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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1891)
ALLIANCE NOTES. j NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM ! ALL SECTIONS. Items of Interest to Alliance men Everywhere. The* <»winnett County Alliance iuct *•» fi -w week* a^o anH liegun the ground vork of a $15,kOU guauo factory. The Alliancemcn of Texan are pushing ahead in th«* mutter of a new enttou , bagging factory. It has been located at Marble Falls. I he AI.tance Exposition s still open a Ocala, Hh., and I n id, nt, It. K la g-rv • i at the head of the:State A Hiam e, is giving it his pei onal at ention. j *** An Alliance oh perativc store is to tie opened at O, da Fla., as soon as $1000 j tie in- di d i pita) stock, is fully mb scribed. -third of the amount i, ; already in hand. ' *** Out in Know, and some other of tlic we-tcin state.., the Alliances arcconfhh nt tha sinning campaign with the Alliance songs, had no litth t < > do great v.eto ncs won by be farmers. .% Buncombe County Alliance has »r raned a schedule of prices with the tobacco warehousemen of Asheville. N. 0., and the watehouRC committee imiHe an earneht j-npenJ to the members of the order to recognize this action a« binding upon them until the experiment inis been fit] 1 v tried, mid not to he drawn away h.y “oily-tongued drummers for other markets.” ,% right principle, The Alliance is nil in kiii < tin Ooltl of North Carolina; the only danger in sight is in its li mg led into wrong j aths of designing men who have only self-interest at heart, There is no crime in combining lor self pruleeiion, and in doing this the larinets do not necessarily prove that they nr- an tagonistic to the rights of any other lion cat man. The trouble wAh them is th -C they have not w en more self-assertive ui the past. .% The success of the Farmers’ Alliance is in the taluealion of the rnasseji of the people. Into This education will lend them a de.ire for more intlependeue. M life; and tliat desire will lor. e them to demand a change in the condition of tin government, which lias brought them to their condition. present *1 depressed (Munition and the oppressed people he of will be the dentil of class legislation, and the birth of. quid rights to all. * Flnill the Alliancemcn of America— free citizens of what ought to he a free country, assort their rights and olda justice. Will they stand like true i and do their duty na inline €?c| I i mss system of finance, and equality ol la which Lfimranh e iainc.tr* vji • nip, ^the they degenerate into conditloe.sof teii.iiit- and serfs Tlte follow ing telegram from Loudon to the N Herald is itnpgctMvU t show! ng u i, he t oipbmrfirW)es think Arnitnee ami the third party movement in Ameri ea: Th I - "iiitenting on M. Leon Kiy-e.in i American finattees and the programme of the Farmers’ Alliance, say -; *’ ‘It is probable that old party ties in I America will lor some time to (‘(line pre vent the distinct emergence of a tnird party with a pr gramme Mich as that of tlio Farmers’ All mice. But the fit vv party will make it influence felt in bulb the older organizations, lt would be a mistake to underrate the significance of the movement. It is reported that an auxiliary to the Furmcis Alliance has heen organized iu southwestern Kansas, the object of which is mutual protection Iroui loan and in vestment growing companies. T o re has bee a a imhimtiou to have something done among the alliance members to pre¬ vent the foreclosure of mortgages nml subsequent sale of farms on account of the non payment of interest, and this feeling has become so intense that it hw at last resulted iu the formation of this organization, the members of which an bound by oath to go to the assistance ot any member