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TIE Ml. J T. A P. s J?^/7f‘ CARNEb, Editor. dor - PUBLISHED LVF.BY FBI DAY AT EASTMAN, GEORGIA. The"Argentine Republic’* immigra¬ tion for this year will reach 870,000. This is too many to be properly assimi¬ lated and the southern republic is likely to have a very grave question to settL in a few years. la Great Britain the quantity of coni dust remaining unemployel annually )* calculated at 28,000,ODD tons. Vari¬ ous methods have been attemp'e 1 to convert it into cakes, but the operation is not sufficiently remunerative. An Eiffel tower i* to be erected in London. It is to be 1250 feet high. Two thousand five hundred dollar* is offered as a prize for the best design for the proposed tower, and half that amount for the second be it design, kjhe competition is open to the wor.d. city of Cologne, iu G • many. H[^kn<:xi. yr.-ir « ........... d U r ; , ( Oll-iisti'lg of all to an arinv. It is promoters to make the show of an international character as far as pos¬ sible. Tito King of Portugal, who lately died, wat something o: a scholar and a literary man, having written poetry of his own and translated several of Bhakcspeare’s plays into Portuguese. Whatever may have been lh nierit of this work its royal author liai left be hind him a reputation for simplicity and rnodedy of life too rarely met with in reigning families. II) was an bio and a deservedly popular monarch. At Berrian Spring!, Mich. Hi rice Sebring, the hardened young criminal who nearly succeeded in poisoning the members of his family, not except log hit father ami mother, in order to secure a paltry estate and get married, was sentenced to twenty-five yenrs in the State prison. lie himself explained to the jury how he put the deadly drug ■ into the teakettle and refuse 1 to call a doctor to the aid of his tortured rela¬ tives, who were only saved by the time¬ ly appearance of neighboring tiiends. It is seldom 1bat a woman has the courage and pirtinacity to come half around the globe to stcuve the punish¬ ment of a man who lias deceived her, but this is what the Australian woman has done who is responsible for the ar¬ rest of the ex-convict, Julius Madhouse, at Chicago. The fellow left a wife in tint lake city, went to Australia, married th is woman and then dccatnpid with #3,750 belonging to her f.ithe:. He re¬ turned to Chicago and was enjoying his . t.Uh his that iv .fj when hi» fair nemesis emiti down upon him. The case is so clear that tho tievor swindler cannot eseipo State prison, which he richly deserves. A railway mail clerk rather got the best of tho Government recently. He hail been lire I, along with a number of others, but, instead of giving up his mutual pass, which ho held as an employe of the Government, he traveled all over the country on it, and it was two weeks before ho gave it up. B j fore he turtle l up after Iris extended jaunt, several Postofliee Inspector! were put on his trail and the authorities everywhere were notified to watch foi him, but just at the Inspectors were ready to nab him he timet up at the General Superintendent's office, gave up (lie pa«: and rendered his account so that the Government could not molest him. Jt is estimated that at many as one thousand families are destitute in North VVnstprn Western Minnesota Minncot'i and and Writer,. Western D Dakota tkota Oil account of failure of crop? through drouth. An appeal has been made to the Jg o„G, J U t .h,p«,„l, l U,™ S U. the tuion f. r such aid m money or i>ro out visions as will enable those sufferers on the bleak frontier to go: through the ' M .... inter. . Lie settlers tlu.se ,, far e . Western regions, observes the New \ orx Daily 1 Vetcs, are more depeu lent upon nature's bounty than the inh.bitaatt of lhe . older ., communities, for th,y have to , live, for the most part, on th; fruits of lhe earth that themselves j.rqluci out of their labor and its fertility. When the fail . , them . they . . havj , crops lew re sources elsewhere, and it is foi tuc rc lief of a population thus fa min • stricken that . Uie of the.r . . . oll>\\-eoun ,, a generosity trymen invoke 1. --= M. K.ffel biu already opened coinrnu nicatifcn with people in N j .v York citv «»»..»..,0 proposed world s fair there, similar to the one built by him at 1'uris. Tie Baris tower . lie sa-* ' ' has L »iven him new idets , on constructions of , this kind, and he is confident that a tower can be < .irrie.l up to a height of 1510, or even 2300 feet, without any architectural difficulties. Judging by this expansion of M. E.ffel's ideas there is no limit to 1 ,, ° f ' ’’ . /' ‘ =" Chicago Herald thinks if a tower 10 jC feet high shows that it is an e.