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VOL. I.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
SIDE-THACKINU ISSUES.
Under the above heading the Progres
fiire Parmer comes boldly to the front
aud says:
“The partisan press and the politicians
who are opposed to the Alliance are ex
trern U anxious to force the order into
false positions. They assert persistently
that the sub-treasury bill is the ultima
tum of the Alliance, when they well
know that in every instance where it has
been made the issue, it has been forced
on us. And we may remark that in every
such case the sub-treasury has come out
victorious. It is now being asserted that
President Polk makes the sub-treasury
paramount to all oth.r questions. The
enemy puts down his position as follows:
'l hat lie regards as most important—
■‘lst. The sub-treasury bilL
“2d. Free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
lid. The modification of the tariff.
President Polk has always held that a
change in the financial system of the
government by and through which the
industrial many are being robbed and
ruined by the moneyed few is the great
overshadowing paramount issue before
the American people. He has always
held that free coinage, tariff, sub-treasury
and all other questions are subordinate
to this great issue. No free coinage act,
no modification of the tariff, no increase
of the currency—none, nor all of these,
can never bring just and substantial re
lief to the people, so long as the present
unjust and outrageously wicked financial
s}steni prevails. The national bank
ing system must go. The money
of the people must be is
sued to the people, independent
of all expensive agencies apd in
sufficient volume to do the business of
country. This, and not the Sub-Treas
ury, this, aud not the tariff, this, and not
free coinage, is the mighty living issue
before the people.
The Alliance wants and demands a
modification of the tariff, aud it intends
to have it. The Alliance wants and de
mands free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver, and it intends to have it; but it will
no longer be deluded and ensnared with
the fallacious idea that these are para
mount to the money question. The poli
ticians of the country have been deceiv
ing and side-tracking the peopLe on these
false ideas for a quarter of a century, but
they can do it no longer.
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UEGARDING TUE WHEAT COMBINE.
11. W. Ayer, secretary to President
Polk, of the Farmers’ Alliance, and man
ager of the Reform Press Bureau, which
is also known as the Alliance Press
Bureau in Washington, is reported as
saying that the work of sending out cir
culars designed to show the farmers of
the country that it was to their advant
age to hold back the wheat crop was ac
tively proceeding in Washington as well
as in St. Paul, Minn., which was
chosen one of the seats of operation
because of its location in the great wheat
belt. Mr. Ayer said there have already
been 400.000 of these circulars sent out
from Washington, and will continue to
be sent out until more than a million
circulars altogether are issued. The
circular, he said, will also be published
in about two thousand weekly papers,
with which the bureau is connected. He
remarked that he couldn’t say, of course,
that it was the circular w'hich nad
brought about the result, but he had
noticed in a recent market report,
lhat as a matter of fact the actual move
ment of wheat was 140 carloads less per
day than had been estimated. Mr. Ayre
also stated that the information that the
issue of such a circular by alliancemen
was in contemplation became public pre
maturely, when the circular in course of
preparation was publised in the newspa
pers. The final decision to issue the cir
cular had not at that time been reached,
and many leading .tliancemen were una
ware of it, but it has since been finally
determined upon. He explained that
the executive committee of the alliance
had not acted on this matter, and that by
the circular no order was given alliance
men to hold back their crop, this being
contrary to the methods of the alliance.
What is done by this circular is to give
the farmers information as to the facts in
regard to the world’s wheat crop, with
the suggestion that wheat some weeks
later than the present time will bring a
higher price.
