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J’ASjutiKS ALLiAHCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT JS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA¬
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The Farmers' Alliance of Lincoln
county, South Dakota, has raised $10,-
OjO wiili which to start a newspaper.
5*i Afi
Alliauc3s being organized ^ in * the
are
Indian territory, One hundred is the
number reported up to this time.
fie
Concordia, Kas., is to have an Alliance
paper, the Union News. A company has
hcen chartered with £50,000 capital.
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The sub-treasury plan secures industrial
freedom to the world and emancipates
productive labor from the power of money
to oppress.
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Application has been received at the
oftice of the National Secretary for a
charter for North Dakota 8tate Alliance,
the meetiug of that body having adopted
the secret work unanimously.
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A few’ days ago the Alliance people
around Lynchburg, Ya., tried to get the
tobacco warehouses to reduce their
charges. They refused, and steps were
at once taken to build an Alliance ware¬
house. About $3,000 was subscribed on
the spot.
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The Un r ion, (Luray, Va.) says: The move¬
ment which has been started by the farm¬
ers of our country, will not only benefit
the tillers of the soil, but will bring about
a better state of things generally; and the
toiling millions, which include the me¬ the
chanic and the laborer, as well as
farmers, w ill reap thesr just reward.
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vs The present banking system is a curse
to you, farmers and laborers. It suits
the speculator because it gives them the
power to control your crop and labor.
They desire you to remain slaves to them.
That's and why they oppose the sub-treasury
plan favor understand?—(Jacksonville, the present banging sys-
icin. l)o you
Fla.,) Farmers' Alliance.
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The Indianapolis (Ind.) Globe says;
“Many of our dear old party newspaper
friends are just now expressing great
friendship for the farmers. They think
it would be very degrading for the farri¬
er advise to meddle with politics, and tearfully with
them to have nothing to do
it. The fact is, the farmers have been
taking that kind of advice until the poli¬
ticians have got about all they possessed, make
ami are now after the farmers to
serfs of them.”
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The Farmers’ Newspaper Alliance has
filed at Washington a certificate of in¬
corporation by L. L. Folk, J. II. Turner,
Alonzo Wardall, C. W. Macune, Benja¬
min Terrell, N. A. Dunning and Joseph
A. Mudd. The object? are an agricultu¬ with
ral newspaper and Washington, printing business and the
headquarters in
?toek in $500,000. The directors are L.
L. Folk, J. H. Turner and C. AV. Ma-
cune, of this city, A. Wardall, of Huron,
S. D., and L. F. Livingston, of Coving¬
ton, Ga.
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The National Alliance (Houston, Tex.)
organ of the colored Alliance, advises
ihe following: “Vote for principles, not
ior parties. It can make uo differ¬
ence with us whether a man
is a Democrat, or a Republican, wives or
any other partisan. children Mo long naked as our and
are barefoot, our our
homes mere hovels. We want a man who
will work for the sub-treasury, who will
see to it that the people have money at
one per cent interest, just as the bauks
have it.”
'Hie Young Farmers’ club of the south¬
ern states was organized at Holton, Ga., and
May 1st, 1884, where a constitution
by-laws were adopted and officers elected.
The club meets only once a year, and its
objects arc not to discuss political ques¬
tions nor fight home trusts, etc., the etc., farm. except It as is
individuals at on
thoroughly friendly to the Alliance, the
Wheel, the Union, or any other farmers’
organization. It advocates home labor,
home economy, home made manure.home
raised provisions,home bted horses,mule?,
hogs, cattle, etc. It desires young farm¬
ers to look more to themselves
and their families and their own
personal efforts than to any human or¬
ganization for a better condition of things
in the south.— Georgia Alliance Qttar-
lerltf.
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Cheering words of congratulation and
encouragement are coming in from nil
quarters, and a general determination to
continue the contest with increased ear¬
nestness is manifested all along the line.
