Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE WEEKLY^tOilOlJfilE ? j ,.v:: , ,^ ? - - rzr~~ , I. ^zztttztz -.w>.. "nrT~ ; -.. ^ ^ ^nrrftorh. Ai'^^iii>JkT ~i 11 'ni^iMwri '' antrai ???? Germany has added 2,205,000 to her population in fire years, France 1,000, 000 in the same period, and Russia 10,000,000. India raises one bushel or wnoai p?r head of her population, the United 8taten over seven bushels per hevi, and South Australia nineteen bushels. The increase in traffic on the Sue? Canal cnuse3 serious delays The com pany has begun to widen the canal and the work will be completed in about two years. A Russian pnysicianbrou^ht n libel suit against a widower who had pasted on the tombstone of his m T i'i l^11 ""WWSrtl P- Clark ,'inUw JbrvmTcall* *ttebtion to the fact that the Northern and Western States since the war have very generally adopted the Southern fashion of kr?|..ldg men in office a long J time. # The cheapest railway faro in the world will he that oa the Central London Railroad, oa which there will be three workmen's trains daily, tho fare for six miles being bu' two cents. The tunnel that will connect Butler Valley, Penn., with tho bottom of the mammoth Ebervale vein will be, think? the New York Timts, on? of the great est engineering feat9 of the century. It will open an almost inexhaustible sup > ply of coal, and will serve as a drain for all the rolippo: >k?. ; Dee Moines, Iowa, is one ?>f the few, *4 not the only city in the country w'jcr* the practice of using prisoners in chains as street laborers ia followed. A short time ago, alleges the New Yoi \ foil, , the spectacle of four youm; m" ? in ' chains, serving time for cou-?ar.s' :> light, offences, was presented iu us ! streets. fohn W. Bookwniter, of Ohio. pro- 1 SOSes to establish farm villages, after the he European method, on his <10,000 , teres of land in Nebraska The rent 1 will be nominal, aud after a stated p- iod the tenant can pur. base his cottage. of Anirivi farm ife. which is regar led by E nonaans a; 1 ts most undesirable feature. if t.h'- SvVi<?=( keen on nviktn t railroads everywhere, exclaims the New York | Indapen lenf, the diligdaco will soon We a thing of the past. Their latent achieve- i meat is the construction of a railway from Viegc to Zer.natt, through StaUlen 1 and St. Nicholas. The next step will be to make one up the Iliffelberg, and then there will be no excuse for any trav- ' eler who fails io look upon the precipices of the Matterhorn. The adulteration in coffee in France has reached such alarming proportions gation in the Chamber. The adultera tion is made by a mixture of flour and sulphate of iron, which is pressed into the shape of a coffee bean, the resemblance being difficult for eveu an expert to detect by sight. A small amount of chicory is sometimes added, and the exterior is given a touch of oil to make it shiny. 4QL The Hoslon Transcript has discovered a wrifer who <|Uestions the oft-made assumption thai we are Anglo-Saxons or are a nn*iou of Anglo-Saxon origin. He enters into a calculation to show that i less than one third of the inhabitants of the United Sfates are of Anglo-Saxon origin, that is, about, eighteen millions. The rest are Teutonic, Celtic and African chiefly, with an infuaion of Gauls and Slavs, a mixture, in fact, of all the W tribes and races of the rest of the world. g- . ? B ! LJ A new kin 1 of stamp* will soon bo introduced in the postal telegraph service of Russia with a view to securing the inviolability of the privacy of letters. The new stamp ir. printed on very thin paper, and cannot be used ngiin if it is once put upon a letter. When used wet and taken otT the envelope it lcavc3 an indelible impression upon the spot where it wa? attached, so that if a new stamp is put upon the same spot the im- i Agression of the tirst stamp cau be seen ; ihrongh it. I There is no douYi, state, the Detroit Fre* 1'retX; that the world's fair will be somewhat intlii :nec I by Ijuropaiii politic^. With (Jermuuy and England in close friendship and Russia allied with France to offset the power of the dreit ? bnrw', there is very sensitive an 1 jealous feeling in all quarters, and our co n nisf , eioncrs will nee I to use tn'iiite tact in order to bring all these eouotries to the " point of m thin4 generous exhibitions at | Chicago. Of Englan d we are certain, and probibly of <??rm\ny, but France j feems coy, and it is not unlilrely that ' ' * Russia will need a d*?grj i of parsuasion | i to induce her to d i judir either to her- ! S self or to the fail. SOUTHERN STATE NEWS Our Coterie of Commonwealths Re presented Here. i < Happenings of th*? Day Reported and Notes of Industrial Pro ( grese Find Space. ; VIRGINIA. I The sixth annual exhibition of the Elizabeth City Fail is in active operation. A bear and a panther appeared in Al- ^ leghany couuty settlements Inst week. A steam laundry is to be established t at Charlottesville. t f,w awwiauvu, vi i TticWhiona. has mortgaged its building y tow iti couise of ent'CTion to the Fiie As sociatiou. of Philadelphia, Pa , to secure > a loan of .