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XXII.
INTERESTING
VJUii 1 £f0 1 1
THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR FREE
• SILVER 32,052 TO 1,783.
The United States Should Furnish
Their Own Money, Says The
New York Mercury.
It was regarded all over the United States
! as a v ‘ :r y daring, even foolhardy, undertak-;
ing, when The Mercury announced that it
proposed to test the sense of the people of
New York City and Brooklyn upon the ques¬
tion:
Bhall the United States Government open
'its mints to tti<* fre<- coinage of silver without
(waiting for agreement with Groat Britain or
juuy :ig other 1? European nation, and at a ratio of
to
Such stalwart advocates of the rehabilita-
ftiou of silver as the Atlanta Constitution in
Ithe South and the Cincinnatti Enquirer ip
|the ballot West thought be disastrous that the result of such a
must to the cause of free
■silver. *
But the editors of these journals, and of
other newspapers throughout (he country
•lid not know tho people of New York and
'failed to appreciate their understanding of
the evils that have been brought upom them
through the demandizatiou of silver.
No one 10111 read the letters which have
been published daily in The Mercury, under
f°ut jthe heading, becoming “What deeply the Motets Say.” with*
in which the impressed with the
> ;th« wa y situation, workingmen have grasped,
and the intelligence which they
ihavo shown in advocating free silver coinage
■as tie- tl<- t thing t<> lx m-compUshed fortheir
J lie Mercury has not solicited a single vote
U v'.'tes'wid.’h
Th. have I....... sent in by tens
|und haw fifties, been and in some cases by hundreds,
gathered together by men who
jas ““.ns sees £
to secure the vote of a friend upon the
ballot printed therein.
The Wt testimony to this statement is the
F - *>«“<"*. »<
The ballots for fm; coinage in your con-
test ur«- astonishingly numerous, considering
loin-5"v" a.Mini method?-to gut l y ,v votes. 7 ,ot ’;7 II someone ortod to thw m
-a.-li of th«? country towns of New York had
Itaken even tin- little trouble I have gone to
■in asking people to vote, your total in this
;Ntute alone would easily have been greater
than it will now be for all the States in the
Union. Sixty-live qunliiied voters in this
• own have personally written their ballots
(or fret- coinage, and the same have been for-:
Warded to you. Every man is a voter and an
intelligent citizen, and quite a number are
leading merchants, manufacturers and farm¬
ers. I think I may well way well done, Clin¬
ton! amt add that ex-Colloetor Magone did
hot speak rightly for Clinton, at least, when
he told The Mercury that the Democrats in
Northern New York take no interest in the
silver question. t
But by far the larger proportion of the*
votes have come in one at a time in an envel¬
ope, with a two-cent stamp on the envelope,
sometimes accompanied by a letter, but gen¬
erally y not.
So far as space would permit we have pub¬
lished these letters from day to day, follow¬
ing tho announcement of the vote, but when
so many were received seme had to be left
out.
The Mercury believed that it voiced the
demands of the people in advoentingthe free
coinage of silver, but it did not know it
until this ballot was taken.
Tbe result > • astonishing when it is re¬
membered that no effort was made to induce
people to vote. It is more astonishing that
so few people voted in the negative.
Here is the result of five weeks’ voting on
the silver question:
Question: Shall the United States Govern-
men! open it - minis t«. the free coinage of
silver without waiting for agreement with
Great Britain or any other European nation,
and at a ratio of 16 to 1?
No.
New York City and Brooklyn 396
New York State ^
Connecticut....... 161
Massachusetts ... 103
'Now Jersey....... 158
Pennsylvania 107
Maryland. I>. ^
Washington, C 116
Ohio........... 59
(Georgia.......... 37
Tennessee..... 'ji
’Alabama ........
Virginia ........... 21
Arkansas ........ 13
Kentucky.......... *9
Mississippi........
.Louisiana........ 2
Indiana ......... 13
Illinois............ 22
West Virginia..... d
Florida..........
Nebraska........ 7
Iowa ...... 11
Michigan....... ®
Kansas............
California......... 5
Washington....... 2
Oregon........... 1
Delaware.........
Now Hampshire ... jj
Maine.......... ti
Texas ............ 2
Wisconsin....... ?
Vermont Rhi?Ae ........ s
Island.. 7
Missouri ........ 4
-North Carolina.... 2
South Carolina 2
Idaho ..... ...... ‘V ■ • 14 0
Colorado ........ 32 0
W vemiitg....... 21
North Dakota .... 5 q
South I >akot«.. . 24 <V
Nov la ... 3 0|
Utah ........... 13 0 o’
Arizona........... 1
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Fotals 32.052 1,783
If any newspaper in this town questions
tbe genuineness of tb s vote let it start a
siniitinr vote and give a fair count.—New
York Mercury.
MISS FLAGLER KILLED A BOY.
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The Lady Insists She Dhl Not Mean
to Kill Him.
At Washincton.D.C. Miss Elizabeth Flagler, V
paughter flaiurhter ol of Brigadier Brigadie- General General Daniel D«ni«w.
Flagler, chief of ordinance. U. S. A., shot
and killed a colored youth named Ernest
(i r »niriiftm«w l i(»i,vfAl stealing fmit «t
fhesubari.in l'-idem , i t . , of fh-. L r fa.her on Fri-
day and was discharged by the coroner this
evening on the ground that the homicide
was unintentional.
