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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
RICHMOND & DfiNViLLE R R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect Aug. 2nd. 1891.
NOR niBQUND. ; No. ‘.'S. ) No. 10. No. 12.
ZASTKUN TIMf Daily, i Daily. ■ Daily.
Lt. Atlanta (E.T.)j 1 25 pm! 7 20 pm 1 9 10 am
Chamhhc*..... ........ 7 59pm 9 43 am
Norcro-a.......i........ I)ninth........ q i ] j, m 9 55 am
........ 8 24 pm 10 00 am
Hnwanee....... 1 ........j 8 37 pm 10 17 am
Buford........ ........! 8 52 pm 10 38 am
!■ low tv Branch o 07 pm! 10 48 «m
.....
Game.-vi lie..... 2 53 pm 9 24 pm U 11am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm y 5011 36 am
Bellton........ ........ 9 5*1 pm 1140 am
Cornelia.......j........ Mt. Any.......|........ 10 25 r>m 12 04 pm pnt
10 28 pm 13 09
Toccoa....... 4 02pni:)<> 58 pnpl3 30 pm
25Sca 11 tfr . \ S»1SpS
Central........j........12 Easleys........ 40 am j 2 35 pm
........ l 03 am 3 05 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pu. 1 33 am 3 30 pm
Wellford............... Greers................ 159 am 4 01pm
Spartanburg 15 57 j 2 36 16 mi/ amj 4 4 43 19 pm
Clifton........ ... 1 pm 2 pm
Cowpena...... ........| 2 55 am 4 57 pm
Gaffney...............I ........ 3 00 am 5 01 pm
Blacksburg............. 3 3 28 amj 5 5 24 42 pm
Grover.................j 46 am pm
King’* 3 56 am 5 51 pm
Gaston a.......]........ Mount’n........ 4 17ani| ant! 6 08 pm
L'Wcll........1........ 4 50 amj C 32 pm
500 6 43 pm
Bellemont .....j........ 5 ll amj 6 54pm
Ar. Charlotte...... [ 9 10 pm j 5 40 am! 7 20 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, | No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. L Daily. ' Duilv.
—
Ly. Charlotte...... 9 35 am 1 55 pm 2 50 am
BulFmont..... .......| 2 18 pin] 3 15 am
Lowell.................I Gastonia...............j 2 28 pin! pm] 3 26 am
2 06pm! 11 8 43 am
Grov King’s Mount’n........ 3 4 17 am
r................. 3 20 pmj 4 33 am
Gaffney............... Blacksburg.......... .. 1 3 3<t pm] 4 43 am
3 49pm pm! 5 02 am
Cowpous.............. Clifton................i Ill 5 27 am
4 15pm 5 31 am
Spartanburg... Wellford................ 1139 am 1 4 5 82 11 pm 5 48 am
pm 6 10 am
Greers................. j 5 31 pm 6 28 am
Greenville......12 3C pm 6 05 pm 7 00 ain
Easleys................. j 6 83 pm! 7 25 am
Central................ 7 ”5 pm; 8 10 am
Seneca.................; Westminster............ 7 53 pm 8 38 am
1 8 12 pm pmj 8 58 am
Too coo......... 2 25 nil; 8 50 9 85 am
Mt. Airy............... 9 2.j p,nilo 10 am
Cornelia;.............. 9 <V) pmllO 15 am
Bdlton................j Lula.......... y 56 pmj 10 88 am
3 14 pm] 10 02 pm 10 41 ain
Gainowillc..... 3 36 pm 10 28 pm ill 11 am
Flowery Buford................1103 Branch........10 49pm pm! 11 31 am
Suwaneo...............11 11 46 am
17 pm ll 59 um
noJo!^*::;::: ;;;;;;.:!n42pmi!2 pmj 24 pm
Ar. Chsmhleo..............ill Atlanta (K. 54 am! 12 35 pin
T,)5 00 pm 12 30 110 pm
Additional tra ils Nos. 17 an I 18—Lula ac-
conmi dation, daily except Sunday, leavi s At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrivi a Atlanta 8 50
a ni.
Between Lula and Aih ns—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, 40a and No. 0 daily, leave Lula 10 05p
in, and 11 rn. arrive Athens 12 05 a in and
daily, 1 40 pm. Returning leave Alliens, No. 10
and except 30 Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 7 20 p m
8 a in, arrive Lnla 9 20 p m and 10 30
a ni.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 12 55 pm
arrive Elberton 4 45 p in. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, Ieav« aELerton 5 45 a m
and arrives Toccoa 9 15 a m.
