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ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS
OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
Two papers, an English and a Scandi
navian, pave been established in Dakota
by tno State Alliance.
The executive council of the Farmers’
Alliance of Kansas have sent four state
lecturers into the field.
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The business of the several State Alli-
•nco Exchanges for the year past
•mounted to 110,000,000.
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The Farmers’ Alliance is tho biggest
thing on earth. Was born of necessity
in the State of Texas, and has killed
more politicians during its brief exist*
ence than any other known power. It is
here to stay, or words to that effect.—
Alliance Monthly.
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Little River Pilot (Richmond, Ark.)
Bays: The pleasant nnd harmonious meet
ing of tho Farmers’ Alliance at Ocala,
Florida, has proven beyond the shadow
of a doubt that the ghost of scciionalism
no longer stands between the farmers of
tho north and the south, tho east and
west. They met on one common platform
and together consulted over their inter
ests and laid plens to protect themselves
and their posterity. May the blessings
of God rest upon the works of the noble
order.
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Living Issues (Boston, Mass.) says:
Union is coming. The Farmers’ Alliance
has led the way. Over the chasm of North
and South, over the soldier’s grave, Kan-
sas and Florida, the farmer of Dakota and
the planter of Louisiana, have shaken
hands. What an achievement—forty
congressmen at its first election. The
farmers taught us how. Even black and
white are brothers in the Farmers’ Alli
ance. If that difference in the South
can be forgotten, can reformers of the
East and North come togethert
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Thomas S. Gellibrand, of London, and
Louis von der Hoya, of Germany, pro
posed to the direct trade convention in
session in Atlanta recently that if the
Southern States would interest them
selves to the extent of a guarantee of 5
per cent of the sum necessary to build
four steamships to ply between Europe
and the Southern ports, that they would
furnish the steamers and commence di
rect trade at once. The convention ap
pointed a canvasser for each State to
•ecure $50,000 as a guarantee at once.
So it seeems that direct trade k about to
take practical shape at last. A large
majority of those present were Alliance-
tneh.
At a meeting of the Seventh Congres
sional District Farmers’ and Laborers’
Union of the State of Missouri, held at
Bowling Green, the following resolution
among others, was adopted:
Whereas, The Farmers’ Alliance and
Industrial Union assembled at Ocala, Fla.,
December 2, 1890, gave to the world a
Declaration of Principles of the Farmers’
Kind .Laborers’ Organizations; therefore
be jt
Resolved by the Seventh Congressional
District Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union of
Missouri, That after careful examination
of the same, we heartily indorse the dec*
laration and believe it to be as just to afy
as any set of principles that the mind of
man could formulate.
The Alliance Times (Anderson, Ind.)
says: The Alliance is a political organ
ization and teaches politics; its princi
ples are purely political, its intentions are
political, and the man or woman who is
thinking of becoming a member with
any other understanding had better not
send in his application for membership.
Whilo it is political it is non-partisan.
Borne people do not know the difference
between politics and partisanship. Pol
itics is the science of government; parti
sanship—well it is anything to beat the
other party, regardless of principles or
anything else.
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The Alliance men of Kansas are im
pressed with the great purpose of the
Order, which is that the strong shall help
the weak whenever their greater strength
is needed, and serves ns the basis for
much that the Alliance does in business
Co-operation. The following from
Wichita, describes the broad line in
which the duty of mutual aid is con-
Ztrued in Kansas: “The Alliance lec
turers over the State have commenced
to advocate the policy of farmers
organizing and making loans
on corn to enable poor farmers to meet
their obligations without being compelled
to put their corn on the market. The
first company has been organized. It is
composea of five hundred members, each
putting in $200, and it is proposed to
take care of the poor members of a cer
tain number of sub-Ailiances. It is said
that within a few days similar loan com
panies will be organized covering the en
tire State. A resolution was passed
stating that every bushel of corn should
bring the farmer $1 or more.”
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TI1E DEMANDS.
The demands recently male by the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industr.al
Union show that they had a full concep
tion of the responsibilities, and that they
were cautiously making demands that
they intended to enforce. Summed up
in brief, the seven demands made show
that they will require only about thirteen
bills or laws, as follows:
First demand: 1. Law abolishing na
tional banks. 2. Law establishing sub
treasury plan. 3. Law establishing sys
tem of 2 per cent land loans direct to
the people. 4. Law increasing volume of
money to $50 per capita.
Second demand: 5. Law prohibiting
dealing in futures.
Third demand: 0. Free coinage of
silver.
Fourth demand: 7. Law prohibiting
alien ownership of land. 3. Law for
feiting unearned railway laud grants
and limiting their laud holdings.
Fifth demand : 0. Law revising tariff
in tho iutoiest of the producer. 10. Law
crestin'/ a onadunfed income tax 11
Law reducing government expenditures,
Sixth demand: 12. Law creating Ef
ficient control of railroads.
Seventh demand: 18. Law for the
election of United States senators by di
rect vote of the people.
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AN ALLIANCE VICTORY.
