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VOL. I. General Yon Moltke lived for almost ninety-one years and in all that time he never let his mouth run away with his brains. Chicago has discovered on a farm ten miles southwest of St. Louis a log cabin built by Grant’s own hands, sjud has gobbled it lor the World’s Fair. The consumption of canned goods in the United States is increasing much faster than is the demand for these goods abroad, according to Bradstreet's. Carl Schurz argues that we will have three-days’ steamships between New York and Liverpool, because there has been a three-days’ reduction in time oc cupied by a trip during the last fifteen years. The Duke of Marlborough has written an article for an English review in which he urges his countrymen to invest their money in the mineral belts of the South ern States. “The Duke has already made such investments,” states the Atlanta Constitution. Austria’s new Parliament contains fifty one lawyers, forty professors and school teachers, twelve doctors and apothecaries, eight architects and civil engineers, twenty clergymen, 147 landed proprie tors, twenty-nine officials, nine manu facturers, nine journalists aud six gentle men of leisure. It may be, suggests the Boston Tran script, that Philadelphia will turn out the greatest seat of manufactures in the United States. The Press of that city claims the census shows it3 annual pro duct to be $758,000,000, or $80,000,000 more than New York. Perhaps latest returns will modify these figures some what. By the census of 1880 New Yoik led Philadelphia in manufactures $150,000,000. The Lake Erie and Western Railway has a rule, in common with other roads, that the passenger w'ho pays his fare on the train must pay ten cents extra for not having a ticket. Frank Mayo, an In dianapolis drummer, boarded one of these trains recently and declined to pay the extra dime. He tendered the regulai fare, but the conductor declined to ac cept it and ejected him from the train. Mayo sued the company for S2OOO dam ages and got his verdict. It is a test case and has excited a great deal of in terest. Effects of variously colored lights on insane persons have been observed by tlu director of the Milan (Italy) Insane Asylum. A melancholy patient in a rosy light improved perceptibly in twelve hours. In twenty-four hours he called for food, although for many preceding •days nourishment had been administered to him against his will. Thereupon the director had rooms furnished in solid •colors and confined patients in them. •Green and blue were found to be the most quieting, rose the most cheering, red the most exciting. All the patients in the asylum will be confined hereafter in apartments furnished iu colors to suit the nature of their maladies. “A good name is rather to be chosen than gerat riches.” So the Bible says, .remarks the New York Observer, and the date Thomas Charles Baring, of London, 'evidently thought so. It is recalled to Lis honor that although he had previous ly retired from the great banking firm with which his family had - been identi fied, yet when the embarrassments of last winter overtook the house he placed his whole large fortune to its credit, and •on the reorganization of the concern he became the chairman of the limited com pany to which its business was turned •over, being a subscriber for four hun dred of the two thousaud shares into which the capital stock of the new com pany was divided. Electrician Edison says that the entire novel of Nicholas Nickleby cun be re produced on four cylinders of a phono graph. In a paper read before the New York County Medical Society, Dr. J. Blount Bleyer said physicians would find the phonograph very useful in recording the various sounds of the human voice, especially in the treatment of throat dis eases, such as croup and diphtheria, when to have a record of the patient’s voice in its normal condition would be very desirable. Going outside of medi cal science, the doctor said that in due corrse of time the phonograph would undoubtedly be brought into use as an instructor of foreign languages and as an automatic teacher of elocution. State of flaiir ffettfc ALLIANCE TAKLS. NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM ALL SECTIOT'L Items of Interest to Alliance men Everywhere. A SEMI-OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT. The following from the regular weekly letter of the “Reform Press Bureau,” conducted at Washington by the national legislative council of the Farmers’ Alli ance and Industrial Union, is interesting in that it shows a semi-official endorse ment of the Cincinnati convention and the new “Peoples’ Party. The letter is as follows: “The great Cincinnati conference is a thing of the past. It has made history. In the United States of America the first step toward the formation of anew great political party is taken, the chief corner stone being “Equal rights to all, special privileges to none, ” and this party stand ing on this foundation is one