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. THE WEEKLY?POII0H TIMES Devoted to AyriouUuro, HorHoaHaro, Domootio EdtUgpitle LiUratwt, Potitim and the Current H?u>t of the Day. VOL. XXIII.- NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTtftfiHBPfe^IDAY, $f^IL*22jf892. NUMBER 17, 3 HARBINGERS OF SPRTNG. I the political ram. i ,.r 1 New* Note as Fresh as the Crisp 1 Air. The Most Interesting Event Hap- p pening in Three States f Chronicled Here. D VIRGINIA. tc A bank has been organized in Buike- tl vllle. ? Gen. Peyton Wise is an applicant for n ? position on the Civil Service Coinmis- 1' ,i0D- - tl Tn n?1 ? " ' ... ..... uiauaui .ouri-iiiarnai case HI ^ j. Richmond the defendant was sentenced fj. to 3-years' suspension. V( - > d0. o. .? TOrro, of Roanoke, a member of the board ti of visitors erf the Southwestern Lunatic p< Asylum in place of Judge Asa Dupuy, v? who resigned after he had been elected K a judge of ttje circuit court. et ^ Miss Ella Rives died at Charlottesville ? last week, aged 55. She was an aunt of 1>! Amelia Rives, the authoress, and a y< daughter of the lutcWilliam G\ Rives, cl minister to France and United States dt Senator. y< There is an engineer named Mooro on ' the Richmond nud Danville road running JV between Lynchburg and Alexandria who has been in the employ of the same road for thirty years, and has never lost a day . from-work. He has made sn aggregate 18 of 112,000 miles on one engine, nverag- 1>( ing 5,000 per mouth. He is still at work on the Richmond and Danville and nl in as good health as ho ever was. . is The Bcckely Marble Development Co., j a corporation" owning 180 acres of nimble ^ ^ land near Kinmstlo Vino f??u? ?1 - ? iumj ?/ii^aiu/.c\i, ordered outfit of machinery and will soon .. commence quarrying The company has J in prospect black and fix varieties of variegated marble and li'hographing stone. Col. A. 8. Buford was elected prcsi- w dent, and Capt. T. C. Morton, secretary w of the Virginia World's Fair Managers. j? An executive committee was nppointcd gfc consisting of J. 11. Figgatt, A. 8 Bu- m furd M. Glcnnau, H. J. Jordan aud M. cr Brennaman. Hon. John L Hurt was Authorized to take such steps as may be t y deemed necessary to secure contributions tv from the railroads of the State to the p. World's Fair fund. 0j NORTH CAROLINA. h< ' Iredell county alliance has adopted 'J the St. Louis platform. Heuderaon shipped 50 car-loads, or 826 Hl hogsheads of tobacco to manufacturers last week. I,, Tlii, New Berue Journal estimates the th loss to truck farmers in that section by tii the cold snap at $100,060. of The Day says the Oxford electric ligh' B, plant is offered to the town for $9,000?40 I 1 per cent, of its cost. It is reportod that A. C. Shuford, the !" Alliance lecturer of the seventh congress- 181 ional district, will be a candidate for '??greyi.. # ( The Democratic congressional nontinoting convention for the third district r(, has been called to meet at Clinton July .. 20th. J I The citizens of Greensboro have held h< a meeting nnd appointed committees to i0 raise^uuas for tne sufferers from the famine in Russia. p( Last Thursday Benjamin Henderson, la the negro postmaster at Fayettcville ro in reived his commission front thejh-esident, sc and Monday he took charge of the office. M Rev. C. M. Payne, of Concord, will c< preach the commencement sermon before iho young ladies of Peace Institute at the Raleigh Presbyterian (jhurch on . Sunday morning, Mny 29th. SOUTH CAROLINA. Cabbage and other truck produce are m beginning to be shipped North in con c< ' aiderable quantities from Charleston. I11 South Carolina has received her direct '.V ^ tax refund, $221,1711. A Sumter special says: Tho twenty- cj eight precincts heard from so fnr give til sa delegates for Sheppard and 44 for Till- n man. eI The political news from Laucas'.er tl county repoit that the Democratic' clubs ft sent solid Tillman delegations to the t< county convention 01 The Farmers' Bank of Abbeville, a 8' majority of whose stockholders are Al Vl liancemen, made over 10 per c.nt. du- ^ ring the year just ended. h< Great preparations are being made for the floral fair which will open on the 98th at Charleston, and which Is confl- . dently expected will be on a larger scnle and with greater varieties of flowers than ^ ever before. Jj The Huguenot Society, which is com- ^ posed of some 900 members of the de- p cendants of those who tied to this col- f ik ony after the revocation of the Edict of t. m Mantes, will have their anniversary eel- f, ebration on the 93rd. The day will be 8( aiMiiif in ni/nir /otihinn a# Hfran*/* , v? ? i ?" n Charleston. The moat terrific hail storm ever A known in the Stale, occurred at Ben n ' ettaville last wec|j. The hail atones r were two inches in diameter and fell to a depth of six inches. Birds, chickens r and nogs were killed, and many glasses a broken. Men and horses were knocked o down, fruit, vegetables and cotton com- v |MAa|AMlekl? 