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VOL. I.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
TIIE STATE ALLIANCES.
We clip the following from The Na
tional Economist: During the month of
July the county Alliances and Unions in
all the States will elect delegates to the
State meetings which are held in Au
gust, September and October. It is
very important these July sessions of the
county Alliances be well attended, and
that the questions likely to come before
the State body be thoroughly discussed,
to the end that delegates may be well
posted as to the sentiment which prevails.
Each delegate ,to the State Alliance or
Union should know the number of male
members of the order in his county, and
should know the amount of fees and dues
reported and paid by the county secre
tary to the State secretary, and the
amount of per capita clues to the Na
tional Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union that the county secretary has col
lected, and see that the county secretary
has not only sent to the State
secretary what he has . collected,
but the proper amount of • fees
and the 5 cents per capita dues for every
male member in the county, whether he
has paid or not. It is necessary for dele
gates to the State bodies to be able to
show this in order to be sure of being
seated in the State meeting. The only
way for subordinate bodies to avoid be
ing liable to the county Alliance or Union
for dues upon members who do not pay
is to suspend such members for non-pay
ment'of dees and then report them as
suspended. The only way for county
bodies to avoid being liable for dues
from subordinates that do not pay in full
is to refuse them any representation in
the county body until all dues are paid
in full. And the only way for the State
body to avoid being liable for dues from
counties which have not paid in full is to
suspend such counties by refusing them
representation until they have paid in
full all dues, arrearages, and per capita
dues for the national.
The 5 cents per capita dues is the only
fund belonging to the national body. It
is only paid once each year, and is due
to be paid by the state secretary to the
national secretary on the first day of No
vember in each year in advance for the
year just commencing. Delegates to
state alliances should therefore see that
the state secretaries have reported to the
national secretary.the male membership
of the state on the first day of October,
1890, and paid 5 cents per capita dues to
the national secretary on same. It will
not do for the state secretary to say he
has used the money for other purposes if
it has been collected from the member
ship, because all collected belongs in a
special fund, and should never be put in
the general fund; it belongs to the na
tional as soon as paid to the subordinate
secretary, and all secretaries handle it as
national money. State secretaries should
also be instructed by the coming state
alliances and unions to promptly make
report of their male membership on the
first day of October next, and to make
remittance to cover same in full not later
than Nov. 1 next. This is very neces
sary in order to enable the national
secretary to close bis books for the year,
and have them examined by the execu
tive board and a full report made out by
the meeting of the Supreme Council, on
the third Tuesday in November. Some
delegates have heretofore held the money
back to bring in person to the national
secretary when the Supreme Council
meets. This disarranges the business
and forces the report to be made up with
such States recorded as delinquents, and
the report goes into the minutes and dis
graces the State Alliance for all the next
year. It is therefore a great injustice to
the State Alliance for the report of the
State secretary to be delayed or for the
money to be held back after November 1.
The demands of the Order, and of all
other organizations willing to co-operate,
should be freely discussed in both county
and State Alliances and Unions, and re
solutions expressing the prevailing senti
ment adopted, and delegates who lully
endorse such resolutions selected and au
thorized lo elect delegates from the state
to the National body with authority to
select delegates to attend the great labor
conference in February, 1892, and repre
sent the Order in agreeing with all organ
izations of producers willing to co-operate
in a set of.demands and deciding upon
the most efficient means of enforcing such
demands. The following is an extract
from the report of the chairman of the
executive board as adopted by the last
Supreme Council:
“He cautioned the order as to the
great responsibility resting upon this
body at this time as to what action it
takes in regard to the political situation.
The order could never participate in any
partisan political effort, and in the South
if was opposed to giving its sanction to
any independent or third party move on
the part of the members, while in the
West and Northwest the delegates claim
that the order will retrograde if such
sanction is not given. In this emergency
he thought he had a comprorahe to offer
that would meet the case exactly, and
that was for this body to hereby say that
it gives its sanction and call for a meet
irig to be held about February, 1892, to
be composed of delegates from all organ
izations of producers upon a fair basis o£
representation for the purpose of a gen
eral and thorough conference upon the
demands of each, and to the end that all
may agree upon a joint set of demands
just prior to the next national campaign,
and agree upon the proper methods for
enforcing such demands. If the people
by delegates coming direct from them
agree that a third party move is neces
sary, it need not be feared. That the next
session of the supreme council elect dele
gates from this order to represent it in
said national Conference of productive
organizations for political purposes.”