Nos. 11 an l 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween and Nos. Washington and Knoxvi ie via. Salisbury,
9 nn I 10 Pullman bleepir between At¬
lanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day conches from
New York to A lanta.
Nos. 87 and 38, Washingt on and Southwest¬
ern Ycstibulcd Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. charged On this train un extra fare is
in connection w th tirst-ola-s tickets,
not exceeding charges $3.00 over and above usual Pull¬
man For detailed to any point.
information as to local and
through tune tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car ienervation*, confer with local agents,
or address,
JA8. L. TAYLOR, L. L. McCLESREY,
Geu’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag't.
W. H. Washington, D, 0. Atlanta, Ga.
GREEN, FOL. HASS,
Gen'l Mating! r. Trafiij Manager,
Washington, (J. P. HAMMOND, D. 0. Richmond, Va.
Supiriutondont, Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the counties of Haber
•ham and Rabun of tho Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! n and Ranks of the
Western Circuit. Prom; t attenti <n wil
be g n n to ad bush t-ss entrusted* 1,0 him
The collection of debts will have «p c
ia! attrition.
CONVICTS FRUSTRATED
In a Dastardly Plot to Hang a
Jailor.
A Birmingham, Ala., di-patch savs:
W. F. Bentley, John Bentley, W. S.
Cn K lc, Harvey Tb. n>«, Cross »„d
B. Tetherow are a gang of rubbers, burg-
lars and train wreckers who mow repose
in Gadsden jail iindir sonteitfce to the
penitentiary. As >o >n -s they United have serv¬
ed out their senteree the States
governm nt is ready for them with an
iml o meat for wri cking a mail car near
Springville. Recently they formed a
plot to escape, and on Monday morning
when Jailer B. F. Milton en-
tt red the corridor and unlocked their
cells to turn them cut for the d y they
leipe l on him. Milton managid to throw
thw outer door ke. s out of the w ndow
and drew his knife with which he cut
two of them. ihu they overcame him,
tied a rope around his neck and were in
the act of h-iegmg h m w en a city po-
1 iceman appeared, lie inten d the jiil,
ordeci tic* m* n back > th ir ee Is aud
released Milton in the nick of tin,:.
BUSINESS FAILURES
For Last Quarter as Reported by
Dun & Co.
Business failure- of the United States
as reported by R. G. Dan & Co's, mer¬
cantile agency for the quarter ending
September 30th. number 2 754, against
2.196 failures for t ie same quarter in
1890. Liabilities for the quarter amount
to over $44,000,000. as against $33,500,-
000 in 1890, showing an increase for
1891 of 558 failures and nearly nine
million debars in hah sit f >i the qu&r-
ter. Ia nme months of the year 1891,
just closed, the failuns of the United
States number 8,828, with liabilities of
$100,000,000 $136,000,0.)0, egaiust 7,581 failures and
of liabilities for the three
corresponding quarters of 1890.
Ths Present Hoar.
Live not in vain regrets,
It is sad waste to company with ill
And leave no room for better guests to All.
Think not what might have been.
*T is such a crooked path, all life at best,
We must climb up, for this is not our rest.
If thou bast wrought for self,
Know thou shoulilst follow a diviner call;
Know that the present is for good of all.
’»hat thou hast left undone
Is made not whole except thou leave the past
And do thine utmost with the time thou hast.
Who would be truly brave.
'
I . .... behind—its , . , perils .. and .... defeat;
' eav< ‘ 8
Strives so the present way be life complete.
Iloid thou not back for fear
Of any evil; so the present hour
Mftkesdutystribute * ’ Tis supernal power ;
'Tis opportunity
For all the graces of the human soul.
Who living wisely now, makes this his goal.
—[.Mary Weatherhee, in Boston Transcript.
MAKING A SHOW,
BY I>. J. FINDLAY.
My Uncle George was an old bache¬
lor. Why he preferred the state of
single blessedness Ire kept a secret,
but at last ho made me a confidant.
One evening, as we sat together in
my uncle's comfortable mansion, I
found him in a very communicative
mood, and to my astonishment lie
broached the subject which I had
promised to bring up.
“My dear boy,” said he, “I suppose
you have often wondered why I re¬
mained an old bachelor?”
“Yes, uncle.” said I, in an airy, off¬
hand way which did not at all betray
tho depth of my curiosity. “I am
sure you must lmvo had ample oppor-
tunity to see the cream of society and
make a suitable choice . of a compan-
ion.”