4-1.. picicijr tub uwffu. nivnivumuit tujuwj H KM done in the country. K Interest in the estate of Robert Edwards, which involves about $82,000,000 of property in Wall street, New York efty, which was mentioned about a year ago, has been revived. The heirs in South Carolina are Mrs. 9. A. Chisholm, of Columbia, T. H. Stokes and Mrs. Wealey Gilbert of Greenville, Judge I. . Wickllffe, of Walhalla. Mrs. M. E. , BpoJt<of Florence, W. P. Edwards and R. F. Peek, of Spartanburg. Kullmaun, the journeyman cooper who shot at Prince Bismarck on July 18, 18T4, at Kiaringen, and slightly wounded Urn, died the other day In the penitentiary at Ambcrg. Twenty-three thousand travelers received 'hospitality in the snow-bonnd convent at St. Bernard, in the Swiss Alps, during the past year. 'he Big Campaign Opens at Green ville. Greenville, 8. C. ?The debate beveeu Gov. Tillmnn and ex Gov. Khepard here Saturday was attended by ' ,000 people. oov. tillman's opening speech. i Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Fellow 'emocrats: It affords me pleasure, af- 1 >r au absence of nearly two years, to reirn onco more and meet the men of < reenville aud of the Piedmont escarp lent face to face. When last 1 had the leasurc of addressing nu audience of my \ illow "citizens on this snot I appeared as le man put forward by the masses of 1 ic people to lead the * gbt for Jeffersonian Democracy. [A * aipe: "You've got iL'M I thank you 1 * lbis fir?t opportunity 1 have had for 1 te gallant manner in which you suparted me both in the Democratic con i jution and at the election in November. * or eighteen mouths I have been Gov- ? nor of <8outh Carolina by your suffrage. ' id appear here for the first time in my fe as a candidate. I am here to ask t >u to re-elect me Governor. [Loud i1 leers and applause and erica, "We can a it.") I am here to give an account to t >u of my stewardship. [A voice: I Talk ou."| I am here to meet my tra- 1 leers face to face, und let God and jus ce decide between us. [Applause. A r lice: "Tell us about that free pass.") 1 ow, my fellow citizens, what were the 11 sues in 1890? They were whether the c :ople of South Carolina should govern < whether a ring should govern. (Cheers * id "Hurrah for the Blinker.") It is ? ue that we have a ring now, but a band t all around the ring, [laughter and up- r ause] and composed of every white t an iu South Carolina. But I refer to I e old ring?a ling like a joint snake * .slighter. | Although smashed to pieces L is wiggling aud wiggling and making 1 desperate effort to get itself together t ;ain. [Laughter and applause. ] Now. hat are the issues to-riay? a few f ords and boiled down to its essence, it 1 whether the ps^ple of South Caroliua f inn govern or wncuicr corporal ions ami ' onopolies shall do it. In all free gov nmcnts it is best and necessary, if the ' jvemuient is to remain pure, and liber- f remain i a tact, that there should be ' vo parties. We have but one in South arolina?at least one-dcceut party ? that ' r the white men; but hitherto we were 5 uind so we had to submit without disission. There was not the benefit to ic people of open and free discussion 1 which they could decide intelligently < id which privilege exists to-day. But my friends, my time is nearly out, ' it I will have somethiog to say again to ' ie opposition who have put up two disnguished lawyers to prosecute the cause ' the people?that is, the riug, against < . R. Tillman. You are here as the jury. 1 say it, but not with egotism, that hut r me you never would have had the op- 1 irtunity of hearing candidates discuss J sues before youw This, then, is the 1 mrt of last appeal. I say to these dis nguished attorneys who are prosecuting lis case?one of them your Solicitor for ! auy years -and I say to you, that 1 am ady for trial; and while I now give ay to speakers who are to follow me, say, "Lay on, McDutY, and damned lie j who first cries hold, enough." | Pro- ' need cheerinrr and umilause I O 3 II J Kx-Govcrqor Hlicppard, -who had apsared somewhat nervous during the i st of Governor Tillman's speech, was itroduced by General Gray as an old ihoolmate, a colleague in the famous Wallace House, and a man who had earn- 1 1 the promotion he had received. GOVERNOR RHKPPAHl) Bl'EAKS. "Now we'll hear something" was the i tout that first rent the air as Governor lieppard walked to the front. Said he: 1 um very much gratified to be peritted to address my fellow citizens of a junty that from the inception of the ovement has been firmly devoted to the ; itcrests of the Farmers' Movement. Whilst not the author or father of the ovement I can prove by all the good ti/.ens of my county, and if you are not itisfied with that, by Goveruor Tillman mt I have been the friend of the Farm's' Movement from the Ite^iniiing to lis day. (Voice: You are right) And, sllow citizens, 1 am as deeply devoted ? the farmers of 8outh Carolina as anyne iu the State, and my friend told the tnple truth when he said the March concntion of 181)2 had swallowed the aruiers' Movement except him. 1 am ore today? INTKHKUITINO 8H KIT A HI). Here lwgan a series of interruptions tat continued constantly through the hole of Governor Hheppard's address, le was plied on the rignt hand und on tie left by question after question, but e retained his composure and gave tolauds for all the Oliver's tired at him. 