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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES. *
VOL. VI.
AT Tin, CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
OR Ess js DO TNG.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL .IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In tlie house, on Tuesday, immediately
after tlie approval of tlie journal. Air.
Candler, of Massachusetts, called tip fur
onsideratiou the World's fair bill. The
bill Avas read in extenso. Au amendment
was agreed to for the postponement of the
fair until . 189:1. Au amendment Avas
adopted providing for the appointment of
i board of holy managers to perform stick
duties a- Avould be prescribed by the com
mission. An amendment was ul-o adopt- of
ed providing that one of the members
the board, claimed to be charged with the
selection of tin government exhibit, shall
be chosen b» ihe lisli commission.
Among the bills -introduced and re
ferred in the senate on Tuesday was one
by Mr. .Mornli-to establish an educational ,
fund from the prun ed- of public land-,
and one by Air. iVrwel! to give a pension
of #2.000 ;t year to tht widow of General
( rook. Also a joint resolution l>\ Air.
George to amend the resolutian so as to
empower congress to make all laws that
are necessary and proper to suppress com
binations in'restraint of trade or produo
lion, and to prevent transactions that
create a monopoly or increase or depress
the prices of commodities that are or may
become a subject of commerce among the
state- or Avith foreign nations.
In the house, on Wednesday, Alt. Gail
non, of Illinois, from the committee ou
rules, reported a resolution special making order the
NVvoming admission bill a
for the dav. The resolution was adopted
iitul the AN voming bill then taken up. Air.
Carey, tiie of Wyoming, made a strong plea
for admission of the territory which
he represented, into the sisterhood of
states, and he defended the provision extend- of
the e institution and the territory
ing the right of suffrage to women. Mr.
Doekerry, of Mo., favored the admis-ion of
new states ns rapidly a- the increase of
population in the territories
Alr. Oates, of Alabama, said that no new
state hud ever come into the union on
term- proposed in this , a-c—that women
"■ere to have the right to vote and to hold
office, it was a delicate question and he
looked with great apprehension towqrd the upon the
growing tendency franchise. exten
sion of the right to
Mr. Morey, of Ohio, spoke in support
of the bill. a;:d advocated the civil and
legal enfranchisement of Avomeu in all
states of. the union. M, Mansur, of
Missouri, in.the few moments winch re
mained addressed h.msel to the country
if not to the house ( or, on actual
jount, there were no twelve members in
heir seats,, and said that the slim at
tendance reminded him of the fact, that
the house was bringing a stab: into the
union by the t a -ar,an operation, rather
tlian w ith the care and comfort which
surrounded tin a. eouelimento an lion
orable member of an honorable family.
1 he house then took a re ess
ln the senate .on Wednesday. Air. Me
Pherson, from the committee on naval
affair-, .eported a joint resolution au
thonzui" th<* sf < relarv of the nuvy lo re
move the naval magazine from Ellis
island, in New Yoik lmrbor, and to pur
chase a site for and to erect a naval mag
azine at some-!her point, and approprf- and the
atiug #73,000 fm the purpo-e, His
senate proceeded to consider it. Mr.
cock moved to amend by appropriating enable
the further mi... of #75,000 to
tbe secretary ' of the immigration treasury to improve
Ellis island for purposes,
The amendment v. as agreed to and the
joint resolution passed. . The anti-trust
bill was taken up and various formal
amendments were made. The amend
raent-offered Tuesday by Mr. Stewart to
insert the words, ''or of the value of
money by which such cost may lie advanced
or reduced." was agreed to, Air. Hoar
withdrawing his amendment to it, which
was to add the words “gold or silver.”
Air. Spooner offered au amendment to the
first section, giving courts authority, in
addition to the other remedies, to issue
writs of injunction prohibiting and re
straining combinations from proceeding
auv further in the ousines.s except to
wind up their affairs. The legal bearing
and effect of the amendment, a* well
the bill "cncralJv. were discussed
hv Mc«srs. Spooner."Grav. Hoar. Mr. Stewart, Butler
Vest Reagan, and Eustis.
offered an amendment extending the pro
visions of the bill to stocks an 1 banks.
