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VOL. I.
We can go to Africa to-day easier than
we could go to Arizona a decade ago.
Superintendent of Census Porter says
the question of a permanent census
bureau will be brought to the atteution
of both houses of Congress as soon as
they assemble.
The delegates to the Prisou Congress
confessed themselves quite unable to
understand why England should show a
decreasing number of criminals, while
in the United States the number is ever
on the increase.
professor C. A. Young thinks that we
may some day be able to signal the in
habitants of Mars if we construct singu
lar looking objects some fifteen or
twenty miles in diameter. He ad nits
that the expease of such works is a big
obstacle in their way.
It will be remembered, observes the
Liverpool (BaglauJ) that son)
years ago there was a sad lea fashion for
the conversion of green stufs into wait
is called ensilage. In various parts of
,he country, and especially in some parts
of Scotland, expensive silos were built
into which the green grass was thrown
to be preserved by fermentation. One
aears less of ensilage no.v than six years
go. The truth is that the silo has gone
out of fashion again. Scores of them
ire standing idle in Scotland, and the
•ystem has mnifestly failed to accliini
tize itself.
Here is the latest list of the wealthiest
women of the United States: Mrs. Hetty
Green, of New York, is credited with a
iortune of $540,000,000 in her own right;
Miss Elizabeth Garrett has $20,000,000;
Mrs. Mark Hopkins Searles had $20,000,-
000; Mrs. Edwin Stevens, $15,000,000;
Mr3. John C. Green, $10,000,000; Mrs.
Cyrus McCormick, $10,000,000; Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, $5,000,000; Mrs.
John K. Barton, $6,000,000; Mrs.
Thomas Scott, $5,000,000 ; Mrs. William
Armour, $5,000,000; Mrs. Terry, $20,-
000,000, while Mrs. Terry's baby daugh
tei, three years old, distances all comp
etitors by having wealth in her own right
valued at $50,000,000.
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Says the Bo&ton Trantcript: “We ares
nation of nibblers. Our strong point is
condiments. We are great on catsups,
cucumber pickles, canned peaches anl
mince pie, but probably no native Amer
ican ever produced an eatable sausage.
Now a good sausage is the high-water
mark of culiaary civilization. Its repre
sents a high degree of nutritiveness and
palatability joined with exceeding cheap
ness. It is the E pluribus uiu nof
foods. Every nation that is really great
in cookery has a characteristic and
national sausage. Italy has its Bologna,
Spain its Vich, Germany its Frankfurt;
but America, so far, has but its spurious
Frankfurts,manufactured by transplanted
Germans.”
A delightfully dainty kind of fann
ing, more elegantly msthetie, maintains
the New York Sun , than growing lilies
in Bermuda and almost as profitable as
raising checks and bank notes, is that of
Mr. Timothy Hopkins, of Meulo Par<,
California. In a grove of giant oaks Mr.
Hopkins has a live-acre patch of violets
of the rarest and most beautiful varieties
—double whites, double blues, sky blue,
and one variety which is blue with a
faint dot of red on one of the petals.
The violets are planted two feet
apart, and under the cool shade and in
leaf mould soil they attain perfection.
For six months a year the grower ships
an average of fifty bunches of violets
daily to San Francisco, and the returns
are not far from the same number of dol
lars.
The difficulties of navigating the
Missouri River are confined to two
places —the mouth of the Osage aud
Grand Rivers, which are about 150 milc3
apart —and the Govei ament is trying to
overcome them. At the mouth of the
Osage an effort is to be made to confine
the channel for about nine miles. The
Missouri is very wide there, the waters
apreading over low lands, and there has
been no distinct channel. The depth of
the water has been increased from to
7 feet. Piles 38 feel in length are
forced into the sand and clay in five
miuutes by the use of a powerful stream
of water that is forced through a pipe
extending to the point of each pile. T.ie
stream clears away the san 1 and clay,
and the pile sinks of its own weight. It
is believed that after the work has been
finished the river will be navigable dur
ing nearly all the *e*r exoant w : nta-
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items ol
Interest to Alliancemen Everywhere.
