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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
M 3 . 1 *. SHMPSOKT 3 >
TOCCOA, GEORGIA
HSiftflfftlf Stl m
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Hepairs All Kinds of Machinery.
Peerless Ekgines,
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Geiser Separators & Shingle Mills
Farmers and others in want of either Engines or separators, wni
SAVK MONEY by using tho above machines. I am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
«1ESTEY ORGANS.!*-
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines.
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me ba¬
ore you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand,.
DRS. STARKEY & PALEN S
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for tho last twenty years, is a scieu-
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over tho world.
Dra. Stark'-y A IVon have the liberty to re¬
fer to tho following name 1 woli known persons
who have tried their treatment:
Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, member of Congress,
Philadelphia. U
v. Victor Jj. Conrad, Ed. Luth’n Observer,
Philadelphia. U
v. Charles W. Cushing, D. D., Rochester,
New York.
Hon. Wm. Penn Nixon, E l. Inter-Ocean,Chi¬
cago, III.
W. H. Wordiington, E litor New South, Now
Ymk.
Judge II. P. Vro .man. Qu nemo, Kan.
Airs. Mary A. Live, more, Melrose, Massachu¬
setts.
Mr. E. C. Knight, Ph ladelphia.
Mr. Frank 8tcklall, mere ant, Phils.
lion. W. W. Schuyler, Easton, I'a.
E. L. Wilson, 833 Broadway, N. Y.,Ed.Phita.
Photo.
Fidelia M. Lyon, Waimea, Hawa i, Sandwich
Isl aula.
Alexander K tohis, Inverness, Scotland.
Airs. Manuel V, Ortega, Fresnilio, Zicat cas,
Mexico.
Mrs. Emma Cooper. Utilla, Spanish Hondu¬
ras, C. A.
J. Cobb, ex-Vice Consul, Casablanca, Mo¬
rocco
M. V. A-hhrook, Red Bluff, Cal.
J. Mo to, Sup’t Policy, Blandford, Dorset¬
shire. Eug.
Jacob Ward, Bowral, Now South Wales.
And thousands of others in every part of the
United States.
Results, “Compound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and
is the title of a new brochure of 200
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gives as
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of M veral hundred surprising cures in a wide
range of chronic cases—many of them after be¬
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Read tho brochure !
DRS. STARKEY & PALEN,
Ho. 1529 Arcii St., Philadelphia, Pa,
riea>e muiton U»is paper when you orderCom-
pound Oxygen.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber-
ih&m and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank!m and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have speo-
ia’ attention.
ELECTROTYPERS OUT.
A Big Strike in Force at Boston,
Mass.
A dispatch of Saturday from Boston,
Mass., says: 1 he electrotypers strike, of
which mention has been made, is assum-
ing serious sanction'd proportions. the The strike has
been by International
Typographical financial Union, is which interpreted means not
only aid, but also
that offices pressmen will employed do in book and job
not auy presswork from
plates made by non-union electrotypers.
Further than this, if non-union electro-
typers and pressmen are secured, the type
from which the plates are made by men
who take the strikers’ places, will not be
distributed by union printers.
TOO CHEAP.
that overspread her parent’s false face she
must have been guilty of a step. dolW?
“Why didn’t you offer him a ”
was that lady's criticism after the
visitor's departure “We ve got money.
and you mustn't be afraid to let folks
know it.”—fPhiladelphia«Tunes.
THE MUSS AT CHICAGO
Between the Fair Directors and
Labor Unions.
Chicago organized labor is in arms
over letters from Treasurer Seeberger, of
the world's fair directory, as to unpaid
stock. The circular received by a Mr.
Meagher reads as follows: “My collector
reports that you, in common with a num¬
ber of persons, evidently of the same
family, decline to pay installments due on
your subscription to this company, be¬
cause you want first to learn whether or
not the work on the fair buildings is to
be done by union or noft-union labor. I
want to inform you that this has nothing
wh .lever to do with the question; but,
even if the question were absolutely fixed
as to whether union or non-union men
were to be employed, it has
nothing whatever to do with
your obligation to this subscription list.
