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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
SIMPSOM
TOCCOA; GEORGIA
WttflWMfttM III
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v. W. Cushing, D. D., Rochester,
Now York.
Hon. Wm Penn Nixon, E1. Inter-Ocean,Chi-
cago, lit.
W. LI. Wor hington, E litor New South, New
Yoik.
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Mrs. Mary A. Live, more, Melrose, Mess adm¬
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J. Moore, Sup’t Police, Blandford, Dorset¬
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Jacob Ward, Bowral, New South Wales.
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LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the oounties of Huber
abam and Rabun of tho Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all bush ess entrusted to him
The collection of debts will have spec
ial attention.
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THE PAPER PROTESTS
Against a Supposed Scheme of
Uncle Sam.
The a newspaper P u’dished at
Madad, in an ancle protesting against
the supposed scheme of the L nited 8t tes
government o annex the inland of t uba,
says ths . r. 1 lame ought to recollect
that the congn^ of American nations
plaiuh pro'id t nit the bpanish-Amcn-
cans are no disposed to allow themselves
to be aHoned by the great northern re-
public The peop e of C uba, it says, are
strongly bpauish, and aie equally op-
p.sed to becoming part of the United
Mates. Probably, witu the exception of
a few tradesmen, there is no one on the
island who is at all desirous of annexa-
tion. ?oain, the paper continues, would
shed her ist drop of blood in resisting
any attempt to deprive her of her colony.
fearing neither Cuban revolution nor war
with the United Stat s.__
CNI*AKDONABLB.
“Hike Smithers, even if he isn’t much
socially. He has one miserable, bad
habit though. that? ’ ^ 1
“What’s __
“ He insists on recognizing me in
oublic.”
THE UNEMPLOYED.
More than 100,000 New Yorkers
Crying For Work.
The sun rises every day above this
great and wealthy city, his beams fall
upon hundred the hapless faces of more than one
and fifty thousand people who
begin each twenty-four hours of their
pilgrimage through life with the haunt¬
ing fear that hunger will be their portion
for the day. Every night that wraps in
its mantle of darkness this busy hive of
humanity finds thousands upon thousands
of men, women aud children struggling
with desperation for the means to pro¬
cure a place whereon to lay their wearied
heads aud dream away a few of the
moments that mean naught but despair
to them in their wakiug hours. It is a
sad story this chronicle of the woes of a
great city’s unfortunates; but its grim
reality caunot be avoided. Nor can it
be distorted into figures that might
please. The facts are there. They
speak with crushing force. They show
that in this city of New York, with its
gigantic fortunes, its wonderful business
interests, its evidences of growing pros¬
perity on every side, there is still to be
solved the mighty problem of the poor.
To the person who has not sought full
information on this particular subject
the startling facts presented below will
dawn with peculiar force. To the
workers in the wide arena of charity the
the vista of misfortune spread out before
them will appeal with stronger vehem¬
ence for renewed efforts in the field of
human sympathy. The World, as the
friend of the working classes, has taken
the most trustworthy method of finding
the extent of the poverty that exists in
the city, and the figures and facts that
follow are as nearly correct as they can
be made.
At no period in the city’s history have
so many people during been without employ¬
ment as this present winter.
Reasons of remarkable business depres¬
sion have come and gone; panics have
time staggered many lines of industry from
to time; waves of unaccountable
slackness in the manufacturing world
have been experienced during the past
five decades, but their consequences were
results not as far-reaching painfully for evil or their
so apparent as the un¬
known causes that to day oblige nearly
one-ninth of New York’s population to
be without occupation or work of any
description that might aid them to keep
the wolf from the door without assist¬
ance from some other source.
In the skilled trades this remarkable
condition of affairs is more than usually
striking. There are over one hundred
thousand mechanics and artisans of every
description vainly seeking employment.
