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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
APPI.E BLOSSOMS*
stoo l within the orchard’s gloom.
In youth and courage high,
Hie apple bou :hs in clustered bloom
W ere hist a nearer sky!
And one, a maiden in her pride,
A quaint old ditty v.nsr
With glance, half ay, at him beside;
-And thus tb'j burden rang 3
__i
O true heart, ’tisloug to parti
?*pple boughs are gay, *
fcweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
One lingered, when they turne 1 to
Whose path lay go,
o’er the sea;
A look, a kiss, a whisper low,
And plighted fast were we.
lie would return to claim love
When my
spring bu Js opens 1 again,
And distant came, beyond the gr
7 he woods of ove,
that refrain;
° tn i» heart ’tis long to part!
Apple boughs are gay;
Bweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
A ring upon my finger shone,
Ho vanished in the shade,
And the sweet stars looked gently down
U pon a happy maid.
That ring is like a star at night;
And in my loneliness
The pressure ot its circlet light
Has teemed a soft caress.
G true heart, ’tis long to parti
Apple boughs aro gay,
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
1 hat art still away.
I stand within the orchard’s close,
Beneath th# guardian trees;
Ami thrice the apple blossoms’ snows
Have floated to the breeie.
The summer glows, the red leaves fall,
T ihe winter
heartn-ttres burn;
Spring comes, but never to my call
Gr prayer dost thou return I
G true heart, ’tis long to parti
Apple boughs are gay,
Bweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
Thay say one should be patient; yet;
If groping lost in night
Forever, can the soul forget
The loveliness of light?
I sometimes think that in yon sky
Thou art—so far from me!
And then, when I to God would cry,
, I cry, instead to you,
j O true heart, ’tis long to parti
Apple boughs aro gay.
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
To smile, to jest, to walk my way—-
Oh, that is not for me 1
To live till I am old and gray,
And ne’er thy face to see 1
Thy voice I O Love, art thou a dream
By God in pity given?
Clasp, clasp u»e close, lest joy extreme
Should open the gates of heaven I
O true heart, no more to part I
Apple boughs are gay,
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow,
"Where our glad feet stray.
—Elizabeth IF. Fluke,in Boston Transcript.
ALMOST A CRIME.
It seemed as if Providence had deserted
Randolph Perry in his old age and ut¬
terly cast him off. For his was, indeed,
a hard lot. We do not often find a case
of such great hardship iu human affairs;
for, although he had begun life with the
brightest prospects, with
wealth, a pleasant home, a loving wife
and children, his seventieth
found him stripped of all save the - roof
above his head, and seriously threatened
with the loss of even that:
Twenty long, weary years back his re¬
verses had begun in the sudden and dis¬
tressing death of his dear wife; and
irreparable blow was soon after followed
by the elopement of his daughter Annie,
the pet aud darling of his heart, with au
artful scoundrel with a sham title, who
had probably left his native land
the sea upon compulsion. The poor
father heard of her but once afterward,
and that was \vhen the news of her sui¬
cide iu Manchester reached him. This
visitation humbled him almost to the
dust, and brought with it a sickuess that
laid him prostrate for a twelvemonth,
and-nearly cost him his life.
He rose from his sick bed and ap¬
peared to the little world of his acquaint¬
ance only the wreck of his former man¬
hood. His first inquiries were for Si neon,
his boy. No one would answer him at
first; they looked pitifully at him and
kept silent; but when he angrily de¬
manded to know the truth, they were
compelled to tell him that Simeon, his
only remaining hope, had heartlessly de¬
serted him during his sickness, and, as
was supposed, nad gone off to sea. Ran¬
dolph Perry did not die with this accu¬
mulation of griefs; he lived on in a
hopeless, morbid kind of way; but no
one had seen him smile since he was told
. of Simeon's desertion. That was nearly
twenty years back, He had dwelt m
the house where he had been bereaved
ever since, with no society save that of
the woman who attended to his small do-
mcstic affairs.
This beautiful mansion, standing high
up on a knoll that overlooked the sea.
surrounded with spacious and cultivated
grounds, had been purchased by Perry
of its previous owner, who was his
friend, aud upon whose assurance that
the place wa* unencumbered and free
from all legal claim he implicitly relied.
