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Dmotod to /\>htir^~arirl^the. VOL. XXII.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H,, SOUTH OA^^BEia^A^NOVEMBER 20,1891. . mS^R^T. , : - f.. j-.-^__Li_g^i_?iMjiBfcigy^*TflBP^ajMiiaT^^ ? - ' - ?* - * ??^. -. -.?^.?- - i i. 1 ' .? ? r'.'ijj^lfU'iBBfiiliwittii^^Bi^HHI^^^^^^^TT^^'i ,iy;:^'ii" ?? ? - a offlcer in the BurtuittffihftBnpar- ] ATFTTTITW u/ULQMtnm#tn in bteDdeot of w ,;.y ^ ^^MjBaBiHBOl j^P^PP^Pp^cB^EiMRrev Swedish or '^nwitemfgranU, and it is now a rare thing, maintains tha New York World, to find an American girl in the kitchen. ' The carp may now be c >usidere<1 a N?.v York fish. The Mohawk and other atrea-na of Central New York are full of carp, some of them weighing as much as tourtoea pounds. During tho last nine years the Eirkland Fish-Stocking and Protection Society has placed SS3 Geriman carp in the ponds and streams of the town of.Kirkland, N. Y. The SecI re tar* nf ts? ? * j ? ?v muv?hj iu a recent ro|y/v says: "Wo havo demonstrated that oarp can l?o successfully propagated iu this country, and with proper care can be ^ made a valuable source of revenue to the cultivator and a cheap and dainty article of food for all classef." A giant carp was takon through the ice of the Mohawk above Utic* last winter, and the miH-ponds in the valley where young carp have been placed are already affording excellent sport. There is nothing new under the sun, exclaims the New York Pott. All England was horrified a week or two ago by the details of the deliberate murder of a wretched little boy by two of his companions, each of whoip was only eight years old. The young savages killed their victim to get his clothes, throwing him into a pond over and over again, in epite of his piteous entreatiei, and ^ finally holding his heal under water unPP* til life was extinct. It now turns out that a crime similar ia almost every detail was committed at Chester thirty years ago ia August, 1801. In this case, as ia its modera counterpart, t .vo boys, each eight years old, dr)irae.l a smaller corupauion, after beating him into insensibility, for the sole purpoaa of taking his clothes from him. The young thugs were tried, convicle.1, i d sentence 1, first, to one year's imprisomisut, and then to five year* iu ? reformatory. What became of them after war Is no ono knows. f " jrei vunuiv, icua, uai u inyiuicn. treasure. It cousists of bars of silver 'buried by the Mexicans on the bank* of rthe Sabine River towards theolose of the [Spanish occupation of Louisiana. The silver, so the story goes, was being carried out of the country under the e3 Icortof a regiment of cavalry wheu an {attack was made on the command, and the bars were hastily buried under the .cover of darkuess. When stea nera began to ply on the Sabine, some freighters 'one day uueatked a deposit of bars uear 'Btark'a Landing. They weighed 214 'pounds avoirdupois. Sim 11 smelters of jprimitive c instruction were afterwards found in tho vicinity. An aged hunter was authority for the statement that a silver mine was formerly worked in the low hills sround about, but it has nover 'been found. The finding of the silver Igy 'bars and the existence of the smelters hsve always been sufficient to set avaricious spirits to work, delving *\nd seeking for the treasure and lost mine. One man IT51 Innaomn IS SliH fn KfiVA UtSAnf. UQUiyu uuiuuvaiuff " -j'" ?hundreds of dollars digging for more bars, and the people of Mullein's and Oow Greeks, in Newton County, have washed the streams for trac33 of white ^metal. Even now a band of enthusiasts is toiling in the dirt of Jasper County, hoping against hope to find themselves .fabulously rich some tine morning. Shipowners are much concerned about the report of Gsneral O. M. Poe, of the United State) Engineers, that the wateri of the groat lake) are becoming lower every year. The following figures for Ave year 'how the gradual fall: Jane, 1880, Lake Huron was 583.13 feet above the sea level; Jun3, 1887, it was 588.33; June, 1833, 531.79; June, 1839, 531.01; June, 1899, 531.01; 'June, 1891, 530.40. The month of June is taken bicauio the water is then at its highest. In February the minimum depth is reached, and'tho shipowners exC pact to see many exposed places in that month next year. They are, of course, more troubled about the rivers emptying into the lake* than about those water* themselves. The Sault Caul now ahowa a depth of fourteen feet four inches oaly, and at Qrono Poiote, the entraaoe to the Djtroit River, msny vessels have grounded this season on ancount of the low water. In the old day* of shallow boats and flat-bottomed steamers the plu n oat was still used, but aow that their places have been taken by vessels with deep holds, the state of the wator is a matter of grave considerstlon. General Poe says that the rainfall In the