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tdb crawforil Conniy Herald
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
W. J. IcAFEE, Editor and Proprietor.
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Offici* Organ of Crawford County.
K NOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Entered at the postoffice at Knoxville,
<7;l, as second-class matter.
LOCOED HORSES.
Singular Effects of a Weed Upon
Equine Sense.
“ Did you ever see a locoed horse?"
«wrid Colonel J. D. McCarthy, of Califor¬
nia. to a New York Sun man. “Of course
you never did, but it’s a subject that
•••abuses more argument and row among
the stockmen of California than the price
of beef ever did. A locoed horse is the
worst piece of property lot in a man addition can own,
next to a corner an to a
bufsted boom town. You never can tell
what the critter will do nor when he
will dr. it. lie behaves as though he
were half asleep most of the time, but
just wber he ought to be asleep he'll do
more fool things than you can keep cases
an. If you stake him out near camp he’ll
wind himself all up in the stake rope
until hi can't walk, and then he’ll sud¬
denly pretend and begin that something kick has and fright¬
ened him to snort
uid turn somersaults. The racket
awakens you, and supposing that a pan-
thc r has imped the horse you rush minutes out
tn help him. It takes you ten
to untangle the horse, and as soon as he
gets upon his feet lie kicks at you or
knocks you down with his stupid old
bead. And then you’re sorry a panther
hadn't tackled him.
“The locoed horse may have been
used under saddle all his life, but some
♦lay when you want to saddle him he
will di> ever that the blanket is a raven¬
ous monster that wants to devour him,
And you can't get anywhere near the
Lrate. If he'? tied up, you have to cut
the rope to save him from dislocating lus
neck ii his efforts to escape from that
bloodthirsty saddle blanket. Such tricks
os lying down in the middle of a creek
■or tumbling heels over head prepared into a bunch for
of cactus you’ve got to be
.rtl any time.
“1 remember a locoed horse that Sam
lleacbum had when we were prospecting that plug
on the Castac. Sam and thought admit
was a Jim dandy, wouldn't
j hat he w a- locoed Billy had the meanest
gait you ever saw, something snorted between with
loping and pacing, and he
every brejith he drew. If you tried to
lead him he’d fall down iu more ways
than a cii us clown could think of, and
sometimes when he stuck his nose into a
pan of barley his lurid imagination would
transform each grain into a sea serpent
or a roaring wogglv-bob. and away he’d
go, snorting like a locomotive and turn
Id ing down hill over his own feet.
“ You want to know the cause of loco?
Well, that’s what the stockmen quarrel
about. Most people believe that the loco
plant is responsible for the disease. It
»s a low plant that grows in plenty all
over the semi-barren land of the West.
If bears pods that become very dry in
-ummer and rattle when the wind moves
them. I don’t know the botanical name,
but one of the popular names is ‘ rattle
w oed.’ It is not good forage, but stock
will cat if when feed is scarce.
• ‘Some stockmen declare that this rat¬
tle weed will make a horse crazy, others give
him the jim-jams, so to speak, but
scout the idea and protest that the ‘loco’
jwoperty of the rattling pod is all super¬
stition. A cattleman in Southern Cali¬
fornia assured me that his horses had
eaten rattle weed for twenty-five opportunity years,
or at least had had free to
eat it, but he never had a locoed horsa
on the range until after the sheep began
finding over the country in big bands,
fits theory was that the sheep-tick burrowed
crawled in the horses’ ears,
and laid eggs, and affected the animals
just as a spider might affect a man by
crawling into his ear and waltzing have
around on his tympanum. If you
ever had a bug in your ear you know
fco»v that feels.
4 4 Now, 1 don't know how much truth
there is in the tick theory about locoed
Lorses, although the cattleman swore he
had found ticks in the ears of his crazy
feroucos. You see, every cattleman hates
?4ieep with religious fervor, and attri-
bates everything bad to them. I asked
a Kern < ounty cattleman one day how
fee accounted for earthquakes in Cali for-
oLa.. and be replied : ‘it’s them sheep, J
ner koD.' ”
Growth of England’s Population.
