Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|P' ' - "''1 V^jBWr^NEW SERIES. "'^r'^^'uNION c. H./SO^H K 2A, Ts'.ti. ^ NUMBER 3!*. ' Germany has added 2.265.000 to her ciAnnnrwT.%T nm * " ***~ c population in five years, France 1,000, 000 in the same period, and Russia 10,000,000. 0 India raises one busbel or wneat per head of her population, the United Statei over seven bushels per head, and South ? Australia nineteen bushels. The increase in traffic on the Suez Canal causes serious delays. The company has begun to widen the canal and the work will be cornploted in about two ^ le A Russian nnr?ifl?n I? -l-' - r?j ? ? ? ?? uiuu^UVI n 11061 suit against a widower who had pasted on the tombstone of. his lately deceased. fJrfte" fUSl. |;C IpPPHr^ attehtion to the fact that the Northern s<> 80k and Western State3 since the war have 11 ' verj generally adopted the 8outhern fashion cf keeping men in office a long time. ______ of m~mm~ ac The cheapest, railway faro in the p, world will he that on the Central Loa- ro? don Railroad, on which there will be three workmen's trains daily, the fare jrf for six miles being but two cents. thi ?? be Ths tnnnol tl"t will ???"' " nUi wuucvb rvjci^r ty. Valley, Pen#, with tlie bottom of the mammoth Ebervale vein will be, thinks ^'{ * % the New York Timu, one of the great* est engineering feata of the century. It ' ' . will open an almost inexhaustible sup- r]e| ply of coal, and will serve as a j drain tor all the collerifi3_in_ib?? -?? ? ? - ^4 sr.- <>n , ? tei Dee Moines, Iowa, is one of i few, of i i| not the only city in the country where | Jl V the practice of using prisoners m cairns J 'as street laborers is followed. A short y0 .'time ago, alleges the New York Port, mn 'the spectacle of four rounif me a in she chains, erring time for com para* , ily light offences, was presented in its f_ * *?Ct8' - al' < i John W. Bookwalter, of Ohio, pro- ln" Doses to establish farm villages, after the he European method, on his 60,000 run ?cres of land in Nebraska. The rent We riit be nominal, and ^after a stated pe- I iod the tenant can purchase his cottage. ?r^ Mr.jtfiir-wv"S tome ot the loneliness of American farm j ife, which is regar Jed by E iropesns as Rii ts most undesirable feature. a,Dt __________?- S'1C If the Swiss keep on making railroads 11 everywhere, exclaims tho New York Indspen-hnt, the diligence will soon be a a( ] thing of tho past. Their latest achieve- the ment Is the construction of a railway , s from Viege to Zer.natt, through Stalden and St. Nicholas. The next step will be ^ to make one up the Riffelbsrg, ahd then iho there will be no excuse for any trav- cm1 eler who fails to look upon the preel- * pices of the Mattcrhorn. ^ ? - An The adulteration in coffee in France nei has reached such alarming proportions br* lUil. IV ax. W . . 1". - laivjrt- gation in the Chamber. The adulter! ' tion Is made bj a mixture of flour and ,fS sulphate of iron, which is pressed into mc the shape of a coffee bean, tho resem- ,m acf blance being difficult for even an expert 8{^ to detect bj sight: A small amount of vie chicory is sometimes added, and the ex- Fl< tenor is given a touch of oil to maVe it J ^ hiny. cir The Boston Transcript has discovered a writer who questions the oft-made as- toi sumption that we are Anglo-Saxons or are a nation of Anglo-Saxon origin. He enters into a calculation to 'show that be less than one-third of the inhabitants of 1 the United States are of Anglo-Saxon. origin, that is, about eighteen millions. ' D' The rest are Teutonic, Celtic and African chiefly, with an infusion oi Gauls yft and Slavs, a mixture, in fact, of all the wi rr~ ? tribes and races of the rest of the world. Pa ^. A new kind of stamps will soon be Introduced in the postal telegraph service of Russia with a view to securing j,j tho inviolability of the privacy of letters. w( The new stamp is printed on very thin k paper, and cannot bo used again if it is once pat upon a letter. When used y wet end taken oft the envelope it loaves au indelible impression upon the spot gr where it was attached, so that if a new to tamp is put upon the same spot the im- cn pression of the first stamp cau be see* )>( There is no doubt, states the Datrott ^ Jlrw Pretty that the world's fair will be somewhat influenced bj European poll- fc() ties. With Germany and England in wi close friendship and Itussia allied with >? uuau. mare is very senttuve ens jeaious 7*j feeling io ell quarters, and our coannU- " sioncrs will noe I to use infinite tact in Mi order to bring nil these countries to the point of making generous exhibitions at *1 Chicago. Of England we are certain, . I . and probably of Gernmny; but France a seems