lake country during the last flee trnirft hit* hMi linlntr thn nnrmtl. . nod that this account* for the low water in the Ukei. The shipowners, who reach these great holies of water bj tributary streams, are trvrilj reassured, and are asking theuiselres whether 11 w Vi I nt be more proltable to build We Will TeU You About Many Important Happenings That Have Occurred During a Week. VIRGINIA. Nowlin, tho condemned murderer of Mosca, the Italian, in Botetourt county, has confessed. Minnie Grevy, an old mare who went through the war, died, aged thirty-five, St Leesburg. One feature of the exhibit of natural and artisan products made by Bueua Vista at the $tate Fair was that of marl, of which there are extensive surface beds in Buena Viet* near the lines of the railroads. It attracted much attention in connection with the yield it will make when burned, into lime, and its value for agricultural purposes. Under the old j methods of making iron with charcoal fuel this marl was used ? ? material. B Lee- lloflin and George Dye are under arreat at On Ivor ton, Farquicr county, ] charged with being implicate! in the murder of Mxb. Kines and her three children near thero Wednesday morning. Hoflin is the man, who, on seeing the house in flames, went some distance to the neighbors to give the alarm instead ^ of going to the burning house. A portrait of Jefferson Davis, painted by William Gail Browne, for the West- ( morcland Club, of Richmond, is said to i be a perfect likeuess of Mr. Davis as he | appeared at the time ho took the reins of , the Confederate Government. The pic- t ture is a full three-quarter length, the i canvass measuring 5 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 4 inches. Mr. Browne in painting the portrait had nothing to work from but the Gait bust, a detective photograph and his own recollection of Mr. Davis. The Baptists met at Norfolk. A report shows that duriug the past year eighty-five missionaries occupied two hundred and twenty-two stations, preached 0,869 sermons, baptized 1,043 converts, aided pastor's meetings 1,687, made 12,874 visits to families for religious conversation aud prayer, organized fifty new Sunday Schools and fourteen new churches, were engaged in building niocteen houses of worship, complct d twelve churches and sustained one hundred and eighfy-fivo Sunday Schools at their stations. The total amount contributed for missions during the past ten years hns been $118,263 91. 1 bo election of officers resulted iu the re-election of almost all of the old officers, the lion. J TAvlor V.lliuill ing the unanimous vote of the body for president. NORTH CAROLINA. After a very gay time in Raleigh the Fifth Maryland Regiment left for home Thursday. + H. P. Cheatham, of North Carolina, 1 the only colored member of the next ' Congress, is a college, graduate, and is ^ said to be the best educated negro, with a single exception, that has yet sat in tac House. The Maryland 8teel Company is nego- , tiatiug for a r. gular 'arge supply of Bes- j semer ores in North Carolina. The election on the proposition of issuing $40 ,000 bonds for the completion of the ' Charlotte city hall and t treet work was carried by a large majority of the vote polled. William Roberts Weatherly, a promi- I nent ineichunt, comm tted suicide at Tyro Shops, Davidson county, Wednesday night. License has been granted in Anson county by the commissioners to Samuel Sbeppard. The tax collector of Burlington, Iredell rnnntf hna Hnfniiliftl Work has commenced on the new Normal School Building at Greensboro, near the Female College. Charlotte it becoming the musical center of the State. The new School of Music there has met with wonderful success Ex-Presidout Cleveland cannot attend the Raleigh Exposition. He writes: "I know I should enjoy a such a visit to my North Carolina friends and their neighbors, and I am entirely certain that my reception and entertainment would fully accord with Iho hospitable disposition which distinguishes the locality. I therefore regret that I am obliged to declino the courteoui invitation you transmit, for the reason that my engagements and occupations forbid my leaving home durtho present mouth. SOUTH CAROLINA. Jas. Rivers B e, a wealthy and prominent Charleston merchnnt of ante-bellum days, died at Edgefield last week. Orangeburg C. H. is making a strong flght against the pioposcd new county of Calhoun. The State Alliance Exchange, at a meeting, Wednesday, determined to move the headquarters of tho Exchange to Co< lumbia. 