For the purpose of carryiug out this
proposition the following resolution was
introduced by Brother Guice, of Louisi
ana, and by the body referred to the joint
committee on confederation:
“Whereas, We have already adopted the
report of the chairman of the executive
board in part, and whereas said report
did recommend that this body authorize
a call for a convention of all labor organ
izations to be held in February, 1892:
Now therefore be it '
Resolved, That this body elect a com
mittee composed of one from each state
here represented, to be known as the na
tional executive committee, for the spe
cial purpose of conferring with like com
mittees from other organizations, and
deciding questions as to time and place
of meeting, basis of representation unU
to sut mit to their respective states the
demands of all such other labor organi
zations as will probably be represented
at such labor conference, each member to
Le ex-officio chairman in his state and to
have authority to appoint congressional
district chnirmeu, who in turn shall ap
point < ouatv chairmen for the purpose of
bringing our demand® and those of other
labor organizations squarely before the
people during the coming year, and se
cure an expression fr< m them as to what
concessions they will make in order to
securj general co-operation and what
methods they will ad( pt to secure the
same.
The joint committee on confederation
met with a like committee from the
Knights of Labor, the National Colored
Fanners’ Alliance . and Co-operative
Union, and ihe National Citizens Al
liance, in January last, anu organized
for ] erfecting this plan. State,
d ; strict and county chairmen
of central committees have been appoint
ed, and the work will be puffied inde
pendent of the Alliance as an organiza
tion. The meeting will be held Februa
ry 22, 1892, and the National Farmers’
Alliance and Industrial Union will be al
lowed representation in the conference.
This should all be known and discussed
and kept in vi"vv in the selection of dele
gates from the primary organizations to
the national. Let all the preparation for
organized and efficient independent ac
tion go rapidly on, not as a menace to
present political parties, but as a j recau
tion against the possibility of such parties
asserting an unwillingness to give the
people the necessary reforms.
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CKTTICtSM WILL NOT AVAIL.
The Alliance Herald (Montgomery,
Ala.,) says: “It is surprising with what
confidence each opponent of the sub
treasury essays to condemn it and give
bjs reasons for opposing it. Ativ well in
formed writer can attack and critise
any plan that could be offered. There is
nothing smart or wise about it. If these
opporients will answer the question that
the sub-ireasury is offered to meet, then
they might boast of something. r lliat
question is: What way can be devised
io prevent a syndicate or combine of spec
ulators each year from forming for the
purpose of controlling the price of farm
products, which syndicate or com
bine gets the crops at cost of
production and sells them to consumers
at an advance of from 20 to 100 percent?
Selling crops at cost of production en
forces another vital question: How can
a man grow wheat, corn or cotton at cost
of production, and from the profits from
his farm, which is nothing, pay his mort
gage on his home? The sub-treasury is
offered as a remedy that embraces two
strong points—enough money to defeat
the trust and an adequate means of ac
complishing the end sought, at the same
time assuring to con.-umcrs protection
from fiet tious prices created and enforced
by speculators to make themselves rich
at the loss aud damage, above reasonable
compensation for handling the crops, to
the consumer, w T ho, if he could get there
commodities at reasonable prices would
save from 10 to 50 per cent, of what it
now costs him to make these speculators
millionaires. Don't catch at the shadow',
but strike the substance. Argue the
question, not the remedy proposed to
solve it. Solve the question in any other
way, and the alliance is ready to accept
it. ” But its members cannot be made to
slave it any longer for speculators, be
cause the remedy is liable to criticism.
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THE STORM IS COMING.
The Washington Post says: “The
spirit of reform in the shape of revolu
tion is undoubtedly abroad, and the suc
cess that it may here and there achieve is
likely to be contagious. It will be w r ell
for the politicians to put their houses in
order. By wisdom they may break the
force of the storm, but the storm is in
thf air."’
