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Only 12 per “cent. of the Russian
population can read and write, and
there are only 38,000 primary schools
to a population of 100, 000,000. Elu
cation and freedom are generally in the
direct ratio of each other.
According to a Loadon paper, ‘a
number of leading American ladies are
endeavoring to make London adopt its
fashions from New York, and negotia
tions are now going on with a view to
to setting up in London a large estab
lishment having that object in view.”
The richest professional mendicant in
the country is **Blind Johnny” of Phil.
adelphia. He is 60 years of age and is
worth about $20,000. He travels from
Chicago to Washington, from there to
_ Baltimore, and ends up in Pailadelphia,
spending about three months in each
city. He has made all his money as a
mendicant. "
The Forth bridgs, which has just
been completed in . Scotland, cost the
lives of 56 workingmen during the
seven years of its construction, sbut the
engineers insist that thisis a remarka
bly gyod showing. They say: *‘The
fact that the loss of life has not been
larger on a work of such magnitude
with so large a numb:r of men em
ployed in dangerous positions shows |
that no reasonable precautions for their |
safety have been omitted.” ‘
After many ‘weeks of figuring, 52
Decatur (Ill.) famllies, including many
of wealth and position, have united in
8 novel manner of living. = They have
joined tYOget't'xer to maintain a co-oper
ative boarding house, the expenses to
each person for the best of food and
cooking being not more than $2.50 a
week, or 11 cents a meal. The ladies
take charge a week about in turn and
buy all the food, while a paid house
keeper attends to the details and serv
ing. Another similar establishment is
projected.
The champion meanest man and the
most heartless justice live in Bturgis,
Dakota. The meanest man lost his
pocketbook, containing §250, and
when the finder returned it to him
after a month spent in discovering the
owner, he demanded that the finder pay
him interest for the use of the money.
Naturally the finder refused this un
reasonable demand, whercupon the
meanest man brought suit for the in
terest, and the heartless justice gave
the meanest man judgment for $1.45
and costs. :
The Belgium Anti-Slavery Society is
preparing to send expeditions to Africa
for the purpose of protecting the na
tives in certain districts from Arab
slave raids. It is expected that the
first of its expeditions will leave Ant
werp in October next. Two steam
ships ‘will penetrate the Dark Continent
to the Upper Congo. It is the purpose
of the society to penetrate north and
south and east and west through the
heart of that part of the Congo country
which is chiefly scourged by slave
raids, The society will form stations
to serve as refuges for hunted natives,
and as centres by which to repress raids
by any means in its power.
The Russian Government is evidently
impressed by the vigorous denunciation
of its BSiberian policy, for it is an
nounced that the prosecution of the
woman who wrote a threatening letter
to the Ozar has been dropped. “‘There
are scores ot women in Siberia,” says
tha San Francisco Chkronicle, ‘‘dragging
out wretched lives who were punished
merely because-of strong suspicion that
they were what the Russian police call
| wuntrustworthy.” Kennan found several
political exiles at Tomsk and other
places who were mere schoolgirls, and
who had been consigned to this hard
life in Siberia because they entertained
liberal views or had been compromised
by association with relatives who were
nihilists. It is a good thing if Ken
nan’s articles and the recent ngitation
have made the Czar of all the . Russians
ashamed of waging war on women.”
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) lipdels AR UGN R T L eN S
'NEWS OF TME ORDER AND
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WHAT 18 BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA~
TION, NOTES, ETC. ‘
The Alliance is growing rapidly in the
Indian Territory. Over one gundred or
ganizations are in working order now.
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Fifty Alliances have been formed in
Sedwick county, Kansas, the past six
months, with a membership of over 2,000.
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A golden sign of progress is seen in the
calm, intelligent, earnest manner in which
reforms me being pushed by all organized ‘
toilers. |
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Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia and North
Carolina lead all other States in Alliance
membership. Missouri is in the lead with
2,900 unious.
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The Alliance in Putnam county, Fla.,
tell the county commissioners that they
must be more economical in the disposi
tion of the county funds. |
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The Farmers’Alliance of Lincoln county,
{ South Dakota, raised SIO,OOO to start an
Alliance mewspaper with. They see the
importance.of supplying the news with
out its being poisoned by passing through
the monopoly press. :
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Hon. L. F. Livingston, president of
the Georgia Farmers’ alliance, has been
invited by General S. D.’ Lee, president
of the agricultural college near Starkville,
Miss., to deliver the annual address on
the 18th of June. The invitation was ac- ‘
cepted. |
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Cherokee is the banner Alliance county l
in Kansas, having a membership of 3,-
000. One hundred and twenty-seven |
delegates, representing thirty eight Sub-
Alliances, attended the meeting of the
county Alliance at Columbus, April 3d. —
Nebraska Opinion.