At a recent meeting of the Ulionois
fdate Alliance, the Illinois Alliance, pub
-1 s ed at Springfield, was consolidated
with the Monitor, of St. Louis.
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One sub-Abiance in Alabama has dis
banded because ti e “Alliance demands
are wrong.” 8 xteen hundrt and have not
disbanded because t 1 ey are right.
There is a few' so railed members of
the Alliance in North Carolina, says the
Prourc-sive Farmer, who bitterly oppose
the Alliance platform. But for every one
of these is several hundred who are as
true as steel
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The Business Aeent is anew paper
just started by the North Carolina State
Alliance Business Agency. It will be
d< vo'ed to the publication of matter di
rectly eo> ceroing the agency, and will
adhere to the Ocala platform in all its
editorial utterances.
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The Farmers’ Light (Harlem, Ga.)
says: 'I he subs dized press and moss
l ack po want t<> know why the
Alliance does not talk more farming and
less politics. The reason is very appa
rent: What is the use of talking farming
when it cests ten cents to raise cotton,
and “the power o( money to oppress”
takes it from them at seven cents.
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The Alliance Gazette (Hutchinson,
Kan ) believes it tirml>, as witue-s: “We
uncompromisingly adhere to the opinion
that a man or a woman who works twelve
h urs a day for six days in the week is
entitled t ■ a good living—not a bare sus
tenance, but a good living. Not only
the necessaties of life but its luxuries as
well. When such is not the case some
thing is wrong, and the people sh uld
know no rest till the wroDg is righted.
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The fallowing r< solutions were adopted
by the State Alliance of Washington at
its recent organization. Thus another
State has fallen into line under the
national banner of the order:
Resolved. That the State Farmers’ Al
liance and Industrial Uuion of Washing
ton do most heartily indorse the Ocala
demands in full.
Resolved, That we adopt the ritual
and secret work adopted by the National
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
of America.
The Caucasian (Clinton, N. C.) says:
“When the farme-s and other vesalth
producers began to complain of the low
and falling prices of the products of their
labor and to suspect that it was due to a
contracted currency, ihe money, power
through iis subsidized papers began and
has since been repeating the statement
that the law of supply and demand alone
conti oiled prices. The time was when
the farmer would sw llow this, but now
he is thinking for himself and knows that
the law of suppiy and demand reyulates
prices only when the volume of money
m circulation is controlled by the same
law. ’
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The Order in Colorado is doing well,
especially when the somewhat scattered
condition of the people is considered.
Farming is not conducted in this state
as in many others, wh ch makes organi
zation much more difficult. In spite of
this the Alliance has steadily increased
in members and grown in favor. Its
state officets have been efficient and have
rcceivtd excellent support from the re
form papers, of which there are a number
in the s ate. There is haid'y a state in
the Union that could receive any more
benefit from the final triumph of Alliance
principles than Colorado.
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The Cotton Plant (Orangeburg, S. C.)
says: “Why should not the farmer take
a hand in politics? Stop and think about
this and then ask who it is that would
keep him out ot politics? In nine cases
out of ten it is the class of people who
hitherto have been most active in polities
and who I ave enjoyed a monopoly of the
busicess so long that they begin to look
upon it as their special property. B;
easy, gentlemen, and if you cau’t be easy,
be as oa y as you c m—the farmer is in
politics, nd he is in it o stay. All the
little, spiteful flings and patronizing ad
vice you give only confirms him in his
determination to stay.
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The Alliance in North Carolina is, as
every one knows who reads Alliauce lit
erature, doing splendidly. No comment
will do lull justice to the operations and
methods of the Order in that Stare. The
brethren not only know what “the fight
’S about,” but are aole and anxious fo*
make it. Since its first organization, the
Order in North Carolina has prospered.
It has never met with a repulse, and has
continually increased inmimberr and im
portance. From the beginning it has
been exceedingly fortunate in the selec
tion of its officers, who have nobly stood
for the the Order. The
State organ, Ttie Farmer,
(Prisident Folk’s paper), has done gal
lant service in the cause of refotm. There
me many county papers also throughout
the State that are able exponents of Al
liance principles, and are aiding in the
great work. Taken as a whole the Al
liance of the State stands at the front an
t xamp'e of pluck, consistency and suc
cess that is worthy of emulation by all the
other States.—Econom st.
