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VOL. i.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
THEN AND NOW.
The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.,)
Bays: “As long as the members of the
alliance stayed in the back yards of the
political bosses, obeying submissively
their commands without question, it was
the grandest organization on earth. Its
membership, the most exemplary citizens
upon whose virtue these bosses loved to
dwell for hours and hours in the calm
cool of the evening. But just as soon
as they essayed to eat at the first table,
sit in the pailor, or on the
front gallery and assist in
entertaining company, they were de
nounced as a most desperately wicked
crew of renegades, anti their officers as
political blatherskites, upon whose heads
the vitriolic wrath of the pent-up hate of
these bosses poured without stint. Why
all this adulation first, and this torrent of
wrath afterwards? There can be but one
answer. For more than three thousand
years aristocrats have recognized those
“who eat their bread by the sweat of
their face” as but one degree above a
brute; a kind of a connecting link as it
were, between the brute and the man, but
without the attribute of immortality. In
recent years these aristocrats have patron
izingly admitted that, peradventure, a
laboring man might have a soul, aud that
he might vote, provided he remained in
all other matters in his proper sphere—a
hewer of wood and a drawer of water
provided also that he vote strictly accord
ing to the orders of said bosses. There
fore, the assumption upon the part of a
laboring man to discharge the duties of a
citizen according to the dictates of his
own conscience, is considered rebellion,
and in their high opinion, the “menial”
who attempts to vote as he pleases
should be politely damned and forced to
wear a ball and chain and split wood in
the back yard of his boss during his nat
ural life. It would be well for laboring
men to remember that they now enjoy
none of the rights of a man that they or
their fathers have not wrung from aris
tocrats, and that if they desiie to regain
and retain the rights of a citizen .they
must first will it, then combiue with
their fellows and force plu
tocracy to grant it. The submission
of the many to the dictates of the few is
slavery.
BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION.
We take the following from the Aa
t)o%al Eeononmkt: The papers opposed
to the Alliance sometimes exercise con
siderable ingenuity in misrepresenting
the demands of the Order. A complete
miscoptiou of the object of the sub-treas
ry, for instance, causes the general pub i
cation of the following:
“It looks as if it had been devised by
a regular syndicate of speculators. It
gives to the wealthy, the capitalist, op
portunities for crushing the poor pro
ducer that no rings have ever before
dared to ask for. The sub-treasury will
put cotton, wheat, corn and tobacco in
the hands of speculators. The mechanic,
the laborer, the farmer who do not pro
duce these articles would be compelled to
pay such prices as the syndicate chose.”
Then the talker took a piece of paper and
a pencil and proceeded to demon
strate a curious problem, show
ing “the power of money to op
press” under the sub-treasury idea.
He supposed one John Smith to have
SIOO,OOO in cash and to go in for a spec
ulation under the operation of the sub
treasury. Smith buys SIOO,OOO worth of
cotton, puts in the sub-trea'ury, gets
SBO,OOO on it from the government, in
vests again, and so on, until Mr, Smith’s
last deposit of cotton will not realize
enough at 80 per cent, to buy another
bale. It appears from the figuring that
John Smith, with SIOO,OOO capital to
start with, could, under the sub-treasury
scheme, buy and hold $500,000 worth of
cotton for speculative purposes. lie
would hold absolutely as long ns he paid
the trifling percentage of interest and
warehouse dues. If the entire product of
cotton in the United States is worth
$1100,000,000, it would take only SOO,-
000,000 capital to buy and hold every
bale.”