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The Western New York Farmer , (Ar
eade;) says is regard to the Wyoming
county Alliance meeting: “The 2,000
members of the Order in this county have
determined that the Alliance principles
of letting the office seek the man, shall
be a principle observed in the nomina
tion of all candidates. They have no use
for self-seekers and look upon all who
ask for office with suspicion. They want
a man to lepresent them in the Assembly,
the Senate, and in other places of official
trust, who will earn his sularyapd be true
to those who employ and pay him as a pub
lic servant, and they propose to liave such
a one even if neither party cee fit
to nominate him. Their action
at the convention conveys no uncer
tain sound. It is brief, but it is awfully
explicit and fearfully in earnest. It art
vises all members to attend their par y
primaries and work for pure and honest
men who are known to be in harmony
with the Alliance demands. The execu
tive authority is directed to submit these
demands to every nominee and failing to
secure the public pledges of .their sup
Suite [if pdi If A fWSL
port of these demands, he is instructed
to call, not a coumy Alliunce meeting,
for the Alliance is strictly secret aud
non-purt'sun, but u political convention
of the Alliance membership to place in
nomination candidates who arc in har
mony with the Alliance platforms. There
is nothiug uncertain or indefinite about
this.
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Journal of the Knights of Labor (Phil
adelphia) says: “The enemies of the
Farmers’ Alliance when they first enter
the lists, by what appears like a fatality,
direct their attack upon the sub-treasury
plan. Evidently they think this the
weak and easily pierced joint in the Alli
ance armor; but a* one after another their
spears shiver to pieces while they fail to
pierce the joint, they realize that, if the
sub-treasury plan is not invulnerable, at
any rate the enemy has not yet forged the
weapon that can pierce it. So far all the
attacks upon the sub-treasury plan have
only resulted in making con
verts to the idea and in con
firming the faith of those who
already believe in it, Essentially it is
the same system as wes in vogue in the
old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
fore the Revolution, of which Edmund
Burke said, on the floor of the British
House of Commons, that under it the
Commonwealth had enjoyed a prosperity
greater than that enjoyed by any other
community in the world. It is no cause
for wonder that the money power and a 1
who do its bidding denounce the sub
treasury plan and rail against it. It
would permanently retire them from the
business of devouring industry and com
pel them to live by their labor or
starve.
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PRESIDENT POLK TALKS.
A Washington dispatefi says: Presi
dent Pol;<, of the Farmers’ Alliance, has
returned from his southern tour, aud in
a short interview said the alliance was not
losing ground anywhere, but was pro
gressing beautifully. All talk about a
split on account of the sub-treasury idea,
he said, was absurd. What difference of
opinion there was. was as to the form of
the measure and its de ails. 'lhere was
no difference of opinion as to principle
aud every Farmers’ Allranceman had the
same object in view. He stated that he
had beeu quoted incorrectly as saying that
the great issues were the tariff and free
coin >ge, and that witli th se issues the
alliance would all rally around the sub
treasury bill. “The issue is not the tariff,
the free coinage of silver, nor the sub
treasury bill. The issue is the reform of
our entire financial system. Neither'the
issuance of more money, nor the collec
tion of less taxes, will alone do the peo
ple any good. The entire financial sys
tem of the government must be changed
before anything else that maybe- done
can correct the existing evils.”
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sub-tileasuky— TIIE ISSUE.
The sub-treasury is the only real issue.
We don’t want any half-handed espousal
of the Alliance cause. When a man says:
“I am with you and tlTuk you are light,
but I can’t agree with you on the sub
treasury,” you may know he is a slave to
the national banks, or is not with us.
The sub-treasury is more money, cheaper
money, and money for the people. No
other plan has ever been suggested that
would put fiie currency in CUe proper
chaunei. The people have no diamonds,
bullion or stock upon which to back
currency, but they have lands and crops.
No other plan will meet the ends lor
which a people’s money should be is
sued. The rich need no money, they
have enough, the laboring class need the
money and the only money that can
reach them is the sub-treasury money.
We need not expect money for the people
from banks or from money manipulators,
for it is contrary to their interest to have
a people’s money. We, the agricultural,
laboring and industrial classes, backed
by the sensible aud liberal element in the
trades and professions must carry on this
reform. Money for the people is the
watch word and sub-treasury money it
must be.— Southern Alliance Farmer.
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Virginia’s state meeting.
A Richmond dispatch says: The Vir
ginia Alliance “tate convention will meet
at Richmond August 18thand noton the
14th, as has been stated so often in print.
