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Official Organ of Crawford County.
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CURRENT NEVUS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
TniNGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAI
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLEE
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
The stockholders of the Chicago
World’s Fair Friday. Association organized ir
Chicago on
It is said that Governor Fifer, of Illin¬
ois, will call a special session of world’s the legis
biturc at once to deal with fail
matters.
The ship A. McCollum, from Ric
Janeiro, Baltimore. is detained at quarantine died in ai
Three of its sailors ol
yellow fever while on passage.
Bodies of Turkish troops have pillaged
< 'hrislian churches and insulted (Uiristians
in the piovinee of Candin, Crete. Ar
inquiry is being made into the outrages.
The'Mill Owners’ Association of Bom¬
bay has resolved to close spinning mills
eight days every month and weaving
mills four days every month for three
months.
'The census shows t! at there are 30,229
Germans in Paris and 35,718 in the de¬
partment of Seine. 'The Sole says it is
sion time the government stopped the inva¬
of Germans.
Tiie Manhattan, Kansas, bank closed
its doors Tuesday morning, and posted
the following notice: “Closed. John W.
Webb, temporary assigne c. No partic-
ulars can be learned.
It appears that Emperor William’s re-
cent order with reference to commission¬
ed officers in the army does not increase
the pay, but lowers the scale of private
incomes necessary to secure commissions.
The failure has been announced on the
stock exchange, at New York, of the old
and prominent firm of George K. Sistare's
“Sons. A member of the firm caused is quoted by as
heavy saying that defalcation the failure their was Philadelphia a
in
office.
In accordance with the views ex¬
pressed by the emperor of Germany issued re¬
cently, a cabinet order has been
forbidding duelling in the army except in
cases where the council of honor, to
which all circumstances shall have been
referred, shall declare a duel is necessary.
The business section of the village ol
Theresa, twenty-five miles from Water-
town, N. Y., was entirely destroyed by
fire Monday morning. Forty-two build¬
ings were burned, involving a loss like
$150,000 to $200,000. About twenty
buildings were dwellings; the rcmaindei
stores and shops.
A groat deal of opposition is mani¬
fested at New York by members of the
produce and cotton exchanges against
the so-called “Butterworth bill” now be
fore congress. On Tuesday it was de¬
termined.to send to Washington a com¬
mittee from the two exchanges to appeal
before the committee on agriculture.
SEVEN DROWNED.
A RAFT CONTAINING TWENTY NEGROES It
CAPSIZED WITH FATAL RESULTS.
In the section of country overflowed by
the crevasse at Catfish Point, Miss., last
week, a raft containing twenty negroes, thi
who were trying to escape from
floods, was capsized in the mouth ol
Bogue Phalia, the rapid current having
carried the frail craft against reached a tree. the
Only thirteen of the party
shore alive. All were Alabama negroes
and not nc«iuainted with such vicissitudes.
AN INHUMAN ACT.
TOLICF. DETAIN HIM BECAUSE HE WAS
HURRYING FOR A DOCTOR.
James Coleman, a farmer living near
Fort Dodge, Iowa, was arrested Friday
for fast driving by city police. After his
arrest it .was discovered that he had been
hastening to town to get a physician immediately for
nis dying wife, and he was
released. When he arrived home his
wife was dead.
A COLLIERY ON FIRE.
TWENTY-MILES OF GALLERIES ONE MASS
OF FLAME.
A dispatch of Friday from Shamokin,
Pa., says: A fire is raging comprising in Cameron,
and the entire mine, twenty-
five miles of galleries, will have to be
flooded. Three creeks will be turned
into the mine,, and it is estimated that it
will sixty days to flood it and nearly a
year to repair the damage. The loss is
estimated at $100,000.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THE COUNTRY.
If the cotton crop of 1889 is as large as
that of 1888, 49,040,000 yards of bagging
will be required to wrap the crop.