-ray mat ter to build otm 2000 feet high, the Vat ter wou.d , . seem necessarily , | to demon- , slrate the feasibility of running one up to a height of 4000 feet, anl so on un tii the m m in the moon mi rht b’ a guest at h ff«.-tower lunch , , parties. Ap- . parently, all that the French architect requires to realiz’ th" dream of th< • builders , of , the , towero. , „ Bibei . is enough , world's fail* to bring him out The suit of Dr. Nathan R. Gorter against Robert Garrett for 125.000 for professional services, which has been pending tled Thursday. in the Baltimore -court, offered was set¬ Dr. Gorter to compromise for #18,000, and the prop¬ osition was accepted and the money paid. DAVIS DEAD the CONFEDERACfS GREAT CHIEFTAIN IS NO MORE. The Heart* of the People, Whose C’an*e He Espoused, CttasUed by the Had News—A lj>ng and Eventful Life. j 1 § H >1 & fA S 5 wSgilS '"=»t===§j i ASS' ?u- hmh m ei ,v» / +' £ ■U m a JEFFERSON PAVIS. At 12:45 o’clock Friday mornings great heart ceased to beat—-a stainless life was closed, and Jeff Davis, first and l«t President of the Southern Confed eracy, was dead. AVith him has passed away the last of the great leaders of the l08t Ji?! 1 * 0 ' tobb > Stephens, , rr. Toombs, Hill and , „ Yancey. Jefferson Davis will be mourned in mil hons of hearts Government will not render to him the pomp aud circumstance of a great death, but his people will give to him a tribute of love and tears sur passing all that government could do, and honoring his memory as earthly pa rade could not do! From Maryland to q exas, wherever iu other states or in other lunds, his people may have wan dered—wherever dauntless courage is or stainless honor made friends—wherever they who have suffered are loved an l 6uper h fortitude may touch the heart or dim the eye—there Jefferson Davis will be honored and mourned. TOE DEATH SCENE. Mr. Jefferson Davis died suddenly at 12:43 Friday morning. Ho had been Steadily improving physicians for announced the past four day* and his that they were entirely satisfied with his condition, His appetite had improved somewhat, and he was free from fever and those who had access to the sick room rested rejoiced over the tavorable change. He quietly throughout the day,and in the afternoon the bulletin was to the effect that his condition continued favor¬ able. Shortly before midnight he had a coughing fit, which seemed to exhaust his little remaining strength, and at 12:43 ho passed quietly away—so quietly, in fact, that the watchers scarcely knew wheu death came. davis'b i IKE Jefferson Davis . born Christian . was in county, Ky., on the 8d day of June, 1808. Georgia Weil may claim a kinship with the man as na a share of liis «/lorv His ii 19 father lather, Damuei Samuel Lmvis, Davis nas tvas a a Gem-Ha Georgia planter. In the revolutionary war he was an officer iu a cavalry regimenf, and served with distinction. Later he m^ved to Kentucky, and some yeats afterward irt o Mississippi. Ariaaiacl.tin 'I’bn Iho Georgia branch of the Davises is now extinct, but it lives in tradition as a high-spnited honorable family. Fussing his boyhood on the frontier, where the whites were fre ouentlT encaeed in conflict with thotisirts sa vase foes vounw Jefferson’s earliest were centered upon guns, sabres, and all the Danoulv had'made of war Bv the most™f time he xvas shxtom he the hU academic and university advan tages and entered the mili tary academy at West Point, For fellow students, he had such com rades as Robert E. Lee E. Johnson, Le onidas Polk, John B. Magruder, and others well known to fame. lathis cir cte his lofty cnaracter, bright mind, and thorough manliness commanded liio-heNt fe reoard of all When he trradu ated , l at t \V,-t Vtest toxnt, Doinr nnd ana nliliuriffl ptuagea into into the thick of the Indian warfare on th« northwestern frontier, the old army offi cers instantly recognized him as a born cfll .old:.- mlde wna su^ n.,.minted brilliant a staff cer and a record that iank in a short time ho was promoted to the of firat regiment. lieutenant and adjutant of a new cavalry the Mexican war, at the head of the ation gal lant M.ss.ssippi Rifles, the whole n hai'ed him a* “the hero of Buena Vista. 