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tlon. For a lonur time, low nr rate*
The Chicago Sun thinks that the
country is run*flly getting ready for a
heavier railroad mileage,and that a boom
n building will no doubt start next year.
There has set in an era of house restor
ation in Virginia. Old Southern man
sions reduced to a mass of ruins are
propped up, repainted and thoroughly
restored and surrounded by elaborate
pleasure grounds.
In connection with the death ef Gen
ral Frefhent, it fc interesting to relall
that only one man beside* him (General
Logan) rose from civil life tfi the com
mand of an array, without haying ob
tained a West Point education.
The French project of running a rail
road one thousand miles into the interior
of Africa is, in the opinion of the At
lanta Can.ititu.lpn, as big a thing as their
Panama Canal enterprise, bat it is mors
feasible. If anything will civilize the
dark continent, and draw white immi
grants, it goes without saying it is a
railroad. The enterprise should bo en
eouraged.
The Chicago Herald has noticed that
“as noon as given the right to vote women
cease to cars for it. In a recant school
sice lion in Sanborn County, South Da
kota, only 100 women voted out of 1200
female voters. Yet it was in Sanborn
County that the woman’s suffrage move
ment of the State originated and where
the most enthusiasm for it was manifested.
In other parts of the State the percentage
of women voters was even less, and ex
perience seems to show that women want
to vote only so long as they arc told that
they can’t.”
One of tho first things which strikes
an Eastern man who goes out on the
Pacific slopo as quocr, avers the Chicago
Herald, is the use of tho word “rustler."
The word has exactly tho same signifi
cation there as the word “hustler” does
here, and is invariably used by the Cali
fornian* in place of the latter word. No
one has yet explained the reason of the
change in the initial letter. Aunthei
expression peculiar to California is,
“He's a bird,” corresponding to the
Eastern expression, “He’s a daisy,” and
implying that the gentleman referred to
has great, faculties or powers in Bonn
one particular.
The phonograph figured at a wedding
for the first time at tho marriage of Miss
Tennant and Mr. Stanley. Throe of
them were placed in Westminster Abbey
during the service. One was placed in
the tower, to record the full sound of
the wedding bells. The second phono
graph was placed by tho organ, to note
the music and the wedding march. The
third was placed in the choir, to give tho
hymn as sung by the voices. These
records have been presented by Colonel
Gourand to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, so
that at any time hereafter tho wedding
bells, the organ and the voices will sound
as on the 12th of July, 1890.
Edward Marston, tho Loudon pub
lisher, tells, in Scribner's, this story of
Stanley while at work on his great book :
“Sadi, the black boy who traveled with
him throughout his long and perilous
expedition, is a youth of some resources.
Until this terrible book had got into his
master’s brain he had been accustomed
to free access to him at all hours; but
now things are different; every time he
approaches the den the least thing he ex
pected was that the ink-stand would be
thrown at his head. He no longer ven
tured therein. One day he originated a
new way of saving ltis head; he had a
telegram to deliver, so he ingeniously
fixed it on the end of a long bamboo, and
getting the door just ajar, he poked it
into the room and bolted.”
The Spaniard, at least the Catalan,has
the making in him of one of the best
workmen in Europe. In natural quick
ness, dexterity and tact, he is by all odds
the superior of the English laborer. He is
temperate and frugal to a proverb. You
do not see in the Spanish manufacturing
or mining districts the squalid wretched -
nes* that still haunted a few years back
even loom. Drunkenness, its
chief element, does not exist at all as a
popular habit in Spain, not even in
Andalusia, where the people are most
prone to what they call excess. Ia the
iron works the jaunty jackets and
sombrero calanes look odd among the
machines and furnaces. Yet the foreign
foremen testify that the wearers of the
romantic garb arc both willing to laboi
and apt to learn. -The high price of fuel
tells against the work.
ME ALLIANCE CJKYKNTION
HAS MET, DELIBERATED AND
ADJOURNED.
IMPORTANT OATHERINO OF RFPRFJTRNTA
TIVE ALLIAKCEIILN AMI WIIAT THEY
DIO.
The third annual convention of the
that® Alliance of Georgia wna called to
order Tuesday morning in the hall of
representatives of the new capitol by
Pres dent L. F. Livingston. Not less
ihari 175 delegates were present-, repre
-< tiling nearly tvety county in the state.
Kviry county is entitled to onrjj delegate,
sod every county having more.fhan 3,000
ajlwncenvn is entitled to two delegates.