The increase of the population in Eng¬
land and M ales is still very rapid. Accord-
iagto the statistics for 1889, just published births
by the Registrar-General, the in
year were 885,179, and the deaths
A17.968. an increase of 357,211 within
She six mouths, w ithout allowing for im-
uugraticn. That is a good solid colony
' added to the population every year. The
total number now exceeds 29,000.000, or
■six times the population of Ireland, which
vr*s once much more thau half our own.
The births of men exceed those of women
by 16.411, so that the disproportion is due be¬
tween the sexes in favor of women
entirely to emigration and occupations
abroad. But for these intervening causes
rfu* number of the sexes would be nearly
equal, the excess of male deaths being
more than fourteen thousand. At the
present rate of increase the in population 1970 be of
England and Wales will at
sixty millions—rather a formidable
Brosjtee l A it were certain that rates would
ieep steady. There is, however, no cer-
taintj of the kind.—[London Spectator.
farmers’ allianc e notes.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT 18 BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OK
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.-LEGISLA¬
TION, NOTES, ETC.
Col. W. J. Northen will probably re¬
ceive the State Alliance vote of Georgia
for governor.
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Hon. L. F. Livingston, President of
the Georgia State Alliance, 19 out as a
candidate for the honor of representing
the fifth district in Congress.
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Blvthewood Alliance, in North Caroli¬
na, does not think that business and poli-
ica can be harmoniously blended, and it
therefore resolves against “the plan of
nominating and endorsing candidates as
beyond its province and calculated to in¬
jure the order.
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At a recent meeting of Rocky Mount
Alliance, No. 1,309, AnsoD county, S. C.,
the members pledged themselves not to
support any man for the legislaturewho is
Jpposed to a railroad commission, and no
man for congress who is against the sub¬
treasury plan, and no man for any office
who opposes the measures demanded by
the farmers.
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The Greenville, S. C., News says the
Alliancemen are already discussing the
meeting of the State Alliance there on the
22d of July. Each county Alliance w ill
be represented by delegates and the trus¬
tees of the State Exchange will meet at
the same time, together with the stock¬
holders of the exchange. A letter has
been received from Col. L. L. Polk, of
North Carolina, president of the national
organization, saying that he wili be pre¬
sent at the meeting.
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A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says; Major Barnes, of Georgia, will
send in a lew 7 days, a letter to some of
lis constituents, in reply to the Alliance
questions. He will come out squarely
and flat-footed ogainst the sub-treasury
bill, and give his reasons for so doing. He
thinks it impracticable and will show
wherein it is. Senator Yance, of North
Carolina, who introduced the bill by re¬
quest, has also written a letter stating
that he cannot support the measure.
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A joint conference of delegates of the
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union,
and Farmers’ Mutual Benefit association,
ndustrial Grange Union, Labor and
Xnights of Labor, was held at Topeka,
Kan., Thursday, attended by 100 repre¬
sentatives from all parts of the state. It
was decided to put all state, congressional
and county tickets in the field. A com¬
mittee was appointed to draft a call for
two state conventions to nominate a
state ticket. A committee of five was
also appointed to issue an address to the
people of the state.
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A Washington dispatch says: Judge
Stewart, of Georgia, reached here Thurs¬
day morning. He says he feels quite
confident of being re-elected over
Colonel Livingston. The only way
Colonel Livingston can defeat him, he
says, will be by secret pledges of Alli¬
ancemen in their various lodges, and he
does not believe intelligent farmers will
allow themselves to be voted like sheep.
Judge Stewart mailed a letter to Colonel
Livingston in which he accepted together. his invi¬ He,
tation to stump the district
however, says he will have to remain at
Washington until the compound lard
and the national election law bills are
disposed of. Therefore, he does not
think he cau return to Georgia and in less
than ten days or two w 7 eeks, in the
meantime he hopes Colonel Livingston
will hold off. lie thinks that they cau
get better hearings from the farmers iu
two weeks than now, as in that time they
will have “laid by” tlieir corn.
