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LATEST HEWS
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS.
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Important Happenings, Both Homo
Mud Foreign, Briefly Told.
Newsy Southern Notes.
General M, A. Stovall -lied at Augusta,Ga.,
•tiler an illness of several months at the age
“f 77 years. lie graduated at West Foint,
but never entered the regular army. Ho
was a major general in tbe Confederacy.
A spe-’ial from Marion, Ky., says Black¬
burn scored a victory in the democratic pri¬
mary •b*n legislative district composed of Critten-
and Livingston counties Saturday.
the Nickell, the Blackburn man, defeated Adams,
Buckner man, by 250 majority.
An election was held in Key West, Fla..
7 ur-’day to Iwuid the county in the sum of
$500,000 for th<- purpose of building a road¬
way from that city to Key Largo. Great in-
terc.st wit mnnifested in tho election, and
out of 700 votes polled only one or two were
against bonding.
Dr. II M. Caldwell, ex-president of the
JBlyton Laud Company, and one of the prin
< q>al founders of the eity of Birmingham.
Ala..died in that city ou Wednesday, agea
fifty-nine years. The deceased iiad been in
bad health since his wife’s death, in August
last. Eight days ago he received a paraly¬
tic stroke from which he never rallied. Ho
served ns surgeon iu the confederate service,
being in charge of tho hospital at Green¬
ville.
Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities.
The French bark Towney, Captain Guy-
nut, is believed to have been lost at sea. 8he
left New port News for Savannah on July 1,
and is thirty-six days out. She is reported
to have he-ui seen off Hattcras, bearing signs
of collision.
The cannon ball express train smashed In¬
to a special freight near Plymouth, N. H.,
and Thursday morning. Engineer Stevenson
Fireman Merritt and \V. A. Glines wore
killed,several passengers injured aud four¬
teen freight cars stove into pieces.
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< 'rime.
Richard Leach, the wife murderer, died In
the electric chair at Sing Sing, N. Y., on
Monday.
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Fires.
Berlin, Ind., was almost entirely destroyed
by lire Sunday night. Only three stores are
left. Seventy-five-buildings, including 25
residences were burned. The loss »3 $200,
000, Insurance about $25,000.
Political Doings.
The Democratic State Convention of Iowa
declared in favor of sound money.
A new political party has been organized
in Kansas, and a <-nll was issued nt Topeka
on Tuesday for a Stateeonvention at Topeka
on September 5. The name is the Independ¬
ent Americans, and it is hoped to unite un¬
der its banner the American Protective As-
sociation, the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics, and other patriotic or¬
ders. Members of these orders aro invited
to the State convention. The call is for
the Americanism, removal the free coinage of silver, and
of the national capital to amove
central location. A national conference is
to be called by the Topeka convention.
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Crops.
Warren G. Purdy, secretary and vice-pres¬
ident of the Chicago, Rock Island and Paci¬
fic railropd, says that Kansas will have the
greatest nqn crop in her history as a State.
He predicts that the yield will be between,
160,000,000 aand 300,000,000 bushels.
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Miscellaneous.
Weather Forecaster Dunn, of New York
predicted two months oT scorching weather' )
The annual meeting of the United Typo-
tbetae of America opened nt Minneapolis,
Minn., on Monday with a large attendance.
Nearly a hundred men who had passed the
civil service examination for appointment on
the New Yo?k police force have been found to
bo ineligible, having copied the answers to
the questions submitted to them.
Immigration for tho year ending with
June, 1895, was 35.000 less than it was the
previous year. In exact figures, there were
only 276.136 immigrants. This is tho small¬
est number that has come in since 1879, and
is but half as many as came in 1893.
The Chicago Fresbytery has decided that
its churches must not use fermented wine at
the communion services find unfermented
grape juice must be substituted at all times.
To carry the temperance work still further,
temperance pledges will be placed in the
Sunday schools.
The eeuvention of tbe Irish race in America
Which ha- been agitated for the last two
year- will be held in Chicago,September 24,25
and 26. It will consist of one thousand dele¬
gates chosen by the Irish patriotic aud mili-
ta' v organ!, ations of the country who will be
accompanied by many representative couc-
try men.
Making Room for Guests.
Mr Alexan h-rW Smith, Chief of thc De¬
partment of Public Comfort, has arranged
with the PuiJman Sleeping Car Company for
three hundred sleeping cars, to be parked on
the railroad sidings in and about, Atlanta,
and has arranged with the city for the neces¬
sary sanitary service. These sleeping cars
will accommodate between 7.000 and 8.000
people, and tin* berths will be rented for $1
per night. Mr. Smith has secured from the
Southern Railway, sidings enough to accom¬
modate one-third of these ears, and expects
to p’aco the rest of with the by other Public roads.
The listing rooms the Comfort
Department is ver satisfactory and includes
apartments iu many of ‘fie handsomest resi¬
liences in thee cil- Public spirit lues been
{appealed Centennial, to, as it was and >u Philadelphia, the disposition dur¬ of
ing the
the people of Atlanta is e;oil as to make this
•feature more tbotough than it has ever been
'at any great Exposition.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
The New York tailors’ strike was officiary
declareel oft Saturday uight.
Several car-loads of foreign exhibits for
the Cotton States Exhibition were received
at the Atlanta custom house Saturday.
The Southern Presbyterian church now
has over 200,000 communicants and 2,776 or¬
ganized congregations. The number of
ministers is 1.337. or one minister for every
152 church members.
