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VOL. VII. MANN~IN G, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMNBER1,19.N.1 THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE. THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE ORDER ALLOVER THE COUNTRY. Partial Proceedings of the Body-Dr. Mc Cune In Hot Water-The Force Bill Con demned.A Most Harmonious and Pleas ant Session. OCALA, FLA.. Dec. 2.-The National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union met in the Opera House at noon to-day. Nearly every delegate has ar rived and the house is crowded with Alliance men and women. Immediate ly after the house was called to order President Polk delivered his annual address. The address will be found in another column. Of course notbing of importance was done to-day except securing organization. In the way of explanation of the rapid growth'of the Alliance, %%hich the officials say is still cxt ending in all directions, an official organ ,f the Order in high standing says : "We have now three million members, and they are men who represent almost every variety of political opinion. It would be worse thin folly to try to enlist these men in the support of either of the exist ing pai ties or of a new p arty. Our methods of developing the Order so far have been solely educational, and to be successful they must continue so to be. Therein iies the secret of the growth and power of the Alliance. It has been distinctly a business organization so far, and it is in politics only in so far as the business interests of the members make it necessary. If the Alliance leaders should be so fool ish as to attempt to create such a party they would fail Ignominiously and the whole Order would suffer disintegration as the penalty for the folly. Our whole ex perience thus far has proved the truth of what I say. In South Carolina and Kan sas, for instance, the situation made a third party necessary and it was spon taneously forthcoming. In Georgia, where we are equally strong, a man who ads o cated the formation of a third party would be hooted out of the State. We must stick to this policy of education and political neutrality, or we shall lose all we have gained." All the memmbers do not talk in like vein. Some are in for vigorous and persistent political work. They say that it Is folly to say that they can ac complish the ends and purposes of their Order unless they make a strong fight for the law-making machinery of the country. This is the view taken by President Polk, who, in a recent interview, said: "If the Democratic party is wise it may reap substantial benefits from this election; but if it remains content with present suc cess, without applying it for the benefit of the people, the ne-t election will doubtless reveal astill greater surprise than the one just passed. Noz will it be safe to consider these gains as a triumph for the doctrine of free trade, or an attempt to involve the country in another tariff war, as was done two years ago. The people will not sub mit to it, and will certainly emphasize their disapproval in a manner that will be both seen and felt. This election may be considered as a protest against New Eng land dictation; against the deception and trickery of the silverbill and the sectional hatred contained in the force bill, both of which can be clearly traced to New Eng land domination." Nearly all the delegates are loud in expressing their opinion that the result of the recent elections was not an en dorsement of the Democratic platform, but that it was a triumph for the Alli N... ance. They say that this change of front can be attributed more to Repub licafn arrogance and assumption, and the better education of the people, than to any other cause, and should be con sidered more in the light of a rebuke to that party than a victory for Demo cracy. The defeat of the party in power is as crushing as it was unexpected by them, and should carry with it a lesson long to be remnembered. It is a revolt of labor in production against prosent conditions, and a trumpet call b r a change in the economic policy of the nation. The claim is freely made here that the Alliance is solvmng the race prob lem, and that, too, at a more rapid rate than anly philanithrol.ist or negro philists ever dreamed possible. They say that the members of the Co.loreiJ Alliance, which has nearly a milhon members in the South, and is in close sympathy and co-operation with them, voted almost unanimously for the Allh ance canaidates where there were such in the recent election. It is asserted that the secret of the small number of votes ::ast by negroes in South Carolina at the recent election is that the Alli ance gave possitive orders to its mem bers to keep away from the polls. The National Alliance opened its first session to-night, and from now on all sessions will be secret, only mem bers of the Order bigallowed in the hail. Report ofs e e st. hows eighty-eight actual delegates p a~t from the following States, each State having a full accredited delegation in attendance: Alabama 5. Arkansas 5. Colorado 1, Floridas 3, Georgia 7,1illinois 2, Indiana 2, Indian Territory 2, Kansas 8. Ken tucky 5, Louisiana- 4, Maryland 2. Michigan 13, Mississippi 4, Missouri 6, North Carolina 5, South Dakota 2, .Pennsylvania2,South Carolina 4, North Dakota 2, Tennessee 4, Texas 4, Virgi nia 4, West Virginia 2. Other states anid Terrntories having organizations and entitled to delegates are California, New Mexico and Oklahoma, but as yet no delegates have arrived from those States. In addition to the delegates there are tr.n or twelve persons entitled to vote. which brings the st~:al numerical strength of the~ lody up ta one hun dred. Besides these one hundred the local committee on entertainme.nts re port one hundred and sixty-five visit ing Alliance men from outside of the State, and all of these can attend the deliberations ot the council. ~-Among the delegates -:re five women.. At the conclusion of President Polk's address the Alliance resolved itself in to a sort of "love feast," during which C. A. Power, an old Union soldier from Indiana. moved that all Ex-Union sol diers in'the hall who endorsed the sen timents expressed in the speech c President Folk, of South Dakota, witi reference to the burial of sectional ism, rise up and be counted. The mfo tion prevailed, and between forty and fifty stood up amid the wil test en thnsiasm. Under the inspiration of this good feeling an Ex-Union soldier from Wisconsin stood up in his seat and called upon all Union soldiers preent to give three cheers for the old Confederates in the Alliance. They were given with a will.. Then it was the Confederates' turn, and they cheer ed the old soldiers of the Union with a volume and heartiness that left ac doubt as to the genuineness of theii feeling. The cheers ended with a wild old-fashioned "Rebel yell," and as its echoes died away one aged veteratn o1 the Confederacy shouted in a voice that rang out clearly through the hall "That's the genuine article. i've hearc It before." The Allince then adjourn ed for the day. SECOND DAYs PRlOCEEDINGs. OcALA, December 3.