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In discussing the constitutiouality of
the sub-treasury plan an opposition paper
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1891.
makes use of the following extraordinary
legal statement:
First, we regard it as unconstitutional,
because the constitution nowhere author
izes such a thing. Now just here it is
proper to state that some have insis ed
that we should point < ut that part of the
c nslitution that the scheme conus in
confl ct with. We beg to remind snob,
that a thing doe u’t require to be forbid
den by the Federal constitution in order
to be unconstitutional; it is only re
quired that it can not be fund in the
constitution.
C mmentiDg on this the National
Economist says: If this be true n ne
tt nths of the laws on the statute books
are void. Are rivers and h übois men
tion! and in the constitution? Are subs dies
to r ilroads and steamships foun t ? D >e9
it say anything about the N cara ua
Canal, pensions to civilims, national ex
positions. na ional banks, the purchase
of silver, irrigation, geological survey, or
expeditions to ihe not th pole? Wheic
in this t-acred in trument is found men
tion of the force bill, the d> nvuetiz t on
. ei.Vei, \v„!i t.ouso g whisk , hi.uuug
money torailtoadsand lairs? Ihe fact is
nearly all legislation is at the pre-cut
time based upon what is not found in the
constitution, but its implied powers.
Herein lies the trouble.
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I E A MAN.
From the Pi ogre i ive Farmer.
Une of the greatest drawbacks to the
Alliance is a mck of courage. Not so
much of physical com age as moral cour
age. Have com age to do right Bea
niun. If you are not satisfied that the
Alliance is a good thins/, that the Ocala
platform is right, withdraw from the or
ganization ut once. If you are sati tied
that it is right, defend it, stand <>y y ut
leader-* and your leform pajeis. Bea
man, be a woman. \\ o k lor u- success,
talk for it, eneouiage the weak, s cu>e
recruits. A dead Aliianceman and adetd
member of the church are to be desp s-d.
If you will not stand by your ret gfion
and your hone t convictions as a citizen,
you are a blot on civiliz >tion.
Bea man. Don’t fit the politician
with two luintmd pounds ot sit much
und two ounces of brains warp and bias
your mind. Don’t let the editor who is
the paid tool of monopoly and plucto
cracy, fright n you when he dtcla<s
that you are on the wrong track. If you
agree with the p ople aud speak through
their tiumpet, you are siui] ly one of
them. If jour tefo>m ideas do not cor
ies;ond wi h theirs in every paiticular,
that ought to be emphaiie evidence ili it
you art- right. When a bad man opp- sis
you, smile and say, “now I kuoiv 1 am
rigs.t; I’ll stick.” The professional poli
tician or th- partisan editor may not be
• ad. He may have s< me good stuff about
him, but his teaching has been lad ; he
has been in bad company; he has taught
false doctrines so long that he can >ee
nothing wrong i it. A man Can b-1 eve
a bad thing is right so long that he be
comes th> ro ighiy convinced that it is
right. Hence the world is worse off for
such men lo ving lived in it. Don’t
measure the situation by what any man
may say. Think it out for your-elf. If
pour financial condoiou is all ttrat it
aught to be, if you a e gett ng good
priC's for your labor as a farmer, dou’t
complain. Rut it you are i ot, then kick
nd howl until you get what you ought
:o have.
GROWING IN FAVOR.
Tbe election < f United States Senators
by a diiect vote of the people, as de
manded in the (Lala platform, is grow
ing in fav< r daily, the latest conveit to
that theory being Ex Governor Luce, of
Michigan 'lhe Washington Post sys:
“Ex-Governor Luce, of Michigan, has
come out as an advocate of the in urina
tion by the republican state conviction
of the republican candidate for the
United States senator-hip soon to become
vacant. This action is not quite in the
line of the precedent estahl shed by Gen
etal Palmer m his canvas for the 11 iuo s
senaton-hip, but it has a s milai motive,;
and that is to bring the influence of 'he
people to bear more directly than is now
the c se in the choice of Candida es for
the highest legislative position in the
land. Gov. Luce’s suggestion, like Gen.
