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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
T# Sleep.
O winged shj»p. de*r son of drowsy nl^ht
And holy silence, born upon a hill
_And cradled in the crimson popple* till
Thy infant heart wa, full of all delight 1
« jh ep, thou languid chaser of the light,
Come to me now on pinions broad and sttJl
And crown my brow with kisses sweet,
and thrill
My restless brain with shadows exquisite,
Shielding o,* ,, °" mince head T« " Ith influences kind,
my upon your balmy
breast,
I'll 1 shall lie, like ardent Cupid, blind
And sunk Into an eestney of rest,
Then let draw near me, borne the
wind, upon
fiweet visions of true love mid all things
blest.
T —[From the Persian.
The Hero of the Stampede.
UY THOMAS P. MONTt OKT.
In Hie year 18— I was employed as
» herder at Morrill’s ranch, out in
Western Kansas. Ours was oue of
<ho most extensivo ranches in the
State, and th 0!0 was quite a little
hi my of men and boys in connection
■with it. One of the duties with which
•wc were charged was that of keeping
the range, which was government
land, free of settlers.
I 10 * 1 you see a covered wagon,”
®aid our manager, “keep your eyes on
it, and take care that it don’t stop on
our grazing lands.”
“Hut suppose,” questioned one,
“the owner of a wagon should refuse
to move on. Then what are wc to
do?”
‘•I guess there’s enough of us here,”
replied llio manager, “to seo that ho
does move. If any man should bo
foolhardy enough to squat here after
being jioiitied not to do so, it will be
our business to rout him out. We’ll
kill his lioises, burn his wagon, and,
if lio’s very obstreperous, we’ll hang
him a little. Our instructions from
Mr. Merrill are to keep this range
clear of settlers, and we’ve got to do
it or else loso our jobs.”
I did not look with favor on this ar¬
rangement, and neither did tho ma-
|orily of tlie herders. Our sympathies
were with the poor home-seekers, and
wc knew that both the law and justice
gave them tho right to own the land
of which our range was composed.
However, wc said nothing at the time,
hut continued aLout our duties.
During tho next month several
Wagons drove across our range, hut
none of them halted within our limits
Thou one day, late in the afternoon^
there camo nil old canvas-covered
wagon, dilapidated to (lie last degree,
drawn by a span of poor, bony horses
that could scarcely more than creep.
I saw the poor outfit crawling along
the edge of the timber and I watched
it until 1 Faw it halt at a point less
than a fourth of a mile from the ranch.
I saw a man come out of the wagon,
and after looking about for a minute
or so, proceed to unhitch his team and
turn them out tc graze. I felt it my
duty to warn him to move on, so 1
rode dowu to the wagon for that pur¬
pose. The man was a tall, thin
>
sickly-looking person whoso surround¬
ings proclaimed him a victim of ex¬
treme poverty. I was touched by his
appearance, and as gently as I could,
I informed him of tlie necessity of
immediately vacating the spot. As I
spoke his pale, sharp features lighted
up with the fire of indignation, and in
reply he said:
“l’vo made my last move, unless
I’m driven by force. I’ve been run
about from place to place by the cat¬
tlemen till I’ve got nothing left, and
I’m tired of it. This land is open for
settlement and I have a right to a
claim here, and I propose to have it.”
“But you can’t hold it,” l reasoned.
“They’ll burn your wngon and kill
your horses.”
“Just let them try it,” he replied,
laying his hand on a pistol which hung
at his side. “I’ve gst this left, and
I’m desperate enough to use it. Some
of them wouldn’t burn any more
wagons.”
I reasoned with the man as best I
could, but lie refused to more on, and
at last 1 turned away from him hoping
his presence might not be noticed that
evening by any of our people, ami
that by the following morning he
might see the wisdom of moving on.
I had only gone a short distance
when I met a little boy running across
the prairie, and as ho stopped to ad¬
mire iny gaudy “cowboy” attire and
trappings, I 6poke to hi in and uske.l
his name.
“I’m Johnnie Merrill,” he answered.
“Me’n my pa just came dowui here to¬
day, an’ my pa lie’s gone to look at
the cattle an’ I’m goin’ down there to
that wagon. My pa he owns this
ranch, you know, an’ lie let me come
down here wiili him (his time.”