-Several sensa tional features are being developed it the Alliance council. T1he lobbies are full of rumors, but it is difficult to gel delegates to talk. Livingston is at tel .'nkand Mane with a sharp stick and threatens to bring charges against them. Livingston talks freely and ac cuses Polk and Macune of starting the report that he was in the pay of Jay Gould and wanted to betray the Alli ance. The report was published sev eral days ago and it has been traced to Col. Polk's oflice. Col. Polk refuses to talk. The Alliance is with Polk, and Livingston is trying to run Clover, of Kansas, against Polk for president, but his efforts meet with but poor en couragement. A resolution was introduced to-day denouncing the force bill, and it went through with a rush. the members from the Northwest giving it cordial sup port. The members are enthusiastic save a few old line Republicans. The anti-force bill resolutions were intro duced by Delegate W. S.. McAllister, of Mississippi, and are as follows: Whereas, the President of the United States in his annual message to Congress recommends and urges the immediate pas sage of the measure known as the Lodge election bill; and whereas, said bill in volves a radical revolution in the election machinery of the Union, both State and na tional, and its passage will be fatal to the autonomy of the States and the cherished liberties of the citizen; and whereas, said bill is partisan in spirit and will be parti san in its application, thus revitalizing the gory ghost of sectional estrangement; and whereas, in the holy war which we have declared against sectionalism the firesides of the farmers of the Nortb, East, South and West are the citadels around which the heaviest battles are being fought, and to the end that victory may crown our crusade !et fraternity and unity reign: Therefore be it Resolved, by the National Farmers' Al liance and Industrial Union of America, in national council assembled, That we do most solemnly protest against the passage of the said Lodge election bill, and we earn estly petition our Senators to employ all fair and legal means to defeat this unpa triotic measure, which can result in nothin2 but evil to our comir on and beloved coun try. Resolved, further, That a copy of these preambles and resolutions be forwarded to each Senator in Congress Mr. McAllister took the floor in sup port of the resolutions, and at the end of a strong speech moved their adop tion. As he sat down there was a still ness and hush in the Convention which foreboded a storm, and everybody expected it to burst from the Western or Northwest delegations, but no st.orm came. After a few moments of suspensa Delegate Deming, of Pennsylvania, arose and said that he regarded the in troduction of the resolutions as un timely; that there was largely preva lent at the North a feeling that the Farmers' Alliance was a Southern or ganization, its members being satura ted with Southern sentiments, and that the passage of these resolutions would strengthen this opinion, and check the growth of the Alliance North and East. His language was very tem perate and conciliatory, and a ripple of applause greeted the close of his speech. President McGrath, of the Kansas State Alliance and a delegate from Illi nois expressed practically the senti ments as Mr. Deming. of Pennsylvania. The question then recurred on Mr. McAlister's motion to adopt the reso lutioLs and it was carried unanimous), amid the wildest enthusiasm. The sensation of the morning session was when President Livingston, of the Georgia Alliance, arose to a question of privHege, and said that in conse quence of certain rumors and reports growing out of "special letters publish ed in certain newspapers" before the assembling of this Convention, insinua tions had teen made that corrupt and improper methods had been employed in the recent Senatoriai contest in Geor gia. These ir sinuations had been aimed at Macune and himself, and Pres ident Polk's name had been connected with them also. He made a speech an hour long, in which he denounced these rumors and insinuntions as infamously false, and he demanded the appoint ment of a fair and impartial commit tee to thoroughly investigate the mat ter. Assertions, he said, had been made in these specials that the National Economist and some other State Alli ance organs had been or are being con ducted by WVall street capital, which assertonsLivingson also denied most emphatically. President Polk then took the floor and, addressing himself to the same subject, said that, as far as he was con cerned personally, he cared little for slanders of that kind, but there were certain reasons why the National Alli ance should make thorough investiga tion of the subject, -and he therefore urged the appointment of a committee for this purpose. He was followed by Dr. C. W. Ma cune, of the National Economist, who joined Livingstone and Polk in their demands for sifting this slander to the ttmin the interest of the future hr o v liance. Hie charac terized the rumorsi Kdlnsinuations as false in every particular. A delegate, who was supposed to be friendly to the three men connected with the charges, then moved that a committee of investigation, to con sist of seven members, be appointed, but a loud mure?ur of dissatisfaction from the body of delegates showed plainly tl'at t'his wvas disapproved as being too small. It was finally decided that a coimmnittee of investigation should be appointed, and that it should con'sist of one member from each State delegation in the Convention, to be selected by the delegation itself. All the speakers demanded that the investigation should be thorough and searching, and that it shall make no atternipt to suppress facts or to present a "w~hitewvashed report." I Bfore the discussion had ended an e pportunity wvas had for presenting a zormal charge covering the insinua tions contained in -the newspaper ar tile referred to, but no delegate took advantage of it. It is said, however, that this action asked for by Living stonie, Polk and Macune will not pre vent the tiling of charges against Ma Trhis investigating committee will consist o1 twenty-seven or twenty eight niembers, and as soon as the del egations select their men it will hold a meeting, probably within a very few hours. An effort is being nmade to have the investigation conducted in rublic ses sions or the committee. D~elegate Hind, of Florida, offered a resolution denouncing the recent raise in freight rates on Florida oranges to Eastern points, both by railroad and by steamship lines. The resolution al leges that this advance will take $150, O00 from the pockets of Floridaorange growers, and that it is a fresh evidence of the greed and selfishness of capital ists and corporations. It closes with an appeal for the reiteration of the National Alliance demand, "that means of communication and trans portation shall be owned by, and oper ated in the interest of the people, as is the United States postal system." TRD DAY's PRIOCEEDINGs. OCALA Fl.,Dec. 4.