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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
_____ PROCEEDINGS OF THE GREAT
ALLIANCE CONVENTION.
Delegates Present Representing Four
Divisions of Organized Labor.
The meeting of the Farm<rs’ Alliance
at Tomlinson Indlanopolia was called to order in
hall at 10:20 o’c'oi k Tuesday
morning by Pr< sident Farce, of the Inui-
ana Alliance, with hundreds of delegates
represent!, g the Mutual Benefit Associa
tion, the K dgtits of Labor, the National
Alliance and the Furmers’ Alliance and
Indu-tiiai Uhion pre ent. Mayor Tnom-
ma 8u!livau was introduced and made a
ringing speech of welcome.
the Delegate J. F. Tillman, secretary of
alliance executive comm ttee, in re-
spending, thanked the people of Indian-
apolin for their warm welcome. Among
other he said:
It is the farming and laboring people
who feed the world, who fought the bat-
tie <.f *his country, and to wh se energy
aud patriotism this great and glorious
land of ours is indebte d for its richest
blessings of libe rty and peace. It is not
our mission to tear down nordisentegrate
our honestly conducted industries, but to
preserve them, Yet we do me an the
death knell to all illegitimate combina¬
tions and monopolies that tend to de¬
stroy the very spirit and intent of the
constitution. We are not here i s poli-
ticans, set king to disrupt partisan poli-
ticial parties, or to promote the future of
any political aapiiant; nor or we here in
the interest of any third party, for by the
Very organic teachings, wo have the light
to vote with whichever political party we
niny think will best advance good gov¬
ernment. I desire to call your attention
to the last billion-dollar congress. Its
expenditures reached the grand total of
$1,000,270,471, which is nearly two-
thirds of all the existing United States
money. More money was spent by that
profligate billion-dollar congress than
was spent by all congresses during the
first seventy-two years of 1he history of
this government. It is more than $2,-
177,000 for every day from the time
the fi:ty—first congress met until it ad¬
journed, It meant a tax of $40 on the
head of every family to support the gen¬
eral government alone. How long would
they endure it if collected directly from
them, instead of indiredly, as it is now
collect* i, d , through , , our tariff? A „ Say what , ,
you phase about the tariff, but it must
and shall come down to a reasonable
basis of taxation, and these reckless ex*
ptnditures bv congress must be stopped,
or wo will continue to change the per-
toonel of
Aet this is not all; nor is it at the bot
tom which brought about the uprising of
people of all parts of this great country.
Transportation, tariff and trust. Hero is
trouble and there are three Cs crash,
change and controlled the unwritten
end iroubound oath that our friendly
newspapers abuse us so about. I will not
now tell you what ilie onth is. It is to
crush the trust, change the tariff and
control transposition. We are going to
succeed in our efforts to obtain a large
circulating medium. We mii-t have
more currency, and w ill have it. i he
fanner north, who wore the blue, has
reached the south and taken tho southern
farmer, who wore the gray, by the hand
and said to him: “We have never asked
you to surrender to King Monopoly aud
partial legislation, but only to pieserve
the uniou alike, good lor all;’ and no
brave southern farmer ever surrendered
to such circumstan* es. Though defeated,
it was but to save the union, and the
chivalry uf the entire south to-day is de-
termined to preserve the union and the
constitution at all hazards, and tbe result
is i-ectional strife and partisan prejudice
are buried face downward to scratch on
to hades. Any politician who rai-es
such issues in the tuture will go like
Wade Hampton and John -T. Ingalls.
“Mr. Mayor, the Farmers’ Alliance
means the greatest good for the greatest
number, and is determined to have exact
justice for all, and especially favors to
none. It numbers co-operation near four
hundred thousand, a d it has come to
stay, and will he held intact as a n*>n-
partisan orgauizaticu. Members of all
political and panics it may join the organiza¬
tion, will never become a third
political significance party. There is a big political
in it, but not party political
significance, because that would mean
hopeless ruin. We have already taken
par’y extremes out of the United States,
made a few governors, congressmen, and
bid fair for 200 next year.”
Mr. Tillman’s references to the non¬
partisan nature of the alliance caused
something of a sensation aud were re¬
ceived with about equal evidence of ap¬
proval and disapproval. of called
General Wt aver, Iowa, was
for anil made a speech received on the th general enthu
situat on, which was w
aiasm. He was followed by Cougress-
man Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, in the
same strain. President Willets, of Kan¬
sas alliance, spoke bri> fly. and the morn
ing session was adjourn* d. An execu¬
tive session was hcl t in the aftern on.