The Economist continues: The more
John Smiths the better, under the sub
treasury plan. Whereas, there was only
SIOO,OOO in Mr. Smith’s hands when he
devised his scheme, there would be when
it was worked to its ultimate $500,000
among the people and Mr. Smith’s hoard
would be dissipated, as such lioaids
should be. As Mr. Smith can, without
the sub-treasury, carry cottou by putting
up a small margin of perhaps a dollar a
bale, he is able with the same money to
lock up a far greater part of the cotton
crop, and in doing so lock up the
source of money supply as well. The
main puipose of toe sub-treasury being
to get money in circulation, the illustra
tion above is a nexcelieut one to show how
effective it would be. Mr. Smith would
have to sell his cotton in the long run to
the spinners, and the spinners being will
ing to buy from anybody having cottou
in warchou e. Mr. Smith could get no more
for his stored cotton than could any ordi
nary farmer. He would therefore pay for
what he bought in competition with the
spinners’ prices from the farmers or he
could not In y. I) dhe wish the plain
farmer rim and wareuouse and draw 80 per
cent., in 1 thereby put into circulation
the much-needed money to do the busi
ness of the country.
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STARTLING FIGURES.
Twenty years ago it was estimated that
the producing clas c e3 owned three-
State of iafie letni
fourths of the wealth of the nation; to
day only about one-fourth of the nation’s
wealth is in the hands of the producing
classes, yet the wealth of the nation has
heeu doubled in the same period. They
have, 10-t, in comparison to the increase
of wealth, two-thirds of the : r wealth in
the last twenty years. The cause for this
can best he found in a study of a few
figures. The wealth of the nation
in this period, according to cen
sus reports, has increased at
the rate of about 4 per cent per annum,
which has been added to the wealth by
the labor of tne producing classes. The
average' dividends on capital for the
same period las been 7 per cent, per
year. Under our present conditions of
society, capital and labor are combined
in almost every branch of human indus
try. Now, it will be seen by a compar
ison of the productive power of the la
bor and the dividends paid to capital,
that capital has been receiving as wages
the full production of wealth anil ab
sorbing the former possessions of the
wealth producer, the latter class losing
sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of their
wealth in twenty years, and the
capitalists gaining sixty-six and two
thirds per cent. The estimated
wealth, of the nation to day is $60,000,-
000,000, of which 30.000 capitalists anp
said to own $36,250,060,000 63.000,000
people owniug S2O 750,000,000; 250,000
capitalists arc said to own three-fourths
of ibe uation’s wealth. If there was an
eveu 63,000,000 Inbabi'anls in the nation,
the wealth would be distributed as fol
lows: Two hundred and fifty thousand
people represent $49,500,000,000-; 62,-
750,000 people repesent $16,500,000,000
of wealth.—Atlanta Constitution.
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THE ALLIANCE NOT “IN J’S.”
In these columns last week appeared
what was supposed to be an antheutic ac
count of the promulgation, by the I! -
‘form Press liuriau at Washington, of
wheat trust circulars. It stems that this
was a mistake in so far as the authority
of the alliance is concerned. The Na
tional Economist prints the same article,
and appends thereto the fbllow-ing com
ment :
“The above is going the rounds of the
press and places the Alliance aud some
of its members in a false position. There
has not been a single wheat circular sent
out from Washington by authority of t.be
Allianee. There is no Alliance authority
under which such a circular could be sent
out save the executive committee, of
which, but one member is in this city. The
Alliance as an organizttion has nothing
to do with the matter. It is purely a
local affair in which interested members
arct independently of the national officers
and have so far been able to take care of
themselves, and will no doubt do in this
case. Mr. Ayer is a clerk in the office of
President Polk. The constitution re
cognizes no such office as private secreta
ry. What he may say or do so is no more
binding on the Order, and has no more
bearing on the policy of the Alliance,
than that of the humblest member. IPs
expressions arb simply the opinion of an
earnest member of the Alliance and neth
ing more; neither does Mr. Ayer pre
sume to any thing mere, as he is too
much of a gentleman and too good an
Allianceman to desire to be placed in a
false position. This is written in justice
both to the Order and Mr. Ayer, with
the hope that such explanation will he
accepted in the'spirit and intent in
which it is given.”
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TAKE UEKD.
Under the above caption, The Progres
sive Farmer. (Raleigh, N. C.,) sSys:
“The third party seems to be on a boom
among the ‘straightouts’ of Mississippi.
