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It is estimated that bad roads have
depreciated Illinois farms in value
BTer $160,000,000.
The Mexican newspaper, La Patria,
published at the City of Mexico, says
that the United States government
Bhould return to Mexico the trophies
captured by United States troops in
the Mexican war, and which are now
at the "West Point Military Academy,
thus showing its magnanimity.
The New York Sun soliloquizes:—
A thousand passengers for Europe.
At $1000, only, apiece, is one million
American dollars sent by a single
day’s steamships to keep the Old
World’s axles greased. And the same
Old World folks cackle like a pullet
over her first egg when they invest
one million dollars in American enter¬
prises. Why, America spends more
than that on them every week of the
year. -
To check the emigration to Brazil
the Russian Minister of Foreign Af¬
fairs has appropriated money to assist
1000 emigrants who have already ex¬
perienced hardships on their travels
to return to their native land. It is
believed that the stories of such wan¬
derers will serve to dissuade others
from emigrating better than all that
the newspapers write and the clergy
men preach for that purpose.
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Medical authorities now say that
Bleeping with the mouth open is a fre
quent cause of deafness. When this
of opening the mouth is more
Baroughiy understood, it will be seen
K it is responsible for the larger
Sire of human ills. It might have
Ken thought that an open mouth at
would be less harmful than at
other time, but even then it is not
innoxious. Keeping the mouth open
too much destroys teeth, and by
e gth i iig through the moiitjj
- throat
and lungs are sure to follow.
The Lick telescope is the most pow¬
erful glass in the world. It is report¬
ed the observers at Mount Hamilton
have lately kept a sharp eve turned
upon the shadow of one of the moous
of the planet Jupiter, This shadow
keemed double, indicating that the
n' moon which cast it is also double.
Bee. the first hint of the discovery
By observations have been made
Bugji Brin the Lick glass, all tending to
the original impression, to
K That this particular satellite of
Brcatest of the planets is double—
Bet of a moon revolving around the
liain moon.
■ The young German Kaiser has
Itaken to reforming the German lan¬
guage, so that those words derived
through Latin-French sources shall be
expunged. “Captain,” “strategic”
and “attache” give way respectively
to “hauptmann,” “krcigsfuhrung”
and “sturm.” “Avanciren” becomes
“vorgehen.” The changes, comments
the Chicago News, are patriotic, no
doubt. But a battle might be lost
commands were being given in
new patent reform language.
Fancy a colonel stopping in mid-ac¬
tion to bid his “oberstwachtmeister”
make a charge! The oberst-etc. was
formerly plain “major.”
It is said that there are more than
8000 deserted farms in the Stato of
Maine, and yet, asserts the New York
Times, thei;e is no finer locality in the
world for growing apples than that
State. The rocky land is the very
best for apple orchards. One farmer
has been planting thousands of trees
and is now selling $2000 worth of
fruit yearly. He has confined his
planting to one variety, the Roxbury
Russet, solely, which is the most de
Birable way of growing apples. Other
farmers are doing the same, and very
soon the State may have to change its
name from the “Pine Tree” to the
Apple Tree State. The whole of New
England enjoys an excellent climate
and the best soil for the growth of
this most valuable staple fruit.
ALLIANCE TAKLS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
A PKMI-OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.
The following from the regular weekly
letter of the “Reform Press Bureau,*
conducted at Wa-hington by the national
legislative conned of the Farmers’ Alii
ance and Industrial Union, is interestin'- endorse*
in that it shows a semi-official
meat of the Cincinnati convention and
the new “Peoples’Party. The letter is
as follows:
“The great Cincinnati conference is a
thing of the past. It has made history.