There are 20,000 people who have no
trades, but who have the desire
for and ability to work at any-
thing that might enable them
to fight the battle of life also
yearning for something to do. Many of
these are women, and a very large pro¬
portion of these, mothers of helpless
families, who despairingly seek from day
to day for the means to help them put
honestly earned bread in the mouths of
their children. Almost ten thousand
more are made up of that driftwood of
society—the wreck and the outcast—who
cave not for work or the sweets of life as
purchased by the toil of hand or brain,
and whose existence on earth seems to
be at best only a hard struggle with a
condition choice, of tilings having in which" they have
no and, none, have list-
° been bioUed from thcir l nincK
rh c are thousands of boys and girls
, v ho. while not altogether dependent on
;heir owu efforts for a living, are just as
mxiouslv waiting for an opportunity to
ie jp f a | OB g the struggle against poverty
, ha is in their homes. Many
mndreds of these children earned a
xmple of dollars a week as cash bo vs or
?irls dnring the holidays, but now‘they
\Vorlii again without employment.-fN. * Y.
To Prevent Lopsidedness.
The latest fad among the equestriennes
is to ride one day to the left side, the
next to the right. Since Mrs. Jen ness-
Miller sounded a trumpet and informed
women they were in danger of growing
lopsided by not riding man-fashion there
has been much anxiety felt over the situ-
at ion of affairs. The physicians and the
ioreign barons who run our riding acade-
mies have evolved this panacea for one-
sidedness.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, MARCH U, LS9I
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
Yellow fever is increasing in Brazil,
The sudden fall in Scotch iron was a
feature of the iron maiket Friday in Lon¬
don.
The union bricklayers and plasterer?,
of Mobile, Ala., went out on a strike
Friday.
The Missouri annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has voted
against admitting women to the general
conference.
The Kansas house of representatives
has passed the senate bill making eight
hours a legal work day for state, county
and municipal employes.
3 he Baltimore Methodist conference,
on Friday, by a vote of 145 to 39, de¬
cided to not allow women delegates to
the general conference.
Secretary of War Proctor issued a gen¬
eral order Friday afternoon authorizing
the enlistment iu the army of not more
than 2,000 Indians.
throughout Specials received from many points
Kansas say that the heaviest
snow of the wunter fell Saturday, averag¬
ing six inches on a level.
The amount of silver offered for sale to
the treasury department Friday was 1,-
026,000 ounces, and the amount purch¬
ased was 276,000 ounces, at 98.25, 98.35.
Judge Beach in the New York supreme
court, Simmons on Saturday, appointed J. E (ward
receiver of the American Loan
and Trust company, fixing his bond at
$ 200 , 000 .
The president, on Saturday, appointed
James H. Beatty, of Idaho, United States
district judge for Idaho. The president
nominated him to the senate, but the nom-
inati n failed of action.
The Wanskuck strikers at Providence,
R. I., have decided to go to work at the
old schedule of prices, pending a confer¬
ence them concerning the differences between
and their employers.
The Methodist Episcopal conference of
Philadelphia, decided by a vote of 120 to 98 has
delegates against admitting women as
to the electoral and general
confer ences of the churches.
The Berwitter Manufacturing Company,
sash and door manufacturers, at Grand
Cross : ng, Ill., failed Monday. Assets
placed at $110,000; liabilities $60,000
The trouble is believed to be tempoary.
A dispatch of Saturday, says: There
are now- over 1.500 carpenters and plain¬
ing mill employes idle in Indianapolis in
consequence of the strike ordered by the
building indications trades council, and there are no
of an early settlement.
Mrs. Frank Leslie xvil 1 m>ke a now
will by which the bulk of her fortune,
amounting to at least $600,000, will be
left in trust for the establishment of a
great institute for the instruction of wo¬
men and the advancement of higher ed¬
ucation of the sex.
Miss Mary Anderson (Mrs. Navarro)
has created some stir in theatrical circles
at London by adveitising the sale of her
stage dresses, theatrical scenery and stage
properties, thus confirming the announce¬
ment that it is her intention to retire
definitely from the stage.