This company does not propose to have
any one dictate what shall or shall not be
done. The names of delinquents are be¬
ing handed over to a collecting attorney,
and you will find that such excuse will
not avail.”
Contrary to expectation, the world’s
fair directory has taken no action on the
demands of the labor unions. At a meet¬
ing of the trades assembly Saturday, the
subject was warmly discussed, and a
delegation was selected to meet the com¬
mittee of the state senate to investigate
the world’s fair labor troubles. The de¬
mands nre eight hours a day, $1.50 to be
the minimum of wages the total exclu¬
sion of alien labor, and as far as prac¬
ticable of non-unionist labor.
THE SOUTH’S PROGRESS.
The Manufactures’ Record Gives
Splendid Showing 1 .
The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti¬
more, reports for the pist week new in¬
dustries as follows: Development, land
and town companies organized at Alabama
City, Andalusia, Eufaula, Eureka, Mont¬
gomery and Phoenix City, Ala.; Augusta,
Ga.; Port Royal, S. C.; Brunswick, Ga.
Locomotive works at Alabama City, Ala.
Cotton mills at Anniston, Ala., Jackson-
ville, Fla., Cedartown, Ga., Edgefield,
K< rshaw and Birmingham Valley Falls, S. C. Iron
industries at Ala., Athens,
Bolton, Canton, and CartersHlle, Ga.
Sewerage, waterworks or street Opeliki improve-
ments at New Decatur, and
Oxanna, Ala., Fort Valley, Ga., and
Blacksburg, S. C. Sawmills at Thomas-
ville, Ala.; Apalachicola, Apopka,
Palatka and Wellborn, Fla.; Savannah,
Ga., and Bowman, Gaffney City and
Pickens, S. C. Also lumber consuming
factories at numerous points. A cotton
compress is being erected at Mobile;
electric light plants at Augusta, Ga., and
Chester, S. C.; electric power plant at
Savannah. Phosphate companies were
organized or commenced work at Bartow,
Ocala, Palatka and Tampa, Fla. In ad-
dition to numerous other industries not
reported above, the list embraces new
buildings in Georgia, Alabama, South
Carolina and Florida, valued at nearly
$600,000; besides fourteen other large
structures.
FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS.
A Committee to Canvass the
Southern States.
The business committee of the National
American Woman’s Suffrage Association
met at M asuington, Monday, and The ap-
pointed a number ot committees.
members of the congressional committee
are: Susan B. Anthony, chairman; Har-
net I aylor l ptou and Mrs. Jean Brooks
Grccnleaf. The committee on southern
work, formed for the purp southern sc of holding
conventions in capitals of states,
consists of Rachael Foster Avery, chair-
man; Mrs. Jane H. Spofford, and Miss the
Alice Stone Blackwell. A fund for
southern campaign has already been
started by a contribution from Mrs.
Rachael Foster Avery of $1,000
SEIZED THE SHIPS
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In Order to Use Them as Block-
A New A notice
C una dc Vaoores has Hen compelled 1 to
S di*cont ; nu« ompTny its Chili service The d^e no
of the c is » a to be to
| the fact that the insurgents have seized
about ha if Q f the ships F of the comp.inv
^ and put them to use a , b otocKaue i oc kade inn- mn
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, MARCH 7, 1801.
GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
The new city directory, just completed,
gives August i 53,000 inhabitants.
The canvrssing committees of the Au¬
gusta exposition are meeting with unex
pected suece s.
There are thirty-two ex-confederates in
Washington county who are entitled to
pensions.
Deaths from hydrophobia are more fre-
qu< nt than usual in Georgia, and mad-
stones are at a premium.
The contest for sheriff of Jefferson
county has been decided by the governor
in favor of the contestee, I. F. Farmer.
The new town, Demorest, in Habersham
county, is not two years old, and has
eight factories in operation, and is prepar¬
ing to build several more.
It seems that the South Carolina gold-
brick swindler, who recently came to
grief, made unsuccessful experiments in a
numbi r of Georgia towns.
The petition of the Georgia Sawmill
Association asking for a reduction of the
rate on lumber has been postponed until
the next meeting of the commission,
March 10.