$75,000. .1 A monster meeting w?s held in the court room at Hampton. Thursday night. f 'o express the indiguation of the people 5 of the town and county at the verdict of " acquittal in the Haines murder case. ^ Fully eight hundred people were in the room and about two hundred left, not being able to get iuside. People who are rarely seen about at night m away from their business were pie cut to entei their solemn j.ictcst against the verdict ^ being taken a' the -cusc of the coinmuni a rhe ntw Methodist church at Montieal. Nelson county, was dedicated Suudav. n A Union revival meeting is in progress < at Scottsville. C R A. Ayers is building a stone resielcncc at Big Stone Gap to cost $25,000. t] pUiUpisr * unveiled a monument in the national a cemetery at Wincnestet, to the memory li of their commander, Gcu. Russell. The exr ursiouist-- were hospitably entertained , lay the people of Wiu? hosier. ;. In Gray-on couuty, Sunday. John M. o Young, aged fifty-two, quatreled about. \ money with his fathei. aged eighty, ami shot him. The man will probably die Young escaped. <j Captain R. II. 1) Willi-, of Company li C. First regiment. W< -t Virginia Nation d Guard, at ( ration, has been appoiuted w inaj r and brigade inspector. t< An inmate of the So'di t-' Home, while under the influence of liquet, was si tin over by an electric cat neat haaipton. m Wednesday uight. and killed. al D. G. Arm trong, Jr., of Salem, was 01 mlained a= a foreign missionary to Cam iwiiMury. 1,1 ' ' * All along the west cm side of the Blue 11 Ridge mountain-, not lit of Buena Vista ' tud ovei and luuond the c.ntral watershed of the Valley there i much activity '' in the old iron ore mine-. The suit of J. J. Sullivan against the Piedmont Electric Illuminating Company, it Lynchburg, has been compromised bv *' tlir* nuvninnt nf ^.*1' Attrt ii i tin ..V ~ | whose !ittle sou was kil'cd about, six " months ago by touching au exposed ri wire. *' , J|] A large hotel is builuing on the top of "fj iho mountain, in Bnickn's Gap, Olnrke county. Correspondence from Washington j rountv, says: ' Our torn crop is the j best we have had for a i umber of years. ^ And as to the apple uo ?, the like has . never been seen and con>ec|Ueutly apple brandy will probably How as water.-' | i 11 NoithuinWefTancf(ounfy,Vtedu"ateU two ^ weeks ago, is ahcady produc ing good results. Bishop Van tie Vvver, of Hich mond. w ho dedicated the edifice, i: much impressed with the agricultural advant- ^ ages of the Noithern Neck, and is taking ' steps to secure fmeign settlers loi this * vicinity. ri? wiii have t irculated in the Flemish settlements of the Noithwr t a 1 piinted prospectus showing the attr.u tions of the Northern Nec k, and will 1 iii "1111111 III' -MM' |'l O.-pt ( Ml - III neigOIIII | whenhcgoci there nc\l spring. Hev. Mr. Dinnecn. ??f Fiedniekshurg. is pas (or of tlie new < liui li. NORTH CAR 01.IN A. ( A plug ami (w' t lohncco factory is to 1 ho erected in Hates;*! lie. j The State won lr.i service lias Micceed ed in establishing foily-four liu"' waru 1 ing stations. ' The Junnluskec Wine ('??., icoeiitly organized. has purchased the IlecU vineyard, in Wake county, and will erect a wine disti lery with oO.OOO gallons capacity. The Missou-i 'Mining Co.. K. W. tJicen. president. is developing the Gimihol copper mine mi A* he county. ( hnilotte h i organized In Battery f,i I.ighl Artiliciy. ami they air going to wc i k in earn' -i. Kx-Congsc -man .Luiu A. IIvin::i>. of North (/.irolii' i, died nan a 'trokeof paralysis in Wa iiing.'oii, I>. ( Wcdne>:dny. The Contolii !'au pi -yd oil with (lie greatest '-'km--, t (ovcrm r lloit poke to o.tMIO people Tliui-day, aid lie was Cli thus in- t?ca!l y ic.? ived. Me'si* lVffei. i in?? i ;i and I'olk have been announced l<> ( ik in Hon Oclobr.;'at tli?- NuiI'iki n K\pi-itinn. 4 lie 1)'!??') - I:?1 : I? ?| .'it 11 Han 'Jin again". IV .'i'ir P. M.. The i.ill* iif aiiiiii .i_?ti tn tit<- 1'ah ijjii exposition v i e !-i< . i.iiy inronm t ii: adults *?0 cut*. children J iii lit a I'm week llio co.t io liiuic. is $l.ot>. gentlemen $J. W. T. MeDoweil, n[ Taihow, ha:- been elected t?? an r: i-tffln prot>s?'ii hip in mathematics ami engineering in Trinhv College from which institution lie graduated Inst June. Owiuy to !.?? !