Coroner Levy, of New York, issued
warrants Friday morning for the arrest
of the officers and directors of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad,
who have been held responsible by the
coroner’s jury four the deaths of the vic¬
tims of the Harlem railroad tunnel dis¬
aster.
Attorney General Miller, on Saturday,
informed the secretary of the treasury
that the alleged ill treat ment of the
Hungarian laborers employed in the con¬
struction of a railroad near Pocahontas,
Va., is a matter for statesupervision only,
there being no United States law cover¬
ing such a case.
At a mass meeting of the journeymen
carpenters decided of Chicago Sunday, afternoon,
it was that should the master
carpenters not conclude to accede to the
proposition to arbitrate the differences
between the carpenters and employes a
strike of great magnitude will be inaugu¬
rated. Fully 3,000 men were present.
Fire, Monday morning, destroyed the
printing house of Gibson, Walk Miller &
Richardson, at Omaha, Neb. Loss $200,-
000; insurance $140,000. The fire was
caused by a boy smoking a cigarette in
the press room. Broaches’ wagon stock
house, adjoining, was damaged to the
extent of $29,000, covered by insurance.
A dispatch of Saturday from Sb P.»u1,
Minn., says: Examiner Knox has pro¬
ceeded far enough with the account of
Deputy County Clerk Jay P. Davis to
discover that he is short between $25,000
and 30,000. He obtained all the money
fri m County Treasurer Nelson on forged
jury certificates during the last four years.
A cablegram of Sunday from Paris
says: L'nder the pretext of avenging the
insults which were offered to the Empress
Frederick during htr recent visit tc
Paris the German forest guard at Epinal
have compelled the French woodcutters
to cros3 the frontier from Vexaincouit,
thus depriving them of their only means
of a livelihood.
An express train for Phi’adelphia,
while running at a very rapid rate oi
speed, near Penn crowd Haven. Pa., Monday,
dashed into a of boys walking on
the track. They were on the up track
and stepped on the other track to escape
a special passenger train. They did not
see the express approaching, and two of
them were struck and instantly killed.
A cablegram of Sunday from Madrid,
Spain, says: A commission of six medi¬
cal men, appointed treating to investigate consumptives, the
Koch method of
has reported in favor of the total suspen¬
sion of that form of treatment, it having
been found, according to the committee’s
report, that not a single cure had been
effected there by the use of the method
in question.
At a meeting of the board of directors-
of the Louisville and Nashville road a!
New York, Monday, the office of chair
man of the board was created, and An
gust Belmont was elected to occupy th*
position in control of the New York of-
fice of the company. Milton H. Smith,
the present vice-president, was elected
president, with his office at Louisville,
Kentucky.
A dispatch of Monday from Madrid,
says: The Spanish government is about
to dispatch 6,870 troops to Cuba on ac¬
count of the increased political agitation
on the island. If the situation becom is
worse General Campbell will be appointed
viceroy. The Spanish press is protesting
against separatists Americ. in ms encouraging the Cuban
connection with the pro¬
posed treaty of commerce.
The United States supreme court, on
Monday, dismisse I four tax coupon cases
between individuals and representatives
of the city of Lynchburg on the ground
that pecuniary matters were involved,
and that the amounts in controversy were
not sufficient to bring the case before the
court. In three other cases motions to
dismiss were denied, wi hout prejudice,
because the papers were not sufficiently
explicit.
The exports of specie from the port of
New York for week ended March 7,
amounted to $1,495,064, of which $900,-
541 was in gold and $504,524 in silver.
Of the total export $675,490 in gold and
$506,749 in silver went to Europe, and
$225,051 in gold aud $27,745 in silver
went to South America. The imports of
sptcie during the week amounted to
$24,765, of which $139,681 was in gold
and $109,084 in silver.