1 he change will be made on January 1. A commiwioQ for charter has been issued to the Waterlo> Loan and Paving* Bank. Capital, |2o,000. inc district Alliance lecturers 01 me State met at Columbia, last week, to discuss the past and f ture work in this State. One of the members said that the organization was in excellent order and -the future work would be pressed as vigorously as heretofore, especially the campaign of education. ^ Collections are being taken up in all the Adored churches through the btate to procure counsel to defend the ton negroes who were convicted of murder iu Laureus county, on September 1st, and sentenced to be hanged. The governor hns respited the men and tho movement is now to got a new trial. So far about half of the $500 needed hns been secured. Charleston News and Conrion Lying at Ceniral wharf is the brig Hessie E. Crane, direct from Porto Rico, with a * cargo of cocoanuta, which she was busily discharging. This is the largest cargo of cocoanuts ever re eivod at tl?:B port. Jt consists of 950,000, W : ..V: ^SS^5edroa^TT^xtei^!ing^t^^^-T tlons over the whole Stato and enlisting the aid of all who are interested in them, has called a meeting, to be held in Co- ' lumbia on the evening of December 1st next, to establish branch societies in / every county, and to appeal to the Geiv' eral Assembly for aid in prosecuting its ' work. Tho committee which was appointed to arrange for the meeting-Consists of Messrs. Edward McCrndyT Jr., Johnson Hagood. John Johnson, vV'illiim H. Gricr, Ellison Capers, John L. Weber and G W. Holland, and these gentle- J men have a printed a circular letter of e invitation which they have sent to many persons, begging them "to extend the in- r vitation to everyone interested in the 1 preservation of the history of the State " 1 The collector of the port's statement of I the exports from Charleston far the month B of October shows a grntifving increase ^ in trade. The total value of the ship- e ments was 12,853,764. The Custom House figures, so far recorded this month, i show that the Inninera of the port.will be J far in excess of Inst mnnili statement for October is as fo' lows Bca island cott'in, bags 828 $ 27,818 i1 Upland cottou. bales 62,293 2,812,401 0 Phosplinte rock, tons 100 700 o Rosiu, barrels 2,604 4,000 Bpirits turp'tine, gnl's 18,000 6,800 ? Cotton seeds, pounds 210,8 <7 16,000 o OTHER STATES. i ? Fannie Edwards, the girl prcacler, has closed a revival at Bristol, Tenn. 4 c FlameB destroyed a part of the business y portion of Tampa, Fla , last Thursday, d Loss $85,000 c Texas wants to raise $300,000 for its a exhibit at the World's Fair. The lum- o her dealers and manufacturers have sub- f< icribed about $30,000 worth of lumber o of various kiuds townrds the construe- il tion of the State building, and to exhibit 1 the wealth of Texas in timber. n Lake Palmyra is a part of the Missis- ? sipni River at high water, but at present * its bottom is drv, with a thin upper crust k/ -1 It - - ji ?ry cnrin nua a deeper lower layer of ^ 10ft mud. A half-witted negro who tried * ;o walk across to an island broke through e tbe ciust. In one day lie sauk to tno n waist, and ia two days to the neck. On " lie uiglit of the second day he was pull d out. ei Some time ago C. P. Goodyear and H.' >ther enterprising citizens of Brunswick, 1 ia., undertook to deepen the harbor at C1 hat place by the use of dynamite. At a :ost of a few thousand dollars they se- c :urcd an increased depth of 2i feet, hough engineers had estimated that ,s lundrods of thousands would be required. P *iot satisfied with this Mr. Goodyear and , lis associates have offered to the city J jouncil to guarantee to secure 25 feet, j( ind a contract will doubtless be made to t. hat effect. C( TRAIN ROBBERY FOILED. u nwu All bUi uovillg UVVl J A- 1VIU A/VVTU A XX ^ Alabama. y Birmingham, Ala , [Special.]?A 0 itory comes from Collinsville, on the e< \lnbaraa Great Southern railroad that lounds very much like au attempted c! [rain robbery. 81 The agent at Collinsville hoard that an *( itternpt would be mado to rob the 5 >utheru Express which passed there n shout twelve o'clock. Shortly afterward fifteen men, nicely drcssrd, came in and 4| took possession of the Station, refusing to vacato when locking up time came. K The agent then called on the local au- n thoiities, and the mayor and marshall, police and a posse of citizens came to 4J his rescue and drove the men away.# The gang was well armed and left threaten- 4 lug vengeance. The train at Chattanoo- 8 ga was notified and left there with aU the train meu armed to the teeth. As it ? pulled in Collinsville, four of the men 11 re appeared and attempted to board it, 8 but the citizeus fired on them and they * fled. It is said one of the fellows was ? Jn'f nurl fnll but ant. nn nnd iiiikIa a(T ' again. It is believed the attempt was 0 plunnetl to have been made below Col- H liuaville, but the train came through 1 without being molested. All the train n men on the division are now armed und 11 an extra lookout is observed. One of the F gang has been arrested, but his story has v not vet been obtained. z SAW THROUGH" HIS DISGUISE, J A Reporter Assumes the Rolo of a Servant and is Ejected From the Kaiser's Train. A cablegram from Berlin, says: A reporter disguised as one of the imperial domestics smuggled himself eboard the Kaiser's train from Potsdam for Kreuz, Oiul u'ua foVtnrr aiiq nnkio Sn 1?i a /?o. ...... ?r-~ v??.