'he confusion became so great that Govrnor Tillman came, forward and asked t>r fair play, lie charactcri/.cd the quRbbling as "cat tights which begets iorc cats." Continuing, Governor Khcppard said: ill I ask is that you hear my argument nd make up your verdict of sworn juors. Ho far as I am concerned, my friends, efurence to the course I represent being n offshoot of Haskellism, he. knows and >ught to hsvo said to you, that when he vas nominated two years ago, ] took the tump in support of his election, and I ay if he gets more votes than I get, here is no man who will exert himself vith moro vigor for him than I. I desire that the demands of the farmers' Movement shall he acceded to md I intend that they shall be if I uni lee ted Governor. The reason why we oppose Tillmau is, te has not carried out the promises upon vhich he was elected. Tillman charged the Government hud >een extravagant, ana promisca mat it ihould be conducted with more ccouony?that means a reduction of the people's taxes. I think his charge of extravagnnce has lot been proven and his promise of econ >my has not been kept, but the taxes lave been increased. The first thing he did after he was fleeted, was to nave a platform erected, which no other Governor of South Cardina ever did, and it coat $800 or $400 ... ?mv |/w|mv o iiuui inuco you 1 threw away. The only wAy you can < keep me from convincing you is to pre- e vent me from talking. If you are not t unwilling to be convinced, if you are t reasonable men, I will convince you be- i fore I finish speaking. If 1 convince c you will you acknowledge it? ( A voice ? "Yts." j, A Voice?Did you ever vote for Till- I man? 1 Sheppard?Yes (Turning to Tillman:) t Didn't I (Governor? n Tilliuan?Yes, they don't breed any T ats, but Democratic cUts in Edgcield. < Sheppard?Auother reason why .we \ >ppose Tillman is that he has tried to I ncreasu the poll tax to $3. That wouid jive more money to send the negro chil- ^ iren to school. It is not right to tax r he poor man the same as the rich. The 1 Farpi^'AlUance^g pwj^r basis v I you will let me alone i he l>oys here. I plowed two years t >U\I ?!?!:? uiuucy cuuugn lO allelic! JTlir- V iinu Uuivcrsity for three years. I The interruption here became so great y hat Hen. Dray hail to again request the y ludicuce to maintuin their order. i, I will read you something from an aricle Hover nor Tillman wrote and pub- p ished iu the Columbia Register, as fol- a ows: a The purchasing power of money is a nueh greater than it was ten years ago. tl riie tax-paying power has not increased q it all, while the price of our maiu money v irop, cotton, has hovered very near the h :ost of production. The reduction of j, xpenililures, when possible, must then j.] ippeal to the common rense as well as he pockets of our people, and no good c eason can be given why salaries in our Itate should Ihj tixed higher than in w 'forth Carolina and Heorgia, both larger p ind wealthier Htates. We invite the Jj nrcful attention of taxpayers to the fol- 0 owing tlgurcs, taken from the couin- i. roller's reports of the three Btates: o llerc arc his tigures for Bouth Carolina a or 1880: 1886. Executive Department, $9,500 JomptroHor Heneral's Department 5,800 Educational Bureau, 4,500 n ludiciarv Department, 56,750 j, loard of Health, 9,100 state Department, 4,100 j Military, 15,000 0 Ticasurv Department, 7,100 c V . 1 .....1 J inn wijuiauv niim iiiojjuv ivi ucucmi, tjiuu ^ State House Keepers, 1,650 f $115,800 \ The figures for 1800 and 1 SOI, the first ind sceoud years of Governor TiUmnns, \dministration, for the same depart ncnts, as takeu from the appropriation ?ills are as follows: 1891 Ssecutivo Dept., $10,650 $10,650 Jomp. General, ' 6,050 6,450 Educational Bureau, 4,300 4,550 ludiciary Dept., 67,400 62,700 Hoard of Health, 11,100 11,100 State Dept , 3,075 4,000 Military, 10,000 10,000 rrcasury Dept., 7,000 7,000 \djt. and Insp. Gen'l 3,000 3,000 State House Keepers, 1,560 2,735 Total, $126,035 $123,085 A voice?Don't miss the cow scrape. Sheppard?That's a small matter. The cow questiou is nothing in comparision to those great questions of expenditures. In 1801 Governor Tillman's department expended $0,000 more than the \ previous Government, and Governor j Tillman's talk al>out economv helped to < inflame the minds of the people with ( those charges of extravagance. The tax \ books will show that the Government is more extravegant now than it ever was. , You are all taxpayers, and waut good | Government, and every dollar you pay , is that mneh off your children's backs | aud out of your children's mouths. , Where, then, aro his promises of re- ( form? I A voice?Is Tillmau