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B ^"|B Owr 30,00'J head of neat cattle and I SOUTHERN STATF VPWC . tim,n .n^ < IfAAA 1 vwv/V norse* anci tnulei died of stai Won arid pestilence last year on the loi Amazon, above the delta. The nan floods were higher than usual, nnd t small farmers owning the animals cot not afford to hire tugboats and barj to transport_ then from the narr ridges between the numerous channels ^ . .. the river, on jvhich the stock was so u r expected ly imprisoned, to the upls ten miles or more back from tho vali proper. ^ ' There is <piite a gang of people Paris who thrive at the expense of insurance companies. Their plans : - ... simple. A. man lets himself be run ov ft1 Mr accomplice. The f thorities arc appealil^ to- ^-a 'nsurftC inspector reports nj1 esse, maui *be slight injur/ susi/J0^ appear a ve verious one. The prd* ** arR divided u As occurrences like thisT-^Hmc frequei suspicion began to be urousecf^xThe i suit was an inquiry, ending in the\h prisonment of sixty-five p*jplc who we members of tho gang. Three charitable ladies In Chicag have started a movement which pron lees, predicts the San Francisco (Jhronicl to be of great help to "working girls. I h a lunch in a fine cafe, all the material v" feeing furnished at cost, with a reading room &nd parlor attached. Although i has been in existence oaiy a few weeks vfc* it is crowded at the noon hour and th membership is large. Ten cents a mont gives a girl all the privileges of tb rooms. Such a place for working girl who live in choap lodging or boardin; houses is both home and social club, an the association will probably do mor re*l good than many pretentions chari ties "that spend a hundred-fold raoi It is doubtful, soliloquizes the Net Tork Pott, if the record of eirly expen ditures of any great ma a begins with i more creditable disburse neat than tha of Webstar while a pedagogue at Fryeburg, which is preserve.1 there a9 a me men to now. The first charge sot dowr is "fhr soap, one six-pence," on Januarj 9, 18C2. The items that follow are no uawortUy or<a. -a-i?r.... "A comb, six-pence''; "quills, one-anr six-pence"; "pencil, seven-pence"; anc ??a book, four-and six pence." Th * items, "a ring, five shillings," and "one pair of silk hose, fourtsen.ani six penco," might have been given grounc for a suspicion of extravagance, to b afterwards justified. ( Tire way the expenses pile up againr the municipality of London makes thi ' city look like a small town, says the Ne York Adterlkgr. One district in Londo has just incurred expenses upward $8 ,000.000 for improving the sanitai conditions of houses occupied by tl poorer classes. The mere widening i tne seven is to cost $12,500,000, and proposition to extend the sewers to tl . *ea will involve an outlay of $50,000,001 An improved water supply is also coi tern plated, which will cost $50,000,01 more. The only American city whi< can lay any claims to rivalry in this mai ^ter is Philadelphia, whero they hai sunk $12,000,000 in a City Uuildins and it is still very far from completioi The editor of the Bxddar und iPo; Verier believe in trale schools. It give ayoung man, in a fe.v months, he sayi instruction that ft would take him th same number of years to "pick up" haj hazard in a shop, and accompanies th instruction with a technioal and scieatif teaching of the whys and wherefores his work that his shop seldcm or nen furnishes. At the same time, it enabli hint to reach the stage at which he a tains a value as a mechanic that mac earlier than if he went into a shop as boy. Ha can commence with the tra sohools In his seventeenth or eighteen' year, and would he just as far as the sh boy on completing his trade scho Wk course,-with the incalculable ad van tag " if he has wisely used his time,of posses ing the foundation for un education th will help him. One hundred yeava ago girls were i allowed to attend any of the pub schools of the country. When the fl high echool for girls was opened in B< ton, in 1835, there wm such an outc egatbst the innovation, and so many gi Applied for admission, that after a y or so the scheme was abandoned, a was not attempted until 1859. In II the first academy for women was opet by Moravians in Pennsylvania; in 17 tba first seminary for woman in N . England waa inaugurated in New B ford, Massachusetts, and Mary Lyon, 1886, founded a college for women . that State on the broadast baats aver I fore attempted. Obevlin College i opened on the co-ad upational plan 1888, and Antioch College ir 1858. 