<bi call of the roll neatly all the delegate*
responded. By motion, the rending of
the minutes was dispensed with. The
■ xecutivc or miditing committee had
finished examining the accounts of all
Ihe Alliance officers and had found them
in good fix. 'I he committee on creden
tial* then made their report. Next eatne
'h'- annual address pf President Liviog
lUm, which was thi special feature of
tl.i morning session.!*- lie gnve an able
inti rapidrevi w of the Alliance orgau-
: 7. ition since its inception, and showed
hat every member ought to be proud
if the order. He was followed by Pres
ident polk in an able and pointed address.
Ile spoke tor about two hours, dwelling
upon the growth and condition of the
• utional older. He spoke eloquently of
the outlook, oiitUniug the purposes of
l:C Alliance. 110 celled for c ontinued
harmony and a sacrifice (if *ll personal
inbitron" to fhe'aift'afiee'tnent of the Or
der.
The business of the night session was
the election of officers for the ensuing
year. It was held with the following
result: L. F. Livingston, president; It.
\V Everett, vice president; R.L. Burks,
secretary; AV. A. B oughton, treasurer;
Itev. .Mr. Davie, chaplain; .1. W. Beck,
state lecturer;, AV . B. Copeland, *cr
gennt at arms; I>. Wjltuiney, doorkeep
er; F. 11. Waddell, assistant doorkeeper.
It is noticeable that the two hignest
1 llicets of the Alliance are men that have
been nominated for congri ss. It is
worthy of note that in every instance the
old officers were re elected—a wholesale
awl emphatic endorsement of the ad
ministration of tho past year. It will be
noticed, aga p, that uo two officers come
from the same eotinty. President Liv
ingston hails from Newton, Vice-Presi
dent Everett from Polk, Secretary Burks
from Fulton, 'Jrrasnrer Broughton from
Morgan, State Lecturer Beck from Butts,
Executive Committeeman Stephens from
Heard, Sergennt-at-Anns Copeland from
Coweta, Doorkeeper Kaiuey from Schley,
Assistant Doorkeeper Waddell from Mer
iwether.
'I l,c first business taken up Wednesday
tnovuing was the election of the judiciary
committee. Hon. Martin V. Calvin,
chairman, and the old committeemen, A.
Q Moody and George T. Murrell, were
re-elected. Two new- members were
added, mating it a committee of live in
s cad of three, as heretofore. The new
members are: Dr McDonald, of Henry;
Hon. W. If. Gonnat), of Talbot.
lfesolu inns of the following import
w ere passed:
To appoint a committee to represent
the Georgia Alliance in the Grand Na
tional Alliance convention, which meets
in Ocala, Flotilla, next December.
Hephdgfng the Alliance to the resolu
tion adopted at the lust annual conven
tion relative to cotton bagging;
To hold their cotton this fall until a
satisfactory price is paid for it;
To empowi r the directors of the Ex
change to erect factories to make cotton
bagging for the t ext crop and every crop
thereafter.
At the afternoon session the following
committee wits appointed by tho State
Alliance of Georgia as dcleuntes to the
Grand Supreme Council of the National
Alliance, which meets in Florida next
December: L. F. Livingston,Newton ; W.
L.Peek, Rockdale; J.M.lfushin, Thomas;
W.S.Copeland, Coweta; W.A Broughton,
Mi rgnn ; If.F. Wright. Elbert;A.Q. Moody,
Thomas; Paul Trammell, Whitfield.
President Livingston and Col. Peek are
the two delegates appointed from the
state at large. All equal number of alter
nates were chosen; Hon. Felix Oorput
and lion. M. V. Calvin being the alter
nates fruit the state at large.
Am liter committee, consisting of L. F.
Livingston, .1 M. linshin, Harry Brown,
was appointed to bear greetings to the
Kansas State Alliance which meets soon.
THE nniKCT TRADE FATTER.
One of the most important mat'ers
that came before the convention was the
direct trade resolution, contemplating a
convention of the governors of alt the cot
ton states to be held at an early (lav.
The ( riginal retoldtion was passed some
time ago by the East Point, Ga., sub
aili.itiic and is ns follows:
I.(solved, That we respectfully request
his (xcelleitey, .the governor of Georgia,
to call a convention of governors of the
cotton states, to meet in-Atlanta on the
10th day of September, proximo, to
formulate a plan by which we can effect
direct trade with Liverpool.
Resolved, That each governor is re
spectfully requested to appoint six dele
gates from his state to accompany him
and take part in said convention.