In the United States of America the first
step toward the formation of a new great
political paTty is taken, the chief corner
stone being “Equal rights to all, special
privileges to none,” and this party stand
ing on this foundation is one against greed,
which the united cohorts of prevail’,
avarice and monopoly shall not
it must win and will rule. The prepara
tion for and the gathering of that con
ference was watched by the country at
large with mingled interest, anxiety
and contempt. Drones and those
who are barnacles on the body
politic and were patrioits aroused to have some interest. and
men who long
earnestly been trying would to inaugurate a
revolution that restore to the
whole people their individual privileges
and protection were might anxious—painfully be mis
anxious—lest there some
step forts by might which be all injured their jfctinstaking nullified, ef
or
Those who hate and try to crush every
thing but themselves, composed the ele
ment which tried to brand the conference
with contempt. The large gathering pre
sented the unusual spectacle of a political
assembly" in which there was no packing
and in which there was no effort or pur
pose to buy or sell. Many men of widelv ,
divergent views and strong convictions
composed “concession” the body. But with all this
aDd not “obstinacy” was
the characteristic feature. There was
friendly and earnest consultation which
soon concentrated and crystalized itself
into the shortest, but grandest and most
comprehensive platform promulgated by
any political party in a third of a
century. The work of the convention
was a confounding surprise to all
partisan and sectional politicians. They
predicted that the platform
would be rotten with numerous and im¬
possible “isms.” They misjudged the
men whom they were trying to condemn,
and they failed to realize that politicians
and great newspapers do not possess all
the brains of, the country. The work of
the convention has either caused ominous
.science or conservative expression among
tmpm. The Cincinnati convention is to
be^Tc/fioW?ii* rr bjf arffi’flTt-r grelft~ meeting
next February, which will be a conven¬
tion officially authorized by the great ag¬
ricultural and labor organizations of the
country. More than five millions of
American citizens will be represented.
The platform of the people’s party
launched at Cincinnati, embodies all the
principles which these organizations have
supported and pressed into national
prominence despite railery, villification
and vituperation from so-called leading
men wl.o ought to have been their friends
and not their enemies. The primary" ob¬
ject of the last meeting is
that to be virtually the same as was
of the first. The national
committee of the people’s party will at¬
tend the February convention for cou
ference; and in that conference the Alli¬
ance and other organizations will take
the people’s party by the hand, and their
five millions of members can and will say
principles through their representatives: ‘Your
form are our principles, your plat¬
is our platform; we are yours; we
are with you, and will stand by you to
the end.’ It may be mentioned in par¬
ticular that the platform of the people’s
party is substantially, if not wholly, the
platform and demands enunciated by the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Indus¬
trial Union at St. Louis in 1889, and
emphasized and reaffirmed at Ocala,Fla.,
in 1890, and by the National Farmers’
Alliance at Omaha, in 1891, And that
there might be no dodging or misunder¬
standing about what might or might not
have been meant, the sub-treasury plan
was specially emphasized and endorsed.
Another particular to be noted
is with that the platform was adopted
total unanimity and amid the
most glorious enthusiasm. Still
another particular to be noted is that a
large number of the delegates to the con¬
vention were not members of the Farmers’
Alliance, and not eligible to membership.
Friends of the sub-treasury plan may
freely dismiss all doubts or uneasiness as
to the ultimate victory. If the particulars,
as now proposed, are not put in opera¬
tion, the principle involved will eventu¬
ally be established if nothing better can
be found. There must be some short and
third easy way of designating To a is member of the
party. say ‘he a member of
the people’s party’ would be comprehen¬
sive enough, but would take too much
time. Henceforth a follower and affili
ator of the people’s party is a ‘Populist;’
for a new party needs and deserves a new
term. ”
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THE DEMANDS ALL-SUFFICIENT.
The Farmers' Advocate (Tarboro, N.
C.) is red hot on the side of the Ocala
demands and says: “The Alliance de¬
mands adopted at Ocala, Florida, are as
plain and simple as the English language
can express them. They are put up iu a
business way, and their authors have
plainly shown that they meant business,
xnese dcma ds a- c u ado by peo, le wk
feel tho need of them.
The laboring .classes* by the aid of
their leaders, have published tlu-i r want!*
and told lo the world that.tin y mu-Jt have
them. Why, What has been the cofisiqueues?
opposition of course, from evtry
quarter nn«k denunciation from a most
every hnu I. Why all this? Just be < an
some man’s business is go ng to lx? int r
fered with and some company c an n ot
make as much money ns th< y could be¬
fore, if these demands are granted
* A '', ni "*'> n R bbdie.< ol
0l ! r land , - 1 h<; K ,cat objection*
, from the ol
[.“'“A the objectors 0 ™ ™ than ore any other eomce. ignorance Bui
none ceei1 despair on account of objec
tions - All teforin movements that have
ever been started, have at first been the
subject of sharp criticism, and the insti
gators denounced as traitors and natural
born cranks. In this position just now is
,he Alliance. Its lenders controverted are being at
<acke< * and the (lem mds by
bitter opposition. What these demands
are a great many people do not know,
and further they do not want to know,
^ * n them they find anything to
cr08S their paths, however wrong they
ma ^ be, or however reasonable
these demands appear to fair and un¬
prejudiced minds. The Alliance has un
folded its banner to the uublic and now
let the it be principles Upheld with it dignity and honor
to so earnestly ndlr res
to. The Alliance demands, generated in
the domains of reasons and justice, born
of necessity by the oppressed an 1 down
trodden, in this same spirit should be
sustained. Let every Alliance man stick
closely to the Alliance demands and
allow no strife or contention to enter his
m * nd - Let all acquaint themselves with
tke issues and be prepared on all oc. a
sions to stand their ground in the face of
opposition and denunciation.
