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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXV.
fm- ss#* drill- twenty feet deep and
snow balls are com
r, yield to the rotary plow.
^ w appliance* mean business
r ^fru
JTthey : ”
[i seem; that Russia anticipates some
j^vitk China. A prolonged raili
council was held recently at St.
, UfoorgMid discussed plaus
for Ru¬
| operation* in the event of war on
|Cii«se frontier. Two uncles of the
,H ffic Grand Dukes, and the most
m of the present.
officers army were
I Wtaea man and his wife are lost at
L the law always supposes that iie, be
j. ^ stronger, survived her by some
Wiiutes or hours. In seven different
Les followed up iu the French courts
Uhi n the last ten years it was found
L the wife outlived her husband, and
L practice of the law had to be re
■rsed. _____________________
The genius that led to the manufac
ge of wooden nutmegs, some years ago
L genius for making money by filling
L, fellow men with sawdust, like chil
L’ s dolls—has broken loose again.
k|s time flour, water and some unknown
Ledient like mucilage, take the place
a wood and instead of nutmegs, coffee
Lenuine Uio, Java, Mocha, or any de
Lp] brand—is manufactured.
I The eventful fall of the British House
■ Lords is again foreshadowed in the an
Laiceini'nt that the Government cou
kplstc introducing once more at the
kt session of Parliament the black
kep bill, the object of which is to keep
kt of the upper House those peers who
It a discredit to their order. The bill
HI differ from others, in that it will in
Ik a committee of the House, consisting
If judicial peers and certain lay peers,
p the power of penal discipline over
■ House of Lords. The action of the
Luittee will be subject to confirmation
Injection by the House itself, but if
kbill is literally construed upon the
ks designated the membership of the
k* of Lords will be materially de
Led.
Admiral Shufeldt, of the United States
KJ, tells how the Russians are filching
eritory from the Chinese on the bound-
6 between Siberia and China. The
kns of communication are so poor in
pa and the avenues of news are so
■ that it is impossible for the Chinese
step track of the goings on in their
princes. The Russians send a regi
pt of Cossacks, with their families,
Ikat ten or fifteen miles into China,
p regiment will settle down, take up
it land and cultivate it. They take up
kknuidarv stones as they settle down.
put them at the edge of their settle
and the next year another regi
comes along, takes up the land lic¬
and moves tlie boundary stones
oh toward Pekin. These ca
have been going on for
and the Chinese cannot understand
perpetual shrinkage of their north.
frontier.
When a foreign Government gets hold
thing like smokeless powdej
loading guns it keeps contra
it for its own uses as long as possible,
it comes that the United States is
Ft supplied with smokeless powder,
several foreign Governments
in possession of the secret of its
It would seem, says the
York News, to be the part of wis
fur our Government when it is of
to be used in national
take it. The dynamite guns
first offered to our Government, but
of purchasing the patent aud
control of the guns we are al
them to lie sold to all foreign
Several have just been
for the use of the British Gov
We will uot be to any advan¬
in this matter, because every other
will he as well supplied as
Smokeless powder was invented
retired army officer, who offered it
our Government, which treated him
such scant courtesy that he sold
invention abroad. Uncle Sam is one
the most close-fisted and meanest men
earth, unless there is a political job in
Details come from France of the Afri
journev of Captain Trivier, the
explorer. The gallant Captain
fpr five days with Tippu Tib, the
<ttoiis African chief, He says he found
to be th e real master of Central
>oa, having far more power than the
.
of Zanzibar. Tippu declared that
sot like the English, and that he
the French, This statement.
ver ’ tll,: New York Sun thinks may
be en mere politeness his part,
on as
‘ r Tippu s characteristics is always
1 particularly
charmed with the na
foe European who happens
C °r Pany Trivier SayS he
that '
th 10 districts he traversed
, . were
th, ‘V" nu,ur;l ' features, and that
ihe " eic oyb.’ bad point. On
lieves jwf ? tm <Jl ll ’ y Uave fr' ra ’ thc efranee Captain be
vauciij, , no of ad
W, : lJ,ereU > as the Germans
n
«—a™
h Gf-s difficulties. The British,
hta
fished he has ac ’
to i,j J0urnc J " iutended
solve as
w _. ,
Stofltarir- * P°' nts about the
of the Dark Conti inent.
A1 THE CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS by president HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OE GENER AL INTEREST.
The third democrat was unseated
Wednesday to make or.
can. This room for a republi
time Mr. (ate, of Arkan-as
was tlie unfortunate one. Feather-ton’
thc contestant, was at once -worn in’
Many republicans admitted In- election 1
Ihere were, indeed, a half dozen wh<|
abaented themselves to prevent brine
forced to vote against their moral convie
ion-. ( onsequentlv (he republican ma
jomy was very small, although .mlv om
-ts,asts-Tffii z r - SF&rsr r't
or
i“l o 'sStjrjrt ‘ mv - r , r " n
cl.™«... w
turne.1 ant.* The me dcc’ariu-CMe'ld
elected was—yeas, 147- °
Featherstone ‘was navs bv’ 148* and
seated a vote of
yeas 143. nays 133, and the oath of office
»;l- administered to him bv the speaker
The next case to be taken up is the
Mudd-G'ompton The house contest from Maryland.
committee on agriculture set
apart its session on Wednesday to hear
members of congress who desired to speak
ujton the bills pending before the wan¬
mittee to regulate the manufacture and
sale of compound lard. Representative
Stewart, of Georgia, read a letter from W.