At the night meeting President Polk
delivered his annual address. In it he
said that the farmer-* bad been discrimi¬
nated against and were now appealing
to the ballot box. The alliance sub¬
treasury bill had received no considera¬
tion except denunciation by the billion-
dollar congress. It was the imper tive
duty of th * people to arrest the evident
and alarming tendency to centralize the
money power of the c untry. This was
one of the grand purposes of the sub¬
treasury bill. But in justification of the
silent coarempt which characterized the
receDtion of the measure, assaults vehe¬
ment and persistent have been made on
its minuiite details instead of argument
on its underlying principles. But des¬
pite these been assaults, the sub-trea-ury
scheme bad growing until the fen-
timeut of tbe order in thirty-four states
was a unit. He urged the members tc
stand firm and demand of office-seekers
a definition of their principles. The or
ganization, he claimed, was steadily
growing. He recommended, a e mtio
uanceof educational work threuin th*
press and lectures. H* closed by urgin
the alliance to keep fie6 from party en
tangleroents.
WF.LKXSDAY’s PROCEEDINGS.
The Formers’ Alliance is bothered
about three things. The first and most
important is the lack < f funds. Tbi9 is
bmupht about by the fact that a large
number of sub-alliances have faded t<<
come forward with 'heir dues, and the
consequence is that the work of educa
tion is greatly hampered by the scarcity
c f money. The third party matter is
abo a bone of contention. There is no
doubt that the sentiment in favar of in-
dependont political action is muen
stronger than it was last year. The new
movement now has a large number of
champions from the south, most of them
being ing. nr n of great influence and stand-
This is puticularly the c Be
with Georgia. Most of the Kansas
men favor the new movement, and
the majoiity of those from Texas
and A'kunsas are the same way. Alaba¬
nm, South Carolina, and most of the
other southern states are against it. The
third cause trouble is the National Union,
a gigantic organization with which it is
proposed to control the merchandise of
the farmers all over the country, and es-
tablish stores in every city and town.
This scheme i9 being bitterly fought by
the Reform Press Association, which has
a large delegation present. The conven-
tion will undoubtedly endorsed the Ocala
p atform, subireasury scheme and all,
although some of the delegates, and are
fighting it. They will not be able to ac-
complisb it* defeat. It is also worthy of
note that the men who are against the
subtreasury scheme aie, with one or two
exceptions, against committing the alli¬
ance to a new party.
Tins people’s pabty men.
The most active contingent is the peo¬
ple’s party, 'i hey are working night and
day to get some expression from the al¬
liance and the Farmeis’ Mutual Benefit
Association which will induce the farm-
ers to act with their party. The longer
the alliance remains in session the far¬
ther apart grow the various factions. It
ganizations seims impossible down to settle the various or¬
to any definite plan of
action, or to any united policy. The
third party fight is on in bitter earnest,
and every move is made with more or
less direct reference to the main issue.
The open meeting of the alliance
Wednesday morning lasted but a few
moments. When the executive session
opened in the afternoon, the trouble over
the sub-trei sury matter began. A
communication was received from
the executive committee of the
j^hfaMno ° - 6 'Tor a alliance, pretest prepared asking
by W. Pope ‘ Yeamans, of Missouri, under
illStructio s from the the St . Lpuis con-
ventJon of last September. Some of the
factJOn op! Q , ed ifcaring . A resolu .
t j on finally passed for the appoint-
n)en t 0 f a committee of five to read the
protest and report to the alliance whether
or not it should be rend. Having dis-
posed of this matter the convention im-
mediately forestalled tbe prospective pro-
j )V ado pting a resolution to stand by
g U b-irei>sury plan,
a resolution was adopted almost un;m-
jmously reaffirming tbe adherence of the
td i.-mce to every plauk in the Roachdale
p] a tform.
^ resolution cutting down representa-
tion two-fifths because of low finance was
adopted.
At 6 o’clock, Messrs. McAllister, Yea-
mans, aud G Acs, o; the anti-subtre«sury
committee, were met by a committee
f TOm th e supicme council, consisting
of Livingston of Georgia, Beck of Ala-
bim: , Householder D f Kansas, Tiacv of
Texas, and Canon of California. “Dr.
Yeamans open* d the discussion by saying
that the committee was present in the
discharge of a duty entrusted to it by the
g t L(iu j s convention—to protest against
committee c * rta n part* of the the Ocala platform.' The
of council asked the read-
ing of the prottst. At its conclusion
Colonel Livingston said: “Now, when
you break down our relief plan you must
offer a substitute, and what do you pro
pose?” Chairman McAllister i-aid that
hj 8 committee was not empowered to
fr me a platform. Colonel Livingston
then suggested that Dr. Yeamans appear
before the national alliance Thursduy
night and present the protest and
elaborate on it as they desired,
with the understanding that a
“hayseed” be allowed to reply,
This was accepted by the anti-c mmittee,
whereupon the joint session terminated,
THE REFORM PRESS.
At the Reform Press Associ >tion meet
ing it was decid* d to permit members
who gave their adherence to the ma n
princip whatever es of alliance, to advocate or op¬
pose minor ideas they please.
The association decide 1 to establish an
adver’ising agency in New York for the
exc usive benefit of reform papers, of
which there are now 1,860. It was also
decided to establish a plate printing
house. The location of this last institu¬
tion « as not fixed, but it will probably
be at St. Louis or Cincinnati.