The question of agreeing on a bill for the
creation of a railroad commission prom
ises to be one of the most interesting
topics to be discussed. The free coinage
of silver is, however, almost sure to
occupy the most prominent place among
the subjects considered. It is believed
that the planks of the Ohio Democratic
platform on this subject may be urged
upon the convention tor adoption. The
idea withsome is that having met with
the approval of the leaders in Ohio and
other states, it can probably be pressed
with more certainty of approval than a
brand-new one. Some of the Alliance
leaders are outspoken and fearless in
advocacy of the adoption by the con
vention of strong free coinage resolu
tiens, whether they be the Ohio idea or
some other equally as comprehensive in
expressing their views.
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The Galveston (Tex.) News says: “It
is refreshing to note from time to time in
the utterances of the labor organizations
or of their recognized representatives a
dawning sense thst the true remedy for
the economic evils of which they com
plain is to be found in the widest econo
mic liberty equally for them and for all
other classes and conditions of society.
Light has long been shining in the midst
of a sort of systematic and incorporated
darkness impenetrable to its rays and
intolerant of its intrusion. At
last, however, it may be hoped that this
darkness will be dispersed or will cease
to be followed by millions as a mislead
ing pillar of cloud floating over mirages
and morasses of essential fallacy and
fatal impracticability. Let sincere, cap-
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1891.
able and studious Leaders of labor, orga
nized for political action, manfully
marshall their followers for final depar
ture from every rut and every trend of
protective and prohibitory paternalism
and strike out in a campaign for the ac
complishment of economic liberty.”
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The National Economist says:
“The order need have no concern
about the recent anti-sub-treasury meet
ing held in Fort Worth, Texas. The pa
fiers that are trying to produce discord
n the Alliance made a great fuss over it.
They inaugurated it for that very
purpose, and therefore had to
make a fuss over it, but
it was a great failure. It has, how
ever, demonstrated one thing that will
delight all true Alliancemen, and that is
that they might rake Texas with a fine
tooth comb and they could not find one'
hundred Alliancemen iu good standing
who would be willing to go back on their
obligation and fight the Ocala demands.
Whan such are found they are generally
renegades, who, claiming membership,
are using that claim to help th i enemy
produce discord in the order.”
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A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch says:
The Washington County Alliunce in con
vention assembled has passed a resolution
declaring for the nomination of a com
plete Alliance ticket in the gubernatorial
campaign one year hence. It is under
stood that delegates from other counties
to the State Alliance will also favor such
a step, aDd that the regular Democratic
ticket will be opposed by Alliance candi
dates for all the State offices. '1 he action
of the Alliance of the county named,
which is one of the most important in
the state, has caused a ripple of excite
ment in political circles. The State Alli
ance claims 75,000 votes, four-fifths of
whom are Democrats.
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The Kansas Farmer , organ of the
Farmers’ Alliance of that State, pub
lishes tables whose figures show that the
liabilities of the State exceed its re
sources considerably more than two to
one —the lorinei o m i go, oou, ui U, .i.v.
the latter only $301,000,000. Among
the liabilities is the i em of “capital
stock of railroads $450 000,000, but
•without this item the nsouices barely
exceed the liabilities, 'i he > mount of
farm mortgages is placed at SIOO, OOO,
000, and the assessed value of farms
$168,000,000.
Objectors to the Alliance sub-treasury
plan are asking: How will your plan
help the tenant farmer who must have
assistance to make his crop? We reply
by saying, we uropose to take his crop
out of the dominion of the and
speculator. This will enable him to save
20 per cent on each crop, and in five
years he will be able to pay as he goes.
See the cut?— Southern Mercury ,' (Dallas,
Texas.)
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Faulkner County Wheel , (Conway, Ark.)
says; “What rights have the farmers
and workingmen that railroads and other
corporations respect? None. Y<t when
the paid attorneys of tliese corporations
come around and tell the people how lo
vole, some farmers are f ols enough to
believe them. Never thinking that they
are talking for the men and corporations
that pay them for their services.”