I- Peek, president of the Farmers’ Alli¬
ance of Georgia, in wbichjhe says; "Mr.
Hatch has no authority "to say that the
Alliance in Georgia wants such a bill as
you speak of. Of course it would ruin
the oil mill industry in tlie South, and
damage us about $28,000,000 annually.
It would reduce the price of laid so as to
work great assured hardships to poor people. You
can rest that Georgia wants nc
such measure passed.” Representative
Morgan, of Mississippi, a member of the
committee, said he w as a member of the
Farmers’Alliance, and knew that the or¬
ganization in the southern States does not
desire the legislation proposed in the Con¬
ger and Butterworth bills. They are in
favor of a general pure food bill. The
passage of the Conger bill would take
bread and meat out of the months ol' the
people. Wednesday
The senate on took up the
Blair educational bill Mr. Barbour
addressed the senate in advocacy of the hill.
He spoke of the great intere-t which the
people took in that measure, and said that
it had been favored in the plat¬
form of both political parties in
that state. It was of the deepest interest
to the people of Virginia, who had
as much for the sake of education
as the people of any other State. They
had expended about given $19,000,000 for that
purpose, and had $5,000,000 to ed¬
ucate the colored children, which the
general government had put upon, not
as citizens, but as sovereigns. lie
surprised at the lack of interest on
subject shown by the senate, and was
at the Southern Senators’ oppo¬
Tlie senate consumed all day Thursday
a “dark lantern" with m -sion, discussing
was best to do newspaper cor¬
who persisted iu printing
secret session neu s. The idea of
the the correspondents their unless informa¬ they
tell source of
lias practically been abandoned.
of other suggestions were made,
nearly every senator present had a
to say, but all propositions again were
down, and adjournment was
without a decision upon any plan.
matters now stand, many senators are
much annoyed. Indeed, they are
but there seems only one solution,
abolishment of “dark lantern'’ ses¬
In the house, on Friday morning. Mr.
of the committee on elections,
a resolution in the Alabama con¬
election ease of Threet vs. Clark.
resolution, which was unanimously
declared Clark entitled to retain
seat. It was adopted. The house
went into committe of the whole on
private calendar, The house in its
session passed fifty private pen¬
bills and adjourned. business
After the usual morning presentation on ot
in the way of the
and of the introduction and re¬
of bills, the senate proceeded calendar. to
consideration of bills on the
buildings on the calendar having
reached, the following Oakland,Cal., were passed:
Sterling. Ills..$50,000:
Chvenne, Wyo., $150.000; Ches¬
Pa.,$100,000; Helena, Mt., $400,000.
senator from New Hampshire Mr.
again attacked tlie press of the
He went on to speak of the
Herald, Boston Globe, and New
Tribune as being against his educa¬
bill, and said that every democrati(
in New York advocated it, mean
in that connection, the Herald, Times.
World and Evening Poet. After a short
executive session, the senate adjourned
till Monday. Saturday -Mr. Me
In the house on commit
Crearv. of Kentucky, from the
tee on foreign affaire, reported a resohi
tiou requesting from the Mexican president an\
correspondence with the gov¬
ernment in regard to the employ, mted tent ot m
the regular army of the L . ates
Indian scouts for the purpose m pur¬
suing hostile Indians in them -‘-da into
territories of the United States; and any
correspendcce in regard to the proposed awl
transfer of the Apache
Chiricahua Indians from
Vernon barracks Alabama, to
Fort Hill, Indian Territory. consumed Adopted. he .
The morning hour was m
discussion of the bill providing for he
compulsory attendance. of witnesses be¬
fore registers and receivers of land offices,
which was passed. The house then, in
committee of the whole, resumed consul
n^SJS: lious'.whichmnricdmtely jri'l '•(»'«>
the bills to the ^ ’ h
found itself in a -mail ‘ ^
! u « fu rtw ' v
,0 “'L» 1
committee on
elections, after a long re-urn
republican senators, be
Saunders, the
seated.
A bill was repo rtSfoom ■ thccomwure 1
e.ca.IbuRdjJ' f transfer the
on aw ric’iltur
"MT COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER BE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY !* — Jxmasov.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 13 . 1890.
;■ rather bureau to tbe agricultural depart-
1 he comptroller of currency Inis an
iwrizwl the Anniston National bank, of
be o' in busin ™ «i!h a
. 1 jnt. 1 l of 1100,000.