New Alliances are being formed, and old
ones revived in States where the opposi¬
tion has been the most bitter. News is
being received from the North and M ost
which indicate a rapid growth of the
Alliance in these sections. Taken as a
whole, the assault that has recently been
made ou the Alliance, its members, and
methods, has not only increased its zeal,
but has brought about a genuine revival
in its favor. Nothing ‘- ems to strengthen enthuse
the order like persecution, or to
the brethren to ni&rc determined efforts
than an attempt to impugn its opjiosition motives or
abuse its members. Let the
do its very worst, the Alliance will
tluive in the meantime, and march right
aiong to victory. Opposition and subsidized from \x>!i-
tici°cs, demagogues, fol¬
lowers must ba expected, but off. the hour of
final accouming is not far
Econotn :*(.
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The Formers' A Ilia nee
Fla.) has the following regarding the
sub-treasury plan: cardinal
“The sub-treasury plan i- is a the
principle of the Alliance. It test
and the sine gno non of the order. For
an Allianccman to say that he is opposed
to it, is like a member of a Christian
church disbelieving the advent such Alliance- of out
Savior. The trouble with
men is ignorance, or something worse— and
knavery. If the former, seek light
pray fo God for a righteous understand¬
ing; if the latter, leave the camp. The
battle is now being fought on this line,
and none other. The tariff, the bloody
shirt and the nigger are all dwarfed into
insignificance. The nation demands suf¬
ficient currency, and the Alliance rncas-
tire is the only one under the sun that
meets this demand. It is the farmers'
measure, originated by them, formulated
by them and promulgated by them, and
is now being defended and maintained by
them all over these United States. The
main opposition to the measure is that
‘nothing good can come out of Nazareth,
that's all.”
The State Alliance, of Wisconsin, met
recently at Barabos, and among the reso¬
lutions' adopted were the following:
R»solved, That we form tboring co-operation
01 alt the agricultural aud i classes
of the nation to protect themselves from
the robberies of non-producers; That of labor we
sympathize with the just demand
of every class, and recognize that many
of the evils from which the farming com¬
munity suffers oppress univer-al labor,
and that therefore producers should unite
in a demand for reform of unjust systems
and the repeal of laws that bear unequally
upon the people: That the general control govern¬ all
ment with the States shall
railroads; boards trade That should option abolished, gambling and on
of lie
we a?k the State aud Congress to pass
such laws us shall make all such transac¬
tions a criminal offense; That we are in
favor of the delinquent collection of the
tax on the whisky in bonded warehouses
and applied for the carrying out of the
sub-treasury bili demanded by the Na¬
tional Farmers’ Alliance; That the tele¬
graph should be owned by the govern¬
ment and operated by the postal depart¬
ment; That we are opposed to all alien
ownership States of land; That Ihe United Vice-
Senators, President and
President should be elected by the people.
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The Minnesota Farmers’ Alliance has
issued an address t > the people contain¬
ing a remarkable attack United ou the su¬
preme court of the States. It
says:
“Very recently a United States judge
invaded a sovereign state, accompanied
by an assassin, w ho murdered a citizen of
that in state. The supreme court declaring stepped
and rescued the a-sassin,
that in such cases the law of the state
against murder was of no avail. The
state of New York condemned a murder¬
er to death according to a law enacted by
its legislature. A judge of the supreme
court of the United States readied out
his hand and took that criminal, that
murderer, under his protection, declaring
that a state could not punish its own
murderers except by permission and in
the manner prescribed by a federal court.
The state of Minnesota created a railroad
commission to stand between the people
and the roads, to prevent the latter from
exacting extortionate rates. These roads
are the creation of the state, and
hold their charters from the state.
