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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
morning-glories.
O dainty daughters of the dawn—most deli¬
cate of flowers!
How fitly do ye come to deck day's most
delicious hours,
’Evoked by morning’s earliest breath, your
fragile cups unfold
Before the light has cleft the sky, or edged
the world with gold.
Before the luxurious butterflies and moths
are yet astir,
Beforo the careless breeze has snapped th e
leaf-hung gossamer—
While sphered dewdrops, yet unquaffed by
thirsty insec"-thieves,
Broider with rows of diamonds the edges of
the leaves.
Ye drink from day’s o’erflowing brim, nor
ever dream of noon :
With bashful nod ye greet the sun, whose
flattery scorches Boon,
\our trumpets trembling to the touch of
humtn ng b rd and bee.
In tender trepidation sweet, and fair
timidity.
No flower in all the garden hath so wide a
ohoice of hue;
The deepest purple dyes are yours—the ten.
derest tints of blue;
While some are colorless as light—some
flushed incarnadine,
And some are clondod crimson, like a goblet
stained with wiee.
Ye hold not in your calm cool hearts the pas¬
sion of the rose,
v Ye do . not own the haughty pride the regal
lily knows;
Butaht what blossom has the charm, the
Purity or this,
Which shrinks before the tenderest love, and
dies beneath a kiss?
WOrl ' 1 ’ "'' e " h ' !i “
eb “r, ho,we " tbr,er ,henrt,le
'
Borne lives there nro which seem like these
as sensitive and fair,
As far (mm thouaht of sin or shame, as freo
from stain of care.
We find somet imes these splendid souls,
when all our world is young,
Where life le crisp with Ireuhne.e, with tin-
.haken dew-drop. hunu.
The, bWm i„ the cool d m hour., ere sun-
shine dries the air,
But cease and vanish long before the noon-
day’s lieat and glare.
And if in manhood’s dusty time, fatigued
with toil and glow.
We crave the fresh, younp; morning heart
which ch-rmed us long ago,
Wo seek in vain the olden ways, the shadows
moist and fuir—
Tho heart-shaped loaves may linger, but the
blossoms are n t there.
—[Elizabeth Akers Allen.
Relations by Marriage.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
wedding. Everybody went to Pamela Pepper's
It was quite natural that they
should. Miss Pepper was as well known
in Cornstalk Corners ns tho old town
clock itself on the steoplo of the Metho¬
dist meeting-house, Sho had made
dresses and trimmed bonnets there for
moro years than slio cared to remember.
She was gossip-in-general, prime mover
in all the teaqMirties, quilting-bees and
apple-butter able and religious frolics, head societies of the and charit¬ chief
chronicler of all tho dates in regard to
births, deaths and marriages. She knew
what everybody said to everybody else,
what Mrs. Moluth gave for her new seal¬
skin cloak and in how many weeks Mr.
Luckless's farm would be foreclosed on.
Sho was quite au fait as to every house¬
hold quarrel, all the family skeletons and
a scoro of motives for each action, which
no one else would have dreamed of. No
story was quite complete unless Miss
Pamela Pepper s version of it had been
heard. And if people didn't know their
through own speeches mediumship after they had been
the of Miss Pamela’s
, 1 re "“ i0 “' S, ' re1 -'' £ “"“
of hc rs
But the blossomins? time oomo« nrp
SSl'rSFr ^
bnr/iiiood aotlv There were some who had the
to assort that Mr. JosiahBlack
“see lUt^a^’p’roulfcewbo'madetheliuttonholc? “d
and sewed the straight seams, but that
Pamela, being skillfully intercepted bv Miss
she had taken his overtures as
intended for herself and accepted him
effusively, that before ho had proposed; and
Josiah, being a meek young man
with white eyelashes and a flat, freckled
face, had not tho requisite courage to
escape from the meshes wherewith she
bad so artfully mig‘b«, trapped him
Be .hat as ft it was certain that
Mary More had beeu discharged amiYhat
There
uomically from New York a wedding-
cake nearly as big as a cart-wheel, and a
deal °t^wl, of ostentation The at^fimt bride declared Vhrht
that * “ItahytYmonthV a case oflore shifremarked’,gush-
ingly, “since mo and Josiah first set eyes "the
on each other, when he caine into
store to ask the way to Squire Robinson’s,
He looked at me—oh, how he looked at
me! And I felt a sort of all overishness
that I couldn’t describe noway in the
world! He didn’tthink of money nor yet
of lineage, nor none o’ them things; he
only felt as we was made for each other
by Providence!”
In which case, Squire Robinson re-
marked, sub rosa, Providence had made
a bad mistake of it for once. For Mrs.