-: of room a yic.it mailt applicants could not gain admission this term to th" institution for (leaf muti - ami the blind at Raleigh. The Coniuii -ionei of Ayiicultuic. John Robinson, ha- given notice that all the counties in Iho state which haw not made any appropriation for the exhibit at ih'* S iiitlu'M ! ip -ition i ii. wini iheir e.\hil-il- to him an i tin will be piopci v displayed in the Noi'h Carolina exhibit A sad and sudden death occurred in Winaton. Thursday afternoon Mis. David Walker, wife of a printer, while walking with her infant l>abe, fell dead r>n the floor. She wis found partially ou !op of the child, hut foiinnately it was not injured. The deceased had been a sufferer from heart disease. Of the !1 complaints on the list tiicd iiu* far with the railway corumiss on, fully one halt are regarding poor ataOoo iccommodations. This is veiy noticeable . Col. Paul F. Fai*on. president of the lowr.I of directois of the State pcnitcnia'y. has made his quartetly icport to Governor Holt for months of June, July ind August, making the best showing hat |im vet liecu made shire the pcnicntiary has J'ccn arhe earnings over and above expense? I vere $11,008. While wniwlriino mound in hit: tlron I Vcdnestlny tuorning nliout U o'clock, fames H. Harrington, of Cameron, fell rom the fourth story of the Hotel Lv uyettc building, FayettcTillc. to the 'tone pavement below, n distance of ibout sixty fed. causing almost instaut leatli. SOUTH CAROLINA. A $100,000 phosphate company has een formed at Greenwood. A bank has been orgaui/.ed at Midway dtli L. A. Burke, president. Five prisoners are in jail at Aiken waiting trial for murder The Presbyteiians of Sumter have al cady begun to make preparations for the Ictobcr meeting of the Synod of South Carolina. An Orangeburg special says: Work on heSouth-Bound fyrflfl S nnirf' I? P Colonel S. B. Piekcus. general freight ?d passenger agent of the South Carone railroad, died Thursday at Sumter. Silas K. Taylor, colored, the ex-town leik and trcasurei of Beaufort, who has bsconded, held th^ office foi a nunjbci fyeais. When last heard of he was in Vschiogto". i hftn and Andrew Han is of Spnt'anurg. have patented a new air-brakccoupi.g for railroad cars. This new conn ng operates automatically, and when us couple this coupling couples, and hen they uncouple this coupling tin- ! .tuple.*. 1 Adjt. Gen. Fat ley his now under con , deration the Court-martial proceedings i the case of Capt. Beau, ol the NationI Guards, who is accused of an assault ] ud battery upon Col. J. J. Young, a , ibiting any more reckless running by 1 re trains from Charlotte to Columbia. . spiiit of rivalry has recently sprung up rtween the dill'ercut cngine?rs and tirst I ac and then another has beaten the i rtoid. The railroad commissioners' office ha* iinounced that the total iocome of the outh Carolina railwav for the past year as been $1.081. ">01.78. which is an in- '. iease of over 10 per cent, over the roil ns of the proceeding year. The muu- 1 meut of lleceiver Chamberlain is evi i ently a good thing for the bond holders. The statistics of the rot ton business of ;hnt lesion for the past year show some ntcrestiug facts. During 1890 91 Cliareston exported 414,262 bales. In 188U890 exports amounted to ??nly 240,333 ales. Here is where the 114,262 bales .-cut to: beat Britain, bales 140.089 "he (Wlne'nl. r4#-W"1 Another important auction sale of IriuIb )clonjginti to South Carolina will he held it an early day. Col. J. G. Gibbes, the itato lnn<i .igcut, say? he shall offer 25. 00 air- " of rynroiw v.r.:v.ps in the -nvnmrnh vallcv and 10,000 acre* nf valuable mountain land in Pickens county. OTHER 3TATE9. Opelik.i, Ala., has caught die exposition ever, and expects to show what her people can do in such enterprises the middle of next November. 'I lie ton the :n be Midline Co., of Lbuttauooiiii, Tonu . which is not yet a rear old, has received otdeis from South America for three -50 ton ice niadriues. The president ha- commuted the sen tencc of Charles Siiiottky. ol Georgia, ontcnced to six years imprisonment lor rouuterfcitiug and a line of |^.0;0, to two years actual iuipiisoumcnt The Florida landowueis have called for a raise in the price of their lands. The foilowiug, from the I'ail way Land Company, which controls extensive tracts in Florida, will show how the prices have advanced: Aii lands at 1 ss than $5 pel acit, IhO per ceui; between $-5 and t10 m i at re. 50 i?"i <ent: over $10 r?':i litre, vl t per cent. The (..coigni Hotr-e of |? piescitative-. has passed a hill iinpoworin - l':c city of Macon lo i?