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ALLIANCE mTTEfj.
The Florida State Alliance met on Jan
uary 14th at Jacksonville.
The Sumpter county Alliances are go
ing ahead with their bagging factory.
There is talk of an Alliance store in
Lavonia.
The Farmers Alliance of Hart district,
Talbot county, has over 100 members.
The Alliance in Montgomery county is
in a healthy andvigorous condition.
Bethel Alliance of Bibb county, Ga.,
has expelled J. C. Hamlin for using jute
bagging.
The Alliance has established a trade
store at Thompson, Ga., conducted ex
clusively by members.
The Alliance in the country around
Augusta talk of establishing a warehouse
in that city.
The Franklin county Alliances will pro
cure subscriptions to complete the rail
road to Carnesville.
Mr. Burt Trimble of East Point lost his
house and contents by fire last Tuesday
night.
Hon. Primus Jones, Baker county’s
noted farmer and first bale man, died in
Atlanta on Saturday.
The Alliance is speaking of establish
ing a guano factory and oil mill at Fort
Gaines.
The South Carolina Alliance Exchange
was opened at Greensville by the State
Business Agent on the 6th of January.
There is talk of building an Alliance
cigarette factory at Oxford, N. C.
A joint stock company has been organ
ized at Fairplay, S. C., to manufacture
the “Grady Alliance plowstock,” invent
ed by J. O. L. King.
The Executive Committee of South
Dakota Alliance, have bought the Dakota
Pluralist, published at Aberdeen, and it
will be conducted as the state organ.
“We cannot,” says the Washington
Ga., Chronicle, “speak too highly of the
great good the Alliance is doing in Wilkes
county, and their earnest deliberations.
DeKalb county is to have a co-operation
manufacturing company, and also an ex
position company. They will be strictly
Alliance enterprises.
Marshallville Alliance is in fine condi
tion. They ordered 295 bales of cotton
bagging, and will use over'soo bales.
The Farmers’ Alliance warehouse com
mittee are still at work. They report
success and say the warehouse will be
built.—-Talbotton New'-Era.’
No, National Alliance Lecturer Terrell
did not use any profanity in his lecture
here. He was logical and eloquent, and
sometimes he soared! and he soared!—
Democrat, Ala.
The Floyd County Farmers Alliance
want a co-operative store, and that’s
about the same as saying they are going
to have it.
Mr. R. R. Hogg of Marion county kill
ed four hogs that netted him over 1,100
pounds. We hope he belongs to the Al
liance. We need such men.
Beaver Run Alliance of Gwinnett coun
ty, denounces S. F and J. E. McElray, of
Norcross, for using and selling jute bag
ging at their store and gin.
The address of Hon. J. W. Beck at
Liberty Hill Church was full or informa
tion, valuable suggestions, and was high
ly appreciated by all who heard it.
The Sycamore Alliance is progressing
finely at this place. They are placing
lumber on the ground to erect a co-op
erative store which will be an ornament
and honor to the place. —Macon Citizen.
The Alliancemen of Franklin, Rowan
and Habersham counties, of Georgia,
have organized a joint stock company
with a capital of $15,(00 to sell the pro
duce raised by their members.
A Minnesota paper jumped the Alli
ance and misrepresented it most bitterly.
The object was to keep the farmers from
joining. An Alliance was organized the
next week with 52 members.
Nearly every country newspaper in the
state, as well as the dailies have named
their man for governor. We might state
that the Alliancemen have not as yet
made public the name of their hustler. —
Jonesboro News.
The Alliancemen have subscribed $4,-
590 to the co-operative store. The com
mittee appointed to locate the store met
here yesterday, and as a majority of the
stock was voted in favor of Montezuma,
it has been decided to locate, the store at
that point.—Macon County Citizen.
The new State Asylum has just been
completed at Milcdgevillo, Ga., and on
the 12th of January a grand Alliance ball
was given in one of the large rooms.
About 3,000 people were present. The
ladies were dressed in plain every-day
cotton osnaburgs, and the men in cotton
bagging.