The shooting has caused a deeideti sensa-
tion in Washington.
Dissatisfaction in looks and manner, rath-
er than speech, was expressed by the colored
people iu waiting .when the result of thein-
quest was made known. There was little
out-spoken comment but among tbe colored
people muttering- of discontent at the result
showed the sentiment of disapproval. belon Then
ts some talk of bringing the matter
the grand jury despite the verdict.
There seems to be an epidemic of suieide
in London; in one day ten persons killed
i hemseivee.
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Nebraska's apple crop State. this year is the
largest ever raised in the
The Toccoa News.
BIG INSURANCE FRAUB8.
A Sensational Trial of Prominent Peo¬
ple at Morehead City.
A special from Morehead City says :
Tbe third day of the sensational trial
for conspiracy in life insurance was
devoted to proving the physical and
financial condition of Charles Arthur,
one of the alleged victims. If the
evidence of the prosecution is not re¬
butted Arthur is proved to have been
a pauper and almost a living skeleton.
Fraud is proved by the evidence as it
stands, but as yet there is no proof of
conspiracy.
W. L. Arendell was put on the stand
Wednesday morniDg. He testified that
diaries Arthur was a walking skeleton
aud the nearest to a dead naan he ever
saw alive. The Justice said this did
not show conspiracy and further evi-
deuce was ruled out.
It is a matter of record that Arthur
was a pauper and received $2 a mouth
from the county fund, and that he was
nn object of charity for the citizens of
Morehead City and Beaufort.
Dr. L. W. Perkins, the last man ar-
rested, is mayor of Newport and ex-
town constable of Morehead City. At
the beginning of this season Perkins
was in charge of the police department
of the Atlantic Hotel. Here and in
Beaufort people are discussing the
sensational arrests, but seem to with¬
hold their opinions until all the evi¬
dence lias been brought out. They
say prominent citizens should not be
condemned as guilty of these dark
crimes until strong proof has been of-
fered. The prosecution claims to have
Hus proof. Tho attorneys for the de-
fence say there has been no evidence
to h prove conspiracy and as ‘ yet no case
°l be e " “**«£■
Un . “ie 1 fourth day of . tho sensational
cases of conspiracy to defrand insur-
,in r comp ‘"r *■*• «’*?•»“ bro U8 ' it
out was m the llne that . of , the
day before, but was much more explicit
and conclusive. Fraud was proved con-
datively ^he in one case after another.
following shows, first, the actual
nges; second, the age named in the
policy, and third, the real / physical ,*
condltlo » of , the ,, parties ,. named below, .
who were all insured for good amounts:
Hattie A. Davis, first 70, second 40:
condition condition, infirm inhrm.
^rah M. Gabriel, very old, 45;
infirm.
Shepard Davis, first 70, second 76;
infirm,
Emma J. Casey, first 70, second 50;
infirm.
Melissa Gurhtir, first 70, second 50;
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John Boyd, physical wreck.
\\ m. J. Bice, said to be good risk,
lunatic.
Mary A. Longhurst, first 65, second
55; poor health.
Wm. H. Jones, good risk, consump-
tion.
Sarah A. Lewis, first over 60, sec-
ond 19.
Rosanna Washington, first 60, sec¬
ond 35; laid up with rheumatism.
. Samuel Windsor, first 85, second 58;
infirm.
Thomas Davis; consumptive.
Florence Chadwick, in very bad
health.
The prosecution attempted to prove
that the money received on the benefit
paid at the death of Wigfall was divid-
ed between lour relatives of Hie dead
man, and that these four relatives in¬
sured n man in Hie last stages of con-
sumption eleven days before death,
sweating that he was a good risk, that
the insurance agent in Beaufort ct rli-
lied til at Wigfall was a “good risk. ”
Most of the day was taken up by
wrangles between counsel as to the
admission ... of c. testimony. . A , large ,
mini-
ber of letters, affidavits, applications
for insurance policies, etc., were ad-
mitted and seven of the hundred wit-
ness s were examined orally. The
court room was filled with interested
listeners.
The trial of the alleged conspirators
was on Friday continued until Wed-
nesday morning by agreement of the ;
the counsel. On Thursday proof of
' rand was presented iu testimony of
'fitnesses not directly interested. On
Friday some of the very parties whose
jives were fraudulently insured testi-
tied on the stand to the frauds com-
mitted. Apparent forgeries were shown
jn odo ease after another aud several
fraudulent applications were intro-
Bleed
BOATING TRAGEDIES.
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Fatal Ending of a Sunday Pleasure
Sail in Jamaica Bay.
The sloop yacht Ella S. ol the Excelsior
Boat Club, started out Sunday evening for a
sail in Jamaica Bay. N. Y., with a party of
five on board. They were John Strand. Sr.,
l!? ____ S| ,To T < ' tin dr t George and Andrew,
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and Arthur Hemmingway. Shortly before
3 o'clock, when off the foot of Nmetv-third
•street, a squall, which preceded a heavy
shower, stmek the little cruft ’ansiziiii: it
Strand and his sons Andrew and George
mm&sm
rowers sloop: re-=.‘u«d the'hr.v men .vho cUxng gw to
the 1 "
two biotbeu mcwwb,
A special from Booth Bay Harbor, Me
!gayS: F . R. Robinson, aged thirty, and R. S.