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The farmers are falling into line. Hur¬
rah for the fajmers! We like to see the
under man in the fight come out first best
once in a while.—Allen (Kansas) Tidings.
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The Farmers Alliance is spreading rap¬
idly over the state of Ohio. The Grange
has also taken on fresh life and its mem¬
bership has about doubled during the
past six months.— Southern Mercury.
Some Alliances appoint committees to
go around, visit families who do not ap-
prec ate the importance of education, and
talk the matter up with them, and in¬
duce them to b come interested in edu¬
cating their children.
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The New Era (Amherst, Ya.,) states:
We find those who are fettling up their
accounts with us are generally Farmers’
Alliance men. An Allianeeman id ways
docs the square thing. With this accom¬
plishment success is assured.
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The Kama.s Alliance, 100,000 strong of
white farmers, in rcsoluti m deman< ed
that congress should legislate for their
interest, “that the people believe that
white citizens of Kausas have some rights
as well as the i eg roes in the South.”
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Chocktaw Alliance • (Grayson county,
Texas) invested $1,200 in a gin and paid in
the entire am Hint out of the profits
two years, and last year made 40 per cent,
on tiie $1,200 invested. This is co-oper¬
ation in the right direction.— Southern
Mercury.
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1 he farmers * of Central Illinois
arc oi-
ganizing very fast and erecting elevators
and co-operative stores. There Mutual are Ben 40.-
000 members of the Farmers’
efit Association in forty counties in Illi¬
nois, and lodges are being organized at
the rate of 100 per week.
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The Kansas State Grange and the
Farmers’ Alliance have united, and
agreed upon an iron clad platform.
Among the things, they favor silver cer¬
tificates being issued in unlimited quanti¬
ties, and want the Australian ballot sys¬
tem adopted.— Southern Alliance Farmer.
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To the Alliance brethren w r e would say,
this is the time of year to practice the
fundamental principles of our blessed
order. Make the farm self-sustaining;
plant more corn and less cotton; let the
strong help the weak, and the time will
soon come when we will be a happy, in-
idependent people.—Warranton (Ga.)
0 Upper.
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Some of the old machine politicians Alliance
seem very much afraid that the
will damage itself by dabblingin Alliance politics. tak
Be easy, gentlemen, the can *
care of itself; and while it is not a politi¬
cal organization, yet the members have
their opinions on this as well as other
subjects—and when reformation is needed
iu that Hue, they are ready for the work.
—Southern Alliance Farmer.
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The regular quarterly meeting of
Alliancemen of Cherokee county was belt
at Canton, Ga., on enthusiastic Wednesday. The
meeting was a very large. The following one, anc
the attendance
preamble and resolution adopted was presented
and unanimously : Alliance
Whereas, The Farmers’ has
been accused of entering into politics,
and for a fact will enter citizens politics, but not
as an alliance, but as who are
looking to the best interests of the
country, Therefore, be it resolved, That
the Cherokee County Farmers’ Alliance,
duly assembled, respectfully request the
executive committee of this county, to
appoint primary elections in which each
individual of the county can have a voice
in saving who shall represent them in the
federal and state offices to be filled this
year. committee, consistiug of the presi¬
A
dents of the several sub-Alliances in
Cherokee, together with the county presi¬
dent and secretary, was appointed to
to formulate plans by which steps may
be taken towards the building of manu¬
facturing enterprises in Cherokee. The
sub-treasury plan was indorsed by the
county Alliance, and a request made that
the sub-Alliances of the county take ac¬
tion thereon at once. There are about
thirfy sub Alliances membership in Cherokee of about county, 1.500,
with a total
and the order just now is in a flourishing
condition and gives promise of being of
great benefit to its members.