Charles A. Joseph, for general freight and
paseenger agent the Little Rock A Mem¬
phis Railroad, has admitted a shortage of
$2,000 in his accounts' Drinking is the
cause of his downfall.
The eight-year-old child of Chief of Police
Gregory, of Decatur, Ind.. was burned to
death Saturday morning. She was playing
near a fire in the yard when her dress
caught Her father, ia endeavoring to put
the fire out, had both his arms so badly
burned that they had to be amputeted.
The Railroad Boycotted.
The executive committee of the Southern
Wholesale Grocers’ Association held an all
day’s session at Knoxville, Tenn., on Wed¬
nesday. They refused to give out anything
for publication continued other than the. that Louisville the boycott A
-will be over
Nashville Railroad. President Leigh will re¬
ply to the recent interview with Vice Presi¬
dent Knott, of the Louisville A Nashville.
The Toccoa News.
A WARNING SOUNDED.
The* President of the American Cotton
Growers’ Association Says it is
Time to Act.
Hon. Hector D. Lam of Alabama,
president of the American Cotton
Growers’ Association issues the follow¬
ing address to the cotton growers of
the South :
“As President of thc American Cotton
Growers’ Protective Association, cognizant
of the great wroDg that has been perpetrated
upon the masses of my fellow farmers, the
cotton growers of the South, it becomes my
duty as far as my limited ability extends to
warn you of tho dangers that environ you
and the devices and plans that are being laid
by cunning and un-nipulous men to rob
you of our hone-t toil, to further impoverish
you and to enhance Ibe discord and dissaiis-
faction that is now dominant in the heart of
agricultural .-la, s ,. s j n a knowledge of the
fact that there is something radically wrong
in our systems. No longer is the product of
no'ionger 'isThe c!>st*of > th^produefion'ofan
articie any standard of its valuation; and
the law of supply and demand has been dis-
attamed ''I; 1 ' by i, *! tiie ts • s V‘ ‘commercial a ' 1, i,lt,,rvf ’ nefl mountebank ,ii ' 1 results
the most insidious and merciless of which is
be that with a tongue of an Ananias and the
heart of the Mafia, is murdering the material
pirsoi nerw of'i^iV/e our people. ',*! ' ' "" [ tr refer - v a 11 to '! that inakiny man pau- who
that wears deservedly the name of ‘bear.’ He
of false propheey aud wilful misrepre-
sentation, perils robs us of our subsistence, ini-
our prosperity and leaves us nothing
but poverty in our homes and hatred in our
h‘‘urts
“The warning note has been sounded, let
•forewamed be forearmed.’ ”
I hat there is a powerful and systematized
moienrmt to again iepress tbe value of our
st.ipie this season is patent to all intelligent
men and it rests with the planter of the
> outn, individually as to whether he will
submit to thus be sheared again like a sheep
as he was last season. ’I In- time has arrived
or heroic action. I he alternative is to
u not renounce growing of cotton entirely
,l I 11 “'italic crop or to ‘take up arms
•igninst a sea of troubles and by opposing
end them. from these, rumors of the itn-
mensity of the corning crop have already
men widely and recklessly circulated to in-
timnuue the farmers into rushing their
crops upon thc market hoping to receive
better prices before a decline. This action
upon the part of the farmers will accomplish
the intention of the manipulators of the
market and is to ho deprecated as suicidal to
their interest. The crop ought to bring fair
\aliics should be judiciously distributed over
these .tug season without allowing the de-
liveries to he too great at auy time. And I
advise that all farmers that can do so, with-
out violating a contract, should market their
crop one-third as slowly as they can. or at a ratio of
less than last season; the equili-
brium of prices will be thus fairly retained,
and we will coine much nearer receiving the
eommereial value of our product.
“It will be remembered by many that pre-
nous to our civil war. on account of the lack
of transportation facilities, it required from
seven to nine months to market the common
cotton crop. We now sell the bulk of it,
which is three or four times the size,in about
three months, thus congesting tho market,
making competitors of ourselves in the mad
rush to get rid of our product, while upon
(be other hand a judicious gradual distribu¬
tion of the same over a greater period of
months would be conducive to competition
between the manufacturers who are obliged
to have our material and their running after
us to buy oui product instead of our having
to run after them to sell it to them,
“And 1 desire to imj ress upon the cotton
growers the imperative necessity of organi¬
zation for the accomplishment of this pur¬
pose, ami alt instrumentalities should be en¬
gaged in the achievement of this consumma¬
tion endeavor devoutly to bo wished. Doubtless this
will meet with strenuous opposi¬
tion at the hands of those who recklessly
speculate upon the labor of tho farmer of
the South. He would be offered a little more
than the market price to bring in his crop.
The argument of risk of fire, loss in weights,
would follow with the usual denunciation of
advice, but I implore you for the sake of
your families rendered' destitute by these
despoilers and for the love you bear for our
‘Sunny Southland’for all that is sacred to
our hearts and to our homes to resist this
current that is insidiously, day by day, draw¬
ing us into a vortex of poverty and shame
and depraving our manhood and increasing
crime.
“There never was a more cruel and relent¬
less war waged upon the people than upon
the South by England and her emissaries
and tory allies, reducing her people from
affluence to the pittance of ten cents a day
for their labor, which cotton at five cents
per pound means.
FAVOR8 FREE SILVER.
