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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY, 1,1891.
VOL. XV.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
||R. G. P. ( VIII’IICU.,
DENTIST.
McDonough Os.
Any one desiring work done can lie ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
U.eo W. Bryan j W. T. Dicken.
Itltl AX & nKHUA,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, os.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
ef Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
J AS. 11. TIRAiIIR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-ly
p -V *EA«AN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
Other collections. Wili attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J F. WALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composingthe
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givin to collections. octs-’79
A. BROWS,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
’Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
lj A. pfefi.es,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Daniel.
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
JOHN L. rvi:.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts.
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Outside of Ireland it has never bee*
known to be quite so cold in Europe as
it has been this winter.
Uruguay has a healthy climate, and,
according to its tables of mortality for
1882, Out of a total of 9640 deaths, forty
five were of persons.over 100 years of
age. Its death rate is only 16.510 per
1000.
S. F. Hershey says in a recent article:
“Woman lives lotigerthan man, goes in
sane less mimarously, commits suicide
one-third as often, makes one-tenth the
demand on the public purse for support
in jail, prisons-and almshouses.”
A clever foreigner has said that in
France women are the inferiors of men,
in England their equals and ig America
their superiors. An of the
gentler sex, not too modestly, says
women are men's equals anywhere on
earth. '
A Western farmer’s daughter, who
persuaded her father to" give her a farm
of her own, manages the entire eighty
acres herself, and last year contrived tc
clear .sloolo,beside buying her clothes and
machinery and stock.for the farm? She
has a girl friend for a companion, and
hires one.man.
Wisconsin and Minnesota appear to be
doing well in the* forma.i >u of school
libraries, observes the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. Duri g the past year
the two States have established over
1200. The books for each of these
libraries one selected from a list prepared*
by the State Superintendent.
In Japan:-the act of flirtation is a penal
offense. Serious complications arise un
der the law, but the young people of
both sexes know that they cannot wink
and blintk and giggle at each other un
less they'mean business. It is a very
gipod law,, thinks 4he Atlanta Constitution,
and should be tried elsewhere.
Peru needs overhauling, exclaims the
Atlanta Constitution. A short time ago
MisskClorinda Turner, who edits a paper
in Lima, was exao'4'r^uijjfeted for print
ing a certain story, aid her journal was
publicly! burnt. At Callao an Italian
named-' P.enzotti languishes in prison be
cause be has sold copies of the Bible.
All this is against the civilization of lhe
age. _________
Bringing railiroads into large cities on
ailevel with the streets is the cause, as
sentsrthe Boston Cultivator, of innumer-
accidents. It should be pro
hibited by law. What it would cost to
elevate or depress would be saved in
damages, besides the greater gain in the
preservation of life. In the country also
the roads should be made as little unsafe
as possible, and if theicrossing be through
a cut it may much better be bridged
than have teams near track with no warn
ing of approaching; danger.
There is something paradoxical in the
idea that an iron whip, full of machinery
and heavy guns and with hundreds of
tons of coal on board, floats so high in
the water as to beiin dangerof capsizing,
says the,Philadelphia Bulletin , but it is
reported‘that the Philadelphia is in this
condition. Her “metacuntric height,”
which meansiher center of gravity, is out
of place, aud! a few hundred tons of lead
will have to be run into her double bot
tom in order to pull her down. In
France, a year or two ago, a whole fleet
of new gunboats had to be condemned
for this reason, one or two of them actu
ally “turning turtle” and going to the
bottom before the defect was dis
covered.
Says the Atlanta Con&titubion: “George
Bancroft, dead at the age of ninety, con
tinued his literary work almost to the
last. In his long life the great historiau
accomplished a tremendous amount of
work. He was Secretary of the Navy
under Polk, Minister to England, Minis
ter to Germany, and much of his time
was devoted to public affairs. Besides
his great history, he wrote many other
volumes of exceptional interest and value.
Until he reached his ninetieth year he
studied, worked, traveled and enjoyed
the pleasures of society. Altogether,
Mr. Bancroft was a remarkable man,
both physically and intellectually. But
other old men of the present day have
been as notable. Gladstone at the age
of eighty-one bids fair to lead the Lib
eral cause several years. Whittier is
eighty-three. Dr. Holmes writes welt at
eighty-one. Monteflore made himself
felt in the world until he was past one
hundred. Chevreul, the French chemist,
worked in his laboratory when he was
103. An enthusiastic man, with a great
soul, can do some of his best work in bis
old age. Especially is this true of lit
erary men, philanthropists, patriots and
scientists. Such men are never killed by
intellectual, work, but worry breaks many
of them down at comparatively an early
age. Work stimulates; worry blights.”