who is in danger of losing hi. property through the action of par I ties holding mortgages. Already thi movement lias extemhd over the entire southwestern part ol the sta'e. Hint numUrs have twice signalized their readiness to aid n di trc- eU brother ♦ • '• Brethren of the Fa,me,s’ Alliance, -up | pose we in make Alliar.o, th,- a rear of ........in progresa matters Wo < nnot stand still on a slippery hillside, and .1 we do not gro forward vm will cerUriolj slip bar k. here a.e no matter- of jk.1i ties ,tmt need interfere with vis this \e*r, and we may keep (lerfeetly «h»I. tru-tiug to the wisdom ot toe nett congress u, gne ther untry sut Ii relief as we seek Iu the meantime let us make our I,,,,™ more home-tike ami our fanns utort*tu \ like. We will never get any relirf by growliui; but wi« nm*l bulj» ourselvt* antj try to put in every hour advantageously Kr»p the social aud agrieu , ral jestur'es ' at the order , nmiiuoutly U-fore the pie. Let u< encourage our lame brethren who begin are dragging -long behind, and let us by enthusing ourselves. Me really have ntucii to ta* thank,u! for. * ’ — 1"M t-AWYMi in Fier.rfu Al,eaters’ Alii arme. « * ' TIIK TR'H’lll » IN KANSAS. i A Topeka, Ka* sas. dispatch of Mou day says: t he war which wa« begun ou Flank McGrath, [,rc-. imtol the F.liners' Alliance, as s. ,v tl Turner letter tool been p blislied, has broke., out aiu w ami threatens to play havoc wiih all eaoeu agnsemenl* which investigaieU i lie judic ary commi v eGrath'- a i eged eonttectiott w un tU Turner b:: '. i.a-. i alter more th -n > week's detib. r>tt.>: decided to mpiot the p :‘-i,iI II t resignation nt doc.UeU that bs wtit st:^. nc 1 u THE DEMOCRAT, CRA FOKDVILLE, GEORGIA. There is no provision in the Alb he will not resign unless the AItiance at large demands it. and he wants t „ know what the jiifl ( i.srv committee is going to do about it. Th.- reshmatiou of McGrath v. ill lx: 'InhaV ImdT IV: 'hU',''Vclin.'th'w , („i»-ntcd to brio" iron” before tin-mmmltie. un affidavit Congressman Turner ikClili eitii< STiiiS r La i'en I not atb-nmted to secure this «>r ii I un .blc to (Ui so. A dtective ’.vns then emp oyed to investigate his . r ,j f or the |,st three months, and it c. as liis icportto thecoaimittec which has ro. 1 - idled in the alliance president's charged with tun pora y . isgrace. He is , iviug had frequent consult .tions U) ,«i.Hean leaders, and having made ex r,( ,idiiurcs from the a liance funds winch v ( . r „ 0 t in tlle Hue of his duties ta pres deul * * * Et.ioiBitirv in the ai-mancf. Pi.-sidnit Livingiton, in a long iettei i , the mb Allian and Alliancemcn, re gard other ng things, the eligibility question, among sins: “D was made my duty at Macon by tin-State Alliance to bring t-your notie. that there vv..re members in the order vvlio wer< not eligible when received. The same convention required of me in the event that such members were not dia missed, to suspend the Alliance to which tiny urn attached. Please find here the eligibility clause a* amended by the last State and National convention hela in Aumiftt nml December, lWtO: ‘No pv.r .son aball bo aduti ted as a member of this order, except a white person over sixteen v.-ars of age, who is a believer iu ,h„ , Kp ;l ,... „t a Supreme living, and hu. r-dd.