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The New York ^ Press has been doing
some alliance work lately. That i*, its
correspondents in the east, west, north
and south were instructed to send in re¬
ports of the relative strength and of the al¬
liances in different states, the result
has been a surprise to the Press, and its
probable future influence upon the coun¬
try is made the basis of lengthy editorial
comment. The Press thinks that the
growth of the alliance in the past six
months, from its small beginning political in Kan¬
sas, is startling and has grave
significance. It says:
“Take the census of 1880. Out of 14. •
744,942 males of all ages engaged in vari¬
ous occupations 7,055,983, or almost one-
half, were pursuing is, therefore, agriculture the as an largest avo¬
cation. This
single element of our voting population.
The compact union of the farmers of
the country in a political organization be¬
would overthrow all other parties, combine
cause it would be impossible and to solidly
the other elements classes
against them. The general character of
the farmers of the country makes it cer¬
tain that they have the independence, stand
tenacity of purpose and integrity will to bear
together. The labor unions not
comparison with the Farmers’ Alliance,
because in the unions are gathered live mostly
men who labor by the day and from
hand to mouth. The farmer is self-sup¬
porting—a sovereign of the soil, inde¬
pendent only on his own exertions. We
shall watch the Farmers’ Alliance with
the interest that It challenges as the latest,
greatest, and possibly the most formid¬
able force in American politics.”
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE GEORGIA STATE ALLIANCE MAKE
AN INTERESTING REPORT.
The eomnuttee of three, Livingston,
Brown and Pope, male the following re¬
port on thj | olicy of the Georgia State that
Alliance as to the enforcement of
clause of the constitutio i rela'ing to cor¬
porations remaining Paragraph competitive: 4, See. 2, Art. 4
Whereas,
of the constitution of Georgia declares:
“The general assembly of this Slate shall
have no power to autli arize any corpora¬
tion to buy shares or stock in auy other
;n the State or elsewhere, or
to make any contracts or agreements
whatever with any such corporation intended
which may have the effect, or be
to have the effect, to d( feat or lessen com¬
petition in their respective businesses, or
to encourage monop Jy; and su h con¬
tracts and agreements shall be illegal and
void.”
Your committee respectfully suggest
the enforcement of the above constitu¬
tional clause iu its full and original intent; remain
to-wit: That corporations points shall lo¬
competitive, not for whole given and or the
calities, but for the people of the
entire-state; and that the powers commissions
inter state and state railway
be so enlarged as that they ,n:x y co-oper¬
ate one with the other in regulating warehouse clas¬
sifications and rates, and the
features of railway cars and depots. And
these regulations should be based upon a
reasonable cost of construction, equip¬
ment and running of roads, and not upon
watered stocks or high prices paid and for
stocks for purposes of consolidation
control.
Railroads must recognize the interest
and rights and of the people in chartered State should cor¬
porations, the laws of the
be such as to empower the railroad com¬
mission to enforce the same, and the com¬
mission should be made to do its whole
duty iu the premises. L. F. Livingston,
A. F. Pope,
II. C. Brown,
Committee.
TO ALLIANCEMEX.
The Executive Committee of the Geor¬
gia State Alliance, with the President
con curing, do most earnestly urge all
Alliancemen in the State to demand of
any candidate for any State office, or
seeking to represent them in the Georgia
legislature, or the United States congress,
to pledge themselves, if elected,
1. To support and do all in their power
to further legislation in compliance with
the foregoing adopted resolutions.
2. To a revision of the present public
school system, thereby affording education. more
extended facilities for common
3. To such changes in the the penitentiary condition
system as will ameliorate
and treatment of the convicts, and as soon
as possible the system be so changed as
that all able-bodied male convicts shall be
worked on the public highways, and that
special provisions be made for work-
houses for women and children.
4. To a reduction of state and national
taxes. Asserting that only should taxes
be levied for revenue, and that to an eco¬
nomical and judicious administration.
5. That in the revision of the protec¬
tive tariff, the burdens now resting on
the agricultural and laboring classes, shall
be lessened to the greatest possible extent.
0. That our representatives shall advocate in the the na¬
tional legislature will pas¬
sage of such laws as prevent specula¬
tion and combines, that seek to interfere
with prices of prime necessities and pro¬
ductions.