MCDONOUGH GA., FRIDAY. MARCH C, 1891.
GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
The new city directory, just completed,
gives August i 53,000 inhabitants.
The ennvessing committees.of the Au
gusta exposition are meeting with unex
pected succe s.
There are thirty-two ex-confederates in
Washington county who are entitled to
pensions.
Deaths from hydrophobia are more fre
qui nt than usual in Georgia, and mad
stones are at a premium.
The contest for sheriff of Jefferson
county has been decided by the governor
in favor of the contestee, I. F. Farmer.
The new town, Demorest, in Habersham
county, is not two years old, and has
eight factories in operation, and is prepar
ing to build several more.
It seems that the South Carolina gold
brick swindler, who recently came to
grief, made unsuccessful experiments in a
numbs r of Georgia towns.
The petition of the Georgia Sawmill
Association asking for a reduction of the
rate on lumber has been postponed until
the next meeting of the commission,
March 10.
The trial of Mrs. Ora McKee, of Rome,
for murder, has beeu set for the first
Monday in March, and it is predicted by
many that it will be one of the most sen
sational trials ever held in Georgia.
Governor Northen has appointed F. W-.
Gilbert solicitor of the county court of
Wilkes. The present incumbent, Wm.
Wynne, does, not ask reappointment.
His term expires March 26th, this year.
Araoeg other railroad enterprises, the
organization of the stockholders of the
Fort Payne and Eastern railroad means
much for Athens. That point will doubt
less be made the eaetearn terminus of the
road.
There is a great complaint of the mail
service in some sections of southwest
Georgia. The Americas Titles says it
takes a letter a fraction over three days to
get from Leesburg to Americus, a distance
of twenty-five miles.
The Americus Recorder says: “It is
about time that Georgia’s constitution
was amended so that the people can do
something they want to. It is not suited
to this progressive age and should be rele
gated to the shades of the past.”
Senorita Clotilde Annuncion Diaz will
enter the Southern Female college at La-
Grange. She is a sister of Dr. Diaz, the
great Cuban convert. Professor Cox
went down to the dedication of the new
church, and while there it was decided
that this young lady should come back
with him and chter his college.
Mr. J. A. Davis, of Houston county, is
going to start a large gourd farm near
Bon nrc. He says he is perfectly willing
to mortgage the entire crop to get the
money that will be necessary to cultivate
and gather the crop. He seems to think
there is good money in gourds, as they
are not as perishable as melons.
Col. Tip Harrison is still rushing the
pension business at Atlanta. Two thou
sand have been issued and five hundred
applicants now on hand. Col. Harrison
sent off $0,460 in pensions to 118 appli
cants who had named him as their agent
to collect the money. Comptroller
Wright, as agent, has sent pensions to
about 600 to date.
It has beeu discovered that tne late
firm of Phillips Brothers, grocery dealers,
of Augusta, had forged endorsements to
notes amounting to about $5,000. One
of the notes, for $2,000, was paid by the
man who took possession of the ir store
after the failure of the firm; also went
through the country and collected all
debts due the firm. They have for parts
unknown.
A telegram has been received from
Messrs. Brown & Kone, of San Marcos,
Texas, stating that the trial of Snyder,
who murdered his wife at that place
some time ago, would begin on the 2d of
March. In a letter to parties in Rome,
the legal firm wrote that Snyder was go
ing to do “the insanity act,” and that his
attorneys, a film in Austin, were going to
endeavor to get a change of venue.
Twenty thousand dollars, in silver dol
lars, halves and quarters, were shipped
to Washington city a few days ago by
the National Exchange bauk of Augusta.
The bank had $45,000 in silver on de
posit, which it could not handle, so it is
sending it to Washington city to bo ex
changed for greenbacks. It costs the
bank $3 a thousand to ship money to
Washington city, so they sustain a loss
of SBO on the shipment.
The high waters in the rivers around
Rome has done some damage in the coun
try districts. Sunday morning a sawmill,
or rather a part of one, floated down the
Oostanaula and was caught by two col
ored fishermen near tbe Rome and Deca
tur bridge. The saw and other portions
of the machinery attached to the wood
work was caught and hauled out of the
water. During the day a part of a gin
house came down, and with it a lot of
seed cotton. This was also rescued by
the same men.
