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Cleveland Courier. Tsisnss of OUSES * BRIEFLY ofMeaft at Are Of More or Vucle t was for Sent to furnish the ohl Wednesday’’, strong* sen! delivered a resolution askings the SanguilSy eron resolution Mr. Call spoke one s simple res’ secretary of state 1 respondent in thfT Sauguilly, denmed an Amerinv Spanish a] by the Cuba to perpetual imj^ p.qoiuvTS chains; and the other tion instructing the president to mand Sanguilly’s immediate release? The first was agreed to, and the sec¬ ond was referred to the committee on foreign relations. The senate disposed of much routine business at the opening of tho session Thursday. The petitions as to Cuba and for and against the Loud bill,were Texas, exceptionally heavy. Mr. Mills, of offered tho following resolution: “Resolved, by the senate and house of representatives, that the expediency of recognizing the independence of a for¬ eign government belongs to congress, and that when congress shall so deter¬ mine the president shall act in harmo¬ ny with the legislative part of the gov¬ ernment Second, that tho irnlcpend kence of the government of Cuba ought * to be aiul hereby is recognized, and the sum of $10,000 is hereby appropri¬ ated for salary afid expenses of a min¬ ister Uich minister to that shall government be appointed whenever by the ®f»sident. ” HOUSE. Loud bill passed the house _ A lively fesday fight, by a vote of fH to 105. was made against it. J’lie bill was designed to do away with “grtain abuses of the use of the mails and i especially to second class matter. ’ features of the bill are mails as second G e copies of nfewspa K __ publications and from news agents the M returning to then- princi ^x/un.l rate .-/ns- LI copies of ct that '% the house gipon the eonsidera railroad funding 5cd on tli e floor was Feat interest, however, was manifested in the opening debate by those present. A large map show¬ ing the routes of the Pacific roads has beau erected in the area in front of the speaker’s rostrum and were frequently, referred to by several speakers. Carter the special order adopted for the holi¬ day recess, the debate was to continue until Saturday evening and the voting to take place Monday. Tho sensation of the day and the sensation of the session of tin; house Friday was the attack of Johnson, of California, on Hearst, of The New York Journal and The San Francisco Examiner. This came out in the Pacific railroad funding bill discussion before the house. -I oh us on is a strong advocate of the funding bill. .He ran for congress in November on this funding loH issue, was fought hard by The Examiner and -was overwhelm¬ ingly defeated. Hefice his attack. It was of a personal nature, was vicious in the extreme and called down severe criticism from Johnson’s colleagues. The evening session of the house consideration Friday devoted, under the rules, to the of private pension bills, was rendered of no avail by absentee¬ ism. At 10:30 o’clock the session ex¬ pired by limitation under the rules, and the house stood adjourned until Saturday. v The debate on the Pacific funding bill closed Saturday night, The day was devoted to debate under the five minutes rule, which developed still greater opposition to the measure than the early debate had indicated. The adoption of an amendment requiring 3 per cent instead of 2, as provided in the original bill, is a strong indica¬ tion against the passage of the bill as originally passed. NOTES, Secretary Carlisle is the subject of two contradictory reports. One of these states that lie is to go on the sn preme bench. The other story comes from a source exceedingly close to the secretary himself. This confirms the oft-repeated and oft-denied rumor that Carlisle is to go to New York and prac¬ tice law with Cleveland as senior part¬ ner of the firm. Charley Crisp has secured a favora¬ ble report from the public buildings committee of the house on the bill in¬ troduced |on, providing by his for father the at erection the last ses of a jlic building appropriation at Americus. The bill an of $35,000. gition board of government yvhich ed exhibit had the in govern¬ charge ttta exposition will lur iport in a few days to fd. copies of the re art ha3 ordered the f to visit Galveston on i receive an elaborate »ui go,000, the money eed by popular sub Jgh the state for