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THL WLEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1887.
THROUGH DIXIE.
Happening of a Weekin the Sun
ny Southland.
A MYSTERIOUS CASE IN TENNEEESS
GEORGIA,
Hon. M. O’Neal was bitten »|jew days ago,
while on his way to Mitchell county, by a
veuemous spider. The ugly reptile got into
the leg of his sock and bit him on the ankle,
lie suffered great agony from it,and the ankle,
leg and foot was badly swollen. Ho is limp
ing around today.
Tueday Henry [Feagin, of Feagin, Houston
county, was iu the city, and a Constitution
reporter had a short talk with him.
"How’s that brag cotton patch of vours?”
queried the scribe.
“Well, it yielded very well. I have not got
quite all out of the field yet, but I have secured
one thousand pounds of lint off the acre,
making what is fully equivalent to two heavy
bales per acre.”
“How is your crop, generally, Mr. Feagin?”
“Very fair. Including my wage hands,
which I consider my own crop, I have made
seventy bales off the 115 acres, making about
two-thirds of a bale per acre.”
“What is the character of your soil ?”
“It is sandy. What they call a light gray
soil, on which cotton grows off very freely, as
well as other crops.”
“Do you use guano?”
"No, I find it more profitable and economical
to use a compost, such as I make at home. By
this I mean cotton seed, stable manure, ferti
lizer from my cow lot, and other things. I
find, that on my lands, this is far preferable to
any manipulated guano that I can get.”
"Yon fertilize heavily?”
"Oh, yes. It is no use for a man to try to
make cotton unless he does so. On my prize acre
I fertilized heavily, both in the drill and broad
cast.”
The monthly meeting of the Farmer’s alli
ance assembled at Newnan last Thursday
afternoon with closed doors. Their meetings
and proceedings were kept a profound secret.
About two hundred members were present,
half of whom wore delegates from the various
clubs in the county. Their meeting was not
ar all harmonious. There is dissension in the
tanks, and, perhaps,like the grangers they will
soon disorganize. Their object, it seems, is to
drive out all competition by electing one mer
chant in a town to do all their buying, and
one warehouseman to sell their cotton. Ono
month ago they selected J. B. Mount & Co.,
a Jewish firm who have recently located here,
as their merchant, and G. A. Broom as their
sole warehouse man. Merchants who have
been carrying the farmers from year to year for
the past quarter of a century, and to whom the
farmers were indebted for this and last year’s
supplies, felt cut by the desertion of their form
er customers, and especially for going to
another store and paying cash while they were
indebted to them.
This brought about a conflict between mer
chants and farmers, and the result is both
sides are putting on a bold front. The mer
chants were forced to organize
in self defense, the object of which
is to sell to no member of the alliance
except for cash, and stop all credit to their
members. There is certainly some foundation
for the grievances of the farmers, but all their
ills do not flow from the middlemen. It takes
all the capital and credit of the merchants of
Newnan, Grantville and Senoia to carry the
farmers annually, and there is now a half mil
lion dollars on the books of the Newnan mer
chants due by their country customers.
All this trouble has been brought about by a
man who says he is from Texas, and who has
been in Georgia since last June organizing
new clubs. He gets from six to nine dollars
for every club he organizes, and three dollars,
half the fee of the local organizer, on all sub
sequent clubs. Since Juno ho has organized
over one hundred of such clubs in Georgia,
getting at least 51,000 for the same, without
conferring any material benefits. It is true he
gives them tho pass-word and also the grip
which admits members into the mystic con
clave, but that is their chief benefit so far.
Every farmer with legislative or congres
sional aspirations is prompt at all their meet
ings and loud in their denunciations of
the merchants. Their declaration of principle,
would rival the creed of Mohamet and excite
the envy of Confucius in his dream of a per
fect state of felicity for mankind. It sounds
like extracts from Plato and Socrates, and
takes on the touch of the ideal. In fact their
declaration of principles, if carried out, would
revolutionize our entire system of government,
shutting out all competition, placing the com
merce between the producer and manufacturer
in the hands of one man, closing up all stores,
save their own, and settling all disputes by
arbitration, thereby compelling the lawyers to
return to the plow. Everything is to bo in
common, the misfortune of one member
shall be shared by all. They are to have bet
ter churches, better pastors, better school
houses and more efficient teachers. All legis
lation —state, county and national —shall * be
for their exclusive benefit. If one has a poor
crop, or fails to work it as well as his neighbors,
his brother members are to make it up to him.