11 A{ Monterejr Co i onel Davis and Ins men fought with heroic valor. Braving a fu rious storm of copper-grape, the Missis e 7r~ llKcfiT"• tS'K™. ^ e(J aud t0Qk khe i ter j n a strong build¬ jug, from which they poured a heavy tiro of musketry. This heavy fire from the housetops ‘ was deadly and terrorizing, Davis a d hU mcn penetrated street after gtreet dislodging the foe from building after building, until within a square of the grand plaza. The capitulation of Monterey J followed, and the entire country with the praiscs of Colonel Davis and his Mississippi Rifles, The Buena Vista exploit classed the aame of Davis among the most renowned military men of modern times. Here a g a j D st terrible odds he saved the army and virtually won the battle. The Amer leans were about to lose the day, when General Taylor, with Colonel Davis and others rode up. Several retreating regi rneuts were rallied. Davis, with his own regiment and a handfull of Indiana vol uuteers, advanced at double quick,tiring a11 the t,me ; The Mexicans were put to sc* 0 n at a gallop with sounding bugles aDd fluttering penons. Colonel Divis threw hit man into the form of a \ both flank* resting on ravines, the Mexicans adv&nc ing on the intervening ridge, thus expo sing the enemy to a cross-fire. When within range the rifles blazed away. The w hole head of the Mexican column feb. Never was a more deadly fire witnessed on any battle field. The Mexicans were completely shattered. After this battle the V movement was the talk of the day. Jt is sal J that there is but one similar ex ample in modern history. On this side of the water Generals Taylor,Quitman, Lane, a P d ot ^ er soldiers, weie enthusias tic over Davis, and in the old of j u)£e pvellitigton, the victor Waterloo, expressed his admiration in gmwing words. Indorsed by such vet < J' ans as ,he " Iron Duke ." anJ °ld Zach Taylor as a leader of briliiant military gtnius.it goes without sayiDg that the pei p'.e of this country, north and south, * c< *P ted the v «rdict. If lhe career of Dav;a had ended with the Mexican war, jj e wou j d still have bad glory enough for " one man. EIS PUBLIC HFK before the war. Before „ , the Mexican war Mr. Davis had served part of a term in congress resign mg to accept the command of the Mis sitsippt h o.unteere. Upon h,s return from the and of the Montezuma, he wa. appointed to fill a vacancy in the l mted States reqate. In the«nate Mr. Davt. it once stepped into the front rank, fie was a student as well a* a man of affair-*, He was not only well versed in equipped political science, but thoroughly v^eil for debate. Contrary to the opinion en tertained by many of the | resent genera. t^-^r.Sfc'-SSSSS tion, the senator from Mississippi was nc rSdSriSrfiSS. tolSSrli of into the cabinet as secretary w ar. The secretary give. much ot his time to testm? new improvementJ had thi in aims and equipments. He territories explored. V. hen tie Crimeat war came on be sent a number of officer •to the scev.e of the trouble to %t^dy th» discipline and methods of the European armies. The federal government never had a moicable or efficient war secretary. Returned Jiuuiu^ bv his of^ state PreVident to the senate Hue^Lan’s with the larninm be Dltfnied exciUn" ratten d^bath^teSifiupto Mr Liav s mto the Hie H tremend* PiHSz: us campaigns of ISOo This S2ZSC i £2A2Si ss i lov\ liia doctrine of state sovereignty tc us logical consequences. He insisted upon the right of secession,but such he fought wnh ail bis energy against a sute of affairs as would tn ms judgment rea der the exercise of the right necessary When, however the crisis came. aftef the election of Lincoln, Mississippi had passed her ordinance of secession Mr. Davis embraced the occasion of resigning hi. seat in the federal sena e to explain and justify the course of his peop.e. • ' '• rj ..... — / Uk ^4-^ BEACTOin— eavis’s Mississippi hoiie. From the Senate Mr. Davis went to Ins plantation m Mi-iyippi. He hoped that secession would be peacefully ac complished, but he could not disguise the fact tiiat the outlook was anything but pacify. Following the bent of tastes and inclinations, he looked forward in the event of a conflict to an appointment he in the army. In such an emergency knew that the south would require the services of veteran official?, and ho had every reason to believe that ho would be called up m to serve the new anticipation republic with his sword. That this was disappointed, we alt know. The pr* sideney of the confederacy was thrust upon him unsought. It was uuexpccted, but iu this, as iu other things, Jefferson Davis heeded the voice of his people anu accepted the burdens and responsibilities thrust upon his shoulders, Ek> VI t¥>A A a? ' j\ r 'Ai mm ff\5F~£*Zj/' Ai (7 "\ \ 7 '. _______; t H X jC If / a ' ’ r PI li ( / * l' ’ * Mits. vaiuna davts. r I „. he circumstances of . _ Mr. r _ . ^ 1 1 t 11 ,1 ,L .