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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1891)
5> I J ril_____ * c hi ll A r j $11 Ss 4th 5S*s / t? 1 a I 3 | I T: -.• ZT" % v <1 j y / w Wi 4 gsffSi’ KD '1 n THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRI NCIPLE: “EQUAL R IGHTS TO ALL MEN AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO N E 1 ’ 1 - y TV A. her 26 )WN. , the .-social, iCALANP business would I f() WRITE about. Lopk Enrnnc of America summer who E" every $110, | the least estimate to see,-osights. Where L i s it that this small Lf sight-seers get all this L throw away? of Suppose was U L sum money for the United States hue purposes that it was awa v abroad. It would | a bad idea, if it could be to put a tax of onethous- 3 H xrs on people who feel ) make a European trip. * * * er 25 years buying every manufactured iu dif states we find ourselves 1 bankrupt, ignorant in ill of making what goods ed, and entirely defense tnd helpless against the and trusts that are form obtained unjust rates of st and high prices for manufactured by our pen at the north. Buy ; v r when you have the o pay; diversify your crops [slant iorse rive acres of cotton to and never advance a d another cent. You are lisle to use his labor if you lot pay him at the close of day. * * * ' dll be interesting to the ff dippers” to know that lard the great snuff man is i millions and millions of •sand the most of his mou¬ rn contributed by the poor jople of the government. * # buckle Bros, who have roasting ffee for you 1} on a credit, are only p about $50,000,000. The [you buy the richer they * * * f I state’s appropriation of U,000,000 for education M g° to the counties in the V way, on the condition p every $1,(>00 the white pod schools receive the p liaise country one-half school of district such P a s it will receive from fte- pmty If reel the the town or any interest in penal ifckcd matters, by this sim they could forcibly »le their interest in edu- 1 have good school houses pacheis and the cash to ■ teachers good salaries. ■ hie negroes have such ■ become educated as is lu from certain sources ■u have an opportunity . pirate 4 their desires by P. "'T-half of the state’s F&tion with their own pnerwise f they could learn and industrious f psie ot themselves walls of outside of the school * * * Mo the white voters of L) ln wns and eoun vote rv I >l against the free ozn as it now is or for * * * re is 110 excellence with K)r , Sffid this truth is fully ®JC(1 jjj e 7 er > r community st k Au° baTe »Od„ ' " or Li** ^ 6 *- People they b ecom© are at Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, August 1. 1891. work, and are always ready for what success comes their way. * *- -X The wheat growers of the west have called a great meet¬ ing at Indianapolis to advise as to the best method to keep their wheat off the market so as to get high prices for. The farm¬ ers of the south who are en¬ slaved to cotton, negroes, mules guano, western wheat, meat, and corn on credit will have to wake up to the situation, plant peas, corn, wheat, and oats and let negroes and cotton go. * •X- * The poor, helpless, defense¬ less peodle of the sputh have managed for the last 25 years to buy everything that has been offered to them on credit, and now when one of our sub¬ jects die we are only able to furnish the “ corpse and the hole in the ground.” Every¬ thing else that pertains to the funeral comes from abroad. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Develoinnent in the Week lending July 25. Chattanooga, July 27. —The Tracies man, in its weekly review for the week ending July 25, reports 44 new indus¬ tries, 11 enlargements, 11 new buildings and 16 new railroads, including 1 dum¬ my line and 2 street car lines. Among the most important new industries es¬ tablished as reported to the Tradesman, are the following: Brick works at Dil¬ lon, S. C., brick and tile works at Elora, Tenn., and brick and terra cotta works with $100,000 capital, at Louisville, Ky., coal and coke companies at Glendale, W. Va., and Louisville, Ky., the latter capitalized at $300,000, cotton gins at Tirzah and Clio, S. C., and New Berne, N. C., development companies at Fair¬ mont, W. Va., capital $600,000, and at Greensboro, N. C., electric lighting plants at High Point, N. C., and Wheel¬ ing, W. Va,, the latter to cost $80,000, and an electrical company with $1,000. 