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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1890)
TlsRoWale CONYERS, GEOEGIA. Arrest on a telegram has just come up before a Chicago court, which held it to be illegal. The Indianapolis Journal thinks the American citizen is glad to learn of the approaching extinction of the sod. They have caused him years of domes¬ tic warf are. Statisticians have figured it out that the average cost of constructing a mile of railroad in the United States at the present time is $:!0,000. “If it be true that llirsch of Chicago can turn out aluminum at much less than $1 the pound,” remarks the New York Sun, “the results will rival those of Morse's telegraph. For one tiling, aerial navigation can scarcely be long delayed.” Says the San Francisco Chronicle: Another discovery of coal is report'd from Oregon. A 3 Die country north of tis gets to be known the idea that wo shall always remain dependent on the foreigner for fuel is being dispelled. In the near future we may look for discoveries of sufficient coal in North¬ ern California to supply all our waits. In view of the high price of terrapin the Philadelphia Record suggests the substitution of the muskrat, which, di lu'ed and seasoned as the terrapin is in its stewed form, would be indistin¬ guishable from it. “And why not tlio muskrat,” asks the Washington Star, “when the English sparrow is eaten by alleged epicures in this town for the succulent reed bird?” In the Pester Lloyd appear the fol¬ lowing statistics with regard to the ex¬ portation of eggs from Hungary. One wagon load of eggs weighs ten tons, and consists of 100 eases, each contain¬ ing 120 dozen eggs; thus each case contains 1,440 eggs and each wagon 144,000 eggs. The amount exported in 1888 was, in round numbers, 1,280 w T agon loads, which means 184,320,000 eggs. Dividing this number by the number of days in the year, 36b, we find that Hungary exported 504,986 eggs every day in the year. Among the imports of various kinds arriving in France from the far east there has been of late a large quantity of human hair. This capillary com¬ merce has caused a considerable deal of questioning on the part of people who were curious to know the uses to which all this hair, mostly cut from the heads of Chinese and An minute 'women, was applied, It was too coarse and hemp-like to he employed by the fashionable or even ordinary coiffeurs for postiches, so that it is to be used for the crinieres, or flowing manes, which decorate the helmets of officers and non-commissioned officers of couirassiera and dragoons. The New York Tribune believes that “the fur-seal will soon be added to the lone and grewsome list of North American animals extinguished by the greed of man within a single genera¬ tion. The worst forebodings are con¬ firmed by the news brought back by the United Slates Fish Commission on its return to San Francisco from a four-and-a-half months’ visit to the scene of (lie wholesale spoliation. Last year the Smithsonian institution sent out an order for a specimen buffalo for the National Museum; one more sum¬ mer of free slaying at sea by our Cana¬ dian friends, and the museum will be wanting a sample of the extinct seal.” A curious religious war lias broken out between two Mohammedan sects in India. The Sunis hold that lh« word “amen” should be pronounced in a low and reverent tone of voice, while the Saias claim that it should be called out in a loud, triumphant tone of voice like a battle cry or a ihout of victory. O 11 this momentous issue blood has actually been shed and serious trouble is feared. The Moham¬ medan religion is one of forms and ceremonies rather than one of morals, right living, and true worship, and as immaterial a matter as this is likely to arouse the fanaticism of thousands of the faithful. To Christians, it will look like a very curious cause of relig¬ ious dissentiou. ? ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS Members. WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TnE GREAT ORGANIZATION.—ECHOES FROM THE REFORM PRESS. The annul meeting of the Colored Na tioial Farmers Alliance and Co-operative Union is set for the same date as that of the Supreme Council of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, at Ocala, Florida. * * * The Houston fTex.) Echo says: “The farmers will soon begin to legislate for the lawyers. When they do, what havoc there will be with the mountains of pre¬ cedent piled up in every State by the masters of finesse.” * * * The Patrons' Enterprise (Big Rapids, Mich.) says: “The most encouraging thing regarding the farmer and labor¬ ing man is that he is thinking. The ma¬ jority have in the past let others do it lor them; now they are beginning to think for themselves. * * * The Industrial Free Press (Winfield, Kan.) says: “It is said that while