“Well,” said lie, “I will tell YOU.
and , the story may be a good subject
for ymu ' dream * oC futuro s p*cui»-
tion.
“When I was a young man I was
rather fond of making a good show in
society. At times this was performed
on a very limited capital. Shortly
after I settled in New York I made
the acquaintance of a beautiful and
estimable young lady, Miss Clorinda
Swan, and I lost no tjmo in paving
the way for a matrimonial alliance
with her.
“One evening the subject of con¬
versation between us ran upon operas,
and tho upshot of it was that I invited
Clorinda to go to tho Academy of
Music the next evening. As 1 have
said, my means were then rather lim¬
ited, and now I had just enough left
to pay for the tickets, but no surplus
for carriage, supper, and etcetras.
With these I determined to dispense,
as I thought my fair Clorinda was too
sensible to notice the loss.
“Fortune favored me at the start ;
the evening was fine and the ground
dry, so at the appointed time I made
my appearance, dressed in tho best I
could afford, and waited patiently for
Clorinda. She soon put ail my fears
on the carrige question to flight by as-
uring me that she preferred walking.
“We chatted gayly oil the way to
the academy, and were in duo time
i’or tlie performance, which was the
opera of ‘Martha.’ with Madame
Parepa-Rosa in the leading role. Of
the performance I need not speak.
The opera was all we could desire,
and it was rendered most admirably.
“When the performance was ovev
we descended the stairs amid the gay
throng, and soon reached the sidewalk.
But, oh, horror of horrors! it was
raining! What was I to do? To get
a carriage, without having a cent to
fo1 ' nm, ° m v Ulooa r,,u cold -
-
A *' a PPy thought occurred to me in a
moment, and in a nervous whisper I
asked Clorinda if she had rubbers on.
To my dismay she answered:
“No; tnv boots are very light, too,
and I could not think of walking. We
must get a carriage.”
“Of course there was nothing left
for me but to face the mn*ic, and I
haUo d 0 „ e of the many drivers who
were anxiou< to get passengers. I as¬
sisted tny fair Clorinda to a eeat, and
in a few moments we wero whirling
along through the rain. Ilardlv had
gone two blocks when Clorinda
said she \^a« hungry, and asked me to
stop and get supper. My feelings can
easier be imagined than described ns I
thought of my empty pocicts, and
tried to reason her ont of earing so
late at night. AH ray arguments were
fruitless, however, for my dear Cl»r-
inda war not to be thwarted.
“Thinking that fortune might be-
friend me bv some means then a mys-
terv to me, I ordered the driver to
stop at the nearest restaurant. We
entered tiie saloon and took seats at a
table in the centre of the room. I d»-
tenniued to o..t us little as possible,
but Clorinda was not by any means so
delicate, and quietly took the liberty
of ordering what -she wanted. In
vain I looked around to see if l»y
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, OCTOBER 3, 1891*
chance the place contained an ac¬
quaintance, but to my dismay not a
familiar face was to be seen.
“As yon may imagine, I was not in
a hurry to leave the table,but my coin-
panion began to show strong signs of
restless anxiety to get home, so I
thought I had better start and have it
over as soon as possible.
“I had formed many plans of how
I was to pacify the cashier at the desk,
but the wretch had more human na¬
ture in him than I imagined.
“While walking down the restaurant
I turned to Clorinda and suggested
that she had better go out and get into
the carriage while I was settling the
bill and buying some cigars, which I
wanted to take with me. To this she
made no. objeciion, as luck would
have it.
“I walked on till I came in front of
the smiling individual who was wait¬
ing for payment, and with as bold an
air of,innocence as I conkl assume I
told him I had forgotten my pocket-
book in the hurry of getting ready
for the theatre, but I would call next
day and settle the bill.
“ Too thin a story to pass here,
sir,’ he ejaculated. ‘We do a stric'ly
cash business.’
“ ‘I don’t want to be bullied about
such a trifle,’ I continued, but the
man had completely changed into a
hog by this time, and coming out
from liis place behind tho desk, he
looked wicked enough to choke me
then and there.
“ ‘I will call a policeman and have
you arrested,’ ho said in a menacing
tone, loud enough to be heard by all
the people in the place.
“My blood boiled at tho insulting
manner of the man, and 1 lost all con¬
trol ever my actions.
“ ‘Get out of my way and let mo
pass, you scoundrel!’ I said as I made
a dash for the door.
“A general scuffle ensued, and I be¬
lieve I was giving him a few well-
aimed blows, when, to my horror, a
policeman rushed in and collared me
as roughly as if I had been a madman.