In the course of a two-column com
ment on the above paragraph, a writer in
the Progressive Farmer says: “No half
way dubious course will shelter the polit
ical parties from this popular uprising.
They have a cause—a good cause; they
have issues which cannot be laid a®ide or
overshadowed by any other issue
available to the parties. They
cannot make the tariff interest
ing enough, being so stale and
thread-bare, to distract attention from
the new issues. ‘So it would be well for
the politicians,’ says the Pod, to put their
houses in order.’ At this writing we
know of only one State which can easily
divert this furious deluge, and that is the
State of North Carolina, We are inform
ed that the Democratic par‘y of that
State has adopted the St. Louis platform
or all the essential demands of the F. A.
and J. U., and this places it on the side
of the people and not antagonistic there
to. This will give it ease and quietude.
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 10. 1891.
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ALLIANCE VS. MERCHANTS.
If the movement inaugurated by the
Alliance is right, and we believe it is,
none should be more ready to give it
their sanction than our merchants, who
are aware of the fact that anything that
will redound to the good of our farmers
will be of good to them also. If the
sub-treasury idea will, as a means for
which it is intended, get more money in
circulation in the country, no one will
feel the good arising from it more per
ceptibly than the merchant. And it, is
offered by the Alliance as a way to
get more money into circulation, and
at a low rate of interest which the pro
ducer can stand. If the Alliance is the
means of getting SSO per capita in circu
lation there will be more to spend and
more goods will be bought. No one
will question this statement. Then would
not the merchant profit by it? lie most
certainly would, and we believe that in
a majority of cases the farmers and la
borers have the good will of the mer
chants in their endeavors to bring about
these measures.—Uuion City (Tenn.
Commercial.
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GROWTH OF THE ALLIANCE.
More than 1,000 voters join the Color
ed Alliance every day that the sun rises.
Suppose, then, that twice as many join
the Furmers’ Alliance. Total, 5,000
daily. Remember all these are commit
ted to the sub-treasury, and with
out exception favor anew political
organization. Not one man would
join us now with anything else
in view. Surely the traitors who
are trying to stay among us arid oppose
our demands will take this hint and pull
out. Politicians who have mocked pre
pare to stay at home, and partisan news
papers who have spent their energies to
throw contempt upon us may prepare for
earnest work. Ministers of the gospel
who have left their sacred calling to heap
scurrilous remarks upon our members and
officers because we tried to help and to
save the downtrodden poor may find
their roads to the w'arm climate they
Bpeak of shortened many league .—Nat
ional AUthnce, (Houston, Tex)
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The Alliance Bulletin (Harper, Kan.)
says: “An effort is being made to divide
the Alliance in the south by forcing pro
hibition upon them as a political issue,
but, like their brethren of the north,
they have refused to be sidetracked ifi
any such w'ay. The action of the Kansas
Alliance upon this question should be
duplicated by all other slates, for should
we espouse such outside issues it would
prove suicidal to our main issues, let
nothing but the St. Louis, Ocala and Cin
cinnati demands cause us to do battle.. It
is an indisputable fact that many differ
ences of opinion exist upon the questions
of less importance, hence the effort to
force them upon us if possible, for by so
doing a division would be created and
Shylock given a t'ghter grip upon the
people. We are united in our demands
for more money; then let that issue stand
paramount to all others until we gain au
issue of circulating medium equal to ssl
per capita.
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The Farmers' Advocate (Charlestown,
W. Ya.) says: “The government issues
money to national bunks. It is issued to
them not for the banks to do as they
please with it; the" cannot deal in real
estate, in live stock, in merchandise;
they cannot engage in manufacturing,
railroading or any enterprise. The money
is issued to them to loan, to loan to the
people. The banks are virtually loan
agents, aud the government is practically
loaning money to the people. The loans
are at 1 per cent plus commissions of the
agents (the banks). The commission is
too high, being from 5 to 11 percent, per
annum, equal to 25 to 55 per cent,
cm a five-year loan. Now the propo
sition is to dispense with these costly
loan agents.”