7. To an abolition of the national
banking system, and the substitution of
legal treasury notes in lieu of national
bank notes, and iu sufficient volume, in
conjection with gold and silver, to do
the business of the country on a cash
basis.
8. That the sub-treasury bill of the
National Alliance now pending the in con¬
gress, or some better system for relief
of the struggling masses, be passed.
Felix Corput, Chm'n.
A. F. Pope,
A. \V. Ivey,
T. J. Stephens,
J. G. Tayj.or,
Committee.
I concur in the foregoing.
L. F. Livingston, Pres.
TO ALLIANCEMEN IN GEORGIA.
The demands of the executive commit¬
tee to all candidates seeking State offices,
members of the House United of Representatives, Congress,
State Senate, or States
sent you for consideration and adoption,
should have your immediate attention,
and when adopted do not fail to demand
an unequivocal answer. L. F. Livingston,
Pres. Ga. S. F. A., and I. U.
Of course the cause and origin of red
snow, so ealled, is well known. It is
pretty generally agreed among botanists
that the plant which supplies this pollen
does not pass into a higher stage of de¬
velopment than a single cell, It is oc-
easionally associated with lichens and
mosses, but it is net supposed to be re¬
lated to them in any way.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN TUE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
W HICH ARE HAPPENIN' I BELOW MA¬
SON’S AND DIXON'S LINK.
A gang of forgers of Italian and Span¬
ish bonds has been captured at Trieste.
Judge Hughes, of the United Slates
circuit court, at Richmond, has decided
that the Virginia dressed beef law is un¬
constitutional.
In consequence of the inundation of
the machinery at the city waterworks of
Dallas, Texas, there is almost a water
famine prevalent.
The Tennessee state democratic execu¬
tive committee has fixed Tuesday, July
loth, and Nashville as the place for hold¬
ing a convention to nominate a candidate
for governor.
It was reported at Raleigh, on Monday,
that in the past fifteen months 71,000 ne¬
groes have left North Carolina. It is
stated that this estimate is made on relia¬
ble data, and upon careful investigation.
The Methodist district conference, held
at Jackson, Miss., adopted strong resolu¬
tions condemnatory of the Louisian i State
Lottery, and instructed copies to he seat
to Governor Nichols, < f Louisiana, and
Postmaster-General Wanamaker.
It is just learned at Louisville, Ky.,
that Harper’s Ferry, Henry county, was
almost completely destroyed by the tor¬
nado. The village, composed considerable of less
than two dozen houses, is a
distance from any railroad.
A dispatch, of Monday from San Fran¬
cisco, CaL, says: The freight committee
of the transcontinental association re¬
ceived notice of reduced rates on cargoes
of oranges of §1 to Atlantic seaboard
points by association.
Friday morning at Chattanooga, Tcnn.,
a bill was filed by Robert Mon Ison in the
Chancery Court, asking an injunction
against the Chattanooga and Lookout
Mountain Railroad company, E. Walk ins
and W. O. Peeples to restrain them from
disposing of $400,000 worth of the sub¬
scribed stock of the Lookout Mountain
company.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the New Orleans Cotton exchange on
Tuesday a series of resolutions were
adopted iu which they earnestly invoke
the aid of senators and representatives in
congress from Louisiana toward the de¬
feat of the Butterworth bill practically
prohibiting the sale of articles for future
delivery.
A mortgage deed from the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
company to the Central Trust company,
of New York, was filed for record in the
clerk’s oflice of the chancery court at
Richmond, Ya., on Friday. The deed is
to secure the payment of $2,000,000 in
bonds for double tracking the road, and
is for half a million dollars.
David Hunnicutt, a railroad contractor,
was assassinated at his home at Henry
Ellen, twelve miles from Birmingham,
Ala., Tuesday night. He had just fin¬
ished supper and walked into the sitting-
room when the assassin fired through a
window. The only clew to the assassin
is that some time ago Hunnicutt had a
difficulty with a negro who was in his
employ, and that negro is now missing.