Robinson, aged twenty-four, brothers, were
drowned Saturday afternoon. They were
summering at O an Point and came here in
a small sail boat Not returning home, aq
investigation was made, and Frank's body
was found in the harbor. The body of Rich 1
aid has not yet beeu recovered. It is thought
the boat was capsized during a squall.
ovebiirseb is a oijrm,
F F F»H«r 'e and Timothv Swe^nev afterl while
^,7^7..,;^. th .r/.L N agara -V river s..^ll Sunday
l,v » nn.l the'
bo»t was capsized. Both were drowned and
their bodies " went over the fails
axoihek DxrLoiuELE affair.
John Hartman. Jos. Whitkev and Alexan-
der Whitkev, the infant son of the latter,
tbe capsizing of his yacht sSdav Sunday evening.
Mrs. Hartman and her seven-year-old son,
who were also m the boat, were saved,
Jacob Schaefer, the great billiard player,
r ecently broke his arm.
TOCCOA. GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1895.
KILLED BY A GLODDBDHST
Most Serious Flood in the History oi
New Mexico,
SOCORRO ALMOST DESTROYED.
Sixteen Persons Lost Their Lives in IVeleh.
boring Villages—One Hundred Fami¬
lies Left Homeless and Destitute-
Crops In the Arroya Valley Ruined —
A Chureli and a Convent Undermined,
The late flood at Socorro and vicinity was
the most serious in the history of New Mexi-
co. Sixteen persons lost their lives at Cuba
and Chihuahua.
The storm began with a downpour of rain
at 2 p. in., and after two hours of terrific
rainfall a cloudburst struck the mountain I
about five miles above Socorro, and in less i
than half au hour after dark gigantic waves.
bringing bricks, mud and debris, took their
destructive course through the streets. The
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THE DESTROYED TOWN. SOCORRO.
bridges and at least a mile of the grade ol
the Magdalena Branch of the Santa Fe Rail¬
road were washed away, and some damage
resulted to tho main line south of the city.
Of several houses which stood near tha
channels of the Arroya, not a vestige is left.
Many adobe houses in different parts ol the
city have fallen. Water entered the Catho¬
lic Church, and the Convent of the Sacred
Heart was undermined. |
None of the business portion of the city is
injured, but not a dwelling house escaped
some damage. Many of the citizens have
lost everything, and at least 100 families are
homeless. The city waterworks are partly
swept away, and a water famine will follow
the flood, as it will take a week or ten days 1
to repair the damage.
Tlie loss of life among the Mexican resi¬
dents was estimated at thirteen. The father
and five children of Ignacio Duran were,
drowned. His wife attempted to escape
wit !i their three-months’-old baby. The tor¬
rent tore it from her arms and dashed it;
against a barb-wire fence, and she saw it
perish. Two other bodies were picked up, ;
bruised beyond recognition. Mrs. Munsey,
an American woman, and her five-year-old
girl could not be found, and five Mexicans
were missing.
There were many narrow escapes. C. T.
Brown rode his horse shoulder deep in the,
current aud rescued the family of J. H. Hil¬
ton. as their house was falling above theiri
head
Manuel Padilla, the City Marshal, carried
a sick man through water up to his neck to
a place of safety.
E. !\r. Keller breasted the torrent and
rescued a woman as she was being swept
by.
Mrs. Frank Myers, in carrying her sick
mother fo a place of safety, was badly lacer¬
ated while holding to a barb-wire fence, and
her mother was badly injured.
Many acres of the fruit aud the grain crop
hundred were destroyed, and for the first time in the
there years’ settlement of Socorro County
will be a crop failure. The total loss
iu Socorro and the immediate vicinity will
far exceed $100,000. A mass meeting of
citizens was held, and measures were taken
for the immediate relief of the destitute.
The villages of San Pedro. San Antonio and
a settlement adjacent to Socorro were also,
visited by the flood.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
The Athens, Ga., knitting mill has started
The capacity is 2,500 pairs of hose per
The Georgia negro Baptist Sunday school
advised negroes to stay away
Africa.
The three principal silver organizations in
have agreed upon consolidation
a non partisan basis.
Miss M. G. McClelland, the well-known
writer, died at her home. Elm Cottage, near
orwood ! Nelson county Ya., Friday.
ar^vrith mmde? inVe^t
degree for the killing of the Meeks family,
brought in a verdict of guilty.
The number of American vessels officially
reported as lost during the fiscal year ended
June 30. 1895, comprised 85 steam vessels aud
276 sailing vessels, barges, etc.
The collector of internal revenue for the
district of Florida reports the values of cigar
SSSraw/ttuteSm?'* montn ot July to be $44,569.55. S
Democratic county conventions in Kansas
have generally selected delegates to the State
silver convention at Pertles Springs next
Tuesday, favoring a 16 to 1 ratio.
To show the great development of milling
interests in North Carolina it may be stated
that between Durham and Charlotte there
is not a railway station at which some new
factory * is not being built or an old one en-
Martha Grav, _ colored, , , living . on tne . Kenan
near Portland. Ala., locked her two-
year-old child in her cabin anti went to a
frolic, She returned in the evening to find
the cabin in ashes and the charred remains
of her child in the middle of them. This is
‘ 0S ‘ “* *"
Exhibits for tbe Cotton States and
SearSSrSfthe'Exhibit ment Buildimr i- narri-uiarlv haveteenreceivS active Sever-
" Are rnfw ^The i-em~ p av^xh!bit nf’ .t nthrdnvernmeni h thl
f Bnildinc *‘edob. \ famo^ vSs
0 -at models re^nt of fire^un, of
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Indian Scare Petering A Out.
