and killed by Policeman Rufus Highuatc.
The shootinc is the result of an old feud.
A syndicate 6! DPllVH TVUI i cr*pwm-J|"i
ists is reported to have purchased some
15,000 acres of land at Morgan's Point,
on the Gulf coa9t of Texns, not far from
Houston, and to have paid #50,000 on
account of the investment. The purpose
is said to be the erection of an attractive
seaside city which shall eventually be
developed into a place of commercial
importance.
The colored people of Fulton County,
Ga , including Atlanta, are now taxed on
property assessed at fl,2C5,25G, an increase
of #'130.000 compared with the
previous year. This increase is considerably
larger in proportion than that of the
whites. One colored mau pays taxes on
#14,360 worth of property.
Dahi.ohega, Ga.?Jim Rice ran
a't oss a natural curiosity the other day
on the Tan Yard branch. > It was a snake
about eight inches in length of theadder
varicry, with two distluct and perfect
heads and four cj? n When, interrupted
its two tongues would dart out simultaneous!
v nod it? foui eyes glitter.
The Republican candidates for Governor
of Mar. land has an idea as hril!i?n*
as it is original. He proposes to challenge
his Democratic opponent to a
ploughing contest in a ten acre field to
decide for the benefit of the. voters which
_r it iw.ti <a, . K..
OI iriLIll li> IUC UUllC! I'llllUt'll IU UL IOII"
sidered the fanner candidate.
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.
Their State Tirket Headed by Faasett.
Present Collector of the
Port of New York City.
Roc if kpit.r. N. Y. - The Republican
State convention wns called to order at
12;2')hy tiencial Knapn, chairman of
the State committee. Rev. D. Stebbins
offered prayer. The reverend man ssked
especially that the interests of capital
a-:d labor should l?3 permanently harmonized;
ulso that the convention's
platform should be wisely and well
iramed. At the conclusion of the prayer
the orchestra and quartette led the
conven ion in singing the hvinu 'Ainerica."
.lust as the sinking was finished
Knssett Aas seen making his way toward
his scat and he was greeted with wild
and prolonged cheering. It was fully
Kveminut.s before the chairman could
restore order so that the roll might be
called
\V. W. Goodrich was made tcmpoiary
i li.iirin.in T}?f? n^mil i iiminittpPH wf.fi
nppoiu oil nml a recess taken until four
o'clock, wlicu the convention reassembled.
The following t'eket was nominated
:
J. Sloan Fnssett, for Governor, on
fist Ixillott. i He is now collector of
j customs of New York City), John W.
| Vrooman, of Herkimer, for Lieutenant
Governor, by acclamation; Eugene F.
j Conner, for Secretary of State, by accla
j mstion; Ira M. Hodges, foi State Treasurer,
by acclamation; A. C. Wade, of
Jamestown, by acclamation for Comp
trdler; William Southerner, of Rocherter,
for Attorney General, by acclamamation;
Colvin, of Albany, for State
Engineer bv on Umntinn PmsMCj
j vote was ."?|4 out of 774. The vote was
J made unanimous.
Catholic Congreaa.
BRCMEt.s, (Cablegram. J?The Catholic
Congress opened Tuesday at Malinen
Cardinal Goodens presiding. There
will be a special discussion as to the
' method to be adopted to make a praetij
cal application of the Pope's encyclical
| '^tter poMibk to working cUmi.
tion fith iU;F?nB?n.
A plan of c(him(im with fvaeri of
the State has baa S||it?ted by which
the beooflta of th? JSe C* Agricultural
Experiment StationJjjj| brought more di
ibg^neai11^2^^^^H^^^^^queste<l to
*PPPrfjvr>tfii"'*
question.
mittec, the questkMU^^Tdesireil, can be j
submitted to the ELajWiment Statiou for .
answer. These questions may be em- ^
braced under any division of agriculture j
Every Orange iu the State has also been ,
noivcu iu auopt mo pian. irom the '
number of Experimental Committees
which are being formed, and the interest
being expressed, the plan will doubt- r
lew prove an unbounded success. It is <
gratifying to note that the recent meet- i
ing of the C. Fatmeis' State Alliance c
at Alorchead passed a resolution endors- f
ing the above plan of Experimental a
Committees formulated by the N. C. 1
Experiment Stitioo. 1
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_ OF^AU J
f'ttia-afficer* and members of all i
State, county, district or primary organi- t
zations under the jurisdiction of the Na- t
tional Farm era" nad Industrial I g
Union, greeting: *????