The trial of Mrs. Ora McKee, of Rome,
for murder, has beeu set for the first
Monday in March, and it is predicted by
many that it will be one of the most sen-
sational trials ever held in Georgia.
Governor Northen has appointed F. W.
Gilbert solicitor of the county court of
Wilkes. The present incumbent, Wm.
Wynne, does not ask reappointment.
His term expires March 26th, this year.
Among other railroad enterprises, the
organization of the stockholders of the
Fort Payne and .Eastern railroad means
much for Athens. That point will doubt¬
less be made the eastearn terminus of the
road.
There is a great complaint of- the mail
service in some sections of southwest
Georgia. The Americus Times says it
takes a letter a fraction over three days to
get from Leesburg to Americus, a distance
of twenty-five miles.
The Americus Recorder says: “It is
about time that Georgia's constitution
was amended so that the people can do
something this they want to. It is not suited
to progressive age and should be rele¬
gated to the shades of the past.”
Senorita Clotilde Annuncion Diaz will
enter the Southern Female college at La-
Grange. She is a sister of Dr. Diaz, the
great Cuban convert. Professor Cox
went down to the dedication of the new
church, and while there it was decided
that this young lady should come back
with him and enter his college.
Mr. J. A. Davis, of Houston county, is
going to start a large gourd farm near
Bonaire. He says he is perfectly willing
to mortgage the entire crop to get the
money that will be necessary to cultivate
and gather the crop. He seems to think
there is good money in gourds, as they
are not as perishable as melons.
Col. Tip Harrison is still ru-hing the
pe- sion business at Atlanta. Two thou¬
sand have been issued and five hundred
applicants now on hand. Col. Harrison
sent off $6,460 in pensions to 118 appli¬
cants who had named him as their agent
to collect the money. Comptroller
Wright, as agent, has sent pensions to
about 600 to date.
It has beeu discovered that tne late
firm of Phillips Brothers, grocery dealers,
of Augusta, had forged endorsements to
notes of the amounting to about $5,000. One
notes, for $2,000, was paid by the
man who took possession of the ir store
after the failure of the firm; also went
through the country and collected all
debts due the firm. They have for parts
unknown.
A * tele , , / ram , been , received . , from ,
Texas, ^ eSS,S ' stating ® r ° wn that * the trial ot of Snyder,
who ™ urdered lr>s wife at that place
tune ago, would begin on the 2d of
* n a lette r P a J; tlea 1Q Rome >
^ , f S yderwas
W r ° 6 a n go-
to do the insanity . act,” and that his
attorneys a film mAustm, were going to
endeavor to S et a chan S e of venue,
Twenty thousand dollars, in silver dol-
lars » halves and quarters, were shipped
the to Washington National city a few days ago by
Exchange bank of Augusta,
The bank had $45,000 in silver on de¬
posit, which it could not handle, so it is
sending it to Washington city to be ex-
changed for greenbacks. It costs the
bank $3 a thousand to ship money to
Washington city, so they sustain a loss
of $60 on the shipment,
The high waters in the rivers around
Rome has done some damage in the coun¬
try districts. Sunday morning , sawmill,
or rather a part of one, floated down the
Oostanaula and was caught by two col-
ored fishermen near the Rome and Deca¬
tur bridge. The saw and other portions
of the machinery attached to the wood-
house came down, and with it a lot of
seed cotton. This was also rescued by
the same men.
Mr. Hunter McDonald, resident engin-
cer G f the Western and Atlantic road,
left Atlanta a few davs. ago, to look aftt-r
Tennessee and Coosa extension of the
Nashville and Chattanooga extensionfhas road This
little road (now had a most
interesting career ‘ It was one of the
fi rst railroads chartered in the state of
jy a bama 1848 beino’ to'build the date, the privi-
i eC r e beiug Hven it from Gads-
to Quntersville. Work commenced
iu 1850, and, after a long series of ups
and downs, extending through a period
of thirty years, it has been completed to
within six miles of Cartersviile. The
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
road acquired control of it about two
k. The regard most to the important jomtratecircultr develop-.,tit
| ls-?ued )vas in some time ago by the commission.