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There is just one way congressmen
should regain standing with the people
and that is to secure at this session the
passage of measures’ of relief. If they
don’t do it, then they should not object
to their constituents trying some one else.
—Atlanta, QGa., Southern Alliance
Farmer.
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A letter from Secretary Turner at
Washington says the petitions on the
sub-treasury bill are rolling in like a
western snow storm. ‘That’s right, bank
congress in with them till their only es
cape is to pass it. Let every Alliance and
Nationalist club that hasnot already done
so forward at once their petitions.—2 D
akota Ruralist. :
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The Alliance is only a few weeks old
in Michigan, but already ten counties
are on the march. There is something
magic about the touch of the Alliance,
when you get into this army, now three
million strong, you feel that youare
shoulder to shoulder with the ‘‘patriotic
liberty loving people” of the country.
A people who live above partisanship and
love their country better than any politi
cal party, apd who would not haggle
about the methods or names so long as
the people are freed from the grasp of
monopoly.—Alliance Sentinel.
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A delegation representing the Farmers’
Alliance appeared before the ways and
means committee at Washington Tuesday
morning to advocate the passage of the
bill to create sub-treasuries in different
parts of the country for the reception of
staple crops produced by farmers. The
spokesman was Dr. C. W. Macune, chair
man of the legislative committee of the
Allianee, ang editor of the MNational
Eeconomist, a paper devoted to the objects
of the organization. The others present
were Alonzo Wardell, of South Dakota;
Benjamin Terrell, of Texas, national lec
turer; L. F. Livingston, president Geor
gia State Alliance; R. M. Humphrey,
general superintendent colored Alliance,
and J. J. Rogers, of the Virginia State
Alliance. In addition there was present
a number of members of Congress, prin
cipally from the Southern States.
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Dr. Macune began his address by de
seribing the depressed state of agriculture
which, he said, was the prime cause of
the trouble in other pursuits. If the ex
-Isting conditions continued, he warned
the committee that labor would become
desperate and a great revolution would
ensue. History showed that wealth had
alvways lacked intelligence to meet in time
the necessitics of labor, and on its part
labor had never adopted the proper means
to remedy the faults it complained of.
The objects of the Farmers’ Alliance was
mental, social and financial improvement.
At the St. Louis convention 2,000,000
farmers had been represented, and they
had proposed the remedy set out in the ‘
bill as the first step in the right direction.
If it was mdely framed and the idea in- ‘
distinctly expressed, they relied upon the |
wisdom of tfie committee to give it the
' proper form, but they be]ievegl they had
found a remedy for their ills. The farm
ers asked no favors and no class legisla
tion. They were now suffering from the
latter. They did not ask the enactment
of any unconstitutional measure, but as a
great debtor class, as men who had gone
out in the West after the war and laid the
soil under contribution with borrowed
money, they ‘protested against the con
traction of the ¢urrency at a time when
f'their debts become' due,. and " asked that
-the conditiong’be restored to: what th? |
were 'nfi‘l_x"ez'y;;.&@ money was . borrowed: ~
They asked jubtice, pure.and simple. =
i Dr: Macune was questio?ed by mem-
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others, there would be an influx of men
into that business, which would result in
a reaction and finally the restoration of
an equilibrium, To his mind, no fixed
volume of currency—no matter how great
—would meet the nceds of agriculture.
It wanted an elastic medium. ’ghe farmer
sold his cropsin the fall when prices
were the lowest and bought his supplies
before harvest when prices were highest.
Crops were marketed in two or three
months of the year, and this marketing
annually caused a great stringency in
money, 3
Mr. Flower feaved that the plan would
lead to banking on live shoats, iron, lead
and silver ore. They were getting along
now in the latter direction at the other
end of the capitol. In time we would
have everything ‘in hock.” lln the
course of ten years, the government would
be nursing children nng women working
in the field. 'The true remedy for the
farmers’ ills was the manufacturers’ plan.
They should regulate production. Raise
only enousn produce to meet the people’s
wants, and thereby get fair prices.