A dispatch of Monday from Ida Grove,
Iowa, says: The epidemic of trichinosis
in the German settlement continues, and
two more deaths have occurred, making
five deaths in nil. Several new cases
have developed, and two more deaths
are expected. Advices from Washington
say that an investigation will be made by
the bureau of animal industry to prevent
the further infection of swine in that lo¬
cality.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: The
long strike of the coal miners of the
Monongahela valley has ended in a coin¬
plete victory for the men. Friday morn-
ing the operators met and decided to
concede the demands of the strikers for
>m advance in the mining rates of 4 cent
per bushel, and resume work at once.
The strike was one of the longest and
most determined ever known in this sec¬
tion. It lasted ten weeks, and the men
lost, in wages alone, over $1,000,000.
The resumption of work will mean pros¬
perity and happiness to upward of 25,000
people.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of
Trade.
Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade
says: Congress has adjourned, and the
possibility of an extra legislative session
no longer hangs over business, so that
the monetary basis cannot now be af¬
fected by any law of its making earlier
than December next; nor is there much
prospect now that any serious change will
be made next winter. Meanwhile, the
appropriations liberal voted have been so large
and that the treasury surplus must
be considerably reduced and the available
supply of currency increased within the
current year. One wholesome factor is
that prices of commodities are moving
up, rather, the average having risen more
than 1 per cent during the week, and the
exports of merchandise are thus liable to
be restricted.
Reports of trade from all parts of the
country show little change since last
week, though there is, pe.haps a little
h ss activity. The south continues to
feel the depression in cotton. Trade is
moderately fair. The only speculative
market that has declined during the week
is the cotton market, receipts showing an
increase of 47,000 bales over last year
and exports an increase of 12,000 bales.
A fall of i put the price even with any
recorded since 1851. But wheat has
risen over 1 cent, oats 1£ and corn nearly
2 cents, coffee £, oil 2| cents, butter 5,
poik products a shade. It is difficult to
see why wheat should advance, with
western receipts largely exceeding those
for the corresponding week last year,
with a visible supply well maintained
and exports falling off, aud thus far this
week, for instance, w r heat eports are not
half last year’s lor the same days; flour
exports not one-half, corn exports only
one-ninth.
The treasury has put out. the silver
notes included, only $100,000 more cur¬
rency than it has taken in during the
past w r eek, but the money markets are
generally well supplied for legitimate
business needs, though at some points
stringency is more active. Repor.s as to
collections grow less satisfactory, and yet
it is the prevai iDg impression that bus¬
iness in all parts of the country is on a
solid footing and will prosper when good
crops come.
Failures for the week number 235; for
corresponding week last year the figure
was 223.
A TRUSTED CLERK
Raises a Pile of Cash by Raising
Checks.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: A. S. Hodg¬
son. for twenty-five years a trusted em¬
ploye of Jutte & Co., coal operators,
raised a check on the Central bank on
Saturday, from $42 to $4,200. The cash
was paid over without question, and
Hodgson took the first train out of thf
city. He raised a check the day before
from $25 to $2,500 aud got the money,
but the firm discovered the fraudulent
transaction before he had time to leave
the city. Upon bein'* confronted with
the evidence of Lis crime, he confessed
and returned the money. On account of
his long service, the matter was not
pressed, and Saturday morning he took
advantage of his employer's leniency and
raised a second check.
Nine New Judges.
It is'staled on the highest authority
that the nine circuit judges provided for
at the recent session of congress wiil not
be appointed for of several opinion months yet, the
President being the that each
of the new courts can be organized at the
time fixed, the third Wednesday in June,
by the a-sociate justices of the supreme
. ourt, the regular circuit judge and the
.i-trict judges in each of the respective
circuits, regardless of the fact Jhat the
jew circuit judges may not then have
appointed.
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PEFFER’S VIEWS.
THE ALLIANCE SENATOR FROM
KANSAS SPEAKS OUT.
