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Americus, Ga., Sept.] 25, 1891.
PROGRAMME OF THE ALLIANCE
The Washington correspondent of the
| New York Sun gives out the following
as authentic:
The officials on duty at the headquar
ters of the Farmers’ Alliance in this city
are busily engaged in arranging the pro
gramme of legislation which they hope
to see enacted by the Fifty-second Con
gress. The Alliance claims to have
fifty-live men in the next House who w ill
vote with it upon all measures. It also
claims four senators—Peffer of Kansas,
Kyle of South Dakota, Irby of South
Carolina, and Vance of North C rolina.
The Alliance claims Vance because be
was elected after the Legh-Jature of Ids
The Walton News has been sued for
$10,000 for defaming the characters of a | 8ta te Imd passed a resolution that
lot of lightning rod agents who, the | « ia « could be chosen Senator until ho
News reported, were “doing up” the bad agreed to a programme which was
the natives of Walton. Where now is j practically that of the Alliance. Mr.
the liberty of the pen ? j Vance having agreed to those resolu-
| tious, the Alliance now claims him as its
The Talladega, Ala , Reporter is a lit-! own .
disturbed because ex-Mayor Skaggs may j At the next session the sub-treasury
build a furnace at Renfroe, a village half i>i 11 as it was introduced in the last con-
an hour away. N hen a man with such g| C8 g will not, it is understood, make its
an awful name as Skaggs begins to fool j appearance;. That, they say at Alliance
aroun! * n l * ie vicinity, it would seem to headquarters, las been repudiated by
be time to draw the line. I both houses of congress, and will for
At a meeting of ri.e director, of the that w “°“ "®* resurrected. A bill
Milledgeville * Asylum Dummy Rail-1 co “ itrl ‘ Ctc , d ’ ho " #ver * U I' 0U simila1 ' llnes
, ,, , . ... .. „ . j and embodying the same principle will
road Company last week, the question of i lin u 1 »i i 1 j
putting the road in the hands of a re
ceiver was discussed, and after a vote on
it the question was carried. Just who
the receiver will be is not yet known.
the local columns of The Amkiucth
Tiaies-Rkcokdeh.
Tiie Amekhts Times Recorder of
Sunday consisted of eight pages brim
ming over with good things. Like
Americus The Timf.^-Recohdeh is pro
gressive.—Constitution.
The death of tx-Congressman and ex-
senator Washington Curran Whittliorne
removes the most conspicuous man in
Tennessee politics; and one also of na
tional reputation. lie was a close per
sonal friend of Congressman Blount, and
enjoyed a wide popularity among his as
sociates in Congress and among the
masses of his state. He lias been in fail
ing health for several years, and his
death was not unexpected.
be introduced ic both bouses and push
ed to a vote. Exactly what changes will
be made in the original sub-treasury bill
lias not yet been determined.
The southern land loan bill will not be
There is a bright hand at work on | touched by the Alliance. The leaders
of the latt r are very much put out be
cause the people think the Stanford bill
finds favor with them. The Alliance
people think that bill is designed to help
only those who already lnve a fair share
of this world’s goods, and that the only
people who are booming it are those en
gaged in booming Senator Stanford for
tiie presidenoy. As for the Alliance, it
declares it will have nothing to do with
either Senator Stanford or his bill.
The bill on the same subject and in
troduced under Alliance auspices will
provide for the relief of the agricultural
population of the United .States, and
for the promotion and encouragement of
agriculture. I s main features will pro
vide that any citizen who owns and re
sides upon any tract of laud containing
not less than ten nor more than 320
acres, and who has at least one-half of
that tract in .actual cultivation, shall be
entitled to apply for and to receive from
the treasury of the United States a loan
not to exceed one-half the assessed val
ue of the land and the improvements on
it. The loans are to bo for not less
than five nor more than ten years, and
the borrower is to pay iuterest at 2J per
cent.
