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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1890)
:‘[" \, , T ‘mafi s A-‘y” ) OIS U,¥ ASDHED K 2 WEE '/' /' i " : 4 n " - J4S. R. GRIFFITH. g v ; 4 “!.- Wi §4 BUCHANAN, - - GEORGIA eet et oet A e NEWS OF THE SOUTH. BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER , ESTING NATURE. PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THK SOUTHERN STATES. THAT WILL ENTER TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. ! Twelve hundred miners are on strike at Dayton, Tenn., against a reduction in wages. W. T. Martin was hanged Friday at Raleigh courthouse, West Virginia, for the murder of his wife. General Thomas F. Drayton, aged eighty-three years, the last surviving classmate of Jefferson Davis, at West Point, was taken suddenly ill at Char lotte, N. C., Friday night, and at mid night it was feared he was dying. The democratic congressional conven tion at Frauklin, N. 'C., adjourned sine die on Friday without making a nomina tion. Two thousand eight hundred and sixty-two ballots were cast. The exec utive committee was authorized to order & new convention, or act otherwise as they saw fit. A Richmond, Va., dispatch of Wednes day says: Bettie Thomas Lewis, colored, daughter of William A.Thomas,deccased, who is making a legal fight over the es tate of her father, which is valued at over $200,000, has been offered $25,000 to surrender her claims to the property, and has refused. A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says: There was a surprise at the executive office Thursday morning when the resig nation of Hon, N. H. Brown, as probate judge of Tuscaloosa county, wasreceived. No cause is known for the judge’s resig nation. He has been probate judge of Tuscaloosa for many years. The Knights of Labor are increasing in numbers in North Carolina, It has now 300 assemblies and 12,000 members, a gain of 3,000 during the year, The or er 18 the strongest in Edgecombe, Hali fax and Northampton counties, and has more colored than white members; in fact the gain has been mainly in the colored assemblies. The Mississippi constitutional conven tion on Friday considered the subject of public education. The committee’s re port makes the school age six to twenty years; provides for a four months’ term; a schoo{ fund to consist ot poll taxes to be retained in the county where collected, and to be supplemented by state funds; separate school for whites and colored to be provided, and sectarianism forbid. The prohibition convention of the sixth congresssional district of Virginia met at Roanoke Saturday, and nominated Wii liam J. Shelburn, of Montgomery county, for congress. Twenty-two delegates, representing three counties, were pres ent. Mr, Shelburn appeared in the cen vention and accepted the nomination, The nominee is a farmer and a member of the Alliance. He was elected to the legislature as a democrat in 1877, A rather novel ‘and extraordinary case was developed at Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday. Mrs. Estes filed a complaint against the railroads before the railroad commission, in which she alleges that the freight charges on a pony shipped from . Trenton, Texas, to her in Montgomm‘yi amount to $65, a charge which she re gards as exhorbitant, and claims is more the than animal is worth. The pony is advertised to be sold by the railroad authorities. ' The sales of leaf tobacco in the Dan ville, Va., market in September were 998,318 pounds, which is 633,448 pounds less than the sales for September last. The - sales of tobacco for the year ending Sep “tember 30th, were 24,925,076 pounds, being 3,878,770 pounds less than for the previous year. The price paid this year was $13.22 per hundred pounds, being $4.47 per hundred pounds more than that paid the year before. - . Mrs. Alma Avera has presented to Trinity college, at Durham, N. C., 643 acres of valuable land in Johnson county, with the proceeds of the sale of which the Avera memorial building is to be erected in memory of her late husband, Willis H. Avera. This is the fifth build ing thus given, and in it a divinity school is to be established. The other four buildings given are the main build ing, technological building, science building and livrary. i A dispatch from Rome, Ga., says: This place continues in a highly excited state over the developments in the case of Mrs. Wimple, who, it was discovered Batur day, fiad been poisoned by her friend and neighbor, Mrs, Doss McKee. Efforts to relieve Mrs. Wimple were unsuccessful, and she died Sunday afternoon. Mrs. i McKee is still at large, but officers are making & vigorous search for her. She is a young and attractive woman, twenty- | five years of age. | Rt i | IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. First Burglar—Well, you're a bright 'un. Second Burglar--What's the matter? “The paper says there was SSOO in money in the drawer you got that gold watch from, an’ you missed it.” ‘“That so? I’il go back after it to night.”