A dispateh from Market Lake, Utah, dated
Thilrs3av states that there has been nn er>- ‘
-i* 1015 Ior ttie P^'- tew da , Y Wlt -be Inwiac3
s “
b ut that l he ^‘Alers are in a state of constant
a,arni , ' T be t )° 0 ' 8 u °7 oa the gf oand a - r ®
expect-e.1 1 to 1 hold K 1 the srtuation well ] in hand
settled 6e -Jers * w who h have nn^a do wa.umgmay wbere imlivldual ue a.-
tacked.
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Accidental Suicide.
Victor Vietor Malnati, Malnati. a a fifteen-year-old fifteen-vear-old boy, bev, liv- liv-
ing *> at Washington, D. C., met his death Sat-
urday morning . . by hanging. . It is . ... twfieved .
that in exercising on a trapeze a rope became
coiled around his neck, and in endeavoring ufitnhe
to extricate himself, it puiled tighter
was strangled.
A VICTORY FOR LABOR.
The "Wages of 100,000 Miners to be In¬
creased After October 1.
The biggest victory ever made by organiz¬
ed labor was won Saturday in Pittsburg, Pa.
by the miners. Almost every demand was
granted and the operators gave a written
guarantee for their fulfillment of the con¬
tract. The papers were signed to-night
ivhioh increase the wages of 100,000 miners
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
The terms are that the present rate of
wages shall continue in force until October
t when every operator in the Pittsburg dis-
(net will pay the sixty-mne cent rate with a
differential of live cents in favor of opera¬
tors who do not have company stores, Tbe
igresment further provides for another ad¬
vance on January 1. It is understood that
the rate will then be made 79 cents.
The Mingo Iron and Steel Company, Min¬
go Junction, O., also signed the Amalgamat¬
ed scale for the 1,200 men in the steel plant.
Phe scale for the iron mill which employs
BOO men was signed some time ago.
Stole One Ride Too Many.
Frank G. Kent, a vouDg white boy of 1J
was run over and killed by a freight train oa
the Savannah. Florida and Western Railroad
near Savannah, Ga. lie was trying to steal
a ride aud lost his hold.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
First Examination of Government
Printers Under Civil Service Rules.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
The first examination of applicants for ap¬
pointment as compositors in the Government
Printing Office, siuee the employes of that
establishment were placed under civil service
U ■rules, is now being held. There are more
j n two ,__, hundred ... applicants, ,. . and , it ., will
take tho rest of the week to cofhplete the ex¬
amination of them all. Those who get the
required percentage will be placed on <he
eligible list and appointed when there are j
vacancies or when more help is needed at the
G. P. O. Judging from their talk the
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“comps ’who j have taken the examination . j
are not overburdened with admiration for j
the wisdom displayed by the questions asked. !
^One of them, who had wide experience both ‘
^n newspaper and job offices, and who is cre-
'ditedby all who know him with being a first-
Jclass all-around printer, being equally at
home when setting type, making up or read¬
ying proof, was asked what he thought of the
jquestions Iplied: asked at the examination. He re-
“Some of them were good, calculat¬
ed to show whether a man had the knowl¬
edge every first-class printer should have?
but others were, iu my opinion, absolute rot,
jdealing with matters having no connection
with any of the practical branches of the
fcraft with which I am acquainted.”
‘from • A business man who has just returned
a trip through Florida says: “There 1
jis revolution, intense interest und in Florida over of the Cuban! 1 ,
every scrap news from
’the tne seat seat of ot war war is is eagerly eagerly sought sought for for and and
read with avidity. Everybody down there
fcot isympathizes with tile Cubans, and if it were
lor toar or Cole Sam's mterterenco X
believe l that 10,000 young and daring spirits
would. l©tivG the Stctte &t ti d£ty s notice to help
the Cubans in their struggle for liberty.”
VIGILANT WON THEGOELKTCUP.
Defender Forced to "Withdraw on Ac¬
count of a Broken Gall'.
At Newport, 1!. I., the Vigilant won the
Goelet cup for sloops on Saturday because
the Defender was forced to withdraw from
the race within half a doz n milos of the fin¬
ish on account of a t roken gaff. But for
this accident, the Vigilant would probably
have been nine minutes or more behind the
Defender.
So far as practical the result of the race
only reiterated wliat everybody knows, that
the Defender is the fastest light weather boat
ever built in America. She out-pointed tho
Vigilant iu the beat to windward which was
the first leg of the course and gained much
more on her during the second leg. a run
dead before the wind, a course supposed to
. , f , \ undertook 1
str'dh p ut ac , t a t p new vessel a
(orh™, wUh ™,v 0 1-2 mil™ of tho
entire 3« to cov ?r. her hollow gaff snapped ia
two and she was compelled to give up.
DEFENDER BEATS VIOILA3T.
Tlie run of the New York Yacht Club from
Newport was made in a stiff southwest wind
on Saturday. Defender was the winner over
Vigilant by about nine minutes. Jubilee did
not race. Constellation was winner in ihe
first-class schooners.
