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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL
VOLUME XX.
RICHMOND XJRNVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect Nov. 15th, 1891.
northbound. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
KASTEBX TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 8 50 pm 10 10 am
Norcrosa....... Chamblee..... 9 27 pm 10 48 am
Duluth.....;.. ....... 9 89 pm 11 01 am
Buwanee....... ....... 9 51 pm 11 15 am
Buford........ ....... 10 03 pm il 26 am
Flow .......10 17 pm 11 40 am
ry Branch .......10 31 pm 11 53 am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm 12 14 pm
Lula.......... .......11 18 pm i2 42 pm
Bellton........ .......11 21 pm i2 41 am
Cornelia....... .......11 45 pm 1 10 pm
Mt. Aliy....... .......11 50 pm 115 pm
Tocooa......... ....... 12 20 am 1 47 pm
Westminster... ....... 12 58 am 2 35 pm
8eneca........ ....... 1 17 am 2 51 pm
Easleys........ Central........ ....... 1 50 am 3 40 pm
....... 2 18 am 4 11 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 2 44 am 4 40 pm
Greers......... ....... 314 am 5 09 pm
Wellford....... ....... 3 33 am 5 27 pm
8 partanburg... 6 57 pm 3 54 am 5 62 pm
Clifton........ ....... 4 13 am 6 10 pm
Cowpens...... Gaffney....... ....... 4 18 aiu 6 15 pm
....... 4 40 am G ‘Opm
Grover......... Blacksburg..... ....... 5 01 am 7 00 pm
King’-i ....... 511 am 1 12 pm
Mount ’11 ....... 5 28 am 7 SO pm
Gastonia....... ....... 5 54 um 7 69 pm
Lowell........ ....... 6 07 am 8 12 pm
Bellemont..... ....... 6 14 am 8 23 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pmj 6 40 m 8 50 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11, No. 9,
Daily, Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 05COtOtOlOH PPPPPPPPtJPPPPPPMD&PPPSPPPP&BPDP
Bell, mont.....
L* well.........
Gastonia.......
King’s Grov< Mount’n
r.........
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... ^^CCCOCOCOOOOOOCD-^*JCOOlO»OilM^M>W03
Cowpens Clifton........ ......
W Spartanburg... Ilford........ 11 43 am
Greers......... an
Gre.-nville...... 12 36 pm
Easleys.........
Central........
Seneca......... >m
Westminster.... un
Toccoa........
Mt. Airy.......
Cornelia.......
Bellton., .....
Lula..........
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm
Flowery Branch
Buford ........
Buwanee.......
Duluth........
Nor cross......
Chi.mbleo......
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.)
Addibonal trams Nos. 17 an 1 18-Lula ao-
commiulation, daily except bundav, leaves At-
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return-
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 50
am.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex-
SrtSHjB 130 Returning .•££&'iKJKJflrS^ leave Athens, No. 10
daily, pm. Sunday, No. I2daily,
except and 6 15 p m
and'6 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 00 p m and 8 30
a in.
Between Toccoa and Elberton— No. G1 dai¬
ly; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 2 00 pm
.Sfi m
and arrives Toccoa8 80 a m.
Nos. 11 an i 12 cam- Pullman Sleepers be-
tween Washington aodEant-aa City via Binning-
ham and Memphi-t, and Nos. 9 and 10 Pullman
Sleep, r between Atlanta and New York.
Ou No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A lanta.
Nos. 87 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
e: u Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
charged Washington. first-cans On this tickets train only. an extra fare is
on
For detailed information as to local and
tlirough tune tablet, rates and with Pullman local Sleep-
iug car reservations, confer agents,
or address,
_
* PHSsTAg’t.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’1. Div.
Atlanta. Gh. Charlotte N. 0.
C. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN.
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ua.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT L.AYV
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practiee in the counties of Haber
•ham and Rabun of the Northwesterc
Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention w.il T
be given to all business entrustecPto him.
The collection of debts will have speo
ial attention.
AGAINST CIGARETTES.
Congress May be Asked to Make a Pro¬
hibitory Tax.
The A Washington dispatch of Friday says: the
ways and means committee of
house of representatives will be petition-
ed to prepare a bill invoking the pater-
nal condemnation of the government
upon the cigarette habit. Representatives
Cochran, Cummings and Stahlnecker,
of New* York, all have in their posstssion
bi Is which they have been petitioned to
introduce, providing for the suppression
of c garette manufacture by imposing thousand an
interual revenue tax of $10 per
o in »n!l this imported or domestic cigarettes
country.
LAST SAD RITES
Over the Remains of Rev. Charles
Spurgeon.