-The National Allincemetat 10:30 this morning. The. early part of the session was de voted chielly to discussion of inside topies, and at 11:30 A. Gallagher, a fra tenal delegate from the Workingmen's Reformi League of New York City, and W.A.A Carsey of New York, from were invited to address the conven tion. Each spoke for half an hour or more, their remarks being principally directed in favor of a closer bond be tween all national organizations of the same character, but against consolida tions. Both advised the National Al liance to stand by its St. Louis plat form and to take the lead in any national political movement which might grow out of it, and said that other organizations would follow. J. H. Rice and John Davis of Kansas, in connection with one or two others in sympathy with recent political movements in that State, among them delegate Vincent, are at work upon a call for a national convention to form a new party, the date being fixed as February 12, 1891, and the place Cin cinnati. The call will invite delegates from the National Farmers' Alliance an d all other national organizations in sym pathy with it or which endorse the St. Louis platform. as well as the edlitors of the "reform press" throughout the country, to take part in the convention. The new party to be formed would1 doubtless work on the same lines as the People's Party in Kansas; that is. renounce all affiliation with other po litical parties ani place a national ticket of its own in the field. This call, when completed. will probably t presented to the National Alliance for its endorsement, although some of the men in the movement are not cot vinced that this course will be wise or politic. Jno. J. Holland ot Jacksonville, Fla.. is here. When-Powderly arrives this will make four members of the Na tional Executive Board of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Labor pres ent in the city, being all of that com mittee except one (Devlin of Michigan.) and this fact is thought to be fraught with a deep significance, apropos of the third party movement. There is said to be strong feeling - among the National Alliance men here in favor of a general consolidation of all similar national bodies. It is al leged that they- have offered in event of such consolidation to move all na tional political nominations to organ izations outside of their own. There is, however, a conservative element which may hold the more radical meni bers in check. FOURTH DAY S PROCEEDINGS. OcALA, Fla., Dec. 5.-Clover, one of the Kansas delegates, introduced and had passed at yesterday's National Alli ance meeting a resolution reciting that the United States census returns with ospect to farm mortgages was grossly incorrect and calling upon all the coun ty and sub-alliances in all the States of the Union to take immediate steps to ward securing accurate statistics from the County records and make prompt reports thereon. T. R. Carksadeon of West Virginia offered the follawing resolution: That we, the National Farmers' Alliance of America, believing that obedience to and veneration for the laws of God is a conserving and saving force of the hu man government, we do hereby respect fully request that the directors of the great national fair of 1892 do not dese crate the American Sabbath by keeping pan the gates of the same on the Lord's day. The resolution provoked no serious opposition and was passed unanimous ly. National Secretary Turner submitted his annual report last night, but it is in complete, owingto the constant payment of sub-alliance dues during this session. During the past year 1,069 new charters were issued to sub-alliances, as follows: West Virginia 252, Colorado 152, Indi ana 132, Michigan 106, Virginia 95, Illi nois 87, South Carolina 83, Ohio 61, Penn sylvania 59, New Jersey 20, Minne.-ota 5, owa 5, Oregon 1, Oklahoma 1. State harters have been issued to the follow ing States: Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, Michian, West Virginia, Oklahoma and orth Dokota. The feeling over the passage of the ati-election bill resolution of Wednes ay was high and there is a strong pres sure being made for the introduction of a resolution to expunge it from the re ords of the Alliance. At the afternoon session of the Na tional Alliance Chairmain McDowell presented the report of the committee appointed to investigate the charges and insinuations affecting the official con :uct of Messrs. Polk. Livingston and Macune. The committee finds:. "First. That we have been unable to ascertain a single fact implicating in any shape or form the high character and standing and personal and otlicial reputation of our worthy president. L. L. Polk, but we regret the writting of the Norwood letter. "Second. As to Brother Livingston, president of the Georgia State Alliance, we do not find anything derogatory of his personal or official high standing, but your committee is not quite prepar ed to endorse his course in the Georgia Senatorial contest. "Third; -That in the case of Dr. C. W. Macune nothing has~ been fcad to a sen our confidence in his personal integ rity and loyalty to the Order; however we regret his official connection with the Georgia Senatorial contest." The report is signed by Chairman Mc Dowell, Thomas Hlindi, of Florida. and twenty-three others. The report does not give entire satisfaction, although adopted without debate. FIFTH DAYS PRoCEEDIN~GS. Tuesday morning next the Allbance visitors will start on a tour of the State. under the guidence of Hon. H1. A. Mann of Florida. After a short time devoted to rou tine business at the evening session yes terday. President McGrath, of the Kas sas Alhiance, moved that the mual t election of officers be p~roceeded with and placed the name of L. L. 1%olk i nomination for president. The whole body of deleatecs scean~ded the nomination, andl Polk was unam mously re-elected by acclamuation. President Page. of the Virginia Alliance nominated B. F. Clover. of Kansas, for vice-president and his re-election was also unanimous. J. P. Oliver. of Ala bama, nominated J. II. Turner, of Geor~ gia for Secretary. and his election was unanimous. For national lecturer two nominations were made: J1. S. Wllets. of Kansas, and Benjamin Terrell, of Texas. Willets was elected by a vote of 40 against 34. Terrell is the mcumbent. Tillman was elected on the committee on legislation for a term of three years, and Delegate Cole, of Mich igan, was elected a member of the judi ciary committee. The *2ew commnttee on Iraternal relations is composedl ot Talbert, ot South Carolina, Loucks of South Dakota, Livingston of Georgia. Rogers of Florida and Terrell of Tex English Capitai Comning south. CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 6.