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INDSTINCT PRINT CD: I : SECOND DISTRICT POLITICS. CANDIDATE htbvbns and the ALLIANCE tUTnODII. •Capt. Hakba. •[ (he Democratic C'a mltlee, Bcrlewa the SIlHillaa. In'fhe Atlanta Constitution of the 'diet Inst, appears an article entitled, ■ '“The Warring Second.” It Is the head ing of ahother of what may be called one of Mr.O. B. Stevens’ proclamations. It commences with the query, “Will there be two Congressional conven tions in the Second, and If there are, wvhloh of the two will be the legal con tention, the one oreated.by the Coun ty Executive Committee, or the one "brought into existence by the ma- •chinery of the District Congressional •Committee?” The reading of the en tire article is desirable,.and It can be -found in another column of this pa per. The issue Is not properly stated by "Mr. Stevens, and should read : “Which of the two conventions will be legal, the one emanating and brought forth -under the orders and Instructions of the Alliance convention held at Cuth- "toert, at which Mr. Stevens was nomi nated, or the one which the distrlot •committee, under the machinery and custom of the Democratic party, has nailed?” The Issue fairly stated In this dis trict is, to call things by their proper names: The political Alliance, with Its se cret oath-bound organization, with Its proclivities for Third Partylsm and open support of Bepubllcan doctrines, • AGAINST 'the open ranks of Democracy, In •which the rights of all aro preserved, =and special privileges to the few are forbidden. This, then, being the Issue, let us ■state the facts of the case. The Issue •commenced by the Alliance calling a ■convention at Cuthbert to nominate a •candidate to represent this Congres. sional district in Congress. They did •so, and Mr. O’. B. Stevens being the fa. ■ vored one, the Alliance machinery was •At once put to work to secure the rati fication of this nomination by the Democratic party of t-his-district. The plan was soon apparent. In every ■county in which Alllnncemen were in the majority in the Executive Com mittee, meetings were ordered to se- Hect delegates to the Democratic Dls- • trict Convention. Being bound by their secret oaths, their actions were •secret and solid, and, of course, were a •surprise to the balance of the com- onunity—unaccustomed to see oath- Ibotfnd organizations marching to the polls as so many sheep, without an ■opinion of their own, and blindly ■obeying the orders of their superior •officers, depositing the ballots handed ’to them. Then it was that men began to open their eyes and ask themselves, “Are ■we going to stand idly by and see this •oath-bound organization take charge •of our Legislation? — take charge of the machinery of the government?” The spirit of freedom inherent in the human breast answered, and the Dem- •ocratio District Committee was called together. They recommended that unass meetings and primaries should ibe held in each ooilnty in the district to select delegates to the district con vention on the 80th of July next, and fixed the day to bold the convention -August 17th next. Then it was that ithe penny-aliners of the order raised a howl—because they saw that the petty •scheme to steal ■’the representation of ithe district from the Democrats could mot succeed. Vituperation and abuse fell in loathsome parcels from the venal pens of the venal crew, but un- ■diemayed the Democratic Committee stands in its attitude, conscious of do ing right, and defying the oath-bound •schemers to do their worst. Until the committee acted, the Alli ance, with a steady stride, was leading its misguided members into all sorts ■of strange places. They revelled for a while in the good things to be gotten -out of the Ocala platform. The tariff issue in it was sound Democratic doc trine, but that was emasculated at’In- dianapolis, and at St. Louis, why, all ■else that was in it tending to be bener fleial or helpful to the South was ob literated, and the thing was denounced by the,good men in their order—such •as Moses and Livingston—to that to- ■day .there is nothing left of that abor- tive mongrel known as Ocala plat form, or Ooala demands. The facts being stated,then, what is the legal status of the oase? Mr. Stev- eus, supposing that the Democratic party was somewhat akin to bis Alli ance grandpa, sought first the Consti tution and the Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, and by speolous pleading induced them to read a lecture to the Executive Coinr mittee of the district. That not being effective, the State Committee Itself was appealed to by our friend O. B., and their reply was that they were not on to the raoket. We then heard that the late convention would be asked to take this terrible oommittee in hand and deal with them. But at the Inst moment Mr. O. B. relents and goes baok to the Constitution with his proclamation,' “The Warring Second," so that the whole thing is reduced to the point, which organization shall control the Democratic assemblies in this district, the Alliance orders, or the orders of the District Executive Committee? In the State convention the rules and regulations put forth by the State Executive Committe are respected. If they are legal, why