That friend had died penniless two
years after; and now, as if to remove
from his dreary existence the last ray of
sunshine, he found himself threatened
with total deprivation of his estate. As
unexpectedly as though the heavens had
dropped upon his bewildered head, he
was notified by a lawyer in London that
he held for one of his clients a mortgage
upon the place, executed by the vender
a few months before the sale, upon
which the principal and interest
amounted to quite the value of the
place, and that immediate satisfaction
was demanded and expected.
Then followed a tedious and vexatious
litigation, which resulted in establish-
me mortgage and declaring the pe-
cuoiary ruin of Randbipa Ferry. It
was the last dfop in the wretched suffer¬
er • tup of gall. The little means that
he could command from his broken for-
tune$ had been swallowed up in his un*
successful defense of the suit.
The hour was about twilight ; the un¬
touched meal had been cleared away-, and
the old housekeeper had retired to her
chamber* Perry sat in the front room,
in * low chair by the window, and,
absorbed in his misery, he noticed noth¬
ing of the storm that was coming up.
He had not sat tbu3 more than half an
hour when he heard the sharp unlatch¬
ing of the gate, and the quick step of
feet on the gravel; and then there was a
knock at the door.
A tall man stood without, his garments
ciingiug to him m wet folds and the
The water old running from them in streams.
face and man help up the candle to his
saw a prominent nose and a pair
of keen eyes under a wide hat, and for
the rest there was a handsome, rather
benevolent, mouth, and a mass of au¬
burn beard. The man was a stranger to
him.
“Good evening, sir,” he said, in a
bluff, hearty voice. “May I come in and
get cfcry? Such a ducking I haven’t had
since I fell off Freehaven Dock, long ago.
Will yon allow such a wet rat in your
house?”
‘•Yes, come in,” Perry replied; and
ushering the stranger into the room,
brought some kindlings and light wood,
with which he soon made a tire in the
fireplace.
The stranger took off his coat and vest,
and squeezed the water from them, hung
them on a chair, and addressed himself
to the drying of his extremities. The old
man looked on in moody silence, and the
stranger was compelled to make the first
advances.
“A nice place you have here, I should
think. I saw it from the bottom of the
hill, before the storm came up.”
“Who are you?” Perry abruptly
.
asked. “Do you come here on any busi¬
ness? Have you anything to do with
that lascal Murch, who has robbed me of
all my property? I don’t know, sir; per¬
haps l do you an injustice; but I have
become embittered against everybody.
I’ll ask you kindly, if you came here
spying for Issac Murch, to leave peace¬
ably—and now.”
“On my honor, then, sir,” replied the
other, much surprised at the questions,
“I don’t know anything of Murch, and
I’m above spying for him or anybody. I
camo into Freehaven, down below here,
this afternoon, in the steamboat, and ex¬
pected to walk over to Wesllock before
the rain came on. I got caught, and I
made for the first shelter I saw, but if
you’d rather I would go’’-
“No, no,” interrupted Perry; “I
wouldn’t turn a dog out into the storm,
much less a human being. Stay till you
are dry, and the rain is over; and that, i’ll I
think, won’t be before morning,
give you a bed.”
Finding the old man but little inclined
to talk, the stranger bade his host good
night and went to the room assigned to
him.
It was then about ten o’clock, The
storm was at its height, audit continued
for an hour longer, when it abruptly
ceased. The suddenness of its cessation
aroused the occupant of the r®om, and
wearied with his stress of emotion, he
took his candle and ascended the stairs.
He had no heart for anything but his
own dreadful misery; and he would pro¬
bably bave forgotten the presence of a
stranger in his house but for a ray of
light issuing from the keyhole of the
chamber which he had bade him take.
Randolph Perry paused, and merely
obeying a sudden impulse, stopped aud
placed his eye at the hole. He had not
the least curiosity about this man, and
his act was certainly without motive.
But his eye had but singled out his guest
from the other objects in the room when
he concentrated his attention upon him
with the greatest eagerness. He saw him
sitting by the table, his back to the door,
and the candle before him. Four or five
piles of bank notes, new and crackling,
were before him; and he counted them
over rapidly, replacing them pillow.*In all in an
oiled-skin wallet beneath his
a few moments more the light was ex¬
tinguished and the heavy breathing of
the sleeper was heard.
