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6 THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JUNE 26, Im. ALLIANCE LECTURE DELIVERED BY THE COUNTY LECT URER AT SHILOH. lone ihii)^ and some to another. But, | BUSINESS OUTLOOK. i Mr. President, tlie needed reform that j , i i« so vital to our interests must begin at \ our homes. We must adopt such modes j R* ^ DUN & CO.’S WEEKLY SUMMARY will AND REVIEW OF TRADE Mr.C.C. Shepperd Talks to the Alliance and Gives Some .Sound, I’racticnl Idea* of How Fannins Should be Made Self Sustaining. Mr. president, brethren and sisters of Shiloh alliance—At our last meeting it . was resolved that the lecturer of this alliance give a lecture at this time, and I now proceed to make the effort, and it Is known to you all that I am not an educated man, neither am I in the habit of making public speeches. You will therefore bd prepared to excuse me for i what I may fail in coming up to your reasonable expectations. If we will stop and look over our past history since the emancipation of the slaves we have had speech after speech, we have had resolution after resolution, and it occurs to me that the time is com ing, and even at our door to-day, when it requires action, and stern action, on the part of all true agriculturists at the south that wc may he able to sustain ourselves and our posterity in the glo rious avocation in which we are engaged, which is tilling the soil and trying to make a living by the sweat of our brows. The country is reduced in material re sources and in the means of life and the promotion of the wanted comfort of the people to an extent well calculated to disturb the equanimity of such as are thoughtful and feel the proper degree of interest in the future of the planters of this country. ! of life as the income of the farm sustain; and educate our children; we I i must teach our children that labor is j Crop Reports Favorable—Trade f'om|i honorable, that it takes a vigorous ef fort to make our homes what they should be. We should beautify our homes with fruits and flowers, and adorn them the best we can in order to make home desirable, with all the at tractions for the benefit of our children, so they will be willing to stay at home and not have to go away in search of amusements. We should raise everything that man and beast will consume that out soil and climate will produce. Then there will not be so much said about cheap freight rates; each farmer can establish , Ills own rates on his own roan, which I This is ' in fact ’ beca,18<! ,he exce P tion ' runs from his corn field to his barn. He j *">' h , ot wea ‘ llcr at man - v P oint8 bad in ‘ can fatten his pork and pass it over the d,,ced 80me,b,D * 1,ke ,bfc ,ni< ‘ 8ummer same line to his smoke house, then we daUne “- but the more important cause undoubtedly is that trade in many branches has been waiting for a certain ty in improvement and definite orders before undertaking new risks. There is also some hesitation owing to recent failures, particularly in Philadelphia. tively small —Improvement* (lit Demand in Several Important Trade# -- Credit* More Cautfoutly Given. New Yoi:k, June 22.—Dun's weekly report says: Business failures occurring throughout the country during the past week number, for the United States, 224; Canada, 20; total, 250, against 244 last week. While crop reports continue remark' ably favorable, the volume of business at present trade centers is not as large as it has been in other years at this time. will have our supplies at l|pmc. The non producer then can purchase j his supplies for less money than he now j does thereby enabling them to hire cheaper, the merchant can sell his goods for less money, and the banker can dis count paper for less rates of interest. Let us at Shiloh alliance start out to-day if we have not already started with a new r resolve and a fixed purpose of mind I ^ to try by concert of action to restore the needed confidence in our country, let us feel that when we obligate to do any thing, if wo fail to do what we promised we are weakened in the financial world, when confidence is restored in the coun try we will have cheap money, cheap There are causes for all our troubles that are intelligible to those who stop to consider. They are the common errors of most of our people in their habits and modes of life. Not the money-holding class, who can be profligate and still have ample means to liv^in luxury and go in style, but It is the common, ordi nal y people, which description embraces a very large per cent, of the masses of all callings and occupations. These peo ple must cease trying to follow after them in their boundless extravagance in drink, diet and equipage, sooner or later they will be reduced lower and lower in the depths of poverty and in its ultimate depredation, they will have to adopt