the Legislature , and Governor too? , Hheppard ?Undoubtedly, the Legislature makes nil the appropriations, but according to the requirements of the , different departments of the Government. If the Governor claims the credit for the reforms the Legislature accomplished, how can he escape condemnation for its short-comings? A voice ?Are you the president of a bank ? Sheppard? I am, and there aro thousands of poor farmers who in November last thauked God that I was, became when their crops were short and prices small I tided them over during the winter aud 1 didn't sell a mule or a cow or anything that the farmers hold. Thousands of |M>or people whose farms I ran by the nu aus of the power I had in the bank would never have gotten along otherwise. I see I am treading on your toes, boys, pretty heavy. In my friend's own township, where lie was born, he got only eight more votes than 1, and I will l>eat him in Novcmber as sure as the lord made Moses. for twenty minutes succeeding this remark there was confusion worse confounded. Senator Donaldson was called upon to quell the disorder but was miaul e to do so. Scores of Tillman's followers shouted like madmen and hooted down everything that was said. u....... ...... ;n ?i... ..........1 ? (CM'iui; ????' *ii niv vawwai miming n Iu* murk about bank presidents, Governor Hheppard sa:U: When you strike me on the bank question ask the farmers of Edgctlcid about it. (Voice: They don't do the same way here, though ) 1 am not responsible for anybody else. I have never had a more uproarioui time even when I fought Chamberlain on the hustings in Edgefield. Before banks were established the farmers paid 25 to 40 per cent, to factors and commission merchants. The stockolders are fanners who made their money between the plow handles, and they elected roe presi dent of the Kdgetield bank because they knew I would conduct it on business principles, and that's what you need today and is what you have not got. 1 am not here to defend myself, but to take un Tillman's administration and to show tnat his promises of reform have been utterly ignored. Your taxes have been increased. The taxes paid this year amount to $80,305 more than they did last year. Prom the very spot where we now stand, in 1890 Tillinau denounced the administration of the State Government or iiaviug its litigatioD conducted by i >thers than the Attorney General and olicitors, and you applauded him to ' he echo; and now he has done the same 1 hing himself. Since he became Goverlor there have been more lawyers outside < ?f the Attorney General employed by the lovernmcnt than there have been alto (ether tiuco 1876. Tillman says there < tas never been a public man abused as le has been, but I tell you that there i icver have been so many people abused nd so many hearts hurt as have been by Tillman. ( Ol,. OHR's 8PEKCH v.is conservative and well received, i le said iu conclusion; 1 "We haven't got a good railroad law by i vhich the commission can control the < ailroads be;aUse the Legislature which ' Tillman calls "driftwood passed a bill vity juovided that the railroad eoiumis- i t, and the reason you *"haven't got it is 't ecuuse Tillman vetoed it. His rcasou ? ran that the election was given to the ' .cgislature instead of to the people, and | ct in his*inaugural address lie said he n >as in favor of such a law. They took hn at his Word and Tillman vetoed the >ill. At the next session of the Legislate this saino "driftwood" House passed rail road bill. It went to the Senate, nd would have gone through but for an 4 mendmeut introduced by Keitt, giving lie appointment of commissioners to 'illtnun If Tillman had asked him to rithdraw that amendment, ho would > avc done it, and I hold him responsible 1 ccuuse we haven't got a railroad law 1 liat will rcgulntethc railroad. i Tillman went all through this country I riticisug the men in otlicc for riding on ' ree passes, and then took them himself, 1 rith an express frank. He had no right to I ut himself under obligations to the roads. < f what lie said was true, he has by his ' wn action shut himself out from receiv- ( -r .11 rages. iu io .... i f mistake, made in his own favor and ' gainst you." 1 uov. tillman's closino spbkch. I Bheppard lias alluded to the farmer's iiovcuicnt. Well, I tell you that in 1886 ii convention 1 voted for Bheppard for 1 lovernor and tried to elect him. Why? ''irst, because at that time I knew none if the public men of the State.; and secind, because wo had been schoolmates nd were then and are now personal riends. There were then three randi- 1 I a tea in the Held?Henator Coker of J)arington, John Peter Richardson aud Ihenpard, who had received the office at he bauds of Hugh B. Thompson. The novemcnt then had two principal denands?the reorganisation of the agriultural bureau aud the establishment of m agricultural college. Now let us see vhat they have done with our platform. The speaker Iterc compared the two ilatfnrms and made points mat 1110 mireen had