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Thirty-four county Alliances have
gpoken out in their July meetings, clear
ly, and unequivocally for the Deals de
mands and the sub-treasury. Not one
has been heard from that opposes. There
never was more unanimity on any ques
tion presented to Alliancemen.
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All true Alliancemen stick to the Al
liance as long as it works to carry out the
principles of the order. All traitors fly
the track.
A WHEAT TRUST
To be Formed by Alliancemen
for the Farmers’ Benefit.
St Paui, Minn., has been made the
headquarters of a national movement by
the United Farmers’ Alliance of the
country to corner the entire wheat crop
of the United States. At No. 317 Wa
bash street, for several days a larije force
of employes have been engaged in send
ing out circulars with the view <>f hav
ing not only the alliancemen of the Uni
ted States but nil classes of farmers keep
back the wheat crop until prices have
been advanced to a high point.
The alliance press bureau, re
form press bureau and state press
bureau are working together endeavoring
to unite the farmers of the United States
in a gigantic wheat trust. A circular re
citing the benefits of the combination
and urging the formation of the trust has
been made public. The circular estimates
the wheat crop in 1891 in the United
States at 500,000,000 bushels. The pro
moters of the trust believe thatfour-fifths
of lhis wheat can be held back by the
farmers for from four to eight weeks and
high prices secured.
THE HUNGRY FLAMES
Devour $290,000 Worth of
Property in Dallas, Texas.
Shortly after midnight Saturday night
fire broke out in J. B. Cowan & Co.’s big
liqfior house, on Commerce street, Dallas
Texas, and spread rap : dly to the Pen
Brook School Furniture Company’s place,
Brewer’s Storage Company’s warehouse,
and Wolfe & Co.’s cotton gin. Five
hundred bales of cotton in the gin be
longing to Sanger Bros, were destroyed.
The loss foots up $290,000; insurance,
$200,000. Seven hundred barrels of
whisky were stored in J. B. Cowan's
wholesale liquor house, where the fire
originated, and the barrels exploded at
intervals, making the fire extremely dif
ficult to handle, and causing it to quick
ly spread to neighboring buildings.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The official census of France gives the
population as 38,095,150.
West Doin', Neb , was almost com
pletely submerged In the business poition
of the city Thursday.
Thirty-two Russiuns, who are assisted
passengers, arrived at New York, Thurs
day, but will be returned as paupers.
The United States treasurer, on Thurs
day, shipped $300,000 in small notes to
Chicago for use in the movement of crops.
The cotton and woolen mill of Camo
bell & Elliott, at Philadelphia, was burn
ed Friday night. Loss between $600,000
and $750,000.
The fatal “yellows” have made their
appearance in the peach orchards of
Maryland and it is said the crop will be
shortened 100,000 baskets.
The world’s fair commissioners met
Lord Salisbury in London Thursday Mid
were informed that the names of Hie
royai commission would soon be gazetted.
A lengthy appeal, with regard to
Russian Jewish immigration was issued
Thursday by the Jewi-h Alliance of
America, accompanied with a plan of
action.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: The
strike among the plush weavers of Dob
son’s mills, Falls of Schuylkill, which
has been in progress for the past ten
weeks, was declared off Monday.
A London cablegram of Thursday says:
The Urquharts, parents of Mrs. James
Brown-Potter, telegraphed from Paris a
denial of the report that Mrs. Potter had
married Ivyrie Bellew in Chius.
A cablegram from Lisbon, says: The
tmployes thrown out of employment be
cause of the dull times caused by the
McKinley law, set fire to the cork factory
at Evova, Portugale, Sunday. Great
damage was done.
Over two thousand steel strikers at
Harrisburg, Pa., turned out Monday af
ternoon to parade and to listen to
speeches from leaders. They counseled
quictuess and patience, and prophesied
victory for the men.
A dispatch of Thursday from Evans
ville. Ind., says: Nelson, Morris & Cos.,
the great meat dealers of Chicago, after
a long aud bitter fight with the local
Butchers’ associati m. have
abandoned the Evn®Hlle field. It is
claimed ihey were driven out.
