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An English penny-in-the-slot machine
company has been mulcted in damages
by the victim of a machine that didn’t
work.
A man was recently sent to prison in
New York City because he could not
furnish $500 bonds to keep the peace.
As there was no one to furnish it for
him this was practically imprisonment
for life, so after a couple of months the
man was called up and discharged.
The Dutch haven’t set any new fashion
in calling their Queen “King Wilhel
mina,” after all, the Boston Transcript
has discovered. Wasn’t Isabella always
spoken of as one of the “Kings” of
Spain, and did not the Hungarians shout
as a rallying cry, “We will die for our
King, Maria Theresa?”
The Boston Cultivator thinks it strange
that “though Germany is opposed to the
importation of American pork, she
admits our beef. Recent shipments of
dressed beef to Hamburg were well re¬
ceived, and sold at remunerative prices.
It was pronounced much superior to the
Australian beef. The masses in Ger¬
many demand cheaper meat. They will
welcome shipments of American beef,
and before long will force the Govern¬
ment to admit our pork.”
The United States Senate is a remarka¬
ble body in more ways than one. Its
members stand as follows as to age, ac¬
cording to a table compiled by the New
Orleans Times-Democrat:
2 at 86 2 at 70 3 at 58
1 at 85 3 at 69 1 at 57
1 at 82 4 at 68 1 at 56
1 at 81 3 at 67 3 at 55
1 at 79 2 at 66 3 at 58
3“ at 78 1 at 65 3 at 52
1 at 77 2 at 64 2 at 51
4 at 76 1 at 63 2 at 50
2 at 75 3 at 61 1 at 49
1 at 74 2 at 60 1 at 43
4 at 72 1 at 59 1 at 38
I at 71
Five members, are octogenarians, nine
teen are over seventy, and twenty-one
have passed sixty. “The hasty legisla¬
tion bred of youthful zeal is scarcely
likely to pass the Upper House,” ex¬
claims the Tlines-Democrat.
Collector Phelps, of San Francisco,
Cal., in testifying before the Con¬
gressional Committee, spoke of the
opium smoking of the Chinese and of
how they had introduced the habit among
white people. He would have a stringent
law against the sale or use of the drug.
A new law would be useless, declares
the Report. The old law and public
opinion have already greatly reduced the
use of opium. We mean that the habit
is not spreading nearly as fast as it was.
It is a vice that cannot be practiced in
secret. The fumes of the drug are too
penetrating for that, while the apparatus
is clumsy and not easily carried about or
concealed. So morphine and the syringe
have succeeded opium and the pipe.
The morphine habit is frightfully
prevalent and will spread. No con¬
gressional committees or laws will stop
it. It seems destined to be the national
▼ice.
Word comes from Brazil that the
youngest Republic on the American con¬
tinent proposes to hold a World’s Fair
of its own. It wants to celebrate Colum¬
bus’s discovery and at the same time let
the world know how Republican institu¬
tions are working out there. The Bra¬
zilians have no idea of conflicting with
the celebration at Chicago. Their notion
is at that their exposition may be made
an auxiliary to the Columbian Exposition
of the United States. They propose to
open it January, 1893, at Rio Janeiro.
That is the summer season in Brazil. Af¬
ter a few months their idea is to close
and transfer their whole exhibit to Chi¬
cago in time for the opening of the Fair.
The Brazilians are anxious for the United
States to extend them a friendly hand.
They think the co-operation of this
country will insure the success of their
celebration. The matter has been in¬
formally brought to the attention of tbe
State Department and of Congress. It is
proposed to ask an appropriation ol
$200,000 for a United States exhibit, but
ao definite step yet has been taken,
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
The state se cretary's books show that
the first Alliance ip Georgia was the An¬
tioch March Alliauceiti Troup county, organized Lord, of
Antioch, 31st, 1887, and that Mrs.
was the first lady in Georgia to
join the order.
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The Farmers’ Alliance warehouse in
Athens, Ga., is building up a fine busi¬
ness. Hon. James M. Smith, of Ogle¬
and thorpe, sent it one shipment of 350 bales,
will supplement it with 1.060 more.
Col. Smith is the kind of men who build
up Alliance institutions.