-3 " - . pacious brain ofyhe royal 8<yings and doings cn route, when he was detected by the vigilant Baron Lyncker, of the Emperor's personal entourage, nnd was forced t> admit his identity nnd mission. Some of the eminent persons on the train thou ht hanging would be too light a {mnishmcnt P>r the intruder, but it was lnnlly decided to put him off the train nt a louely spot in the woods, whence he wo ild have a long walk b foro reaching ft place of habitation. This was done, and when the Emperor inquired the reason for stopping the train and was told what had occurred he laughed heartily and e\nr> ssed his approvul of the punishment inflicted upon the enterprising young man. Advance in the jfrioe of Brooma. ScHKifECTADY, N. Y., [Special 1?The VtrAAm mannfa/thirnrfl r\f tVio MaIi stvle 1 Valley attended a meeting of broom manufacturers in Chicago last week. Several States were represented at the ' meeting. The manufacturers resolved to 1 advance the price of all kinds of brooms ' fifty cents a dozen in consequence of corn having advanced from $80 to $125 a ton and the crop being short. The manufacturers say that there is not enough corn to last until next season's crop, and that means higher price* yet. La Orippo Revisits New York. Nsw Yoj;x City, fSpceial.]?-La grippe, or Russian influenza, has made its appearance in this city. It leaked out at the health dei nrtuic r that among the deaths reported week was out) from la grippe. FAMTESS'^ ALLIANCE. Anpdal Address of President Joseph of the IoWa Alliance. Monopoly is the Areh Enemy of Industry and the Political )fon ter of Modern Timee." At Des Moines, lows, the other day, 'resident J. M. Joseph delivered his aulual add res*, and said io part: ''The duties cf the farmer include very nuch more than the cultivation of the and and the production of crops. Upon lim more than upon ariy one else, de tends the character of public institutions ,nd the welfare of all classes of people, tfith him mainly rests the responsibility >f good or bad government. "That there has been'it great awaken?s I !iTiMiiiif?yiiil4iWirgi tiien liiflUfiih itftV A1 nirice w raWesn 1 ( of the dissatifaction produced by an unjust system f distributing the benefits and Lurdens f public institutions." "Statesmen of all parties, while subcribing to the fundamental doctrines of ur government, are fonnd advocating measures and policies subvessive of them, "or a score of years they have been plantig seeds throughout our industrial and ommercial system utterly at variance ith the doctrine of equal rights. Toay we are cursed with privileged classes xisting by virtue of legal enactments to a great a degree as many of the nations f Europe. We have broadened the aundation of the splendid temple our ur fathers began, but wc have not raised :s walls, except with a single stone, in 00 years. The emancipation of the black ian is the only achievement in the interest f humanity worth recording in this cenury. "Monopoly is the arch enemy of Indusry, tho politieatmoilBt^rvriilddern times. 1 t has come to be a c mtant, ever preset menace to free government. It ears its head in every tisld, it clutches t the throat of every honest toiler. It psets the public highways. It Interests tcry market. It is intrenched iq court ad Congress alike. The horse leach's aughter of holy writ was not more rapjiiou8. As a political force, it domiates both tho great parties. Its teneucies are toward arbitrasv, despotic overnment. The home of the mons'te'r 1 in the modern contrivances we eftllcororations. "The forces of nature, the natural prolie's of the earth the (niuil n(h? A# On/1 > nil the children of uieu, arc walled up y the ornnipresentcorporatiou.Tbe goods, 10 right's, the benefits mads, matters of irporato ownership and distributed to 10 few, while many are shut out from a sir participation. tiJ irv)!Cte^'tijK>wc^E^r?a^' ' rbile they exist under a r condition f public cont/ol. This,) Ition is an louomic absurdity. ) "No solution of the great . .problem of suitable distribution ami be found ?u*de the public ownership of natural irees nua material!, ft "Pavtisaus have raised a ghost and amed it paternal government, forgetting v\t the people are, in theory and ought i be in fact, the government, forgetting ;iat except for the. paternal care of overnment there would pot be a Corpoiti n ou the face of tb* earth. Yet parsuns build no adequate defense against he combination that clutches labor by he throat, fhat glowers industry with he eye polyphemurt, fcuckin^ up her tub uiutu tu me wiiii vi wire buusismjui'u. "The ^60,000,000,000 