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ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alllance
men Everywhere.
1 her* are fifty-fir* Alliance members
ua the Florida legislature.
the Michigan is increasing membership in
Alliance at a splendid rate, and will
probably aonn lead the northwoat.
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The legis'atune of North Carolina con
mid ts of of 170 vemitors and representatives,
the * 102 are members of the Al
I ill 004 '
is Maryland is progressing, and interest
manifested in every part of the atute.
Cecil county will soon a id a county or¬
ganization.
That the Alliance ho* a hand in the
Missouri legislature is evidenced by tbe
fuel that the resolution cutting off fifty
clerks wa.s adopted
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Ercretnrv Beaumont says that he has
nut chaiters of tbo National Citizens’
Alliance into thirteen States, and new
territory opens up every day.
* *
t he Farmers’ Alliance and the board
of trade of Palouse City, Washington,
sent a carload of flour recently to the
destitute farmers in Cheyenne county,
Neb.
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Ohio • Legislature . asked the general
Assembly at Columbus to repeal the law
exempting manufactured products from
taxation one year after production, and
the hill passed.
T ho • * *
North Carolina State Alliance has
n committee of four in attendance upon
the legislature at Raleigh to see that the
fanners get their shure of just legislation
this year.
'/'lie colored Alliance is growing in
Tavor daily in South Carolina, and if
rightly conducted and properly officered
will prove to he a great and powerful
Uictor politically, financially and other
vvii-e.
Members . ^ % jfr
of the Alliance in Leon
unify, in Florida, TallHhassee, me getting tobacco seed
<■'’ distributed by the
tobacco Hgent of the Leon county Alli¬
ance. Tobacco is becoming an important
nop in Florida.
General *%
states tlmt Superintendent Humphrey
the Uolored Alliance is grow¬
jurisdiction, ing in membership throughout the entire
and that the order indorses
nil (fie demands, putting particular stress
ou the sub-treasury plan.
Maine has no Farmers’ Alliance, but
her Dale grange is looking after the in
I errata i f the farmers through a commit*
• ee now in attendance on the legislature
D> secure needed relief in the matter of
unequal taxation of farmers.
'I , lie National * ★
Economist sny-»: ‘As a
proof of tlu- fact that the present conllict
*>1 ihe Alliance is an old one, one that
lias often I ecu presented for solution be-
10 re, and one which has ever been the
concern of the philanthropists in times
gone by, the reader is referred to Pro¬
verbs xxiii ;7. Read it.”
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has , * *
I exits organized a Stato Citizens’
Alliance similar to that in Kansas, and
with the Farm* 1 -’ Alliance it cxpccis to
control fut 111 o elections in the interest of
the tillers of the soil and the laboring
“lasses generally. Other states are ex
to fomi similar organizations and
unite in a national presidential campaign.
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The , Alliance Economist (Texarkana,
Ark.) says: “This is no time for flinch¬
ing upon tlie part of the members of the
All mice. l he issue has been laid down
l>v the National body, and the demands
made clearly and emphatically. Those
persons who cannot support them had as
Well get out of the way, as the Alliance
will take no back step, hut press forward
to victory.’*
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Huron (S. Dakota) Independent says:
*‘ Fhe farmers know exactly what they
'vnnt. Their demands Hro well known
to everybody. The politicians are busy
trying to side track them on questions
not germnin in this issue. If tlie farmers
keep their faces set in the right direc¬
tion. alw.iys taking their cue from the
rica 11 demands, the politicians will have
a happy 4 me fooling them. TMey realize
they have been fooled, and since discus¬
sion has opened their t yes, it makes them "
less susceptible to what they say.”
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Rev. Thomas Dixon, a distinguished
Bujnist preacher in New )'ork City,
in a recent sermon on the Farmers’ Alli¬
ance thus referred to the co-operative
work of the order: The Alliance stores
for supplies ar< These a prominent feature of
their work*. stores contain the
germ id- a of the great industrial co¬
“I lev itive societies of work ing men in
Great Britain. They are asserting in life
the principle, that it is better for men to
tight each other than against one another.
They are learning the secret of associated
power -tlmt in uuiou there is strength.
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The Alliance Leader (Bolivar, N. Y’ ,)
mv*: "Experience has taught us that at
ln<t election that Alliance men could
elected without its being done upon
an independent Alliance ticket since of the thirty
eight representatives elected,
but seven were elected in that way, so
$4,292 in his hands. Any Aliianceman
in good stnndiug losing a horse or mule
to be allowed fifty dollars from this fund;
or 111 case of sickness or misfortune be
permitted to draw out not over fifty dol¬
lars for his relief. This is the substance,
without the details, of the proposed
plan. It is suggested as an experiment
and if successful would probably he ex¬
panded and improved upon and made a
permanent institution of the Ailiauce.
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The Tennesse Far ner (Nashville) says;
“ I he farmers o gauizations of the coun
try have brought the politicians to realize
the fact that the farmer may and will
probably he an important factor in the
wliy form a new party when the very
men whom we desire should occupy the
elected Jegi.slative seats the old can he and are being
on party tickets. All,
tint we demand is legislation for the
producer and # from
we care not what
source it comes so we get it. So let us
again say that the Alliance is not a polit
ieal party, aud should not he so cousid
ered.”