against which the united cohorts of greed, avarice and monopoly shall not prevail. It must win and will rule. The prepara tion for and the gathering of that con ference was watched by the country at large with mingled interest, anxiety afad contempt. Drones and those who are barnacles on the body politic were aroused to some interest, men and patrioits who have long and earnestly been trying to inaugurate a revolution that would restore to the whole people their individual privileges aud protection were anxious—painfully anxious—lest there might be some mis step by which all their painstaking ef forts might be injured or nullified. Those who hate and try to crush every thing but themselves, composed the ele ment which tried to brand the conference with contempt. The large gathering pre sented the unusual spectacle of a political assembly in which there was no packing and in which there was no effort or pur pose to buy or sell. Many men of widely divergent view’s and strong convictions composed the body. But with all this “concession” and not “obstinacy” was the characteristic feature. There was friendly aud earnest consultation which soon concentrated and crystalized itself into the shortest, but grandest and most comprehensive platform promulgated by any political j arty in a third of a century. The work of the convention was a confounding surprise to all partisan and sectional politicians. They predicted that the platform would be rotten with numerous and im possible “isms.” They misjudged the men whom they were trying to condemn, and they failed to realize that politicians and great newspapers do not possess all the brains of the country. The work of the convention has either caused ominous sileuce or conservative expression among them. The Cincinnati convention is to be followed by another great meeting next February, which will be a conven tion officially authorized by the great ag ricultural and labor organizations of the country. More than five millions of American citizens will be represented. The platform of the people’s party launched at Cincinnati, embodies all the principles which these organizations have suppoited and pressed into national prominence despite railery, villification and vituperation from so-palled leading men wl.o ought to have beep their friends and not their enemies. The primary ob ject of the last meeting }s to be virtually the same as was that of the first. The national committee of the people's party will at tend the February convention for con ference; and in that conference the Alli ance and other organizations will take the people’s party by the hand, and their five millions of members can and will say through their representatives: ‘Your principles are our principles, your plat form is our platform; we are yours; we are with you, and will stand by you to die end.’ It may be mentioned in par ticular that the platform of the people’s party is substantially, if not wholly, the platform and demands enunciated by the National Farn>eis J Alliance ami Indus trial Uniou at St. Louis in 1889, and emphasized and reaffirmed at (Ocala,Fla., in 1890, and by the National Farmers 1 Alliance at Omaha, in J.B9J. And that there might be no dodging or misunder standing about what might or might not have been meant, the sub-treasury plan was specially emphasized and endorsed. Another particular to be note,d is that the platform was ndopted with total unanimity and amid the most glorious enthusiasm. Still another particular to be noted is that a large number of the delegates to the con vention were not members of the Farmers’ Alliance, and not eligible to membership. Friends of the sub treasury plan may freely dismiss all doubts or uneasiness as fb the ultimate victory. If the particulars, as now proposed, are not put m opera tion. the principle involved will eventu ally be cs’ablished if nothing better can be*found. There must be sopie short and easy way of designating & member of the third party. To say ‘he is a member of the people’s party* would be comprehen sive enough, but would take too much time. Henceforth a follower and affili ator of the people’s party is a ‘Populist;* for anew party needs and deserves anew term. ” * * THE DEMANDS ALL-SUFFICIENT. The Farmers' Advocate (Tarboro, N. C.) is red hot on the side of the Ocala demands and says: “The Alliance de mands adopted at Ocala, Florida, are as plain and simple as the English language can express them. They are put up in a business way, and tlieir authors have plainly shown that they meant business. TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1891. These demat ds are made by people who feel the need of them. The laboring classes, by the aid of their leaders, have published their w'ants and told to the world that they must have them. What has been the consequence? Why, opposition of course, from every quarter and denunciation from almost every lianl. Why all this? Just because some man’s business is going to be inter fered with and some company cannot