Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"T! The reduction of cotton acreage for | THRRFl ST A TWC' Ttl>Ti?i?o I TTkTTAlT irnmnn a %.? - ? * 1L^ - * -- - & Jl iu? eauro couth this year is at least eighteen per cent. A share of stock in the Chemical National Bank of Now York City, par value $100, is worth $4800. That is, every dollar invested by its stockholders possesses an earning power sufficient to make it worth $48. To all the strenuous opposition against the trolley system of electric cars it his, always been replied, notes the Boston Transcript, that no person has ever been killed or even seriously injured by receiving the electricity of the system. The coal fields of the world are sai<^ to have the following areas: China and lapan, 200,000 square miles; United itatee, 194,000; India, 35,000; Russia, 17,000; Great Britain, 9000; Germany, 1500; France 1800; other European jountries, 1500. ^ In Mexico it is libelous for a news,paper to mention a criminal case against a man in the event of his acquittal. 1 After his vindication the person charged .with crime can put the editor who published the report in prison. The Eoglish Hackney horse, whioh Is rapidly coming into favor in this coun trr? is in England superceding the Glareland bay stallion as a sire for carriage horses. The Hackney is a thoroughbred of the hunter type, with more bone, stoutness and action than the Clereland , It appears tbat in 1890 there were in he various prisons in the United States ?nd under sentence for the several defrees of criminal homicide, 0 953 males ind 393 females. "This is truly a renarkable demonstration of the superior :haracter of women," maintains Publio Dpinion. There is a patient and industrious man named Rila Kittrldgo, of Belfast, Me., who is putting Mr. Gladstone's great speeches on postal cards, which he sends to the "Grand Old Man." On some of . _ the cards vnctea to the postal card habit; but when he gets some of these missives, he must feel that he has the disease in s very mild form. Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, recently told a friend of the difficulty one v of his ancestors had in securing a pension, to show how much harder it was to accomplish that business a century ago than now. It was then necessary for a man to prove not only his service, but his necessity. Mr. Quay's ancestor declared that his sole possessions were two slaves and twelve acres of land. The latter would not even raise white beans, and of the former one was a helpless rheumatic and the other spent all his time attending to his fellow. ' The American hoar ia still i --a"#'" " pusbiug his nose into other countries, announces the Ohlcago Sun. Persecution, proscription, libel, infamous slanders, and even bayonets cannot keep him from inserting his savory snout into a foreign land, and when once he lifts his mall, twinkling eyes upon a people they immediately become charmed with his toothsome possibilities and are the willing slaves of his porkshtp. The latest conquest wl\ich the Yankee hog has achieved is that of Mexico. According to a dispatch from Kansas Olty, Senoi Enrique Tores, a Mexican merchant, has been in that city making arrangements for shipping hogs to Mexico for slaughter. What the New York Poet considers a fraud of a peculiarly abominable character has come to lisrht In ?**?*???? where a number of workmen and engineers employed at the great Boohun Association for Mining and Steel Foun. dry hare been arrested on a oharge of selling defectire rails, wheels, axles, etc., by means of a system of forgery. This material was supplied to the Get man State Halfway, and then some for* eign corporations. It appears that the State Railway employed an inspector ti stamp suoh goods as had withstood thi regular tests. The incriminated workmen are accused of hariag made false Stamps, with which they marked material whioh had not been examined; wit! repairing holes, craoks, and other defects in the rails with a particular oemeot, and so giring the inferior and useless material the eppearanoe of fla-. ished work, and with substituting remils frtp Ih/sna UtklnK #ka a? tUU had handed orer to bo stomped m sot. isfactory, and marking the good rails with the forged stamps. The lnoentirs to the frauds was tho faet that tho work* men are paid a premium on tht amount of work passed by tho inspector. Bow long they hare boon indulging in these dishonest practices, how general the dlstribjtion of defective material hat been, is still as unoertain as the possible consequences of the rascality. Br#* >! ' &e\ " > ; \:ii 6* liinur o. Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points of Interest. The Field* of Virgin*, North and South Carolina Carefully Cleaned For New*. VIRGINIA. Jefferson Anderson, of Danville, who was horribly lacerated by a circular saw, still survives, in spite of his injuries. It is said, that 30,900 people visited Mt. Vernon Wednesday. Every steamboat that could be brought into requisition was on tho line, and, ca ricd their full complement. There wcrcuos'oppages at Alexandria. Justice Camper, cf Roanoke, was in great tribu'ation Monday, for, during a trial, some thief made off wi h tho Bible on which he usually swears witnesses. Capt. Lancelot Pnrtlow, of Spotsylvania county, is ninety thr e years of age acd is still in vigorous 1 cilth He was one of the escorts (o General Lafayette from the Wilderness Tavern to Fredciickouuig in 1824. Mrs Isabella G. Lee di^d of heart and lung t oubles Monday at her home in Louaoun. Sho was the widow of Richard Henry Lee, who was a cousin of Gen. Robert E Lcc. Mrs. Lee was the daughter of William Hunter Wilson. The old McLain House, at Appomattox, the scene of Lee's surrender to Grant, has been purchased by Northern parties, who propose to tear down the building and reconstruct and put it on exhibition at Chicago. miss ijMiia Harrison, of Lecsburg, London county, has been selected as tho most beautiful woman in tbe frtntc to represent it as one of the original thirteen States at the Columbian Exposition. NOBTH CAROLINA. The Oxford Orphin Asylum has received application for tbe admittance of an infaut girl eight months old. The application bni to be rejected, Orion's circus was lately at Wilkcsboro and a certain Wilkes man was fleeced by the sharpers who arc always along. When the man's wife found it out she gave him a gcntccl thrashing and made him promise not to go anywhere any more without sorao one along to take care of him. The Silver Valley mines, in Davidson county, are being pushed to great success. About seventy-five hnnds are now employed, and th'y arc mining from ten to sixteen tons of solid ore per day. Another new enterprise for Wihnin^ ton is lh<? WiJ weeks It is for the manufacture of grapo baskets, and turns put t#iOOO per day. It will also manufacture bands, berry crates aud all other goods made of veneer. Mrs. Catherine William?, a widow , lady living in Bludeu county, committed suicide Monday. 8hc tied her hands together and Uid down in a canal of wa cr about six inches deep. She was , found in that positiou. It is supposed she was insane. Another suicide is Jim Meadows, a citizen of Wilmington. He went home drunk, beat his wife and then drank a large quanti'y of laudanum, which ended hi? life In a few hours in spite of the efforts of physicians to revive him. He was driver for the hook and ladder company and was a young man. A "Virginia Dare Association" is being organized by the ladies of the State to aid representing North Carolina at tho World's Fair. SOUTH CAROLINA. Darlington Las open a market for the aale of leaf tobacco, and Ibe tobacco farmers are realizing good prices there and at Florence. The royalties oollected from phosphate fir nluceis by the State of South Carolina or the month of August aye as follows: F. W. Wagoner & Co., $108.48; Coosaw Mining Co., $5,010.85; Oak Point Mining Co., $1,100.49; Beaufort Phosphate Co., $10,203.90; Farmers' Mining Co., $8,805.78; Carolina Mining Co, $0 ,752.50, and Bea Island Chemical Co., I $6,899 00. As the royalty is one dollar per too, the total output for August was 40,904 tons. The Charleston, Su liter and Northern Railroad Company has completed its ex tension from Bennettsvillc, S. C., to Gibson, N. C , opening up quite an extensive field for business. As soon as the branch is inspected by the State railroid commission traffic will begin. At Charleston tho Southern Fihr* Cn hM organise i bj tha Auction of C. F. Pankio, president, end Thomas J. Price, secretary and treasurer. The concern intends to es^blish a plant for preparing Southern moa by a new decor ication process. A compiny has Ircn chartered at Darlington for the purpose of building a ti JO,000 tobacco factory, ; OTHER STATES. Government employes are on a strike at New Orleens to enforce the new eight hour law, which the officials, as usual, are trying to disregard. A shipment of two huodred bales of cotton was recently made from San Antonio, Texas, to Yokohnms. Japan. We Hsts Been Entertaining a Xing. Nashville, Thhm.? A young negro, #who has spent four years st the Central Tennessee College in th's city, hss been, called to a throne in Africa. His name is Momold Maseaquai, and hs cnrac from Vey country, a region of interior Africrf, adjoining Liberia. Ho was converted some years ago to Christianity by Mrs. Mary Brierly, an English missionary, and though her influence and that of Bishop Penick, of Louisville, was brought to this country and put at scheol. He re ceived tho news to day that his father, King Balab, bad beau killed ia war and ha ia called to ralgn in his stead. Mountain Murder. Raleigh, N. C ?The Governor has received a telegram informing him that Matthew W. Hector, a deputised policeman, was murdered at Marshall, Madison county, by Alonca Wast, whom Rector was endeavoring to arrest for disorderly conduct. uiuun VMIiHANS AT RICHMOND. They Receive Hospitalities on All Sides and Lee Camp Keeps Open House. Richmond. V*.