Policy of the Allance as Regards
the Issues of the Day.
W. A. Pefiter, the recently elected
United States Alliance seuator from
Kansas, speaks to readers of Frank Les¬
lie’s Illustrated Newspaper as follows:
“The farmers’ a liance and industrial
unio t is made up of farmers and rural
working people, with country preachers,
school teachers, physicians aud editors of
agricultural papers. Primarily social,
women and young persons of both sexes
over the age of 16 years are eligible to
membetship. It is, also, semi-religious,
for every member must be a ‘believer in
the existence of a Supreme Being,’and all
the meetings are opened and closed with
prayer. Its intention is—‘On earth peace
and good-will toward men. 1 And while
the first of its seven declarations of pur¬
poses is ‘to labor for the education of the
agricultural classes in the science of eco¬
nomical government in a strictly non¬
partisan spirit’—which means that no
partisan discussions are permitted in the
councils of the order—-still the alliance is
intensely political. It could not be oth¬
erwise and attain the objects sought.
science Proposing to educate its members in the
of economical government, it
must discuss all matters pertaining to ad¬
ministration of the laws. Its second dec¬
laration asserts a demand for ‘equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.”
“It was not intended originally, nor is
it nowg that the alliance should become a
political party, nor that it shou’d form a
nucleus about which a party should col¬
lect. It was expected that all the re¬
forms demanded by the alliance could be
and would be wrought out by the machi¬
nery of existing parties, or that a new
party would be born.
parties “Appeals were made to leaders of the
in power, but no attention
paid to them, and the alliance members
set about seriously to build up a party of
the people, to be composed of voters who
were agreed upon a policy to bring about
the changes needed, these voters coming
from other bodies of organized labor
and from all existing political parties.
The result in Kansas was the people’s
party. In other sta'es different methods
of proceeding were adopted; in none of
them, however, was a separate and dis¬
tinct party formed, though the principles
advocated and the objects sought by
organized farmers in all the states arj the
same.
“The alliance membership are agreed
upon a few fundamental propositions re¬
lating to land, labor, transportation and
money, and they want legislation upon
those subjec's. They want more money
in circulation; they want the government
to issue all the money directly, and get it
to the people without the intervention of
interest-charging agencies; they want
money made plenty and put out at low-
rates of interest; they waut the govern¬
ment to lake charge of the money of the
countrv, so that its benefits may be en¬
joyed by the people upon fair terms and
on equal terms—the same rate of interest
on the same amount of money for the
same length of time; they want trans¬
portation controlled by the government
iu the public interest, so it may be cheap,
safe and equal in its burdens and bene¬
fits ; they want a readjustment of our land
system, that all the public lends may be
gathered in speedily and disposed of to
settlers under the homestead law; they
want alien ownership of lands abolished
in some equitable w-ay; they w’ant to
secure for the people the largest po sible
measure of benefit from the unused lands
of the country; they want legislation
that will cause vacant lands to bear their
full share—acre for acre—of the public
burdens resulting from taxation; they
want homesteads protected in the interest
of citizens and their families; in sh^rt, ns
to these great matters first, and as to all
related matters afterward, the Alliance
w-ants such legislation as will equalize
burdens and benefits of government, af¬
fording equal protection to all the citi¬
zens, destroying the influence of the
money power, suppressing combinations
against freedom of trade, aud placing the
debtor on terms equal with his creditor.