-I ewis 11. Kimball, formerly of Atlanta. but now engaged in developing East Tennessee interests, cabled that he has sold to En glish capitalists for :?1000.000 nearly 5,000.000 acres, a three-fourths in terestI in the property of the Kimbaltown comn pany located in the famous Sequatchic Valley about 55 miles from hee This is perhaps the biggest real estate dleal ever negotiated in Southern lands. The npnrprt is rirch in minarna and timber. A DiSASTROUS FIRE IN PI I TSBURG. Four Persons Perish---A Husband's Devo tion to His Wife. PITrrsURG, Pa., Dec. 4.-Between 1:2:30 and 1 o'clock this morning a fire broke out from some unknown cause in the flat owned by Dr. John Dicksonon the corner of Ninth street and Pennsyl vania avenue. It was nearly three o'clock this morning before the firemen succeeded in subdu~ng the fire. It was several hours more before they gave up the search for bodies. It is pretty cer tain that lr. and Mrs. Irwn, the jani tor and his wife. were the only victims. When the fire broke out there were lor ty sleeping in the flat, but they were mostly men and all have been accounted fhr. It was a horrible imuht for a fire. When the firemen arrived the smoke was isiuiit fron all thc windows. while tongues ofl tanes shot occasionally from the crevices on the roof. Half dressed forms of men shouting for help were seeu at all the windows, but the siit that filled the spectators with horror was a woman and two habes at a third story window. It was 'Mrs. 'Moore. the wife of the steward at the I(otei Anderson. In stantly ladders were run up an( she was am1ong the first rescued. The top Iloor was o cupied by sixteen persons, Mr. and M1rs. Irwin. and fourteen men em plove<: hy the llotel Anderson. At first Irwin ran down through the halls to alai the occurants of the rooms. lie went as far as the second floor anud iwn rushed back to assist his wife. When he returned to his room she was not tliere. Filled with anxiety for her welfair!. lie began a search of the build in-. He dashed to his room on the fourth floor, and n -t finding her started for Wne third. It was there he died. Overcome by the smoke lie sank exhaus ted near the rear wall of the floor, and at the other end of the hall his wife, for whom lie (lied, had perished. She had started down the stairs but was suffoca ted before reaching the third floor. Her body was found on the third landing :lead. Her body was covered with plas ter and in the darkness had been tramp led over by the tiremen lona before dis covered. The building was a four story brick. The tire is supposed to have started in the basement from the heating boiler. There was no watchman and the flames had spread to the fourth story before they were discovered. The loss is $40 00I. fully covered by insurance. There were no fire escaes on the building. The Alliance and Politico. OCALA, FLA. December 7.-The oinion is gaining ground here that the ational leadcrs of the Democratic par t. have many lobbyists here in their in terest and that the po:icy of the Alliance in many respects will be influenced by hiem, notably in the case ofthe sub-treas ury bill. That measure is now under consideration by the National Alliance and has been for several days past. It is predicted that when it finally comes from the committee it will have been modified and changed in many important particulars with a view to making it ac ord with the Democratic doctrine to such extent that it will be endorsed by the National Democratic Convention in 1s92, or perhaps be passed by Congress prior to that event. Wich some slight changes and modili cations the Alliance Ocala platform, it s predicted. could secure absolute adop ionl by the National Democratic Con entlon, and this, with the endorsement f a modilied sub-treasury bill, would lace the Democratic party sqtiarely up n the Farmers' Alliance platform. In his way it would gain the support of the uttire Alliance and Democratic votes hroughout the country. The third party nmovement, it is whis pered iin some~ (quarters, is a slow trick f' the Natonal Democracy to destroy the Republican vote in the West and Northwest andl also the lRepublican vote in the South,. thus e-nalinag the National Democratic ticket to secure success in ealy ali the dloubtfuil States in 1892. A strong elfort will be made to allow all reprcsentatives of the press5 to be present durinig the debates to-morrow on the report of~ the coimmittee on the sub-treneury bill, as its result will be by far the most important ac' ion of the Al iance on any public measure which has my bearing on national poilities. Farmetrs laving a Hard . ime. GREENviLb LE, S. C., D~ec. 5.-WithI the factories out of the cotton market and the banks no longer making advances n cotton, the farmers are indeed hav ng a hard time. All the banks in this ity. four in number, le decided to make no more advances on un~Q~ttil the money market is relieved stringency. This will be severe on many farmers, as a large number of them have been depositing their cotton in ware hotses and receiving advances from the banks, intending to hold until the cot ton market becomes better. A News reporter yesterday inquired of one of the bank presidents why the banks had shut down on advances. IHe saidl the action was caused by the scar ity of money. The banks were forced to 1hold their cash to pay off checks and to meet other demands. The deposits in the banks, he said, are smaller than usual because there is less cash trading wih tile merchants, and the business mein are riot making their accustomed deposits. The farmers have been hold ing their cotton and this has caused a decrease in the amount of money in circulation. The Pelzer manufacturing company has gone out of the market until the bill pending in the Legislature is acted up)on. Bl A rp's Philosophy. I reckon we will all stand aside and let the farmers have their own way. Fithting them don't seem 'to do any good. It is like Colonel Patterson. of North Alabamau, w ho, at his first bat rle with the ainikees w~as ordered to take his reginent andl charge a battery hat was atway overT on a hill and was hrowing an occasional shell down in he valley. "Boys,"~ said he. "you mutst shoot a chargin;,' and1 we'll get em.' Aiid theuy did, btut when they got with in about a qtiarter of at mile the bat tery suddenly turned loose a territic volley of grape shot and canister upon themi which deumoralized the colonel and he waved his swor-d and shouted: "Boys quit shiootin, at 'em-quit shootin I say. for it just mai'kes 'em madder." Wvhat W1iscouliu Girangers Want. .