--Tho second day of the Grand Anuy of the Uepu die visit, horo w;is spent very pi asautlv. There are many ladies with the soldiers and they are gaily bedecked with medals, badges, etc. Every incoming tra:n from the north briugs a dcleg ;tiou of Grand Army of the Republic Ve'eians nr.d 4,000 are now in the city. Tho streets a?e crowded with ex-soldiers and upen every corner can be seen lnppy groups of men, some of whom wore the blue and others who \yrp /iIaiKa 1 ia itviutuisV/CUCCB 01 the times that tried mou's souls and wrung burning tears from the brave worn- u of the land arc discussed in perfect friendliness and tho past strife is forgotten in cordial and fricudly greeting 4. Phil Kearney Post's hca 1 quarters are open for the reception of the visitors. Ice water, lemonade and infoimotion nrc furnished free. Leo Camp is keeping open house and two largo lunch tables are spread with good cheer and comfort for 5,000 people. They are doing all in their power I .r the plcnsure and pntor. tainment of tho men whom they so fiercely fought over a quarter of n century ngo. Tho Grnu<l Army Republic people are greatly pleas .-d with what Lee Caiup is doing lor them, and sty they will spread the Camp's praises throughout the land. Many of the visitor* made excursions to the batt'c gaotinds, despite the bad weather. Members of la c Camp and Phil Kearney Post aro piloting tho old veterans an J showing them every attention. Largo numbers went down to Seven Pines, many visited Petersburg, while others went over to B.dlo Islo and Manchester. Oct ton Manufacturing. Alfred B. Sheppcrson, of the New ... Cotton Exchange, has published . "statement of the American cotton crop of '91-'92," os compiled by him. Mr. Shcppcrsou argues that while the crop for the past year was the largest "commercial crop on record, the actual cotton yield was probably 600,000 less than the year previous, He bases this upon the fact that a very largo quantity of old cotton, held over from 1890-91, was marketed during the year just closed. This view of the mHlter is valuuble in making estimates on the present crop, based upon a comparison with the con dition of tl.at of'oi "? *over, which is of groa'er 1 tcrcst to us, is ihnt giying the consumption of cotton by the mills in the Southern 8 atcs. Four years ago, in 1888-89. the Southern cotton mills consumed 479,781 bales, in 1890 91, G12,t}Q2 and for the year just elos d, 084,367. In the first year named sou h Carolina's e inaumption was 182,J19 bales and last year it was 181,367, in increase of 15,000 bales over the consumption of the previous year. Georgia comes second on the list with 167,713 bales utilized bv her mills last year, an iacrcasc 13,000 for the year. North Carolina is thud, her mills having used 157,601 bales of cotton, a gain of cirv AAA I.-I-... tonft in ti .? U1IIV.9 UVL'I lOJU VI. 1 I1CSU IIIIUU States show nn increase of 48,000 bales consumed, as compared with the year before. The report of Henry O. Hester, of the ,vcw Orleans Cotton Exchange, upon the same subject has also been received. 'I he t>\ o gi\ at authorities are wond? vfiilly close together in their figures, and for the first time they agree in nainiug South Carolina as the greatest coltou manufacturing State of the South Mr. Hester's figures indicate an in crense in the consumption of the two Carolinas and Georgia of 61,GO) bales over that of 1890 91, which is more fa vorablc to this section than Mr. Shep person's report, but all evidence goes to show that there is general prosperity in the cotton spinning business in the : outh, and that we arc making wonder t'ul strides in the manufacturing industry Last year the mills of tho remainder ol this country And Canada manufactured le.'s than four and a half times the quau tity of cotton consumed in the States of So..th Carolina, Georgia and North Car olina. T.