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. EDGAR NTI3C.
The Bishop of Manchester has an
nounced that English society is rotten
the core.
From 1880 ' 1890 the wealth of
the United States increased from $44,.
*00,000,000 to $66,000,000,000.
Vigorous efforts are being made it 1
New York City to disarm the Italian
residents, many of whom carry con¬
cealed weapons.
There is not a mile of railway in
Brown County, Ind., nor within six
miles .. of u it. xt Nashville, 1 . -i, the county .
seat, has 400 inhabitants, and only one
brick structure—the court-house. The
|«1 i. built logs. Thu count- ha,
not sent any one to the penitentiary
for several years, and there is not a
saloon within its limits.
A New. York theatrical manager
who thinks he has got hold of a profit¬
able idea, contemplates the starting of
a theatre for the exclusive entertain¬
ment of children. There are a num¬
ber of such theatres in Europe which
do a good business. One in the park
at Brussels does a thriving trade dur¬
ing the spring and summer.
Fcom statistics recently gathered, i,
seem that while American women
may be more advanced in their ideas
than their European sisters, the turn
ber who have to , work . for . a ... living is .
comparatively small. In the United
States it is estimated that there are
2,700,000 working women; in Eng¬
land, 4,000,000; in France, 3,750,000;
in Germany, 5,500,000; in Austro
Hungary, 3,750,000.
English newspaper correspondents
who have attempted to penetrate into
the interior of Russia to feel the sent!"
ment of the people have in every in¬
stance mot overly polite officers who
-^yrnecl them back and accompanied
them to seaport towns to see that they
didn’t stub their toes and fall down on
the way. “No other Kennans will
ever get into Russia,” predicts the
Detroit Free Press.
The enormous amount of literature
that has arisen out of the discovery of
vaccination since the days of Jenner
is represented in a valuable collection
originated in 1830 by Dr. von Bulme
rincq in Warsaw, and continued down
to 1890 by Dr. L. Pfeiffer of Weimar,
in whose possession the library now is.
It contains upwards of 2000 volumes,
monographs, essays, etc., upon variola,
inoculation and allied topics.
The Russian photographers have a
peculiar way of punishing customers
who do not pay their bills. They
hang out the pictures of such custom¬
ers upside down. One of the Odessa
dailies thinks that the photographers
may be right in treating their delinquent
adult customers in such a manner,
but it regards it as wrong to expose to
scorn the pictures of children ordered
by parents who would not pay their
bills.
New York is now six times more
crowded than London, throughout its
entire area, and if the area of New
York were settled with the average
density of London, its population
would be less than 300,000. More¬
over, there remain but 12,317 acres
on which New York can expand, and
if perfect transit should enable them
to bo peopled with the density of Lon¬
don they would accommodate less
than the growth of one New York
ward since the last census.
Europe _ at present four
consumes
teen hundred million bushels of
wheat. She raises but twelve hun
dred million million. *Tlm The tiofl.i.n^ deficiency is sup
plied by the United States, Canada,
Australia, and, in a minor way, from
India 11 It “ is a curious cuuous fact lact, however liowevei,
thinks the New York News, that our
wheat-growing area is no larger now
than it was in 1880. Certain data that
bare been collected show that even in
this country our exporting power will
be limited in a few years, and we may
yet vet become become a a puicfiaser nurclmser in in the me other otner
wheat markets of the world.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
ASSISTANCE NOT REFUSED.
We clip thi following from the Na¬
tional Economist: The politicians of both
old parties appear to be greatly surprised
and grieved that the Alliance through
its papers and sub-Alliances does not
condemn by editorials and resolutions
the action of the recent Cincinnati con¬
ference. Such action on the part of the
Alliance would be a serious reflection
upon members. the good This sense and judgment of its
conference met in con*
vention, and decided to accept, defend
and propaganda the demands of the Alli¬
ance. Nothing but a complete want of
sense would prompt the Alliance in repell
or refusing the assistance the offered by
i tals conference. In fact, Alliance
! would rejoice exceedingly if the two old
parties would as honestly and earnestly
I aclo P t ^ ie same course. It is through “Si
: great work of reform in which it is en
f? a g e< i that the Alliance proves beyond a
not to £ the “on-partisanism. Alliance through what " It matters meth¬
ods or by what channels the reforms it
demands may come to the people, its
purposes will be served, and its triumphs
will be complete when these reforms are
inaugurated and happier conditions come
to a distressed and disheartened people."