Silently did the listener gain his own
room; aud as he stood there he was a
mau transformed! Could he have seen
hia own face at that moment he must
have been terrified at the fiendish pas¬
sions that peered out from it. He
straightened up his bowed shoulders; his
eyes lost their listless, hopeless expres¬
sion and burned with a baleful light;
and even his shrivelled, wrinkled cheeks
flushed with the shame of the dreadful
sin with which he was struggling.
For Randolph Perry meditated murder.
With this horrible resolution formed,
the old man rapidly proceeded to its ac¬
complishment. Iu his bureau drawer
lay a sheath-knife eight inches iu the
blade, which he had never carried since
boyhood, and opening the drawer he
took it from it sheath, and holding it up
to the light saw that it was sharp. The
demon must have had full possession of
him in that hour, for he smiled as he
observed the glitter of the bright blade,
Placing it in the breast of his waistcoat,
he softly left his room aud traversed the
passage. Listening at the door of his
victim, he heard his steady, regular
breathing, and noiselessly unclosing it
he entered and advanced to the bedside.
But his eyes lingered upon the taile;
he could not withdraw them. They
rested on a large family Bible, the gift
of bis wife in happier days, and it now
lay open, as the hand of the stranger
must have opened it, to the sixth chap-
ter of Matthew. At the top of tha page
he saw drawn with a pencil in bold let-
ters, but with irregular and waveriug
lines, as if by the hand of a child, the
beginning of the thirteenth verse:
“And lead us not into temptation.”
A change upon the instant came over
Randolph Ferry. His face turned dead-
ly pale, his limbs shook so violently that
the light in his haud was extinguished;
and, with all purpose of crime banished
from his heart, he feebly tottered from
chamber that had witnessed this
TOCCO A, GEORGIA, JULY 18, 1891
strange scene back to his own room,
where he sank on his knees by the bed¬
side and penitently poured fourth heaven hi«
soul in secret thanksgiving to tot
his deliverance.
4 * » 4
As Randolph sat fit breakfast with his
guest, a chase drove up to the door, and
from it alighted Mr. Murch, the hateful
agent. He entered without knocking,
and unceremoniously addressed the old
man, paying ho heed to the stranger.
“Your time is up to-day, old fellow,
and if my client still owned the mort¬
gage, my business here would be to turn
you out. But be don’t; he's sold it to
somebody whom you'll probably see here
soon enough. I was goiDg by, and I
thought I’d call in and congratulate
you.”
“Heaven will be done!” ejaculated
Perry covering his face.
4 ‘It ’3 just about time it was,” Murch
rejoined, with heartless insolence;
“You’ve given trouble enought about
that mortgage, and it’s quite time you
was set adrift on your travels.”
“Leave the house, you scoundrel 1”
roared the guest, jumping up angrily and
menacing Murch with his fist.
“And who might you be, my lad?”
the latter sneeringly asked.
“I am the owner of the mortgage, and,
I am able and willing to punish you foi
your cruelty to this old man.”
And seizing the agent by his coat-
collar with a grip of iron, the strong man
spun him about like a top—slamming
him with no gentle force against the wall
till the breath was knocked out of his
body; and then opening the door, he cast
him out into the wet grass, A minute
later the crestfallen agent rose and limped
out to his chaise sore and bruised aud
humbled in feelings. It was his first and
last visit to Woodhampton.
The stranger reclosed the door and
knelt beside the astonished old man and
took his hands.
“Don’t you know me, father?” he
asked in a trembling voice. “Will you
take back your prodigal son who de¬
serted you so cruelly? I never was bad
at heart, father; it was Robinson Crusoe,
more than anything else, that made me
run away. I’ve come back now, after
years of wandering, with money enough
for both of us. I’ve paid the mortgage,
and I want to live with you here, at
Woodhampton. My heart has been
yearning to you ever since I set foot in the
house; I’ve been ready to reveal myself a
dozen times, but it faltered on my lips.
Forgive me now, father; forgive me,
and let us dwell in peace and forget the
past.”
His voice failed him and his head sank
on his father’s knee, and the glad old
man bent over him with streaming eyes,
fondly smoothing his hair and faltering,
“God has given me of His bounty when
I deserved His curse. May my Father iu
heaven and my son on earth forgive
me!”
Curious Test for Ability.
A well-known down-town contractoi
has a peculiar theory. It is necessary for
him to employ a great number of men in
his business, and they must possess cer¬
tain qualifications in order to give satis¬
faction. First and foremost a quickness
of thought aud action is indispensable.