T he agricultural committee on Friday
postponed the vote on the compound lard
bill lor a week. The southern men feei
= °’' c h‘Jieful and are workinglikebeavers
i 1 it ’
,, I ostmaster-General Wanamaker anci
H ™ e ’ i{l accompanied bv Mrs. Harrison,
’ .™’ 88011 HamVon and Mrs. McKee,
l,av, , Washington for trip Flori
‘ a to
^ , whore ihey will spent about weeks.
two
mforn Atiorney-General Miller has received
ation from the United States mar
s hM of Alabama, of depredations on gov
"iintnt lands, b seizing timber, am
&-"•«“»
**"-**
i
llU ‘ r « l f " r tlle purpose of wrecking th,
,h * ■>“
) k " r ';' lled all his chairmen cl
co, i' illlttee8 tbem together, Thursday morning,
T gavc Mrict instructions to hold
the appropriation^ He said he
' ■ l ;.‘ l(i temi l ncd that the Democratic pre
<hct,ons ,llat thls would be the most ex
travagant administration in the history
of tiiis country should not prove correct.
notice Congressman Baker, of New York,gave
would Wednesday that in a few days he
call up the bills for the admission
of Wyoming and Idaho. The democrats
want to bring iu New Mexico and Arizo¬
na, where they believe they have a fight¬
ing chance simultaneously with the two
northern territories. The Wyoming bill
contains a female suffrage clause, and
recognizes the right of women to hold
office.
The sub-committee ou the world's fait
made encouraging progress towards the
cot nplctiou of their bill at Saturday’s
tion meeting. The Chicago visiting delega¬
were present and the sub-committee
turned the bill over to them with instruc¬
tions to go over it very carefully, line by
line, and suggest such changes as in theii
opinion were necessary to make the mea¬
sure meet the needs of Chicago.
Thursday, Representative introduced Taylor, of Illinois, or
in the house a bill
to provide for the establishment of a sys¬
tem of government telegraphs, for the use
of the government and the people, anil to
be operated as a part of the postal system.
It provides that a board, consisting of the
Secretary of State, Secretary of War and
Postmaster General shall cause to be built
or shall buy lines of telegraph, wherein it
is the opinion suc h are needful to the pur¬
poses of the government.
The direct tax bill wag, on Friday, re¬
ported back to the house from the judi¬
ciary ity committee, accompanied by major¬
and minority reports. The majority
report says that the views on the bill last
year meet the approval of the majority,
and are adopted by them in reporting
the bill back this year. The minority
report says that the veto message of ex
President Cleveland is so accurate and
lucid in statement, so cogent in reason¬
ing and logical in deduction, that theii the
the adopts bill. it as expressing
views on
There is a great scramble being made
by various companies control all over the country fishe¬
to secure the of the seal fur
ries in the Behring sea. The government
has opened the bids for the control of
these fisheries for the next twenty years.
It allows 60,000 seals to lie killed annu¬
ally. The Alaska Seal Fur company has
it for twenty year* past. They
are among the score of bidders this time.
Their profits for twenty years have been
999 per cent annually, large consequently number the
great scramble and of
bidders.
Senator Alison, the great republican
leader, created a sensation iu polit¬
ical circles, on Friday, by coming out in
an interview in which he plainly and dis¬
goes back on (he leading feature
the republican platform outlined iu
Chicago convention. He says: “You
say that 1 am in favor of a deep cut
sugar. I will uot say that 1 favor thi
of the duty and the payment ol
bounty. As to tobacco, you may say
I will vote to abolish the tax on il
reluctantly. NYe will have a hard
explaining the duty on a great many
if we almlisli the duty on
great luxury."
The Pan-American conference ha<
adopted the report of the com¬
on international law. Majority
minority reports were made by the
on customs union. The ma¬
say that the establishment of ;
union, as generally understood,
require not only a partial sacrifice
national sovereignty of the American
but more radical changes in theii
constitutions than they arc
to accept. The majority, there¬
deem impracticable. the adoption They of a customs
-as propose to
however, to such of the
as may desire partial recip¬
to make commercial treaties with
or more of the American countries
such basis as may he accepted in
case. The minority report recom¬
the rejection of the whole subject.
destructive fires.
DETROIT AND JONESVILLE.
THE SUFFERERS
A special from Birmingham occurred says: Tin in
st disastrous fire that ever
city, broke out in . a brick block on
street, at 2:30 Sunday morning.
losses and insurance are: E. E. Sew¬
undertaker, ou stock $15,000, build¬
$23,000, insurance $5,000; Misfit
company, loss $5,000, fully in
McGuire & Wood, .saloon, losi
Insurance $1,000: Joe Frank,
liquor dealer, stock dam
bv water, fully insured.
At Detroit, Mich.. Fire was discovered
morning in the rear of Gray A
-ix -torv brick furniture factory,
was totally destroyed. The establish Car
& Hunter Chair company
the Ostler Printing company and
Cigar manufactory, ground. caught This next
and were burned to the i
,he largest fire Detroit has experienced fire,
-inccIL M. Ferry’s seed store m
1 1886. when the loss into
Jauuary. ran
the million.-. The total loss is estimated
, *>50 000. partly insured.. . Tire
broke out at Jout-sville, 8 .'J.Sunday night
bttrn^L ,i n'-'oek °J Tbe following stores were dry
L McWhirter & Co.,
‘ $10,090 with somfe insurance.
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uat d at
ALLIANCE NOTES.
-
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
_
items 0 p interest to the farmer.
(fathered from various section;
of the country. ’
__
The Mississippi Fanners’ Alliance ha;
18,563.00 in bank at Winona.
*
C. a Meadows, of Wrightsrille, Ga.,
killed an Alliance hog that weighed .572
pounds, and sold for $43.38.
The Polk County *\ Alliance have
completed (Ga.)
a substantial stone building at
Rockmart for their Alliance store.
