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ffTIE WEEKLT(^SUHI0R TIME8, 3 ^ Dmattd U Afrimlhtr*! HoriimM?y?, i>WMfi^^j^^^^BS'<UM|wii^|^iWil?<? mmd tkt (Surmt Htm ^ tiU Ay. p VOL. XXII.-NEW SERIES. UNION C. JEL, SplTJ* Q4mKsI|&4?^OVEMBER 20,1891. IjUMttEaJllW An offlcer in the Bureau ofj^Auper- 1 v>.t Qf>rm+n, Swedish or ' ' irWi immigrants, and it ie now a rare thing, maintains the New York World, to find an American girl in the kitchen. < T!i? carp may now bs c msidered a Niv York flsh. The Mohawk and other treana of Central New York are full of carp, some of them weighing as much a* fourteen pojnds. Daring the last nine 1 years the Kirkland Fish-Stocking and Protection Society has placed 393 Ger- 1 man carp in the ponds and streams of the town of Kirkland, N. Y. The Sec- , 'retary of the Society in a recent rep??? t aaya: "We havo demonstrated that carp * can lie successfully propagated in this | country, and with proper care can be < ^ made a valuable source of revenue to the * cultivator and a cheap and dainty article fl of food for all classes." A giant carp f was taken through the ice of the Mi- e hawk above Utics last winter, and the B mill-ponds in the valley where young 0 carp have been placed are already afford- n ing excellent sport. d -* I There is nothing new under the sun, b exclaims the New York. Post. All Eng- * land was horrified a week or two ago by the details of the deliberate murder of a b wretched little boy by two of his com- u panions, each of whotji was only eight ^ years old. The young savages killed tl . their victim to get his clothes, throwing ti him into a pond over and over again, iu ^ pite of his piteous entreaties, and j, finally holding his head under water ua- fi til life was extinct. It now turns out t< that a crime similar in almost every detail was committed at Chester thirty ^ yeats ago in August, 1861. In this case, ei as in its modern countcipart, t wo boys, ti each eight years old, drowned a smaller P i compauion, after beating him into inseu- n ibility, for ?,he sole purpo33 of taking li his clothes from him. The young thugs e< were tried, convictel, and sentence I, Q first, to oue year's imprisonment, and ti ' . then to live years in a reformatory. d 11 What became of them after?var 11 no ono knows. Y, / Jasper L'ouuty, Texas, has a mytmca. ^ treasure. It cousj^ts of bars of silver j ?, . _ buried by the Mexicans oa the baoks of in ;the Sabine River towards the close of toa P1 Spanish occupation of Louisiana. The silver, so the story goes, was being carried out of the country under the es ^ Jcortof a regiment of cavalry when an 'attack was made 011 the command, and tl t Ithe bars were hastily burio-.l un lcr tho V * I t gfj cover of darkness. When stea ners be? i n gan to ply on the Sabine, some freighters fj one day uueathed a deposit of bars near 'Btark's Landing. They weighed 211 Li pounds avoirdupois. Saudi s:nelter3 of 8f jprimitive c mstiuction were afterwards ^ fouad in tho vicinity. An aged hunter (; was authority for the statement that a ci 'silver mine was formerly worked in tho P low hills around about, but it has novcr ^een found. Tho finding of the silver ^ 'bars and the existence of the smelterq n have always been sufficient to sot avari* * * 'A J?l .?i n and oool/inn* C ClOUS spirits to wurit ucitui< obo?....- ^ lortue treasure and lost mine. One man named Hiliencamp is said to have spent c hundreds of dollars digging for more bars, and the people of Mullein's and u Cow Creeks, in Newtou County, have t washed the streams for traces of white metal. Even no.v a band of enthusiasts ^ ?s toiling in the dirt of Jasper County, hoping against hope to find themselves t fabulously rich some fine morning. ? Suipowners are much concerns.I about J. the report of General O. M. Poe, of the n United Statei Engineers, t'lit t'ae water} ^ of the groit lakes are bee.) ning lower f every year. The following figures for t five years show the gradual fall: June, * 1888, Lake Huron was 583.13 feet bore the aoa iovel; June, 1837, it was 582.33; June, 1383, 531.79; Juno, 1839, 531.01; Juno, 189J, 531.01; i Juuo, 1891 ( 599.19. The month of June ' is taken htciuse the water is thea at its highest. In February the minimum | depth is reached, and the shipowners ex- * #poct to see many exposed places ia that T month uext year. They are, of coarse, ' more troubled about the rivers emptying into the lakes than abo it those . waters themselves. The 9-ault Caul now shows a depth of fourteou feet ' four inches only, an 1 at Grossa Puinte, the entrauce to the Djtr?it River, tuiny vessels havj grounds I this season on ae- i count of the low water. In the old days of shallow boats and flat-bottomed steamers the plu n net was still usei, but now that their places have been taken by vessels with deep holds, the state of jtho water matter of grave consideration Genera! Poo says that the rainfall in the lake c su'itry during the last five years has been below the normal, and that this ace mats for the low water in the lakes. The shipowners, who reach these great holies of water by tributary stream*, arc hardly reassured, | a id are asking themselves whether if ' wm 1 *> be inore nroitablo to builit j yc-so.