>ue boud* to the amount of $>.">0,00" 'lie piocecd > ho uscil in ihr constructior of wa'cr works for that city. Ii piovides al>o tli. t this hill should not become binding upon the city until npproved by a two-thirds vote of t- ipialitied voters. The Chamber of Commerce at Chat tauootra, nt a recent meeting, voted to j memorialize the legislature of Tennessee I o appropriate $100,000 for a State exhibit at ( bh aeo. and annoiuted a com- I initlee Id visit the gcn< Till assembly and j to urn?; that appropriation. At the same inn-ting a committee was appointed to prepare a memorial in opposition to the piopoM-il building of a penitentiary in .'he Mopiachcu valley. The Okeechobee Drainage Company is now engaged in cnf'ing a eanal from the south end <>l l.ake Okeechobee to the ex 's ine sonih < nd of ihc riot ida pftritisiiia The lake anil tii" Kvcrglades are abttif wenfy tinee f< i I above the level of the .1, and w tli I hi - fall 'lie engineers think there will he u<? diffinilty to drain off as in 'if li i* it- i n- will he nevs-arv. The I ran.:! i- titty fet! wid and six and a half feet deep Great difficulty is rueountei ed in cutting thiongh the dense tropical growth A ho;: | a mile from the lake an immense body of pn?taril apple trees was cuconntcied. which gave a great deal of trouble. The heat is iuteuse, as the great tresj put oE* *ll i)t?uei>. ana the mm are glide ?lKnon uncomfortable bv the vawelconUHttenlions of ?warms of mosqgitocs. T)ft draiea go com nan y is nlsomakiug it bey from Lake Oaeechobeeeast to tlfjMRksUi'; with a view of cuttfug a cana?gLth*t direction. PROGRAMME S THE ALLIANCE. Meaauree that Jp Will Push at the Next Keeling of Oongrese. WiwtMTo^mfcCI Special. J? The official* on dutrK the headquarters of the Pairncra' AMpfece in this city are ihai 5BBBS^^o*""tn^^r>vho will vote with it upon all measures. It also claims four Senators: Feffer of Kansas, Kyle of tfouth Dakota, Xiby of South t'aiolina. an vani c 01 nonn i arolma. The Alliance claims Vance because lie wax elected after the Legislature of lii* State bad passed a ievolution that no man could be chosen Senator until he agreed to a programme which wa? practically that of tte Alliance. Mr. Vance having agreed to those resolutions, the Alliance now claims him as its own. At the nt xt session the Sub-Treasury bill as it was introduced in the last Congress will not, it is understood, make its appearance. That, they say at Alliance headquarters, has been repudiated by both Houses of Congress, and will for that reason not be resurrected. A bill constructed, howcvei, upon similar lines and embodying the aaiue principle will br introduced in both Houses and push ed to a vote. Exactly what changes will be made in the original Rub-Trendy-? ?^WW%Wnfr>rd Land Loan bill will not be touched by the Alliance. The leaders of the latter are very much put out bccnuse the people think the Stauford bill finds favor with them. The Alliance people thiuk that designed to help only those who already have a fail sliaie of this world's goods * and that the only people who are booBing it are those en gaged in hooining Senator Stanford for the Presidency. Aa for the Alliance, it declares it wiil hnve nothing to do with either Senator Stanford or hi? bill. The bill on the came subject and introduced under Alliance auspices will piovide for the relief of the agricultural ' population of the United States, and for 1 Ihc promotion and encouragement of ag riculture. Its main features will piovide 1 iKof onu *i'l>cv c ?'*? J... VIIHl huj vn'fctu "uu u?tin nun icoiui:s upon auv tract of land containing not less than ten nor more than 320 acrca. ' ind i^io has at least oue half of that \ IL HlliSli'SUftTUHMu to exceed one haif the assessed value of the land and the improvements on it. The loans are to be for not less than five not more than ten years, and the borrower is to pay interest at 2$ per cent. Another measure which the Allinuce will push is a free coinage bill. These three measures are 'the ones in which it will take the most interest", but other bills will come from ns hands. It wjll have introduced a bill providing for t?ov; ernmcnt control of ..jaulroads aud telegraph systems. *? (he railroad and telegraph"^nRpanies the Alliance is misunderstood, it is . said, at its headquarters. It i^HlL. as is generally supposed, jo favor ^^Bbvcrumeiit ownership of railroads telegraph. It imply wants the Govenroient to control them. The Alliance will npt. bring forward any tariff bill. It will content itself with demanding the equalization of the ft Ivftl, 'UWveityVbf"' fo abolish the natio?:d banking system, TR AIM RORRERS CAUGHT. rapture of the Men Who Plundered the Southern Expraas. The ottifi is of the Southern Express icieivcd this dispatch telling them of the capture of the three JSavannah robbeis who held up thtfir messenger aud stole $*,. ?