the Alliance delegation of old soldiers was receiving Polk, Livingston, and the rest of the Southern delegation at Topeka last week, there was not a dry eye among those old veterans, both North and South. The tears rolled down those furrowed cheeks in streams. It was a meeting never to be forgotten by eye witnesses or those who took part in the greting.” * * * The Alliance Vindicator (Sulphur Springs, Texas.) says: “A great many just at this time are denouncing the sub¬ treasury plan, when in reality, half of them don’t know what the plan is, nor why they oppose it. They only know that a bill called the sub-treasnry bill was introduced into congress, and that Mills and others said it wots “unconsti¬ tutional,” and that many other assertions in regard to it that they cannot sustain by the facts in the case.” * * Col. Livingston spoke Wednesday at Montgomery section to 20,000 people from every of Alabama. He demonstrated that Alliauce measures and Alliance ef¬ forts were chiefly the cause of the signal victory fo the Democratic party, and he said the Democratic party owed a debt of gratitude to the'Alliance move. He pre¬ dicted a sweeping victory for the cause of the people in 1892. He contrasted the Alliance platform with the Democratic platform, and declared that the success of the one was the assurance of the other, v * * The Ohio County Farmer (Beaver Dam, Ky.,) says: “At a recent meeting of the Alliance of Alabama, it was decided to hold their crop of cotton until a fair price could be had for it. The meeting resolved that where members were in debt that they store their cotton and money be advanced them that they may hold their products against the power of the oppressor. They are putting into ef¬ fect the sub-treasury plan before it has been passed by congress. If the brother¬ hood in Kentucky would only profit by their example and experience, we would soon be able to dictate prices on our to¬ bacco, corn, wheat, etc., as they do on their cotton. More co-operation is what we need.” * The following resolutions were voted down in Hickman (Kentucky) County Alliance by only a small majority: Re¬ solved, That that this County Union ap¬ point a committee to draft a petition to the ministers of all denominations, re¬ questing them to denounce tlio rich for their covetous greed and oppression of the poor as laid down in the Divine law, James v, 1, 2, 3, 4; request them to preach for the prohibition of usury as laid down in Deuteronomy xxnr, 49; Lxodus xxn, 25; Leviticusxxv, 36, 37. Preach against this sin as Neliemiah did, v, 10, and as Ezekiel did, xxrr, 12, 13, 14. Request them to contend for the distribution of nature’s resources accord¬ ing to Leviticus xxv, 23; Neliemiah v, 11, 12, 13. Request them to forcibly ative impress on their congregation the imper necessity of the distribution of pro¬ ceeds of labor according to Isaiah lxv, 21 , 22 . * * * The Texas Vindicator analyzes the Sub treasurv plan thusly: “The Sub-treasury plan will, if carried out, give the farmers a chance to rid themselves of the burden they now bear in the shape of speculators. Hoiv is this to be accomplished? The way to do this is simnle and easy. The Sub-treasury once established, the farmers can store their cotton and, through organ¬ ization, appoint their committee to sell said cotton when the market suits, this committee can correspond with the facto¬ ries and sell direct at such times and in such amounts as will suit the convenient of the manufacturer. No middle man will be needed in this, as the government will have graded the cotton and weighed it, and the manufacturer will know ex¬ actly what he is getting and know also that he runs no risk in buying it. All this hubbub about paying the speculator and the government too for storage under the Sub-treasury plan is more to detract ciple public involved attention away from the true prin¬ than anything else.’’ *** The following is from the National Economist: “The Alliance as an organ¬ ization must be sustained in its work of education, or its usefulness will be most certainly destroyed. No other organiza¬ tion ever possessed the opportunities for an effort of this character tliat the Alii nnce does at the present time. To Ref¬ lect it would he criminal, and should condemn the entire membership. The princip'cs set forth in the Alliance dccln ration voice the honest sentiments of a vast majority of the people; hut blind ignorance or party i prejudice keep a. large jxirt n from realizing the true situation. T. induce the people to read is the first step toward this cdm-atioual develop¬ ment. When ])eo])le will read they will think, and whenever they begin to think the batt e is more than half won. Tee duty of the Alliance, therefore, is to lead men’s thoughts in the rieht direction, to see that their ideas are correctly formed, and that nothing but sound economic principle) of government are permitted to obtain.