-. i 'ing loss water. . tia V iX 1 . _ . . - ^ RiT^Not That Our Southland Is i Proay. We Will Tell Tou About Many Important Happenings That Have Occurred During a Week. VIRGINIA. Nowliu, the condemned murderer of Mosca, the Italian, in Botetourt county, lias confessed. Minnie Grevy, an old mare who went ihrough the war, died, aged thirty-five, it Leesburg. One feature of the exhibit of natural ind artisan products made by Buena Visa at the btate Fair was that of marl, of hich there are extensive mirfnr? hpH? in 3uena Viet* near the linea of the railoads. It attracted much attention in mnnectioa with ttaa yUld it will malt* vben burned into lima, and its value for igricultural purposes. Under the old nethods of making iron with charcoal ucl this marl was used as the fluxing natcrial. Lee- llofliu and George Dye are under rrcst at Calverton, Farquicr county, harged with being iu;plicate 1 in the aurder of Mrs. Kines and her three chilircn near there Wednesday morning, loflin is the man, who, ou seeing the >ouse in flames, went some distance to he neighbors to give the alarm instead f going to the burning house. A portrait of Jefferson Davis, painted >y "\\ illiam Gail Browne, for the Westlorclaud Club, of Richmond, is said to e a perfect likeness of Mr. Davis as he ppeared at the time be took the reins of iie Confederate Government. The picure is a full three-quarter length, the anvass measuring 5 feet 6 inches by 3 ?et 4 inches. Mr. Browne in paiutig the portrait had nothing to work "om but the Gait bust, a detective phojgraph and his own recollection of Mr. dvis. The Baptists met at Norfolk. A reort shows that duriug the past year ighty-five missionaries occupied vo hundred and twenty-two stations, reached 0,369 sermons, baptized 1,043 inverts, aided pastor's meetings 1,587, lade 12,374 visits to families for reI'ioilR rimvnraatinn nnrl rnivcr nrironiv. T fifty new Sunday Schools and fourteen cw churches, were engaged iu building incteeu houses of worship, complct d vclve churches and sustained one hunred and cighfy-fivo Sunday Schools at jeir stations. The total amount conibuted for missions during the past ten ears has been $113,263 91. Ihcclccon of officers resulted iu the re-election r almost all of the old officers, the Hon. , Taylor Ellisou, of Richmond, rcceivig the unanimous vote of the body for re'sideut. NORTH CAROLINA. After a very gay time iu Raleigh the iftli Maryland Regiment left for home hursday. II. P. Cheatham, of North Carolina, le only colored member of the next ougress, is a college graduate, and is lid to be the best educated negro, with single exception, that has vet sat in tuc louse. The Maryland Steel Company is negoating for a r. gular 'argc supply of Bes>mer ores iu North Carolina. The election on the proposition of issuing "ku.uwu uouus lor iuc completion or me huviottc city hall nud itrect work was irried by ft large majority of the vote oiled. William Roberts Weatherly, ft promient mei chant, comm tted suicide at Tyro hops, Davidson county, Wednesday ight. License hns been granted in Anson mint" by the ccniiuiooiuuers to Samuel heppard. The tax colic; tor of Burlingtou, Iredell ounty, hns defaulted. Work has commenced on the new Norinl School Building at Greensboro, near he Female College. Charlotte is becoming the musical center f the State. The new School of Music here has met with wonderful success Rx-Prcsidont ( Icvelnnd cannot attend he Raleigh Exposition. He writes; "I mow I should enjoy a such a visit to my 'forth Carolina friends and their neightors, and I am entirely certain that my eeeption and entertainment would fully iCeord with the hospitable disposition vliich distinguishes the locality. I thereore regret that I nin obliged to decline he courtcom invitation you transmit, for he reason that my engagements and occupations forbid my leaving home dur;ho present month. SOUTH CAROLINA. J as. Rivers 11 e, a wealthy and prominent C arleston merchant of ante-bellum Jays, died at Edgefield last week. Orangeburg C. II. is making a strong ight against the pioposcd new county of unlhouQ. l lie Mate Alliance r.xcnangc, ni a meeting, Wednesday, determined to move die headquarters of tlio Kxcliange to Columbia. 