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VOL. 1. The soldiers’ homes of the country are said to be overcrowded. “Even the African colonies are out distancing Canada in the growth of population,” exclaims the Brooklyn Citizen. California hotel prices are twenty-five per cent, less than those in the East, and the hotels themselves are said to be far niperior in appointments. A Chicago clergyman lias observed that the rate of speed of carriages at funerals is becoming faster, and where fifteen years ago a walk and only a walk was regarded as the proper pace, now trotting is very common. An Englishman who has been travel ing in Siberia says that the life of the Russian exiles there is not so hard as it has been depicted. They enjoy society, indulge in fancy dress balls and have a gcod time generally—but with limitations. Says the New York Telegram • “Cali fornia is fast becoming the fruit growing section of the United States, and there is no place on this continent that offers such inducements to young men of brains and some money. The money is necessary, for no man can start from nothing and hold his own.” Hog raising is becoming every year more popular throughout the cotton growing States, notes the New Orleans New Delta , and more attention is paid tc breed and feed. The native razor-bach is giving way to better stock, and instead of being wholly compelled to forage for himself, the great cotton staple is made to furnish him the best of diet in the form of cotton seed meal. The Boston Transcript soliloquizes : “There was a pretty symool wrapped up in that incident at the unfurliug of the enormous United States flag at Spring field, Mass., the other day—the drop ping of flowers from its loosening folds upon the heads of the throng beneath. One could easily “spread the eagle,” as the skaters say, on this subject, and one may at least be allowed to cut a modest pigeon-wing of exultation as one glances at the blessings that t’ae Goddess of Lib erty scatters over us—picking up a te.v of the flowers strewn by her hand.” An instance of the bad working of the jury system, in which the consequences are important, is alleged in the cas3 of a man tried in Northern Michigan for cut tin" off the timber on Government land n under cover of a fraudulent homestead entry. The entry, it is asserted, was made, not for the purpose of establish ing a home, but solely to denude the tract of its valuable _ timber. Althouga it is said to have beeu snavvn that nearly a million feet of pine was stripped off, the jury placed its value at only £1023, so much less than the real value a3 to make the offence well worth repeating and risking the penalty at a jury’s hands. “Ireland,” says the Toronto Globs, “is the only country in modem tim33 which has suffered more than Canada from the emigration of her children. If we could count the native Canadians who have crossed the line from 1862 to 1891, to gether with the European settlers who have made this a half-way inn on the the road to the United States, it would probably be found that, allowing for the larger population of Ireland, we have come out almost as badly as that ‘meat distressful’ country, whereas by rights we should have increased and multiplied 83 no other people on the face of tfcia earth, considering the rude plenty which every mau enjoys and the illimitable spaces to be filled.” “The best protection a yoang woman can have iu New York City,” said a big policeman oa the Broadway squad re cently, *q 3 olle Q f those little silver crosses that the King's Daughters wear. I y e noticed that nowadays the profev B ional masher will first look at the bosom of a woman’s dress, aud if that bble cross is dangling from a button he passes her by without even a 1 are - It’s the same way on street C3rs °n the street. Tho young woman who "ears one of those badges has got the '"bole carload ol men to take care of her jump oa the fellow that dares to an- a °y her. The cross is getting to be oked upon with the same respect and -ference as a nun’s garb. Asa saTe- P** beats the average policeman ail hollow, ” State of jafie Hems. THE WIDE WORLD. general telegraphic and CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. 'ihe miners have decided to call out all men in the Pittsburg, Pa., district. By the piemature eX pj ( s j on 0 f giant powder in Montana, iMinn Tuesday, lour workmen were kj|] L( ] The Teutonic has arrived at Queens town, having beaten the fastest previous record from New York. Lieutenant Colonel Ilowletto, one of the few survivors of the British officers who fought at Waterloo, is dead. The firm of Irving A. Evans & Cos., ol' Boston, made an assignment Monday. Eire, Saturday, destroyed the Iron Mountain and cotton Belt depot at Bird’s Point, Mo. • Theodora Doerfl nger, absconding treasurer of the school board of Pitts burg, has been arrested at Omaha. A cablegram of Saturday states that there is au extensive outbreak of pleuro pneumonia in the south of Loudon. The president has