Uol. Carr Gives the Reasons for the
Faith That is in Him.
Col. Julian S. Carr, tho distinguished
North Carolinian, gives his views on the
silver question as follows:
1. "I favor the immediate repeal of the
law demonetizing silver aud the immediate
restoration of silver to the position held by
it before the passage of that law. This will
make silver, as well as gold, money of final
payment. Money will then bo easier and
trade will revive, debts and taxes will be
easier to pay.
2. “I favor the continued coinage of silver
at the present ratio as long as the country
needs more money aud as long as we can
keep a silver dollar equal to a gold dollar.
\\ e are now floating nearlv $600,000,000 of
silver, aud we can float fully twice as much,
if the Government will make it legal tender
in all sums for all debts, both public and pri-
3. “If other nations will join us. all right
but we are a big enough country to supply
ourselves with all the gold and silver wb
ti ed.
4. •'Gold tends to rise in value, if used ex-
dusivelv, while silver t- mus to fall If both
are used together they will balance each
other, and the resultant will be more stable
than either component.
■J realize that manv good men whose
opinions are entitled lb respect and eonsid-
oration, differ with me touching this impnr-
hod question, still after a careful sludv of
aii the conditions. 1 shall abide as a friend
of the White Metal—th« people's money.”
th Iu6 xi6W xork t Worlti u ks< ;r 8 s,u ' cfssor It chd - b©
announced as a fact that Frederick R. Cou-
dort can be the successor of the late Justice
nremf» W formal^mler’ofthe
or. A more or
place has already been made to him and a
L\ibi-grdrr\ froin him in Europe announcing
dert bas'beeiT abread U 'for ^sometime "and is
now understood to be iu Paris."
Rate Cutting to Stop.
A meeting of representatives of Southern
traffic liues and associations, embracing rail-
ways and steamships, was held iu New York
to consider the question of the cutting of
rates between Northern points and 8- ulh
Atlantic points which for some tin:-- bu< been
quite heavy. The meeting was held I >1
closed doors and lasted nearly two hours,
It was stated that they had all agreed to stop
any further cutting of rates and would main-
tain the standard rates of last year.
a ubeisuit. ■
Governor Woodbury, of Vermont, ha4
brought a $50,000 libel suit against The Rut-
land Herald for articles recently published,
him a rumse ler and owner of a build-
pxg in which liquor is sold contrary to law. j
TOCCOA, GA M THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1895.
SOUND MONEY
IN IOWA.
THE DEMOCRATS IN CON YEN*
TION DECLARE FOR IT.
The Resolutions Reaffirm the Nation¬
al Platform and Demand a High
License Law.
The Democratic State convention of Iowa,
met Wednesday at Marshalltown. The fol-
lowing platform ' was adopted:
<(T Thc ,, Democratic party of , T Iowa, in . con-
vention assembled, re-afflrms the national
platform of the party adopted in Chicago in
1802 and P oints with satisfaction to the evi-
dences of the wisdom of that convention, of
the results accomplished according to its
promises, to the evidences to returning * pros-
P*' r * , V - tho restoration , .. of . wages and , the . ro¬
-
establishment of industry upon a prosperous
basis—conditions which have extorted con-
gratulation ' from oven the Republicans * of
Iowa. We declare , , the , rescue of the finances
of the country from the baleful effects of the
Sherman law, the repeal of the uu-Auiericau
Federal election law, and the uprooting of
M Kiuleyfom to be works worthy of the his-
tory and prestige of the Democratic party
and of a courageous Democratic admimstra-
tion.
“We rc-affirm the following portion of the
seventh plank of the lust National D 'ino-
crate: Convention: ‘We hold to the use of
both gold and silver as the standard money
of thc country and to the coinage of both
gold and silver without discrimination
against either metal or charge for mintage,
but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals
must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable
value, or be adjusted by such safe-guards of
legislation as shall insure the maintenance of
thc parity of the two metals and the equal
power of every dollar at ail times in the
markets and in the payment of debts, and
we demand that all paper currency shall be
kept at par with and redeemable in such
coin. We insist upon this policy as espeeiai-
lv necessary for the protection of the farmers
and laboring classes, the first aud most de¬
fensel* ss victims of unstable money and a
fluctuating currency.’
“We condemn the cowardice and trickery
of tbe Republican party of Iowa in failing to
mee t, in its last State platform, any of the
issues important and vital to the iuterests of
our Stale, and we ask upon it the sober
judgment of an intelligent people,
“We believe that the liquor law fails to
meet the requirements of a good excise
statute. It is unfair as between communi-
ties and imposes hardships upon property
owners, and it compromises tbe honor of the
State in declaring the sale of liquors a crime
and condoning the offense for a money con-
federation, We repeat our demand of the
past live years for a local option high license
law, and on behalf of the commercial inter¬
ests of our State we favor a law permitting
the manufacture of liquors, thus affording a
market for the products of the farm and
labor fg the Slate and saving to our people
the enormous sums now expended in other
Slabs.
“W ■ favor the election o f United States
Senators by direct vote of the people.
“We favor just and liberal pensions to ail
deserving veterans.
“We reiterate our unflinching opposition
to all monopolies and trusts and call for
cna -tinents which will abolish combines of
all kinds.
“W" demand that onr State institututions
be governed by a single non- partisan board
of control, which can intelligently com) ire-
bend their relative wants and economically
and justly apportion among the whole that
which their just requirements demand.