'Ilie change will be made on January 1. A commission for charter lias been issued to the Waterloi Loan and Pavings Bank. Capital, $25,000. The district Alliance lectureis of the State met at Columbia, last week, to discuss the past and f turc work in this State. One of tiie members said that the organization was in excellent order and the future work would be pressed as vigoiously as heretofore, especially the campaign of education. Collections are being taken up in all the t'olorcd churches through the Ctate to procure counsel to defend the ten negroes who were convicted of murder in Laurens county, on September 1st, and sentenced to be hanged. The governor lias respited the men and the movement in now to get a new trial. So far about half of the $500 needed has been secured. Charleston News and Courier: Ikying at Central wharf is the brig Hcssie E. Crane, direct from I'orto itico, with a cargo of coconnuts, w hich she was busily discharging. This is the largest cargo of e??ce:;s;;ta e?er re eived at th e port. Jt consists of 255,000. tions over the whole State and enlist in the aid of all who are interested in then has called a meeting, to be held in Cc lumbia on the evomog of December li next, to establish branch societies i every county, and to appeal to the Get eral Assembly for aid in prosecuting fl work. Tho committee which was aj pointed to ariangc for the meeting cot sists of Messrs. Edward McCrady, Jr, Johnson Ilsgood. John Johnson, ^Villim H. Grier. Ellison Capers, John L. Webe and G W. Hollaud, and these gentle men have a printed n circular letter c invitation which they have sent to man persons, begging them "to extend tho in vitation to everyone interested in th preservation of the history of the State The collector of the port's statement c the exports from Charleston far the mont of October shows a gratifying increai intrude. The total value of the shi{ menta was $2,853,764. The Custoi House figures, so far recorded thrajmofi^i far in excess of last month, ^wdmph fnr Hpfnltor ic oo fA'lrtwe Sen island colt >n. bags 828 $ 27,81 Upland cotton, bales 62,293 2,812,40 Phosphate rock, toss 100 70 Rosiu, barrels 2,694 4,00* Spirits turp'tine, gal's 18,000 6,80* Cotton seeds, pounds 210,8)7 15,00 OTHER STATES. Fannie Edwards, the girl prcachei has closed a revival at Bristol, Tenn. Flames destroyed apart of the busines portion of Tampa, Fla , last Thursday Loss $S5,000 Texas wants to raise $800,000 for it exhibit at the World's Fair. The lum ber dealers and manufacturers have tub scribed abou', $30,000 worth of lumbe of various kinds towards the construe tion of the Slate building, aud to exhibi the wealth of Texas iu timber. I ake Palmyra is a part of the Missis pippi River at high water, but at prescn its bottom is dry, with a thin upper crus of dry earth and a deeper lower layer o soft mud. A hnlf-witted negro who trle< to walk across to an islaud broke througl the ciust. In one day he sauk to thi waist, and in two days to the neck. Oi the night of the second day he was pull ed out. Some time ago C. P. Goodyear am other enterprising citizens of Brunswick Ga., undertook to deepeu the harbor a* that place by the use of dynamite. At i cost of a few thousa id dollars they se cured an increased depth of 2} feet, though engineers had estimated tha hundreds of thousands would be required Not satisfied with this Mr. Goodyear ant his associates have offered to the city council to eruarantee to secure 2K and a contract will doubtless be made t< that effect. TRAIN ROBBERY ROILED. An InteroBtlng Story Viuui 1IU KB Alabama. Bjhmixguam, Ala , [Special.]?A story comes from Collinsville, on th< Alabama Great Southern railroad thn sounds very much like an attempted train robbery. The agent at Collinsville heard that ar attempt would be made to rob tin S utlieru Express which passed then about twelve o'clock. Shortly nfterwart fifteen men, nicely dresst d, came in atic took possession of the Station, refusing to vacate when locking up time came The agent then called on the local au thoiities, and the mayor and marshal] police and a posse of citizens came t< bis rescue and drove the men awav. Tin gang was well armed and left threaten ing vengeance. The train at Chattanoo ga was notified and left there with a' the train men armed to the teeth. As i pulled in Collinsvillc four zi the iuei re > ppeared and attempted to board it but the citizens fired on them and the; fled. It is said one of the fellows wa hit and fell, but got up and made oj again. It is believed the attempt wa planned to have been made below Col linsville, but the train came throng] without being molested. All the trail men on the division a:e now armed am an extra lookout is observed. One of th gang lias been arrested, but bis story hn not yet been obtained. saw through"his disguise, A Reporter Assumes tho Rolo of i Servant and is Ejected From tho Kaiser's Train. A cablegram from Berlin, says: A rc porter disguised as one of the imperii! domestics smuggled himself aboard tli Kaiser's train