The trial funeral services over the re¬
mains of the late Rev. Charles Spurgeon
took place at 11 o’clock Thursday morn¬
ing in the Metropolitan tabernacle. The
building was literally pnektd and
janyned, thousands being unable to gain
entrance
THE IRISH BILL
Will HaTe No Show in the English Par*
li ament.
k° D don cablegram of Friday says:
The jt-v Irish county councils bill
brought will be
up in the house next Thursday.
The McCarthyites and the Parnellites
will unite in oposition to it. Mr. Glad¬
stone will be on hand to tear it to pieces.
The electoral districts are arranged on
the American gerrymandering nlsu
The Kev. b. Ziehner, of Berwick.
Penn.,awoke suddenly from a deep sleep
and found that his false teeth were miss¬
ing. He thought he felt a choking sen¬
sation. Two doctors were sent for.
They could give no relief. The ministei
gasped for breath. He bade farewell to
his family and thought he was going to
die. His little daughter soon found the
missing the teeth in a bureau drawer, when
patient at once recovered.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
Interesting Comments on the Situa¬
tion by the Reform Press.
1 he In erstate Alliance Ech > (Kansas
City, Mo.) frays: The Alliance is like th‘
little leaven which a woman took and hid
in three measures of meal till the wh le
was leavened. Its leaven.ng educational
influence will move on till it purges the
whole earih as a temple.
* * *
The Falmouth Guide (Falmouth, Ivv.)
says: The farmers’ Alliance has no quar¬
rel to pick with our merchants and other
business men who are striving to earn an
honest penny. Indeed, they are in the
same ditch along with the tarmer. Let
the farmer meet with reverses or become
chant unnecessarily burdened, and the mer¬
suffers too. Their interests are in
common. This rel ttion-hip is mentioned
to disabuse the minds of those who judge
the Farmers’ Alliance wrongly.
*
The * ★
Southern Alliance Farmer says:
It is the imperative duty of every alli-
anceman in Georgia to -taud firm just at
this time. There is nothing but a united
effort and a determined stand upon the
Ocala demands that can give us success.
The order must not be divided into fac¬
tions over men. All alliancemen are not
expected to see things alike, but don’t
let us abuse and ridicule each other be¬
cause we may differ on minor subj ets.
If we are together on the main platform
and all work to accomplish the same pur¬
pose But if we allow cannot help carry the point.
in without, we our dictate enemies, ‘to either with¬
or to us we will
fail in the end to accomplish our grand
purpose of freeing from the rule of
plutocracy the American people.
***
The Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.) says:
The Alliancemen, in their argument for
fii ancial reform, get the advocates of
the national banking system in a very
deep hole when they say that it would be
more business-like and beneficial all
r.und for this country to loan money on
its assets, instead of on its indebtedness.
This proposition does not necessarily
imply the duty of the government to loan
any ility money at all, but it makes the ab¬
sur of the present system plainly ap¬
parent. Theie are other genuine ftnan-
c j a i reformers, besides the Alliancemeu,
ho a:. this • ’
™ are pressing „ point. , They n n. take . ,
the position that if the government can
cot supply a national currency without
actually suffering a dead loss, it should
f'Owthe local banks »t.« of f issue, to re-establish which for more the than old
three-quarters of a century satisfied the
wants of the people,
*
* Ik
The Oregon Alliance Herald (Pendle-
*■>". = The government eu-
courages agriculture, every industry except that of
and then tells the farmer he
ought to be proud of the prosperity in
general, ° because when people ^ F, have lots *
0 f ne y th e y „ ___. want . lots of potatoes .
turnips, and the farmer ought
to feel grateful that he can come
j n a f, t foe tail end of the pro¬
cession and be allowed to swallow the
dust of those who are ahead of him. He
must sell where he can and for what thev
will give him. He gives the merchant
his price for what he buys, and when he
asks the merchant to look at the produce
He has for sale, does he fix the price?
No; he goes to the merchant like a
whipped hound and piteously a 9 ks him
^ take at what \ e wi is . 11 given « you; When when J™ you sell buy you
you are taxed by a tariff on everythin"
you need.
***
The Commerce Journal (Commerce,
Tex.) says: “The man who believes that
the Alliance should have nothing to do
with political questions was certainly
‘pulled green,’ and has not yet arrived at
maturiry. The axe must be laid at the
root of the tree that has nurtured a swarm
of trusts, combines and corporations that
are consuming all the profirs of labor and
leaving to the piodu*ier9 a bare subsist¬
ence while actually at work, and want
and misery when forced into idleness.
The Alliance has gone into politics with
a determination to right the wrongs of
the protective system, which has built up
one class at the expense of all other
classes. The exploiters and speculators
must go, and need not stand on the
order of their going. If the servants
cannot put them out, the master will,
The people of the United States can and
will be the masters of the situation, and
they expect to fight it out ca that line, if
it takes another decade.