Mr. Hunter McDonald, resident engin
eer of the Western and Atlantic road,
left Atlanta a few days ago, to look after
the Tennessee and Coosa extension of the
Nashville and Chattanooga road. This
little road (now extensionjhas had a most
interesting career. It was one of the
first railroads chartered in the state of
Alabama, 1848 being the date, the privi
lege being given to build it from Gads
den to Guntersville. Work commenced
in 1850, and, after a long series of ups
and downs, extending through a perio l
of thirty years, it has been completed to
wi’.hin six miles of Cartersville. The
Nashville, Chattanooga and Bt. Louis
road acquired control of it about two
months ago, and has since been actively
at work finishing it up. It is expected
the job will be completed by June.
The railroad commission held an im
portant meeting in Ailanta a few days
ago. The most important development
was in regard to the joint rate circulrr
issued some time ago by the commission.
The Central has been cited to show rea
son, at the next meeting of the commis
sion, why they have failed to comply with
it. The East Tennessee, it is understood,
has a w refused to carry out this order,
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES
as a number of complaints have reached
the < o*missiou concerning their failure
to do ao. The Central, and perhaps
other roads, are expected to carry the
matter into the courts. The joiut rate
circular, No. 171. was issued under au
thority of an act of the last legislature,
i bis law gave them a new power, and
the test of it in court would be without
precedent. The order of the commission
went into effect only last October.
Rome's NewFumice.
The new iron furnace of the Home Iron
Company is about completed. It is a
thorough piece of work from the stack to
the ground. Two immense woo let\
Ouiiviliigo i 1 u ttiSO I/CIU CGUStI'UC tCli,
and the fmnaco with its buildings makes
i splendid show. Tbv-furnace is located
nt New Rome, ou the main line of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad, about two miles south of the
city. The Chattanooga, Home and Col
umbus railroad has its line of road near
the furnace, and will haul all the red ore
from Dirt Seller mountain Silver creek
flows within a stone’s throw, and wafer
in the greatest quantities will always be
available. It is the intention of the
owners to go into blast about the last of
March, and the event is to be marked by
a magnificent banquet.' The plant is one
9i the finest in the f o ith, and the quali
ty of iron will be vert fine. The capacity
of the furnace is eighty tons per day.
fee II am cm.
Just $60,000 were appropriated to pay
pensions to confederate widows, but quite
a number of people; are interested, it
seems, in getting a pefeentage of that in
fees. Most of the fccJninters live outside
the state. Information has been received
at the capitol of two .pension agencies in
Washington, D. (J., -suiting to postmas
ters and others for thd names of widows
entitled to pensions njider the Georgia
law, and offering, |a pay for such in
formation, a percentage of the agencies’
fees for collection. Quite a number of
applications have come direct to the
capitol from lawyers iMid agencies outside
ihe state as well ns in it, asking for pen
sion blanks. To all such requests the
answer has been uniform —that it was the
state’s policy to make lawyers’ services
and fees unnecessary in the payment of
these pensions, and to have the money
go direct to those for whom it was ap
propriated.
Atlanta’s Esixiiii Inn.
At a recent moetialjbf the directors of
the Piedmont Exp&tion Company the
following resolution Was jiassed :
Whereas, The people of Atlanta have
responded liberally and nobly to the
appeal of the directors of the Piedmont
Exposition Company for donations to
assist in having a creditable exposition
during the present year, having con
tributed within a few hundred dollars of
the required amount, and
Whereas. We believe that the senti
ment of Atlanta is dec;>dly in favor of
holding the exposition; therefore, belt
Resolved, That, the executive commit
tee of the board of directors be directed
to proceed to make all necessary arrange
ments for an exposition during the fall
of the present year, provided the rail
roads leading into Atlanta will make
such donations and offer such rates of
transportaiion as will be satisfactory to
the executive committee.
This will secure the exposition, as the
street car companies and the railroads
leading into Atlanta have never failed to
do their part when the benefit of the city
is in question.
It will be the most thoroughly repre
sentative and complete exposition aud
most productive of beneficial results of
any yet held.
The Schoolbook question.
The legislature, at its last session,
passed a very important resolution con
cerning school books. And it's begin
ning to be heard from.