“We favor the speedy completion of the
Hennepin canal aud the deepening of the
water-ways from tbe Great Lakes to Hie
ocean, so as to enable ocean vessels to pass
through.”
Judge W. F. Barr, of Blount Pleasant, a
sound money man, was nominated for Gover¬
nor by acclamation. In the same manner
the nomination for Lieutenant Governor
went to 8. L. Bestow, of Chariton, who has
been Lieutenant Governor, and is an advo¬
cate of free silver. Thc nomination for rail¬
road commissioner went to Col. George Jen¬
kins, o f Dubuque, and for State superintend¬
ent to L. B. Parshall, of Maquoketn. There
were two candidates for Supreme Court judge
aud a ballot was required. G. Harper, CX-
State Senator, of Burlington, was nominated,
defeating E. E Hasner. of Independence.
The sense of the delegates was twice taken
on the silver question and the party in ibis
(State coinage is fairly at tho on ratio record of 16 as to opposed to free
1.
FREE COINAGE.
Mr. Tomlinson Gives Eleven Reasons
Why He Favorslt.
Hon. John W. Tomlinson, a prominent at¬
torney of Birmingham, Ala., tells in The N -w
York Mercury why he favors the free coin¬
age of silver as follows:
“First—Because tbe single gold standard
is unfair to the debtor class.
‘•'Second—Because there is not now a
sufficient amount of gold for a circulating
medium.
“Third—Because the parity would then he
maintained naturally instead of artificially,
as at present.
"Fourth—Because the production of gold
is not keeping pace with increasing popula¬
tion and business.
“Fifth—Because, under tho single gold
standard, gold is comparatively constantly
appreciating.
“tuxth—Because, like a river fed from two
sources, the circulating medium would then
,K ‘ ! “ ss liable to fluctuation,
“Seventh—Because both gold and silver
as P rimar y money, is the constitutional
money of the people,
Eighth—Because it would be more
euit ,or gamblers in the inone-H centers to
co r P er l ' < ‘ th ; uid silver,
i ’Ninth—Because r there would be two met¬
. primary money, so that th3 debtor
lluvo tiie option in which he would
'l*'i:th—Because ,. in the transaction
now
£££&£
iimi is too cxpSDsivo, Gxc©j»t for those f«i-
^re;d ''“Eleventh—Bvause few who own thc gilt-edge, easily-
it would hasten the
development of this comparatively new
2? ’property “h^not*the*" Zone /£<55
with which to invest ia new enterprises
and from bitter past experience they aro
even're st.rtn^vTmd^tri^ 01110 t0 b ° rr0W '
_ „neu industries.
The Work of the Patent Office.
Iu his report to the Secretary of the Inter¬
ior, of the operations of the Patent Office
during the last fiscal year. Commissioner
Seymour says:
“Therewere received 36.972 applications
for patents, 1.453 applications for designs,
77 applications for reissues, 2.183 applications
for trademarks. 318 applications for labels,
and 2.814 cavats were filed. There were 20,-
745 patents granted including reissues and
designs, 1804 trademarks and six prints reg-
were forfeited for non-payment of final total fees.
Total expenditures was $157,391. The
balance of receipts over expenditures now in
the Treasurytothe credit of the Patent Of-
flee is $4,566,758.
TO STOP THE LIBERT V BELL.
An Injunction to Prevent its Being
Taken to Atlanta.
A bill in equity was Used Saturday at
Philadelphia in the Common Pie as Court to
have au injunction Issued restraining the
city from taking the Liberty B“h to the
Atlanta Exposition. The bill is filled by
Thomas G. Morganton, Wm. Frazier, Wm.
8. Blight, Wendell P. Bowman.Joel J. Bailey,
Samuel R. Shipley,Harry Rogers and George
Piler, citizens and tax-payers, in behalf of
themselves and all others who may intervene
against the City, Mayor Warwick, James L.
Miles, president of select of council; Wcneel
Hartman, president Public common council;
Director of Works Thompson, and
Chief Eisenhouser. of the Bureau of city
property. Tho bill states that the com-
plainants have requested the the city solicitor to
institute, in behalf of city and its in-
habitants generally, proceedings similar to
the present litigation, but that the city soli-
citor has refused to do so. Continuing, the
bill says:
“In the year 1816 the city of Philadelphia,
in pursuance of the terms of an act of (he
Assembly approved March 11,1316, acquire 1
title by purchase to a tract of land located
in the city and now known as Independence
Square, and also to a building located on
said tract, which had formerly been owned
and used by the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania as a State house, aud is known as In¬
dependence Hall, and also to a certain bell
affixed to said building as part of the realty,
known as the Liberty Bell, and which was
then, and now, an object ot historic value
and interest.’’
The bill further states that since the pur¬
chase tho city of Philadelphia has con¬
tinued to own the bell as part of its corpor¬
ate property and to exhibit it as an heirloom
and relic; that when the president of the
Cotton States and International Exposition
Company recently sent a communication to
the mayor of Philadelphia requesting the
citizens of this city t.o take part in the ex¬
position, no request was made for tho loan
of the bell, but that the city council subse¬
quently appointed bell a joint commission to ex¬
hibit the at Atlanta, and appropriated
$13,000 to meet the commission’s expenses.
