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FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS, WHAT 18 BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA¬ TION, NOTES, ETC. Georgia has 2,160 and Kentucky 1,525 8ub-AlA*»nces. * * erected An Alliance warehouse is to be at Chester, S. C. Jk ★ Tennessee has ninety-two county or¬ ganizations and 2,588 sub-Alliances. * sk 5je the The Farmers’ Alliance will save Western people .—Trinidad Advertiser. *r- £ kick Merchants in Central Kansas against the co-operative stores of the Farmers’ Alliance. * * and 90C Yir ginia has sixty-four county subordinate Alliance’—sixty charters be¬ ing granted last month. ■f- 3k manufacturing 3k estab¬ Three hundred lishments started in ten cotton States within two months, employing $6,000,000 capital. and 3je jfc Five hundred lifty-five delegates attended the last meeting of the Minne¬ sota State Alliance, held recently at St. The Toiler , of Nashville, Tenn., says there was over two hundred Alliances chartered in the past sixty days, and forty Wheels in the same length of time. * The Newberne (N. C.) Daily Journal says: “When in the course of human events an Alliance rises to protest against any political action, it w ill be justly con¬ sidered a summons to halt and deliberate upon the situation.” * * The ^ Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union Milling Company, of Washington county, Arkansas, has tiled articles of incorporation capital witli the Secretary of State. The stock is $5,500, and the prin¬ cipal office will be at Farmington. * sk 5k The cornerstone of the Alliance Co-op erative Manufacturing Company’s build¬ ing day. at Iron Gate, Va.,was laid hist Thurs¬ of Colonel G. T. Barbee, President the State Alliance, and others, conducted the ceremonies.— ltaleigh, N. C. t Pro¬ gressive Farmer. -Jf Mr. J. T. McKibbeu, State business agent of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit As¬ sociation, in Illinois, announces that he has made arrangements whereby the farm¬ ers will get their twine at a saving of from $500 to $1,000 on every car load less than trust prices. i * * Every farmer, whethei he belongs to the Alliance Union or not, shoukl Stand by the demands of the Alliance. Surely the National Alliance is abetter judge of the needs of the farmers and laborers than the convention of any party. Faunkner County (Ark.) Wheel. * * The Agricultural Wheel and the Farm¬ ers’ Alliance, of Texas, consolidated at a meeting held in Fort Worth a few day* ago. The consolidation will be known as the Texas Farmers’ State Alliance. Among those who attended the meeting was L. L. Polk, President of the Na¬ tional Alliance. * * The Alliance of Georgia principle is and entirely in accord with every every policy adopted by the national convention at St. Louis. It is a perfect unit in its demands for complete control of railways by efficient commission, and for the sub- treasury plan which promises so much to the producers of the country .—Arkansas Dispatch. * * * Quite recently a State Alliance was or¬ ganized in Indiana, and now the word comes that in August next the state of Pennsylvania will be organized. The agricultural and laboring classes are suf¬ fering as they arc here, and in Lancaster county, the banner farming ebunty of the United States, the market” depression theory is don’t very great. The “home appear to work well there .—Southern Alli¬ ance Farmer, Atlanta, Ga. 3k * Some days ago the it was telegrap had bed over the country that papers been filed and that suit would be brought against the officers of the Texas State Alliance for the recovery of $1,200,000, which was alleged to have been misappropriated in some way. The fact that since that news came, the Alliance and Wheel in that State have held a meeting and consolidated, the two organizations ought to show that the members of the Wheel in the State, who were in a position to know the facts as to the status of the Alliance, had no fears af a bur suit or ajirthincr Through the instrumentality iA the Al¬ liance the farmers are educating them¬ selves on the many economic questions ol the hour as they never did before. Through its eftorts congress has made more efforts in behalf of the wealth pro¬ ducers than ever before within twenty- five years. In the past great monopolies alone made demands, hut at last through education and agitation by the agencies of the Alliance and similar organizations, the industrial classes have become arous¬ ed to their real interest. The introduc¬ tion of the anti-trust bill, and lard bill, the several bills authorizing the govern¬ ment to loan money to the farmers at a very low rate of interest and some other*, were made for doubtless legislation prompted by farmers. by demands It is needless to say this is creating a sensation among professional politkians.