Josiah Black was tall and shallow, with
the frame of a Prussian grenadier, while
Mr. Josiah Black was slight and round-
shouldered, with flaxen locks and watery,
blue eyes. Mrs. Squire Robinson said
there was fifteen years' difference in
their ago. But the bride said it was
only five. And who should know if the
bride didn’t?
But when the couple were seated in
the train, speeding townrd of Blue Point,
wherethe ancestral halls the Black
family were situated, Pamela grew con¬
fidential.
“We’re agoin’ right to your house,
Josiah, I supp ose?” said she.
“Yea, ” said Josiah, with a deep sigh.
“Where else should we go?”
“Some folks board,” suggested the
bride. “Just at first, at least.”
“I hain’t no money for that sort of
fancy-work,” dolefully remarked the
groom.
“Is it pleasant there, dear?” asked the
bride.
“Well, it ain’t bad,” responded Josiah,
in a non-committal way.
“You never told me about your family,
Josiah,” went on Mrs. Black, soothingly,
“Fam’ly?” repeated Josiah, with a
startled look. “I hain’t got no fam’ly.
I ain't never beon a married man before.”
“I mean your relations, Josiah.”
“There's my step-mother,” said Josiah.
“And there's my two sisters and my
brother and Uncle ’Li jah and Aunt Nancy
-and Heber and Stratton and-”
don’t'alnUe ^
‘They
“No,” Josiah answered. “Not ail.”
“Dear mo, Josiah,” said Mrs. Black >
“how dead and alive you seem. Nobody
would realize that , you , had , , been only .
three hours married.
‘I don t seem to realize it myself
said Mr. Black, leaning his head against
the car window, with a thoroughly dis-
couragecl an-.
But if you s pose I m going ... to turn
my house into a refuge for all your re-
lations, added Mrs. Josiah, with energy
you are venr dear me. Blue 1 oint,
a ready? I his can t be the place, can
it- h X’ we ** ain t—
Just T then the relentless conductor,
swooping Mrs. Josiah through the train bore Mr and
Black off to. the platform,
st lU rem °n8trating loudly.
Mr. Black , was silent and moody as
‘'"V »alk<xl«p the to
Goth and Visigoth horde of relations who
doubtless were waiting to pounce on her
hearth.
* m " st s10 thought,
4< V n
11
“Here the house,somberly re-
marked Josiah
A long, loiv, red building "fence faced them
at the top of a hilt, with a draped
with morning-glory vines, trailing hops
and wild vetches, and two or three gnarled
quinco trees leaning up against (lie
south end.
“ There’s lights inside,” said the late
Miss Pamela. ‘ ‘ And a fir*?! There’s
somebody My folks,” there 1 ”
“ Your folks ! briefly remarked Josiah.
“ ” repeated Pamela; and
there wasjt world of unsyllabled meaning
in he? voice. Walking valiantly forward,
she flung open the door, and stood facing,
littlo group which was gathered amic¬
ably around the blazing fire. And Josiah
Black, >d>gmfiea following, pushod - her, in rather
ui .r , manner, . .nto . the.r . midst, ., ,
"nth the
w ,', bi 1 '.'^.'
'
,,, ‘‘How . d yo do, , Mrs. Josiah . , ? „ said an
elderly woman. 1 m your husband s
“’And l’m hi, sister,” said a blonde
matron . with • . I is] lilac ribbons i her
in cap.
“ And Pin his other sister,” s p oko up
„ short, sharp, little (coals with a black-
and-tan-terrier sort or race and a rust-
ling black silk dress.
“Brother Simeon,” announced Josiah,
ns a stout man with a profusely pomat¬
umed head rose and ducked it toward
hex*. “And Uncle ’Lijah and Aunt
Nancy,” motioning toward a solid-look¬
ing couple in the background; “and my
cousins, Heber and Stratton,” ns two
tall, awkward young men emerged from
behind a calico-covered screen in the
rear.
“I hope you alljfind yourselves pretty
well?” said Mrs. Josiah Biack, with the
geniality of an arctic iceberg. “But I
sha n't find it convenient to entertain
you here.”
The herd of relations stared, and Mr.
Josiah’s step-ma bridled, and said;
“We wasn’t a-calculating to stay to
tea.”
. ^ ? in " e r lt m £ kes no dlffer
: *
°i lcc ’ said tho ^ ldo . - “* f w0 , re to S et
alon S comfortable £ together, all „ these ,
t husbaiidf hlu .gs>s Sat to °ons be M understood ? don^l"^! at once.
ana
to be expected of mo.”
S’ •“ - 4 in CM1 -
“Well,” said they, addressing Josiah’s
“ sif srethe representa-
52, ~STTdolLh^ 2^
"»" < -an '« >™blo *er.“
“Don the in a hurry, faintly uttered
Josiah; least but none of the relations took tho
notice of him. as they seized upon
their hats, bonnets, shawls uaid other ar-
tides of outer wrapping with precipitate
haste.