“This uprising of the people comes
from a belief that the universal depression
iu agriculture is directly traceable to
vicious legislation; that our financial
policy is ruinous to the masses; that as
its legitimate fruit the rich are becoming
richer and the poor poorer, while the
wealth of the country is fast passing into
the hands of a comparatively small num¬
ber of persons. One-half the tilled
lands of the civilized world are
mortgaged to less than 1 per cent
of the adult male population; eighty
per cent of German farms are pledged for
debt; one-third of American farms are
under mortgage to non-resident and for¬
eign capitalists; half the city real estate
is encumbered in the same way and to the
same extent; half the municipalities— the
counties, cities, townships—in under all to
west and south are mortgage
bond-holders. to'death, The country is mortgaged
and 63,000,000 people are circula¬ com¬
pelled to get along with a money
tion of $10 per capita. It is believed that
our national banking law intrusts a dan-
gi rous power to banking corporations. It
is known that, while the act was passed banks to
‘provide a national currency,’ the
are retiring that currency at the rate of
$82,500,000 a year, and that no provision
has been made or proposed by our law-
makers to restore that amount, or any part
of it, to the circulation of the country,
In addition to all this, our railroad com-
panics are in debt to s’oek and bonds five
times as much as they are worth, and the
people are compelled to pay, in exorbi-
tant traffic charges, the interest on this
excessive indebtedntss besides dividends
to the stockholders. Briefly, rich men and
gnat corporations are gambling on the
substance of ihe people. done? The
“What, then, is to be an-
swer is pregnant, but it is plain and im-
P c ativc. The people must take charge
of their own business. All publ c func-
tions be exercised . by .
mu-t agencies ap-
pointed by the government. The issu-
anct of money and the transportation of
property are both public functions.
Thm let the government issue ail the
people s money and supply all their pub-
lie transportation. Abolish banks ox
Issue,' 1< t money go from the govern-
ment to the people directly, and let the
charges f r its use be no more than what
it actually costs to handle the money.
1 hat is the rule in postal matters, and in
all other functions of the government.
That woil'd biing interest rates down tc
what the people could affordto pay, the
rat s would be Uniform in all parts of
the country, and it would be to the inter¬
est of every owner of money to keep it
in circulation promoting productive in¬
dustries. Instead of investing in mort¬
gages and draining out the substance of
the people, owners would put their mon¬
ey at work to make it pay its way,
“The Farmer's Alliance is striking for
thnt equal liberty and exact justice to
which the people are entitled. They
want burdens and benefits justly distrib¬
uted ; they waut to destroy the influence
of the money power in legislation; they
aim to get rid permanently of every soft
of gambling in the products of labor;
they will wage relentless war on all class
legislation, and they will not be content
until trade among our peop’e was free as
the air we breathe and the water we
drink. The Farmers’ Alliance has set
out to dethrone money and emancipate
labor.' 1
just as men do with their farms and their
ships.
“Transportation is part of the produc¬
tive force of the people, aud for that
reason it must be made cheap and uni¬
form. As it is now-, we pay from five to
ten times as much for our transportation
as it would cost if the people owned
their own means of conveyance. In that
case the cost of the “plant” would not
figure in the estimate of cost of trans¬
portation any more than the cost of a
public road or a court house is charged
up to the people every time they use
these things, which were made for their
convenience.
DELUGE OF RAIN
WHICH HAS SWEPT OVER THE
COUNTRY.
Terrible State of Affairs in Va¬
rious Sections.
A Montgomery dispatch says: The
heaviest rainstorm for months pre¬
vailed there Sunday. During the hours
from 8 to 9 o’clock in the morning two
inches of rain fell. The storm was ac¬
companied by a great deal of electricity.
Lightning struck the house of Love Mor¬
ris, in the southern portion of the city,
damaging it considerably, aud severely,
but not seriously shocking six 'of the
inmates. Salem, a town twelve mile3
south of Opelika, was visited by a severe
cyclone about 11 o’clock Sunday. Twelve
or fifteen negro cabins and the negro
Methodist church were blown down.
The rear end of Mr. Crowder’s residence
was blown off. The large two-story res¬
idence of Mrs. Holtzclaw was completely
demolished. Mrs. Holtzclaw, the mother
of General J. T. Holtzclaw, of Mont¬
gomery, died the day before, and her
remains and a large number of friends
and relatives were in the house at the
time, but fortunately escaped injury.