COXEY THE NOMINEE.
Vhio Ohio Populists Pnnulkt« Protp«t Protest Against Awalnst Fusion Fusion
"With any Other Party. " j
At Columbus,tiiePopulist State Convention
Prirtav nominated Jacob R novev " of t
! Sta, The k , .or Inform Governor, reaffirms an* a the «U principles ticket. of j
j
*>n a cash basis; free and unirmited cionage
of silver; nationalization of |public monop-
olies- denounces interest bearing bonds;
(denounces process in Debs’ case as subver-
Wive of rights of trial by jury; favors the law j
'mauds against payment of any debt in gold; de-
the immediate abolishment of national
Nnkf; Kill. favors a per diem service pension
As to State affairs, the platform demands
the referendun plan: reduced salaries; tax
regulation of coal screens; eight
hour dav; opposes fusion with other parties;
favors election of all officers. State and
national, "control bv liquor direct vote of the people; State
of traffic without profit; and
endorses union labor.
Weekly "Weekly Cotton Cotton Statistics. Statistics.
Following Following pniiowinfr are ar» are the the the Liverpool L..-.pool r we-nool weekly week!y weeiuj cotton cotton cotton \
jtatistics: itatistics: Total Total sales sales of of the the week week 52,000, 52,000, ;
kmeriean American 48.000: 48,000: trade trade takings, takings, including including i
jorwarded v,rwarded &00: from from actual ship shio^ fmVorU s side. «ide 52.000: 52 000-actual a tnal ex- ex-
actual imports 1,000, American American
!0,000; fo — ooo- total total total afloat stock «toek 1 1.406,000, ^>_o09, 30.009, 406 000 American American American American 15,000; 15.009; 1,270.- 1 270 - ■
100; Speculation iv^niation took took l.SOO: l.SOO: exeorters exporters took took 3.700. 3.700.
Crops of wheat, rye, oats an I barely ate
good in France.
A NATIONAL
SHYER PARTY.
INDICATIONS WHICH POINT TO
THE CALLING OF A
Convention to Organize One. Speech*
es at the South Carolina Alliance
Encampment.
To the St. Louis Republic in a special from
Columbia, S. 0 The *» dev,,-
oped at the State Alliance encampment,
which adjuorned to-day after a three days’
meetinir at Tirzah ’ York eountv nintv, that tnat a *
scheme is on foot for the calling of a nation¬
al silver convention to be held in St. Louis
in September for the purpose of forming a
national silver party. Congressman Latimer,
of South Carolina is authority for the state¬
ment that Congressmen Bland, of Missouri,
Tillman, of South Carolina; Marion Butler,
of North Carolina, and other silver leaders
have agreed upon it, and that the call for
such a convention will he issued. Congress¬
man Latimer says that the scheme has been
on foot for some time, but that it is only with¬
in the last few days that Congressman Bland
has been induced to agree to it. But now
that all things are ready a call for the con¬
vention will be issued within the next few
weeks.
The ball was set in motion at the silver
conference at Memphis, and since then the
public pulse has been felt and the leaders be¬
lieve that the time is ripe for the movement.
At any rate the attempt is to be made. Con¬
gressman Latimer made no public announce¬
ment of the scheme, but in his speech at the
Alliance encampment ho went so far as to
say:
•‘Let us call a national convention, liko
our own March convention, aud say that wo
are Tor both metals. Then put a man on a
,J !> lf , ,,a th’? n V i, iV K1, ri raU 1,U k th0 ” iee
andwh.i ai 1 v » i tin . h-Jit. J lie Republicans p i r say
tir-y won t desert their home. 1 am a Demo-
crat, but tarn m favor of this early convon-
t on and I way to you let s hold it and win
me light.
ind touXtheiouThand^Ves^i^nqtth^Nl^h EaS Vi imno“
but don’t us the condl-
tion on those alone° - ; .in , t! ,. t
Safimme as Demo-rats ™ Th?hrtml j’hos.> lMnlSrit?SKl ,, desolse
the war. just ns w • hate t lie name of Repub-
L her ictt “* and ' go v '*y- down m the name, rotten sh» old | l we Democra- stay by
tie ship? I cannot see why any man should
stand by the Democratic party when it is
controlled by such men as Cleveland and
Carlisle. the For and myself, give I am feady to throw
up name up the party. We
must join tin; people of the Northwest. Tho
friends of silver are in the majority. Forty-
«vo million of th . ( 70.000,000 in the United
btates arc in iavor ol it. All they want is the
opportunity. Shall wo lot this matter of a
name keep us apart? The gold bugs have
bought up all the metropolitan papers aud’
tbe news agencies, and they are all crying
the silver craze is dying out. There was
never a more brazen falsehood. There is no
craze to begin with. Our people are only
striving with the intensity of despair to re¬
lease our government from the grasp of the
octopus, to prevent the Tories from selling
us in bondage to the British gold buns.”
LIBERTY BELL’S ITINERARY.
Th® Historic OI<l Relic YV ill be Ex«
hibited in an Open b oyer,
The action of the Philadelphia City Coun-
cil on the Atlanta Exposition was to arrange
Bnd complete the details for the trip of the
Liberty Bel), which is to be transferred to
(he Soath daring tho l«Uynl.