According to the Clarion Ledger, the
‘straightouts’ in three counties bolted the
conventions because they were outvoted
by the Alliance people, and set up shop
for themselves. Again The Progressive
Farther warns the ‘stralghtout’ leaders
and press that they had better watch
these Third party fellows in their own
ranks. The only men in the South thus
far who have attempted to form a
party, belong to the “Simon-pure
straightouts.” And in every case they
have violated their solemn pledge to
stand by the action of the convention.
We call on the champions of democratic
usage and principle, to kick these trai
torous fellows out of the party. First
thing you know some of these ‘cranky’
Alliance Democrats will attempt to fol
low this example. Kick the traitors out!
You let them off too lightly last year in
South Carolina, North Carolina and
Georgia and now' you see it is spreading
in Mississippi. The Democratic papers
should look after these fellows.”
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FItOH KANSAS.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, says
that the Shawnee county democratic con
vention, the first meeting of the knd
since the democratic editors of Platte
decided that the party should not fuse
with the Farmers’Alliance, was held a
few days ago and bolted the editors’ de
cision. C. K. Ilalliduy, editor of The
Topehi Democrat, who ltd the anti-fu
sion faction was defeated for the chair
manship by a fusion man . Judge John
Martin, the most influenrtil democrat in
the state, made a lot g speech in favor of
fusion. He said no democratic princi
ples were particularly involved in county
politics. His counsel pievailed, and
only two nominations were made. The
convention then adjourned for a week.
In the meantime a conference will be
held with the Farmers’ Alliance people,
aud the latter will be given the remain
ing parts of the ticket.
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The Alliance Farmer (Los Angeles, Cal.)
says: The excessive rates for transporta
tion are crushing producers and imposing
grievous byrdens upon consumers. They
are serious restraints upon enterprise, and
unless some relief is afforded production
will not only be greatly reduced but the
TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 7,1891.
surplus wealth of the country will con
tinue to pass into a few hands. The for
tunes which have been accumulated m
railroad building and operating arc be
yond anything known to history, and ac
cumulations will increase and oppression
of the people will continue unless some
decisive and effective steps are taken.
Rates are high u orler to secure income
on excessive capitalization and to pay un-|
necessary operating expenses. The ex- f
peuses which are'unnecessary are the im-l
mense salaries paid the high railroad olfi- ;
cials. What*are the remedies? The an
swer is, ownership of the roads or control;
of rates by’the government.
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The Allianee (Tallahassee, Fla.,) says:
“They say to us that the sub-treasury .
plan is impracticable , yet this same plan
has been tried with abundant success in
this country before these young Solomons
had existence. Turn back a few pages,
of your country’s history and read about
the land loan scheme of the Pennsylvania
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Colony, ami uju louacco wareuOUsc system
of Virginia, which at the time saved the
colonists from utter ruin ; then read a lit
tle French history and see how this same
warehouse plan in 1848 brought France
out of an extremity of dire necessity and
mad ,lier people prosperous and happy.
Not practical! and here we have the
“proof of the puddm’.” We admit that
it don’t suit the ragtag and bobtail poli-’
ticians, but it does suit the gr at mass of
producers in this country, and they are
going to have it.”
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Pointers (Greenfield, Mo.) says: “The
merchants should certainly be on the
side of their customers, the farmers, in
this movement for a better state. Any
measure that will help the laborer will
directly benefit the merchant as well.
Business drags because the people are so
oppressed that they cannot afford to buy;
and are obliged to ask foi credit for even
the few necessities which they ate com
pelled to purci.ac. The merchants
know this to be a fact, and they know,
too, that their business can never flour
ish while this condition prevails. Why
not come out on the side of the people
and aid in the work of removing the dif
ficulties under which every honorable oc
cupation languishes.”
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Rusk county alliance, Texas, has un
animously adopted the following resolu
tion: “Resolved, That we indorse the
sub-treasury as the only measure yet pro
posed by auy organization, by which le
gal tender treasury notes can reach the •
channels of trade; and that each member
of this county Alliance pledge his pro
perty, liberty and fife to stand by and,
advocate said measure until some orga
nized body proposes aud adopts in their
platform of principles something better
calculated to remedy the wrongs com
plained of.