TRADE REVIEW. ,
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK, AS REPORTED HI
DUNN & CO.
R. G. Dunn & Co.'s review of trade
for week ended Friday, says: The first
quarter oi the year has passed without
the financial disturbance which many saw
reason to fear, with fewer failures than in
the same quarter last year, and smallei
liabilities by twelve per cent.,with larger
railroad tonage than in the same quartei
of any previous year, and with largei
clearing payments than ever through bankers and
houses, outside of New York.
Foreign trade has been heavier than evei
for the season, and domestic consump¬
tion, while much smaller than usual in
coal, in woolens and heavy winter goods,
has been at the maximum in nearly all
other lines. The money market is nc
longer been the centre about of apprehension. Rates
have .steady at four pei
cent, on call, and it . is calculated that
April disbursements have been $20,451,-
801. on $757,083,540 of bonds; $11,-
122,089 on $683,481,740 of stock, and
about $6,000,000 by the government.
Reports of the boot and shoe and leathei
industry are nearly all favorable. At
Philadelphia, the leatlier trade is U!l-
settled, the drug trade fair, and tobaccc
more active, The number of failures
during against the first quarter of 1890 was 3,223,
last year 3,311, with a decided
decrease at the cast, south and in thf
Pacific states, but the increase in the
middle and western states. The against a^gre-
gateof liabilities was $37,852,968,
$42,973,516 last year, but in this partic¬
ular there was an increase at south and
in middle states—in latter nearly fifty pci
cent—with decrease in all other sections.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country for week, number for United
States 189, Canada* 17, total 206, against
243 last week.
WENT TO A DOG SHOW
AND CARRIED WITH HIM $43,500 OF THE
bank's MONEY.
Frederick Kimball, teller of the Peo¬
ple's Saving bank, iu Worcester. Mass., is
missing, and with him are $43,500 of the
bank s lunds. The bank wil lose but
$3-J,o0O, as fhe fidelity and Casualty
i ompany o * ew 5 ork. is on his bond
for Wednesday, $10,000. Kimball he disappeared to Bo^ ast
saying was going
ton to a dog ‘how.
THE PROGRAMME
ARRANGED FOR THE FAN-AMERICAN DF.I p.
OATES IN TIIEIR TRIP SOUTH.
A Washington, International I). C., dispatch says
Members of the American
conference will start on their proposed
Southern tour Friday, April 18th. Fol¬
lowing is the itinerary of the trip;
Friday, April 18—Leave Washington
D. C., via Pennsylvania railroad at i j
p. m.
Saturday, April 19—Arrive at Old
Point Comfort, Va., 9 a. m.
Sunday, April 20—Leave Old Point
Comfort at 11 p. m.
Monday, April 21—Arrive at Rich¬
mond, Va., 9 a. m.; leave Richmond at
9 p. m.
Tuesday, April 22—Arrive at Charles¬
ton, S. C., at 9 a. m.; leave Charleston 2
a. m.
Wednesday, April 23—Arrive at Au¬
gusta, Ga., 9 a. m.; leave Augusta 11
p. m.
Thursday, April 24—Arrive at Atlanta,
Ga., 9 a. m.; leave Atlanta 12 night.
Friday, April 25—Arrive at Macon,
Ga., 9 a. m.; leave Macon 12 night.
Saturday, April 2(i—Arrive at Bruns¬
wick, Ga., §. a. m. The party' will go by
steamer to Fernandina, and leave Fer-
nandina, Fla., 6 p. m.; leave Jackson¬
ville. Fla., 7.35 p. m., and arrive at St.
Augustine, Sunday, April Fla., 27—Leave 9 p. m. St. Augustine
at 11 p. m.