Everything else is subordinate to this.
“And the best place in the world to
find the very men I want is in a
restaurant, ” said the man a short time
ago to a Times reporter.
The reporter did not see why this
should be so, and the man went on to
explain.
“When in a restaurant,” said he, “you
see a man take up the bill of fare and
spend half au hour looking through its
contents you can put that person down
as a man with no decision of character.
The man who goes into a restaurant,
throws his hat at a peg, and gives the
waiter his order as soon as he is seated is
the man for me. You can depend upon
it, that man can be trusted to know
what he is doing, and is the proper man
to put iu a position where decision of
character is an essential qualification.
“If I were the General of an army I
would submit all my officers to this
crucial test before intrusting them with
any important separate comqjands.
New York Times.
Weapons of To-day.
The energy of modern artillery is some¬
thing appalling, and threatens to destroy
friend and foe together. A sixty-seven
ton gun on the British battle-ship Tra¬
falgar was pointed directly ahead and
fired with 63J pounds of slow-burning
powder and a 1250-pound projectile.
The blast produced by the rush of pow¬
der-gas aud the shot was so tremendous
that the plates of the forecastle were
forced in and the deck-beams bent out
of shape. A hiut of what the effect
might be on the enemy will be given at
the Naval Exhibition, where will be
shown a projectile that ha3 been fired
from a 110-ton gun. Tnis remarkable
shot is said to have been driven in suc¬
cession through a twenty-inch steel plate,
eight-inches of iron, twenty feet of oak
balks, five feet of granite, and eleven
feet of concrete, finally lodging at a
depth of three feet in a mass of brick
masonry. — Trenton ( N'. J.) American.
Pickpockets Are Born.
A man must have the physical endow-
meat to be a pickpocket, just as a man
must have a certain mental endowment
to be a poet, says a noted criminal in the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The lming of
the pocket must be taken hold of about
an inch irom the top on the inside. It
must be drawn up easily and quipkly at
the same time,
Not more than half a dozen move-
ments of the fingers should be necessary
to get the lining out far enough. With
the lining, of course, will come the
pocketbook, and this should never be
touched by the fingers until it is almost
ready to drop into the hand of the thief,
Some experts never touch the book
until it is iu the hand. Now, the fingers
to do this shouid be slender; not neces-
sariiy long, but thin aud flexible, and
the best pickpockets are those whose
finger ends are naturally moist.
-— ~~
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS;
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
OFFICIAL.
To tl e Alliance Brotherhood^/ th* National Farm¬
ers' and Industrial I ni m.
It is now apparent that the enemies of
reform throughout the country are mar¬
shaling determined their forces for a vigorous a id
effort to weaken and destroy
the Alliance. Its luture progress will be
stubbornly cont- sted and resi-ted, but
we will assuredly and gloriously triumph
if we be cautious, prudent, faithful and
firm. The outlook lor the slicces* of the
great reforms we advefcate, was never so
hopeful and encouraging as now. Th#
Order throughout the whole countrv is
finer daily adding to its numbers, aud it i in
spirit and is more thoroughly united
than ever before. But the peculiar con¬
ditions confronting us demand the
utmost caution lest we com
mit errors, which might prove
la al to our cause. The actim of our
state alliances and of the supreme coun¬
cil, in their forthcoming annu d meet¬
ings, -will be universally regarded with
earnest interest, and the character of that
action depends largely on the wisdom of
the subordinate bodies.
The sub-alliances are to select members
as delegates to the county alliances which
a>e to choose delegates to the state alli¬
ance, whi'h, in turn, is to select dele¬
gates to the supreme council. In view
of the great and important work to be
done during the next alliance
year, and which must necessa-'
lily be largely dir#c‘ed by the state
bodies and the supreme council, the
brotherhood is earnestly admonished to
exercise great care in .'-electing the men to
whom must be entrusted the responsibili¬
ty of guiding our course as au Order. Let
those who are to legi-late for us, in the
State Alliances and in the Supreme Coun¬
cil, be not only our ablest and wisest
men, but let their loyalty to our cause be
without taint or tarnish. Put none but
true and faithful Alliancemcn on guard
in this hour of our great need, and all
will be well. L. L. Polk,
President N. F. A. and I. U.