A number of Farmers’ Alliancomen are
borrowing money at eight per cent, giv
ing joint security notes, and buying their
guano and supplies for cash. They claim
that at the present way of managing,
they can, with good crops, soon pay out
of debt and get on their feet financially
once more. We certainly will be glad of
their prosperity and wish them unbound
ed success. —Marietta Journal.
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FARMER, ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 25, 1890.
Talbotton will soon establish a large
variety works.
The Farmers Alliance, of Ark , claims
a membership of 100,060.—Arkansas
Democrat.
S. H. Morgan, Washington county, is
raising eleven-pound turnips, and plenty
of them at that weight.
The Baldwin County Alliance has es
tablished an Alliance store at Milledge
ville, Ga.
The Alliance warehouse at Newnan,
Ga., has received 5,300 bales of cotton to
date this season.
Buncombe County Alliance is moving
to establish an Alliance implement fac
tory at Ashville.
E. W. Wells, Carroll county, is putting
a portion of his farm in grass, and will
devote some of his attention to stock
raising.
It is believed that the farmers of Car
roll county have killed enough meat this
year to carry them through the summer
months. ■
The Dougherty County Alliance will
hold a “grand rally” during the session
of the Georgia Chatauqua at Albany in
March.
Nearly every farmer in Houston county
favors the holding of a Houston county
fair next fall. A determined effort will
secure a successful fair.
The Macon county Alliancemen are in
earnest about the co-operative store, and
the popular belief seems to be that it
will be located at Oglethorpe.
The Butts counta, Ga., Alliance has sat
on foot a movement to promote the inter
est of the farmers of that section. It
has organized a Live Stock and Agricul
tural Fair Association, with W. M. Mal
let as president.
The appointment of Mr. A. D. Chase,
the eminent Alliance champion, as rail
road commissioner, is a very appropriate
recognition of the farming element in
the state of Dakota, and gives great sat
isfaction.
The Farmers’ Alliance, says the H§nry
County Weekly, of McDonough, Ga. have
“downed” the jute bagging folks, and by
holding their surplus cotton from the
market they have run the price up above
ten cents.
Mrs. L. D. Hutchins, Harris county,
comes to the front with two pet pigs
weighing 484 and 458 pounds net. This
shows that some women are pretty good
farmers.
At a meeting of the County Alliance
on Thursday last it was resolved that
the Farmers’ Alliance of Talbot county
should build a warehouse in Talbotton.
The hat was passed around and $1,250
was raised for the warehouse fund.
The Farmers Alliance is proving to be
the greatest educators ever known. Farm
ers are studying economic questions more
than ever, and are being educated up to
their rights. They will not always be
the drudges for the money-lords of the
great cities. —Thomaston Times.
Brown Alliance, Cobb county, has ex
pelled W. G. Mitchell for having his cot
ton ginned where jute bagging was used.
Thus the fight against jute is coming
into close quarters.
How many of the fine looking mules
that have recently been bought in Fort
Valley will look fat and strong at the
end of the year? There is neither mercy
or economy in the abuse of stock.
Therp arc signs that the Farmers Alli
ance in Georgia will reject all candidates
for governor unless, they are labled thus:
“None genuine without the stamp F. A.”
—Fort Valley Enterprise.
The Alliances in Hillsborough county,
Fla., have raised nearly $2,000, with pros
pect of $3,000 more, for the establish
ment of an Alliance business exchange
at Tampa.
The Alliancomen in Bowie county,
Texas, have organized an “Alliance com
mercial association,” the shares of which
are $5 each, and bear 10 per cent interest
from date. On the funds raised in this
way the farmers are easily carried through
the year in their buying and selling op
erations. '
The Cherokee Farmers’ Alliance are
on a solid and firm foundation, prospen
ous, and give promise of doing its mem
bers and the farmers generally contin
ued great good.—Cherokee Advance.
The Douglas county farmers are con
sidering the advisability of holding their
annual fair and of making an exhibit at
the Piedmont Exposition noxt fall—other
counties should go and do likewise.
The County Alliance of Newton cqun j?
has determined to have are union of
the Newton County Alliance Brotherhood
some time during the summon. A com
mittie consisting one from each sub-Alli
auce has been appointed to select a day
and arrange a program for the occasion.