coy, and it is not unlikely that j, Hr-v' " Russia will need a degree of persuasion. ti * to induce her to do juitioe either to her-, ** |k self or to the fair. * Wk. lUUiniiHIN O'l'ATJJi Wi!iWS ?ur Coterie of Commonwealths Re presented Here. [appenings of th? Day Reported and Notes of Industrial Pro gress Fincl Space. VIRGINIA. The sixth annual exhibition of the lizabeth City Fail is in active operation. A bear and a panther appeared in Alghany county settlements last week. A steam laundry is to be established Charlottesville. >w in course of erePtlbn to the Fire Asciatiou. of Philadelphia, Pa , to secure loan of $75,000. A monster meeting wis held in the urt rjorn at Hampton. Thursday night, 1 express the indignation of the people the towu and county at the verdict of quittal in the Haines murder case. 1 illy eight hundred people were in the am and about two hundred left, not nt%t?. i 1 - n - t ? iuk .tun- iu luiiuf. ri'ojjic who ; rarely seen about at night or away >m their busiuess were pie cot to enter cir solemn protest against the verdict 1 ing taken a~> the souse of the couimuniThe niw Methodist church at Montreal, Jsou county, waa dedicated Suuday. i A Union revival meeting is in progress ( 8cottsville. I R A. Ayers is building a stone resincc at Big Stone Gap to cost $25,000. t Saturday, 300 suivivoxa^tJ -1 n7 Trrrrjrtf- u. A, It. Trom Philadelphia, veiled a monument in the natioual < netery at Winchester, to the memory 1 their commander, Geu. Russell. The ursiouists were hospitably entertained <. the people of Wiuchcstcr. n in Grayson couuty, Sunday. John M. o ung, aged fifty-two, quarreled about > ncy with his father, aged eighty, ami ?t him. The man will probably die ung escaped, >j vnpiHin n. m. u. wiui?, 01 company 11 First regiment. West Virginia Nation- >: LHiard, at Crallou. lias been nppoiuted v j r and brigade inspector. c Vn inmate of the So'di rs' Home, ile under the influence of liquor, was ,si i over by an electric ear near Hampton, j dncsday night, and killed. a ). G. Aiui trong, Jr., of Falem, was 0 ained a? a foreign missionary to Cam ^ Ml along the western side of the Blue ^ Ige mountains, north of Bucnu Vista I over and liejond the cmfral water- * d of the Valley there is much activity " the old iron ore mines. 0 r ['he suit of J. J. Sullivan against the dinont Electric Illnminating Company, Lynchburg, has teen compromised bv a payment of &>y,W0 to the plaintiff, S ose little sou was kil'ed about six " nths ago by touching an exposed c c. I large hotel is building on the top of J mountain, in Snicker's Gap, Olnrke tuty. Correspondence from Washington j intv, says: ' Our corn crop is the j it we have had for a ruiuber of years. ^ d as to the apple uo.?, the like has j. ret uvcii on u nun vvuc\.i|urui IJ I I **" indy will probably flow as water." J Nfoithuuitt'eilancf eonoty,dedica tc(i two ^ eks ago, is nlieady producing good ults. Bishop Van de Vyver, of Hich- . ?nd, who dedicated the edifice, is much pressed with the agricultural advant- { ss of the Northern Neck, and is taking J fis to secure forcigu settlers for this J nity. He will have circulated in the emish settlements of the Northwest ? 1 inted prospectus showing the attr.u ns of the Northern Neck, and will eulate the saine prospectus in Belgium ( ten he goer there next sirring. Bev. . Dinnccn, of Fredericksburg, is pas of the new church. NORTH CAROLINA. A plug and twist tobacco factory is to erected in Slatesville. The State wea her service has succeed in establishing forty-four fro'-t warn {{ stations. Tho Junnluskee Wine Co., recently ornized, has purchased the Ilcck vinerd, in Wake county, and will erect a no distidery with .<0,000 gallons cecity. The Missouri Mining Co., K. W. ceo, president, is developing the Gnm1 copper mine iu A*he county. * Charlotte lias organized' li?t Buttery of ght Artillery, and they are going to )rk l'u earnest. Kx-Congjt-.-smau .Joiiu A. Hymuu, of wth CarOlinu, died fr?>n? a stroke of ridyste iu Wn hington, I). C., Wednegy The Concord Fair passed o(T with the eat est. success. Governcr Holt spoke 5,000 people Thursday, and ho was thusiaatfcally received. M?s*r?. Fetter, Simp on and Polk have on announced to apeak ill ftidcigh on :tobcr 0, at the Southern Exposition, ic Democrat* propose to put Senator rni oni against Pleddcn: Polk. The rates of admission to the Raleigh position v/ero officially announced: LulU 50 vent?, children J'> cents. Pet eck the cost to ladles is $1.50, gcutleen W. T. MPDowell, Of Tafhoro, tin* becu ected to an As.'idrtta professoi-.hip in lathematics and engineering in Trinity ollego from which inHtitution he graduled last June. Owing to lack of room a great many pplicanta could not