There ,» i. Geo,
gni, and 1 is suggested in the Sout xrn
Alhauce banner that each one pay m
two dollars to the editor of that paper a*
a relief fund. Jinsthere xyould be
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSYTH. GA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1891-EIGHT PAGES.
Tort tines or tne cmce-seeking frntetlMtt,
and it would lie amusing if it were not
ridiculous to n«tfi frith what zeal these
E5K5J*& K| t r he olr.h r ,d°o n .:„ h «
interest in him and his calling. The
purpose and genius of the Farmers’ AI fl
spirit iris bifund to produce a wonder™
revolution. Its existence k a necessity
and the scope of its work U as wide and
patriotic world. aa is the farming and commercial
ork Following a\fr the Semanda of the New
1 PtAtc 1 * armors’League, adopted at
narional a recent meeting at Utica: State and
governments shall take
regarding proper^, the following Watters; ’ All
personal and corporate, shall
be equally talen. No public officer shall
accept passes from corporatjons. Deal
mg in futures in agricultural products
Mmll pe prevented. Sale of adulterated
food products shall be prohibited unless
Uo e r r T d d - the
J n ‘ of ” canals ean a l. is a necessary. n A Uniform
UshT °The h ?m tn,t 5f ok *. ghali be L ub
-
Z 4 rinJn! Sm C 1 1 T g i l ° th u' 8 ° f C 0UQtry the pauper 8ha11
uL prevented. r, I Iictg shrill „ L 1 >g rctrcDcli
went and reform in national state and
local expenditures.
The state of Ohib has had
exempting for all manufactured articles from
taxation one year. This was a special
privilege granted to capital employed in
manufacture which was not given to
farmers for attention or laborers, and of course tailed
by the Alliance, To ex
empt manufactured goods from taxation
one year was to totally exempt (horn, for
the manufanufacturer seldom keeps his
products in hand a whole year. Tbs
State Farmers’ Alliance of Ohio, at a re¬
cent session, passed resolutions demand¬
ing of the Ohio legislature a repeal of
this law. The demand was wired to the
legislature one day, and by the following
night the law was” repealed. This shows
the power of our organization, and the
great necessity of a proper Use of that
power .—Southern A Hintid tfarmrr.
Tbe election of Hon. W. A. Peffer as
senator from Kansas was a signal victory
for Alliance unity. Seventeen good names
were put before the Alliance cautua,
and after each ballot the name receiving
least votes was dropped. 'Ihis plan
Judge finally brought a majority of the body to
Next Peffer, and made him the nominee.
day the legislative ballot showed
that - every Allianceman stuck to his
colors. The new Senator received 9 fl
votes in the House, to 23 for Ingalls and
5 for Blair. In the senate Ingalls received
85, Peffer 2, 3 scattered. This decided
majority on joint ballot proves that the
Alliance can poll its full vote for princi¬
ple iu Kansas. Judge Paffer i« nearly CO
y«nr.s old, an accomplished journalist and
a radical reasoner and writer upou eco¬
nomic questions. He will make his mark
in his new sphere of action .—National
Econom id.
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The Cotton Plant, (Orangeburg, fj. C.,)
hits the nail squarely on the head when
it says: “The Alliance is seeking to
make the rich man pay his proportion of
the taXep. It is seeking to pay up the
bonds thiit have almost ruined the people
and nation. It is seeking to forthwith
reduce the salaries of officials to au equal
of other salaries and prices. It is seek;
ing to make it possible for a poor man
to get n.oney as cheaply as any hanker
can get it. It is seeking to break the
speculator’s corner in grain and pork.
It is seeking to have the government
issue all money in sufficient quantity to
do the business of the country. It is
seeking to watch the Congress from the
people’s side for the next twenty-five
years. It seeks to make a profit in farm¬
ing and industry ns well as in money
lending. It attacks the giant monopoly
and intends to follow him to his over¬
throw. The Alliance demands great
things—things that monopo’y always said
was impossible, and is buckling on its
armor none too soon to save the over¬
throw of a great republic. It is march¬
ing on, demanding justice where justice
has been unknown. The farmer and la¬
borer who take this stranger in will find
the best friend ilioy have known in
twenty-five years.”
FIFTEEN MILLIONS.
Will be Needed fop the World’s
Exposition.
A Chicago dispatch of Monday, says:
Fred W. Peck, chairman of the finance
committee, and Otto Young, chairman
of the ways find means committee of the
World’s Columbian exposition, will make
a report that nothing less than $15,000,
000 will meet the necessities of the ex¬
position. At the utmost, but $10,000,
000 will he at the di-posal of the direc¬
tory before [May 1, 1893. T hat estimate
is based on the supposition that every
dollar of the popular subscription will be
paid. IIow to meet the deficiency solved is the by
problem directors. that must be further
the The situation is
complicated by the stubborn fact derived that
no part of the revenue to be
from the sale of city bonds can he used
until $3,000,000 of popular subscription
has been paid the to the fi treasurer, committee Reberger. said:
A member of anee
“The $950,000 now iu the hands of the
directory will soon be exhausted, when
work on the buildings is commenced. Ten
bqildings that are to be built by the
board of archite to will cost $7,000,000,
an 1 all the time will be paying large
amounts for the maintenance of the de¬
partments and for the sustenance of rep¬
resentatives in foreign countries. How
the money is to ho raised is the question
that the directors must settle.’’