“ ‘What’s this all about?’ be de¬
manded of the clerk, who was blind
with rage.
“ ‘Arrest that man and take him to
the station-house, and I will go down
and make a charge against him.’
“ '11111 let mo explain,’ I cried, in a
loud tone.
“ ‘Explanations at the station-house,’
said the officer, as he dragged me into
the Sireet,where a crowd of idlers had
already gathered to see the fun.
“As I reached the sidewalk I saw
the carriage drive off at a rapid rate.
I learned afterward that Clorinda
became alarmed for her own safety,
and promised the driver a liberal re¬
ward if lie would drive to her father's
house. This made matters worse, for
it looked as if she was an accomplice
of mine, and fled for fear of arrest.
“Imagine the state of my feelings
as I was being marshaled through the
streets, with five hundred urchins
yelling all aronnd me! When we
readied the police station the usual
preliminaries were gone through. The
restaurant keeper appeared, arid made
a charge against me of ‘swindling and
deliberate assault without provoca¬
tion.’
“I told my story, but of course it
went for nothing, as tho policeman
gave his evidence in affirmation of the
charges. Of course I was walked off
to a cell to pass the night in thinking
over my troubles.
“In the morning after being es¬
corted before a police justice, I was
tried, and fined ten dollais. I tele¬
graphed to a friend down town, who
soon came to my assistance, and paid
the fine. I went homo to my board¬
ing-house. and, as luck would have it,
the people in the house were ignorant
of my adventures during the night. I
suppose they thought I had been on
a spree, but they said nothing, and I
did not enlighten them.
“That eveniug I made up my mind
to call upon my dear Clorinda and
her parents for the purpose of ex
plaining my conduct. All through the
day I had been framing excuses,
which were, for the most part, equiv¬
ocations. When I reached the
door my heart, beat so strongly that I
feit my courage giving way, and I
stood on the stoop for several miu-
utesbefore I could summon sufficient
courage to ring the bell.
“M'hen the girl came to the door I
asked if Miss Swan was at home. She
said ‘ye and politely asked me to
‘take a seat in the parlor.’
“In a few moments the servant re-
appeared, bearing a card with the
compliments of her mistress. 1
glanced at the card, and on it was
written in a clear, delicate hand:
“ ‘Have you got rubbers on? Have
ton the money'to pay for your supper?
If not I will lend yon the necessary
amount, C. S.’
•I made a dash fo;* the door, and
was soon in the street, fearing lest
the father should appear and kick me
out of the house.*
“And now, my dear boy, do you
wonder that I am still a bachelor I My
advice to you is—beware of sailing
under false colors.”—fXew York
Weekly,
Dogs Catching Crabs,»
I have seen mention of oue dog that
caught suckers, and another .with a
preference for cattish, says a writer in
Forest and Stream. I do not for a
moment doubt either of these dog-
lishing stories, for I once knew two
dogs that took great delight in catch¬
ing crabs, not soft crabs, bu^ lusty,
hard ones, capable of making a good
tight. When about 12 years of age I
used to spend my vacations at a large
farm on a tributary of the Chesapeake
Bay. Besides myself there was an¬
other boy and two dogs at this house.
One of the dogs was a large New¬
foundland and tlie other was one of
those medium-sized,puzzling combina¬
tions of short hair and no particular
color—probably an all-around dog, as
concerned his breeding.
One day I noticed the largo dog
wailing about in the shallow water at
the foot of tlie yard and evidently
searching for something. I found
that he was looking for crabs. When
a crab was discovered ho would prance
around it, and, after making several
attempts, seize it in his mouth and
bring it up on the beach and then play
with it, much as a cat does with a
mouse, until the poor crab was either
dead or helplessly exhausted, lie
seemed to do this for the mere sport
of tire thing, barking all the time in a
tone that denoted exenement rati IU2A-
than auger, lie never ate (he era UM
after killing them. The crabs fought
back to the best of their ability, and it
was often difficult to say which had
the tightest grip, dog or crab, for tho
crab would fasten on to some portion
of the dog’s mouth with both of his
powerful pinchers and it would re¬
quire much shaking before lie would
drop off.
Canning Shrimps.