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The most encouraging reports come
from all parts the country in reference
to the progress of the Alliance iu mem¬
bership and education. The increase in
membership is not only in new States,
but in those long organized and in which
it was supposed that the territory was
completely covered. Indiana has organ¬
ized her State Alliance, and "West Vir-
ginia only waits for a convenient time,
In New York two counties have the nec-
essary number of subs to started permit organiza- othei
tion, and the work is at
places. In California the first county has
been organized, and the work will no
doubt proceed with accelerated speed.
Everywhere recognized, the necessity for organization
is and the people are inquir¬
ing what shall we do? Not only the Al¬
liance, but in the two great friendly
orders, the Knights of Labor and the
Colored Alliance and Co-operative Union,
the same The gratitiying improvement is
noted. same principles underlie
these three greatest organizations, and in
all the educational progress is marked.—
National Economist.
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One of the most ridiculous objections
yet urged againt the sub-treasury bill is
the effort to stir resorted up local prejudice, and
this is actually to by men who
are not only grown men and of average
attainments, but men who have been re¬
garded as being very intelligent; and
humilating as the admission is, it is nev¬
ertheless true that some members of con¬
gress have done so. They of course know
better and are simply acting the dema¬
gogue, but they will find that Alliance the educa¬
tion received in the Farmers’ has
posted tLe the farmer so well that narrow-minded he will only
laugh at effort of the
fool or the educated demagoge who at¬
tempts to array him against his
brother farmer it by attempted: local prejudice. Here
is the war is They say in
the South that the sub-treasury bill will
cause the country to be flooded with car¬
pet bag federal office holders, who will
corrupt the politics of the country and
break up the Democratic party; and they
say up North that it will cause the coun¬
try to be flooded with rebel brigadiers, poli¬
office holders who will corrupt the
tics of the country, teach State’s rights
and anarchy and break up the Re¬
publican destroyed,' party. Both parties w-ere bet¬ de¬
ter if the farmers' simple
mand for justice will have that effect.—
National Economist.
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THE ALLIANCE IX NOETH CAROLINA.
The Farmers’ Alliance of North Caro¬
lina state has taken a departure. At its
aunual state meeting in August last, it
made the following demands;
“With full confidence in the correct¬
ness of our position, we demand of the
legislature of North Carolina, the enact¬ with
ment of a railroad commission law 7
full powers to regulate freight and pas¬
senger rates, and to investigate and take
action with respect to damages or injuries
to persons or property. We enter an ear¬
nest protest against the policy of and giving de¬
away the labor of our convicts, of
mand of our legislature the enactment
such laws as will hereafter prevent this
outrage on the rights of the taxpayers of
our state. We demand such changes in
our laws as will reduce the cost iu litiga¬
tion in minor causes, and enlarge the ju¬
risdiction of magistrates. We demand
that laws shall be enacted receiving to prohibit using our
pubiic officials from railroads. or ”
free passes or tickets on our
The official announcement, made
Thursday by Elias Carr, president of the
State Alliance, that these resolutions
having been submitted to and ratified by
the requisite majority of the subordinate
Alliances, are the demands of the Alli¬
ance. The Alliance is now the greatest
political factor ever known in North Car¬
olina.
AN ILLINOIS CYCLONE
DOES CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE—DOUSES
WRECKED AND TREES UPROOTED.
A dispatch from Bloomington, III.,
gives the particulars of a cyclone which
swept Dewitt county between 11 o’clock
and noon Wednesday. A school-house
near Cirkbeck was demolished while the
school w 7 as in session. Five children were
injured two of whom it is feared will die.
At Wapella, the Illinois Central depot
and Methodist church were wrecked.
Trees and telegraph poles were smashed
in all directions. A barn on Mrs. Ab¬
bott’s farm, near Wapella, was demolish¬
ed and three horses killed. Considera¬
ble damage was done at Waynesville and
Clinton.