\LDrsoN, Wis., Dee. 11.-The com mittee on resohltions of the State Grange reported the following: Fa voriuig an a gricuiltural college, separ ate from the Statte University; the Conger lard illf; railroad, express and telegraph companies to be controlled b 1 Lnited States government; thu estishing" .af a btinding twine plant 1intb State penitentiary to supply ii rmers of the State in1 twine, so as noi to be opp'ressedl by trust s; that the gov' rnmenit issue its money (direct to the people instead ot national banks I tnst aingnein future WhlAT I EY " ANT. THE FINANCIAL POLICY OF THE OR DER DISCUSSED AND ADOPTED. Abolition of National Banks--Sub-Treas urles in the Several States-Agains Futures and Allen Land Owners-te peal of the Tariff. OCOLA. FLA., Dec. 8.-Early in th forenoon session ot the Alliance the lin ancial policy of the order canie up fo discussion under the report of the com mittee on legislation. This repcrt as t< the financial policy contained the follow ing amended demands: First. We demand the abolition of na tional banks. We demand the govern ment shall establish sub-treasurics o: depositories in the several States. whicl shall loan money diiect to the people a a low rate of interest, not to exceed : per cent. per annum, on non-perishablh farm products. and also upon real estate with proper limitations upon the quant ty of land and the amouist of money We demand that the amount of the cir culating medium be speedily increaset to not less than $50 per capita. Second. We demand that Conares, shall pass such law as shall etrectuall prevent dealmng in futures on all aari cultural and mechanical products. ant preserving a stringent system of proced ure n trials such as shall secure prampl conviction and the imposition ot suel: penalties as shiall secure the most per feet Compliance with the law. Third. We condemn the silver bill re cently passed by Congress. and demand in lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Fourth. We demand the passage oJ laws prohibiting alien ownership ol land. and that Congress take prompt ac tion to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by aliens and foreign s3 ndicates. and that al! lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them he reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. Fifth. i3elievin-g in the doctrine o. equal rights to all, special privileges to none, we demand that our antional legislation shall be so framed in the fu ture as not to bulid up one industry at the expense of another. We furthei demand the removal of the existing heavey tariff tax trom the necessaries o life that the poor of our land must have. We further demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes. We believe that the money of the coun try should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people and hence we demand that all national and State rev enues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government. econimi cally and honestly administered. Sixth. We demand the most rigid, honest and just State and national gov ernmental control and supervision of means of public communication and transporation. and it this control and supervision does not remove the abuses now existing. we demand the govern meut ownership of such means of com munication and transportation. A spirited debate followed the intro duction of this report, at the beginning of which President Polk reminded the members of the restriction of five min utes placed upon all speechmaking by a resolution previously adopted. Charleston Dudes In Trouble. CHARLESTON, S. C.. Dec. 3. There's a row In police circles caused by an incident behind the scenes at the opera last night. It seems that two o the Jeuness Dore of the city, the upper crust of the upper swelldom, managed to get behind the scenes while the chorus girls were on. The stage capen ter, Win. Nester, ordered themn out and upon there refusing to go knocked one of' them (lmvn when the other came to the rescue and a light ensued. The police came up and although Nester explained that he was obey ing orders in ejecting the mieu from the house. they arrested him and allowed the gold en vouths to go free. When the case came for a hear lag today the chief of police requested that Nester be discharged, which was done. The policemen who made the ar rest will be hauled over the coals, and it is not improbable that the golden youths will be hauled up before a mag Istrace, until which time their names will be supplressed. It is said that the same two~ golden youths were tired out ofa hotel recently while the Spider and the Fly were play ing here. The Indlians Under Hack. W~ASHINGTON, December. 1.-The following telegram from Gen. Miles was received at the war department to-day: >rt from Gen. Runger and Gen. Brooke are qui e ble. The pre sence of the troops now aJ - ion hlas hlad a dlemoralizing ifuneon th n dians, and thlose who a week ago were defiant and warlike are now givmng evi deuce of submission. Capt Ewers, o. the 15th infantry. has returned from Fort Bennett, bringring with him Hump, who formerly did excellent service with mle in the Lame D~eer and Nez Perces campaigns. and was badly wounded ir the latter. Hie desires to renew hii allegiance to the Government, andI will make good use ofihim in bringing ir others. Gen Erooke reports that the Indians near White River have turnet loose their stolen stock and are comint in. "Col Sumncr reports that quite large number of lindianis in his vicinity are willing to obey orders. These be long to Big Foot's following and other located about the southwestern part o the Cheyenne River rescrvation." How the Next House Win Stand. WASHI.xoToN, Dec. 0.--Clerk Mc Phierson of the House of Represen iatives hlas just had printed an unollicial list o the members-elect to the next House showing 88 Republicans. 234 Democrats and S Farmers' Alliance. One district the twenty-eighth of New York, is se down as uncertain, and one. the secont RhodeIsland. is nmarked vacant. I Love Laughs at Age. PARiK".ftBJURG, W. Va., Dec. 6 wedding took place at Pennsboro Ritchie county, recently, in which th< groom was 'J0 years old, antd the bride Mrs. Wiliam Dixon, a widow. Si years The bride and groom arc both hale hearty and. to all appearances, good fo a quarter of a contu~ly. Tu Norfolk and Easterns Investmten Company has just closed a $1,000,00 deal, by which it purchases 720 acres o land near Norfolk with a mile of wate front on the bay, on which they wvi erect a cotton mill with 20.000 spindles to cost $250),000, and other industris. COTTOx was given a black eye in Ns Orleans. The big house of M'eyer & CC evidently had too many irons in the tirn Cotton and sugar mills and plantation are all right, but the money pressure an< seculation has laid them out. BAP I1ST STATE CONVENTION. 