Shrimps arc caught in the Gulf of
Mexico. The season la-ts four months,
two in tho spring and two in the fall,
and in that time a tremendous busi¬
ness is done in the way of catching
and canning them. In Now Orleans,
which is the headquarters of the trade,
100,000 cans a day of these little fish
are packed- The shrimps run in large
schools down the numerous passes
leading into the Gulf of Mexico,where
the fishermen catch iliein with their
series, frequently bringing in at one
ha 1 enough to fill one of their peat
bo . They are (lien taken to tiie
canning factories. The shrimps are
placed in largo troughs. Girls who
are experts in their line take them in
hand. With one twist they take oft'
their heads, and then with a pressure
at the tail the shrimp is forced out.
After being taken from the shells the
shrimps arc put in a vat of salt water
and are cooked by means of steam
pipes running through the vats. They
are put into little gauze bags, each
bag just big enough to lit inside the
cans used, there being so much phos¬
phorus in the shrimp, that unless some
precaution is taken the tin would* be
oaten through by its nciion. After
the shrimps arc placed in the cans
they are hermetically sealed, the work
bcingYloae by machinery. The cans
are then put into a-large tank, and
once again the shrimps are put through
a steaming process, this being ten
times hotter than before. After this
tlie shrimps are thoroughly cooked,
and fwhen tho cans cool they are
labelled and put in boxes. — [Boston
Transcript.
A Plant Detested by Animals.
“There is,” says a horticulturist,
••hardly an instance in natural history
of a plant so universally detested by
the animal world as tho castor-oil
plant. No sort of bird, beast or
creeping thing will touch a castor-oil
plant. It seems to be a rank poison
to all the animal world. Even a goat
will starve before biting off a leaf,
and a horse will sniff at it and• turn
up Ills upper lip as though it had the
most detestable odor on the face of
* »
the earth. Army and tHe ^ lo-
worms
casts will pass it by, though they may
eat every other green thing in sight,
and there is no surer way to drive
moles away from a lawn than to plant
a few castor beans here and there.
Even the tobacco worm will refuse to
be fed on its leaves.”
She Mas Milling.
He—Yon have only to command me
l will do anything von say.
b‘ie—Anything. f
h es. I ll drive over that pre-
eipice into the river, if von bid mo.
Site-Then stop, please, and let me
get out,-^ [Yankee Bim’e.
' ATTTANPF' T 1 AL.IVO. A T
j NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
The Oregon (Pendleton) Alliance Her-
aid says: “If the Farniena’ Alliance had
collapsed half as often as the newspaper
opponents have given out news to that
effect, it would long ago have been for¬
gotten, but instead of being forgotteu
it is being remembered in a very lively
wny, and the remembrance promises to
become even livelier as the presidential
contest approaches.”
***
Says the National Economist: “That
stale charge is being repeated, that the
demands of the Alliance have a prece¬
dent in the cedula system that was so
disastrous in Argentina. The truth is
that the money system of that country is
modeled almost exactly after the national
banking system of the Uuited States, the
only paper money being issued on depos¬
ited bonds. The eedulas are simply
mortgages, interest usually owned by foreigners,
of which was guaranteed by the
government, and are not the basis for a
circulating demands. medium such ns the Alliance
On the other hand, they arc a
refinement if alien landlordism, an
abuse, the removal of which is impera¬
tively demanded by the order.”
AND THEY ARE ALARMED.
The New York Times sat s . business
men have been interviewed in that city
and they all fear that the Democratic
party will make the mistake of favoring
free coinage of silver. On ivhich the
Progressive Farmer comments as follows:
“All we have to say is that no mutter
what their fears nor what action the par¬
ties take in regard to free silver, ‘It is
going to be done.’ If the New York
‘business men’ can’t stand the law, they
can go where the law will not reach them.
The people are playing the game now and
they will continue with more or less suc¬
cess until tho “fears” of the ‘business
men’ of Now York are fully realized. So,
gentlemen, prepare to move your washing
if you can’t stand the pressure.”
* *
*
KEEP OUT OF POLITICS.
Every effort is being made to keep the
farmers out of politics. It is a criminal
offense punishable by slander and bill¬
ingsgate. The farmers, however, have
staid out of politics too long; that is
what’s the matter. They have learned
that many of the leaks in their p ckets
are of a legislative character; that hard
times are not so much attribu’able to a
lack of industry and good management
on their part as to the fact that class leg¬
islation has systematically drawn their
surplus into the coffers of the non-pro¬
ducing their class. The farmers have done
legislative worst managing by trusting their
interests to tho care of those
not in sympathy with them .—Progressive
Farmer.