**
The Southern Al iance Farmer, under
the heading, “We are an Alliance Fam-
ily,” says: The forces, though of differ-
ent names, are accumulating and adjust-
ing themselves and falling into line ready
for the grand rally and final overthrow
of the plutocratic rule. The Alliance is
an established thing, and it will make its
power known and felt in the pending
campaign. We may divide on minor
subjects, but we will unite agan
on the important is-ues of our
order, and when we meet at the ballot
box you will find the Alliance solid.
Democrats, republicans, third party men,
though divided on politics, are solid and
strong on the Alliance, and we will come
as one fraternity, one united brotherhood
with the principles of our order as laid
down in the Ocala platform, demanding
the relief that it promises and demanding
this relief,upon the firm basis upon which
all parties may stand in name, but one in
interest and sympathy, one family,though
bv different names,
***
DELEGATES TO THE ST. LOUIS MEETING.
The following is the list of delegates
from the State at large elected as repre¬
sentatives to the St. Louis Convention,
by the various state delegations. Be¬
sides these delegates there will be repre¬
sentatives from congressional districts in
every state elected by the Alliance and
labor organizaiions:
H. Tri<cy, Texas; L. P. Featherston,
Arkansas; Marion Butler, North Caro¬
lina; William Farr Goodwin, New Jer¬
sey; Colonel C. M. Butt, Wisconsin;
Alva Agee, Ohio; T. S. Adams, Lou¬
isian ; Marion Cannon, California;
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 20, 1892.
i‘- F. Livingston, Georgia; Frank
Ou k-tt, Mississippi; J. Brad B:v-
trlv, Virginia; .Matt Rhea, Tennos
L. Leona*d, Missour ; J. B. Weaver, Iowa;
M. V. Rork, Oregon; C. M. Mbxsod, New
York; Sinctair Thompson, Ponnsyl' ■ nia;
M. A. Householder, Kansas; M. G. Eizey,
Maryland; T. I. Gardner, Kentucky;
Thomag W. Force, Indiana; William
Hess, Illinois; R. A. Southworth, Colora-
<!*•; M, V. L- nnecker. Michigan; S. M.
Adams, Alabama; A. P. Ba-kin, Florida.
*
* *
THE ST. LOUIS MEETING.
The basis of representation fixed by
he execut ve committee at their meeting
» Indianapolis, I'ud., November 19, 1891,
was as follow-:
The representation iu the convention
hall be governed by tbe following rules:
1 Each of the following organizations
-1 all be entitled to twenty-five votes as
in organization:
The National Farmers’ Alliance and
Industrial Un on.
The National Farmer;?’ Alliance.
The Colored Farracs’ National Alli-
•ir ce a> d Co-operativ- Union.
The Farmers’ Mu ual Benefit Associa¬
tion.
The Knights of Lab ir.
The National Cit zens Alliance.
The National Citizens Industrial Alii
auce.
The Patrons of Husbandry.
1 he National Patrons of Industry, and
i-ueh other orgaDiza ions as may be ac¬
cepted and indorsed by the executive
committe prior to the first day of Feb¬
ruary.
2. Each of the above organizations
acting with the confederation shall be
entitled to an addional vote for each 10,-
000 voting members a: ct major faction
part thereof.
This should settle the question of rep¬
resentation, as it clearly shows that each
organization will < nly be allowed votes
according the to i s own voting strength at
polls. But each organization may
send as many men to cast that vote as
they choose. The burden of proof as to
the voting strength of each organization
will of course rest upon each delegation,
and they should have either their nation¬
al secretary present to te.-tify before the
committee or bring a cer.ideate from
him.—Economist.
***
KEEP THEM IN MIND.
The demands adopted by the confed-
» rated organzations at their meeting in
Washington last winter we reproduce b -
low, that they may be constantly kept in
mind by every member of our grand or¬
der:
1. We d< m nd the abolition of nation¬
al banks as banks of i sue. and as a sub¬
stitute for national bunk notes we de¬
mand (hat legal tender tieasury notes be
issued in sufficient volu ■ e to transact the
business of the country without damage
ing, or special advantage to any class or call¬
such notes to be legal tender in pay¬
ment of all debts, public and private,
and such notis when demanded by the
people shall be loaned to item at not
more than 2 per cent, per annum upon
non-perishable products as indicated in
the sub-treasury plan, and also upon real
estate with prop;r limitation upon the
quantity of land and amount of money.
2. We demand a free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
3. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting that alien ownership of land, and
vise Congress take prompt action to de¬
owned some plan to obtain all lands now
and by aliens and foreign syndicates,
that all lands held by railroads and
other corporations in excess of such as
is actually used and needed by them be
reclaimed by the government and held
for actual settlers only.
4. Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, we demand that taxation—na¬
tional, state or municipal—shall not be
used to bu Id up one interest or class at
the expense of another.
5. We demand that all revenues—na¬
tional, state or county—shall be limited
to the necessary expenses of the govern¬
ment, economically and honestly admin¬
istered.
6. We demand a just and equitable
.system of graduated tux on incomes.
7. We demand the most rigid honesty
and just state and national control and
supervision of the means of public com¬
munication and transportation, and if
this control and supervision does not re¬
move the abuses now existing, we demand
the government ownership of such means
of communication and transportation.
8. We demand that the congress of the
United States submit an amendment to
the constitution providing for the elec¬
tion of United States senators by the di¬
rect vote of the people of each state; also
the president and vice-president by a
popular vote. That
9. Resolved, this confederation
of industrial organizations demand that
in each state a system shall be provided
and faithiully executed that will insure
an honest and accurate registration of ail
voters, a free, fair, secret and official
bailor, and an honest public count; and
we demand that each frtatc legislature
shall make it a felony to for any im¬
proper interference with the exercise of
he registration, ballot or count.
FIFTY-EIGHT BELOW ZERO.
Terrible Tale of Ft eeziog and Starva¬
tion in Portions of Russia.
A cablegram of Friday from London
says: A dispatch from Penza, capital of a
government of that name in the south¬
western part of what is known as Great
Russia says the thermometer registers 58
degrees below zero, and there is terri¬
ble suffering among frozen the peasants. A
number of men were to death on
the high roads, and so intensely cold is
it that birds drop dead from the trees in
which they had sought shelter. None of
the children in Penza are allowed
to go to school. A quantity of grain
for the famine sufferers arrived at Penza,
bat it is impossible to distribute it among
tbe peasants in the surrounding country horses
owing to the fact that nearly all the
have been killed for food or sold to pro¬
cure money with which to buy the neces¬
sities of life. Five thousand horses were
killed in Penza aloDe, and it is estimated
that several million draught animals since have
been killed throughout the empire
autumn. Typhus fever, smallpox and
diphtheria are decimating the inhabitants
around Penza. Two hundred peasants
have died from these diseases.
OVER THE STATE.
Newsy Notes Paragraphieally
Presented.
The annual convinti -n of tbe Brother¬
hood of Locomotive Engineers will meet
in Atlanta on M iy litn. The meeting
will be held in the stite capitol. Gov¬
ernor Norihen has already granted the
use of the hall to the engineers.
* *
On Saturday the tax assessors of Co¬
lumbus completed their w >rk and squared
up their books. The result shows an
increase in the taxable property of the
city of $371,945 over that of lust year.
The total amount is $9,819,875.
The Atlanta and Florida has a receiver
at each end of the line. All the parties
interested say that this is too much of a
good thing. And the question is whose
receiver will step down: Judge Marshall
Clarke’s or Judge Emory Speer’s? The
courts will decide.
The McDuffie County exchange has as¬
signed to close business. The *sse!s are
$3,500; liabilities $3,000. Preferences,
B. M. Gross, $250; Bank of Thomson,
$200; Thom s E. Watson, $1,800; J. F.
an 1 T. W. Shields, $100; Rivers & Sta¬
pleton, $130. The exchange was owned
by the farmers of the county.
* v *
News comes fooin New York that the
01c**tt committee has finish d its report
on the terminal’s prop rties and is en¬
gaged in arranging to carry out the sug-
gtstiens which it will recommend. There
is an impression in railroad circles that
something heavy will drop when this
committee iep<>rts. Just where it will
leave the Central keeps everybody guess¬
ing.
The Old Rock college iu Athens is to
be transformed and made new under the
and beautifying touch of t ie builder’s saw
hammer. Money sufficient to do
this has already been raised, and the
work will begin in the very near future.
When the repairs needed on the building
lire completed it will be ready foi the
opening of the state normal college, es¬
tablished by the last legislature.
* * *
T. J. Fields, a farmer living in Col¬
quitt county, has received $105.23 net
returns from two bales, or 756 pounds of
long, better known as sea island cotton.
This is 14f cants per pound for one bale
and 15 cents for the other. He has
shipped thr. e more bales. Mr. Fields
says that he raised the long staple just as
easily as he could have the short. Sev¬
eral farmers who planted the latter staple
are delighted with the returns.
The regular quadriennial mail weigh¬
ing for the southern states will commence
days. on February 17th and continue thirty
This is done to fix the basis of
compensation to railroads for handling
the U* ited States mail. All the mails in
the south will ne weighed daily for thirty
days, and upon the aggregated weight of
thirty days’ mail baudkd by each rail¬
road will be based the compensations for
carrying the mails for the next four years,
whether it increases or decreases within
that time.