should the rules and regulations of the District Com mittee be Illegal when confined within tho bounds of reason and law? Being so, all we have to say is, Democrats, stand to your Golors, and &b the gal lant Napier said at Salamanca, “Hold your fire until you seethe whites of your foemen’s eyes.” There are hosts of good men who Joined the Alliance—not for political purposes. In speakingof the Alliance we are not speaking to them. It is to the class known as political tricksters, who, by their wioked, mischievous methods, are seeklug to divide the white men of the Second district that our words are directed, and the good men of the order who Joined it for the purpose of uplifting the agricultural condition of the country will think twioe—aye, thrice—before they Join hands with a lot of men who seek nothing but their own benefit and ag grandizement, and thus break the solid front which heretofore has enabled us to keep the reins of law and order in the hands of the Anglo-Saxon race. R. Hobbs. AJbnny, Ga., May 28. TUB U AIIKIVK NECOND. ! ,i i • The I’rebnbllllJ- of Two Noiuinnling null Two Uamllitnuw. TO LAMP NOBTHBN. The Albanr Ounnla Left This Morning. DEATH OF MB. N. F. MEBCBB. outcome From tho Atlanta Constitution. Will there be two Congressional conventions in the Seoond district? And if there are, which of the two will be the legal convention—the one oreated by the County Executive Com mittee, or the one brought luto exist ence by the machinery of the District Congressional Committee? ■ There may be two conventions, and there may not be. The outlook for two is very promising at present. But If there are two, each will present its own nominee for Congress, and the unusual aspeot of two Demooratlo candidates for Congress, both claiming to he the rightful nominee, will be pre sen ted. And so knotty is the question In volved that the gold Democrats of the district may deoide for themselves which of the two nominees Is the right one. Just now Hon.O.B. Stevens,of Daw son, stand" a fair oliance of scouring the nomination for Congress of one of the conventions. Mr. Stevens has been in the city for several days, and only returned to Ills home yesterday. He is confident of being nominated and elected, and no longer anticipates any serious trouble from the threatened break in the party. Tho trouble III Ills district came about in this fashion. About a month ago the District Con gressional Executive Committee was called together by the Chairman,Capt. R. Hobbs, of Albany. The committee ordered that primaries be held in all the counties of the distrlot for the pur pose of selecting delegates to the con vention to nominate a candidate for Congress. Straightway there arose a protest from every eounty In the district against the.aetion of the Congressional Committee in ordering primaries. The County Deiuocratio Executive Committee declared that. It was un heard of authority, and that they would not be bound by it. And so disregarding the action of the Congressional Committee entirely the County Executive Committees be gan ordering primaries. There are two candidates in the field, Mr. O. B. Stevens and Judge C. B. Wooten, of Dougherty. Primaries ordered by the Coun Executive Committee have alrcai been held in five counties. Mr. Steve] has carried all of tlieie, giving hlfn twelve votes in the convention. Terrell, the home county of Mr. Ste vens, was carried by him by a good majority. There are thirty votes in the disi- trlot, and Mr. Stevens thinks there is no doubt but that he will get the three-fourths of the full vote. But if he should get them all in the conven tion made up of delegates chosen ,in the primaries ordered by the County Committee, still there might be anotf 1 ' convchtlon. Judm Wooten’s friends claim tt)nt the Distrlot Committee had tfie rt*| to call primaries, and they will star Jay the committee’s action. On July 80tli, they will vote for their candidate and thus two sets of delegates w selected, as Mr. Stevens will not his mime to go into these primer Several other counties have named dates, conflicting with the District Committee’s primary dates, and the Is at least lively. ’l-nm Monday's Kvbnino IIebalu. The soldier laddies are off. They left this morning, and if all went well, they wefe at Griffin by 5 o’clock. They went In "good spirits, with flags Hying and hearts beating high in anticipa tion of the rousing times to come. They formed ranks at the Armory at ID o’olook, and with three cheers and a tiger for Camp Northen, they filed .down the Btalrs and into the street. They marched, down Washington street to the depot, and were followed by the usual crowd of small boys. The stars and stripes were blown by the wind, habks rattled down the street, and drays rumbled heavily along. There was muoh laughter and gay conversation from those on their way to see the Guards off, and altogether it made quite a stirring scene—such a scene as tended to remind older peo ple of days gone by. At the depot the departure was quieter than usual. As the train bearing the troops from adown the 8., F. & W. rolled in, two or three of the boys started a oheer.but the rest failed to respond, and the cheer ended In a hoarse oroak or two. A large crowd was at the depot, and