2£&£r*sssg£r ^ ,m
The Fanners' and Laborers’ Union of
Franco do not meddle in politics. They
devote their work to co-operative and
technical matters.
A member of a sub-Allianee in Cobb
county, Ga., has been expelled for using
jute, and having his cotton ginned where
the ginner used jute.
* *
The offensive and defensive alliance
of the Farmers’ State grange and Knights
of Labor, in Kansas 1 masses the influence
of 125,000 members.
The Farmers’ Alliance, ***
of Edgefield
county, 8. C., has determined to establish
a Farmers’ Alliance Bank, to be located
at some railroad point in the county.
The shares are fixed at $25 each, to be
paid in five annual installments.
***
A few men join the Alliance through
speculative motives, and because they
can't feel themselves financially benefitted
all at once, they kick out. Such men
ought to stay out among the speculators,
for they are not fit for Alliancemeu.
The Plain Speaker, of Orangeburg, 8.
CY, reports that State Superintendent T.
E. Pratt, of the Colorado National Alli¬
an ce, is delivering addresses full of good
advice to the sub-Allianccs in variou;
parts of the State, and the negro fanners
appear to be benefitted by his advice.
* #
A business man in Greenville, 8. C..
who dealt largely last year with member)
of the Alliance through arrangements
made with the County Business Agent, re¬
marked a few days ago that of more thaD
$18,000 worth of goods sold on time to
Allianeemen, there was less than $100
past due and unpaid, and he considered
every dollar of that amount perfectly
good.
*
would shame (■ *
It lie a upon the part of
those who have gone into the Alliance to
fail to carry out their obligations. Let
each member ask himself this question ■
“If every member of the Alliance should
act as 1 ilo, would it be n success ?” If
you are one of those weak-kneed sort you
will have to give it up as a failure. Then
why will you just merely pretend to lie a
thing ! If you are going to lie a thing,
be it, and if not, then make no preten¬
tions.— Rurhanan Messenger.
V ,
The attempt being made l>v lard pro¬
ducers to put a tax upon the compound,
or cotton oil lard, is an unjust measure
and should be defeated. The alleged sup¬
port of Southern Allianeemen to this
measure is fane. They are perfectly wil¬
ling that manufacturers of compound lard
should lie made to put a i unmistakable
brand upon it, so that the people may
know what they are using, and may be
able to see the lard superiority of so-called comp xiund
or cotton oil over the pure
lard; but they will never favor this pro¬
duct bearing a special tax aud being
driven out of the market.
***
The following adopted preamble by ami resolu¬
tions were the DeKalb, eoun
ty, Ga., Alliance:
Whereas, The alliance movement is uot
designed to advance the interest of one
many or of a few the men, but of doing the
greatest good to greatest number;and
Whereas, It is not a political organi¬
zation, after the “loaves and fishes of
office" and the “spoils,” but grander,
nobler and higher iu its aims and pur¬
poses, with the motto flying at its mast
head “principles not men,” but men with
principles Resolved, in That unison while with there ours. is in¬
no
hibition on the members of the Alliance
from within running the gift for of or their accepting fellow-citizens, any office
we unhesitatingly condemn the idea that
any office of the alliance can use that of¬
fice to the advancing candidacy of Iris private po¬
litical ends and his for any of¬
fice from bailiff to governor; that we draw
the line between a man hearing aloft the
alliance banner as its chosen champion for
the advancement of its principles, and
one simply using the alliance as a step¬
ping stone to place and power.
Resolved, That we condemn any such
practice and deprecate auy such action
tending to corrupt and degrade oui
mr vement.
A BRAVE GIRL
SHE FIRES UPON A BURGLAR WITH FA¬
TAL RESULTS.
Monday morning about 3 o’clock Miss
Alice Kinney, 19 years of age, who, with
her mother, lives alone on a fkrm in
Sampson county, N. C., was aroused by
the noise of some one in an adjoining
room. She at once realized that a bur¬
glar was in the house. She took a revolv¬
er from under her pillow, and holding it
iu her hands, concealed it under the vuilt.
Then she lay as if asleep, and when the
burglar bed, entered the room he walked up to
the and concluding that she was
sleeping the soundly, began looking about
room. When he turned his face Miss
Kinney the man’s raised head herself and fired. iu bed, Instantly took aim the at
•he burglar again whirled fired, around, and and as he did so
he then fell to the
floor with a groan. He died in about five
minutes. The burglar proved to be 8am
Kerns, a negro who had given much
trouble.
A HEAVY SENTENCE.
AN EMBEZZLER GETS EIGHTEEN YEARS
AND IS FINED $120,422.
At Lebanon, Ohio, Saturday. Al. Gra
ham, former auditor of Warren county,
was sentenced on his plea of guilty to
indictment charging him with embezzling
the funds of the county to the amount
of $63,211. Tlie court sentenced him tc
be eighteen imprisoned and in the penitentiary fot
years, to pav a tine of $136.
422.
CONDITION OF TRADE.
