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VOL. XXII.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H,, SOUTH OA^^BEia^A^NOVEMBER 20,1891. . mS^R^T. ,
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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.
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TRAIN ROBBERY FOILED. u
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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.
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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.
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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."
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$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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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! !
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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*
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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