-l in the slate more than six months, and is . ithe,. I-t, a farmer or farm laborer; 2d, a country mechanic; ;’>.l, a country poacher; 4tii, a country doctor; school teacher; 5th, a country who Gth, an editor or editors of a paper support all national demands and the de . man.is of the Slate Alliance under whose juii- lietion he may live, provided editor that no sub--Alliance shall initia'e an until the County President and sec .clary shall indorse and the State President aiiprove application. Pro vide.l further, the S ate President inay suspend any editor from member ' ship for using permitting his paper to or j he used against the Alliance until the ! next meeting of the State Alliance, when said Alliance may re instate or expel him j from the order again, “If any one sh .11 apply for mendrership under section one, ) and it shall Ire known to tire committee in j of investigation that he lias other j terests, that do not harmonize with the I objects of the order, it shall he the duty I of the committee to report adversely to his admission; and it shall further be the duly of the sub-AIliance to reject iris application,” ¥ ' i: I.M’TUtlCUft Foil OKOKOIA ” en:.,.'ie*t to mat .... or ' OX perfect sponsible.. .0 II d rtiico lcctMr<*i*s bivr been pointed to visit, each congressional dis ,n "; These.officers are to be instruct'd * 1 leetnrer and their duties even | b • resolution The following G”’ e" leeoni .J the action of Un rtnwimljiKi The > veeutive committee of the State u with the president have arrang . , ieeturers for the ate follows r s as ; First congo ss on d district, VV. A. VVi son tiud Wimberly. See ml congressional district, VV. A. i Wilson and Wimberly. 'I bird eoiigt, ional district, B. Wil¬ | liams tiiid VV . <VV ilson . 1 Fourth congressional district, B. Wil¬ liams and VV (’. Wilson. I Filth v< mgr-rstonal , district, . \\ . S. ( opel rod. A 1 . f airow and 1 aimer. , bixth congressional district W. 8. Copeland A. 1 harrow „ml Palmer. 1 ‘''strict, W. S ‘l■-Jitss,;i: nfe..........r»Ui,,,.”. 1 ; rK 1 :.;:,. 1 Nintli eoiign-sjouiil district, Copeland, Farrow u.d Palmer. • pttarsrSaSft®' E ...... ......7 " »•» .....to..... T :; The state lias been lareeleti out so as to give the brotherhood iu every section of ! the state the advantage of m. early oppor- ' U .......................me- ThV V i ihX’*le! eaiiou ti!rers w hem've^ueee^airm wUen for by the comimttee' brethren l’iie ure- dent and , xecutive earn is ly request tlm brethren to attend the *' 1 al ’ <i teruuue to do their full .hr the future . y in i«»wi„lH rug that our .effort h „ m Id , «P »rder in Georgia and ettablish the "J)'/," a ! ;, oHtAmwa' 1 * M ,, ‘ amiHowkdge^.2"" u ,„ , . S \“ \ -d ' re.U ‘Xrmim- 's\ »" t,"^b J ourfa. . u (a ,„ r .mme as a State apiHrinln' org . ra tJon If thev accept their nts h lecturers* named shove will meet the Su$( . ;t( , uri , in the seer. tar.'» office. ;V . *’ s-, ™ , ,0 l ! ou t>r u ‘ ,r • | Ki “ h M’lnuntee . wHI rccei,e as oom,«’„- i AU,a,i0 ?’ , . WB “"i ° for ^ >UiU ' lw ' ,art ' the r las, Mate ' Fki i\ t'oRrt’T, Chairman. A. F. I' l K. 1. J. OTKrHKNS, A W. I very. Kx. Committee. L V. Ltv inoston, Pre-. The committee adopted the followin' resoluti n : Resolved. That the duties of the t-tst¬ and Assistant St de lecturers lie confine to the tu cessdiv* (or. snd obje. t of. on order, exemplification of the and seer t v.ork th- cxphiua ion of Oca a State A, anct platforms and [Kili.ies. i,cudh the irisur nee tea,are 1 tely promu gst by this Mate Alliauce ana * vs tikxp. He—I a’nay* pay *s 1 go when She prawning—Weil, paying attentions how i« i; t at you are voc sever go f NEWS AND NOTES CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. „ E P ltonl « ° f Incidents that Hap pen from Day tO Day. __ > n,riv M. Teller has hem tauf-ns W lor Lnited •?