REVIEW OF BUSINESS FOR TIIF. TAST WEEK
—FH.UUKS. ETC.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review ol
tra,lt **F* = The state of the trade has not
! materially altered during the past week,
though dueed the change of weather has pro
much temporary improvement in
'"me lines, and in the others trade is less
'satisfactorythan a week ago. The vol
ume of domestic tiade appears well sus
In the iron trade also the siua
!’’" n ha " uot materiall ? ‘“'provetl. and at
-
1 Pittsburg fet prices are again lower. Thode
mana for iron is unusually good,
and for nails a trifle better. Hie window
r ,aes .trade within is: active, three ami months a fourth has advance boon
in pnees
putt
THE STOCK MARKET
has not changed any during the past week
in any material respect, the average of
pnees The being substantially the same.
removal of fears concerning possible
ekports of gold, the rapid rise of foreign
exchange, indications that purchases on
foreign account now exceed the sale of
securities, all tend to make absorption of
money by the treasury less observed. It
may be added that the decrease in the ac¬
tivity of trade throughout the country
tends to release larger amounts of money
than have been expected to with return to this
center at present. But bank re¬
serves, remarkably narrow for the season,
speculation for an advance :n stocks is
checked by fear of artificial string¬
ency in money, ns it is naturally also by
the approach of the season of open navi¬
gation without satisfactory settlements
failures among the occurring transporting throughout lines. the Business
coun¬
try during the last week number fot
the United States 223, Canada 37.
A GREAT SCHEME.
FOR THE BELIEF OF THE FARMER—SENA¬
TOR VANCE’S BILL.
Senator Zeb Vance, of North Carolina,
has introduced into the upper house ol
congress a novel bill, intended as a relief
measure for the farmers. Briefly outlined
the bill appropriates $50,000,000 for the
erection of agricultural depositories or
warehouses iu each county in the United
States where the sheriff aud clerk of such
county may certify that the average gross
amount per annum of cotton, wheat,
coin, oats and tobacco produced and sold
in the county for the last preced¬
ing two years exceeds the sum
of $500,000 at current prices.
The scheme is to allow owners of cotton,
corn, warehouse etc., to deposit the point same produc. in the
nearest the or
tion, and receive therefor treasury notes
equal at the date of diqiosit to eighty per
centum of the net value of such products,
based on prices current in the leading
cotton, tobacco and grain markets of the
United States. The bill authorizes the
secretary of the treasury to prepare treas¬
ury notes iu such amounts as may bn re¬
quired to do business, but no notes so
prepared are dollar to be of less denomination
than one or greater than $10.00.
These notes are made receivable for cus¬
toms, and are to be legal tender for all
debts, both private and public.
The main object of the bill is to have the
government lend money to the farmers at
the low interest of one percentuin per
annum. It will allow a farmer to hold
his goods, if he cares to, for a better
market without paying the enormous
rates charged lenders. by banks aud unlicensed
money It heads off aK trusts
and combinations, and if it could become
a law the supposition is that peace and
plenty, if not luxury, would once more
obtain throughout the land.
A BAND OF INCENDIARIES.
A MOONSHINE ORGANIZATION DISCOVERED
IN PICKENS COUNTY, GA.
A moonshine organization has been un¬
earthed in Pickens county, Georgia,
whose members are bound together bj
solemn oath for- the protection of its its
members, and the punishment of inform¬
ers, “The honest man’s friend and pro¬
tector,” is the tittle of the organization,and
on its roll are twenty-seven sworn mem¬
bers. It has been in existence about a
year and already a number of crimes are
charged to its account, the latest tht burn¬
ing of three houses within the past two
months. The burning of a government
distillery is also charged to this band.
Tlie prime object of the organization all who is
the driving out of the county are
supposed to have been guilty of tlie revenue* of-^
ftnse of giving information to the
officers aud also for the purpose of in¬
timidating witnesses. officers For have some suspected months
past the revenue
the existence of the clan, or a moonshine
brotherhood of some sort. Active meas
ures, however, were directed to the fer
rating out of the members and theii
strength until last December, when the
revenue officers and county officers com¬
bined to bring the offenders to justice and
effectually break up their organization.
ciates The ring-leader and jail eleven charged of with his asso¬
are now in arson
and conspiracy, and the names of all
other suspected members are in the pos¬
session of the officers. Two of the mem¬
bers’ of the clan have turned states evi¬
dence, appearing before the United State;
district court at Atlanta, Ga., on
Wednesday, when the whole history and
workings of the organization were con¬
fessed.
THE FARMER’S TALK
THE FARMER’S ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA
MEET IN CONVENTION.
The annual session of the Minnesota
Farmer's Alliance met at St. Paul
Tuesday, and nearly 400 delegates were
present. Deputy State Lecturer Fisb
painted a dark picture of how farmers
arc being robbed by the boards of trade
of Minneapolis aud Chicago, which
raised or lowered the price of wheat as
they pleased aud held the starving declared, farmers
at their mercy. It was time, he
that the big gambling hell iu Chicago
was wiped out of existence, and if the
farmers rose in their might this might
be accomplished. w. s. Grove.
county lecturer, followed in
a similar strain during the day.
It developed that there were three fac¬
tions in the convention, one favoring an
endorsement of Albert Sheffer, the re¬
publican candidate for governor, the sec¬
ond wanted Merriain, the present gov¬
ernor, endorsed, and the third wanted the
Alliance to break away from all Donneltv parties.
They wanted to place Ignatius tariff
in the field on a Farmer's Alliance
reform in platform. and will The likely Sheffer remain people are
power, so.