“ Of course,” added Mrs. Josiah, a
little alarmed at tho result of her own
generalship. have call “I shall friendly always be happy
to Wji you in a hid way.”
stop-mu. who .ikon a
£l »”> the remarked
‘ MySpi.Zr-hes. triple plate and
pojelam.lmed-„s "ending present, ' out “ it toiks don a t
waut mt? , they don't want A my presents,
so I'll wish Ton sistfrs good-bye, Black.”
One of .he took up a cream-jug
of chased silver the other put a plated
caster back into its box, ana off they
marched.. “Our simple ofterings, said they, “are
hardly elegant enough for one so ex-
cloosiye w Ho.’ in her tastes as our brother s
Simeon Black swung a heavy wicker-
basket across his shoulders.
“-A. tea-set of real Ingy ch^iw, that be-
longed to a Chinese bargain sea-captain, but I said
he. “and I got at P guess
it ain't wanted. t: nd he, too, departed,
banging One the door. took hasty
by one the others a
leave, each carrying some little had offering been
more or less value which
brought thither for the delectation of
“Josiah s wife," while that lady herself
stood gazing after them in blank dismay,
with an agonized consciousness that she
had committed an awful political blun-
d e r in this, the first term of her married
life.
“There!” said Josiah, grimly, “now
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 12, 1891.
you’re done it, Pamela. Every one of
’em well-to-do and livin’ in their own
places. forgive And, as sure as you live, they’ll
never you in this mortal world!”
“I—I thought they was cornin’ here to
j live!” gasped the bride. “I only wanted
! j to protect myself.”
“Well, you’ve done it now,” said Mr.
Black. “There is such a thing as bein’
too beforehanded.”
; And he sat slowly down, too spiritless
even to upbraid his wife. While Pamela
felt that her wedding day had not been
' altogether For the Blacks a success,
were a clannish tribe,
and it was even as the bridegroom had
predicted. They never forgave Josiah’s
wife for that first reception.—[The
Ledger.
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TESTIXG A TERROR.
He Found out that he had Mistaken
His Decimation
When we opened the old “Four X” mine
World, it “>• M. Quad all in the before New York
was no time at a live¬
ly town was founded and hundreds of
people came pouring in. Iu those days
every J community had its terror. He was
sup osod to be able to out-drink, out-yell,
out-shoot, leg8 and out-fight everything timis on
in his jurisdiction. Some he
wa3 a £ree _ lauce! and agalu b he was em-
ployed as a gort o£ p 0 li C eman. Wo
wanted a man to protect company prop-
and one day a g 6 ; an£ o£ a chap,
weigbing f 205 pounds and 6 f ee t tall,
app ied for the place.
asked “Are you a fighter?” was the question
of him
“ I am,”he replied. “ I’ve had seventv-
n i ne fi ? ff hts in seven weeks ”
„ Af aid o£ any thing moHal ?”
“ Nothing £ mortal or immortal.”
«« Shoot otb handedr
, t t dn >»
.. Ub6 'the bowio knife?”
^zr fa ymen
.. eU this baa been an off year with
mo> ag j was sick abed £or weeka>
and so I haven’t got but ’leven.”
.. Suppose) now that a terror from some
otlier camp should come over here to clean
^ ou ou * ’ Haie } ou ever met any other
t ” ror ttni3 downed him—a genuine, first-
.S" headwaters of light-
t , ean . t ' thot x „„ hav sir not
_
a roo ° - u i nr terror ”
“Then you can’t tell how you would
act?”
“Why, I should probably fight him.”
“ But jmu can’t say for sure. How¬
ever, come back at 4 o’clock this after¬
noon.”
We sent over to Cedar Flats, five miles
away, for their terror. We knew him to
be the genuine stuff, and when he arrived
we posted him as to what was wanted.
At 4 o’clock, when our alleged terror re¬
turned to the shaft, the Cedar Flats terror
suddenly waltzed out on him with a hair-
rai>1 „„d called out:
yYhar’s the bloody, bloomin hyena
who has beeu passin’ hisself off around
j, 0gh e ro | as a figfcter? ” Whoop! oit Wang! aid
Som „ b dv pint him to me
XII & Lulft O ‘ n It X!! aIlds “ nd '«** while I bite
*
Our alleged terror turned pale and
° to-
getlier aud crowed.
“Cock-a-doodle-doo! Whoop! Pint
him out. Let him stand before me!
Whoop ! Tie me all up in knots, head
me up in that bar’l, and then I’ll lick
him or go over the cliff! Great snakes !
but won’t somebody show me the fellow
ivho—!”