\dopted Mr Eu-tis offered an amend
mentextr-udiiDr us provision* to cotton
urints -reel rails, boots und shoes, lead
and lumber. Adopted. On motion of
Mr Blair un amendment was adopted and in
eluding woolen good- and whiskv all
kinds of intoxicating drink-' with
in tip- provisions of the bill,
The bill, which had l>een considered ail
the time as in the committee of the
whole, was rci>oi' 1 to the senate. where
all amend acted upon
again, and where other amendments may
U- offered. After a brief executive ses
sion ti e -< nate adjourned
aud in cootiDiuu. the Wyoming . -;f W-jlw-lnv, edmi-.-ion bill --ion, wa*
again takeu up for con-ubniti.ci I
bate went on political Iinwuut.il o’clock,
M^^nrin^'ImlTdf'of Mr. springer, on b half the the mimHtv minor.
of the cc >tamitt RP offered
am e nan ing for jn
other < >n ention. eailt-d tinder au
thority of fin act of congress. Lost—ye as
131. navs 138, Mr. Springer then offered
£ an amendment providing Tuesdfv that there shall
an election on after the fir-t
Monday in November next, for a repre
tentative to the fifty-first and fifty-second
congre*-. and for state and judicial voted of
fices The constitution shall be
upon, ami if the vote, is against female
BLACKS HEAR, GA. THURSDAY, APRIL 8. 1890.
suffrage, that feature shall be elimi
nated from the constitution. This
was' also lost—yeas I ua$s 139.
Mr. .'springer then offered hi* last
amendment, which strikes ou; the clause
ot the Wyoming constitution p oviding
for female suffrage. Defeated—yeas 132,
nays 1:58. The bill was then piw-c'd by a
strut party vote—yeas 14 i. nays 127.
Tiic bouse then went into committee of
the Allude ou army appropriation. The
bill was read at length and without ac
tion the committee rose, and the house,
at 5 :1ft. adjourned.
On Thursday, after the senate had dis
posed of Sherman's anti-trust bill, the de
pendent pension bill was called up in
pursuance of the programme determined
upon by the republican caucus.. This is
the bill to pension month nt the union rate soldier of twelve
dollars per every or
sailor who served three mouths in
the rebellion and is now incapaci
tated front active work and de
pendent upon manual labor for support.
It w ill pass and receive the president's
autograph. it will immediately add
*38,00ft. nCO to the |!>8,000,000 now cx
p eD ded annually for pensions, making
an aggregate outlay for pensions alone
each vear | 30 000,000. This vast sum is
lg almogt equa ) to all the other expendi
tures of the government put together.
notes.
Foreign delegates to the Pan-American
conference, have issued invitations to a
dinner to be given in honor of President
Harrison, on the 10th of April. This if
supposed to indicate. with some accuracy,
probable date ol the adjournment oi
die conference. The trip of the delegates
through the South will be made after that
date.
On Tuesday, the house committee on
elections disposed of two contested clec
tion cases, namely, Posey vs. Paret, Buchan- first
Indiana district and Bowen vs,
an, ninth Virginia district, In both of
these cases the committee Avill recommend
that the sitting member be allowed to re
tain the seat, so that in the seven election
eases passed upon by it up to the present
time the committee lias favored four re
publicans and three democrats,
Representatives of the National Cord
n ^. iy ussociation appeared before the re
publican members of the Avays and means
W)Inin | t tee, Thursday, to protest against
the proposition to increase the duties ou
loose fibres used in twine making. existing They
did uot ttMk auy reduction of the
rfttC) but declared that the proposed effect in
crease wou id be ruinous in its upon
( . 0 ,dage makers, and would not protect
(be farmer, us the fibre was uot produced
(j,is country
Ut . pfest . ntat}vP * Bland, 6t Alissouri, and
j r Williams, of Illinois, members o
tht . llous( . committee Thursday on coinage, submittecT weights to
ulld nu , isures ’ on
, hc )|0Ufi(; th(! minority ^ver report in oppoai
. fo W i,.dom bill. They say
h j . very dangerous experiment
foH f it fails to ntslore the purity of plight two
^ n will be in a worse
, now Tlie report concludes as fob
, The bill is very adroitly drawn to
! end silver coina ge to totally demone
, iz( this , n , ta i, and to permanently estab
| ish for the United States a single stand
ur( , of , old payments. It does these
thin gs * eilect.mllv, * thot.gh cunninglv.' ”
, Having . once reopened . the . subject . oi .