gain admission this >rm to the institution for deaf mutes and ie blind at Raleigh. The Commissioner of Agricultute, ohn Robinson, has given notice that all ae counties in the fttatv which have not lade any appropriation for the eshibit t tho Si mi horn F> i> aitinn ran aend their xhibits to hiio an I lliey will he properly Uplayed in tho North Carolina exhibit '' ' ** ' * * \^J| |j A end and sudden death occurred in Win6too, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. David Walker, wife of a printer, while walking with her infant babe, fell dead on the floor. She wis found partially ou top of the child, but fortunately it was not injured. The deceased had been a sufferer from heart disease. Of the *?1 complaints on the list filed thus far with the railway commiss'on, fully one half arc regarding poor stnt'on accommodations. This is veiy noticeable . Col. Paul F. Faisou, president of the board of directors of the State pcnitcutiipy, has mado his quarterly report to Governor Holt for months of June, July and August, making the best showing that ha* vet been made shice the pentrcnttary has beca a. selfsupigalifliLiikwere" The'earnings over and above expense? were $11,098. While wandering around in his sleep, Wednesday mornintr nhnnt :t lames H. Harrington, of Cnmcrou, fell from tlie fourth story of the Hotel Lafayette building, Fayettcville. to the stone pavement below, n distaucc of about sixty fed, causing almost instant ivuui. SOUTH CAROLINA. A $100,000 phosphate, company has icen formed at Greenwood. A bank has been organized at Midway fvith L. A. Burke, president. Five prisoners are in jail at Aiken iwaiting trial for murder. The Presbyterians of Sumter have al eady begun to make preparations for the )ctobcr meeting of the Synod of South Carolina. An Orangeburg special says: Work on lie 8outh-Bound lfoad Is ranidlw ' Colonel 8. B. Piokeus. general freight ind passenger agent of the South Caroine railroad, died Thursday at Sumter. Silas E. Taylor, colored, the ex-town lcrk arid treasurer of Beaufort, who has bsconded, held the office for a number f years. When last heard of he was iu Vtshiogtoo. Ben and Andrew Harris of Spadanmrg. have pntentcd a new air-brake conn iug for railroad cars. This new cou flag operates automatically, and when ars couple this coupling couples, and rhen they uncouple this coupling unouplcs. A.djt. Gen. Farley has now under con ideration the Court-martial proceedings 11 the case of Capt. Bean, of the Nation1 Guards, who is accused of an assault nd battery upon Col. J. J. Young, a. livcrsionof funds, and also offtucesjgJ^ "issued ibitmg any more reckless running by ha trains from Charlotte to Columbia. I spirit of rivalry has recently sprung up otweeu the dilTercut cncine?rs and first ue and then uuothor lias beaten the ccord. The railroad commissioners' oflite has nnouoced that the total iocome of the lOtith Carolina railwav for the past year as been $1 .081.501. 7H. which is an iu- I rea>c of over 10 per cent, over the raurns of the proceeding year. The inuugement of Receiver Chamberlain is evileutly a good thing for the bond holders. The statistics of the cotton business of Jharlcston for the past year show some ntcrcstiug facts. During 1800 01 Char eston exported 414,203 nates. in i?bm1890 exports amounted to only 240,883 tales. Here is where the 414,252 bales vent to: Ireat Britain, bales 149,889 fho Continent, ' &13r Another important auction sale of Inmlq, relongintr to South Carolina will be held it. an early day. Col. J. G. Gibbes, the itatc land agent, says he shall offer 25,)00 acr-aof cypress timber swamps in the savannah vallev and 10,000 acres nf ral? .able inouutnin laud iu Pickens county. OTHER STATES. Opelika, A In., hascnoght the exposition rover, and expects to show what her people can do in such enterprises the middle of next November. The Southern Ice Mrcliiuo Co., of Chattanooga, Tcntr . which is not yet a year old, has icceivcd owlets from South America for three ."?0 ton ice machines. The president has commuted the sentence of Charles Schottky. of Georgia, sentenced to six years imprisonment for counterfeiting and a lino of $v,000, to two years actual imprisonment The Florida landowners hive called for a raise in the price of their lands. The following, from the j'niiwny t^nct Compauy, which controls extensive tracts in Florida, will show how the prices have advanced: Ail lands at 1 ss Ihnu $5 per arte, 100 per cent; between $5 and $10 per acre, >0 per rent; over #10 per acre, 2.1 per cent. Tho Gcoigm House of H-iirescitatives has passed a hill empowering the city of Macon to issue houds to the amouut of $3.10,000, the proceeds t ? l>o used in the construction of wa'cr works