from Potsdam for Krcuz and was taking copious notes in his en pacious brain ofylie royal S'yings and do ings en route, when he was detected b the vigilant Baron Lynckcr, of the Em rieror's personal ontourige. and was fort ed t > admit his identity and mission Some of the eminent persons on the trni thou ht hanging would he too light punishment f>r the intruder, but it wh finally decided to put him off the train n n lonely spot in the woods, whence h wo Id have a long walk li foro reachin a place of habitation. This was dom and when the Emperor inquired the reai on for stopping the train and was tol what had occurred he laughed heartil and expr ssed his approval of the punish nient inflicted upon the enterprisin young man. Advance in the tfrica of Brooms. 8chicnh:ctadt, N. Y., [Special ]?T1 broom manufacturers of the Mohan Valley attended a meeting of broo manufacturers in Chicago last weel Several States were represented at tl meeting. The manufacturers tcsoived advance the price of all kinds of broor tifty cents a dozen in consequence of coi having advanced from $so to sfl'25 a ti and the crop being short. The tnanufn luiers say that there is not enough co to last until next season's crop, and th means higher juices yet. La Gi ippo Revisits New York. New Voi, i. Cm. [Special.)?1 grippe, or Ku^inii influenza, has ina< its appearance in th! < it v. It lenkoiloi at thi litaliii ?! aicact tha; among tl death* reported last week was ouy fro la grippe. ro *J Eii *? -Am**! Addif ofWstldent Joseph ft / of tilt loWt ^Ulianoe. ID f ' % s "Monopoly is Un inh Snemy of In> d us try and the Polities! )foniter of Modem Times." '? II r At Dee Moines, Iowa, the other day, >- President J. M. Joseph delivered his an>f aual address, and mid is part: 7 "The duties of the farmer include very i- much more than the cultivation of the e land and the production of crops. Upon " him more than upon any ena else, de if pends the character of publie institutions h and the welfare of all olasses of people. >e With him maialy read the responsibility of good or bad tfOvert>m*ttt. ,, ^ That there been a great swakea8 isfaction produced by an unjust system 1 of distributing the benefits sod burdens 9 of public institutions." a "Statesmen of all parties, while sub0 scribing to the fundamental doctrines of 0 our government, are fonnd advocating measures and policies subvemive of them. For a score of years they have been plant? ing seeds throughout our industrial and commercial system utterly at variance with the doctrine of > equal rights. Today we are cursed with privileged classes existing by virtue of legal enactments to s as great a degree as many of the nations - of Europe. We have broadened the i. foundation of the aplendid temple our r our fathers began, but wc have not raised its walls, except with a single fioae, in t 100 years. The emancipation aft he black man is the only achievement iuJhe interest of humanity wort"h recordiugTn this cant tu,y, "Monopoly is the arch enemy of ip.dusf try, th? politilstiVngMOnhoaWBdinw. j It has come to be a c nstant, ever presj ent menace to free government. It q rears its head in every tield, it clutches j at the throat of every honest toiler. It besets the public highways. It Interests every market. It is intrenched iq court j and Congress alike. The horse leach's daughter of holy writ was not more rnpa^ cious. As a political force, it domix nates both tho great parties. Its tendencies are toward arbitrary, despotic government. The home of the monster t is in the modern contrivances we call cor 1'UJ UUUUP. j ' The forces of nature, the natural produe's of the earth, the equal gifts qf God to ail the children of met), are walled up ' by the omnipresent corporation.The goods, the rights, the benefits mads, matters of corporato ownership and distributed to the few, while many are shut out from a fair participation. "Public lostrumcntalitifs, the railroad, while they exist under a ^ **^1 cquoltlon L of public control. Tliis^ itioft is an 3 economic absurdity. [ "No solution of the great -problem of j equitable distribution call be found qu*side the public ownership of natural , forces and materials. "Partisans have raised a ghost and \ named it paternal government, forgetting j th:i,t the people are, in theory and ou^ht j to be in fact, the government, forgetting , that except for the. patgrnsl care of ' government there would not be a Corporati n on the face of the earth. Yet part sans build no adequate defense against J, the combinntiou that clutches labor by j the throat, {hat glowers iudustry with . tht^eye poly plu mud, sucking up her tubstance to the Avail of bare subsistence, j "The $60,000,000,000 of wealth in our t country is the result of the ge??inf ?nd ~ IsdUoLij uT hit ttic ages gone, it is a I splendid legacy tok^ye posterity. That ' a srnull minority? 