Washington, D. C., V July 3, 1891.
VERY IMPORTANT.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh) says
editoiially: “The brotherhood cannot be
too careful in the important matter of
selecting ful their very best and most faith¬
members to represent them in their
various state alliances, which are to meet
in the near future. None but earnest,
faithful alliancemen, who stand unfl nch-
ingly by our principles, should be select¬
ed as representatives of the state in the
next supreme council. Matters of vital
importance are to be considered and act¬
ed upon by that body. It will be the
most has important meeting by far that
ever been held by ottr or-
dtr. It should, therefore, be com¬
posed of our very best men.
Th* se men are to be chosen by our State
Alliance, and as that body is composed
of men selected by the various couuty
alliances, we urge upon the county alli¬
ances to be can ful and dbereet in selec¬
ting them. During the next alliance
year we will need stern integrity of prin¬
ciple, high moral couregs aud unwaver¬
ing loyalty in our leaders. Especially
are these qualities to be seriously sought
for in selecting the presidents of the
various s ates. They must be men of
“the courage of their convictions.”
They must be men of nerve. They
must be true to alliance principles.
They must be clear above the tempta¬
tions of bribery. They must be men who
will, under all circumstances, pi ove true
and faithful to the great trusts commit¬
ted to their keeping. We think we can
clearly foresee a condition of things that
will require all these qualities in the men
who are to bear our banners. Unless we
greatly mistake the signs of the times,
the day is not distant when the manhood
and honesty and courage and loyalty of
all Alliancemen will be put to the sever¬
est test. The indications are that a
heavy assault is to be made on us and all
and along the lines. Let us hive our wisest
best men to lead and guide us.
***
BANKS OF ISSUE.
A writer in the Atlanta Constituticn
says: “The Farmers’ Alliance agitation
bas attracted the attention of the publia
to one feature of their demands which
Dot necessarily associated with the details
of their scheme. This feature is the de¬
claration that one of the chief needs
-he country is an elastic currency. The
prioc pie is not new. It was enunciated
by John C. Calhoun half a century ago,
when the financial system of the c ■untry
was in"isorder and the minds of statesmen
wne directed to the currency and its con¬
nection with the banks. Some of the
w sest and most conservative men of
country, farmers though not agreeing with th«
in the means they propose, are
cordially with them in their de¬
mand for^an classic currency. Such
men are looking for the ‘something
better, which the faimeTs agree to
provided it may be found. Ferhapi the
best known and most influential econo¬
mist who takes this view is Davi d M.
Store, th-* editor of The New York Journal
of Commerce , a periodical whico, prob i-
biy more than any other, enjoys the con¬
fidence of the best class of business meD,
not only in New Y’ork, but in all parts of
the country. Mr Stone published in the
July Forum a long article suggesting
that issues ‘banking system which should per¬
mit of notes on credit would exact¬
ly meet the difficulty.’ Th s is the moat
▼alH-ible contribution made to the sub¬
ject er^’Alliance through the magazines since the Farm¬
discussion began. The article
is important accomplishing because it suggests a means
of the object to which the
popular agitation of the last two years
has been principally directed, and the
suggestion is one likely to meet the ap¬
proval of both the farmers and business
men.”
***
NORTn DAKOTA.
The following is the platform of de¬
mands passed by the North Dakota Al
liance at their recent state meeting:
1. That we are in hear'y accord with
the platform^nd demands.adopted bv
National Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, Fill; at the National Council at Ocala,
2. That we are in favor of thetkird po¬
litical party movement, and believe it
vfrill be a great benefit to the alliatS:
cavUe and the people;
3. That we are in favor of the prohibi¬
tory 1 quorlaw, and demand the en’orce-
ment ot the said law.
4. That we favor a free and uniform
system ot text books for our public
schools.
5. That we urgently demnuct th? pa*-
sage of a bill by congress plat ing a heavy
revenue upon all marginal sales and
purchases of farm produce.
6. We demand that wfmten have equal
political rights with men.
7. We dtm'tnd aovernment ownership
and control of lines of transportation and
communication.
V
cates’ denial.
A Washington dispat h says: iutertieW William
C. Oates, of Alabama, in au
denie- the authenticity of the repdrted
interview with him some weeks ago in
which he was quoted as saviug that the
democracy must beat the alliance rut of
existence. As an agricultural organiza¬
tion he thinks the a liance * good tiling.