Dr. Macune proceeded to exFlain the
process »progosed to . regulate - t}_xe
issue of. produce” éertificates. He said
that the necessity for excluding
imports of agricultural products was
obvious if the quality ‘of the certificates
was to be preserved. The certificates
would constitute the soundest and best
currency in the world. .. Probably not one
half of the $50,000,000 ;_ag)propriation
asked for to put the new machinery in‘ac:
‘tion would be required,.but the sum
should not be absolutely at the minimum,
as in time it whuld be necessary to extend
the sgstem to include all of the products
of labor not covered by patendts. In con
clusion Dr. Macune said thatthe National
Alliance had ndt sent out a single printed
petition, and that these petitions and de
mands now pouring im upom congress
were the spontaneous offerings &f farmers
of the United States, who.were convinced
that they knew what they wanted and
were going to have it.
Mr. Flower said, in commenting upon
the argument, that the farmer would do
well to manage his domestic affairs with
out government interference. :
Among the Alliancemen present was
Ben Terrell, the lecturer. Hesaid: “We
do not trade with any party. We are
more patriots than partisans. We are
tired of sacrificing the interest of the peo
ple for party. We have got nothing to
do with the democratic party. We are
in favor of Alliancc measures. Where a
state is democratic, we want to’elect such
democrats as will work in the interest of
measures promulgated by the Alliance in
convention. The republican members of
this order will make the same effort to
send men here Po are friends of a party,
Again, a candidate neminated by the Al
liance would be & cisss candidate, and
therefore wou!d be ¢pnosed.”
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The hearing of the Farmers' Alliance
representatives was continued befoze the
ways and means committee Thursday
morning, Mr. Livingston, national lec
turer of the organization, taking up the
argument. He said that he had found
much misapprehension in Washington
respecting the objects of the Alliance.
They had not beset congress, but, as Mr.
Ilower had suggested, they had been at
tending strictly to their own business.
A wrong impression—one withouta word
of truth—was that the Alliance was clan
destinely seeking to displace the ruling
parties. The farmers ha& been told that
a proper adjustment of the tariff and of
the silver question was all that was
necessary for the farmers’ relief.
The tariff had nothing to do with the
measure recommended by the Alliance.
The tariff fixed the price of the far
mers’ purchases; the sub-treasury bill fixed
the price at which he sold his goods.
The alliance representatives had not been
insolent ; at least there was no intention of
being insolent. They had talked plainly,
straight from the shoulder. They asked,
demanded—he was not sure about the
terms—that congress do what it could to
pass the sub-treasury bill. Fifty-cight
homes—farmers’-—had been sold at auc
tion in Connecticut in one day this week.
The farmers wanted relief, and they knew
how to get it. They had about made up
their minds to let partisan politics alone,
for awhile at least. Representative Cle
ments, of Georgia, had sought to have
the farmers’ lands taken as security in
national banks. Somehow congress had
refused to do it, The national bank sys
tem must be broken up. The farmers had
to secure loans at excessive rates of inter
cst. There was no justification for that
under God's broad heavens.
Mr. Fowler asked if a manufacturer
did not have to pay some interest.
Mr. Livingston replied that he did not.
There was difference between watered
stock concerns and the farmer’s real es
tate, yet the latter was made the worst
security in this country. Continuing he
quoted President Lincoln’s peophesy that
corporations would be enthroned; that
the property of the country would be
concentrated, and that the republic itself
would be overthrown. Thank God, the
last prediction had not been fulfilled.
But the others had been. - One-twentieth
of the people of this country owned
three-fifths of the property. He also
quoted Garfield, Jefferson and Calhoun,
and said that what they had recommended
was what the Alliance asked. If con
gress refused to approve the sub-treasury
ill plan, then let it remove the restric
tions hedging in the national banking
system. The farmers would care nothing
about trusts and combinations, and the
concentration of money, if they could
hold their crops in the sub-treasury; and
were not compelled, as at firesent, to sell
them at stated times. e could thus
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of speculation in crops would be done
‘away with, and the producer and con
sumer would be brouggt together, It had
been charged that the farmers would form
a trust. It was against the farmer’s nature.
He had to rush his cro&»l to market. If
cotton went up an eighth of a cent every
farmer wou_d be seen hitching ur his
team the next morning. He would be
afraid that one-cighth of a cent would
get away from him. Then the farmers
would have but a year’s privilege, while
banks had twenty years, This plan was
not held out as a perfect measure. All
legislation was the result of a compro
mise. The gentleman from New York
(Mr. Flower) had predicted that chil
dren would be put to work 'in ware
houses and women in the fields. Thein
‘terference was that men under the pa
rental government would be too lazy to
work. Mr. Livingston denied that such
a result would follow. Could there be
a government more parental than ours
—parental to banks, he meant. He did
not favor parental government. If the
highways were opened to enterprise
‘and energy, the farmer would be satisfled.