Another measure which the Alliance
will push Is a free coinage bill. These
three measures are the ones iu which it
will take the most interest; but other
bills will come from its hands. It will
have introduced a bill providing for
government control of railroads and tel
egraph systems. Iu regard to the rail
road and telegraph companies the Alli
ance is misunderstood, it is said at its
headquarters. It is uot, as is generally
supposed, in favor of government owner
ship of railroads and the telegraph. It
simply wants the government to control
them.
The Alliance will not bring forward
any tariff bill. It will content itself
with demanding the equalization of the
tariff so that it will bear upon all alike.
It will, however, put forward bills to
abolish the national banking system.
RAIN-MAKING EXPERIMENTS.
General Dyrenforth has returned to
Washington after his first rain-making
expedition, and he seems to be in a very
se’f-satisfied state of mind He finds
that tiie newspapers have suddenly made
him famous, and he evidently believes
that there is a more enduring foundation
for his fame than has generally been
represented. “After the experience
in Texas,” he says, “I think the venture
unquestionably promises success.” All
tho natural conditions were opposed to
the work, and much time was lost in
making preparations, in the face of un
expected obstacles for this novel line of
The war is on between Iioke Smith
and the Atlanta Journal on oue side and
Col. Livingston and the Southern Al
liance Far.ner on the other; and the fur
is going to ily. Both these inen are ag
gressive and fearless; aud now that.- the
gauntlet is thrown down tho moon may
be expected to wear a gory hue.
Mr. Hoke Smith don’t take any stock
in Col. Liuingston’s sincerity; but Larry
Gantt gambles high on Mr HokeSmith’s
exalted opinion of himself as displayed
in the columns of the Journal.
Governor Nouthex has vetoed an
other bill, this time a local one affect
ing Laurens county. The governor has
on his war paint, aud tho silly bill-ios of
the legislature should look out for a
shower of these vetoes. When the gov
ernor surveys tho piles of rot coming
before him uiisscalled laws, he seizes
his big double-action veto pen, and iu
tho language of Webster Flanuagau,
says: “What are we bore for?” and
the head falls into the executive waste
basket. Let the good work go ou.
experiments. It is stated that only half
of the appropriation of $7,000 has been
expended, which indicates that artificial
rain-making need not be a very expen
sive operation.”
The modus opei audi of General Dyren
forth’s experiments are not generally
understood, fie carried with him sixty
balloons,each about ten feet In diameter
when expanded, a hundred kites about
ten feet tall, a carload of wooden mor
tars for firing bombs, many thousands
of pounds of explosives and electrical
appliances for firing them. The balloons
and kites were held in position by
double wires, which also served to fire
the gases contained in the balloons and
the explosives attached to the tails of
the kites. The balloons were filled with
oxygen and hydrogen, which were
caused to combine by au electric spark,
producing a terrific explosion. When
ever the general was ready for an as
sault on the cloudless skies numerous
balloons aud kites were sent up and
bombs fired within a short space of time
so as to simulate a natural thunder
storm
Most of the experiments were made at
times when the barometer aud the cow
boys’ predictions indicated fair weather
General Dyrenforth lias not yet reported
the actual results of all the experiments,
but he claims to have produced the first
rain in three years that was sufficient to
make grass grow, and also to have caused
the first dew ever observed in that re
gion. Enlarging on the results of liis
work he says:
“I am satisfied that it is only a ques
tion of time when we shall transform
these arid plains into wet regions. The
operation should be carried out by the
government, and some statutory meas
ures adopted to prevent everybody
bringing ou rain to please himself. Reg
ular stations should be established, aud
in accordance w ith providential intent
rain be caused tv fall on the just aud the
unjust alike.”—Tirnes-Union.
LIVINGSTON ALL RIGHT
One of the most noteworthy utter
ances recently made is that of Col. L. F.
Livingston, president of the state al
liance, in his speech Friday night befor
the Legislature and the people at the
Capitol.