Their declaration of principles seem to be the
theories of Henry George boiled down, spiced
with socialism and flavored with extracts of
grangerism.
Two members in this county have already
declared themselves, so I learn, as candidates
for tho legislature. They expect to ride into
power upon the blinded zeal of their deluded
brothers.
Thursday they endeavored to get a newmer
chant to take the place of J. B. Mount & Co.,
and appointed a committee to get bids from
several merchants in Newnan, Senoia and
Grantville, but our leading merchants refused
to bid either for cash or otherwise. Tho com
mittee require tho merchants to show them
their invoices and allow tho alliance to say
what shall be their soiling figures.
This our merchants decline to do.
The alliance members who are able,
refuse to be responsible for tho debts
of the less fortunate members, which will work
a hardship on tho poorer members, who have
neither cash, collaterals nor credit. It will also,
at the same time, place our younger merchants
and smaller dealers in a clo o place. They are
doing no country trade, scarcely, and unless a
change comes soon, business failures will be
the result.
The farmers of Warren county have organ
ized as the Warren County Agricultural Alli
ance.
The Carroll County Times says there are
about twenty-five lodges of the Farmers’ Al
liance in Carroll, and that they have selected
one house to trade with.
On Wednesday last a difficulty occurred be
tween Mr. Thomas Brown and Mr. J. A. Rob
son, on the Bynum place, in Washington coun
ty, about the right of possession and the crop,
resulting in the shooting at Mr. Robson by Mr.
Brown, with a gun, and missing him. Brown
was agent for Mr. W. R. Thigpen, who had
bought the place for the Corbin hanking com
pany, at tho sheriff’s sale when the property
was sold by Robson’s bondsmen. Robson
claims the place as trustee for his children, and
was gathering the crop, and disputed the right
of Brown.
There was a large gathering of /armors at
Norwood at the meeting appointed to discuss
the question of lessening tho farmer’s ex
pense*. Farmers from all over Warren and
adjoining counties were present. The meet
ing was very enthusiastic, and several rousing
speeches were made. Hon. T. N. Fool was
uncommonly eloquent. The meeting was or
ganized under the name of the “Farmers’
Union," with the purpose of finding some way
by which to cheapen the cost of the farmer’s
supplier. Twenty-four hundred bales of cot
ton were pledged by reliable men upon which
to raise monev to buy supplies at cash prices
from first hands, thus saving the enormous
percentage charged on goods bought on time.
The following officers were elected: W. W.
Swain, president; N. L. Evans, vice-presi
dent; O. C. Lowe, secretary; I’.M. Hill, treas
urer; advisory board, E. R. Wilson, J. V.
Hall, T. N. Pool, J. H. Hall, AV. 11. Pilcher.
Constitution and by-laws were also adopted.
Tho meeting adjourned until the 21th inst.
Saturday United States fish commission car
No. 1 arrived from Atlanta at 10; 15 via the
East Tennessee road, and was side-tracked
near the depot. This morning about 11
o’clock J. Franklin Ellis, of the Smithsonian
Institute, had 1,000 carp put into the Octnul
gee river, Hi* assistant carried them iij a tin
bneket, and lowered the bucket, by means of
rupee, from the center of the city bridge, thus
dumping tho fish In the middle of the river.
One rope was tlod to the top of the bucket and
auotlier to the bottom, and when the bucket
was lowered to the surface of the river.
tho top rope was let loose, and the
bottom ropo was then given a jerk
which overturned tho bucket, throwing the
fish into the river, and the bucket was then
drawn up to the bridge and returned to tho
car. These carp aro from one to six inches in
length, and in a sound, healthy condition.
Mr. Ellis has been to Macon before and put
fish, shad, etc., in the Ocmulgee.
Pink , Bowen, an orderly colored wo
man, wife of Elbert Bowen, died at her home
near Gray's Station on the tliili instant. Her
first husband, Butler Graves, killed in a bar
room in 1883, was said to have been tho tallest
man ever buried in Macon, and was noted,
while living, for possessing almost herculean
strength. He was porter at Smith & Iver
son’s when killed, When the measure for his
coffin was brought to undertaker J. J. Clay,
the latter thought it was a jest, for the stick
reached almost to the ceiling. When assured
there was no joko in it his eyes bulged out on
steins and he was figuratively paralyzed.
The intelligence has just reached us of avery
serious difficulty which occurred near Chaly
beate Springs Saturday evening between
Messrs. Jack Mitchell a'nd William Phelps.