The resolutions arc as follows:
Resolved, Ist, by the senate, the house
concurring, That it shall be the duty of
the state school commissioner of Georgia,
if possible, to inaugurate a system or plan
by which school books can be supplied to
the children of the state at a greatly re
duced price.
Resolved, 2nd. That it shall also be
the duty of said commissioner to inquire
into the feasibility of publishing all
school books by the state, by contract
with authors and publishers, or other
wise, and make a report to the adjourned
session of the present general assembly,
should there be one, if not, to the next
general assembly, of all information ac
quired by him, with such recommenda
tions as will assist in solving this ques
tion and affording the desired relief.
. The states’ publishing its own school
books is out of the question. The state
can make a contract with publishers and
authors to supply books, or can adopt for
its schools any uniform series of text
books it may select. The actual inaugu
ration of any reform of this sort by the
commissioner, while it seems authorized
by the resolution, would hardly be a
satisfactory proceeding—so Mr. Brad
well thinks—and the acticfh that will be
taken is this: The commissioner will
carefully and fully investigate the mat
ter, and then make a repo:t to the legis
lature at its next session, with r. com
mendations.
BURIED ALIVE,
And Rescued After Nineteen
Days of Suffering.
A dispatch from Hazleton, Pa , says:
Four men were rescued alive from Jeanes
ville mine Tuesday night. All are Hun
garians, named Thomas Tomastuskey,
Joe Mastuskewitch, John Berno, and
Bosco Frinko. Twenty-three men were
in the mine when the water broke in.
Six escaped and seventeen were caught
by the water. Thirteen bodies have
been taken out. Thomas Tomastuskey
is in the best condition, and will
doubtless fully recover. Mastuskewitch,
known as “Big Joe,” from his size, is ap
parently in the worst condition of all, and
may not live. They were in the mine
nineteen days sud nineteen hours, and
owe their lives to the fa ;t that the por
tion of the mine where they took refuge
was “cushioned” by fresh air by the
pressure of water which rose in tbe slope
624 feet in five minutes. They sup
ported life on the contents of their din
ner pails and oil in the lamps and bottles,
and, when these were gone, upon the
water in the mine, which was horribly
foul with sulphur.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
OFFICIAL.
National Farmers’ Alliance and
Industrial Union.
OFFICE OF THE FHKSIDENT.
WAeniNOTON, I). C , Feb. 10, 1891.
To the Rtmhership of the Rational Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union:
In c< mplianec with instructions from
Ihe national legislative council of the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union, 1 present herewith a plan for the
organization of a lecture sys'em through
out our entire order, which was ndoptod
by the council at its mietlng in the city
ef Washington, Feb. 4, ISO 1.
1 was further instructed to designate
the date on which the first meetings of
the county and district legislative coun
cils should be held. All lecturers of the
subordinate bodies of our order, together
w ith the county lecturer of their respect
ive counties, will meet at the same time
and place at which their county meeting
is held in the month of April next.
All county lecturers will meet on
Wednesday, the 6th of May, next, at such
place within their respective congres
sional districts as may be designated l>y the
State president, for the purpose of elect
ing a lecturer for their respective con
gressional districts and for the transac
tion of such other business as may come
before them.
The presidents of the S'atcs will at
once designate to the couuty legislative
councils the place at which the district
legislative councils respectively will meet
on tho 6th day of May next, and will
also indicate to the district councils at
their meeting the and the date at
which the State legislative council will
meet.
Believing that the plan adopted will
prove an efficient and powerful auxiliary
in our work as a great and active educa
tional agency, the national legislative
council cordially and earnestly recom
mend it to the entire brotherhood
throughout the United States for imme
diate adoption. It is commended ns
absolutely essential to the success of our
cause.
Let us resolve that, the year 1891 shall
be distinguished above all the years of
our history for vigorous, active, success
ful work. L*’t our great order be thor
oughly aligned on the principles we have
enuncinted, and assured victory will b:
ouis.
Select the member best qualified in
mbordinnte, county and district bodies
for this important and responsible work.
Have this plan read and discussed iu
every organization belonging to our
order.
Let tho watchword “Forward” pass
along the lines. L. L. Poi.k .
President N. F. A. and I. U.
Plan for Organizing a Lecture
System and Legislative
Councils.
COUNTY LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.