—[Epoch., el e i SRS s Bt s i ;«;A;:é;v;, Sk e ‘g B 1t chutbn QF“ : “:’if% R AnD TS b i ;t:'; ;"’ T PG, " # WHAT 18 BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS ~ BECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA TION, NOTES, ETC. : - Those who oppose the sub-treasury plan are opposed to cheaper money for the people; there is no dodging this statement, —National Eeonomist. / " w The merchants, lawyers, doctors, all are interested in the sub-treasury. It is not class, it is for all. To protect the farmer is to protect his creditor. To protect both the farmer and their credi tors is to put business upon a safe basis and to bring prosperity to the country. * * The Sub-Alliances of Georgia are the source of all Alliance sentiment and all Alliance strength. The sub-Alliances are for the sub-treasury bill and against any candidate who will not endorse it. To support and elect a man who is opposed to it will be a disgrace to the Alliance.— Southern Alliance Farmer. *% There will be a grand reunion of the Farmers’ Alliance of Alabama at the Southern Exposition in Montgomery, on November 11th and 12th. The National president, Col. L. L. Polk, Cagt. B. F. lillman, of South Carolina, Hon. John I. Buchanan, of Tennessce, and Presi dent L. F. Livingston, of Georgia, will deliver addresses on that occasion. | 5% ~ln a prospectus sent out by the Farm ers' Newspaper Alliance is the following: “Shall we allow our hosts to be divided and defeated in detail by unscrupulous oliticians, working in the interest of gVall street and backed by a hireling press, and the whole paid for with our money, wrung from our reluctant grasp by Shylocks, usurers and soulless colpo rations, to be used for ow oppression?” > * % The Signal (Manhattan, Kas.,) says: That a man can hold to the principle of the Farmers’ Alliance and stand on the platform of either the Republican or Democratic parties is as impossible as for ‘“‘a camel, etc.” No man who sincerely invokes reform legislation from Congress and other legislative bodies will vote for men whose party policy is to-day to the rich. . *** The Farmers’ Alllance “will establish a school at Morehead City, N. C. The foundations for the building are laid. Three hundrgd pu{)ils can be accommo dated. Board and tuition will be fur nished at actual cost. The superintend ent will purchase food at wholesale and each pupil will pay bis exact proportion of the cost—which will be about $5 per month. The teachers’ salaries will be divided among the pupils the same way. % * ok The Alliance Times (Anderson, Ind.,) says: There is no reason why the Alli ance and F. M. B. A. should not work together in harmony. The objects of the two orders are identical, and the only way to win is to work together with good will and: harmony. Let us have no ill feeling on this score. What would be better, would be for'all the farmers’ or ganizations to unite into one grand body. They could certainly do much more, for where there is union there is strength. * * % A distinetion should be made between the sub-treasury plan and the sub-treas ury bill. The former was adopted by the National Farmers’ Alliance andjlndustrial Union, and it was made the duty of the legislative committee to prepare the lat ter. This they did as their interpretation of a good plan to carry out the pupose of the former. The committee ang the or der generally will be glad to have any person improve on the bill.—Southern Alliance Farmer. * % Industrial Free Press (Winfield, Kan), says: True men will not be bribed. Men who are honest with themselves and with their neighbors will walk up to the polls this fall and vote for their best financial,so cial and political interests. Such men will turn a deaf ear to the howlings and ravings of the partisan press and their backers as well as their followers. Men who read and have cast aside that sec tional feeling of party, will be men who work for the welfare of others as well as their own, 5" The Topeka Capital still has its daily column showing the Alliance to bea Democratic organization. Democratic journals are equally zealous in demon strating it to be a Republican aid society; and all the While the people are still ex tending and perfecting their organization and paying no attention to the rantings of either party. Members of the Alli ance believe that they themselves under stand the character of their organization and their own motives and, purposes fully as well as do these hirelings of the old parties.— Topeka (Kan.) Advocate. e An exchange says that any measure calculated to benefit any one class is class legislation, and that as the sub-treasury plan is designed to help the farmers, therefore it is class legislation. Nothing could more completely misrepresent the purposes of the sub-treasury plan. It is not designed to help the farmer by giv ing him any class privilege, but to help him by stopping a class discrimination against him. There is now a discrimina tion-against him by low prices in the fall when he is a seller, and high prices in the sipring when he is a buyer in making his investment in crop. This results frum the present fluctuation in the volume of money as compared to the demand in different seasons, Warchousing is not O e S oppariton of the Farmery Alianoeo e Lodge election