modes of life by which they can sustain themselves and families, on the income of their own products. Those who are engaged in farming cannot afford to buy the most of their groceries and what they con sume on their plantations. T he old men and women, who a long ways back provided fortunes for tbeir children, are fast passing away, and the present as well as the Incoming genera tion must come to realize that money is not a spontaneous growth in the south, and that food and raiment and shelter and many other things that they will need for health, comfort and decency, are the results of skill and labor. Some of our best men saw that the planting interest was going down and the fanners getting in debt, and their lands many of which was going into the hands of the capitalist and leaving many farmers without land, and they have in many in stances become, tenants. In order to protect the farmers the al liance was organized, not with the view as I understand to make war on any trade or profession, but simply to see if by concert of action they could not bet ter the condition of t}w farmers. If the farmers are in a healthy con dition, as a matter of course all. trades and professions will prosper. If the farmers would adopt modes of farm-' ing whereby they could make the farm sclf-sustainin *, it would not take a prophet to foretell the happy results that would follow. We, as farmers, have much to complain of in the way of high interest and high prices for goods •n a credit, but if we will stop and look ^t another picture, look how some men will do to avoid the payment of honest debts they contracted for supplies they should have made at home. Suppose all the farmers in the cotton belt was to make their supplies and let their cotton crop go to purchase such articles as they could not raise on tbeir farms and estab lish the cash system, the merchant would , gladly sell for a small margin for cash and as the spring is here let us as farmers try to raise all our farm supplies as near as possible, then pay the cash for the balance, in the event we have to go in debt. Let us try to protect our credit: if we could see how damaging it is to us, financially, to lose our credit, we surely would make a desperate effort to pro tect it. It is only a question of time with the farmers of this country, with out a great revolution in the modes of life and farming, as to when they will find tlfemselvcs in destitution and ab ject pov^ny. The evil of the situation is everywhere apparent, and the great practical question fora noble race in imminent peril to solve is through what possible channel we may hope for re lief. I answer, looking at the pad, present, and probable future of our country and people, having closely ob served their temper, taste and habits for upwards of half a century, lam in full sympathy with all legitimate trades and professions, and I desire to see them all prosper. - Nearly every speaker will show up the condition the country is in, but they fail to prescribe the remedy. Much has been said about reform; many look ing to the federal government, some to Ciedits have been more cautiously given in woolen and boot and shoe trades, and this has lessened the volume of transactions. Hence, it is encourag ing to find that there is an actual im provement in the demand for consump tion in several more important trades and that manufacturers already begin to feel the effects. Crop pi expects have improved during the past week, particularly in southern and northwestern regions, where there has been lack of rain and there is now scarcely a single commercial center from which crop reports are not highly favorable Business is improved at Louisville, de cidedly so at, Montgomery and slightly at New Orleans. Trade is ^mall at So successful have they been in j < b " f «"-P Projects are good, dull at Nashville, better than usual for goods and a prosperous country. There is nothing new in the organiza tion of mutual aid societies, other pro fessions and callings have long since banded together for mutual protection, audio secure the benefits of associated efforts. We have do word of censure for their action, it meets our hearty ap proval. accomplishing their purposes that arc trying to illustrate our faith in ! the season at Atlanta, and HIGH TAKIFF. The raise on coal freights this season by the railroads has put numerous man ufacturing establishments to protesting at the rate, and it is likely that some concerted action will be undertaken to get this matter before the commission. Last year Americus paid 00 cents to $1.25 per ton at the Alabama mines for steam coal, and the rate of freight varied from $1.60 to $1.00 per ton. This season the railroads advanced rates about 50 per cent., making the freight about double the cost of the coal at the mines. In other words, the railroads charge