“I had not gone far, after leaving
the boy, when I met a man cantering
along on horseback, and as lie was a
stranger, and well d essed, I rightly
ju ’gel tlntt he wai Mr- Merrill. Just
*s we met he h&ppetied to notice the
old wagon, and reining in his horse,
he said:
“What is that over (here by the
timber?'
“A home-seeker,” I replied.
“Oh, a squatter, eh? Well, go
rmd tell him to move on.”
“I’ve already warned him,” I
Answered.
“Is he going away, then?”
“I don’t know. He is very poor,
and is very sick, but I think he’ll go
tomorrow.”
Mr. Merrill saw at once that I was
attempting to screen the man, and
with a flask of anger he said:
“You go down and tell the boys
that I said that squatter must not be
there at sundown. Do you under¬
stand me?”
“I do,” said I, as I turned away.
I rode leisurely down in the direc¬
tion of the herd and I found the boys
working the cattle back toward the
ranch.
“There’s goin’ to be a storm,” old
Ike Sampson announced as I rode up.
“These blamed cattle air the most
restless an’ oneasy critters I ever seo,
an* that’s a shore sign somethin’ is
brewin’ in the air. For a cent the
whole pack of ’em ’ud go on a stam¬
pede. ”
1 informed old Ike, who was the
leader among the “boys,” of what
Merrill lmd said, and the whole force
gathered around to listen. I also told
of my interview with tho squattor.
Old Ike scratched his head for a mo¬
ment, then slowly said:
“Wal, here’s a nico mess, shore.
I’m agin runnin’ them settlers off in
any sccli way, but I reckon we’ll baft
to do it. Orders is orders, an’ we’ve
got to obey or else hunt another job.”
“That’s a fact,” replied Jabe Mor¬
gan. “The feller has got to go, or
else we’ve got to go.”
“Yep,” agreed Ike. “That’s tho
size an’ shape of it. But, by gum, it
mayn’t he no easy matter to trot that
chap off. He ’pears sorter game, an’
like enough lie’ll pump some of us
full of lead A’
The “boys” w T ere etill discussing
the matter, when before we were
hardly aware of it the whole herd
broke into a stampede and went crash¬
ing away, bugging close to the timber
and making the very earth tremble be¬
neath their feet. Directly toward the
squatter’s wagon they went, and it
was a sight to sicken ono when he
looked upon that vast sea of cattle and
realized how irresistible was the mad
rush, and how defenseless was anyone
who stood in the way. I knew that
the old wagon and its contents would
be literally blotted’ out of existence,
and I knew no means of escape for
the poor squatter.
Merrill saw the 6tampede and came
riding down towards us, but all at
once lie stopped as if rooted to tho
ground. He was near me, and I saw
a deathly whiteness eotne to his face
while lie stared fixedly in the direction
of the wagon. I looked, too, and at a
glance I comprehended it all. Mer¬
rill’s little boy bad evidently started
away from the wagon, and having
gone a dozen yards or so, had stopped
directly in the track of the cattie. He
stood gazing at the advancing herd,
making no effort to escape, and it
seemed inevitable that lie must be
trampled to death in another minute.
To attempt tho child’s rescue was
useless, for we were near a half mile
away from him while the cattle were
but a few yards, and long before we
could have reached him the mad herd
would have swept by.
“My God, men,” Merrill cried,
“can’t something be done to save my
child? It’s awful, awful!”
On and on swept the herd. Less
than twenty steps lay between the
child and destruction. Wc held our
breath and waited in terrible suspense.
Merrill covered bis eyes and groaned
in the deepest anguish. A moment
passed. Then a murmur of applause
ran throughout our circle—a murmur
scarcely more than a whisper. Another
moment of suspense, then a shout^
long, loud, and hearty. The child
was safe.
The squatter had come around the
wagon, and at the risk of his own life
had saved the child. He had rushed
forward and snatched the boy from
under the feet of the cattle, and run¬
ning back a few steps had taken shel¬
ter behind a tree, pushing the boy up
among the boughs bevoml dagger.
Another minute and the herd had
passed, and we were on the spot.