He fi.vo s all of the demands of the
alliance except the sub-treasury and land
loan bills and government ownership of
railroads; but condimis the alliance
methods to control the democratic party
in the south an i commit it to the support
of these three objectionable measures.
He says that the compla nts of farmers
ire just, but some of the remedies pro¬
posed by the a liance are infinitely worse
than the disease; that the democratic
party favors a reduction of taxes, more
extended markets for agricultural pro¬
ducts and a greater volume of sound
money. He adds that if the democrats
get control of the government the farm¬
ers will find in these measures the relief
they seek and are entitled to.
***
STATE MEETINGS.
State Alii »nce nucti gs will be held on
he dates and at places named below:
Alabama, Brundige, August 11.
Arkansas, Little Rock, August 19.
California, Los Angeles, October 20.
Colorado, October 29.
Florida, Dade City, October 20.
Georgia, Atlanta. August 19. 27.
Illinois, Springfield, October
Indiana. November 17.
Iowa, October 13. -
Kansas, Salina, October 21.
Kentucky, Elizabethtown, Nov. 10.
Louisana, LaFayette, August 4.
Maryland, Baltimore, August 11.
Michigan, Lansing, October 6.
Mississippi, Starkville, August 25.
Missouri, Pertyle Springs, August 25.
New York, November 4.
North Carolina, Morehead City, Au¬
gust 11.
Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Nov. 10.
South Carolina, Spartanburg, July 22.
SI'Utb Dakota, Huron, date not fixed.
Tennessee, Nashville, August 11.
Texas, Dalla-, August 18.
Virginia, Richmond, August 18.
West V rginia, Grafton, August 12.
Indian Territory, Atoka, August 4.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, August 18.
Alliance ***
Advocate , (Louisville, Tenn.)
says: “If every detail of the sub-treasury
bill was ch ngtd. there is one thing that
has been made certain to every thinking
mind by a discussion of this bid, and
that is that money loaned on farm pro¬
ducts, the staple crops, is the best and
safest banking system that can be de¬
vised by man. Why? Because notes
issued on corn, cotton and wheat, can
alwats be readily converted. There is
always a buyer. Now let us have tie
l est scheme that can be devised for
banking on these crops. Those who are
dissatisfied with the details of ihe sub¬
treasury bill, let them accept this as a
fact, tiiat the farmers of this country are
goiDg to bank on the security which
der they bave to give, which is the best un¬
the shining heavens. The farmers
will acccept with pleasure anything bet¬
ter than tue sub-treasury bill and stand
by the men who propose it.
***
The Al iance of Og ethorpe county, Ga.,
at a recent meeting in Lexiny ton, discussed
many and varied questions pertaiuing to
the order, among them the bagging ques¬
tion. The following resolutions were
passed:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
county alliance that it will be unwise for
alliancemen to plant themse ves, or allow
their tenants to do so, when they can
prevent, mure than a half crop of cotton
or not more thin ten acres to the horse or
mule for the year 1892.
Resolved, 2. That th’s county alliance
will do all in its power to carry out the
foregoing resolution.
Resolved, 3. That we bind onrselvesin
writing to abide by the above resolutions
if the southern alliancemen will adopt the
spirit of them as the policy of the al¬
liance in the cotton-growing states.
*
A recent dispatch from Topeka,
Kan., says: The Kansas State Alliance
has consummated a scheme wh ch will
save the farmers of the state thousands
of dollars. A committie of three leai-
ing alliancemen was appointed to make
a list of all farm mortgages, and then go
east and negotiate wih capita 1st for pay-
ment and renewals of such is cannot be
met when due. The object of this plan is to
forever put at rest the charge that the
farmers of Kansas are in favor of repudi¬
ation, and to also save them fully 3 per
cent, in interest and commission paid to
middle men and agents, who have filched
from both the lender and borrower. The
committee will deal with the capitalists
direct, and will go east at an early date
and endeavor to correct the false impres¬
sion concerning the intentions of the al¬
liancemen regarding the : r mortgage in¬
debtedness.
***
Mr. I. S. Adams, head of the Farmers’
Alliance of Louisiana, as well as state
commissioner of agriculture, has
unanimously nominated as a candidate
frr governor by the alliance of his parish.