The bill characterizes the action of the city
council as unlawful and declares that the re¬
moval of the relic will necessitate its trans¬
portation for a distance o: over 2,000 miles
and “expose it to great risa and peril during
the respective periods of the transportation
and exposition.” defendants The courts from removing aro asked to
restrain the the
bell from Independence Hall and from taking
any stops to send it to Atlanta or auy other
place outside decreed of the city of Philadelphia and
it further be that the defendants are
without lawful authority to make such a
removal.
COTTON’S CONDITION DECLINES.
It is Lower Than July and Lower than
any Previous August.
The August report of the statistician of
the Department of Agriculture shows a re¬
duction of the condition of cotton during the
month of July from 82.3 to 77.9, or 4.4
points. This is tho lowest average for
August over reported, being a half point
lower than the average for August, 1893.
Tbe reason for the low condition generally
given by correspondents is excessive moist¬
ure. though in South Carolina drought seems
to be the principal cause of injury. There is
much complaint of grass and not a little of
rust, blight-worms aud insects, enemies of
the plant. The State averages of condition
are: Virginia 81, North Carolina 74, South
Carolina 81, Georgia 89, Florida 92. Alabama
81. Mississippi 87, Louisiana 71, Texas 71,
Arkansas SO, Tennessee 89.
GENERAL CHOP CONDITIONS.
The report of the statistician of tho De¬
partment of Agriculture on the 10th of the
month relates to conditions as they stood on
the 1st of the month. Thus understood the
returns show au improvement in the condi¬
tion of corn about three points during the
month of July, or from 99.3 to 102.5. The
averages for some of the large and principal
States are: Ohio 88, Kentucky 113, Indiana
100, Illinois IOC, Iowa 107, Missouri 115. Kan¬
sas 90, Nebraska 70, Virginia 102, North Car¬
olina 98. Georgia 108, Alabama 99, Mississip¬
pi 93, New York 93, Pennsylvania 99, Texas
113.
The condition of spring wheat has fallen
since last report 6.3 points, being 95.9
{conditions 'against 102.2 for tho month of July. Tho
by States is as follows: Michigan
59, Illinois, 63, Wisconsin 87. Minnessota
102, Iowa 111, Kansas 60, Nebraska 79. South
Dakota 91, North Dakota 104, Washington
75, Oregon 94, California 73.
The condition of oats has advanced 1.3
points since last report, being 84.5 against
83.2 July 1.
Spring rye condition is 84 against 87 in
July last, while barley has fallen to 87.2 from
91.9 in July. Tobacco to 82.7 against 85.9 at
that date and 74.9 in August, 1894. Rye is
84.1, last year 91. Apples 71.2 against 24.40
lass year. Teaches 83.3 against 22.3 last year.
Buckwheat has an average of 96.5 per cent,
of last year and condition 85.2. Area under
hay 91.5 per cent. Condition of timothy
69.9 against 75.6 last year. Product of clo¬
ver 66.7 against 72.1 and quality of clover
87.3 against 90.2 a year ago. Irish potatoes,
condition 87.7, a fall of nearly 4 points from
91.5iu July.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Sugar Bounty Payment. The Ad¬
ministration’s Candidate.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
The principal event of this week in Wash-
mgton . . was ,, the , hearing of , the , arguments in
favor of the payment of the sugar bounty,
by Comptroller Bowler. The Compter arguments
weretfcorougli we., made.
Bow'er has not handed down a decision, and
from the talk of those who are in his confl-
dence. be may not decide the questions a. ar-
gued further than to decline approving the
payment of the money appropriated by con-
gress. until the constitutionality of the sugar
.________ vouniy --Hull have b_en affirmed by the
courts. Should he do that it will be quite a
while before the money is paid, even if the
courts decide in favor of the bounty.
According to the latest political gossip,
Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin, who was sue-
cessively Postmaster General and Secretary
of the Interior in President Cleveland’s first
cabine t, is being groomed for one of the ad-
ministration’s candidates for the democratic
Presidential nomination. The programme
according to the gossips, in the very pro¬
bable event of the convention declining to
compel President Cleveland to again become
a “ndidute-it would not require more
than 400—horse power—to give the conven-
.io„.h„choi« between S^eter, Carlisle
and Senator Yiias, the intimation beiDg con-
veyed previously to the delegates that either
of them would be acceptable to the adminis-
t rati on. It is said that it has been intimated
to ex-S -reiary Whitney that his name
might also go V - re the convention as an
administration andi late, and that be very
pi ouipllv deeiined.
Clubbed a Girl to Ceath.
Aibort v re,re r* ra
Fla., r , assaulted Annie Avant. age l nine, beat
out her brains with a club, dragged the girl’s
corpse into the woods, covered it with Jecv«s
and sticks, went home, aud ate his supper u
if nothing had happened. !
SILYER DOLLAR
BLAND BOSS.
THE CONVENTION BELONGED
TO HIM.
The State Committee Swelled With
Sllverltesfrom 15 to 34. ' The
Resolutions , Adopted. . .
The Missouri Democratic State convention
m ®t *t Pertle Springs, Mo.
The committee on resolutions sprang a
8U ^ k,. * ctm fe as „„ *. their j chairman ■ . Con- „
i
gressman De Armond, of Bates county, and
they immediately began their labors.
