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VOLUME I. STATE NEWS. THE BAPTIST. Atlanta has been full of the workers of the great Baptist denomination for several days. About 1,500 delegates at tended the convention —coming from all the Southern States. The report of the home mission board . showed a total number of missions of 365. Eighty houses of worship have been built during the year. 324 Sunday schools were organized and 1,324 sta tions were maintained. 5,271 candidates were baptized and >5,973 received into the church by letter. The report of the treasurer of the board showt d total cash receipts of $126,281.51. For the year just closed the receipts of the board were $17,- 682.88 in excess of last year. The report of the foreign missions board showed twenty-one new mission aries in the field for the past year. The receipts for the year were $114,325, the largest sum ever received in a year. The deficit this year is $16,932.24. The report showed forty conversions in Italy for the year and two new churches built there. Brazil reported ninety baptisms and a total member ship of 119. In Mexico there have been 127 baptisms, which makes the Baptist church there *958 strong. The Japan mission has been established only a short time, but is still nourishing. In north China there have been nine bap tisms for t he year, which makes the to tal Baptist membership there 141. Cen tral China has 110 church members. The Orients have brought the work of the missionaries to the attention of the emperor, which has interceded to per fect them. South China had 120 bap tisms and a total of 666 church mem bers. Africa had thirty-one baptisms and the membership there is 111. There are 124 pupils in the African mission Sunday school, but the work is difficult. Nashville, Tenn., was selected as the next place of meeting. The following is tne .apportionment of the centennial fund to be raisedin • , each stfei foreign missions. 3he same amount additional is to be raised for* home missions. Alabama,*s7,soo; Arkansas, $1,500: Arkansas and Indian Territory, 8250; District of Columbia, $500; Florida, 1,500; Georgia, $12,500; Kentucky, $15,250; Louisiana, $1,500; Maryland $12,500; Mississippi, $5,250; Missouri, $10,000; North Carolina, $7,750; South Carolina, $8,500; Tennessee, $10,000; Texas, $15,250; Virginia. $15,250. To tal, $125,000. MURDER AT TOCCOA. Safe Blowers Caught by the Marshal Kill Rim With an Irou Bar. Toccoa, G May 10. —James A. Car ter trie faithful night watchman at this place, was murdered about 4 o’clock tjiis morning. The murder was com mitted with a crowbar,which was found in a car near by. The bank was broken into, and it is supposed that the watch naan surprised the robbers while inside, and in order to make their escape the robbers brained him with a crowbar. The knob was knocked from the vault door, but they gained no entrance to the vault. The money drawer was rifled of a f«w dollars. The body of Mr. Carter was found lying near the bank this morning and traces leading from the place were followed to the car, where the blootly crowbar was found, and on to a lewd house kept by some negro women, where Jim Redman and Bob Addison, colored, were arrested. Circumstantial evidence points very strongly to their guilt, Jim Redman, i colored, was seen with the watchman J just before 4 o'clock and pretended to be j trying to assist him in capturing a negro who had been making some sus picious moves in another part of town. A nickel has been found in Redman’s possession that P. M. Scott refused to take from the bank yesterday in pay ment lor stamps. The coroner is here, and everybody are bending their energies to discover the guilty parties. Mr. Carter was a I faithful officer and our citizens say his murder must be avenged, and if it is proven on anyone Judge Lynch will have a hanging. THE FIENDS ARRESTED. later.- Jim Redman has confessed to bank robbery and implicates Gus Roberson and Will Bence, all negros, and says they were frightened off by the watchman, but denies all knowledge of the murder. Paris, May 10 The police of St. Etienne to-day discovered a secret tele phone code containing a list of the ad herents of the Anarchists’ committee. An attempt was made to-day to blow up the railway bridge at St. Eenbercque, near Anas. People’s Party Paper. to JX.II Special None.” A BURGLAR SHOT DEAD. He Also Had a Hand in the Train Robbery.* Birmingham, Ala., May 6.