twice what the coal is worth to haul it two hundred miles. The roads at these rates get $*;0 to $75 per car for hauling coal from Birmingham to Americus, which is non-perishable and non- destructible;*aod yet will haul cotton at $1 per bale, or $50 per car, from Mem phis to New Orleans, Brunswick or .Sa vannah over 700 miles, and pay the in surance besides. There is n<* reason, justice or common sense in the freight on coal from Bir mingham to Americus exceeding $30 per car. or $1 per ton; and the consumer STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF Bank of Southwestern Georgia, AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 20, 1891. RESOURCES. Leans and Discounts Overdrafts Furniture and Fixtures Real instate Expense* and Ta* dAwlt 1.7 *5 0o 1 K2s*.ti0 5,274.50 5,6X1.71 *>*,176.02 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock surplus: I'ndivMed Profit Due Hunk« and Bankers Due Depositor# Rediscounts * IWMOO.OO ■ AOOOJIO ■ : * .OlO.10 W. H. (\ L»UI»LE ks EX-SENATOft MCDONALD. The death of Joseph E. McDonald de prives the democratic party of one of its ablest leaders. His name Las stood for a quarter of a century as the synonym of honesty of character and integrity of conviction and that it occurs at a time when the country is distracted by vary ing party cries makes it the more deeply to be deplored. He was born in Butler county, Ohio thousands of tons of coal in Southwest- \ s a young man he removed to ern Georgia should take some steps to i nt ii ana and was there admitted to the have removed this serious and unjust tax ^ ^ ar j n He received an appoint- upon their industries. ment as prosecuting attorney almost im- It would seem to anyone uninitiated in mcf ]jately and a few years later he the mysteries of railroading, a plain j e j eC f ef | to congress. He proposition of fairness and common sense that the freight on no commodity to any point should exceed its value at the initial point; and this axiom might be made the basis of a rule by the com mission that could be equitably applied to this question of overcharge on coal, with much benefit to the manufactories, and with no injustice to the railroads. There can be no prosperity in manu facturing so long as steam coal is $3 25 to $4.50 per ton, and the sooner Ameri- recognizes this fact the-better for her future. GOOD ADVICE. There is a. strong prejudice existing! the minds of our southern farmers against using .as an article of food any thing made of cotton seed oil. This is very wrong. There is nothing purer or more wholesome than such preparations as a substitute for lard. They are in every way preferable, to hog’s grease and if generally adopted, there would, not be so many cases of dyspepsia. B u t aside from this, it is to the interest of our cotton producers to encourage the general use of cotton seed oil, for it furnishes a ready market and increased was demand for this part of their/mly money was crop. Let our farmers give this substi- thoir wisdom by following their ex ample. . The alliance was slow in taking this step, they felt that it was in the field of experiment and that difficulties awaited them. To overcome them we must be true to ourselves and not false to any one. While the interest of the alliance cause has seemed to weaken under the heavy pressure that was brought to bear as I fear, by indiscreet management on the part of some of the leaders, allowing tliealliance to drift into politics for their own political preferment, to the injury of the alliance. Now Mr. President and brethren of the sub-alliance go to work, let us go back to the first declaration of princi ples, let us practice every virtue that is inculcated in the original principles of the order, let us adhere to the truth, let uf» as a band of bretheren working together for good to all, making no war on no trade nor profession, and if we are successful in our undertaking and shall be the means of placing the farmer on a higher plain, then we shall have felt that our efforts were not in vain. Letter Lint. The following unclaimed letters will be sent to the dead letter office if not called for in ten days. Say “advertised letters” when calling for them at office: Chos Arline, Miss Jophie Bryant, Co ra Berry, Isaac Benard, Miss Ema Bell, Annie C Alum, Mrs Larra Herman, Mitchol Daniel, Joan Dawson, J H Dews, Elma Elder, Virgil Horn, Col E Uutts, Miss Mary Ilodge, Miss Lula Hanes, 15, Mis Lucy Johnson, Alice Lee, B F Lewis, George Mathews, Mrs J W Mc- Neal, Geo Meadows, Mrs Jane Moore, Wm Mercer, Miss Fannie McLnter, Miss M Roberson, J 8 Rubel, Miss Mattie Works, Lela Williams, Miss E Wiliams, Miss Merbsey Whilipe, Albert West, Miss O Walker, Mrs Martha Stewart, J Simmons, A M. Speer, Miss Ella Smith, Edward Sherman. J. C. Roney, P. M. Americas, June 24. itch better I than last year at Jacksonville. Reports