5$^idtmve contributed y nothing toward its accumulation, should j inherit the whole of it, to the exclusion 8 of the great majority, is not only a flagrant injustice upon tho face of tire mat Ij tor, but it maiksthc fact that iu human ? affairs there are yet whole realms in the I matter of cipiitable distribution unexe plorcd, matters of vast concern to those 8 who come after us. "The Farmers' Alliance as an organization, is tho natural result of the neglect of political parties to consider economic questions from the standpoint of merit intlicr thau of party advantage. The farmers have become weary with the I long-drawn quarrels over minutes and barren contests of mere place huntc s ' The animosities of a contest fought to a finish many years ago ought to havo beeu buried long ago, and would Lave been except for the partisan who found 0 politic il capital in keeping olive tho en'' mities and jealonsjes of the sections '* against each other. ' "The Alliai.tu neeks to reunite the y people into one harmonious nation with equal rights for all. It seeks to limit the power and curb the rapacity of coiportions. It seeks to reform the industrial II a system to the end that th ^ products of * industry may be fairly distributed Its it task rv ill not be finished till the-.e icsults e are ac hieved. It was not born in a night g nor will it perish in a day. It is a protest against plutocratic tendencies, against 5. extra.agant pub ic expenditures, ng.inst d unequal taxation, against the spoliation y of the working classes against the exi ploitcr and speculator in the products of g the field, the miue aud the factory; against the whole class who iiiA'.e a monopoly nnd live by usury, against th" private ownership of public nstruuienlalij. ties, against the whole po icy of inflated .jj ; capital aud hooded debts m "The Alliance deraa ds a sufficient t volume of money to enable industry to ^ exchange her products on a cs?h basis, to (o iiic end tiiut l^bor may escape the burhg den of interWrMlnft now cats up her susru tennncc in maintaining the credit system. 111 "Tho Alliance recognizes that the c" government monopolizes the creati n of 111 money and iss'sts tbnt ibis fact c arries at with it tho duty to provida a sufficient volume of money. The Alliance holds that the volume of money is not sufficient as long as average interest is above the -a average profits of industry." lc "The farmer and mechanic may well u?k each osiicr why they sh uld i?e put ne to the exj?:osc of roalmuining a third m class of peaplc digging metul counter from ihe rth to enable them to ex V \i y change their products, or why they shoul be burdened with an interest-eating Hon as a foundation for a circulating medium when they cou'd furnish the security fo the medium of exchange themselves a one-fourth the expense. "The past six months has lifted th fog sufficiently that nil may now se where the ventre of the great industrii battle is to be Politicians may l>eat th bush yet a little longer over an instguifl cant difference in the adjustment of th tariff, but the real contest cannot be lonj delayed. We must fix the status of th ruling force in America. "Shall it be money or manhood? Tha is the question. We must settle th question whether our medium of ex change shall be a great national labor saving machine, aa great as the nation' Industrie* as strong as tho nation's arms aa sound as tho nation's heart, or wbeth er It shall continue to be a tool of mo ''Our chief school and hope lies v itl tha sub-Alliances Let us plant these ii every neighborhood, push the Allianci press and literature into overy home Let us renew no subscriptions to the par ty press of either party that misrepre sents or opposes our demands. We far mera and mechanics cannot afford to d< it any longer. "Let ub stand firm by th colors of tho Alliance. I<et u cultivate a spirit of fraternity with a] kindred organizations. Let us put lb< Alliance above our fealty to any politics party, and in the great contest foT th< emancipation ?f industry from tho domi nation of monopoly, lot us rejoice iu tin promise of battle aud the hope of vie tory." ****** $2.50 A TREK. How would you like to sell your tiin ber at that price, brother farmer? How many of vou am idling wood de llvercd at the railroad for $1.50 a cord How many are selling cioffities at 2( cents apiece and hnul tTieiu several uiiles maybe? Well, formers, $2.50 a tree was paid ? few days ago by a Northern lumber com uany for 280,000 s >ft wood trees, stand ing, iii a Southern State a little uortl of us. You ask if farmers sold that batch v treesi Well uo, they had bccu sold b\ the original owners some years ago for > mere song'; and the immense profit in tliii last trade went to the speculators. Farmers, the timber of tho Northern