Palmer’s action, is an evidence of the
growing tendency to assimilate t ur po
litical methods to those of a simpler
Democracy than that which the framers
of this government contemplated, for
the mode as W'II as the history of its
construct ion shows clerly enough that
the object in view wns not oniy to istab
lisb a government by the pe< pie, but also
to guard against its misuse by tin in. liv
the Constitution of the United States
the selection of United States Senators
was not left to the people at 1 ige, but
was made a privilege of the several State
legislutures. The indications a e that
the intention of the makers of the con
stitution was to separate the creation
of the conservative body, which was to
have a reconsideration and veto power
over the legislation of the chamber di
rectly chosen by and representative < f
the p' pular will from i.be dirt ct c ntrol
of the people. But the trend of our po
litical development in later yea's has
been in a contrary direction, and the
popular will, which the lathi rs in a
measure distrusted, slows a tendency to
become in all cases the chief nrbi'er. It
is very pos-sible 'hat a close obseiver of
curretat events and of the political pro
go ss of our time would not be at all
surprißt and if United States Senators came
by and by to be elected by the people of
a State at large, and il even ti.e P esi
dent of the United States should he
chosen, ns the late Senator M' rton, of
Inoiana, always held he ought to b •, by
the direct vote of the people of the na
tion.”
Harvard University has 2313 students
this year.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLING3
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
A committee of the Federation of Labor
h >d an interview with President Harrison
Tuesday.
The Na‘ional Live stole Association
was permanently organized at Chicago
F.iday. Capital, $50,000 000.
Owners of tin plate mills in Wales
have decided to cose their mills f. r a
fortnight in December and a foitnight in
January.
Reports of Friday show that the recent
storms were dcMmctivc lo lake skipping
at Ch'cago. Hafi a dozen schooners
were wrecked.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Sundav says:
The official plurality lor McKinley over
Campbell is 21.501. The people’s pariy
vote was 23,064.
The comptroller of currency has author
ized the Manufacturers’ National bank,
of Ilarrimon, Tenia , to begin business
with a capital of $50,000.
The archbishop of Aix, France,charged
with writing an insulting let er to ihe
minister of public worship, has been
found guilty and fined 3,000 Irancs.
Advices received Friday from Santos
declare ihat port to be infect and with yel
low ft ver. All other Brazilian ports are
also suspected of being infected with the
disease.
A Kansas City dispatch of Friday says:
Rainmakt r Melbourne has founded the
Go- dland Rain-Producing association.
Capital, SIOO,OOO. Rain sold to all buy
ers.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: On
Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Ira J.
Chase took the oath as successor to the
late Governor Ilovey as chief executive
of Indiana
A heavy stornr visited Kansas City
Sunday morning. The storm was general
throughout the state aud was one of the
heaviest ever reported in that section at
this season of the year.
Charles Wnga'ha, paying and receiv
ing teller of the branch depository of the
Traders’ National bank, was arranged
Thursday, at New Orleans as defaulter to
the extent of SB,OOO.
A dispatch of Saturday to The Loudon
Chronicle Irom China, says:
“Official information is given that all in
demnities to Europeans are now paid,
with the exception of those arising out
of the TchaDg riot.”
A dispatch from Lowell, Mass., says;
An attachment for was. on Fri
day, placed on funds tielouging t| Dr.
S. P. !-mith. the missing supreme Jreas
ur* r of the Order of the Rising Suuy who
is alleged to have improperly loaned
$50,000 of the funds of that order.
A Ch eagb dispatch of Friday says tiro
National Cordage Company or binding
twine trust has purchased the ent re
binding twine plant of William Decring
tfe Cos., of that ci y, for $250,000. This
purchase gives the trust entire cortrol of
the binding twine industry in America.
The body of William J. Florence, the
actor was t mpoiarily laid to re.-t Mon
day in the vault at Greenwood cemetery,
in New York. The body will remain
there until the arrival from Europe of ihe
widow of the actor, when it will be con
veyed to its final resting place in the
family plat.
A Minneapolis, Minn., dispatch of
Friday says: The lumber season is over.