The big textile mill of Campbell &
Elliott, at Philadelphia, -w r as totally de
stroyed by fire Friday night. The total
insurance is place 1 MOO,OOO. The value
of the plant is placed at a half million
dollars. The loss on the stocked raw
material is variously estimatedut from
$150,000 to $250,000.
Sirs. Mark Hopkins Searles, wife of
Edward F. Searles, the New York archi
tect, and widow of the millionaire, Mark
Hopkins, of the Pacific coast, died at her
mansion in Methuen, Mas 9., Saturday
morning, as the result of an attack of
the grip. Her first husband left an estate
valued at $60,000,000, and Mrs. Searles’s
wealth is estimated at $40,000,000.
Ad spatch from Dayton, 0., says: A
Hamilton and Dayton excursion train at
Middletown was run into by a freight
train Saturday night, causing a fearful
wreck. Three persons were killed out
right: Wra. Matthew, aged thirteen;
Miss Lydia Freyer, aged twenty two,
and Ftank Simoner, aged seventeen.
Taveuty excursionists were wounded,
four of whom will die.
At Omaha, Neb., Justice Brewer, of
the United States Supreme court, Mon
day morning, announced his decision in
the famous Union Pacific-Rock Island
bridge case. The decision is against the
Union Pacific, and holds that the con
tract entered into by the Union Pacific
with the Rock Island and Milwaukee
roads, permitting trains of the latter to
use the Omaha bridge, is valid.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York during the week ended July 25th,
amounted to $3,209,590, of which $2,-
812,229 was in gold and $487,307 in sil
ver. Of total exports, $2,131,369 in
gold and $483,307 in silver went to Eu
rope, and SOBO,BOO in gold and $5,054
in silver to the West Indies. Imports of
specie amounted to $790,726, of which
$700,584 was in gold and $90,178 in sil
ver.
On Monday five hundred coal miners
at Duquoin, 111., marched in a body to
the Tiugley House and served notice on
Robert Cummings, an anti-labor agi
tator, to leave town. Cummings is a coal
miner, but is against the locked-out
miners’ attitude there in not resuming
work. Sheriff Clark is on the scene to
prevent any trouble. Cummings says he
won’t go. The miners say he will.
A Loudon cablegram says: The house
of commons, on Saturday in committee
of supply, voted $200,000 as salaries and
expenses for the relief of the suffering
poor of Ireland. The chief secretary for
Ireland, Balfour, made a detailed state
ment in regard to this relief, saying that
it was the government’s intention that
the works should be a permanent means
of promoting the welfare of the inhabi
tants.
A Reading, Pa., telegram states that
the West Hamberg rolling mills, operated
by the Pottsville Iron and Steel Cottf
pany, which has been idle several weeks
because of a difference between the em
ployes and lessees, who refused to sign
the amalgamated scale, resumed opera
tion Monday. The furnaces are in blast
with non-uuion men, and strong efforts
will be made to increase the number.
A New York dispatch says: Monday
morning ail parties having iead trust
certificates Handing in their names re
ceived copies of a circular, signed by the
president and secretary, announcing that
a special meeting of stockholders would
be held on August 27th for the purposa
of acting ou the proposed plan of reor
ganization. The plan provides for the
scaling down of the capital from $87,-
000,000 to $30,000,000.
A dispatch of Thursday from Colum
bia, 0., says: The democratic state
executive committee has extended a
forma! invitation to ex President Cleve
land to deliver not less than six speeches
iu behalf of Governor Campbell during
the coming campaign. Governor Hill,
General Palmer, Governors Peck and
Boies, with Senators Voorhees, Vance,
Vila 9 and other representative demo
crats will be asked to aid the campaign.
On Friday a committee on civil and
religious lights of the Union of Ameri
can Hebrew Congregations throqgh thqjr
officers resident at Washington—Simon
Wolf, chairman, and Lewis Abraham,
secretary —have presented a memorial to
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Net
tleton in behalf of Russian refugees,
lauding in New York designed to show
LUiit Uey are not paupers nor “assisted"
immigrants. The department* it is un
derstood, will take early action.