from all quarters indicate little com plaint as to collections. Regarding money reports show almost everywhere an ample supply for legiti mate and safe business, but it is fre quently mentioned that there is no sup ply for speculation and at St. Louis the market was stiller at seven per cent, at Kansas City firm at 8 to 10 per cent and at Detroit strong at 7 per cent, rather stronger at Cleveland, tight at Little Rock and Atlanta, dose at Nash ville. and in good demand with firm rates at New Orleans. From all other points reports indicate comparative ease. It is another hopeful indication that the de mand for manufactured iron and steel improves. For structural iron there is a rush of orders because of the collapse of building strikers, and makers of sheet iror are somewhat puzzled, though bar iron is only fairly active, but plates are in good demand. The wool market at New York shows improvement and larger demand by manufacturers. To Primers and Publishers. The Times Publishing Company has for sale a portion of the newspaper and job outfit made surplus by the recent consolidation of the Times and Recor der, consisting of one cylinder newspa per press, two Gordon job presses, one Hero paper cutter, one perforator, six stands, two imposing stones and tables, A MIXED OFESTION • umber of republican n ami semi-republican sheets,sue New York Sun, the Atlanta Const it tuioi ami a few other unimportant i nil tat i-ms, ai engaged in demonstrating day after day tt impossibility of Mr. Cleveland’s non inatio for the presidency in 1X5*2.—Birmlnghai News. The strong advocacy of Governor Hill’s candidacy by the Constitution seems to be construed by the News indicative of defective democracy. While The Times-Rkcoki>kk does nob believe Governor hill to be an available man for the presidential race, he is yet a good democrat, as democrsicy goes in New Ybr*c, and the Constitution will have to do something worse than advo cate Hill and oppose Cleveland to justi fy its classification as a semi-republican paper.. The democracy is at present badly split on the question of Cleveland’s availability, in spite of which, however, he may be nominated, as no other man’s record who is likely to be named is freer from objection. also at one time attorney-gen eral of his adopted state. His most conspicuous national service was as a United States senator, he hav ing been elected to that body in 1875. Ilis career in the senate was marked by all the qualities that had endeared him through a generation to his fellow citi zens In Indiana. He was a strong de bater, an uncompromising advocate of sound democratic doctrines, and these lie impressed deeply upon the country. ,MI j His work in Washington put him to the j front as a presidential possibility, and at one time it appeared that lie stood a ! good chance of securing the democratic ' els ... , the nomination. , on, j The death of this pure patriot and earnest democrat will be widely regret ted. In hint the democracy and the country lose a tried and faithful servant. Twenty-one years ago Jeff Davis wrote to his wife from Fortress Monroe, as follows: “It is true that my strength has failed me. and the loss of sleep has created a morbid excitability, but an un- | crop. tute for lard a fair trial, .and they will find it better and cheaper. The recent resignation of his chair in the senate by Mr. Reagan, of Texas, ha^served to recall the incident which led him to leave Tennessee, where lie was born, and settle in the Lone Star state. It appears that one day he went to mill with a grist to bo ground, and, after he had waited in the line until his turn came, he was rudely addressed by man who proposed to step in ahead of him, and threatened to throw him out of the window unless he would yield his place. Mr. Reagan, the story goes, like five'hundred poun.ls of new, type, etc. I a „ thc regt o( the people ln tho n0 | gh . This material and these presses are borhoodt wa , more or i elw terrorized by virtually new, haying been in use only year. A great bargain in prices and terms can be secured by the right par ties. Address the Times Publishing Company, Americus, Ga. ernor Patterson, of Pennsylvania, lias vetoed the compulsory educational bill passed by the legislature of that state. The Witty Irishman, When told / a doctor that his liver was almost gone, said: “Faith, it’s glad I am, it's allers bothered me.” The lher, more than any other organ, is the in<«t>x to the body. With a mor bid liver the entire system is out of gear. Most powerful for the restoration of this “citadel of health” is Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Its action is direct, prompt, effectual. Recommend ed by eminent physicians, it has gained a universal reputation as the “Great Liver Regulator.” Correct the liver and carefully compiled statistics, is almost a J