appointed Richard Herbet, of Ohio, to be United States counsnl at Antiqua, West Indies. The grand jury at Denver has brought indictments againstex-Citv Auditor Ray mond and James Haley on the charge of forgery. About eight thousand miners in Staf fordshire and Worcestershire have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent in wages. On Monday, Post master General Wana maker opened proposals for supplying the proposed increase in the ocean mail service. The importation of Welshmen to take the place of workmen by the St. Louis Stamping company wiil be brought be fore the grand jury. The comptroller of currency, on Sa'ur day, authorized the lloiston National bank, of Knoxvile, Tenn., to begin bus iness with a capital of SIOO,OOO. A cablegram of Friday that the printeis in Breslau and Leips c are pre paring to strike for a nine hours’ day and an advance of 33 cent in wages. S. Simon, of Berlin, has sold to the University of Ch cauo a library of 280,- 000 volumes and 120,000 dissertations in all languages. The price paid is not known. A dispatch from Salem, Mass., says: The great Seals will contest case in which Timothy Hopkins, an adopted son, is try ing to break the will, closed Saturday. Judge Harman stateel that he should sus tain the will. A cablegram of Monday from Madrid, Spain, says: Floods continue in all direc tions. Telegraphic communication with Paris is interrupted. The railroad tun nel between Vitcher and San Ciena un dermined by the flood and collapsed, stopping all railroad traffic between Madrid and Seville. Berlin, Getmany, has been treated toa “Jack the-Ripper” sensation. The body of a wretched, abandoned woman was found horribly stabbed in her lodgings in a squalid quarter of the town Saturday night. She was horribly slashed and mutilated. The assassin, who is un known, escaped. A Boston, Mass,, telegram of Friday states that a joint debate has been ar ranged for October 28, in Tremont tem pie, between Sam Small, the prohibition advocate, and Rev. Hugh Montgomery, of / üburn, on “The Relations of the Re publican and Prohibition parties to the Supression of the Liquor Traffic.” A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Friday says: In au interview Hon. Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the democratic na tional executive committee, stated that it was his intention to resigu the chair manship of the committee after the nom ination of the presidential candidates. He did not say who would be his suc cessor. Trinity German Lutheran church, at Baltimore, celebrated its centennial anni versary Sunday. A large portion of the church is the same as it was a hun dn and years ago. Many visiting clergy men and prominent citizens were present. Cardinal Gibbous sent a letter with a copy of his book, “The Faith of our Fathers.” A New York dispatch says: The one hundred and-t wen ty-fifth anniversary oi American Methodism was celebrated Sun day with appropriate services in the old J. hn street Methodist Episcopal church —the first church of that denomination established in this country. Many cler gymen from all parts of the country and abroad were present. Su t has been entered iu the United gtatis court, at Pi tsl urg, Pa., against the officers of the L usiana L ttiry Com pany for unlawfully using the mails. It is a leged that circulars and tickets were mailed to the city on July 24 o, and that in ordt rto conceal the crime < nvelopes of the United States Express Company w, re used. At Boston, Mass , suit has also been entered. A cablegram from St. Petersburg says: The police have given notice to bankers that no dealings with or through th, house of Rothschild will pc permitted in Russia Bankers corresponding with tn- Rothschilds in Paris, London or elsewhere, must seek new mts The Russian government i‘said to feel deeply irritated at the Rothschilds on account of their opposit.on to the re cent loan, which was successfully nego tiated without their assistance. TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30,1891. A telegram from Redding, C'al., says: The tl ird stage robbery in this vicinity this week occurred Friday night, a Red ding and Alturas stage being held up this side of Leighton, six miles !iom Redding, presumably by the same men who robbed the stage Monday night. They were marked and armed with shotguns and pistols. Wells, Fargo A Co.’s express boxes and mail was robbed, S2OO being taken from the box. The driver was robbed of $5. Officers are after the rob bers. A cablegram of Tuesday from Berne, Switzerland, says: The • fficial report of the fire which occurred in the town of Meiringen, in this canton, on Sunday, shows that the conflagration, which was greatly increased in destructiveness by the high wind which prevailed, de stroyed 120 houses, without counting large numbers of barns, stables and other buildings of that description, and ren dered 784 persons homeless. The En glish chr.’ch, in addition to nearly every other edifice of importance. is in ruins. A