'lutiesun sugar the republican members
°f thd ways and means committee find it
a hard matter to adjust them sat.sfaeto
rl ‘y m " ashmfgton. (In 1 uesday the re
(mere were in force i here were a nmn
\ r0 n \ ' s< w ^ 01 Heston, ana
Philadelphia. . . .,.. I hey made a streu
»»►»« P r0 ? est against the action ol
the committee in cutting so heavily
>“ to thc existing rates, and maintainor!
that a twenty-five per rent, cut was a
that the refining industry could stand,
On the other hand, about a dozen mem
of congres-s from the Avest insisted
that the duties must be st.ll further re
dueed.
About ten days ago, it New York paper
published a Washington special purport
ing to give the reasons for the failure ot
the Harrison administration to recognize
General Longstreet, of Georgia, the most
prominent ex-confederate who has es
poused the cause of republicanism. things, that It
"as alleged, among other voted for
General Longstreet had not
Harrison and Morton. An old friend of
General LongstreeUs, who bail served on
his staff, anil is himself a distinguished
republican, wrote and asked him whether
the allegations referred to. were true,
General Longstreet has written a most
noteworthy reply in which he gives the
*tory of his identification with the re
publican party, recites the facte as to hts
relations with the present administration,
and gives an inside view of the means
used by the republican organ.zattOM hold in
the south to maintain their upon the
'1^ ; of office, without regard to the
P«blic good or even the best interest ot
th< ' ir P art V -
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ALLIANCE HEADQUARTERS
“t^lkhed „ TABI I8HED in WAgHI> Washington - oxo5 _ tub
'
, h,,dqunr,.rs educating in W.,bing-on,-here deeired the
work of congress as to
legislation will be carried on. The actively pres
ident , Mr. Polk, is on baud
f‘ rtSsi Dg th * mfcr ^.? f ‘ he DCW
p , , >f p olk declares , that this
plan » the product and Of this the best minds of
the Alliance, if congress fads to
enact it into a law the next congress will.
The Alliance is making its influence felt
^" Srt^a^wnsideSbly^wo^lT ^ Uv '
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Brazil has an area almost the same as
that ™f 0 f the United States-3.000.000 of
wre rai ie*.
A FEARFUL STORM.
LOUISVILLE ; KENTUCKY \ /SI
TED- TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
DEVASTATION IN ILLINOIS- THE STORM
GENERAL THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN
STATES—SION At. SERVICE REPORT.
A dispatch from Louisville, Kentucky,
says: tornado Shortly after 9 o'clock this city, Friday wrecking night
a stvept over and killing
tAVO or three hundred houses,
lAvo hundred people. The wind came
from tlie'soutliAvest. The union tTepot, lifted in
the foot of Seventh street, was
from its foundation and turned, over into
the raging torrent of the Gfiio river. A
train of cars making up for the Louisville
Southern road Aveut over Avitli the build
ing. Falls City hall, on West Market
street was wrecked. In the hall were
over a hundred people, and bitt fetv of
them escaped alive. Many buildings af
ter falling, caught fire and the inmates
Avcre burned. All the streets are block
aded with debris of fallen buildings later or
telegraph and electric wires. A
dispatch says the loss of life by the cy
clone al Louisville is estimated at 8(10.
The path of the cyclone avss about a
square and a half in Avidth.
THE STORM IN ILLINOIS.
A Chicago dispatch says: The storm
which reached here at noon Thursday
lias been general throughout the north
west. Siioav fell and then turned into
rain and sleet, accompanied by wind,
blowing thirty-five or forty miles an
hour. A wind and hail storm passed
over Cairo at 4 o’clock Thursday after
noon. Hail stones weighing over three
ounces fell. Considerable damage is
reported from Bird's Point, AIo., where
it is reported the storm struck towns and
blew down several houses. Also along
the line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad.
