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T,HE ^.•tnncr-^cssrnjjtr. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -BT . 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. * 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.