Judge Peller was elected senator Tues
day by the Kansas legislature to succeed
Mr. Ingalls. This is an overwhelming
victory for the Farmers’ Alliance, whose
cause he espoused, f’effer is a man of
education and ability, with an irre
proachable personal character, though
riot aa much of a scholar as a man of af-
faiis. He was born in Pennsylvania sixty
years ago, and tho foundation of his Ed
ucation was laid in the country school
house of that state. In 1870 ho moved
to Kansas, locating on a claim govern
ment land in Wilson county, engaging in
farming and the practice of law. In
1874 ho was elected to the state senate as
a republican.
In 1880 he was a presidential elector on
the republican ticket, and in 1881 was
appointed editor of the Kansas Farmer
ana moved to Topeka, lie then aband
oned party and politics and devoted him
self to the study of economic questions.
During the campaign he was a declared
candidate for the position to which
he has been nominated by his party
and Judge Pcffer has alway taken
a great interest in agricultural matters,
and is thoroughly educated iu the bu
colic silence in politics. He unreservedly
indorsed the St. Louis platform and the
Ocala platform of the National Farmers’
Alliance Industrial Union, and the plat
form of the people’s party in Kansas; be
lieves the government should nid in im
proving harbors and rivers iu the South,
and building north nnd south railroads;
in the West, in irrigating lands where-
ever and as fast os settlement demands;
and, first of all, the issuance of money
enough to set tho people on their feet
again.
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BEN TERRELL’S VIEW'S.
Ben Terrell, national organizer for the
Farmers’ Alliance, made an able address
before the convention of the Farmers’
and Laborers’ Union of Kentucky, which
met recently in Lexington, lie appealed
to the inhabitants of the cities and towns
to aid the farmers to promoto the better
condition of the agriculturists; that they
were people of the same government, and
w’hat was the interest of one class was the
interest of all. lie declared that the
Alliance was not u partisan organiza
tion, but it stood ready to rebuke any
party or administration which did not
heed the demands of the laboring class.
He said that tho farmers, both north
and south, would staid shoulder to
shoulder iu the fight against the common
enemies of mankind—namely, specula
tors and monopolists. There was no
sectional strife among the farmers of the
nation. They are all for one end—bet
ter times. He deprecated class legisla
tion; said it was injurious to the peo
ple, and doubly so to the farmer, upon
whom the brunt of everything falls.
The farmers were patriots, not par
tisans, and whatever was good for
the country they would always go
for it. He said that tho farm
ers as a class were educated; that they
were readers and thinkers, and their or
ganization did not bind them to any po
litical or religious views, but reserved to
each individual member a perfect free
dom of political and religious thought
and action. He further said that the
farmers have determined that parties shall
support the people, not the people sup
port the parties. And the party in the fu
ture which will gain the votes of the Alli
ance will be the party which will enact
legislation for the relief of the people.
And they reserve to cast a ballot which
will relieve them from the oppession to
which they are subjected. He concluded
by saying that the Alliance to cultivate
the friendship and good will of all classes,
and asked that everybody join tho farm
ers in trying to do away with sectional
ism.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NEWS NOTES AND ITEpIS FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
REPORT OF BUSINESS
For the Week Just Ended by
Dunn & Co.
R. G. Dunn & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Business continues unprece
dented in volume and satisfactory in
character, being larger than in any other
year at this season. The tone in com
mercial circles throughout the country is
hopeful, and money markets are now
comparatively easy at nearly all points.
The uncertainty regarding the monetary
future causes some hesitation, especially
as to new undertakings, but there is un
derneath an abiding confidence that in
the fertile genius of the people and the
measureless resources of the country will
meet every difficulty. So strong is this
feeling that it is often hard to realize
that tne pressure and anxiety of Novem
ber and December lasted until within
thirty days. But there are some grounds
for caution still.
The dry goods trade is, on the whole,
very satisfactory for the season, and
while buying is conservative both in cot
ton and woolens, and prices are low
enough to embarrass some branches of
production, trade is clearly on a more
healthy basis, as well as larger in volume,
than it was a year ago. The increasing
demand for wool, though still confined
to actual needs for consumption, proves
that current prices, low ns they are, do
not arrest production. Trade in boots
and shoes and leather is somewhat re
tarded by the monetary uncertainty.
The embarrassment in iron and sceel
manufacture trade is now clearly per
ceived to be the result of the marked
shrinkage in demauds for consumption.
Accouuts from southern cities indicate
only a fuir trade, with an improvement
at Atlanta, and a slight improvement at
Jacksonville, but increasing receipts and
lower prices for cotton at New Orleans.
Philadelphia reports a good demand for
combing wool.
The startling death of Secretary AVin-
dom caused a sudden fall in the price of
bar silver from 47$- to 4G| cents in Lon
don, it is stated in dispatches. But no
change whatever in the financial policy
of the government is likely to result,
though it may easily happen that his sue
cessor, however able, may not possess
the fertility of resources which Mr. AVin-
dom has shown in meeting emergencies
The operations of the treasury during the
past week have in no way affected the
money market, which is well supplied.