Resolved, That tho State Alliance
which is to meet in Atlanta ou tho 19th
instant, is hereby respectfully asked to
give this matter its careful consideration,
and to appoint ten delegates, one from
each congressional district, to said con
tention. And be it further
Resolved, That each and every sub-alli
ance in Geo'gia is requested to endorse
this resolution.
w --“iesday morniDg, shortly after the
■ convention was called to order,
lion. Felix Corput, of Floyd, gained the
attention of the chair, and made a state
ment about the charges that were being
made against him in his home county, re
flecting on his career as au allianceman,
and as president of the Alliance exchange.
He denied that lie was guilty of anything
wrot g, and stated that if the convention
had any doubts as to these reports, he
it to satisfy itself before adjourn
t . rd
si at this pojpt, and before Mr. C'or
pr< fend finished speaking, one of the dele
gates from Cobb county arose. and taking
from his pocket a proceeded to read
au affidavit from J. H. Pedigo, of Pedigo
& Lyon o , of Augusta. The affidavit set
forth that Pedigo & Lyons iiad made a
proposition to Mr. Corput. as president
of IM exchange, to sell hemes and mules
to AUDncemen at a profit of 7 per cent
um, Mid allow lam (Corput) a brokerage
of 1 par centum. Mr. Corput declined,
and oNered to enter into att agreimjiit
with Pedigo ft Lyons to sell stock to Al
liancemen.and pay the exchange a brok' r
ift of 6 per centum. 'lbis Pedigo &
Lyona refused to do.
The natural inference from the fore
going affidavit was that the brokerage
went to Corput personally instead of the
state exchange; whereas tho brokerage
weuf to the farmers and cut down uy
just that the ci st of their stock.
Mr. Corput, as soon as the reading of the
affidavit was finished vigorously denied
that there w-s anything in it reflecting on
him or on his management of the ex
change.
After some discussion, the matter was
referred to the committee on the good oi
the order, of which State Lecturer Beck
is chairman, and on which are Hon. R.
W. Everett, of Polk, and Hon. T. J.
Barrett, of Pike.
The committee at once proceeded to
the matter under investigation.
A committee was appointed to investi
gate the advisability of establishing with
in the Alliance au insurance department
for life and property. In their report,
tho committee recommended that the
convention elect a board of directors,con
sisting of five members, to formulate and
put into execution a plan of insurance for
the Ailisnee of the state of Georgia.
When the meeting adjourned Wednes
day afterm on, though there still re
mained a great d< til of business to be at
tended to, it adjourned to 8 o'clock Thurs
day morning, it was announced then
that Governor Gordon would address the
idliancemen and others in an open meet
ing at 8 o'clock in the evening
in the hull of representatives.
At 8 o'slock the ball of representatives
wag filled and the galleries were almost
full. There was a full attendance of the
Allianeemen. The governor’s speech
was a brilliant one and commanded the
closest attention of his vast audience.
Among other things, be said :
“As for myself, I am not sure that I
shall be permitted to fight under the flag
of financial reform, although for
ever sixteen years I have been
carrying its banners and defending
every principle which you now advocate.
If my devotion to these principles for
sixteen years or more do not entitle me
to your confidence, then nothing will.
While I am iu the fullest sympathy with
the great object in view, I wish to say in
all candor that I cannot endorse the spe
cific sub-treasury bill, because I do not
believe even if it could be passed that it
would bring the relief you seek. The en
dorsement of specific bills is not what
yon need. You need first to win the
victory for reform by general agitation on
all lines, and then when the general bat
tle is won let all the combined wisdom ol
all the friends of the cause be called inti
requisition for perfecting the best meas
ures for the purpose. ’
The one topic of discussion among the
Alliance delegates about the hotels was
the speech of Gov. Gordon . Particularly
that sentence of it defining clearly his
position on the sub-treasury plan.
The last dy of tlic convintion was
productive of two interesting sensations,
and all day long these two were topics
for talk among the Allianeemen. The
first of these was the unanimous endorse
ment by the convention of the St. Louis
platform, carrying with it, of course, the
unanimous endorsement of the sub-treas
ury plan of the Alliance. The second
was the teport of the committee having
under consideration the investigation of
ex-President of the Exchange Cor| lit.
The committee having iu hand the inves
tigation of the actions of Mr. Felix Cor
put made a teport, vindicating Mr.
Corput so far as the Pedigo affidavit w as
concerned. The committee reported
that the percentage demanded by Mr.
Corput was for the benefit of the ex
change and not for Mr. Corput personally.
Mr. Corput was congratulated bv his
friends at this result, but the report
created a great deal of talk.