The Centra! has been cited to show rea-
son, at the next meeting of the comrnis-
fiou, why they have faued to comply witr.
' ^ The East J ennessee ’ it is understood,
; has ^ refusc< i to carry out this order.
as a number of com plaints have reached
the commission concerning their failure
to do so. The Central, and perhaps
other roads, are expected to earry the
tpatter into the courts. The joint rate
circular, No. 171, was issued under au¬
thority of an act of the last legislature,
i his law gave them a new power, and
the test of it in court would be without
precedent. The order of the commission
went into effect only last October.
Rome’s New Furnace.
The new iron furnace of the Rome Iron
Company thorough is about completed. It is a
the piece of work from the stack to
buildings ground, Two immense woolei'
have also been constructed,
and the furnace with its buildings makes
a splendid show. The furnace is located
at New Rome, on the main line of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad, about two miles south of the
city. The Chattanooga, Rome and Col¬
umbus railroad has its line of road neai
the furnace, and will haul all the red ore
from Dirt Seller mountain. Silver creek
flows within a stone’s throw, and wa'er
in the greatest quantities will always be
available. It is the intention of the
owmers to go into blast about the last of
March, and the event is to be marked by
a magnificent banquet. The plant is one
9f the finest in the fo ith, and the quali¬
ty of iron will be very fine. The capacity
of the furnace is eighty tons per day.
Fee Hunters.
Just $60,000 were appropriated to pay
pensions to confederate widows, but quite
a number of people are interested, it
seems, in getting a percentage .of that in
fees. Most of the fee hunters live out-ide
the sta'e. Information has been received
at the capitol of two pension agencies in
Washington, D. C., writing to postmas¬
ters and others for the names of widows
entitled to pensions under the Georgia
law, and offering, as pay for such in¬
formation, a percentage of the agencies’
fees for collection. Quite a number of
applications have come direct to the
capitol the from lawyers and agencies outside
state as well as in it, asking for pen
sion blanks. To all such requests the
answer has been uniform—that it was the
state’s and policy to make lawyers’ services
fees unnecessary in the payment of
these pensions, and to have the money
go direct to those for whom it was ap¬
propriated.
Atlanta’s Exposition.
At a recent meeting of the directors of
the Piedmont Exposition Company the
following resolution was passed:
Whereas, The people of Atlanta have
responded liberally and Eoblv to the
appeal of the directors of the Piedmont
Exposition Company for donations to
assist in having a creditable exposition
during the present year, having con¬
tributed within a few hundred dollars of
the required amount, and
Whereas. We believe that the senti¬
ment of Atlanta is decidedly in favor of
holding Resolved, the exposition; therefore, be it
That, the executive commit¬
tee of the board of directors be directed
to proceed to make all necessary arrange¬
ments of the for an exposition during the fall
roads present leading year, into provided the rail¬
Atlanta will make
such donations and offer such rates of
transportation the executive as will be satisfactory to
committee.
This will secure the exposition, as the
street car companies and the railroads
leading into Atlanta have never failed to
do their part when the benefit of the city
is in question.
It will be the most thoroughly repre¬
sentative and complete exposition and
most productive held. of beneficial results of
any yet
The Schoolbook Question.
The legislature, at its last session,
passed a very important resolution con¬
cerning school books. And it’s begin¬
ning to be heard from.
The resolutions arc as follows:
Resolved, 1st, by the senate, the house
concurring, That it shall be the duty of
the state school commissioner of Georgia,
if possible, to inaugurate a system or plan
by which school books can be supplied to
the children of the state at a greatly re¬
duced price.
Resolved, 2nd. That it shall also be
the duty of said commissioner to inquire
into the feasibility of publishing all
school books by the state, by contract
with authors and publishers, or other¬
wise, and make a report to the adjourned
session of the present general assembly,
should there be one, if not, to the next
general assembly, of all information ac¬
quired by him, with such recommenda¬
tions as will assist in solving this ques¬
tion and affording the desired relief.