The child was unhurt, but the squatter
was less fortunate. He was bruised
and torn by tlie horns and lipofs of
the cattle that passed near him. The
tree was small ami afforded him but
partial protection, and once or twice
ho was knocked down. Ilis injuries,
however, were not serious, as we
were all glad to know, and none of us
more glad than Merrill,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, JUNll 20, i.Slii
When the squatter’s eyes wander#4
to the spot where his wagon had beeo,
and he saw the complete wreck of all
his possessions, ho groaned and a dim¬
ness came to his eyes.
“It’s all right, my friend,” said
Merrill, laying his hand gently on the
man’s shoulder; “you shall lose hotta
ing. You shall have a claim here and
I will make up to you ten times over
all you have lost. You shall mak
the ranch vour home.”
Merrill kept his promises, and after
the squatter had selected a claim he
helped him to build a house and fur¬
nish it, and besides loaned him money
to send back east to pay passage for
his wife and children.
The employes of the ranch made up
a purse to present the squatter, and
when the donations were all in it was
found that we had the neat little sum
of $130. “Enough,” as ike said, “"to
sorter bridge over in case o’ sickness
or somethin’.” Old Ike put the money
in a purse, and labeled it with a curd
on which he had scrawled with a pen¬
cil these words:
“A present from the cowpunchers
of Merrill’s ranch to the man who,
though a squatter, is a better man than
any of us.”
The purse was duly presented to Iht
squatter, with a little presentation
speech from Ike which w r as as unique
as appropriate.
Every man on the ranch received
strict orders from Merrill not to molest
or interfere in any way with any
homesccker who happened to strike
our part of the country, and we never
did from that day.—[Detroit Frco
Press.
An Elephant That Could Count.
Mr. Arthur Clay sends the follow¬
ing instance of the sagacity of the ele¬
phant. It was told me, lie says, by
Mr. Quay, at the time a non-cominis-
eioned officer in the first battalion of
the sixtieth rifles, but now one of her
majesty’s yeomen of the guard. In
1853 his regiment was marching from
l’eshawur to Kopulvie and was accom¬
panied by a train of elephants. It was
the duty of the mahout in charge of
each elephant to prepare twenty cliur
pat(ie8, or flat cakes made of coarse
flour, for his charge. When the tweu.
tjr chupatties were ready, they were
placed before the elephant, wdio dur¬
ing the process of counting never at¬
tempted to touch one of them until the
full number was completed.
On the occasion related by Mr. Quay
one of the elephants bad seized the
opportunity of his mahout’s attention
being distracted for a moment to steal
and swallow one of the chupatties.
When the mahout, having finished the
preparation, began to count them out,
ho of course discovered the theft, and
presented his charge with nineteen in
place of the usual number. The ele¬
phant instantly appreciated tlie fact of
there being one les3 than he bad a
right to expect, and refused to touch
them, expressing his indignation by
loud trumpetings. This' brought the
conductor of the elephant line (with
whom Mr. Quay had been in conversa¬
tion) on the scene. Having heard the
exp anation of the mahout the con¬
ductor decided that the mahout was in
fault for not keeping a better lookout,
and ordered him to provide the
twentieth cake at his own cost. When
this was prepared and added to the
pile the elephant at once accepted and
ate them.—[Spectator.
Makes Shoes Almost Indestructible.
A German chemist claims to have
discovered a preparation, which, ap¬
plied to the soles of boots and shoes,
increases their wearing qualities from
500 to 1000 per cent, The soles are
supposed to become more flexible by
the process, and poorly tanned leather
after being subjected to it is said to
become as good as the best leather
made. The sole treated with this prep¬
aration becomes waterproof. Another
invention bailing from Germany is the
cutting of shoe laces from scrap leath¬
er, by which even the smallest dealer
is said to be enabled to apply his offal
to this use. The machine is simple
and inexpensive. Scraps of all shapes
can be utilized, the operation consist¬
ing simply of putting the leather in
position and (lien drawing it from the
other side until the material is used up.
The plate of the machine is provided
with three holes 60 adapted as to se¬
cure perfect rounding of the laces
which pass through them. The knife
is adjustable and permits of cutting
with equal ease from the finest to the
thickest work.— [Chicago News.
A Little Change.