The cut for the year reaches 447,713,252
feet; 207,221,000 shingles ami 07,697.600
laths. This beats all records, and ex
ceeds the ou'put of 1800 tty 103,138,800
feet of lumber, 45,003,500 shingles and
17,400,230 laths.
A cablc.rnm of Monday from Calcutta,
India, says: Discourag ng crop reports
are received from the picsidency of Mad
ras. ihe cotton crop in districts of Bel
lary, Kurneol and Cuddapah, in that
presidency, has proved au almost total
failure, while in several other districts
the grain crops are withering.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of Fiiday
says: Large contrinution-*for the benefit
oft! e famine suffereis continue to be re
ceived from many different parts of the
• mpire. The ce tral famine commi tee.
under the presidency of the czarwitch,
will'receive an imperial loan of 50.000.000
alter noon Tmsuuy und dead and to re
strict the production of coal for- Decem
ber t 0.3,25 ‘,OOO ions. No formal clai p
for increased percentage was made by
the R< tiling company, but it is generally
be!i< ved that si me arangemeut ha 9 been
made by which the Reading will be given
an increased allotment.
Saturday afternoon at Pittsburg, Pa.,
counsel for Senator Quay entered a civil
suit for libel gainst the Pittshurg Post.
The damages are laid at SIOO,OOO. Th ; s
action was threatened reverM weeks ago,
when the editor and proprietor of 'lhe
Post were arrested on the charge of
amouuted to $745,076, of which $129,-
300 was gold and #615.776 silver. All
the gold an i $1,337 of the si 1 v< r went to
South America a id $614,429 of the silver
went to Europe. Impor s of gpeci •
during the week amoun ed to $1,126,654.
of which $940,898 wasg Id arid $179,756
in silver.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Fiiday
suvs: Giaccinto Epifairio, au I aliao,
who for the past six years lias carried on
a steamsh’p egenoy. a general store and
I lyikfirg business among the p nrer class
if his coun rymen, at 842 Carpenter
street, is believed to have absconded
wi h upwards if two liundrid and fifty
thousand dollars belonging to his cus
tomers.
A New York dispa'ch says: Repre
sentatives of the coal roads met shortly
roubles, without interest, for the relief of
the sunken districts.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
say 9: A. Iv. Tingle, supervising special
agent of the treasury department, in his
annual report to the sec etary of the
treasury, shows that during the p st
fiscal year special agents seized goods to
the value of $143,236 and ricovered
$225,690 on account of seizures, finis,
duties, etc.
Exports of specie at the port, of New
York during tire week erded Nov. 2l*t
criminal libel, for publishing the Bards
lev ceitificate of a- posit and commenting
editorially thereon.
Ex-Senator Ingalls in responding to a
call fora speech Friday night at a dinner
given by the ladies of the Episcopal
church at Atchison, Kan , said that while
he was not identified with any religious
denomination he had a brother engage 1
in the business. He recognized the fact
that the church of Christ was a great
conservative force of modern society and
he was heartily in sympathy with the
work.
A Chicago dispatch of Saturday says:
Secretary Stone, of the Chicago board of
trade, bus addressed a letter io Secretary
Blaine, calling attention to the fact that
United States vessels passing through
Welland canai are charged toll. Cana
dian vessels go through American canals
on tl e great lakes toll free. The dis
crimination is declared to be in violation
of the treaty. Secretary Stone wants
reciprocity in the matter of tolls. He
says the Canadian policy is building up
Montreal and Kingston at the expense of
American ports.
TRADE REVIEW
As Reported by l>uu & Cos. for the
Past Week.
Business failures occurring throughout
fhe cmmtry for the week ended Novem
ber £0 i>, as repurfed to It. G. Dnn &
Cm, i n‘itber lor the United States 252
and or Canada thirty three, or a total of
283, compared with 291 last we k and
260 the eek previous. For the corres
ponding wok last year the figures were
274.