, The states’ publishing its own school¬
books is out of the question. The state
can make a contract with publishers and
authors to supply books, or can adopt for
its schools any uniform series of text¬
books it may select. The actual inaugu¬
ration of any reform of this sort by the
commissioner, while it seems authorized
by the resolution, would hardly be a
satisfactory proceeding—so Mr. Brad-
well thinks—and the action that will be
taken is this: The commissioner will
carefully and fully investigate the mat¬
ter, and then make a repost to the legis¬
lature at its next session, with recom¬
mendations.
BURIED ALIVE,
And Rescued After Nineteen
Days of Suffering 1 .
A dispatch from Hazleton, Pa., says:
Four men were rescued alive from Jeanes-
ville mine Tuesday night. All are Hun¬
garians, named Thomas Tomastuskey,
Joe Mastuskewitch, John Berno, and
Bosco Frinko. Twenty-three men were
in the mine when the water broke in.
Six escaped and seventeen bodies were caught
by the water. Thirteen have
been taken out. Thomas Tomastuskey
is in the best condition, and will
doubtless fully recover. Mastuskewitch,
known as “Big Joe,” from his size, is ap¬
parently in the worst condition of all, and
may not live. They were in the mine
nineteen days and nineteen hours, and
owe their lives to the fa A that the por¬
tion of the mine where they took refuge
was “cushioned” by fresh air by the
pressure of water which rose in the slope
824 feet in five minutes. They sup¬
ported life on the contents of their din¬
ner pails and oil in the lamps and bottles,
and, when these were gone, upon the
water in the mine, which was horribly
foul with sulphur.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
OFFICIAL.
National Farmers’ Alliance and
Industrial Union.
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
Washington, D. C , Feb. 10, 1891.
To the Membership of the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union:
In compliance with instructions from
the national legislative council of the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union, I present herewith a plan for the
organization of a lecture sys'em through¬
out our entire order, which was adopted
by the council at its mreting in the city
of Washington, Feb. 4, 1891.
I was further instructed to designate
the date on which the first meetings of
the county and district legislative coun¬
cils should be held. All lecturers of the
subordinate bodies of our order, together
with the county lecturer of their respect¬
ive counties, will meet at the same time
and place at which their county meeting
is held in the month of April next.
All county lecturers will meet on
Wednesday, the 6th of May, next, at such
place districts within their respective congres¬
sional as may be designated by the
State president, for the purpose of elect¬
ing a lecturer for their respective con-
gressional districts and for the transac¬
tion of such other business as may come
before them.
The presidents of the S'ates will at
once designate to the county legislative
councils the place at which the district
legislative councils respectively will meet
on the 6th day of May next, and will
also indicate to the district councils at
their meeting the place and the date at
which the State legislative council will
meet.
Believing that the plan adopted will
prove an efficient and powerful auxiliary
in our work as a great and active educa¬
tional agency, the national legislative
council cordially and earnestly recom¬
mend it to the entire brotherhood
throughout the United States for imme¬
diate adoption. It is commended as
absolutely essential to the success of our
cause.
Let us resolve that the year 1891 shall
be distinguished above all the years of
our history for vigorous, active, success¬
ful work. Let our great order be thor¬
oughly aligned on the principles we have
enunciated, and assured victory will be
ours.
Select the member best qualified in
subordinate, county and district bodies
for this important and responsible work.
Have this plan read and discussed in
every organization belonging to our
order.
Let the watchword “Forward” pass
along the lfnes. L. L. Polk.
President N. F. A. and I. U.
Plan for Organizing a Lecture
System and Legislative
Councils.
COUNTY legislative: councils.
The lecturers of sub-ordinate bodies of
the National Farmers’ Alliance ard In¬
dustrial Union, in counties having coun¬
ty organizations, shall constitute the
County Legislative Council, of which the
County Lecturer shall be ex-officio chair¬
man.
district legislative councils.
The lecturers of the several counties
composing a congressional district shall
constitute the District Legislative Coun¬
cil, of which the District Lecturer shall
be ex-officio chairman.
STATE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.
The president of the State Alliance,
the State Executive Committee, the State
Lecturer (where such office exists) and
the District Lecturers of the congres¬
sional districts of the State shall con¬
stitute the State Legislative Council, of
which the State President shall be ex-
officio chairman.