In pursuance of the authority in us i
vesten by the proceedings of the Su- ^
prcme Council at its last annual session. 0
at Ocala, Fla., to designate the place for
holding the uext annual Supreme Council,
we, your National Executive Board, t
b.-in^ limited by the terms of said au- f
ihority to the States of Indiana and llli- 0
nois, do hereby make the following an- i,
nouncement: h
"\Vhere$9. wo have carefully considered p
the facilities and hospitalities offered by 0
the officials and citizens of many cities c
ia those States; now, therefore, we do p
hereby announce the following as our >
official o
X NOTICE. f.
The next annual session of the 8u- j,
ven^^n^^^To^Incn^apoTis, Ihn., at j
10 o'clock ? W, on foe third Tuesday in ,
November ne*{, tbe same being the 17th
day of said month.
Ilnll AA?nmtHaa rAAme Kairn Keen
nail UUU tUlMUliVVVU IVUUIO *<UIU l/%vu
tendered free. A very low hotel rate has j
bcca contracted for, and special railway fl
rates will be announced by the national j
secretary at as oarly a date as possible. v
The hospitalities of Ind ana polit were c
generously tendered by the nouorable p
mayor of that city, who has carefully j
demonstrated ita gieat advantages as a c
cential and rccessible point, with every c
accommodation, such that we feel assur- v
ed our action will meet the unqualified ,
approval of our great organization ,
C.av. macune, Chairman.
J F. tillman, Secretary.
alonzo wajrdell.
Washington, D. C. t
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colonel polk in kansas. 3
Special* from Kansas indicate that la- '
bor day was generally obidlfVefl"M jThdM- t
day, aud in many places the Fvroers' 1
Alliance took a prominent part in the \
ceieorations oi uie nay. The Legislature '
Saseed a law last winter making labor
ay a legal holiday. In Topeka the day
was observed on a large scale. The pa- I
rade was very lar<?e. Sixteen hundred |
employees of the Santa Fe railroad were j 1
in line. The principal fea'ure of the pa- ' I
rade, however, was the part taken by the ! i
Farmers' Alliance. Their portion of the j 1
parade was headed by L. L. Polk, Prcsi- i
dent of the National Farmers' Alliance, 1
and James H Weaver. Then followed .
farm rs in crest numbers. They rode 1
ponies, wore patches on their trousers ; (
ai.d large sunflowers iu their hats aud
carried spade* Hud rakes. They had sev- |
eral floats, consisting of houses made of
wheat, corn and oats. Not only farmers
but their wv*? Af?ren wcre a"
TeprrsentttkTTR^^Wm'hoip programme
was carried oufTSfthc is.. Jibunds in the
afternoon, consisting of speeches by
President Polk and Ueneral Weaver, and
all kinds of athletic sports.
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The Jeffersonian (Lawrence,Kan.) says: j
Few people, either in or out of the Alii- |
ance, know what an educational power j
for good the Farmers' Alliance is. The !
curse of the farmer* has been their isola- j
tion, indifference and apathy upon all
public (|Ue8tions. Like a pstient ass he
has worked and saved for others' benefit, ,
denying himself ntcdtd rest and his chil- 1
drcn the proper education of the time, !
until all tne world began to look upon ;
him as only a useful milch cow or honey
bee, to be robbed with impunity. The j
Alliance has taught hiin to use his biains j
unci atanrl m\ f>.r Kiu iiir.d s 1^ ut-iiinrn
may not as a rule have yet fully learned ,
{'list how and by whom they arc robbed,
mt they are thinking and learning, din j
cussing and comparing notes, and will j
fin**"' Ai.af merstition and !
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Following are dates hod locations of |
State Ai'iniiCc sscetirgs *o fui ?? at pres- ;
ent known: i
California. Co? Angelea. October 20. j
Colorado, October 20. I
Florida. Dade City, October 20.
Illinois. Springfield, October 27.
Indiana, November 17.
Iowa, October 18.
Kansas, Sslioa, October 21.
Kentuckr, Eli/abet htown, Nov. 10.
Micbigam Lansing. October 6.
New Y<>ri, Novcmb r 4
Pennsylvania, Harruburg, Nor. 10.