(> from him: "Madison. Fla..?The three train robbers who robbed the Kotillicrn Express I OllipuilV ? llicsscugui U11 Iiiii Vtuun' Kail road of Georgia just outside of Savanna') Friday night were overthkeu near Mo.sely Hull, about daylight by a party of express officials ami defectives, t'c.-perate resistance was made by t lit thieves, but they were raptured and brought, here in irons. They will be tuhcu to Savnnuahj where the men are said to hail fiom. the express people , claim that the evidence against them b overwhelming. "The tohb ly for which they have bci^ at rested is the second committed on the same liuc of road within ihc hist month. In both instances the ex pi ess company, as it always does in such cases, has rc leu lestdv and speedily hunted down the rohbets. The penalty for train robb'og in Georgia is twenty years in the penitentiary. The amount stolen was only a few hundred dollars, most of which iia> been recovered.'' AN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. Methodists of Every Haco, Color, Chado of Belief to Meet in Washington. In the Metropolitan Methodist Church in Washington the second Ecucncrical (.'ouuiil of Methodism of cv. ry race, c olor, and shade o*X. bulrsfc* will be held ?- ' - . . / ...' Oil A .JAA ,1,.l. I i I (Mil wtl. I 119 U! I. V /. OVV licit* gates will be present from all parts of the win II. Tin Western orAoieiiean section of the Chmv'j. whi^Mia* nine-tenth" of the whole, is divided into seventeen sects The >h tii<>'listKni?wMn Church \\ halt til*' whole rep it-f 111 Methodism. which i- plit^HHffonr branches, will have foitv threr^ppifeentatives. I lie object of the ^NfitoL^aocial and educational, a it h*^^^HpfRhlativc or judicial function. Council was held in England, several year* ago, at the call of tho Wes'evan* It wna small, hut so lui' iiioiiiou"- and pleasant that this second has been got up on a large scale, j . ' ' > ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT President Polk Makes Three Speeehei In Kansas. He Pay* Thai the Alliance Movement Is Gaining Thousand* of Converts Throughout the South Daily. Topfha. Kan. [Special] ? President L. L. TolK. of the national alliance. ha? made three addresses in Kansas. President Polk's opening has been devoted principally to himself. Alter giving hit boyhood history, he reached the war pcnod. i Tie states that ho did not g ? into tin rebel wing from choice lie upheld the union until the wave of secession swept over the south, when he did as many ...I. .1 .1 ..I e . A \ ? S * oincrs u ii wcie loicen 11* snouiuci their musket?. Mr hid been offered th? command of a company, l?ut refused it, ?3 acceptance would have Ihtii rnnArucii into nn < mint rmrnt of the cause whose arms he ?ni i icd. IIo aft i ?in>is accepted tlie ottica fir held because hv doing so he could indirectly aid those who were fighting foi the preservation of the union and in n degree mitigate the sufferings of those who, like himself, had heen forced tn beai aims against hi countiy. fpholor ihh strikes. While not speaking directly about the contemplated strike of the cotton pick ers in the sofith. he fad the oppressed agricultural laborers should mid shall de maud the right of namiug the compensation for their services, and until these nortl or south. "You here arc foiliinatc in being youi own laborers, but the plutocrats o{ other states must lie compelled tn acknowledge the God-given rights of laborers, whe'h er tliev be white or black. "Some of our brctlncn have aheady made thcii demands, and they will br granted 01 entire regions will contain only famtljes ruined by hoi 1 own greed." In an interview today, Colonel folk stated that the alliance movement was gaining thousands ol 1 (inverts throughout the south daily, ami the girat mass of faruicin planters and laboring incu had desrttrd the democratic party and were standing squarely on the Ocula platform. "I b lieve the third party will sweep every state in the smith in IR02. The old bosses down there have tried to bull doze aud force the people to take thcii democratic medicine, hut without result. P^iCii;""nt|lMlftlliail',f Mr. Polk uttered these words wit! feeling, and declared eternal warfare or both the old parties. The bloody shirt, he said, will he wrapped around mc oir sectional agitators, an?1 they will be bur ied too deep tor resurrection. THERE WILE BE ATIII|U) TABl T. "Will the allianrc ronlcreuceat Washington iu February declare for a third party?' "I cannot say; but there will be a thiid party.. It might have been prevented four months ago, but now it is too late. Our people iu the south have been abused and sneered at by the democratic bossn and the democratic press, and wo. wil stand itcno longer. The negro dsnoini nation cry won't pwjgut a break of tin solid demo^^q#?