But the farmer bad stood around waiting
long enough. He hud to have :elief; it
was a ground-hog case. Sixteen millions
would build. -all tne ware-houses the al
liance wanted. What good were river
} and harbor improvements to the debt
ridden, oppressed farmer? Never more
than a thir(} of the cotton crop would be
ware-housed. When the certificates issued
on that crop. came in they would meet
‘ the needs of the wheat crop, and then the
Ttobacco crop, and so on. There would
‘not be excessive changes in the volume of
currency. -
Mr. Flower asked why the ware-houses’
were to be used for oats, wheat, corn, to
“bacco, and cotton? Why not put in the
_pot wool, and rice, und cheese, and pork,
étc?
Mr. Livingston replied that these other
staples were protected by the high tariffl—
seventy-five per cent for wool alone.
. Mr. Flower read u table to show that
staple crops had fluctuated more than
fifty per cent within thirty years, and
asked if that did not demonstrate the in
stability of the proposed currency. May
heaven have mercy upon this country
- when a thousand millions of currency was
suddenly called in, as it might be under
such fluctuations. ;
Mr. Livingston replied that the fluctu
ations had been caused by the fact that
th> farmers had been caused by the fact
that the farmers had been compelled
to sell crops at adverse times—something
the bill proposed to remedy. Inconclusion,
he said, that if the committee thought
that a landed basis was best, if they could
not accept the crop basis, let them put it
in. -Do something to relieve the farmers.
Report the bill to the house in some
shape, so that it could be acted upon.
Don’t make it a question of tariff, or of
pHlitics, but let the bill stand on its merits.
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VOTE OF PRESBYTERIES.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE FOR
AND SIXTY-NINE AGAINST REVISION.
The New York Independent, publishes
returns from all but five of the presby
teries of the Presbyterian church, show
ing that 133 voted for revision, 69 against
revision, and 6 have declined to vote.
Most of the presbyteries not heard from
are foreign. 2,332 ministers and elders have
voted against revision, and 3,334 minis
ters and clders have voted for revision.
Twenty-seven of the presbyteries cast a
unanimous vote—twelive against and fifs
teen for revisior:,
A NEW ROAD
PROJECTED TO RUN FROM KANSAS CITY TO
CHARLESTON.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch says:
Wednesday morning an application tvas
filed for a charter for the incorporation of
the Kansas City, Chattanooga, Augusta
& Charleston Railroad company. The
railroad is projected to run from Kansas
City to Charleston, 8. C., and through a
’ country rich in mineral, agricultural and
lumber.
THERE is more talk of a new Atlantic
cable. This time it is proposed to lay
a Canadian cable, and it is said a com
gany, with a capital of £2,000,000, has
een organized for the purpose. It is
contemplated to begin the work soon
and push it vigorously. The new cable
is to extend from near Clew Bay, in Ire
land, to Greenly Island, in the Straits of
Belle Isle. On the Eastern end connec
tion will be made with the Imperial Com
pany’s Postal Telegraph Service, and on
the Westward with the Dominion Ser
vice. Thus the company will simply have
a cable 1,900 miles long, and lengthy
telegraph lines will be required. It was
thought by some experts that there
would be danger from grounding with
icebergs, as the direction of the cable was
so far Northward, but a close study of
the chart shows that from Belle Isle to
Greenly Island there is deep water gen
erally, and the promoters consider the en
terprise perfectly secure. By the way,
avers the Mail and Express, it is not gen
erally known, but it is a fact, neverthe
less, that Cyrus W. Field, who more than
any other man is responsible for the
cable connections between England and
America, was the last man to receive the
freedom of the city of New York for his
services. e
~ Frank Jackson, of Sampsonville, Erie
County, Penn., can place his arms
against a wall and reach seven feet
eleven inches. He has remarkably long
arms. Jackson is six feet high. The
best reach on record is seven feet.
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'BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
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PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER-—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC, i
The grand lodge of Sons of Temper
ance of North Carolina met at Asheville
Thursday.
The first train of cast iron p‘i’ge ever
shipped from the south wassent Wednes
day from Soutk Pittsburg to Texas.