1 . these Ware innovations whicX met w t/ much discussion and opposition, et fj;noog women themselvaf. XI T? U' :va Onr Coterie of Commonwealths Re" presented Here. ild jej Happenings of the Day Reported ow and Notes of Industrial Pro0j * gress Find Space. IQai VIRGINIA. ey The mayor of Roanoke. W. E. Evans, will be married on Oct. l6t to Mis6 Rosa Roberts, of Salem, in ' The Fats and Leans, of Lynchburg, ?h. played their much-postponed game of ball. The Fats won. ire * A family of eixty-1 wo snakes were k i 11er> ed near Lecsburg, Loudoun county by iu- .Its. E. Russell They woe moccasins, ice The Prince Edward farmeis at# having ig good crops. ,ty The Young Men's Reform Society, of ijyuciiOurg, has applied for a chatter, 1* The organization now numbers forty, it, ami is do.ng much good for young men. rc- The woik on the Baltimore aud Ohio extension to the Midland connection has re comm?uced. FAisr decrees for divoice were entered in tttv Hustings Court, of Danville, Thursclfcy. 0 The ( British steamship Pathan, i- 1,762 tons, 54 men, G. Hay, mas, ter, at Nmvport News. Thursday, clcar' ed for Liverpool, Eng., with a cargo of 1 3,000 bdesr^f cotton, $150,000; 161 cases i of shuttle bldpks, $1,500; 8 tietces of tobacco, $448. \Total, $151,948. t The "Mikadd^! is to be sung by children in Charlottesville in October. The ? proceeds are for the Piedmont Hospital. 9 The Church of the Redeemer (Episcoh pal) at Aldie, was dedicated last week. ie The New York Stock Exchange has lj listed Norfolk and Western $4,000,000 additional prcferrcr) stock, making the ? total euli >tcd $4^,000,0 0. These shares 1 nave been sold and arc a part of the 85,Q 000 shares recently offered to stcckholdl ere* p SOUTH CAROLINA. A correspondent says Beaufort is enjoying fine fish and shrimps in plenty at v this season. Gaffney City has voted to issue $20,i 000 of water works bonds. I The people of Lautens arejprepating * f v a stock show on Sept 25. There will he exhibited tbe thoroughbreds of the counties of Laurens, Giccnville and Spari tanbuig. The tatc tiack is being prer pared. ^ A commission has been issued to the Gate City Phosphate Company, of Grcenp ufauture phosphates amlTe'ilIf:zYH/;- "" { tal, $100,000. Over five hunuitu lice birds were brought to Cher cstou, Thursday, for 1 sale. One firm alone tcceived a consignment of one hundred dozen. 1 The railroad commission will soon hear the arguments of the fertilizer men of Columbia, who are asking for a reduction of local freight, tatcs. The corner stone of the new Episcoit pal church on 8u livan'6 Island was laid is fcunday afternoon with impressive ceremonies. The Hcv. Jas. Kershaw, of W Sumter, delivered the address. n The Ashley River Railroad Co. has commenced the construction of their 5 ry mile extension. le The reorganization of the Yorkville f Spoke A Handle Co. for the purpose of putting its plant in operation is tslka ed of. ?? Wadmslaw and other sea coast islands [). produced beautiful Le Conte pears this a year, many weighing over a pound each. The Charleston Water Works Co. will sink an artesian well, 1 aving let contract for boring of same to J. P. Miller A Co., t- of Chicago, 111., at $44,000. re The first tobacco sales warehouse ever esttbliehcd iu South Carolina will be '' opened at Florence, October 1st, by R. 1* A. Croxton, ef Danville, Va T?-is warehouse, which is already finished, is fi<ted yd up with the latest appliances aud is well lUUi^J 1 ?~a-.1 A I ? ^ u^nicu niiu uuiiinM'u. a lur^u uumuer of buyers will attend the opening to sec s? what South Carolina's farmers can-<lo iu 10 tobacco cultivation. This opening will . mark the beginning of a new era iu the agriculture and business of ccntial South 8 Carolina. 