The dispute arose about some cotton, when
Phelps gave Mitchell thelie. Mitchell proceed
ed to at tack Phelps and was knocked back by
Phelps with a stick, and upon steadying him
self ho (Mitchell) drew a revolver and fired
two or three shots at Phelps, one ball taking
effect in his left breast and passed almost
through his body, and was extracted from his
back by Dr. Campbell. Phelps is seriously, if
not mortally wounded.
A gentleman in brass buttons and police
man’s badge was in Cuthbert on
Wednesday night, and registered as A. S.
Baker, Atlanta, Ga. He was here for the
purpose of conducting a couple of negroes re
cently sentenced for cow-stealing to tho place
assigned thorn by the proper authorities, and
while waiting for the arrival of his train told
tho following story to a Constitution corres
pondent and others.
About two months ago he was sent to one of
the lower counties for a negro convict who had
been previously sentenced to the chaingang,
and had worked awhile, made his escape and
was recaptured. The negro was far above the
average in intelligence and shrewdness, was
a clover talker and had the faculty of telling
things in such a straightforward manner as to
impress one with its correctness. During the
return trip the prisoner stated to Officer Baker
that if he would return with him to a certain
point down below Albany ho would conduct
him to a spot in a deserted old field where a
short time before his first arrest he had buried
$1,165.75. He was willing to return hand
cuffed and a prisoner, but upon the delivery
of the burled treasure to be given his freedom.
He stated every point so clearly, giving the
amount in bills, silver and gold, so accurately,
and described the locality and conditions un
der which he was led to deposit in the earth
such a ‘large sum of money so forcibly, that
the officer was considerably taken with the
story.
It was also known to him that a short time
before the conviction of the negro there was a
gang of thieves going through that portion of
the state, breaking into dwellings, stores, and
blowing open safes and that they succeeded
upon several occasions in securing a deal of
booty. He thought over the story constantly
and the more ho thought of it the treasure
grew larger and tho prospects brighter. Os
course he could not “ 'bout face” and sift the
matter at once nor did tho negro get any con
solation in regard to tho requests for absolute
freedom after locating the money, but when
they reached Atlanta, Officer Baker laid the
matter before Captain English, giving that
gentleman a detailed account of the secret im
parted to him en route.
It made Captain English’s eyes open too,
and he at once promised to sift the matter to
•the bottom. As yet nothing has been said
publicly by the parties, and they contemplate
arranging a trip at an early date to the spot.
The temptation is a big one will be a
couple or more of disappointed gentlemen
should tho story prove a hoax.
ALABAMA.
For several months past, two Mormon
elders from Utah have been seeking converts
in |the country around Birmingham among
the ignorant country people. They wore very
successful, and have baptized a number of
converts. Thuesday, while the two elders.
Mower and Lee, were conducting a meeting
in a log school house, fifty armed men sur
rounded the house, and dragged them from
the pulpit. The mob carried them some dis
tance in the woods, threatening to hang them,
but finally released them on their promise to
leave tho county at once. Certain death was
promised them if they ever returned.
The two elders left the neighborhood leav
ing their converts behind.
A tiro broke out in Birmingham Wednesday
and destroyed the buildings on the west side from
Church to Lafayette streets. The business houses
of Warner, Harris & Watkins, Dows & Burleson,
Crane & Brodlx, Mux, Cohn, Houston & Murphy, E.
L. Yons and M. Cartwright were burned. A portion
of the stock of goods of the merchants burned out
was saved. The loss is estimated at SCO,OOO.
The strike of 200 miners at Coalburg this
week has not been settled, and it is probable
that all the free miners in this section, about
5,000 men, will bo ordered out. W. J. Bailey,
a member of the general executive board of
Knights of Labor, is in the city, and the minors
have called on him to settle their trouble with
the Coalburg company. Bailey called out
President Johnson, and asked for a conference.
Johnson sent him to Superintendent Lutarler,
who agreed to a conference, but failed to keep
his appointment. In an interview today,
Bailey is reported to have said that unless the
Coalburg company agreed to a compromise, all
the free miners working in mines where con
victs are employed would be ordered out, and
the Knights of Labor would find them employ
ment elsewhere. Tho Coal burg company
works about 400 convicts, and tho only effect
of the strike of tho 200 free miners is to reduce
their output. Since tho organization of the
Knights of Labor in this section there has been
a most constant trouble among the miners, and
a general strike lias long been anticipated.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Saturday Senator Vance, while riding in a
road wagon, on a narrow road leading to his
residence, near Black mountain, was thrown
out, and, falling on his head, received a cut
about three inches long reaching to tho bone.