for that city. It provides also tli. t this bill should not become binding upon the city until approved by a two-thirds vote of its qualified voters. The Chamber of Commerce at Chat tnnoogn, At a recent meeting, voted to lucmomlizc the legislature of Tennessee to appropriate $100,000 for a State exhibit at Chicago, and appointed a committee to visit the general assembly and to urge that appropriation. At the same meeting a committee was appointed to prepare n memorial in opposition to the proposed building of a penitentiary in the Bcquachce valley. The Okeechobee Drainage Company is pow engaged in cutting a canal from the south end of Lake Okeechobee to the extreme south eud of tlie Florida pininsula The lake and tlto Everglades arc ab>ut twenty-three feet above the level of the sea, and with this fall the engineers think there will be no difficulty to drain off as much water as will b? nec'ssarv. The ranul it tifty feet wide and six and a half feet deep Crcnt difficulty (s encountered in cutting thiough the dense tropical growth Altont a mile from the lake an immense body of custard apple trees waa encountered, which gave a great deal of trouble. The best is intense, as the great tfeei.fcut oil all breezes, ana the men aritfbide still more uncomfortable by the unwelcome- attentions of swarms of mox/^itoc*. The draina ge company is ulsomekiug a surrey from Lake Okeechobee east to tlio^jfctlHiitic. with a view of cutting a canal in that direction. PROGRAMME OF THE ALLIANCE. Veaaurea that .jn Will Push at the Next Meeting of Oongresa. Washikoton,C., |Special.]?The officials on dutynl the headquarters of the 7xi inert1 Aamce in this city are busily engaged ? arranging the pro granvtc of Jteiufitiou which 'hPZhjJJCJL.. TEHESR^nenextHmiscwho will vote with It upon all measures. It also claims four Senators: PefTer of Ksnsns, Kyle of South Dakota, Iibv of South Caiollun, and Vance of North Carolina. The Alliance cl-ums Vance because he was elected after the Legislature of his State had passed a resolution that no man could be chosen Senator until he agreed to a programme which was practically that of tfcc Alliance. Mr. Vance 1 having agreed to those resolutions, the i Alliance now claims him as its own. t At #v.? ? -?? -i <- ? ?uv u\ <t vcbsiuu me oun i reasury i bill as it was introduced in the last Congress will not, it is understood, make its 1 appearance. Thft, they say at Alliance headquarters, has been repudiated by both Houses of Congress, and will for that reason not be resurrected. A bill ' constructed, however, upon similar lines 1 and embodyiogj; the same principle will 1 be introduced in both Houses and push- J ed to a vote. 1 Exactly what changes will be made vn the original Sub-Treasury. J - '''"i IJ^Vati/ord Land Loan bill will not I be touched by the Alliance. The leaders of the latter are very much put out ' because, the people think the Stanford ! bill finds favor with them. The Alliance 1 people think that designed to help only ' those who already have a fair share of this world's goods^t-and that the only 1 people who are booking it are those en- i gaged in booming senator Stanford for 1 the Presidency. As for the Alliance, it declares it wiil have nothing to do with s either Senator Stanford or his bill. The hill on the same subject and in. 1 troduced under Alliance auspices will 1 provide for the relief of the agricultural ' population of the United States, and for ' the promotion and encouragement of agriculture. Its main features will provide that any citizen who owns and resides upon any tract of land containing not less than ten nor more than 320 acres, ..and who has at least one-half of that i to exccea one-half the assessed value of the land and the improvements on it. ' The loans are to be for not less than five ' nor more than ten years, and the bor- ' rower is to pay interest at per ceut. Another measure which the Alliauce ' will push is a free coinage bill. These three measures are "the ones in which it will take the most interest"; hut other j vbills will come (jrom Tts hands. It wall have introduced A hilt)providing for Gov: ernmcnt control Of^Ailroads and tele ah systems. Inflfaitrd to the rail J and tel>o,'iRphs?Ppanie8 the Alii , ancta is misuiiderstoflfi^U is . said, at its ( headquarters. It iAHL as is generally supposed, ju favor^^Hpernment ownership of railroads telegraph. It aimply wants the Qo\^Hhhen( to control tbem." The Alliance\ will npt bring forward Kny. tariff billi It content itself with demaudingwhe equalization of the r-Vi ' T.j? *?r*rj*ir > 1 lb.b?rar les^i'ljlika. ? Win, nwweveiv^i, ur.wfra| dijib 19 abolish the natio^flhankiiDfc system. ir4^ in TRAIN ROBBERS GAUGHT. Capture of the