The lecturers of sub-ordinate bodies of
the National Farmers’ Allianco nr d In
dustrial Union, in counties having coun
ty organizations, shall constitute the
County Legislative Council, of which the
County Lecturer shall be ex-officio chair
man.
DISTRICT .LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.
The lecturers of the several counties
composing a congressional district shall
constitute the District Legislative Coun
cil, of which the District Lecturer shall
be ex-officio chairman.
STATE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.
The president of the Rtnte Alliance,
the State Executive Committee, the State
Lecturer (where such office exists) and
the District Lecturers of the congres
sional districts of the State shall con
stitute the State Legislative Council, of
which the State President shall be cx
officio chairman.
DUTIES OF BTaTF. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
It shall be the duty of the State Legis
lative Council to meet at the call of the
State president, and to provide means for
the dissemination of Alliance literature
among the brotherhood in their respective
States, and to promote and advance the
demands of the State Alliance and of the
Supreme Council. It shall prescribe the
term of service, the compensation for the
same, nnd provide its payment for each
of the district lecturers within the State.
It shall co-operate with the National Leg
islative Council in all measures and
methods for securing such legislative
reforms as may be indicated in the de
mauds of the national body; provided,
that no State Legislative Council shall
advocate any measures which may con
flict with the constitution or laws of the
order, or demands of the State Alliance
and Supreme Council.
duties of district legislative coun
cils.
It shall be the duly of the District
Legislative Council to convene at surh
time and place ns may be designated by
its chairman, within its di trict, to re
ceive and consider such matters as may
be communicated to it by the State and
National Legislative Councils, to exem
plify the unwritten work of the order, to
secure and provide for the service of the
lecturers, and for the dissemination of
Alliarce literature in conjunction with
the State and County legislative Coun
cils for each county within Its jurisdic
tion. It shall co-operate with the State
and Nationnl Legislative Councils in ad
vancing the general interests ~f the order,
and for securing such legislation, State
arid National, as may be indicated by the
State nnd National bodies. It shall
promptly disseminate such informal ion
or printed matter to the various counties
of the district as may be designated for
the membership. It may establish by
laws for its government; provided, that
no Di-trict Leg slative Council shall, ad
voeate any measures which may conflict
with the constitution or laws of the State
or National bodies or with the demands
of the Stale Alliance or Supreme Council.
DUTIES OF COUNTY LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.
It shall be the duty of the County Leg
islative Council to meet at the call of its
president at such time and at such pla<e
within the county as he may designate,
to consider such matters ns may be re
ferred to it by the National, State or Dis-
Diet Legislative Councils, in promt tlug
ihe general interests of the order and for
securing such legislation as may be indi
cated by the demands of the State and
National bodies. It shall devise the best
means for securing such legislation for its
county ns the order of said county may
indicate. It may establish by-laws for its
government. It shall give active co
operation in disseminating all matter of
information or Alliauce literature designed
for the membership, and for securing au
efficient lecture mvice for its county;
provided, that no County Legislative
Council shall advocate any measure in
conflict with llie constitution, laws or
demands ef the State or National bodies.
For the purpose of organizing this sys
tem, the National President shall desig
nate and publish to the order the date on
which the county and district legislative
councils in the various States shall c< n
vene. 1 lie Slate presidents shall desig
nate and publish to the order in their re
spective States the place at which each
district legislative council will convene
within its district.
At the first meeting of tho district
legislative council, it shall elect, by bal
lot, a lecturer for said district, unless
such lecturer has been otherwise pro
vided, and shall report the name and
postoffice address of such lecturer
promptly to the State president, the State
secretary and the national president, each
of whom shall keep a correct list of the
same.
Ottumwa (Iowa) World says: “Some
of the mercenary subsidized papers of
the old parties think to heap ridicule on
the sub-treasury plan by calling it the
‘government pawn shop.’ Now, since
they have mentioned it, what is the dif
ference between a government pawn
shop for wheat or cotton and a govern
ment pawn shop for storing bonds or
whisky? Our kind, paternal government
stores bonds and gives the owners 90 per
eent of the face in money, at 1 per cent
interest. The fanners ask this same
government to occasionally store non
perishable products and give them 75 or
80 per cent, of the value nt 2 per cent,
interest. If the drones, who live off the
labor of the workers, cau be accommo
dated at a “government pawn shop,”
if those who never produced enough in
their whole lives to keep their worthless
souls and bodies together a week can be
furnished with storage for bonds and
whisky, why cannot tho producers of all
wealth, the foundation of the prosperity
of tho lepulilic, be allowed the same
privilege? Why?"