*
At the Tecent convention in Atlanta of
the Southern Carriage Builder’s Associa¬
tion, a telegram was read from Willard
H. Smith, chairman of the world’s fair
transportation committee, sending greet¬
ing and speaking of the enormous exhi¬
bition of carriages that they would have.
A committee was appointed to confer
with Governor Northen about having cx-
ibits there. The committee are to find
out the best way to make the exhibits;
whether they shall go in the Georgia
building or in the building set aside for
carriages.
* * *
Tha finest medical college building in
the south will be one of Atlanta’s im¬
mediate acquisitions. And its comiog
is not intended as an antagonistic ele¬
ment to anything of the kind Atlanta
now has or may ever secure. Only a more
commodious and complete building is
;he object, the same curriculum and staff
of professors Atlanta has known for the
ast decade being in the change. Over
one huudred thousand dollars will be
distributed iD the work necessary to pro¬
duce the new building. So far. con¬
tracts have been awarded for $380,000
in round figures.
* * *
An interesting suit came to an end in
the DeKalb county superior court a few
days ago. It was an old suit in which
about twelve thousand dollars was in¬
volved. El jab Clarke and others sued
Milton A. Gaudier, executor for Mrs. I.
C. Craig, to recover their father’s estate.
There were some interesting legal points
in it, and the suit was an unusual one.
The children sought to make Mr. Candler
responsible for ihe acts of a co-adminis¬
trator. The cause for action happ med
twenty years ago. Tne plaintiff recover¬
ed a verdict for $5; 000. It was one cf
the most interesting cases ever tried in
DeKalb county.
Georgia’s rolling exposition will soon
be a teality. The scheme has already
been well advertised, and promises great
things for the state. It is the idea of its
projectors to a have magnificent car built
and fitted with a variety of Georgia’s
choicest products, and place it on the
road, and carrv it through every state in
the union. The car is now being built
by the Jackfron-Sharp Company, of Wil-
limington, N. C., and will be a splendid
one. It is an elegant palace car seventy
feet in length and will be built with con-
venencies for the purpose which it is to
be used. As soon as the car is completed
it will be brought to Georgia, and loaded
with an exposition ot Georgia’s product,
and placed on the road.
* * f
Colonel E. C. Machen says that tht
Middle Georgia and Atlantic railroad will
be completed in the near future. He has
been in Savannah in conference with the
syndicate there. iron The the first mad, thing which on the
programme is to is
already graded from Macon to Coving¬
ton. Then the company will have a line
from CoviDgton, on the Georgia road; to
Eatonton, in Putnam county. T hat will
be a good start on the road, which is to
be an air-line from Covington to Savan¬
nah. The original intention was to build
an air-line from Covington to Atlanta
and save several miles on the G< orgia,
out that will not be touched u .til the
rest of the line is completed.
* * *
The Charleston News and Courier
says: Some of the enterprising citizen*?
of one of the counties i 1 Georgia have
devised a scheme 'o secure a goo I cla-s
of ’’mnii?rant fa mers and to h -lp 1'O'r
and Industrious "home people,** wTitchls
well worthy of the attention of capital¬
ists and land owners in South Carolina
who are seeking ways and means to de¬
velop their respective countie-. The
promoters of the Georgia scheme have
organized a company with a cap'tai
stock of $50,000, subscriptions to which
are to be paid in land or money, The
farming company’s plan is to purchase good
propeity and divide it into one-
hundred-acre farms, on each of which “a
comfortable residence” will be built and
such improvements made as will enable a
tenant or purchaser to begin active farm¬
ing operations as soon as he takes pos¬
session.
* * *
Some time since the Macon Telegraph
mailed inquiiies to all the cotton raising
counties iD Georgia asking for estimates
on cotton acreage for the present year.
Replies were rec ived from a large ma¬
jority of these corresondents, and the re¬
sult was published in Sunday’s paper.
The replies indicate a general reduction
of fscreage devoted to cotton throughout
the stale of about 20 per cent as compar¬
ed with the crop of last year. The acre¬
age devoted to cotton heretofore will be
this yet r planted iu corn, wheat, peas
and other food crops. Tobacco culture
will also claim attention from Georgia
farmers, and in some couuties where ex¬
periments have proven successful, a large
crop will be planted.
* * *
Macon Will Get the Fair.
The St;:te Agricultural Society will
probably return to Macon, its first love,
for which all tbe members seem to have
a lingering fondness. This was virtually
dec ; ded at the last meeting of the execu¬
tive committee. The report of the sub¬
committee recommending Columbus was
presented to the executive committee,
but the idea seemed to be that Columbus
was too far away. So, after considerable
discussion, in which there was nothing of
bitterness, it was decided first of all that
a fair should be held next fall.