Yet this same supreme court lias decided
that these creations are greater than their
creators; that a part is greater than the
whole; that the State who made the roads
has no power to regulate aud govern
♦hem until they get permission from this
autocrat tribunal of the American repub¬
lic. In the case of the law prohibiting
the sale of dressed beef, which your leg¬
islature passed to protect the public
hedfth, this same court has enacted the
role of the schoolmaster aud descended
to administer a lecture to your legislature, lying,
charging them with incincerity and the
in that they justified the public law on health,
ground of protecting object the of the law
when in reality the decision was
something else. The I)red-Soott
rendered the name of Taney infamous,
for the reason thnt it madeslavcry nation¬
al and compelled freedmeu judges to aspire become
slave catchers. These to
even a greater sublimity of infamy, be¬
cause their decisions contemplate the en¬
slavement of the whole American people.”
The address denounces the McKinley
bill and urges every alliance in the State
to send delegates to the State convention
July 1‘3.
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A Costly Palace.
The largest and costliest private man¬
sion in the world is said to be that be¬
longing to Lord Bute, called “ Mont-
stuuvt,” and situated near Rothesay, Eng¬
land. It covers nearly two acres, and is
built in Gothic style, the walls, turrets
and balconies being of stone. The im¬
mense tow er in the center of the build¬
ing is 120 feet high, with a balcony
around the top.
The halls are constructed entirely of
marble and alabaster, all the rooms are
finished in mahogany, rosewood and wal¬
nut ; the fireplaces are all carved marbles
of antique designs. of this palace is
The exact cost not
known, but it has never been estimated
i less than *9,000,000.
A BAD I.AMI*.
Mistress, (to servant, who is about to
throw away an old lamp)—What is the
matter with that lamp, Bridget? Does it
smoke?
Bridget—I don't know nothin’ 'bout
w hither it smokes or drinks; but it goes
out noights. mum!—!Harvard Lampoon.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
brief notes of an inter¬
esting NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS r\ Til e
SOUTHERN STATES THAT Wil l. ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIKE8,
FLOODS, ETC.
One car-load of watermelons shipped
from Quitman. Gu., to C. K. Weaver &
Co., Chicago, was sold by that firm for
$305, gross.
Hod. North Dickerson was on Satur¬
day chosen by the usual majority representative to suc¬ in
ceed John G. Carlisle as
Congress of the sixth Kentucky district.
A special of Wednesday from Baton
Rouge, J,a., says that after adopting monopoly an
amendment eliminationg the bill
features, the house passed the lottery
by a vote of 00 to 21).
A dispatch of Tuesday, from Purvis,
Miss., says: John L. Sullivun pleaded right¬
guilty to the indictment for prize paid.
ing and was fined £500. which he
Mike Doonan was also included in the in¬
dictment.
A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala.,
says; Coonel Thomas G. Jones, the
democratic candidate for governor, and
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, of New York,
have been elected honorary members of
the Alabama Press association.
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Judge Henry W. Thomas died at Fair-
field Court House, Va., Sunday morning,
in the seventy-eighth year of his age. lie
was a member of the commission that
visited President Lincoln iu 18(51, with a
view to averting hostilities. For half a
century he was one of the leading law
vers of northern Virginia.
A dispatch from Baton Rouge, La.,
says: The legislative caucus on the
lottery question Tuesday night, after an
address by Messrs. 81yder, appointed Boatner,
Montgomery and Foster, a con¬
ference committee of ten, and the mattei
was referred to them. It is believed the
question will be definitely settled by this
committee.
An El Paso. Texas, dispatch says: Gen.
JohnS. Mosby arrived here Tuesday morn
ing from San Francisco, to supervise the
third monthly drawing of the Grand
Lottery Juarez. The famous general
makes the superintending long trip monthly the drawing for the pur¬ of
pose of
the Grand Lottery Juarez, of Juarez.
Mexico.
.Tohu W. Walker, of Ra’eigli, N. (’.,
proprietor of the Oak City clothing manu¬ the
factory, which sold its products in Tuesday all
southern states, assigned on lia¬
for the benefit of his creditors. The
bilities are in excess of £20,000. The as
sets are nominally $14,000, but hardly
more than half that amount will be real¬
ized.