'c United States Senator Butler has preof er sen ted the Columbia graded 6chool a li39 brary of nearly three hundred volumes which Supt Johnson has properly ac^ knowlcdged. State Secretary Winn, of the Young * Men's Christian Association, has interestda cd himself in procur.ng a suitable gymkl, nasiuin for the Columoia Association, and it is promised that this will be done be?f fore the end of autumn. A special from Greenville, says: Ru?. ? dolf I.egon, who owned two saloons and nt other property here, has disappeared, having left here Sunday, and when last heard from he was in Atlanta. All his property has been attached and both his tot places closed. lie NORTH CAROLINA. rst Winston's new municipal building was >a. begun Friday. ,r_ There are now foity government dis' , tilleries in active operation in Stokes r" county. Some red foxes have been turned loose ,ad in Wake cobnty by spoi lsmen, in order that they may breed. * They afford better sport than the gtcy fox. Two compani's havo applied for frau- I o? chtse to bnitd elec'rical railroads at Newew beroe. **' W. P. Oldham A Co , of Wilmington, 'Q are changing their corn mill to a rice i in ' mill. I V....L ./ ?l./ii*a j *' iatkia r lie*, ui ?t iu?v?iuf mw civvivm prudent of the Roanoke A Southern at Roanoke, Va., lait week. The road will in . probably be extended South ri* SalleBut oury and Charlotte ith ' Marion Butler, President of the State ' Farmers' Alliance, anid laat Friday in regard to the threatened c ttoo picker* ; strike: ' We will try to induce tne colored Allirdc# to consider iu haety, ill --? iui|>iupvi acuon. ll persua ion is of no use and the strike is called for North Carolina, then we will crush i out." Dr. Wilham H. Uargraves, pastor o: the only colored Presbyterian church it Louisville, Ky., has b en called to th? chair of moral and mental .science and Christian evidence in Biddle University, at Charlotte The Governor is heating a good deal now about the Atlantic & North Carolim railway presidency matter. It wai thought to be a back number, but appears to be a sort of issue Washington Bryan, who was president up to 1889, wants to get in that place again, while the present incumbent of the place. W. 8. Chad wick, has his supporters. Asheville has thirteen boyB at 4L \ t"-? University, sud the Citizen saya m \ ^? North Carolina will be represeflll over 100 new students. Tliis |sm\5r| thangeand shows the nrogreM * West. Hntoro th?.wi)r nearly sLLPMhHH #rsme from the East. A Raleigh letter sa- s: A rumor reached here that ex-Catholic Priest, John J. J. Boyle, who created a sensation here two yearr. ago, ?? now located ID Wsit Point, Va., where he is engaged in keeping books. A negro naimd 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. Graham. The colored people of Asheville have to thank George Yanderbilt's mother for a bona fide gift of $10,000 in cash, to be expended in the erectiou of a twentythousand-dollar Yov.ng Men's Christian Association bu'lding, for the colored, and George Vanderbilt 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 buildiug will stand. The buiding will be located in Eagle terrace, 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 bev-..: 1? " " " ' gi" uiwiur? vy me i-. d. comptroller of Currency. Capital $50,000; president, A. A. Parker; cashier, Warren Tyler. In a three-cornered tight at Corsicana, Tex., Deputy Sheriff Chubley was shot and killed by Policeman Rufus Highnate. The shooting i3 the result of an old feud. A syndicate 01 ui'uvei?icui j cupum ists is reported to have purchased some i*r,wu acres of laud at Morose s Point, on the Gulf coast of Texas, 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 $1,265,256, 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. Dahlonega, Ga.?Jim Rice ran' atoss a natural curiosity the other day on the Tan Yard branch. > It was a snake about eight inches in length of the adder variety, with two distinct and perfect heads and four cjtH When, interrupted its two tongues would dsrt out simultaneous!/ nod its foin eyes glitter. The Republican candidates for Governor of Mar. land has an ideaa9 brilliant as it is original. He proposes to challenge his Democratic opponent to a Sloughing contest in a ten acre field to eciac lor the benefit of the voters which of them is the better entitled to be considered the farmer candidate. NEW YORK TEPUBLICANS. Their State Ticket Headed by Faasett, Present Collector of the Port of New York City. RocifRBir.R, N. Y.?The Republican State convention was called to order at 12:20 by Gcncial Knapn, chairman of the State committee. Rev. D. Stebbins offered nrayer. The reverend man naked especial!j that the interests of capital and labor should ba permanently harmonized; also that the convention** rilatform should be wisely and well rained. At the conclusion of the prayer the orchestra and quartette led the conteu ion iu singing the hjUiu "America," Just as tho singing was finished Fassett Aas seen making his way toward his scat and he was gr. eted with wild and