THIRTY MILLIONS
Is the Sum Appropriated for
Uncle Sam’s Navy. .
The naval appropriation bill, aggregat¬
ing $31,111,654, which was carried
through the house on final passage Mon¬
day afternoon, authorizes the construc¬
tion of one additional cruiser of about
7,500 tons, $2,750,000. costing, exclusive similar of cruiser arma¬
ment, to be to
No. 12, authorized last year, having three
propellersaudaminimumspeedoftwen- hill
ty-one knots. The also repeals the
authorization of the so-called cruising
Mi nitor of the act of March 12, 1889,
to Four cost not exceeding $1,500,000.
millions are appropriated for
finding under the armor and armament of ves
sels the construction, and over
$12,000,000 under the bureaus of con
struction and steam machinery to carry
on the work upon all the vessels author
ized, upon which the expenditures reach
their maximum during the fiscal rear
oovered by the hill. The estimates show
that these expenditures will fall off about
ships have raised the minimum speed
onc knot _that is to twenty-one knots,
the 0 being the fastest cruisers in tht
world.
OVER ALABAMA.
Variou => Things That are Hap
pening Around Us.
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“h thr T* a PD orti '? nmont bill
whi I ? ha * P as * ed cotJ g res9 th e stay; of
A 4 .
* COD « rrtimat3 -
* 7 ^'* notice fcobiniittee 6ti commerce and
feotnmon carriers have voted unanimous
ly to report adversly on the bills to give
the railroad commission increased ]k> * er.
It is reported that arrangements are
made by the miners at Pratt mines
l " *. lart a co-operative store to run in op
P 08 * 1 * 011 t0 die commissary store at
lbat D Iace -
1 be bill before the house to prevent
tb e lunning of freight trains on Sunday,
has been indflnitely postponed by a vote
*8 yeas to *0 nats. Thfc sfenate con
drrtil hV a Vbte bf’lh to 8 .
from thskfegee people have suffered much
the grippe no class beim? exemnt
but tbe ol < ] people have fallen in every
direction t0 t!li * <«** which seems to
be Peculiarly fatal to tfe aged.
m . i l 11 of lhe TeiffiesJee and
£?°$* r- die Nashville. “ :1 lboa ^> wij ich is now owned by
met in annual Chattanooga session and St. Louis,
at Huntsville the
other day and elected directors.
Thq senate parsed the bill for the pro¬
tection of widows and minor children,
the purport Of thb bill being to retain to
widows and orphans the homestead right
when the parties move from the state.
Govirnor Jones has granted formal
permission to the Veteran Zouaves of
New Jersey and the Light Infantry, of
Detroit to pass through Alabama fully
arined aud equipped en route to New
Cr leans.
The bricklayers of Anniston have noti¬
fied the contractors that after March 1
they will demand that nine hours consti¬
tute a day’s work, without any reduction
ill the pay, Which is $4 per day at present.
I’he contractors have not yet decided
whether they will accede to the demands.
The senate judiciary committee has re¬
ported favorably on the hill establishing
the eleventh judicial circuit, aud ad¬
circuit. versely on the bill estahli-liing the twelfth
This will probably have the effect
of requiring all the work of the joint
committee as to circuits to be gone over
again.
T he joint committee of the two houses
Imving.under consideration the matter as
to the money obtained under the Hatch
bill have decided that the money should
go to the Huntsville Normal school for
colored pupils. The money due to the
whites gones to the Agricultural and Me¬
chanical college ntAuburu.
The hill to establish an asylum for the
deaf, mute and blind of the negro race
passed the house without opposition, and
it appropriates $ 12,000 for a building
arid $ 0,000 a year for the expense of the
institu ion. Alabama is the only state
louth which had Dot provided such aQ
institution for the colored race.
A contract has been signed up by
which the handsome Baptist college at
Florence will be opened as a Baptist fe¬
male college next September. This is
one of the handsomest college buildings
in the South, and its cost was about $70,
000. The contract provides that it is to
he made equal in grade and in efficiency
to any female college in the South.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia road certainly made a good
move when it set out and built the
branch road from Montevallo, on its
main line, to Blocton, iutersectiug a
mountainous and very rich cpal country.
This road can haul the coal to the har¬
bor by the way of Selma and Mobile,
probably quicker than the old reliable
Louisville and Nashville.
A Jvausas City dispatch says: C. W.
Worthington, editor of the Midland Me
chanic , h s received a letter from Ralph
Be umont, secretaiy of the National Citi¬
zen* Alliance, organized at Ocala, ETa.,
wherein he says that the convention held
at Topeka was unauthorized for that
body. A special from Topeka says ar¬
rangements have been completed for
holding a third pary convention on May
19th.
The Alabama Mineral is now 00 m
pleted all the way from Attalla to Cal-era
and through trains are running. With
the completion of the Tennessee and
Coosa river fr< m Attalla to a connection
with the Nashville and Chattanooga at
Huntsville or Bell factory, the Louisville
and Nashville will have another through
line from Calera to Nashville, which will
be equivalent to a double track.
The Louisville and Nashville system,
not to be outdone, when the East Ten¬
nessee, Virginia and Georgia began the
construction of their new branch, set
about and in a short while built them¬
selves a road to Blocton, tapping almost
the same couutrv and striking a nearer
point to their main line than Birmingham
was. The branch runs from Helena
junction, called Toccoa, to Gurnee,
where it uses the East Tennessee, Vir¬
ginia and Georgia track to Blocton.