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Ihhrnl Home (Wilson, N. c.) asks:
“What is the difference in interest to the
people under the present banking system
and that proposed by the sub-treasury
plan? A direct interest of not less than 8
per cent, an indirect interest from 8 to
600 per cent. Why is it then that the
politicians of both political parties favor
the present banking system? Because un
der this system the money is kept for the
benefit of the bankers and their favorites;
those who speculate on the product of
the land, those who speculate on the
land, the protected manufacturer, mon
ied syndicates—the politician and a
subsidized press.
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The Richmond County (Ga.) Alliance
at a meeting in Augusta a few days ago
adopted the following resolution:
“Resolved, That we endorse the bril
liant administration of President Liv
ingston, aod present him for re-election
to the office-, the duties of which he has
performed with commendable zeal and
marked ability. We commend him for
re-election uot only in recognition of past
services, but because we believe that his
continuance in the presidency of tbe
state alliance will give him deserved
prestige in the halls of congress.”
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The Virginia Alliance (Wytheville.
Va.) says: “The farmers of the United
States received $48,000,000 less for rais
ing 70,000,000 acres of corn in 1886 than
they did for raising 68,000,000 acres in
1883, though the former exceeded the
latter 116,000,000 bushels. In 1884
there was sown 1,000,000 acre3 more
aats than 1883, and 12,000,000 more
bushels raised, but to the farmers $26,-
000,000 less was realized. Au increase
in acreage every year, but a decrease in
the amount realized on the bushel.
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The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh) says:
3enator George, of Mississippi, has been
engaged in a most vigorous warfare on
the Alliance. He employed the whole
force of tbe enemy in his State against it.
But he was unable to stand against the
tide and lias just published a long letter,
endorsing the Alliance platform except
th,< sub-treasury bill and the laud loan
plan. He sees that his people are in
earnest and has backed down from his
high position, “While the lamp holds
out to burn,” etc.
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A Nashville dispatch of Saturday says:
The regular monthly crop report for Ten
nessee has been issued by Commissioner
Goodwin. Wheat is reported in fine con
dition. The yield is 91.5 of a full aver
age crop and of excellent quality. Corn
is improving rapidly, and the prospects
were never better for a full yield. Con
dition 88.5, The acreage of cotton is
largely decreased, the reduction averag
ing 16 per cent. The condition has much
improved, and while not yet satisfactory
the farmers are more hopeful. The con
dition, compared with the fall crop is 73.
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The Alliance Advocate (Louisburg,
Tenn.) says: “Never before was such
an effort made to educate the masses as
since the inauguration of the Alliance of
farmers. The leaders who are responsi
ble tor this work are the objects of at
tack by the city press, and are classed as
hoodlums and degraded officoeeekers.
Yerily, the people should read these at
tacks with a big grain of allowance for
the men who inspire them.”
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The Citizens’ Alliance is being pushed
ahead by Farmers’ Alliance organizers,
and it now covers a large part of the
country from Maine to California. The
San Francisco Cal., Daily Report gives
an account of the establishment of a
Citizens’ Alliance in that place, and
notes the fact that it is an ally of the
Farmers’ Alliance, although including a
far different class in its membership.
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Chiclcasaw Messenger , (Okolona, Mis®.,)
in a recent issue said : Polk and Living
ston are in Mississippi now. One is a
North Carolinian, the other a Georgian,
and both were Confederate soldiers.
Both are Southern men and'Di mocrats,
yet the mouthpieces of plutocracy have
commenced to villi fy and abuse thems
because they favor “equal rights to all,
aud special favors for none.”
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The Faimers’ Alliance in Texas has in
augurated a Life Benefit plan, which is
called the Co-operative Degree of the
Farmers’ State Alliance of Texas. If the
other stare* follow this plan, it will be
known as the National Alliance Aid
association. The president and execu
tive committee of the State Alliance ap
point a m \nager for department.
D. A. 115, Knights of Labor, Seattle,
Wash, has issued a call for a conference
of all labor and other reform bodies with
in the State, at North Yakima, July 18,
for the purpose of “aMisidering how labor
can best use its p'nm at the t oils in it,
own interest.” Representatives dill pre
sent credentials from their orgarKation.