The comptroller of currency has
authorized the First National bank, of
Cardiff, Tenn., to begin business with
a capital of $50,000.
The British steamer, Propitious, sailed
from Galveston, Texas, on é’aturday. with
36,000 bushels of corn from Kangas.
This is an experimental shipment for
Liverpool, and if profitable will be fol
lowedp by others. 4
Governor Waterman has telegraphed
the World’s Fair executive committee at
Chicago, asking that ten acres of space
be reserved for California’s exhibit, and
promising that if the request is acceded
to California’s exhibit will be one of the
features of the fair.
The weekly weather crop bulletin of
the North Carolina experiment station
and the state weather service, issued at
Raleigh on Saturday, says the report of
correspondents show generally a very fa
vorable effect of the weather on nearly all
crops during the week.
The transfer of the Cincinnati, Selma
and Mobile railroad to the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia, has been com
pleted. Improved train service and
other important changes have been an
nounced. A through train service be
tween Cincinnati and Mobile will be put
-oon at once.
C. M. Whittaker and G. M. Stubbs
were working in a granite quarry, near
Monrovia, a small town eighteen miles
east of Los Angeles, Cal., on Thursday
afternoon, loading two tons of rock,
when the derrick broke and the rock
fell on the men, crushing them to death.
The centennial convention of the Pro
testant Episcopal church, in North Caro
lina, convened in Tarboro, Thursday.
The diocese of North Carolina was found
ed there in 1790. Fifteen years ago the
diocese of East Carolina was formed out
of it. ‘Both dioceses now meet in joint
session.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C. says:
A big mortgage has been placed on rec
ord in Burke county by the Southern and
Western Air-Line railroad, to the Central
Trust company, of New York city, to
secure the issue of $1,500,000 of mort
age bonds. The bonds have been floated
in England.
A special from Talladega says: E. K.
Turner, a farmer, committed suicide at
his home Wednesday night while under
arrest. He forged notes and a mortga%e
on a neighbor and was arrested at mid
night last night. The sheriff consented
to let him remain at home till morning
and during the night Turner took ten
grains of morphine.
A caisson at the new bridge at Louis
ville, Ky., capsized Wednesday afternoon,
killing one man and injuring several
others. Ed McDonald, a corker, was in
side the caisson and fourteen men were at
work cementing the outside. C. P.
Mitchell, assistarit superintendent of
work, was caught by a falling beam and
killed. Charles Saunders, a carpenter;
Ed Branham, a corker, and Joseph Wa
. then, a corker, are missing. Ed McDon
ald, Tom Hennessy, Pat O’'Brien, Ed
Griffin and William Rhodes are badly in
jured.
The Presbyterian general assembly met
in Asheville, N. C., Thursday. Itis
made up of an equal number of ministers
and ruling elders from seventy-one pres
byteries, covering the southern states.
The body embraces 2,321 churches; 1,145
ministers; has over 161,000 communi
cants; over 100,000 scholars in its Sun
day schools and Bible classes, and gave
during last year, for all purposes, congre
gregational and benevolent, $1,612-
865. The commissioners will be en
tertained by the citizens of Asheville,
and a reception and banquet will be given
them i e 00l
NEW OFFICERS
OF THE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF
BOILERMAKERS,
The national brotherhood of boiler
makers adjourned at Birmingham, Ala.,
Wednesday, after a session of three days.
They elected the following officers: Jere
miah McCarthy, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
grand president; J. T. Mountcastle, of
Richmond, Virginia, grand vice-presi
dent; Pat. McGillen, of Atlanta, Georgia,
grand secretary; William McDonald, of
Birmingham, grand treasurer; A. F. Bac
cagolyn, of Atlanta; C. C. P. Patrick, of
Palatka, Florida, Richard Floyd,
of Logansport, Ind.; Ed. O'Bri
en, of Memphis, Tennessee; and
W. H. Murdock, of Richmond, Virginia,
board of councilmen. : .
CARLISLE NOMINATED
AS SENATOR BECK'S SUCCESSOR IN THE
UNITED STATES SENATE. i
A dispatch of Friday from Louisville,
Ky., says: Jobn G. Carlisle has been
nominated to succeed Senator Beck by
the Democratic caucus at Frankfort.
There is general congratulation in the
State over the result, which is in har
mony with the wishes of a large majority
of voters of the State. Newspaper offices
here were serenaded, and a crowd march
ed through the streets cheering in honor
of the event, [