The Engineering News publishes statis¬
tics of railway construction in the States
south of the Ohio' and cast of the Missis¬
sippi rivers for the present year, which
show that 802 miles of track have been
laid since January 1, 1890, 2,815 miles
arc in piocessof construction, 4,883 miles
are located or under survey, and 7,450
miles are projected, with fair prospects of
construction.
The Kentucky and Cumberland rail
road, which was chartered recently by
the Kentucky legislature, is to build a
line to run from Frankford, Ky., to the
Tennessee line, passing through Ander¬
son, Washington, Marion, Taylor, Green,
Adair and Cumberland counties. It will
opou up a large territory which has no
railroad facilities as yet, and develop
one of the best oil fields in the country.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of Saturday
says: Inventor Thomas Ed son is in
Moore county taking options on gold-
mining interests. He t<>ok one option
on one thousand acres. Mr. E dson will
form a syndicate of English capitalists, This
which will commence work soon.
land lbs on Deep river, and Edison will
turn the river through it, and thus obtain
water for gold-washing.
The Chattanooga Times of Sunday com
tains an exhaustive statement regarding
the crops of Tennessee, Alabama and
Georgia, and it shows that the wheat
crop throughout the entire territory can¬
vassed to beaimost an entire failure. Corn,
cotton and tobacco promising are in splendid exceed con¬
dition: yields to that
of last year. Of fruits there is about a
half crop, and grasses of all kinds are
good. The business outlook is encour¬
aging.
A Nashville. Tennessee, dispatch financial of
Wednesday says: The state's
officers have succeeded in borrowing two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
meet the July interest on the state debt.
One hundred thousand dollars of the
amount is secured from J. A. Ivans A
Co., of Bo-ton. at five per cent, and the
balance through the Capital City and
Commercial banks at Nashville, at six
per cent. Coupons will be promptly
taken upon presentation at the state treas¬
urer's office after July 1st.
SARAHS CLOSE CALL,
THE CELEBR ATED ACTRESS TOOK TOO MCI II
CHLOROFORM.
A London dispatch says: Upon re¬
turning to her hotel, after having per¬
formed at Her Majesty's theatre Tuesday
night. Madam Surah Bernhardt suffered
from an attack of insomnia. Finding
herself unable to go to sleep she took
chloroform. When her attendant dis¬
covered her, the condition, famous actress appeared
to be iu a dying and physicians
were summoned hurriedly. After a j>er-
sistent effort, lasting through four hours,
aud the application of powerful remedies,
Madam Bernhardt began slowly to re¬
cover.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
TO TAINT A BCCGY.
The first thing to be done is to sand-
paper all cracks, etc., out of the old
paint, then give a coat of the best paint
mixed with coach varnish. This m
sandpapered smooth as soon as it is dry
and hard, aau a second coat is given and
smoothed. A coat of varnish is given
and rubbed smooth with finaly-sifted
pumice powder aud water, and a second
coat is then given: to make a good job a
third coat is frequently given, The best
coach varnish only is used.-^.Ye^ York
Times.
LEACHED ASHES.
It is common to consider, leached ashes
of littie or n > value as fertilizers from
the l'ac that the potash has been ab-
stracted, and therefore their use at the
best can only be for their mechanical
effete: on stiff and hard soil' and thus
many persons neglect to haul then out on
cultivated lands at all. While it is true
that uearly all the potash has been taken
out, rhe lime and the phosphoric acid
still remain, and as ashes contain more
lime than potash, it often becurx that
leached ashes will on certain soils produce
beneficial effects almost as marked
those of unleeched ashes <*« another field.
This arises from the fact that the soil
on the field on which they were used al-
ready contained suffici ent potash, but
was deficient in lime and phosphoric
acid. --New York World.
FOOD Foil TURKEVS.
The best ihing for young turkeys and
young ducks also is the yolks of hard-
boiled eggs. After the birds arc several
days old the white may be added, An
occasional mixing in of finely chopped
onion is healthful. Rice is a food which
is too little appreciated for fowls.