Dr. John A. Watson, of Asheville, was sum
moned by telegraph and reached the senator
early Sunday morning. He dressed the wound
and left him in a satisfactory condition. Tho
injury, though severe, is not dangerous.
The mayor of Anderson, is making it exceedingly
hot for violatera of the prohibition law In that city
Within the last two weeks, John O’Donnell, an ex
bark< eper, has been convletcd live times of selling
whisky, and In each case sentenced to pay a fine of
£lO9, or work thirty days on the streets. About a
dozen more cases against O’Donnell will be tried by
the mayor tomorrow. Thirteen other persons have
been convicted on the same charge during the past
two weeks, tlieir fines aggregating thirteen hundred
dollais. Mayor Tolley says he is determined to stop
the sale of whisky lu Anderson, as lung as the law
prohibits it.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Gen. W. N. Taft, ex-postmaster of Charles
ton, and tho leader of the remnant of tho re
publican party in this state, has become de
mented. Ho went to Charleston with a Rhode
Island regiment soon after the close of the war,
and has lived there ever since. He engratiated
himself with the negroes, and took a promi
nent part iu politics. Being a man of more
than ordinary ability, ho was elected to a num
ber of public offices. He is the last prominent
representative of tho radical carpet-bag ele
ment in South Carolina, and his illness means
the end of republicanism in the palmetto
state.
Captain Fred D. Bush and Charles B. Walker
passenger agents of tho great McKenzie route to
Arkmsas and Texas, lert here this evening In
charge of a party of seventy-five white people from
Anderson and Oconee counties, bound i<>r Jeilursou,
n special co aches, through without change.
Thursday while tho clerks in W. G. John,
son’s store, at Lancaster, were waiting upon a
crowd of customers, Dick Belk, tho colored
porter, slipped into the office and stole from
tho desk a tin box containing 8625. Ho hand
ed it out the back door to William Wallaac,
his brother-in-law, who carried it off and con
cealed it. Dick, being suspected, was urrosted
At first he denied the charge, but finally con
fessed. Wallace was hunted up and made to
surrender the box, the contents of which were
found to be intact. The two thieves wore
given the choice of being prosecuted, or giving
each other fifty lashes on the bare back.
They chose tho latter alternative. A stout
cowfdde whip was procured, the culprits wore
taken Into the back of the store, and compelled
to strip to tho waist, whilst the clerks stood by
and saw that tlie punishment was administered
stxuiUy Ui accordance with tho agreement.
This sight was a novel one, and almost every
stroke of the lash drew tho blood from the
backs of the thieves, whoso howls and cries
for mercy could bo heard for squares around.
A special from Charleston says: "The regis
tration for tho municipal election closed Tues
day with a rather startling result, the tolal
vote being 10,785, against 7,017 in 1883. The
increase is largely in the negro vote. Tho
white vote is 4,072, against 4,517 in 1883. The
colored vote is 4,861, against 3,506 in 1883. Tho
total white majority is only fifty-seven, against
2,005 in 1883. Things look a little squally, but
tho democrats are confident of electing* their
straight ticket. Tho united labor party will
probably put a ticket in the field, and this will
consolidate tho democrats.”
TENNESSEE.
Five colored laborers on the extension of the
Nashville, Florence and Sheffield railroad were
killed by being buried in a mass of rocks and earth,
loosened by an explosion of charges of dynamite in
a side ent on a road bed. The fatality occurred near
Waylaud springs, and wss the result of a misunder
standing. The foreman had sent his hands away to
a place of safety, with orders not to return until ho
sent forthem. He, with one or twoother hands, re
mained to charge tho holes in the rocks and tire tho
fuses. By some misunderstanding five of his hands
came back iu the cut just below the facing, where
the blasting was to be, and instantly tonsof boulders
and earth were hurled in on them, burying them so
that they were not gotten out for forty-eiglit hours
There is a very mysterious case on
hands at Cleveland, A man arrived in
that placfo Friday night, wounded in tho left
leg, the ball entering the calf of his leg and
coming out of the heel. He was taken to a
hotel and subsquently removed to the residence
of a prominent citizen, where lie has been
kept from the public. This afternoon ho ad
mitted that he was marshal of a town in Ala
bama, and had killed a man while trying to
make an arrest, and had been removed to
Cleveland to escape mob violence. The mat
ter was placed in tho hands of officers, who im
mediately began investigating the truth of
tho story. The name is withhold until the
matter is sifted, and to prevent the where
abouts of the man from becoming known. Ho
says he was wounded in the log while trying
to make an arrest.
KENTUCKY.