which i named. Devoted to Education, Mining and Agriculture in White County and North-East Georgia. CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 189T. WATSON YS. BLACK. Arguments Be$un in the Contest Before House Elections Committee. The arguments in the election con¬ test of Thomas F. Watson, late candi¬ date for vice-president, against James C. Black, of the tenth congressional district of Georgia, were begun at elections Washington Friday before the house It committeee, No. 1. be was expected Mr. Watson would present, but he did not put in an appearance. The sitting member, those Judge Black, was —-----„ among who heard the arguments ---- — of a formidable array of counsel, Messrs. Gross, West, Glenn & Bonn Gee, appearing for Watson, and ^lessfs. “right for Cummings, Black. Mr.Glenn, Lamar, Cohen in behalf and Watson, argued that the entire vote e city of Augusta should be thrown because of a ** number of Vi .... alleged I ir- ri irities in registration apd of bal txes, lack of representation on jprds, etc. gbalf of election Black the entire argued regu Rings, was by who maintained that ®a theory of Mr. Watson’s case widespread conspiracy of fraud existed, was not justified by the facts. election Contnvy to the usual routine of cases, the argument, while following briefs the lines of the printed and the general statements heretofore published, were neither dull nor dry. They were marked by spirited tilts between the counsel for Air. Watson and for Major Black, and the committee gave unflagging atten¬ tion. BLOCKADE CHARLESTON. Many of Uncle Sain’» Powerful Battle Bhip# Will Environ the City. Admiral Bunco's squadron of evolu¬ tion is to blockade -Charleston, S. C., early in February. The admiral had a long conference with Secretary Herbert and other naval officers at Washington Friday, and as a result his plans for drills and maneuvers, of which the rigid block¬ ade of Charleston is the chief feature, wore thoroughly approved and all necessary arrangements for carrying out the proposed operations will at once be inaugurated. The scheme involves the mainte¬ nance Charleston of a strong harbor blockading fleet off and the assignment of one or more fast vessels, including tho Vesuvius, to duty as blockade run¬ ners. Stores and coal will be massed at Fort lioyal as a base for the smaller blockade cruisers,- but the battleships and perhaps the big cruisers will have to take turns going to Hampton.Roads for supplies unless improve* feasible to Tho serve them on tile higltWik. ‘ fleet will be the most pow erful gathered in recent years, incl ■lading Ming tli the battleships Massachusetts, Indiana, Maine and Texas, the cruisers New York, Brooklyn, Columbia, Newark, Raleigh, Montgomery, Marblehead and Castine, the ram Katahdin, the moni¬ tors Puritan and Amphitrito, the tor¬ pedo boats Cushing and Ericson, the dispatch vessels Vesuvius and Dolphin and the transport Fern. BLAZE IN SYLVANIA. The Court House am! a Number of Stores Swept Away by Flame*. The business portion of Bylvania, Ga., was fire swept Friday night. Tho loss is estimated at $50,000. The fire started about 10 o’clock in M. C. Well’s livery stable. Hilton’s cash store caught next and his other store on the opposite side of the stable caught about the same time. P. A. Mock’s store was next in line and it was soon a burning mass. A. J. I aricey ^ k Co.’s drug ° store, next ----- door went down in very quick order, fol lowed by M. T. Wells’ large store on the corner. The flames then leaped across tho street to J. F. Loveless’s store and from there to tho courthouse square. The Telephone building, Pfieffer’s store arid a dwelling house also caught and were quickly burned. T. G. ... Bmith’s .......... small paint shop next to The Telephone building was swallowed up in a few minutes ——- • The loss is covered by $8,000 insur Judge Speer Confirms Sale. Judge Speer has confirmed the sale of the electric railway property at Sa¬ vannah to Herman Myers and J. H. Fale, representing the majority of the bondholders, for $211,000 and directed that the receivers turn the property over to the purchasers on the presenta¬ tion of the deed from the master com¬ missioners. Whisky Trust Leases. The United States court of appeals at Chicago has handed down an impor¬ tant decision in the whisky case. The court decided that the leases made by the old whisky trust’ cannot be en¬ forced and are void. This rids the American Spirits Manufacturing com¬ pany of 50 leases running about 20 years and involving something like $ 100 , 000 .