— Stephen*- viile (Teu.) Headlight. $ sk jc A SEW BILL—SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SUB¬ TREASURY MEASURE. A Washington dispatch says: It seems aban¬ that the sub-treasury bill is to be doned by the men who have been push¬ ing it before congress. Representative McClanny, of North Carolina, the man who has been the most enthusiastic mem¬ ber in favor of the passage of the bill, and indeed the only member of congress who has yet spoken out in favor of it, on Tuesday abandoned the fight by intro¬ ducing a bill which he proposes to sub¬ stitute for the sub-treasury measure. The bill was drawn up by Col. Polk, the pres¬ ident of the Alliance, assisted by Mr. Mc¬ Clanny. Thus it will have the support of the Alliance officers in preference to the other measure. The bill is entitled, “An act to authorize the issuing of legal tenders for school and other purposes, based on lauds of the United States.” It provides that the treasury shall issue legal tenders to the amount of $30 per capita to be based on the next census, or about $1,800,000,000 of greenbacks, which is to be distributed among the states in pro¬ portion to population. The government is to issue to the states, and the states are to loan the money on real estate at one per cent interest. It provides that no and person in shall borrow more than $2,500, no case shall a loan exceed seventy-five per cent on the assessed value of lands for the five years preceding the reapportioned. loan. At each census, the amount is to be It also provides that preference shall be given in all cases to those whose lands are mortgaged, interest to be paid on the first day of each January, and if not paid, the government must sell the lands. All interest received shall be applied to the school fund of the various states, each state receiving the amount of interest paid on the loans in its borders. This bill, Major McClanny says, will be supported in preference to the sub¬ treasury bill, and he further added that many of the southern congressmen owed him a debt of gratitude for getting them out of the scrape of answering the sub- treasury question. He says anybody can vote for liis bill, and he thinks it will puss. The bill, however, seems to have been hastily drawn up. In speaking of it a member of the judiciary committee, who is recognized said as the ablest lawyer in the house, that the ma¬ jority of states would have to change their constitutions to comply with the requirements of the bill; that under the constitutions of the majority of states, no one is authorized to receive the money after the government has issued it. The bill is, however, received with delight by many of the timid congress¬ men who have been astraddle the fence for many months—those who could no5 •peak out in favor of the sub¬ treasury hill, but who feared to come out against it. They believe this is a death blow to the sub-treasury scheme, espe¬ cially as it is Colonel Polk's bill, and be¬ ing prepared by him, it must be the choice of the Alliance. Many of them will not fear to favor this. The course of this new measure in congress will bo watched with interest. * * * COMMENTS ON THE NEW BILL. Macune, chairman of the Farmers’Alli¬ ance legislative committee, upon beiug asked about the status of the sub-treasury bill and if the Alliance would adopt the McClninmy bill as a substitute, wrote out the following in reply: “The sub-treas¬ ury bill is really more popular every day. It is being discussed and approved of the by the great conservative element country; not farmers alone, but lawyers, doctors, merchants, and even bankers are often in favor of it. It is the only meas¬ ure that has ever been offered that en¬ courages the growth of the county, town and rural city, and will stimulate home enterprise and induce manufacturing in the country. Hence the real support of the measure is increasing every day, and it makes no difference what the present congress may do with the bill before it, the principle seeking recognition ultimate in the sub-treasury bill is based on truth, meets the trouble approbation understand of nearly all it, who take the to and must in time prevail. Mr. McClam- ray’s bill is, in no sense of the word, an Alliance measure, and is not, nor will it ever be. a substitute for the sub-treasury bill. He had no right or authority to say that it was endorsed by every Alliance ii: the land. It fills an entirely different field, and if it should become a law,there would still be just as great a necessity for the sub-treasury bill as now. It seeks simply to increase the volume of money by lending money on laud. Thh Alliance has not discussed or acted upon that question.” WHAT COLONEL POLK SAYS. Col. L. L. Polk, president of the Farm ers’ Alliance, says that he is not the author of the McCiammy bill, introduced Wednesday, which provides for the Gov¬ ernment to lend money on lands at one per cent. It was, he says, drawn up by his private secretary, and he knew noth¬ ing about it. He further said: “We shall not abandon the sub-treas¬ ury until it has been squarely defeated, or until some better measure has been proposed. We considered land measures before the sub treasury bill was prepared, and decided that such measures would not give to the currency sufficient flexi¬ bility. However, examination I have not made a care- ful enough of the McClam- my bill to give an opinion. If, however, after examination we find this bill bettei than the sub-treasury, I should be per¬ fectly willin': to abandon the latter ” The population of Iceland