*«•*> States senator. '■ ■» John C. Hall, of the big law firm ^ ol Ha I & Rogers, San Francisco, has con fessed to enibezzh meut of a large amount. Leonard Perrin, a wealthy New Lon don, Wis., mm, has been convicted o; complicity in the Harley bank robbery oj 1880 The sale of the Black ville Newberry ... i »a, rn L-’r :i r ^confirmed , n, the East Shore Term n 1 has by ^ the J j, 1 he directors of the worl is lair h av *| postponed the threatened : of the lake front side, pending neg .ions now in progress and supposed ■ final. ~ A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch svys: ExI r} ovcrn or 'lliaver, who has been suffering f rom nervous prostration, brought on by the political complication in the legi-la ture, on Bunday, became a raving maniac, A dispatch ^ from Albany, N. Y., a fisf- vs ■ GovcrD r Davi< | ,j. Hj[i was unadrhou nom , nate d f„ r United States senator bj the democratic caucus Monday. There, pu |,|£ can C um.us nominated William M. ] v ‘ . llts ^ 1 iiy a vo e o o ie sena . , T f* .> cole, 'ccoginaing Neb , IfcUurday, James h passed Boyd as a resolutjb goverfl#, ; without jud.ee to the powers con tel pn either branch f 1 his's the hr tactmii in the legislature which rccogu.zed Roydfs governor. j Further details of the destructi n j wrought by a severe earthquake in Alger i, i reported on the 15th instant, have I < ’.n j received. 'Ihe towns of Goureya a d j V illehourg were practically destr yed >y [ the shock, and lorty persons were kilrd j by the falling walls, 1 \ dispatch of Monday says: Tf’o j stations Chicago, on the Milwaukee Coune 1 Biuffs and division'f St. Hui | ,, (>e ! railway, in Iowa, have been closed | caU8# the towns’ people boycotted ihe j new agents employed in the places®! j strikers. t*uperimendent unable to Collin- get meaipjim sayfjjie II(1W men were i lodgittg in either place, and that the cp did their best to make life a bui on for them. 1 A dispatch of Sundav, from i.ineMi, Nell Bars: Three anests have Vit a made w thin the past twenty four hod-, in connection with the murder McFarl;iu<i of J, n Slurdv one week ii ,r < i^d a colored Sunday,’ h rber was the first suspect, he on made a confession, u> : know!edging the k lling, and impliev llg the wife Of Ur. . e - ied man and'-V. sup,......1 lovers. M . > ,;ul Mr i ,my IR... f n»»« ».») ..unhand. Mu..... -mold e.o; uuitc \v» aiiuv --L_____ I w T THE HF SILVER CII VFU WT PILL. I -- Text Of the MfiASUl AS PsSSfid by the Sen te. The silver bit: as pa sen by the s'fliate Thursday simple, night in • tree coinage me: ■-hr pure aud fre? from ail nml b mk and bond k^islatie*. ? <>u aimM is th,. tmaneml bill I lie text is a, foil" . of'goduudE LILuld V 1 I • ‘ purposes. this | 1 "«t from and after date of tiai-sage of this act, the unit of value 1 in the ljuited States shall be a dollar, lind ,he Sll me may be c. iaed , f 412 i era * lud of standard reiver, or of twenty-five daht-tenth gr.ina of standard gold; and coillH ,h.dl be legal tender fo. all del ts, public or private. That hereafter -TratoSi&fc Sh»... *M m*. i... , r | , rs f„ r Lis benefit and wit n ut bnt s all be lawfu to reruse oO-S.V'S'iZ'X ’ “PPhcable l f ibruary to tue 23. coinage K i8, is m hereby this act ^nade pro V "^ ^tt nThat S^cS’of^^^^ the certificates nrov ded i fo UI il .n of not loss than $1 n,,r le ■ 11,11 $ l11 ' *. ucl: certitu cs Tt m°'ca. hen^ap “ • out ‘ m is o | u ni out ot any money iu the tiea.ury „herw,s, Jppropdated. S much ' . f !h e act rf July \i idW. entitled. An | He direrting the purchase of ailver bullion “'’ i! ' ho iss '“*' of tr,,HsU, v U '*‘«K wl for - • i as requires the purchase f ''500,000 ounces ot silver bullion f r month be, and Ue same is. hereby rr V ' ^ *' Vd 4 , Ttmt the , cert,fie,tea provlted 4 , , , ; old ‘'■'* ' iQ< - a ‘‘ ! liv »ha f , am 1 1 " ” r ' ’w*' , be. reeejv able for all I ud dues the Lfi^eo ; tax s to < Maf.w l< of rder every description, and aha, nl for Ihe nay meat of ail debts, an<i s *'■ Owners of bullion depo ited , f i . imtgc -hall have the optio,. t. Ot' iw co«« or its equ valent iu the certtfi- ! rs provided for in this act, and su b ! a .