prolonged cheering, ft wns fully tiveminutis lrefore the chairman could restore order so that the roll might be called. W. W. Goodrich was made temporary chairman. The usual committee* were appoin cd and a recess taken until four o clock, when the couventiou reassembled. The following t:cket was nominated : J. Sloan Fassett, for Governor, on fl st hallott. (He is now collector of customs of New York City), John W. Vrooman, of Herkimer, for Lieuteusnt Governor, by acclamation; Eugene F. Conner, for Secretary of State, by acclamation; Ira M. Hodges, for State Trea* uret, by acclamation; A. C. Wade, ol Jamestown, by acclamation for Comp tr.ller; William Southerner, of Rochester, for Attorney General, by acclatnama tion: ('civic, of Albanv. for Stab Engineer, by acclamation. Fassett'i rote was 514 out of 774. The rot? wai made unanimoua. Catholic Congreaa. BnuaaiLa, [Cablegram.]?Tha Cath< lie Congraaa opened Tuesday at Malini Cardinal Ooodenn presiding. Thei will be a special discussion as to tl method to be adopted to make a prnct cal application of the Pope's encyclici '?ttar poaaiWa to working clssaea , - f. What The ' The North Qaroliaa (Agricultural Expenment fltationMn 0?-Operft[ tion With thfiFarmers. A. plan of co-<i?eratijpn with farmers of the State has bran iacti toted by which ti\e benefits of the 1r> C, Agricultural Ex peri meat Station (Mi brought moye d? ertly bcfoio the* eil&tion. All of the sub-alliances in l^r^^Carolina (numberibg nearly 2,300) UMfc been requested to form ''Exnerii^qBHrcOSuaittees," the - ^chairman of Jje in constant i ^ Pre** iug, headed by mittee, the queitioas-lf desired, can be submitted to the Es|ftr<inent Station for answer. These questions may be embraced under any division of agricultttro Every Grange in thei State has also 1>een asked to adopt the plan. From the number of Experimental Committees which are being Tormed, and the interest being expressed,-the plan will doubt ic83 prove an unbotmdcd success. It is gratifying to note that the recent meeting of the If. C. Fur me is' State Alliance at Morchead passed a ^resolution endorsing the above plan * of Experimental Committees formulated by the N. C. Experiment Station. * * VMg * * orrieiau To the officers and members of all State, county; district or primary organitatjonsun&r the jurisdiction of the National Farmers i iu<u?'^ and Industrial Union, greeting: ?w- _ _ J In pursuance of the authority in us 1 vestea by the 'proceedings of the Su- , prcme Council at its last annual session. , at Ocala, Fla., to designate "the place for holding the uext. annual Supreme Council, we, your National Executive Board, being limited by the terms of said authority to the States of Indiana and Uli- , nois, do hereby make the following an- j nounceuieot: Whereas, we have carefully considered the facilities and hospitalities offered by the officials and citizens of many cities in those States; now, therefore, we do hereby announce the following as our official i ,kotice. The next j&iual session of the Su- i WniM fhlttfiBflf fiT jjfT'lT*1 Farmers' veno in thTSFof Inaianapotts, lHrfT, at. 10 o'clock a.]B, on fbe third Tuesday in November nfixL the same being the 17th day of said nsbpth. Hall and'ebmhittee rooms have been tendered free. A ynry low hotel rate has bcea contracted for, 'and special railway , rates will be knno&QCed by the national secretary at at early a date as possible. The hoapitalitigjKpof [nd annnolir were , generously tendered by the nouorable ] mayor of that city, who has carefully demonstrated its jfteat advantages as a ( cential and rccess|ple point, with every accommodation, aoch that we feel assured our action will fcaeet the unqualified approval of our great organization C. Vf.x Macune, Chairman. J F. Tillman, Secretary. Alokzo Ward ell. Washington, D. C. .> * -w COI.OHXX POLK IN KANSAS. Specials fro|i Kansas indicate that labor day was generally observed as a holiday, and in many places the Farmers' Alliance took a prominent part in the celebrations of the day. The Legislature Saued a law' last winter making labor ay a legal holiday. In Topekn the day was observed bn a large scale. The parade was very large. Sixteen hundred employees of the Santa Fe railroad were in line. The principal fea'ure of the parade, however, was the part taken by the Farmers' Alliance. Their portion of the parade was headed by I. L. Polk, President of the National Farmers' Alliance, and James B Weaver. Then followed farm rs in great numbers. They rode ponies, wore patches on their trousers aod large sunflowers in their hats aud carried spades sud rakes. They had sev. eral floats, consisting of houses made of wheat, corq 'and Q*t*. Not only farm K..t ... 