____ Georgians Off to fnha. A party of 18 Savannah, Ga., yonng men have left that city for Cuba to join the insurgents. Among them was Clifford W. Anderson, Jr., son of Col¬ onel Clifford W. Anderson, of Savan¬ nah. Denver Bank Reopens. The American National bank at Den¬ ver has reopened under new manage¬ ment with $600,000 cash on hand to meet liabilities and conduct business. There remains but $200,000 of liabili¬ ties to be provided for after all the other assets of the bank. Reduces Irish Constabulary. The Daily News (London) says it is reported that the Dish constabulary will be reduced by 2,000 men, which will result In the saving of £20,000. KILLED BY A POSSE SIMON COOPER’S CAREER ENDED BY WINCHESTER BULLETS. —___ „. B,oody , _ n< ' cord Hlm »• s »" th Carolina’* Star Criminal—A Week of Horrible Crimea. Simon Cooper, the red-handed South Carolina desperado was killed by a sheriff’s posse near Sumter, Friday at noon. Cooper’s record of crime was inau gurated on Emancipation Day. He was a crack shot, and so he proved himself when he attended the celebra tion at Magnolia, in Sumter county. He ----- fancied .»»VXVW that HKUI some OD1UC one Ulie was >V trying L. to drive over him, and started a row. The negro in the buggy finally shot him inflicting a slight wound in the neck. , Other negroes tried to seize Cooper, and Grant Davis, one of them, was shot dead by Cooper. After emptying his pistol, Cooper retired under a culvert and quietly reloaded his pistol. Then he came out and deliberately those shot down five men, among who had troubled him. In the meantime a party of white men had collected and decided to at¬ tempt his arrest. The negro cursed them and dared them to come on, but upon their approach he fled, after tir¬ ing several shots. His whereabouts for a time was un¬ known. Just after daylight Friday morning he started out, but soon stopped at the house of Thomas Boyle, colored, and demanded that ho let him have hia horse. He also, at the point of a pistol, forced Boyle’s son, Isaac, to go with him, saying he would send the horse back by the boy. He rode the horse and made the boy walk. * Thomas Boyle then hurried to Lynch¬ burg to tell the white people of Coop¬ er’s whereabouts. A party was soon on horseback and when they arrived about two miles from Lynchburg, at the home of Mr. West Wilson, they beheld a truly fearful picture. Wilson, . Cooper had murdered Mr, West his wife, father and a colored man, Preston Smith. Mr. > Wilson, Sr., was shot three times in the breast and in each side. Mr. Wilson, Jr., was shot in the temple and in one side of the heart and his head split open with an ax. Airs. Wilson was shot once With a"pistol ball in the back of the hca<W k , Since Thursday night sheriff’s pos¬ ses had .been scouring scouring the the country, country, special of bairn* wjjer* necessaryj' 1,1 Re ® ,r< ‘h the desperado. Leaving a trail of blood in his w-ako, the ll» TIACfn negro defied arrest and on/1 lr/Vwf kept on zvv. V. his 4 career of criirfft until surrounded in a house near Sumter, shortly before noon Friday, where he kept the pos see at bay with his Winchester. Af¬ ter a terrible battle, lasting an hour, the bloodthirsty desperado, embolden¬ ed by the success of daring, issued from the house and was shot down. List of Cooper's Victims. Killed— HENRY DAV1H, colored. JAMES ADAMS, colored. WESLEY WILSON, wliito. MRS. WESLEY WILSON, white. BENIAMIN WILSON, white. PRESTON SMITH, colored. Wounded— THOMAS ANDERSON. WILLIAM ANDERSON. JERRY STEWART. HENRY ANCRUM and JOHN DAlUiAN, all colored. * Henry Davis w as killed Enf ' i tion day and James Adams was wound¬ ed then, dying later. The other wounded were shot on Emancipation day. tfuwu John Cooper uuu|wr umieij states that inav oimon Simon also assaulted and killed a young wo man named Mary Howell. With the death of Simon Cooper ends the career of the bloodiest des¬ perado in the criminal annals of South Caroliua, and probably of the entire south. The record of his week of crime defies comparison and iR almost beyond human u.uuau comprehension. eumpieueusion. The j lie entire section in which tho tragedies u-nra were committed n.i 11 ... 