\ i An vAara morn la era will Ka #Vw, cotton manuf.ctu ing Statei of the Un ion. Mr. Davis's Monument. Richmond, Va.?The conferences between the representatives of the Davis Monument Association of ^Virginia end tho committee of the United Confederate Veter<ns removed most of the obstacles that have hitherto prevented the desired progress in tho mr.ttcr of raising funds to erect in or near this city a monument to commemorate Hon . Jefferson Davis's service*, sacrificies, r.nd sufferings In view of the fact that Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy and that Mrs. Davis has expressed the wish that It should be selected both as tho permanent burial place of her husband and as the stint fur the monument, the veterans' committee, who were clothed with ample powers, in substance agreed that their organization would throw all of its influence?and it is very weighty? in favor of Richmond. The permanent burial and monument are to be here. The funds collected for this purpose by the Uoited Confederate Veterans will be sent to Riohmond, and we understand a lilro course will be pursuod by the Southern Press Association. Mr. Davis will have a suitable monument. It will he erected in Richmond, by the people of all,the Southern States. Other plana arc to be fused into the plan of the Virginia Association, which will nt nncf s*t tr? work to ehooso a d?. f>ign and site and to lay the corner-stoae. It wnsr.solved tbst Monroe Perk be cboscu as site for the proposed monument. Mitchell a Bluffer and Bully. New York, N. Y.?James Corbett, In speaking of Charley Mitchell, characterized him as a bluffer and bully, and offered to post a forfeit of $.1,000 for a light at the conc'usion of bis engagements, a period of a year. POLITICAL ^ORLD. Candidates, ConvenUo s. Nominations, Eleetio s. All (he New* of Politic a Movement* of the Four Pi rtie*. Hon. William Dickey n as seat to the Mniuc Legislature in 1842 nnd they aie sendiug him there yet. He rns re-elected at tbc rcccut election. He i* eighty ooe years old. J. J. Mcintosh, Democr >t candidate for Congress in the S'jctJi Icbroska district, hns withdrawn, Iridic g that he is not a citizen. \Y\ * ij/i-cu gic.viiuini urH"po-5*>d Congressirau Henry Cabot LodgcWe the announced Republican caiflidatcs for United Stat.s Senator from! Massachusetts to succeed H. L Dawev Hon. W. M. Fishback, Qcfrernor-elcct of Arkansas, will make Democratic spc chci in New Yo k and ?enncssce. Republican convention at Staunton, Va., has nominated W. C. Fraralin, of Appomatt'X, for Congress. , It is reported thut Mr. Bfcjne may decide to enter tho Senate instead of Mr. Hale, whose successor is to oc chosen by ?lio Legist iture elected in) Maine this U *-!- 1- - ?-?* ? * -l? n?i. nuiu in ii canuitiaicuor re-election There are but 190 coloied voters in North Dakota. There a c 1$,000 in the City of Baltimore. Bal inx)ro has an arei of thirty-two squnro miles; North Dakota has an area of 79,000 square miles. The total voto for President in 1884 was 10,048,501. In 1888it ^as 11,388,038. This year the ratio of increase will be greater on account of the addition of six new states, and the vote of th so added tc the normal growth in popula tion iu ten years will give a total of, probably, 14,0u0,003. When William Henry Harrison, the grandfather of Benjamin, ran for President in 1830, he received 41,281 votes in Indiana. His grandson received in the same State in 1888, 203,301. When Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, in 1800, he received 1,805,913 votes in tho tlii tytwo States which then constituted the Union. In tho Pi evidential election of 1888 the total vote of New York 8tatc was 1,320,109. Now York's "total this year will not bo very far from the entire vote cast for Mr. Lincoln in tho whole United States thirty-two years ago. ing on by n special racUerffpfr in each c.vo, and announced by Congress on the second Wednesday in February. InHouse of lleprcseutativcs canvasses the electoral vote for President and the United States Senate canvasses the clec toral vote for Vice-President. The Federal census of 1890 returned the adult white male population of the United States at 10,940,311. Deductiug the aliens, of whom theie aro more than a million, and the electors resident in the Territories, the total number of qualified clcctois was 15,538,313. Fully 10 pc cent, of these, for a variety of causes, do not vote. This would give as the prob able total of the vote cast for President 14,0 )0,000, the same result as is derived by comparison with previous elections The banner State for Cleveland in 1888 was Texas, which gave him 146,000 ma jority. llanison had, so to speak, two banner States?Kansas, which gave him 80,159, nud Pennsylvania, which gnv\ him 79,458 majority. This yiar there are four parties in Texas and three in Kansas, and Weaver is likely to poll a good vote in each. Pennsylvania, in which the fight is a straight one between the two parties and without complications from the outside, is likely to kc p at the head of the column for the Rcpub licans, while Mississippi, under the term* of the new Itcgistry law, will probahk give ihe largest majority for the Democracy. The two States in which the colored voters absolutely predominate in number are South Carolina and Mississippi. In South Carolina there arc 102,000 white voters and 132,000 colored voters. In MissUs'ppi there ore 120,000 white voters and 150,0 0 colored voters?a colored majority of 30,000 in each State. Louis iana 1ms more white than coloied voters, but it has, on the other hand, more c lorcd voters native born th?n white voters native born. These are ihe figures: Colored voters, 110,000; white voters (nAtivo born), ioOfOQi; foreign born white voters. 