Another matter in which considerable
interest was felt by the convention was
an attack, through Hon. Felix Corput,
on lion. Martin Y. Calvin, of Richmond.
The attack came from Mr. James Barrett,
of Richmond. Mr. Barrett’s charge was
that Mr. Calvin, though a prominent
member of the order, was not eligible to
membership in the alliance. The matter
was referred to the judiciary committee.
COTTON BAGGING AGAIN.
A resolution was offered, and adopted
with enthusiasm, in which cotton bagging
was adopted ns the alliance covering.
The enthusiasm and unanimity were nota
ble, showiug that the alliance is us deter
mined as ever in this fight.
An invitation was extended the alliance,
through Vice-President Smith, from the
directors of the exposition, to attend the
exposition this fall. President Living
iton made a short speech, urging the ac
ceptance of the invitation. It was ac
cepted.
Resolutions were passed, a copy of
them to be presented to the Kansas Alli
ance by the Georgia delegation appointed
to bear fraternal greeting.
OTHER MATTERS.
The eligibility clause was made identi
cal with that of the National Alliance, pro
viding no one shall be admitted to mem
bership to the order unless he be a farmer,
larm laborer, mechanic, country school
teacher, country preadtsr, country physi
cian, country editor or the editor of a
strictly agricultural journal.
A board of grievances was established,
to consist of five membtrs, to be ap
pointed by the president. They are: AV.
E.H. Searcy, chairman; E.P.Willis, ML
Everett, AV. H. AVarner and G. F. Barry!
Their duty is to adjudge minor matters
thereby relieving the judiciary committee
of many of its labors. Their decisions
are submitted to t -e convention.
THE SCOURGE IN TEXAS.
A DOZEN CASES OF SMALL FOX DISCOVERED
IN SAN ANTONIA—A BIG SCARE.
There was great excitement and sur
prise created at Sun Antonio, Saturday,
"hen the fact became public that there
were no less than a dozen cases of small
pox in the c ity. The ou!break was vrr\
sudden, and not uutil Saturday was the
matter reported to the health authorities.
Steps were at once taken to prevent the
spreading of the disease.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SI MM ART OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM CNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
Cholera is spreading rapidly along the
Mediterranean.
Several cases of cholera arc reported in
the ficinity of Berlin.
The shipping strike has caused a gen
eral paralysis of business in Australia.
John Allen, the well known tobacco
nist, died in Richmond, Va., Saturday.
The. list of victims of the recent cy
clone in Wilkesbarrc, Pa., now number
1.
Frost has prevailed over Manitoba and
the terrible stories, and 75 per cent of the
crop has been injured.
Representative Lewis F. Watson, of
Pennsylvania, died very suddenly Mon
day morning in Washington. Heart
disease was the cause.
The hay crop in Ireland is reported as
ruined, and the condition of cereals and
turf is bad. One death is reported from
eating diseased potatoes.
A cannon was prematurely discharged
in a sham battle at Waverly, N. Y., Fri
day, killing Will Bossum and fatally in
juring James M. Costamore.
The French steamer, Amerique, on Fri
day,ran down and sank the English steam
er, Red llroak, off the port of St. Nasaire.
Three persons were drowned.
Butler <fc Johnson, dealers iu paper, 44
Beekman street, New York, made an as
signment Saturday to George P. Butler,
with a preference of $140,000.
Conservative railroad men estimate the
prospective loss to the Old Colony Rail
road Company, by the (Quincy accident,
aside from the damage to rolling stock
at SO OO,OOO.
A cablegram of Monday, from London,
says: Henry M . Stanley's agent has writ
ten a letter in which he says that Mr.
Stanley is very far from being restored to
perfect health.
The bakers at Newry, Germany, went
out ou a strike Monday. Jt is feared
there may be trouble, and the town is
swarming with police. A boycott has
been declared against “blacklegs.”
Twenty thousand miners held a meeting
at Chesterfield, England, Monday, and
voted in favor of a working day of eight
hours. The National Blast Furnacemen's
Association lias also approved the eight
hour system.
A dispatch of Monday, from Rome,
Italy, says: The military manoeuvres at
Montcchiari with smokeless powder were
a great success. Batteries of artillery
fired half an hour without their presence
being discovered.
Advices front Madrid, Spain, says:
Cholera is spreading in the city of Toledo.
Thirteen cases and five deaths report and
Monday. The Madrid health depart
ment has sent officers to Toledo to take
sanitary measures.