The cyclone was from the northwest. A
trestle on the East Alabama railroad was
washed away, and the trains stopped run¬
ning.
A Charlotte, N. C., dispatch says: For
the past four weeks this section of the
state has been visited by the largest rain¬
fall for a long while. The country roads
are simply impassable, and the roadbeds
of the different roads in the state are
in a bad condition, but are carefully
W'atched all along the lines. This state
of affairs has demoralized trade in a great
degree, as the farmers cannot get to town
with their cotton. Iu the tobacco sec¬
tion the recent rains have done damage
to that staple. That which was packed
down in the warehouses or in the barns,
is reported as moulding badly, and in
some instances has become perfectly use¬
less. The streams throughout the state
are very much swollen, and much more
of this kind of weather will do much
harm.
The news from Nashville is as follows:
The heavy rains in this seclion did not
erase until Sunday morning at daylight.
The river reached forty-six and three-
tenths feet. This is a rise of five feet and
six-tenths in twenty-four hours, a very
considerable one, considering that the
river had encroached upon the lowlands
along its course. Finally the river will
r each fifty-one or fifty-two feet. This
will run several hundred families from
their homes in the northeastern and
northwestern suburbs. A great many
have been compelled to move.
From Memphis the report is that the
rainfall in that city and section of the
south is unprecedented. Nearly during five
inches of rain had fallen there
the past forty-eight hours. The entire
lower part of Canton, Miss., is under
water, and all the trains on the Illinois'
Central railroad are delayed. Pearsley
river raised three feet in twelve hours,
and all the trains are delayed at Jackson,
Miss., no trains having arrived from the
south since Saturday. The Mississippi
at Memphis is one and a half feet above
the danger line, and is still rising.
The engine of the train which left Ma¬
con, Ga., Sunday night at 9:30 o’clock on
the Georgia road for Augusta, station, plunged
into a washout near James eigh¬
teen miles from Macon. The engine
turned over and the engineer, Charlie
Davenport, of Macon, was mashed to
death. No one else was hurt and no cars
were wrecked.
A Greenville, Miss., dispatch reached of Mon-
day, says: The river has the
danger line and is still rising. Great
alarm is felt. Levees are being strength-
ened, but cannot stand the strain much
longer.____
BANK WRECKERS
ThG P6Illt8Iltl3.Fy Will ... .
Them for the Time Being.
^ Philadelphia dispatch says:
p. YYorkand James S. DungaD,
W| . eckers of the Bank of America
American Life Insurance company, were,
QQ s^ttartiay, sentenced by Judge
to j our an( j tbree years, respectively,
penitentiary. Louis E.
present 0 f the wrecked bank,
p' lC ad guilty and turned state's in the
w ^ sentenced to two years
institution.
NUMBER 10.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE C^DER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
The Orange County Farmer , of Port
Jarvis, Alliance, N. U, thinks that the Farmers’
and all the ether organizations
of farmers, are giving the politicians a
deal of uneasiness, and adds: “That is a
good sign. Let the work go on. Farm¬
ers must meet and talk over their griev¬
ances, and demand reparation. They
must not only demand it, but they must
go the polls aud get it. It can be se¬
cured in one way, if not in another.”
***
The Reedy Fork Alliance, of Green¬
ville county, S. C , have resolved to
“plant one-third less cotton this year and
raise more supplies,” and have asked the
president of the State Alliance to recom¬
mend that the members of every eub-
Alliance shall adopt the same policy.
Several County Alliances in Georgia have
passed similar resolutions, and the feel¬
ing in favor of this policy oppears to be
wide-spread.
* ***
State Alliances are now rapidly in¬
creasing, some as entirely new organiza¬
tions, while others, as in Arkansas, come
from the consolidation of other State
farmeis’ organizations. The State Alli¬
ance of Iowa is soon to be reorganized;
Maine and other Eastern States will fol¬
low not far behind. One fact is most
gratifying—that the Grange, which has
covered most of these States to the ex¬
clusion of all other organizations, does
not seem to weaken in its membership
by the progress of the Alliance eastward.