***
A Washington correspondent of the
New York World sends the following to
b* s P a per regarding the Cincinnati meet
which shows how outsiders view the
movement from strictly a political standpoint:
Viewed from a political stand
P 0 * u b the interesting Cincinnati confer
ence stamped leaders upefn the and minds of the va
rious party individuals im
pressions.quite as distinct as the hetero
geneous elements which composed the
gathering itself. When the convention
Anally adjourned, a full day at least sooner
than was anticipated, those most deeply
concerned had reason to feel about a
follows:
1. The Farmers’ Affiance—r.-lief.
2. The democratic party—satisfaction.
3. The republican party—alarm.
4. Mr. Harrison, Mr. Blaine or who¬
ever may be the republican candidate—
misgiving.
5. Mr. Cleveland—solicitude.
These results are due, not
so much to what the convention
really did as to the temper of the
more conservative men present, indicated
by their speeches and acts. The leadeis
if ofJ^vFiiadbg’Alliance sigtioTn^^wit the may of uejl the h<;ay<- most
passing has their
serious danger which menaced
organization. While, from their point
of view, the conference did little or n >
good, it certainly anticipated. resulted Instead in less harm
than was of forc¬
ing the Affiance to indorse or reject cer¬
tain vexatious principles, the convention
practically referred the whole matter to
the regular Alliance convention next
Febtuary, with a recommendation in
favor of naming its own candidate for
president.
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The following is quoted from a letter
from President Livingston, of the Geor¬
gia State Alliance, which appeared
in the Atlanta Constitution: “The great
bulk of our people are producers, about
60 per cent, are wage-workers, The
proportion of rich to poor is staring as G to 5)1
per cent. With this fact our
congress in the face is it not astounding
that all laws touching taxation and cur
rency have been in favor of the “6” and
against the “94?” The “94” in the
Democratic party are awake and aroused.
The platform and candidates for ’92
must be in their interest. * * * It
is the duty of every citizen to hear his
proportion the of the It necessary is abo the expenses privilege of
government.
of every citizen to investigate the meth
ods of taxation. It decide is equally " as clear
his province to whether
he is over-taxed or not. The
producers and toilers of this
country have with a wonderful unan
imity determined that the present system's
of raising revenue for the government is
utterly opposed to the genius of our re
publican form of government. It is
class legislation, intensified. It reverses
the order of things as intended by God
given rule, that a man should pay ac¬
cording to what he hath. It is wicked
in its discrimination in favor of those
who use the comforts and luxuries of
life, and against those who are shut up to
the necessities of life. /
* *
A GOOD BEGINNING.
State Lecturer Foster, of the newlv
organized following State Alliance in Ohio, issues
the letter to sub-Alliances in
the Industrial Union: “We find iu many
localities cunning politicians, who are
trying to get persons initiated in the A.lli
ance tq work for them by proxy. Find¬
ing things thus, we desire to say to
evt ry suh-Alliance in the State of Ohio
that it stands you iu hand to guard well
your threshold. It is true we want every
eligible person, who is Alliance first, last
and all the time in the order; but he
who comes in for special favors or t > rep¬
resent anything rather than true Alliance
principles we have no use for, knowing
that one enemy inside is harder t->
manage than a hundred outside. So if
you have any person who is not true t->
our principles say to him at lhe first op¬
portunity, by ballot, ‘ Out of the p sition
"li ch you are not worthy to occupy."
And to all persons who want in for a
special purpose or favor, “Gentlemen,
stand back.” We have a great battle to
fight in the State of Ohio and must have
unity all along the line. With this wc
will inarch to untold success and leave
behind us in the debris, carcasses of once
happy, though corrupt, politicians. So
be of good cheer, he steadfast, immov¬
able, always abound in the true principles will
of the Alliance and our country once
more free.”