forests is nearly exhausted. The im uimcuso lumber mills operating roust move, aud they uiust more South. The} have their aeonts all through the South buying up lands at a ridiculously low fig gure. A few years hence the laud yoi sell them at $li an acre will be worth all the way ten to twenty-five dollars an at $2.60 u tree and have the land left. ****** to btore cotton. It is ststed that the Greenville, 8. C. County Alliance has de ided to store h large portion of their cotton crop. The] have made Hrrirgcmcnts with local hunki to advance 80 per rent, of the pfesen t . . J. .... ...it. rm. Vdiut* ur uuf |it?r iiiumu. i m storage for the first 15 days will be free. The tot-1 cost of storage and insurance per month tvill not exceed 25 cents pci bale This is rather a costly way to hold cot ton when compared with the Subtrees uYy, but with a short crop and April fu turcs already higher than for the preset) month, it dou bli?.?.-? will be sale if i large number of farmers wiil make si mi lar arrangements. Hut without Unity'0 actiou it will avail but little. However it should be tiicd. If we make but littl nothing will be lost. It is certainly sui cidal so sell all this crop at the preseu prices. Let every cotton county go t work and see if anything can be done a once. *** + + That was quick work of President Poll speaking in California on the far off Pa ciftc coast hikI exactly one week fror date to stand with bis people on tb banks of the JJlue Albemarle at Eliznbet City. ****** The Turboro Advocate Hays that Col Harry Skinner and Judge Bourne wi soon discuss the Sub treasury I ill. Tim and placj rot yet agreed upon. * * * * * * The factory inspection committee c the Illiuois Woman'* State Alliance liav fouud 100 shirt factories working chil dren from ten ta twelve hours daily fc the fat salary of $1 per week, in the er terprising city of Chicago ?St. Loui Monitor. * * * * * * The farmers of Iowa after ten yenis ( hard work, of thirteen and one-ha hours to the day on an average, fin themselves $05,000,000 worse oil th:i they were a decade ago.?Industrial Kdi eator. + + + + ? + tue latest! ! Col. Polk went to California upon tl invitniioD of .senator Leland Staufor< and it is understood that he is to be pai a vast sum by the railroad king Sosai ii New York paper. Next: : The Farmers' Alliance will run ti Warehouse which will soon he vacate 1 V Jfr Gravely, on Ciiurch street, oppo i the Eagle, says the Rocky Monit, N. ( Phrenix For Camden's Winter Visitors. The Richmond ?fc Danville Railroi Co. has placed in sale at it? Northern ( fices through tickets to Camden, S Passengers can now ride from Wnshin ton to |(o k Hill, via Charlotte, on t Charlotte Augusta division of the k tern, and there make c-'ose eonnecti with the pas enger train of the Three I Railroad. This saves them the tcdic roundabout loutes heretofore follow i via ( liar eston anil Cnlunih a reapecth i Iv The traveling public will apprccil this ana igc i c "i. d BANKERS AND SIEVE F J < r Free Coinage Discussed by the Cc vention in New Orleans. \ "Za it Practical to Have a Nation e Rat* of Interest?" Discussed. ft , Nkw Ori.kaxs, La , (Special.]-? p the Ranker*' Convention W. P. St. Jol; of Now York, read a p per on the sili t question, lie urged the reopening of t p mint* to equally restricted coinage of go and silver. lie say* his plan ?ill te to uuite the currency bv providing a *i B glo automatic issue in lieu of any cap cious :ssue of circulating notes. The ' no es would be redeemable iu coin, t coin reserved for them being at fa j amount of the note*. in favor of au honest silver dollar. ' Mr. George Rutlego Gibson then rei a fnncy descriptive paper on "Wi Street." Mr. Gibson briefly reviewed the histo the history of stock exchanges and dov ted much spaeo to the principles ni } benefits of speculation; the ethics speculation; the utility ot the middhnv r or broker; the community of interest t ? tween Wall street and the country; t influence of tho Stock Exchange and tl I international relations of Wall street M Gibson treated bis subject from a Will c street standpoint. Speaking of the rel tivc value of railroad and farming pro ? city in the West, he claimed that to tl railroads, in the increased trnnspoi tatii facilities furnished, tho farmer owed mo llf llrn {nni-nnen'l ?!? ? \-f? f ?? ? uv.ii.aoi.il imui; ui in* lurui propt tv. Mr. Gibson expressed the opiniou th the hankers of the interior of the count owe it to lbom?olvM as influential eitixai ui com-n?nU\e? tn which they live combaj, the feeling of hostility iu umi ? sect ions to capital and to Wall street. I ' paid a high tribute the morals of tl ? Wall-street banker* ami brokers, especia ly as to their integrity in financial urn 1 ters an t their scrupulous regard for tl inviolability of contracts they make, ev< ' iu the