DUTIES OF STATE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
It i-hall be the duty of the State Legis¬
lative Council to meet at the call of the
State president, and to provide means for
the dissemination of Alliance literature
among the brotherhood in their respective
States, and to promote and advance the
demands of the State Alliance and of the
Supreme Council. It shall prescribe the
term of service, the compensation for the
same, and provide its payment for each
of the district lecturers within the State.
It shall co-operate with the National Leg¬
islative Council in all measures and
methods for securing such legislative
reforms as may be indicated in the de¬
mands of the national body; provided,
that no State Legislative which Council shall
advocate any measures may con¬
flict with the constitution or laws of the
order, or demands of the State Alliance
and Supreme Council.
DUTIES OF DISTRICT LEGISLATIVE COUN¬
CILS.
It shall be the duty of the District
Legislative Council to convene at such
time and place as may be designated by
its chairman, within its dittrict, to re¬
ceive and consider such matters as may
be communicated to it by the State and
National Legislative Councils, to exem¬
plify the unwritten work of the order, to
secure and provide for the service of the
lecturers, and for the dissemination of
Alliance literature in conjunction with
the State and County Legislative Coun¬
cils for each county within its jurisdic¬
tion. It shall co-operate with the State
and National Legislative Councils in ad¬
vancing the general interests A the order,
and for securing such legislation, State
and National, as may be indicated by the
State and National bodies It shall
promptly disseminate such information
or printed matter to the various counties
of the district as may be designated establish for
the membership. It may by¬
laws for its government; provided, that
no District Leg slative Council shall ad
vocatc any measures which may conflict
with the constitution or laws of the State
or National bodies or with the demands
of the State Alliance or Supreme Council.
DUTIES OF COUNTY LEGISLATIVE COUSCILS.
It shall be the duty of the County Leg¬
islative Council to meet at the call of its
president at such time and at such
within the county as he may designate,
to consider such matters as may be re
ferred to it by the National, State or
tiict Legislative Councils, in promt ting
the general interests of the order and for
securing such legislation as may be indi¬
cated by the demands of the State and
National bodies. It shall devise the best
means for securing such legislation for its
county as the order of said county may
indicate. It may establish by-laws for its
government. It shall give active co¬
operation in disseminating all matter of
information or Alliance literature designed
for the membership, and for securing an
efficient lecture icrvice for its county;
provided, that no County Legislative
Council shall advocate any measure in
conflict with the constitution, laws or
demands of the State or National bodies.
For the purpose of organizing this sys¬
tem, the National President shall desig¬
nate and publish to the order the date on
which the county and district legislative
councils in the various States shall c< n-
vene. 1 he State presidents shall desig¬
nate and publish to the order iu their re¬
spective States the place at which each
district legislative council will convene
within its district.
At the first meeting of the district
legislative council, it shall elect, by bal¬
lot, a lecturer for said district, unless
such lecturer has been otherwise pro¬
vided, and shall report the name and
postoffice address of such lecturer
promptly to the State president, the State
secretary and the national president, each
of whom shall keep a correct list of the
same.
Ottumwa (Iowa) World 6ays: “Some
of the mercenary subsidized papers of
the old parties think to heap ridicule on
the sub-treasury plan by calling it the
they ‘government have pawn shop.’ Now, since
mentioned it, what is the dif¬
ference between a government pawn
shop for wheat or cotton and a govern¬
ment pawn shop for storing bonds or
whisky? Our kind, paternal government
stores bonds and gives the owners 90 per
eent of the face in money, at 1 per cent
interest. The farmers ask this same
government to occasionally store non-
perishable products and give them 75 or
80 per cent, of the value at 2 per cent,
interest. If the drones, who live off the
labor of the workers, can be accommo¬
dated at a “government pawn shop;”
if those who never produced enough in
their whole lives to keep their worthless
souls and bodies together a week can be
furnished with storage for bonds and
whisky, why cannot the producers of all
wealth, the foundation of the prosperity
of the tepublic, be allowed the same
privilege? Why?”