there was muoh waving of handker chiefs, and muoh shouting of “good by” as the bell olanged and the train rulled slowly out of the station. They went on a special of three coaches and two baggage cars, that followed the regular train on the Columbus South ern. Here’s to the health and good times of the “eojer boys.” A MTBIFBD BEAUTY. TJtlny-T*»*.Feuml Jlocltfl.li Tr« Blue Nprlmi. Ben Mims, who lives on the Warren place, on the opposite side of* the river from Blue Spring, and Dan nnd Lee Jeffers, of this city, made a big catch of fish in the Blue Spring run Satur day night. Most of the fish were taken with a gig, but a few were caught in a pod net at the mouth of the run. But the great trophy of tt)e night wnsn rockflsli that weighed thirty- two pounds. The rookflsh Is one of the gamest fishes that swims, and he fights to the death. This one was first gigged in the bank and the boys got him in the boat, but he got out nnd they had to run him down and gig him the second time. He weighed thirty-two pounds, and was a beauty. AN ENGINEER’S JOKE. • Proved Very Convincingly That Bn . Coul<l Stop IIIn Train Qulakly, Mr. Smith tells of an Instance illus trating the peculiar methods of Mex ican administration of justice in con nection with railways. A friend of mine was on trial for his life on a charge of manslaughter down near Quintero. He had been running a passenger train and bad had the misfortune to kill a man walking on the track. He had been In jail for several months and finally Minister Otiborne, who was then in Mexico, succeeded in having his case, called for trial. Now.' the Mexicans never listen to expert testimony. They might hear you and me in our own defonse, but unless we could cor roborate testimony by some tangible siipport like physical substantiation, we would cut hut a poor figure. In the case I refer to the authorities In sisted upon having the engineer re produce precisely the condition of affairs which ted to the accident. Accordingly the railroad company had to rig up a train of cars, pre cisely like that in which the acci dent occurred. It hud to be loadud with just us many people as the " ioI train had on board. It bud ,ve the same engine and be taken to the precise spot where the accident occurred. A dummy figure vraa prepared to stand in the exact ot where tlie man was killed, ion the jury were to get on the train and the “admlnistraddr de justieo" was to take a scat in the cab and observe the efforts of the iser to stop it in time, low. the engineer who was demon ig the problem was a friend of on trial. He intended to show the "Hdminiatrador" something he had never before seen. The idea was to take the train over the same track. They went up the road about five miles and then switched to come back for the object lesson. The dummy was set up on the track. The 'administmdor" took his place in the cab, leaning more than half his body out to better observe the figure, for he was to give the signal when to ‘X A Riimwh7 BKVAPTURBD. Tit fro Pram Ummty -'Is >•» Agslfc.l •V-- v Mitchell An Old naillBrrpncird Citizen of Allmiiy Finn Anar. From Saturday's Kvenino Hekai.ii. Thu community was grieved; last night, to hear of the death of its old and honored citizen, Mr. N. F. Mercer. He died at 7 o’clock last evening. He had for a long time been a sufferer from that Incurable malady, brlghts disease, and his demise has been daily expected. So, It was no surprise, al though that fact does not rob death of any of its sorrow. Mr. Mercer was long past the merid ian of life, and for years had been identified with the leading Interests of the city and county. But his life's work is ended, and the passing away of such a landmark of a community does always strike sorrow to every heart. Mr. Mereer leaves a wife and three children to mourn Ills death. His children, Mrs. J. A. Johnson, Mr. Frank Mercer and Miss Annie Mercer, are all residents of Albany. The burial services were held at the Bap tist church, of which be was a member, at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, the Rev. E. B. Carroll officiating, and as we go to press, all that remains of this hon est and just man is being borne to the Oakview cemetery for interment. Mr. Mercer was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and the Albany Lodge pf Masons turned out m a body this afternoon to perform the last sad rites of their order over the grave of their deceased brother. From the N., P. AcW.MIbf S., A. Sc M. The Hebald has it from a source en tirely reliable that Mr. J. W. Moore, for many years in the .service of the 8., F. & W. R’y, will leave that road on the 1st of June to accept the position of master of Boadway of the 8., A. A M. road.' Mr. Moore is a thoroughly practical railroad man, having risen from the position of section boss to that of As sistant Master of Roadway in the ser vice of the F. & W., and is well equipped for the position he is to take with the 8., A. & M. The Herald congratulates Mr. Moore upon his promotion and the management of the 8., A. and M. road upon securing the services of so effi cient and reliable a man as we know him to be. —Miss Clifford Taylor will return to her home at Shellman to-morrow, Miss Taylor has just closed a success ful