Speculation accordingly, grows more ac
tive, and wheat lias advanced 3£ cents,
corn 2Jf cents, oats 4 cent and coffee 15
cents per 100 pounds; but cotton is a
sixteenth lower, and oil 2f cents lower,
Failures for the week number 278;
for the corresponding week of last yeai
the failures were 240.
LOWER INTEREST
Wanted by Alliancemen of North
Carolina.
A Raleigh dispatch says: The Far
mers’ Alliance members of the legislature
held a caucus Friday night on the bill to
reduce the Tate of interest from 8 to
per ceut. There was much discussion of
the proposed change, hut it was decided
that it was expedient to make the change.
The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of
this. Inquiry was made of alliaucemcn
and they all said they would stand to
gether and that the passage of the bill
was certain. The alliancemen are in a
large majority. Of course, the bauk peo
ple will antagonize the bill, and ihc op
ponents of it claim that it will cripple
the interests of the state.
Proceedings of the Second Ses
sion of the 51st Congress.
SENATE.
The senate met at 11 o’clock a. m.
Wednesday, which is to be the hot]r for
daily meeting for tho remainder of the
session unlcis otherwise ordered. Jfr.
Stewart said inasmuch as there Was some
Mini
uncertainty as to itr. Stanford's
on the vote (Monday) to lay aside the
cloture rule, he wished to havo read a
telegram written to him by Mr. Stanford
on Monday morning, but not delivered on
account of interrupted telegraphic bpri-
ne«B. The telegram was read.
House amendment to the senate
bill refferriug to the court of claims
the claim of the Chesapeake Female
college, of Virginia,^ for use and oc
cupation of its property from 1881 to
1809 by the military authorities of the
United States, was concurred in and ilie
bill now goes to the president. The con
ference report on the bill for a public
building at Columbus, Ga., was pre
sented and agreed to. The house ap
portionment bill was then taken up and
Mr. Hale, who had reported it from the
census committee, explained and advo
cated the house bill and argued against
the amendment proposed by the minority
of the committee. A lengthy argument
ensued, Messrs. Davis, Gorman, Carlisle
and Vance taking part therein. The bill
was laid aside after a statement from Mr.
Hale that he would ask a vote upon it at
noon T hursday. After a brief executive
session the senate adjourned.
Tiro senate, on Thursday, passed the
apportionment bill as it came from the
house. The office of fourth assistant
postmaster general was also voted for.
The army bill then misplaced the eight-
hour bill, and at adjournment was the
pending business.
The senate met at 11 o’clock Friday.
After prayer by the chaplain the journal
of Thursday wus read, and Mr. Morrill
rose, and in a voice tremulous with
emotion, said: “In consequence of the
recent calamity which has visited us in
the sudden decease of a former eminent
member of this body and a distinguished
officer of the government—the secretary
of the treasury—I move that the senate
do now adjourn.” The motion was
agreed to, and the senate adjourned till
Saturday at 11 o’clock a. m.
In the senate, Saturday, Mr. Cullom
presented two resolutions of the house of
representatives in the Illinois legislature.
He said that they instructed the senators
from that state fo vote for the free coin
age bill and against the “force bill," so
termed in the resolution. He regarded
those resolutions, he said, as in the nature
of petitions, and asked that they be filed
in the records of the senate. They were
so ordered. Mr. Blair, rising to a personal
explanation, said that he had observed,
circulating in newspapers of the country,
what purported to be a copy of ah agrOS-
" to have been entered into by
republican senators with reference to the
consideration of the force bill, so called,
or election bill, more properly called.
Mr. Teller said that he did not intend to
pay attention to newspaper reports, and
as a general rule, never gave any atten
tion to statements made by newspaper
correspondents. He only desirea to say
now that the statement, pretty generally
circulated, that he had been in favor of
the force bill—so called, or election bill—
at any time, was incorrect; that the fur
ther statement that amendments were
made to that bill in committee whenever
he asked to have them made, was also
incorrect; and that the statement that he
had ever agreed lo support the bill, di
rectly or indirectly, was incorrect.
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HOUSE.
In the house, on Wednesday, the jour
nal of Tuesday’s proceedings was ap
proved without question. The speaker
aid before the house the resignation of
John H. McCarthy, as representative of
the eighth district of New York. Laid
on the table. The house then went into
committee of the whole, Mr. McComas,
of Maryland, in the chair, on the mili
tary academy appropriation bill. Before
disposition of the bill, the committee
found itself without a quorum, and the
roll call failing to procure the necessary
100 members, the committee rose and
the house adjourned.
The house, on Thursday, while con
sidering the Military academy bill, was
twice thrown into the meshes of a polit
ical controversy, which filled the day and
prevented final action.
The journal of the house having been
approved Friday morning, Mr. McKinley
arose and offered the following resolu
tions :
Resolved. That the house of represen
tatives lias heard with profound sorrow
of the death of Hon. William AVindom,
secretary of the treasury, who for ten
years was a member of this body, and for
twelve years a member of the senate.