V tick has happened of late to depress
business and shake confid* nee, und jet
confidence is not-haken, and th* volume
of business is st 11 close to the great' st
ever attained. The bank failure at Bos
ton caused rcaree'y a ripple of excite
ment. 'lhe failure of speculative banks
at Ber io has bien industriously used
to dt press s'oeks during the past week,
but .the average price of shires is
higher thru a week ago. This coun
try begins to realize that with only sup
plies of gr in to keep the millions in Eu
rope from starvation, besides men's, cot
ton end oil. which o'her countries must
have, the Unit'd States is in a stronger
position than any other nation, and need
not quake ; t every European alarm.
Prices are settling downward, with enor
mous production, but the fact that such
production continues shows that low
prices *re not mi? ous.
At Pitisbfirg the iron market is weaker.
The glassworks are all in opera ion, and
cal miners have resumed. At Savannah
and Charleston trade is fomewhat de
press! and, appa'ently by the very low price
of cotton, and money is rather tight. At
Jack onville business is very brisk, hut
at Richmond dry weather prevents the
marketing of tobarco. Manufacturers
are active. The most stubborn iron mar
ket ever known gives a surprise to many,
for in spite of ihe unprecedented pro
duc'ion the prospect of some accumula
tion of stocks doe* not disturb strong
makers, who reckon that it may be well
for the country to lav in and hold much
larger stocks than heretofore, sothatsud
den and violent fluctuations may not be
so readily produced.
Large sa'es of rails at the west are re
ported, 175,000 tons in two weeks, but
the markets for other finished products
are not materallv altered.
A BETTEH TONE.
The alarm about the money market has
passed, and no disturbance is apprt hended
this year. Indus rits are, on the whole,
well employed, and it i- espeeially note
wort y this week that there is a better
t'ne in the branch's of trade which have
been most embarrassed.
GRAIN RECEIPTS.
Receipts ol wheat al western centers
continue at the rate of more than a mil
lion bushels daily, and exports are also
large, bur the price has declined 2£ cents
on sales if 28.000,00 ' bushels.
Cotton ret eipts continue to exceed last
year’s, notwithstanding the reported
shortness of the croj s, and, wbi e tl e
exports for th crop year thus far are but
slightly less than a year ago, the stocks
at the priucip 1 ports are 1,200,000 bales,
against 600,000 last year at the same
date. There was a decline to 806 cents,
but the price recovered on Liverpool
buving to 8.12, the sales here being 800,*
000 bales for the week.
DEVOURED BY WOLVES.
Three Children Eeteu Alive by the
Hungry Beasts.
Word was r etired at St. P .ul, Thurs
day night that wolves killid three chil
dren of Andrew (Juiick Wednesday at
Iron Rolling Miffs, mar New Brighton,
ten milts north of St. P ul. During the
gnat fires in the pine country in Septem
ber gnat droves of wolves were
driven south into Ramsey and Ano
ka counties, and they have
been suOsistmgon sheep in the neighbor
hood of the Twin Ciffyst ck y trd at New
Brighton. Adnve of 125 wolves wre
seen together in that vicinity Monday.
Mr. Guiiek’s children wandered from
home into the woods at noon and were
attacked and devourtd by the beasts.
Twenty five men wilhdiounds started
out after the wolves, and surrounded
them in a swamp and killed eleven ol
them.
THE CONGO RAILWAY.
Over Two Thousand Men Employed In
this Important Enterprise.
A cablegram of Monday from Brussels
says: On July 31st last, 1,719 workmeg
were engaged upon the Congo railroad.
A little lati r 500 new laborers arrived,
and the nolual numb r ernpl yed on Sep
tember 15 hwa 2.220. These workmen,
who are largely Zanzibari, Krumen and
Haussa, are un ler the cha'ge of 200
white men, including fifteen civil engi
neers, nine superintenden s of grading,
sevt u een boss carpenters, teu keepers of
machinery and supplies, twenty-one
blacksmiths, three m chinis's, three boss
st#necut'e:s, nineteen masons, a number
of physi iana, and other heads
of depa'tmms. The track has been
laid from Mataff to the Map 'zo Valley,
and seme distance up the valley toward
ihe PalahaUn hi hi nds, and this point
once attained, the railroad will encounter
few other engineering difficu ties all the
way to Stanley po"l. Thrfe locomotives
are now on the track, and all the mate
rial is tran ported by steam Foundations
have been laid for a large bridge across
the Mapoza river. Tl e work is making
the most fay ra'ile progress. The health
of Europeans isexce lent.