The New York Herald says: It will
the be interesting Farmers’ to observe the efforts of
Alliance to control its
members in their actions. The Alliance
began yesterday to send out a million
letters asking farmers to hold back tbeir
wheat for a great rise, which was confi¬
dently predicted. Whether the promise
of improvement in prices will be fulfilled
remains to be seen, but close observers of
the Alliance will be most curious to learn
how far the farmeis will respect the judg¬
ment and authority of the < flicials whom
they have elected. Should the Wcs'ern
sales of wheat suddenly stop, in com¬
pliance liance with the request made, the Al¬
may safely be credited with a tre¬
mendous grip, for the American farmer
is not given to holding back his farm
products, no matter how low prices may
be.
***
TnC ALLIANCE AND ITS PLATFORM.
It is ridiculous to say that you are a
friend to the alliance, but will not en¬
dorse its platform. You caiinot divide
the two, and must accept both together
or neither. What would the alii ance
be without a platform and declaration of
principles? It would be but a rope of
sand, that mist soon fall to pieces.
There is nothing in a name, but the aims
which an organization is striving repre¬
sents a great deal. If you cannot en¬
dorse the Ocala platform you are not a
friend to the alliance, and it is hypocrisy
to poise binds as sueli. That instrument is the
tie that our members together, and
its demands the goal for which they are
striving. You had as well profess to be
a friend to the Christian church and deny
the divinity of our Savior. If you
love the alliance, you must also love our
platform. They arc one and inseparable.
—Southern Alliance Farmer.
* *
HEAVY LYING FOR A MALICIOUS PURPOSE.
It is evident that in the present strug¬
gle for political supremacy in this coun¬
try the partisan papers are determined to
stop at no amount of misrepresentation
and downright lying that seems necessary
to help their side in the controversy. It is
one of the purposes of the Alliance move¬
ment and of the People’s party to bury
all traces of the animosity existing be¬
tween the North and South on account
of past differences. And much is being
already accomplished in this way by the
fraternal coming together of the men of
these sections. But the old party papers
and politicians are determined to keep
alive this prejudice and animosity if it
can be done. Aud they are again fanning
the embers most vigorously. It is thought
to be the only means of preventing feeling the
further growth of this fiaierual
now promising the speedy heart union of
the sections. The N^fFem naners ore
intolerant representing the men of the South as the
bulldozers they ever were, or
the wire represented to be, and nothing but
strong arm ot the law can be de-
pended on to cope with their lawless,
malicious inclinations.— Hartford , Conn .,
Examiner.
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A GREAT UPHEAVAL COMING.
A writer in the Boston Olohe says:
“This is a very peculiar country, and it
U a very suggestive fact that the rich are
richer very fast, and the poor
trimr keep along as they are or descend
to a lower depth of discomfort and pov¬
erty. Now l it stands to reason th§t a
condition of affairs so inequitable, mak¬
ing princes of one and slaves of nnothtr
class cannot lust. There will come as
certain as fate, soi»e great upheaval, and
it is the very dread of that upheaval which
keeps men, thoughtful men, from dis¬
cussing the condition. They hope by
silence, by ignoring facts, to persuade
themselves that they don’t exist. They
appear to be quite content with things ns
they are, and, although they are confi¬
dent that sooner or later the deluge may
come, so long as they nrc not overwhotned
by it they don’t care. How idiotic it
would be for the family physician to
cover with a sheltering plaster an angry
and a threatening carbuncle. Tie can by
his plaster conceal it from view. lie
can say in smooth and oily tongue,
“there is no danger.” Meanwhile
the carbuncle is at work draw-
iag it# itself from eveiy
section of tho system the virus which ul¬
flamatioo, timately will flame tourth, with coro in-
causing intenscst pain and
fraught with danger. A more sensible
physician would treat the carbuuote from
the lirst, and by judiei us means bring it
along to the point where expert incision
would afford permanent relief. It is a very
easy condition thing for affairs, us to shut our cyis to the
of but. why? Surety it
isn’t wisdom to do so. Common sense
says all men are brothers, and when the
prosperous class recognize the fraternity,
the comradeship, the brotherhood of the
unfortunate class, all danger will pass
away, the heavens will bo clear, and the
sun whose beams arc for the healing of
the nations, will shine upon .oue as upon
the other, and for the best good of both.
That time must come. It may not be in
my days or in yours, but as certain as the
revolutions, as certain as fate, ns certain
os God himself, there must come a change
whereby men will stand more nearly on
a level, and when this monstrous differ¬
ence of millions on the one hand, nothing
on the other, will be done away with.”
THE OUTLOOK.