All Avires from this city are down. A late
special says that Metropolis, a small vil
lage in Illinois, about thirty-five miles
from Cairo, Avas destroyed by the storm, killed
and several hundred people Avere
and injured. the
At Gluey, Ills., storm was very
severe, unroofing houses, overturning
barns and wrecking windows and chitn
nevs. The electric light station build
ing was unroofed; Schmidt’s restaurant
was unroofed; the cornice of Spring’* wind
grain store was blown off. The
then tore down two frame buildings be
longing to the Clink estate, unroofed the
stores of Messrs. MeLaue and Newell,and
I)r. Allen’s office,and completely wrecked
Herrin’s brick shoe store. A two-story
frame building, occupied by shop, Mrs. M.
Sponsler as a millinery shell AVHS and
crushed like an egg
Mrs. Sponslcr buried in the ruins.
She anus quickly extricated and found to
be seriously injured. Robert John Goldy’s Byres’
building was unroofed and
residence wrecked. The storm struck the
touse of Dell Harrell, which was com
safety" Jetely demolished. The family sought
in the cellar and escaped unhurt.
The adjoining residences of Dr. Marshall
uid H. I). Morse were badly damaged.
1'lie residence of Mr. Matlies, near by,
was lifted from its foundation mid crushed,
burying the family in the ruins. All es
caped serious injury save Mrs. Matlies,
who now lies in a critical condition. The
dwelling of John Bourrell was blown
completely away, not u ventage of it re
maining. The streets present a desolate
appearance, being filled with debris.
A special from Nashville, Illinois, says
a cyclone struck that place ivitli terrific
force, and that not a pane of glass is left
in a window with a Avcstern exposure.
The city hull, a large frame structure,
was demolished. Martin Porter’s livery
ffable is a Avreek ; Bawyer A Co.’s cooper
shop, a brick building, is demolished.
At Little Prairie, a fcAv miles distant from
here, the storm destroyed the residence of
Win. Rhine, and Mr. Rhine A\as intern
illy injured and is not expected to live.
David Smith's Louse was destroyed. He
rushed out Avitli his little girl, anil a tree
fell on them. Neither is expected to live. and
Fritz lx ruin’s liou.se was blown away,
he and his wife are probably fatally in
jured. Henry Taylor and family had a
like fate, also two young ladies—Miss
Morris and Miss Maggie Simmons—both
of whom will die from their injuries.
There is a Polish settlement directly in
the path of the storm, which has not been
heard from, and it is feared great loss of
life has occurred there.
A special from Cairo, III., says the
storm struck there at 4 :30 p. m. The ba
rometer registered 29.5, the lowest record
for years. The wind, while it lasted.
Diew with great violence. The largest
hail ever seen there fell in large quanti
ties. Three houses were blown from their
foundations at Bird’s Point. At Mill
Creek, two miles north of Cairo, several
houses were blown down and a number of
people injured. Giving to the wires be
ing down it is impossible to get partiou
I i! At 9 p. m. the wind was register
i ig 00 miles per hour.
A dispatch from Carbondale, Ill., J»ck- says
idisaatriou*cyclone pmmed through
/' n 7" nt v Th,,rsd Y «^ru-oOD A num
-
ber of houses were levelled reported to the ground Near
md three lives are lost.
was
('“72? 5S",S„^JS!L, faSJSl J ®
r ; , r bo n dal,- the banking house of W’. M.
\Vvkes was unroofed and several house*
A &»P«td» of Thursday, from Lincoln, that
Neb that the stonn throughout
, utc w 'as of extraordinary severity fot
thK Reasmi cj{ th „ vear xhe ^. ind Wow ,
at a Wgh rate of velocity, and snow is
f a )jj ng rapidlv. The snow is from four
' f ht de *P’ arid traiD J “ re de '
^f d ; ^e ncm. a blizzard , ,. has pre
!’ ad f d a * f ° maha
ln th f ar « blockaded, , and traffic is
great^ impeded, The
A Milwaukee. Ww. report says:
WWifher “ comparatively warn., but snow
fell heavily and the wind blows fiercely,
in place* drifts arc piled up so high that
the street car lines have had to suspend
tralllt'. Telephone wires scatter the
streets snd trip up pedestrians.