1 :. is convulsed ..........i....,i with — i. i. hor¬ ror, tut, and uiivi men men shudder c at the liamo of Simon Coopor. CHARGED WITH THE WRECK. Seven Ncrttock .Tailed for the Cal,alia Kl ver Wreck. A charge of trainwrecking has been formally made against Andrew Fagan, Lucy Fagan, Emanuel Billings, Tom Parker, Tom Ingram, Rome Scales and Nat Trannm, the negroes held in jail at Birmingham, Ala., under suspicion of having caused the Cahaba river wreck. WILLIS IS IMPROVING. Advices From Honolulu Are Favorable to HI* Ultimate Recovery. The steamer Coptic, which arrived at San Francisco Friday from China via Honolulu, brings advices from tho latter point up to January 1st. United States Minister Willis, whose condi¬ tion was reported hopeless a few days ago, is greatly improved and his com¬ plete recovery is now looked for. Two-Cent Rale Refused. The Georgia railroad commission has refused to grant the petition of the business men to make the railroads sell mileage books at a rate of 2 cents per mile. Councilman Given Seven Years. At Norfolk, Y r a., Friday, Samuel Cotton was convicted of assaulting seven-year-old Virgie Porter, of that city, and given seven years in the penitentiary. Cotton was at one time a member of the city council. Senator Vest Renominated. Senator Vest has been renominated by the democrats of Missouri in joint legislative caucus. A nomination is equivalent to an election. NINETEEN NEW GOVERNORS. CJ on November S Last to Take Office on Varloas Dates, From December 19. 1800, to March 4, 1897. list 1, Andrew E. Leo (Fusion), of South Dakota. 2. John W. Leedy (Popu¬ and Democrat), of Kansas. 8. James A. Mount (Republican), of Indiana. 4. Robert L. Taylor (Democrat), of Tennessee. 5. G. W. Atkinson (Repub¬ lican), of West (Democrat), Virginia. 6. Lon V. Stephen (Fusion), of Missouri. 7. W. H. lillerbe of South Carolina. 8. Ebo Walter Tunnell (Demo¬ crat), of Delaware. 9. George A. Rumsdell (Republican), of New Hampshire. 10. Frank S. Black (Republican), of Now Adams York. , 11. Roger Wolcott, (Re¬ publican), of Massachusetts. 12. AI van (Democrat and Free Silver Republican), 14. Major M'VBr4J$eoiicld of-Colorado. (Republican), 13. John It. Tanner (Republican), of Illinois. (ItopuorfiMBwl t of Wisconsin. 15. Ilazen 8. Piu grfre of Michigan. ’16. lt). Lorrin Lorrin A. JL Cooke Cooke (Republican), (Republican), of of Con lieeticut. (Fusion), 17. of FrAnk Washington, Steunenberg 19. (Democrat), of Idaho. (Fusion), 18. John It. ’Rog¬ ers Robert B. Smith Of Montana. CONVICT FARMS PAY. South Carolina’* Plantation Ha* Made Money for the State. In tlieir annual report to the gover¬ nor the board of directors of tho South Carolina penitentiary announce that all the contracts for working convicts, on shares have expired and none’ of them will be renewed. As no convicts are leased to con¬ tractors, the state will hereafter work its convict on three farms which have recently been purchased. Two of these aggregate 5,000 acres of as fine planting land as there is in the state, and they are being put in excellent condition. The value of farming property is put down this year at $ 110,000 While the farms were not fully worked this year, the penitentiary sold a few days ago 700 bales of cotton, on sealed bids, to a Wilming¬ ton, N. C., buyer. Tliey have 150 bales yet on baud, besides about $24,000 worth of all kinds of provis¬ ions. The net income of the year was $58,000, and after making final pay¬ ment on the plantations purchased the state lias $38,000 on hand. The institution starts the new year with 818 convicts, 172 less than last year. The falling off' is due to a change in the law which permits county super¬ visors to work short term convicts on the roads of the counties in which they are convicted. ■ Last year the penitentiary worked about eighty mules, which number will, since the whole force of the in¬ stitution will now be devoted to farm¬ ing, be greatly increased. The convicts are said to be happy and contented in their farm work. WOM A N LIBRA RIAN. Caucus of Tennogaee Democratic UegiHla tor* Nominated. The names of eleven lady candidates for state librarian were presented to the joint democratic caucus of the Tennessee legislature Thursday after noau, but they dropped out steadily and only six ballots were necessary. Mrs. Irene Ingram, incumbent, led on the first five hollots, but