Men Who Plundered the Southern Expreee. The officiis of the Southern Express received this dispatch telling them of the capture of the three Savannah robbcis who held up thlir messenger and stoic $750 from him: "MadisON, Fla.,?The three train robbers who robbed the Southern Express Compauv's messenger on the Central ltuilrond of Georgia just outside of 81vnuuith Friday night were overtaken near Mosely Hall, about daylight by a party of express officials and detectives. Desperate resistance was made by tire thieves, but tbey were' raptured and brought here in irens. They will l?c taken to Savannah, where tho men are s?iri to naii from, j/fhe evjvss people claim that the evidence against them is overwhelming. "The i?bb ly for which they have l?cen arrested is the second committed on the snuic line of road within the last month, Iii both instances tho express company, as it always docs in such cases, has re leu lessly and speedily hunted down the rohbcis. The penalty for train rohh'og in Ueorgk is twenty years iu the peoilcutiary. amount stolen was only a few humified dollars, most of which has been recovered," AN E&IMENICAL COUNCIL. Methodists df Every Race, Color, Chado ol Belief to Meet in Wellington. In the Metropdlitan Methodist Church in Washington tiW n cond Ecumooical Cougiil ol Meth>>&sin of cv- ry rare, color, and?hadn will be held frr?m Oct ^ ti? (lcf ftlr^Klhc. ilOO dele gales aill be pttafBl from all parts of the world. Thj Western orAnierican Beelion of the Church, wfeft^Bfeeiaft-teutbs of the whole, is <1 ividoa MK^teventee n sects The Methodit&CnjflHlt Church will h?ve del<gft half of the whole 11 pi' ;rut it? BRd Methodism, which is split^BPflRrorsnchcs. will have forty-ttaree^^Mteieatative*. I hi object of thc^Kgdjti^ucial and ; educational, as it lf^^^^PHiaUtive or judicial function. ^HRp^^ouaeil was held in England, MKHl years ago, at the call of the WosVyati^l It wajfcgfft&ll, but Mohnrnioni: this see ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. President Polk Makes Three Speeches In Kansas. He Says That the Alliance Movement Is Gaining Thousands of Converts Throughout the South Daily. Topf.ka. Kan . [Special.]?President L. L. Polk, of the national allinnre. has made three addresses in Kansas. Presided Polk's opening has been devoted principally to himself. After giving his boyhood history, he reached the war pcHe states that ho did not g > into the rebel wing from choice. He upheld the union until the wave of secession swept over the south, when he did as many others d d who were foired to shoulder I their tnuskrt?. He hid Iteen offered the ?^'iiuu<iu<< "i ii mil|ixiiv, imii rcmscn it, j as acceptance woui'l have been construed j into nil t ndor oirnnt of the cause whose j arras he carried. | IIo aft rwttrds accepted the oftict he held because by doing so he could indirectly aid those who were fighting for Ihe preservation of the union and in a rlegree mitigate the sufferings of those who, like himself, had been forced to bear arms against hi countiy. t pnoLos thr strikes. While not speaking directly about the contemplated stiike of the cotton pick - i crs iu the south, he fa d the oppressetl ] agiicultural laborers should and shall de i maud the right of natniug the compeusa- I lion for their services, and until these dt minds mo at i r r *n \ rtfc-nmrr PonTaiu r ttcd produce, north or south. "You here arc fortunate in being your own laborers, hut the plutocrats of other dates must he compelled to acknow ledge the God given rights of laborers, whe'h?r they he white or black. "Some of our brethren have already nade their demands, and they will he j granted or cutirc regions will contain I inly families ruined by their own greed." ' In an intciview today. Colonel Polk stated that the nlliaucc movement was gaining thousands of converts throughout he south daily, aud the great mass of fnrmeia planters and laboring mcu had lesertcd the. democratic party and were I landing squarely on the Ocala platform i u neve mc inirn party win sweep every state in the soilth.in 1892. The j 3ld bosses down there have tried (o bullloze and force the people to take theii leuiocratic medicine, but without result. Within the past six months I could have pjAffpl^01 pottage." " Mr. Pol*, "ttcred these words with 'eeling, aurr^l^'*1'6^ eternal warfare on roth the old pa\tieG- Thc bloody shirt, je said, will be tfTSpped around ^ actional agitators, and 'tuGJ l?tlT.?vAI/ed too deep for resurrection. THERE WILL BE A THIpD TARTY. "Will the alliance conference at Wash ngton iu February declare for a third party "I cannot say; bOt there will be a third party./ It might have been prevented four months ago, but now it is too late. Dur