23,000. The latter hold the balance of power, numerically, a- d thin is the only Stato in the Uuion where this condition of things prevails. PitAm Tn/Hon TahwUAWW 4M x x v/iu xuuiau iviiiitui J 111 TTI^UIIB* Newton, N. ?About 12 o'clock Monday two covered wagons camo into Newto t containing nineteen persons. One could see at a glance that they were immigrants. They proved to be F. I. Stircwnldt and family and Peter Fox and Sylvanus Moore, his sons-in-law, and their faiuili s. They had come all the way from the Indian Territory in their wagons, and were on their way just eight weeks. They ! ft Alexander ' county last March to try to better their circumstances in the Southwest. They rented a large far >i on tho Arkansas river and planted 123 acres in corn. The floods overflowed their ciops; all of them took the chills and the outloo^ became so gloomy that tlicy'^naollcd up what effects they could haul aofl started on their long journey back to Mhrtb Carolina. At Judsonln, Arkansas, Mrs. Moore died of a congestive chill and was buried in tbn Hnulitl ? tli?? place. All of thorn aro very much cufecb'cd by chills, watch clung'ft* them throughout their jnucney, nnd of the children is row critically ill. A Greenville Juvenile Prise right.Grkbnvh.lk, p. C. ?Two twel e jeer old boyaof this city fought aeve> ounds in the loft of a tlaldo for three^ tollers a side. One was knocked oni" n the sevonth round by a blow on thte nose which brought blood. There ?i>n eoveral other fights in the fame pert)*, The boys had a ring and gloves. Frigilism is the sage here now. Industrial Development in the South. Tho new Southern industries mentioned in the Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore, in its issue Of September 23, indicate a marked inCrenSe in the estnbli hment of new enterprises in tin South. Some of tho moro important items arc summarized below: tho Columbia Barb Wire and Nail Co , in which Indinnnpolis parties ai? chiefly intcrsted, intends build log a lar^e plant at Kanawha City, W. Va. The Towles Manufacturing Co. has been incorporated in Baltimore with a capital of f15 000, for the purpose of manufacturing underwear, 'the Roanoke Mineral Wool Co. will double its plant at Roanoke, Va. Cobb & Erwin, of Athens fh 4? ' -aj < Win, and nave chartered #35,000 company for the purposo. Tfto 6tnndnrd Cotton Mills, of Rock Hill, S C., h <vo decided to increaso their capital by $30,0i 0. John Cudahy, of Chicago, is the chief mover in a conc?ru that wi I build a $500,000 abattoir and packing house at Nashville, Tcnn. The Galveston Fruit Co , has been chartered and will manufacture candies, canned goods, etc., at Galveston, Tex. J. F. Baxter, of Nash villc, isorganiz'ng a company to erect a $15,000 cement plaut at Chcttanooga. A $10,000 company at Knoxvillc, T?nn., will manufacture * patent house-door letter box. Capitalists of Meridian, Mi's., are to build a cotton compress in their city. The Oaiahn & South Texas Land Co., arranges for the erection of a $350,000 car works plant at -Houstou Heights, Tex. A $25,000 stock com ftany incorporated nt Pewee Valley, Ky., ntends manufacturing wines and hinndies. The Wells Branch Coal Co , of West Virginia, has bcon chnrtercd for mining purpose with a capital slock of $100,000. A company has been foimed to build a $10 ,000 ro'lcr mill nt Quitman, Ark. The Keystone Mills havo been chartered at Evans, Ark., to operate a RflW m*ll wiiK M #?)A AAA James McCoy, of llnrriman, Tenn h .s commenced the erection of a muck bar mill. A $10,000 electric company has becu chartered nt Darlington, 8. C. P. B. Farmer will invest $10,000 in'a saw nnd flouring mill at Binggold, Va. The Darlington (8. C ) Tobacco Co. has chartered for manufacturing purpose, with a capital stock of $100,000. Philad-1phians have decided to erect at Newport, Tenn , n tannery that will employ 200 men. Tho Soinmcrficld Brewery Co , with a capital stock of $200,000 has obtained a charter nt Baltimore, Md. Joint Latter of Acoeptanco of Weaver and Field. ?J>sV?i<uu a . Ki A ?onaralq Umai ,D_ Vice-Frcsiaont, haveissuciT their join! letter of acceptance of