1 Most Encouraging Record of the Labors - of the Year. The Baptist Convention met last Thursday at Union, S. C., under the - most pleasant auspices. t Precisely at 10 o'clock Col. James A. . Hoyt, president of the Convention, called it to order and the hymn. "My faith looks up to Thee," was sung. Then Col. Hoyt read the 111th Psalm, and the Rev. B. F. Corley led the Con c vention in prayer. The secretary, the Rev. A. J. S. Thomas, read the list of delegates from the various associations throughout the State. Only one asso ciatio4 was unrepresented, the Old Dorchester Association. Col. Hoyt was re-elected President. le thanked the Conyention for again conferring the honor on him, and begged that the same co-operation that has heretofore been given him be again bestowed upon his work. The Rev. B. C. Lampley then intro duced Col. 1. G. McKissick, who de livered an address of welcome to the Convention. Col. McKissick did not fail to make every one feel at home and enjoy a hearty laugh. The Rev. C. C. Brown. of Sumter. who is considered the wittiest man in the Baptist donom ination in this State, at the request of the president, replied to the speech of welcome. le made an eloquent and witty speech, and he, with Col. McKis sick, will be counted the wits of the Convention. The associations of Aiken. Fforence and Waccamaw, all of which have been recently reorganized, were duly received into the Convention in the regular way. A resolution was offered by the Rev. C. C. Brown that a committee be ap pointed to devise some scheme to raise a fund for aged ministers. The resolu tion was adopted and the following committee was appointed: C.C.Brown, J. A. White, J. A. Mayes, R. N. lowle and Fred Jones. The executive board of the Conver tion through its secretary, the Rev. T. M. Bailey, made its annual report, which showed a very large increase in pastors, and that a great work has been (lone this year. The report is too volu minous and replete with statistics to be given in full at this time. Mr. Bailey also read his report as treasurer of the executive board. Both reports were, on motion, received as information and will be printed in the minutes. The report of the board of ministerial education through its secretary, the Rev. D. W. Key, made its annual report. This report, which is also rather long, w1ll be given at length hereafter. It is enough to say that there are now fifty one ministerial students matriculating in Furman University. The death of A. Sloan Duncan, who was treasurer of this board until the time of his death, was spoken of feelingly by the board. Twenty-eight hundred dollars has been collected by the board for its work. The report was adopted and printed in the minutes. At this period the tellers appointed to conduct the election for officers made the following report: Vice presi dents, E. C. Dargan, of Charleston, R. W. Sanders, of Chester; secretary, A. J. S. Thomas, of Orangeburg; assistant secretary, A. B. Woodruff, of Woodruff, S. C.; treasurer, C. H. Judson, of Green ville. It may be remarked here that these are the same officers who have served the Convention six consecutive years with signal ability. C. C. Brown intro1.uced a resolution that the Convention appropriate five hundred dollars out of the State mission fund to the education of negro preach ers at the Benedic; Institute at Co lumbia. President Hoyt announced the ap pointment of the following committee on the time, the place and the preacher for the next session: G. U. Tolsen, J. D). Pitts, John A. Fant, J. Hlart well Ed wards and W. T. Tate. On the noinmaticn of the board of Iministerlal education-J. C. Browne, G. L. Knight, J. WV. Blanton, E. HI. Cuttino and T. P. Lide. On nomination of delegates to the American Baptist Education Society Lucius Cuthbert, F. C. lHickson, S. B. Sawyer, U. W. Gordon, R. T. MIockler. On nomination of the executive board-J. E. Covington, J. B. Parrott, J. E. Pettinger, J1. C. McCubbins, J. H. Boldridge. On nomination of the board of trus tees of Furman University-E. J. For rester, F. 0. R. Cur';is, J. D1. Mahon, J. W. Mosely, J. W. Fouche. The Convention adjourned until to night, when it reassembled to hear the Convention sermo:1 by the Rev. A. C. Wilkins, of lBeaufort. It was an ex cellent sermon and produced a pro found impression. At the conclusion of~ the sermon the Convention trans acted various routine work and ad journed until Friday morning. Friday morning the devotional exer cises were led by President Hoyt. J. L. Yass reported from the committee on establishing an orphanage, acknowledg ing the receipt of several voluntary contributions. The committee recommends Lime stone Springs, near Gaffney City, as the site, a lot of land containing twenty-six res, $200, and eight scholarships in the 'o er Limestone Institute if this site is occtipied.-.Tileommittee furth er recommend that the -ho iae be put under the control of a boar d thirteen.freg At 11:30 the special order,.oeg missions, was called up, and the Rev. W. C. Lindsay read the report of the committee, which was in substance as follows: "Our missionaries are at wvork in the following fields: China, Africa, Italy, Bra::il, Mexico and JTapan. In Southern China there are ten mis sionaries and twenty-one assistants, in. Central China there are fourteen mis sionaries and one assistant, in Northern China there are twelve missionaries, in A frica we have twelve missionaries and eight assistants, ina Italy three mission aries and twelve assistants, in Brazil seven missionaries and eight'assistants, in MIexico twenty-one missionaries and seven assistants, in Japan five mission aries. ofIn all of these lields the work is full ofhope. The Baptists of the South are expending 8150,000 on the foreign 11eld. The eighty thousand Baptists of South Carolina contribute $10,000 a year. An earnest appeal is made for more liberal support. President Ihoyt intro~duced the Rev. T. P. Bell, assistant corresponding secretary of the foreign mission board, who made an excelleiit adidress on the subject of foreign missions. Mr. Bell is a native of South Carolina, but for the past six years he has been engaged in his present work with headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. A letter from Thomas J1. Legare. one of the missionaries at Whang Iein. tChina, was read by Dr. Manly.ored Tereport was adopted andored printed in the minutes. D~r. E. C. D~argan offered a resolution congratulating D~r. .James C. Furman on his S2d birthday. po motion of Col. I. G. McKissick the resolution was adopted by it rising vote, every