The Business Agents’ Association
adopted the Rofflchdnle system of selling
for cash instead of selling on credit, and
dividing the profits with patrons—alli¬
ance stores to be supplied as heretofore
by the Commercial Un'on.
In the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Associ¬
ation it is f umd that many states are de¬
linquent, Ohio being among the number.
A resolution was passed not to admit the
Ohio delegates until the delinquency was
made good. The Ohio delegates would
not pay up, and after a long wrangle the
operation of the resolution was suspended
in their case.
THURSDAY’S FIIOCEEDINGS.
At Thursday’s session of the alliance
council, among the mass of minor resolu¬
tions in presented there came up something
the way of a fire brand in a ser es ot
resolutions offered by Mr. Branch, a uele-
gate at large from Georgia, which declar¬
ed that a large number of men had been
elected to congress by alliance votes and
demanded that they support no man for
speaker who would not first declare
for the all ance platform, "they further
admonished aliiancemen thre-u^hout the
c >untry to beware of committing them¬
selves to any party in such a manner a- to
interfere with their freedom of political
action. Colonel Livingst- n opposed the
re-olution8 in a very vehement spenh,
dei ouncing their introduction as a thiru
party scheme and said they were inspired
largely by personal enmity against him¬
self. 1 hey were referred to a commit¬
tee. A resolution was also submitted
looking to the comp etion owner¬
ship qf railroads, and telegraph iiue$.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 28, 1891.
The Goals demand is for partial control,
with a conLnge it ownership if simply
control is deemed impracticable. r l he
resolution went to the committee on leg-
isL^ve demands.
The subtreasury fight was also an all
alisorbing matter before the Farmers’
Al iance and its kindred organizations,
Colonel Livingston read the recommen-
dation of the committee that Dr. W.
Pope Yeamans, author of the anti-sub-
treasury protest should have a hearing.
After an acrimonious discussion word
was sent to the anti-subtreasury men to
send in their prot<st. The antis replied
to this that the committee was only em-
powered through Mr. Yeamans to pre-
sent the pr test, and until Mr. Yeamans
could be heard by the supreme council
the latter body would necessarily be de¬
prived of the pleasure of reading the
protest. The answer of the eouuc 1 was
that the protectants could not be heard
unless they furnish the council with a
copy of the protest. This the antis re-
fused to do, ua ess they could present
th< ir protest in person, and that ended
the contest between the two wings of the
aliiance. The result was a split.
THE AHTI-SUBTREA8URY PBOTE8T.
The protest, after setting forth that its
authors are a committee from the Far¬
mers’ and Laborer -’Unions, against the al¬
liance being committed to the proposition
that the provision be made by the federal
congress for government lonns of money
to individual citizens, upon farm mort¬
gages as security, or to the demand for
government road ownership and or control of rail¬
schemes, property transportation. These
it says, are unconstitutional and
impracticable, of conflicting with the spirit
the alliance movement and lendiug to
the government paternalism and state
socialism. The protest then goes on to
maintain that these two schemes, besides
being class legislation, would bring
greater evils than those which now op¬
press the people.
POLK BE-ELECTED.
President Polk was unanimously re¬
elected, J. H. Loucks, of S >uth Dakota,
was chosen vice president; J. H. Turner
was re-elected secretary and treasurer,
and J. F. Willetts, of Kansas, national
l eC 4 m*t?r
The re-election of Polk is regarded as
a victory for the people’s party. The
election of J. H. Louks, of South Dakota,
as vice president is regarded as a great
victory, from the fact that he is a mem-
ber of th i national committee of the peo—
ple’s party.
The work of organizing took definite
shnpe tives on the joint meeting of repri sen-
from the people’s party’s executive
comm tt* e, the Alliance and the Farm-
ers’ Mutual Benefit Association. The
committee on the confederation of the
various industrial organizations held a
meeting during the morning. This com-
mittee was chosen by the six organiza-
tions for the purpose of calling a con-
gress of all labor and industrial classes,
Ic had been decided previous to the
gathering Washington to envene the congress at
south and on February 22d, but the
west made such strong objec-
tions to that place that it became neces -
sary to decide upon some other location.
lhe matter was referred to a sub-commit-
tee who wdl report later.
A question arose as to whether the call
for the confederated assembly on Febru-
ary 22d should leave the way open for
the nomination of a national ticket at
that meeting or whether the scope of
woik to be done there should be limited,
so latter as to prevent political action. The
course was the one finally decided
uron. A committee was appointed to
setting prepare forth an address, the objects to laboring and people, of
the meeting. r i he Reform purposes
Press Associ-
ation elected the following officers: Dr.
S. McLallin, of the Topeka Advocate,
president; vice pres ; dent, J. H. Mc¬
Dowell, of the Tennessee Toiler, and
sei re ary treasurer, W. S. Morgan, of
the National Reformer, of St. Louis. ^
A committee was appointed to organize
an advertising agency for the reform
press.
FRIDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
The morning session of the alliai ce
was ch efly devott d lo the consideration
of demands and recommendations from
alliances. The const tution was changed
so as to admit women.
The Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Associa-
tion was engaged all the morning with
minor wm*-ridinents to the constitution.
The anti-subtreasury people bsued a
call for a convention of anti-subtreasury
allianc*mea at Memphis, on the 16th day
of December next. It calls upon ail local
organizations of the Farmers’ Alliance
and industrial Union, and other fa 1 liters’
and industrial organizations to send full
delegations.
people’s party appeal.
The national executive committee of
the People’s party issued an address to
the people of the United States. It says
among other things:
“The national committee of the people’s
party of the Unit d states deem it proper
to by before their constituents at ibis
time some statement of the results of the
conference held by them with various
representatives of organized industry in
this city durir g the past few days. The
results have been in every respect most
satisfactory. There is no longer any
doubt that candidates for president and
vice president will be in the field before
June 1, 1892, nominated by the people’s
party. It seems to us very plain that
the time has come when no influence of
old political organizations and no power
of aggregated capital can prevent the
hearty and unanimous coming together
h
the f”m ThU is an important event
in the history of tbe nation and civilized
man. There has been no precedent v,,. for
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n any o e pas ages. .F „
mg classes have hitherto remained im-
poverished in the midst of plenty, which
they created. Those who toiled not nave
possessed the wealth of the world, while
those who toiled have too often suffered
for the necessarits of life. But the ad-
vance of civilization and universal educa-
tion has flooded the minds of the multi-
tude with an ocean of light, and taught
them the supreme necessity for co-opera-
tion in the sense of the inborn rights of
humanity. It is for the purpose of saving
free institutions, bv the peaceful instru-
meu-alities of education and the ballot
that tbe people’s party of the United
States bbn orgamied.”
The address declares that before 1892
both the old parties will be marching to-
gether, and adds: “Cheered by abiding
(aith in our triumph of 1889 at the ballot
box fighting for the homes of a free peo-
p e, for liberty, union, industry and
iustiee. we confidently appeal to every
rmnest man in the United States to come
forward and help us bury this nr nster—
plutocra y—so < eep ti at he will never
rise again to trouble the children • f liber-
ty. Do not wait to be summoned to nc-
tion. This fight is every man's fight; it
is a fight for the roof tree and the babe in
the cradle; it is a fight to determine
whether our pro-perity shall be reduced
to old world conditions or shall advance
along the line of the declaration of inde¬
pendence and constitution to greater
prosperity and higher civilization.”
The Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Associa¬
tion adjourned Friday, after amending
its constitution so as to admit to m**m-
bership men and women over eighteen
years of age. It resoived not to amalga-
m te with any other organization till the
February meeting. It also re-elected
its old officers. Delegates to the Feb-
ruary independent meeting were instructed to vote for
politisal action.
Saturday’s wobk.
The committee which had the protest
of the anti-subtreasury people in hand,
reported that the antis bad refused to
present their case and the matter had,
therefore, been dropped.
U. P. Duncan, of South Carolina, was
endoised for appointment to the inter¬
state commerce commission, vice Bragg,
deceased, and a committee was appointed
to urge upon President Hariison the
justice of placing a iepre?entative of the
agricultural interest on the commission.
The committee on resolutions reported
the fallowing as a sub>titute for the
Branch resolution introduced Thursday,
and it was adopted: “Realizing that the
action of members of the fifty-second
congress, who were elected by aid of the
alliance constituencies, will have an im¬
portant influence upon the welfare of our
beloved order, we respectfully request all
representatives in said congress so stated
to decline to enter into any party caucus
called to designate the candidate for the
office of speaker, unless adherence lo the
principles'of the Ocala platform is made
the test of admission to said caucus.”
CHARGES IN THE CONSTITUTION.
The alliance council has made several
changes in its constitution. One of them
was in reference to the matter of cligi-
bility to membership. Hitherto p* rsuns
of mixed occupations could join the aili-
ance. This clau-e was repealed and in
its place was adopted a provision that
membership shall be restricted to fa'mets
and farm laborers. A change was also
made in the matter of procuring legisla-
tion. Heretofore there has been a nat-
ional committee of legislation, composed
of the pres dents of the various alliances,
This committee was abolished and pro¬
vision was made for the selection of a
committee of five to act as an advisory
board to the nresident.
adjournment.
The supreme council of the Farmers’
Alliance adjourned at 10 o’clock Sunday
morning to meet next year at the place to
agreed upon by the executive coni-
mittee. A grand summer encampment
-was decided upoD, the time and place
being left to a special committee, The
committee on national legislation was
made up of President Polk, Macune, L.
p. Featherstone, of Arkansas; Page, of
Virginia, and Gwynn, of Tex s.
i t U reported that at the secret meet-
ing of the supreme alliance council Sat-
urday night a resolution was passed
binding the entire membership of the
party to support the actiou of the Feb-
ruary politicians, conference. This, in the opinion
of puts the c»p sheaf on the
triumph of the third party managers.
TWENTY DEGREES BELOW.
Fearfully Cold in the Northwest--
Great Damage Reported.