A special from Louisville says: “The unveiling
ing of the monumeut of John C. Breckenridge
brought many people to tho city today. Represen
tatives of both federal and confederate armies took
part in the demonstrations. The exercises began
at 11 o’clock with prayer by Rev. Dr. J. J. Bullock,
formerly chaplain of the United States senate. Sen
ator James B. Heck gave a history of the monument
association. Edward V. Valentine delivered tho
statue to the association, and W. P. Breckenridge,
for the association, delivered it to the state. Gov
ernor Buckner received it on behalf of the state.
Colonel W. C. P. Breckenridge delivered un address,
instead of Hon. J. 8. Blockhurn, who was to have
spoken, of the life and services of Mr. Breckenridge.
FLORIDA.
No new cases of fever in Tampa Tuesday,
but one is reported two miles from that place.
There have been no deaths. The Duval county
board of health has withdrawn its quarantine
inspectors and certificates of health and resi
dence are no longer required of persons from
South Florida. The cordon around Tampa is
still maintained.
IN A SNAKE COUNTRY.
How a Nervous Man Saw a Startling Sigh
and Woke Up His Companions.
From the Lassen, Cal,, Mail.
There were fourteen of us engaged on a su r
veying expedition under Mr. Minto. There was an
old fellow and his boy in the crowd, both of whom
were sickly and were traveling for their health. The
sick man was deathly afraid of rattlesnakes, and
he had reason to be, for the woods were still of ’em.
One night the only place in which we could camp
was on the side of a hill, and wc laid our blankets
down. I found a bunch of grass, and laid with my
feet against it to prevent my rolling down the hill,
when I began to snore. I had a pair of gray blan
kets, and a black stripe extended from one end to
the other, and when I lay down my big toe stuck
out just at the place where the stripe ended, The
sick man and his boy lay near my feet. Tho ground
was covered with dry leaves, and every time any
body moved tho leaves rustled and the old man
would raise up and slowly look around, his eyes
sticking out so that you could have easily knocked
them off with a stick. He would lay down
quietly, after satisfying himself that no
snakes were around. At last came the
fatal rustle, up bounced the old man, he saw the
black stripe on my blanket; my toe moved about
the same time—alas that move was fatal to the toe.
With a yell that would have startled the fiends of
the infernal regions, he sprang to his feet, his kid
under his anns, but only for a moment did ho hold
the child; it landed thirty feet away among the
rocks; a club two and a half inches thick was
grabbed from tlie still smoldering embers of the fire,
it ascended aloft—‘that toe, oh, where was he?’ As
the club went down I went up, but it was too late.
I began to feel around for a pistol with which to
shoot everybody, but It was gone. Tho old muti
how I revere his memory—soon discovered his mis
take, and he danced around like a marionette;
Minto rushed up witli a bottle of painkiller, and
before I could tumble to his racket, he had poured
the lluid extract of lire into tlie gaping wounds. I
stood on one foot—the other was pointed toward
the moon. The old man felt bad, Minto felt bad, I
felt bad, we all felt bad—none of them felt worse
than I did—they could appreciate tho joko—more
than I. I repeated tlie “Lord’s Prayer.” I sang a
hymn; but all to no purpose. The sun rose iu tlie
morning—l should have done the sumo thing, but
as I bad accomplished th it feat several hours pre
vious, it was not necessary at this time. We tied
some sacks on my foot, and, hitched to a horse’s
tail, we moved camp.
After Thirty Years.
That tbs spino and brain aro intimately con
nected, all who have ever had spinal disease,
or who have witnessed tho sufferings ot any
one aillictcd with it, can attest. Tlie suffering
generally is of tlie keenest character, and
usually greatly prolonged. It scorns a mystery
how tho human frame can survive tho agonies
frequently endured, and one is led to wonder
if the body is not toughened in tho flame of
pain so that it is made capable to enduro more
pain. The Warren Republican, of Williams
port, Warren county, Indiana, printed the fol
lowing in August last:
“Rev. Colbrath Hall, of Pike, was in town
yesterday, looking hale and hearty. Ho re
ports the wonderful recovery of his wife within
tho last eighteen months, after being a confirm
ed invalid for over thirty years from spinal
trouble. She, about eighteen months ago,
began tlie uso of tlie Compound Oxygen Treat
ment, and attributes hor recovery to the use of
that medicine. She is now able to walk, get
into and out of the buggy, take rides, etc. All
acquainted witli Mr. Hall and his family, will
rejoice with them in this remarkable re
covery.”