diminished 2.400 between 1885 and ‘1888, being at the close of the latter year 60,224. The decline is due to emigration to America. The native fishermen complain that their business is being ruined by English fish¬ ing steamers. FAMOUS LONDON BRIDGE. THE INTERESTING- HISTORY OF THIS ANCIENT CAUSEWAY. The Whirlpool of Humanity am! Trat- fic Which Ebbs and Flows Over Its Ponderous Arches Every Hay. To my thinking, London Bridge, from 3 o’clock to 10 in the morning and from 4 to 6 in the afternoon, is the most mar¬ velous sight in this metropolis of won- ders, writes a correspondent of the Boston Herald. I know not when the spectacle is the more astonishing-in the morning, when the tide of life Hood* cityward, or in the evening, when it ebbs to the south, But I think the picturesque effect is heightened in the winter dusks when the dark masses press swiftly into the gloom of Southwark; and the black river •plashes between the granite arches, and bears strange, bulky, uudistingui.hable forms on its desperate current; when the red golden "low slowly fades in the west, and the domes and spires dissolve in the advancing night shades, and the lamps begin to flash along the shores and from the masts of vessels in the “Pool,” each lantern signaling, until the whole vista sparkles with red and green and yellow gleams in Of the eighteen Thames bridires London, this is the first in importance, and the first from the river’s mouth, The Thames runs on fiftv or sixty miles Wore it reaches the sea, and all this vourse from the bridge to the Nore is cNvered with vessels. London itself ex- tends on both sides of the river, several miles “below bridge,” hence the enor- rnous amount of traffic that passes over Hiese granite arches. Old London Bridge, which a favorite nursery rhyme represented as forever “falling down,” was proverbially held together until the end of the first quarter of this century, when the present structure w as built about 400 feet to the west. The old rhyme did not greatly exaggerate the condition of the ancient bridge, which had been tumbling to pieces for a hun- dred years. Old London Bridge was a perilous structure above and below. contracted the river bed so that the cur- rent was exceedingly fierce, and “shoot- ing the arches” was almost equivalent to suicide. It had been burned and bombarded, and otherwise so badly treated in the long course of successive centuries, that repairs w r ere constant and usually ineffective. Early in the eighteen hundreds the street on the bridge was “dark, narrow and danger- ous; the houses overhung the road in such a terrific manner as almost to shut out the daylight, and arches of timber crossed the street to keep the shaky old tenements from falling on each other.” Pennant tells us that “nothing hut use could preserve the repose of the in¬ mates, who soon grew deaf to the noise of the falling waters, the clamor of boatmen, and the frequent shrieks of drowning wretches.” In 1766 some local statistician computed that “fifty water¬ men, bargemen or seamen, valued at $100,000, were drowned annually in at¬ tempting to pass under the bridge.” During 1757-60 the last of the houses were removed from old London Bridge. The most remarkable building that had ever been erected there belonged to the Elizabethan era, and was called “Non¬ such House.” It had been made in Hol¬ land and sent over in parts. It extended across the bridge and had an archway in the centre. It was four stories high, with cupolas and turrets at each corner, and was put together with wooden pegs instead of nails. The American manu¬ facturers who turn out entire buildings by the gross, and ship them in parts,may well repeat the old saying: “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Before the ghastly practice was trans¬ ferred to Temple Bar London Bridge bad the dubious honor of displaying the heads of persons executed on the scaffold. The heads of Sir Wm. Wallace, Bolingbroke, Jack Cade, the Bishop of Rochester and Sir Thomas More were among the dread¬ ful collection. The present London Bridge is the fifth of the name. The first was built of wood in the year 994, in the reign of Ethelred II. It was destroyed in a stOTm which, in 1090, “blew down 600 houses and lifted the roof off Bow Church.” It successor, also a wooden affair,was destroyed by fire in the second year of Stephen, 1136. A bridge of elm timber succeeded this, and in 1176 the first stone bridge was built. Timbs says that the bridge shops “were furnished with all manner of trades.” The present bridge was completed in 1831, after seven and one-half years (less seventeen days) of labor. That stu- pendous structure, the Forth Bridge, which was opened recently, was but seven years in building, and cost only half much again as London Bridge, and even its cost in human lives—one hundred as against forty—was not excessive, when we consider the extraordinary nature of the task. The roadway of London Bridge ac- commodates four lines of vehicles—two going in each direction, the heaviest and slowest traffic on the outside lines. Be- tween each of the five arches there is a bay, or resting place, where you may pause for a view of the river and of the tide of