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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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,
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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.”
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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 .
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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.’’
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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.
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WHY HE CAME. D
Landlady advised (delightedly) you to c - ^ j ? he
Curenone under treatment,
..yes; I’m
said I must avoid ovcrcatm-