^_________ A SHIP FOUNDERS. AND OF A TOTAL OF 250 SOULS ON BOARD ONLY THREE ARE SAVED. A cablegram of Wednesday from Lon¬ don reports that the British torpedo cruiser, Serpent, has foundered olf the coast of Spain. The fate of her crow is unknown. Out of a total of 250 souls on board, only three were saved. 4 he Serpent went on the rocks during the storm on Monday night. A heavy mist prevailed at the time. Owing to the violence of the storm, it was impossible to send assistance from shore. Tremend¬ ous seas swept the decks of the vessel, carrying away group after group of the men. News of the wreck was conveyed to Coruna, a distance of sixty miles, over mountain roads. The Scrpeq^’s comple¬ ment of men was 170 officers and men. Others on board were going out to re¬ lieve the men on the ships at Afiiean stations. THE POSTAGE CUBBJ3NCT. How It Came into Use During th< Early Days of the War. the The suspension of specie payment b^ banks in December, 1861, caused s disappearance of the gold and silvet coins from circulation with marvelloui celerity. They seemed to vanish in a day; probably into the private hoards ol the people, since the specie of the banks failed to show any considerable increase. AVar existed, no one could predict the future, the thrift and caution of the peo¬ ple led them to lay something aside which would not lose its purchasing power. They hastened to lay hold of these coins, and secrete them where they could be found when other means of sub sistence failed. The scarcity of these coins produce* great inconvenience in business. It be¬ came almost impossible to make change in the ordinary purchases from dealers and merchants. Shinplasters began tc make their appearance to supply the de¬ ficiency. In the Southern private States these were not only issued by individ¬ uals and private corporations, but bt States, counties, cities, towns and all other municipal corporations. A collec¬ tion of these kinds Confederate from shinplasters upon all of paper, white writing to brown wrapping, would now be an interesting memento of the war, but in a pecuniary sense absolutely worthless. The credit of devising a lawful and adequate remedy for this inconvenience belongs to General Francis E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States. He found it impossible to facilitate as he desired tc do the payment of the soldiers and sail¬ ors, and. to conduct the business of the Treasury with the small coins at his command. He therefore arranged with the Post-Office Department to redeem ic unused stamps such postage-stamps as might be used for currency. In a short time his department manufactured anc introduced a new issue. All the denom¬ inations were o£ uniform size. A piece of paper with one stamp pasted on it was live cents; one with two stamps, ter cents; five stamps, twenty-five cents; and ten stamps, fifty cents. In this way, at the cost of a little labor, a considerable amount of small change was manufac¬ tured. This currency became so populai that, instead of using denomination, stamps, plates in were imi¬ engraved for each manufactured tation of the notes, the impressions from which had the same legal qualities and were used for the same purposes. These impressions were called the “postage currency.” They were afterwards authorized by the Act ol July 17, 1862, which directed the Secretary to furnish to the Assistant Treasuries “the postage and other stamps of the United States tc be exchanged by them on application for United States notes.” These stamps were receivable in payment of all dues to the United States of less than five dollars, and could be exchanged for United States notes when presented in sums of not less than five dollars. The same act put an end to the further issue of shinplasters by making the issue or circulation by private persons or corporations of notes or tokens for less than one dollar punishable by fine and imprisonment. The convenience of the postage cur¬ rency was great, and the amount called for increased to an extent which became troublesome to the Post-office Depart¬ ment, and the Secretary' decided to take it into the Treasury, where it legitimately belonged. Accordingly an act was passed which suspended its further issue, and substituted m its place currency o! another description..—[Harper’s Mag:v zinc. PUNISHED BY PUNNING. “This man stole an upright piano, Judge.” “Well, certainly that is not grand larceny, nor is it a very petit bit of lar¬ ceny. Indeed, the man seems to be an upright thief—” “Let up. Judge,"’ said the prisoner, “That's punishment enough.’'