I pointed to our terror, and the Cedar
Flats man uttered a scream and rushed
for him. The chap who had only killed
’leven men just fell right down in a heap,
and it was five minutes before we could
bring him to. He was whiter than flower
and as limpsy as a rag, and it was all of
half an hour before he could walk away.
“ How do you account for it?” I asked
as he was ready to go.
‘ ‘ I must have gone into the wrong
business,” he gloomily replied.
“ How do you mean?”
“ I ought to have been a preacher l”
The National Beverage.
The United States ranks high among
tlie coffee-drinking nations, being sur-
tea was but one and two-tenths pounds,
■? "" national beverage o£ the
1 Doing^
iast ten year, the annua!
SZSC’.JflSSLKL "'tv™ 1S t ue
. , ,
. p. * ^ d «• d P °P e a y e
an .
‘ t '£i ? 7,
drnnk drnnk bats has not not increased • m last , de-
So it is evident that the United
d ; cted to the Arabian or Brazilian berrv"
j ,, consumDtion ounce^ tea^iid^ oer head Nineteen was
about seven ounces of ol tea and nineteen
luJZi fortv fZ
of coff(Je Jn 1M0 u WM ncatlv
»< P-* •?
wi’aCThoTto a” third ol
f it 1 i« nnw ?° «hnn* abou t a a sixth.
«■"> beon losing , ground, comparatively
al1 tbe tlme.-[Ch,cago Tn-
Save the Feathers.
Children who live in the country and
keep chickens if can easily get plenty of
pillows they will only take the trouble
to save and dry perfectly all the nice soft
feathers whenever a chicken is killed,
Sofa pillows—and no prettier holiday or
birthday present could be given than a
pretty sofa pillow—are so much the
£ as hion now that five or six are soine-
times piled on one small sofa; and’rests they are
a i so use d in chairs for cushions
£or the back, and when made of some
beautiful material are among the chief
decorative features of many rooms,
The case should be made of unbleached
muslin, and may be made of anv size,
on iy it must be square; it must not be
stuffed too full or the pillow will be hard,
and if you do not ^i sb to use silk for the
covering, a light cretonne with gay
flowers would be verv pretty and suita-
ble.—|Detroit Free Press.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
Interest to Alliance men Everywhere.
At Greensboro, N. C., the citizens and
Farmers’ Alliance will organize a $10,000
stock company for the purpose of estab¬
lishing the co-operative tobacco factory
lately mentioned.
***
The reform press of the country is
constantly fluence and increasing in power and in¬
next year will wituets one of
the grandest battles for freedom ever
fought in this country.—Standard Farm-
cr.
***
The Southern Mercury says: “The man
who is the greatest disgrace to American
manhood, is he who admits that we must
have more money in circulation, yet
fights every movement looking to that
end.’’
*
* *
The Citizens’ Alliance of Lincoln, at
its first meeting since the election, in
itiated two candidates and has several
applications now on hand, The order
is in a very prosperous condition for the
fight of ’92.—Lincoln (Neb.) Be.icon.
The politicians ***
for years have kept the
farmer* disputing and fighting over an
imaginary dividing line, while they
stood by and rsked in the spoils. Some
way or some how the farmers have got
into the way of shaking hands across the
imaginary line, and the statesmen are
out of a job.—Old Era.
*
sf: :fc
Hon. R. J. Siege, of Texas, one of the
big guus of the national alliance, is to
become the head of an alliance paper
published at Washington, D C. The pa¬
per will be devoted strictly to alliance
principles and the interest of the Ger¬
man people. Mr. Sledge has secured the
service of a fellow Texan, from Galves¬
ton, who will edit ihe paper. The first
issue of the new paper will appear in a
few days.
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The Weekly jJ; ]}<
Arbor State (Beatrice,
Neb.) says: The argument that even the
poorest man might become wealthy by
saving from his scanty income may hold
good if to be “wealiuy means to possess,
say $10,000 or $20, U00. ” But largo lor-
tunes cannot be aud never have been ac¬
cumulated from the savings of a iy one
man’s labor who did not employ other
men or acquired laud or other property
bearing interest or returning rent. Large
fortunes have invariably been created by
the labor of men other than him who
came into their possession. It is this
fundamental wrong which the labor
movement is striving to correct.
*
it: A
The Alliance Advocate (Louisville,
Teun.) says: “lhe Alliance leaders
should learn from tba resu ts of Tues¬
day’s election that the two old parties are
a unit in refusing to recognize the de-
raa ds of the fanners ns l ng ns the old
leaders command them. The Alliance
has no war witn either the republican or
democratic parties as organizations, but
our fight is and must be against the men
and methods that control them. The
Alliance can expect no recognition of the
justice of their demands by the present
leadess of either of the old parties,
though the rauk and file of both are with
us, and hence the attacks of these old
subsidized fotsils must be met, and they
must be shown up in their true colors.”