In a letter dated West Lebanon, Indiana,
September 2,1885, Mrs. Sarah H. Hall wrote,
enclosing the article, and pronouncing it
correct.
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street, Philadelphia, Pa., for the last number
of Health and Line, which is sent free to ail
applicants; also tho treatise on Compound
Oxygen, a valuable little book es two hundred
pages.
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The English Sparrow.
From tie Fort Valley, Ga., Mirror.
We were asked by a gentleman one day this
week, “what has become of tho Edglish spar
row?” It is a little strange that two years
ago our town had a plentiful supply of these
pesky little creatures, and that now you can
scarcely ever see one on our streets. We no
tice, however, that they have not loft us en
tirely, and many may bo seen daily in tho
woods, and in yards where there is plenty of
shrubbery. As to why their change from town
to country, we cannot say, but they have done
so, and we do not regret it.
How E. Steiner of Temple Won n I’rize.
Something of‘a sensation was created yester
day morning by the announcement that a tenth
ticket which had won tho second capital price
of 850,000 in Tlie Louisiana State Lottery, in
tho drawing of Tuesday, was held by E.
Steiner, of the clothing and fnruishlng estab
lishmeiit of M. Schram, on Twelfth street.
Telegram* confirming tho good nows were re
ceived later in tho day and “Steiner” was the
recipient of congratulations on all sides. Tho
luoky ticket was 61,503, a tenth of which he
held .--Temple (Tex.) Weekly Times, Sep
tember 17th.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
To bo Urged as the Handmaiden
of Prohibition.
A NATIONAL PROHIBITION PARTY
Nashville, November 16.—Tlio National
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union mot
in Watkin’s bail at 10 o’clock with representa
tives from almost every state and territory.
For the first time Indiau Territory has sent its
representative. Mrs. Lido Merriwether,
president, of Tennessee, presided. .Upon tlie
platform were seated Mrs. Judge Thompson,
of Hillsboro, Ohio, mother of Hie crusade in
1883; I’undita Ramabai, vice-president of tlie
world’s W. C. T. U. for India, and officers of
tho National union. The hall is decorated
with beautiful banners and flowers. Mrs.
Hannah Whitehall Smith, lately returned
from England, opened tho convention with a
Bible reading on lovo. Before the crowning
event of convention—Miss Willard’s annual
address—tho entire front of tlie platform was
lined with representatives of tlio press, among
whom were Miss Catherine Cole of the New
Orleans Picayune, and Mrs. M. Helen Crane,
for the New York World. Perfect quietness
prevailed 'while Miss Willardjdelivered her
annual address, which was frequently inter
rupted by applause. In love, kindness and in
sympathy, in breadth of vision, and depth of
resolve, hor message to tho white ribbon
women cannot be excelled.
At the conclusion of tho address, Mrs.
Zorelda Wallace led in prayer, and then fol
lowed tho introduction of distinguished visi
tors of Nashville,and Dr. Tanner of Alabama.
Following is a synopsis of tl»e annual address
of Miss Frances E. Williard, president of tlio
National Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union:
Forty states and torrttorli's have sent 400 repre
sentatives to tlie metropolis of southern education,
northern housekeepers have crossed Mason and
Dixon’s line to clasp liaiuls with their sisters. No
surer token that eve are a nation has been given
since 1864. There are not enough anti-saloon re
publicans at tlie north to carry prohibition In a
single state that are now struggling to secure it; and
there are not enough anti-saloon democrats nt tho
south, has been proved In this memorable year of
our constitutional defeats; but there arc enough
temperance luon in both to take possession
of the government and give us national prohibi
tion in tho party of the near future, which
is to be a party of good. Miss Louise L. Smitli, of
Rhode Island, one of our evangelist veterans, has
proposed that we district the nation, giving to each
subdivision a leader of its own. 1 liorw hor plan
may be carefully considered. But my heart turns
with tender love and blessing toward the church of
Christ and prays for the time when herown hallow
ed ministers shall be so persuasive that outside soci
eties shall no longer prevail; when our legal work
shall broaden into Christian citizenship; our educa
tional efforts into a public kindergarten and indus
trial schools, whore hygiene shall be
tlio study earliest and longest taught;
when tho church shall welcome us to
all her councils, lay upon our heads her consecra
ting hands and claim for her own the voice that
speaks for Christ. Wo must work in tho manifest
destiny of tlio municipal ballot for women as a
means of enforcing the prohibitory law, and em
phasize more strongly titan before a notional
amendment which shall remove till legal disabili
ties from the daughters of tho republic. 1 believe
also that the prohibition ]>arty should strongly state
ns its ultimate alm two amendments to the na
tional constitution.