A dispatch from Vienna, Austria, says:
The duchy of Styria was visited by a hur
ricane Friday, at Gratz, the capitol of
the duchy, lluddiugs in which the na
tional exhibition was being held, were
completely wrecked.
A dispatch of Monday, to the London
Neirs, from Odessa, says that in spite of
the protest, an anti-Jewish edict will be
promulgated in October, with a supple
ment justifying such repressing severity
on the ground that it is intended to satisfy
foreign opinion.
A Buenos Ayres dispatch says : There
wits a panic Saturday, in Cedul market,
owing to reports that the Provincial Mort
gage bank would be compelled to sus
pend tlie payment of coupons, accompan
ied by rumors of changjs iu the ministry.
The gold premium is 157.
A dispatch from Limerick, Ireland,
says: Thirty thousand persons took part
Sunday in the demonstration held here to
protest against Bishop O’Dwyer’s attack
upon John Dillon. Mr. Dillon, Mr.
O’Brien and ten other Parnellitc members
of parliament made speeches.
The Ontario, Can., department of agri
culture has issued a bulletin, in which it
is estimated that the yield of wheat ex
ceeds that of last year by 57,000,000 bush
els; that of peas by 2,500,000, and that
of hay and clover by nearly 600,000 tons.
The fruit crop generally is a failure.
Admiral Brown, of the flagship
Charleston, which arrived Monday at
Seattle, Wash., from Honolulu, expressed
the belief, in an interview, that the next
steamer from the Hawaiian Islands would
bring news of a revolution and probably
of the declaration of anew republic.
The strike in Boerinnge district is
spreading. On Friday 8,500 miners quit
work, making a total thus far of 11,500
men on strike in the district. Meetings
have been held at Jemmappes, Guesmes,
Duaregnon and Frameries, at which the
miners decided to continue the strike,
l he police were r.ot allowed to lx: nreseut
it the meetings.
A Washington dispatch of Mouday
‘ays: Asa result of the investigation by
local steamboat inspectors of the Sea
Wing disaster on Lake Pep ; n, the license
ns master and pilot of Captain Wetherin,
who commanded the steamer, has been
revoked, and he has been reported to
the l nited States attorney for prosecu
tion.
Workmen engaged upon the two ends
of St. I lair river tunnel. iretweeu Port
Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Out., shook
hands with each other Monday morning
tiuder St Clair river and made the great
subterranean highway re echo with their
cries. The tunnel is practicallv com
pleted, and everyone connected with it is
jubilant.
The Queen's hotel at Sunbridge,
Canada, together with its contents, was
burned Mouday morning. The guests,
of whom there was a large number, had
great difficulty in escaping. Two men,
Thomas Powers and Herbert Layton, the
latter it is said, belonging to Ottawa,
were burned to death, and tw o others
were badly burned.
A banquet was given to Dr. Peters at
Kaisershof, Germany, Monday evening.
Minister Hoffmann having toasted the
emperor. Dr. Schweinfurth proposed the
health of the guest of the evening, whom
he referred to ns an intrepid man. -who
had secured Germany’s hold in east Airi
es, and who had so unconsciously re
gained Heligoland.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for week ended August 24,
amounted to of which $2(5,018
was gold and $23(5.460 silver. Of the
total exports $15,214 in gold and $57,-
475 in silver went to Europe and $lB,-
804 in gold and $178,975 hi sliver went
to South America. Imports of specie for
the week amounted to $578,352, of whiah
$163,823 was in gold and $254,529 silver.
A cablegram of Monday from Brussels,
Belgium, says: The public sympathizes
with the strikers and condemns the atti
tude of the employers. The Courier de
Bruxelles says that at a meeting of strik
ers, delegates from the Cadry coal dis
trict, it was decided to issue a manifesto
calling upon the men to prepare fora gen
eral strike after the suffrage congress in
September next.
A New York dispatch says: The re
mains of Capt. John Erieson were on Sat
urday placed onboard the cruiser Balti
more, to be conveyed to his native couu
try, Sweden, for final interment. The
cr remonies attending.the transfer of the
remains from the cemetery, in East Sec
ond streets were very, imposing, Rear
Admiral Brane was in charge of the naval
part of the demonstration, and General
Howard the military. All departments of
the government were represented.
All of the firemen and engineers em
ployed by the Union Stock Yards Switch
ing association at Chicago, went on a
strike for higher wages Friday morning.