nominations which in addressed to the public. They say they have visited fifteen States in the Northwest and South on their political tou s and hive not said that ''the people a e ia poverty, their substances aic being devoured by mo nopolics, trusts, pools and uionej sharks " A strong plea is mada *9r a free ballot and a fair count, and recent election methods in Alabama are complained of. they claim that Captain Kolb was dieted Governor of Alabama by 40,000 majority but couutcd out. They also assert that the People's party was cheated in tin Arkansas election. lnc cuuuiustcs any in conclus-on: "After an experiment of many years it is apparent that neither the ltcpublicau patty nor the Democratic party ton or will accomplish the much des red re form to-wit, the restoration of the ballot on a fair and honest basis in the States of the Uuiou The People's party alone can secure the desired end. If the people of the whole country who desire honest elections and the repeal of class laws will rally to the support of the great industrial movement and place the party in power under whose banner tho white people of the South arc now ranrshaling themselves, this vexed question will be settled forever. It is certain that the people of the South will not join the ranks of tho Republican party. It iscqunily certain that the Republicans will not unite with the Democratic party Tho People s party afYov's the only so lutiou of these Important matters." An Old Confederate Flag Returned. 8nm.?Y, N. C.?Amidst a t\.<oult of applause frpm at least a thousand spectators the silken bnuner belonging to the Cleveland Guards was returned to i*s o'igiiial owners by a committee of five, rep csenting the city of Boston, to whom it had been given y the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry, wbo captured it at Hanover Courthouse, Va., May 29, 1802. The flag was presented to the Cleveland Guards, the first company that CDlisted from Cleveland county, by the ladies of Shelby, and was carried by that organization about a year before it was ciptuied. After the war it wan given to the city of Boston by ihe company which ca, turcd it, aud was kept until recently, whin, by the resolution of the board of aldermen and common council, was ordered to bo r.-turned to its original owners, and ihe mayor was authorized to appoiot a delegation to deliver the flag. The delegation consisted of Alderman John II. Sullivan, who n presented the miyor; Alderman "Thomas F. Keenan, president of the common council; David F. Barry, Assistant Clerk John T. Priest Kud Mr. Goorgo H. McLe >d. They were met at Charlotte by the committee, and on their arrival here were escorted by a military company to tho Shelby Hotel, where a banqact was served at night. The presentation exercises wore hold ii the courthouse, which was beautifully decorated with bunting and flowers Mo Only Io .Left. Montoombrt, At,* ?Since the death of Governor Watts, there is but one sur vtving memotr 01 nr. imvi.s caoinet, Hon. John H. Reagan, of Texas, who was Postmaster General of the Confederate States. He is still hale and hearty. After serving in the United States House of Representatives and the Seuate, ho ii now one of the railroad commissioner of Texas. If the time had allowed hlnr to reach Montgomery, he would nc d.>uhl he here t > attend the funeral ol his beloved friend and colleague. ALLIANCE COLUMN. Information and Reading CiH * and Gleaned. j The News Pertaining: to tH "?"?? * Widespreid Old- in a the Land. ] Join the Farmer's Alliance and Indus- 1 trial Union. It is the laborer's hope, the i poor man's friend, the great educator, < the foremost missionary for good. It ] will givo you principles worth supporting, and teach you the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. ****** The Farmers AI iance arc fighting three Congressional districts in western New York and pushing forward a vigorous Eastern campaign in all the East- | ern States. Something is bound to drop soon in the very strongholds of pluto cracy. Wait and watch. ' *> + * + I MOllTO AGE KIGUREH. "Foreclosures since 1(360 have lucn i follows: % 1860 ? $ 15.000,000 1870 - $28,009 000. 1889 -|51.000,0 "'0. 1899?