member standing. The special order for 12:35 was to hear .from the Rev. E. hR. Roberts. colored, s pastor of the colored Baptist Church of I Florence. IHe made an earnest appeal preachers of this state. The Rev. 1. Carroll, the Sunday-school missionary of the Publication Society, addressed the Convention. The report of the committee on the aged ministers' relief fund was read. It is a wise and worthy one, saith the com mittee. The basis of organization will be that membership in the relief associ ation is open to all ministers and lay men; that twenty dollars shall entitle one to life membership: that all fees re ceived for life membership shall be safe ly invested; that for the present no one shall receive over one hundred dollars of this fund yearly. The report was adopt ed and the Convention adjourned until half past 7 o'clock. At the Friday night session Rev. John Stout read the report of the board of trus tees of Furman University. The west wing of the Female College building has been completed at a cost of 86,750. The new building is as large as the main building and is now occuliied. Some two hundred students have imatriculat ed this year and sixty-live are boarding in the College. In Furman University there are now one hundred and sixty-seven students on the register; seventy-four are alto gether and thirty-seven chiefly in the collegiate course, while fifty-one are ministerial students. The amount of endowment reported in November, 1890, was 365,525,9.1; and this amount will be increased by cash in hand and in transit to over .72.000 within a month. So that within the time of our service $40,000 has been added to our endowment. The $5,000 due the professors for past ser vices has been paid and the University is now free of debt. The movement begun in July, 1881., to raise $20,000 for the endowment, under the proposition made by the American Baptist Educa tion Society to add $7,500 to this amount, has been completely successful. The total receipts for this fund have been $23,543,77. The expenses of our finan cial agency during this have been 82, 608,25, leaving the amount for invesment $20,935,42. The resignation of the finan cial agent, Dr. I. H. Griffith, has been accepted. Dr. John A. Broaddus, the distinguish ed president of the Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., then ad dressed the Convention and made a pro found impression. Dr. R. H. Griflith made an appeal for the endowment of Furman University. When he had tinished a supscription was taken up and the sum of $3,785 was sub scribed. )uring the Saturday morning session the following delegates to the American Baptist Education Society were appoint ed: Col. J. A. Hoyt, Rev. Charles Manly, Rev. W. C. Lindsay, Rev. E. C. Dargan, Rev. R. H. Griflith,-Rev. E. J. Forrester, Rev. G. 13. Moore, Rev. John Stout and Rev. D. W. Key. It was determined that the next Con ference should meet at Spartanburg on Thursday before the first Sunday in Dec ember, 1891. The Convention sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. W. Per ry; alternate, R. G. Patrick. A resolution was adopted requesting pastors to take up a collection at Christ mas for defraying the expenses of the or phanage committee during the past year. An additional committee of fifteen was appointed to meet with the old or phanage committee in April, 181, and to deceide, in connection with them, the location and policy of management of the institution. The committee appoint ed is as follows: A. C. Wilkins, A. L. Evans, E. L. Wilkins. J. E. Brunson, D. W. Alderman, W. H.' Lyles W. F. Cox, John W. Wilkes, J. D. Pitts, ii. F. Scaife, W. T. Handley G. II Carter, V. D. Rice, J. Q. Adams, G. B. Moore. The subject of home missions was pre sentedin an excellent report by the Rev. I. W. Wingo The Rev. John Stout from the coin mittee on the report of the board of mninisterial education made his report, which reconunended that the board em ploy a clerk at a salery of $100; and the eport was adopted. Dr. Manly called on Dr. Broaddus to 'tell us something about the Theologic al1Seminary," and he complied with the equest in an eloquent address. Dr. M1anly made a few short and appropri te remarks upon the report, and in re ard to the ministerialstudents at Fur man University. The report of the com mittee was adopted. The Rev. E. J. Forrestor then intro uced the following: Resolved, That the churches represen ed in this Csnvention be requested to bserve the first Sunday in January next s a day of concert of prayer to the Lord f the harvest to send more laborers in o His harvest. The resolution was adopted. The Rev, R. G. Patrick, from the com mittee on obituaries, made his report. There have been only live ordained min sters and two laymen connected with the Convention who have died nuring the past year. These have been the Rev. J. W. Hutchins, the Rev. W. B. Elkin, the Rev. B. G. Price, the Rev. J. L. Norman, the Rev. P. J. Pyers, Col. B. W. Edwards and Mr. A Sloan Duncan. Touching remarks were made by the :ommittee on the life, character and :eath of each of these gentlemen. Con tinuing, the report says: "The follow ing brethern, prominent in work and of a good report among the churches, have uring the year been called to their eternal reward: W.H. Duncan and W. R. Boynton, of Barnwell; HI. A. Green, of Fairfield, and L. E. Meador, of Union." At the conclusion of the report Mr. GT7-3 called upon Dr GIames C. Furman to spe' mmething in the way of a tribute to Col B. WVidwards, who was for a number of years p're~idft of the Convention. D~r Furnian responi ded in a touching and feeling manner. Ie was followed by the Rev J. A. W. Thomas, the Rev John Stout and Col J. A. Hoyt, all of whom sp~oke freeing ly of Col Edwards. The report was then adopted. Indians on the War Path Cr10.o, Dec. .-A special from the Pine Ridge Agency says: "Thbe situation is not materially chang ed. The hostile Rosebud Indians sleep upon their arms, prepared constantly for attack. They have three lines of signals between their agency and the camp, and any movement of troops will be known in a few moments. They have taken all they wish of the Govern ment beef herd, and have burned the buildings and corrals. They are living high and are happy. They have moved to the edge of Bad Lands. Military preporations proceed rapidly. Uilless the Indians come in within a very few days the troops will be equipped and in position, when an advance may be or dered. Three Men Crushed to Death. PmmI-LAEL'I.I, Dec. 4.