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The Alliaucemec in North Carolina,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia are
building or ODeratimr their own tobacco
warehouses. The latest move of this
kind is in Nash county, ihe Alliances of
which are preparing to build a ware
house at Nashville, the shares of stock
being put at five dollars each.
THROUGH THE TRESTLE.
Fearful Plunge of Passenger
Cars—The Dead and Dying.
A Charleston, W. Va., dispatch says:
The worst wreck ever known in this part
of the state, if not the worst that ever oc
curred in the state, occurred at about 8
o’clock Saturday morning on the Kana
wha aud Michigan railway, eight miles
west of Charleston. The passenger train
for Coiumbus pulled out with two car
loads of excursionists, among them the
Order of United American Mechanics,
who were going to Pocas. The wreck
occurred on a high trestle. The sleepers
had caught fire during the night and
burned so that the rails spread under the
train. The engine and baggage and mail
car passed over safely, but two coaches
were thrown from the track. After run
ning some forty feet on the sleepers, the
forward car toppled to the left, the rear
one to the right, and tbe forward car
turned completely over, landing right
side up. The other fell some twenty
feet, turning upside down, and one set
of trucks fell on top of it, crushing the
car to splinters. Under this place m< st
of the dead were found. The scenes
among the dead and dying were heart
rending. The dead are: Colonel W. E.
Fife, Buffalo, W. Ya.; T. N. Wilson,
travels for a Columbus house, Galliepolis,
O.; Charles Huffman, Blue creek, W.
Ya.; L. C. Rose, Blue creek, W. Ya.,
Jasper Daugherty, New Martinsville,
W. Va.; Walter Welcher, Charleston;
Mrs. Walter Welcher, Charleston; Ella
O’Leary, Charleston; Amos Coulter, Red
House, W. Va.; Orville Hobinson, Mid
way, W. Va.; Thomas Thornton, K. &
M. conductor, Middleport, O.; Polly
Sullivan, Mason city, worked in Charles
ton; James White, Middleton, O. Those
fatally injured are: W. E. Reed, Eik
City.' James Blackwood, Athens, 0.,
crushed about the head; has never re
covered consciousness. Mrs. R. S. Trus
low, Charleston, skull fractured nnd con
cussion of the brain. Will Ford, Elk
City, head and chest crushed. Many
others were more or less seriously injured,
some of whom will probably die.
Driven to Nihilism.
The correspondent of the London Time.
at St. Petersburg says: “The anti-Semi
tic crusade has lesulted in thousands ol
well educated Jews, who are legally en
titled to get employment, failing to do so,
because it is reported the czar regards
them as nihilists. These starved men he
has driven to become secret policq
asreuts, nihilists, anything to gain trust.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming- an Epitome of Daily
Happening’s Here and There.
The statue of Stonewall Jackson at
Lexington, Va., will be unveiled on July
21st.
The East Birmingham (Ala.) dummj
line has been sold under a foreclosure, of
mortgage to James E. Webb and Henry
C. Tompkins.
The body of Mrs. Julia Jackson Chris
tian, daughter of Stonewall Jackson, has
been plaeed in the crvpt in the vault at
Lexington, Va., beside her distinguished
father.
Asa result of the celebration of the
a— Tin ; .
a gumu tit uau jl’ iitiiui&uUj u*e v.L'Qtbuat j
M. E. church and four handsome resi
dences were totally burned. Loss,
SIOO,OOO.
A number of railroad men, whose
homes are in Albany, Ga., were caught in
the Moses Bros, bank failure in Mont
gomery, Ala., Monday. Some of these
lose their all.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: Tbe
twenty-seventh annual meeting of the
Tennessee State Teachers’ Association
convened Tuesday morning on Lookout
mountain.
A telegram from Raleigh, N. C., says:
Grand Sire E. Busbee is a little more
restless, but no chauge. The paralytic
features are improved. The grand mas- ,
ter of the state is in attendance on him. j
Sales of leaf tobacco on the Danville, j
Va., market last month were 3,000,000 :
pounds; sales same month last year,
1,300,000; sales for nine months,
32,016,836 pounds, an increase this year
over last of 11,281,644 pouuds.