traffic that pours across the bridge itself. But the best appreciation of the volume and force of this traffic comes throwing one’s self into the current. Take an outside seat on an omnibus at the Bank of England when the evening tide of traffic ebbs southward. course lies through King William street, #hich empties its current into a wide space just above the bridge. Into this three more great tides—Gracechurcb thoroughfare* pour their living and Eastcheap; and street, Cannon street a little lower down two lesser tributaries add to the moving mass. From every direction streams of human beings and of vehicles come and go. There is a whirl- pool of traffic. It rage* there around King William’s statue, and as far as you can see along the tributaries each stream is blocked. To be drawn heedlessly into the vortex would mean chaos, dis¬ aster, even death. In the dusk the moving ungovernable. masses appeal strange, all powerful, \ — Yet they are governed ou here the see the guiding power, but it is in ^ape of stalwart policemen stationed m twos and threes and fours, at every point ^om which the streams flow into die re- ceptacle, which, in turn empties down the hill a swift fierce flood, rumbling, roaring, pell-med upon tae bridge In regulating street traffic .he word ot the London constable is law ; a motion of his band is instantly obeyed. Without this governing power the passage to the bridge would be as destVictive to life and property as battle or flood. As it is the crush appears to you chaotic. It whirls and dashes in that open space and the blocked streams, foot and whec an hoof, back and swell upon the pavement, seeking outlet. lhe minutes pass in clamor and seeming confusion. You think it hopeless for your coachman to attempt w ay. But, at last, from some point. unseen by you in the darkness, the word is given, the flood divides, as the waters divided of old, and in a tnce youi vehicle plunges in the downward current, spins down the slope, and lattice on the bridge. and quick Strong nerves and arms eyes every driver must have to guide his freight, living or inanimate, along these dangerous rapids. Three or four streams °f vehicles plunge. side by side, their hubs almost touching. At the widest space there are half a dozen lines, solid, swiftly moving in the same direction. At the bridge the pace slackens, and, by some miracle, order reigns. Oyer the bridge the tide pours. The weight of it is euormors, the strength incalculable. The roadway is packed. There is scarcely inch between horse ? s nose an a and the tailboard of the wagon in front of him or between the wheels that rumble s id e by side. The sidewalks, too, are crammed with a desperate rush of men and boys. Women you see here and there, or they arc suggested by bonnets or bits of color in the compact black mass> If every man s life depended on the issue the rush could not be swifter, ^ e t 110 individual can mend his pace or slacken it. The current carries every atom with it. Suburban London is re¬ ceiving its mighty accession of life. Across the bridge trains are waiting and starting, tram cars arc pulled away with their weary loads, and ’busses are picking up the throngs. But it would seem that all the omnibuses in London were rolling upon the bridge from the city. Is it possible that elsewhere in London any trollies and drays and vans are left? Are there not tens of hundreds running in this tide? There is the wonder of it—the wonder of this eyer- wonderful London. This mighty flood of life and life’s impedimenta is but one of a thousand floods pouring outward from the metropolis to-night—every night. rushing beneath the There is a river, granite blocks which support the living flood. Lights gleam upon it here and there, revealing it cold and black and relentless, as other lights, fitfully stray¬ ing, show this upper river of life to be. Down there, indistinctly,in the darkness, crowds of shapeless craft are borne along —here a light, there a splash, then a crash, and always the hoarse cries of the waterman, piloting their cumbrous ves¬ sels through the floating maze. What London Bridge is to the land traffic the “Pool” is to the water traffic. A wil¬ derness of vessels floats there upon the dingy tide—vessels from every clime and every port, steamers and sailing craft, clippers and clumsy luggers, wherries and fishing boats, and the typical Thames barges. There they lie, rubbing sides, packed in the stream as the men and the wagons are packed upon the bridge. How they go up and down and resolve their various and respective courses, picking their way in the forest of hulls and masts, big and little, pass- ettl tlie comprehension of a landsman, But how do the landsmen extricate them- selves from the turbulent current that plunges over London Bridge? Somehow flood is distributed at the bridge’s end. Another whirl is there, and there are countless cross currents and outlets, Somehow the atoms in the stream sep- arate and find their ways—home! And the morning the tide rushes back again, repeopling the deserted city. And the morning flood is as fierce and violent as the evening ebb. The stream rushes and roars back again over the granite viaduct. It is a race