United States [Marshal Walker, receiver
of the Mobile aud Girard lands, received
instructions a few days ego from United
States District Judge Bruce, not to de¬
liver any more of the timbers seized by
him as receiver, as having been cut on
the forfeited lands of the Mobile and
Girard Railroad compauv. Receiver
Walker had been delivering timber to
Milligan & Co. That firm giving bond
to indemnify the government in event the
legal processes are finally decided in the
government's favor.
II. C. Keeble, of Selma, the head of
the II. C. Keeble Company, which failed
for $250,000 a few days ago, has fled Ae
st ite to escape expected indictment and
arrest. Some 6.000 bales of cotton were
consigneel to the company and he used
the warehouse receipts in a great many
cast's and drew money on them from
hanks and i thers. Persons advancing
the money claim the cotton, while the
consigners also make claim, Keeble
thought it best to leave. His where¬
abouts are not known. •
A correspondent of the Birmingham
Age-Herald, at Hamilton, sends the fol¬
lowing to that paper: “I notice thafcan
item has been going the rounds of the
press to the effect that, while a marriage
ceremony was being performed between
George Estes and Fannie Hogan at a
country church in liiis (Marion) county,
the bride was shot dead. As your cor
respondent at this place, I desire to cor¬
rect this false statement. No such par
ties have procured license in the countv,
and the whole tjiing is false from begin¬
ning to end.”
The census gives Alabama a Chines;
population of forty. This has caused a
gentleman the of Birmingham, who is fond
of Celestials, to make some calcula
tiens. He says there are more than thir
ly in Birmingham, three iu Gadsder,
two in F lorence, three in Decatur, two
in Huntsville, five in Montgomery and
thirteen in Mobile, or fifty-eight iu all.
Ibis is accepted hy some people as a
fair sample of the inaccuracy of the
census, and taking this error as a basis of
ca’eu’ation, the real population of Ala¬
bama is about 2 ,5 0 , 000 .
The great strike may be said now to be
over. A very few men have be p o a* wrfk
at the Pearson mines, and alsd at Watt's
mines fat - a week or more, but the great
biilk oI the men stubbornly refused to go
td theiii work, back as eicepi thfe Operators refused trt^itke
at the old price of 70
cents per ton, and at monthly pay instead
of semi-month y pay. But a few days
ago at a mass meeting at Warrior it was
unanimously agreed by the men that they
would go back to work on terms proposed
by the operators. The strike has caused
a great depression in business at Warrior,
and the announcement of a resumption
of business by the mines is gladly re¬
ceived,
Mobile 18 LaekV; Mountain;
. t. IV. Moiitgoftlei-y, of Ron
Jlicli., who has been prospecting in the
neighborhood of Mobile for several weeks,
reports that the finding on the surface
indications are good for iron. He began
boring about nine miles from the city
and at the depth of 22 feet, struck a
pocket of brown hematite o r e of 45 per
cent quality. He says that there is
doubtless plenty of such ore in the neigh¬
borhood. The news lias created a sensa¬
tion at Mobile, and if this ore from which
charcoal iron is made devi lops in quan¬
tity, it will produce an industrial revolu¬
tion ih that Quarter.
ltube’s Family.
A man named Leverett, who has re¬
cently been in Birmingham with mules to
sell from Texas, gave some renn
niscences of Rube Burrow, to wheiu he
was a near neighbor during that Worthy’s
residence in Texas, lie saj s Rube's widow
and children live there now at thd^ old
place, near Dublin. Leverett thinks the
tir^t train robbery Rube ever committed
was on the Texas and Pacific, near Gor¬
don. He and another fellow drove across
the coiintry some thirty miles oiie night
in a back or light wagon, and the next
day tbe robbery was reported. Lube was
a poor m»n and a rather trifling one.
Leverett had once helped him tlfresh out
his wheat and knew him well. Shortly,
dfter the robbery lUulj* and the other fel
fow with whom he had driven off that
night had money to spare. Thtre never
was any proof obtained to (warrant their
arrest, and Rube's supposed accomplice in
his first venture still lives iu that same
neighborhood.
The Auditor** til-ciiUir.
The owner of land is supposed to ofru
as far down as the center of the world.
According auditor, to a recent circular from the
the suiface is to be taked for
whatever it iila: 3* brihg. Then any mine
fat vein beneath is to be taxed separately.
If a man owns a body of coal lands, he
must pay taxes ou a farm' and a mine
both. Here is the auditor’s circular:
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 28, 1891.
To Tax Assessors—
Dear Sirs: It is understood at this
office that it has beeh customary in the
past for assessors to assess the mineral
veins or strata nt the same value at wh.ch
they assess the surface or agricultural
part of a piece of lafid.
This is wrong. The agricultural or
surface part of the land should be as¬
sessed at its market value.
To be more clear: The surface land
and mineral vein should be assessed sep¬
arate. Y’ours very truly,
Cyrus D. IIoque, Auditor.