Tlio first calling for universal prohibition; the
second, enfranchising women; and that It should
carefully study the platforms, of labor
reformers, both Kinghts of Labor
and Grangers, that it may incorporate principles of
arbitration and co-oporation into Its own with any
others that seem to be based upon Christian ethics
and Christian brotherhood. Among these is most
assuredly involved equal wages as well as equal
moral standards for women and men; heavier pen
alties for crimes against women, the raising of tho
ago of protection to 18 years.
Tlie women's Temperance Publication association
last year published thirty milion pages—this year
over fifty millioh.
The total issue of the Union Signal for year 1,631,-
060 copies, an average of 31,428 copies per week.
Our four iwriodlculs have a combined circulation
of over (0,000 copies.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance union of
Ohio has arranged for a new department in the in
terest of peace. This is strictly germain to temper
ance work, for nothing increases intemperance like
war, and nothing tends toward war like in
temperance. We ought to rejoice iu
tho development of athletic sports for
women as well ns men, since whatever
conduces to the natural tonic and stimulus of out
door life leads away ftom all narcotic drugs. Tho
future of the National Temperance hospital, located
in Chicago, is assured. As a temperance people,
we must no longer leave our Interests undefended
in Washington. I suggest Hint this Convention
invito tlie Sous of Temperance, Good Templars and
the prohibition party to combine witli us In an effort
to engage a Christian temperance, lawyer at Wash
ington who slin.ll watcli our interests ns carefully as
Louis Shade & Co. do those of the brewers and dis
tillers. I have always been opposed to secret socie
ties, and never more so than today. Thov are tlie
relics cos mcdicvlal |tlmes, and destined to be
come extinct. But Goo I Templars and Knights of
Labor have so much In them that is praiseworthy
—their secrctism is so nominal and tlieir purposes
so helpful—that it Ims always soi tncd lb t.ic they
formed exceptions to tho general rule. I believe
they will not always be secretive, even in name,
but that tills useless feature will fade away and
merge into tho light of the common day. It is a
satisfaction tonoto tho triumph of tlie better element
in the Knights of Labor over tlie anarchists and
socialists; the growing influence of Mr. Powderly
and tlie fearlessness of his utterances, and Mr.
Deitchman's, concerning temperance. But In these
days we Iced and clothe thelpoor to a wise purpose
when wo show them how to feed and clothe them
selves. Teinpcruncedoesthiit. Industrial training,
heller wages, shorter hours of work, co-operation,
arbitration—all these nio lon modes of blessing—wll
claim for those wlio work to bring them, Hie holy
declaration from the lips of the carpenter’s son, “ Ye
did it unto Me.”
CONCERNING CARP.
Does the Stocking of Our Rivers Amount to
Anything.
It will to rornombered that the United
States fish commission has, during tlio post
week, been placing carp in Hie different rivers
of Georgia. Tlie strong points in favor of tlio
carp aro tlieir rapid growth, tho ease with
which they aro kept alive, and tlio Rinall
amount ot trouble they give generally. Asa
table fish they have never boon considered
particularly fine, many people believing them
to bo too coarse for eating purposes.
In tlie above connection, it may bo interest
ing to road the following letter received at tho
agricultural department yesterday, from Mr.
O. 8. Porter, of Covington. Under date of
November 18th, ho writes to Commissioner
Henderson as follows: "In that tho fish com
mission is to, or is now, distributing carp, you
may or may not remember that I characterized
the whole carp business as a humbug in talk
ing to you of it. I am prepared to
say that I was to some extent wrong,
tho leather and mirror carp in any water, and
the scale carp in ponds aro, in my opinion, in
this section a failure. But tho scale carp in
running water, open streams, or ponds, aro a
success. Tho carp, scaly ones, that have been
given mo from time to time, I put in tho
Yellow river, above my dam. Many, too, have
come in from broken ponds, so that now there
are a good lot of them in the river. In fishing
for sucker one will catch as many or rather
more carp than suckers. I have lound them
to be ns good as a rod-finnod
suckers. So now pleaso allow mo
to ask you to use your Influence
to have as many scale carp placed in our
rivers as possible. If put in at tlio railroad
bridge or hero it Is all O. K. I think vastly
more of it than putting in shad to come back
in two years—tho carp remain with us, and
brood thoro, arc good and catchable at all sea
sons. But, mind you, scale carp only.”