000 capital at Alexandria, Va. Flouring mills will be erected at Mo¬ bile, Ala., Petersburg, Tenn., and Little Rock, Ark., foundries and machine shops at Dalton, Ga., and Louisville, Ky., an ice factory and, coal company with $100,000 capital at Richmond, with Va., an ice, light and power company Charles, La., the same capital and at electric Lake and a lighting power com¬ pany at Charleston, S. C.. Smelting works at Plot Springs, Ark., with $250, 000 capital, a gold mining company at Llano, Tex.; quarries at Cloverdale, Va., and a factory for the manufacture of cotton seed products at Memphis, Term., are also reported. A phosphate company has been chartered at Coving¬ ton, Ky.. with $70,000 capitol, tanneries are to he built at North Cove, N. C., and Pittsburg, Tenn., a cotton and woolen mill at Charlotte, N. C., capital $125,000, a cotton mill at Lexington, and S. C., knitting mills at Attaila, Ala., mill Norfolk, Va., and a wool scouring at San Angelo, Tex. Water works will tie established at Honey Grove, Texas, and Smith’s Grove, Ky. A woodworking plant lumber at Birmingham, Ala., a boom W. and Va., lum¬ company ber at Parkersburg, Ark., and companies at Prescott, Williston, Ala., a cooperage at Harvey, La., and Tallapoosa, Ga., and saw mills will be bnilt at Arcadia, La., and Still more, Ga., the last to cost $40,000. Atlanta, Railroads are chartered at Augusta, McRae and Savannah, Front Ga., Conroe, Royal, Texas, Crow, W. Va., Va., Houston, Miss., Lenoir’s and Nashville., Tenn., Little Rock, Ark., und Mariana, Fla., a dummy line at Buford, Ga., and street car lines at Hot Springs, Ark., and Shreveport, La. $60,000 A university building costing will be built at DeLaiui, Fla., an $80,000 office building at Chattanooga, Tenn., school buildings at Charleston, W. Va., Norfolk, Va., and Griffin, Ga., and an opera house at Corsicana, Texas. The People’s Party to Bnle. Sulphur Springs, Tex., July 30. Senator Peff'er was orator at che farm¬ er’s encampment here. More than 4,000 people were present. Peffer wanted the government to loan people money at 1 per cent, to lift $9,000,000 mortgages, and to pull the teeth and close thc mouth of the red dragon in Wall street. He proposed to do this with the fiat journey issued directly to the people who had mortgaged their lion*. HLs speech lasted two hours, and he closed by saying the People's party would finally elect the if the president, congress and senate, and supreme court was not with them they would make an¬ other. THE TENNESSEE Con v let Lease System Probably to too BrongUl Into Court. Nashville, July 20. —The chancee are good for the convict lease system to get into the courts. Attorneys here have been investigat¬ ing closely to see if there are grounds by which the lessees can be prevented from sub-letting the convicts. They are to have help from a Memphis lawyer. George Turner is expected from that city, who comes for the purpose of see¬ ing what can be done towards enjoining the lease of convicts for mine work. An interesting question is now raised. Chancellor Henry Gibson is the man who made the violent speech against the lease system last week. Many per¬ sons say the speech was not only ill timed but inciting and revolutionary. Gibson is chancellor’ of this division, which includes Anderson county, where the minfes are situated. In view of the fact that be has taken Such a violent stand against the lease system, the question is raised whether or not he is competent to act as judge is the pro¬ posed injunction proceedings. It is considered a forgone conclusion that he will grant the injunction if the proceedings are brought before him. Already there is talk of in impeachment legisla¬ proceedings against him the ture, and the present question excites much interest. GRAVE CONCERN FELT In Germany Over the Franco-Rusalan Alliance. London, July 29.—A Berlin dispatch says the enthusiastic reception of the French fleet ac Ci’onstadt is almost the sole topic of discussion in that city, and occasionally is viewed with seriousness very different from the ridicule formerly heaped on the efforts of France to win the good will of Russia. The decidedly warlike aspect about everything con¬ nected with the affair, which has aroused no little anxiety in the highest quarters. Coupled with the Cronstadt frater¬ nizing is the n^ws of Russia’s remarka¬ ble preparations in the strengthening lines of of her army and fleet while new railway are being rapidly' constructed that, when completed, will enable Rus¬ half sia to mobilize within a fortnight a million men on the Austrian frontiers. The general opinion is that Russia will not attack either Germany or Austria, but will, when ready, march directly on Constantinople. A CALL IN MISSISSIPPI For a State Convention of AntLSuto treasury Allianeemen. Jackson, July 29.