-II be subsequently coined, r 1 I IS YOUNG NOW B’it Expects to Do Great ngrs in the Future. m is to cave an oil refinery, whic ;.y in time contftete with tae grea The organization hvs be « [terfv and officers elected. The cap i?al of the company, which for tic to be $25.00 t, w ill be taken to w et ur smaller cotton see l oil nt I* ate. lt the is expected oil that n.-« d • verd of (mailer mills lit’ will join the comuany which > own as the Mum.*! Oil Hep' Jy BUSINESS OUTLOOK. | Dun & Co.’s Report for Past W ® ek< , ft. G. Dun & . Co.’a , weekly lt review . of t trade says: How far the situation and may be changed by thefr-e * “■««of conjee ure. Reports Of the state of trade at differcut points reflect mainly on the situation prior to that and. more etori'g outlook. ! The railway situation is better, pro-pects brighter, Europe does n t now appear to be selling American securities to a large extent. increased exports. imports Exports in of merchandise heavily exceed value. At New York, fot January, thus far the increase in exports over la8t J e r htd hecn $1,400,000, or about 12 per cent, while imports here sh " w a decline of $3,903,000, or about 15 per i ent. Preliminary reports <f ex ports of cotton, breadstuff's, provisions, eattle and petroleum in December, show an aggregate of $74,184,449, against pre Hence it appears that the excess of exports in December was very large in spite of the decline in the movement of breadstuffs, which highir prices tend to p olong. = fluctuations in prices. For the p ift week, with wheat 1 per cent, higher, corn and oats practically higher, unchanged and cotton three-sixte nths the exports of wheat have been only abou half of last year’s; of floui less than a quarter and of corn oalv one eighth, while the exports of cotton show a decrease tor the week, in spite of .he considerable increase in reciipts. Pork lias not c anged, but lard and hogs are lower Oil is x cent lower, and the speculative markets are generally rather weak outside of those a ove mentioned. ilver bullion h s » cted curiously. Hav ing risen to pence before the passage of the silver bid, it fell to 48| on Friday ifter the vote, arid shows a weakness imilar to that observed in the stock market. REPORTS FROM THE CITIES. until Reports from other cities show that, I had Friday, the situ ition and outlook been improving and a feeling of greater confidence prevailed. Trade is improving at L misville, Memphis and j Jacksonville, only lair at New Orleans, but increasingly active at Baltimore, where the value of the manufactured ! products in 1890 was about $150,000, UIH) 'i'he money markets have grown easier and banks are able to help cus¬ tomers more liberally, but at the east the itfliculty of making commercial loans has not entirely ceased, though money on call is very abundant. At the west and sout, i, all money markets are easier, though rates a e not lower, anil caution n regard to the character of loans is more Failures frequently noted. the number during week 360; for a corresponding period of lust year figures were 305. - A "AG BANK FAILURE. ___ -. me Amer u , itan » ai% Motinnol wauumu ui Af V. 50S City Goes Under. The Amemicn National bank, of Kan g R9 C’ity, was taken char f e of Monday by . E. Marshall, national b nk examiner ir tlie State of M's-ouri. 'Ihe capital Stock of he bank is $125,000. No state meat of liabilities or assets can be ob iued. During the early part of last k it became known to members of the ivaI,sa8 ^ ^™ P‘m vldmed le u°k * was^in T which", the .s-iieiation wasealled, at resolu goo was adopted assuring the bank that >t reuuereu to tnr amount ot $1, MOM U'qtMfW or more. An investigating committee reported collat to a nv eting offered of the the association Ameri that the r ds by can National b.nk we e not uch as the banks of the association would accept This deus.on made the failure of the rss-.’SrArr*j 55 ^s e'«i bank are all eastern men. Secretary Blaine is said to hold $50,000 of the «•* ------- * FREEZE ON THE CONTINENT. Rivere Blocked With Ice-Fear jv n g iSa y ; k ports ot snowstorms and j ucreus ng cold .we .thereome from various U’! rtS ,° f the cou ', ino, ,t j ?