Through Trains Net
Two things are needed '"oyxDahaiaa to
make her railroad situation anything like
complete. Alabama now has road 3 run¬
ning directly to every important point on
the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Her com¬
munications that bear to the northward
are all that could he desired, and she
sustains nearly the same satisfactory rela¬
tions with St. Louis and Kansas City in
the West. But New Y T ork and Chicago
are the two great objective points for all
railroad traffic, and as yet no through^
line connects Alabama, or any portion of
the South, east of Mississppi, with either
of those cities. What is lacking to com¬
plete the situation are some consolida¬
tions that will put the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia or the YYuk, Richmond and
and Danville into New the
Louisville and Nashville into Chicago, so
that the same train of cars that pulls out
of the shed of those cities will pull into
the shed at Birmingham. Such a grand
consummation will not be delayed much
longer. At least the Louisville and Nash¬
ville has its eye ou Chicago, and sooner
or later will get there. There is scrcely a
doubt hut that it is now negotiating for
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago,
and with fair prospects of getting it.
GEN. HENDERSON DEAD.
A Brave Soldier and a Good
Man Gone to Rest.
General Robert J. Henderson died
Tuesday at his residence in Atlanta.
Although nearly seventy years of age,
the years set lightly on his martial frame,
as well as up n bis lofty spirit, aud'he
died in full possession of all those facul¬
ties that make men good and great.
Among the friends who knew him so
long and well, and whose esteem and
admiration hq enjoyed so' much, his
death was the source of many expressions
of regret. Many incidents of his career
were recalled among his old friends and
comrades who were eye witnesses to his
gallaut deeds during the war, and
many a tear glistened in eyes unused to
weeping old at the news of the death of the
commander. r J he arrangements for
funeral were delegated to Colonel W.
Calhoun and Colonel L. P. Thomas,
selected the following pallbearers:
W. L. Calhoun, Colonel L. P.
Colonel R. F. Maddox, Colqnel
II. ITuhey, Dr. W. M. Durham, "Cap¬
41. Y\ Snow, Captain B. F. Walker
Colonel W. T. Smith, all of whom
members of the old regiment, the
second Georgia
ABOUT SCHOOL BOOKS.
Opposition to Publication ot
State Text Books.
Reports of Sunday, from Cincinnati,
says; Of late there has been a great deal
of discussion about state publication of
schoolbooks. California set the precedent
and there have been movements in otter
states to follow suit. The Ohio school¬
book board has brought in a report on the
subject and the document is signed by All
the board including Governor Campbell.
The board goes exhaustively into the dis¬
cussion of the schoolbook ques¬
tion. Special attention' is paid
to the history of State The pubii
cation of books in California. views
of Hon. John ex-superintendeots Swett and Hon. of Fre^ instruc- M.
Campbell, Haitt,
tion. and Hon. Ira G. present su
perintendent of instruction of California,
are quoted. They all express themselves
as opposed to the system, which, they
say, is a dangerous assumption of financial power
by the state, and has not, in a
sense, as yet proved successful. The
hoard’s estimate of the cost of publishing
the necessary school bookl for the state
uf Ohio is $93X30Q.
UT HP I H A 'Q RllT^riFT
* Lvlliun ~ L/U Li 1
Of Newsy Notes and Pointed
Paragraphs.
The city council of Ocala lias made n
conttact Mith the Electric Light and
Pofret company to tfipply the citt with
tltcfric lights fot the uext fite tefirS.
The Florida railroads Connecting. with
Niw Orleans eitpcct a l>!g an?, business on
act count of the Mardi Gras, are finak
ing specially low excursion rates. Bound
trip tickets forjhis great festival will be
good until February 24th.
John L. Davis, a well-known bauker of
Illinois, also interested in several rail
ror.ds, who is also a large investor in
Florida, contemplates Mouth Florida making more in
ve sttoefits in laudsi These,
he otiys; a*re sure to pay, a hd he backs his
judgement substantially.
The S. F. & W. is now rhnhiug three
trains daily for New Orleans, which in
the Mardi Gras excursion will be highly
appreciated. Their recent purchase of
Le Alabama Midland enables them to
make excellent connections between
Jacksonville and ~New Orleans.
A Pullman car conductor who h is
run into Florida for eleven years, says
travel now is greater than he has 'ever
known it. In the West a*d Northwest
there js a great deal of talk of Florida,
and huhdreds of people, says he, are
coming who never thought Of it before.
Tbe town of Starke has become, dur¬
ing the last three or four years, one of
the largest and best sea island cotton
markets in the sta e of Florida. Up to
date its two large gius have turned out
about oue thouSau# bales each, and they
are both running on full time yet, find
will continue to run for two weeks Tonger.
This brings into Bradfoid county about
one hundred and thirty or forty thousand
dollars.
The strawberry crop in the vicinity of
dry Starke weather is very backward, owing to the
anq co’d nights, although
the plants look healthy, Last season at
this time Starke was shipping about one
hundredbushels daily, now' there are none
being shipped, and from present pros
pccts there will be no berries ripe fof oiiei
month yet. The acreage in berries this
year is at least one-third less than last
seasou.
Florida is to he congratulated upon the
continuance of the exposition at Ocala
until the middle of March. The display
of agricultural products there, especially
in fruits and vegetables, is undoubtedly
the best that was, ever brought together
under one roof in the state, It has only
advertising to he seen to during be appreciated. Extensive
the next six weeks,
through the proper chaunelsj of course,
would take visitors there by the thous¬
ands.— Times Union.