The committee on permanent organization
decided upon Hon. It. r. Bland for perma¬
nent chairman and tho temporary organiza-
tion was made permanent,
I It was recommended that tho present State
committee bo enlarged by the addition of
one committeeman from each congressional
district and by the election by the conven¬
tion of four committeemen at large—making
dhe total 31 instead of 15 as at present con¬
stituted. The proposition was carried. The
'resolutions committee’s report was read and
'adopted. The preamble aud resolutions are
as follows:
"The Federal Constitution names silver
and gold together as the money metals of the
.United States. The first coinage bill passed
|by silver Congress dollar until unit the of constitution value, admitted made gold tho
a
to free coinage at a ratio measured by the
silver dollar unit.
“From the beginning of the government,
following the policy formulated by Thomas
Jefferson and firmly established by Jackson,
the Democratic party has been the party of
bi-metallism, both silver favoring the free coinage of
and gold at the national mints,
and opposed to farming out to banking cor¬
porations the government s sovereign power
jof people. issuing and controlling the money of the
“The act of 1873, demonetizing silver, was
surreptitiously knowledge passed, without the approval
or of the American people, and
from the time when the effect of this act, in
standard fastening upon the country the single gold
has was, understood, the Democratic
party consistently and persistently urged
that the grievous wrong be righted. Failure
to accomplish this object has resulted in the
steady appreciation of gold, a correspond¬
ing fall in the prices of commodities pro-<
duced by the people, a heavy increase in ther
burden of all debts, public and private; the
enrichment of tho money-lending class;
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RICHARD P. BLAND.
paralysis of industry and impoverishment
of the people, and unexampled distress it
all gold standard countries.
the “Experience has shown that while undei
single gold standard there may be an oc¬
casional revival of business activity, accom¬
panied by enhanced prices of a limited num¬
ber of commodities, such revival is due to
artificial and temporary causes and cannot
permanently alleviate the sufferings due to
falling prices, brought about by the appre¬
ciation of gold and an inadequate supply of
primary or redemption money.
“Duty to tli9 people requires that the
party of the people continue the battle for
bi-metallism until its efforts are crowned
with success. Therefore be it:
“Resolved, That we, Democrats of Mis¬
souri, in convention assembled, demand the
free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold
into primary or redemption money, at the
ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the
action or approval of any other nation; and
second,
posed "Resolved, That we are irrevocably op¬
to tire substitution for metallic money
of a panic-breeding, corporation-credit cur¬
rency based on a single metal, the supply of
which is so limited that it can bo cornered at
at any time by a few banking institutions in
Europe and America; third,
.policy “Resolved, and That we surrendering are opposed to the
practice of to the
holders of the obligations of the United .States
the option reserved by the law to the govern¬
ment of reducing such obligations in either
silvercoin or gold coin;fourth,
issuing “Reaolved, That we are ox>posed to the
of interest-bearing bonds of the
United States in time of peace,and especially
are we opposed to placing the Treasury of
the government under the control of any
syndicate of bankers and the issuance of
bonds to be sold by them at an enormous
policy of gold mono-metallism ”
Additional resolutions were adopted in-
* vention tr " f ctin ” not ^ later State than committee August to 15th call to a con- elect
delegates to the national convention; also
sending congratulations to Senator Black-
burn, of Kentucky. The delegates from the
different congressional districts then named
their candidates for additional members of
the State committee and they were unani-
naously elected,
wa^t^e sp^i'of sTnator^Cockrell.
conclusion the convention adjourned sine
die-
The election of the committee at large is
regarded as a victory for “Silver Dollar”
Bland, and a severe blow to the Francis and
Maffitt faction of the party. Allen and Farris
are straight Bland men, Benton is a free
Jace, while Fyke is pledged to Governor
Stone.
Tiie Cold Cap Coming South.
Nature seems to be very slowly but sure!)
the immigration agent in turning
S3,'thTtSht* 1 ^
are growing richer and the poor are beeom-
poorer: but it is not generally known
ni gh!eM ^g?o^Sd%u“S?ioJid°fa Si
on getting to the Noith Pole, it is undoubted-
ly true that population is moving farther
f r pm it. Prosperous colonies were planted
within the memory of man on the south¬
western coast of Greenland, which main¬
tained themselves and cultivated small
patches of ground. On the sites of these
colonies is now a layer of perpetual snow
through of the former which tiie tbps of the stone houses
settlers occasionally show.
The Russian statistics show that the 'popula¬
tion is SiOwly but surely abandoning tho
northern part of European Russia and that
those tribes or iamii hb! ' A ^ lgrn
irra.luad" lie on* T ciip ia
JUSTICE JACKSON DEAD.
The Distinguished Jurist Passes Away
After a Lingering Illness.
Howell Edmunds Jackson, associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
died at his residence at West Meade, six
miles from Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday,'
aged 63. Judge Jackson bad been in failing
health for several years but it has been only
in the last nine months that the progress of
the disease Began to cause his familv and
friends uneasiness. Last year he went on a,
lengthy health. trip to the far West Thomasvillo, in search of
Later he went to Ga.,
where it was hoped the mild and bracing
climate would restore his vtgorous eoustitu-
tion. The trip did him little good and after
a time he was brou ght ho me.
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JUSTICE HOWELL E. JACKSON.
At liis old home, surrounded by the scenes
ho loved so well, Judge Jackson seemed to
improve steadily until he went to Washing¬
ton to sit in the second hearing of the income
tax case. He stood that trying trip fairly
well and after his return appeared to looso
strength rapidly. He was afflicted with a
complication of diseases which it was itn-
possible to light off. Nevertheless. Judge
Jacksoudid not take to his bed until eight
days ago. Since that time his family and
friends realized that the end was near and
his death was not unexnected.