South Dakota, Huron, date not fixed
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The Industrial Newt (Jackson. Mich
ays: Farmers who were once the mo
.prosperous people are fust Incoming te
auf. Illinois ha# now 35.000 tcnai
farmers, aud our own State over 1.5,00
The census puts the average eat nine i
the farmer at $810, or somewhere le
than 90 cents a day. This, with the a
siatancc o< wife and children, is tl
compensation that this once proud yc<
tnanry of Amerira is receiving for tl
production of wealth which cnrichc
others. Is it a wonder they are kicking
Ttuly those who are suffering thts condi
lion without trying to make a change ai
deserving their fate.
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The Ailiance Aid Association is bcio
in several State
am tt now teems probable that the pn
iact for it* being made national will t
The Alliauce tobacco warehouse a
Lynchburg, Va., up to August first, ha
proved a valuable help to the farmers r
that section, t>aviiig them about $7.00
n the storage and sale of over 5,000,00
pounds of tobacco.
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The Citrograph, of Bcdlands Cnl
itutes that William IVnn Bogus, 1'icsi
lent of the Sao Bernardino County Kai
ners' Alliance, sent letters to ujeretary
if Farmers'Alliances in all the ? asten
ruit -growing States, nod the answeu
how that the season's crop of pcXrhe.1
yil! be a light one, with few exc eptions
The report from Maryland and Oelnwan
etimatcs the yield at $4,000,000 basktti
- not a heavy crop and not mote thai
trough to supply liyi utcOa fruit nuukrt
n Illinois the crop ts reported bettc
han usual, though it is nevir hcav
here. The reports from the difTeien
States also say that dried fruit of las
;ood demand for this ycftr's output o
f dried fruits.
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State Lecturer Clarence B. Collins, ol
he Florida Alliance, is another of thosi
aruous humorists who have written ronn
>f the most tcudei and tearful sketches
a the English language. Last weel
is Alliauce department in the. Floridt
)ispatch. of Jacksonville, c. ntained one
f his most beautiful ?ud touching aitt
les entitle 1 "Tint Old P:?rtr#l
'rom My Dcail Hov."' It was written
In Camp, mar Chattanooga," and told
f the fearful buttle of Chickautauga. /
niv months later the scventren-ycai oh
cro in the faded gray jacket was dead,
:orded.
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An eloquent anti-Alliance stumper wn
isked the other day how he proposed t
ucrease the circulating medium? H
nswered by the free coinage of silver
Ic was told that it was good as far as i
vent, but if the silver output was al
oincd it would not add twenty cents
icad to the vo'ume of currency. Bu
here is doubt about having free silve
oiuage. Carlisle, Mill', Cleveland am
ithcr bosses arc saying that the free si!
er issue must be kept in the rear in th
lext presidential cauvass; but the masse
nust have their say as well as the bosses
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As the Felicinna, La., Sentinel sarcas
ically cried out, t;step up, gentleman
>efore all the fat things are gone, and i
rou don't see what you want, just as
or it at the Alliance eo-opcrativc politi
*1 store." The New Orleans Pirn?/un
etorted thai "It Is just pos?il>\e that th
\lliauce farmers may reserve an office c
,nu for thiuuoclvcs iu the next deal."
The Pike County CAla.? Allianc e wan
the State Alliance to put in motion son
plan for a general reduction all over th
south of cotton acreage. It thinks thn
3 AAA AAA Knl. - ..t l?. tl? U-..I
CJjWV.wv/ uans ui ivituii IUJ iiiu nuui
means "empty corn cribs, poor stocl
half-paid preachers, illiterate ehildre
and ill scowling wives." God save \
from such.
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At the recent Alliance rally in Down:
Osborne County. 10,000 people wei
present. The procession was two niih
long. The dnnoustint'.on about pais
lyzed the old patty managers in th:
section. Congressman Davis* oratio
dealt sledge hammer blows against th
ovils of which the people are con
plaining.
******
All reports to the coutiary notwiti
standing, the Alliance in Kansas is mo
compact, stronger, inflnantial and d
termined to tight it out to a linisli, thi
ever before. ? A tch hon ( hotnpion.
******
The Farmers' Alliance elevator
Beloit, one of the most commodious <
the Central Brant It Itond. is open f
business. ? 1 Vttk'?/
The Citizens' Alliance is sntendit
every wb- re. A strong one has just bei
organized at Hitininghnm. Ala.