—E. E. Liddell was killed at the Pratt mines ! early this morning while burglarizing a jewely store. lie, in company with i G. W. McDaniel and C. L. Miller, went to Pratt mines with the purpose of committing the burglary. McDaniel was in the employ of Detective J. B. Robbins, of this city, who had been working up the train robberies which occurred at Collin’s Station, on the Georgia Pacific railroad, on the 30th of March. Liddell had previously made a con i session to McDaniel that he was con-- i nected wit h the train robbery, and told him of his intention to rob the mines. McDaniel gave this information to Detective Robbins, and he instructed McDaniel to go with Liddell and i Miller and learn the exact; night of the , intended robbery. Being informed* that last night was the time set for the I burglary, Detective Robbins, with i posse, repaired to the place, secreted themselves and awaited the coming of the burglars. At 2 o'clock this morn ing the three men arrived at the Pratt mines in a buggy, and, after tying their hosre in the woods near by, went to the store and opened the front door. McDaniel remained outside while the others went in and began proceed ings. At a signal from .McDaniel, the posse closed in on their game. Lid dell ran out of the back door and was shot by one of the posse.. Miller was captured and brought to this city. Liddell’s dead body was found about four hundred yards from a store at daylight. He had been known in this city as a quack dentist. He was identi fied as a burglar from New Orleans. Miller is in the county jail. THE DYKE BROKEN. A Large Territory of Farming Laud Flooded. Peoria, 111., May 6.—The dyke of the Lamarvh draining district in the lower end of the city, gave "way shortly after 7 o’clock this evening, flooding the dis trict, which is about five miles in length by two and a half in breadth. This was all reclaimed land and un der cultivation. About twenty fami lies live in the portion affected and the greatest excitemsnt prevails at Pekin, directly opposite which it lies, for it is feared that some of the families have perished in the rush of water. The break is about 600 feet in length,, and the damage to property will amount to thousands of dollars. Res cueing parties are arranging to go out from Pekin. The Illinois river is high er than it has been since 1884. THE ROBBERY A FAILURE. The Plan Well Laid but Also Well Guarded Against. Benton. Texas, May 6. —A desperate attempt was made to rob the passenger train on she Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad which left here yester day morning. Shortly’ after leaving this place the conductor discovered two masked men on the platform of the express car. The train was stop ped and the men put off. The train , proceeded on its journey. The engi neer saw a red lantern being waived by some one some distance ahead of him. As ho slacked the speed of the train he discovered a number of men, and observed that they were masked. He did not stop. As the train passed the men tired several volleys, but none of the passengers were injured. Two Prisoners Escape. Greenville, S. C., May 9. —Two pris oners made their escape from the new ; county jail on Saturday night last. They ( were George Head, awaiting trial for; larceny and murder, and Ritchie, a moon- i shiner, awaiting trial for violating the i revenue law. They were allowed to go ; into that portion of the building used as ■ the prison water closet, and both being • slender men they succeeded in reaching ; the cellar through a sewer. Here they soon cut through a wa’l, which separated them fr.-m the furnace room. From there they ascended the stairway to the jailer’s office on the second floor, the resi dence portion of the building, and es caped fyom the window by leaping to the yard below. They were seen leaping from the window by several persons pas sing. The jailer was notified at once. The sheriff and police force were started after them, and, so far, they have not been recaptured, though it is reported that a posse is within a short distance of them, and it is expected they will be cap tured in a few hours. Great floods are reported in all the lowa rivers, entailing great loss upon' the crops. ATLANTA, GA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1892. Want Young’s Place. Washington. May 10. —It appears that there are at least three applicants in the field for the place of executive clerk of the senate. They are Gen. Harrison Allen, of Fargo North Da kota, formally a resident of Pennsyl vania, who is backed by the north western senators; Charles Martin, of Kansas, late clerk of the House of Representatives, who is brought for ward by Senator Perkins and W. 11. 11. Hart, a colored man and a graduate of Howard University, who was the pro tege of ex-Senator Evarts and who has strong backing. PENSIONS FOR CONFEDERTES. Associated Press. New Orleans, May 9.—At a meet ing of Confederate veterans in this city, notice was given that they will insist upon the passage by the legisla ture of the pension law giving all confederate veterans crippled, dis abled or otherwise incapacitated of supporting themselves, a pension of from $6 to sl2 a month, The demand, if granted, which it probably will be, will cost the State somewhere from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO a year. A Mammoth Failure. Mobile, Ala., May 6 th.— Thoms s Forbes, jr., retail grocer, 102 Dauphin street, sold out his interest in business yesterday to W. B. Pope>, his partner, and to-day made a general assignment to James W. Gray of all his ether property, including certain notes of Pope in pay ment of the purchase of the business. Liabilities $500,000. Endorsing for the St. Elmo Ltimber Company caused his failure. The St. Elmo Company has been attached by the local creditors of Forbes. Their Pay Cut Off. Parts. May 6. —Six French bishops are now deprived of their stipends. This vigorous measure is without pre cedent. It is the beginning of dissen dowment. If the policy of subjuga ting the church succeeds, the govern ment will attempt to remove the offend ing bishops from their sees. The ru mor of tb.e resignation of the .arch bishop of Paris is revived. Fell Through a Bridge. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 6. —One span of the Sheffield end of the Mem phis and Charlston bridge, at Florence, Ala., collapsed this morning at 8:39 and a crew of five men with a freight engine and live cars were precipitated forty feet into the river. Two men were seriously injured and Brakeman Hamlett was killed. Roanoke, Va., May 6.—lt was 3 o’clock this morning when the republican state convention adjourned. A big fight was made on the question of instructing dele gates to Minneapolis to vote for Harrison. Mahone won, the delegates going unin structed. THE ITALIAN CRISIS. The Finances of the Kingdom are in a Bad Condition. Rome, May 6. —Marquis Rudini and the cabinet have resigned. King Humbert has not yet accepted the resignation of the ministry, and be is undecided what course to take in the matter. It is well known that the finances of Italy are in a very bad way, and in some quarters this condition of affairs is attributed solely to the expenses in curred in maintaining Italy’s place in the Triple Alliance, but this is not alone the reason. There is another form of extravagance that is not pe culiar to Italy alone. This is the irra tional number of employes in all de partments of the government. Signor Crispi was the first prime minister who resolutely set about reducing the number of employes in the public ser vice, and he was really upset on the project for the reduction of the admin istrative expenses by this means. The fact was too patent to the Ru dini ministry for it to risk* a step in this direction, and the result is that place holders are still drawing large sums annually from the public treas u-y. In the opinion of many people the economies in the army and navy are the last that should be made. Tha expenditure on the army is, paradoxi cal as it may seem, the most profitable a nation makes. The army is the school of manhood of Italy and the surest and quickest meens of indis pensable unification, still incomplete, and the best cure for many ancient evils still lingering in the body politic. London, May 7. —The Sebastopol cor respondent of the Standard sends the fol lowing dispatch to his paper : ‘’Prepara tions for war in Russia have never been more active than now. There is a con tinuous movement of troops to the western frontiers of the country.” TOOK TONS OF GOAL. AND BURNED DOWN THE PRESI DENT’S RESIDENCE. I London, May 9. —Quite a serious riot occurred Saturday at the Castleden col : liery, near Hartlepool. The trouble grew i out of the employment of a non-unionist I named Stockdale. I The union men attacked him Saturday j evening us he was leaving his work and ; would, np doubt, have seriously injured | him had it not been for the interference i of the police. The rioters then turned, their attention |to the latter and hurled a shower of j stones at them. A number of policemen ’ were struck by the missiles and badly ;injured. ' Stockdale took to his heels and ran to his home. The mob was in strong force, and finding that Stockdale had tempora rily escaped them, rushed to the colliery and smashed the engine house to piece?. Then procuring bags and baske s they ; made a descent upon the piles of coal. > and every man lugged off as much fuel as be could carry. ! Again and again they returned, and ; it is said that they managed to steal a i hundred tons of coal. It was impossi i ble for the mine officials or police to j prevent them from doing just about as they pleased. Finally some one in the crowd suggested they attack Stock dale’s house. This suggestion met with instant ap proval and the howling and yelling mob rushed to 1 he house, and in a short time it was totally wrecked. The oc cupants, however, had been warned in time and made their escape before the rioters ruahed through. Another house, in which an official of the mine resided, was set on fire, and then, satisfied for the time being with the destruction they had wrought, the rioters withdrew. Yesterday, however, the mob gather ed again and threatened to wreck all the upper works of the colliery. The min.