term of school In the Academy in this city, and is now ready for her sumihpr vacation. A Ocorgin Llierarr W«mnn. Maud Andrews, in her Sunday letter to the Constitution, has this to say of a Southern woman who recently went to New York from Georgia with the determination to make her living by her pen: The people who have failed always prnte about the ini possibility of making one’s way in New York, but it seems to me that all the men and women who have brought real ability and deter, initiation to that great market, have either sooner or later' gained a place for themselves. A Southern woman who hnd never turned her thoughts townrd earning a dollar until the re ceipts from her cotton plantation be came very small, was Mrs. Nellie Red man Crawford, who went to hew York a few months ago for the purpose of seeding a situation. In a few weeks she was offered the joint position of corresponding secretary to the editor of the New York Journal and assist ant to the lexicographer of Appleton’s great medioal dictionary. The position is a delightful one,with a good salary, and Mrs. Crawford now fills It. She is a brilliant woman, with a mind strong and versatile, and after a life of ease and comfort she displays a line qpirit in thus going to work rather than living in meagre idleness upon a small fortune. Southern women are every day learning the value and the glorious Independence of industry, ana this faot 1b doing as muoh towards the progress and pros perity of. our aountry as any of the great gams of her men. —He truly wins who wins by judg ment. The ChicagoInter Ocean takes off its hat to announce that Mrs. Emma Beckwith is ready to run for Vice President. The announcement may as well be made now as later. Not to know Mrs. Beckwith argues yourself unknown, but as most of us are in that class it must be added that Mrs. Beck with is the woman who ran for Mayor of Brooklyn, and announces that she will now accept second place on the Presidential ticket of the Equal Rights party if Belva Lockwood or Franols Willard will head it. One thing must be confessed about Candi date Beckwith, and that is the extreme infancy of her platform views. The New York Herald thus places some of them on record: “Well, I have unde, elded views on the silver question, am studying the subject. If the coun try has the power to Issue $1,000 why should it not have the power to Issue money enough to pay all the debt and to stop taxing the people to pay the interest on the debt? Sometimes think free coinage is best and some times I think other plans are more ad. visable. But I have to study up on all those questions,” / Officer Bob Raley cuptured a run away convict from Mitohell county Monday afternoon. Joe Holmes is a Mitohell county; Negro who was sentenced to twelve months in the oliuin-gang, and Mr. Wesley Curies paid him out and took him to his place to work. Of course Joe made the fairest sort of promises to his benefactor, hut, all the same, he skipped. A Mitchell county officer heard that the runaway had been seen In Albany, and was up here on the lookout for him on Saturday night. Officer Raley got on to the case, and Monday p. m. ha 'succeeded In spot ting Joe Holmes and arresting him just as he was about to board an out going train on the Cordele railroad. Tho Negro had a pistol on him and had cocked it ready for use, but. the sharp eye of the officer caught on to the fellow’s treachery and he promptly disarmed him. The runaway convict Is now safe in the Dougherty county Jail, and when his benefactor gets hold of him again he will probably let the law take its course with him. The EI*kt-T«U.4 Comet. It is visible at about 8:80 o’oloek In the morning, and may be found very dear the highest star in the constella tion Pegasus. With a moderately strong glass the eight tails arc visible, It is one of those comets which travel in such a direction that it will never be seen again. Swift’s comet, it Is called, as it was discovered a few months ago by. Prof. Swift, of Roch. ester. The next session of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias will be held In Macon. P»r the H*u»ckrepero. A lady, enthusiastic over doing her own housekeeping, sends the follow, ing. recipe to the Herald, commend ing it to housekeepers who want cheap and wholesome dessert. She calls it “Albany Pudding Grease a bowl thick with butter, put seeded raisins around it, then line with bread. Make a nice custard of four eggs, one quart of milk, a little salt and one-balf cup of sugar, flavor with nutmeg and pour it into the bowl bake. Serine with sauce made in the following manner: Boil three-fourths of a pint of sweat milk-, beat the yolk of one egg with a level teaspoonful of flour and sugar enough to make very sweet. When the milk bolls stir this into it, and let it cool; then flavor with/ nutmeg and a few drops of va- . nilla. ’ho engineer let her out with a gnn. He wan not supposed to tra vel more than thirty miles an hour, but when the “udminlstrador" waved his bond to check her—“man on the track” —he was going fifty. The fire man pulled the whistle, the engineer sprang to his reverse lever nnd bis sandbox and gave her all the air there was in the pump. In less than a second the “admlnistrador de judi