***
The Alliance Reporter (Thomusville, order who
Ala.) is after the friends of the
are occupying a position of neutrality, in
the following words: “The fanner who
has been standing aloof and wishing the
Alliance godspeed in its undertakings
but has never attachrd himself to the
ordeijnor done anything toward securing begin
the results accomplished, had best to
hustle or he will not get in the procession
until the victory shall l o won and the
people will be indulging in loud huzzas
over the triumph. The order needs you;
it wants your aid and your influence. It
desires the encouragement your pres¬
ence and aid would afford.
It is the duty of every farmer to become
a member; it is organized for you; it is
fighting its battles for your interest; it is
making its sacrifices for the promotion of
your welfare. Come iu and join the pro¬
cession and share some of the glory of
accomplishing one of the grandest and
most glorious achievements of the middle
class in the history of the world. The
right hand of fellowship is extended with
a cordial welcome awaiting you.
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The Polk County Farmer (Bolivar,
Mo.,) says: “If you arc an Allianceman
you believe in Alliance principles. principles If
you believe in Alliance you
are opposed to the money power. If you
are opposed to the the parties money that power, protect you this are
an enemy to
money power. The power that controls
the national banking system, the power
that prevents legislation in the
interest of tho farmer and laborer, this
power is the money power. It is the
man or the dollar. Take your choice.”
*** <•
The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.)
hits hard, and says: All people will learn
to know that tho members composing the
Farmers’ Affiance are in earnest. They
will defend the demands of the supreme
council; they will not retreat an inch;
they will not equivocate and they will be
heard; they will wrench the power to
tyranize out of the hands of despots; they
will return this government to the people.
Stand from under, traitors, sycophants
and political bosses.
and ***
the The recasting financial the regeneration of
entire system of the country
is before the people, and will have to be
noticed in no equivocal w-ay by those who
write the platforms of the parties next
year. This question of financial reform
will not down at the bidding of the
bosses, and they would just as well make
notepf that fart, and govern them¬
selves accordingly .—Progressive Fanner.
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The farmers of Tennessee are arranginc
for a mass meeting and general re-uniou
in Nashville on June 11. One of the fea
tures of the reunion will be a series of
addresses by prominent speakers in the
hall of the house of representatives. Dr
C. W. Macune will be one of the speak
era on the occasion.
. **
The Monitor (SL Louis, Mo.) savs:
“When the people become the banker,
the tribute of all private enterprise will
flow to them, government costs would be
reduced to a minimum, and the valuation
of farms would rise to their maximum.”
AGAINST THE FAIR.
Organized Labor Apposing Fur¬
ther Appropriations.
At a general meeting of five central
labor bodies of Chicago, Sunday, organ
* ze( i labor took a radical stand against
any further move to give public assist¬
ance to the world’s fair, as long as their
demands for a minimum rate are refused,
Resolutions upon resolutions were cast at
the fair directors, and a committee was
appointed to continue the fight. The
bodies represented at the meeting were
U> e Trade and Labor Assembly, Central
Labor Union, Central Council", Knights
Labor and Carpenter’s Council, Le
fi al opinions were read from C. S. Dar
row and Jesse Cox on the question as to
whether the world’s fair directors had a
ri S llt to grant a minimum rate of wages,
r The directors claimed that it would con
Aict with their by-laws, which required
them to let contracts to the lowest
bidder,
A FAIR TRIAL ASSURED.
For O’Malley and MeCrystal in
New Orleans.
A New Orleans dispatch says: When
the MeCrystal and O’Malley bribery cases
were called Thursday, their attorneys
submitted a motion for a change of venue.
The State introduced a number of wit¬
mittee nesses, including the leaders of the com¬
of safety, Perkerson, Dengre and
Houston. They all testified that they
believed the accused could obtain a fair
trial in New Orleans. Counsel for the
defense then abandoned the motion for a
chan rt.crs e of venue, and asked to have the
case xed for trial on June 10th.
Specie Movement.
Exports of specie during the week
ending May 28th amount to $4 703 062
all gold, of which $4,635,262, went to
Europe, and $67,800 to South America.
Imports of specie amounted to $85 609
of which $35,401 was in gold and $51 -
208 in silver. Lazard Freres shinned
$2,000,000;Heidelbach, Ikelheimer $500
000, and Von II ffman & Co. $300,000.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming 1 an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
Rev. C. M. Beckwith of Georgia, has
been made assistant bishop of Texas.
A dispatch of Monday, says: The
standing committee of the Episcopal
diocese of Virginia has unanimously given
consent to the consecration of Rev.
Philip Brooks as bishop.