Chairman Mum, of the Committee on Lor-
respondence and arrangements, stated that
be had received a letter from Thomas Keen-
an. secretary of the State Commission, at
Harrisburg, in which the latter stated that
'SdJ l“ .to rZpUoa' of Si
bell by tho opening day, 8ept. 18th.
Xhe historic old relic is to he exhibited in
an °l ien / oycr r u ^ der a can ®PY> and being
, arranged castors, can be to the
on run on
open grounds, incase of necessity, in ten
minutes.
No action was taken for the present . , look- ,
ing to a civic and military display m con-
nection with the departure of the bell, as the
cost of the military display would probably
PMm e
'1
1
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f
have to be taken out of the , committees ... , ap-
propriation. , ... „ •
The itinerary of the beii s bouttiern jou
is as follows:
roS.'I .
BaUi-
more, 10:15 a. m.: leave Baltimore, D a. m.;
September 11th; leave Richmond (Atlantic
Corn* Line), 8 a. m. f September 12th; arrive
Petersburg, 9 a. m.; leave Petersburg (N.
and W. railroad). 10 a. m. ; arriye Lynchburg.
3 p. m.. leave Lynchburg, September 4 p. m.; arrive leave
Roanoke. 6 p. m„ 12th;
Roanoke, 8 a. m.. September 13th: arrive
Bristol. 1 p. m.; September 13th; leave Bris-
toi (Southern railway), 3 p. m.; arrive Knox-
viile, 7 p. m.. September 13th; leave Knox-
viile, 8 a. m.. September September 14th; arrive 14th; Chat- leave
tanooga. 11:30 a. m.,
Chattanooga. 9 a. m.. September 15th; arrive
Atlanta, 4 p. m.. September 15tb.
Chairman various Hartzell places was along instructed the route to see
;hat the were
tommunieated with.
Struck it Rich.
,! >o miluonane, has = >.
Wor.t w >, pr- oabiy the riche-t icad ever fe >cd
111 miy raise in the country, if not in the
world. w -«d. In In the the rndependence Independence mines. mines. Victor, V • ;.r,
Col., C. 3 the ttn> miners, miners in ln following fnllnwin" a a ht»1. !<•::! ran
across across a a vein vein which which will will run run $140,000 $140,000 to to tbe
tor. It Ir was w . t at at a a point noint where where veins ve*i»s cc-e* co - .*:* to-
g intr, ami the w idth warrants the s- tiameat
that there is uot (ess thau several ipUJiyus cf
ore in sisht-
niE GREAT TEN DAYS’ DEBATE
Between the Author of “Coin’s F1
nanelrtl School” and Ex-Congress¬
man Roswell G. Horr.
The Horr-Harray debate closed at Chicago
on Monday. The discussion was devoid oi
anything of special importance
Twenty-four hour* in all have been con¬
sumed in the debate, which ran through
eight days, and 145,000 words in ail were
spoken according to the original agreement.
The two gentlemen still have 2,500 words in
which to dose. This is to be submitted in
be manuscript inserted any time within seven days, to
in a book which is to be pub¬
lished .
In the closing argument Mr Horr led oil
with the sweeping assertion that in the few
cases iu which the figures cited bv Mr. Har-
vey's statement, which tho latter had said
was based upon the authority of Carroll D,
""’right, tho Unite,! States commissioner of labor,
to effect that there were between 2,000,-
000 and 4,000,000 unemployed men in the
country. Iu refutation of these figures he
produced a telegram from Mr. Wright ex¬
pressly disclaiming them. The effect of this
shot was spoiled, however, by Mr. Harvey’s
explanation that these were the only figures
that he had used in his book that had not
been verified and that immediately after the
appearance of the first edition he had written
to Mr. Wright and upon receipt of his reply
had erased the incorrect data from tho ster-
eotype plates of the book. After this lem-
porary digression tho silver champion ex¬
pressed assisted his obligations to every one who had
him in the debate. Thou he said;
“In all history in the struggle between
liberty nately and oppression, as they have alter-
risen and fallen, it has been truthful-
ly said that a free press is the greatest but-
work of liberty. As oppression rises the
press is muzzled. It is bought up and made
lo speak deceit aud misleads the people.”
Here Mr. Hayvey resumed the thread oT
his argument by producing a printed table
showing the amounts of silver coined anau-
1 fafsity'of^rhe^
demonstrating the argument
fUtv*vear-; h ofYhe^nrosent *ceuturv\i e*IT l
™^ S h,2f. b V, h 1 UU!l a °° t ,d m
basis Vm",., f mm 1 More 1871
..mi ve-i's'and it *
se ek li the tvJ? mbits ,?td for not«JLtiJ* the first fifty miiL M
that
last thirty years prior to 1873, is uot true.