Resolved, That a committee of repre
sentatives be appointed by the speaker to
join such committee as may be appointed
by the senate, to attend the funeral of the
late secretary of the treasury on behalf of
congress, and to take such other action ns
may be proper iu honor of the memory of
the decased, and as an appreciation of
congress of his public services.
The speaker appointed the following
committee to attend the funeral: Messrs.
McKinley, Mills, Duunell, Holman,
O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, Forney, Van-
dever, Blount and Snider. The resolu
tions were unanimously adopted. As a
further mark of respect the house ad
journed.
NOTES.
The secretary of the navy formally ac
cepted the cruiser Newark, Saturday,
and ordered that she be put in commis
sion.
The senate on Wednesday confirmed
the nomination of F. W. Collins, United
States marshal for the southern district
of Mississippi, nnd It. (J. Wilcox post
master of Clarksville, Tenn.
The delegation of Sioux chiefs and
headmen arrived in Washington Thurs
day, under escort of Special Agent Lewis.
Arrangements will be made at once for
their conference with the secretary of the
interior.
Tho President on Saturday sent to the
senate a message in regard to the law re
quiring him to appoint a successor with
in ten days after the death of a secretary
of the treasury. He thinks he should
have longer time.
strong probability, unless it is r acted on
before the end of tho week, that an at
tempt will' be made to discharge the
committee from its further consideration,
and bring the mutter directly before the
house.
Up to Saturday the silver pool investi
gating committee has failed to oatch any
fish in its net except Senator Cameron.
He, however, could not be properly
termed a catch, as ho did not speculate
bofore the silver bill was considered.
Representative Perkins, Saturday, de
clared that ho had never speculated in
silver, nnd that if a pool had been organ
ized he did not know of it.
At a meeting of the house committee
Wednesday morning, it developed that a
strong effort will bo made to smother the
free coinage bill in the coinage committee
of the house. The bill passed the senate
two weeks ago, and should have been re
ported before this. No actiou was taken
toward bringing it before tho house. To
the contrary, it seems to be the desire of
the committee to hold it up as long as
possible.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, on Sat
urday, telegraphed Governor Jones that
in view of the positive assurances from
the republicans that no further efforts
would bo made to pass the force bill, it
would be best for the Alabama legislature
now to pass the bill providing for uu ex
hibit at the world’s fair. Other South
ern senators sent similar telegrams to the
governors of their states. Among them
were Senator Harris, of Tennessee; Sena
tor Coke, of Texas, and Seuator Berry,
of Arkansas. Senator Gorman advised it.
Tho newspaper corrr-spoudeuts before
the silver pool investigating committee
gave out some points Wednesday that
will lead the committee to make disclo
sures, whether they want to or not. The
investigation so far has had the effect of
placing the committee in the light of de
siring to cover up the tracks of those sup
posed to have been connected with the
silver pool. Now, however, that the
names of Congressmen Clunie, of Cali
fornia; Ketchum, of New York, and
Perkins, of Kansas, have been mentioued
as members of the pool, the chances are
that the facts of the deal will be brought
out, and many sensations will develop
within the next few days.
THE WORK OF A MOB.
Fonr Negroes Killed and Five
Badly Wounded.
An unprovoked slaughter of negroes,
by a mob, occurred Saturday night, at
Carbon Hill coal mines, in Walker
county, Alabama, forty miles west of
Biimingbam. A mob of armed white
men surrounded a cabin where negroes
were sleeping, nnd without warning
opened fire through the doors and win
dows. The negroes sprang up in wild
alarm at the first volley, but in a few
moments all of them were lying on the
fioor dead or wounded. There was no
chance of escape. Four were killed out
right and the other four were wounded,
three of them it is thought, fatally. As
soon as the bloody w r ork was done, the
mob dispersed, and so for none of them
have been arrested or identified.
The nine negroes had takeu the place
of striking white miners in the Carbon
Hill mines during the recent strike, and
when the strike was settled tho company
would not discharge them. White miners
are suspected of the murder of the ne
groes, but there is no proof against them.
The officers of the company say they will
protect their miners without regard to
color, and it is said a box of repeating
rifles has been ordered. The white miners
are very bitter towards tho negroes, and
the latter are fully aroused by this butch
ery.
FLORIDA’S BUDGET
Of Newsy Notes ^nd Pointed
Paragraphs.
THIRTY MILLIONS
for
Is the Sum Appropriated
Uncle Sam’s Navy.
The naval appropriation bill, aggregat
ing $31,111,054, which was carried
through the house on final passage Mon
day afternoon, authorizes the construc
tion of one additional cruiser of about
7,500 tons, costing, exclusive of arma
ment, $2,750,000, to be similar to cruiser
No. 12, authorized last year, having three
propellers and a minimum speed of twen
ty-one knots. The bill also repeals the
authorization of the so-called cruising
Monitor of the act of March 12, 1889,
to cost not exceeding $1,500,000.