Colonel L. L. Polk, the National Alli
ance president, has written Georgia's
governor a letter in which he commends
him for refusing to take part in the recep
tion of Jay Gould. The letter is as fol
lows:
Wabhinoton, I). C., Feb. 11, 1801.
Governor \V. J. Northeu: My Dear
Sir—Official dignity, when supported by
the dignity of true manhood, always
commends itself on Ihe approval of the
American people. Toadyism in official
life they condemn and despise. Please
accept the cordial grasp of my right
hand, after reading your letter on the
Gould reception, and accept my sincere
wishes for the success of your hopes and
prospects.
Yours very respectfully and truly,
L. L. Polk.
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The Southeatt Enterpriie (Popular
Bluff, Mo.) says: “The Ripley County
Farmers’ and Laborers Union met in
Doniphan last Friday and Saturday, and
among much other business, unanimously
adopted. the platform of the National
Farm* rs' Alliance and Industrial Union,
formulated and adopted at Ocala, Fa.
The sub treasury plan was thoroughly
discussed, and after the imaginary “Ilall-
Chew” arguments were answered, it was
unanimously adopted."
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The Farmers’ Alliance editors of Kan
sas met at Hutchinson n few days ago and
organized the Reformed Press association
of Kansas. Resolutions were passed de
manding the formation of a National
Farmers’Alliance pnrty; recommending
an eternal severance from all other parties;
demanding that all classes of labor be
accorded equal privileges in the People’s
party, and demanding the passage by
congress of the service pension bill.
Kansas Courier (Wichita Kan.) says:
“Pure Allianre reform is simply this.
The organization is not fighting Demo
crats or Republicans; but has organized
for self protection. When either party,
or the leaders of either party, do not
work in the interests of the laboring
mass, then, through the pure reform ed
ucation instilled into the minds of its
mcmb' rs, fhey will receive a rebuke that
will be a lesson worth rimembering.
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The Alliance Vindicator (Sulphur
Springs, Tex.) says: “Alliance men are
becoming more determined every day to
stand square to the front and demand
their rights at the polls. That is the
place to show faith by works. Demands
through petition or otherwise will never
be worth an iota until emphasized at the
polls by honest hallo" s cast for men repre
senting measures and not party.”
The Alliance Fr*e *l/mce (Springfield,
Ills.) says: “The question of the organi
zation of the new party is being exten
sively discussed in Alliance papers. As
the great Cincinnati meeting which will
settle this matter docs not occur for over
a year, there will be abundance of time
to get all the pros and cons in regard to
this matter fully before the people. Let
the agitation go on.”
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
A Train Jumps the Track and
Four Men Killed.
A dispatch from Richmond, Indiana,
says: The rear coach of the limited Pan
Handle train of the Pennsylvania railroad
system, from Chicago for Cincinnati,
jumped the track at Hagerstown Wednes
day evening, and rolled down nn em
bankment. Four persons were killed
and several injured. The killed are: O.
F. Deal, engineer of maintenance and
way of the Pail-Handle; George Need
ham, attorney of the road; C. It. Case,
conductor of the train; Arthur Reeves, a
passenger, of Richmond.
I Henry County Weekly, Fstnblished 1878,
) Henry County Times, Established 1884.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Review of the Past Week by
Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: There is not much change in
the condition of trade, but there is a lit
tle more dullnesss at the south and in the
northwest, with a little more stringency
in the money markets and complaint
about the slowness of collections. In
general, business is still hesitating.
Though there is no chance of monetary
speculation at this session, the chances of
an extra session of congress seem to be
rather great, and before and pending
legislation in several western legislatures
regarding loans, mortgages, land titles
and railroads causes much timidity and
shifting of capital. But a large cause
is undoubtedly a partial loss of
crops, which has left a great many
farmers without means for the usual pur
chases. At the same time the collapse of
the real estate “boom,” which for a while
inflated prices throughout the west and
south has affected business more than has
yet been realized. To this influence is
added at fho south the extremely low
price of cotton, which uffects the farmers
more, because so many of them tried, by
holding back their crop, to force a higher
level of prices.
REPORTS FROM THE CITIEB.
Thus tardiness of collections begins to
appear, became local debtors do not real
ize on their goods as promptly as they
expected. The money market, although
still generally called easy, gives signs of
the steady approach to stringency.