Old r ritjud Don t you remember
sweet Alice, who danced with delight
when when vou you gave crave hm her a a smile smile, and
trembled ^ w ith fear at your frown i
Mr. B. Bolt, Jr.—Ob, yes. She
doesn’t care a cent for my 'smiles or
frowns either now. Te’re .Married.
— (Now York Weeklv.
TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
NATIONAL ALLIANCE EDUCATIONAL CAM
PAIGN.
Jerry Alabama—Birmingham, Simpsou. July 21; Hon.
Montgomery, August
15; Senator W. A. Peffer and C. W.
Macutie,
Neill, Arkansas—Afkadelphia, July July 23. Mc¬
28; lion. Jerry Simpson.
Florida—Monticello, July 23; De-
Funiak Springs, July 25; Gainesville,
September 28; Lakeland, September 30;
Hon. L. F. Stokesf Livingston of Georgia, and
Mr. J. W. president of the South
Carolina State Monticello Alliance, will attend the
meetings at and DeFuniak.
Georgia-Americus, July 14; Atlanta
July 15; Athens, July 16 ; Rome, July
18; Hon. J. B. Weaver of Iowa Hon.
Jerry L. Simpson, L. Dr. C. W. Macune, and
Col. Polk will address these meet-
field, Illinois—Virginia, August 6; Spring- 0.
August 13; Senator Peffer, Dr.
W. Macune and National Lecturer J. F.
Willetts will be present and addvess the
meetings
Indiana—Rensselaer, August 4; New-
castle, August 8; the speakers will be
Senator Peffer and Lecturer J. F. Wil-
Kansas—Horton, September 7 and 8;
Concordia, September 9 and 10; Hutch¬
inson, September 14 and 15; Chanute,
September 16 and l7; President L. L.
Polk. Other speakers will be assigned.
Kentucky—Grand Rivers, July 2;
Bowling Green, July 4; Mt. Sterling,
July 6; Catlettsburg, Juiy 7. Na ional
Lecturer Willetts will attend all these
meetings and President L. L. Polk will
be at Mt. Sterling and Catlettsburg.
Rouge, Louisiana—Shreveport, Hon. August 18; Baton
August 25; Ben Terrell will
attend both meetings and Dr. C. W. Ma-
cune will also be at Shreveport.
Maryland—Annapolis, Brad August 22; Mr.
J. Beverley of Virginia, and other
speakers will be present.
and Mississippi—Holly Durant, June Spiings. June 17
18; 19 and 20; Hazel-
hurst, Juno 22 and 23; Meridian, June 24
and 25; Tupelo, June 26 and 27. All these
meetings will be attended and addressed
by President L. L. Polk, Hon. L. F.
Livingston, Lecturer J. F. Willetts, Mr.
J. 11. McDowell, president of the Tonnes-
see State Alliance, and others.
cothe Missouri—Sedalia, August 11; Chilli-
September 2. Senator Peffer will
be at Sedalia. Speakers for Chillicothe
are yet to be assigned.
New York-—Machias, July 11; Pen
Yan, -August 18 and 19. President L.
L. Polk find Mr. Ralph Beaumont will be
at Machias and Senator Peffer and Hon.
Jerry Simpson will attend the Pen Yan
meetings.
North Carolina—Goldsborougb, June
27; Charlotte, August 26. President
Polk and Mr. Mann Page, president of
Virginia State Alliance, will be at Golds-
boro. Speakers will be provided for
Charlotte later on.
North Dakota—Valley City, July 28;
Grand Forks, July 30. lion. J. IV. liar-
den of South Dakota, and Hon. Van B.
Prather, lecturer of Kansas State Alii-
ance, will address these meetings.
Oklahoma Territorv—Oklahoma City,
July 4. Mr. W. N. Wilkins, of Kansas,
is the visiting speaker.
Greenwood, South Caioliua-Florence, July#;
August 28. Lecturer Wil-
ktts will be at Florence. Greenwood
has not yet been provided for.
dent Tennessee—Knoxville, L. L. will Julv 4. Presi-
Polk be present.
Texas-Austin, July 23; Sulphur
Spiings, July 25 to 27; Fort Worth, Au-
gust 5. Senate Peffer will be at Austin
and Su’phur Sp.ings, and Hon. J. B.
Weaver, of Iowa, will be at Fort Worth.