>f Ul nd .“ tam ,Mr ad, \ l |J “ f 1 eav * n 8 l >n80 l "'. M, \ 0, Uavls ' r r V rL ' rs ‘ tu - !' ne ;! , his , home Mississippi, where . lie lived ln in obscurity and, it is greatly to be fewed but in little poverty, his plantation Steps yield mg income were once taken to raise a fund for him but he k indl y- blU aver!ed th * h :’ nds of those t , engaged in ,t as soon a. he became awate of wh it was being done. He held th8t as long #s he w,.lows and orp tans o f iL Conu-ir.it, 1 M ' " 1 re a ^anf, be had neither the right nor d p tkat 0U 0 S f h '! h » ‘ ld 1 0 *» , )e them ,' )Un ’ Air. Davis . preferred f to 1U reive c m nient - I» nothing that lie said or did, did he lower in lh= slightest degree the d i„ n ;tv of his liinli nositian uncomplaining Accentin'' ^rtiuTdc the reverses of life with convictions 'ormuao he ne held nua Ids ms codviliioiis urn un changed and unmodified. In defeat as ^ victory his great nature was equal t0 a11 demands. Ia peace or in " ar stood thi unchallenged * nd c Bief among hi* people, gjh " M r mtKKtKBxsBSrlmiBSf i 0 . i *e “lySe.. / 1 p ■e * j * V MISS WINNIE DAVIS. Mr. Gd vis's rimains are Ivin# in state ; j n t h e council chamber of the city hall, New Orleans, surrounded by emblems of pe ace , emblems of war, emblems of tho Since early Saturday morning, a constant throng had been moving through the building, the day and it is estimated that during at least thirty thousand----- had passed i , ido to the casket, gazing upon the facecf the dead ex-nresid -nt of t h e confederacy. Negroes as well as the whites, and grra i arntv m n, us well as , confederate veterans, lingered over the j I tfcop poJoAoaVi j[ isorui® s. JO ;oo atqmos sjt pas Snot 'saotmosap dtnts ju«3 r.vcjjxo on sen u nou it pAititn e ‘auo atuospnsq A atnaijx t ub si jojjsbo oqx 'Snipitnq sqi otnt natitii 8BA\ Tpoqaqpsants nniojitijd Tmp o< tiraq SAtiq siotpjos lno>J panel n nodn Sutjsii ‘jaqutBqa on, io aijnso ant ut ionsbd on r -gtxipirtiq oqt tii enoiacds it;: jsotn oqj jo aim Sf ,mqtrn?ip itonnoo putt ayp oqt ut jss3j»i aqi jo otto s iatpjmq j v: j X,io Yuap snd pwp aqt ptmom Ttnp no as0 qj oa pojn, said onw sjoaptont finr -qonoj jCutmt ‘ivp cqj flniiiqx madsoi ;o noinijsojttiirj ante,- onj njCw jossbc blaek, heavy velvet, and has a fevvwtc oratioris. Over the c -ket is throwh the battle flag of the 14th Louisiana regiment, a tattooed and torn. In the clmn ber are small arms, firld artillery, United States flags, 7 confederate flags, flowers, evergreen ^ and feras . The citT a , weli gg df taU is d d ia m:urning . - Erery fl at New 0rSe a n s is at half-mast, j-ubiic institutions are heavily - rcsldei dis¬ d pisTtokens d _ Many pr; , ate cei f of sorrow All of the dif • well n, afv crgan zrt ons. as as a number oT t-TfTc TjJCItel, "have tuelr headquarter* in mourning. REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS. Three week* ego,in the . midst ., of e aocole mgs atorm the on year, one o Jeilerson ^ the^nariMt itavta was ' S^^«J5S£?.2S from the Payne mansion to the city m l, where he rematns w.ll he m state uott! eane s aay By the time the. hearse r^tiea r eached tae the , city hail the council chan her and fob- , bies ,J andThe 1 council ' chamber was q u-l-S ^' y v reared * and a way opened f for ,u the admiss.0” admission of the body. ~ 1 ‘ . heavily draped in black, which was re lieved with the red, white and b'uc of the stars and stripes. There were also rich floral decorations everywhere, military be sides crossed swords and other fssus wsrt&s s? h M - u ”“ '' ficallv. Richmond »»» wants it, T Atlanta, Ga has made its offer- Lexington, \ a. ^ request, because Lee and has put in a Jack8 on are there; Montgomery Ala will fend a delegation to sue for the body. Vicksbur g wants it, and so does Macon, Gn . i n spe aking of the final resting place ?Irs D «vis has said to her friends: • Ml* gigg; j claims the body, and that is bu h ome. Georgia has asked for it, and lhegreat love the Georgia People h ave always si o vu him always had a warm place in our hearts. Governor, Lee is very urgent because Richmond CSI& *;■’ Montgomery^^bases ra» ,2»“ WSf its claim upon the fact that that was the first capitoL” The auction will not be settled until Miss Winnie sVtnrdar Davis returns from