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The Industrial Advocate (Kansas) says
it would like to see the work of the Alli¬
ance take a little more of an agricultural
turn; have that it would be a good plan to
with meetings of neighborhood already Alliances
lined, subjects of discussion out¬ it
and bring out all there is in
that would be of benefit to the farming
class.
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The Spalding County Alliance met at
Griffin, Ga., a few days ago. The man¬
ager of the Alliahce warehouse made a
report which was highly encouraging.
The report showed that 13,307 bales of
cotton had been weighed, and that there
was a nice little purse, aggregating
back nearly $5,000, in bank, which dividends will go*
to patrons in the way of
in a few weeks.
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One hundred million of the govern¬
ment credit to be loaned to a syndicate
to dig a ditch in Nicaragua is constitu¬
tional with John Sherman; but to loan
the farmer credit on'his wheat, oats and
other crops that go to keep the human
family alive is unconstitutional. There
is a great deal of difference between
tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum .—National
Citizens' Alliance.
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“in unity there is strength.”
The Alliance organization is a protest
against the economic, financial and polit¬
ical delusions of the times. The farmers
have struggled against these wrongs and
influences year after year, only to wear
themselves out with their mortgages,^cy¬
clones and floods; and yet they ha?e fed
65,000,000 of people with the products of
their work. The question with, .-{hem is,
“Shall we submit to thos£..c9ftditions any
longer, or shall we risy/hp and assert our
rights and obtain liavfc justfcc and fair play ?” To
the latter they returned an affirma¬
tive answer. Upqn this hypothesis they
union^ are now working, believing Following that “in
-JiWI-Mea, ere j s strength.” unite with out the
they propose people’s to by
independent party, the party
its representatives, the late federal and
confederate soldiers by their representa¬
tives, the Farmers’ Alliance, the Farmers’
Mutual Benefit Association, the Citizens’
Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the
Colored Farmers’ Alliance, and all other
industrial organizations that support the
principles of the St. Louis agreement of
FOR THE TWITTY BILL.
The following resolutions Bethlehem, were passed
a few days ago by the Ga.,
Alliance:
Whereas, There is a bill before the
gem ral assembly of Georgia known as
the Twitty bill; and,
Whereas, We understand said bill has
been postponed until the adjourned ses¬
sion of the said body for the purpose of
knowing the wish of the people in regard
to the passage of the same; and,
Whereas, We believe said bill to be
just and right; therefore be it
Resolved, 1. That we endorse the
same, and recommend that it be amended
so as to nulify the following clauses often
found in notes given for guano, etc., to
wit: “And no payment is to be allowed
on this note unless it is entered on the
note and signed by the hold maker.” And
growing again: “We agree the land to fertilized all crops with
upon the
this fertilizer in trust for said A. B.
& Co. until this note is fully paid.”
2. That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the author • of the said bill, and
that they be published. citizens through¬
8. That we ask other
out the State to give their opinion in
regard to said matter.
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The Industrial World (Spokane Falls,
Wash.) says: “There has never been a
dissenting State Alliance on the sub¬
treasury bill, and out of a total vote of
thirty-six States at the last national meet¬
ing only four votes were cast against it.
We think teat the sub-treasury will not
only smash the democratic party hut the
republican also. These old parjties are
backed by the money rings of Wall
street, and they will use this party
machinery to ignore and kill this
bill. The party politicians flocked to
the Ocala meeting to defeat this bill,
but failed. These same men have
flocked to the different State Alliances
for the same purpose, but have every¬
where failed. The fight is on. All of
the subsidized daily papers are, •without
exception, united in discouraging the
discussion and consideration of this bill.
The politicians are everywhere fighting
it, as there is a deadly fear in their minds
that it will force itself to the front and
smash them and their parties. A.lliance
men and mechanics also, should force
this bill to the front, and never lose,
an opportunity to put in a good word for
it and the laud loan-bill. It will be to
the people like a man who is pulled out
of a mud pond and dressed in a new suit
of clothes. They are the beginning ol a
series of much needed reforms.”
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A SPI.ENDID SCHEME.
The Alliance of Hart county, Ga., is
not troubling politics, itself about local or na¬
tional but has gone to work in
earnest and in a business way, to benefit
its membership. in Last year nearly every sub -
Alliance the county borrowed money
enough to run its membership for cash, bas¬
ing the estimate on an economical admin¬
istration of each man’s family government.