A Washington dispatch says: Ship
ments of currency to the west to move
crops opened up lively Saturday, $038,-
000 in small notes being shipped from
the treasury to Cincinnati and Ohioago in
exchange for deposits at New York. The
department has been preparing for this
transfer for some time with the view to
meeting the demand for small notes for
the purpose indicated. According to
present indications the demand Will be
unusually large this year, one official es
timating it at $15,000,000.
BUSINESS"OUTLOOK
As Reported by Dunn & Cos.
for Past Week.
R. G. Dunn & Co.’s trade review for
week ended July 28, fays: Some im
provement in the business situation is
still noted. There is more actual trade
in most of the leading branches, and
more general confidence as to the future.
But the monetary situation does not
grow clearer, and the decline is strong,
notwithstanding the great dullness, and
with enormous crops coming, marks the
feeling of Wall street that difficulties
may be not far ahead.
Reports of the condition of ■ trade are
generally more favorable than a week ago,
as the western crop prospects are stimu
lated everywhere. In the south little
change is noted, and money is generally
tight and trade inactive. But crop pros
pects decidedly improve in Alabama,
sugar is active and firm at New Orleans
ana trade holds its own at Savannah,
The suspension of a bank at Palatka
oauaes some depression in trade there, but
heavy purchases of tabacco at Key West
show unusual activity in cigar making.
Business is Florida is more promising
than last year. Cotton has (alien three
eights to 8 cents for spot, with sales of
608,000 ba’es, an enormous trade for the
season. The average prices of all com
modities have fallen per cent during
the week. Great industries show an im
provement in wool and leather manufact
ure, but no signs of recovery in iron and
coal.
The depression in iron is serious though
prices are, on the whole, hut little
changed. In the wool trade larger salts
at eastern cities and continued large re
ceipts at the west reflect the improve
ment which the better demand for dry
goods naturally causes. Leather is
awakening and manufacturers are laying
in stocks more liberally. The boot and
shoe prospects at the south and west are
excellent, and Boston shipments again
exceed last year's. But the money mar
ket at the west show an increasing de
mand, at some points approaching strin
gency, and collections are not, on the
whole good good for the season.
Business failures Occurring throughout
the country during last week, as reported
to R. G. Dunn & Co.’s mercantile agen
cy, number, for the United States, 231;
Canada, 23; total f54, against 274 last
week.
THE WAR ENDS
And Tennessee’s Convicts Re
turned to the Mines.
A Nnoxville. Tenn., says:
The convicts were returned to Coal Creek
and Briceville mines by Governor Buch
hanan Saturday. The governor, the
guards, twenty strong, and the convicts
were received at the mines quietly and
pleasantly, and during the governor’s so
journ at the camp he was treated not
only courteously but as royally as the
Tennessee miners could treat him. The
happy solution of the ugly problem was
gladly received by the people in and
about Knoxville. On the governor’s re
turn to Knoxville, the troops saluted
him, and, in a short but feeling speech
the governor thanked the military boys
for the many sacrifices they had made,
and the faithful work they had done.
A Colonization Scheme,
The bureau of American republics at
Washington is informed that an associa
tion called “The American Colored Men’s
Mexican Colonization Company” is plan
ning to establish a colony of negro farm
ers, coming chiefly from MississipDi and
Tennessee, in the state of Sonora, Mexico,
and has arranged for the purchase of a
tract of 100,000 acres about twenty
miles south of Yqina, Arizona, on the
Southern Pacific railroad at the place
where the remains of the Laredo colony,
founded by Gandrade, of San Francisco,
still remain.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming* an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The last of the jury bribery cases was
tried iu New Orleans Thursday and re
sulted in an acquittal.
The boiler of a steam thresher ex
ploded at Litchfield, Ky., Thursday,
killing three men and fatally injuring
three otheis.
The comptroller of currency has ap
pointed Col. John C. Goodloe, of Barton,
Ala., receiver of the Florence National
bank, of Florence, Ala.