Also Mr. B. E. Kies, of Kansas.
Virginia—Staunton, July 28; Roa-
noke, September 23. Lecturer J. F.
Willetts has been assi.-ned for Staunton,
and oiher speakers will also be sent there.
Roanoke w ill be provided for later.
West Virginia-Charleston, July 8;
Martinsburg, June 23 and 24. Mr. Ralph
Beaumont and Mr. J. Brad Beverly will
be at Martinsburg; Mr. Beaumont
also attend the Charleston meeting. °
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working FOR the thikd party.
Five of the seven members , of , the , ex-
ecutive committee ot the peoples party
met at St. Louis a few days ago.
present w r ere: II. E. r.tubeneck.
Illinois; George I. IVashburn, of Massa-
chusetts; J. B. Weaver, of Iowa; A. O.
Williams, of Kansas, and M. C. Rankin,
of Indiana. Ingi.tius Donnelly, of Min¬
nesota, and Mr. Davis, the seventh mem¬
ber of the committee were absent.
Reports were receive I from gentlemen
representing the different psrts of the
country as to outlook in their section.
General J. B. Weaver, of Iowa; G. A.
Gaither, of Alabama; G. H. , Smith,
Kentucky; M W. Wilkins, of Kansas,
and Mr. W. J. Kline, of Illinois,
others, reported that the prospect for
success in their states is most favorable.
In Kentucky and Ohio a special
will be made, and the active work
preparing for the campaign is left in the
hands of Taubeneck and Robert Shil¬
ling, the secretary. The secretary was
instructed to establish a literary bureau
to furnish items of interest to the reform
pre s, which now numbers between 600
and 700 papers. A weekly le ter is to
be prepared and published bv
papers. A medal was ordered to
struck, commemorative of the
convention at Cincinnati on Ma* 19th.
The medal is to be made of aluminum,
and is to be distributed to different
ances to be sold, the proceeds to be dc
voted to campaign purposes next year.
A constitution was adopted for the peo¬
ple’s party clubs. The committee
to and instructed the chairman and
tary to prepare an address to the
of the United States. The
r.solution is the most important
t:lkcn b v the P art V > in view of the fa
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that it is the first declaration of
th3 party stands, and is in a great
ure a refutation of the charges of
eri °g>.. wh ich T tre 80 fr ed v ma( l e d Y ril
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the Cincinnati . . “Resolved,
convention:
That the national executive committ
jt unalterably oppos.d to a fusion
any other political party, and will not
reaognize an/ mdivi luai comn i 'ee that
proposes or eaters into such u; on, as
affiliated with the people’s par y.” After
the adoption entered of this resoluti n the mem¬
bers into a general discussion of
the during best 18 canlpaiyil The polity to be pursued opinion
)2. concensus of
was that lor the will principal issuer to be c< n
tended be a Subtreasury plank,
opposition to banks of iisue) and to ad¬
vocate government oontrol or ownership
cf telegraph and railroads, and to uphold
the interest of wage earners.
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OREGON TO ORGANIZE.
The Alliance is booming in Oregon, as
the following official proclamation issued
by President Polk, shows: “Whereas
infoimation having been filed in this
office through legally constituted author¬
ity, that a sufficient number of county or¬
ganizations have beeu effected in the
State turn, t under ol ? „ re the W m to . constitution , form a . a btate . and . organwa- laws of
Fanners Alliance and J a *
dus T al L ?, 10n ’ Therefore L L. L. Polk,
by virtueof,authority vested Farmers’ ffitile as pr^i-
dent of the National Al UancG
and Industrial Union, by the constitution
of lb e sa T e ’ do > ssue thl £ T °®* lftl
proclamation, , designating tl Portland, Ore-
f,?U aS th % pl aCe ’ ^
Bth day of r July, , 1891, at 10 o clock a. ra.,
lts the tim ?: a ‘ *’ h lch the le S al and PF°P-
01 , accredited delegates , of the varions
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county organizations aforesaid shall as-
somble, for the purpose of adopting a
constitution and the election of officers
lor the said State organization.
when the body thus constituted shall
have adopted a State constitution, and
shall have elected officers in conformity
to the constitution of the National Farm¬
ers’ Alliance and Industral Union, and
shall order, have adopted the secret work of the
said the said State organization
*hall be entitled to a charter from the
National Farmers’Alliance and Industrial
Union, and to all the rights and privileges
appertaining thereto.