Two thousand people were in a tent
just south of Jacksonville, listening to a
concert when the tent blew over on the
crowd. A scene of confusion ensued, and
the poles and heavy cauvas crushed many
to the ground. Quite a number of per¬
sons were injured. Some of them may
die.
HE SIGNED THE CHECK.
BUT THE MAN IN WHOSE FAVOR IT WAS
DRAWN WAS ARRESTED.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio,says;
President Tyler, of the W. S. Tyler
Wire company, had a rather thrilling en¬
counter Saturday with James P. O’Day,
who was formerly employed standing by the in com¬ his
pany. Mr. Tyler was
barn on St. Clare street when O’Day en¬
tered hurriedly, and pulling out a re¬
volver, covered Mr. Tyler with it, at the
same time demanding that he at once
draw a check for $1,000 in O'Day's favor.
Mr. Tyler attempted to persuade O’Day
that the time and place were not suitable
to drawing checks, and finally both ad¬
journed to the company’s office not lai
away. O’Day, however, maintaining a
firm grip on his revolver. At the office
Secretary Pattersoh drew the check, and
when O'Day went to the bauk with it h#
w 7 as arrested
ASIATIC CHOLERA.
THE DREADED PLAGUE GETTING A FOOT
HOLD IN SPAIN—GREAT ALARM.
A dispatch of Monday from Madrid,
Spain, says: Much alarm is occasioned
by the continued spread authorities of cholera at
Puebla de Rugat. The are
making strong efforts to stamp out the
disease, but so far have been unsuccess¬
ful, and new cases are reported daily.
On Sunday there were four deaths from
the disease, and nine new cases reported.
The doctors at Puebla de Rugat are
greatly overworked, and the authorities
have telegraphed to Valencia, asking that
physicians be sent from that city to aid.
The total number of cases thus far re¬
ported is ninety-one. One of the persons
who fled from the town for safety has
died of the disease at Albaida. Dr.
Candela, who is an expert, declares that
the disease at Puebla de Rugat is true
Asiatic cholera.
STANLEY AS GOVERNOR.
THE GREAT EXPLORER TENDERED THE
GOVERNORSHIP OF CONSO FRk'E STATE.
Henry M. Stanley has been tendered
and has State. accepted the will governship of Congo his
Free He not enter upon
duties should until the called beginning of 1891, unless
he be upon to assume them
earlier by King Leopold. proceed After his mar¬
riage. Mr. Stanley will to the
United States, where he will remain until
summoned to enter upon office.
The vacancies in the army now available
for the class just graduated at West Point
are so few that nearly one-half of the ciasj
will have to accept temporary appointment*
as additional?.
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
STATE WEATHER CROP REPORT—NEWS
ITEMS FROM RALEIGH.
A Raleigh dispatch of Saturday says:
Earnest efforts are being made the to induce death
Governor Fowle to commute
sentence of Jordan Pritchett, convicted
of murder at Oxford. The date,set is the
27th instant. There are good grounds
for belief that there will be a commuta¬
tion. Wilmington
The receipts of cotton at
to Saturday, the 14th, show a falling off
of 9,000 bales as compared with lust year.
The joint legislative committee on
railway taxation is called to meet at Ra¬
leigh this week. It will receive a propo¬
sition from the Wilmington and Weldon
Railway company to pay taxes, Hereto -
fore that company has paid none, insist¬
ing that the terms of its charter gave it
immunity from taxation. The committee
will also at this session investigate
several other railways which are not pay¬
ing Another taxes. daily is to be es¬
paper soon
tablished at Raleigh and will take au
active part iu democratic campaign
work. Monday
Professor Charles D. Mclve on
accepted an invitation to deliver an ad¬
dress on female education before the
State Press association which meets at
Durham next mouth. The association
decided to invite a number of leading
editors from neighboring states to attend
the convention. North
The weather crop bulletin of the
Carolina experiment station and state
weather service for the week ending Sat¬
urday night, says: The weather has gen¬
erally been very favorable for growing
crops, and for harvesting operations. days,
The temperature was low for a lew
but slightly above the average dur¬
ing the latter part of the week.