—[Bazar. NEWS OF THE SOOTH BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬ ESTING NATURE. FITIIT ITEMS FROM ALL TOINTS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬ TAIN THE READER-ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLC OD I, ETC. Itube Smith, one of Rube Burrows' gang, was convicted of train robbing at Jackson, Miss., Thursday. II. Wise, one of the leading merchants of Thomasville, Ga., failed" Thursday. His liabilities are estimated at $35,000. Savannah s total cotton receipts since September 1st, upland and sea island, passed the half-million mark Thursday. At Atlanta, Ga.. Saturday, Charles M. Osborn was sentenced to be hung on the Dintli day of next January for the mur der of John M. Bradley. 1 he store of Abe Meyer, at Shreveport, La., was burglarized Thursday night! The safe was drilled and $34,000 In notes, cash and mortgages were stolen, There is no clue. The job bears the imprint of experts. W. B. Carhart, a prominent shoe dealer of Macon, Ga., made an assignment to J. W. Cabaniss, cashier of the Exchange bank. The firm’s liabilities are not known, but there are available assets to the amount of $22,000. A San Antonio dispatch of Sunday says: The latest enterprise undertaken at Aransas Pass in connection with securing deep water at that point is the building of the Aransas Pass and Harbor Island railroad, the survey for the fine now be¬ ing in proci ss. Jack Drennan, a negro employed at a sawmill at Craphell, Ala , on Monday, fell upon a Snw and his head was split from the crown down to the middle of his nose. He did not lose consciousness and tlnee hours afterwards was still alive and talking clearly. Informaton has reached San Antonio of the death at his home in DeWitt coun¬ ty, Friday, of William Yotaw, one of the most extensive and prominent farmers in the west. He was well-known in ttock circles throughout the country. His sick¬ ness was of short duration. Governor Fowle, of North Carolina, was informed Thursday by the contrac¬ tors that the executive mansion \\i 1 be ready for occupancy by the end of the year. Helms, therefore,'decided to hold his New Year’s reception there. It will be the first public reception of the kind by a governor in that state in. twenty-five years. Secretary Hester’s weekly New Orleans cotton exchange statement, issued Satur¬ day, shows another week of over 400,000 bales brought into sight, carrying the amount of this crop marketed peek’s Bill, 000 past the 3,000,000 mark. The total, while slightly under last waek, is larger by 37,799 bales than for the! correspond¬ ing seven days of last year, j A Houston, Tex., special j of Monday, says: A terrible accident pjarticulars is reported from near Kyle, Tex., the of which are at this hour unobtainable. The pay-car of the International! and Great Northern road, while running at a high speed, dashed into the rear d ud of a pas¬ senger train on the main track. Some twenty or more passengers \ rere injured, but none were killed. The seventh annual meeting of the Southern Homeopathic Me< lical Associa¬ tion, just closed at Birmingham, showed homeopathists gratifying progress on the part of the of the South The report of the committee on “Ati Appeal for adopted, Non-sectarian and Medical Leg] lation,” legis¬ was will be sent t< every lator, state and national, i well as to every southern governor. ’lie report is an interesting one and of go ;ral interest. A Chattanooga dispatch < ' Thursday, says: The South Tredegar ron and Nail works, one of the oldest pla ts of Chatta¬ nooga, but which has bee i practically idle for two years, has been sold to the Cardiff Land Company, and will be mov¬ ed to Cardiff, Tenn., in tt i very near future. The first intimatio of the deal was circulars issued by the Cardiff com¬ pany asking subscriptions c stock to the South Tredegar works. A Charleston dispatch of Friday, says: William Borncman, the ( narleston and New Orleans head of the *reat Russian cotton firm of Ivnoop & C i., has mystc riously disappeared, and a [ indications point to the fact that he co unfitted sui cidc by drowning. He left his house Thursday nignt, leaving Ins purse add watch and part of his lothing in his room. His family live n Bremen, his birth place. He was vict consul of the kingdom of Netherlands. A Sunday dispatch from San Antonio, says: The most successfu and extensive robbery that has taken pla :e in this city occurred Saturday night ’ 'hen burglars entered the dry goods establishment of Joske Bros., and blew open the safe, se¬ curing $3,000 in cash. $100 of the sum bring of the t-cent piece denomination. It is believed that the perpetrators are the same persons who a few nights ago robbed the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass railroad office at Hot ston of $3,000. A Jackson. Miss., dispai chsays: James and Ira Baiker, cousins of Rube Burrows, indicted ia the federal court for perjury Smith, committed on the trial of Rube in striving to prove an alibi lor him on the date of the Buckatnnna train rob¬ bery, were