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Industrial Educator (Fort Worth, Tex.)
says: “The grandest victory lor Alli
ance principles, including the sub-trea
sury plan, was won at the Fort Worth
meeting. After weeks of advertising iu
the leading papers, only a handful were
present, aud the thing still born. Noth
ing will be left of it at the next state
meeting.”
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The Alliance Sentinel, State organ of
Michigan Alliance, has consolidated with
the Industrial News of J ckson, Mich.
Tlv two will make a strong lornM nation.
Irrigation from Artesian Wells.
Among the most interesting investiga
tions now being conducted by our Gov
ernment is that into the presence of watei
underneath the Western plains. It is
a unique field of inquiry, aud its results
lrom both a scientific and practical
standpoint are likely to be of consider
able importance. It was prompted by
the query whether it were not possible
to reclaim large sections of arid lands by
means of water from artesian wells, and,
while other interesting facts have been
developed, that is the one most empha
sized in the lengthy Government report
now ready for distribution. The volume
contains 400 pages, and has returns from
the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas,
New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
and Wyoming. In Dakota a large basin
has been found to exist about 400 miles
long by forty or fifty miles in width
ale ig the Jame3 River, and has been
given its name. Its eastern boundary is
marked by the watershed between the
Red River of the North and the James,
and it extends thence about fifty miles
or more west. It is pronounced the
largest and strongest artesian basin yet
discovered in this country. The watei
is found in a great bed of fine white sand,
which is thrown out in large quantities
by the wells where they are allowed tc
flow freely. In Kansas there are largi
areas where the water does not rise tc
the surface, though an abundant supplj
is obtainable by pumping. The same is
true of many sections in Texas, Colorado
and other States. In all such areas it is
suggested that the wind be utilized tc
raise the svater.—[New York Witness.
RUSHING WATERS
Come Down Upon a Nevada
Town With Dire Results.
Austin, Nevada, was visited by a clou!
burst Wednesday and gre/.t dar.iaye was
done. Waters rushing from ihe summit
of the mountains came and >wn Main street,
wave over wave, carrying everything be
fore it, includiug boulders weighing over
a ton. The city railway was torn from
its bed, awnings tom down, and water
mains uprooted from three feet under
the ground. A majority of the business
houses were filled with three or four feet
of mud. The streets presented the ap
pearance of a volcanic eruption. The
damage is SIO,OOO.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Fifty-five hundred Italians sailed from
Genoa for America last week.
The foreign committee of the world’s
fair met with a hearty reception in Ger
many.
Several thousand bales of cotton were
destroyed by fire in Liverpool Friday.
Estimated loss, $250,000.
The total customs receipts for July
were $23,053,386, or $8,485,233 less than
the receipts during the same month last
year.
Rev. Isaac Lea Nicholson's election as
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Mil
waukee, has been approved by twenty
s'even dioceses.
An unusually,sharp shock of earth
quake, lasting several seconds, was felt
throughout the city of San Diego, Cal.,
Thursday morning.
Mercer county, Pa., republican con
vention adopted a resolulion Tuesday
declaring James G. Blaine their choice
for president in 1892.
The United States treasury continues
its daily shipment of small notes to the
west for use in moving crops. Total
amount sent so far, $2,800,000.
The bodies of three men were found
Tuesday in the Mayer mines, near Scott
dale, Pa. They are supposed to have
lost their fives at the time the mine was
on fire during the strike.
A lire Monday night destroyed the big
plant of the Richmond Electric Light,
Heat and Power Company at St. George,
Staten Island. The building was valued
at $200,000, and was a total loss.
The Canadian government has decided
to surrender seven American fishing
schooners recently seized by the cruiser
Dream for fishing within the three-mile
limit in violation of the treaty of 1818.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Kan.,
says: Jackson Donnelly, a wealthy farmer
living five miles east of this city, and his
wife were found murdered at noon Mon
day. The supposed motive was rob
bery.
A cablegram from Lisbon, Portugal,
says: Senator Garwalho, minister of fi
nance, has issued a decree giving legal
currency to the francs imported into the
state aud cxpoitation of
all silver coin.