A DENIAL
Of Some of the Reports of the In
dianapolis Meeting.
A Nashville dispatch states that Presi
dent McDowell, of tlie State A liance, L.
K. Taylor, editor of fhe Toiler, and
Ben Terrell, of Texas, airived there
Monday morning from Indmapolis.
Pres deut McDowell denies that the third
par v movement was endorsed. He says:
“The third party, or people’s party,
was not mentioned in the meeting at all.
I talked with some • f the western ad
northern de egates, they fully agree
with me that our order cannot take ac
tion endoisirg any party. The opinion
was unanimous that the Alliance must
remain a non-partisan body.”
“Then, how did these reports get
out?” was asked.
“Well, sir,’! replied the president, “I
understand that McAll stir, of Missis
sippi, wa9 there to give out to the news
paper men just such lies as our enemies
wanted to put in our mouths. Ne ther
McAllister, I all nor Yenmans was in the
meeting, nor were they seen about the
hall. Hall was not in the city.”
AN ACTOR DIES.
Billy Florence Succumbs to an Attack
of Pneumonia.
William J. Ft rence, the actor, died
at the Continental hoiel, in Philadelphia,
at 8:30 o’c ock Thursday evening. Death
came ns a startling surptise to those in
atteD 'ancc upon the sick man for the
reason that his condition had been con
b dcred as improving during the afternoon
and early evening. Only Mr. Florence’s
sister-in-law, Mrs. Barney Williams, of
Brook'yn; his Biser, Ms. Norman
Wintd, of Washington, and Dr. Patrick
Donm-llan, were with him when he passed
away. He had been apparmtly getting
better, and his physicians had no idea
that tne e> and was so n ar.
Mr. Florence was taken ill with pneu
monia Saturday evening. He was born
at Albany, N. Y., July 26, 1831. His
name < riginally was Ct niin. but as he
had adopted the stage name of Florence,
he legalized his ntrlit n me to ihe latter
bv an act of the isseinbly pissed by the
New York leerslntnre.
BANK BADLY BUSTED
As Only $34 Were Left Out of $140,-
000 Deposited.
A dispatch of Monday Irom Milford,
Mich., says: State Bank Examb er Sher
wood clos'd the Milford State bank Sep
tember 16th and reported that the bank
had failed. “Failed” is a mild woid to
use in reference to this institution. The
bank was established six ten years, ago as
a national bank. The principal promoters
were the Wilhelm bro heis and relat ves,
with a fine line of director*. One was
ex-Governor J. W. B&il, of Flint. The
Wilhelms were young m*n who were
known as “hustlers,” and they went into
all sorti of speculation. They and their
relatives owned the controlling jo ck.
The bank had deposits as high as $140,-
000. The morning after the bank extm
ers had taken charge there were only $34"
in cash in the bank. The assets showed
$142,709 and ihe liabilities $132,685, bur
it is hard to see how the asset 9 can be
made to yield over $15,000. Worthless
loaus, c azy Kansas boom real estate,
patent l girts, speculations and poor per
sonal paper represent the balance.
A GENUINE BLIZZARD.
In the Mountains of Tennessee--Sod
Fate of Immigrants.
A rumor reached Kuoxvi.le, Tenn.,
Tuesday of a snow storm in the Chill
howee mountains south of the city. A
wagon train of immigrants, w< stward
bound, were caught in the blizzard The
train consbted of six wagons and thiity
three people. When the storm btgauall
went int" camp except a farmer named
Geoige Akers, who with his family went
ou up the mountain. It is supposed they
lost their way and rolled into the river
or ravins, and were frozen to death.
Reducing Mortgages.
A Topeka, Kan., dispatch of Monday
says: Official report of mortgages re
corded and released in fifty of the eastern
counties of Kansas shows th9t a redue
tic iof $302 407 in mortgage indebted
ness was raadt: during October For five
mont s the net reduction of fann-mort
gageindebtednes*. in eastern and central
Kansas was $2,300,1)00. The excess of
releases on farm property is proportion
ately greater than on town property.
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