Whatever may have been the suspi
cion, from Col. Livingston's previous
utterances, that he was not sound iu his
faith, even the most skeptical must now
admit that there was no equivocation or
uncertainty about his announcement
that he stood squarely within the party
lines of the Democracy.
While he will tight and work to have
That all is not lovely in the ranks of
the Massachusetts Republicans seems to
be shown by tho moralizing spirit in
dulged in by the organs; the Boston
Traveller for instance. Itsays: “When
the members of the Republican party
get ready to return to their early allegi
ancc to tho truth, that their chief con
cern should bo defense of principles
rather than trying to outwit each other
in the selection of candidates, the
party will be in the line of success; until
then it will make but little difference
who are its candidates.”
The secretary of agriculture is going
to send an agent to Europe to sound the
praises of Indian corn as an article of
food for man as well as beast. Although
the Europeans have been acquainted
with Iudian corn for centuries they have
never learned to like any preparation of
it for food. The poorer classes continue
to eat rye bread as their ancestors have
done for countless generations, and to
live in ignorance of the many cheap
nutritious and extremely palatable
articles of food that they w-ould enjoy if
they could get into the habit of using
meal and hominy.
We shall never hear the last of Gen.
Eagle Burd Grubb of New Jersey. He
is always doing something to make his
terrible name conspicuous; and now he
is about to lead to Hymen’s alter a
blushing damsel wbo lias consented to
change her name from Miss Violet Sop-
with to Mistress Violet Eagle Rurd
Grubb. What a regular hallelujah time
the irreverent and wicked paragraphers
will have over the announced approach
ing nuptials-! The Savannah News starts
with the following: “Sopwith Grubb is
good. Probably that will be the stylo of
the announcement. Or they may say
Grubb to Sopwith. Very likely they
will wed “When the Burds begin to
sing and the Violets ate in bloom,” as
the poet remarks. Then or thereabout
will the bold soldier bestow upon the
gentle Violet his umbrageous whiskers.
Whether the fragile Violet of Scotland
may share in tho martial and diplomatic
triumphs of her eminent New Jersey
liusband or not she will at least get her
Grubb.”
WHERE ABE OUR MISSIONARIES?
It is to be feared that there is raoro
sentiment than sympathy on the part of
Americans for the oppressed Russian
Jews
We denounce the Czar, across the
ocean, and pity the unfortunate Jews;
and pass resolutions and sigu petitions;
but when brought face to face with
actual conditions, sentiment vanishes;
and tLe “pure cussedness” of human na
ture crops out.
Last week 000 operatives at Millville,
New Jersey, glass works went on a
strike, simply because they were deter
mined not to work alongside of opera
tors of the Hebrew race!
Commenting upon this proceeding The
Constitution expresses fully the senti
ments of all decent people when it says:
“It is impossible to write of this New
Jersey outrage without condemning it
iu unmeasured terms. Since the first
settlement of this country, and the es
tablishment of our republic, which wai
designed to shelter and protect the op
pressed, the Jews have been among our
best citizens. They have been the pil
lars of our commerce and industry,
They have obeyed the laws, paid their
taxes, served the state and spent their
blood aud treasure for the common welj
faro.
No set of men in this country can pro
scribe such a race of people and expect
to be sustained by public opinion. We
are not ready yet to have a little Russia
organized in America, uot even iu the
state of New Jersey.
The brutal conduct of the Millville
workingmen shows that active mis
sionary work is imperatively needed in
that town. The strikers need a large
sized dose of Sam Jones, followed by a
little instruction in the rudiments of the
Christian religion. If these mild
methods will not make them bthavelike
decent citizens, they should be discharg
ed by their employers and then prose
cuted for vagrancy.”
SOUTHERN IMPROVEMENTS.