$63.000,00 0. If this is prosperity, make the most ofi t PRESIDENT LOUCKS IN OKOIIGIA. President II. L. Loucks, of the F.u n ei's Alliance aud Iudust-ia) Uni n, wl. has been for some weeks campaigning i Tennessee, writes ihc na ional organ: "I have had good meetings hore. Urn. McDowell is making a great campaign, and one tint will surprise the 'mnchin< ou November 8. If all the State is cq u< in enthusiasm to the counties wheie I have been, we will carry the State." lie lectured in Qcorgi.t as follows: Homervillc, Clinch coun v, Sept tun l>< 10; Bniubridgc, Decatur county, S< | lembcr20; Albany, Dough rty con I; September 21; Amcricus, Sum tcounty, September 22; Fort Valley, Houston county, September 23. Bruudidge Primary Alliance: By re* olution flic members of the Brundidg Primary Alliance detcrmi r.cd to hoi. their cotton and keep it oil the mat k?until October 1, and longer if posaib'e ] unless iu the meantime the price should ndvnocc sufficiently to justify them in selling, and ask all planters to co oper 1 ate with them. Accordingly the secretary was instructed to rerjucst all reform papers throughout the cotton Stater to 1 oncers Tot r80Z-W.: President?D. G. Parker, Barkada, Drew county. j Vice President?W. F. Dowel!, Fay , etteville, Washington county. ? Secretary?L II. Moore, Alst n, Fianklin county. , Treasurer? Dr. G. Kid well, Chisnr j ville, Logan county. , Lecturer?Homer Friucc, Searcy, ( Wh'le county. j + #** ? s The Virginia State Alliance, at Rich- ' mond, passed resolutions of coudo'cnce f upon the death of the late Col. L. L. 1 Polk. Also the Floyd County Uuion. J Georgia. Also the annual Alliance 1 meeting of tho Territorial Lolge, in council convened August 9, 1862, at Chccotah, Indian Territory. They have bceu forwarded to tho widow of deceased. + * ? labor's rnoTEST. by l k. taylor, editor "the toiler," STATE OKGAN F. A. AND I. U., TBNN. From all over the country comes the ringing protest of free labor against the imposiiious of orgauized capital. Each week we are called upon to chronicle the facts concerning a clash between organized capital on the one band and organ ized libor on the other. The relations between these necessary fact r> in Ameri can development arc being strained to the utmost. This is no go id oinea to aggregated wraith. Down in Tennessee the past few* weeks have witnessed a most sciious conflict. The State has a system by which the convicts are leased to a private mining compmy. This company has practical control of the vast coal fields of cast Tennessee, a* d with the convic's i s a "club over the head of free labor," it has intim dated tin free miners unt 1 they were driven to the desperation of an open revolt against law and order. Governor Buchanan had but one duty to perform? to quell the insurrection; this he did promptly, though it cost the lives of many men. The feeling in Tennessee is running high. Because the People's party has assumed a hold stand for 'ice labor the Democracy of Tennessee has rushed in a deal of complniut again -t Governor Buchanan for what ia called "sympathy for I he miners." This protest is not within the bounds of modification. It is tho most vindictive denunciation of modern dcmagogucry; its result will be to widen the breach between labor and capital, and to hurry on the time when our country will at nd npEailed at the impressible conflict wi bin er borders. It is not our purpose to encourage strife. God knows it is coming of its Ann nrrnrrl nrs r^itirllu I* ?iSU -? ?? ? j. -I... mither from our purp se to uphold ntonJ opolistic greed and avarice. The patriot of to day should labor to bring about a serious, sober though in the minds of American voters. Shall we be content with present coudi ions politicallyY Then we may expect protects, outbrv ks, riots, bloodshed and war. It is the piesent conditions which fathered the strife between labor and cnptial. and under the present condition it will grow mo c bitter. Capital will grow more strong and labor more weak. Let us counsel serious thought. The concentration of vcnlth is a standing menace to our free institutions. Will the Americon voter longer trifle with his country's welfare? Will ignorance fo ever cloac his eyes nnd i prejudice seal his lips? Must we fa<c ? a terrible conflict or shall American sovs erei nssit in judgmeut on flic qucsi lion? It is folly to hope that either old party will ^consider a change of affair*, t To avert civil strife the People's | art > J must be allowed to adjust the diffeien es. Prodigious Memory lu a Child. Aq infant phenomenon has beau disoyared at Plaisance, a suburb of Paris, n the person of a little girl called Jeanne Sugenie Moreau, aged only live, but tndowed with a most extraordinary nemory. She is a walking encyclopedia 011 ill matters appertaining to the history of France, and especially of the great Herotation; is au adopt also in natural listory, and at the same time answers without hesitation or error practical questions about cooking, gardening, and household management. The youthful prodigy was boru in Paris in January, 1887, her t father, PtrtWpc Moreau, being an humble laboiVa?a^ rlaonan/lo/] fvmn a rntrnl 111 J/-vn-i r<ir hero whose namo figures iu the aunals of 1789, and who was decorated by Geu. Lafayette after tho taking