There are now nearly 770 Alliances iu
the state, with a total membership of ovei
8AQd)0Q.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAT TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Wire mills throughout the country
have closed for two weeks in order to re¬
duce the supply of wire in the market.
The Illinois democratic central com¬
mittee has decided to call a state con¬
vention. to meet at Springfield on June
4th.
The weather is bitterly cold throughout
Austra-Hungary, the thermometer degrees rang¬
ing between twelve and fifteen in
centigrade below zero.
Several snow storms and frosts are re
ported iu .England and in various part;
of Europe. Among the regions visited
are Rome and Trurerc.
Affairs in llayti are reported as in i
very unsettled state, and the general im¬
pression is that the Hippolyfe government
will be of short duration.
The German government will form
fifty more batteries of artillery, in ordet
to complete the two new army corps, the
formation of which was sanctioned by
the last reichstag.
The Brazilian government has resolved
to promulgate a constitution without
waiting for the constituent assembly tc
meet. The constitution will be submitted
to the people for approval or disapproval.
There was a long meeting of the sugat
trust in New York on Thursday, and be¬
fore it ended interested parties cash every¬ divi¬
where had information that a
dend of two and a half per cent had been
declared for the present quarter.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Loudon, of England. United
says: Young Abe son
States Minister to England Lincoln, and
grandson of the late President Lincoln,
of the United States, who has l>een sick
so long, died there on Wednesday morn
lug.
At Jefferson City. Mo., it is now con
-idi-red pretty well settled that Stati
Treasurer Noland is short in his account;
by over $30,000. Even Governor Francis owing
is in doubt as to the exact amount,
to what he terms irregularities in the
books.
The formal order of Justice O’Brien, ol
New York, in the sugar trust injunction
-nit was filed Friday. The order con
firms the decision handed down on Feb¬
ruary 11, no changes whatever being
made O’Brien in the provisions forth. which Justice
then set
White trying to cross the river at
Johnson’s island, sixteuu miles above
Knoxville, Tenn., two sons of William
Maples and a son of William Baker, were
drowned on Friday. They were in n
frail boat which capsized, and the lads
perished before aid could be rendered.
Chicago R. R. Donnelly city directory, & Sons, printers oldest of the
one of the
printing and publishing house* in the
west, failed on Thursday, with liabilities
aggregating it disposed of $100,000 forced and sale, assets will which,
realize at fifty proba¬
bly not more than per cent of
the liabilities.
A Jefferson City Mo., dispatch says:
The committee appointed to investigate
the affairs of the State Treasury finished
count ing tlie cash on Saturday and have
found it $10,000 short. They express
the hooks opinion and that an examination increase of the
papers will tin’s some¬
thing over $30,000.
J. A dispatch from reading Zanesville, Ohio, says:
C. McGregor, clerk of the
house of representatives, died Friday
morning died of dipthlheria. -Mrs. McGregor
one week ago after the death of four
children. Three children are remaining,
and Mr. McGregor’s father may die,
which will make ten deaths in one family
from diphtheria,
A remarkably bold and successful rob-.
bery took place at the courthouse at NYa
bash, Ind.. on Thursday. While the
corridors of the building were deserted
during entered recess, the county treasurer’s office
was from the main hall, and the
money drawer under the pay counter
forced with a pair of shears. Several
hundred dollars m cheeks, currency and
silver was taken. The thief then locked
the door and departed.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York, for week ending March 8,
amounted to $166,129, of which $219,
930 was in gold and $646,199 silver. Of
the total exports $4,965 in gold and
$041,900 in silver went to Europe aud
$214,166 in gold and $4,299 in silver
went to South America, Imports of
specie of for which the week $413,362 amounted to gold $473,-
126. was and
$38,064 silver.
THE SOUTH'S INVITATION.
DELEGATES OF THE INTERNATIONAL AMER¬
ICAN CONFERENCE.
Tlie following invitation has been sent
to each of the delegates to the internation¬
al American conference by Secretary
Blaine, through Executive Officer Will¬
iam E. Curtis: “The secretary of state
desires me to present his compliments and
to say that the citizens of the southern
states are very anxious that the delegates
should visit that section before returning
to their homes, and have forwarded
through him many cordial invitations.
He also earnestly desires that the visit
shall be made, and has directed me to in¬
vite you to participate in an excursion
similar to that given in October and No¬
vember last, to leave Washington imme¬
diately upon final adjournment of the
conference, and to return here two or
three weeks thereafter. As considerable
time will be required to make necessary
arrangements, I beg the favor of an early
acceptance.”
A CURIOSITY.
8GTENTIFI0 MEN BAFFLED BY THE CASE OF
A PARALYTIC.
An Augusta, Ga., dispatch says: Tht
scientific men iu this section are now
deep in inquiry over the wouder of the
mental world’ of the 19th century.
Major discovered Perry, a mulatto, has been
a few miles from Augusta,
lie is very illiterate, and has been para¬
lyzed for a number of years, yet, white in
a ministerial trance or profound slumber, engages in
services, reciting singing*them. hymns of his
own composition, the and Ht
repeats scriptures,'giving text verbatim, as given in the
the book and verse and
preaching When an cdifyiug sermon therefrom.
the trance passes off, he i& entirely
unconscious of what he has said or done
during his sleep This is * baffling the skill
of scientists.