The Oregon Alliance (Pendleton) says:
4 ‘The great reform movement has had
for one of its aims the annihilation of
sectionalism and sectional prejudice. It
has almost accomplished this object, and
now for the first time in a third of a
ZSSSEZ “
ferent sections arc wanting to exchange
ideas and views and come together in
I ervation °“ e £ eat J of r liberty ®t er “ al and beneficent fo ^ th « P pub- re8 '
1 0
lie institutions. Applications and re
quests in the are national being'received and are on file
northern president’s office, from
western States; for south¬
ern speakers to be sent among them, and
from the south for speakers from among
their northern and western brethren.
Cordial hand shakes and glorious wel¬
comes be are awaiting the men who will
soon other going from one section to an¬
to verify the unity of the people,
which, it was declared by the Alliance,
should prevail in this broad land; and
this great tfniting of the people is being
viewed with frothing rage by those par¬
tisans and sectionalists who have spent a
quarter of a century in trying to promote
hatred between the sections of what
should be, can be and must be the great¬
est country on the planet.
***
THE FIGHT IN TEXAS.
A Fort Worth dispatch states that the
sub-treasury is now the bone of conten¬
tion among the alliance men of Texas,
and discussion incident to this question is
rife among alliance men throughout the
in state. The but Texas Alliance did was organized
1875, never much until it was
practically reorganized at Dallas in Feb¬
ruary 1890. Since that time its growth
has been phenomenal, and last year num¬
bered 150,000 members. The alliance,
more than any other factor, secured the
election of Governor Hogg last year.
When the state alliance convention last
year failed to endorse the sub-treasury
plan, its promoters diplomatic at once proceeded
to have get in some good circulating work, and
since been thoroughly
the sub-treasury idea among the alliance
men of the state. Its advocates are in¬
tensely in earnest, and its opponents are
likewise hard at work. Governor Hogg
opposes the sub-treasury scheme, and
that wing of the alliance is, as a matter
of course, displeased with his administra¬
tion, and has already evinced a deternmi
nation to bring about a change in the office
next year. The anti sub-treasury alliance
men have called a convention at Fort
Worth on July 10th and will attempt some
plan sub-treasury to counteract the influence of the
lecturers.
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5k *
The Farmers' Advocate (Charlestown,
W. Y.) says: “The Alliance is a most re¬
markable organization. Notwithstanding
the magnitude of its interests, the rapid¬
ity of its growth, the extent of its influ¬
ence and the multitude of its leaders,
there is an absolute absence of heart¬
burnings, jealousies, petty rivalry or en¬
vious bickerings. There seems to be an
entire absence of the desire on the part
of the many able men within its ranks to
concert any plans or resort to any machi¬
nations whereby any particular one may
constitute himself a bell sheep. Too
much cannot be said in commendation of
this condition, We are fighting in .
a common and battling .
cause
against common enemies, and it
i s w iih a great deal of pleasure that we
note this condition. As an organization
we believe in the office feeking the man,
a nd [here is scarcely a single instance ia
. a ^ or y °f the Order when an indi
vidual has sought to become a leader in
our ranks but who has been sat down
u P oa 80 hard that he will not recover his
^ lnd in a ,dctl “ e - B y this ®y stem we
have secured the services of the very
best, most intelligent and most conserva
tiv ®> honest and patriotic men in our
“2“’'° U ab j. Ut £ t0
p'ubfishedourAbility u
ing first learned and
to govern ourselves.”
***
Pr esiden * L ‘ L - Polk in a 8 P«ech to a
at . crow q 0 f a Uiancemen at Goldsboro.
N. C., a few days ago, said: “One of
the trouldes is that the fanners have no*
attended to their business as voteis. You
are work ng today God simply intended for an it? exist¬ The
ence. Is this ns
1110 /emeut of tlieulliauoe will go on, no
matter wliut becomes of the leaders."
He denied being an aspirant for the
presidency, and declared he now held the
greatest office in the United States.
He stood upon every one of tho Ocala
demands. any “*ili pribcipie^the" and join the
have to get out enemy.
If you wish to get the sub-treasury bill
out of politics, get something else that
will give relief. Until something better
is offered, we will stand by the sub-tren
sury pan world without end. If a third
party is to be established in the south, it
will be because of the domineering and
unreasonable action of the politicians of
our party. The alliance is for its princi- with
pies, it, and and will favor any who man is who against is it.
oppose any one Georgia,
Congressman-elect Watson, of
followed Colonel Polk, and declared that
North Carolina and Georgia alliancemen
are fighting under the same banner.