A Memphis, Tenn.. dispatch says:
Proceedings of the motion for anew
tiial in the King murder case were re
sumed Monday muiuiug lu the criminal
court.
Judge Cas i auy, of the Anniston, Ala.,
city court, on Monday, appointed Capt.
A. P. Agee receiver cf the defunct An
niston Saving aud Safe Deposit Company.
1 his was done at the request of the de
positors, who held two or three meetings
recently to devise some way for obtaining
amounts due them.
Friday night the Citizens’ bank of
Jeffeison, Texas, made an assignment.
The bank closed business Saturday morn
ing, not having funds to mdet their credi
tors. Liabilities, $100,000; assets, $125,-
000. It is believed the depositors and
creditors will receive the full amount of
deposits aud the bank will be able to
pay all its indebtedness.
A Raleigh dispatch of Thursday says;
Governor Holt lias decided, on the ad
vice of the attorney general, not to pay
the world’s fair commissioners any part
of the $25,000 voted by the general as
sembly from the direct tax fund. The
governor does not think he would be
justified in carrying out the act, as it re
quires him to make inroads upon the
funds held in trust.
One of the richest and best paying
gold mines in the country is the Pine
tucky mines in Cleburne county, Ala.,
about thirty miles from Anniston. The
nuggets mined there, yield an average of
$63 a ton. The mine is operated on a
limited scale at present, bat the owners
contemplate increasing the-output by an
additional force of laborers in the fall.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Dr. Henry
V. Wilson, director of the United States
fish commission, stationed at Woods
Hall, Mass., was, on Monday, elected
professor of biology in the University of
North Carolina. Ho will be scientific ex
pert to the North Carolina shell fish com
mission. His election makes a valuable
addition to the faculty of the University
of North Carolina.
A dispatch of Friday from Sacramento,
Cai., says: State Controller Colgan has
refused to draw his warrant for t>o
amount due as office rent for California’s
world’s fair commission. He doubts the
constitutionality of the legislative act
appropriating $300,000 for the California
exhib.t at the world’s fair, and wishes to
have the question decided by the supreme
court before he pays out any money.
A run began on the People’s Home
Savings bank at San Francisco, Monday,
and several thousand dollars was paid
back to the depositors. The bank com
missioners have begun an investigation
of the bank’s affairs. According to its
report July Cth. the People’s bank has a
capital stock of $1,000,000, of which
one-third is paid up. There is due de
positors, who number about eight thous
and, the sum of SIOO,OOO. The bank
officers state that the institution is per
fectly solvent.
AN ADDRESS
Issued by the People’s Party
to the General Public.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Thursday
says: Robert Schilling has made public
the address of the national executive
committee of the people’s party to the
citizens of the United States. It occu
pies four closely printed, small octavo
pages. It set out with a general state
ment of grievances which occupies about
one-fourth of the document. In this
statement are such phrases as the follow
ing:
“The declaration of independence
from the arrogance of British politicians
must be supplemented by a declaration
of independence from the frightful
power of concentrated wealth. We con
sider violence in settling disputes as un
worthy of a civilized nation, and for
this reason we have organized the party
of the people to overthrow tyrants who
have robbed and are continuing to rob
us of that to which they have ho moral
right.”
The document then goes on with speci
fications of evils in matters of iands,
labor and money, and in conclusion sug
gests a remedy. The concluding para
graph appeals, in the name of the lib
erty for 'which the fathers of the republic
pledged their lives, for the aid of every
honest man in this struggle by joining
the party of the people.
William Hester, ot b'jwing Ai.'l.
Penn., has a large brown bat which he
has trained to carry messages like a ca -
rier pigeon. Yesterday Mr. Ile-lcr took
the uncanny bird to his place of business
in New Castle, and having made arrange
ments at home to note the exact time of
its arrival, .let it loose. The iat flew a
mile in 27} seconds. When libi rated
ihe quickness with which it starts for its
cage at home is something ama/.iug Mr.
Hester will take the bat to Young-town
and try its homing powers from there.
He is confident it will outstrip a homing
pigeon.
NO. 14.