Europe. On when Mrs Davis received a message from Miss AVinnie, saying that s R i ie would start home, a cablegram was l ack uraino-her not to come It is - ® thought that Miss Davis will remain p . health is better, ali, through the south. Meetings have been held in all soutl* ern cities, and resolutions adopted cx pressing sorrow at the death of Mr. Davis, and the governors of the south issued proclamations announcing the sad intelligence, and recommending funeral. memo rial services on the day of the All the New York papers. gave great epace, both editorially and in biograph ical sketches of Mr. Davis. The tone of the majority of the editorials, is conser vutive, and generous acknowledgment of his unswerving personal integrity and conscientious devotion to the .principles he conceived to be tiglit, is freely made. The Southerners in New York are siu cc re !y grieved at the death of the illus tjious hero of the lost cause, and will do all in their power to manifest their devo tion to his memory and their reverence for his heroic self-sacrifice to the utial terable faith that was in him. GEJSE1IAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. - The influenza, which has been quite general in in St. Petersburg has anpeared 1 ' London . . J. . II. ,,,,,, Hathboue, founder , . of ,. the order of Knights of Pythias, died at Lima () Monday I’resiaent Harrison witnessed the , ded ication # of the auditorium in Chicago [otulay night. D 11 „ Car works, at ^, Pullman, n 11 __ u los ' 8 of $100,000 from fire P night, Dr Parke sends a .mtSrovemcS bulletin from Ba«t moyo tiwt that there were is s s some improvement to m the condition of Emm Pasha. The total amount of insurance involved in the Thanksgiving tire tn Boston offi dally reported to date is #2,348,000. The Turkish government has in structed its delegates in the African conference to oppose any intervention in the inc irnue trade in in Circassian C ircassian Women Women. The general f executive committee of lhe wor d , s fair at New York, held a meeting , Thursday , ,,f and ailopted ^ a bill , v uch ^ t0 )e p seuted to The Die benefit beneltt tendered tenaerea to to Mrs Mrs. Parnell 1 arntu By (omedian W. .1. vcanlan, took place New lhnrsday afternoon at the btar theatre, York. Eight hundred and seventy “von dollars was realized. , I r be work of rehnmg sugar was com = ed Monday in Claus Speckle’s uew sugar refinery in Philadelphia. The c i fficity of the refinery is 2,000,000 pounds of sugar every twenty-four hours. Vienna Is snowed up. Provisions are from fifteen to twenty-five per cent. ^rou C account of 8erv,c impeded ? M communi- done on deighs. . . , Robbers ram ate active in the coun try districts. The general assignment of James W r . Whitney, Joseph B. Whitney and James A. Knapp, dry goods commission mer chains nt 76 Worth street, New York, to Liabilities David A. will Boody, aggregutae was filed bout $500,000 Monday! assets expected to make a good showing The Chicago lutics . that .... ,, Maggie sajs _ Schreiner, who poured kerosene oil on her husband oa June 25, 1888, and then set fire to it, burning him fatally, is suing the erder of Foresters for $2,000 v TT e -r a d ? #th be r m of $1,000, which she C . aims as b-U - (ficiary of the dead mail's estate. THE RICHMOND TERMINAL, According to the annual rep rt sub¬ mitted to the stockholders, fixe gross earnings for the year of all roads con¬ trolled by the Terminal, have been over $29,000,000, and the operating expenses about $ is,000,000. The net tamings over operating expenses and all fixed charges of the various lines, and likewise of the Terminal company itself, give a net surplus to the Terminal of over $000,000, which is (according to its present market price) over four per cent, on the common stock of the Terminal company. EMIN PASHA INJURED. A dispatch from Zmzibar announces that Emin Pusha has met probably a fa¬ tal accident Being nearsighted he walked out of a window by mistake, fell on his head, fracturing his scull. He now lies at Bagamoro in a critical condi¬ tion. AT the doctors, except Stanley’s physician, declare that Emin Pasha’s injuries will prove fatal. DISCONTENTED MINERS. The movement of discontented work ingmen is now exciting grave appre- and henaions in Europe. In the Essen Dortmund districts in Western Germany 90,0(iO miners a:e on a strike and 20,000 more in Al- .ce and Lorraine are Out. Ri 0ls have been of daily occurrence in Brussels for nearlv a week Austria is described as “honey-combed with strik¬ ers, starvation and hate.” A special from Florence, Ala., says: Fire broke out Thursday morning in Peyton's livery stable and burned the bui.ding and twenty-one horses. Loss Ifi.L'OO. No insurance. The fire com municated to an adjoining store, burning down the store building and stock L:ss $!2,CCd. . WASHINGTON, D. C. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT J A2iD ms AD yiSEBS. fifty first,congress. g enator Spooner ou Thura day intro-’ daced a bill declaring as chief superri- circuit « officers of the f th<j UnUed Stateg , and charging them with the enforcement of national election and naturalization laws, bath ia person and through their subordinates, ^Isormof election. >T1 The flight , of f n Cashier %. r Silcott with with f 75,000 of the salaries o the member, of the house of representatives. has created a lively sensation. When the house met on Thursday, Speaker -iced laid the fo. ■snsffirJsiES have unable coun ts* ’ and I been to asoer* bi 9 whereabo uts, and there is a ded ciencT in the cash of the office. In view f ,' fi circumstances I respectfu ly f an immtdlute investigation the of J accoun t S , under such action as c f representvtives may take iu the £,. emUes ." During the afternoon, cm the 8e rgeant-at-arm’s were busy f ~ over Silcott’s books and accounts, he X8Ct |(aUlD< . e missing, according to ^ book3 4 -jp gjij ’ j_1_ CAPITOL NOTES. p“S"^SLd n. ,•» «*? rSyS. 5 recess of congress, The death of Jefferseu Davis lias aroused curiosity respecting relics asro mated with his capture at the close of the war and now deposited in the war department. Many requests have been made in the past few all days for permission have to see them, but such requests been denied, KNIGHTS AND FARMERS. AKTICI.EB OF AGREEMENT ADOPTED AT THEIR CONVENTION. The tw r o great orders, the Farmers Alliance, or Farmers’ and Laborers Union, and b- Knights of Labor, which have just eh s; 1 their sessionat St. I.cu:s, entered into an important agreement, li is a formal alliance for joint politic;! actiou along certain lines by the two or ! ganizations. Iu (he agreement, perhaps the most i o e worthy feature is that which provides for the jo'mt actiou ol the legislative committees of the twe organizations to act in concert before congress for the purpose of securing thf enactment of laws in harmony with tin demands mutually agreed on. The avti elcs are as follows: TUE ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. j St. Lous, December G .—Agreement made this, i day between the undersigned committee repre j renting the National Farmers' Alliance and In dust rial Union on the one part and the under signed committee representing the Knights «*t Labor on the other part, wituessetli The undersigned committee representing the Knights of Labor having reads the deinaiul% of the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union which are embodied in this agreement hereby indorse the same on behalf of the Knights of Labor, and for the purpose of giving practical effect to the demands herein set forth the legis lative committee of both organizations will act in concert before congress lor the purpose of se curing the enactment of laws in harmony with the demands mutually agreed. Audit G tur ther agreed, in order to carry out these objects Hlat wo wii! Mipjmrt for office onh sm-h men as can be depended upon to enact these principlea into statute law uninfluenced by party caucus, The demands hereinbefore referred to are as folio rhfl,we demJnu 'the aboiititm of national banks and the substitution of legal tender treas nry notes Jn , ieu ut natiuIlal bank notes; issued ifi sufficient volume to do the business of the country on a cash system; regulating the amount nee,led ou a per basis as .h- bnGuew. In Create of the c,,m.„ v .lemand^ ami that a ii money issue.i by, he government shall i,e legal tender In payment of all debts, both public ami )> rivat e. ti. That wo demand that congress sfcaff pass such lawn as shall effectually prevent tliv dealing in futures of all agricultural and mechanical pro dnetions, pursuing a stringent system of pro eedure ill trials as shall secure the prompt con victim, and unpu-ing such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with law. ui. That wo demand the free and naUuUted coin age of silver. IV. ing T ^? the t ' alien v f. den,atl<1 ownership tho l-asaase of land, °f and laws that prahihit- c.u grass take early actidn to devise some plan to obtainby purchase all lamls now owned l>y aliens and foreign