“ ^ ance th '' - . !,. cti( -, us „f , r e rnmntry. Communication between Lyons and Shvov is completely out ,,ff ’ a, ‘ ,he r,,ads ,H ‘ in « hlm ke.l by | ' Lnw SinSd ^n mid-' U-ere’the j p , rls t jj c weather is uunsuallv “ mercury lmb." sSS fallen u- 18° welrher ’ »lso u v rv blocke.i e.dd , fhe ,* port of Genoa is completely similar . From G. rmany come re ', N The K-sr.eiati.rn of Underwriters H:ini b„rg 1ms a vessel cruising near Heligoland to warn vessels aga nst enter , n g the Elbe, vessels having been badly i damaged wh le trying to force their way through tho ice. Dispatches from Cet- > tu je, the eaplto! has of M> utenegro. off ill says a heavy fall of sn vv cut c.uumu nication with that city andt e interior of the. county. It is feared that tn ,nv dts era have oeru red, and the lr>“ S of live v k will l e ve v heavy. A large number of travc i ers itri . showed u > ___ TENNESSEE'S NEW GOVERNOR Takes up The Reins Dropped by Bob Taylor. John P. Buchanan was formally in mute, into tiie office of govern,.; of ' feunessee Mond <v, iu the presenc- of fully 3,000 jH’ople. The general assembly, justices of supreme court aid all the officers in attendance. Gov- ■ Mate were vrn ♦ Taylor's retiring address was brief :■ »ull of wit. H- hen closed briefly. mid introduced his successor, Hon. John l* Buchanan, who -poke briefly also, j Upen c o-iag, G ,vernor Buchanan was -worn in by Chief Ju tice Turney, of the supreme iu court, a d a rce ptioa f, Ucwed the governor's office. KOCH S SECRET Has at Last Been Given to the World. ^ The , long talked „ , of , secret . of , the . ! in I gredients entering into the composition : of Professor Koch's famous lymph, was day After a long and exhaustive detail of how he arrived at the principle and 1 curative effects of the remedy in his ex ML'S W I •Th» rem.dj, «UcUU mrf 1. th, » treatment, consists of glycerine extract, derived from a pure cultivation of tuber clebaciii. Into the simpl extract there naturally passes from the tubetcular ba cili, besides an effective substance, all other matter soluble in 50 per cent, of I . , g certain yeenne. quantity Consequently nnuc-ral it contains | a of s-dts, col j oring substances and oth r unknown ex t active matter. Some of these sub stances can be removed from it t 1-rably ! easy, 'iheeff ctivc substance is insolu , blc m absolute alcohol. It can be pre cipitatcd by it, though not in-; de, d in a pure condition, but! > still combined with other extract-I ive matter, which is likewise insoluble iu | a cohol. The coloring matter possible may also be removed rendering it to ob tain Irom the extract a colorless, ary sub stance containing the effective priucip'e and in a much more concentrated form j than ihe original glycerine solutions, For application in practice this puribca turn of glycerine extract offers no advan 1 age, because the substances so elminah d are unessenU d for human organism, i he progn ss of punfacatton would make the cost of the remedy unnecessarily There is a distinct disappointment over the defective character ot las statement regarding the composition of the lymph, especially the studied reticence concern some P ar,s °/ Py oc e6s produc Experts anal} t tliat his t * on in sis sav - declaration that the remeuv is glycciine extract reveals nothing, while the descrip tl0n 01 ^ l< * ly/nph ^hicli follows seems nurnoselv evasive and obscure. THE BRETHREN