omitted the deinauds for raiload control and a constitutioual convcnion. lie then denied the charges of exravaga.ice, alluding to the building of he inauguration platform, which lie said vas suggested by the committees of the louse and Senate. He then acknowedged that he had alluded to some of he legislators as driftwood, and showed hat the failure to carry out economies vas not due to his want of suggestion, rut the blocking of legislation in the Legslaturc. lie quoted front his inaugural md from his speeches to show that he ad been consistently in favor of reform lie denied that he had acted as a dictator, but contended thnt he had carried )ut his pledges and that the Legislature md failed to carry out theirs. Asa part of the argument here lie pioted extensively from the irnrty platform, stating in what respects he haa endeavored to carry out his declarations He also eutered into an elaborate discuslion of the causes which led to the defeat if several of his measures, and especially the railroad hill, the Sheriff hill, and [ithers. lie then replied to some of the datements that he lost ground in the State I have lieeu at home hut seldom, hecause I have stayed in Columbia attend ing to your business; hut I will say that I will go home, make three speeches, and ll I can't neat Dim hi me primaries i win withdraw from the race. Governor Sheppard, will you Hay as much? I have gone, my friends, through h?I to get this office, and I have licen told that no other man could have led the movement to success. Since my election I have discharged my duty ns faithfully as I k(> w, and I am now asking this people whether they think I have done it or not. I made a living before I got into the Governor's office, and whenever the majority of the people say "we don't want jou nny longer," I will retire without n murmur. The Governor recurred to h s position as defined in his inaugural on the three dollar poll tax, giving his reason for the r? commendation I say to you here now as a loyal Democrat, as a loval A lliauecman. as a loial farmers' movement man, that I am hound by the rule of the majority and that if a majority of the people want these demands I shall not attempt to dietatc to you | Prolonged cheering and npplause. | I have been accused of trying to dictate to the Alliance, but 1 have given you my reasons for my opinion and my position. I am on record as opposed to thesuh treasury, and I am opposed to it no?, but the rule in the Alliance and of the Democracy is to abide the will of the majority, and I am not going to tight my Brethren. I want to say to you that we have hut one party in 8011th Carolina, the Democratic party, and we will have |>oace and unity if these gentlemen will let us. If we arc Ircaten in this fight we w ill not do .... 11...belli*..a #15.1 #.?.? ..r llw. tin liiv Iif?onv?im o ?? viiv I party and bolt. Wc have control of the Democratic party. Wo can enunciite any platform that wc please, and on th t platform wc will make our fight The majority must rule in this State and I would prefer to follow you to h?1 than to go with^thcse men to hcavou. [ Tumult uous cheering. | Of course I mean this as mere typical language, a simile wi hout intending to l>e irreverent, but it does mean that I am ^ojv with the farmers of South Carolina, and with them I expect to die. | Applause ] In 18W1 I did not run on the Alliance platform, or a aub-treaaurf platform. I tried my beat to make the ffght and that lb? Alliance should not go iu as au Alliance. 1 objected to that at Hidgewsy. I have uol betrayed a single pledge I over made. I have never failed to keep a promise, ami I defy any man to prove it. 1 mndt charges of corruption, uud I found thai One officer of the government had em bezzled $5,000 within a month after I came into office ; that three County Treasurers have taken some thousand more, and that there were shortages (and that is au euphonious word) of about $20,000. The next speaker took up the Coosaw case and explained the litigation and how it was begun by the company. On the. subject of having an organ lu 'aid: They say I have an organ. I only have one organ and that is between my teeth, nnd if they can prove that I liavt uvcf falsified a pledge I am perfectly wi ling to admit it. and go home. Governor Tillman then went into tin railroad and bank litigntinnand recited tin jajyjee that led to it and its present status, yjrenhlng on the free pass matter lie liad: They say I made a mistake. Well, nir humble Saviour, the lowly Nuruzone, ivhen something of this sort was said relented, "Let him who is without sin uuong you cast the first atone." HARRISON REPULSES QUAY. k. Declaration That Ho May Decline to Be a Candidate. Wabhinoton, D. C.?There will be nc reconciliation between Senator Quay and President Harrison, and, as a insult, Mr. Harrison may cventully not be a candidate tor renomination. A few days ago Consrressmcn Bingham, O'Neill, and Key burn, accompanied by Postmastcr-Gencr il Wanamakcr, called upon the President