The harvesting of wheat and oats pro¬
gressed rapidly during completed. the past The seven yield
days, and is nearly than anticipated
of wheat seems even less
from the preceding reports, and is , prob¬ the
ably fully thirty per cent, below
average, if not more. Other crops are
growing rapidly, are clean and well work¬
ed. Special reports were received during
the week in regard to the condition of
the cotton and tobacco crops throughout
the State. The cotton crop is everywhere
reported to be in a remarkablly
fine condition, better than it lias
been at this season for many years planted past.
For the entire state the acreage
is probably 107 per cent. The condition
of tobacco is fair in some counties, as
Lexington, Rockingham, Surry and Guil¬
ford, rather bad, while in others, as
Granville, Stokes, Moore, McDowell, etc.,
it is wood. Insects, late frost and dry
weather injured it, so that a fair stand
could only be obtained by repeated plant¬ been
ing. The entire crop has not yet
planted, and it is difficult to estimate its
general condition, which will undoubted¬
ly improve with continued favorably
weather.
TRADE REVIEW.
DCS & CO.’S REPORT FOR WEEK ENDED
SATURDAY, JUNE 14.
S. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Speculation has been neither
large in volume or enthusiastic iu tone
during the past week, but the legitimate
business of the country continues unpre¬
cedented in volume for the season, and
highly encouraging in prospects.
Crop prospects be yin to rule all markets
at this season, and these are distinctly
improving. The government report was
more favorable than was expected, and,
in spite of the extravagantly low esti¬
mates, put fortli by speculative statisti¬
cians, wheat has declined If cents, oats 1
cent, and corn f cents. Cotton prospects
have much improved with favoring weath¬
er, and the most reliable authorities now
reckon the condition as satisfactory, with
a reported increase of 2.(17 per cent in
acreage. The price has again declined an
eighth for export. is A better demand for
refined sugar alleged as reason for an
advance of fc in price, but other reports
indicate that dealers are not buying freely
mand at the high the prices now asked. The de¬
for various forms of manufac¬
tured iron and steel is still good, and
prices steady and sales of 10,000 tons ol
rails are reported, with $81 quoted at
eastern mill?.
The railway wars do not cease. On
the contrary, more cutting of east-bound
rates appears, and speculative managers
are suspected of a w illingness to see lower
prices. The prices of stocks have been
w eaker, though sugar trust has been put
up again with reports of large profits.
The delay of the senate finance committee
in acting upon sugar duties suggests some
uncertainty, but in the main the house
tariff bill has been accepted by the com-
mittee, and it is thought to be passed
without great changes. The latest ad¬
vices about silver legislation suggest a
greater possibility disposition that the two houses
may disagree, the toward free
coiuage being strong in the senate. Busi¬
ness failures United during last week number 17*.
for the States, 195; Canada,
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures and were 226 failures iu the United
States 24 in Canada.
THE FIRST KICK.
CHICAGO COMPLAINS THAT HER CENSUS
ENUMERATION IS FAULTY.
The Chicago Daily News of Monday
prints the a number federal of complaints is decidedly indicating faulty
that census
so far as Chicago is concerned. The gist
of statements given is that, whether from
lack of time, incompetence or negligence,
a great number of families have been left
unvisited, and that the omissions are pos¬
sibly of such a wholesale character as to
make the enumeration a little better than
a faroa
THE VOICEFUL WAVES. I
The voiceful waves! I love at night to
stand
Mad with strange yearnings on the shelly ■
sand.
To watch the foam flowers fade beneath my
feet, ,
And guess what words the lisping combs re.
peat.
Then, if a ship’s spars, like a full-spread hand.
Within the round red moon are framed
complete,
I seem to fly to tropic Islands sweet, ■
Where dusky creatures list upon the strand
The voiceful waves.