Dispatches of Wednesday from Ft.
Paul, JMinn., say: Reports are still
coming iu in regard to the cold wave.
At i) any points the weather is as cold as
that usually recorded in midwinter. The
limit has been reached at Red Lake Falls,
at which place a fall of 20 below zero is
reported. Sand Centre reports 12 below;
Crookston 14; Barnes ville 10, aDd
Hallock 1C. South Dakota suffer-
intensely, be*ing the register in that
sta$e H 11 tbe way from 4 to 16
b e i Q w zero. There was considerable de-
f av trains, and the excessively cold
weather came so suddenly that it found
people in many places short of coal and
with their stock almost wholly unpro¬
tected.
From the Sioux reservation and points
on the Miss uri river come stories of loss
of stock. Many cattle were frozen. A
rancher of Sully county lost 3,000 head
of sheep. R ports from North Dakota
say the temperature is very frigid as far
east as Minnesota. The ground is so
thoroughly frozen that no further at¬
tempts can be made at fall plowing.
Reports as to the condition of the wheat
crop are conflicting. Those sent out by
the railroads report nearly all the wheat
in shock has been threshed, and that
wheat in the stack can be threshed any
time. Correspondents, however, give a
far less glowing view of the situation
saying hundreds of acres are in shock
and can be now used for nothing except
fee! straw.
WILL BE NO STRIKE.
Latest Reports Regarding the Dis»
charged Conductors
AN. 5 h I me.di-pa,ch o, »«:
T There will be no svnke of conductors ard
' -' Mr ‘ “eT ' ll ~
l .. £™° n ’ ^presenttng . the . brotherhood , of
Railway Trainmen, and E. E. Clark,
chief conductor *-f the Order of Raiiwav
Conductors, ~ A spent Saturday c , afte.noon .
and the morning m consultation with
President Thomas. Iu an interview Mr.
ar sal \
“At . to the Western and Atlantic com
duct( , T’ * e fo uod fcV, de ° ce * had
not kn ° w “ °* f H g a j ns J. , tbe ^charged
m en ’ *“ d 1 sbowed tbl ^ 3
abo K u V be “^agement down there that
he u bad not kn..wn. As «e c uld not
reconcile the testimony, he proposed to
" lbrmt lbe who1 ? matt ^ * tbe <? « r g ,a
f ailw>y commission, which, I think, is
« fair a proposition » c- uld be made,
5Qd * of 11 waS a S ieed ^
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
A. a. Hurt xatrt, drv ury gooos goods S’auntoo »>auntoD, Va va.,
made an assignment Thursday.
rr-i Fhe National v . 1T Live . stor , , k Association . . ..
Friday. was permanently Capital, organ zed at Chicago
$50,000,000.
Mrs Mary Hoffman and her two sons,
Peter and Newton, were asphyxiated by
gas at Ander-on, Ind., Y\ ednesday night.
Reports of Friday show that the recent
storms were destructive to lake shipping
atChcago. Half a dozen schooners
weie wrecked.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Sunday says:
The official plurality for McKinley over
Campbell is 21,501. The people’s party
vote was 23,664.
Gardner, Ill., is excited over the dis¬
covery that two of its leading physicians
trying are burglars. They were discovered in
to blow open a safe.
The president has appointed Dolphin
P. Roberts, of Evansville, Ind., to be
recorder general of the land office, vice
James M. Townsend, resigned.
Dispatches of Thursday state that in-
flueza has reappeared in many
places in the southwestern part of France,
and the disease is of a severe type.
Advices received Friday from Santos
declare that port to be infected with yel¬
low fever. All other Brazilian ports are
also suspected of being infected with the
disease.
A Kansas City dispatch of Friday says:
Rainmaker Melbourne has founded the
Good land Rain-Producing association.
Capital, $100,000. Rain sold to all buy¬
ers.
A heavy storm visited Kansas City
Sunday morning. The storm was general
throughout heaviest the state and was one of the
ever reported in that section at
this season of the year.
Charles Wagatha, paying and receiv¬
ing teller of the branch depository of the
Traders’ National bank, was arranged
Thursday, at New Orleans as defaulter to
the extent of $8,000.
A dispatch of Saturday to The London
Chronicle from Tien-Tsin, China, says:
“Official information is given that all im
demnities to Europeans are now paid,
with the exception of those arising out
of the Tchang riot.”
A dispatch from Lowell, Mass., says;
An attachment for $35,000 was, on Fri¬
day, placed on funds belonging to Dr.
S. P. f mitli, the missing supreme treas-
un r of the Order of the Rising Sun, who
is alleged to have improperly loaned
$50,000 of the funds of that order.
A Ch oago dispatch of Friday says the
National Cordage Company or binding
twine trust has purchased the ent re
binding twine plant of William Deering
& Co., of that ci y, for $250,000. This
purchase gives the trust entire control of
the binding twine industry in America.