THE QUEEN 8 INFLUENCE
BROUGHT TO HEAR IS TH* CAS* OF MBS
MAYBBIC*.
A dispatch from London, England,
says: Report is current here that th»
queen has about decided t > grant pardon
to Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman
now serving a life time sentence for th«
alleged poisoning of her husband. Al¬
though the general petitions in suppressed favor ol
the unfortunate woman were
by the home secretary, with whom it is en¬
tirely optional whethei or not it shall reach
the queen, it is known that over a month
ago a memorial, influentiariy signed by
female members of the aristocracy, was
successful in reaching her maiesty, and
indications pardon. point to the probable issuance
of a free
SOUTHERN .NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
The Pecos River Kailroiui eompuuy a
Austin, Texas, was chartered Fridav wit!
a capital of $400,000.
ham, A dispatch of Saturday from Binning
Ala., says: Deputy Sheriff Jackson,
of Lamar county, has boon killed by Hu lx
Burrow, the noted train robber and out
law.
A fireat Audorsou, 8. I .. on Thursday
burned the large livery stable- of II. J.
Southerland. Ten horses were buried to
death. The loss is over $6,000. There
was only $500 insurance on the stables.
The city authorities and board of trade
of Columbus, Ga., have united in tender¬
ing a memorial to the PBn-Anierican con¬
gress. and inviting getting forth the city's udvantages
the delegates to pay u visit.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says:
Tlie supreme court, on Wednesday,
affirmed the sentence of the lower court
in the case of Jake Kilrain, which is two
months’ imprisonment iu the county jail
at Purvis and $200 flue.
The contract for the bttilclingof a com¬
plete set of water works at Henderson, N.
C., has been awarded to Mr. J. L. Lud¬
low, of Winston. There are to he sixty
eight hydrant-, for which tlie town is to
pay an annual rental of $2,700.
Tbe ninth annual Florida Sunday
school convention met at Lake City, Fla.,
on Wednesday. All the officials were
present, and a large number of delegates
from various parts of the State, with sev¬
eral prominent workers from other states.
At an enthusiastic meeting of citizens
at Somerset, Miss., on Saturday, a com¬
mittee was appointed to solicit subscrip¬
tions for a stock company to build a cut
ton factory. The legislature emjKiwered
the citv to subscribe $20,000. Capital
stock $230,000.
A number of prominent colored men ol
Louisiana met at New Orleans on Thurs¬
day and organized a central association
for the State under the constitution ol
the “Citizens’ Equal Rights Association.’’
The meeting was called by Pinehback,
who will call a similar convention in each
of the Southern States.
There is great excitement in the vicin¬
ity of Sorentain Head. Sumner county,
Tenn., over the appearance of spotted
fever, or malignant mcningetis. There
have been seven deaths, and there an
several new eases. Those who take it
live only a short time, some dying in
twenty-four hours.
made Majority by and minority reports were
the legislative committee ap¬
pointed to examine the office of the Staf
Treasurer differ of materially. Mississippi. The reports do
not They express the
opinion is credited that where Treasurer Hemingway
with $105,550 paid out by him
for coupons in 1876, and for which no
credit can be found on bis general Isxiks
It will be found that the State owes Lim
more than $2,000.
A Huntsville, Ala.. dispatch says :
Tlie meeting of the minority stockhold¬
ers of the Memphis and Charleston rail¬
road company was not held there Thurs¬
day as advertised. Circuit Judge Henry
C. Speako, of that district, having pre¬
viously granted a writ of injunction re¬
straining said stockholders from holding granted
the meeting. The injunction was
the East Tenneseee. Virginia and Geor¬
gia railroad.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, Friday,
says: cific Express Superintendent Fuller, and of the Pa¬
company, the father of
Walton, the abscouding agent, are then
and have secured from a house of ill
farno a package containing $16,940.
Walton left this package in a woman
when he ran away. This, with
$8,000 given up by the absconder in New
Brunswick, makes $24,940 of the original
$33,000 stolen.
The Atlanta Constitution reports that ai
attempt is being made to palm off on thi
public a spurious volume of the Life and
Writ tigs of Henry Grady, and says; “H e
beg our exchanges tlrroughout the coun¬
in justice to the memory of Mr. Gra
and his in justice to his wife, his mothei
and children, to announce to theii
readers that the only authorized volume
containing speeches, his life, his writings and hi
is published by Cassell & Co,.
jf New York, and edited by Joel Chaml
ler Harris.”
A COMPLICATED CASE
A QUESTION OF TITLE TO A YOUNG LADY -
HAND IN MARRIAGE.
The register of deeds for Guilford
county. N. C.. is confronted with a prob
lem which only the courts can solve. A
young lady of that county, who is very
charming, has two lovers, and it appears
was engaged to both. On Friday one of
the young men went to the register of
deeds to procure a marriage license for
himself and the young lady referred expression to.
He was he disappointed informed beyond that his rival,
when was
whose engagement was previous, had
filled a caveat ernptor to prevent the issue
of the license. The register declined to
issue the license uutil the courts had de¬
rided the question of title.
A GHASTLY PARCEL.
TRE HEAD OF A WOMAN SENT TO V RU¬
SLAN PRINCE.