HOKE SMITH ON THftSOBTH.
This Sunny Land Moves On as If the 1
Panic Had Never Been Heard Of.
Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary of the In¬
terior, in an interview with the Baltimore
Manufacturers’ Record in regard to the busi¬
ness outlook of the South, based on investi¬
gations during the recent trip, says: “I
have never seen the Soulh look so prosper¬
ous, especially Georgia. Hard times are
vapidly becoming extinct, and I believe that
tho Southern States are moving on to tho
most prosperous epoch in their history.
Georgia farmers will make this year better
corn crops and raise more meat than ever
before. It is safe to say that the food sup¬
ply of that State, if properly distributed,
jvdl “Cotton be sufficient is sufficiently for two years’ advanced consumption. to insure
a good crop, and while Texas is behind in
probable production, Georgia and the ad¬
joining States will furnish an average yield.”
The Secretary is enthusiastic over the signs
of prospoirity among the fruit growers of
Georgia. “More peaches,” he said, before “have
been raised and marketed than ever
in the history of the State. They are largo
aud juicy, and in the Eastern markets liavo
almost entirely supplanted California peches.
The watermelon crop, too, was a tremend¬
ous one, aud in most parts of the State a
profitable one. Grape-growing is also mak¬
ing rapid progress.” Smith he believes that the
Secretary says South, which
industrial boom in the was
temporarily set back by the late panic, is on
again. Cotton manufacturing was never
more successful in the South than it is to-day
and all through the cotton bolt now mills are
being erected and old mills are being en¬
larged. Much of this is being done by home
capital, although a number of New England
people are making large investments in cot¬
ton manufacturing companies. In the iron
districts o( Alabama a number of furnaces
have recently gone into blast and the work¬
men in that section are now fully employed
and many of them at increased wages. AU
over the South tho demaud for labor is con¬
stantly increasing and at increased good
prices. better for
“Conditions were never a re¬
turn of prosperity unexampled in the history
of that section. If our people continne in
Uieir present conservative way much of the
flow of Eastern capital, which has hitherto
travelled elsewhere, will come to us.
“The place for a young man, an old man,
a rich man or a poor man willing to work and
anxious to improve hits fortune,” concluded
the Secretary, “is in the South.”
OPENING DAY EXERCISES.
Programme for September IStli He-
ii»g Prepared by the Committee.
The programme for the opening day exer¬
cises of the Atlanta exposition has about
been fixed. The committee on programmes
have agreen upon all of the principal featur¬
es of the occasion. The following is the
programme:
Opening day, September 18, 12 m. by Victor
“Salute to Atlanta”—Composed
Herbert. Gilmore’s band.
Prayer. address by President Collier.
Introductory woman’s board by Mrs
Address on behalf of
Thompson. Address of welcome behalf of state by
on
Governor Atkinson.
Address of welcome on behalf of city b*
Mayor King.
Chorus.
Oration.
Chorus.
Benediction.
starting of machinery by President Cleve¬
land from Gray Gables.
National salute.
Will Press the Button.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, chairman
of the committee on ceremonies and cere¬
monial days of the Cotton States and Inter¬
national exposition, called on the president
to request him to press the electric button at
Buzzard's Bay, Mass., to start the wheels in
the and exposition at Atlanta, September the 18tb,
also to tender the service of Gale
City Guard, the crack Georgia military com¬
pany. as honorary escort from Washington
to Atlanta and return on October 23d when
the president and his cabinet will visit the
exposition. The president assured Govern¬
or Bullock that he would take great pleas¬
ure in pressing the button and starting the
wheels on the 18th, and from Gray Gables
or wherever he might be on that day. As
to the escort the president said tendered b" fully
appreejated the compliment by
th ' 1D { ll - 8r % com pan;, but hu- d . < ^ to
- decline the
avoid . display compelled him to
nonor.
Havoc by Field Laborer*.
Field laborers in Argenau, Germany, in
revenge for grievances, tired the -buildings
upon an estate there, and resisted the
officers. Five persons were killed and six
wounded. The buildings were destroyed
•»<* «*»•'
NO. 43.
DUN'S REPORT ENCOURAGING.
The Industries of the Country Make
Progress.
R. G. Dun A Co., of N*nv York, in their
weekly review of trade, say:
Business continues unusually active for
mid-summer, aud though there is perceptible
relaxation there are no signs of re action.
The one change of great importance which
the past week has brought is eminently help*,
fill—the amicable settlement between coal
mmt . _ r^ and , employee . in Western l ennsyb i
'jinia, Ohio and lndi.iua. It i> said that
about 1 00 ®P° m '*» *>» l ' ilve their ' va f*
creased . after O-t. 1st in „ this adjustment,
and while the enlargement ot purchasing
power is of consequence, it seems even more
versy important that a chronic cause of contro¬
has been removed by the new agree¬
ment as to company stores.* There is no im¬
portant change in crop prospects and at this
time no news is eminently good news.
Taken altogether the crops of thc year prom¬
ise so much better than was expected a 1
,month aging. ago although that tho tho effect Ls highly encour¬ will
be fml. crops except corn
[not • The out-go of gold continues, and this
ex¬
cites somegjominent, because it is felt that
the bond syndicate could arrest the move¬
ment at ouce if it pleased, probably by reduc¬
ing the rate of exchauge.