The swiebing or transfer system is the
largest in the country, as the association
does all Ihe work for immense packing
houses at the yards. Consequently all
the work at the packing houses is at a
stand still. The reasons for the strike
are that the firemen receive 10J cents au
hour sud engineers 28 cents. The fire
men want 20 cents and the engineers 30
cents. The men also desire Sunday work
regulated.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHS' ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TIIE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER —ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Colored peop'e at Lula, Miss., are
talkin'g of emigrating to Oklahoma.
The Capital City bank, of Nashville,
Tenn., is out just $41,030.70 through the
ptock speculations of its teller, Frank M.
Allen.
Spartanburg, S. C., is to have a grand
gala week the latter part of September,
flaring the sa cof city property, which
Jakes place on the 24th, 25th and 26th of
September.
An almost unprecedented good condi
tion of the rice crop is reported in the
upper Pedee section of South Carolina.
The news from the rice fields lower down
the coast is equally cheering. Everything
points to an unprecedented rice crop in
the State.
Lookout Inn, on Lookout Mountain,
changed hands Monday, R. L. Watkins
and W. O. Peeples selling their interest
to M. M. Henderson. The latter, with
Hugh Whiteside and Watkins, owns the
controlling interest in the inn. The entire
property is valued at SIBO,OOO.
An El Pnsso, Texas, special says that
between thirty-five and forty houses were
washed away Monday evening in Juarez,
and sixty families rendered homeless by a
cloudburst. A street traversed by one of
the bursts wiis almost obliterated. Dwel
lings on both sides were submerged and
destroyed.
R. P. Jones, a prominent builder and
railroad contractor of Knoxville, Tenn.,
made an assignment on Saturday. His
liabilities are placed at SIOO,OOO and as
sets at SBO,OOO. These figures may be
reduced or increased somewhat, as his
affairs are in much confusion. Mr. Jones
has a large amount of valuable real estate
and Ms creditors will lose but little if
anything.
The Knoxville and Southern railroad,
from Knoxville, Tenn,, to Atlanta, Ga.,
220 miles, has been completed. A com
mittee of citizens have passed over the
road and inspected if. Three years ago
Knoxville voted $275,000 to the com
pany, to be issued for stock to that
amount. A committee, who have passed
over the road, will report unaimously in
favor of issuing the bonds.
A Nashville dispatch of Saturday says:
It has just been learned that a party of
\\ bite Caps a few nights ago visited the
neighborhood of Carnesvillc, in Wilson
county, N. C., and whipped four men
and two w omen with hickory switches.
Among the men who were .whipped arc
John and L. It. Matthews and Obe Lnv
hew r . They claim to know nothing about
why they were whipped,
A St. Louis dispatch of Friday says:
The Farmers’ and Laborers’ Alliance of
Missouri holds the key to the political
situation in Missouri. In the state the
consolidated alliance and wheel have
190,000 members, and 175,000 arc voters.
It is organizing at the rate of five subun
ions a day, and when the November elec
tion arrives will control 250,000 votes,
and hold the balance of power in the
state.
The prohibition party of Wske county,
N. C\, met in convention Saturday, lit
Raleigh,and nominated a full county tick
et. The platform is particularly interest
ing as it will be that of the party in North
Carolina th s year. It favors the sub
treasury bill, and the abolition of the
liquor traffic. Its planks are in the main
those of the Farmers’ Alliance, which,
like the state democratic convention, it
has incorporated.
A Danville, Ya., dispatch says: In
October last a warehouse at Rocky
Mount, Franklin county, wrs fired by in
cendiaries and burned to the ground,' to
gether with several other buildings.
Four negroes—George Early, Byrd
Woods, William Brown and Nannie
Woods—were arrested on suspicion, tried
and convicted, and sentenced to be
hanged. George Early and Byrd Woods
were executed at Rocky Mount Friday,
and the others will be executed on Sep
tember 19th.
SUBSCRIBE~NOW.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES,
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITB MEMBERB.
WHAT IS BEINO DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
TUB GREAT ORGANIZATION. —LEGISLA-
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The Fanners’ Alliance will nominate a
candidate for congress in the Kansas City,
Mo., district.
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The Fanners and Laborers’ Union and
the Alliance of Arkansas have consoli
dated the two organizations.
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South Carolina has 1,052 sub-Alliances
and a membership of 40,000. An in
crease of 800 sub-Alliauces and 17,500
members since last report.
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Kansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia
and North Carolina lead ail other states
in Alliance membership, Missouri is in
the lead with 2,900 unions.
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A good thing for Alliancemen to learn
is to keep their own counsel, hear all
that passes, learn all they can, and do
but little talking. The one who absorbs
all he can and gives out as little as possi
ble, is the one who increases. Those who
do most ta king generally have very little
in reserve.