▼
The * *
Arkansas Economist (Searcy,
Ark.) says: Let our watchward be
America for the Americans and those
who are willing to become such. Let us
see to it that the American eagle screams
from the top of the flag-staff, instead of
the British lion roar.ng at the bottom.
Then we can have prosperity and honor;
then we can have happy homes and fire¬
sides; then we, indeed, can say with truth
that every man can set under his vine
and fig tree. Better that no man should
have more thau 40 acres of land than that
one should have a million. Better for the
country if every man had to make his liv¬
ing the farm t
ou that could be supported
by tenants. Better that every man should
be equal than that one should be able to
grind his fellows.
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this Perhaps no meeting was ever held in
country that was so grossly misrep¬
resented as our National meeting at In¬
dianapolis. It was stated that there was
when wrangling over Col. Polk’s re election,
the truth is, there was absolute
unanimity. It was j-iven out that the
meeting was discordant, when the truth
is, it was harmonious in sentiment and
purpose the partisan throughout. It is charged by
press that a tremendous
effort was made to carry the Alliance
into the third party. The truth is that
the matter was not given a moment’s
thought by the body, nor was it men¬
tioned. On the contrary, President Polk’s
address was squarely and boldly against
allowing the Alliance to be subordinated
to the purposes of any party, and that
address was enthusiastically endorsed by
all true Aliiancemen.
*
* *
The Pioneer Exponent (Comanche,
Texas,) s^ys: The honest objections to
tbe-treasury scheme of the Farmers’ Alli¬
ance is to matters of detail and not to
matters private, of principle. All money, public
or must represent products of
labor or land. Any money which rep¬
resents either, which is used solely for
the transfer from one ownership to an¬
other, is based upon a correct and sound
principle. It is that principle which,
during the last fifty years, has developed
and our enormous the private banking business,
it is only method to-day by which
the business of this country can be con¬
ducted. Banks are nothing but pawn¬
shops, and all the “money,” but* public or
private, is nothiug pawn-tickets.
The only real question at issue over the
adoption of sub-treasury scheme in its
principle, not in its detail, is whether the
currency would be snfir, more stable, and
more readily available in all parts of the
country under Federal management than
under private management
***
WATCH THEM.
The Standard Farmer, Terre Haute,
Indiana, says: Our readers should close¬
ly observe the doings of the 52nd con-
press. The labor <,.ement desires and
demnnds that something be done to
this inflow of paupers. Besi ies, man}
otlur important measures should be pass
ed—especially of the in rog.rd to the finances
The country—but it will be done.
ing this common time; people the will have no show¬
in the ground capitalists are already
on floor and by the time
will be time for wnnts nre attended to it
our represeuta ivts In
congress to take their anuual spree and
while doiDg so th-y will kindly, yes.
kept kindly, explain “how the < ther 'fellow-
them from doing what the peop e
stood so much in need of, but if the
voters will just elect them ag.Vn they
will see that the people are repiesented,”
meaning that they will give them another
dose of the same medicine. Just keep
your eye on congress aed see how jour
representatives ignore y ur interests; it
will pay you and perhaps learn you a les-
son that you w<. uld learn in no other
way.
***
THE ALLIANCE AND PEOPLE'S PARTY.
Because the People’- party did not win
at the recent election, the A liance is go¬
ing to pieces. This is the logic of the< 1 ;
party organs all over the country. Thi-
is done to discourage and dishearten
members of the Alliance ar.d win them
back to their old party allegiance. To
some extent th s sort of misconstruction
is having its < fleet, but as a rule it does
no harm. The Alliance and the People’s
party are two separate aud distinct or¬
ganizations and will always remain so,
despite the efforts of the partisan press
to force them together. While the re¬
sult of the late contest has not been sat¬
isfactory to the People’s party and a
great share of the Alliance membership,
the A liance as an order has received no
injury, The but will receive a positive benefit.
judgi meeting at Cincinnati was in the
ment of many good men both ill-
timed and unfortunate. It was opposed
by a large portion of the Alliance as an
ill-advised movement. It was not an Al¬
liance meeting in any sense of the term,
and was not so considered at that time
nor since.—National Economist.
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BE CONSERVATIVE.
Be conservative, by all means. Cotton
may only be 7£ cents and tobacco the
the same in proportion, but that makes
no difference; you must be conservative.