The Manufacturers’ Record of Sep
tember 10 says:
“The general business and financial
condition of the whole country contin
ues to Improve, and the south must
necessarily share in this increasing pros
perity. The enormous exports of grain
for the last two months, to w hich the
usual fall shipments of cotton will now
bo added, have already turned the tide
of foreign trade this wav, and gold is
now being imported in large quantities,
with prospects of heavy imports during
the next few mouths
“There are already sigus of improve
ment in the iron aud the cotton
goods trade, while the railroads
of the country are taxed to
their utmost capacity to haudle their
immense traffic. The south has com
menced to feel tho benefit of this change
from the depression of the last seven or
eight months which has existed all over
the world, and among the new, indus
trial enterprises reported in this week’s
issue of the Manufacturers’ Record are
the contract at $302,000 for the power
house of the new* cable road in Washing
ton; a $150,000 granite quarrying com
pany and a $75,000 brownstone company
In North Carolina; a $150,000 sugar re
finery company in Louisiana; a $100,000
cotton compress company in Greenville,
Miss.; a $30,000 distillery company in
Kentucky; a $50,000 lumber company in
Savannah; a $50,000 electric company iu
Baltimore; a $100,000 coal and coke com
pany in West Virginia; a $50,000 water
works company in Orange City, Fla.; a
$100,000 phosphate company, Green
wood, S. C.; a $100,000 cotton seed oil
mill company in Alexandria, La.; a
$100,000 phosphate company in Florida;
a $20,000 land improvement company in
Macon; two $500,000 improvement com
panies in West Virginia; a $25,000 im
provement companies in Virginia; a
$50,000 ice manufacturing company in
Algiers, La., etc.
Southern manufacturing enterprises
have stood the strain of monetary strin
gency remarkably w’ell, and the furnaces,
the sub-treasury plan incorporated in
the state and national platforms, he
frankly announces that even if the sub
treasury plan is not adopted, he is still a
Democrat, and will bow to the will of
the majority, whether his views are in
corporated or not. This is good honest
square ’doctrine; he simply proposes to
do just as he would expect to be done
by. If the state convention, composed
of a major-ty favorable to the sub-treas
ury pi in, incorporates that featuie in
the Democratic platform, all good Dem
ocrats even if opposed, must acquiesce
in the will of the majority; and C’ol
Livingston will do just what he expects
others to do—stand on w hatever platform
the Democracy of the state adopts.
It may appear that the colonel has
been rather tardy in defining bis posi
tion, aud that like poor Tray he was
caught in doubtful company for a sound
Democrat to be found in, the Simpsou-
Lease Third party combination; but
better late than not at all; and uow that
his position is emphatically and plainly
set forth—that there is no Third party
heresy in his creed—there is no longer
any ground for impugning his Democ
racy.
He is iu for the war, aud it is • to be
fought inside the party lines, come what
will.
In this respect there is a marked con
trast between the positions o‘' Col. Liv-
stou and Tom Watson, the latter of
whom will “jump” the Democracy if
they don’t accept his terms, even if he
finds himself in the minority.
The Times-Rkcoiideu is glad of the
opportunity to commend the position of
Col. Livingston as the president of the
State Alliance; lor it sets at rest the
mooted question of a third party, in a
way that ought to be satisfactory to
every true Democrat.
GEORGIA BACHELORS.
Bostou is headquarters for old maids,
there being something like thirty thou
sand more women than inen in Massa
chusetts; and so the B jstou papers are
looking with some degree of solicitude
to the Georgia legislature to promote
matrimony, to the end that the example
of the Empire State of the South may
become so far contagious as to reu-
der matrimony contagious all over the
land, and especially iu Massachusetts.
What is understood .as a joke by our
home people looks like serious business
to the Bostonians, as witness the fol-
wing:
It looks as if the bill which has intr
duced in the Georgia legislature. imp<
ng a tax of twenty-five dollars per an
num upou every bachelor over thirty
years old, ami raising the tax twenty
five dollars for every additional ti
years of age, was likely to become a law’
It has been favorably reported upon by
the committee on hygiene and sanitation
—why it was leferred to that committee
is not fully explained—and there is
strong sentiment in the legislature iu
favor of its passage. Of course the
bachelors denounce it as clan legislation,
but this is an objection which does uot
hold against a mass of other legislation,
Georgia bachelors will do well to begin
looking up helpmeets. “It is uot good
for man to be alone.”