® officials parleyed with the mob, an-» promising to discharge I Stockdale, induced the miners to sus ■ pend hostilities. THE LABOR QUESTION. the interest of wealth produ cers TO THE FRONT in ENGLAND. London, May 6. Within both Glad stone’s immediate circle and the rank and file of the Liberal party his refusal to receive delegates from the Working men’s Conference who desired to present the eight hour question to him is keenly felt to have been a tactical mistake. Quick to take advantage of this mistake, the Conservative members of the house of commons for London held a meeting and decided to influence the government to take the opposite course. The Liberal members a ! so held a special meeting, but they hesitated to take action condemn ing Fladstone. They therefore referred the matter to a committee, with instruc tions to report next week. In the mean, time the conservatives stole a inarch on them by inducing Salisbury and Balfour to receive a deputation consisting of duly accredited prepresen tatives of trades unions. THE TRADESMEN ARE SHARP. The leaders of the trades union coun cil are almost without exceptions Radi cals. They will not be duped into sup pcsing that the Conservative chiefs are more zealous in the cause of ’abor than the Liberal leaders, nor will either Salis bury or Balfour commit himself to the eight hour movement. But; it is not doubted that the result of the confer ence between the labor representatives and the Conservative chiefs will be the plaCipg of the labor question at the fore front of the programme of both political parties, to the embarrassment of the Ltberal chief, who is allied to home rule. Preparing For War. London, May 7. —The Sebastopol cor respondent of the Standard, sends the following dispatch to his paper : “Preparations for war in Russia have never been more active than now. There is a continuous movement of troops to the western frontiers of the country and the calling out of success ive categories of reserves in the. interi or has commenced. These reserves will be forwarded to various points of concentration, -whence they can in the easiest manner reinforce the regulars in the Polish garisons. On the Austri an and German frontiers naval trans port preparations are nearly com pleted. The conservatives are urging Balfour to fix a date for the dissolution of par liament. MONEY AND BRAINS. THE COMBINATION REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS IN CONGRESS. Good Stories Told in the Smoking Room. ♦ Washington, April 29.—The gossip of the smoking room is the attraction which keeps many a man in congress. The pro ceedings and debates on the floor of the house are, for the most part, dull and uninteresting. One quickly tires of them unless he be a leader in the thick of the fight, and only the few can be leaders. But the smoking rooms and the sofas and easy chairs in the rear of the hall never lose their charm. Say what you please about the medi ocrity of congressmen, I know from per .sonal contact with the statesmen of a number of congresses that while the art of oratory is gradully being lost in this country, the art of talking well in a conversational way is continually grow ing. Sit down in these smoking rooms and you will hear all the latest stories, the freshest mots, all the newest gossip of men, women and politics. Here the leaders are pulled to pieces, humbug ex posed, demagogy confessed or ridiculed, the future of parties predicted and the fortunes of presidential candidates set tled about fifty times a day. Men like these daily symposiums, this meeting together of kindred spirits, and the pleasure here obtained is about all the satisfaction a majority of the mem bers get out of congressional service. I think my friend General Newbury, of Chicago, voiced a prevalent sentiment when he said the other day that but for. the goasip and stories of the smoking seats he would have resigned his mem bership long ago. “I am at the same time paying pretty dearly for my whis th*,” added Newbury. “My board bill ter myself and family, five persons, four rooms, is S6OO a month. I pay $l5O a month for a carriage, that being cheaper than bringing my own carriage on from Chicago. My other expenses foot up about $250 a month, and so I find that my salary of $416 66 a month falls a. long way short of keeping me going. It w’s me about $125 a week to sit in the smoking room an l listen to John Alien’s stories.” There are plenty of other congressmen who spfcnd as much money for the honor of sitting in the house as Air. Newberry. The great majority, however, are bard up all the time, because they are poor men and a $5,000 a year salary does not! hold out very well in this town. I have it on good authority that the’stories told in the smoking rooms are of better quali ty as a rule than the cigars there con sumed. Nine out of ten of our fronds from the west and southwes; are con tent with a five center, but when you see Bourke Cockran, Speaker Crisp and Mr. Catchings putting their heads to- j gether, you may be sure that none but five for-a dollar cigars are in their mouths. Mr. Cockran furnishes them. This young Tammany lawyer, a veri table giant in frame, is coming to the front as one of the strongest men of the house. He is immensely popu’ar. He and Tom Reed, who sit opposite each other with only an aisle between them, are about the most noticeable pair in the house. Both are big physically and in brain power. Each of them is a great debater. Both are witsand good fellows. They wear the two largest hats in the house, Reed's being a seven and a-half and Cockran’s a seven and three-quar ters. Reed and Cockran are immensely fond of each othe v , too, and the ex speaker often dines at the fine house ' which the young Tammany man main tains heie. Probably Cockran is living in Washington at the rate of SI,OOO a month, but he can afford it, for