The imports for the month of January,
received at the Jacksonville custom
house, were 43,052 packages of general
merchandise, 3,000 packages household
goods, 5,000 packages hardware, 3,500
barrels fertilizer, 1,083 bags of fertilizer,
2,000 barrels of phosphate, 2,013 sacks
of salt, 351 barrels of salt, .1,705 barrels
of sugar, 025 bags of coffee, 1,400 boxes
of bacon, 2,950 barrels of flour, 4,490
bales of hay, 700 tons of coal, 1,000 bar¬
rels of oil, 200 boxes of glass. The ex¬
ports of the mouth consisted of 3,183,600
feet of lumber, 6,000 cross ties, 76,500
boxes of oranges, 100 barrels of
orafiges, 5,400 bundles ot shingles, 5,600 1
packages of merchandise, 300 bales of
cotton, 150 crates of vegetables, 500
packages of hardware, 500 packages of
household g*jods, 246 tons of fustic, 64
tons of logwood. The foreign imports
were 236 tons of fustic, 64 tons of log¬
wood, 3,831 bushels of Irish potatoes,
and 5,796 pounds of tobacco. The
foreign exports for the month consisted
of 818,288 feet of lumber, valued at
$12,529.01, and some miscellaneous mer
chandise valued at $555.
Home Market.
The sale of oranges by the Orange and
Vegetable Auction company in Jackson¬
ville, according to their last report, shows
little change in prices. The report says:
Large sizes and coarse stock, with which
the market is surfeited, were of slow sale,
but sound fruit in desirable size were
eagerly taken at prices given. A consid¬
erable quantity of Listed fruit is still
coming in. The feeling in the general
market is better. Stocks in the
great centers are being rapidly
reduced and everything indicates bet¬
ter prices soon. Toe Auction company
still advise holding sound fruit for a bet¬
ter mnj-ket, which they believe is not far
off, but they are prepared to handle what
is shipped now, and they are receiving
large quantities, at as good prices as can
be realized anywhere in the country.
Fancits ran from $2 to $2.50, and in
one instance of extra fine fruit $3 was
reached; brights in 176 to 250 counts,
$1.70 to $2; mixed sizes, $1.35 to $1,86;
off sizes and rough fruit ran low’; russets
but lit*le behind brights, bring in best
sizes $1.50 to $2; tangerines, $3.50 to
$4.30; navel, $1.25 to $2.50; mandarins,
$1.25 to $2; drops, culls and frosted
fruit not quoted.
Inspection of River and Harbor Improve¬
ments.
Gen. Henry L. Abbott and Colonels
Cyrus B. Comstock, David C. Houston
and George L. Gillespie of the corps of
engineers, United States army, were in
St. .Augustine a few rays ago. • ihese
officers comprise tue board to inspect
the river and harbor improvements of
the several departments of the engineer
corps. Captain W. M. Black took the
distinguished officers to inspect the work
on the jetties on the north point of North
beach and that on the beach of Anas¬
tasia island; also, to examine the work
progressing at Fort with Mari n. The officers
are well pleased all the work finish; d
and under way by Cap'ain Black
and his assistant, Lieut. David DuB.
Gailard. The board will inspect the work
of Captain Black's department at the
mouth of the St. Johns river, where they
will be met by Lieut. Oberlin M. Carter,
corps of engineers, United States army,
stationed at Savannah, and in charge of
improving the harbor of Fernandiua, who
will take the board to inspect the work
of his department at Fernandina and such
other places along the coast as he is
employed in the improvement of at pres¬
ent. Brunswick, Ga., will also occupy
the attention of the board, whioh lecog
nizes the fact that all harbor improve¬
ments will be based upon the work done
the St. Johns bar, and xvork of a nature
similar to the jetties in the harbor of St.
Augustine.
Immigration Pointers,
Following the are a few interesting points
Van op subject of immigration from E. B.
Deman, in charge of thestate bureau:
‘'The bureau has been in existence a little
over a year. The appropriation is be
tween there $9,000 and $10,000. With this
has been secured twenty-five fami¬
lies, each of which to the state is w orth
$1,000. Florida s not ahvt-to the ad
vantages of immigration. .Little work
can lie done with such a stinted allowance
"Why, Texas, in the last two years, has
spent over a million, and California, our
rival, rpends uo iei.' thsn a million every
year. In case of a half rtilfitrfr n*propri
stion, aunually, we would send capable
ageu.' .'i*»?*»g them the classes of people we de¬
sired. hate w>th literature
ccntiued to facts, and witii £.4HF»it» of ihe
state's products. Object* lessons MI.
The bureau has two foreign agents for
this purpose— one iu Euglaud and one in
Germany—and their work, which is lect¬
uring bearing and fruit. delivering Th*> immigration printed matter, bureau is
has broad ideas oft the shojeet, but with
a totitraicted purse we are alfnnsi helpless.