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the whole truth.
The Montgomery, Ala., Daily Journal
has the following editorial notice on the
farmers’ movement: “The mistake that
some of the Journal's esteemed contem-
poraries make in their ciriticisms of the
farmers’ movement and its leaders is that
the causes that have brought it about are
not merely local. They are wide spread,
ever spreading and growing in import-
nnee everywhere, Polk and Macune,
Kolb and Adams, and hundreds of presi-
dents of county and district alliances,
have little to do with the threatened
storm which may follow the terrible and
ominous clouds now above the horizon.
l“f each and every one of these central atid
conspicuous figures were dead, the clouds
would continue to gather, continue to
grow more portentious, and the longer
the storm broods before it breaks the
more irresistible will be its forces. How
long they will continue to grow’, how
portentious they w ill become no one can
forc-ee. But, as lion. J. Phelps truly
says in the North American Review for
May, under ‘there is no government or iustitu-
tions our system that is not within
the ultimate reach of the numerical ma-
jority.’ When the fanners, so long the
most, conservative element in American
political and social life, become at once
the most radical, it can not be said that
it is without reason.”
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xhe sub-treasury and the TniitD
party '
J 1 se Progressive . Farmer D (Ra eigh N.
C.) _ under the caption of “borne Troublous
Thmgs-Hovv to ge Rid of Them,” says:
The sub-tn asury bill haunts the politi-
cians and the friends of money power
} to hc remove y ol, S h it ^ from S et the of domain /‘ ? he of ? ou party " ht
politics. They disturbing should not allow it to
become a element m parties
aDd 2 n c ™ t ? umtl <8 * J he v 8bou,d bl 1
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! ’ H ow The easiest . thing t in . the world
th « aim . P leat kind of a thing to do. Just
, ,et tbem °?«r something better and the
P eo P le ' vdl d ,L 0 P the sub-treasury bill and
jump at it. Try it, friends of plutocracy,
?“ d y ou 8fe bow quickly you can
kill it. The ghostly presence of a Peo-
P e s I ar ty hovtsrs over the pillows of
certain people and they can t sleep. How
tvili you get rid of R? Simply give the
P*°P le a lair > S( l uare lowing in the race
of hfe - <? l * e them P^ies and a govern-
^ent which recognizes their interest
and tbe,r J ust nghts-whieh will not
dwarf and J ignore the rights of persons
and unduly magnify the rights of money.
But these things w’lll contiuue to trouble
our politici <ns until the just demands of
, ur suffering millions are respected. The
leaders of the t*o old political parties
ma y thank themselves and no one else
f or t{- ese troublesome things,
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state alliance meetings.
So far as has been reported the follow¬
ing location and dates have been agreed
upon for state alliance meetings.
Alabama, Montgomery, August 4.
Aikansas, Little Rock, August 19.
California. Lo Angeles, October 20.
Color ido, October 3.
Georgia, Atlanta, August 19.
Louisiana, Illinois, Springfield, October 27.
Maryland, August 4.
Baltimore, August 11.
Michigan, Lancing, October G.
Mississippi, Missouri, Starkville. August 25.
Pertyle Springs, August 25.
North Carolina, More-head City, Aug¬
ust 11.
North Dakota, Grand Forks, June 23.
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, November
10 .
South Carolina, July 22.
South Dakota, Huron, date not fixed.
Tennessee, Nashville, August 11.
Texas, Dallas, August 18.
Y rginia, Richmond, August 18.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, August 18.
Southern ***
The Mercury (Dallas, Tex.,)
sevs: “A statement is going the round,
of* the partisan press ' to the effect that
only about 17,000 legal voters belong to
the Texas Farmers’ Alliance. When
false report was set on foot over
counties had not sent in their semi-annual
reports. The most of them happened
b ■ the strongest alliance countms in
s.ate. SUce this report v as started,
which was in February last, 136 new
sub alliances have been organized,
defunct alliances resuscitated,
fjur new county alliances have been
chartered since the Waco conference,
R -ports frr m all parts of the State
E. X». SIMPSON 9
TOCCOA) GEORGIA
fit tWWHtWW •
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Kepairs All Kinds of Machinery.