make as much money as they could be fore, if these demands are granted by the law-making bodies of our laud. The great objections raised come more from the ignorance of the objectors than any other source. But none need despair on account of objec tions. All leform movements that have ever been started, have at first been the subject of sharp criticism, and the insti gators denounced as traitors and natural born cranks. In this position just now r is the Alliance. Its leaders arc being at tacked and the demands controverted by bitter opposition. What these demands are a great many people do not know, aad further they do not w T ant to know, if _in them they find anything to cross their paths, however wrong they may be, or however reasonable these demands appear to fair and un prejudiced minds. The Alliance has un folded its banner to the public and now let it be upheld with dignity and honor to the principles it so earnestly adheres to. The Alliance demands, generated in the domains of reasons and justice, born of necessity by the oppressed and down trodden, in this same spirit should be sustained. Let every Alliance man stick closely to the Alliance demands, and allow no strife or contention to enter his mind. Let all acquaint themselves with the issues and be prepared on all occa sions to stand their ground in the face of opposition and denunciation. A Washington correspondent of the New York World sends the following to his paper regarding the Cincinnati meet ing, which shows how outsiders view the movement from a political standpoint: Viewed from a strictly political stand point, the interesting Cincinnati confer ence stamped upon the minds of the va rious party leaders and individuals im pressions quite as distinct as the hetero geneous elements which composed the gathering itself. When the convention finally adjourned, a full day at least sooner than was anticipated, those most deeply concerned had reason to feel about as follows: 1. The Farmers’ Alliance—relief. 2. The democratic party —satisfaction. 3. The republican party—alarm. 4. Mr. Harrison, Mr. Blaine or who ever may be the republican candidate misgiving. 5. Mr. Cleveland—solicitude. These results are due, ' not so much to what the .convention really did as to the temper of the more conservative men present, indicated by their speeches and acts. The icaueis of the Farmers’ Alliance may well heave a sigh of relief at the passing of the most serious danger which has menaced their organization. While, from their point of view, the conference did little or no good, it cej-tainly resulted in less harm than was anricipated. Instead of forc ing the Alliance to indorse or reject cer tain vexatious principles, the convention practically referred the whole matter to the regular Alliance convention next Febiuary, with a recommendation in favor of naming its own candidate for president. The following is quoted from a letter frpjp President Livingston, of the Geor gia (State Alliance, which appeared in the Atlanta Constitution: “The great bulk of opr people are producers, aboqt 00 per cent. are wage-workers. The proportion of rich to poor is as 0 to 94 per cent. With this fact staring our congress in the face is it not astounding that ali laws touching taxation and cur rency have been in favor of the “6” and against the “94?” The “94” in the Democratic party are awake and aroused. The platform and candidates for ’92 must be in their interest. * * * It is the duty of every citizen to bear his proportion of the necessary expenses of the government. It is also the privilege of every citizen to investigate the meth ods of taxation. It is equally as clear his province to decide whether he i§ over-faxed or not. The producers and toilers of this country haye with a wonderful unan imity determined that the present system of raising revenue for tfie government is utterly opposed to the genius of our re publican form of government. It is class legislation, intensified. It reverses the order of things as intended by God given rule, that a man should pay ac cording to what he hath. It is wicked in its discrimination in favor of those who use the-pomforts and luxuries of life, and against those who are shut up to the necessities of life. A GOOD BEGINNING. State Lecturer Foster, of the newly organized State xYlliance in Ohio, issues the following letter to sub-Alliances in the [idpstfial finion: “We find in many localities cunning politicians, who are trying to get persons initiated in the Alli ance to work for them by proxy. Find ing things thus, we desire to say to evtry sub-Alliance iu the State of Ohio that it stands you in hand to guard well your threshold. It is true we want every eligible person, who is Alliance first, last and ail the time in the order; but he who comes in for special favors or to rep resent anything rather than true Alliance principles we have no use for, knowing that oue enemy inside is harder to manage than a hundred outside. So if you have any person who is not true