Three Hungarians, working on the
Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston rail
road were run down by a freight train,
near Turtle Creek,, Friday. One of
the men was killed and the other two fa
tally injurrd. A
In the municipal court at Boston,
Mass., Monday, S. S. Pigrce & Cos.,
ciiarged with selling adulterated goods
in the shape of French peas, to which
had been added a certain preparation of
copper to give the peas a peculiar color,
were fined $25.
A southern branch for the Colorado tin
plate syndicate will be located at Middles
burg, Ivy. A site covering ten acres
of ground has been selected near the iron
furnace aud the steel plant of the Watts
syndicate, where iron and steel can be
furnished them at a low figure.
In the United States district court at
Greenville, S. C., Tuesday, Judge Simon
ton made an order requiring Receiver
Chamberlain, of the Charleston, Cincin
nati and Chicago road to issue receiver’s
certificates to the amount of $230,897 to
pay the claims of a number of northern
creditors.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
says: District Attorney Nicoil, hus con
cluded to indict all the New York news
papers that published accounts of the
electrocution at Sing Sing on July 6th
last. The evidence in the hands of the
district attorney’s office will be presented
to the grand jury at once.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York for the week ended August Ist,
amounted to $75,572, of which $31,572
was gold coin and $44,000 in silver bars.
All the gold went to South America and
all the silver to Europe. Imports of specie
to the port of New York last week
amounted to $34,339, of w hich $29,840
was gold and $4,499 silver.
A London cablegram says: Dillon and
O'Brien appeared in the house of com
mons Tuesday, for the first time in many
months, their absence having been due
to their imprisonmeut iu Galway jail.
They were met in the lobby of the house
by members of both sections ot the Irish
parliamentary party, and were the reci
pients of hearty congratulations from near
iy all the Irish representatives.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says:
The eight-hour law passed by ttie last
legislature went into effect Saturday
moruiDg. The only trouble growing
out of the enforcement of the law so fai
is the lockout of job priuters. The em
ploying printers refused to grant eight
hours, and when the men came to work
as usual, they were to'd that their ser
vices were uo longer needed. Only oue
shop in the city (Berkeley’s) has com
plied with the law.
INGRATITUDE.
Mr. Gotrox —What arc you doing out
there in the chilly night air? Come into
the house. .
Gladys—l was just admiring the moon,
papa.
Mr. Gotrox—What business have you
admiring the moon when there are so
many things in the house that I have
bought expressly for you to admire?
Anybody can admire the moon. —
(Chicago Tribune.
| THE BUSINESS SITUATION
As Reported by Dun & Cos., for
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade 6ays: Business continues dragging
and dull. The stock market is greatly
depressed, the average price of active
stocks being $1.50 lower than a week
ago. False reports of failures have some
thing to do with the decline, and some
of the houses thus assailed are actually
among the strongest in the street.
DEPRESSED AT THE SOUTH .
Trade at the south is peculiarly de
pressed because there is too much cotton,
with several hundred thousand bait sof
last year’s crop left over in the world’s
markets aud with competent judges pre
dicting another crop even larger than
that of 1890, it is no wonder that prices
are low and producers scarcely get enough
to pay for raising and picking. Hence,
country merchants do not buy freely, and
the prospect of a great yield, which at
other times might be helpful, tends to
produce stagnation. Again, iu parts of
the west where crops failed lust year trade
has not yet recovered from the great de
pression resulting, and as long a9 the
corn crop is in doubt complete recovery
is not to be ex.peetcd. In severul states
legislation hostile to capital causes much
disturbance. The further collapse of real
estate speculation in many parts of the
west and south has brought severe losses
and embarrassment to many.
THE MONEY MARKET.