—W. S. McAllister, by authority vested in him as a member of the Southern Anti-Subtreasury League, recently held at Fort Worth, Tex., issued a call for a state conven¬ tion to be held in this city, August 19, to send delegates to a national conven¬ tion of AUianeeinen who oppose the subtreasury scheme and third party. The call invites all opposed denounces to Macunisin and corruption, and the po¬ litical lepers who are seekieg to divert the order from its true course. Mr. McAllister also promulgated Tennessee, a letter from McDowell of written in December last to Middleton, a prominent Texas Allianceman named in which he says M amine was whitewashed at Ocala. Banted a line! with tlie Kmperor. Berlin, July 28. — A man named Guerther recently arrived in this city from New York with the announced in¬ tention of challenging the emperor of Germany to fight a duel Guerther’s relatives, who are people in an influ¬ ential position, caused him to be closely watched by detectives in order to pre¬ vent the man from getting relatives into trouble. Finally the visitors were com¬ pelled to have him confined in an insane asylum. _________ Cars Made of Steel. Chicago, July 28.—A special train of five cars constructed entirely of steel are on exhibition at the Chicago and Northern Pacific passenger station in this city. Tlii3 is looked upon by some as the first sign of a revolution in rail¬ way car building. It is claimed the cars neither cost nor weigh more than old style, while being in practically wreck. inde¬ structible by fire or a Bucc»l ver of a IXfunct Hank. Anniston, Ala., July 28.—Judge Cas sady, of the Anniston city court, ap¬ pointed Captain A. P. Agee receiver of the defunct Anniston This Saving and Safe Deposit company. was done at the request of the depositors, who held two or three meetings last week to de¬ vise some way for obtaining amounts due them. Captain Ageris bond was fixed at $20,000. KANSAS DEMOCRATIC EDITORS Present an Important Political Address to the People. Kansas City, July 28.—A Star’s To¬ peka special says that about thirty-five memhe.es of the Democratic Press asso¬ ciation of Kansas, assembled here in convention. The committee appointed to prepare an address to the people of the slate has completed their work. The address expresses sympathy with any body of persons seeking reform and contending against the existing evils in laws and the administration of the gov¬ ernment, one of the questions which is interesting farmers at present. The address says: "We believe in abolishing the in¬ iquities of class legislation in tariff leg¬ islation. We believe in the return to the financial system of the country prac¬ ticed from the foundation of the gov¬ ernment to the year 1879*. We believe in the abolition of the bankruptcy sys¬ tem. We believe in a vigorous and wholesome control of the transportation system of the country. loaning To those who favor the governmental the of money on products o; soil, wo quote the maxim by one of the founders of government: " The govern¬ ment must not become a banker. ” We oppose governmental purchase of rail¬ roads. but we believe in legislative con¬ trol of the interests of the people whose chartered servants they are. We em¬ phatically oppose the proposition surplus for the government to purchase the products of the soil as being a plain ad violation of the constitution. The minist ation of President Harrison, of the senate in upholding Senator Quay, and the McKinley tariff law were strongly denounced. ” In conclusion, the address makes a strong appeal to tlie Democrats of the state to perfect their organizations and stand fast to Democratic doctrines. The scheme of a fusion with the Peo¬ ple’s party is not endorsed or advised. RYAN IN JAIL. Atlanta's Dry Goods Prince Who Failed Recently, lluh 1ml the Bars. Atlanta, July 28.—Stephen A. Ryan, the Atlanta dry goods prince who failed recently for over $1,000,000, is now oc¬ cupying a prisoner’s cell in the Fnlton county jail, having been sent there by Judge Gober for contempt of court. Judge Gober, in his decision, held that Mr. Ryan has cash assets in his possession which must be handed over to the receiver. Mr. Ryan holds out that he has turned over all t he assets in his former custody or control, and that he will not pay the $120,490.71 ordered to he handed in by the court. The judge says lie must remain behind the bars until he lias done so. The order produced a profound sensa¬ tion in the court room and has been the topic of conversation throughout the city. Mr. Ryan’s eyes flashed a little, but he betrayed no other emotion when he was placed in the hands of the sheriff. A number of his friends have already called on him at the jail, and Ms time is being spent very pleasantly. Besides expressing bis rag vets at not being able to attend the coming game of baseball he has had nothing to say relative to his situation, only that he was right and proposed to fight it out. His attorneys have gone to work to secure his release aud say they will have him out in a short while. A FATHER ARRESTED For the Murder of a Sou Missing Slnre Way. Charleston. S. C., July 28.—While a party of men were hunting rabbits in the suburbs of Aiken, this state, the dogs left the trail and began scratching some newly upturned earth. A human skull was unearthed, and further exam¬ ination showed that a body had been buried in the pit. The body was that of Matthew Johnson, a 15-year-old boy who has been missing since May. Gn several occasions he run away from home, and his tocher tout threatened to kill him if he ran away again. The father has been arrested. A WHITE WOMAN SLswrles a N*-gro Not Knowing He Was Colored. Lima, O., July 29.