people in, thc south have beeu abused ind sneered at'hy thc democratic bosses find the democratic press, and wc will stand it no longer. Thc negro denomination cry won't prevent a break of the solid demo^cy. ^)^ will take care of the negrocSTma'sec that they arc allowed to vote. They are largely in this movement and will be an important factor in tne campaign next year. agajnst the pensioning of soldiers who fought for the union. When wc were defeated we accepted the result as final and acquiesced. We shall never raise our voice against the legitimate pensioning of union soldiers. It is the result of warlarc and wo can shake hands with our northern brothers who wore the blue and feel that they arc receiving only jus? ticc from a government which they helped to preserve." CONFIDENT OK VICTORY. Mr. Polk said the people's party would, in his opinion, carry every southern state next year. The alliance was for the Ocala demauds and would have nothing else. IS YOL'K ALLIANCE ON THE DECLINE? There should be no^ such thing as de cline iu a Sub-Alliance. And if a true Alliauce spirit pervades the membership, there xrill lie no dcciiuo in interest, in membership or in attendance upon rejju lar meetiugs. There is too much of information and mutual bcuofit to be derived, if the Alliance standard is held firmly and high, to admit of dctliuu. And yet it is not micommou to hear it said, "My Alliance seems to be on the background. "We have dropped some of our members; others are 11 regular in attendance." Something is radically wrong when this is the case, and it behooves true men to set about to find out the evil and correct-it. Show me such an Alliance, and I will show you one whose members have made little or no effort to help each other to build up the order at large. Those who arc full hauded and can pay cash for what they buy pull off ironi mcir poor nii'inicn mm ;u:i iuucpendent of them. Their patrouage is courted by local merchants, and they think, and sometimes say, their money is a good enough Allinucu for tliem. When it is proposed to make n note to the bank, these cash men decline to sign, whose names would secure the money to run the Alliance for cash, and the poor members are left to shift for themselves and to ?nko the best arrangement* they can for supplies to make their prop; they are driven to the necessity of giving liens or mortgages on their crops and stock, which results iu the merchant taking about all that is made at the tnd of the year. Is it any wonder, then, that members become disheartened and gradually drop out of the Alliance ranks? They see no improvement, in their condi ion That beautiful dream of brothe-ly love and help vanishes They know they are honest; they are willing to secure, by lien or mortgage, their abler brethren for \'U advance* made?and (yet sympathy I i w and aid is withhold. Of course, theio arc some noble exceptions. Wc have never yet heard of a brother losing any thing bv helping a poorer brother, either by loaning hnn money or by going on li s note in bank, in order that he might i buy his supplies for cash. We were in formed a few days since bv a brother, I th t, in his sub-Alliance there were live | brothers, hard working, lio-cst men, i who had bct'n for year3 pun ha-ing their 1 supplies under liens, paying the usual j enormous percents charged. IiV-t year it was agreed by somi two or three mem Iters to make a nore in hank for enough m ney to run these five brothers for cash. They bought supplies through the Exchange. The result was they paid the note before it was d\n aud cautc out con aMerably ahead . I^ct this sort of expe i riment be tr ed in every Hub-Alliance in | the Htate, and wc will see no more fa'l| ing off but a genctnl up building all I along the lines ? Greenville, H. . Ad | vertiser. <> + r AN ALUAKC R MASS-MRETINU. Gates Couuty Alliance had nnnngod for an Alliance mass meeting on a large scale. 8even surrounding counties in ,\nnn i aronua ana Virginia una nitinnl invitations. There were representatives from all these counties Besides there were hundreds and thousands of men, women and children from all points within a radius of 30 miles. The people aud everything about the grounds were i ready for the speaking to begin at 10 j o'clock. ! The Chowan Farmers' Alliance Band. I twenty ftroifg and all married, hut nine teen had appeared?all Alhanrcrm i?in their uuiforms of blue with th? ir elegant and polished instruments, the whole outfit costing <603. The speakers atrived, waving lieen the guests of General Rob| erts, and were escorted to the grand s'and by the hand with strains of fine music. Bro Mills Euro, President Gates County Alliance, presided. Prayer by Rev. Bro. Woodson, County Chaplain. Bro. Thos. Cross, Clerk of the Court of Gate3 county, made a smooth, sensible speech in admirable diction, happily conceived, welcoming those from the ueigh boiing counti s, and presented Mariou Butler, of Samson county, oui "able State Piesident, who rcspondod, beginning at 11 :30 o'clock and gave a strong, argumcntivc speech of 73 minutes to a vast multitude of attentive people. He said, among other thiogi: "The neop'e I address, because producers, ought to be the lichest?the Nabobs-of America. But ara they? No, from 'housauds of upturned faces, />*."' In 1867 there were raised 609,000,000 bushels of corn, worth about $600,000,000. 