Then the question of a location was
taken up. The premium committee was
appointed to begin negotiations with
Macon looking toward the holding of the
fair there, and to decide on
Macon if the 1 ark could be
secured under the terms of the old con¬
tract and without uniting with the Macon
Georgia Fair and Exposition Company.
If such ariangements could not be made
the committee was authorized to select
some other location. The gentlemen from
Macon assured the committee that the
city would no doubt be quite willing to
renew the contract, and then the meeting
adjourned, the members to meet again
very shortly to renew negotia'ions with
the city and get to bury that $10,000
suit. Griffin was selected as the next
place of meeting.
IN RYAN’S BEHALF
A Circular is Sent to All Sub-Alliances
in Georgia.
The latest development in the Ryan
case is a movement to interest the farm¬
ers of Georgia in his behalf. A call has
made on the Farmer’s Alliance of the
siaie to enter their piotest against the
imprisonment of Stephen A. Ryan, and
at the same time sign a petition asking
the governor to interfere in the prisoner’s
behalf. Mr. Larry Gantt, former editor
of the Southern A1 iance Farmer, is the
mover in the matter, and he has prepared
the following printed circular:
To The Alliance of Georgia. )
Watkinsville, Ga., Feb. 2. (
There now languishes in the Fulton
county jail, Mr. Stephen A. Ryan, a
young man whose only crime is that he
has not the means to pay the debt de¬
manded by the courts. Mr. Ryan is a
victim of that barbarous and brutal law
—we thought wiped from the statute
books of the state of Georgia—imprison¬
ment for debt. His fate to-day may be
your fate to-morrow. Steve Ryan is the
first martyr, but unless tbe people rise in
their majesty and place the brand of con¬
demnation npon the ruling of our courts
of law, a felon’s cell awaits every debtor
in Georgia.
Now, I call upon every free-born Geor¬
gian, of who this is opposed to law, the re-enact¬
ment outrageous to at once
sign and send a petition to Governor
Northen expressing their condemnation
of this ruling by our courts, and asking
that he at once release Mr. Ryan from
prison, as our governor is the only power
that can now save him. Lose no time,
brethren, in signing your petitions. For¬
ward them to me at Watkinsville,
Ga., and they will be promptly
presented. Remember that you are not
doing this for Steve Evan, but to rebuke
a dreadful precedent that is forging fes¬
ters for the thousands of poor debtors in
Georgia for whom our jails are gaping,
unless they get relief. Act promptly, for
the petitions should be in by the first of
March. Call your alliance together and
get to the petition every signature you
can. Yours fraternally,
T. L. Gantt.
There are 2,340 sub-Alliances in Geor¬
gia. and Mr. Gantt believes that the pe¬
titions will average forty names from
each Alliance. This will give a list of
one hundred thousand farmers who will
make an appeal to Gov. Northen in Mr.
Ryan’s behalf.
OPPOSED TO AMERICAN SILVER
As a Substitute- Anti-Silver Men Talk
on the Subject.
A Washington dispatch says: Senator
Teller, in view of the talk last year,
which has been to some extent renewed
this year, about a compromise of the sil¬
ver question on the basis of the American
product, saw a number of leading sena¬
tors, Friday, with the view to ascertain¬
ing the feeling on the senate side. He
found that many leading republicans little were
opposed to it, and that it had very unlimited
support coinage. from men opposed Sherman, to Merrill
free Messrs.
and Allison, members of the finance com¬
mittee, authorize the use of their names
as more opposed to this proposition than
absolute free coinage.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun & Co/s Report of Trade for the
Past Week.
Business-failures occurring throughout
the cou try during the week ended Feb.
12, as reported t" R G. Dun & Co.,
Dumber tor the Luited States 235 L*un-
ada 41, total 270, agaii st 319 the week
previ -us. Silver and cotton have de-
clined yet further, the l itter to 7 3 16
cents, the lowest price for many years,
and silver bullion to 41 pence at London,
the low* st p ice ever recorded, though
there followed a slight recovery to
41$. Cotton receipts and exports have
both been much lar er tha t a yeai
ago, stocks on hand decreased but
slowly and i»re very large, and spec¬
ulative sales for the week have been 932,-
000 b:d< s Wheat declined 1 1-8 on sales
of 46.( 00,000 bushels, exports beiDg se-
riou-ly diminished, and corn has fallen
1$ cents on sales of 15,000.000 bushels,
western receipts beiug unusually large.
Lard and hogs were somewhat stronger.
Exports of products from New York fall
a little below those of the same week last
year, but shipments from other points
continue very large.
TIIE IRON MARKET.