to urge him to forget the past and to re :eivc Quay. This was with the idea that the Pennsylvania Republican Convention, Lo be held on April 20, would declare for [ourdefegaf cs* T rom'' "ftiai"SflAe Vtf rftStfil'e a polls. The surprise of the delegation was great when the President turned to Mr. Wanamakcr and said: "The less you have to do with Mr. Quay the better it will be for yourself. He is not a fit man to associate with." Then the President said that he was not so certain about accepting the renom ination, unless he was assured that th< party was harmouious, and that it would atand together on all qu< stious. He said he saw here and there evi dences of dissatisfaction, and that In preferred to staud aside rather than t< place himself in the power of Mr. Qua; and some other men who had attemptcr to dictate terms for renomination. Tin President told the Congressmen that h< would not place the pa'rouagc of Ponn sylvauia in Quay's hands, because tin men Quay had recommended to him wen no better than himself and were not lit t< hold office. rl he President said that i it depended upon Quay whether h< should get the Pennsylvania delegation then I16 would not get it. Mr. Wanamaker talked in his mosi persuasive manner, but it was of no avail and the Presi lent warned the Post mas ter-Qcneral to keep away from Quay. When this was told the Senator In was angered. He immediately began ti discuss with his fellow Senators tli availability of Blame, as a President in caudidate, aud the boom in the intcrcs of the Secretary last week is due t Quay's work. The men who were pr. t edt at the interview with President 11ai riaon say that, unless Quay, Piatt, Clark son, nud the rest arc solid for him, Mi Harrison will decline the nominuti 11 Up to this time Quay has refused to te his most intimate friends who is h Presidential choice. BENEFAOrRE SS OF HER RACE. Noble Work of a Young Colore* Woman Born a Slave. Manassab, Va.?The colored pcopl of Prince William county have undertnk en to establish what is said to be the firs industrial school in the Innd for colmei jouths under colored auspices. A pros pectus says: "The object is to give it struction in the ordinary Kngli branches nnd the industrial arts to lb colored people living in a region of Vii ginia not yet recovered from the de vasts tion of the late war." The leading spirit in the movement M'ss Jennie Dcau, of Manassas, a youn colored woman, who has quito a remnrl _VO? ki.ln... Ui,M, 1 .. ? uic UIOIUI j, miwi i/VIIII uwi >i slave, but has nccompl shed much, not withstand ng the disadvantages undi which she l?egnn life She was grndi ated from the public schools in this citi was converted, and then, going to tl mountains of Virginia, began missio wo: k among the colored people, pn?s< cuting her labors under great diihcuhic She has four large Sunday schools in tl mountains, in connection with wh'ch si conducts 8ewin<z schools. She has raise monci with which to build churches an chapels, and her success in the work h led the people of Manassas to call um her to raise the money to build the iudu trial school. FIVE DAYS OUT OF THE WORL Columbus, Miss.. Flooded nud Least 20 Persons Drowned. Birmingham, Ai.a? After five da of absolute isolation for the world, coi munication with Columbus, Miss., w restored by wiro. Although It Is working badly cnoug cws has ccme to show a tragic state affairs. Tho river has risen nearly tin feet higher thar ever before, and t whole country is under wa'cr. More than twenty people have be drowned, as far as heard from, and it feared that the list will grow rnonnou* when the wide territory flooded can heard from. In one cane n color d family of ni persons were drowned. They to >k a p in the boat with them The pig jump out of the bo-it, and one of the worn grabbed for it an i overturned tho bor Five hundred |>erann* in the town i being fed by charity. An appeal li already been drawn up ?o the Gover for help. lt? - - " ALLIANCE COLUMN. The Great Parmer's Cause Moving Steadily Forward. t " Bright and Interesting News For the Order From AH Over These United 8tates. Tnere nre now in operation fifty five agricultural experimental stations in the country -jill but nine of which are sup ported by the general Government, at a cost last year of $680,000. * + ** + A uovel plan is being operated in the Dakotas. Each sub-Alliance is asked to ! prepare and seed a certain number of acres of land to wheat. This is to be an offering for the spread of Alii nee painci' j?lcs, by selling the wheit a d expend ing the proceeds for that object. It is said that hundreds of acres will he used iu that manner, ami great good is expect cd from the experi ncut. Such methods dUclose an earnestness that should know neither oyposition nor discouragement, and should lead a nation or a people out of the dark shadows of distiess into the bright sunshine of prosperity. The Alliance Farmer, (Homer, La.), says: "The President's salary i* $50. * 000 a year. Twenty years ago ;>0,0u0 bushels of wheat wovdd have paid it, now it takes more than 60,000 bushel*. 