At the cast monetary uncertainties have
a powerful influence. European difficul
ties do not pass as (Juietly or fully as was
expected, and now serious financial trou
ble is apprehended in Russ : a, because of
the failure of crops, which will only help
this country in the end. There .is a
growing doubt whether the movement of
crops here will not cause a temporary
drain greater than the eastern money
markets can meet, but if grain can be
sold, gold will come. The apprehension
grows stronger also that next winter may
bring dangerous legislation by congress,
and possibly the unlimited coinage of
silver. One large financial institution
has bought English consols to a consid
erable amount, and a leading trust com
pany is said to have $4,000,000 of its
deposits in gold. The treasury has added
only $700,000 to circulation during the
week, absorbing gold but issuiug more
silver and treasury notes. Though no
gold has been exported, the outgo of
currency to the west and south is felt at
New York and at Boston. Money is
close at Buffalo and Cleveland, in active
demand at Chicago, Cincinnati aud De
troit; firmer at 7 to 8 per cent, at St.
Louis; in good supply for legitimate
business at Milwaukee; close at Omaha,
Nashville and Atlanta; tight at Jackson
ville but easier at Savannah, and in fair
supply at New Orleans.
SUMMARY OF THE nKI’ORTS.
Butiness is reported good in the east,
west and north, as a iule; but at southern
points it is dull, or only fair, though cu
riously improved at one or two localities,
because of injury to cotton by heavy
rains. The great industries show no im
portant change for the week. Philadel
fihia describes the iron market as friglit
ully dull, and sales to realize arc made
at prices considerably below quota
tions.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last week number
for the United States 229, and Canada 18;
total, 247; against 254 last week.
FOR FOUR MILLION
Abraham Backer Assigns his
Worldly Possessions.
Abraham B mker, dealer in commercial
paper at No. 285 Broadway, New York,
made an assignment Monday without
preference. Backer was a Ijeavv dealer
in commercial paper and also the capi
talist of the firm of A. Backer & Cos.,
dry goods commission merchants at 285
Broadway. He also manufactured goods
at Glastonbury, Conn., where
he has a fine mill. Their goods
were principally the southern trade.
Backer’s a-signineut, it is said, is princi
pally due to the (ondition of the money
market, which made it very difficult for
lnm to float a quantity of commercial
paper which he generally haudl.d, and
also to the decline iu certain southern
railroad bonds in which he was a large
holder, llis trouble, it is said, in rela
tion to southern railroad bonds was the
result of his connection with the Macon
Construction comp my, of Macon, Ga.. of
which he was one of the directors, and to
which he said to have leut much money.
His liabilities aie said to be about four
million dollars, of which $2,500,000 is di
rect and sl,soo,ooocontingent, 'lhe latter
i said to be all right and no loss is an
ticipated. The assets, according to one
who is familiar with Backer’s affair-, in
clude about one midion, live hundred
thou'saud dollars of bonds of the Georgia
Southern aud Florida railroad, and Macon
aud Birmingham railroad, about seven
hundred aud fifty thousand dollars of
Alabama state bonds and a large amount
of other secuiities, a valuable mill plant
at Glastonbury, Cotin., aud me hundred
and fifty to two hundred thousand dol
lars’ worth of real estate in New York
city. Backer came to New York from
Savannah
irrs LAST CHOKE.
“I hope you will cut me down as soon
as convenient after the job is done,”
said the culprit to the hangman.
“Why, what difference can it make to
you after you are dead?”
“Ah! my friend, you mult remember
that suspense is worse than death.”
A LOVE MATCH.
She—So she married for love, did
she?
He—Yes—love of monev.
NO. 15.
THROUGH DIXIE.
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NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
' Sylvester Young, cashier at Louisville,
Ky., of the western division of the Ches=
apeake and Ohio railroad, absconded
Friday with $50,000 in cash.
Sunday’s dispatches state that whole
farms are inundated along Yallabusha
river, Mississippi. Eutirc fields of cot
ton have been washed down and covered
with mud.
A waterspout on Friday flooded the
lower patt of West Point, Miss. Railroad
tracks in bottom lauds were submerged
with several iuches of water, antL cions
have suffered to a great extent. 51
Seventy convicts, under guard, were
sent from Nashville, Monday, to the
mines at Briceville, the scene of the re
cent trouble. This gang will be the last
sent to the place, as it will complete the
number contracted for.