***
THET WILL STICK.
There was published in t © Topeka
(Kan.) Capital recently what Su
to be a dispatch from Concordia stating
that the following resolution had been
adopted by the Cloud County Alliance:
ed “Whereas, The south was not represent¬
in the late Cincinnati convention, and
whereas, We believe the third party will
disrupt the the Republican party to the benefit
of Democratic party, therefore be it
resolved, That we abandon the third
party to return to our past affiliations.”
D. W. Coffey, president of the Cloud
County Alliance, denies the story in the
following this vigorous language: “Let me
say resolution is entirely false, and
that we have had no meeting since April
18th, and at that meeting elected Hod.
S. C. Wheeler and W. Q. Savery as dele¬
gates to represent us at the Cincinnati
convention, nobly. which duty they pleased performer) with
the action Our of people are well and will
the convention, no
doubt ratify its action at our next meet¬
ing.”
*
President Polk’s paper, The Progress¬
ive Farmer, of Raleigh, is outspoken re¬
garding the attitude of the Alliance “The to¬
wards the People’s party. It says:
question, What will the Alliance do with
the new party? is on the lips of tens to-day. of
thousands of anxious people
Well, it ought not to take much wisdom
to afiswer that question. The new party
has adopted the Alliance demands iDto
its platform. Docs any one suppose
that intelligent Alliancemen will vote
against a party that adopts thorn demands
and in favor of a party that not only fai’s
to auopt. but resists those demands? The
western Alliance states have already gone
into the new party. Will not the neces¬
sity for A1 knee unity force the other Al¬
liance states to go into the new parly
also? We see no way to prevent the
new party from sweeping the country
except ceding the the simple one of cheerfully their con¬
demands.” 10 people every one of
just
***
The Atlanta Constitution truth lullv
says: “Money-making labor is a rare
thing these days. For years past most
of our legislation has been in the interest
of the banking and bondhoUing classes.
The money kings have been favored and
the masses have been driven to the wall.
The contraction of the currency in twen¬
ty-five years has caused our business fail¬
ures to amount to the enormous sum of
$4,000,000,000. The people are wnich oppressed
by a national banking system, is a
moneyed monopoly for the benefit of the
privileged classes.”
*
* 5k
At the Ocala meeting last year the
supreme council adopted a strong me¬
morial opposing lottery schemes. This
memorial has been presented Record, in congress received
and printed in The but
only passing notice. News reaches the
Reform Press Bureau from an official
source in Louisiana, however, that the
Alliance has taken up the fight against
the lottery scheme, and that it is deter¬
mined to stamp out the evil. The fight
is on in earnest.
V
Grand View (Tex.) Sentinel says:
“There is one thing in the Farmers’
Alliance movement that has been lost
sight of by the outside people; and that
is this: While the Alliance has been
endeavoring to brinng about a change for
the, better in the financial system of our
government, they have never for a minute
lost sight of their duty as citizens, as
neighbors and as Christians to their
country. ”
***
The Alliance is making a grand sweep
in Texas. Since February 1, 140 new
sub-Alliances have been organized. Six
hundred and five Alliances have been
renewed and rechartered and four new
counties have been added to the list since
April. Every officer in every department
an q the official organ are in thorough ac
eor q anc ) harmony, and every one is doing
everything possible to make the Texas
Alliance the grandest one in the Union.
***
The next meeting of the supreme coun¬
cil of the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union will be held either in
the State of Indiana or Illinois. The
selection of the place is in the hands of
the national executive committee, with
the provision that it be held in one of
thes states. Mr. A. Wardall, of the
committee, is now on a visit to both to
arrange for the meeting, which will be
held on the third Tuesday in November.
” ^
V adopted several
The Alliance platform
days ago at Grand Forks, N. D., makes
no mention of the Cincinnati platform,
It demands a 100 ceat silver dollar, and
the taxation of mortgages, and favors an
income tux, prohibition and woman suf¬
frage. ihoAlliuuco also indorses the
Ocaiu platform. »
V
The Alliance in Oregon is goiog to the
front. There are 121) sub-Auiauces and
eight organized conties.