The fish ctommisslon placed 500 scale carp in
Yellow river Thursday, at tlio Georgia rail
road bridge. A large number have boon
placed in tlio Georgia rivers during the week.
"Oh, It Was Pitiful I”
Os course it was I Ho tried one remedy after
another, and finally gave up and died, when
his life might have been saved by taking Dr.
Bierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery”—tlie
great "Consumption Cure”—which, if prompt
ly employed, will soon subdue all threatening
symptoms, such as cough, labored breathing,
night sweats, spitting of blood, etc., and re
storing waning strength and hope, .ffcctually
stop the poor consumptive's rapid progress
grav eward. Is it not worth trying ? All drug
gists-
Ail Invited.
Alt those interested In mills of any kind aro
invited to see tlie exhibit of the latest improved saw
nUll at the I‘ledmout expMltlou. ft is acknowl
edged to lie tho best, aiin |»irtable and stationary
grist taUis, water wheels and mill supplies, manufao,
tured by A. A. DeLoaeh & Bro., Atlanta, Go. They
will havesevcral mills in operation at the extKfl
tlou. In moan time send for circular*. Portabe
corn mill* have token llno prcmluin at GoorgsUa
Alabama and South Curoliua i tub. fair*. Wk 'S
Wlial Is ffis Disks} fiat is
Genii Upon Us ?
Like a thief at night it
in upon us unawares. The pa-!
tients have pains about the chest!
and sides, and someties in the
back. They feel dull and sleepy?
the mouth has a bad taste, espe-,
daily in the morning. A sortl
of sticky slime collects about the!
teeth. The appetite is poor I
There is a feeling like a heavy'
load on the stomach; sometimes
a .faiut, all gone sensation at the
pit of the stomach which food'
does not satisfy. The eyes are
sunken, the hands and feet be.
come cold and clammy. After a
while a cough sets iu, at first
dry, but after a few months it is
attended with a greenish-colored
expectoration. The patient
feels tired all the while,
and sleep does not seem
to afford any rest. After a
time he becomes nervous, irrita* 1
ble and gloomy, and has evil
forebodings. 'There is a giddi
ness, a sort of whirling sensa
tion in the head when rising up
suddenly. The bowels become
costive; the skin is dry andhot at
times; the blood becomes thick
and stagnant; the whites of the
eyes become tinged with yel
low, the urine is scanty andhighi
colored, depositing a sediment
after standing. There is fre--
quently a spitting up of the
food, sometimes with a sour
taste and sometimes with a<
sweetish taste; this is frequently
attended with palpitation of the
heart; the vision becomes im
paired, with spots before the
eyes; there is a feeling
prostration and weakness. Al A
of these symptoms are in turn
present. It is thought that'
nearly one-third of our popula
tion has this disease in some of
its varied forms.
It has been found that physi
cians have mistaken the cause;
of this disease. Some have
treated it for a liver complaint,
others for kidney disease, etc.,
etc., but none of these kinds of
treatment have been attended
with success; for it is really
constipation and dyspepsia. It
is also found that Shaker Ex
tract of Roots, or Mother Sei
gel’s Curative Syrup, when
properly prepared will remove
this disease in all its stages.
Care should be taken, however,
to secure the genuine article.
IT WILL SELL BETTER THAN
COTTON.
Mr, John O. Hemptinstall, of
Chulafirmee, Cleburn county,
Ala., writes: “My wife has been
so much benefited by Shaker
Extract of Roots or Seigel’s
Syrup that she says she would
rather be without part of her
food than without the medicine.
It has done her more good than
the doctors and all other medi
cine put together. I would rida
twenty miles to get it into the
hands of any sufferer if he can
get it no other way. I believe
it will soon sell in this State
better than cotton.”
TESTIMONY FROM TEXAS.
Mrs. S. E. Barton, of Varner,
Ripley county, Mo., writes that
she had been long afflicted with
dyspepsia and disease of the
urinary organs and was cured
by Shaker Extract of Roots*
Rev. J. J. McGuire, merchant,
of the same place, who sold
Mrs. Barton the medicine, says
he has sold it for tour years and
never knew it to fail.
SHE WAS ALMOST DEAD.
I was so low with dyspepsia
that there was not a physician
to be found who could do any
thing with me. I had fluttering
of the heart and swimming of
the head. One day I read your
pamphlet called “Life Among;
the Shakers,” which described
my disease better than I could
myself. I tried the Shaker
Extract of Roots and kept on:
with it until today liejoicein
good health. Mrs. M. E. Tins-'
ley, Bevier, Muhlenburg conn-}
ty, Ky*
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