The body of William J. Florence, the
actor was t mpoiarily laid to rest Mon¬
day in the vault at Greenwood cemetery,
in New York. The body will remain
there until the arrival from Europe of the
widow of the actor, when it will be con¬
veyed to its final resting place in the
family plat.
A Minneapolis, Minn., dispatch of
Friday says: The lumber season is over.
The cut for the year reaches 447,713,252
feet; 207,221,000 shingles and 97,697,600
laths. This beats all records, and ex¬
ceeds the output of 1890 by 103,188,890
feet of lumber, 45,003,500 shingles and
17,400,250 laths.
A cablegram from St. Petersburg, Rus¬
sia, says: It was made public Thursday
that in accordance with instructions re¬
ceived beie from Livadia, where the czar
is at present sojourning, the issuance of
the decree forbidding the export of wheat
will be postponed until the czar returns
to St. Petersburg, early in December.
A St. Paul, Minn., dispatch of Thurs¬
day says: The winter carnival commit¬
tee of the Chamber of Commerce has
reported unanimously that inasmuch as
palaces of ice give the rest of the world
the impression that this is the coldest
place on earih, it was time to quit build¬
ing them and to go to work to secure
more immigration.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of Friday
savs: orci Large contributions for the benefit
e famine snrtereis continue to be re¬
ceived from many different parts of the
empire. The central famine committee,
under the presidency of the czarwitch,
will receive an imperial loan of 50,000,000
roubles, without interest, for the relief of
the stricken districts.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: A. K. Tingle, supervising special
agent of the treasury department, in his
annual report to the secretary of the
treasurv, shows thrt during the past
nscai year spectni agents seized goods to
the value of $143,236 and recovered
$225,690 on account of seizures, fines,
duties, etc.
Exports of specie at the port of New
York duriug the week ended Nov. 21st
amounted to $745,076, of which $129,-
300 was gold and $615,776 silver. All
the gold and $1,337 of the silver went to
South America aud $614,429 of the silver
went to Europe. Imports of specie
during the week amounted to $1,126,654,
of which $946,898 was gold and $179,756
in silver.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Friday
sarg; Giaccinto Epifairio, an Italian,
who for the past six years has carried on
a st< amship i gency. a general store and
banking business among the poorer class
of his conn rvmen, at 842 Carpenter
street, is believed to have absconded
with upwards dollars of two hundred and fifty
thousand belonging to his cus¬
tomers.
Saturday afternoon at Pittsburg, Pa.,
counsel for Senator Quay entered a civil
suit for libel r.gainst the Pittsburg Post.
The damages are laid at $100,000. This
action was threatened several weeks ago,
when the editor and proprietor of The
Post were arrested on the charge of
criminal libel, for publishing the Bards-
lev certificate of d< posit and commenting
editorially thereon.
Ex Senator Ingalls in responding to a
call for a speech Friday night at a dinner
given by the ladies ot the Episcopal
church at Atchison, Kan., said that while
he was not identified with any religious
denomination he had a brother engage!
in the business. He recognized the fact
t:iat the church of Christ was a great
conservative force of modern society and
be was heartily in sympathy with the
wo rfr *
A , di'-patch , from . Plymouth, N. II.,
says: On TI hursday a verdict of murder
10 *he first degree was rendered iu the
ca?e of Frank Almy, on trial for mur-
limnn uuin OKrioio Christie w»rH»n warden. A n y was sen.
lenced to hang the first Tuesday in De-
cember 1892. The case has excited a
great deal of attention. The murder
™ -dmitted ; but Almy's counsel tried
hard to get him off with muider in the
“
A London cablegram says: The long
contested s riko of this city, lasting
f' x months, nominally end*d Ihuisday
by the decision of the arbitrators selected
to decide the question at issue between
the men and tHeir employers, but the
journeymen carpenters are not aU satis-
lied with the decision, lhe arbitrators
decided that it would not be expedient
for the masters to grant the demands of
the men for higher wages, the conditions
of trade, in their opinion, not warrant-
ing it. Chicago
Secretary A dispatch of Saturday says:
Stone, of the Chicago board of
tiade, has addressed a letter io Secretary
Blaine, calling attention to the fact that
United States vessels passing through
Welland canal are charged toll. Cana¬
dian vesse s go through American canals
on tie great lakes toll free. The dis¬
crimination is declared to be in violation
of the treaty. Secretary Stone wants
reciprocity in the matter of tolls. He
says the Canadian policy is building up
Montreal and Kingston at the expense of
American Dorts.
TRADE REVIEW
As Reported by Dan A Co* for tho
Past Week.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country for the week ended Novem¬
ber 20 h, as reported to R. G. Dun &
Co., number for the United States 252
and for Canada thirty-three, or a total of
285, compared with 291 last week and
266 the week previous. For the corres¬
ponding week last year the figures were
274.