bill, .il{ultmedvé&.r p position b{v the dent of the State | ?;l:iance of New 'Eork will be a powerful eip: : ‘?To Wiosm 11 May CoNcEßN:—While striving for reformation all along the line, and demanding among other &ings, a frec ballot and a fair count, yet, at the earnest request of Col. Leonid:,u F. Liv ingston, president of the Georgia State Alliance, endorsed by its conven tion, and by other Southern State Alli liances, whose orders I am pledged to obey in the matter of the pending elec tion bill, T hereby promise to oppose the same—reserving, however, the privilege. of changing my views in case satisfactory proof shall be presented of such unlawful intimidation, violence or fraud against Alliancemen in these states at the Novem ber elections as shall afford undoubted cause for its passage. : JouN LIVINGSTON. AGAINST THE LARD BILL. THE GROCERS Awi‘_mron'mas OF PHILA DELPHIA RAISE A HOWL. A well attended meeting of the grocers and importers’ exchange of Philadelphia, was held Tuesday, for the purpose of protesting against the passage by the senate of the bill known as the ‘‘Conger lard bill.” Two sets of resolutions pro testing against the bill—both' nearly identical in their import—were pre sented to the meeting. One of the reso lutions asked of congress the passage of a general food bill; but, after some debate, it was rejected by the meeting, and the following resolution was passed : ““To the Hon. A. B. Paddock, chair man of the agricultural committee, United States Scnate: The grocers’ and importers’ exchange, of the city of Phila delphia, most respectfully ask your hon orable body to take into consideration their protest against the passage of bill, H. R., 11,568, known as the Conger lard bill. While we are desirous of having laws regulating the sale of all compound articles used as food, the provisions of this bill are such that it legislates in favor of one article of food against another. The restrictions placed in this bill on all products in the least degree resembling lard are equal to a prohibition of their manufacture and sale. 'We consider cot- | ton seed oil wholesome and valuable for food. We are opposed to any legislation | which favors one article of food at the expense of another.” The secretary of the e xchange was in structed to have a copy of these resolu tions drawn up and forwarded to Senator Paddock. ANOTHER MEXICAN ROAD ] TO BE BUILT BY A COMPANY OF. ENGLISH CAPITALISTS, ‘ A well known railroad contractor of - Mexico states that the concession for a railroad from Zacatecas to Durango, and thence to Mazatlan, which has been held' by Governor Flores, of Durango, for the past four years, has been sold to W. H. Wood and an English syndicate, The price paid was $75,000. The concession 18 a most valuable one, including, as it | does, a subvention of §B,OOO per mile and the free right of way. The company is backed by almost unlimited English cap ital, and the road will be completed within twelve months. AGAINST THE NEGROES. A STRIKE EMINENT ON THE HUNTINGTON SYSTEM IN TEXAS. A Houston, Texas, dispatch of Sunday says: The Houston and Texas Central railroad has employed negro watchmen in its yards for several years. About two weeks ago a demand was made for their removal, the places to be filled with whites. The demand was refused and the foremen all struck. Grand Master Wilkinson has wired to all members of the executive council of the Railway Fed eration, which recently met in Terre Haute, to come to Houston at once, and the impression is general that a strike is imminent. The Southern Pacific may also be invilved, as both roads are in the Huntington system. HE IS PENITENT, NOT BECAUSE OF HIS CONSCIENCE, BUT BECAUSE HE IS CAUGHT. A Columbus, Ind., dispatch says: Thursday night William H. Schriber, recently arrested in Detroit, Michigan, for robbing the First National bank in this city of $300,000 in cash and securi ties in November, 1888, and brought to this city and lodged in jail, sent for the bank officials and turned over to them all his ill-gotten gains, and will go before a judge and enter a plea of guilty and ask mercy. All the money not wasted by young Schriber is invested in real estate in Michigan, near Detroit, and is said to be worth about $15,000. UTAH'S FIGURES. THE LAND OF MORMONISM SHOWS UP WELL IN POPULATION AND WEALTH. Arthur L. Thomas, governor of Utah, in his annual report, places the popula tion of the territory, on estimates of th census 'supervisor, at 220,000; increase in the decade of about 85 per cent. For eign born population brought to the ter ritory under Mormon auspices was about 1,800 a year. Assessed valuation of all property in the territory for 1890 is $104,- 758,788, an increase of 10 per cent, mOD WAMIAMAT MADITAT ' THE NATIUNAL CAPITAL, Rz Bmbdetss bl o B et i T Bl s Y 'WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR COMMON COUNTRY,-—NOTES. ; In the senate, Wednesdn{. the chaplain, in his opening prayer, asked divine ac ceptance of the services about to con clude this day, and, in God’s own time, to bring the senators again together in peace; also to make the nation a Xattem of all that is true and pure