Colonel L. L. Polk, the National Alli¬
ance president, has written Georgia’s
governor a letter in which he commends
him for refusing to take part in the recep¬
tion of Jay Gould. The letter is as fol¬
lows :
Washington, D. C., Feb. 11, 1891.
Governor W. J. Northen: My Dear
Sir—Official dignity, when supported by
the dignity of true manhood, always
commends itself on the approval of the
American people. Toadyism in official
life they condemn and despise. Please
accept the cordial grasp of my right
hand, after reading your letter on the
Gould reception, and accept my sincere
wishes for the success of your hopes and
prospects.
Yours very respectfully and truly,
L. L. Polk.
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The Southeast Enterprise (Popular
Bluff, Mo.) says: “The Ripley County
Farmers’ and Laborers' Union met in
Doniphan last Friday and Saturday, and
among much other business, unanimously
adopted the platform of the National
Farceurs’Alliance and Industrial Union,
formulated and ’ adopted at Ocala, Fa.
The sub-treasury plan was thoroughly
discussed, and after the imaginary “Hall-
Chew” arguments were answered, it was
unanimously adopted.”
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The Farmers’ Alliance editors of Kan¬
sas met at Hutchiuson a few days ago and
organized the Reformed Press association
of Kansas. Resolutions were passed de¬
manding the formation of a National
Farmers’Alliance party; recommending
an eternal severance from all other parties;
demanding that all classes of labor be
accorded equal privileges in the People’s
party, and demanding the passage by
congress of the service pension bill.
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Kansas Courier (Wichita Kan.) says:
“Pure Alliance reform is simply this.
The organization is not fighting organized Demo¬
crats or Republicans; but has
for self protection. When either party,
or the leaders of either party, do not
work in the interests of the laboring
mass, then, through the pure reform ed¬
ucation instilled into the minds of its
members, they will receive a rebuke that
will be a lesson worth remembering.
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The Alliance Vindicator (Sulphur
Springs, Tex.) says: “Alliance men are
becoming more determined every day to
stand square to the front and demand
their rights at the polls. That is the
place to show faith by works. Demands
through petit'bn iota until or otherwise emphasized will never the
be worth an at
polls by honest hallo’ s cast for men repre¬
senting measures and not party.”
*** (Springfield,
The Alliance Free Lance
Ills.) says; “The question of the organi¬
zation of the new party is being exten¬
sively discussed in Alliance papers.
the great Cincinnati meeting which will
settle this matter does not occur for
a year, there will be abundance of
to"get all the fully pros before and cons the people. in regard
this matter
the agitation co on.”
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
A Train Jumps the Track
Four Men Killed.
A dispatch from Richmond,
says: The rear coach of the limited
Handle train of the Pennsylvania
system, from Chicago for
jumped the track at Hagerstown
day evening, and rolled down an
bankment. Four persons were
and several injured. The killed are:
F. Deal, engineer of maintenance
way of the Pau-IIandle; George
ham, attorney of the road; C. R.
conductor of the train; Arthur Reeves,
passenger, of Richmond.
NUMBER 9.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Review of the Past Week by
Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: There is not much change in
the condition of trade, but there is a lit¬
tle more dullnesss at the south and in the
northwest, with a little more stringency
in about the the money slowness markets of collections. and complaint In
general, business is still hesitating.
Though there is no chance of monetary
speculation at this session, the chances of
an extra session of congress seem to be
rather great, and before and pending
legislation in several western legislatures
regarding loans mortgages, land titles
and railroads causes much timidi'y and
shifting of capital. But a large causo
is undoubtedly a partial loss of
crops, which has left a great many
farmers without means for the usual pur¬
chases. At the same time the collapse of
the real estate “boom,” which for a while
inflated prices throughout the west and
south has affected business more than has
yet been realized. To this influence is
added at the south the extremely low
price of cotton, which affects the farmers
more, because so many of them tried, by
holding back their crop, to force a higher
level of prices.
REPORTS FROM THE CITIES.