RESPONDED. The Noble Act of the Knights Templars in Chicago. A Chicago di .patch says: One of the most performed unique surgical operations Sunday, on record was in this city and 132 Knights templars gave to the world a no aide example of fraternal love and self-sacrifice, made in order that a sick brother might be restored to health, lhese knig ts each suffered the ioss of a piece of cuticle, which was .transferred to sir Knight John Dickerson. A cancer, which had attacked his thigh, was re moved s me time ago, but so deep and wide an incision had to be m de in the flesh that nature was uncq mi to the task ot Inali g over the gaping wound. Ihe experiment was tried of engrafting the skin of some of the lower animals, hut tailed, li.e Mirgeou m charge an nouneed to r-;on Minxiotrt brethren that if human skin eould b. obt; ; SJttfawiJ^ eJH.S bb .imij.e u,. b .s^oatju. , e v er v - Flic question was where to obtain »ufBcR'nt - skin to cover 1-14 -quare lof.uns of surface. The matter was broacaed in the commatidery and, to a man, the Knights offeied t, submit themselves to the necessary operation. ----——------ , WORK OF THE FLAMES. -- Disastrous Fires in New York. ! Grenada Nearly Destroyed. A dispatch of 'Jltiursdav Miss., morning says: The Grenada, is in flames, j W’ef ores and ^houses have m,c. -timafed ^“ut $100 000 worth'of destroyed, prrt £ ,Lre it will be are no fire com antes m the ct y. Fire was discovered in E. M. Van Tas i sel’s grain elevator ob North river, New York. Wednesday morning. It burned ! so fiercely before dayligh , in spite of the work „ f „ |arwp of flremcu tbat it «.»U24.*. Wr»/a»»*% A second fire broke out shortly after that in Van Tassel’s elevator m Morgan . s s - £" h ,t lh w About 3 o’clock a third fire in the same neighborhood caused a lo-s of $60,000 to the bonder! warehouses of Campbell, BONHAM'S STATEMENT. i -- South Carolina's Ex-Adjutant G6MV&1 Explains. j A Columbia. . . S C., dispatch of Satur ^ Bonham, ss - vs: whose Ex-Adjutant General M L. checks were protested by Columbia banks, and whom the press re ported ated as a defaulter—all sensation—has of which ere a great been sick 1 f Dce hls _ f « rn - a nd unable to make a ^ gthy f . statement. f His bnef letter to Governor Tillman, however, covers the “alter, He says that it has been cus tomary for the troops not to draw their money until several months after their cheeks had been sent them; that. 3fter sending the checks, he was placed in a very pa nfui situation, and was obliged ' to ove.draw bis own account, and made it up wiih the money for the troops; that he had arranged to make this good, and had he been in Columbia when the checks were presented, he would have been able to pay them. He has ha 1 the protested drafts recalled, and they will be paid when again presented. This matte, ts Columbia. & very painful subject to every one at I he young adjutant genera was very popular and has many friends. _ ANOTHER TREASURER SHORT. Arkansas Furnishes the Sensa sation this Time. A social from Little Rock, Ark.. sst«; State Treasurer Woodruff s bond men h* Id a me ting Wednesday and decided to make good the shortage in the treaa urer's accounts. Woodruff tinned ot t to his securities sufficient property to save theta from any loss. The deficit amounts to $W.OOO. t PEARLS OF THOUGHT. There is no divinity in a dead man. Peacemakers never need to be out of employment, A flower will smell good, no matter It Jitter to succeed in small things than to fail in great ones. 