of wealth in our onntry is the result of the genius and udustry of all the ages gone. It is a plcndid legacy to j^vc posterity. That small minoritycontributed lothing toward its accumulation, should nherit the whole of it, to the exclusion >f the great majority, is not only a fltifrant injustice upon ths face of the mater, but it marks the fact that in human flairs there are yet whole realms in the oattcr of equitable distribution unexplored, matters of vast concern to those vho come after us. "The Farmers' Alliance as an organi;ution, is the natural result of the neglect if political parties to consider economic luestions from the standpoint of merit nther than of party advantage. The nrmers have become weary with the ong-drawn quarrels over minutes aud >arren contests of mere place huntc s "The animositios of a contest fought o a finish many years ago ought to hnvo >ceu buried long ago, and would have >ecn except for the partisan who found >oliticil capital in keeping nlivo the ennities and jealousies of the sections igiiiiibt ciitili ijihcli "The Alliance- seeks to reunite the people into one harmonious nation with mjQ&I rights for all. It seeks to limit the sower and curb the rapacity of cottars ions. It seek* (o reform the industrial ijstem to the tend that thi products qf ndustrv may be fairly distributed Its ask will not be finished till the-.e icsults ire achieved. It was not born in a night lor will it perish in a day. It is a proeat against plutocratic tendencies, against ixtravagant pub ic expenditures, against inequal taxation, against the spoliation )f the working classes against the exploiter and speculator in the products of the field, the mine and the factory; igainst the whole class who ma\e a roolopoly and liv#' by usury, against th- prlrate ownership of public nstruuientali Lies, against tha whole po icj of inflated capital and bonded debts "The Alliance dema ds a sufficient roWime of money to enable industry to sxchan?e her product* on a cash basis, to the ood tbut labor may escape the burdeu of intnftffilhrtt'Pq r eats up ber sustenance in nwdohtininp the credit system. "The Alt'.inrc i m.oi/iiizp* I lint the g-wernttient monopolize# the. trc;?ti n of money and iD?k*ta that Il>i* fact curies with itthe dirty to provide a sullicicnt volume of money. The Alliance holds that the voytme of money is not sufficient luHtfng ns g?a|i?ge interest is above tin average indnatyy." "The fajwmr and mechanic may well n?k each ojfjttrrhy they slv old pu to the espouse of maintaining a thirri class of plr ple digging metal counter from ihc c?irtb to enable them to ex . ft chancre their products, or why they should be burdened with an interest-eating bond as a foundation for a circulating medium, when they cou'd furnish the. security for the medium of exchange themselves at one-fourth the expeusc. 'The past six months hns lifted the fog sufficiently that all may now see . where the centre of the great industrial battle is to be. Politicians may bent the bush yet a little longer over an insignificant difference in the adjustment of the tariff, but the real contest cannot be long delayed. We must fix the status of the ruling force in America. "Shall it be money or manhood? That is the question. Wc must settle the question whether our medium of exchange shall be a great national laborsaving machine, as great as the nation's Industrie* as strong as the nation's arms. as sound as the nation's heart, or whether it shall continue to be a tool of monopoly, control "Our chief school and hope lies v ith the sub-Alliances Let us plant these in every neighborhood, push the Alliance Eress and literature into every home, et us renew no subscriptions to the party press of either party that misrepresents or opposes our demands. We farmers and mechanics cannot nflord to do it aDy longer. "Let us stand firm by the colors of the Alliance. Let us cultivate a spirit of fraternity with all kindred organizations. Let us put the Alliance above our fealty to any political party, and iu the great contest for the emancipation of industry from the domi nation of monopoly, let us rejoice in the promise of battle and the hope of victory." * ?t * + * * $2.50 A TREK. How would you like to sell your timber at that price, brother farmer? How many of yau are selling wood delivered at the railroad for $1.50 a cord? How many are selling crossties at 20 cents apiece and haul them several miles, maybe? Well, farmers, $2.50 a tree was paid a few days ago by a Northern lumber company for 2?0,000 s >ft wood trees, standing, iii a Southern State a little north of us. Vaii ??1a if ?1j o-l l--i -1 .?