to our principles say to him at the first op portunity, by ballot, “(tut of theprsition vlrchyou are not worthy to occupy.” And to all persons who want in for a special purpose or favor, “Gentlemen, stand back.” We have a great battle to fight in the State of Ohio and must have unity all along the line. With this we will march to untold success and leave behind us in the debris, carcasses of once happy, though corrupt, politicians. So be of good cheer, be steadfast, immov able, always abound in the true principles of the Alliance and our country will once more free.” + * * The Alliance Reporter (Tbomasville, Ala.) is after the friends of the order who are occupying a position of neutrality, in the following words: “The farmer who has been standing aloof and wishing the Alliance godspeed in its undertakings but has never attache.d himself to the orderjnor done anything toward securing the results accomplished, had best begin to hustle or he will not get in the procession until the victory shall be won and the people w’ill be indulging in loud huzzas over the triumph. The order needs you; it wants your aid and your influence. It desires the encouragement your pres ence and aid would afford. It is the duty of every farmer to become a member; it is organized for you; it is fighting its battles for your interest; it is making its sacrifices for the promotion of your welfare. Gome in ana 30m the pro cession and share some of the glory of accomplishing one of the grandest and most glorious achievements of the middle class in the history of the w’orld. The right hand of fellowship is extended with a cordial welcome awaiting you. * * The Polk County Farmer (Bolivar, M 0.,) says: “If you are an Allianceman you believe in Alliance principles. If you believe in Alliance principles you are opposed to the money power. If you are opposed to the money power, you are an enemy to the parties that protect this money power. The power that controls the national banking system, the power that prevents legislation in the interest of the farmer and laborer, this power is the money power. It is the man or the dollar. Take your choice.” * * The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.) hits hard, and says: All people will learn to know’ that the members composing the Farmers’ Alliance are in earnest. They will defend the demands of the supreme council; they will not retreat an inch; they w’ill not equivocate and they will be heard; they will w’rench the power to tyranize out of the hands of despots; they will return this government to the people. Stand from sycophants and political bosses. * * * The recasting and the regeneration of the entire financial system of the country is before the and will have to be noticed in no equivocal way by those who write the platforms of the pa®es next year. This question of financial reform will not down at the bidding of the bosses, and they would just as well make a note of that fact, and govern them selves accordingly.— Progressive Farmer. * 5k >k The farmers of Tennessee are arranging for a mass meeting and genera! re-uniou in Nashville on June 11. One of the fea tures of the reunion will be a series of addresses by prominent speakers in the hall of the house of representatives. Dr. C. W. Macune will be one of the speak ers on the occasion. 5k sk 5k The Monitor (St. Louis, Mo.) says: “When the people become the banker, the tribute of all private enterprise will flow to them, government costs would be reduced to a minimum, aud the valuation pf farms would rise to their maximum.” LUMBER DEALERS FILM And the Tie-Up of Business Still Exists. A New York dispatch says: The re port that some of the lumber dealers would open their yards Thursday, and that they had seceded from their original agreement, was emphatically denied at the headquarters of the Lumber Dealers’ As sociation. It is shown by statistics that the consumption of lumber in the build ing trade was reduced the first week of the strike about 80 per cent, an and the sec ond week over 95 per ceut. The esti mated loss in w ages by workmen thrown out of employment during the first week pf the strike amounted tq about $250,00Q and during the second week to about $450,000. Should the strike continue until next week, it is said fully 20,000 men will be thrown out of work, by the stoppage of building operations. The tie-up is also being severely felt in Alba ny, Buffalo and Tonawanda, where a large number of canal men are lying idle, A FAIR TRIAL ASSURED. Fop O’Malley and McCrystal in New Orleans. A New Orleans dispatch says: When the McCrystal and O’Malhy bribery casts were called Thursday, their attorneys submitted a motion for a cha igc of venue. The State introduced a number of wit nesses, including the leaders of the com mittee of safety, Perkerson, Detigre and Houston. They all testified that they believed the accused could obtain a fair trial in New Orleans. Counsel for the defense then abandoned the motion for a change of venue, and asked to Lave the case fixed for trial on June 10th. Harvard University has 365,000 bound volumes in its library; Yale has 200,000; Cornell, 150,000; 'Columbia, 90,000; Syracuse, 75,000; Dartmouth, 68,500; Lehigh, 67,000; Brown, 66,000; Prince tou, 80,000; Union, 60,000; Bowdoin, , 84,000; University of Virginia, 40,000. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming* an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. Rev. C. M. Beckwith of Georgia, has been made assistant bishop of Texas. A dispatch of Monday, says: The standing committee of the Episcopal diocese of Virginia has unanimously given consent to the consecration of Rev. Philip Brooks as bishop. The state received a black eye in the now famous Coosaw case Thursday at Beaufort, S. C. Judge Norton decided that the case which Judge Aldrich had decided the state could bring in the state court, had been removed to the United States court. The Coosaw people are rejoicing over their victory. A Chattanooga dispatch says: Last December the Hughes Lumber company and D. W. Hughes made an assignment involving nearly SBOO,OOO of liabilities. On Saturday a final settlement was made with all tbe creditors on the bases of 100 cents on the dollar with interest. The big lumber mill is to resume operations at once. The largest mortgage ever recorded in Lee county, Ala., was filed in the probate office at Opelika, Friday. It is from the Eagle and Phoenix factory, of Columbus, Ga., to the Atlanta Trust Company for $1,000,000. TheEagleand Phoenix fac tory owns a large amount of property in Phoenix City, in fee county, though this mortgage covers all of its property. A dispatch of Friday from Winches ter, Va., says: Charles B. Rouse a wealthy dry goods merchant of New York city, has given Mt. Hebron ceme tery, through Governor Holiday, $7,500 for the erection o f an iron fence on the enclosure. It includes Stonewall ceme tery, which contains over 4,000 confed erate dead from every southern state. A dispatch of Saturday from Danville, Vn., says: Leaf tobacco sales on this market have been enormous of late. Sales for May were 3,870,000 pounds, against 1,680,000 for May last year. Sales for eight months of the present tobacco year amount to 29,400,000 pounds, just double the sales for the corresponding period of la3t year. Tbs average price paid for leaf tobacco in May was übout 13| cents per pound. The eighty-ninth commencement of Salem Female academy at Winston, N. C., opened Friday night with a grand concert. The exercises were held m the large Moravian chulch, before an audi ence of over 1,200 persons from all parts of Dixie. The number catalogued as at tending this school reaches the large figures of 356. All the departments are in a most flourishing condition, and the prosperity and popularity of tho school are immense. A Nashville dispatch says: The Buck ingham Theatre, on Market street, oppo site the new police station, which was recently opened by Fred Jones, of Mem phis, was burned shortly after miduight Sunday night. Fifteen people who slept in the house had narrow escapes coming down the ladders at the front in their night clothes. They lost everything. The building was owned by Douglass Bros; loss $15,000, fully insured, A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Monday says. The statehouse inside and out is covered with decorations, flags and bunt ings cpver the tower. The veterans are coming in from all directions. The Warren Light artillery, Captain Ilav’s party and their guns are on hand. Lieu tenant General W. 8. Cabell, of Dallas, Texas, and a car load of Texas soldiers arrived during the evening, and -were welcomed by Governor Stone and the committee. At Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, Chan cellor Allison decided the case of Mrs. Mollie McLter, against the Nashville Merchants’ and Traders’ Pro duce Exchange. This was a suit insti tuted by Mrs. McLeer, under the gam bling act, to recover about $13,000 which her husband had lost in dealing in futures with the defendant’s agent at Knoxville. A bill of assignment made by the defend ant some months since was attacked as fraudulcbt and void, and all these were sustained by Chancellor Allison, who gave a decree for the amount lost during nd since the month of August, 1889. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK Regarding the Financial and Political Status of Italy. A long dispatch was published Thurs day in the London Times from its corre spondent in Rome, during the course of which the correspondent reviews, in a detailed and elaborate manner, both the financial and political situation of the Italian kingdom. After presenting a mass of facts the writer of the dispatch referred to comes to the conclusion that the constitutionalist in Italy is becoming gradually reduced to a degraded state, and that the Italian provinces and com munes are preying upon the state and slowly driving it into bankruptcy. The sentiments of patriotic constancy and devotion, which, from 1820 to 1870 won the admiration of liberal Europe, is, says the Times correspondent, giving way to impulses of miserable ambition and to indifference to national vitality. _ -mmwm N The fifty largest libraries in Germany possess 12,700,000 volumes, against those of England with about 6,450,000, and of North America with about 6,100,000 volumes. the professor and the violet The Professof: Tell me, ITttle violet white, If you will be so polite, t’ell me how it came that you Lost your pretty purple hue? Were you blanched with sudden fears? Were you bleached with fairies’ tears? Or was Dame Nature out of blue, Violet, when she came to you? The Violet:, Tell me, silly mortal, first, Ere I satisfy your thirst For the truth concerning me— Why you are not like a tree? Tell me why you move around, Trying different kinds of ground, With your funny legs and boots In the place of proper roots? Tell me, mortal, why your head, Where green branches ought to spread. Is as shiny smooth as glass, With ’’'V a fringe of frosty grass? Tell me—Why, he’s gone away! Wonder why he wouldn’t stay? Can he be—well, I declare! — Sensitive about his hair? —Oliver Her ford, in St. Nicholas. PITH AM_ POINT. Always in hot water—Heat. The spring time poet was heard to sigh: “The nights grow shorter and so do T.” — Judge. Don’t trifle with the barber; he is generally able to hold his hone.— Elmira Gazette. Every man has his price, but the best of men occasionally give themselves away.— Life. There is no one so foolish as an old fool and no one so wise as a young one. —Elmira Gazette. It is quite natural that the man who gives away advice can’t use it himself.— Columbus Statesman. It was the mao who delivers ice who was heard to remark: “Some people want a whole skating rink for ten cents.” Washington Post. Sanso—“There is one thing that every woman likes to have a finger in.” Rodd —“What’s that?” Sanso—“An engage ment ring.”— Bazar. The petrified body of a man was found in a well in lowa the other day. He might be called a well preserved man, anyhow.— Texas Siftings. “I’ll put my cash in a flying machine,” Said a wealthy old man one day, “For riches have wings, and it seems to me, That that sort of thing ought to pay.” Washington Star. Age cannot wither, nor custom stale, the infinite variety of ways women have for suppressing the year of their birth. It is their “specialty” in secret. —New York Recorder. “I would like to ascend this mount ain,” remarked the traveler to a guide. Can you take me ? What do you charge?” “It depends, sir. Do you want to be guided with or without risk to your life?” Fliegende Blaetter. And so a woman took the prize For her design in architecture; A world’s-fair building will arise To do her honor, I conjecture. Thus women’s work puts on new feature!; They always were designing creatures. — Judge . Do not be too severe on the loquacious bore. If he does talk until he nearly drives you mad, you should not forget that he prevents others from doing the same thing. There is only one of him; of the others there are many.— Boston Transcript. The Protection of Our Native Birds. At a recent meeting of the Massachu setts Horticultural Society the protection of our native birds was the subject of an essay followed by a general discussion. It was said that no intelligent observer can deny the usefulness of our native birds in destroying insects. Unmolested by the birds these would rapidly multiply and their depredations would increase in proportion. During the spring time many of the birds live wholly on insects, some taking them on the wing, others in the lame or chrysalis state and many more as they appear in the morning as worms, grubs, borers, etc. The mistaken idea prevails with many that some of our familiar birds do more harm by eating small fruits than they do good by destroying insects. This preju dice exists against the robin and many other insect-eating birds. And yet these birds are obliged to subsist principally upon canker worms, some kinds of cater pillars and bugs. Among the enemies of the small insect-eating birds the com mon crow was mentioned as doing more damage by destroying the eggs and young of these useful species than he did good by destroying the insects he devours. Something should be speedily done to prevent the wholesale destruction of our useful species of birds before they become extinct.— New York World. An Automatic Milker. J. G. Thompson has received a patent for his “automatic milker.” It is an in genious device for sucking cows teats. An eccentric, three inches in diameter, is attached to her jaw. From this leads a wire connecting with elastic nipples on the udder, each of which is fitted with a valve, making it an air pump when in motion. When the cow chews her cud the eccentric revolves and the wire is worked back and forth like a piston, creating suction in the nipples. The milk as it is drawn runs into a bucket suspended below. Tbis invention will relieve the dairymen of much labor and is worth a bar’l o’ mouey.— Homer {Cal.) lnde JNU. i).