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
New Enterprises Established for
th© Second Qu&.Pt0r«
The Tradesman'* report of new iudus
tries established in the southern states
during the second quarter of 1891, shows
a total of 1,292, against a total of the
second qu.rter in 1890 of 1,350 and sec
ond quarter of 1889 of 558, The Trades
man says: While the number of new
industries established for the secood
quarter of this year is not up to that of
the corresponding period of 1890, still
the industrial interests of this section are
in a very healthful condition, and a
noticeable feature for the past three
months his been the amount of capi
tal invested in enterprises, in¬
dicating that the new industries now'
being put into operation in the southern
states are larger and will be more thor¬
oughly equipped.
During the quarter ending July 1st,
states four agricultural factories, implement and works,
four barrel three boot shoe
factoiies, one brewery and thirty-nine
brick works, Virginia leading with seven;
Alabama, six: Georgia, Kentucky and
South Carolina each having four to their
credit, and nearly all of the southern
states contributing one to two to make
up the total. Sixty-two large devel¬
opment and improvement companies
have been organized during the quarter,
Tennessee leading with twelve; Virginia,
ten; South Carolina, eight; North Caro¬
distributed lina, seven, and the balance being evenly
in other states. Twenty-nine
electric light companies have been or¬
ganized, against forty-nine for the cor
responding quarter of last year; eighteen
flour and grist mills have been establish¬
ed; forty-seven foundries and machine
shops, against seventy for the corre¬
sponding quarter of 1890; eight furnace
companies have been organized, nine gas
works companies, sixteen ice Works and
fifty-seven mining and quarrying compa¬
nies have been organized. Twenty-three
natural gas and oil companies have been
indicates organized during the past quarter, which
the marked interest that is
being attracted to this industry in
the south. Twenty-three oil mills have
been erected and thirty-seven phos¬
phate companies have sixteen been organized.
One hundred and railroad com¬
panies have been chartered, three rolling
mills erected, and thirty-eight street and
electric railway companies have been in¬
corporated. Four tanneries have been
erected during the past quarter, twenty
one water works and thirty-four cotton
and woolen mills have been established —
nine in North Carolina, six in South Car¬
olina, five in Georgia, four in Alabama,
and the balauce distributed among the
other Southern States. One hundred and
fifty wood working establishments have
been erected, against 225 in the corre
sponding quarter of last year.
FAMINE THREATENED.
Failures of Russian Harvests
Forebode Death and Disaster.
The London Telegraph's St. Petersburg
correspondent declares that the harvest
in Russia this year is likly to be the
worst on record. He draws a harrowing
picture of the results of the continued
drought. rising “Prices hourly. of *Rye cereals,” he says,
“are has never be¬
fore been so dear. Throughout central
and western and the greatest portion of
southern Russia the outlook is dismal.”
Ministerial reports say that the
winter crop in south and east
Russia perished by the frosts. Famine is
already visible in the faces of the peas¬
antry of Kostroma. Disease has already
broken out in Koson. Among the indi¬
gents receiving meals gratis are 146 no¬
blemen and seventy-six priests. In other
districts similar conditions are reported.
In the Jewish colony at Rovonopl many
people are huddle dying together, of hunger and hundreds
have to several families
in one room, for the sake of warmth.
Some papers contain advertisements of
children for sale. The government is
taking precaution against expected re¬
volts . Taxes are collected with the usual
regularity, and a failure to pay is visited
with severe flogging.
PATTISON’s VETO
Of Pennsylvania’s Re-appor¬
tionment Bills.
A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa., says:
Both bills dividing the state into con
gressioaal and legislative districts were
vetoed Tuesday morning by the gov¬
ernor. He gives his reasons in extenso,
his main objection to both bills being
that they are unfair and contain many
irregularities that are contrary to the
constitutional requirements. He is will¬
ing, he says, to postpone the reappor¬
tionment ot the state to a legislature
which shall be elected by people thor¬
oughly awakened to a sense of how their
representatives have failed to meet this
duty.
A SUMMER VACATION
Given to Over Two Thousand
Glass Workers.
All but one of the fourteen flint and
window glass factories in Findlay, O.,
summer vacatkm' "wtich^wliriasfunS
September 1st, and probably longer. As
the wage schedule has not yet been
agreed upon the closing of the factories
gives over two thousand employes two
months’vacation.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun & Co’s Report for the Past
Week.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days,
as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.’s mer¬
cantile agency, number for the United
States, 203; Canada, 31; total, 234,
against 254 last week.
Signs of improvement in business grow
more frequent and distinct, though there
is nothing like a radical change as yet.
