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About The Banner-messenger. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1891-1904 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1891)
m THE *i miner t t PUBLISHED ■ EVERY THURSDAY -BY- a ED&AR NIX. . 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. * * * 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. rm. *** 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. * * * 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. *** 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. * * * “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. * * * 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.” *** 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. *** 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. * * * 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.