> .?" ? ii laiuicio OU1U lllitb UalUll CI trees? Well uo, they h:\d been sold by the original owners some years ago for n mere soDg"; and the immense profit in this last trade went to the speculators. Farmers, the timber of the Northern forests is nearly exhausted. The immmcuse lumber mills operating must move, nud they must move South. They have their agents all through the South buying up lands at a ridiculously low figgure. A few years hence the laud you sell them at fit an acre will be worth all the way ten to twenty-five dollars an aerg^ Hold ou to your timbered lands, may in less than five years serf the timber at $3.50 a tree and liuve the land left. ****** TO STOKE COTTON. It is stated that the Greenville, 8. C., County Alliance has de. ided to store a large portion of their cottou crop. They nave niacie arrangements witn local hanks to advance 80 per cent, of the present value at oDe per cent, per month. The storage for the first 15 days will be free. The tot 1 cost of storage and insur*nco per month will not exceed 25 cents per bale. This 19 rather a costly way to hold cotton when compared with the Sub-tre?su*y, but with u short crop and April futures already higher than for the prescut month, it doubtless will be safe if a large number of farmers will make similar arrangements. But without unity "of Action it will avail but little. However, it should be tiicd. If wc make but little nothing will be lost. It is certainly suicidal so sell all this crop at the present prices. Let every cotton county go to work nod ace if anything can be done at once. ** + + * That was quick work of President Polk speaking in California on the far off Pacific coast and exactly one week from date to stand with his people on the banks of the Blue Albemarle at Elizabeth City. The Tarboro Advocate says that Col. Harry Skinucr and Judge Bourne will soon discuss the Sub-treasury I ill. Time and placa not yet agreed upon. * * t * * + The factory inspection committee of the llliuois Woman'-. State Alliance have found 106 shirt factories working children from ten to twelve hours dnily for the fat salary of $1 per week, in the enterprising city of Chicago ?St. Louia Monitor. * * * * * * The farmers of Iowa after ten years of hard work, of thirteen and one-half hours to the day on an average, find themselves $05,000,000 worse off than they were a decade ago.?Industrial Edu eator. ****** tue latest! ! Col. Polk went to California upon the invitation of f^cuator Lcland Stanford, and it is understood that he is to be paid a vast sum by the railroad king. Ho says a New York paper. Next! ! ****** The Farmers' Alliance will run the SVarehoiise which w ill soon be vacate 1 hy Mr Gravely, on Church street, oppo ite tbe Eagle, inya thoRocky Mount, &. C., Phmni*. For Camden's Winter Visitors. The Richmond & Danville Railroad Co. has placed on sale at its Northern of fices through tickets to Camden, 8 C Passengers can now ride from Washing i ton to l(o k Hill, via Charlotte, on thi ; Charlotte & Augusta division of the sys s tern, and there make close connectioi with the pas-enger train of the Three C* I Railroad. This saves them th- tcdiou I roundabout routes heretofore followcc I via ( liar eston and Culunilt a respective i | ly Tho traveling public will apprcciat - this Mira'ige i e it* .-.tSr-'Li '.' li: i' .* sie i.-ij , BANKERS AND SILVER. S Free Coinage Discussed by the Convention in New Orleans. "Is it Practical to Have a National Rate of InterestP" Discussed. Nf.w Ori.eanb, La , [Special ]?At the Bankers' Convention W. P. St. John, of New York, read a p per ou the silver question. He urged the reopening of the mints to equally restricted coinage of gold and silver. He says his plan ?ill tend to uuitc the currency by providing a siuglo automatic issue in lieu of any capricious issue of circulating notes. These no es would be redeemable iu coin, the coin reserved for them being at faco amount of the notes. Hon. John Jay Knox, ex-Comptroller the free coinage of silver. Mr. Johnston, of Birmingham, spoke in favor of an honest silver dollar. Mr. George Rutlege Gibson then read a fancy descriptive paper on "Wall Street." Mr. Gibson briefly reviewed the history the history of stock exchanges and devoted much space to the principles and benefits of speculation; the ethics of speculation; the utility ol the middleman or broker: the commnnilv r>f twecn Wall street and the country; the influence of the Stock Exchange nnd the international relations of Wall street Mr. Gibson treated his subject from a Wallstreet standpoint. Speaking of the relative value of railroad nnd farming property in the West, lie claimed that to the railroads, in the increased transpoitation facilities furnished, the farmer owed most of the increased value of his farm property. Mr. Gibson expressed the opiniou that the hankers of the interior of the country < owe it to themselves as influential citizens ot the com-nuntties in which they live to combat the feeling of hostility in many sections to capital aud to Wall street. He paid a high tribute the morals