1 ...... .11 CiD uuv wreir rrvic ail was carrkdwfHf1 tfrttvil^'jiounje in the afternoon, consttting of speeches by President Folk stud General Weaver, and all kinds of athlatlc sports. * o * + # The Jeffersoniao < L? w rence, Ka n.) says: Few people, either in or out of the Alliance, know what an educational power for gbod the Farmers' Alliance i*. The curse of the farmer* has been their isolation, indifference and apathy upon all Eublic questions. Like a patient ass he as worked and saved for others' benefit, denying himself needed rest and bis children the proper education of the time, until all tne World began to look upon him aa only a useful milch cow or honey bee, to be robbed with impunitv. The Alliance has taught him to use life brains and stand up fur bis rights Farmers may not as a rUle have ye> fully learned juathpw and by whom they are robbed, but they *J* thinking and learning, dis: cussing and comparing notes, and will , Following are dates Vnd locations of ? State Alliance metftfasgg *o far as at pres South Dakota, Huron, date not fixed. f ****** The Industrial News (Jackson. Mich.) Bays: Farmers who were once the most prosperous people arc fast becoming tenant*. Illinois has now 35,^00 tenant farmers, aud our own State over 15,000. The census puts the average earning of the farmer at $310. or somewhere less than 90 cents a day. This, with the assistance o( wife and rjnldrcn, is the compensation that this once proud yeomanry of America is receiving for the production of wealth which enriches others. Is it a wonder thev arc kicking? Truly those who arc suffering this condition without trying to make a change are deserving their fate. ****** The Alliance Aid Association is being favorably considered iu several States, Mrt! it now seems probable that the pro national will be The Alliance tobacco warehouse at Lynchburg, Va., up to August first, has proved a valuable help to the farmers of that section, saving them about $7,000 in the storage and sale of over 5,000.000 pounds of tobacco. ****** Tho Citrograph, of Rcdlatidt, Cal.. states that William I'enn Rogers, President of the San Bernardino County Farmers' Alliance, 6ent letters to recrctarys of Farmers'Alliances in all the eastern fruit-growing States, and the answers show that the season's crop of peaches yill be a light one, with few exceptions. The report from Maryland and Delaware estimates the yield at $4,000,000 baskets ? not a heavy crop and not mote than enough to supply thp green fruit market In Illinois the crop is reported better than-usual, though it is never heavy there. The reports from the different States also say that dried fruit of last rKTScSnsa.'ail.'tiKft^' .5^;., good deman.d for this year's output of [)f dried fruits. ****** State Lecturer Clarence B. Collins, of the Florida Alliance, is another of those famous humorists who have written tome ?f ?r,o mnr* ?i ?? w?. uivofc i/LUUCI OIJU ICUUUI bKtllQtS in the English language. Last week his AUiauce department in the. Florida Dispatch, of Jacksonville, c ntained one of hie most beautiful and touching articles entitle \ "That Old Faded Letter From My Dead Bov.M It was written, ' In Camp, near Chattanooga," and told of the fearful buttle of Chickamauga. A few months later the seventeen-year-old hero in the faded gray jacket was dead, and his stricken p areata waited in vaiu how many homes the eame~mT?Bf"nfe'fBi corded. ****** An eloquent anti-Alliance stumper was asked the other day how he proposed to increase the circulating medium? He answered by the free coinage of silver. He was told that it was good as far as it went; but if the silver output was all coined it would not add twenty cents a head to the vo'ume of currency. But there is doubt about having free silver coinage. Carlisle, Mill', Cleveland and other bosses are saying that the free silver issue must be kept in the rear in the next presidential canvass; but the masses must have their say as well as the bosses. ****** As the Felicinna, La., Sentinel sarcastically cried out, "step up, gentleman, before alt the fat things are gone, and if you don't 6ee what you want, just ask for it at the Alliance