'You can't warm other people while your own heart is freezing. If you can’t be rich yon can become better off by being contented. The man who goes to school to bf$ mistakes has a good teacher. L nkinu worus 'Would Kill as utau as bullets If thev had the power. Tlte man will always be remembered who forgets lii.nsclf for others, There are people who have all kinds of sense, except common sense. The soldier who really did good at the frontier never brags about it. The things which do tlio most to make , 1 1 do not cos , money . - The man who truly serves his gen eration will not need any monument, The man who has nothing worth fighting for never gains many victories, f A man " lan who 110 is 18 unfaithful unI in small things is not to be trusted in gieat oneg . Some men are honest becau c e they have never had a chance to steal any* tiling’, Not one person in ten thousand can rcinembei' a great sermon, but nobody can f or tr e t an act of kindness.—[In (lfcmapoli# (Ind.) Ram's Horn. A Telegraph-Pole as a Storehouse. While walking through the Museum of Natural History at Central Park, recently, I saw in one of the glass cases part of a cedar telegraph-pole, thickly perforated with holes. On in. quiry, 1 learned that the^e holes had been dug in . the pole by the California woodpecker fhr the purpose of storing acorns for its winter food. Some of the acorns may still be seen in the pole, although most of them had been extracted before it was cut down. It has long been known that these . stole . tne . . bark . nu&y tyoik j 8 acoins in of standing trees, hut the use of a tele g,. a pi,.p 0 i c for this purpose is an entnely . . selection, , ,j and and while while new nei- pe! hap. the feathered gentry find it a verjr c0,ivenie,,t Morehol,8e » " I. . ^ M. .. .mnxg ^ ^ pu j , I ; LJ. 1 UPJLLl ]^ edly damaging to the telegraph pole, Thi. e is ;< cousin of this same bird . in Mes - who Jlag di8C0Tered (]lat ; the stalk of tiie aloe makes a much , better storehouse than trees or tele graph pole«, besides savin" him a great deal of labor The aloe ’ after flowering, . . dies, .. but . the hollow stalk remain* staging. The flinty texture i of the stall # easily pierced through to the re,., d cavity by the wood P eckcr ’ v *f tl,en brittle in an acorn, then lioilu . .. «n^ % 1 then filled another, to ln the until level , . the of ice is . a- . • the hole. He then makes a second I opening higher up, and t! rusts iti tnore acorns until the level of that hole is reached. *• "• ■» «r «p**• «“**»■* —n--» with acorns. Often aloes thirty miles distant from tlio nearest oak tree have •* PW, .£ .Ulf miles for each acorn stored. All this good work is turned to use in times of famine, when not onlv the woodpeckers, but other birds, and even animals, live on this preserved food. before I finish I must tell you of a , ^t' 1 * practical joke w itch the wood pecker occasionally indulges in. In¬ Stead of inserting an acorn in the tree selected be slyly puts in a small stone; the wood grows over this it. time, and ^ , en the the t.eo tree i« 1 .. finally finafly taken taken to to the the n » n 'he stones play sad havoc with the saws.—[St. Nicholas. - — Haste and Leisare. “When I was in London,” said Col. Codv, “I was going to dinner one night and told mv driver to get me there as quickly as possible. As my ca! , j a g- e clattered along over the cob biestones of a narrow street we over took a funeral procession. Im mediately my driver got into a dispute with tlte driver of the hearse over the Hgh* °f way. 1 told my driver to keep straight on the trail, and not cut ,| lr0U g|, the funeral, showing mv deep religious inclination, and he said he wouldn’t. He said he'd beat the hearse if it took a year. Well, we rattled on. The race was growing interesting and exciting. My driver* I feared, was getting the worst of it. Presently, however, they stopped to argue the matter, and I heard my nrnti say to the cheerful driver of the hearse: “-Ilere, my man's in a hurry, fours isn't.''•"_fChieagj Tciuuua*