Mr. Adams will run on the democratic
ticket, being opposed to the third party
movement, and will put his name before
the dem-cratic convenrion, where he
promises to be a very strong notfbly candidate,
Several of the alliances, in C .ta-
boula. Franklin and Calca-ieu, have pro-
nounced in favor of a third party, and
regular alliance nominations, independ- believed
ent of the democracy, but it is
e. p. euMPSowr,
TOCCO A, CEORCIA
ft&fttammi m mmm
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
PEEBLE88 ENGINES*
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Reiser Senarators & Shingle Mills
Fanners and others in want of either Engines or separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also prepared
to give Lowest Trices and Best Terms on the celebrated
-XIESTEY ORGANS.^
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw £ ill* Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock oi
White Sewing Machines,
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and fee me be-
ore you buy- Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on baud.
that the alliance will work inside ih*e
democra ic party, and try and secure the j
gubernatorial nomination for an alliance- j
*
independent * * conference
An Alliance
was held at Huron, South Dakota, a few
days ago, and the question of the reor-
ganizition of the independent party of
the state to conform with ihe Cincinnati
platform wrs discussed and refeired to
the independent central committee for
settlement, which practically means that
the Cincinnati platform will be adopted The
organiz by the independents citizens’ of the alliances state. to
tiou of
work with the Knights of Labor was
recc mmended. also patronizing newspa¬
pers that are friendly to the reform
movement, and the holding of county
harvest fest vals in every county in the
state this fall.
V
The Alliance Watchman (Marshall, Mo.)
says: “Th*? greit need of the reform
movement just at present is one or two
good daily papers to send out each day
news of the goad work and meet the ly¬
ing charges of the subsidized dai y press
of the old parties. Our little band of
reform papers effectually squelches them
all, but a daily paper can make a charge
for six days out of the seven, on the
seventh the whole army of reform papers
prove the lie, aid on the eighth day the
subsidized dailies set afloat a new lie and
keep it stirred for six more days. We
need to meet them oo their own territory
ground.” und stubbornly contest every foot of
**
Frank McGrath, president of the Far¬ in¬
mers’ Alliance, of Kansas, in a recent
terview stated that the people’s party
would carry six of the southern states in
1892.
** *
Hon. J'Try Simpson and Mrs. Mary E. T*
Lease are each booked for an Alliance
lecture at Piedmont Chautauqua, Lithia
Springs. Ga.. during this month.
FRAUD CHARGED
Against the Officials of Mont¬
gomery’s Broken Bank.
A Montgomery dispatch of Tuesday
says: The developmenti tend toward in sensational. the Moses
Bros, failure the
A number of depositors, had, during ascertaining
that the late firm the p -st
few days, transferred valuable city real
estate and other property to certain
banks and creditors, have filed through
counsel a bill in chancery to have the
transfers declared void and cause the
conveyed . At thereby , A to , be sched- . .
property in of the defunct firm for
uled the assets
the equal benefit of all creditors alike.
The real estate conveyed and which it is
sought to recover for all creditors alike,
consists of four choice business locations
and a desirable residence, and it is
assets and liabilities of the suspended
bank until the schedule of their property
is completed. It is stated that they did
»ot Ike .trial b.l»nce month J. .ad
the sta ement that tbeir deposit* are
$400,000 is merely an estimate.
WILL CONTINUE BUSINESS.
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The Bank of Commerce at Shef-
field Iieia 1c IS <!nlid OOllU.
A dispatch of Wednesday says: The
Bank of Commerce, of Sheffield, Ala.,
which has been embarrassed for the past
two day«, has pr ivided arrangements to
meet all its obligations in cash, as called
t< r, and has resumed business as usual,
The bank was and is now perfectly sol-
vest, but for lack of currency to meet a
rush that was expected Brothers, to result from the
failure of Moses bankers of
Montgomery, on Monday, it was decided
to temporarily suspend until currency
could be shipped demands, the bank with which
to meet all its This has been
done.
Electrocuted.
^ ... dispatch , from , 77 Sing c Bing, . xr N. v
1 .,
*ays : The killing of the four murderers
—Slocum, Smuer, Wood and Juglro—
was done Tuesday morning. Slocum was
kilied at 4:42$, Smiler was put to aea
5 :14, Wood met his doom at 5:39, and
Jugiro was killed at 6 :06 o’c.ock. The
electrical apparatus used was similw in
construction to the one used m Kemmler’s
execution eleven months ago, with va-
nous improvements and h)gher voltage
Death m each case was instantaneous aud
P*intess.