co-operative politi cal store." The New Oilcans Picayune retorted that "it Is just possible that the Alliance farmers may reserve an ottice or two for themselves in the next deal." ****** The Pike County (Ala.) Alliance wants the State Alliance to put in motiou some Slan for a general reduction all over the outh of cotton acreage. It thinks that 8,000.000 baits of cotton for the South means "empty corn cribs, poor stock, half-paid preachers, illiterate children and ill scowliDg wives." God save us from such. * * * * * * At the recent Alliance rally in Downs, Osborne Couuty, 10,000 people were present. The procession wrs two miles long. The dcuionstration about paralyzed the old parly managers in that section. Congressman Davis' oration dealt sledge hammer blows against the ovils of which the people are complaining. ****** All reports to the contrary notwithstanding, the AUiauce in Kansas is more compact, Btrouger, iufluantial and determined to light it out to a finish, than ever before. ? Atchison Champion. ****** The Farmers' Alliance elevator at Beloit, one of the most commodious on the Central Branch Bond, is open for business. ? Wtel ft/ The Citizens' Alliance i? sot ending erywh're. A strong one has just been organized at Birmingham, A In. During the month of July there were organized in Ohio 170 Sub-AII'a noes, with a membership of 10,000. Pennsylvania is awakening to thr to the situation. The AH ancc is already 50,000 strong. Mail From the True Cross. London, (Cablegram. I? A nail Iron ?*?e true cross has been added to the hob cost exhibition at Treves. The nail i accompauied by documents showing it t< be genuine. The rush of pilgrims con tinuee, but somo disappointment ia fel that so few miracles sre reported. The consumption of beer in Treves thi week has been so enormous that o Thursday it was apprehended that a bee famine might occur, but the arrival of i timely supply on Friday allayed all fear on that subject. A letter from Moscow says that th Treves exhibition has stir, ed up the Hoi S nod of Hus ia to the defense of th holy coat preserved in tbe Cathedral! Moscow and Mid to be tbe genuine gai meni. > / f / A RECEIVERSHIP For The Great West Point Terminal Company. A reposition Made by its Officials For a Permanent Assumption of the Floating Debt By A Syndicate. New Yojik City. [Special.]?Rumois of a receivership for tlie Richmond Tci initial system have been revived and it 19 slated tuat the r nipanvn finances were in su h a sliapr thai hasty steps would I ave to be takeu or the current claim would be pressed .against it at once. | Nouc of the officials could be seen after the rumors became definite, but it was learned that parties identified with the control of the property were working on ^ iclieve it from the burfor a permanent assumption of the floating debt by a syndicate probably of ':editors who will be secured by deposits of nil collateral now in the treasuries of ' the various companies. Of these the ! Georgia Central has a floa ing debt of ; $d,?.)\010 and securities in its treasury ! of the par value of $2M,OftO.OOO. The H. dr D. has a floating debt of $4,000.- | 000 The floating debt of the East Ten- , ncssce is not definitely known, but is be j lieved to be very lirgc- The Richmond ' Terminal itself I as a floating debt of ; $"i0t,000 borrowed 011 *R0O,000 State of Georgia bonds. Nearly nil the d? bt is ! on time loans and it is il inied that the J company, if a mark* t could be found for | its securities, could pay off the entire i amount without trouble. TENNESSEE'S CONVICTS. Resolutions of the House Against the Sub-lease System. p'rekflFWMtlfcr I Special J^Dmdng the | right of the lessees of the State ~p7T?biPTC y sub-lst convic s has been discussed. A | committee was appointed to wait upon j Attorney General Pickle and secure his 1 opinion. The report if the committee, J accompanied by the opinion, was submitted to the House to-day. The sub- j stance of the opinion is this : In the act authorizing the lease there is ro direct nor indirect allusion to the giv ' ing to the lessees of the power to sub-let. , If such power exists it exists as an unlimited power, which would probably not be a safe adm ssion. It issaie, boa ever, to infer, in the absence of such expressed authority, that the Legislature did not in end to confer such power. The opint inn t.hr Ifist ec. without express not sub-let the convicts. Mr. Johnson at oucc