Four millions are appropriated for
finding the armor and armament of ves
sels under the construction, and over
$12,000,000 under the bureaus of con
struction and steam machinery to carry
on the work upon all the vessels author
ized, upon which the expenditures reach
their maximum during the fiscal year
covered by the bill. The estimates show
that these expenditures will fall off about
one-half during the following fiscal year,
owing to the completion of many vessels.
The ships have raised the minimum speed
one knot—that is to twenty-one knots,
these being the fastest cruisers in the
world.
SMALLPOX IN TEXAS.
Palestine to Be Placed Under
Rigid Quarantine.
A dispatch of Saturday from Palestine,
Texas, says: Following the tenor of a
smallpox resolution adopted at a mass
meeting held here, County Judge Powers
convened the commissioners’ court. The
committee appointed by the mass meet
ing presented their memorial to the com
missioners asking for a strict quarantine.
After deliberation the commissioners
agreed to submit a proposition to the
mayor and city council proposing to es
tablish a strict quarantine, provided the
city would pay half the expenses. On
the south and west, Crockett, Grapeland,
Jewett and Oakland, nnd Jacksonville on
lhe north, hnve quarantined against!
Palestine. Should tho city council ac
cept the proposition of the county au
thorities for the joint expense of a rigid
quarantine, tho measure will extend to
every infected town iu the state.
NATIONAL FARMERS’ ALLIANCE.
Officers Elected—The Next Meet
ing In Chicago.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says:
Chicago was selected as the place of the
next meeting of the National Farmers’
Alliance at its session Thursday morning.
The only other business transacted was
the election of officers, which resulted as
follows: President, John II. Powers,
Nebraska; vice presidents, Charles Mor
gan, Pennsylvania; Thomas Finks,
New York; II. Sickens, Ohio; Wil
liam Kiuerd, Indiana; Milton George,
Illinois; G. M. Butts, Wisconsin; G.
The president, through the secretary oi j ColliaSi Missouri; J. Westfall, Iowa; J.
state, directed that all the executive j Fur i 0I ,„ Miunesota; W. A. Jones,
departments be closed on the day of See ; Nebraska; G. F. Cravens, Washington;
retary Windom’s funeral, and that flags j secre t ar y and treasurer, August Post,
on all public buildings throughout the. j owa . national lecturer, George Law
country be placed at half roast on that
day.
The silver bill is still in the hands of
the coinage committee, but there is a
rencc, Ohio; first assistant national lec
turer, Miss Eva McDonald, Minnesota;
second assistant, J. W. Ravens, Wash
ington.
A reward of $150 is offered for the
apprehension of Lewis Jenkins, who
murdered W. S. Bliten, at Baldwin, De
cember 8, 1890.
A party of forty settlers and projectors
will leave Bayard, O., for Florida qn
February, 10. The party will be in
charge of Mr. H. H. Aultfather, over the
East Tennessee route.
It is reported from an authoritative
naval source that the “white squadron”
will spend the months of February and
March in Tampa bay. It will be a big
thing for Tampa and all Florida.
Recently news was received at the
state prison headquarters that thirty-
three convicts are hold idle in the bar
racks of the tie camp in Pasco county for
the lack of guards. Work is seriously
retarded in consequence.
The Orange Belt railway has recently
added a west coast accommodation train
to its regular complement, making tho
run from Tarpon Springs to St. Peters
burg in the morning, and returning in
tho evening. This is a great improve
ment in transportation service, enabling
passengers to run over to Tampa and
back the same day.
Owing to tho shut-down at the gas
factory belonging to the South Florida
Gas and Electric Light company, at
Orlando, some weeks ago, and tho poor
quality of gas furnished for some time
previous, the city fathers have declared
the contract forfeited, and tho finance
committee has been instructed to make
anew contract for lighting the streets.
1 h* business activity of the thriving
gulf coast town, Clear Water Harbor,
continues unabated. The alliance ex
change has built, and will in a short while
move into one of the handsomest places,
a two-story building 28 by 70 feet, and a
warehouse 22 by 50 feet of one story.
Tho upper story of the main building will
contain a handsome Masonic hall, besides
eight rooms for offices, etc.
Considerable routine business was done
at the recent Florida state encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic, held
at St. Augustine, pertaining to tho con
dition of the Grand Army in Florida, and
matters were discussed that will tend to
further unite the already fraternal feel
ings existing between the Union veterans
and their brothers of the gray. One of
the important matters considered was the
appointment of a committee consisting of
Post Commanders Dunne and Thompson
nnd Chaplain Paiue with a view of estab
lishing a soldiers’ home iu Florida.
R. B. Bee, Jacksonville, is the posses
sor of some very valuable relics of the
Revolutionary war. The articles a duel
ling pistol, on the,butt of which is a plate
bearing the initials “J. W. G.;” a three-
edged sword, hollow ground, with a sil
ver hilt and porpoise leather scabbard,
and a royal palm cane, having a head of
carved buck horn. They were the property
of General Gadsen, an officer on the stuff
of Washington. The articles have been
handed down until now they are the
property of Mr. Bee, who is a descendant
of General Gadsen.