of the bastilc. Owing to the poverty of her progenitor, Eugenie Moreau was adopted by a widow ?Madam Calley?who, noticing the retentive faculties of the child, cultivated aud developed them with assiduity until the phenomenon has become capable ol passing a stiff competitive examination and of putting to shame raAny a schoolboy and school-girl of maturer years aud more expensive education. Tho fate of Eugenie Morcau will no doubt be that reserved for all intellectual prodigies of tender years. She will be exhibited to scientific men and reported upon, sho* will probably receive an offer from an enterprising showman, and in all likelihood Eugenic, should she survive academical testings and publia examinations, will eventually settle down to the life of a schoolmistress?a calling for whioh her marvelous memory will pre-eminently fit her.?London Telegraph. She Shot Him. Marion. S. C.?Woodiuff, a young nan formerly of Rocky Mount, N. C , or two or tlncc ycais a lesident of da lion county, was shot in the head by diss Ella Smith, a woman of ill repute, lore Wednesday night and died in the noruing. Woodruff, it seems, charged diss Smith with circulating some danii trine report about his wife, who was u niece of hers. and demanded a statement which Miss Smith refused to give, whereupon they grappled and fell to the floor. Two persons present caught Woodruff, when Miss Smith, being partially released, drew a pistol and shot Woodruff in the back of the head as he was rising from the floor. lie never moved or rpoke after falling. Deceased leaves a wife and child. acterr' Portland, Obk.?One of the most mportant things done by tho Sovereign ii ind Lodge of Odd Fellows was the idoption, by a vote of 120 to 25, of a csolution declaring it expedient to renovcthc headquarters from Columbus to llnltimore. Another matter entitled to ncntion was the indefinite postponement >f consideration of a resolution declaring t to be the sense of the lodge that a peron otherwise qualified who is engaged n the sale of intoxicating liquors is not >f such "good moral character" as concuiplatcd by section 2, article 1(5, of the Legislature, and therefore not eligible to membership of a subordinate lodge. A Fatal Accident in Wilkes. Winston. N. C.?Particulars of a sad and fatal'accident in Wilkis county reaeh.,1 I.. ITni.tn tstu-ncl.ill l'n.1,1 ioc i;u UllU. 1" V. "IWU ?'" " river, the scveu-ycar-old son of John Alilams shot and killed his little sister two years of age The children were alone at the time; hcuce it is not delin itely known how the accident oocuried. There was u small shotguu lyiug on the bed. The father was away from home, while the mother and another child were out in the garden pickiug beans. The in ther heird the report of the gnu ar.d ran immediately into the house. The child was dead, the entire load having struck under the jaw and ranged upwards. The mother is almost frantic. The Cotton Crop---A Lower Condition than i n Any September Since 1883. Washington, 1). C.?The statistician's report submitted to the Department of Agricultutc indicates a lower condition of the cotton crop than in any September since 1883. The average is 7<? 8, against 82.7 last year and 85.5 in 18'JO. The decline since August 1 exceeds 5 points The State averages are: Virginia 75. xiunu utiruuuH 10, oouia c^uioiina i I, Georgia 7ft, Florida 66. Alabama 8*2, Mississippi 82, Louisiana 76, Texas 81, Arkausas 76, Tennessee, 7ft. A Political Deal in Wiseonsin. Douglas, Wis.?Among the condition of the People's party fusion proposition adopted by their convention is this: The State Democratic- uoinine s for presidential electors are to be withdrawn and Weaver electors elected by the Populists. In consideration of this conees?io i the Populists endorse the Democratic St>tc nominees for Governor, members of Congress aud Supreme judge. | A Slanderous Preacher Cowhided. Nrw Oiit.kans. La. ? Dr. A. E Bridgcr, p stor of the Congregational church at Jennings, w as cowbided Sunday by D. E. M. Burke, who acted for the male po't'on of ihe congregation for uttering sweeping condemnations of tho characters of the women of tho town gercrally. Dr. Bridger did not flinch under the | unishmcnt. Pledged to Cleveland. Cet.ir.uniA, 8. C.?The State Democ.atic convention met herewith 816 del gntes, 204 being Tillman's majority, struightouts numbering 261. Cleveland i residential delegates were bosen, and harmony reigned. The Baby's Bedfellow. Pi ivnii-v.il 8 f!?A rattlesnake with niutt rattles ami n button was found one moaning r cently in the cradle with Wi liant Gedding's child. It is stated as a curious fact that sr.' cide is more prevalent in warm than j cool weather. Extreme heat breeds bo. , j melancholy and desperation.