A horrible tragedy has come to light in
Moscow-, Russia. Ou Friday a parcel
was left ut the residence of Prince Dol
geroukoff. which upon examination was
found to contain the head of a woman.
With (he parcel was left n notice bearing
no signature, saying: “This is our first
exploit. IVe will soon outdo Jack
the kiikd Ripper. " It is believed the woman
was for bctiayiim the n i h ili s ts.
NUMBER 22
TWO WAYS.
Oh, how does the rain come downf
With rattle and riot and rush!
With flutter and sputter,
And gurgle and mutter,
And clatter and spatter and gush!
With a man outbursting and roaring.
With fizzing and splashing and pouring!
And noise to deafen a town.
The turbulent rain comes down!
But after ’tis over an hour or more.
The world looks much as it did before;
And there’s nothing to show for the fuss audi
roar
The rain made coming down.
But bow does the snow come down?
With a touch like a soft wing’s brush!
With glancing and gliding,
And stealing and sliding
With whiteness and lightness and hush!
With airy floating and swimming.
With fairy boating and skimming!
And no one in all the town
Would know when the snow comes down
If he looked not out on the changed white
day,
And the cushioned earth that seems to say
How much can be done in a quiet way,
The way the snow comes down.
—Mrs. Cora W. Bronson, in Independent.
PITH AND POINT.
A fat position—King of Greece.
A back number—The spinal column.—.
Wnthington Star.
The man whose wits go wool-gather¬
ing is lucky if he doesn’t get fleeced.—
Brooklyn Magazine.
The stovepipe has no trouble i» elbow
ing its way through a crowded house.—
Enterprise.
It must be painful to a girl, especially
she means to say “Yes,” to hear a
man propose.
Perhaps one reason why fish are so de¬
as to weight is that they carry
own scales with them .—Merchant
Traveler.
“Nothing was made in vain,” says the
proverb. But that’s not so for you can
find a maiden vain in five minutes any
day .—DttnscilU Breeze.
A creature now and then we find
Who losses and regains his mind;
But when a fish is once in seino
’Tis seldom he gets out again.
—Chicago Herald.
Whipper—“Our young friend Scaddt
to have a great desire to shine in
Snapper—“My idea is that
ambition is to shin into society 1”—
“Do you think marriage is a failure,
Choker?” asked Mrs. Simcralof the
wife. “No, indeed!" was*the
“Mr. Choker gives me his fees
pin-money. ”— Bazar.
The girls, since first the world began,
Have always sought th’ Ideal man;
But when they captured their idea!
They found him more ideal than real.
l\-xk.
A steamboat has reached the town of
in Africa, but iu view of the
that it required six weeks to go
hundred miles it is not probable
stock in the Timbuctoo Navigation
will go much above one hun¬
in the shade.— Washington Star.
Watchman (breathlessly)—“The boy’s
is on tire, and if they find it
they’ll stop to save their foot-balls,
and things, anil perish.” Board¬
School Principal (quickly)—“Notify
boys that all who arc not down stairs
two minutes won't get any pie .”—New
York Weekly.
A Tiger and Alligator Fight.
A small party were on a trip through
Sunderbuns, India. It was a hot,
day; iu fact, a regular griller. As
went on in their boat they bad ob¬
during the morning a large num¬
of alligators asleep on the shore. As
day rose higher, the numbers gradu¬
decreased, tilt at leugth only one or
solitary ones were to be seen. The
turned, aud the party anchored out
the stream, there being too little water
come close in. The shore for some
was sandy and bare, but about
mile in the interior the thick ;ungle
its myriad boughs to a cloudless
Opposite where they were one
alligator, stretching out, its scaly
ou the sands, lay fast asleep.
had observed it for some time,
one of the )>arty, touching his
hand, pointed to the jungle.
issuing from the close brushwood
seen an immense tiger. Softly and
silent steps it advanced, raised up
foot, poised it some time in the air,
quietly lowering it, raised the oth¬
crouching till its body nearly touched’
In tliia way it advanced,
as a eat when stealing upon a
Having come to within its
distance, it rose, lifted its tail
then, lashing it on ground, leapt.
next second it was on the alligator’s
and holding on by the nape of the
The monster of the deep, thus
shaken from his midday slumber,
his terrific jaws, aud tried to seize
tiger in vain. It then emnloyed its
tail, acd lashed the sides of the
denizen, but still the tiger held on.
contest thus kept on some time. At
the efforts of the alligator became
and weaker, till at last they
altogether. StfU the tiger held
After some time he let go his hold,
off the brute’s back, and seizing it
the body dragged it some distance on
shore, and there sat over it exactly as
cat does over a mouse. For a while it
thus, then, rising,dragged it into the
But the strangest part is yet be¬
About an hour after this what
be seen but the poor alligator
toward the water much lacera¬
but not killed, a proof that the tiger
not kill simply because he is hungry.
Globe.
Good Health of Glass-Blowers.
Glass-blowers have hard lives, you
? Doubtless you would say they
out in a few years, aud such cruel
ought to be prohibited live by¬
The fact is that glass-blowers
long as the average of mankind and,
of being burned out, develop
lungs than anybody else. Most
glass-blower can expand his chest
or six inches, and there is one man
can expand twelve .—Atlanta Con¬
.
Only about one-fourth of the cheese
in the United States is exported.
300,000,000 pounds are used for
consumption.