Southern reports generally note a fair de
mand, but no improvement in trade,
while northwestern reports are, on the
whole, less favorable than before. Busi
ness at the eastern cities has been
irregulnr. The wool trade is strength
ened by comparative scarcity, and
the prices of somo grades are
higher. The knit goods manu
facture has apparently gained most, and
next the manufactures of dress goods. A
continuance of purchases at more than
the usual rate will be needed to make the
season a satisfactory one in men’s wear
goods. The trade in cotton is dull be
came the Southern demand has dropped
remarkably. In rubber goods, trade is
unsettled, some makers having advanced
prices with those of the crude rubber,
while others have not. The glass trado
is fair at Pittsburg ani light at Philadel
phia. Steel rails do not move, becauso
buyers doubt the permanence of the com
bination. Coal is dull, in fair demand.
Cigar makers are busy. The advance in
Sumatra leaf retards sales.
AN ADVANCE IN PRICKS.
There has been an advance in the aver
age prices of all commodities, amounting
to half of 1 per ceut. for the week, but
it has been almost exclusively in pro
ducts, of which the crops were Bliort.
The price of wheat has not advanced,
western receipts continuing heavy, whilo
exports are light.
But corn has risen 2J cents, and oats 1J
cents. A speculative advance of over
i cent is also seen in coffee. Exp rls of
merchandise from New York for the past
four weeks have been 14 per cent, less
than for the same week last year, and
imports also decrease about ten per cent.
A littlo disturbance is caused by fuithcr
shipments of 1(100,000 of cold to Eu
rope, and as the treasury disbursem: nts
for pensions are just now enormous, tho
money markets arc likely to be strength
ened for a time.
Business failures for the week number
558; for the corresponding week of last
year the figure was 257.
THE SOUTH’S PROGRESS.
The Manufactures’ Record Gives
Splendid Showing.
The Manufacturer *’ liecord , of Balti
more, reports for the past week new in
dustries as follows: Development, land
and town companion organized at Alabama
City, Andalusia, Eufaula, Eureka, Mont
gomery and Phoenix City, Ala.; Augusta,
Ga.; Port Royal, 8. C.; Brunswick, Ga.
Locomotive works at Alabama City, Ala.
Cotton mills at Anniston, Ala., Jackson
ville, Fla., Ccdartown, Go., Edgefield,
K> rshaw and Valley Falls, 8. C. Iron
industries at Birmingham, Ala., Athens,
Bolton, Canton, and Cartersvilie, Ga.
Sewerage, waterworks or street improve
ments at New Decatur, Opelika and
Oxanna, Ala., Fort Valley, Ga., and
Blacksburg, 8. C. Sawmills at Thomas
villc, Ala.; Apalachicola, Apopka,
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Palatka and Wellborn, Fla.; Savannah,
Ga., and Bowman, Guffney City and
Pickens, S. C. Also lumber consuming
factories at numerous points. A (otton
compress is being erected at Mobile;
electric light plants at Augusta, Ga., and
Chester, 8. C.; electric power plant at
Savannah. Phosphate companies were
organized or commenced work at Bartow,
Ocala, Palatka and Tampa, Fla. In ad
dition to numerous other industries not
reported above, the list embraces new
buildings in Georgia, Alabama, South
( arolina and Florida, valued at nearly
1800,000; besides fourteen other large
structures.
MISSISSIPPI’S THIRD PARTY.
Organization of Prohibitionists
Effected.
A dispatch of Saturday from Jackson,
Miss., says: A third party has been or
ganized in this state—“the prohibition
party of Mississippi,” it is called. An
address embodying their declaration of
principles lias been issued. This organi
zation is entirely separate from the non
partisan prohibition movement of the
state. A "majority of the white peonle of
the state is opposed to the liquor traffic,
and the sentiment against the saloon has
grown during the last decade until over
half of the counties iu the st.te are either
“dry” by legal enactment, or under the
operations of the “local option law." The
great bulk of the prohibitionists in the
date seem to be entirely satisfied with
the progress made, and deprecate the
third’party movement.
WILL RESUME.
Two Thousand Employes are
Made Happy.
At Cincinnati Saturday Probate Judge
Ferris ordered the Dueber Watch Casa
Company assignment raised, and the
monster works will re-ume at once with
its two thousand employes.
NO. 27.