of the ! Wall-street banker* and brokers, especially as to their integrity in financial matters an i their scrupulous regard for the inviolability of contracts they make, even in the hurry aud bustle of trausactious upon the Exchange. A paper was read by William C. Cornwall, of HufTalo, N. Y., on "Canadian ! Hank Currency," aud one by Hon. P. W. Peoples, of Jackson, Mi*s , ou "Statesmanship iti Finance " The topic for discussion was- "I? it practicable to have a national rate of interest?" GOOD REPORTS OF THE SOUTH. Steady Progress All Along the Line. The Manufacturers' B~"t<1 moroi' of NovetobcL^^Hhn^feriPwiiig the iiiffSaaffjl rirnffffffnT\. hsve lately been visiting various'~jWrUi?t? the South, and their reports nre unifofnially favorable as to the splendid prospects of this favored section. Financial troubles throughout the world have, of course, had their natural effect in restricting new developments to some extent, and the folly in Southern farmers in raising too much cot'on during the last two years lias caused very low prices, which have had some retarding influence upon all business matters in this section; but despite these temporary drawbacks the South is forging ahead solidly, and is steadily attracting increased at eution to its vast natural rcsourc s and advantages which insure its ahundaut prosperity in the uear future. The wonderful record of the last ten years will undoubtedly be far surpassed by the coming ten. F r 12 mouths the conditions have been against the inauguration of new enterprises in any part of the country, but with the return of more activity after the first of the year, when the crops have been gathered ' and sold, there will naturally follow n revival of new industrial and railroad development work. Even during this tin| favorable period the South sh >ws a long list of new enterprises every week, and among the more important ones reported in this issue of the Manufacturers'ltecord are an extensive electric railroad with large power houses, to connect Baltimore and the manufacturing suburb of Curtis Bay; the placing of $2,000,000 of bonds for cabling a street railroad in Baltimore; a $1,000,000 mining company in North Carolina to purchase large high-gr sde ore properties; the enlargement of the steel works at Chattanooga; a $150,< 00 ice manufacturing company r.t Norfolk, where new enterprises arc started ne?rly every week; a $200,000 enlargement of a brewery at Fort Worth, Texas; $100,000 hotel and improvement coinpain in North Carolina: ? $.">0,000 woodworking mm nan v. Columbus Citv Ala n iruio on i development company near Petersburg, Va., by New England capitalists; a 400barrcl mill at Staunton; a $10,000 mining company nt Blackrinng, S. C ; a $1 ',00 i manufacturing company at Florence, S C.; water works at Elgin. Texas; a $20, 0J0 electric light and power company at San Angelo, Texas; a $1' 0,000 and an $8 ',000 coal and coke company and a $48,000 gas company in West Virginia; the purchase of 20,( 00 acres near 1- lizabetliton, Tenn , by a new town an 1 development company; coal mine in Ken tucky; $25,000 emery wheel company at Tallnp 'osa, (la. ; a $80,000 flour mill and elevator company nt McKinney, Texas; tho snhi for $100,000 of a rolling mill nt Hessemer, Ala., which is to be enlarged and put into operation; a large c al washing plant at Birmingham; a $1( 0,000 phosphate company at Lake City, Fla. ; two $r>0,000 manufacturing companies in B Itimorc; n $50,' 00 ore mining and washing plant in Tennessee; $50,000 water works at Orange, Texas, etc. Fassett's Campaign Expenses. Ai.hany, N. Y., [Special.]?The statement of the election expenses of J. Sloat Fassctt was filed with the Secretary of ^ State. FasscttV canvass cost him $8,450, ! as follows: To State committee, $r>,000: traveling expenses, hotel bills, self and 1 oth'-rs. estimated at printing pos8 tors. outage and cleric 1 help, estimated I ' ' e Miss Braddon has published fifty novels (luring the past thirty years. | SAM SMALL BEATEN. t He is Attacked and Badly Disfigured by a Saloon Keeper. Atlanta, Ga., [Special.}?Rev. Sam \V. Small, a well-known evangelist, was assaulted in an Atlanta barber fbop by Tom Miiier, a saloon proprietor, who haa recently been made toe object of some very hursh criticism by Small. In a public speech in Prohibition Hall, in this city. Small attacked Miner personally, Btating that to sell pop-skull liquor on Decatur street, he was neglecting his wife and children and leaving them in penui v and want. He continued his references t# Miner in this decidedly personal strain. Small went into a barber shop to get shaved, and Miner accosted him, saying tlint this was the first time that he had had acbance to see him. "Dj you know who I am, sir?" asked t. Miner. ^ evangelist, broke his eye-glasses and knocked out one of his front teeth. Bystanders immediately