1 Twenty years ago 500 hales of cotton woctld have paid it; now it takes I,TO) bales to get $50,000. The annual salary of Congressmen is $5,000 Twenty years ago 50 bales of cotton would have paid it; now it will take about 1T7 bahs, and vet Congress seems resolved to reduce the currency, demonetize silver, and keep up the salaries .This is is a very I a desire that jrtsYurenrrrr;.iroSr^T.-p. is conspicuously prominent in Connies sional movements." ****** The Herald, (Myrtle Springs, Texas) says: The Alliance i c?lucnlinp the people. It has turnc<l out already some of i the most wonderful speakers in Texas, men who but for the Alliance training ; would have delved and dug with lu*ty I limbs unhonorcd, ami died in poverty and ignorance, unsung. Now many a farmer lad can discuss economical b questions with senators and represent av tivea; and hundieds of fanners are far y better posted and more capable of at1 tabling practical results than are their ? congressmen. The politician that now j counts on fooling the pcop'e, at least the Aliiauce portion of the people, reckons 3 without his host. All atice men, hoys b and women, too, have cut their wisdom -i teeth. f ****** The Alliance demands arc on the right ' side of every gieat question now forging t to the front in politics. Is not that sufficient justification for making them? Dors anyone suppose there would be any stir in the great and dirty pool of politics on i; those ques ions if the farmers had taken n the advice of the politicians and stayed between nlow handles? Not a hit of it. I but these weathercocks up at Washington t feel th? wind blowing. Secretary Foster 0 says increase the currency. He heard 1 that from the Alliance. Secretary Rusk says do something for the farmers. 11c heard that in the Grange. Speaker Crisp says finances shall have full consideration. He heard tint from 80,000 Georgia farmII farmers. Senator Turpie says United js States senators must be elected by the p ople. He read that in our platform. President Harrison says the gerrymander is u dangerous menace to free government. He lias rend the plank about equal just ice to all. There is not a popular demand but that the Alliance is on the right.? I Unionis', (Henderson, Ky.) ****** KKMKM 1IRU YOL'K KESrONSJ IHMTY. c The Alliance is now on trial before the t bar of public judgmt nt and every indi(I vidual member is icsponsible for the faith. ful discharge of the particular task ns, sign d him The responsibility is a comI, mon one ami rests upon all alike. '1 lie 0 great work that is going on may not ' come before your view every day,and your . sub-Alliance may uot be all that you would have it be, but stand to your colors. Re:g suits may not be reached as fast ns you ? had expected, but stick to your crowd. ^ Your leaders may not be as brilliant nor a as aggressive as you would wish them, ; but uhidc your time and continue to r struggle. Revolutions never go backi ward; if you hold up you are left Notlif, ing human was ever perfect, and never ie will be, but stick to your order and be u steadfast to the end. It may require per 3- sonal s crificc of opinion, but that is but i. a daily occurrence in life. It muv demand ic inconvenience, hut stick together, ic Dou't give up the ship. (I , r) ****** i,s statr ai.i.ia.nck mkrtino in wisconsin. Eau Ci.airk, Wis .-?The Winsconsin IS State. Allianc e has just closed an interesting two (lay's Minion at Eau Claire. A good attendance and much enthusiasm. The following aie the ofliceis. All reD. elected: I'resi lent, C. M. Butt, Viroqun. Vice President, P. L. Scritsmier, at Bloomer. # Secretary-Trcas., N. E. Moody, Vjjr'o' qu? . . / >s Executive Coinniittec consists/of Pies,v ident, Vicc-Picsident and Secretary ft8 Treasury. Delegates to Supreme Council; C. M. '!< Butt, 1*. K. Newell, and P. L. Scrits niier. 1C Alternates: N. h. Moo?ly, John Kim, he and W. F. Donohue. en Aid Decree adopted and placed i is charge Secretary Moody, and II. A. Vn dy Dolsenr, of Eau Claire, as general Stat all organiser for the Degree, will go int the field at once and push the work vif no orously. tig Dro. Oeo. Cross presented the Nntior ed al Union plan and it was adopted. Bo on Schilling gave a grand speech in the ai it. mory last night to a large audience o ire the identity of interests of farmers an ins laborers in the city, n- The indications are all favorable for ifldicnl political change in Wisconsi ? this year. The Alliance is a unit on out demands, and will vote aa tbey talk. Organization will be pushed actively and coutiuuou ly. St Louis demands indorsed uuanimously. A resolution asking the State legislature to grant the election franchise to womeu was unanimous ly adopted. Also one favoring passage of anti-op tion bill. Winsconsin is all right. W. Wardall. ****** tiie St'B-treasury in france. Roiideai'x, France, Oct. 13, 91. Mr. If. L. IjO'tckf. Dear Sik:?In reply to jour letter of enquiry, ill say the Bank of France has nlmncf' cinea i'?. ..ol.LI a 1? - ? ?MMV0V OIUVU IVCJ VOI4IUI iQIIIIJUIll, I'NI l)T in the present century, lonoed money on no t perishable products, such ns wheat, corn, wine, spirits, metals, etc., provided such securities were deposited in telinble warehouse , or warehouses designated by tbo directors of tlie Ibtnk of France, Heceipts were of coi r e taken for the same, and these become negotiable just as arc warehouse receipts in America. The amounts loa icd upon produ ts of this description was usually equal to about two thirds of its appraiser! value and the rate of interest charged for the loan was 3 per cent. The same rate is applicable at the present time. Horace It. Knowi.es. Consul. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN Of the North Carolina Experiment Station, For the Week Ending Saturday, April 0, 1892. Raleigh, N. C ?The reports of correspondents of the weekly weather crop bulletin for the week ending, Saturday, April Oth, 1892, show that very favorable weather rondi? tions have prevailed since the beginning of April. The first three months of the year have been cold and wet, SpHiig'? ? farming operations somtfvi iif?T rue uue spring has Icon favorable to the fruit crops. The average dates of planting and har vesting crop* aire as follows: ii. Preparation of soil generally completed by end of March b. Cotton planted from April 1st, to April :10th, harvested September to January. e. Tobncco transplanted April 15th to May :10th, harvested August to Octo her. d. Corn planted about April 1st, har vested in September. e. Wheat and rye planted October to December, harvested June 1st Oats planted October 10th, harvested June 15th. K. C. Republican Convention. Ralkioii, N. C.?Jas. II. Young (colored) was made temporary chairman of tho Kepub'ican State Convention last Thuesdny. Chairman Eaves said in his opening speech that the party was now . on the edge of victory. Iu the western part of the State the Democratic part was torn all to pieces, lie believed the white Allianccmen, whom he eulogized, would join with the Republicans in procuring local self-government. He believed that if the Republicans stood together this year they would get a victory. He said he agreed with Butler, of the State Alliance, that there was a crisis in politics, and called on all the counties to harmonize all interests and work together as Republicans ?to staud to tlu-ir principles and not give up a plank itithi'ir iilui fiirm national or State. The Republicans must drop all such say ings ns"this county or that county is run hy niggers.'' He asked that they drop the svoril "nigger" for live years. He said he honestly lrelivcd ths Alliance was earnest in its tfTorts and if the Democratic ~~v. party did not yield the Alliance would give it trouble. The committee on credentials was out may hours settling three county contests. The Hrady men got in from Mecklenburg and the Scurlock men from Cumberland. V. S. Lusk, of Buncombe, was made pet manent chairman. The delegates to the National nominat II II 1I1?4 tUUVl'UllOIl WUIC I'lttlfil?II. I . Cheatham, by acclamation. E. A. White, J. C. Pritchard and .1. C. Dancy. Electors at large were chosen: Spencer Blackburn, of Ashe, and C. M. Bernard, of Greenville. .1. B. Eaves and V. S. Busk were nominated for chairman of the Sta'e com niiitcc. Eaves was elected, receiving 167 votes, ngaiust his opponent's 50. Went MAd on Trial. Glasgow, Kv. ?Henry Bagland, eel ored, wns placed on trial Saturday for car breaking. He was one of many colored men induced to go to work on a railroad in ?vhc Adirondacks, where he claims a brother was murdered, and he was brutally beaten. Bagland had scarcely pleaded to the charge when he began to foam and bark. His yells v.ere horrible. He attempted to bite the judge and others, and caused a panic in the court room, lie was not tried and will die soon. Bagland, it was subsequently learned, was bitten by a rabid dog last August. Carolina Marble to the Front. MrjwiiY, N. C ?The combining of the Srouthcrn marble interests is becoming an assured fact. All the quarries bc 'tween Marrietta, Ga , and this place, though owi.ed by half a dozen different corp.nations, arc really controlled hy the Southern Marble Company. Agents of the combine nrc pushing through toNantahala, this State, and into the marble sections of Tennessee. The country people, not knowing the value of their property, are pnrtiug with it readily. ? Great Bridge at Memphis Completed. n Mkmpiiis, Tknn. ? At 10 o'cl ok iron c Dennis eioscn up inc gup 111 ,nc '?nno lever bridge nt this poiut, nnd the States r. of Arksnsns nnd Tennessee were joined The celchrntion of the opening takes i- place in the early part of May, nnd the h United States war ship Concord will r- steam up the river nnd take part in the n celebration. The bridge cost $ 8,000.000, d nnd, including the trestle work, is ah ut three miles long. It belongs to the coina pany operating the Kansas City, Fort in Scott and Memphis Railroad