This means, probably, that the Grangers
who join the Alliance remain in the
Grange also. Then the Alliance gathers
up a great many who have never been in
the Grange.
Senator ***
John B. Gordon has been
initiated as an Allianceman. The exer¬
cises took place a few days ago at the
Alliance hall at Mason’s crossing in De-
Ivalb county, Ga. The hall was crowded
with members of the Alliance and a few
prominent visitors. After the initiation,
the General made a conservative speech
iu which he declared, “ihat the objects
and aims of the order were such that
everybody and anybody could endorse its
principles. He had advocated them for
years and he expected to continue to ad¬
vocate them. He felt perfectly at home
among the Alliancemen and pledged
himself to do all that was in his power
to better the condition of the men who
spend their lives in toiling on the farm.”
***
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The National Farmers’ Alliance is mak¬
ing preparations for the great political
conference iu February, 1892. The Geor¬
gia Alliance is doing its part. The Geor¬
gia central committee composed of one
from each congressional district, has been
appointed and will soon get to work. A
few days ago Colonel L. F. Livingston
received a letter from C. W. Macune,
chairman of the executive board appoint¬
ing T. L. Gantt a member of the nationa
committee. In the letter which contained
the appointment Dr. Macune said: “You
wiil see that it is my duty to appoint one
man in each state in behalf of the alliance
who shall be ex-officio chairman of tho
executive or state central committee in
his state, and shall appoint district chair¬
man, and w-ho in turn appoint a county
chairman. This means to organize the
state demands thoroughly for the discussion of our
during the coming spring. State
and national delegates are elected by appro¬
priate and representative meetings held
for that purpose so that the supreme
council next November shall have full
authority aud an active disposition to
select a full delegation to the great politi¬
cal conference in ’92.” By virtue of his
commission fr./m Dr. Macune, Mr. Gantt
has appointed his central committee of
Georgii as follows:
First District—W. R. Kemp, Swains-
b^ro, Emanuel county.
Second District—W. W. Webb, Mars,
Lowndes county.
Third District—W. A. Wilson, Ameri-
cus, Sumter county.
Fourth District—J. II. Traylor, La-
Grange, Troup county.
Fifth District—C. T. Zachary, Mc¬
Donough, Heury county.
Sixth District—Alexander Atkinson,
Jackson, Butts county.
Seventh District—C. H. Cameron, La-
Fay ette, Walker county.
Eighth Diu’.ict—L. H. O. Martin,
Elberton, Elbert county.
Ninth District— T. A. McFarland,
Lavinia, Franklin county.
Tenth Di-trict — Martin F. Calvin,
Augusta, Richmond county.
CANADA’S ELECTIONS.
Annexation Defeated by a Slim
Majority.
A Toron'o dispatch says: The Empire ,
a government organ, sums up the result of
Friday’s election as follows: The conserv¬
atives elected 125, the reformers elected
83; majority for the conservatives, 42,
with seven se its still to be heard from, of
which five at the la6t election returned
conservatives. The World , a government
paper, claims a majority of 39 for the
government. The Mail majority , independtnt,
gives the government a of 26,
while the Olotte oppositionist, says that
the majority for the government through¬
out thq whole country will not exceed 20.
RIOTOUS MINERS
Shooting at People from Am¬
bush and Robbing Houses.
A Birmingham dispatch of Wednesday
says: An alarming condition of affairs
exist at G’arbon Hill, Walker county,
Ala., the scene of the recent riots.
Members of the gang who started the
trouble with the miners last month se¬
crete themselves in bushes near the town
every iiight and fire into the passengers
with Winchester rifles. The waiting
room of the depot was fired into and a
dozen houses have been robbed. Tb«
sheriff says he is poweiless to stop it.
Threats have been made to kill leading
citizens.