separated them and the trouble ended. Kev. Mr. Small says it was simply a cruel attack of a thug and if he had expected it he would have been fully prepared, but lie was taken completely unawares. He was not hurt enough to prevent his appearance at a rnllv nt Pmhihiiinn ti-n night. where he made n speech vigorously assaying the liquor tragic and taloon keepers. Miner says Small's assault on him several days ago was entirely unprovoked and unjustifiable; that lie did not make it as a minister, but as a campaign atuinp speaker, and that it was so outrageously unjust to himself and his family thut he determined to resent it ns soon as lie met Small, wh'ch he did. HE DEFIED THE SHERIFF, And Drove Judge Bynum From th? Bench. The Asheville, N. C , Mountiin Iloms Journal reports that c most disgraceful and daring occurrence took place at Burnsville, Yancey county, Inst week, and says the facts are these: Otic of the but citizeun of that county, Solomon Carter, h??l died very suddenly, and was being buried. Garret D. Ray, another leading citizen of the same town, had not lived on good terms with Mr. Carter during the latter's lifetime, but as death had removed one of the two, Mr. Ray thought he would aid in paying the last tribute of respect, to his departed neighbor and attended the burrial. This so. enraged the son of Mr. Ray that he shot at his father several times, whereupon Judge liyuum ordered the arrest of young Ray . lie defied the sheriff, but walked into the courthouse, nod. with his double uarr-'i gun, (trove tnc juqgc u? bench, flciiuiJ **"5 assembly and dciih iniim1!j imiTTi i il off. THE FARMERS' CONGRESS. < M w> Resolution* Adopted and Sedalta, MoT? Congress unanimously adopted iTTi^TTiT1 i lowing resolutions: Recommending state coutrol of live stock exchanges; recommending the passage of a national law requiring the stamping of artificial hog products; demanding the passage of a Federal law prohibiting gambling in farm products; endorsing the priuciplc of reciprocity. The following resolutions, previously reported upon adversely by the COmmitmittee, were rejected by the Congress; Demanding the coinage of silver dollars of the value of 100 cents each; demanding Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs; demanding national revenues den red from taxes from imports which come into competition with home manufacturers; demanding Federal prohibition of the sale of intoxicants, and urur.tiiuint; iiiu rmuiu ui nnu laiuis to the various States in which the arid lands are situated. Building Macadamized Roads in the South. Jefferson county, .Ala., is taking the lead of all other Southern counties, it not of every county in the United States, in the vigor which it is displaying in inscndftini/.ing its roads. It has already 110 miles of macadamized roads, 80 more now under c instruction, and contracts are soon to be let for seven miles additional, which will give that county a total of 100 miles of first class roads. The people of that c untv arc to he congratulated upon this splendid illustration of their broad-minded business judgcineut, and it is to be hoped t at their example will be followed by every county in the South. Good roads arc essential to agricultural prosperity, and they ore just as important to the South as now railroads; iu fact, it is a (piestioii whether tho county subscrip ion to new railroad enterprises would not in the long ruu yield still better returns if invested in good macadamized county roads. Every milo of good roads constructed would enhance the value < f all adjacent farm property increase the profits of farmers, attract the best class of settlers, and help to increase the prosperity of the whole State. The Birmingham Age tells the story when it says: "The best of it is, wliorevor ihepe roads lead out from Birmingham, the cotton patch is disappenriug and diversified fanning is tuking its place " . It is time for the South to inaugurate a road building period, and nothing that it could bo would have a greater eff< et upon its general prosperity. Tie Best Part of Central Africa. A cablegram from St. Paul de Loanda, via Belgium, taya that Lieut. Lemaiinel has returned from his cxpediiion to Katanga King Msiri has submitted to the Congo State and recognized its sovereign ly. J lie J.nulcnaiit cstnlilistMui a station in his country. Msiri is the most powerful inlcr in Cent ml Africa It was tic light he ini^ht assume a hostile attitude toward the whites, hut Lainnrinel had no difficulty in nssuiing his friendship Ilia people trc giffit trarleis, and the copper they tnVc from their mines is exported as far as the Atlantic and the IndiauOceans. Great Ik pes ate entertained for the future of this lomitry, which, every white man who lias yet visited it says, is adapted .or white colonization owing to its loft) altitude and salubrious clhuate, m