—Six weeks ago Iiftander Swayne and Rosa Rink were married. Rosa is a prepossessing young white woman, and recently had no reason to believe but her husband was a white man, tut a few days ago some of her neighbors began tantalizing her about living with a colored mam, and showeu Mr a photograph which was taken with Swayne and a number of colored men m a group. Swayne would neither deny nor affirm the charge that there was 'African blood in hia veins, and they separated, Mrs. Swayne going to the home of her parents in St. Mary’s, She »aya she will sue for a divorce. Price per Year, $1*00 PLUNDERING AND RIOTING* Anti lleai’i Caused by firtat Wswt lu Kussla. London., July .10. —A St. Petersburg dispatch states that the greatest misery exists in Bessarabia, curing to the fail¬ ure of tue harvest and the scarcity of food. In the village of Koushanv the people broke out in a riot and plundered ■‘hops of provisions. The. local police tried to iv ■!;:■. tin them and were badly beateu and on. of their number killed. Reinforcements are arriving from the town of Bender. The rioters were dis¬ persed and a large number made pris¬ oners. Two prisoners were knouted to death in the public street as a warning to their late companions, and dx were selected for immediate depor.ation to Neisberia. The wives and children of the exiles are not permitted to speak to is them before departing, and nothing spared likely to strike terror into the unhappy peasantry. GREAT DAMAGE DONE. A Cloudburst That Floods a Town m Nov ad at. Austin, July 30.—This town has been visited by a cloudburst, and reat dam¬ age was done. Waters rushing from the summit of the mountains came down Main street, wave over wave, carrying everything before it. including boulders weighing over a ton. The city railway was torn from its bed, awnings torn down and water mains uprooted from three feet uud -rground. A ma¬ jority of the business houses are filled with th^ee or four feet of mud. The streets present the appearance of a vol¬ canic eruption. The damage is £10,000. The waters receded in three hours, but the indications are that another flood will come, and the people are ready to flw to the hills at a moment's notice. LASHED IN THE WOODS. A Woman Haill; lleatnn hy a ftot. of. Cow¬ ardly Men. Raleigh, July 30. --Reports have just reached here of an outrage perpetrated in Granville county, near Grissom post office, a low rights ago, by a party of men c.Jiiag themselves White CV,p.j. Rumor is to the effect that fifteen masked men. armed with pistols, visited the house of a woman named Mary Al¬ len, who lived alone with her son. and carried her to the woods, w *-o'they whipped her nearly to death. .• ce was at the time in the house \ ; to her brother-in-law, named Henry M rritt, and the masked men returned and lx-tat him also, terribly lacerating his ho.ly. No explanation of the conduct of the men has reached here. It is reported that thirteen parties were arrend, hut proved alibis. ONE AFTER THE OTHER. Two Coliiaiou* Haugen on t!;** S’iueiiiJi&ti Southern in Ktmtur'U'V* Louisville. July 30.— : Two eol' i non*, one after the other, have ocuh. red on the Cincinnati Southern, m ar High Bridge, Ky. In the first, two freight trains came together, resulting in the killing of one of the engineers and tlie wrecking of a number of cars. A wrecking train starred from Lex¬ ington to the scene, but Ltd only gone six miles when it met a taro:ugh freight, and another and worse coil idea ami wreck resulted. Wm. McKinley, a fireman, was killed. Both engines ware destroyed, and fourteen cars were re¬ duced to kindling. PEOPLE ARE DYING In Vulbynla Fatter Train They Can Be Interred. London, July 80.—Vienna dispatches speak of the spread of typhus fever and other diseases in Vnihynia. In some places so many have died that the living were unable to bury them, and ihe pro¬ vincial government had to detail per¬ sons from tlie jails to perform the duties of interment. The Russian aurhorrtiee spare no effort to prevent the truth from being known across the frontier in Austria, but some of the t rrible facts leakorl out nevertheless. ixiafe l)klu*t IlHCJtpe. Henderson, Ky.. July 31.— David King, the brutal hus’oand who was taken from jail at Dixon, Webeter county, Tuerglay, did not escape, wet reported. King was taken a few mike out from Dixon, and after being hanged, was riddled vith bullets, and them buried in the woods. His oompsaiao. was whipped until he fainted from the ioes of blood. He w;«s then reeuci Jawed and turned h>oae. Tlie mob m.vde tt a condition of his reteaae toat be suouia .. spread the story of King’s escape, winch he did.