The Fort Gain* s correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph writes: “The most
unique substitute I haqe yet seen or
heard of came into the Alliance ware
house yesterday. It was brought in by
Mr. Wesley Kish, of this county, and has
for a covering two large dry cow hides
on the sides and smaller hides for the
ends. Mr. Rish says by using his hides
in this manner l o can get ten cents per
pound for them against four cents on the
market and he doe? t care how much
.are that bale carries with its weight.
The Alliance Tribune is the name of a
new publication whiclj has appeared at
Topeka, Kan., J. K. Estes editor and
proprietor.
The Alliancemen iu lowa, Kansas, Da
kota and other western states are sending
in petitions to their representatives in
congress ’ asking them to enact laws to
suppress gambling on the board of trade
by selling or buying products which the
owner does not own nor expects to own.
Right.
The Farmers Alliance has saved the
farmers of America $5,000,000 in twine,
$2,500,000 on bagging, and is claimed
that through the operations of the Alli
ance Exchange discounts have been se
cured that will make the amount saved
by farmers $10,000,000 annually.—Pro
gressive Age.
The Whitten Gap Alliance near this
city is in a very flourishing condition;
its members are wide-awake and progres
sive, including some of the best farmers
in the rich valley of the Tugalo. They
intend to build a new hall.
Commissioner Henderson has ruled
out the Red Star Ferry fertilizer as not
containing sufficient plant food to be val
uable. Its sale in Georgia is therefore
prohibited. This fertilizer is manufac
tured in Washington, 0., by the Star
Slaughtering and Phosphate Co. Ex
president Jackson is the agent in this
state. The News cautions the farmers
against buying it.
Mr. J. O. C Adams, an Allianceman of
Hart district, Talbot county, reports that
off of a 1-mule farm last year, he made ten
bales of cotton, 250 bushels of corn, 75 gal
lons of syrup,3o bushels of sweet potatoes,
etc, and rased rinough meat and lard for
home use, The cotton was made on
twelve acres of fresh land with about 100
pounds of guano per acre.
From every county comes the cheering
news that the Alliance is growing strong
er. Alliancemen are learning practical
lessens of economy and co-operation;
those who have had the ceurage and pa
tience to stand by the principles of the
Alliance are beginning to reap the bene
fits of the order.
If the Farmers Alliance continues to
increase for a year or two mere at the
rate at which it has been gaining during
the last twelve months, it will soon be
the largest organization ever known in
this or any other country; and if it sticks
together and properly exercises its great
power it will be easily able to accomplish
such a revolution in the legislation of
the country as will result in giving the
farmer, not only his rights as a citizen,
but after breaking up the trusts and the
combines which now rob him of much of
his earnings, will also place the farmer
again in position to become a legislator
in the interests of his county and his
claims.—Clarksville Sentinel.
The Fanners’ Alliance of Fannin
county, will have a co-operative store in
a short while at Blue Ridge.
The Alliance at this place was never
in a more flourishing condition than at
present. Its members are true to the
cause and they propose to make a suc
cess out of any thing they may under
take, and to stick squarely to their reso
lution. —Acworth Post.
Bro. M. A. Landcaster writes us from
Dodge county, that the order throughout
the county is prospering and its mem
bers are iu better condition than they
have been for many years.
The warehouse in Eastern, run by Bro.
Hamilton Clark, has done a fine busi
ness. The Dodge county Alliance will
use cotton bagging, but want it heavy.
Why not have the Exchange put up a
cotton bagging factory. This would kill
the jute trust.
A fertilizer factory is also very impor
tant. In reading your paper I have come
to the conclusion- that there is a joint
factory in Georgia and Washington city
for making rascality. Unless we get to
work they will be there when the year of
jubilee comes..
The Alliance in Richmond county is in
splendid condition. There are now eight"
lodges or sub-AHiances. These meet
twice a month, and the meetings are uni
formly well attended. Interest in the
work of the organization is deepening.