At morning, too, when sea gulls, white and
fleet.
Swim through the mists with measured
pinion beat,
I almost hear in forests old and grand
The unseen winds—I hate this gold-cursed
land,
And they have told me of some safe retreat, I;
The voiceful waves.
—George Horton, in Chicago Herald.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Conflicting dates—Candidates.
Kidnaping—A sleeping infant.
The huile of fortune—Petroleum.
Shaking for drinks—The tremulous
toper.
Cau a bird drinking be said to be
liquidating his bill ?—Fall Jticer TrSmnt. B :
Pothumous works should be published I I
in some dead language .—Pittsburg
Chronicle.
It is comparatively quiet when so
you can hear the dew drop.—
Republican. bjfl
A sulky horse can usually be cured
driving it in some other Kind of a vehicle.
—New York News. ft
Put two doors side by side and the
small boy will go through the one that
squeaks.— Mercury.
The papers at this trying time
All speak of death, the killer;
We’re bold to take, in prose and rhyme,
Somebody’s sarsaparilla. Judge.
—
The ancients excelled us in many
things. Now', there was Job, a boiler
that never exploded .—San Francises
Alta.
Trie humorist seldom gets ric h from
his ideas,but be is usually able to make a
good thing out of one and another.—
Puck.
A dentist of this city puts in false
teeth so naturally that they look
ache exactly like the originals.— Philo-
ielphia Preen. S
The health journals and doctors agree
that the most wholesome -part of the or-
dinary New England country doughnut V
is the hole .—-Troy Times. Ip
In ancient times ’twas Ajax bold
The lightning did defy:
In modern times’tis Kemmler, who.
This feature will supply. Goodall's Sun
—
Popinjay (passing store)—“Good gra- ■
cious! What is the matter with
man leaning over the counter there?’*
lilobson—“Got a counterfeit, I
Mercury.
Bauk Cashier (of Hibernian extraction
opening his mail and smelling the
meat)—“Hello, this note must have been
drawn in the Oil Regions, I see there
three days gra.se on it.” ft
Trumble (to ofiice boy)—“Can you tell
me if the sporting editor is iu his office?
Office Boy—“He ain't got any offiis.
He's outside making the baseball score
the bulletin ."—Pittsburg Press.
Mrs. Browm—“Why do you like
have the doctor come to see you, Johnny*
Is it because you get nice things to eat! I
Little Johnny—“Naw; ’cause I can p^B
my tongue out at him.”— Bazar.
“Girls are queer.” “Why so?”
when that pauper Bolus was married
Miss Stockanbonds, the heiress,
looked tickled to death when he
dowed her with all his worldly goods. 1
— Bazar.
Mrs. Jinks—“I declare, Alice Smith i»
to be married! It is frightful the way
girls marry nowadays. A woman should
never think of it until shs has reached
the age of discretion!” Mr. Jinks—”1“
other words, you would rather have
them stay single all their lives."— Lau¬
rence American.
There is a post office in Idaho called
Deer Valley, with a mail twice per week-
For six weeks last winter the only letter*
received came for a young man from his
girl in Chicago, and the inhabitants fi D '
ally became so wroth that they arose i®
their might and run him out of town.—
Detroit Free Press.
Jack Wheeler—“I say, Louis, how old
do you suppose Miss Smith is? Her auia
says she’s just twenty-one.” Louis Wait*
(who has not been in the wholesale d 1 ?
goods business for nothing)—“Aw. yes.
marked down from thirty-three; to be
disposed of at a bargain, old chappie. -*
Morning Journal.
Irish Moss.
This edible, or rather drinkable
stance is gathered around Cape C’od. ■*
Massachusetts. It is combed off
rocks beneath the sea, and
carried to the shore where it is dried > 3
the sun. packed in barrels, and sent
the brewers to form an important
in beer, and save malt. This sea
ing yields $75,000 annually, and as
fencing or manuring are required, ® a<1
no tax on the land, it should be quite
independent kind of industry —The
stone.