syndicates, and that all lands now held t» railroad and other corporation- in excess of such as is actually hewi by them he purchased by the government and held f.,r ac <ua, seuters only, Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special favors to none, we demand that tax¬ ation, national or state, n*hall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of anotli cr ' '' e '*fieN« ttot the nioni y m the emutry enuea, national, state or county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. That congress issue a sufficient amount of fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange through the medium of the United States mail. vn. Tliat the means of communication and trans portation shal! be controlled by ami operated in the intcre6t °f people, through the United States postal system. For the better protection of the interests of the two organizations it is hereby agreed that such seals or emblems as the National Farmers’ Alliance ami Industrial Union may adopt will be f* co f Di f d and protected in transit or otherwise sr ner be recognized by the Tanners’Alliance and Industrial Union. [Signed} B. Erwin. Chairman. N. S. Hall, Secretary. J. D. Hammond, F. M. Blunt, B. H. Clover, M. Page, J. R. Miles. W. H. Barton, N. A. Dunning;, S. M. Adams, J. D. Hatfield, J. B. Alexander, I). K. Norris. Stuart Ashby* K. F Feck, it- C. Belly, W. S. Morgan, •U If. Turner, A. S. Marn, Committee on O.-matuls ..f the National farm ers’ Alliance and Industrial Union. L V. Powderly, A W. Wright, Kolph Beaumont. Committee Representing the Knights of Labor The following officers of tho Fanners and Laborers’ union of America were elected for the next year: L. L. Polk, of North Carolina, vice-president! president. B. H. Clover, of Kansas, J. H. Turner, of Georgia, secretary. H. W. Hickman, of Missouri, treasurer. Ben Terrell, of Texas, lecturer. This congress <*f lal>orers was one of the most important public meetings that has ever been held in the world, ft repre¬ sented more laboring men than the early congress of this country represented peo¬ ple. It spoke with the full voice of 4.000, 000 laborers, and it will doubtless have a tremendous effect in public affairs. The farmers convention adjourned to meet at Jacksonville, Fla., the seufnd Tues¬ day in December, lb'JO. FINING HIMSELF, An Extraoialinarj Scene in a t alifoP nia Court. A few days ago Judge Alexander Laidlaw, ot Oakland. Cal. got drunk aud created a geene in a saloon. He was not arrested, but a report of his unseemly conduct was pub fished in the japers. He wore an air of un usual dignity when court opened the other morning, and in presence of a large crowd lectured himself for breaking a city ordt nance, pledged himself to resign if it oc¬ curred again, imposed a fine of *50 and pail it to the bailiff. PROMINENT PEOPLE, t F.x-Kixg Milan of Servia will make his home in Paris. Senator Pierce, of North Dakota, is the author of several novels. The London Tinu s suggests Stanley ior Governor of East Africa. Secretary Rusk is making a collection of orchids and chrysanthemums. General Boulanger is doing v*.\ry well. He is supported by his admirers. President Harrison is an expert walker, and likes a tramp of several miles. The letter carriers’ monument to S. S. Cox will probably be erected in Washington. The Lord Mayor of London was for some part of his early career an operatic singer. Even the Czar of Russia suffers with in¬ fluenza, which is epidemic in Sr. Petersburg. Ex-President Cleveland says our ex Presidents should earn their own living like other people. Sir Morell Mackenzie, the English doc¬ tor, is seriously considering the project of an American torn-. Ex-Pension Commissioner Tanner and W. H. Dudley have formed a business part* nership in Washington. Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, has the proud distinction among Englishmen of wearing the biggest hat. Castelae, the Spanish statesman, windup says the that another half century will monarohial business in Europe. Historian Bancroft takes a with long walk vol¬ every pleasant afternoon, of ten a ume of Shakespeare in his hand. Mr. Campbell, Governor-elect of Ohio, is a Kni ight Templar, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk. He is also a Presbyterian. The late Father Damien, who died in the leper settlement at Molokai. Sandwich Isl¬ ands, has been succeeded by his brother. Sir Julian Paunckfote, the British Min¬ ister at Washington, is devoting a good deal of time to the study of American literature. Henry C. Kelsey, the present Secretary of State of New Jersey, was the editor of n small country newspaper twenty years ago. Jules Verne’s real family name is Olche witz. The novelist is now sixty-eight years of old, and engaged in the production of one his greatest works. The exceptional honor of the crown and and brilliants pourie merits has been con¬ ferred upon Count von Moltke by the Em¬ peror of Germany. Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist reports himself in good health and spirits and disposed to spend yet another winter among the islands of the South Pacific. Charles Colby, the new President of the Canadian Privy Council, was born in the United States. He is the first native of this country who ever entered a Dominion Cab¬ inet. Mu. Gladstone has been speaking in Eng¬ land for fifty years, and yet people arc so anxious to hear hbu that they would at any time fill a large hall if the seats cost ten dollars. Spurgeon, the great London preacher, sav> that the “perfect' 1 members oi his flock give him more trouble than his sinners. Ho 110V/ gives notice that his fold is for black sheep only. Mark Twain passes a great part of liis time in his library, where he sits in a com¬ fortable armchair, his feet tilted up on the window-sill and a thick halo of tobacco smoke encircling bis forehead. Physically, Speaker Reed is the largest man in the House. He weighs as much as Ex-President Cleveland and is taller. He is an accomplished French scholar and reads every new book published in Paris. The oldest officer in the United States Navy is Commodore Henry Bruce, now He on the retired list and living in Boston. was born on February 13, 1T89. and was appoint¬ ed a midshipman in the Navy from Massa¬ chusetts on November W, 1S13. Citizen George Francis Train whan in Boston recently was surrounded by a crowd in a hotel corridor when bo offered to bet that he was the biggest fool in America, Nobody accepted the wager at first, but finally a man came forward and said: ‘'I'll take your bet, stranger, provided you are not. George Francis Train.” MUSICAL AND DEAMATIC, The advance sale of seats for Madame Patti s season in Chicago exceeded $100,000. Marie Van Zandt, tlje Ajoaorican singes*, will receive $ii00 for eaelj of twelve perforiut* auc*es at Bai*celona and TJsbon. Samuel Brai>j>,Hau\ one of the oldest American actor a, died recently at St. John land, 1j. I. Ho was ninety-six years old. As many as 238 feiuale candidates applied for adtiu .don to the piano classes of the Paris Conservatoire at the recent examinations. AV. G. Wills’ a version of “Clarissa Hat mwe' will soon be prodded'at Covenfjry, Lngland,with Isabel Bat"jinan as tho herotijr*. Stories of Christina Kilsson’s hopeVesy ill healtii have been current of late, but they are Bjorksteu. vigorously denied by her nephew, Mi. A- ^ f ^ PLLV publisher announces as one; of the items in a forthcoming sale of autographs the MS. of a piano piece by Wagner, entitled Jrolonia.” The new opera of Gilbert and r Jullivan has bren withdrawn after four weak*’ rehearsal, the authors themselves became convinced that it wouldn't do. Mme. Modjkska takes a cold bath in the morning and a hot one before going to bed— one to make her bright, the other to make her sleep, and l>ohU for health. Adelaide Dewohox, the young American actres. 1 *, has hsen presented with a gold medal, sot with diamonds by the faculty and students of Glasgow University. Mhm. J ames S. Nickerson, the wife of *n ex-Assis^ant United States District Attor¬ fai* ney, stage of JPhiEidelphia, honors is the latest applicant from the ranks of S4X*iety. f he lvvival of “The Silver King 0 proved popular at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York. A feature of tin's performance was the really admirable acting of little Olive Homans. T he V ice-Presideut and Mrs. Morton, ac¬ occupied companied by Secretary and Mrs. Blaine, a box at the opening of Richard! Maiiffield’s season at the new Natiouaii Theatre in Washington. The copy of Beethoven’s cantata in eele ? n ation of the congress of Vienna, which he presented to King Frederick William JIJ., of Prussia, has just been placed iu the Beet¬ hoven Museum, at Bonn. Miss Kate Chard is the heroine of tlu» hour iu London. During a performance of “The New Corsican Brothers/’ the flies caught calmly fire and she prevented a panic by going on with her song. ^-•Ty^tm^glia! rekT 1 thlateicaf'^“on^the^com^rt wal^rSfprt part. 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