Speculation has been more successful in
cotton than in any other product during the
P43t week, and has lifted the price an eighth,
although it cannot be said that the prospect
jury as to yield has definitely changed. Home in¬
has evidently been sustained from ex¬
cessive rains and the government report
commands a little more attention.
The industries continue to make progress,
and higher prices for iron and steel products
prove that the supply has not yet out-run,
the demand. Bessemer pig is a shade weak-,
er, but gray forge has advanced about 60
cents and finished products are remarkably 1
firm with further advance in steel beams tot
1.6 cent and in angles to 1.5 cent and in bar' atf
iron to 1.3 cent. The Carnegie works
Homestead broke the record by turning out;
in July 43,000 tons of steel, of which 17,150
were of beams.
Sales of wool are not as mu-li inflated by
speculation as they were during thc first half
of July, but they still considerably exceed
the actual consumption in the manufacture,
Prices are very firm, and holders who bought
enormous quantities a month ago in ex pec-
tation of a rise appear to be looking for a
further advance. But woolen goods show
signs of weakening, and there is much cotn-
plaint of foreign competition and under-val-
uations, especially in medium and lower
qualities, while in worsted the tendency of
prices is upward. Some staple cotton goods
have again advanced in prices, and the mar¬
ket is unusually strong for tin* season.
The shipments of boots aud shoes continue
larger than in auy previous year, but there
is very little new business, and most of the
manufacturers are getting near the end of
their orders, while many have discharged
part of their hands. Prices are firmly main¬
tained, and there is activity in leather,
though it is reported that in hides prices at
the West show a little weakness.
The failures in July show liabilities amount-
to $11.788,510, of which $2,549,075 were ot
manufacturing apd $8,283,173 of trading
concerns. Failures for the week wore 225 ill
the United States against 264 last year and
43 in Canada against 54 last year.
SIAMESE TWINS.
Their Descendants Still Live in Surry
County, North Carolina.
A few miles from Mt. Airy, N. C., were tho
homes of tho famous Siamese twins, Eng
and Chang, who were born in Siam, of
Chinese parents in 1811, writes a Kentuckian
to the Flemingsburg, Ky., Times-Democrat.
These twins traveled all over the world in
charge of their manager aud protector, Mr.
Bunker, They whose name they finally assumed.
came at last into Surry county, sight¬
seeing, they declared it was the grandest
country they had ever seen, and having al¬
ready made a decent fortune they decided to
buy property and settle permanently in
Surry. They met aud fell in love with Miss
Adelaide Yates, of Wilkes, an adjoining coun¬
ty. Miss Yates was in an awkward predica¬
ment, beloved by both, but neither could tell
of his affection without the other hearing It.
Finally tho matter was settled by Miss Sallio
Yates, a sister of Miss Adelaide, consenting
to become the bride of one and Miss Adelaide
the other. The parents of the Misses Yates
strenuously objected to the double marriage,
but the youngladies were not to I>edeterred,
so they little eloped, met their roadside lovers on the bank
of a stream on the near their
home, and, a preacher being present, they
were quietly married. The two couples set¬
tled within two miles of Mt. Airy, and for
several years lived together. Owing to do¬
mestic quarrels, however, two homes were
found necessary' and each built a comfortable
home. They lived alternate weeks at each
other’s homes, and each raised a large
family of children, several of whom still live
and are among the most prosperous and
highly respected people in Surry wonderful county. ot
They were probably the most ad¬
all human phenomena, they lived to an
vanced age and were clever, law-abiding
men. It is said that they would sometimes
have their little quarrels, and would threaten
to kick each other overthefence. In 1874 Eng,
who had been in failing health, died very
suddenly. Indeed, on awakening one morn¬ had
ing, his brother, Chang, found that Eng
died during the night. Physicians were
summoned, but before they arrived Chang
had died, and they were buried as they had
lived, side by side.
TKXAS SILVERITES.
1,000 Delegates in Attendance. A 16
to 1 Ratio Favored.
The State Democratic free silver conven¬
tion met at Forth Worth, Tex., on Tuesday
About 1,W0 delegates were present. Hon.
Bryant Barry, of Glass, was made temporary
chairman.
The afternoon session was almost entirely
taken up with speech-making, ex-Senatbr
Reagan making the leading speech of the
day.
J. W. Bailey, of Cook, was made per™-.,
nent chairman. !
At night resolutions in favor of free silver
at 16 to 1, independent of international
agreement, were adopted, and the adminis-
tration condemned.
A Combine of JIUHons.
The great revolution now impending in
railroading, by which electricity will be
largely substituted for steam in the near
future,is likely to receive a powerful impetus has
from a really gigantic combination which
been announced—that of the Vestinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company, of
Pittsburg, and the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, of Philadelpha. The combination is
solely one of interests and not ©f capital.
Each company will retain its own identity
and carry on its own lines of work except
in the construction of electrical locomotives.
—Philadelphia Record.
A $500,000 Iron Contract.
The manager of the Anniston Pipe and
Foundry Company, of Anniston, Ala., has
been advised of the acceptance of his com-
f p an y’ s tjjq to furnish Tokio! pipe for the water sys-
em of the city of Japan. The order
jig ’ the largest ; and ever 0aU3 received for 30,000 by an American- which,
company tons,
| p| aciI1 g jt at the lowest possible estimate,
will amount to $500,000.
Colonial Relics.
The department of Colonial Belies will bd
one of the most interesting of the Cottony
States and International Exposition.
Lake Erie is nearly three feet lower than
usual.