The money was obtaiued in the following
manner: Five or six of the best men in
each sub-Alliauce would make a note for
enough distributed money for all. The cash was
then to each member accord¬
ing to his estimated needs. When the
crop brought was in gathered the money was
by each man in accor,lance
with the talents he had received, and
turned over to the makers of the bank
note, who in turn paid off the note
in bank. In this way men who were en¬
tirely unable to get money from the bank,
got money and paid the merchant cash
for his meat and corn. This arrangement,
instead of damaging, helps the local mer¬
chant. He gets a fair profit and gets the
money as he sells the goods, and can af¬
ford to sell for shorter profits because
he can use his cash several times the
same season. The most of the guano
was bought ou joint note in the same the
way and at very short profits to
dealer. The scheme altogether is a com¬
mendable would one, and its general adoption
be a great benefit to sub-Alliances.
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DANGER TO THE ALLIANCE.
As soon as the Alliance approaches the
development of strength which indi¬
cates ing dominate possibility of its principles becom¬
in the government, the tre¬
mendous power of wealth and political the
influence will be exerted to modify
policy of its leaders. When a man be¬
comes prominent and powerful by virtue
of the votes back of him, he is brought
face to face with new necessities.
The power to talk and reason now be¬
comes the power to aet. The courage to
talk and write of vast reforms for the
welfare of humanity, and the courage to
in the same line are two wholly dis¬
is developments like in human nature.
It the difference between urg¬
the troops to death and destruction
the breastworks—and leading
in the charge after the breastworks
been cleared.
Few men have the power within them
to face the to-dayism of thirty-one bil¬
lion dollars of capital, with all that it
implies! Few men, indeed, in a single
state have the name heroism to stand be¬
fore the polished and cultured prince¬
lings of an old civilization, and proclaim of
the truths involved at the hearthstone
a desolate home.
Here is the danger. We have reached
it. The Allianke is now a power, and
already we finejmen E who have posed as
the leaders of volution, making their
peace with tnciuoney power. The he¬
roism of the platform becomes the con¬
servatism of the lobby.
The hour demands men! It demands
iron wills and genuine courage. It de¬
mands the spirit of the Master—men who
in statecraft can pierce the present clouds
into the future beyond—men who can
make pathways as well as tread these al¬
ready beaten. Watch
The hour of trial comes. ye
who wavers—who trenches—--who falters
and prepare to search anew for those who
are equal to the wondrous times which
dawn us.— The Great West.
HIS LAST BATTLE.
Death of General Sherman at
New York.
General W. T. Sherman died at his
home in New York Saturday afternoon.
The history of his ailment dates from
last Wednesday one week ago, when in
company with a number of army and
naval officers he attended the Casino
theatre and contracted a cold. In a few
days erysipelas developed, terminated in
pneumonia from which the general never
rallied.
The end came peacefuly and quietly
at 1:50 o’clock p. m. Saturday, while the
general lay unconscious, surrounded by
all the members of his family, except
Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, who is
now on the ocean, on his way to this
country. in
Arrangements for the funeral are
charge of General Henry W. Slocum.
The funeral services over the remains of
the general takes place on Thursday, from
his late residence, although it may be
deferred, if his son does not arrive that
day from Europe on the Majestic. Thurs¬
day evening the body will be taken to St.
Louis in a special train of three cars. It
will be in charge of General Schofield,
and will be accompanied Grand by a Army delegation the
from Post LaFayette, of
Republic, of New York City.
ORDERS TO TnE ARMY.
General Scliofield has issued the follow¬
ing order: Ou the day of the funeral
the troops at every military post will be
paraded and the order read to them, after
which all labors for the day will cease.
The national flag will be displayed at
half staff from the time of the receipt of
this order ti 11 the close of the funeral.
On the day of the funeral a salute of
seventeen guns will be fired at half hour
intervals, commencing at 8 o’clock a. m.
Officers of the army will wear usual
badges of mourning and colors of regi¬
ments. and battallions will be months. draped
in mourning for the period of six
The day and hour of tbe funeral will be
communicated to the department com¬
manders by telegraph and by them Other- to
their subordinate commanders.
necessary orders will be issued hereafter
relative to appropriate funeral ceremo¬
nies.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Proceedings of the Second Ses¬
sion of the 51st Congress.