Where milk is plentiful it should be
made into a pudding with rice, boiling
until the rice is soft. It is better not to
use water with the milk, and not to boil
the rice so as to destroy the grain, as it
will not be so easily eaten. All food
should be fed iti shallow pans. Boiled
milk and water with a little lime water
added occasionally is recommended a v an
excellent drink until the birds arc three
months old. At this time loppered milk
or buttermilk may bo given in place of
boiled milk .—New York Herald.
*' WOLF TEETH” IN COLTS.
The so-called ‘ wolf teeth” in colls
arc merely superfluous teeth and harmless.
They are small teeth situated directly in
front (). the upper and sometimes lower
grinders, ard are shed as the new and
permanent teeth come iu. While colts
are cutting their teeth there is often more
or less inflammation which affects the
eyes, and those who do not know the
real cause are very likely to attribute it, to
the presence of the small, superfluous
teeth, which will drop out if left alone,
or they may bo pulled out without in¬
jury or great inconvenience to the coit.
If they are broken off in attempting to
extract them the stumps may cause con¬
siderable irritation to the gums. Wild
horses seem to got along as well, or eveu
better than the domesticated, and the
colts are never known to be injured by
••woli ,, tecta. , If the eyes of your colt
become sore, put him in a rather dark-
stable and wash his eyes two or three
times a day in warm water if the weather
is cool, of if hot use cold water or a littie
mild eye water to be hid at the drug
store .—New York Sun.
STORING POTATOES.
Potatoes should always be sorted when
digging. With the diggers that we now
use in harvesting- a crop of potatoes this
is not so much of a task as when the hoc
or fork was depended upon. When it
can be avoided, potatoes should not be
dug when the soil is wet. Usually more
or less dirt will ding to the tubers.
While iu addition it will usually require
more time to dry them out* thoroughly.
It is not good economy to put away the
small potatoes, they are usually of more
value for hog feed than anything else,
and they can be used now to a better ad¬
vantage than at any time later.
At digging is thy best time to select
the seed, and medium-sized tubers from
the hills producing the largest number of
these are best to save for this purpose,
and it will pay to select and store by
themselves a sufficient quantity to use for
this purpose. Let the potatoes get
reasonably dry before putting away. Dig
out a place about three or tour leet wide
and as long as may be considered neces-
sary to hold the quantity desired to store,
Put a good layer of straw in the bottom
and , the , sides ., and , then , fill ... the tubers,
m
piling them u ; , as carefully as possible,
cover with clean straw, and over this pile
the dirt, commencing at the bottom and
carrying the lave.- evenly on all sides to
the pro ‘will kt height. In a majority of
cases it pay to apply a second layer
after the ground has frozen hard, or if
earth is not used, apply a good layer of
‘ reach‘along
old s.raw or f odder. Dig a ,
■ in the outside with a good outlet, so as
to provide good drainage.
This will be the best and cheapest plan
of keeping potatoes when they are to be
kept until spring. What is needed to he
used during the winter should, of course,
Iw stored in the cellar, where they can be
>cached a? needed .—New York Witness.
suggestion- as to -iiEEP.
No man is qualified for a shepherd who
h not gentle in all his way-—a gentle-
mar. Some are born sheepmen; others
acquire skill in handling sheep;- others
are poison to the race. Grain-producing
f»rm« grow poorer every y ”The ea .. ,,
faims increase in fertility.
crop suffers less by drought than*
other, animal or vegetable. Breej;
for the most wooi to light carcase
poor policy—there is in no reason fors^Q
licing fleece qualities carcass ; m p r(j i .
meuts. One cross upon pure \f e
ewes by compact-bodied, close. w 0o l
rams is usually of advantage, but tb
upon cross will deteriorate the rloc&.