cio"'wnH opt of the cab window into the ditch with a broken ankle, the jury in the first passenger cor was filed into u promiscuous mass, the &*&&&&&& turn was so great that the engine struck the straw man and knocked it twenty feet in the air. The result of that object lesson was that the "admlnistmdor" lay in bed for six weeks, the engineer tvos acquitted nod the jury petitioned the legislature of Choacan for a change in the laws. —Chicago Herald. Tbs Toujb of Confucius. One of the most interesting parts of China is the city of Chu-fu-hsien, in the province of Shantung, the birthplace of Confucius, the founder of Confucianism. In love and veneration by his fol lowers the tomb of Confucius is hardly second to that of Mohammed at Mecca. It is kept In excellent preservation, disciplee tieing annually placed in charge of it, who regard- and keep this trust imposed upon them with a strictness and conscientiousness prob ably unknown in any other portion of the world. It is the deni roof all thorough Con- fucianists to have their ashee rest near this sacred spot, and almost daily one or more followers are brought to this already overcrowded cemetery to have their last wish gratified.—Co*. Boston Globe. Salt Water Daecn’t Bart Ena Not long since a railroad float load ed with freight cars containing a vast quantity of fresh bggs was sunk in the waters of the upper bay off the Battery, *New York city. Working upon thia subject a Witty pafragraphtst attached to a New York newspaper remarked that although immersed in salt water the eggs would undoubt edly be sold for fresh. sr he knew that his state ment was one of truth or not cannot be aaoertained, hut the fact remains the same that the eggs were unim paired when the float was raised, and were undoubtedly put on the market as such.—New York Herald. Who does not 'remember t... curdling picture in. tho old : school books, whore the boars woro devouring children who hud point* coluior path to Elisha of forehead. A few days ago little boy of four, who. f carefully guarded, somo up phrases which are tho paronts would have him a company of Salvatlo him with their beating of t their odd attire. He " from the dooratep with harder. Aunt Thump-Thump! higher, Unele Big Hut." &c. His grandmother from the i heard and was horrified. She i proceeded to teach him a.li reverence. “Don’t you kuo ny," she said, "that those j working for the Lord, just it ophets used to do in old wicked to make fun of Once some children cried out i ihet Elisha" po»sod, 'Go up, t head I' and God sent bears out of tho woods and I them all up." Johnny's ey< nnd bursting into led the pious expectations of 1 anxious toacher by exclaiming » tween his sobs, “1-think—it- \ a—blamed-shame!" - Boston old. Struck by mi Ulnphftnt'l ' When I was in- the couuti with the show we turned ii t >hant, well hobbled. Into n [ field, by consent of the own Uttle mare was In that field i colt, and she evidently tho _ baby was in dnngor, so slio i fierce uttack on the ele ' her heels. She played ni too on the ribs of that a brute, 1 toll you. till li turned his big back upon li tried to run away. He was 1 so thnt running was a ludi< ure, and besides the Caught him with her sharp t the "slack" skin around li legs, which always makes i phont look ns if his suspeudo. not braced up short enough, hung on to him fiercely. Seeing that ho, could from her, tho elephant I and hit her just once witl on tho neck. The brave 1 lay right down and and wo had to write h expense side of our view in New York 1 — The Phrm • Thousoof tho p •on." of parliament what was known .. bill." and when Job was tho man phrase. It < nor: Sheridan wans ing Fox’s ’ said: "Mr. faii-s. Is not to When n member of t employed toe else could be there was a him I" “Name him I" ' “Sirs," said Sheridan, name tho pej-son; it is pleasant thing to do. poso that 1 abstain b any difficulty in could do so, sirs, i could say ’Jack Roll They naturally inferred remarks that Jack or‘ was tho person wh —Philadelphia Press. WhKt W»r Has Cast Our It appears, mates of French i tlcians, that there tho wars of the last 000 men, while I - ltoi ie inconel 000, Of this amount F nearly $3,500,000 as £ war with Prussia, - men is placed at 155,0 Of these, 80,0001 field of battle, 36,000 c accidents or German prisons, wh from other causes i tho number up to gate. The sick and v ed to 477,421. the lives o sands of whom i ened by their illi Francisco Post. ■IrSihi TA« As* of *h* Harp. The harp, which was the lute, is ascribed to Jubal, 8875 C., and was King . David's favorite instrument The harp was used by the Welsh and Saxons, and also by the ancient peoples of Ireland. One of the oldest harps in existence ie in the Dublin, College museum, and to Brian Bo- ig of Ireland. —Harper’s Young People. PrMlMly. Featheretone—Yon get all your clothes made in London, don’t you! How do yon continue to have them fitl don’t fit That’s ilook so T Potato** Orowlnx 1 Wellbaugh and explorations in the Co! Have disooverod a — the vines of, with well devek in the open air 1 toes. Each potato! thin film or that which cherry." They do i tors, each beinggive in which to thole natives say that c son the membn potato is filled i a measure of the sun.- ——“ “What dot