you cure many ills. The ‘ Golden Med- unit in declaring that a moderate use of j leal Discovery is warranted i i all cases Jack the Ripper is again at work in j London. The London police had better j come over and get Inspector Byrnes to j catch him as they seem to be utterly in- capable. The medical fraternity, backed up by j stimulants conduces to long life. It is* admitted that an old whiskey is by far the best stimulant that can be used. Leading physicians recommend the I. W. Harper Whiskey, because it is pure, possessed of a superior fiavor and bou quet, and is not offered for sale until it is old aud thoroughly matured. Sole agents, McMath Bros., Americas, jun’Jfi 6m 1 of liver disease .and blood disorders to | benefit or cure or money promptly and cheerfully refunded. ‘Ohio is to be the Lookout Mountain The Mexican government will i a big space at the World’s fair, will make a splendid exhibit. ccupy They this desperado, and in fear of his life rushed for him, butted him in the stom ach with his head, aud literally lifted him off his feet and llung him through the window. When the desperado dis appeared, the consequences of Ids act flashed upon young Reagan’s mind. He instantly supposed that he had killed a man, that he would be hanged for it, and, scared to death, rushed down stairs, unhitched his horse and lit out across the country for Texas. The mau Was not killed but got a good shaking up. He soon moved to Texas, and was a friend to Reagan in after life. seen hand has sustained me, and a peace the word could not give and has not been able to destroy, will, I trust, up hold me to meet with resignation what ever may befall me. If one is to answer for all, upon me it most naturally And properly falls. If I alone could bear all the suffering of the country, and relieve it from further calamity, I trust our Heavenly Father would give me strength to be a willing sacrifice.” The man who who wrote these patriotic words deserves the monument which the people of the south will erect to his memory. A recent writer on London and its people, in classifying them by condi tions, puts down 1,300,000 of them as be longing to the poverty stricken class, semi-criminal and those who earn $5 per week or less per family. This does not include 100,000 paupers who are taken care of in public institutions. There are 100,000 beggars on the streets of Liver pool in#i population of about 500,000, and other English cities are little better off. When our people are disposed to grumble at their hard Jot they should compare conditions with their English brethren. WHO ARE THEY? The greatest danger that threatens the alliance is men who seek to ride them into office, and so soon as their ambition is subserved, is to repudiate the organization that gave them power and prominence. Our members in Georgia have been the victims of these political schemers.—Editor Gaunt. The pin-feathered bantling of the Athens Ledger, who “slobbers” over the Constitution and the Savannah Times, and howls great “gobs” of sarcasm (?) at the balance of the press, is about to be devoured with jealousy because The Timer-Recorder, as he admits, is ahead of him in its successful court paid to ideas, of which not the most insignifi cant seems ever to approach the dark purlieus where gropes in vain this too, too fresh young inan, who tries to pre serve the unstable equilibrium of his upper story by parting Lis name in the middle. A barrel of salt is the sole sal vation of this fresfc, young man these summer days with the mercury at 05. Richland was in truth a dry town yesterday. In the absence of tho for bidden beverages, the big crowds drank all the wells dry, and it is said that many people actually suffered from thirst before the day closed. Richland don’t want to encourage “dryness” of this kind in future. Rev. Sam Small went before the grand jury in Philadelphia the other day, and had tho Rev. J. Wesley Hill, of Og den, Utah, indicted for writing and pub lishing letters charging him with, crimi nal conduct. Theie is quite a long stretch of country between Ogden and Utah, and the indictment will not cause the Rev. Mr. Hill to lose any sleep. Sam Small, however, is doing his fighting at long range. The venerable Editor Bill Moore of the Augusta Evening News thus refers to the customs that prevailed in the pioneer ; days of the Republic • when lie was a Evening Ledger is j ca n ow youth: “A pair of lovers caught kissing each other on the street in Phila delphia were arrested, charged with j “assault and battery.” That isn’t what call it when we were young.” The Athen authority for the statement that Chancellor W. C. Boggs of the Uni versity of Georgia intends to sit down on so much gayety there during the com- t j 1C y use( j meneement exercises. The article says that the “chancellor thinks the constant stream of