Washington dispatch of Sunday says: The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, now at New London, Conn., has been ordered to Wa-hington for the purpose of conveying the president, secretary of the navy, and ether officials to Indian Head, on the Potomac, to wi ness the testing of armor plate for naval vessels. The exact date of the tests has not yet been fixed, but as the Vesuvius is ordered to be in Washington not later than the 28th instant, it is expected they will be made about that time. The Despatch was on her way to perform this service when wrecked on Assateague shoals. Suit was begun in the superior court at B ston, Mass., Tue-day, by Maria Kull bury, a storekeeper, of East Boston, against Rev. Hugh R. O’Dcnnelly, a Catholic priest of that section, to recover $5,000 damages for the iuin of plaintiff's business by a boycott placed on the store by the priest. Mrs. Kullburv refused to send her children to a parochial scho •!, and alleges in her charge that because she dd so refuse, defendant, from the altar, “publicly and officially issued an interdict, forbidding all his parisi ioners and his coi gregation to irade or deal or in any way associate with plaintiff.” BUSINESS OUTLOOK For Past Week as Reported by Messrs. R. G. Run & Cos. Dun’s review of trade for week ended October 24 says: Business failures occur ring during the p>ist week number lor the Unitid States 207, Canada 42; a total of 249, against 239 la t. week. Wheu important elections are c’ose at hand speculation generally waits and business is apt to be dull. This year’s speculation in stocks is hesitating, but in wheat and c tton the pressure of enor mous supplies causes lower prices, with much speculative activity. Meanwhile, g'. uera! business is remarkably active and increasing iu volurno at the west, im proving at the south, and distinctly less dull than it was a week ago at eastern CitllS. Collections are improving in nearly all directions, as the liberal movement of crops enables farmers to settle their ac counts, and to make purchases for the coming season. Money markets are no w here stringent, at nearly all important points being quite easy, though with no ticeable improvement in demand. These signs plainly promise a strong trade for the fall and wiutcr. This country, on account of its heavy exports, is largely a creditor of other nations, and far less than usual dependent upon them. FAVORABLE REPORTS. Reports from the vuri'iu-s cities are on tlie whole more favorable. At New Or leans a bitter feeling is seen with large receipts of cot f on and fair of rice and sugar, and money in active demand. At Savannati trade holds well, cotton re ceipts reaching 23,000 bales in one day and at Jacksonville trade is steady, with bright prospects. Wheat has fallen 3| cents; corn is scarce and cents higher for spot, and oats 1$ cents higher. Cotton receipts even surpass those of the same week last year by 53,000 bales, and the price falls one-sixteenth with sales of 914,000 bales at New York. The iron industry looks stronger. Bar p ate and stru tural mills are fairly em ployed, but prices are low. Boot and shoe manufacture shows signs of more active demand, and shipments are close to lust year’s. The wool manufac ure shows more demand for dress, and the stocks of these are relative and low, while for nun’s spring goods the orders of clothiers are iu lair demand, the sudden chauges of popular fancy in late yearshaving induced extraordinary caution. The stock market is hesitating, with ittle change for the week, the treasury has put out, including new treasury notes, £1,500,000 more than it has taken in during the week. Merchandise ex pons for the past two weeks have ex ceeded those of the corresponding weeks last year, while imports tail far below those of a year ago, so that the balance of traue in product strongly favors con tinued imports of gold. Foreign ex change bus declined half a cent during the week, and money at New York has been easy and cheap. Endorsed by the Typotheta. A Cincinnati dispatch of Thu sdny •ays: The United Typothetae of Anurieg. now in session here, has adopted the fol lowing: “Resolved, That the Uniied Typothettr of America approves and endotses the action of the Pittsburg typotlutse in re sisting the recent demands made by the Typographical union of that ci'y, and that we pledge them our hearty support in every practical form.” Th s action possib y involves a spread of the troubles now existing in Pittsburg and other places. THROUGH DIXIE. __________ NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming' an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. I he annual meeting of the Society of the Army of Northern Virginia was held 1 uesdiy night iu Richmond. The planing mid of J. Williams & Company, of Bowling Green, Ky., burned Sunday night. Loss, $50,000, Pine Grove, a village nine miles east of Ir vington, Ky., was swept by tire Monday, only one building being left standing. 