Everything high you buy may be twice as
as what you have to sell, but still
you must be conservative. You may not
not like to pay from 12 to 20 per cent,
for the money you use, but just be con-
servative. Your farm and personal goods
may be under mortgage and somebody
ready to foreclose, but that makes no
difference; be conservative. The country
will soon be owed by a few persotss, in
fact seventy families own one third of it
now, but just keep cool a"d be conserv¬
ative; they will get the other two thiids
by and by. You help pay $625,000,000
annually iu tariff tax and $1,000,000
in interest, but don’t ;-ay anything against
the methods of either party—be conser¬
vative. There is no prospect of either
party doing much to relieve the country,
at least the past does not prove it, and
we know that rascals hold the reins and
dictate no matter which party is m power,
but that says nothing, just be conserva-
tive and the end will come after awhile,
Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun and Lincoln
and other wise and honest stahsmei
advised the people to assert their rights
and rule, but they didn’t know as much
as the 110 pound editor or statesmen of
this day and therefore you must be quiet
and be conservative. This is the only
safe way to do. The people who advise
this course have set out to ruiu the fair¬
est country on earth. Just be conserva¬
tive and they will do it. Be col serva¬
tive. —Pi ogret sive Farmer.
***
WILL IT CONTINUE?
The Alliance Unit (Stanburg, Mo.)
says: No period in the history of the
country has witnes-ed such an upheaval
of public sentiment as the great move-
ment of the Farmers’ Allifnce. For
many years the Patrons of Husbandry
Lave educated a large class of the pro¬
ducers in the essential principles of po¬
litical economy, but for some cause, that
is not necessary to mention, it failed to
stir up the foundations of the structure of
political organizations as is seen at the
present. Whether this movement shall
continue to mould public sentiment and
control the policy of government, is for
it to determine. The elerm nt of strength
up to the present has been the justice of
its demands, and so long as we shall con¬
tinue on the line of “equal rights to all,
spec al favors to none, ” it will continue
to grow and spread its broai principles
from center to circumference of this
mighty country. But will it continue in
this line? Will the conservative element
be able to control its movements and de¬
mands? or will it be f-ide-tracked by its
enemies, )>y being induced to leave the
successful and tried wajs, and sacrifice
the vantage ground of just and equitable
position on all the issues of the day? We
judge the future by the past, knowing that
history is apt to repeat itself, and that
nothing but eternal vigilance isjthe price
of libertj. We believe in our country
and our coimtryr/ien. We believe that a
large majority of the members of our Or¬
der have the good of the masses at heart,
and i*ill continue to so shape its senti¬
ments as to continue to receive the com¬
mendation of all lovers of justice.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS CONVENTION.
While President Polk was in attend¬
ance on the late Indianapolis meeting he
sent the following as editorial corres¬
pondence to his paper, The Progressive
Farmer. Considering the many unrelia¬
ble reports of the proceedings of that
convention which have been published,
Col. Polk’s letter was well-timed. He
says:
Our body was made up of earnest, pa¬
triotic, broad-guaged men. The finest
spirit prevailed throughout. The Order
is in splendid condition all over the
country, and at this time is more united
on our demands than ever before. The
Ocala demands were reaffirmed without a
dissenting thirty-four voice by the representatives of
States. The Farmers’ Mutual
Benefit Association, in session at the time,
adopted them unanimously, thus practi¬
cally making the two Orders one in senti¬
ment and ac ion. Much import nt legis¬
lation, looking to the advancement
of the Alliance principles, was en¬
acted, and will doubtless have a more
beneficial effect on our Order. All
this will be given to our readers
time to time, boginning as sood as
official proceedings can be put in
shape for publication. The
meeting is to be composed of
dclegabs at large from each organization
in the confederation, one for each ten
thousand members in each organization
to be chosen by the membership.
following large is the list of the Harry" delegates
for the Alliance: Tracy,
Texas; L. P. Featherstoue,
William Farr Goodwin, New
C >1. C. M. Butt. Wisconsin; Alva Agee,
Ohio; T. S Adams, Louisiana; Marion
Cannon, California; L. F. Livinuston,
Georgia; Frauk Burkett, Mississippi; J.
B. Beverley, Virginia; Matthew
nessee; L. Leonard, Missouri; J. B.
Weaver, Iowa; M. V. Rork, Oregon; C.
M. Max-on. New York: St.
Thompson, holder, Pennsylvania: M. A. House¬
Kansas; M. G. Elzey, Maryland;
T. T. Gardner, Kansas; Thomas W.
Force, Indiana; Wm. Hess, Illinois; It.
A. South worth, Colorada; M. G. Loneck-
er, Michigan; S. M. Adams, Alabama;
A. P. BaskiD, Florida; Marion Butler,
North Carolina. The place of meeting is
to be determined by the committee, but
it ia understood that it will be held in
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, or some
point in the central Northwest, No
changes in our national officers except
the substition of Bro. H. L. Loucks, of
South Dakota. for Bro. B H.
Clover, of Kansas; ns Vice-Presi¬
dent. Bro. Clover, it will be re mem-
bered, is now a member of Congress
The National Legislative C< mmittee now
consists of the National President, C. W.
