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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. * * * 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. * * * 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.” * * 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.” * * * 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. * -jf' 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. * * * 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 * 1.1 i L . . _ - l. 4 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.” * * * 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.” * . * * 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. •* * * 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.” * * 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. i 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.