Very rich deposits of phosphate of all
kinds and grades exist iu Bradford coun
ty. It has hard and soft rock in its
southwestern part from Worthington
Springs to Ft. White, and the richest
deposits of bone, pebble and soft phos
phate along the New river, with good
transportation facilities and easy to mine.
Every little creek running into the New
river is full of pebble and bone phosphate,
and the adjacent lands are full of soft
phosphate, running up in quality to 85
per cent. Coprolite or petrified dung
mixed with bone in beds to ten feet deep,
break through the surface.
A new complication with regard to the
poll tax prerequisite has arisen in San
ford. The tax books for 1890 were opened
October 1, 1890, but taxes cannot be col
lected by injunction till after February 1,
1891. The law requires the payment of
poll tax for two years previous as a pre
requisite to voting at any general, special
or municipal election. The Sanford elec
tion being held in 1891, the question is.
•must the poll tax for 1890 be paid before
voting? Opinion from a legal source is,
that the tax is certainly not due till Feb
ruary 1, and perhaps not till October 1,
and that no one can be prevented from
voting for non-payment of a tax which is
not due.
The I.nte Col. Thompson.
Col. S. B. Thompson, who died re
cently at Lake City, was one of Florida’s
earliest settlers. He was born in Rom
ney, W. Va., on November 29th, 1818.
He served in the Seminole war as colonel,
and at its close moved to Middleburgh,
Fla., which place he founded. He car
ried on there the largest mercantile busi
ness in Florida until the late war, when
he was burned out by the federals, losing
all his possessions. He afterward moved
to Madison and from thence to Columbia
county, early in the year 1800, where he
carried on large farming interests. He
moved to Lake City in 1872, and in con
nection with Capt. A. B. Hart, estab
lished the immense saw and ginning
mills succcsliully run by them for so
many years. Personally, he was a man
both beloved and revered.
Florida Fncinatea.
Florida seems to exert a fascination on
all who once become her votaries. Mr.
St. George Katlibone’s confessions in
Outing for January is a case iu point.
“I was,” he says, “but one of the army
of migrants when first my pilgrim steps
wended Floridaward, seeking in its to
me unknown, but well vouched for,
scenery, its balmy air and endless varie
ties of sports, that diversion and enjoy
ment which the frigid and boisterous
North cannot yield after thanksgiving
day lias set the seal to the close of even
the Indian summer. ’ Twas by degrees
that its claims upon me evinced them
selves. Yearly I came away with linger
ing steps and slow, and ever as the sea
son passed my periods of absence short
ened and my periods of enjoyment length
ened. From a casual and itinerant
dallier with the sorceress I became an
ardent worshiper, and Florida now holds
undisputed sway as my winter’s queen.”
Complaints Regarding Rates.
The railroad commission recently for
warded two complaints to tho interstate
commerce commission, in one of which
they protested against the recent advance
in interstate rates on oranges, and in the
other strawberry shippers ask for lower
rates on strawberries. Tho Florida com
mission is also informed that another
complaint has been made direct by cer
tain strawberry shippers. In cousidera-
tion of the great saving in labor and ex
pense to parties interested, ilic commis
sioners, a few days ago, requested the in
terstate commerce commission to appoint
an investigation of these several matters,
to be hold in Jacksonville. Advices have
been received informing them that unless
something now unforeseen occurs to ren-
J der it impracticable, the interstate com
merce commission will proceed to Jack -
sonville for the purpose of taking testi
mony and making an investigation ns
reported.
“Hone Market.”
The Orango and Vegetable Auction
companv some timo ago predicted that
unless the growers ceased shipping, there
would bo a glut in all the centres, and it
advisod all of its customers who could
possibly do so to hold back their fruit.
A sufficient number of the growers did
not hoed this advice, and the glut came
as predicted and has, owing to continued
heavy shipments and unfavorable weather
at the North, been the most disastrous
ever occurring at this season of the year.
The advices received by the company
show that the lowest prices have been
reached, and from now on the market
will improve. From tho first of Febru
ary good fruit will bring fancy prices,
but thoso who can hold later will be well
paid for doing so. Yet, while this com
pany always advises the grower as to the
market, just as it believes it to be, it is
not fair to presume that tho grower can
realiae more for his fruit through any
other channel. “Home market” always
secures for its customers the best possible
prices.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
r
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
SECRETARY WINDOM DEAD.
After a Banquet Speech He
Suddenly Expires.
Hon. William Windom, secretary of
the treasury of the United States, died
Thursday uiglit at 10:05 o’clock, in the
banquet ha'l at Delraonico's, where he
was the guest of the New York board of
trade and transportation. His had been
the first toast of tho evening. He had
finished his response and had seated
himself, swooned at once, and diod al- j W as fifed in Bibb superior court”
most immediately. Evory effort to restore
him was made, but in vain. He died of
heart disease. The great assemblage at
once dissolved. Mr. Windom had been
the only speaker and the sentiment to
which he responded was: 1 ‘Our Coun
try’s Prosperity la Dependent Upon its
Instruments of Commerce.”