introduced a resolution instructing the State Board of Frison Inspectors to order all convicts now sub-l t to rc'urned to the main j prison or to prisons owned by the lessees themselves. The resolution was discussed at length. Mr. Ila ! said that the trouble at Briccvillc was a result, not of the lease system, but of the sub-lease system. He hoped the resolution would be adopted. It was a matter of record that the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail road Company hnd sub-let its convicts. Mr L dgcrwood spoke against the reso lution. saying that he did not know, and I the House did not know, that a prisoner ! iu Teuncssec had been sub-let. The resolution was adopted by a vo'c of 68 to 21. The resolution will now go to the Senate. Bidding- For Convict Labor. Nashvim.e, [Special. |?-The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company, which leases the State's convicts for j $100,000 a ye r, propose to make a new lease. They will offer to build a new penitentiary in the Sequatchie Valley, employing convicts in the work, and in return receive fiom the State the old prison and grounds north of the city. They will pay one dollar a day for the j labor of each convict on condition that j the State pays for feeding and clothing I the convicts, guarding them, and having J them transferred from the countici in I which they are convicted to the peniten| tiaiy. Stockades arc to he built in Marion, Sequatchie, and Bh-dsoc counties, ami the working of convicts in mines is to be restricted to these counties The State is to receive 500 acres at the site of the new prison, and on this Inrm the partially disabled c >nvicts arc to raise produc'a for their own consumption. The convicts unable to mine arc to be kept in the new penitentiary. If the State will not accept this and the offer of $1 per day, the company *s willing to lease the convicts for tf2.V>,000 a year for twentyfi7c years. SENSIBLE COL'D ALLIAN0EMAN He Advisee his People Not to Strike, But to Live in Harmony With the Whites. A Houston (Texas! special siys: Audrew J. Carothers. for yeais at the head of the colored A1 iance in the South, is out in an open letter to his people warning them against the Humphreys scheme of demanding cxlio hitant prices for cotton picking !! > denounces the author , of the scheme as well as the plan itself, and urges the negros to live in harmony :?u , i.n _.L t .it?:? villi iiic wiiuc i n i mi . f?, mir^iti^ mr closely interwoven interests of the two classes as the nason iu a business light i and the danger of stirring up stiife as a Y further incentive to pe ce and quiet in all a particulars. He says that if cotton was o bunging 10 or 11 cents a bettev price for pick ng could iu justice he demanded, t but at present rates no man can pay an advance." ^ 11 Death of the Hon. Benjamin Hall. t Aubcrn. N. T.. [S, ccial ]- The Hon. a Benjamin Hall died here Sunday after a ? ling r ng illness He was horn in Whitehall, Ju'y 28, 1814. In 1880 by e appointment of Pres dent Fillmore, y he made a compila ion nnd revision of e the accummnlHted official decis ons of the o Attorney General of the United Stater. r. In Apr I, 1862 President Lincoln appointed him Chief ?l ustice of Colorado. mssm MORE TOBACCO FARMS. A Prospective Trainer of Sumatra Tobacco Raising- to the South. A ?iti?cn of Deli, Sumatra, Darned J. Kaufman, who is reported to have made a fortune of several millions from I hi tobacco plautation in that distant inland of the Indian ocean, has recently i beeu visiting Virginia, Louisiana and | Ktutucky in search of soil and climate 1 suitable for the production of the Buma ! tra leaf. While in Chicago some days ! since lie told a icporter that the tobacco ' plantcis of that island will have lost $ () not).000 bv the operations of the Mi Kinlev bill uc< arise they could not afford to send their product to the United ! States under the new tnriff law, and the \ only way they can get even is to come j ami start the industry in this country. He said he had found plac es that would produce Sumatra leaf ci|ual to that grown on the island, and that they would have to employ Ameiicau laborers in its culti-;vatfonf' because the laws here nrohibited best'and i hi-apTlf fVdf n\j('g| m according to Mr. Kaufman. That gen^^^^ tlemai also said that "if American laborwas treated to some Sumatra ideas this country would be more prosperous and if the McKinlcy bill had not placed