on the sixth ballot Miss Pauline Jones, of Bannon county, received forty-five votes to Mrs. Ingram’s forty-one, and Miss Jones was declared the nominee. Depositors Ask for Receiver. Most of tlje depositors of thedefunct Columbia National bank, of Minneapo¬ lis, have joined in a telegram to Comp¬ troller Eckels, asking for the appoint¬ ment of F. B. Dodge, of Minneapolis, as receiver. Steamboat Burned. The well-known steamboat Belle ot the Coast was totally destroyed by fire early Thursday morning at Carrollton, La. The origin of the blaze is un¬ known. The boat was valued at $10, 000 and insured in various companies for $20,000. The Fertilizer Rate Stands. The Georgia railroad commission has adopted the recent an circular order refusing reducing to the change rail¬ | road rates on fertilizers. COOPER AN OUTLAW. A SOUTH CAROLINA NEGRO’S RED RECORD OF CRIME. Ifnve Been Slain »ni\ an Many More Shot Down In Cold A Columbia special says: Five men and one woman killed, one or two wo¬ assaulted and five men wounded the record of Simon Cooper, colored, since January 1st, in Sumter county, 8. C. After this, with bundrods of men hunting him, with a special train and a sheriff’s posse going from town to this desperado, armed with pis¬ tol, winchester rifle, bowie knife, razor and plenty of ammunition, is still at large. Ho will not be taken alive. Cooper is the grandsoni of a white man, John Ashmore, who was a famous bad char¬ acter in this state before tho war. On Emancipation Day the negroes a celebration at Magnolia, Sumter county. Henry Davis and other ne¬ groes got into a row, and Davis shot at Cooper, whereupon Cooper killed A warrant for his arrest was put in the hands of a posse of negroes. They for the murderer and were met way. Cooper opened fire on the crowd, shooting six, disappear one of«gwhom has since He until i night, when he turned up Sumtet county,and Thurs morning the bodies of four per shot with rifle and pistol and with an ax, showed his terrible Isaac Boyd, a negro boy, was a wit¬ to the latest murders, Cooper him to go with him. Boyd that before killing Mrs.Wilson', assaulted her and then forced to show him where the harness After committing these crimes, and into a piazza full of children, says Cooper grew jolly over the of his plans. Wauls Labor Legislation. Governor Carr, of North Carolina, his biennial message to the legisla recommends that the working day limited to eleven hours and that no under twelve years bo allowed to in any building. HENDERSON W AS LYNCHED. Slayer of Old Man Smnner Huns; bv A Mob. The citizens of Unadilla, Ga., awoke morning to find that a lynch¬ had taken place right in their and while all were asleep An¬ Henderson, the negro who was for the assassination of old George Sumner and tho attempted upon his daughter, was taken the city barracks and hung to a within a stone’s throw of the busi¬ portion of the town. OUTLOOK PROMISING. and Hopeful J11.WI iicglos Advantage. R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say that the year 1897 begins with one clear advantage—the past year has swept out of the way a great number of unsound concerns which, in any time of activity, would have been a danger to business. Of the 15,286 commercial and banking failures in 1896, with liabilities of $270,815,749, a large share represent¬ ing crippling losses in previous years, or the violence of speculative storms in 1895, or the first half of 1896, while thousands more resulted from the fury of the political tornado last fall. Bank¬ ing failures, amounting to $50,718,915 during tho year, averaged $150,150 each, and were 145 per cent larger than in 1895. While banking failures have not ceased at the west, apprehension about them has almost wholly subsided aud no serious influence upon general trade is now expected. Many sound concerns wore doubtless caught by the epidemic, but practically all the important failures are traced to disregard of law and of banking senRe at periods somewhat distant. It is felt at the west that all bus¬ iness will be the sounder of its purging, and the return of money to Now York has exceeded ship¬ ments to the interior by $2,000,000 for the week. Heavy disbursements by the treasury and by great corporations make money abundant, and banks and savings banks are seeking good papov, taking some formerly sold at Chicago. Foreign exchange has