Durinsr the month of July time wr
organized in Ohio 170 hub-All an* <
with a membership of 10,000.
Pennsylvania is awakenin? to t
to the situation. 'I he All nine i??lrra<
50,000 stion".
A Nail From the True Cross,
LoKDoy, [Cablegram.! A nail fn
"T&e true cross has been added to the h<
coat exhibition at Treves. The nail
accompanied by documents showing it
be genuine. The n sh of pilgrims c
linucs, but some disappointment is !
that so few miracles arc reported.
The consumption of beer in Treves t
week has been so enormous that
Thursday it was apprehended that a b
famine might occui. but the arrival o
timely supply on Friday allayed all fe
on that subject.
A letter from Moscow says that
Treves exhibition has stir-ed up the H
S nod of ltus in to the defense of
holy coat preserved in the Cathedral
Moscow and said tube the geuuine n
meat.
A RECEIVERSHIP
For The Great West Point Terminal i
n. Company.
at
0.
of A Proposition Made by its Officials
ss For a Permanent Assumption
?- of the Floating Debt By
" A Syndicate.
>
if
's New Yobk t*iTv, fSperial.J? Rumors
I? of a receiroi*iiip for Ino Richmond Tct
i initial cvvlrni have been revived and it U
e stated tuat the c ni|?anv'a finances wero
in mi h a shape that hastv steps would i
I uve to he taken or the current claim j I
would be pressed gainst it at once. I
8* None of the officials could he seen after 1 <
h *hS rumor? became definite. built svaa 1
9 learned that parties Identified with the ]
* control of the property wcie working on
0^ t^'lir" ^i?'n 'he hur .
I for a permanent ?s?iimniift? ?* ?r>? *!!. ti
it ing debt by a syndicate probably of I i
s ' ie?litor# who will \>e secured by deposits ' 1
?f of nil collateral now in the treasuries of I 1
l> the rations companies. Of these the I ?
' Georgia Central has a floa ing debt of ! i
$:i,?.>\0)0 nut! secuiities in its treasury 1 i
of llie par value of $2!?,0(HI,000. The l
H. A D. hns a floating debt of $-1,000, 1
000 The floating debt of the Fast Ten- t
nesscc is not definitely known, but is be J v
s lieved t o be very I irge The Kit hmond *
j Terminal itself I as a floating ,drht of l
s $">01,000 borrowed on *900,000 State of t
( G<oigia bonds. Nearly all the d> bt is 1 ?
on time loans and it is il imcd that the c
[ company, if a mark-1 could be found for c
% its securities, could pay off the entire V
amount without trouble. ?
, TRNNMBBRB OOWYWTB. X
y ?
I Resolution* of the House Against the
Sub-lease System.
fVViJiH , 1 Special )?During the ; ^
right of the lessees of the ? talc I'tFISfflfW"*"*
sub-1st. eonvic s has been discussed. A
F committee was appointed to wait upon
i! Attorney General Pi( klo and secure his
? opinion The report <f the committee, J
5 accompanied by the opinion, was sub '
c mitted to the House to day. The sub I
i stance of the. opinion is this
In the act authorizing ihe lease there is
ro direct nor indirect allu>ion to the giving
to the lessees of the power to sub let. j ^
, If such power exists it exists as ail uti (
1 limited power, which would probably not | '
k be a safe ndm asion. It is safe, hoaever, f
1 to infer, in the absence of such expressed ,
llllflmrltv #li > tin' I onriel-iliini ?lnl nr.*
, "V) 1,,,V .
in eiid to confer such power. The opin*'
1 express 1
not sub let the convicts. "H
Mr. Johnson at once introduced a ress
olution instructing the State Board of
^ F'rison Inspectors to order nil convicts
now ftub-l t to ic'urncd to the main
prison or to prisons owned l?y the Icsj
sees themselves. The resolution was disI
cussed at length Mi. Hal said tint the I
H trouble at Briceville was a result, not of
, the lease system, but of the sub-lease i
r system. He hoped the resolution would
I ha adopted. It was a mattci of record
that the Tennessee Cecal. Iron and Bail
e road Company had sub let its convicts
s Mr L dgerwood spoke, against the- reso ' r
lution, saying that he did not know, and i t
the U ouse did not know, that a prisoner ' t
in Teunessec had been sub-let. .<
The resolution wus adopted by a vo'c i
of 68 to 21. The resolution wilt now go <
jj to the Senate .