his law | practice in New York yields him a hand- j some income. Reed is still the leader on the repub lican side, and when he assembles his lieutenants and tells them what he wants done his dictum generally settles it. The above letter gives a demo-; cratic account of the way congress-' men attend to their duties. Read it carefully. After doing so j you will not wonder why the inter ests of the people are neglected. Air. Cockran, the democrat and one of the Tammany chiefs, is said i to have an income of $75,000 per; year from his *law business. He is rarely in his seat in congress. His name is not on the tax books of i New York City. He pays no tax. But he is very liberal in spending , the taxes of the people, and votes always for big appropriations. Liquor will be sold on the grounds of the world’s fair. NUMBER 33 WATER IS SCARCE. Atlanta in Bad Shape for the Coining Summer. Atlanta is threatened with a waller i famine. Last summer there was rnffi h i inconvenience and anxiety on account of the scarcity of water, and this year j the famine has assumed threatening ! proportions at a much earlier date. ' The water in the reservoir has already run so low that it is impossible tc give more than half pressure, and the sup ply during the day cannot be forced to the second stories of buildings. Work is being pushed as fast as possibly on> the new water works, but the indica : tions are that the new supply .will not . be turned into the city before it i<- bad ly needed. The National Executive Committee Opposed to Fusion. Witbin the last thirty days I have re . ceived so many letters inquiring about j fusion with one of the old parties that I ; am compelled to make this statement to ! the public. These inquiries have all i grown out of the reports that the old party press have been sending over the country. They are all pure fabrications, without a s ngle word of truth in them. Mr. Fish, of Minnesota, writes : “That fusion matter is the rankest kind-* of fraud, a lie of the deepest dye.” The same report comes from Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. The following is a resolution offered by Mr. Washburne, at a session of the ex ecutive committee at St. Louis, June, 1891, which was unanimously adopted, and will show how the committee stands on this question, and what fusion advo cates may expect from us : ‘ Resolved, That the national executive committee is unalterably opposed to fu sion with any other political party, and will not recognize any individual, com mittee or organization that proposes or enters into such fusion, as affiliated with the People’s Party. ’ Fusion means confusion, and will lead to nothing else. We want all the votes we can get. We want every democrat and republican to come with us, and we would like to have every office within the gift of. the people, but we can’t af ford to secure either votes or office by bartering away our principles. The very moment we use them as trading stock and peddle them, around to the? highest bidder, to secure an office, we will sink into oblivion, and we ought to. There is but one thing for us to do— “ Keep in the middle of the road.” hoist the black Hag and neither give nor accept any quarter. Anyone who expects any of the old parties to give us any financial reform by fusion, in my opinion, is a mental deformity.—H. E. Taubeneek in Topeka Advocate. They Will Stand for the Right* The Alliancemap, Atlanta, Ga. There is a very decided movement upon the part of the leaders of the Democratic party in ths State to crush out the Alliance and destroy its power for good. Where an Allianceman can be bought, they buy him, just as tho Richmond Terminal crowd bought them up a year ago. Where they find An Allianceman of brain and influence who cannot be bought, the effort is to bulldoze him, and where this fails they trot out the threadbare and exploded' ghost of “negro supremacy” to horrify and frighten the timid and thought less. Our people will not be driven from their allegiance to the Alliance and its purposes, nor wHI they be bought or scared into abandoning the great movement which has been inaugurated for the relief of the masses from poli tical and financial bondage. The flat has gone forth that the bur dens of the people shall be lightened and those who most need relief will not now be wheedled out of the possi bility of obtaining that for which the Alliance was formed and which only' through the Alliance can be had. To our friends we say: Stand firm* for principles and listen not to the voice of the tempter and all will be right! » Pulaski Goes Wet. Hawkinsville, Gx.,May 10.—Pulas ki county voted on the prohibition ques tion for the forth time today, and the re sult was a Waterloo for the dry men. The indications are that the county has gone wet by about three hundred majoirty. At the last election, held two years ago, the county went dry by 165 majority, and in this election Coch ran went dry by eighty-two majority, while the net majority in Hawkins ville is over two hundred. Crisp can, but won’t bring the sil ver bill to a vote. The Mon ana republicans send an un instructed delegation to Minneapolis.