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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
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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
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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.
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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 '
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s "Monopoly is Un inh Snemy of In>
d us try and the Polities! )foniter
of Modem Times."
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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
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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
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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."
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$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.
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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.
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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,
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