^
Bidding For Convict Labor.
e. Naphvim.f., [Special. |- The Tonnes- !
? see Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
?r which leases the. Butc-V converts (<>? 1
| fl00,000 a ye r, pronose to make a new 1
lease. They will offer to luiild a new |
penitentiary in the Sequatchie Valley, i
employing convicts in the work, and in J
lc return receive fiom the State the old |
prison and grounds north of the city, j
They will pay one dollar a day for the '
1 i labor of each convict on condition that |
' j the State pays foi feeding and clothing
n i the convicts, guarding them, and having
ls | them transferred from the count ici in
I which they are convicted to the penitential
y.
| Stockades are to be built in Marion,
rc i Sequatchie, and Hbdsoc counties, and
?s the working of convicts in mines is to he >
1 restricted to these counties The State
is to receive 500 acres at the site of the
,n new prison, nud on this farm the partialie
ly disabled c -nvicts are to raise rroduc's !
for their own consumption. The con- |
icts unable to mine arc lo be kept in
the new penitentiary. If the State will
n- not accept this and the offer of |! pei
re day, the company s willing to lease the
c- convicts for V2'>0,000 a year for twentynn
five years.
SENSIBLE COLD ALLIANCEMAN
at
?n He Advisee hie People Not to
oi Strike, But to Live in Harmony
With the Whites.
A Houston fTexas) special s?ys: An[n
drew .1, Oarothcis. for yesis at the head
of the colored A1 iance in the South, is
re out in an open letter to his people wain's,
ing them against the Humphreys rchome
of demanding cxlio hitant prices for coti,r
ton picking He denounces the author
jv of the scheme as well as the plan itself,
and urges the uegros to live in harmony
4i... _.ku.. ..II,..,;...,
i wmi iiic nunc inimvic, nncgiu^ uic
j closely interwoven interests of the two ,
classes as the uason in a business light |
-,m i and the danger of stirring up shift as a
)|y further incentive to po ce mid quiet in all i
I it particulars. He says that if cotton was j
to minging 10 or 11 cents a better price for I
on. pick ug could in justice be demanded.
fe|t out at pieeent rates no man can pay an
advance."
Death of the Hon. Benjamin Hall.
on J
eer Acbtrv. N. V . |S, ccial ]-The Hon.
,f A 1 Benjamin Hall died here Sunday after a
ara hng r ng illness He was bom in
Whitehall, Ju'y 23, 1814. Id 18.50 by
the appointment of Pros dent Fillmore,
oly he made a complin ion and revision of
the the ncrummtihited official decisonsof the
| jo Attorney General of the United Statei.
rar. In * or i. 1882 President Lincoln 2p
pointed bitn Chief .luatice of Colorado.
MORE TOBACCO FARMS
A Prospective Trainer of luaatra
Tobacco Raising- to the South.
A til iron of Deli, Sumatra, named
J. Kaufman, who ia repotted to hare
made a fortune of several millions from
hi* tobacco plantation in tbat distant
inland of the lOdian ocean, has recently
Itccn visiting Virginia, Louisiana and
Ktutuckv in search of soil and climate
suitable for the production of the Suma
tra loaf. While in Chicago some dayi
situr ho told a reporter that the tobacco
plantcis of that island will have lost
f .0.000,000 by the opeiations of the
Mi Kinlcv bill because they could not affoid
to send their product to the United
States under the new tariff law, and th?
only way they can gat even Is to con*
and wUU the industry In thla eouetry.
He said he had found places that would
produce Sumatra lenf e?|ual to that grown
un the islaod, and that they would have
to employ Amcticao laborers in its culti
/co* ouu i nia|?i'n WUI HUH HI
tccording to Mr. Kaufman. Thai genikman
also said thai "It American labor v"
was trratod to some Sumatra ideas this
ountrv would he more prosperous and
if the Mi Kinley hill hud not placed a
>titT tin iff on Sumatra tobacco for y planat
ions w ould not have had to shut down.
IVc shall have to stmt up forty plantsions
in this country next year, but it
vill go hud with us to pav such high
\ ages.