good constitution combined with mutt
an.I wool dualities makes the p<> r f„
sheep. The breed that can give best
turn for care and feed is the proper
to keep, and experience prove? .1
Merino to be the winner in tne race a
money. The foot disease does not ori
mate on high, dry ground, aud ani^
affected with it recover ••poutaaeotf
when removed from low to hign ; J
Sheep moved from the limestone South'd soil]
t h e North to the sands of the
erallv “dic acclimating.” North
crosses upon the natives is the only*
j a secure desirable flocks there. s ; ,
flock masters iu a Western count? h?
adopted heroic treatment sheep of sheep-'k^
dogs. They feed their p{ rees
beefsteak sprinkled with a solution
strychnine, and what the sheep
dogs consume, --and nobody’s to blame
Horns on sheep are. in the way allj
time. Fewer can be eorraled or fo l A
iu the same space, or feed at the - Ml
time;-they gouge each others' eyes,
a punch iu the abdomen often CitM
abortion in ewes. Homs are a terror
the shearer,and valuable feed is coneji
to produce the worse than useles- vm
dages. Horns on lambs are prevents
excising “the buttons,” as with call
but the humane way is to breed {
horns off. There will lie muiey a
lambs among most horned breeds, andj
the use of such a Western shepherd I
last season 500 rauley ram-lambs succeed 6atj
800, and he expects to in bra
ing off all horns and establishing York Tribvm. a ngj
Merino breed .—New
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Are your line fences all right!
Eat more fruit and less fat incut,
Raise all your good, heifer calves.
Weed the garden early and often,
Combat and conquer the eurculio,
Too much water used in tran.voiaatij
is worse than none.
In transplanting plants of every kj
keep the loots moist.
There is nothing made in turning a
stock to pasture too early.
Who knows beans ! There arc wj
be over 400 varieties of them.
Give animals a change of food pert
change of pasture is beneficial,
When smut once gets started in a c
plant there is no remedy for it.
Trees for cemeteries. Weeping bir
cypress, white pine, arbor vite.
Make good use of your rak-> ia
garden to keep down the young I
Poor fences are one cause of ‘ ore
cattle. Have good line fences, any®
A little farm well tilled returns I
most profit for the labor bestowei ni
it.
All eggs left too long in the
ing very cold weather will crack froaj
uffects of frost .
Kill every white grub you > i'.-'i
when planting corn. They are su;«
make trouble later on.
A good garden is the most proa®
patch of the advantage size on the of farm. high culij Uj
lesson on the
Nothing produces better coloredl
than good clover hay and corn
They make a fairly-balanced milk r* 5
Sour swill is one of the source®
disease in the hog. acid Much for of it H J
until it becomes too even p
r Pho workingmen at the trade? '
only eight hours in their day oflabor,
t,jj e farmer knows no time limit bu:
ness.
Be careful that the collar? ct
ness be kept clean and well
(tailed shoulders are cruel w
against.
It is said that a Frenchman
covered that by watering dahlis •
te P’^ water a delicious ai ouia n 1
to them,
the .
The orchard is place for tan
they can be kept there. They p 1
the early, wormy apples and keep*'
stirred.
Work horses need good fare
should not be expected todohesvj
on grass alone. And let them
of water.
Unthreshcd oats make a good - ffe i
horses< aud soaic like them bitter re¬ ]
the grain alone, or the grain
teed ® cenarttelv ‘
, thoroughly carded *“ f « tcd and . T - f wash- , \ ,P
oe
warm * 03 P water in which a UtM
seace hu3 oecu addfed *
horse with a well-fitting . . h»1
especially a well-fitting collar
likes man whose clothes <i
him; aud will, of course, do 1
easier and better,
The ox-team is not to be dc?p ; -
farm work; they are -low, we kno
they are sure: and in plowing or is
ing where speed is not essentia: ta-J
better than horses.
Odors in the impure. stable The indicate o: ti»®j
air therein is us--
cuts, with due regard to
stalls clean, is very important.
week the stables should besprim-Vj
a solution made of one pound c< d
in t wo gallons of soft water.