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
The announcement of the sudden death
of Secretary Windom, in New York,
gave almost as great a shock to his official
friends and associates in Washington as
did the shooting of President Garfield to
tbe members of his official household. It
was so terribly sudden and unexpected that
all who heard the news were profoundly
shocked, and so overcome ns to be unable
to express the grief they felt.
As soon as the telegram bearing the snd
intelligence was received by the Associ
ated Press, ils contents were immediately
communicated to President Harrison, at
the white house. When the message was
read to him he was greatly distressed and
almost completely overcome.
Mr. Windom was subject to fits of
heart failure. On Tuesday last he was
seized with an attack while on the steps
of the treasury at Washington, but he did
not lose consciousness and was able to
take care of himself.
The special committee appointed to
escort the remains to Washington assem
bled at 9:30 o’clock Friday morning, in
Communipaw station of the Central rail
road nnd awaited the arrival of the casket
containing the remains of the secretary.
The body was carried from the Fifth
Avenue hotel, and conveyed in a hearse
to the railroad depot at the foot of Lib
erty street. Secretary Tracy and Attor
ney General Miller and C. M. Heddley,
private secretary of the dead statesman,
attended the remains to Washington.
A committee consisting of Captain Am
brose Snow, James B. Talcott, Ex-Judge
Arnovx, Seth Thomas, Darwin R. James
and General H. Willey, representing the
board of trade and transportation at
whose banquet Secretary Windom was
stricken, accompanied the remains as a
guard of honor.
THE REMAINS IN WASHINGTON.
The president and members of his cabi
net nssembeled at the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad station at 4:15 o’clock for the
purpose of'receiving the remains of Sec
retary Windon, whom they last saw alive
on Tuesday at the regular meeting of tho
cabinet.
ESCORTING TEE REMAINS.
The special train arrived at 4:40, and
when all was in readiuess a procession
was formed, and moved out of the station:
in the following order: The body bearers
with the casket on their shoulders; the:
president and Mrs. Blaine; the vice-presi
dent and secretary of state; the secretary
of war and the postmaster general; Rev.
Dr. Hamlin, pastor of the Church of the
Covenant, and Secretary Rusk; the
attorney general and the secretary of the
interior, and General Schofield; Sena
tor Paddock and Representative Dunnell;
Assistant Secretary Soley and Solicitor
General Tuft; Assistant Secretary Spauld
ing nnd Treasurer Huston; First Comp
troller Gilkerson and Second Auditor
Patterson ; Fourth Auditor Lynch, Com
missioner Holliday, Register Rosccrans,
Senator Washburn and Assistant Secre
tary Willets, and a long line of treasury
officials, numbering several hundred.
Arriving at the residence, the presi- |
dent and all of his official family followed
the remains into the house, where they
were taken in charge of the undertaker.
The secretary leaves a wife and several
children.
FALLING INTO LINE.
Curtailed into Interesting and 1
Newsy Paragraphs.
The private bank of R. E. Fras§
Georgetown, 8. C., suspended
Saturday, ^
L. B. Imboden, real estate broker. Fort
Worth, has been arrested for forj^dPlSh to
the amount of $12,000.
The society for the preservatipn o|
Virginia antiquities gave a grand ball ih>
Richmond Friday night.
The bill creating a fifth judge of the
supreme court of Alabama, was passed by
her legislature Thursday. The goVernoIr
is to appoint the judge within ten dayp
after its approval, to hold office until the
general election in 1892.
The North Carolina house of repre
sentatives, on Thursday, passed a reso
lution refusing to make an appropriation
for tho world’s fair, in the event of the
passage of the election bill. A similar
resolution had already passed the senate,
Iu the United States court at Charles
ton, Thursday, an order was signed post
poning the time for tho appointment of a
permanent receiver for the Charleston,
Cincinnati and Chicngo railroad till the
24th of February. The suit was brought
by the Pennsylvania Finance Company
in December last, and Samuel Lord was
appointed temporary receiver of the road,
On Thursday application for a charter
foE the Macon, Ga., produce exchange
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No Appropriations if the Force
Bill Passes.
A Trenton, N. J., dispatch says: The
seuate, Tuesday morning, concurred in
the resolution adopted by the house last
week denouncing the federal election
bill, and asking New J.rsey congressmen
to oppose the same. A resolution of
fered that New Jersey withhold the ap
propriations from the world’s fair if the
election bill passes congress was adopted
) * the assembly. The vote on tho reso
lution was a party one.
WEST VIRGINIA ALSO.
;’h« West Virginia legislature, on
1 uetdiiy, after an acrimonious discussion,
passed, by a vote of 40 to 20, a resolution
that in case of the passage of the federal
election bill, the state will make no
world’s fair appropriation.
ILLINOIS SPEAKS OUT.