a etitT tniifT on Sumatra tobacco for y plantations would not have had to shut down. We shall have to start tip forty plantations iu this country next year, but it will go hud with us to pay such high wages.' The correspondent says further that two wealthy Dtt'ch tobacco planters from Sumatra, who accompanied Mr. Kaufman coucuucd in all he said, and pronounc cd the soil in some parts of the South bcttO' for the Suinatta leaf than the Indian Ocean island. The party was to sail for home at once to at range for wan (erring their interests to the boutiiet n States $750,000 Made at Newberne. NEwnBitKe, N. C., [Special ]?The truck season has been a source of great "i irfsa fr> ??T J TW --fixo duct fertility of the soil of the ?L -?Tr?nt river valleys and the skill of the farmers' cultivating it. The railroad running from Morchead and Goldsboro has frequently been compelled to run two extia trains a day, with from 3.000 to 4,000 boxes of truck on each train, while the Ptc-amei Neuse has made three weekly trips and the steamer Newberne two. to accommodate shippers. Seventy traii.s have taken 210.000 packages and the two steamers 130,000. a total of 350,000 crates and barrels of truck sent to Not then) markets. These contained kale, radishes, green peas, asparagus, cabbages, Iii It potatoes, beans, beets. ?mixatnna_cii?i!inibers. ego nl?nt? from these products will run uiTTo Hear- ?? Iv half a million dollars, tlieir gross value having been about $7.)0,00>. But that is not all. On the land from which these crops were gathered, strawberry beds exteptcd, o he.r ciops have been pla ted that will mature before frosty weather comes, for in that genial climaw two crops in a season is the general rule for all thrifty truck farmers. A Novel Banking Enterprise. The Farmers' Banking Co has been organized at Grithn, Ga., under a charter granted by the general assembly in October, 1889. It has more than 609 stockholders, whose agregated wealth is estimated to amount to upwards of $2?000,('00. It is expected that it will be open for business the first of October.^ ^ r This bank will inaugurate a novel plan devised by the Farmers' Alliance, although it will be operated in all respects like other banking institutions. The subscribers to its stock turn in bales of cotton instead of cash. Colonel Scaicey, j the president, has been to New York | and arranged for the sale of all the c.oti ton subscribed. None but good middling cotton will be accepted from subscribers, consc rjucutly the purchaser is sure of getting a uniform grade This will be advantageous to him and to the farmers. Some yeats ago Mr. Edward At kinson suggest<d that if a plan were adopted by which even bale could be traced hack to the o: iginnl owner, it would insure more care j i t keeping it clean, and would prevent ; weighting ii with stud and other foreign j materials Ibis bank will, to the exi i' id of the cotton it handles, he acting j on the line of his suggestion. The New Chilian Government Recognized. rertrs.t?l i Tl.. n? M r7f,.V partinent of State telegraphed to Minister h'agan that if a Government had b en i formed l?v ;*ne Congressional party which was acceptable to the people, he should recognize it an I open romrauoieatica ! wi'h its head, t he Department receiv ed a telegram from Mr. Eagan in answer to the above, stating a provisional Govi eminent had been establisheil on the 4th inst , with .lorgc Montt as president, and | was universally neeceptcd by the people, and that he (Mr. Eagan) was in ve>y l cordial communication with it. The Deposed Grand Vizier. A dispatch from 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 allowel to emerge therefrom or receive any visitors. Sir William White, lbitisb ambassai dor at Constant inoplc a few days ago, sent a strong note to the Porte demanding an apology for indignities offered th? British merchant vessels in the Dardanelles. Opening the Exhibition. Kamut.h, N. C., (8neclai.)?Rev. Tho*. Dixon, of New York, accepted ; the invitation to offer the prayer at the i opening of the Southern Exposition her* October 1 On the same day Octavius t Cohen, of the Charleston World, will deliver an nddress, his subj ct being "The Real New South." Ten Southern , States have already arranged for e.xhib its. The e.olored people want five thousand square feet more space for their distinctive exhibit. They already have j over lift con tboutand square feet of space. '-J . m