By tbs way. Jacksonville has a chance to
advertise herself to advantage. The
Southern Interstate Immigration associa¬
tion has written entitled for photographs Crf the
city. We are toseud twenty-five
photographs, which will be exhibited iu
towns of from five hundred to two thous
aud inhabitants. We are also entitled to
Send five thousand pamphlets. These will
be distributed Irj fin sgent of the associa
tion free of charge, The board of trade
vhould take hold of the matter.*’
tV8» Not Pensacola t
Although there i£) a v**wtiraent prevalent
to a certain extent in softie' portions which of
"West Florida, that the region cm
braces the city of Pensacola belongs prop¬
erly to the the state of Alabama, still the peo¬
ple of State nt large have no idea of
surrendering so bright a with jewel keen from delight their
erowu, and they watch
and deep satisfaction every step which that
people makes in the line of material devel¬
opment cb’rhfhbrbial and el\iecially every the advance city of Pensa¬ in the
progress of
cola. They fraiit to see Pensacola take
the position which is htta by natural
rights—that of the leading cottiftiercial
city on the Gulf of Mexico. The United
States dry-d*>ck commi-siou has just
finished its investigation of the sites
offered by Pensacola for the location of
used the proposed government theshlpsof dock the Ameri- to bo
for repairs to
can navy. Pensacola has deep Watcr in
abundance. Her harbor could float the
navies of the world, She is the natural
ofitlet for the lumber, coal and iron pro¬
ducts of the southern states. She has
excellent railroad facilities, improving and is
constantly on the watch for
them. The natural conditions sur¬
rounding the sitis which she offers make
Huy onC Of them easily defensible iu
time of war. The land is not subject to
periodical overflows nor liable Injury
fiom any unusual disturbance of the ele¬
ments. The government could doubt¬
less construct a dry dock in that
harbor at less expense than at any other
site offered, and the cost of maintaiuance
and operation would probably be le-s.
As regardg the other gulf ports, her lo¬
cation is central, and skilled labor would
not hate to he transported a long dis¬
tance. The selection of a site for this
dry dock somewhere oa Pensacola bay
would add materially to the commercial
importance of of that city and thus increase
the volume her business, enhancing
thereby the prosperity of the whole state.
— Times- Union.
SAM JONES CAN FIGHT.
Encounter In WT ( ioh the
Noted Evangelist Figures.
D spatches from Palestine, TcX. give the
of a hostile meeting Tuesday
Rev. Sam P. Jones, the evan¬
and Mayor Word, of that city, in
the mayor received a se*erv can
at the hands of the Georgia preacl J er.
l'be fnet; in the case are as fol/ovfs: ast
November, Rev. Bam P. Jones conducted
1 number of meetings there. He paid his
usual respects to lukewarm church mem¬
ber', easy-going preachers, tattling wo
aien and gossiping men. All tl e e classes
[ 00 k their doses of hillingsate with lamb¬
like meekness; hut when the preacher
touched the toughs, there was blood in
(he air. The reverend gentlemen ar¬
raigned the enfoicement of the law and
the faithlc sness of public officers, in
fiuding the mayor.
The mayor, Hon. John J. Word, was
absent from the city at the time, but
uhen he returned he was told all that
had been said, with some unavoidable
exaggerations. Monday night Mr. Jones
was in the city again, on a lecturing tour.
Tuesday morning, while he was bidding
adieu to sor^e of his admirers, the mayor
advanced toward Mr. Jones, but instead
of extending his hand in love, adminis¬
tered his cane in hate. Then it was that
the true Georgia inwardness of Jones
asserted i* self. The Bible admonished
him to turn his other cheek, but Georgia
grit insjfired him to “close in” ou his
antagonist. It was the grapple of a mo¬
ment, a wrenching of the cane, and when
the men parted through exhaustion,
Jones held the cane. • A telegram from
the evangelist to some friends iu Georgia,
which is characteristic of him, reads as
follows:
“Theoae-gallus mayor of Palestine tried
to cane your Uncle Jones this morning at
the depot. I wrenched the cane from
him and wore him out. I am aliltle dis¬
figured, hut still in the ring. I criticised
his official career last November. It
needed criticising.
Sam P. Jones.”
The people were indignant that the
mayor of the town should be guilty of
such an act, and a meeting was at once
called to t*ke action. The principal
mover in the meeting said it would de¬
mand the" res gnation of Mayor Word and
his brother officials. •
A WRECKED TRAIN.
Caps Demolished and Many Pas¬
sengers Injured.
A fearfui wreck occurred on the
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama
railroad, a few miles from Griffin, Ga.,
Moodayafternoon, in which fifteen peo¬
ple were more or less injured, some of
them, it is thought, fatally. It was a
mixed train, consisting of four freight
and three passenger coaches. While
rounding a sharp curve on a high em¬
bankment, the car next to the engine left
the track, pulling the entire train with it.
The three freight cars were scattered in a
promiscuous heap on either side of the
road, while the passenger cars presented
a spectacle that was appalling, indeed,
partly on the track and patt'y down the
embankment. The smoking car lay flat
on its side at the bottom of the ditch,
full twemy feet from the top of the track.
The ladie J coach was standing on its top,
and how any of tbe passengers escaped
instant death is a miracle.
EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX.
The Disease Getting a Foothold
in Texas.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Dallas
savs : Smallpox is epidemic in the town
of* Rusk and surrounding been territory.
Schools aod churches have closed,
and a ri<rid quarantine established. A
fine of $f00 will he imposed be vaccinated. on every per¬ At
son who refuses to
The'countyjirdge^LSmith Lover J county^offem of
dav for nurses to take charge
patients
7
IT AI.L DEPENDS. ' f
The boy peeped in ttoe gun’s long tubes,
'•Unloaded,” dark aud brown;
They blew him high into the sky,
Aud when that youth down. i
came
His father patched him up and said.
With wisdom keen and kind :
“Don’t stand before a dangeroo* thing,
But always get behind.”