*?1JI(B^ will take care o the negroes'ana see that they nroallowet to vote. They are largely in this move meut and will be an important factor it the campaign next yfiir.M - "fnrr against the pensioning of soldiers wh fought for the uniou. When we wcr def"?te'I we .? pled the. result as fina and acquiesced. We shall never rais our voice against the; legitimate pension iag of union soldiers, ll is the result o warfare and we can shake hands witl our northern brothers who wore the blui and feci that they are receiving only jus tice from a government which they help cd to preserve." CONFlDhNT OK VICTORY. Mr. I'olk said the people's party would in his opinion, carry every southern stab next year. The alliance was for th? Ocala demands and would have nothing else. * + * + * 18 YOUR Al.LI A.N< E ON 1 HK DECLINE? There should he no such thing as de clincin a Sub-Alliance. And if a tru Alliance spud peivades the mcmberdiiti there tnil he no decline in interest, i membership or in attendance upon regu lar meetiuTs. There is too much of in formation and mutual benefit to be df rived, if the Alliance standard is hel firmly and high, to admit of det liue. Aa< yet it is not uncommon t ? hear it said "My Alliance seems to be on the back ground. We have dropped some of ou members; others aic uregular in attend auce." Something is radically wrou when this is the case, and it behoove true men to set about to find out the cv and correct it. Show me such an Alii ance, and I "ill show you one whos members have made little or no effort t help each other to build up the order i large. Those "ho are full handed au can pay cash for what they buy pull o from their poor brethren and act inch pendent of them. Their patronage courted by local merchants, and the think, and sometimes sav, their money - ? - *u: ?i . tvr. II guuil I'liUll^ll aiu-llitr iui mum. ?v ut it is proposed to make 11 note to the banl these cash met. decline to sign, wIhm names would i?e?m o the money to run tl Alliance for ca-di. and the poor memhc are left to shift for themselves and uake the hest arrangements they can f< supplies to mnke ?hc:r frep, they a driven to the necc;sity of giving liens mortgage- on their erops and stoe which icsults in the merchant takii ahottl all that is made at the end of tl year. Is it any wonder, then, that tnembe become disheartened and gradually drt out of the Alliance ranks? They see i improvement in their condi ion Th beautiful dream of brotherly love nr help vanishes They know they a lionet; they are willing to secure, I lien or mortgage, theii alder brethren f . II advances made ?and yet sympatl > aud aid in withheld. Of course, there I DA are some roble exceptions. W c have ( I nerer Tet heard of a brother losing any thing V?v helping a poorer brother, either In by loaning htm money or by going on j h a note in t>ank, in order that he might . , buy hi* supplies for cash. We were in ' ' formed a few days since by a brother, 1 ., th t in hi* sub Alliance there were H\e I brothers, hard working ho-est men, ^ w ho had been for years pun ha ing th?-tr 1? supplies under liens, paying the usual f cnermous percent* charged. I.'st yearit was agreed by sotn* two or three mem ^ bera to make a nore in bank for enough t,,M1 I ; m trey to run these five brut Iters for rash. ! tnot I They bought- supplies through tire Kx- j ' | change. The result was they paid the | , rimrnt Ire tr ed in every bub-Alliance in m<>< I the State, and wc will see no mow fa'I j n"^ ing off but a genonl up building nil lrV' along the lines (Irccnville, S. ( ' , A<I "'''l I vertiser. ,ct-f ****** | haw AI.U*N(e M.OB MKKTINIi. 1 Cate* Count,T Alliance had arranged , ' for an Allinnrr ma?.s meeting on * lmge j ' 's ! amir. Seven surrounding counties in l' 'j"| , | North Carolina ami Virginia hud -inI ! " j Invitations. Thrrr were representatives * ' from nil these counties Besides thcrr '^ur wore hundreds and thousands of men, ! women and children from all points i , within a radius of :I0 miles. The people j | '^ and everything about the giounds were J . i teadv for the speaking to begin at 10 . . , . , , ' ? taut OlMKK. , The Chowan Farmera' Alliance Baud, j . j twenty rtrong and all married, but nine 1 ' teen had appeared ?all Allianremeo ?in r^B their uutfornu of blue with tleir elegant ) Ro ( nnd polished instruments, the whole out- ; . A mBtt. wimmmk 1 *? erts, and were escorted to the giand nl~ s'and by the band with strains of fine j music, Bro Mil's Euro, President dates ' ' County Alliance, piesided. Prayer bv .. Hev. Bio. Woodson, County Chaplain. ' ( Bro. Thos. t.'ross, Clerk of the Court of | ^'... dates rountv, made a smooth, sensible I j ! speech in mimirablc diction, happily con ; ^ i reived, welcoming those from the neigh ! . , i J horing counti a, and presented Marion Butler, of Samson county, ourwblo State ; j ; ! Piesident, who rcspondod, beginning at 1 Jf> II HO o'clock and gave a stiong, argu- I W( mcntivr speech of 7:1 minutes to a vast jR multitude of attentive people. j ^ I lie said, among other thiogs: "The |( neorr'e I address, because juoduceis, j ought to he the richest?the Nabobs of ta?