NUMBER 28.
HICHMUNU & UiLLL ft- K.
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Charlotte Alr-llOfl DiYlSiOB.
Condensed Schedule of Passengei
Trains, In Effect Way loth, <831-
NORIHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12.
eastern time. Daily. Daily. Duly.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm bbbgbhhbSbIbs PPP0OO»,PS3C3pBCDBD£2St3D&PUDDPSE'BO
Chatnblee.....
Korcross.......
Duluth........
Suwanee.......
Buford........
Flow ry Brancb
Gainesville..... 3 01 pm
Lula.......... 3 23 pui
Bell ton........
Cornelia.......
Mt. Airy....... II
Toccoa.........
Westminster ... cl
Seneca ........
Central........ 1 all
Easleys........
Greenville..... 0 05 pm
Greers......... sBB§51=1111!a
Wellford.......
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm
Clifton........
Cowpens ......
Gaffneys....... Blacksburg.....
Grover......... am
King’s Mount’ll
Gastonia.......
Lowell........
Bellemont.....
Ar. Charotte...... 9 20 pm
SOUTHWARD. No. 37. No. n. No. 9 .
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 7 55 am 1 40 pm 2 30 am
Bellemont..... ........ 2 02pm 2 57 am
L jWcII........; ........ 2 11 pm 3 08 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 22 pm 3 22 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 2 44 pm 3 53 am
Grov<-r......... ........ 2 59 pm 4 13 am
Blacksburg.... ........ 3 08 pm 4 24 am
Gaffneys....... ........ 3 25 pm 4 43 am
Cowpens...... ........ 3 48 pm 6 10 am
Clifton........ ........ 3 51 pm 5 15 am
Spartanburg... 9 55 am 4 12 pin 5 32 am
W. Ilford........ ........ 4 39 pm 5 57 am
Greers......... -........ 5 00 p m 6 10 am
Greenville...... 10 5C am 5 33 pm 0 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 ft* am
Toccoa........ ........ 8 20 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... ........ 8 55 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... ........ 9 00pro 10 15 am
Beilton........ ........ 9 26 pm 10 43 am
Lola.......... 1 32 pm 9 30 pm 10 46 am
Gainesville..... 1 50 pm 9 52 pm 11 11 am
Flowery Branch ........10 15 pm 11 31 am
Jiuloni........ ........ 10 30 pm 11 46 am
Suwanee....... ........ 10 44 pm 11 59 am
Duluth........ ....... 10 56 pm 12 12 pm
Norcross...... ........11 08 pm 12 24 pm
Chamblee...... ........11 22 pm 12 87 pm
Ar. Atlapta (E. T.) 3 25 pm 11 59 pm 1 15 pm
Additional trams Nos. 17 anl 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, haves At-
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Betum-
ing, leaves Lula 0 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 65
am. Lu^SS .
and p
a m> ivj Athens 11 35 p m
12 50 pm. Returning leave Athene, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daiiy. ’0O,tm
and 8 30 a m, arrive Lula 9 00 pm aud 10.30
* n d 4 20 a m, arrive Eiberton 3 3j p m and 915
am. Returning,N<>e.60 and 62 daTv, except
fcnnday, leave Eiberton 2 45 pm and 5 45 am,
"j™ n” Atlanta, and Nob. 9 and
t wee Washington and
10 Pullman Sleeper between Atlanta and New
York. . day coaches . from .
„On *o 11 no change m
New York to Atlanta. , Pouthwest- _
Noe. 37 and 38, Washington and
ern Vestibnled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare u
j charged on first-cla-s tickets only. local sand
For detailed information as to
^ferw'itbtoSTagcdE
or address, TAYLOR, L. L. McCLE<KEY ___
JAS. L.
j j Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Atlanta, Ag t, Ga.
Washington, D. C.
i W. H. GREEN, O. P. HAMMOND,
! Gen’l Manager. Superintendent.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AX LA W»
T0CC0A CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of tha
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spto-
attention.
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Spurgeon’s Condition.
A London . cablcgam of Friday ... says:
Charles H. Spurgeon hi s grown extreme y
weak. He passed a restless n-gbt, wi h
inaction of the kidneys and an exh u
rain '