The state received a black eye in the
now famous Coosaw case Thursday at
Beaufort, S. C. Judge Norton decided
that the case which Judge Aldrich had
decided the state could bring in the state
court, had been removed to the United
States court. The Coosaw people are
rejoicing over their victory.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: Last
December the Hughes Lumber company
and D. W. Hughes made an assignment
involving nearly $800,000 of liabilities.
On Saturday a final settlement was made
with all the creditors on the liases of 100
cents on the dollar with interest. The
big lumber mill is to resume operations
at once.
The largest mortgage ever recorded in
Lee county, Ala., was filed iu the probate
office at Opelika, Friday. It is from the
Eagle and Fha>uix factory, of Columbus,
Ga., to the Atlanta Trust Company for
$1,000,009. The Eagle aud Phoenix fac¬
tory owns a large amount ol property in
Phoenix City, in lee county, though this
mortgage covers all of its property.
A dispatch of Friday from Winches¬
ter, Va., saysi Charles B. Rouse a
wealthy dry goods merchant of New
York city, has given Mt. Hebron come
tery, through Governor Holiday, $7,500
for the erection o t an ' iron fence on the
enclosure. It includes Stonewall ceme¬
tery, which contains over 4,000 confed¬
erate dead from every southern state.
A dispatch of Saturday from Danville,
Va., says: Leaf tobacco sales on this
market have been enormous of late. Sales
for May were 3,370,000 pounds, against
1,680,000 for May last year. Sales for
eight months of the present tobacco year
amount to 29,400,000 pounds, just double
the sales for the corresponding period paid of
last year. The average price for
leaf tobacco in May was about 134 cents
per pound.
The eighty-ninth commencement of
Salem Female academy at Winston, N.
C., opened Friday night with a grand
concert. The exercises were held in the
large Moravian ebuleh, before mi audi¬
ence of over 1,200 persons from all parts
of Dixie. The number catalogued "the as large at¬
tending this school the reaches departments
figures of 35G. All and the- are
in a most flourishing popularity condition, school
proeperity ‘and of the
are immense.
A Nashville dispatch says: The Buck-
1D . S' lani Theatre, on Market street, oppo
Slte the Dew pohce statlon - which was
r ® c eut *y opened by Fred Jones, of Item
E ills . t was burned shortly after midnight
pun day night. I iiteen people who slept
\ n the house had narrow escapes coming
down the ladders at the front in their
night clothes. They lo^t everything.
' pli e building was owned by Douglass
™ r os; loss $15,000, fully insured,
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Monday
sa y s: The statehousfe inside and out is
covered with decorations, flags and bunt
ings cover the tower. The veterans are
coming in from all directions. The
Warren Light artillery, Captain Ilay’s
party and their guns are on hand. Lieu¬
tenant General W. S. Cabell, of Dallas,
Texas, and a car load of Texas soldiers
arrived welcomed during the evening, and were
by Governor Stone and the
committee.
At Nashville, Twin., Saturday, Chan¬
cellor Allison decided the case of Mrs.
Mollie McLeer, of Knoxville, against the
Nashville Merchants’ and Traders’ Pro¬
duce Exchange. This was a suit insti¬
tuted by Mrs. McLeer, under the gam¬
bling act, to recover about $13,000 which
her husband had lost in dealing in futures
with the defendant’s agent at Knoxville.
A bill of assignment made by the defend¬
ant some months since was attacked as
fraudulent and void, and all these were
sustained by Chancellor Allison, who
gave a decree for the amount lost during
and since the month of August, 1889.
TENNESSEE ALLIANCEMEN
Will Make a Thorough Canvass
of the State.
A Nashville dispatch of Monday says:
Tennessee is to be thoroughiy canvassed
in the interests of the alliance during the
coming summer. Col. John H. McDow¬
ell, president of the state alliance, reports
that a conference will be held June 4.
Ben Terrell, ex-national lecturer, will be
on hand, and immediately after the con¬
ference will go to Greenville, where on
June G, he will open a two-months can
vuss ol the state. Dr. Macune will also
spend a few days in Nashville about June
11, on which date he is due to speak
in advocacy ol the sub-treas¬
ury plan. He comes by special invita¬
tion and leading alliaucemen from all
over the state will be present.
One Million in Smoke.
A destructive fire occurred Monday
night in the four-story brick building of
ated the Brookiyn Cooperage company, situ¬
on Kent avenue, Brooklyn N Y
The fire extended to tfce bagging factory
machinery adjoining. There was a large amount of
in the bagging factory, which
was destroyed by the fire and water. The
loss altogether will amoun t to $1,000,000.