Every member began 1890 in better heart
from last years results, and particularly
frouy last year’s economy. Every mem
ber will practice through 1890 a more
rigid economy and a broader home-liv
ing. Quite all the sub-Alliances in the
county are subscribers to the State Ex
change. Persons outside the order have
no conception qf the kindly influences
which rule the Alliance and how closely
the brethren stand to one another. Self
help is made easier by the spirit of mut
uality which controls both sub-Alliances
and State Alliance.
A cottonseed oil mill and fertilizer
factory!
That is what the farmers of Bartow,
Cobb and Gordon counties propose to
have and they have gone earnestly to
work to secure it..
Last Thursday, at the Opera House a
meeting of the Alliance of Bartow county
was held to discuss the subject. The
meeting was largely attended, every sub-
Alliance of the county being well repre
sented a»d there were also in attendance
delegates from the Alliances of Cobb aud
Gordon counties. The matter was well
considered, several spoechss showing
the advantages and need of such an in
terprise being made. It was finally de
cided that the throe couaties unite and
build a factory. A sum of $20,000 is to
be raised.
Official Appointments.
T e State Lecturer, CoL J. W. Beck,
will i idress the Alliancemen of
Dodge, at Eastman, Feb., 18th.
Appling, at Baxley, Feb., 19th.
Wayne, at Jesup, Feb., 20th.
Ware, at Waycross, Feb., 21st.
Coffee, at Kirklrnd, Feb., 22nd.
Berrien, at Brookfield, Feb., 24th.
Worth, at Issabella, Feb., 25th.
Daugherty, at Albany, Feb., 26th.
Thomas, at Thomasville, Feb., 27th. 1
Every man and woman in these coun
ties should meet Col. Beck at these ap
pointments. He is beginning his work
for the year and is carrying to the breth
ren a message of glad tidings—of great
joy which shall be unto the people if they
will but be firm unto principles of our
order, He has studied the great “sub
treasury plan,” and is prepared to tell
you all about it.
This is temporal and political salva
tion for the people of the land.
Go and hear Bro. Beck. Carry your
neighbors with you, and set about to do
your part in the redemption of your
county from political misrule and finan
cial ruin.
The Alliance of Fulton County.
I have made the following appoint
ments for brother W. S. Copeland to ad
dress each sub-Alliance of Fulton county
at their regular meeting places:
East Point Alliance, Thursday night,
February 20.
Ben Hill Alliance, Fri. night, Feb. 21.
Mt. Gilead Alliance, Sat, Feb. 22.
Adamsville Alliance, Mon., Feb. 24.
Bolton Alliance, Tues., Feb. 25.
Hammond Alliance, Wed. Feb. 26.
Pleasant Hill Alliance, Thurs. Feb. 27.
Peachtree Park Alliance, Fri. Feb. 28.
Easton Alliance, Sat. March 1.
Atlanta Alliance, Mon. March 3.
Cornell Alliance, Tues. March 4.
Mt. Olive Alliance, Wed. March 5.
Battle Park Alliance, Thurs. March 6.
Mt. Parson Alliance, Fri. March 7.
I earnestly ask every good Alliance
man to come out and hear Brother
Copeland, for his mission is worthy of
your full attendance and serious consid
eration. Fraternally yours,
R. L. Burks, State Sec’y.
President Livingston will speak to the
Alliancemen at the following places:
Canton, Ga., April 2nd.
Cartersville, Ga., April 3rd.
Cedartown, Ga., April 4th.
Hamilton, Ga., April 9th.
Greensville, Ga., April 10th.
Other appointments will be added to
these in next issue.
Bro. R. L. Burks, State Secretary,
w’onjd like to know the name of the
brother who sent him a postal note of
50 cents, to pay for rituals. The letter
came from Norcross, Ga., and had no
name signed to it.
R. L. Burks, Secretary State /Alliance,
will furnish rituals at 50 cents per dozen,
National constitutions, at 35 cents per
dozen, and secretaries receipts, 100 iu
pads, at 10 cents.
Schley county has just placed order
with the Exchage, for 83,000 yards of
cotton bagging. Who will be next to
put the matter in such good shape, aud
in such safe hands?
Home Evidence.