A cyclone is reported as having
passed through Madison, Miss.. Mon
day morning. Several buildings were
demolished aud considerable damage was
done. No further information is obtain
able, as the wires south are all down.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Governor
Holt, on Tuesday, decided he would wait
only a few days longer for the balance
due the state of the direct tax fund. If
further delayed, he would issue warrants
for claims in full as applied for.
- One of the most daring and successful
robberies ever committed in Nashville,
Tenn., was perpetrated at noon Friday,
when SB,OOO worth of diamonds were re
moved from a show case in E. Wigger’s
jewelry store, on Union street, without
the robber being seen. A pal of the rob
ber engaged Mr. Wigger’s attention while
the robbery was committed.
The following dispatch was received
at Los Angeles, Cal., Saturday night
from G. W. Durbrow, superintendent
salt works at Salton: “An Indian I sent
out from Volcano Springs has returned.
His statement settles the question of the
water coming from the New river coun
try. Water is coming into the sink at
Salton through Cavoresco creek.”
A .Jackson, Miss., telegram says: Un
der the new constitution of Mississippi
voters are required to be registered four
months before the next election. Regis
tration dosed on the 3d instaut. While
full returns from all the counties are not
in, it is certain that for the first time
since the negro became a voter that the
majority of legal voters of the state are
while.
Early Sunday morning a fire, originat
ing in a cottage on Hogan street, adjoin
ing Itjen’s grocery store, at Jacksonville,
Fla., destroyed nearly every building in
the block bounded by Hogan, Ashley,
Laura aud Church streets. The fire
spread rapidly from the cottage to a row
of low wooden buildihgs on the south,
and from there to Hartridge’s livery sta
bles, all of which were destroyed.
Galveston, Tex., was visited Sunday
by one of the most terriffic storms known
in years. It is impossible to estimate
the damage to shipping aud other prop
erty along the coaafc Waters from the
gulf are in the streets, and many ware
houses and buildings in the neighbor
hood of the docks are flooded. The
telegraph wires are prostrated, practi
cally cutting off all communication with
outside points.
The stockholders of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company met at
Louisville, Ky., Monday, and ratified the
nurchase of the Kentucky Central rail
road, the increase of stock of the Louis
ville and Nashville company to $55,000,-
000, and the acceptance of the company’s
proportion of additional issue of Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis stock.
The stock represented was 368,416
shares, aud all were cast for the proposi
tions named.
The Pine Hill, Talladega county, Ala.,
Alliance has adopted resolutions boycot
ting coffee until the article can be bought
at “liviug prices.” The resolution was
passed at the meeting of the alliance last
week and each member present voted in
the affirmative when the question was
put. They say they will no longer pay
25 and 30 cents a pound for coffee, but
will go without it. They argue that it
can be sold as cheap now as it was five or
six years ago when ten pounds could be
bought for a dollar.
An order was issued from headquarters
iD Atlanta Thursday by General Gordon,
appointing Colonel George Mooreman, of
New' Orleans, La., adjutant of the
United Confederate Veterans, with head
quarters in New Orleans; Colonel J. F.
Bhipp, of Chattanoogi, Tenn., quarter
master general of the United Confederate
Veterans, with headquarters in Chatta
nooga. These officers are appointed on
the staff of the commanding general, and
will immediately enter upon their re
spective duties.
NINETEEN DEAD.
A Scene of Horror on the Erie
Railway at Ravenna.
At 3 o’clock Friday, morning a fright
ful railroad wreck occurred at Ravenna,
Ohio, on the New York, Lake Erie and
Western railroad. Train No. 8, fast ex
press, bound for New York, while stand
ing at the depot waiting orders, was
crashed into from the rear by a freight
train. • A day coach on the rear of the
train was completely telescoped and nine
teen passengers killed and thirty-eight
badly injured. The day coach and two
sleepers forward took fire aud were burned
up, burning many of the bodies so that
they were almost unrecognizable. The
wreck is the most disastrous that ever oc
curred on the Erie road.
TERRIBLE SCENES.
Many of the passengers on the train
were asleep when the awful crash came,
and a number were crushed to death iu
their berths. A terrible scene loiiowed.