hurry nod bustle of tinu&netioi ' upon the Fxehange. A paper was read by William C. Con f wall, of HufTalo, N. V., on "Cnnadii Hank Currency," nud one by Hon. P. V 1 Peoples, of Jackson, Mi-*a , ou "State ' mnnship in Finance " The tonic for discussion was: "Is practicable to have a national rate of ii i crest?" r GOOD REPORTS OF THE SOUTI I _ , Steady Progress All Along th [ Line. the bouth. and their reports are unifo malty favorable as to the splendid pro peets of this favored section. Finuncl tronhlea throinrhout. the world huve i .... D? ? - ? t '? > course, had their natural effect in rostric i ing new developments to gome exten ' and the folly in Houthorn farmers in rai s ing too much cot'on during the Inst tv I years has caused very low prices, whit ' have had some retarding influence up< all business matters in this section; l> 5 despite these temporary drawbar ks t! r South is forging ahead solidly, and steadily attracting increased at cution " its vast natural resourc s and ndvantag * which insure its abundant prosperity the uenr future. The wonderful v'-o ' of il;- ;?3l ten years will undoubtedly II far surpassed by the coining ten. F. r " mouths the conditions have been again f the inauguration of new enterprises ? any part of the country, but witli the i 8 turn of more activity after the ilrst of t year, when the crops huvo been gather I and sold, there will naturally follow 0 revival of new industrial and railroad i d volopmeut work. Even during this i favorable period the South sh >ws a Jo list of new enterprise# every week, a ^ among the more important ones report in this issue of the Manufacturers'Itcco ^ arc an extensive electric railroad \vi large power houses, to connect Bait inn . and the manufacturing suburb of C'ui 1 Bay; the placing of $'2,000,000 of bor for cabling a street railroad in Baltimo a $1,000,000 mining company in Noi Carolina to purchase large high-gmdei I] properties; the enlargement of the st 0 works at Chattanooga; a $150,<00 manufacturing company i.t Norfo where new enterprises arc started lies At.Ar.f . ? C%f\f\ 1 I - C?m ? niTik, O f//UV,Ui;U 'I >f brewery nt Fort Wortl>, Texas: $100.' e hotel ami improvement company in No I- Carolina: u 150,000 woodworking " ?r pany, Columbus City, Ala ; a $800, ( i- development company near Petcrsbu is Va., by New England capitalist*; a 4 barrel mill nt Btnunton; a $10,000 mini company at Blacksburg, B. C ; a $l ?,t manufacturing company at Florence, j* C.; water works nt Elgin. Texas; a $: 0JU electric light and power company San Angclo, Texas; a $1< 0,000 and 11 $8 ',000 coal and coke company an 1 $48,000 gas company in West Virgir the purchase of 20,( 00 acres Desr I I hethton, Tenn , by a new town an 1 vclopment oom[)any; coal mine in K tucky; $25,000 cinery wheel company 'p Tnllnp '()sa, <?n. ; a $80,000 flour mill i ' elevator company nt McKinuey, Tej ' the sain for $100,000 of a rolling mill |8 Bessemer, Ala., which is to he enlar hnd put into operation; a large c washing plant at Birmingham; a $11 1P 000 phosphate company nt Lnke C v Fin. ; two $50,000 manufacturing con t"c niea in I) Itimore; n $50,' 00 ore mil and washing plant in Tennessee; $50, ' water works at Orange, Texas, etc. -IT VvmomtiAn x tioscvv a vnuipnjgu aa^ou???? ^ Ai.dany, N. Y., [Special.]?The st ment <if the election expenses of J. S Kassctt whs tiled with the Secretary Stat'-. KassettV canvass cost liim $8,' as follows: To State committee, $5,< traveling expenses, hotel bills, self otli* ? ?. 'c?hnr.t<?! nl $< >(?; printing | ' in., t.iiijfc anil cleiic I help, est im; i ?i . i J-'O etl incite MU* Braddon has published fifi\ no during the past thirty )o?ts, >n. He is Attacksd and Badly Disfigured by a Saloon Keeper. Atlanta, Qa , [Special.]-?Rev. Bam W. 6mali, a well-known evangelist, was al assaulted iu an Atlanta barber shop by Tom Miner, a saloon proprietor, V?ho has recently been made toe object of some very harsh criticism by Bmall. In apUbXt 1>C speech in Prohibition Hall, la this iu, Small attacked Miner personally, re|. stating that to sell pop skull liuuor on },? Decatur stnet, he was neglecting his ,ld wii?' ulul children and leaving them in _ .1 nnntii'i ami J 1 m uu ( ??? ; ?"