On account of the £ grant use of gold in tho
Rftg be raailltaill d that there was not
Enough heed!of of tho yellow metal to answer the
monev.
jj r Horr maintained his nrovious state-
D eut3 that no country alone can establish
f ho old ratio of 10 lo and he did ^
Jievo that Mr. Harvey thinks any one nation
l*, aQ Uo U ' Wation8 * ,J T1, - y thcir f y ^ la ' vs > do ,i0 not M tlx “
they lals try. 1 he actual a , value of the two , me-
at the present time is wide apart. Tho
patio jAlmost of from 16 to tlie 1 is to-day earliest a thing foundation of the past.
of so-
piety the relative value between gold and sil.
yer has been fixed by tlie people ot the world
and not by legislation. Mr. Harvey aud I
agree that the free coinage of si! ver will de-
crease the measure ot value used in this
sountry. I lie burden of his whole talk in
this debate is .h:n we ought to have a cheap-
er measure, tha. the unit is worth too much
so now we agree that it wil. change the
measure Mr. Harvey says that is wnat
ought to be done, because too whole world
is in debt, and our country is on the brink
of ruin because the present dollar is too va!-
liable. That is a position which I differ from
him. The debts of the day have all been
contracted with the gold dollar as the meas¬
ure, aud to relieve the payment of them iu
any way by a trick of this kind is repudia¬
tion.
Mr. Harvey continued his quotations from
statistics relating to the world's supply of
gold. The more costly either gold or silver
becomes, he said, the greater the demand
among the rich for it for ornaments. Where
the dearer is used exclusively for primary
money it is the one that is hoarded. When
goid and silver were both used as money in
their own right, silver was hoarded by tbe
plain people aud was brought forth to serve
them in their time of need, Goid is prin¬
cipally hoarded by the rich to serve a purpose
in bulling the money market Hoarding of
SMS !3j! ’“a* oi
j n tlie two instances is different. In the
first instance it is to serve a natural Jaw
providing for the future; in the second in-
stance it is a commercial motive affecting in-
juriously the community. This is one of the
Mr. Horr referred to Mr. Harvey’s, habit
corflpftriD^ size 83 helving’ something to
with value and stated that the amount of
gM(1 ia th „ world all put into a cube has not
anything to do with how much it is worth,
He accused Mr. Harvey of comparing things
that are not alike with each other and when
a man does that, lie said, he is always in the
wrong. Now, tbero is no disguising the
j s sue between us. It is simply this; Can we
benefit the people of this republic now by
making a dollar mean about half as much as
it now means? Can wo benefit them by making
it seem any considerable amount less than it
now is by making it actually less in value?
We may disguise it as much as we wil! the
free coinage of silver ou a ratio of 16 to 1
means silver monometallism.
Mr. Harvey maintained that there will be
a commerciai parity between gold I silver
the mints free to be coined into money with
23.22 grains of pure gold to be a dollar and
371% grains made of from pure silver both metals to be a doiiarjthi he full
monev to
legal 'tender money in the payment of all
debts and the debtor to have the right to pay
in either metal. Tbe supply of silver is
limited. When a great nation like this, whose
normal capacity for tbe absorption of money
in the transaction of ite normal business is
not far from four thousand million dollars
opens its mints to silver it fixes the price ot
silver the world over. So long as the sup-
ply of silver is limited, as it is now', no one
will part with it for any less than they can
get for it ia the United States. Mr. Hon - will
p&y to this: “The government does not buy it
^tbe land silver under free coinage. It stamps
bands it back to the owner worth do
more than when be brought it to the this: mint.”
(What the government has done is It
jfcas what given gives to to silver it its value. a new U3e and the use is
0 f the appeal of Cuba against oppression; of
5isn§ss»'s
.-verdict upon this momentous question will
fee world-wide. It will convey words of
ch eer and stimulate the nerves of free men
j n every land.”
MISSISSIPPI POPULISTS.
State Convention Met at Jackson.
Nearly ' Every County Represented,
xneropuwsis . ui . m . ' ti - th0
capitol at Jackson, Miss. Nearly every coun- \
|ty 'xhe in the state was represented,
convention nominated Hon. Frank
Burkitt for governor and a full state ticket,
Fortv-«e V en counties were represented bv
122 delegates. A ^resolution arraigning the
democrats for the treasury defalcation and j
spy^reix- criticising the democracy was passed.
xhe lar^ platform demanded economy and de-
c for the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1. without international agree-
ment. It wasThe largest andl most
elastic convention in opposition to demo-
cracy, composed of white Mississippians,
since the war.
There are 40,000 Hungarians in New York
City.
NO. 42.
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS.
Important Happenings, Both Home
and Foreign, Briefly Told.
Newsy Southern Notes.
Julius A. Taylor, United States District At¬
torney for tho western district of Tennessee,
died Friday.
At Memphis, Tenn., President Thomas
appointed Mayor E. C. Lewis director general
of the centennial.
At Nashville, Term., Governor Turney par-
doned Rosey. alias W. B. Neal, of Rutherford
county, sentenced to fifteen years for mur-
der.
At Tallehassee, Fla., tbe coroner’s jury
continued its investigation of the killing oi
the Adams brothers and returned a verdict
of murder against Stafford.
At a meeting of tho directors of the Enter¬
prise Cotton Mill Augusta, Ga., a dividend
of 8 per cent was declared, payable July,
1896. This is out of the surplus earnings of
,, m l U and ^ dlstlact from the regular ,
dividend. ,
The Mississippi Populist convention od
Wednesday Governor, nominated Robinson Frank for Burkitt for
Dr. 8. W. Lieutenant
Governor, and a full predicted ticket. Burkitt that the read Pop- a
speech in which lie
ulists would carry the State,
The Maryland Steel Company. Baltimore,
has decided to increase the wages of 700 em-
ployees feet. President ten per cent, Wood to take immediate “The ef-
says: great
business revival warrants the employment ot
a larger number of men at higher wages.”