Never before in the history of the Uni¬
ted States has there been such an on¬
slaught on an organization as is now be
ing made on the Alliance. Almost the
enffre press outside of the reform pi^ss
are both making a relentless fight against it,
Democratic and Republican. Nearly
all the leading politicians on both sides
are be thoroughly fighting us. The fight, too, seems to
made organized, as it is being
about on the same line in every
State. The general policy seems to be
to secure the services of a few Alliance
leaders. Have them to deal out slush,
slander, tions, falsehoods and misrepresenta¬
ami then th: press passes it
around with favorable comments
The question arises, why this onslaught!
Why such unanimity in the opposition,
and wbv such desperate means are being
re orted" to overthrow the order? The
answer is clear and plain. It is the first
formidable organization that has dared
attack directly the Wall street and
Lombard money power and endeavor to
throttle their relentless grasp on the
throat of the toiling masses. This is the
issue and no dodging it: The people
i n . open rebellion against the money
p >wer and oppression of Wall stri ct.
That the opposition is powerfully en¬
trenched behind its millions there is
no doubt. But, yet, there is hope.
So far no particular inroad has been
made into our ranks, but we afe e‘eaidly
gaining ground evtrv day. The press to
a great extent has lost its influence over
the people, and turncoat politicians have
completely played our, and if we can
odIj succeed in getting every farmer and
laborer, and every friend of pure and
honest Democratic government to look
this question squarely in the face, victory
will perch upon our banner and our
money kings be dethroned of political
power. Brethren study this question
well and meet it like true and brave sol¬
diers. Every man must be to his post
and every sentinel on the watch-lower.—
Alliance Edit, (Mexia, Tex.)
A NEW PLAN.
The Alliance Farmer and Rural Met
tenger, official organ of Virginia State
Alliance, gives a full description of the
recent change of plan in the business ef¬
fort of that State. The funds to conduct
the business effort have heretofore beeD
raised by a quarterly assessment of ten
cents each upon the membership. It will
hereafter be run on the “Rochdale” sys¬
subscription, tem. The capital in shares is to of be $10 furnished each, to by be
taken by sub-Alliances, and the certifi¬
cates held for their perpetual use
In describing the detail it says.
The goods are to be sold “at a reason:
able profit for cash only,” there should bo
a considerable net profit “after paying
running expenses and the interest on
capital.” In the constitution there is a
distinction made between those two
items, although in truth the “interest on
capital” is fairly a part of the “running
expenses.” Now, what is to be done
with the “net profit” expected? Suppose
a semi-annual profit of 5 per esnt—$2,-
100 on the capital of $42,000. This
with would the* be^divided exchange among rateably those dealing the
business—one-half upon in
amount of their
money and the other half placed to the
customer’s account ns stock until he has
$50 invested,* when he may draw
his full rebata, as well as inter-
ist on his stock, (t^ constitution
says “not to exceed 6 per cent”) sharehold¬ but
whatever the rate may be, all
ers will receive the same per centage. So
of the 5 per cent divided, the man or wo¬
man who had dealt with the exchange or of
one of its branches, to the amount
$200 in groceries, dry goods, fertilizers, entitled
or other commodities, wou'd be
in to a rebate of $10, of which $5 to be paid
cash, and $5 to his or her credit as
stock bearing interest The object of
this latter pr--vision is to give each one a
permanent interest througn joint owner¬
ship in the system. And the design
throughout deducting is to furni«h goods at actual
cost, necessary expenses, such
as salaries of agent*, clerks, porters, and
store rents, as well as interest on working
capital, properly a pait of the necessary
expenses, as said before.
***
THE ALLIANCE GREATER THAN ITS
LEADERS.
The Farmers’ Advocate, Charleston,
Va., says: “The Farmer J Alliance, as
the great farmers’ organization that is
awakening circles, so much alarm in po itical
is infinitely greater thau any one
or a doz<m men in it. There is not an in¬
dividual membe? enrolled on its list of
NUMBER 3!)
membership, that from the president
would not be given to
by evidence most unmistakable that
service is only necessary in so far as
uttcranres and influence hirmoniz-s with
the demands of the united o ganization,
No man, we care not who he is, or what
has been his past services, cm deviate t-
hair’s breadth from the course mapped
out, but what he is checked by a re-
minder that the path in which he is to
walk is ns straight and narrow as the vyay
to glory, and the admonition, “walk
thou in it,” accompanies the re¬
minder. There is no iustauce now re¬
corded where any one man or set of men
who attempted to run the machine t#
suit his or their own personal ambition,
but what he or they have come to grief.