--Shortly be fore noon to-day. a gang of men employ ed by the Reading Railroad Company at their Port Richmond coal wharves, went to the olice at pier No. 7 for the nurpose of being paid off. The otfice is close to the tracks, and, as the men stood at the window of the paymaster's otice, they were within a few inches of the car tr'acks. A crowd of men were standing in line, waiting their turn to reach the window, when there suddenly shot around the corner a train of coal ers, which were being backed toward the wharf. The three men nearest the pay window were crushed between the cars and building and killed. The others scae.9T WILL RESIST IT. THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS IN CAU CUS ARE DETERMINED. The Republicans Will be Checkmated at Eyery Tarn--The Politloal Cyolone Ha6 Somewhat Toned Down Boss Beed-.The Indian Questlon. WASHINGToN, Dec. 8.-The Demo cratic senators held a caucus late in the ofternoon to discuss the order of busi ness. The chances of the passage of the election bill, if it should reach a fin al vote, were canvassed, and individual senators expressed divers opinions as to the ability of the Republican party leaders to keep their forces inline. The conclusion reached was to maintain an unalterable opposition to the passage of the bill. The minority will seize every oppor tunity to discuss the bill exhaustively and fairly, and strive to amend every objectionable feature as reached in the detailed consideration of the measure, as was the case with the tariff bill. The opinion was expressed that as the majority had not yet signified any inten tion to unduly restrict reasonable de bate, it would be premature for the caucus to undertake the arrangement of a programme to meet the presenta tion of a closure resolution. To secure harmony of action, the Democratic members of the committee on privile and elections (which reported the bi) will take charge of the debate and ar range the order of speaking. As to the further order of business, it was decided that as the Republican senators had not yet completed the order, the caucus would not now undertake to formulate a programme. The filibustering tendencies. in the house are strong on both sides when ever a bill comes up that a considerable number of membersdo not like. About. two hours has already been wasted - - over some trivial measures. Boss Reed sticks to his devilish rules with tenacity, but he is not half as fero cious as he was before the recent gieat7 Democratic cyclone. Besides, there is not a Republican quorum on hand, the party discipline has suffered, and manyM of the defeated Republicans look upong Reed as the one man responsible more than any other, except McKinley, for the party's defeat. Senator Gil Pierce of North Dakota, was badly used up In an ent Senator Voorhees. The In ' tion was before the senate an Pierce was endeavoring to t why the Indians were ready to go to war. Mr. Voorhees read from statements intba. papers to show that the Indians werke restless because theywere starving, and because Senator Pierce's white consti tuents in Dakota were hoping that"' there would be war so that the Sioux reservations could be gobbled up. A MILLIONAIRE MISER. One of Chicago's Celebrities Sent to Ja1 for Street Begging. CHICAGo, Dec. 5.-Peter Mueller,aR old man reputed to be worth $750,000, was yesterday sent to the BridewelL for sixty days for begging on the streetbe' For many !years Mueller and his wif-en. lived in a miserable hovel on the banki of the Illinois and Michigan canal, in thp township of Cicero. They lived in a most miserable manner, denying them selves everything except what was abso lutely necessary to keep them alive. Many stories were told by the neighbors of their reputed wealth, and one night about four years ago four men en tered the hovel and demanded the "pot of gold" the couple were believed to keep therein. Mueller and his wife pro tested that they had no money. Thehi the robbers, by the most horrible. :or tures, sought to draw from the::: t g cret of the hiding place of the treasures but in vain. The next day the Muellers were found almost dead by the nelgh-$ hors. -Their feet were terribly bm-M and their bodies covered with bruises and cuts inflicted by the miscreants. Muellerfor several years past has made a practice of begging on the streets and,. about a year ago was locked up one night. Next morning ohe justice,moe by compassion by the old man'sptiz! tale, discharged him from enstody; When Mueller returned to his miserable ' home he found the dead body of his wife hanging to a rafter. Is was supposed~ she had worried so over her husband's absence-the first during their married lhfe-that in a moment of great desponi. dency she had taken her own life. Since then Mueller has lived all alone In the shanty, making no changes in his mode of living. Sunday he made such a nuisance of't himself, begging in front of St. Francis Church, that an oficer arrestted him, Yesterday in the justice court bereue4 to answer questions or to pay the fine - mposed and was sent to the Eridewell Mueller owns 520 acres of land in sc tons 31 and 36, and is posaessed- of stocks and bonds worth several hun dred thousands of dollars. Election Returns Stolen. CONCORD, N. H.. Dec. 10.-The ex citemient over the question of the con trol of the next Legislature has broken out again by the unmistakable discov ery that the Republicans, made des perate by their recent failure to force the Legislature to take i~sglmeas ures in reference to the en o f-othe n w members, are now fixin te re-t tur s-o uit themselves. Tese re turn are ate~~ ofteScrtrn that official. Yesterday it wasiMl that the papers in some twenty-five doubtful or close districts were in the hands of the Republican leaders outside of the State House, and had been ont of the hands of the Secretary for over two weeks. A committee of Democratic legislators yesterday persisted in a de mand to see the papers, and were ig nomninously turned out of the Secre tary's office. They will apply to the courts for a mandamus. The Nation's Wards Starving. SISsETON AGENCY, S. D., Dec. 5. The 1,200 Indians on the Sisseton and Wahpeton reservations are on the vere. of starvation, at the opening of winter, because of the government's failure to furnish them subsistence. The interior department has authorized the expendi ture of $2,000 for their relief, but upon this small amount over 1,200 men, wo men and children must live for six months of rigorous winter. This is less than 1 cent a day for each person. The Sissetons are friendly Indians, a large number of whom acted as scouts in the last war against the Sioux. Did Not Restore Him. MAYs LANDING, N. J., Dec. d. The body of George W. Fay a promi nent druggist of this place, was buried IWednesday. Fay died six days ago, but his three sisters, who are spiritua lists. would not consent to'ms burial, be lieving that he would return to life, and the corpse 'still retained its life-like ap pearanice, the cheeks being as red as roe es. The sisiers took turns in wtb, the lifeless form of their brother, ad have not doubted or lost faith in the, apirits