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The Alliance is getting there lively
this year. From all parts of the country
comes the good news that prominent
members of the organizations are being
nominated for Congress. That is a move
in the right direction. Fill all legisla
tive halls with Alliancemen.— Arkansas
Tocsin.
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The chairman of the democratic execu
tive committee of South Carolina says the
outlook is all right. The Farmers’ Alli
ance, about which there is so much talk,
is all iu the democratic party, and it will
organize the counties as they were never
before organized. The alliance, of
course, controls the conventions of all the
counties.
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Co-operate mills, factories, stores, in
fact all kinds of such enterprise's, must
have at the head men of clear judgment,
sound sense and methodical business
habits. The marked successes have been
won by just such men, and the mass of
failures were due to the lack of sound
judgment and clear-headed business
views. Alliances will do well to note
this fact clearly.
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The State Alliance has again met and
the delegates have returned to their
homes. The meeting at Asheville was by
far tlie largest meeting yet held in the
State. Harmony prevailed throughout.
We have many good men in our order,
but it w’ould be hard to get a better set
of officers than we now have in the State
Alliance. Some of them have filled the
same place ever since the first State
meeting, and their private and official
bearing has been such as to win not only
the full confidence of our members, but
the respect and confidence of everybody.
Three cheers for the North Carolina Al
liance!— (Raleigh N. C.) J’rogressivt
Farmer.
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It is a pi asurc to every Allianceman to
know that the order in Georgia is stand
ing squarely to the democratic party, and
those men who have had so much to say
about the div sion iu the party, will cer
tainly now take a back seat. We fail to
see where there has ever been reason for
the fears so often expressed of designing
men using the Alliance for their own pur
poses; 11re only men who have endeavored
to use the Alliance for unv purpose out
side of its legitimate intentions and aims,
was a few politicians outside of the order
who have endeavored to use it through
certain agencies inside our ranks.—South
ern Alliance Farmer.
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The Colered Farmers’ State Alliance
met in Macon, Ga., Tuesday, and trans
acted considerable business. Over fifty
counties were represented, and all the
delegates were enthusiastic over the pro
ceedings of the special meeting. The
object of the meeting was to decide
where the State exei nge will be
established. G. neral R. M. Hum
phrey, of Austin, Texas, general
superintendent of the Colored Farmers’
Alliance of America, made quite an in
t cresting address to the convention. He
is one among the white men of the sou h
who are working for the upbuilding of
the colored race. His advice to the body
was good. The best colored men of
Georgia are with him. State Superin
tendent Edward Richardson, of the
Georgia Alliance, made a telling speech
to the convention. Ricdiardson is a
young colored man that has a following
of over sixty-five thousand colored men
in Georgia. He appealed to the men to
buy hou.es, educate their children and
get property and work for peace and
prosperity.
COLORED ALLIANCEMEN.
SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION REGARD
ING THEIR PLATFORM.
A dispatch of Saturday, from Raleigh,
N. C., s-ys that the session of the Cole
ortd State Alliance developed some in
teresting information regarding the
platform of this Alliance. It is entirely
different from that of the white Alliance.
The members are pledged to provide for
their families, live economically and be
good citizens, and also to withdraw from
partisan politics. This last feature is a
very important one, and is supposed to
mean a fusion of the white and colored
alliances in the near future.
THEY NEED AID.
A SPECIAL INSPECTOR REPORTS ON THE
CONDITION OF OKLAHOMA SUFFERERS.
A special land inspector of the interior
department, who has been investigating
the reported destitution in Oklahoma,
telegraphs Secretary Noble that: “After
many days of house to-house iusoectioa,
I find fully one-third of the people need
aid ; two-thirds of the farmers need seed
wheat; many are now iu want of food;
no work; nothing to sell; prospects
gloomy; extreme south of the territory
not quite so bad.”
NO ARBITRATION.
SITUATION OF THE GREAT STRIKE IN NEW
YORK STATE.
More literature was added to the strike
history Friday afternoou and evening.
State Commissioner Donovan, of the
board of meditation and arbitration, sent
a letter to Vice-President Webb and a
copy to Mr. Powderly, saying: “It having
come to the knowledge of the State
board of meditation and arbi
tration that another strike is
seriously threatened upon the
lines of your company, I am instructed
by the board to again communicate w th
you, and invite a joint conference be
tween the officers of your company and
representatives of your employes with the
view of devising some means, either by
arbitration or such other method ns may
be mutually agreed upon, w hereby the
threatened strike may he averted, and an
abrupt interruption of travel and trans
portation of freight prevented.’’