Maryland’s Prohibitionists closed a two
ing , GrX'^Srfnnutred^^sixe^lmsLas:
tic opponents of the liquor traffic, represent-
ing all of the counties of the State, took part
iu the deliberations of the body. The eon-
vention nominated for Governor, Joshua
Levering, of Baltimore.
Mr. Juhn E. Hurst was nominated for Gov-
ernor by tbe Democratic State convention ol
The Maryland, on Wednesday, on the first ballot,
Marion ticket was completed by the nomination
of DeKalb Smith, of Kent county, to
succeed himself as Comptroller of the Treas-
ury. and of State Senator Charles C. Creth-
er? ’ of Croit col,uty ’ Attorney Gene al.
Ream's tobacco warehouse, Durham, N. C.
Btokes’s hall, the telegraph office, telephone
^ chan «°’ the »“!»»« Fertilizer
Company and the store of the Durham 8up-
ply Company, and BlacknalPe tho upper parts of the
stories of R. IX Marks’s and El-
lls’s stores were burned on Thursday. Loss
estimated at $100,000.
Robert C. Scott, ex-city treasurer, of Jack-
eonville, Fla., was arrested Wednesday on a
charge of embezzling $10,707 of the city’s
funds duriug his term of office which ex-
pired June 21. The alleged shortage was
discovered council. by experts employed by the city
The charge ol embezzlement will
again be made at the regular term of tho
crimiQa i court on August 27. Scott is free
until then on a writ of habeas
¥ -moot.
At Topeka, Kas., the Santa Fe Railroad lias
put its eutire force in the shops on’full time
of ten liotirs per day. There are between
1,200 and 1.300 men at work, and up to tho
Full present only about 800 men were working
time.
Notice was posted at the York, Pa., Rolling
Mill announcing that on and after August
12th the price of puddling would be $3 per
ton, instead of ■5‘2.75 as at present, with pro¬
portionate advance in other mill work. This
will be the second advance within a short
time, making tlie increase from .*2.50 a ton
to the present rate.
---- MtU -
Crime.
Tlie two horse thieves, Colfran and George,
who escaped from officers at Sait Lake, Utah,
Evanston. on Friday, were detected morning. at Wahsatcb, On being near
commanded Wyo., surrender next they fired, instant¬
to
ly killing Deputy Sheriff Dawers, of Evans¬
ton, and Constable Stagg, of Wahsatch. An
armed posse is in pursuit.
!«*-
Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities.
A terrible cloud-burst occurred on Garden
Creek, Wyoming, Wednesday night, sweep¬
ing away houses and involving loss of life.
A fire that started in the lumber yards in
the northern part of Menominee, Mich.,
caused a Joss of about $500,000. It burned
over thirty acres of ground.
----
Miscellaneous.
Two $ 1,000 notes were fouud in an upper
ptory of the old health office in Washington.
The Populist of Ohio in General convention at Col¬
umbus have nominated Coxev for
Governor.
The Fresno, Cal.. Court damaged House, which cost
the county $180,000. was building by lire to
fhe extent of $90,000. Tlie was tully
insured
Thf , Jaw pagsed bv the last Massachusetts
,y P eDalt > f ,-r \ i fiation f -L S.ur,.
The bank of Salisbury, Mo., theoldest bank-
Examination jag system there, has been ordered bank’s closed. An
showed that the books
fvere in bad condition, but it is thought
depositors will be pail dollar for dollar.
George W. Wolfe, the bicyclist who left
Chicago at 3:10 p. rn. Monday. July 22d, ar-
rived at the city hall .-in New York Sunday
pight at 7:15 o’eloek. having made the trip
on his wheel in six days, three hours and
five minutes. Tbe previous best record was
thu3 broken by 45 minutes,
Uncle Sam’s Balance Sheet.
The monthly debt statement shows a net
increase in the public debt les.s cash in the
treasury during July of $38,435,937. The
interest-bearing debt increased $31,158,340.
The non-interest-bearing debt decreased
5*813,025 and cash in the treasury decreased
$8,090,622. The balances of the several class¬
es of debt at the close of business July 31
were: Interest-bearing debt $747,300,400;
debt on which interest has ceased since ma¬
turity $1,699,650; debt bearing no interest
$378,"198.384. Total $1,127,258,435. notes offset by The equal cer¬
tificates and treasury au
amount of cash iu tbe treasury outstanding
at the end of the month The were total $581,799,693, the an
increase of $2,591,830. The cash in
treasury was $ 807,397,830, gold $87,149,- reserve
was $100,000,000. Net cash balance
530. There was a decrease in gold coin and
bars of $539,865, tbe total at the close being
$155,354,065. Of silver there was an increase
of $407,399. Of the surplus there was in na¬
tional bank depositories $15,920,823, against
$16,903,120 at the end of the preceding
months.
The Visible Supply of Cotton.
The total visible supply of cotton for the
'’f/ ,. ‘ . » M <
bales are r American, American against igaind 2 -,3-4,9.10 3*4 955 bales ales
an 1 1.863,755 bales respectively at" m-t year.
Receipts of cotton this week all interior
!towns are 3.479 bates; receipts from tbe plan¬
(tatiou none; crop ia sight 9.636,151 bales,
The North Shore coasting steamer Otter,
which has just arrived at Quebec, reports the
teal fishery ou the Labrador coast as almost
• complete failure,