If this is so of those within the ranks,
is also eminently true of those withon U
and has been already forcibly
This is one of the most significeut
whic h goes to make up the grand aggre-
gates of testimony that the Alliance
most in thoroughly organized, and is a unit
its conception of the evils against
which it is contending, and thoroughly
in harmony as to the remedies neces-
sary outsido to correct issues existing abuses. No
seem to disturb or
distract. They have tlioir eyes and
minds steadfastly fixed upon the goal
they have set out to reach. Ridicule,
Bopliistry, vain. They abuse moving or appeal are avalanche, equally
arc as an
and gathering in volume of members as
teey move, and defeat and disaster awaits
every issue or policy which impedes their
advance. One year ago politicians
scorned and ridiculed it; one year hence
they will tremble and quake as they are
scattered like chaff in the current which
accompanies the it. The cloud is gathering;
storm is approaching. Its bursting
will not have been without warning,
We Bre an army of men every one of
which is a leader, and the singleness and
onences of purpose quiets discord and
smothers jealousies.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
An Incipient War Scare Over
Chilean Matters.
Washington bad an incipient war
rcare Monday. It was not of long dura-
tion, but whs lively while it lasted. A
dispatch was received which stated that
a cordon of soldiers ha i been placed
around the American legation at Santi¬
ago, and that no one was permitted to
enter unless he had a written pass from
the ruling junta,and created indignation,
and when it was learned that the presi¬
dent had summoned Secretary Tracy from
New York to a conference with Acting
Secretary of State Wharton, Commodore
Ramsey and Jno. W. Foster, special consul
in South American affairs, the impres¬
sion gained ground thit matters in Chile
were rapidly taking on a bclligerant
aspect. The conference lasted two
hours. What took place has been kept
a profound secret. It was even hinted
that some sudden and unfavorable turn
in the China eomplictions or the Behring
rea dispute was the cause of the long
talk. Enough was known, however, to
make rt certain that the conference was.
about Chile and the reported
arbitrary nets of the irresponsi-
ble and dicattorial junta now
in power at Santiago. While it is not
likely that any serious trouble will grow
out of the Chilean affair, it is certain
that the faction now in power there is
bitterly hostile to this country, and will
not hesitate to insult our minister there
and maltreat Americans who may happen
to bo in that country t-o long as this
country fails promptly and properly to
resent it.
DISAPPOINTED BOOMERS
Firing the Grass and Ruining
the Grazing Lands.
A dispatch of Friday from Arkansas
City, Kan., says: A great, many wagons
are trailing back over the Cherokee strip
Indian with people who failed to get claims in
lands opened last Tuesday. Al¬
most all of them will drift about, living
under canvas waiting for the Cherokee
strip to open. They seem to feel as if
every one on the strip is their enemy and
are said to be firing the grass in hundreds
of places. They do not know when
they dian are on the strip or when on the In¬
the reservations, and reservations along
Santa Fe have suffered greatly.* To
the west the whole line of the horizon
was a wall of smoke, looking like a great
chain of mountains covered with snow to
their base. The grass is getting very
dry and burns readily, and tires and sure
to cover a large pait of the strip and
render it useless for winter crreziAg-
A TEST CASE
To be Made Regarding* the Al-
• abama Oyster Law.
A Mobile, Ala., dispatch says: The
Alabama oyster law—p issed at the last
session of the legislature, and intended
to protect Alabama reefs from being de¬
spoiled Mississippi—has by the canning companies of
inflicted so much loss on
Mississippi lated canners that they have vio¬
the law with the view of making
schooner a test case. George Melville, of the
Italy, a citizen of Mississippi,
took a number of oysters in the shell
from Alabama reefs last week, and car¬
ried them to Biloxi, Miss. He returned
to Mobile Friday, aud was arrested, gave
bond, and the case will go to the supreme
court.
THE NEW COUNTRY.
A Bank and Many Stores Con-
• ducted Under Canvas.
A dispatch of Saturday from Guthrie,
Oklahoma, says: Couriers report that
about thirty stores are running in tents
at a temperary town near Chandler, and
that Colonel William D. Taylor, of Clin¬
ton Mo., has the Bank of Oklahoma in
full operation.
An Embezzler.
Emmet B. Stanly, superintendent of
the money or ler department io the At¬
lanta, Ga., postoffice, was arrested Satur¬
day night on the charge of embezzlement.
Stanly has confessed to a shortage of two
thousand dollars, and tells why be took
the money. It seems that be was living
a fast life, spending money freely enter¬
taining his friends, and lending funds to
those of them who wish** 1 to borrow.