Monday, April 28—Arrive at Tampa,
Fla., 7 a. m.; leave 29—Arrive Tampa 8 p. m. Pensa¬
Tuesday, April at
cola. Fla., 3 p. m.; leave Pensacola, 12
night. Wednesday, April 30—Arrive at Mo¬
bile, Ala., 8 a. m.; leave Mobile 12 night.
Thursday, May 1—Arrive New Orleans,
La., 8 a. m. 2—Leave New' Orleans 12
Friday, May
night. Saturday, May 3—Arrive Birmingham,
Ala., 12 noon; leave Birmingham 12
night. Sunday, May 4—Arrive Chattanooga,
Tenn., 8 a. m. 5—Leave Chattanooga 12
Monday, May
night. Tuesday, G-r-Arrive Nashville 8 I
May a.
in.: leave Nashville 9 p. m. I
Wednesday, May 7—Arrive Roanoke,
Ya., 3 p. m. Roanoke I
Thursday, May 8—Leave 7 a. I
m.; arrive Natural Bridge Station 8:15
a. iu.
Friday, May 9—Leave Natural Bridge
Station 10 a. m.; arrive Luray, Va., 1
p. m.
Saturday, May 10—Leave Luray, Ya.,
10 a. m., and arrive Washington, D. 0.,
at 2 p. m.
FIGHTING BUCKET SHOPS.
THE CHICAGO HOARD OF TRADE DETERM¬
INED TO DOWN THEM.
The Chicago board of trade gave an¬
other turn to the screw which it is apply¬
ing to bucket shops in the matter of quo¬
tations. It has been the custom of large
leaders to post fluctuations of grain and
produce in their offices for the conven¬
ience that of customers. It was suspected ad¬
these postings were being taken
vantage of by the bucket shops, and con¬
sequently this source of possible quota¬
tions was cut off Monday, and as a con-
sequence the bucket shops are getting
quotations less frequently and less prompt¬ The
ly than they have done heretofore.
result is that the bucket shops show signs
of distress. The board is greatly encour¬
aged, and sentiment is almost unanimous¬
ly iu favor of radical measures in order
to accomplish the end sought.
UNDER WATER.
GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI AGAIN INUN¬
DATED BY A BROKEN LEVEE.
A Greenville, Miss., special of Saturday
says: The levee which has so long been
on the great danger of breaking at Cat¬
fish point, near Com ally plantation, ini
Boliviar county, about twenty miles by
land above Greenville, gave way Friday
morning and from the latest reports re¬
ceived, the crevasse is from 1,700 to
1,800 feft and increasing. The water Sat-I
reached Greenville about 3 o'clock street.!
urday morning. The main business
is now one sheet of water anil the water] into]
is making its way over the sidewalks
the stores. their A residences great many seek people highquai had to] l
vacate to
ters ou account of the suddenrise.
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
eighteen HEADLESS BODIES FOUND
PACKED TOGETHER IN A BOX.
A horrible special cable from Madrid, Spain,says
A story comes from Morocco.
A largo box was recently received from
the interior of the country at the port ol
Mazagan, for shipment, it was addressed
to a person unknown and was revealed. opened,
when a ghastly sight . was bodies
Closely packed in the box were the
of sixteen young women, one man and a
negress. All the victims had been deeap
itated and the heads were missing. The
bodies were embalmed and had evidently
been a long time in the condition in which
they were found. It is believed the siaugh had
ter was the work of some pasha who
taken vengeance ou an unfaithful harem.
AN AGREEMENT t
WHICH WILL PROB ABLY BREAK UP T1
HOWARD-TURNER FEUD IN KENTUCKY.
At Harlan court housc> Kv „ llie puI
lock , Davs aud others of the Ho is ar<i
Turner feud, held a conference ar,
a g rm j t 0 ] av aside quarrels. Thev agrei
t hat in ., ase of anv flirth er assassination!
l)oth sides should'turn out aud bring tb
murderer to ,punishment.