Piiblbss Engines,
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Osiser Separators & Shirt Mills
Farmers ana others in want of either Engines or separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
JESTEY ORGANS.!*
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Eva porators. Will have in by early Spring a F ull btock of
White Sewing Machines.
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be-
ore you buy. Duplicate parts cf machinery constantly on hand.
that great numbers of the best farmers
who have keretoforc held aloof, waiting
to sea what the alliance intended to do,
are coming into the order, having become
satisfied it meant business. Besides, for
the first time in three \ea s, every officer
in every department of the State Alliance
and the offioial organ arc in perfect ac¬
cord, and every oue of these officers is
doing everything in their p >wer to build
up the order.
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The Sivn Miguel, (Cal.) Messenger,
commenting on President Polk’s procla¬
mation on membership duty, says: “Pres¬
ident Polk has issued an official mani¬
festo in which he cmpatically rtates that
no paper which has been constituted an
Alliance organ, and no min who retains
membership in the Alliance, has th ■ right
to assail Alliance principles or membeis
of the Alliance publicly. The president
says that the fullest discussion of all
matters is invited and urged in Alliance
councils, but the will of the majority i-
the law of the order, and if any one feels
that he cannot acquiesce in the decision
scientiously of the majority, and feels that lie is con¬
public and impelled to go before he the
divest assail himself owr principles, Alliance should
first of all uni¬
form. The president holds that any
paper rested with authority to repiesent
the order, which assails Alliance princi¬
ples should be promptly repudiated ; and
that any member who assails another
publicly, while both are Alliance mem¬
bers violates his obligation, and such an
offense merits expulsion.”
*
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The McOomb City (Ark.) Enterprise
contains the following in refutation of
charges that sub-treasury money will be
taxed: “Ihs sub-treasury plan is the
only plan yet given out that requires no
taxation for theenrssion of money. The
idea that money issued through
the sub-treasury is first taxed from oue
class of the people before it is loaned to
another is absurd, and discloses the ig¬
norance or mendacity of every one that
makes the assertion. The third and
fourth sections of that bill when read
will exhibit the mean, underhand war
certain selfish partisans are guilty of
waging against the bill. Every farmer,
mi chanic and laborer should read the
sub-treasury bill for himself and not be
guided by enemies, who aim to cru-h
the order. Brethren, their object is to
wipe out the Alliaice root and branch.
Will you let ’em.
Secretaries of sub and county a'liances
and all other members are warned against
sending or giving names of their officers
channels. ancl members except through official
We learn that literature is
being sent out to members of the alliance
as alliance li erature which is written ex¬
pressly for the enemies of our order to
circulate among the memb rs of our or¬
ganization. Brethren watch your enemy,
while you piay to be delivered from their
oppression. See that those 5vho are
placed in office are true devoted followers
of our order. What I said unto you
brother secretaries, I sny unto all, watch!
—Rural Home , Wilson . N. C.
*%'
The Reveille, published at Hill City,
Kan., says: “The members of the Alli¬
ance should constantly keep in mind that
this is the year for them to study and ac¬
quaint themselves with the great issues
that educational are being discussed. This is the
year in that respect with us,
and we must improve every opportunity
to become familiar with our principles
and demands, in order for them to avail
us anything. We can ro^ affird to stand
•till. ‘Let us then be up and doing,’
and always employ our bevt eff rts to
further our cause.”
• V*
The Southern Alliance Farmer (Atlanta,
Ga.) says: “So soon as farmers lay by
their crops, there will be Alliance revi¬
vals held all over Georgia. Our brethren
are starting even now. We are glad to
hear of Alliance rallies, for they do our
cause great . good. They bring the mem-
be " to ^ tha r ’ ^cches are made and zeal
and enthusiasm . worked The
are up.
j farmers can’t have too many of them.
We have a splendid corps of leoture s
• now in the field, and they are always at
i the service of our members.”
S WISDOM.
“Do you practice in your own family,
doctor?”
“Yes, madam.”
“And what medicines do you pre
scribe?”
“None.”
NUMBER 24.
RICHMOND & DANViLLL R- K.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed SchedUloof Passengoi
Trains, in Effect May loth, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
FASTERX TIME. Daily. Daily. L».'ily.