Dr. J. A. Nelms, of Atlanta, Ga., says:
“I used Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic in
mending the medicine to all who are suf
fering with Rheumatism aud it compli
cations.” Sec adv. For sale by drug
gists at $1 a bottle. Hunnicutt Medicine
Co., Atlanta, Ga., proprietors, also mnfrs
of Hunnicutt’s Throat and Lung Cure,
for coughs, colds, asthma and conpump
tion. feb4 4t
Soja Beans are enormously productive
of the highest nutritive value. Send for
catalogue giving full description. They
can be procured of T. W. Wood & Sons,
seedsmen, 8 and 10S. 14th St. Richmond,
Virginia.
Brother N- C. Smith, Boston, Ga., i
writes us that the Alliance there is doing ,
well; meets regularly and does everything
according to rule. They are true Alli
ance men and w’omen. He says their
Alliance will never be hurt by partizan
politics, for they are working for princi
ples, uot men.
Our office had a pleasant visit from
brother A. G. Dempsey this week. He
says that Smyrna A. lliance refuses to buy
any fertilizers except through the §tate
Exchange, and recommends that all
other Alliances do likewise. lie says
that any member violating such reason
able resolutions should be summarily
dealt with, as our State Exchange is our
business head aud should be sustained.
Turning Hight Into Day.
Why is the suu like people of fashion?
It turns night into day—the time people
catch cold, which, if not attended to in
time, will induce consumption. Take iu
time Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullein.
Tie Bluegrass Country.
John 11. Jones, Tuttle, Ky., writes: 1
have been selling medicine for seventeen
years, 1 pronounce Dr. Bigger’s Huckle
berry Cordial the best I ever sold. It
gives joy to every mother.
Positively Denied —Resolutions From Put
nam County.
Whereas, Designing persons have
sought to create the impression in our
county that the Alliance intend to run
candidates for political office, therefore
be it
Rosolved, By the Putnam County Alli
ance in covention assembled, that we
deny any such intentions, and that we
are associated together solely for our
mutual, moral and social benefit, without
politics or sectionalism.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be handed The Soubhebn Alli
ance Farmer and to the Eatonton Mes
senger. J. T. De Jahn kit, Pres.
M. A. Gouley, Sec.
Mr. William Frey is one of the most
progressive and successful farmers in
Cobb county. When the war ended he
had nothing, but he came home and went
to work and has accumulated a handsome
fortune. He made it out of the soil of
Cobb county at that. On last Tuesday
he sold fifty-four bales of cotton to
Messrs. B. R. Leg & Bro. of Marietta, at
►lO 9-16 cents per pound. Few farmers
in any county can hold their cotton so
long but it has paid Mr. Frey to do so,
as the advance in price shows.
Going to the Wall.
The jute bagging combination, it is
reported, has reached the conclusion that
it will be more profitable to dissolve
their league and seek incorporation. Ac
cording to the Boston Commercial Bul
letin, eight companies with a rated arinu
al capacity of 31,300,000 yards, will be
incorporated under the laws ot West Vir
ginia as the American Manufacturing
Company, with a capital stock of
$1,000,000. Fourteen mills will remain
independent, with a capacity of 30,600,000
yards.
Commenting on these statements, the
Springfield Republican says:
“So goes another trade conspiracy. It
held up prices with the grand result of
stimulating a most profitable production
from the independent mills and driving
cotton planters to the use of a large
amount of bagging of other material,
diminishing demand and increasing pro
duction where there has already been
overproduction. Prices must come down
now and the last state of the trade is
definitely worse than the first.”
All of this, says the News and Courier,
will be interesting to the members of the
Farmers’ Alliance arid to other farmers
throughout the south, who are already
preparing to continue the fight in favor
of cotton covering next year. It is plain
that by concerted action the cotton pro
ducers can easily make themselves mas
ters of the situation. It will not do,
however, to wait until midsummer before
taking action, as they waited this year.