for life—. for the work that gives men their right to live. Habits of Frogs. The owner of a frog farm near Menas- ha, Wis., gives some interesting facts relative to the frog's habits. In ninety- one days the eggs hatch. The thirty - ninth day the little animals begin to have motion. In a few days they assume the tadpole form. When ninety-two days old, two small feet are seen beginning to sprout near the tail, and the head ap¬ pears to be separate from the body. In five days after this they refuse all vegeta¬ ble food. Soon thereafter the animal as- surues a perfect form. NEWS AND NOTES FOR W0)l Toques are so small they fit the -J almost like a jockey cap. The newest gold embroideries are posed to come from Cairo. Victor Hugo’s only daughter is an woman in a lunatic asylum. Suede gloves in old rose shades worn upon dressy occasions. Some of Philadelphia’s faskmable are expert with boxing gloves. Over 40,000 girls attended the t( ing classes in England last year. Plaid percales, sateens and c'ualli appear among other tartan stuffs. Plain and brocaded mohairs are efy tively combined in some new gowns. The high front trimming on capote preferred, and it is the most become Bonnets are almost covered ■v wreaths and sprays of flowers this* son. Black satin bids fair to be the rial generally preferred for summer p 6! coats. Handsome buckles and clasps are order with the belts of every descriptj now so much worn. The light, soft wool goods worn prJ j gentlemen in the summer make skirts for little boys. Ribbon velvets are, if possible, used greater profusion than ever, Some the newest show plaided effects. A useful bodice to wear is of with black skirts] CiJ black satin, silk or lace, tilly lace and pink ribbon velvet. . Mrs. George M. Pullman gives aw) $2000 every year to various charitatj institutions in and about Chicago. New modes for fashionable hoa toilets show brocade in Louis XVI. ds, sign combined with silk or velvet. Upon cloth toques the fur trimmial 1 may be either light or dark, contras*] but usually selected with a view to Pretty shoulder capes of white clod an] are laid in side plaits on the back shoulders with double-breasted revea fronts. The Medici collar and some of the disl tinctive features of the styles of til Louis XVI. and XV. periods are now in vogue. 1 The Queen Regent cold of Spain bath is an winte early] riser, and takes a water and summer. She is very fond of games of chance. Rosa Bonheur, the best known living female artist, claims that she has painted her best pictures since she passed the age of fifty years. Miss Flora Woodward Tibbits. of Ann. Arbor, is the first woman in Michigan to apply for addmissiou to the bar of the Supreme Court. A pretty wrap consists of alternate! with capes of gray and white cloth, pointed edges braided with gold, and a I deep white collar. The efforts being made to establish a hospital “manned” by women, and foil the exclusive treatment of the sex, are surprisingly successful. Miss Henrietta Markstein is a young lady in New York city who devotes her talents and time to giving entertainment' for the benefit of the w orking classes. A broad, low forehead is an attribute of beauty, according to the latest urbi. tration, and front hair is cultivated to grow down about the forehead and tem¬ ples. There are over 900 widows on the pension roll of the Exempt Firemen's As¬ sociation of New York city, each of whom draws $60 a year.There is $250,000 in the fund. Abby Burgess, now Mrs. Grant, has had charge of the Matinious light north of the Penobscot River for twenty-eight years—at first as aisistant, but was given full charge in 1866. Miss E. P. Otis, the newest of New York's women editors, is described as being beautiful, five feet four inches tall, with light hair and a pretty figure. She is about twenty-four years old. The Chinese Minister has consented to allow his wife to mingle with Washing¬ ton society, but as she speaks no Eng¬ lish and society speaks no Chinese, the benefit to either party will be small. It has become the fashion in Chicago for men to buy their wives’s bonnets. The milliners like the change, and say that as a general rule a man displays bet¬ ter taste than a woman in these matters. “Carmen Svlva,” the Roumanian Queen, is said to be an illustrious epi¬ cure. She has invented a number of palatable culinary compositions and oc¬ casionally cooks a dish for the King with her own hands. The last new smelling bottle is a di¬ rect copy of one in use during the first Empire, at which time it was called the rosebud. It is made of gold, enameled in colors, with a tiny central rose worked out in small pearls. A necklace composed of tigers' claws, mounted in diamonds, is the favorite ornament of Baroness Marie Ede von Ameline, the famous tiger huntress. She killed with her own hand the four beasts from whose claws her unique piece of jewelry is made, and preserves their skins for rugs. A stylish costume for the morning promenade is one of the fine checked tweeds with the checks slightly marked on a lighter ground by stripes, the drapery of the skirt falling in soft folds A plain jacket, in make and texture, a little violet bonnet admirably complete the costume.