A Springfield, Ill., dispatch s^ys; In
the house, on Tuesday, a resolution in
structing the senators from Illinois to vote
(against the federal election bill was passed
by a strict party vote—77 to 73. Mr.
Springer, on behalf of the democrats,
gave notico that if the senators from Illi
nois should vote for the federal election
bill, tho democrats in tho state legislature
would not vote a dollar in aid of the
world’s fair.
FIVE YEARS’ PROGRESS.
Tomdik (indicating a passer-by)—
Five years ago that man had but $10 to
his name.
McClammy—How much has he now?
Tomdik—Nothing. Everything he
has is in his wife’s name.—[Inter-Ocean.
incorporators are O. M. Houser, of Fort
Valley; W. E. Warren, of Powersvjlle,
andD. H. Lowe, AV. 8. Deidrich arid Tf.
O. Skellic, of Macon. The capital stock
will be $10,000, with the privilege of in
creasing it to $25,000.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Wednesday
says: Mrs. Fugottee and all tho import
ant witnesses as to the killing of Banker
Fugette by his father-in-law, Judge War
der, have testified before the grand jury. /A
That body has found un indictment for-
rnurder in the first degree against Warder,
but it has not been served, as he is suffer
ing from one of the pistol wounds re
ceived.
Efforts are being made to organize an
other transportation company at Chatta
nooga to put a line of boats on the Ten
nessee river. It is claimed that the pres
ent company is controlled by the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad,
but the boat company denies the charge.
So far no definite move has been taken to *
organize the second company. Several
firms have signified their readiness to
subscribe to the project, and that is as Jar
as it has gone.
United States Marshal AValker, receiver
of the Mobile and Girard lands, in Ala
bama, received instructions Thursday
from United States District Judge Bruce
not to deliver any more of the timber
seized by him as receiver, as having been
cut on the forfeited lands of the Mobile
and Girard Railroad Company. Re
ceiver Walker had been delivering tim
ber to Milligan & Co., that firm giving
bond to indemnify the government in
event the legal proceedings are finally
decided in the government’s favor.
A Montgomery dispatch of Thursday
says: H. C. Keeble, of Selma, head of
the Keeble company, which failed for
$250,000 a few days ago, has fled tho
state to escape an expected indictment
and arrest. Some 6,000 bales of cotton 1
were consigned to tho company, and ho
used the warehouse receipts in a great
many cases, and drew money on them
from banks and others. Persons advanc
ing money claim the cotton, while the
consignors also make a claim. Keeble
thought it best to leave. His where
abouts are not known.
The committee appointed at a recent
meeting of the citizens of Raleigh, N.
O., to solicit a subscription sufficient to
have the location of the interstate immi
gration bureau in that city, lias met with
such success as will, it is thought, secure
the object in view. It only required
$10,000, and of the sum $0,000 has been
secured by individual subscription, Fri
day the Seaboard nnd Roanoke railway
added $2,000 to the list, and this will,
it is believed, be supplemented by
$2,000 from the Richmond and Dauville
railway.
On Wednesday, Goveinor Jones sent
to the Alabama senate the names of Levi
AW Lamley and Wiley Tunstall for posi
tions as railroad commissioners for four
years from March 1st. The salary of the
office is $3000, and it is regarded as one
of the best positions within the gift ol
the governor. Tho positions were so de
sirable that there were twenty-uine ap
plicants, among the number being sev
eral of the most prominent men in the
state. Both of the gentlemen appointed
have been members of the board for six
or eight years past. The nominations
were unanimously confirmed "by the
senate,
Mr. James B. Glover, of Marietta, Ga.,
was on Saturday appointed permanent
receiver of the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad by Judge Newman, on
a consent order. Mr. Glover was first
appointed temporary receiver on a con
sent order submitted by the road and the ",
I trust compauy. The question of a per -S
I manent receivership came up before*
j Judge Newmau in Atlanta Saturday]
| morning. Being the choice of the stock
holders and bondholders of the railroad]
as well as the trust company, Mr. Glover]
was appointed, his bond being fixed at]
$25,000, which was furnished.
A Rescue With the Ladders.
Standing in the street the fireman,
reaches up and hooks his ladder over the
second-story window-sill, says a writer
in Scribner on “Modern Fire Apparatus.”
Then bo climbs up and, throwing a leg
over the window sill, draws up the lad
der and hooks it into the third story, \
and so up he climbs to the top floor, no
matter how high the building may be.
Here he sits in the window and lowers a
cord to the ground, by which a life-line
an inch thick is drawn up foru.se in low
ering people who may havo no other
means of escape. It may happen that as
the fireman goes up the flames burst from
a window directly over him. In that
case he hooks his ladder on a window
sill to the right or left nnd swings over
pendulum fashion, out, of the line of tho
lire, and there continues his way till
above the lire, when lie swings back
and is ready to care for the people whoso
escape has been cut off. It is an net
that little account is made ot by ttic tire-
man, but th! unaccustomed mail would
need an iron nerve were he to swing thu«j
at the end of a pole hung sixty feet abovj
the stone pavements.