( America. But ara they? No, from ! 'houeauds of upturned faces, no." In 1867 there were raised 600,000,000 bushels of corn, woitli about |600,000,- * 000. 22 years later the crop was over , rKWT>(H>(too less than , in 1867. Thus three bushels in JH80 is woith less than one bushel III 1867. I Then 4.000,000 bales of cotton, now ?, 000,000 biles. Two bales grew where one grew before, but ii woitli $1-1,000, * 00) less."' Col. Skioner win also spoke said theie / | were more people, pr?teul than nt any I rrft( ' oth? r piace where he liaci apoKen. ruuy ,.X( 6,000 were present. The hand did its ( |, 1 duty w el I all the day through, unhiding I the dinner. And everybody was proud w|, of the Alliance Band. Aixiam'KMan. * H 4 ,yj. National Secretary J. II. Tinner or pet gani/.cd Delaware State Alliance Tuesday, lor September 8. for ? + + .,** Ch This is their season of the year, and ret the aenson will last through September thi and October. The papers contain fine see accounts of them, as they are held here I tj'l jMUtUhM \ t* 0 Brother Turner, na ional accrelarv. has ' t\ c rwjjvcd that consolidation with 1 the National Farmers Allicnce and In- " e dust rial Union has been rntificd by the ' sub-Alliances of Wisconsin and a Stale f charter lias been issued. Welcome tc fi Wisconsin. B I I Oil Dkcatcb, Oa., [Special .|?The Alii- : auce barbecue at Union Hill was a big ' success. The barbecue was highly enjoyed by all , 1 Cresent, and the Union Hill meeting will fOI u c remembered as one of the notable ,-t.? j : events of the season. J eX| j ! * + * * : . 8ni McKay, the Alliance judge out in tlie Harper county, who was brought before be< the Supreme Court at Topcku for ton- fee ' - * A ?.! I i : _ L!. i. '.l : I...I , ] icrapr, ctme om iriiiiu|)iiiiiu in m? mm i -mi besore that tribunal. Her proves him- ' the ( self au efticieut judge if lie is an Alliance- is i ' man.?Alliance buu. col ****** i?r The agricultural fairs and cattle shows ' .. . of the rural districts, vcai after year, [ n" r| have always been of grtat use to the J rl ; country. The? have aided in the in- j fiC( I traduction of improved methods of farm- j ! ' ing and ttock breeding : they have given "u r j opportunity for the display of new and Ku serviceable implements of cullivatioi), j !'" I and they have promoted the feeling of ,n K sociability among the multitudes of ,,n Is, I country folks who gather together at i ^c' II them. I- j ; th >c | The Milton (VV. Va i Star says; Quite V l ? a number of uninformed farmers labor rt : >; d | under the delusion that the Alliance ff ! movement is of very icceiit origin, and ; s- ! will have but an ephemeral existence, j ' Such is not the case. Texas, the State y of its birth, has just held her twelfth au- j ' nusl State Alliance, and the Order in I th 1,1 Texas is much stronger in numbers and . Hi j more united in purpose and more de- | "I ** teimined iu resolution^ban ever before. ti< ie The Order, however, in many of the i et r* States is young in years hut strong in F ? spirit and growing fast The Order now ; O '>?' ; in the United State* numbers about i'our s< re million members. tl "r T k, hi 1% Dire Distress in Russia. w ric oi St. Petersburg, (Cablegram. |?The p in ll<? Vnlna nrnvinriii in int*liCi>. V ra ...?.!?? .u W.v ' "-ft" I , >p At Penza women ami children wander (j 10 ; exhausted, shrieking for food, in the ?t market p ace# All tbe cbaiitable aoK| cieties are doing the beat tbcj can l(us- n ro sian corn merchant* on tliu frontier ate ? ,y j deapondcut at the idea that the German ? f)r trade will And fresh channel* and n^t r J, ,y I rctu.u to Huts an com. | u UGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION i. Harrison Calls a Hooting of Regonte to Establish Unity nud Harmony. i AMIIN.V10N, D. U., (Special. 