an %t:od among nations. The reading of Pues day’s journal having been dispensed with, Mr. Sherman offered a regolution for the appointment of a committee of two senators to join a like committee on the part of the house to wait upon the president of the United States, and in form him that unless he shall have any further communication to make the two houses were ready to adjourn. The sen ate then proceeded to the consideration of executive business. The vice presi dent laid before the senate three veto messages from the president—two on bills referring claims to the court of ¢laims; the third one on the bill to prohibit beok making and pool-selling in the District of Columbia for the purpose of gambling. The three messages were laid on the table. The senate then took a recess for half an hour, till 2:15 o’clock. At the expiration of the recess a message was received from the house announcing its concurrence with the resolution as to negotiations with Mexico to prevent Chinese entering the United States from that republic. For the next fifteen min utes the vice president was busied in putting his name to bills, the titles of which were recited by the clerk. The resolution to continue in employment the sessional employes of the senate for another month, and to pay them out of the contingent fund, was reported and agreed to. At 2.55 o'clock the tariff bill was received from the house, with the speak er’s signature, and it was immediately signed by the vice president and sent to the president of the United States for his signature. Mr. Aldrich thereupon re: ported back the adjournment resolution, amended so as to fix the time at 3 o'clock, p. m. and it was agrced to. At five minutes before the time proposed by the senate, for final adjourn ment, Mr. McPherson, clerk of the house, delivered a message from that body, proposing a conference on private pension bills. Mr. Harris offered a reso lution, Mr. Dolph being in the chair, ten dering the thanks of the senate to Vice President Morten for the dignified, im partial and courteous manner in which he had presided over the deliberations of the senmate. Adopted "unanimously. A resolution similar in its terms was offered by Mr. Ransom in compliment to Senator Ingalls as president pro tem., and it was also unanimously adopted. At 5:10 o’clock a message was received from the house that the adjourn ment resolution had been amended by substituting 6 o’clock for 5 o’clock, and the amendment was concurred in. M. Sherman, in company with Mr. Harris, re ported that the committee of the two houses had waited on the president, and that the president had answered that he bad no further communication to make. The scnate then took a recess till 10 minutes before 6 o’clock. The vice president ! then, after a brief acknowledgement of | the compliment gaid him in the resolu tion just adopted, declared the seaate ad journed sine die. | On Wednesday, in the house, all was bustle and confusion, and the scenes ri- i valed the most turbulent of the session. When the house was called to order there were not 100 members present. Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, called no quorum, and business stopped before it had begun. He wanted a pledge from the republican leaders that there would be no extra session to passthe force bill. McKinley didn’t want to give it, but‘ Breckenridge said if he didn’t congress would have to stay in session until No vember, or the republicans would have to get a quorum here. After half an hour’s delay and many consultations, the repub lican leaders promised there would be no extra session, and Brecken ridge allowed business to proceed. Mr, Kilgore then objected,but soon with drew it. Private bills were rushed through, the tariff bill signed, and then Private John Allen, of Mississippi, se cured the floor and ridiculed and ar raigned the republicans for their course in this congress. The adjournment res olution was called up and went through, There was another rush for private bills, but McKinley headed them off by a re zess from 5:30 to 5:55 o'clock, and at 6 o'clock Speaker Reed announced the house adjourned. NOTES. Among the bills which failed to be come;a law for lack of the president’s signature wtasfl one t(l p%\" thenle,fz?l repre sentatives ot Henry L. French, o bore. %a., for 230 bales of ’_cgttgn d'f st#byed by federal troops in 1863, The president, Thursday, appomnted Messrs. Will Cumback, of Indiana, Geo. P. Kinkhead, of Kentucky, and Charles D. Drake, of the District of Columbia, a commission to investigate the Puyollup Indian reservation in the state of Wash ington. ‘ " During the vacation the senate repub lican leaders will formulate some plan by which the force bill shall be passed next session. Many of them already have sug gestions. All of these will be considered in cavecus just after congress meets, and a definite plan will be adopted. ‘ ] The principal peanut-growing States ' are Virginia, North Carolinia and Ten nessee. | TOPOSTMASTERS. D e TR L e e L ANTRLOTTERY LW, under direction of {‘ost stmaster General Wanamaker, has prepared a circular lét ter tojpostmasters, containing instructions