SENATE.
The senate resumed consideration of the
copyright bill Friday—the pending ques¬
tion being on Mr. Sherman’s amendment
to strike out the word “prohibited” and
to insert the words “subject to duties
provided by law,” so that foreign editors
of books, etc., which are copyrighted admitted in
the United States may be to
this country on the payment of regular
tariff duties. After considerable discus¬
sion a vote was reached on Mr. Sherman’s
amendment and it was agreed to. death The
president’s message announcing the
of Admial Porter was laid before the sen¬
ate, and the remainder of the afternoon
was devoted to eulogistic speeches upon
his life. The speakers were Messrs.
Chandler, McPherson and Hale. The
senate then adjourned.
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norsE.
The house spent nearly all of Friday in
wrangling over the appropriation for the
civil service commission. Many of the
republicans and many democrats wanted
to cut off the appropriation order for practically clerk hire
for the commission, in to
abolish civil service. The debate over it
between the republicans was highly lurid
at times, and there were many sharp per¬
sonal encounters. Most of the democrats
applauded the attacks upon the commis¬
sion during the early part of the day, but
later, when they learned that the motive
of the attack, which was led by Mr.
Grosvenor, of Ohio, was because Com¬
missioner Roosevelt had the fairness and
courage to recently notify the southern
people of the offices they were entitled
to, and gave them to young southerners,
they turned about and voted a full appro¬
priation for the continuance of the civil
service board. Thus the commission will
continue to operate just as it has in the
past. Th<? amendment to the legislative
bill providing for clerks to members, was
voted down during the afternoon on an
ave and no vote, by an overwhelming
majority.
notes.
The Sioux Indians, after a visit of two
weeks left Washington for the west on
Friday.
Secretary Noble has ordered the de¬
partment of the interior to be closed and
flags to be displayed at half-mast on the
day of the funeral of A. II. II. Stuart, at
Staunton, Va.
The advocates of free coinage in the
house are growing white-hot over the de¬
lay in reporting the silver bill, and on
Friday they declared they would com¬
mence to force the fighting on Monday.
Notwithstanding the Cleveland letter,
they say the house is for free coinage, and
a free coinage bill will pass if a vote can
be reached.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL PORTER.
An Eventful Life Brought to a
Sudden Close.
Admiral Porter died suddenly at 8:15
o’clock Friday morning at his residence,
iu Washington, D. C. Death resulted
from fatty degeneration asserted of the its heart, fatal
which relentless disease
fatal clutch upon him at Newport, R. I.,
last summer, when, contrary to the per¬
sistent advice of his physicians, he over¬
taxed his strength by taking violent ex¬
ercise, and was stricken down with a
complication of diseases, including con¬
gestion of the lungs and dropsy. As soon
as he could be moved with safety he was
brought to his home in Washington, and
all means known to science and medicine
resorted to for bis benefit, but to no avail.
He was a son of Commodore David Por¬
ter, who distinguished himself by captur¬
ing several British vessels during the war
of 1812. Admiral Porter entered the
service in 1820, and hadjbeen very pormi
nent in naval affairs since.
Secretary Tracy issued a general order
announcing Admiral Porter’s death, and
ordering that on the day of the funeral
the navy department will be closed.
Flags will be displayed at and half -mast at all
navy yards and stations, ou board all
ships in commission. The navy depart¬
ment will be draped in black, and all
officees of the navy and marine corps
will wear a badge of mourning for thirty
days.
A DISASTROUS BLAZE.
One Hundred Thousand Dollars’
Worth of Property Destroyed.
At 1 o’clock Sunday morning a fire
broke out in the large Greenville, dry goods Miss., house
of S. Feld & Co,., at
the stock of goods of which was being
sold for account of the First National
bank of that city. The conflagration visited was
one of the largest that has the
city for years. Five stores and their entire
contents were entirely consumed in two
hours. The total value will approximate
$ 100 , 000 ._____
HARRISON COMING SOUTH.
The President and His Cabinet
to Visit Us.
A Washington president dispatch of Thursday his
says: The and most of
cabinet will visit the Pacific coast soon
after the adjournment of congress, and
have arranged a trip so as to include a
tour of the southern states. No details
have yet been arranged, hut it is proba¬
ble that the party will start from Wash¬
ington in the early part of April.