A Raleigh dispatch of Friday says: In
compliance with the request of the adju
tant general of South Carolina, Governor
Holt has granted a permit to the New
berry Rifles to enter North Carolina armed
and equipped. The corps is going into
camp at Hendeisouville.
The New Orleans and Gulf railroad,
running from the city of New Orleans tc
a point on the Shell Beach, which has
been in the hands of a receiver for some
time, was sold Friday, for $1,200,000.
The purchase was made for English hold
ers of first msrtgage bonds.
A dispatch from Lake Charles, La.,
says: Sunday on Lock, Mcore & Co.’s
railroad an altercation between the men
there employed took place in which ten
menSvere shot, six of whom were killed
at once und one mortally wounded. The
remaining three are seriously injured,but
they may recover. It is known to be the
result of an old feud.
The weekly crop bulletin issued Satur
day for the State of North Carolina at
large, shows the following condition:
Cotton, 76; corn, 84; tobacco, 87; east
ern district, cotton, 77; corn 82; to
bacco, 86; grass, 89; peanuts, 84; pota
toes, 86; central district, cotton, 75;
corn, 83; tobacco, 85; western district,
cotton, 76; corn, 87; tobacco, 90.
A Charleston, S. C., dispatch of Mon
day says: The decision in the United
States circuit court in the famous Coosaw
case was filed in favor of the state.
Both judges delivered opinions holding
that the contract between the state and
the Coosaw company expired in 1891.
The act of 1876 modified the grant crea
ted by the act of 1860, but did not ex
tend the time.
John Beesley, sexton for half a century
of St. Michael church at Charleston, 8.
C., died Friday in the eightieth year
of his age. In him one of the most in
teresting landmarks of Charleston parsed
away. He was part and parcel of St.
Michael’s and his intense interest in the
church and personal knowledge of its
history for over half a century made him
a leading authority with all tourists and
sightseers.
A Birmingham dispatch says: Walter
H. Ellis, the y> ung clerk arrested Mou
day for blowing up the Alabama Great
Southern depot, waived preliminary ex
amination Tuesday and went to jail, bail
being denied him. Arson of a house
where people sleep is a capital offense in
Alabama, and in this case Ellis knew
there was a brother clerk asleep up
stairs. Ellis’s father is a Methodist
preacher.
W. W. Radford, a county constable,
on Monday afternoon, through his at’or
ney, filed a libel suit against the Augusta
(On,) Evening News for SIO,OOO. Mr.
Radford’s grievance, which he claims in
jured and humiliated him, is from an ar
ticle that appeared in The News a year
ago, about the style in which business
was solicited for a magistrate's court, so
liciting business from the recorder's court,
which the paptr said should be stopped.
A Richmond dispatch says: John N.
Hopkins, ex-member of the legislature
from Henrico county, Va., was run over
and killed by a passenger train Thursday
evening on t'he James river division of
the Richmond snd Alleghany railroad,
about one mile from the city. A heavy
rain was falling at the time of the acci
dent. He had an umbrella raised over
him, and being an old man, the train
was on him before he was aware of it.
Suit was instituted in the United States
district corut at Charleston, S. C., Fri
day which will have an impoitant bear
ing iu deciding the responsibility of alli
ance warehouses and stores. The suit is
brought by Afimetf, Nixon & Gols
borougli, of Baltimore, against S. T. D.
Lancaster, H. E. Williams, It. M. Smith,
Alfred Harris, Moses Wood, I. R.
Padgett, N. S. Walker, George R. Dean
and W. McZimmerman, as partners do
ing business under the firm name of the
Farmers’ Alliance, of Spartanburg poun
ty. The amount demanded is $3,925 for
goods sold defendants.
Lincoln's Advice.
An autograph letter of Abraham Lin
coln to a friend is said to contain the
following: “Do not worry. Eat three
square meals a day. Say your prayers.
Think of your wife. Be courteous to
your creditors Keep your digestion
good. Steer clear of biliousness. Ex
ercise. Go slow and go easy. May be
there are other things that your especial
case requires to make you happy, but,
my friend, these, I reckon, will give you
a good lift”.—[Chicago Herald.