Lt. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 8 10 am
Chamblee..... 8 43 am
Norcross....... 8 55 am
Duluth........ if (Hi am
Suwanee....... 9 17 am
Buford........ 9 83 am
Flowjiy Branch 9 48 mn
Gainesville..... 3 01 pm uni
Lula.......... 3 23 pm uni
Bellton........ am
Cornelia....... 09 rru
Mt. Airy....... Haw
IVx'coa......... 45 am
Westminster ...
Seneca ........
Central........ 45 pm
Easleys........ am
Greenville..... 6 05 pm am
Greers.................
Wellford...............
Spartanburg... 6 57pm am
Clifton........
Cowpens ......
Gaffneys....... Black
Grover......... sDurg..... am
King’s Mount'n
Gastonia....... am
L<well........ am
Bellemont..... am
Ar. Char.otte...... 9 20 pm am
SOUTHWARD. No. 37. No. :i. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 7 55 am 1 40 pm 2 30 am
Bellemont..... ........ 2 02 pm 2 57 am
Lowell......... ........ 2 11 pm 3 08 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 22 pm 3 22 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 2 41 pm 3 53 a in
Grover......... ........ 2 59 pm 4 13 aui
Gaffneys....... Blacksburg .... ........ 3 3 08 pm 4 4 24 am
........ 25 pm 43 am
Clifton........ Cowpeus...... ........ 3 3 48 pm 5 10 am
........ 51 pm 5 15 am
Spartanburg... 9 55 am 4 12 pm 5 32 am
Wellford........ ........ 4 39 pm 5 57 am
Greers......... ........ 5 00 pm 6 16 ani
Greenville...... 10 50 am 5 33 pm 6 47 am
Easleys......... ........ 6 07 pm 7 16 am
Central........ ........ 6 55 pm 8 10 am
Seneca,........ ........ 7 22 pm 8 38 am
Westminster.... ........ 7 42 pm 8 58 am
Tocooa ........ ........ 8 20 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... ........ 8 55 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... ........ 9 00 pm 10 15 am
Bellton........ ........ 9 26 pm 10 43 5 in
Lula.......... 1 32 pm 9 30 pm 10 46 am
Gainesville..... 1 50 pm 9 52 pm Ull am
Flowery Pnford........ Branch ........10 10 30 15 pm 11 11 31 46 am
........ pm am
Suwanee....... ........ 10 44 pm 11 59 am
Duluth........ ....... 10 56 pm 12 12 pm
Norcross...... ........11 08 pm 12 24 pin
Chamblee...... ........11 22 pm 12 37 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 3 25 pm 11 59 pm 1 15 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 an 1 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 55
a m.
Between Lula and Ath'-ns—No. 11 dailr, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lu’a 9 35 p
in, and 1060 a m, arrive Atliens 11 35 p m and
12 50 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, v 00 /> m
and 8 30 a m, air.ye Lula 9 00 pm and 10 30
am.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No>. 61 and
63 dailv; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 11 45 a m
and 4 20 a m, arrive Elberton 3 35 p m and 915
a m. Returning, Nos. GO and 62 daily, except
Sunda y, leave Elberton 2 45 p m and 5 45 a in,
arrive Toccoa7 10 pm ani 915 a m.
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Nos. 11 and 12 carry Pullman S eep rs
tween Washington and Atlanta, and Nos. 9 and
10 Pullman Sleeper between Atlanta and New
York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to Atlanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Fouthwest-
6 th Vestibnled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train au extra fare is
charged on first-class tickets only.
For detailed information as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or Siddrcss
JAS. L. TAYLOR, L. L. McCLE KEY,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’f. Div. Pass. Ag’f.
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN. C. P. HAMMOND.
Gen’l Manager. Superintendent.
LEWTS DAVIS,
attorney at l,a\v«
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of II :ber-
shara and R*buu of the Northwes era
Circuit, and Frankbn and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attonti»*n will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have opt o-
ial attention.
HOW HE PROPOSED.
Mr. Slowboy—Miss Passe, wh it do
think is the best name for a girl?
Miss Passe (looking deep into his
eyes)—That of the only man she ever
loved.—[Light.
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