entertainment during com- j a Bai»ti The Brunswick Presbyterians are not getting along smoothly with their pas tor. Charges have been preferred against him, and he in turn prefers charges against one of the elders. The minister’s resignation has been accepted, which seems to be the best solution of the matter. The Albany News, and Advertiser has offered a trip to the sea to the most popular young lady, and the most popu lar clerk in that city, and the News and Advertiser is in demand for the vote i contains This explains its failure to appear at this office. The people ot the south consider it a high privilege to contribute something to the Davis monument fund. The small popular subscriptions, in the aggregate, will rear a magnificent memo rial in marble to thc dead president of tne late confederacy. * Over in Columbia, S. C., thc fathers of marriageable daughters are agitating an early leaving movement. The girls are kicking, it is said, not at their beaux, but at their daddies’ rulings. Mil McBek, the new superintendent of the Central, held the same position on the Western North Carolina railroad before coming to Georgia. His salary is $12,000 a year. The Sheffield Enterprise says that the best way to keep a city clean is for each citizen to keep his premises clean, and good seuse in that remark. minister of Boston lias meneement does Interfere seriously with j caused a disruption in the ranks by an the proper amount of attention that the j attack upon Masonry in a minister’ exercises in the chapel should command, | meeting One of the members of the and he is going to wage relentless war > conference asked that his name be drop- I’igtnleir v#. <iiun(». Lilliputian as they arc in size (being no larger than mustard seeds), they achieve results that their Brobdingnagi- an opponents utterly fall In. We refer to the efficacy of the powerful prepara tion known as Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pel lets, compared with that of their gigan tic competitors, the old stylo pill. Try t .... „ , . [the little giants when dyspepsia, liver of i-oliticf,’ »ay» the Augusta Chronicle, complaint., constipation, biliiouweM, \ea, and McKinley will be tiie “Ele- i or any kindred ills, assail yon, and yon phant's liuck” in the “Devil’s Flue.” How well wc remember grandmother's attic, so fragrant with medicinal roots and herbs! Poor old soul, how precious they seemed to her! And yet, one bot tle of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla u ould.do more good than her whole collection of “yarbs,” Wanamaker U still in the soup as re gards the Keystone bank failure. ■ will i io mistake—they' 11 disappear at once. Two Chicago men recently engaged in an ear-biting contest. You can never know till you try, how quickly a dose of Ayer’s Pills will cure your sick headache. Your stomach and bowels need cleansing, and these pills will accomplish it more effectually and comfortably than an} other medicine you can find. against this social order of things He lias requested thc executive committee of the Athemeum to unite with him to accomplish these ends. lie proposes to change the programme of the college exercises, making inroads on immemo rial custom and fix the senior and junior ped from the roll of membership, and abruptly left the hall. He said that he was a Mason and did not care to have that fraternity abused. The Chattanooga Evening News insin uates that the farmer who claimed to speaking at night instead of in the morn- have found a hickory nut in the heart of ing. This, he hopes, will abridge the ! a tree, had oue drink too much. That amount of festivity and secure to the story originated with The Timkh-Rkcor- exercises a reasonable share of attention from residents and visitors. These in novations may change the whole com plexion of commencement or may not increase the interest in the exercises.” her, and there is not a man on the force, from manager to devil, who ever took a drink of Chattanooga liquor. Richmond, Va., wants separate street cars for whites and blacks, and the A New Jersey “woman’s-righter” Powhatan Club, a powerful organization woman recently whipped three polIce- of that city, is moving in the matter, men. What further privileges could be The insolence of the negroes on the bestowed on this vigorous female by j cars has become unbearable, and the allurring her to vote ? Isn’t she already j Dispatch says the people will not much mistress of all she surveys ? | longer submit to it. Tie Journal aud Constitution, At lanta’s big dailies, are quarreling over their respective circulation, and tuck between them. It is nip Queensland, Australia, owes the Larg est national debt per capita—$3*L>.40 per head. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder." Big of all la learning .trenfth —Latmt tun Staten Government rood Beport. juneiS ddwlyr