1 ire bloke out at the Clifton furnace at Ironlen, Ala., Saturday, but was ex tinguished before any considerable dam age wn3 done to the furnace. The coal shed and 200,000 bushels of coal were consumed. A Laredo, Tex., dispatch of Tuesday says that the rush of goods through the port of Laredo into Mexico to avoid the increa-e of duties on many articles.which goes into effect on the Ist of November, is simply immense. A fire at Springville, Ala., Monday, de-troyed A. R. McLeudar & Co.’s store, the postoffice building, J. J. Carson’s grocery. Cox & Alford's dry goods store, the Adviincc office, a barbershop and two vacant buildings. Total loss, $20,000; insurance, $6,G00. r ihe Nashville Herald now appears un der new management, having been pur chased, together with its entire plant, by R. A. Ilalley, E. C. Asa, W. I. Cherry and J. J. Havnie, all well known in Nashville journalistic circles. The strik ing feature of Tuesday afiernoon’s is-ue was the announcement of a subscription rate of 25 cents a month, including the Sunday edition. Eugene Garcia, ex-paying teller of the Louisiana National bank, appeared before United States Commissioner Wright, at New Orl> ans, Monday, to answer the charge of embezzlement, under the United States revised statutes, preferred by Pres ident R. M. Walmsley. Garcia pleaded not guilty, waived exnmina ion and was released on a bond of $25,000. The rase will c me up shortly in the United States ciicuit court. A aixpitTcri rroni mirui, rent)., says: Two freight trains, a' full speed, ran into eich other at Tardwell Hill, Term., on the Illinois Central, Thursday. A car of oil exploded, setting fire to the train. Three cars of merchandise were dtstroyed. two engines demolished, the track on both sidis of wreck burned for 500 feet, and the woods for a The loss is estimated at $200,000. jso lives lost. Near Queen City, Tex., Saturday, Lee Green, a negro nineteen years old, shot wiih a sffi.t gun, and again with a Win chester, Mrs. Lowe, wife of a prosperous farmer, instantly killing her while she was washing. He then threw the body into a well. He then threw her little girl, aged seven years,’ in, breaking her thigh and killing her also. He then took her little boy, aged four years, and threw him in after the others. Information reached Nnoxville, Tenn., Monday, of the death of Colonel 11. S. Lockett, of Bogota, United States of Co lumbia, South America, on October 12th. Colonel Lockett was a native of Alabama, a graduate of West Point, and served in the confederate army with distinction. After the war he was for a time profes sor in the University of Alabama, Uni versity of Mississippi, and then went to Eeypt, where he served the khedive for several years. A dispatch from Greenville, 8. C. says: Ten of the negroes convicted of murder at the last term of court at Lau rens courthouse, and sentenced to be hung Friday, the 23d, have had a respite until their case can be heard before the su preme court. Henry Duber, another ne gio implicated in the murder, and arrest ed since the others were tried and convict ed, is accused of being the real murderer, and the con temned men are said to be only accessories. A New Orleans dispatch of Monday says: The announcement is made that Thomas II Kelley, cashier of Richard son. Williams & Cos., wholesale goods house, hs embezzled £20.000. The state ment is made that. Ke ley is a lottery fiend, and that his defalcations were in part, if not wholly, due to that fact. He acku 'wlcdged, in an interv'ew, that ht played the lottery. Kelley denied, how ever, tha: he used any of his employers’ money. In the superior court at Rome, Ga , Monday evening, the case of the State vs. Sidney Lascelles, alias Walter S. Ben s ford. was called. This trial is commonly known 8S the “lord’s” ca e. Beresford was extradited from New York t > Geor gia under two charges—cheating and dwindling and larceny after trust—but since he was brought here another case has been preferred, and that is forgery— signing Walter S. Ber sford’s name to a check while it is alleged his true name is Sidney Lascelles. In an interview with J. C. Morris, president of the clearing house. Friday morning, in regard to Cashier Eugene F. Garcia’s defalcation, ho said: “Mr. Ku g> tie F. Garcia, paying teller of the Lou isiana National bank, is a defaulter in the sum of £190,000. It wr.s first dis covered on the Bth of October. The full extent of the defalcation was only dem onstrated on the 17th. Some packages had been paid <>u f purposing to contain £5,000 and £IO,OOO, while they only con tained £SOO to £1,200. Garcia confessed that the shortage was from old payments, errors and mistakes committed by him within the last fifteen years. A Tallahassee, Fla., dispatch says: Friday morniDg Governor Flemming, on behalf of the state as relators, with Fred T. Moyers as attorney, presented a peti tion to the supreme court, praying that a writ of mandamus be issued to the rec retary of state to seal and countersign the commission of R. H. M. Davidson to be