1 -Mrs. 11 ?min llnnison has sent out the fol lug riivuDi : thf Hffjcnt* ,<f' the Notional Sotitty oj l>,i>i<jhtfis ( /' (h* Amtriran Recolulion; fitli a view to the establishment o! ipletc unity of action and perfect harry of feeling throughout tne National i?'t v of Daughters ot the American rotation, the Board of Management, cious uf .tho integrity of iU purposes . tl t tV legality of its action, requests a cling of every officer of the society I of overj lady who has at auy time i vrd nn appointment through any n.s of tlie locietv, whether abe has ivnl notice that such an appointment been confirmed or not. > ho meeting wilt bo hfcld Thursday, ti, in the drawing rooms of 1,407 sachusetts avenue, placed at tho dis*1 of th? society on that date as a . siid to he in uo sense considered a ate ievidence. It is earnestly rested that every chanter formed, or in rcss of formation, shall l?c represent)ii tl?is occasion. It is requested that ladies touting to this meeting sh?ll ig s cic.nlv defined statement of any cause of complaint they may enter, and documentary evidence to tup. t the position they aie prepared to ?. The Advisory floaid of the Na? ml Society will be present, and each nter regularly formed is Invited. If it trait cs, to send one member of its mory Hoard or cooncil of gentlemen i4A ilia Vadf lapmwrtstWo t> iing its views. 'he fullest opportunity will bo allowfor the discussion of every (picstion, I it is believed that in the course of i candid and friendly conference a understanding of mutual relations be attniucd and confidence establishin the Society of Daughters of the ei iron devolution, which has for its li aim the piomotion of patriotism of native laud. 'laus will ho pmpoted for the advanceit of the society. Piactical lines of k will be consigned, and each regent ivitcd to present her views and tliose ici chapter upon these subjects. L must he understood that this meet i? lor couference only, aud does uot r I he place of the Continental Coni8, which rueets on Feb. 22, 1802. arolina Bcott Harrison, PresidentQenrral. I. V. K. C.uiEt-, Vice Piesidcut Genponding Secretary-General. PREPARING FOR THE FAIR. LCitrsion Already Being- Planned Frotn London to Chicago. I cablegram from Loudon say*: Airly nriallotments have been made for urainna which are to leave here for i? ago during the World's Fair. Each ty will i onsist of about 100 travelers, 0 will nut in ally Mud at New York 1 taking a leaf, no doubt, out. of the deal New York traveler's book, these pic will pay a trip to Philadelphia a day, and then go to Washington ? At I>ni< .!??? ?>. Ki I a I La elan in fiii'M i * ~ i miiv, ?iaiiu iiici i irnij icago will extend over n week. The urn will be made through Buffalo so it they may hare an oppoituuity of iug Niagara Falls. Alter this one nadian city will he visited and the oicc will probably tail upon Toronto.. . irn the party will go nark to New nk and sail for home This pi'gwuie, M 11 believed. will corrtct ono or 0 erroneous notions Englishmen have out America. smokeless" powder. ccessful Experiment* by Cur Na> val Officers?The New SixInch Oun. IVakiiinoio.h, I). C.?At the Newport pedo station the naval ordinance b'lu is conducting a set of progressive icrimenU noon vari >us formulas for okelcss powder. Now it is believed it the ideal powder for small arms has in obtained, as a velocity of 2,180 1 per aecond has been given a rifle II with a low pressure of II .It tons in i powder chamber. The new powder safe, cheap and convenient: with R"Uk Hon as its base, gives remarkably regA results, and as it lias been developMT the naval officers the government win I have to pay a royalty for its use. The ordnance bureau of the navy has nred some remarkable results from the ent trial of the new six inch rifled gun ill at 'he Washington navy yard. This ii is probably the lonzcst piece of its its yet undertaken, beiug forty caliber length or twenty feet internal length, d has just thrown its projectile 2,180 I in one becoud without exceeding Hf ii tons pressure to the sryiurc inch in i! chamber. This type hamiullrd to II thnt it will lie used for the orr.nmeut ihe twin "pirate?,'1 known as cruisers os 12 nud 10. now building. O'Brien'* Deficit $71,000. Chattanooga, Tknn., (Special.]? ite in the night an expert, conducted e examination of books of M. J. O'licn, absconding treasurer of the Cathie ICnights of America. Bis defalcates reach s a few hundred dollars in teess of seventy-one thousand dollars. ? mm the books it was learned that 'Brien had been misapplying funds for mie time. Forty thousand dollars of lis amount was taken prior to July 1st. lie in st rigid search here fails to give iv clew to the missing treasurer's hereabouts. Officers arc on the lookit for him throughout the country. The idelity and ('sMiality company, of New ork. aic especially anxious for hira as icy arc his b ndsmeu for fifty thousand pilars. St. Lot is. Mo ? Special from Chattaoogr to tin- Fo t lhsnatch. says: (.'has. . Kirchsuer. of Toledo, was elected sureme treasurer of the f'ntholic Knights f America, to succeed defaulting treasrcr O'Biica.