THE SUICIDE OF BALM %CEDA
The death of Balmaoeda by his own*
hand rounds out to completion one of
the most extraordinary political dramas
which even South America has furnished.
But it was a drama founded on the fa
miliar lines of a remarkably able and
popular President, too reluctant to lay
aside liis power at the end of his term of
office, and seeking to prolong it by peri
lous and fatal expedients. That Balma-
ceda did not attempt to overthrow the
constitutional pro/ision of ineligibility
to re-election after the prescribed term
of five years is clear. But his actions
suggested a desire fully to control his
successor, which was only a step less
than becoming dictator. It was a mel
ancholy instance of overleaping ambition
which, it may be charitable to suppose,
was allied with real love of country, as
t was with personal honesty, and per
haps was partly the fruit of self-deceit
as to his own value to the republic
Born of a well-kuowu aud wealthy
family, well educated, a fine speaker,
and in every way endowed for political
life, he reached with comparative
rapidity the leadership of the liberal or
progressive party. His rise was a con
tinuous triumph, aud his election to the
presidency in 1880 was achieved by a
great majority. It is a curiqus coinci
dence that his suicide took place on the
very morning after the expiration of his
term of office, which legally ended last
Friday, although he had been practically
deposed by his defeat at Placilla. The
first three or four years of his term
showed him in a creditable light. Edu
cation, religious freedom, internal im
provements, and all material progress
were fostered in Chili. It was natural
that even when his later acts alarmed
congress and led to civil war, all foreign
powers except Bolivia, which had a
aniiago will roll up on a happier
Chili, from which, it may be hoped, the
last dements of civil discord have been
removed.—New York .Sun.
CHEERING SIGNS.
There are many signs that p 0 i nt tu
revival of business in this section *
throughout the South. In the Uirm^
ham district, for example, furnace, *
declined the other day to place a 1^°
order for the lowest grade of i ron ,
forward delivery, giving as a reason that
better prices were sure to be obtainahl
in the near future. That is a very rad,*
cal change from the conditions ‘which
have prevailed for many long, Wean
months. ™
The low price of pig iron, coupled with
the general business depression, ha*
told heavily upon local trade since the
first of December last. Kven at the
greatly reduced rates the demand f or
iron has been deplorably light.
Hut light is breaking; the better davi*
dawning at last. From all directions
come encouraging reports. Money i,
becoming more plentiful, business i*
rapidly reviving. More than L'1,000000
worth of wheat was exported during the
month of August, which was some four
times the amouut sent abroad in August
of last year.
In Birmingham the changes of the
past three weeks have beeu very much
for the better.—Age-Herald.
A Git VAT COTTON CItOI-.
According to the annual report of the
Commercial and Financial Chronicle the
cotton crop for the year 1800-91 readied
the enormous total of eight million sir
hundred and fi t fi e thousand bales.
This is not only the greatest crop ever
raised in the south, but exceeds by more
than thirteen hundred thousand bales
tiie production of the previous year
then the largest ou record. It is nearlr
double the highest yield known before
the war.
Tiie south is to be congratulated not
only on the marvelous increase in the
special interest to the contrary, should , plocluction of this great staple but> ,
have continued their relations with h.m j on the strikhlg a(JvanC0 made iu mM
as the lawful president. ! ufacture>
Yet tho triumph of liis opponents, so j
far as can now ho seen, appears to be ; n 4WTHOKNE HITS BACK,
that of constitutional liberty, and the j Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, at the first Bap-
curtain now rung down upon the tragedy j tist church Sunday morning, took occa
sion during b*s sermon to pay liis res
pects to the ninety-four who had de
nounced him for his part iu the artesian
well meeting
Among other things he said: “I re
gard not the fulminating fury of the
whiskey-bloated and red-mouthed dem
agogues who stand up in legislative
hails or elsewhere to denounce me.”