United States senator from Florida by appointment. The court has ordered that an alternative writ be issued in the matter, to return next Thursday. Sec retary Crawford must, therefore, either sign the commission that day or to show cause why he should not obey the order of the supreme court, REPARATION DEMANDED Of Chile for the Murder of Citizens of the United States. A cablegram frun Santiago de Chile, says: The United S ates government on Monday, through Minister Egan, formally demanded reparation from the govern ment of Chile, for the attack recently made in Valparaiso upon a number of seamen of tho United States cruiser Bal timore. The demand is no informal sug gestion that the government at Washing-- ton expects some kind of satisfaction for the killing and wounding of the Balti more’s soldiers; it is a Iriendiy-put noti fication, given according to direct orders received from the state department at Washington, that the United States do elands an immediate explanation of the while affair and reparation for injuries inflicted. Acting upon the instructions seut to him from Washington Mr. Egan pre sented the Chilean junta with a detailed account of the investigation made by Captain Schley, of the Baltimore, and by Vlr. Egan him.-elf. These investigations had shown that Charles Riggan, one of the Baltimore’s petty officers, was brutally assaulted by several Chileans while he was riding on a street car. Riggan re sisted, but was dragged from the car and murdered by a pis ol shot, in the arms of his companion. Turnbell, another of the Baltimore’s wounded men, died from his injuries. He received no le-s tlian eighteen shot wounds in the back, two of them penetrating his lung. After giving a full list of the Balti more’s crew who were injured bv the m b, Mr. Egan’s statement culled atten tion to ihe fact that thirty five of the cru ser’s crew were, on the day of the rio’s, arre-ted. unmeessary vi.dnr> used by tne ponce. u..k .uat they were detained in custody without due cause. In conclusion Mr. Egan said that surgeons of the United Stales warships expressed the opinion that some of the wounds inflicted upon the American sailors were bayonet wounds and that this clearly showd that the police officers of Valparaiso, who are armed with bayo nets, took part in the attack. The Americans were without arms and prac tically defenseless. Egan also particularly called attention to ihe additional brutality of the police of Valparasio in using horses to drag the Americans to prison. REPARATION DEMANDED. After making a brief but pointed sum mary of facts, to which he had been in structed to call attention, Minister Egan informed the repretentatives of the junta that, in the name of the United States, he demanded reparation for the insults and injuries complained of. Mr. Egan, in presenting Chilean junta with this statement of the assault on the American sailors, expressed in distinct terms the feeling of great indignation which the state department flt Washing ton feels at the whole affair, and espe cially at the brutal conduct of the police of Valparaiso in joining with the mob in the latter’s attack up n the Baltimore’s si amm, and in drawing their bayonets and using them against the unarmed Americans. LOTTERY MEN INDICTED. They Will Appear the Court oi South Dakota. A dispatch from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, says: At noon Friday the grand jury returned eighteen indiements against the officers ad directors of h Louisiana lottery. The evidence was all laid before the jury in the form of affid-ivits and kept with the utmost secrecy. The de partment at Washington brought the charges before this court for the tesson that their effort in other states before the United Sta e3 marshal and his deputies left for New Orleans to arrest the presi dent, vice piesideut, secretary, treasurer and directors of the lottery company. The grand jury reported eleven sepa rate indictments, each giving eighteen counts against the officers of the Louis iana lottery. Among the lists are Gen eral Beauregard, Paul Conrad, president, and Joseph P. Horner, secretary. The indictments are for the transmission of the lottery’s advertisements througu the mails, which s a violation of the lottery law passed last winter by congtess. THE STABLES BURNED And Seventy-Five Mules Roasted—Other Damage. Fire broke out at midnight Tuesday, in the barn of the Evansville, Ind., Street Car Company, fanned by a strong north west bre> ze, and destroyed property to the amount of £75,000. The flames de stroyed a barn filled with hay and other Led, so ead to the car sheds, where twenty-one new cars stood, a> and to the company’s stables, contain ing 100 mules. Sevenly-tive burned to dea.h. A dozen dwelling and several business houses within a radius of half a mile took fire, but most were saved. Hess’s outcher shop and seven dwelling were destroyed. Lss to the Street Car Company £50,000; to Hesa £IO,OOO. and to others $15,000. NO 27 • A PROGRAMME ARRANGED For