Much has happened of late to depress
business aud shake confidence, and jet
confidence is not shaken, and tho volume
of business is still close to the greatest
ever attained. Tbe bank failure at Bos¬
ton caused scarcely a ripple of excite¬
ment. The failure of speculative banks
at Berlin has been industriously used
but to depress stocks duriug the past week,
tho average price of shires is
higher than a week ago. This coun¬
try begins to realize that with only sup¬
plies of gT in to keep the millions in Eu¬
rope from starvation, besides meats, cot¬
ton and oil, which other countries must
have, the Unit'd States is in a stronger
position than any other nation, and need
not quake 1 1 every European alarm.
Prices are settling downward, with enor¬
mous production, but the fact that such
production continues show's that low
prices are not ruinous.
At Pittsburg the iron market is -weaker,
The glassworks are all in opera 1 ion, and
coal miners have resumed. At Savannah
and Charleston trade is somewhat de-
pressed, apparently by the very low price
of cotton, and money is rather tight. At
Jaek-onville business is very brisk, but
at Richmond dry weather prevents the
marketing of tobacco, Manufacturers
are active. The most stubborn iron mar¬
ket ever known gives a surprise to many,
for in spite of the unprecedented pro¬
duction the prospect of some accumula¬
tion of stocks does not disturb strong
makers, who reckon that it may be well
for the country to lav in and hold much
larger stocks than heretofore, so that sud¬
den and violent fluctuations may not be
so readily produced.
Large sales of fails at the west are re¬
ported, 175,000 tons in two weeks, but
tbe markets for other finished products
are not materially altered.
A BETTER TONE.
The alarm about the money market has
passed, and no disturbance is apprehended
this year. Industries are, on the whole,
well employed, and it is especially note¬
worthy this week that there is a better
tone in the branches of trade which have
been most embarrassed.
GRAIN RECEIPTS.
Receipts of wheat at western centers
continue at the rate of more than a mil¬
lion bushels daily, and exports are also
large, but the price has declined 2| cents
on sales of 28,000,009 bushels.
Cotton receipts continue to exceed last
year’s, notwithstanding the reported
shortness of the crops, and, while the
exports for the crop year thus far are but
slightly princip less than d a year ago, the stocks
at the ports are 1,200,000 bales,
against 600,000 last year at the same
da,e. There wa, a decline to 80)8 ceot.
but the price recovered on Liverpool
bujing to 8.12, the sales here being 800,-
000 bales for the week.
MINING CONGRESS.
Important » Resolutions Adopted , at ... the
Denver Meeting.
The first national mining congress in
session at Denver, Col , adopted unlimited a reso¬
lution calling for the free and
coinage of silver. The resolutions say
the congress believes gold and silver, not
one to the exclusion of the other, are the
money metals of the constitution and
equal rights are demanded for each. The
resolutions also protest against the recent
decision of the United Sta es supreme
couit that the land grant to the Pacific
railroads covered all except such lands
as were at the time of the grant known to
be so valuable for their minerals as to
justify the expenditure railroad for tit their extrac¬
tion, as giving mines e to discovered a vast
number of the best
within grants to railroads. The repeal of
the alien land law so far as it txclu lea
foreign capital from investment in min¬
ing lands in territories, is demanded.
MINNEAPOLIS CHOSEN
As the Placef or Holding the Republican
National Convention.
A Washington dispa ch of Monday
says: Minneapolis gets the republican
national c nventi<*n. It will be held
June 7, 1892. General James S. Clark-
son will manage the republican presi¬
dential campaign next year.
NUMBER 47.
*
A DENIAL 'Jfg|
Of Reports of the In*
dianapolis Meeting.
A Nashville dispatch states that Presi-
dent McDowell, of the State A liance, L.
K Taylor, editor of The Toiler, and
Ben Terrell, of Texas, atrived there
Monday morning from Indmapolis.
Pres dcnt McDowell denies that the third
p r arv ,.t movement was endorsed. He says:
Ane hp third tmrcl P n rtv rt 7- or or peoples party, „ 9r ,r
was not mentioned in the meeting at all.
x talked W)th sorae , f the western a d
northern northern de oe elates egaua, a ad a they tney fullv iuiiy arrrea agree
J"* nimou? parteThe he*
wu8 una th.it Alliance must
remain a non-partis tn body.”
“Then, how did these reports get
ou t?” was asked.
“Well, sir,” replied the president, “I
understand ihat McAli ster, of 31 issis—
sippi, was there to give out to the news-
paper men just such lies as our enemies
wanted to put in our mouths. Ne-ther
McAllister, 1 all nor Ye .mans was iu the
meeting, nor were they seen about the
hall. Hall was not in the city.”
STRIKING MINERS.
More Trouble Expected in the Indiana
Coal Fields.
As a result of a miners’ meeting, held
Friday at Washington, David county, Indiana,
night, 500 more miners struck
Saturday morning. This brimrs the num¬
ber of miners now on strike in Indiana up
to about four th usind. There is great
rejoicing among the Brazil miners, as the
Washington county men had held out
against all overtures up to the present
time. While the Indiana miners arc idle
this 1st accession to the s rileers’ ranks
will make the supply of Indiana coal
practically nothing.
The price of broonicorn has advanced dur¬
ing the United past six weeks from $70 to $150 a ton.