The whole question in regard to the cov
ering for the next crop should be settled
one way or the other, before the first
acre of cotton is planted in 1890.
roic insri:t*u
Use Brown’s lion Bitters*
Physicians recommend it*
All dealers keep it. Jl.eo per bottle. Genuine
has trade-mark and crossed red lines on wrapper
SEEDS I SEEDS!SEEDSI
Fresh and Reliable, Wholesale and Retail at Reasonable prices. Georgia Rye
Barley, Rust Proof Oats, May Wheat, Red Clover, Burr Clover, Lucerne Clove
Texas Blue Grass Roots, Bermuda Roots and Seed, Vetch, Teasiute. Speva
prices to Alliances. Write for prices and Catalogue.
Address, D- H. LOWE SEED CO Mawi
June 28, 1889-ly ■
-4-ALLIANCE. PHICES.
Big Bargains in Furniture.
I have on my floors over
860,000 WORTH OF FURNITURE.
100 Chamber Suits, only $20.00.
50 Oak Suits, only :::: •••••■■■ 28.00.
100 Walnut Suits, only 50.00.
30 Plush Parlor Suits, .only :::: :::: 35.c0.
Folding Lounges, only "" 10.00.
Bedsteads, $2.50 to $20.00.
Bedsteads with glass, only :::: . :::: 6.00.
Hat-racks, Book-cases, Desks, Chairs, Wardrobes. Sofas,-
Side-boards, Tables, Lounges, Spring Beds, Mattresses, and hun
dreds of useful household articles.
A special discount of ten per cent, to farmers when orders
come through Alliance chancels.
PEYTON H. SNOOK,
ap rl 7 & 9 M arietta Street, ATLANTA, GA-
DIRECT TRADE
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No agents iu your State. We aio both farmers and Manufaotui era of Fertilizers’
and we want to do business wi’h you directly through your ■
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We make the celv.i>. 0..-d SU.'.QUBUANNA AMMONIATUI) B )hE i'!:->■ 1’ ; \TE.
Its reputation is fully established and we want to give the farmers ; •. ~l all
commissions. Ther> fo;e we come directly to your State Exchange ti.icb is y-ur
own business representative.
Send all your oideis for this valuable fertilizer to
J. O. AVYJSTNI,
Business Agent Georgia State Ace Exchange.
We are glad to say that the SUSQUEHANNA FERTILIZER CO., of Baltimore, is
the first to come forward and make your Exchange tl.eir sole representative. Wo
are satisfied that their goods will bo as represented, and they are justly entitled to
your patronage. J. O. WYNN.
Mr. Williams is an enthusiast on stock
raising. He intends to fence of his bot
tom lands, sod them in bermuda and
raise mule colts. He says a mule can be
raised almost as cheaply as a cow, and
bring many times as much. He has one
three year oid, for which he refused $l2O.
Mr. W. tells us that it did not cost’ him
exceeding $25, he knows.
There is no sense in Georgia farmers
sending hundreds of thousands of dol
lars annually to Tennessee and Kentucky
for stock that they can raise just as well
at home aud for lees than half the cost.
The Alliance has already emancipated
our farmers from the rule of Western
corn and hay and their next step will be
to get a declaratton of independence
from Kentucky mule raisers. It is only
a question of time when Georgia will
compete with that state in the mule mar
ket. A stock raiser from Kentucky told
Mr. Williams that this section of Georgia,
wss equally as well adapted to stock rais
ing as his own state, and it was a matter
of surprise to him that there was such a
market for mules here.—Athens Banner.
1 7c. COTTON.
McGhee’sSouthernHope.
It is exceedingly profitable as it will
greatly enlarge your income witout ex
penses increasing proportionately when
handled nicely will readily command
from 14 to 17 cents per pound; ginned on
a “saw" gin will make as much lint cot
ton per acre as most of the ordinary
varieties of short staple can substantiate
every claim that I make for it, by abund
ant and indisputable proof"
Write plainly your name, post office,.
State and county.
PRICE OESEED.
One bushel, $3.50; two to four bushels,
$3.00; four to ten bushels, $2.75; ten to
twenty bushels, $2.50; twenty to fifty
bushels, $2.25; fifty to seventy-five bush
els, $2.00; and one hundred bushels, $1.75,.
per bushel.
N. B.—We will not sell less than one
bushel. Address,
E. E. M’GEHEE,
Pinckneyville, Wilkinson County, Miss.
Feb 18 13 times.