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Owr 30,00'J head of neat cattle and I SOUTHERN STATF VPWC . tim,n .n^ < IfAAA
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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.
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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. .>
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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