The New Y’ork Sun is a strong anti
Alliance paper, but It still indulges in
some complimentary remarks about the
aliiancemen of the West. It says: “The
Alliance farmers of Kansas have not
taken the advice that was given them to
repudiate their mortgage indebtedness,
but are paying it up as fast as they get
the money for their .crops. The statis
tics recently collected ou the subject are
encouraging to all holders of farm mort
gages and pleasing to everybody who be
lieves in the honesty anil honor of the
farmers of the country. P. is a sound
policy that the Kansas farmers are pur
suing in this respect, and it will redound
to their advantage at once and here
after.”
Tiie idea that prevails among many
people that a newspaper can run with
out money, and still enrich its owners,
cotton mills and other industries are all I leads the Madisonian to remark: “The
busy, aud most of them are making good
profits even now, with an encouraging
outlook for a season of great prosperity
ahead.”
If Mr. Gladstone is, as some of the
conservative organs charge, growing
weak in memory and showing other
signs of senility, he at least is stiong
enough to retain his - leadership of the
Liberals, and there is little doubt that
he will either head a new ministry after
the next general election, or name such
head. The great commoner is not dead
yet by a large majority.
It is quite evident that the phosphate
miners of Florida seethe pressing neces
sity for controlling tiie output. The call
for their convention probably does not
contemplate anything beyond organiza
tion for present advantages; but a phos-
pbato trust is one of the possibilities of
the near future.
present owners of the Madisonian are
not working for the “glory” attached
to publishing a newspaper simply—we
want the money. We propose to give
the people a good paper, to run it on as
cheap a basis as possible, and then if the
people will sustain us as they should,
wo may be able to make a living.
Without the “almighty dollar” no busi
ness can be carried on successfully; and
especially is it difficult to run a newspa
per.”
Rsv. Anna B. Shaw, of Massachu
setts, who has officiated as a knot fas
tener at a number of weddings, ail of
which have resulted in remarkably
happy marriages, explains the secret of
their happiness to be in the fact that
only men who were strong believers in
equal rights would be willing to be mar
ried by a woman minister, and such men
almost always make good husbands.
LARRY’S LONE HAND
Now that the Siamese twin combina
tion of Editor Harry aud Larry is bro
ken, it might be supposed that the
Southern Alliance Farmer would “wab
ble” in its aerial flight like a jaybird
with the feathers of oue wing pulled out;
but such isu’t the case; the irrepressible,
versatile and spontaneous Larry is doing
a rushing business at the old stand, aud
is giving the railroads “fits” to the best
of his ability, especially the Terminal
roads of his friend Calhoun, whom he
supported so vigorously for United
States Senator last November.
But, then, November was a long time
ago; and Editor Larry has had time to
reconstruct his politics as often as Sam
Small has hU profession since the Ides of
ovetnber, when the Legislature persist-
1, in spite of E litor Larry,in driving the
nails in the Alliance coffin, by voting for
Gordon and refusing to vote for Editor
L in v’s candidate
That the Mormon contingent is solid
oa tho stars and stripes, iu spite of the
Edmunds anti-polygamy law, and the
general disposition of the monogamous
Gentile to crowd him out of the hallowed
shadows of the Mormon Joss house on
the borders of Salt Lake, is indicated by
this patriotic fulmiuation from the Salt
Lake Tribune: “If, of old, to be called
a Roman cltizeu was greater than to be
called a king, what ought it to be in
these modern days to bo a citizen of the
United States? Every growler on our
shore ougnt to be picked up and made
to live six months in Europe or Asia,
that he might thenceforth forever appre
ciate what it is to be a citizen of this
republic.”
The Timks-Recobher has received a
pamphlet entitled “Information and Ad
vice Relating to Patents” from C. A.