The coirespondent fays further that
wo wealthy Du'ch tobacco planters from
Jumnirn. who accompanied Mr. Kaufmin
outlined in all he said, and pronounc
d ihe soil in rome parts of the bouth
>ctte?- for the Sumatia leaf than the Inlian
Ocean island. The party was to
ail fm home at nnre to anange for
t?n (erring thou interests to the boutii>in
Ktatr3
$760,000 Made at Newberne.
Newusrnp, N. C., [Special )?The
niek scasou has been a sourre of greit
Tii nt river valleys and the skill of the
nrmers' cultivating it. The railrp^d
mining from Morchead and Goldsboro
ras fieipicntly been compelled to run
wo extia trains a day, with from 3,006
o 4.000 boxes of truck on each train,
vliile the Mcamei Nettse has made three
vrek'v trips and tho steamer Newberne
wo. to accommodate shippers. Seventy
rail.a have taken 210,000 packages and
lie two steamers 1.10,000. a total of 850,>00
crates and barrels of truck a?nt to
ijni I l,i?iioilinll Ttiooo inntnln/.^
inle, radishes, green peas, aspningiit.,
ubbngos, fii )i potatoes, beans, laeets,
uwtoin
ly half a million dollars, tlieir gross
value having been nbout ToO.OOt. But
IfiHt ir> noi all. On the land from wh'ch
111 esc nops were gathend, strawberry
beds ?'\4c|)tcd, o bc.r crops have been
|?l? (el that will mature before frosty
weal tier comes, for in that genial cllmaw
.wo < rops in n season is the general rule
<>r nil thrifty truck fanners.
A Novel Banking Enterprise.
The Farmers' Banking Co has been
)]gani/e<l at Otiftin, Ga., under a charer
granted by the general assembly in
October, 1889. It has more than 600
stockholders, whoso agregatcd wealth
is estimated to amount to upwards of
000,000. It is expected thut it will be
open for business the first of October.
This hank will inaugurate a.novel
plan devised by the Farmers' Alliance,
although it will be operated in all respects
like other banking institutions. The
bubsciibcrs totals stock turn in bales of
rollon instead t>( cash. Colonel Scaiccy,
the president, has l>een to New York
and arranged for the sale of all the cotton
subscribed.
None but good middling cotton will
be accepted fiorn subscribers, conse
(jiimtly the purchaser is sure of getting
a nnifoiin grade This will be advantageous
to him and to the fanners. Some
\e.iiK ago Mr. Ednard Al k inson suggest I
.? . !/ - ?I x - ? ~l 4 I...
<'i in.ii ii it |>iitii ivriv n<io|ii?-n imiii
? vi iv bale could In* t raced back lo (lie
ni i.iiiial owner. it would insure more care
i i k<? |?ii??r it dean, and would prevent
weighting ii with sand and other foreign
ma'riiiil-i This hank will, to the exi'
nt of the cotton it hmrilcs, be actiug
on the line of his suggestion.
The New Chilian Government Recognized.
Washington, [ftptctal.]?The Department
of Stale tclegranhed to Mtnis ei
Kngnn that if a Government had h'en
formed bv the Congressional party which
was acceptable to the people, he should
recognize it an 1 open romrnuoicatioQ
wi'li its head. The Department received
a telegram from Mr. Kagan in answer
<o the above, stating a provisional Goveinment
had been established on the 4th
inst., with .foige Montt as President, and
was universally a creep ted by the people,
and that he (Mr. Eagun) was in v?>y
cordial i-ommuuicatiou wit.h it.
The Deposed Grand Vizier.
A dispatch froin Constantinople confirms
the report that Kinmil Pasha, the
recently deposed Gr.nd Vizier, is a virtual
prisoner in his own house and that
he is not allowe 1 to emerge therefrom or
receive any visitors.
Sir William White, lhitisb ambassa
rtor at Vonstnnnnopic a lew nays ago,
sent a strong note to the Porte demanding
an apology for indignities offered the
Bntith merchant vessels in the Dardanelles.
Opening the Exhibition.
Kai.kiou, N. C., (Special.)?Rev.
Thos. Pi sun, of New York, accepted
the invitation to offer the prayer at the
i opening of the Southern Exposition here
October 1 On the same day Octavius
Cohen, of the Charleston World, will
dclivci an address, liis subj ct being
"The Heal New South." Ten Southern
| States have already arranged for exhib|
its. The colored people want five thousand
square feet more space for their dis-^.
tinctive exhibit. They already have
over fifteen tboutand square feet of ,'
space.
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