He was a rather thoughtful youth,
And treasured irp this little truth. *V
flue day while strolling /
So one ou •
His daily path to school.
There, lunching on a thistle pod, k.
He spied a slant-eyed mule; •
Its ears were long, its paint-brush tall
Looked drooping, smooth and kind,
And yet the boy—mistrusting all—
Stood carefully behind.
Up went the heels too quick to see.
And that wise boy, oh, where was he?
He sailed aloft five hundred yards—
A pin-wheel whirling ’round—
Then fell with emphasis and vim 4
Upon the quivering ground;
Ilis eyes were crossed, his oars askew,
His long legs warped and bent, *
His ribs all telescoped aud cracked,
* His head had many a dent;
His inner fixings all unfixed,
His soul and gizzard badly mixed.
“Ah, well,” said he, “the old man erred;
There's mighty little fun
Behind a sleek, unloaded mule.
Before a loaded gun;
* This thing of planning out our end?
On circumstances all depends.”
Commend this fact to all your friends.
— St. Louis lie public.
PITH AND POINT.
The first gentleman of Europe—Japhot,
—Puclc.
The strongest butter in the tub is al¬
ways the weakest iu the market.— Puck.
Even a long lane will turn if it is trod
upon often enough .—Chicago News.
These days it appears that nothing
succeeds as often as failure.— Scranton,
Truth. • *
Statesmen are the only people who are
permitted to pass bad hills .—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The office doesn’t seek the muu any
more; its time is all taken up dodging
him.— Puck.
The liberated prisoner is like a period,
because lie is at the end of his sentence.
Chicago News.
“In which vard did you lose the ball,
my boy?” “The one with the dog in.”
— Chicago News.
You need help to raise a laugh, but
you can heave a sigh alone.— Indian¬
apolis Journal.
“Well, doctor, how do you find our
beefsteak ?” ‘ ‘Very small for its age.”—
Flicgende Blaeitcr.
A small boy i 3 not necessarily impecu¬
nious because he is strapped .—Pittsburg
Chronicle- Telegraph.
Absalom was one of the first men ort
record to be “held up” while going
through the woods — Light.
Hunger is the best sauce, but it is un
satisfactory to be compelled to waste
on or victuals - -hick.
Caller (after the panic)—“Is Mr.
Gould in?” Servant—“Yes, indeedy—
millions .”—New York Weekly.
He was an Irish hostler who named
his horse Favor because it had to he cur¬
ried so much .—Buffalo Express.
Th% old ladies may grumble, but at
the age of sixteen, woman’s rights are
’way ahead of those of manhood.— Pack.
Brown—“I can marry any girl I
please.” Van Riper—“There’s the rub;
you don’t please any ."—Munsey's
Weekly.
Emmar—“Why do you throw glances
at that young man across the room?”
Julia—“Because he is a good catch.’ —
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Blotter (of a literary turn).—
“And John, send up a gallon of mid¬
night. oil. All our best writers, I’m
told, burn it .”—Boston Transcript.
Singleton—“Well,where there’s-a will
there’s a way, you know.” Littleton—
“Yes, and the chances are you’ll find a
lawyer there, too .”—Detroit Free Press.
First Actor—“Did you lead a fast life
when you were out West!” Second Ac¬
tor—“Yes, I had to go without eating
nearly all the time .”—Detroit Free Press.
The electric railroad between St.
Paul and Minneapolis ought to he a
great* success, as the two cities are
negative and positive poles .—Chicago
'Times.
She—“The Germans have a proverb
that ‘the wicked sing no songs. 1 Ft lie
_“Quite right; their punishment con-,
sists in having to listen.”— Munsey's
Weekly.
Strange that no reporter has cornered
Stanley and forced him to disgorge tho
correct pronunciation of Mpwpmpwpwa
and a few other African names.— Mil¬
waukee Sentinel.
“Ha, ha!” said the stem-winding watch in
That glee had been passed,
unsold long
As the purchaser twistei its creaking
screws;
“My turn has come —Philadelphia at last.” Times.
Briggs—“What the dickens he are can’t you
applauding that jay for? Why,
sing that song any better than a fourteen
year-old boy.” Braggs—“I know he
can’t; but I thought I would applaud
him for his magnificent exhibition of
nerve .”—New York News.
She called me “a puppy;” she sail it, by
Jove; ’
3he called me “a puppy,” this girl that I
love—
And when I think it all over,
And remember how oft she caresses that
pug, • i
How he finds in her arms a reposing place
• snug— ' 1
clover. . jj
\Y hy truly I must be in
— Washington Post ,
Here is one of Lady Bulwer’s droll
£torie 3 of the society lady: “Who is
this Dean Swift they are talking about?”
she whispered to Lady Bulwer, during a
pause in the conversation; “I should like
to invite him to one of my receptions. ”
“Alas, madam, the Dean has done some¬
thing that has shut him out of society.”
“Dear me, what was that?’’ “Well,
about a hundred years ago he died.”—
Argonaut.
Average Yield of the Tea Plant. ;
The-avcrage annual yield per tea plant
is*very variable, hut may be stated at
about one-fifth of a pound of finished
lea; and as each acre of a garden holds
1300 to 1600 mature plants, the yield
per acre may be from 300 to 350 poum*
l )er annum .—Boston Cultivator.