22 years later the crop was over 1.80QrOCQ,QpO hiishpls ..An ing to a government report, only $.*>70. 000,000, which is $21,000,000 less than in 1867. Thus thre^-dTusTiTlHfl-H^!ljf. woith less thju ''one bushei ?u 1867. ^en 1000.000 bales of cotton, now R,000,000 biles. Two bales grew where one grew before, but ir woith $11,000. 000 less.'' Col. Bkioner wh-i also spoke said there were moie people prc&cui man ?i any otli?r piace where he had spoken. Fully 5,000 were present. The hand did its duty well all the day through, iucludiug the dinner. And everybody was proud of the Alliance Band. Ai.liamkman. National Secretary .1. II. Turner or "auized Delaware State Alliance Tuesday. September 8. ****** This is their sea-on of the year, and tho scasou will last through September and October. The papers coutaiu fine accounts of them, as they are held here and there. * ? ****** Brother Turner, na ional secretary, has received notice that consolidation" with the National Farmers Allicncc and Industrial Union has been ratified by the sub-Alliances of Wisconsin and a State charter has been issued. Welcome tc Wisconsin. ****** Decatur, Ga., [Special.|?'The Alliance barbecue at Union Hill was a big j success. The barbecue was highly enjoyed by all E resent, and the Union 11 ill meeting will e remembered as one of the notable events of the scasou. * + * * * * McKay, the Alliance judge out in Harper county, who was brought before the Supreme Court at Topcka for contempt, ctmc out triumphaut in his trial ' beeorc that tribunal, lie proves himself an efficient judge if he is an Allianccman.?Alliance Sun. * * * ? * The agricultural fairs and cattle shows of the rural districts, vcai after year, have always been of gnat use to the country. The? have, aided in the in troduction of improved methods of farm ing and stock breeding; they have given opportunity for the display of new and serviceable implements of cultivation, and they have promoted tlie feeling of sociability among the multitudes ol country folks who gather together at them. The Milton (W. Vti i Star sa\s: Quit( a number of uninformed farmers laboi under the delusion that the Allium i movement is of very * receut origin, nm will have but an ephemeral existence Such is not the case. Texas, the Stati of its birth, has just hcid her twelfth an nual State Alliance, and the Order ii Texas is much stronger in numbers am more united in purpose and more dc termined In resolution"!ban ever before The Order, how over, in many of th States is young in ycais but strong ii spirit and growing fast. The Order nov in the United States numbers about fou million members. Dira Distress in Russia. 8t. Petersboro, [Cfthlegratn.]?Th distress in the Volga provinces is intenst At Penza women and children waudt exhausted, shrieking for food, in th market paces. All the chaiitahle s< cietiesarc doing the best they can Itu sian corn merchants on the frontier u despondent at the idea that the TJemm trade will tind fresh channels nod novi ictu.n to Russ ail coin. 1 DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION Mis. Harrison Calls a Meeting of Regents to Establish Unity mid Harmony. W ashington, 1). (J., [Special.] ? Mrs. I IkTipuiin Harrison lias sent out the fob ! lowing circular: To thf Rtfjcnl* ?f the Nnlional Society oj Dany/Reis ?y" (he. American Iterobi(ion: 1 With n view to the establishment, of complete unity of action and perfect harmony of feeling throughout the National I Society of Daughters of the American I Revolution, the Board of Management, i conscious of the inteciitv of its mirno&es I and tlie legality of its action, request? a j meeting of every officer of the society I and of every lady who has at nuy time received an appointment through any officers of the society, whether she has received notice that such an appointment has been confirmed or not. I The meetiug will be held Thursday, Oct. tl. in the drawing moms of 1,407 : Massachusetts avenue, placed at the disj po.sal of the society on that date as a hall, and to he in uo sense considered