There were cries for help from all parts
of the train, mingled with the dying
moans of others whose lives were being
crushed out. Steam was escaping from
the monster freight engine, ana soon the
wreck caught fire and the flames crowded
upon those who were fust in the debris.
The few persons who escaped without
injury worktd with almost superhuman
power in their efforts to rescue tbe more
unfortunate ones. In several in
stances persons slowly burned to death
while pleading with their last breath
for help, which could uot be rendered.
The wreck was most complete. Cars
were piled upon and across each other
almost :n a solid mass. The following is
believed to be a correct list of the killed
so far as is known: Henry Gilda, John
McAvary. Patrick Ryan, T. Hauaf, F.
Burns, J. Kimball, Owen Hardeman,
Thomas Nolan, Thomas Keville, George
Gilda, David Oelehian, J. Coyle, W.
Newcomb, D, Ryan, D. Cassidy, Henry
McGill—all glass workers of Findlay,
0., and Corning, N. Y. —G. Griffin,
Brooklyn, N. Y; A. Gunthrop, Brook
lyn, N. Y ; W. Kane. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Among the iarge number injured are
many whom it is thought will wille die.
PARKERSON SPEAKS
At a Fourth of July Celebration
in Illinois.
The most notable aud enthusiastic cel
ebration of Independence Day in the his
tory of Bloomington, Illinois, was that
which occurred Saturday. The orator
of the occasion was W. 8. Purkerson, of
New Orleans, the leader of the citizens
in the “Mafia” riot in that city. A crowd
of 12,000 people assembled at Franklin
pa r k, and Mr. Purkerson was introduced
by Mayor Foster. Mr. Purkerson was
greeted with prolonged cheering. The
scenes which followed the address can
scarcely lie described. The assemblage
wildly pres®ed around the orator, cheering
for Parkerson,New Orleans and the south ;
shaking hands with him and speaking
words of congratulation, good will and
esteem for the people he represents. “I
am neither a colonel nor a judge, but
plain mister; a privai e.tizen of the
United States,” were ihe words with
which the speaker introduced himself.”
“We, the people,” was the i-übjectof his
addres®. “I yield in love to my coun
try,” said he, “to no man within the
borders of it. My pride iu this grand
government is not overtopped by any.
In its greatness I glory, in its unity I re
joice, arid I hesitate not to assert that the
most intensely Ahierican spirit and pride
which I have ever seen, can be found in
the low lands of Louisiana behind the
levees of the Mississippi. The stars and
stripes have no more faithful lovers than
the men of ihe new south. No more
earnest and determined defenders of the
beloved flag can be found within the foui
corners of the nation. None will resent
more (inicklv au insult to it.”
THE ITATA IN PORT,
Her Arrival at San Diego Under
Escort of the Charleston.
A San Diego, Cal., dispatch says: The
Chilian transport Itata and the United
States cruiser Charleston arrived in port
at 9:30 o’clock Saturday, forenoon, direct
from lquique. The Itata entered harbor
and anchored in the channel, while the
Charleston remained outside. The Itata
was at once boarded by revenue officers.
At 10 o’clock the Itata reached the iden
tical anchorage from which she
eloped so sensationally some months
ago with a United States marshal
on board. The wharves were soon
crowded with people, all anxious to get a
look at the vessel, and the bay was
dotted in every direction with sailing
craft of all descriptions. As soon as
possible, Officer Churchill, in charge of
the vessel, came ashore, and telegraphed
his report to the department at Washing
ton. The Itata came in flying the Chilian
flag, covered with bunting, in
honor of the day, and carrying
as officers and crew the same
men who manned her when she left so
suddenly. The Itata’s machinery, which
was said to have been purposely damaged
by the insurgents, is declared to have
worked admirably until the last two or
three days of tbe journey. Arrange
ments were immediately made to turn
the vaasel over to the proper United
States authorities.
Returning Home.
A London cablegram of Thursday says:
Many Jews are are arriving in Palestine:
from two to three hundred families week
ly. They are entirely destitute, and the
distress among them is terrible. Bread
is ver, o'ar. Typhus and scarletina are
raging in Jerusa'em and a general pesti
lence is feared.
NO. il.