Gwinn, Mncune, L. P. FeStherston, of Arkansas,
of Tennessee, and Mann Page, of
Virginia. The President of all the States
constitute the Advisory Council to the
National President. A resolution was
adopted requesting such members of Con¬
gress as owe their election to Alliance
votes, not to enter a p irty caucus on the
quostion of Speakership unles adherence
to the Ocala demands be made the test.
An effective system of lecture service was
adojited and must result in great good to
our Order. The meeting was a grand
success, and its influence must have a
happy effect on our Order generally.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIBFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitoma of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
South Carolina has been awarded a
gold medal by the board of directors ol
the Augusta exp< sition for the excellence
of its exhibit of natural and manufac¬
tured products.
Sales of loose leaf tobacco in the Dan¬
ville, Va., market during November
reached 2,307,600 pounds and for two
months of the tobacco year 4,650,861
pounds, showing a decrease as compared
with the same months of 1890 of 3,880,-
320 pounds,
A Nashville dispaten says: The cer¬
tificate of election as a member of con-
cress to represent the second district was
issued Thursday by Governor Buchanan
to John C. Ilouk. The official returns
from the recent elections show the total
vote to be: J, C. Houk, 24,095; J. C.
J. William-, 7,829; W. H. Henry, 211.
The citizens of Senoia, Ga., have or¬
ganized a banking company, which will
be in operation within sixty days. It
will be known as the Farmers’ and Mer¬
chants’ Bank of Senoia. Work is being
rapidly pushed on the bank building,
aud it will soon be ready for occupation.
The bank will start with a capital of
$25,000.
A meeting of the Eli Whitney Monu¬
ment Association of Augusta, Ga., was
held Saturday and it was definitely de¬
termined to celebrate the centennial anni¬
versary of Whitney’s great invention, the
cotton gin, next November, during
Augusta’s great cotton exposition, by un¬
veiling be a handsome monument. It will
a magnificent monument and will cost
at least $50,000.
A Nashville dispatch of Thursday says;
That it is the intention of the state offi¬
cials to return the convicts to the East
Tennessee branch prisons within a few
days is now conceded. Acting under
the authority recently given him, Super¬
intendent Wade has employed a number
of guards and is securing more every day.
The 3')0 men at $40 a month will cost
$144,000 per annum.
A Nashville dispatch of Saturday says:
The investigation of the interstate com¬
merce commission into the charges
against the Louisville and Nashville
railroad has been concluded, the only
man examined being Stuart R. Knott,first
vice president and traffic manager of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. The
written testimony will be sent to Wash¬
sion. ington and be submitted to the commis¬
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYES.
The Comml»gion Makes Its Annual Re¬
port to the President.
A Wa s hington dispatch of Saturday
says: The civil service commission in
its annual report to the president states
that the classified civil service now eon-
tains 84,000 government employes.
From July 1, 1890, to June 80, 1891,
5.206 applicants were examined for de¬
partmental service at Washington, ot
whom 3,337 passed and 1,869 railed to
pass. The report calls attention to the
extension of the classified service to in¬
clude a portion of the Indian service,
and says that this extension is especially
important as for the first time applying
t le principle of non-partisan appoint-
m ■! ts to the Indian service.
THE WALLS FELL
And Killed Five Men Outright--Manj
Others Hurt.
At St. Paul, Minn., Friday afternoon,
a force of debris men were engaged burned in building clearing
away the of the
formerly occupied by Farwell, Ozum <&
Co., and Griggs, Cooper & Co., when kill¬ onq
of the walls fell with a terrific crash,
ingdive men instantly and injuring twen¬
ty others, some of them severely. Five
bodies have been taken from the ruins,
and it is thought five more are under the
walls.
NUMBER 49.
OVER SEVEN THOUSAND
People Were Killed by the Earthquake
in Japan.
A cablegram of Thursday from Van¬
couver, B. C., states that advices from
Japan, via steamer regarding Empress of China,
gives later news the great
ea tl quake of October 28th, Careful
figuring now places the number of dead
at 7,560, and the injured at 10,120, with
87,630 houses wholly, and 28 625 partly,
« estroyed. Over 44<',000 people have
been rendered homeless and destitute.
Many curious freaks of the earthquake
have been noticed. In one pl- ce a tissue
swallowed up four persons, who have re¬
mained visible, but whose rescue has
proved to be impossible. Fortunately,
the weather remains mild. Rain or cold
weather would cause terrible distress.
A PROHIBITION BILL
For the State Has Been Passed by South
Carolina’s Legislature.