for their guidance in oarryin;i out ‘the anti-lottery law, The instructions state that the law applies to any letter, ordi nary or registered, if it concerns any lot tery, gift concert or scheme described in the act, and to lottery tickets, checks, drafts, bills, money, postal notes or money orders for the purchase of: lottery or gift enterprise, and to the list of draw ings of any lottery or similar scheme, and forbids carrying them in the mails or de | livering them from the postoffices. The seal of a letter, or any sealed packet pre paid at letter rates, must not be dis turbed for the purpose of ascertaining if its transmission in the mail or its delivery at the postoffice, is forbidden by the pro visions of this act. Nor will the mere suspicion that such letter or packet re lates to the lottery, or the fact that it is addresgsed to any person known to be engaged in the business of conducting a lottery, justify its detention or non-deliv ery, except that the delivery of registered letters at the office or destination shall be withheld when the postmaster-general has issued specific orders to 'that effect. Postal cards and unsealed matter may be inspected when suspected of being pro hibited lottery matter. The mailing of interdicted matter by citizens to lottery companies is a violation of the law as well as from companies. When it is known that any postal cards or unsealed matter is unmailable under the provisions of the act, the post master should decline to receive it, and whenever such matter is discovered in postoffices, or in transit, it should be stamped ‘‘fraudulent” and sent on to the postmaster general, with a_special report on the case. Newspapers and other pub lications containing advertisements of a lottery or gift enterprise, or lists of prizes awarded, are forbidden carriage in the mails, Postmasters should refuse to receive or deliver them, and when found in the mail in transit, they should be held until instructions can be received from the postmaster general. The sections of the act relative to reg istered letters and money orders apply to the office delivery only, and are to be en forced upon direct orders of the post master general. The term ‘‘lottery,” as used in the act, embraces all kinds of schemes, general or local, for the distri bution of prizes by lot or chance, such as gift exhibitions, enterprises, concerts, raffles, or drawing of prizes in money or property at fairs. Hence letters, postal cards and circulars concerning them, and mewspapers, pamphlets and other publi cations containing advertisements of them, are unmailable. - The act applies to the foreign as well as domestic mail. The instructions close with a notice that the postmasters and other postal officials and employes are expected to be diligent in carrying out instructions for the en forcement of the act. ANOTHER ORDER BY THE NEW YORK CENTRAL OBJECTING TO EMPLOYMENT OF ‘‘ENIGHTS.” A New York dispatch says: Walter Webb, third vice president of the New York Central road, Thursday, issued the following circular to the superintendents of the road: ‘‘The recent strikes and acts of law lessness committed in connection there with, the published correspondence be tween the leaders of the organization that ordered it, and the fact that many men now seeking re-employment state that they quit work from fear of personal violence, and did not dare to resume work for the same reason, compel the management of this company to announce that it objects to its em ployes being members of the organization known as ‘“Knights of Labor.” The management is satisfied that the mem-g bership in this particular organization is inconsistent with faithful and efficient service to the company, and is likely at any time to prevent it from properly dis charging its duties to the public. ~ You will at once take such action as will bring this circular to the attention of the employes in your respective depart ments.” A CALL FOR AID. THE IRISH RELIEF COMMITTEE PUBLISHES AN APPEAL TO AMERICANS. The American committee for the relief of the famine in Ireland publishes an ap peal to the people of America. The most trustworthy information from public and private sources in all parts of Ireland is - to the effect that the complete failure of the potato crop makes another great fam ine in that most unfortunate land prac tically inevitable. The point of actual suffering from hunger has not yet been veached, but the days of starvation, un less help comes, are not far off. ‘ The appeal says the worst fears have been realized. The potato rot or blight has spread through all parts of Ireland. It will not do to wait until the Irish people have proved the existence of a famine by dym% by the scores for the lack of food. Bball men fall dead upon the public hi%xwaya because Americans have said: *‘We will give you relief next month, but not now?” The Irish people need aid now. The American committee appeals for immediate contributions of money, provisions and clothing. B A ROOF OVER HIM. o ‘‘Johnny, you shouldn’t run out in the raxg }axthout youfl hxat on.” ol I’ i mma, my head can’t get wet; I've: had it ahin?zled%’ ; - o