Mr. Powderly, in reply, said: “Our
board is willing to comply with your re
quest, and hold themselves in readiness
to respond at a moment’s notice. We
have from the beginning been willing
and anxious to submit the matter to your
board for adjustment.”
MR. WEBB WILL NOT ARBITRATE.
Iu reply Mr. Webb says: “The fur
ther strike referred to by you will or
will not tnke place, ns the efforts of the
persons who have left our service may or
may not meet with success. I believe
that such efforts will fail. Tbt operating
force of this company is full; the passen
ger service of the company is regularly
performed, and there is no obstruction to
its freight service except lawless inter
ference, and apprehension thereof seems
to me inappropriate and unnecessary to
have the conferenee as suggested by
you.”
Labor leaders say there is nothing to
do save to strike, as the principle in
volved is the right of workingmen to or
ganize.
TRADE REVIEW.
DUN A COS. REPORT OF BUSINESS FOR
WEEK ENDED AUGUST 23.
The weekly review of trade of R. G.
Dun & Cos., says: The signs of monetary
disturbance w hich were noticed in previ
ous reviews were not misleading. Money
loaned at half a cent per day premium or
about 190 per cent yearly, and most of
the loans were at a quarter premium.
Money for commercial loans is scarce and
rates nominal. The treasury has an
nounced that it will redeem $20,000,000
of the per cent bonds, and accelerate
payment for silver bought. The obvious
and only sufficient relief is fhe liquidation
of money. Speculations in stocks, in
wheat, corn, oats, cotton, leather, hides,
coffee, wool, and especially in silver bul
lion, have locked up enormous sums. In
silver alone about ten millions have been
locked up to wait for high prices. In
grain several times ns much and iu
other products many millions. In addi
tion, the enormous imports intended to
anticipate the pending tariff bill have
virtually locked up for an indefinite time
many millions paid f> r goods and in du
ties on them. The volume of legitimate
business throughout the country contin
ues large, exceeding that of last year by
10 per cent, outside of New' York, and
the desire to market products quickly
as prices rise, causes a greater demand for
currency from the country than usual.
Reports from the various cities, with
very few exceptions, indicate a larger
trade than ever before is in progress with
satisfactory collections and a bright out
look. Crop reports are less discouraging
though the yield must full below early
anticipations as to grain. In general, the
condition of legtimate business is encour
aging, unless monetary pressure and labor
controversies interfere. The threat of a
great strike on all the Vanderbilt roads
has helped to depress stocks and to dis
turb shipments. Business failure of the
veck number for the United States 1,-
172, Canada 20. Total 192, against 197
la.t week.
APPEAL TO CONGRESS.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR ASKING FOR FUNDS FOR
THE STRIKERS.
At n mcetiug of the central council of
the Knights of Labor at Chicago, Sunday,
a committee was appointed to solicit
funds for the aid of the New York Cen
tral strikers, and the following resolutions
were adopted unanimously:
Resolved, That we do hereby demand
that the congress of the United States
shall at once authorize and instruct the
secretary of war to seize said Vanderbilt
■ system of railroads and operate the same
at the cost of said service for the benefit
and pleasure of the public.
Resolved further, That said railroad
shall be turned over to the department of
transportation just as soon as
the senate bill, number 4106, or
some similar measure, can be enacted by
congress, foi the reason that it is a mon
strous absurdity that any private person
or corporation should presume to throttlo
the transportation of persons, thought or
things within the limits of this republic
at tlieir own sweet pleasure.
Resolved, That we do hereby ask all
liodies of organized labor in tlm United
States to substitute names for ours in this
declaration, and have said declaration
published iu their local papers, as well as
forward marked copies of said papers to
their senators and representatives iu con
gress, with a red-hot letter of instruc
tions to obey their wants and wishes or
resign forthwith.
Resolved, That th's declaration be
published in all the city papers, so that it
will meet the attention of the public.
A FREE FIGHT
INDULGED IN BY SOLDIERS, CITIZENS AND
POLICE.
Information from Sabinas. Mexico,
says that an affray occurred there Mon
day morning. The military escort ac
companying the pay car of the Mexican
International railways, all got on a
drunken spree at Sabinas leaving the pay
car unguarded. The soldiers becatre
noisy and their arrest was. attempted by
the police, when a fight ensued, and a
citizen named Danancio Darrila was
killed by one of the soldiers. The sol
diers were all finailv arrested and jailed.