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
The deficit in the savings bank at
Ayer, Mass., occasioned by Cashier
Spaulding's transactions, will reach $25,
000 .
The invitation of the United States to
France to be represented at the world’s
fair in Chicago has been formally ac¬
cepted by the president of France.
The two farmers’ organizations of Ar¬
kansas have reorganized under one head.
The order will hereafter be known as the
Farmers’ Alliance and International
Union of Arkansas.
At Rochester, N. Y., Sunday night,
the watchman at St. Mary’s hospital dis¬
covered the eastern wing to be on fire.
There were 250 patients, nineteen nuns
and a large number of employes in the
building. All were taken out.
The Kansas house of representatives, passed
without a dissenting vote, has a
bill removing political disability from all
persons who volunteered their services to
the confederate states. The Kansas con¬
stitution now debars volunteer confeder¬
ate soldiers from the right to vote or hold
office.
The world’s fair directors have created
the office of solicitor general. Con¬
gressman Butterworth, who is now secre¬
tary of the local board, will also assume
the duties of solicitor general, to attend
to the legal and legislative affairs of the
board until his services are otherwise or¬
dered.
A cablegram of Sunday, from London,
says: The Shipping P’ederationhas issued
an ultimatum which declares that the dic¬
tation of the unions is unbearable, and
that the federation will refuse to employ
any man unless he pledges himself to em¬
bark on any vessel with which he signs
articles, whether the remainder do or not.
A dispatch of Friday from Ayer, received Mass.,
says: President Hartwell has a
letter from the missing cashier, Spald¬
ing, in which he states that he began
taking the banks’ money about four years
ago, and that it, was all lost in specula¬
tion. Examiner Gatchell states that the
loss to the First National bank is appar¬
ently about $27,000.
At the instance of the International
Brotherhood of Railway Employes a bill
has been introduced in the Massachusetts
legislature providing for the election an¬
nually by the people of state railway
commissioners, who shall have no rail¬
way stock or interests. They shall re¬
ceive $4,000 each per year, $500 each for
traveling expenses and free transporta¬
tion over all roads.
THE FIRST CLASH
Between Workmen on the
World’s Fair Buildings.
A Chicago dispatch says: The work of
grading Jackson park, in preparation for
the world’s lair, is at a standstill. Late
Friday afternoon a set of idle workmen,
finding that they were unable to induce
the Italians, who were at work, to strike
for an advance in wages, attacked them
and drove them out of the park with
kick and cuffs. Saturday morning a
crowd of idlers gathered in the
park to the number of 700 or more, and
maintained such a threatening attitude
toward the Italians that the contractor
thought it best not to resume work. Some
union carpenters engaged in building the
offices and stables were not molested.
The contractors say they will wait till
they secure telephone connections with
the police department, if interferred when they will
resume work, and with will
demand protection.
GIFTS FROM STANLEY.
The Great Explorer Will Give
$500,000 to London’s Poor.
Major Pond, Henry Stanley’s manager,
announced at Cleveland, Ohio, Monday,
that Stanley had decided to give all
gifts he had received from the crowned
heads of Europe and other admirers tc
General Booth* of the Salvation Army ;
for the cause of helping the poor in Lon¬
don. These gifts are valued at nearly
$500,000. They consist of pearls of rare
value, gold cups and kindred articles. A
number of them was received from Queen
Victoria.
THE FUNDS MISSING.
The Arkansas State Short. Treasury
$40,000
A telegram of Sunday from Little Rock,
Ark., says: Investigation shows that
about $40,000 belonging to the interna¬
tional improvement fund, accumulated
from tbe sale of lands granted to Arkan¬
sas by the United States government forty
years ago, is missing from the state
treasury, although Woodruff’s reported on hand in
ex-Treasurer report for the
fiscal year of 1890.
THE “SURRENDER HOUSE’'
Purchased as a Museum for
War tielics.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: Captain M. E. Dunlap has pur¬
chased, for a company formed at Niagara
Falls, the old mansion at-Appomattox,
known as “Surrender House,” in which
Lee’s surrender to Grant was concluded.
It is proposed to make it a museum for
war relics.