the National Alliance Meeting: at Indianapolis. An Indianapolis dispatch says: The State Farmers’ alliance met in secret ses sion Thursday, with eighty-one delegates present. The following programme for the meeting of the National alliance was adopted: On the first day, Tuesday, November 17th, the address of welcome will be de livered at Tomlinson hall by Mayor Sul livan and President Force, of the State a liance. and the response will be by J. F. Tillman, uational secretary, and J. F. Willetts, treasurer of the alliance. The afternoon will be devoted to an execu tive session, and in the evening Presi dent L. L. Polk will deliver his address. On Wednesday addresses will be made by the president of the Mutual Beneficial Association, National Lecturer J. F. Ailletts, and the afternoon the executive session will be continued. In the evening C. W. Macune and othe s will speak. Thursday morning Jerry Simpson and Alonzo Wardell, and in the evening John P. Stelle and Mrs. Anna L. Driggs. Friday in the forenoon, addresses will be made by I H. Turner and B. H. Oli ver, and in the evening by L. F. Living ston and H. L. Loucks. J. H. McDowell and Senator Peffer will speak, and at night T. V. Powderly and Ben Terrell, Monday evening Ignatius Donnelly will address the council, and on Tuesday, the last day, William Erwin, Mrs. Lease, R. M. Humphrey aDd J. W. Weaver will speak. THE CREDITORS Of Moses Ilros., at Montgomery, Ala., Hill Start a Bank of their Own. A Montgomery dispatch of Monday says: At last the creditors of the late bink of Moses Bros., think they see their way clear. Ach irter has been secured, > nd a trust company, to be known as the Fidelity Trus' Company, is to be formed at once. The books of subscr ptions have been opened. For seveml weeks the committee has bt en holding conferences with the Moses Bros., trying to agree upon the details of the trust company, but failing at a meeting held Friday night, the committee agreed to disagree independent of Moses Bros The cred itors, availing themselves of the latitude giveu them under the late decree of Chancellor Foster in this case, which empowers the assignees to sell all the assets at public sale, to be bid in by the creditors and paid for in claims, propose to force the sale, buy the assets and go into a trust company. FLORIDA AT CHICAGO. Arrangements Made for an Appropriate Exhibit at the Great Fair. Florida’s world’s fair directory, thir teen in number, chosen at the recent con vention at Orlando, met in Jacksonville Thurs lay for organization and conference W. D. Chipley, of Pensacola was elected president and George W. Wilson, of Marion county, secretary. A woiking committee was also chosen and the state divided off into sections, apportioned to each director for organizing com mittees for receiving funds. A code of rules for the government of the directory was adopted and Florida’s world’s fair commissioners were made ex officio members of the board. More important action of the directory waß the adoption of plans submitted for the state building, and this will be an exact repro duction of old Fort Marion at St. Augus tine, to be built of phosphate arch and coquina. Moats will contain rice, sugar cane and cotton fields and the interior space orat ge, pineapple, guavi, lemon and cocoanut trrovis. It will cost from $20,000 to $30,000. AFTER THE TRUST. The St. Louis Apothecaries’ Association to be Prosecuted. A St. Louts dispatch of Tuesday says: In accord nice wi h the anti tiust law, United States District Attorney Reynolds has decided to commence an active cam paign against the St. Louis Apothecaries’ association or ‘ drug trust.” Officers of the trust have notified all wholesale dealers in the United States that all pat ronage will be withdrawn from those houses selling to local druggists who are not members of the trust, and have ap pended a list of tho e declining to join. The result is that a firm outside of the trust has received notice from a well known New York house that the latter cannot fill orders for patent medicine un til the concern has entered into the “com bine.” Mr. Reynolds will bring the mat ter before the grand jury. MARVELOUS GROWTH u> the Volume of Business of the North Carolina Alliance. A Raleigh and spatch says: Thursday the annual report of the State Alliance was issued, shows a wonderful growth in the business of the order. The co-oper ative stores have done very little. The fertilizer trade incteased 50 per cent., 14,925 tons of alliance fertilizer having been sold. The gr< ss amount of 6ales for the past year was $494,000. Th® state executive committee to transfer the purchasing debt of the alliance to the National Union Company, of New York, upon Nuch terms as they may agree after the latter company has fully sstisfied them of its legality, and the alliance makes a form and demand that the gei eral assembly at its next session pass a secret ballot law with a provision which will secure to voters, who cannot read, aa opportunity to vote.