risen a trifle, as large bills are about to mature. Mer¬ chandise exports were 11 per cent over last year, while imports were 27 per cent less than for tho same week. Commercial failures amounted to $226,096,834, a little over $1,000,000 having been added by the last day of the year, but the average of liabilities, $14,992, was smaller thau in some years of great prosperity. The failures of brokerage and “other” commercial concerns averaged $58,418 each, in¬ creasing over 183 per cent over 1895, while manufacturing failures averaged $28,808 each and increased 34 per cent and trading failures increased 18 per cent and averaged only $9,606 each. TRUSTS SURRENDER. Beorgia’# New Law causes Them to Throw up tho Sponge. Every trust operating in the state of Georgia has succumbed to tho Calvin act.. As the climax of the effective opera¬ tion of that measure, the American Company, that monster mo¬ 1 aupoly that so dciqa>tioally rul.-1 all commerce in the- _____ ing suit after the , potash trust, the snuff trust, the coffee trust, the match trust and all the other trusts, ad infin¬ itum, that have been gouging Georgia along with the rest of the union, noti¬ fied those jobbers and merchants throughout the state handling their goods that the now famous anti-trust bill made their contracts unlawful, and they would, therefore, no longer be considered by either party. This throws the long closed market wide open to competition, and certain reduction in the price of various com UjoditjeR—though maybe at the ex¬ pense of the jobbers. It solves at last the problem of dealing with trusts by legislation. It means the death knell of all such monopolies. The bill which directly accomplished this is already famous and is entitled “an act to declare unlawful and void j all au arrangements, Rrrl “ l K« m ' contracts, agree ments > trust8 > or combinations made with a view to lessen, or which tend to lessen, free competition in the impor¬ tation or sale of articles of domestic growth or of domestic raw material; to declare unlawful and void all arrange !nents - ™ l \ tract \ agreements, trusts 1 or combinations between persons corporations designed, or which tend, to advance, reduce or control the price of such product or article to producer or consumer of any such product or arti¬ cle; to provide for forfeiture of the charter and franchise of any corpora¬ tion violating provisions of this act. Ex-Governor of Maine Dead. Daniel Franklin Davis, ex-governor 0 f Maine, died at Bangor early Satur | ( ] ft y morning rather suddenly. H e waK governor in 1880, being elected by the legislature after an ex c jting count-out contest, iu which men and cannon played a part. ) pi e ff a ,t f or some years been engaged i in the lumber and , , law . , business . in Bangor. Governor Davis was fifty four years of age. DEMAND TWO CENT CAR FARE. Louisville Labor Union* Sue tho Stree Car Company. The labor unions of Louisville, Ky., headed by the Cigarmakers’ union No. i j 3, have brought suit against the Louis ville Street Railway company and the i mayor and the general council to forco I *^ ctreet e °| t 3 r car * 0Ternment com P an y *° s f f franchise ake awu y and (h « force the reduction of fare to 2 cents, j • : ____ W alling Asks for New Trial. | sentenced The attorney to be for hanged Alonzo Covington, Walling, j j at j | Ky., for complicity in the Pearl Bryan j murder, has filed a petition with the ■ court of appeals asking for a new trial, j An Investigation Wanted. j ' The North Carolina legislature has i I adopted investigate a resolution raising charges a commit- j tee to the openly i 1 made by democratic that i a paper money is being freely used to infle- i ence populists to vote for Pritchard i | for senator.