a private resideuce. It is earnestly rei quested that every chapter formed, or in j process of formation, shall be represented on this occasion. It is requested that the ladies coming to this meeting sh*ll I bring a clearly defined statement of any ! iust cause of complaint they may entertain. and documentary evidence to supI poit the position they nie prepaied to take. The Advisory Boaid of the Na! tional Society will be present, and each i chapter regularly formed is invited, if it so desires, to send one member of its Advisory Hoard or council of gentlemen to aid its lady representatives in maintaining its views. The fullest opportunity will be allowed for the discussion of every question, and it is believed that in the course of this candid and friendly conference a full understanding of mutual relations will be attained and confidence establish ed in the Society ol Daughters of the 1 American Revolution, whicn has for its high aim the promotion of patriotism of i our native land. I Plaus will 1)3 proposed for the advauce1 ment of the society. Practical linc3 of work will be considered, aud each regent is invited to present her views and those I of her chapter upon these subjects. It must l?e understood that this meetj iug is for conference only, aud does not | take the place of the Continental Con gress. which meets on Feb. 22, 1.S92. Carolina Scott Harrison, PresidentGeneral. JI. V. E. G'aiiel, Vice President Gen glflj. nresidinry : Ellen Hahtmn Walworth, Corresponding Secretary-General. - . PREPARING FOR THE FAIR. Excursion Already Being- . From London to Chicago. A cablegram from Loudou says: Already anaugements have been made for excursions which are to leave here for Chicago during the World's Fair. Each paity will consist of about 100 travelers, who will naturally land at New York and taking a leaf, no doubt, out of the I typical New York traveler's book, these ' people will pay a trip to Philadelphia j for a day, and then go to Washington for another day, while their stay in Chicago will extern! over a week The ! return will lie made through Buffalo so that they may have an oppoituuity of seeiug Niagara Falls. After this one Canadian city will b? visited and the choice will probably fall upon Toronto. Thru the party will go back to New York and sail for home. This pilgrimage, it is believed, will correct one or two erroneous notions Englishmen have about America. SMOKELESS POWDER. 1 Successful Experiments by Gur Naval Officers?The New SixInch Gun. i Washington, D. C.?At the Newport j rorpcao sinuon tnc navai ordinance puj reau is conducting a set of progressive ; experiments upon various formulas for smokeless powder. Now it is believed ; that the ideal powder for small arms has ! been obtained, as a velocity of 2, ISO [ feet per second has been given a title i hall with a low pressure of II .!? tons in the powder chamber. The new powder | is safe, cheap and convenient, wilh guu ! c otton as its base, gives remarkably regu! lar results, and as it has been developed k \ by the naval officers the government w\\| not have to pay a royalty for its use. The ordnance bureau of the navy has secured some remarkable results from the recent trial of the new six-inch rifled gun built at the Washington navy yard. This gun is probably the longest piece of its ' f><u>n rot ttitrliM'hilritn Knnirr fnrl it <?aliltAi* I in length or twenty tcct intcru.il length, | and has just thrown its projectile 2,180 j feet in one secoud without cxccediug tiftcen tons pressure to the square inch in the chamber. This type 1ms resulted so , well that it will be used (or the ornameut p of the twin "pirates,known as cruisers Nos 13 and 13. now building. 1 O'Brien's Deficit $71,000. c Chattanooga, Tknn., f Special. 1? . ! Late in the night an expert concluded i | the examination of books of M. J. O'I . Brien, absconding treasurer of the Ca*h. [ olfe Knights of America. His defalcations reach a a few hundred dollar* la o j excess of seventy-one thousand dollars. ? II 1 From the hooks it was learned that v j O'Brien had been misapplying funds for r some time. Forty thousand dollars of . this amount was taken prior to July 1st. The ut> st rigid search here fails to give any clew to the missing treasurer'a j whereabouts. Officers are on the lookj out for him throughout the country. Tha riMplit? HtiM i;*f>uniuy compnny, or r?e\r [, York, bit especially anxious (or him a* >r they are his b mbincu for fifty thousand |C dollars. JSt. boi is. Mo ? Special from Chat.ta8" nooccr to the Pn t Dispatch, save: Che*. rc , S. Kirchsner, of Toledo, nas elected au* ,n \ preme treasurer of the C'ntholic Knighta pr.i of America, to succeed defaulting treaa1 urer O'Btiea.