The production of pig iron is aboul
stationary, amounting February 1st to
188,333 tons against 188,028 January 1st,
and 146,' 50 a year ago. The stocks of
charcoal iron are substantially unchanged,
and unsold stock of anthracite are a lit¬
tle frmaller than a month ago, but the
stocks of coke iron are considerably lar¬
ger, so that consumption does not appeal
quite up to the enormous supply. Ne
change appears in the market for pig
iron, and rails are in small demand at
fair prices.
A GENERAL IMPROVEMENT.
Peports from various cities indicate g
general delphia improvement the dry goods in trade. At Phila¬
trade is quite en¬
couraging, and business in groceries is
generally satisfactory, but very little is
being done in wool, and other lines are
quiet and without change. The pros¬
pects at Baltimore are much brighter,
with a decided improvement in leather,
shoes and harness. Better accounts also
come from the south. At Louisville
trade has improved; at Nashville it is
very fair; at Memphis light, but improv¬
ing, and at Montgomery increasing. At
New Orleans business in all lines is
only fair, but there is a s ight improve¬
ment in cotton, and sugar is firm and
active with points light receipts. Nearly all the
southern report an easier money
market and more hopeful prospects.
The Leasury continues to lese geld,
and has caused some embarrassment dur¬
ing the week by refusing to supply do¬
mestic exchange except upon actual de¬
posits of gold, but it has put out $281,-
000 more money of all kinds than it has
taken in. With the much reduced rev¬
enue and large disbursement required by
appropriations, with the treasury is not in
shape to bear ea e the strain which
financial vagariei in congress might put
upon it, but confidence is felt that no
measure calculated to do harm can be
passed over a veto. Meanwhile, the dan¬
ger of accumulation in excess of public
needs is illustiated by the furious specu¬
lation in stocks and cotton, which may
vet result in som * difficulty.
SENSATIONAL STATEMENTS
Which Places Some Leading Alliance*
men in a Compromising Position.
The Chicago Inter Ocean published
Widnisday a two-column expose of
what that paper claims as a scheme
whereby the N <tional cordage trust,
tlirough connivance with a num
ber of leading Alliance officials, is at¬
tempting to get cont’ol not only of a'lthe
present alliance stores in the country, but
4,000 tdditional ones the trust propose,
starling. Statements are made by D. M.
Fullwiler, business agent for the alliance
m Illinois; E. E. Whipple, of the
Whipple harrow, St. J< hns, Michigan,
and William Deering and Sons, of
Chicago, that place certain prom¬
inent alliance leaders in a compromising
position. It is claimed that the National
Union Company is preparing to capture
the St. Louis conference on the 22d and
get an endorsement. This will be strong¬
ly opposed by many alliancemen and
some of the strongest papers in the
organization whom the National Union
people could nut control. A special-re¬
po* t from Dun’s rgency is published
showing that on October 28, 1891, the
company had not made a satisfactory
showing. H. II. Balch, the president,
is charged with being a former lobbyist
f r the National Cordage Company at
Washington.
NUNNALLY INDICTED
As a Party to the Murder of Dr. and
Mrs. Barrett.
It was rumored on the streets of Griffin,
Ga., Friday night that true bills had been
found by the grand jury against W. W.
Nunnally, Jerry Holt and Sam Kendall,
for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. M.
Barrett. When it was known for a cer¬
tainty that true bills had been found, in
view of their not having been returned,
it was deemed best not to mention the
fact, lest some one be placed under the
censure for the act. What the evidence
was on which the indictments were found
is, of necessity, withheld, but it comes
from good authority that it is of a most
reliable source, and damaging in point of
fact. These cases will not come up at
the present term of court, but will very
likely be heard in March at an adjourned
term of court.
SARA IS CRAZY.
A Woman Who has Gained Considerable
Notoriety.
A San Francisco dispatch of Monday
says: Mrs. 8ara Althea Terry, widow oi
Judge Terry, and, previous to her mar¬
riage to Terry, of Sharon divorce suit
notoriety, has become violently insane.
LOTTERY MEN IN LIMBO.
Arrested Under Indictments for Vio¬
lation of Anti-Lottery Law.
A New Orleans dispatch s *ys the lot¬
tery officials were placed under arrest
Tuesday under the indictment found by
the Boston grand jury charging violation
of the anti lottery postal law.
NUMBER 7
THE FARMER’S BOY.
Bright, hopeful, with earnest eyes.
And heart that knows as yet no guile,
To titled rank thou mayest rise,
Be not so happy, then, thy smile,
A longing oft may seize thine hear^
To go beyond these fertile fields,
And take in that great world, apart
Where gold a mighty sceDtre wields,
In fancy, as through meadows green
Thy faithful plowshare turns the sod,
The furrows stretch away, I ween,
To paths the world’s great men have trod.
The jaded horse, unheeded now,
Pursues his own unerring way.