________ Fire at 10 o’clock Sunday morning | totally destroyed Flour the packing house of j the Anchor mill, at Minneapolis, i company^ Lots SooS’TuUy’Tn- I sured. • NO. 3 WASHBURN WRITES. HE ISSUES AN APPEAL TO POPU¬ LISTS OF UNITED STATES. II© Afl vine* Believers to Maintain Solidified Hanks and Move Forward—The Unto Campaign Reviewed. Goorge F.Washburn, member of the people’s party national executive com¬ mittee aud chairman of the western headquarters during the late campaign, has issued an appeal to tho populists of the United States. Among other tilings ho says: We are to be congratulated upon tho growth of our party aud the fact that in the recent election nearly half the voters of the union indorsed mnch of our platform. Our party alone has a voting force larger than that which elected Lincoln and an able, effective reform press of nearly 2,000 papers. We hold the balance of power in ti e United States senato and have four times as many congressmen as ever before; “Wo united with the silver forces in the recent campaign, not because wo believe free coinage of silver is tho solution of the financial problem, but because it would better existing con¬ ditions, would meet with the least ro sistonce aud become tho entering wedge for our main issue, viz: full legal ten¬ der paper money, issued and regulated by tils government alone. Hav¬ ing proved our loyalty at tho polls, wo are free to act separately on advanced lines and to emphasize the real issues our party was born to advocate. We cannot lay down our arms and ceaso enlisted our activity until the war for which wo has ended in victory for our cause. “The democratic party proposes to continue the silver fight. Two parties cannot exist on the same issue. Tho greater absorbs the smaller There¬ fore, if we remain mere camp follow¬ ers of another party, disintegration will result. Our party success alone forced the democrats to adopt tho Chicago platform anil nominate a popocrat for president. Converts made by party regularity cannot be trusted with the reforms of the future. “We are not democrats, and cannot be classed as such. We simply united for a single campaign. The demo¬ crats are but the rear guard of our party. We do not stand upon redemp¬ tion money, but for a scientific dollar, kept invariable by proper regulation of the money volume. vuuee. They will remaifr where they are. We must educate them tip to the main issue, and the time to do it is now, not just before a presidential election. We must also hold the dem¬ ocratic party to its present position or compel it to advance. “I also suggest that a national con¬ ference of party leaders and work¬ ers bo held as soon as practicable, that we may have a ffull and free expression of opinion regarding for^Pthat future work. Wo press’ hope, tliere the reform will give tho fullest possible exposition of the views on this important subject; and our friends are invited to write me or our national chairman expressing tlieir ideas on the independent party action herein proposed. “Shall we march to victory under our own banner, or continue as strag¬ glers under another? RACERS CREMATED. String; of Fine and Valuable Horse* Burn¬ ed at Norfolk, Va. A fire occurred Sunday morning at 3:30 o’clock in tho etablo at the park of tho Norfolk Driving Club and Fair Association, one mile from Norfolk, Yu., resulting in tlio cremation of thirteen fine horses and probably the fatal burning of Tony Brown, a colored hostler. Among the horses burned was Tid dley-Winks, John Mariner’s $10,000 trotter, one of the fastest horses in the south. Two were fine Kentucky ra¬ cers owned in Georgia.’ The lpss will foot up at least $30,000. Nebraska Bank Succumbs. The First National bank, of Alma; Neb., has been closed by Examiner Whitmore. ____________ Liabilities _____________ aro _ $131,000 ________ which includes $16,000 deposits,$4,500 belonging . to ... the state , . and . county. • The assets are reported at about the same amount. ANOTHER DEATH AT CAHABA. Workman on W'recked Bridge Fall* and is Killed. Another fatality has occurred at tlio Caliaba river bridge, the scene of the wreck two weeks ago. A largo {oree of carpenters are working night and °”' 1 day on the temporary structure. Frank McLean, while engaged in hoisting heavy timbers to the top of tl,e third tier or deck, lost his footing and fell fifty feet. Death resulted. Dividend Iter Cotton Factory. The Augusta, Ga., cotton factory has declared a semi-annual dividend of 3J per cent on tho capital stock of the company of $600,000. This is one of the oldest mills in Georgia. Assignments in Knoxville. C. J. Gooding, druggist, of Knox ville, Tenn., witff liabilities at $7,000; assets, $11,006; and the Workingman’s Building and Loan association, liabili ties $50,000; assets supposed to be sufficient to cover the same, have made assignments. Mabbied men should sever their connection with all clubs butthehome club. ThE best of "' Lat we do aml « re is poor enough. ,