A dispatch of Saturday s.y-»: The
house of representative", on Saturday,
passed, by a vote of 40 to 34, the prohi-
b tion bill. The bi l absolutely pr >hibits
the sain of beer, liquors, wines, etc., in
any portion of the state, or tne transport¬
ation of it by railroads, express compa¬
nies, etc., under heavy penalties. It was
passed after a bitter fight lasting two
days. The law is said to be framed on
ihat now in force in Iowa. It is gener¬
ally believed that if this bill becomes a
lnw it will divide the democratic party in
the state, and result in the comp’etc en¬
franchisement of the negro voters, who
will be called in o take par' in the state
and national campaign next year.
Air official statement shows the debt oi
Canada to have reached $235,000,000, a con¬
siderable increase over the figures for last
Minister rear. notwithstanding the assurance of the
reduction of Finance, Mr. Foster, that a large
might be looked for this year.
RICHMOND i DANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Nov. 15th, 1801.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
EASTERS TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 8 50 pm 10 10 am
Chamblee..... 9 27 pm 10 48 am
Norcross....... 9 39 pm it 01 am
Duluth........ 9 51 pm 1115 am
Suwanee....... 10 03 pm 11 26 am
Buford........ 10 17 pm 11 40 am
Flow, ry Branch 10 31 pm 11 53 am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm 12 14 pm
Lula.......... 11 18 pin i2 42 pm
Bellton........ 11 21 pm 12 41 am
Cornelia....... 11 45 pm 1 10 pm
Mt. Airy....... 11 50 pm 1 15 pm
Toccoa......... 12 20 am 1 47 pm
Westminster ... 12 58 am 2 35 pm
Seneca ........ 1 17 am 2 51 pm
Central........ 1 50aui 3 40 pm
Easleys........ 2 18 am 4 11 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 2 44 am 4 4 1 pm
Greers......... 3 14 am 5 09 pm
Wellford....... 3 33 mn 5 27 pm
Spartanburg... Clifton........ 6 57 pm 3 54 am 5 52 pm
4 13 am 6 10 pm
Cowpens Gaffney....... ...... 4 18 am 6 15 pm
4 40 am 6 <Opm
Grover......... Blacksburg..... 5 01 am 1 7 00 pm
5 11 am 12 pm
King’s Mount’ll 5 2S am 7 30 pm
Gastonia....... 5 54 am 7 69 pm
Lowell........ 6 07 am 8 12 pm
Bellemont..... 6 14 am 8 23 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 6 40 i»m 8 50 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. II. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bellemont..... 2 12 pm 2 42 am
L -well......... 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm 3 04 am
King’s Mount’n 3 00 pm 3 27 am
Grover......... 3 16 pm 3 43 am
Blacksburg .... 3 26 pm 3 53 am
Gaffney Cowpens ....... 3 45 pm_____ f 4 10 am
...... 4 10 pm 4 42 am
Clifton........ 4 13 pm 4 35 am
Wellford........ Spartanburg... 11 43 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
5 £0 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... 5 0y pm 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm 6 10 am
Easleys......... 6 07 pm 6 38 am
Central........ 6 55 pm 7 30 am
Seneca......... 7 22 pm 7 57 am
Westminster.... 7 41 pm 8 15 am
Toccoa........ 8 19 pm 8 52 am
Mt. Airy....... 8 48 pm 9 18 am
Cornelia....... 8 52 pm 9 23 am
Bellton........ 9 16 pm 9 45 am
Lula.......... 9 18 pm 9 47 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm 1C 12 am
Flowery Branch 10 00 pm 10 32 am
Buford........ 10 17 pm 10 45 am
Suwanee....... 10 33 pm 10 58 am
Duluth........ 10 45 pm 11 15 am
Norcross...... 10 56 pm 11 28 am
Chamblee...... It 08 pm 11 43 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trams Nos. 17 anl 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sundav, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 30 p
m, and 1150 a m, arrive Alliens 10 15 p m and
1 30 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 6 15 p m
and 6 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 00 p m and 8 30
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 2 00 pm
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leavefEll.erton 5 00a m
and arrives Toccoa 8 30 am.
Nos. 11 anl 12 cairv Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Kansas City vis Birming¬
ham and Memphis, and Nos. 9 and 10 Pullman
Sleeper between Atlanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to Atlanta. Southwest-
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and
e; n Vestibnled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged on first-cass tickets only. local and
For detailed information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, W. A. TURK,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Charlotte N. O.
Atlanta, Ga.
C. P. HAMMOND, Atlanta, Ga.
Superintendent HASS,
W. H. GREEN, SOL.
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ua.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
toccoa orrr, ua.,
Will practioe in the oounties of Haber¬
sham end Rabun of the Northwest or?
Circuit, and Frank! m aud Banks of th<
Wert-.ro Circuit. Prompt attention wii :
be gives to all BueUeae debts entfueto&to him.
The ccllacrion of will have spoe-
uA rtUoirion.