As back and forth he draws the plow,
Throughout the weary hours of day.
Uprising from the fallow soil,
In lovely vision, it would seem,
Thyself revered, and freed from toil.
Thou seest in a fairy dream.
The world applauds, men bow the knee
With gold thy well filled coffers shin*
To wisdom’s stores thou hast the key.
And all the joys of earth are thine.
Ab, happy dream 1 which naught reveals
Of vexing cares or many a wound
From Envy’s shafts that be oft feels
Whom fortune hath with honors crowned,
Could this bright dream of bliss remain,
Were thy desires fulfilled to-day,
Oft thou wouldst long to turn again
And through these fragrant meadows stray,
—Marion Juliet Mitchell.
PITH AND POINT. i
Sheet music—Snores.
A thing of beauty is a joy until you
marry it.—Epoch.
The farmer who hides his light under
a bushel incurs the risk of needing a new
barn.—Lowell Mail.
In these days of chemical science the
assassin has often found that blood will
tell.—Lowell Courier.
The man who never give9 up misses
the answers to some awfully good con*
undrums.—Elmira Gazette.
Upon For the pole did Bruin sit )
And long hours at a tim*?,
sadly sing of woes that cling
About a foreign climb.
Tommy—“Look out for that cow!”
Willie (from the city)—“Why? Is she
going to blow her horn?”—Chicago
Tribune.
“Papa, why do we wish people a ‘good
appetite,’ but not a ‘good thirst?’” “Be¬
cause that isn’t necessary.”—Fliegende
Blaetter.
Big bats can never be “all the rage”
at the theatre. Fellows who don’t weai
V:m will always hold a big percentage of
the rage.—Truth.
Jess—“George says my voice is of
well-seasoned timber.” Bess—“How
could he tell—by the cracks in it?”—
New York World.
“It is more blessed to give than to
receive,” but there arc many excellent
things to be said in favor of receiving.—
Philadelphia Record.
The best evidence as to the shortness
of the average man's memory is that po¬
litical prophets’ reputations endure from
year to year .—Somerville Journal.
Mrs. Grey neck—“Oh, Pm so tired I
I’ve been shopping all day long.” Mr.
Greyueck—“I suppose you spent the ten
I gave you this morning?” Mrs. Grey-
neck—“Every penny of it.” Mr. Grey-
neck— “What did you get?” Mrs.Grey-
neck—“Oh, I didn’t get a thing; it all
went for car-fares.”—Boston Courier.
In Ireland, recently, a quarrel had
taken place at a fair, and a culprit was
being sentenced for manslaughter. The
doctor, however, had given evidence to
show that the victim’s skull was abnorm¬
ally thin. The prisoner, on being asked
if he had anything to say for himself,
replied: “No, yer honor; but I would
ask, was that a skull for a man to go to
a fair wid?”—Argonaut.
Kingley—“Say, old man, I have a
great scheme for getting ahead of my
wife, and it may do you some good. I
go to her dressmaker and tell her to
charge twice as much as she ordinarily
would. Then I stand in for the differ¬
ence, and my wife doesn’t dare buy half
the gowns she otherwise would.” Bingo
—“Yes, I tried that plan.” Kingley—
“How did it work?” Bingo—“Tht
dressmaker is suing me for the full
amount.”—Cloak Review.
Juvenile Purchasers.
One of the most striking features in
the poorer regions of the city is the
early age at which children are made
useful to the household. In my rambles
about town I have seen children—puny,
undersized children, too—of four and
five years of ago carrying milk, meat,
groceries, etc., having just performed
that part of the family marketing. Step
into any of the Seventh avenue butcher
shops, bakeries or groceries and you will
almost invariably see children of from
four to eight years old purchasing fam¬
ily supplies. I have seen children whose
eyes were still on a level with the
butcher’s chopping block buying five
cents’ worth of odds and ends of meat
for the family stew and paying for it in
pennies carefully counted out into the
butcher’s big brown hands—pennies
hard earned, no doubt, One time the
child couldn’t talk distinctly enough for
the man to understand.
“How much money you got?” he
asked.
The little thinly clad tot opened a
chubby and very dirty fist and displayed
four cents. Whereupon the butcher, his
diamond pin sparkling in the rays of his
bright cleaver, scooped in the pennies
and chopped her (or him) off a fragment
of bones and gristle and threw in a
chunk of fat.
“Small?” said he, in response to my
comment. ‘‘These children commence
running errands as soon as they can
walk. At six and seven the girls do the
marketing and keep house, while the
boys sell papers and play craps. Porter*
house, sir?”—New York Herald.
A Pennsylvanian was cured of -the
effects of a snake bite by the application
of a galvanic battery to the nape of bis
neck and the apex of the heart.