The hesitation which has prevailed dur¬
ing the year gives way but slowly to in¬
creased confidence; more slowly because
of a few failures in woolens at Philadel¬
phia, and in leather and shoes commercial in the east. sit¬
Yet the soundness of the
uation is generally recognized, and the
situation which remains is rightly attri¬
buted mainly to uncertainties regarding and
the demand for gold from Europe
the financial situation there. While gold
continues the to leave England of foi Russia, Eu¬
banking institutions western
rope are well supplied, and in this coun¬
try the treasury disbursements have been
enormous.
REPORS MORE ENCOURAGING.
The point of danger is still an exceed¬
ingly strained condition of credits
abroad on account of past disastrous
encouraging reports are, on week
whole, more than a
ago. Southern reports are less encour¬
aging. At Memphis there is no appre¬
ciable improvement, and trade is de¬
cidedly quiet at New Orleans, slackening
bright at Savannah, and steady, though exceeding the prospect last year’s is
at Jacksonville. Speculative markets
have declined in almost every direction,
but without panic or excitement.
THE IRON MARKET.
In iron manufacture improvement is
still seen, with a better demand for plates
and bar iron and a very active demand
for structural, mills being generally well
employed. At New York there is some
pressure to sell pig iron, not of the most
favored brands, but good foundry is stiff.
The first Greek child to be baptized in
Savannah was treated to that honor re¬
cently. The priest wa3 brought from
San Francisco especially for the purpose,,
and the total cost was nearly $1,000.
CROP BULLETIN.
Condition of Weather and Crops
for Past Week.
The signal bureau’s weather crop bul¬
letin for week ended June 26th, sayst
The week has been warmer than usual
east of the Rocky mountains, except on
where the New England and Florida slightly coasts, below
the temperature was
normal. Excessive rains have occurred in
eastern Texas and thence northward to
Missouri;in western Iowa. Nebraska,and
portions of Colorado, New Mexico, Min
nessota, and the Dakotas. More than
the usual amount of rain is also reported
from the western portion of the middle
Atlantic states, the upper Ohio valley, the
New England coast, and over limited
areas in the south Atlantic states.
GENERAL REMARKS.
Arkansas—Weather greatly beneficial
to all crops. Cotton and corn growing
nicely. Fruit of all kinds doing well.
Texas—Good showers in all sections.
Cotton blooming in south Texas and
crops very promising throughout the
state.
Louisiana —Showers in all sections
greatly benefit all crops. Cotton bolls
forming. Fruit very promising. Rice
in excellent condition. Grass and weeds
getting the start in some localities.
Mississippi—Condition favorable to
cultivation and growth. Outlook en¬
couraging. Rain needed soon.
North Carolina—Much sunshine, and
warm weather very favorable. All crops
improved. Rainfall badly distributed,
and excessive in few places. Cotton im¬
proved, but small and grassy.
Virginia—Much sunshine, but rather
too much rain for harvesting; weather
generally beneficial to growing crops p
wheat harvest well advanced.
South Carolina—Cotton very much im¬
proved where well cultivated. Much,
sunshine proved beneficial to all crops.
Tennessee—Corn, cotton and tobacco
growing finely; wheat threshing begun,
fine yield. The weather of the week was
favorable for cleaning crops, and the out¬
look is encouraging.
DISASTROUS OVERFLOW.
The Missouri Out of its Banks
and Changing its Course.
Missouri Dispatches of Monday say that the
river has cut through Doniphan
point, a few miles north of Atchison,
Kan., and converted several Missouri
farms into a vast island. The newly
found channel is getting wider every
hour and it is feared that the entire cur¬
hours. rent will This change in less than forty-eight
will leave a lake eight miles
in length in the old bed. The river has
been rising rapidly for twenty-four hours
and an overflow is looked for in the bot¬
tom land affected by the cut.
Another dispatch from Kansas ' City
says: The Missouri river at this point is
at the a dangerously highest high stage. The water
is it has been since the great
flood of 1881. Much damage has been
done. tered three Monday evening the water regis¬
feet obove high-water mark,
or twenty-three feet above the standard,
low-water mark.
Driven to Nihilism.
The correspondent of the L mdon Times
at St. Petersburg says: “The anti-Semi¬
tic crusade has resulted in thousands of
weU educated Jews, who are legally en¬
titled to get employment, failing to do so,
because it is reported the czar regards
them as nihilists. These starved men he
has driven to become secret police,
agents, nihilists, anything to gain trust.