Thus tardiness of collections begins to
appear, because local debtors do not real¬
ize on their goods as promptly as they
still expected. generally The called money market, gives although signs of
easy,
the Southern steady approach to stringency. de¬
reports generally note a fair
mand, but no improvement in trade,
while northwestern reports are, on the
whole, less favorable than before. Busi¬
ness at the eastern cities has been
irregular. The wool trade is strength¬
ened the prices by comparative scarcity, grades and
of some are
higher. The knit gained goods manu¬
facture has apparently most, and
next the manufactures of dress goods. A
continuance of purchases at more than the
the usual rate will be needed to make
season a satisfactory one in men’s wear
goods. The trade in cotton is dull be¬
cause the Southern demand has dropped
remarkably. In rubber goods, trade is
unsettled, some makers having advanced
prices with those of the crude rubber,
while others have not. The glass trado
is fair at Pittsburg and light at Philadel¬
phia. doubt Steel rails do not move, of the because
buyers the permanence demand. com¬
bination. Coal is dull, in fair
Cigar makers are busy. The advance in
Sumatra leaf retards sales.
AN ADVANCE IN PRICES.
There has been an advance in the aver¬
age prices of all commodities, amounting
to half of 1 per cent, for the week, but
it has been almost exclusively in pro¬
ducts, of which the crops were short.
The price of wheat has not advanced,
western receipts continuing heavy, while
exports are light. and
But corn has risen 2£ cents, oats If
cents. A speculative coffee. advance of over of
f cent is also seen in Experts
merchandise from New York for the past
four weeks have been 14 per cent, less
than for the same week last year, and
imports also decrease about ten per cent.
A little disturbance is caused by further
shipments of $G00,000 of cold to Eu¬
rope, and as the treasury disbursemi nts
for pensions are just now enormous, tho
money markets are likely to be strength¬
ened for a time.
Business failures for the week number
556; for the corresponding week of last
year the figure was 257.
IT IS FEARFUL.
The Floods that Inundate the
Gila Valley.
A dispatch from Yuma, Arizona, re¬
garding the fearful flood in that region, the
says: of Out of 150 houses Afty composing remain. The
town Yuma only
second high water of Gila river on Thurs¬
day was more disastrous than that of
Sunday, The canals have been washed
out, under ranches destroyed and railroads million. are
water. The loss is half a
The cemeteries are on high land, and
many people are camping in them. A
Mexican family eight miles east is
drowned. One body, that of a man,
floated past the town. I he river here is
fourteen miles wide. Many people are
believed to be drowned in the country,
but no particulars have been received. It
is feared that hundred of lives were lost
up the Gila valley, which is 200 miles in
length. It is known that thousands of
cattle, horses and mules are drowned.
The wires are all down east. Five miles
of railroad west and sixteen east of tho
town have been washed away. Every
house on the lxills has been thrown open
to receive the homeless hundreds quar¬
tered in tents and old government build¬
ings. The merchants have opened their
goods on the streets in order to help the
sufferers. The water is still high for 200
miles east of Yuma, and ts all of this
must pa s there, many fear that the
worst is yet to come, tspecially if there
should be aDy rainfall. The common
loss has brought all classes of citizens
together, and all have worked with a
will, first in trying to save the town by
constructing a rude levee, and which ef¬
fort proving futile in saving as much as
possible from the ruins.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
A boat which has just arrived from
Mohawk, sixty miles up the Gila river,
brings reports of terrible loss of life, all
the country being under water. The
greatest sufferers are the poor Mexicans,
whose entire possessions have been swept
away, and who have no reserves to fall
tack upon. There is yet a vast stretch
of territory to be heard from, and every
one fears that when full returns are iu
the loss of life will prove of appalling
magnitude. In this city the ruin has
been most complete, not a single bus¬
iness house remains standing, and 1,400
people hundreds are homeless. lives have It is feared that
of been lost in the
Gila valley. The telegraph wires are
down in the valley, and, as all the bridges
are gone and the roads are not passable,
no reliable reports can be had from there.
The river about the town is seven miles
wide, and below the town, in places, the
water covers the country in one grand
lake over fifty miles across.
La Grippe has caused the death of -J
fivp
persons over seventy years of age neai
WoodvMle, Miss.