The States uses 35,000 tous of broom-
corn annually, and there is now only 27,000
tons iu the country.
*■
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R- R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Alr-Liae DiiMon.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect Aug. 2nd, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. TA No, 10. No. 12.
EASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 20 pm 9 10 am
Chamblee..... 7 59 pm 9 43 am
Norcrosa....... 8 11 pm 9 55 am
Duluth........ 8 24 pm! 10 00 am
Snwauee....... 8 87pm 10 IT am
Buford........ 8 62 pm 10 33 am
Flow ry Branch 9 07 pm-10 43 *m
Gainesville..... 2 52 pm 9 24 pm H 11 am
Lula ......... 3 14 pm 9 5<i pm ill 36 am
Be!I:*>n........ Cornelia....... 9 56 pmlll 12 40 04 am
Mt. 10 25 28pm|l2 pm pm
Ai y ....... 10 09 pm
Toccna......... 4 02 pm 10 53 pm 12 3'J pm
Westminster ... 1139 pm 120 pm
Seneca ........ 12 01 am 42 pro
Central........ 12 40 am 85 pm
Easleys........ 1 03 am 05 pm
Gh eenville..... 6 06 pm 133 am 3* pm
Greers......... 1 53 am 01 pm
Wolford....... 2 16 ;,rn 19pm
Span Clifton........ anburg ... 6 57 pm 2 36 am 43 pm
2 55 am 57 pm
Cowpena ...... 3 IK) am Oi pm
Gaffney.......
Blacksburg..... Grover......... 3 40 am
3 56 am C?
King’s Mount’n 4 17 am a
Gastonia....... 4 50 am, 0)
Lowell........ 530 am; O
Bellemont..... 5 li amt 0) CL
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 5 40 c.ml •d wte
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. Tl, No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 35 am 1 55 pm 2 50 am
Bell, mont..... 2 18 pm 3 15 am
L Well......... 2 28 pm 3 26 am
Gastonia....... 2 41 pm 3 43 am
King’s Mount’n 3 06 pm 4 17 am
Grov r......... 3 20 pm 4 33 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg.... 3 30 pm 4 43 am
3 49 pm 5 02 am
Cowpens...... Clifton........ 4 11 pm 6 27 am
4 15 pm 5 31 »*m
W Bparranburg... Ilford........ 11 39 am 4 32 pro 5 43 am
5 11 pm 6 10 am
Greers......... 5 31 pm 6 23 am
Greenville...... 12 3G pm 6 05 pm 7 00 am
Easleys......... 6 83 pm 7 25 am
Central........ 7 _5 pm 8 10 sm
Seneca......... 7 53 pm 8 88 am
Westminster.... 8 12 pm 8 58 am
Tocooa........ 2 23 pm 8 50 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... 9 25 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... 9 30 pm 10 15 am
Bellton........ 9 56 pm 10 88 am
Lola .......... 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 11 11 am
Flowery Branch........,10 4*3 ]>m 11 31 am
Buford................11 03 pm 11 46 am
Buw&nee...............1117 pm 11 59 am
Duluth...............ill 29pm 12 12 pm
Norcrosa..............1142 pm 12 24 pm
Chamblee..............Ill 54pm 12 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.)5 00 pm 12 30 am 1 10 p .n
Addit:onal tra ns Nog. 17 ant 18—Lula ae-
comm dation, daily except Lula Sonday, leaves Ketnra- At-
Unta 5 30 p m, arrives 8 12 p m.
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8.v
4
tween Lula and Ath-ns—No. 11 dailv, ei-
^pt Sunday, and No. 9 demy, leave Lu a 10 05*.
m, and 1140 a m, arrive Athens 12 05 a m ar <.
140 pm. Returning leave Athens No. in
a
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai-
ly; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 12 55 pri
arrive Elberton 4 45 p m. Returning, No. ft.
daily, except Sunday, leave sElLerton 5 45 a m
and arrives Toccoa 9 15 a m.
Nos. 11 and 12 carrv Pullman Bleepers be-
tween Wnfhington and Knoxvi le Via. Salisbury,
and Nos. 9 anl 10Pullman Sleeper between A»-
^ n^dbange in day coaches from
New York to A'lanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washingt on and Southwest-
«rn Yestibuled Limited, be tween Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged in connection With first-class tickets,
not exceeding $2.00 over and above usual Pn.lt-
man charges to any information point. to local
For detailed as ana
through time tables, rates and with Pullman local Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer agents,
or address, L. TAYLOR, L. L. McCLESKEY, ___
JA8. t.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag
Washington, D, (X Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Richmond, Manager, Y».
Washington, D. O.
O. P. HAMMOND, Atlanta, Ga.
Superintendent,
LEWTS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW-
TOCOOA CITY, GA.,
Will praetio* in the counties of Huber-
■ham and Rabun of tha Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banks of thi
Western Circuit. Prompt m w 4 F
be given to all bush ess eBtrastatTio him.
The collection of debts wilt have spoo¬
ls.! attrition.