Suow & Co., well known patent attor
neys of Washington, D. C. It coutaius
lirectlous for procuring patents, and the
cost ef the same iu the United States
and foreign countries, information about
the registration of trade-marks, copy
rights, caveats and desigus; also ab
stracts of court decisions in patent cases,
and much other matter of interest to in
ventors, patentees, manufacturers and
others interested in patents. It will be
mailed free to anyone addressing C. A.
Snow* & Co., Washington, D. C.
The royalists of France are so angry
with the pope for having come to
terms with the French republic, that
the Count of Paris, the Orleanist claim
ant of the throne, has withdrawn the
subsidy that has been annually paid by
him to the head of the Catholic chuich.
His Holiness is one of the shrewdest
diplomats in Europe; aud he recognizes
the fact that the republic of France has
come to stay, and that he is wasting
time fooling with a few royalists and
pretenders to a visionary French throne.
The Mexican government has declared
the concession granted to Ellis and Fer
guson for the colonization of negroes in
Mexico forfeited on account of non-
compliance with the contract.
The new civil service rules for the
navy yards, promised by Secretary
Tracy, have been put into effect iu the
Brooklyn yard. They provide, as was
promised, that laborers shall be em
ployed only with reference to skill; pro
hibit employment or discharge for polit
ical reasons, or the solicitation of con
tributions for party purposes, and give
preference to honorably discharged sol
diers aud sailors when their fitness is
demonstrated or ascertained. The
places of twenty foremen have already
been filled under the new system. This
is indeed reform, and reform in a branch
of the service where It was most needed.
Spoils in our navy yards have been too
long a disgrace to our public service. It
is to be hoped that the spasm of virtue
has a real foundation, and is not prompt
ed by the desire of the administration to
make fair weather by a show of virtue
that is predicated upon the need of mug
wump votes in the coming elections.
When Senator Butler asked Tom|Wat-
son whether he would boL the Demo
cratic party if it failed to accept the
sub-treasury plan, this Messiah dodged
and said: “Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof.” Contrast this with
Livingston’s speech Friday night, in
which he declared the Alliance would
stand with the Democratic party re
gardless of the success or defeat of the
Ocala plank. “We are for peace and
harmony,” he said. “If we can’t get
our platform inside the party we will
take yours. If we gain our point in the
convention, we ask you to stand by us,
or if we can’t agree, let us get together
and devise something better than we
have yet conceived.”
The majority’ of the creditors of the
Moses Bros., of Montgomery, have gig.
niiied their desire to form a trust com
pany. A meeting for organization will
be held on October 1.
“Strange to record, Mr. Hedges, He-
publican nominee for state treasurer in
New’ York, remained a private through
out the war. He served with bravery*
and was frequently offered a commission
but always refused to leave tho ranks.
If this statement of the New’ York Times
can be substantiated, it will show that
at least one private survived the late
unpleasantness; but at this late day the
statement smacks of Munchauseuism-
and this private’s record will have to be
fortified by a goodly host of witnesses.
Db. Baldwin of Randolph, seems to
grow more bloodthirsty the more he
legislates for the dear people at $1 P* 1
day. If this session lasts until Christ
mas eggnog gets ripe, the doughty D°^'
tor |may get loaded and murder a hat
talion of people. He should be mu«j
before he works himself up to tho P° D
of frenzy that brings on bloodshed.
A Fiffht Between Giants.
Both desperate, both determined. Th*
king of medicines in contest writn
king of maladies! Dr. Pierce s -
Medical Discovery against Consump
It is not the struggle of a day, n al
first blows are the fatal blows* j 5
early stages, Consumption—
lung-scrofula—will yield to this g*Vj
leinedy! This has been proven oey ^
a doubt by its innumerable
Acting directly upon the blood, It* **
includes all scrofulous affection*^,
and lung diseases. As a blood P® 41
and ritalizer it stand* unequaled.