? U? louuuurn 1118 rsiiu. creuccs t? Miner In this decidedly p#r? ri- eotml strain. Small went into a barber e "hop to ad shared, and Hioer accoated he biui, saying that thia waa the flrat time lC0 ihathe had had a chance to aee him. ke hia eye-glnwca and knocked *ont one of hla front teeth. bystanders immediately id separated them and the trouble ended, ill Rev. Mr. Small save it waa almply a cruel attack of a thug and if he had expected ry it he would have been fully prepared, but o- he was taken completely unawares. lie jel was not hurt enough to prevent hie apof pearnnee at a tally ut Prohibition Hall at an night, where he made a speech vigorously. ly assailing the liquor trnlic and saloon ho keepers. Miner says Small's assault on ho him several days ago was entirely uupror. voked himI unjustifiable; that he did not I. make it as a minister, hut as a campaign ft. stump speaker, nnd that it was so outrap. gcously unjust to himself nnd hia family ho that he determined to resent it ns soon aa in he met Small, wh'ch he did. *T\ HE DEFIED THE SHERIFF, at [g And Drovs Judge Bynum From %ht to Bench. :*y The Aslioville, N. C , Mouotsin Horns ? Journal reports that a most disgraceful ',e 1 and daring occurrence took place at Burnsvillo, Yancey county, last week, t_ ntid says the facts arc these: Otto of ths 10 bsvt citizeua of that county, Solomon m Carter, had died very suddenly, and waa 1,8 being buried. Garret D. Hay, another lending citiren of tho same town, had ll" not lived on good terms with Mr. Carter lrn during the lnttcr's lifetime, but as death had removed one of tho two, Mr Ray, tliougiit lie wotiui aid in paying too last tribute of respect to his departed neigh'* bor aud attended the burrial. Thie ea u* enraged the son of Mr. Ha; that he shot at bia father several times, whereupon {. Judge Byuum ordered the arrest of young Kay . He defied the aheHfl, but walkaa into the courthouse, nod. with his double^ the farmers' congress, %' ts r- the Reaolutiona Adopted and . Congress unanimously ndnplul Ilill llll '! lowing resolutions: llceominendlngstfcta " control of live stork exchanges; recom' mending the passage of a national Itw s~ requiring the stamping of artificial hog products; demanding the passage of a Federal law prohibiting gambling in farm "I products; endorsing thu priuciplo of reI ciprocity. . The following resolutions, previously IN reported upon adversely by the commitinittee, were rejected by the Congress: fH Demanding the coinage of silver dollars ") of the value of ?0Q ?er.U cacii: demandj * ing (Jovcrnment ownership of railroads and telegraphs; demanding national j revenues derived from taxes from imports . which come into competition with Iiorae 111 manufacturers; demanding Federal proIC hibition of the sale of intoxlcunts, and , demanding tho cession of arid lands to u the various Sin ten in which the arid lands arc situated. m- Building' Macadamized Roads in tha Pf South. nd cd Jefferson county, Als., is taking tha ,r(] lend of nil other Southern counties, if not ill, of every county in the United States, in )re the vigor which it is displaying in mall,, end ami zing its roads. It has already 110 l(ls miles of macadamized roads, 00 more rc. now under c instruction, and contracts rt )i are soon to ue let for seven miles addim. tional, which will give that county a toed tal of 150 miles of first class roads. The ice people of that c .Uuiy are to ije congratu11^ later! upon this splendid illustration of ,1,'. their broad-minded husiness judgement, f u and it is to l?e Imped t at their example Kg, will be followed by every county in the ,11, South. Good roads are essential to agri?? cultural prosperity, and they ore just aa )(), important to tlie South ns now railroad*; r? iu fact, it is a rjuestion whether the uy'. county suhscrin ion to new railroad enterprises would not in the long run yield gp, still better returns if invested in good g macadamized county roads. Every milo JO of good roads constructed would enhance ' ,'lt the value < f all adjacent fnrra property increase the profits of furmrra, attract the ,j n best class of settlers, and help to increase the prosperity of the whole State. The ' I ?n #..lla tlia ktnrv whrn it iza- """ *"v ? says: "The best of it is, wborevor these , ? roads lead out from Birmingham, the ^ ,tl cotton patch is disappearing and diversimi| fled fanning is taking its place It is ns. time for the fe'outh to inaugurate,a road 'ftt' building period, and nothing that it I could do would have a greater efbet r,(.J uj)on its gi-nerul prosperity. f0 m itv, The Beat. "P-rt of Ceuuai Amen. 'I'11" A cablegram from St. Paul de Luanda, via Belgium, rays that Lieut. Lcmaiioel has returned fioin his expedition to Katanga King Msiri has submitted to the Congo State and recognized its sovereignty 'Die Lieutenant established a station in bis country. Msiri is the most powerI fill inter in Central Africa It was tin ught . he might assume a hostile attitude toward I lie w hile a, but Lamnrinpl had no )Oft- difficulty in assuiiog his friendship Ilia j people <.re great tradei* ? ?''the copper ftru il?ev lake froin their ininea is exported as l'"s, far as the Atlar.lic and the Indian Oceans. 1 ' (Ircat hopes are entertained for tho future of this < ountry, which, every white mail v\ ho has* yet visited it says, is adapt* etl or white coioniratSion owing to its loftv altitude and salubrious climate, $ ' ?.. 11