arraigned Monday. Jim Barker, the older, stated that he was the cause of his vounger brother’s action, and asked that the wholelpunishment dismissed be meted out to him. The court Ira's case and sentencad Jim Barker to two years ia the house *• correction. Thb new Masonic Tempi® in Chicago, IJ., the corner stone of which hviga- , 2* will he twenty stories an! c '- - m THE Thurman b A ANqu£ REGULAR OVATION TENDFe-n, “old bus, Thursday Ohio. was a great 5 day i flags, bunting The rit ,, „ £l , n Colin and flo w out i seventy-seventh anniversary the'-oia^H of Judge Thurman, the Democracy.” evening there At the were banaueft^M assemhJf 1 guests, democratic representing pwty. the The ableSf-’N den-r' the hall were marvels ' r t,ons e The wide hall of im™ Dg i)eant o was set wirh 3 hies, running east and S ’ Xte<?a entire west Cr0ss tl sixty five space, a dish ^ feet, while nation's!vi c cast side, under the VH t!l raised was arranged a long table 0Q ! c ' mi some twelve inch * ort sixty-live feet Was s rt a* tubl in length < accommodate, the ' S! ned 1 chosen to respond toas's" cm'neat " to fo!!o ing are a few of the most at’S ' r * . " the 1,000 guests seated 11 ® 1 ' ator board: McDonald, Ex-President of Clove’Ji ° “'**■ an 1 u Springer, of Illinois; Indiana- oT of New York; Thom as man, Congressma?o?w\° Judge New York; Judges Cline and Sanders Missouri 0 f c ait£ Congressman Mansur, of gressman-elect D. M. Lockwood of ? l falo; Gen. Thos. Ewi n <r 0 f nw ° h «>j«J a Peter O. Do,le, of Je » k \ ®^, nited States Soliehor-GeJ oral ridge. ofP^burg; Congressman Conmcssn,1 Breed en Wibon of ... West Kentucky; Virginia; 4 r CS i3 M. Jordan, of Cincinnati; cx-PostmastJ e General D P. Ayers, Don ot M. Fort Dickinson, Worth; of B. Michigan] F. Mo" of Birmingham, Ala.; re chairman Indiana C. M. Jewett com! mittee Indianapolis; Democratic State of Lawrence Gor aon of Washington D. C.; Governor elect Boyd, of Nebraska; Governor Jack son, of Maryland. As early as 7 o’clock banquettes begad to arrive just and 8 oclock take seats at the tables." If was when ex-President Cleveland and Judge Thurman entered the room. On their appearance, cheer after cheer arose from the enthusiastic audience. The band struck up “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and all remained standing till the close. Then at a signaU sank from into the their chairman seats the the vast festive multitude] at board; and the banquet began. Seated at the speaker’s table were Allen G. Thurman, Grover Cleveland, John J. Lentz, chair¬ man of the Thurman club; Allen W. Thurman, Joseph Outhwaite, ex-Senator McDonald, ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson, Congressman Win. M. Wil¬ son, Congressman W. C. P. Breckiu ridge, Judge II. A. Harrison, General Ewing, Governor Nebraska, Jackson, Governor Boyd, of ex-Commissioner Coleman, Congressman W. M. Springer, of Illinois; George Ewing, Bishop Wat tersoD, ex Governor Bishop, ex-Solieitor General Jenks, Congressman O’Neill of Missouri, and Congressman Duburow, of Chicago. At the conclusion of the ban¬ quet the speaking began, responded by j “Our Guests” was to I Judge Thurman, the honored man of the occasion, in his own happy style. At the i conclusion of the judge’s address, three cheers were proposed and given with a good will, for the Old Roman. Toastmaster Outhwaite,then introduced ex-President Cleveland, who made a bril¬ liant and ringing speech to the toast of “Citizenship of America.” The other toasts and speakers in Relation were: to “The Democratic Party Thomas Future Public Economy”— Gen. EV McDonald. “The Fenate”—Ex-Senator Bar”—Hon. E. A “The Early Ohio IlfUTlSOU Statesman” Senator “The American — C America”—Hon. Yi.C. “Democracy in P. Breckeu ridge. Representatives , -ton-, , “The House of gressmrn Wilson, of West "Virginia. -Dot, “The Democracy of the Future’ M. Dickinson. Ohio.’’-Governor Camp- „ “The State 0 f bell. addresses A number of extempore also made. Letters air eo * were 1 of congratulation and regrets 0 * ■ to be present were read from ex-commander-m-chief 0 « P. Rea, of the Repubhc- Geneml Grand Army Early, Henry W Ben Butler, John A. d' C. S. Thomas, of Denver; Gove. nor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, and oL BOSTON TAKING HOLD TO ESTABLISH A KOfH A PL AN ON FOOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSUMPTIv A P”’ iXSiTXH U-ja '“a S Berlin, where he had an °Pi»dunit isinup I investigate the new cure for co ^ is about to take active step* of to th r . if .j a hospital for the, reception TheDjn P filleted with .he disease. ^ inoculation is on the way ^ STSftrt-Uboc-s have been com dicftf P^ atlv pH 0 u hand for members of the mft fession who will use it. _ WHY HE CAME. D Landlady advised (delightedly) you to c - ^ j ? he Curenone under treatment, ..yes; I’m said I must avoid ovcrcatm-