thnUthe Ajpispatch from Sioux City. In., sav*
storm extends over the State, and
'pnfwkcs of tlie nature of a blizzard. It
begqn and. snowing o'clock there in the at noon Thursday,
huwfallen at 0 the depth evening, fifteen the snow
to of inches in
thc^Vesti'rn porthw>«f the State. Trains
frtttt the wpw are dAkivud.-Aad some have
both abandoned I* -
A Kansas Uitf AhjpaW'h s«ys: A storm
prtjv,ailed Missouri, tlipnufdwMtt TiiU&daf. .Kansas agvl soutli- is
weitern Siiow re
ported from some portions of iii western
Ivratsus. The barometer varied differ
Ci t localities from 2.) at Wichita to 29.2*
at 'his point, the lowest reported for
yelrs. The velocity of the wind was ex
trqordimiry for such a long continued
st4iiu. At Wichita, Ivan., the wind did
eoftshl arable damage, Heavy plate glass
wjjftdows were Miitished in, signs dis
placed and chimney tops blown down,
w^s Alt Abilene. Ivor., considerable damage
done to elu’nnifys. (lie signs and cornices.
Sianv fell during Tiffcrtisjiuis. sftV'poqu.
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»The signal following office iff iVasliingfon liulletin fur
nishes 1# the special o’clock to
I press: At 9 Thursday
irtFriimg a seven; storm was central in
e*tern Kansas with a velocity on the
efttern side of thirly-six miles southeast;
atfst. Louis, on the southern sjde. of
Tlxas, fifty-eight miles; western iu northern
ou western side of sixty miles;
nirtli in Colorado and on the northern
sir. of thirty-six miles; north in Ne
Idraska and South Dakota with a severe
lifi/./.urd and snow in Nebraska, Warnings
wqre sent out during the morning for
several local storms in the states of Ohio,
lyd ann, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Georgia and Alabama, aijd for a severe
norther extending from Kansas had to North- moved
ern Texas. At noon the storm
eastward, so as to cover all Illinois, with
high winds, and Chicago increasing. reporting The forty
miles east storm
will be feit on the Atlantic coast Thurs
day night or Friday morning, interior producing and
severe local sjorms in the
easterly gales on the coast from Hatteras
lo Maine, and high southwest winds on
'hr south Atlantic coast.
TOUGH ON CANADA.
THE EFFECT OF TUB NF.W UNITED STATE!
TARIFF ON HER TRADE.
• A dispatch from Ottawa, Out., says:
S'? appears as if the framers of the United
States tariff changes had studied tlie dis
tinctive products of each province of
Canada, and increased the duties on them
accordingly. The new schedule aims nt
Ontario in the matterof barley
tnd apples at Quebec and New
Bnmswicli on horses and hay, and at
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
in potatoes and other vegetables. Nova
Beotia also gets hard hit in the shape of
increased duties on fish. Those who have
looked into tlie details of Ihe new tariff,
think it is a direet blow at f'linudiun
trade with the United States. The duty
on horses is ijoav twenty per cent.; thc
proposal is to raise it to thirty per cent.
Canada sent, last year 17,277 horses, val
ued at #2,118,728, to the United
States. The increased d uty is
leveled against that trade and
will fall most heavily on Ontario and
Quebec, whence 18,000 of the horses
were drawn. The duty on cattle, for
merly twenty per cent, is to be raised to
#10 per head where the cattle are over a
year old, and #2 per head where less.
Canada sent 87,800 cattle, valued at
$488,200, to the United States last year.
Ilia duty on these imporis would be, un
der.the old rate, #9,704. Under the new
rate it would reach, provided the cattle
sre all over a year old, $878,090. Eggs,
now free, it is proposed dozen, to Canada's tax at tne
rate of live cents a ex
ports last year were 14.011,017 dozen.
The tax at five cents would be $700,000.
It Is in barley that the greatest damage
will be done. The present duty on bar
ley is ten cents per bushel. It is pro
posed to increase the rate to thirty ceuts.
Last year Canada sent 0,984,504 bushels
to the United States. The present duty
on this quantity is $993,450. The new
duty would aggregate $2,980,850.
J. J. Bruner, editor and published proprietor of
the Carolina Watchman at
Salisbury, died at bis home in that town
on Sunday, lie was seventy three years
>ld, and the oldest and odb of the best
Known editors in North Carolina, having
edited the Watchman regularly since
1839.
THE SUGAR TARIFF
RAISES A HOWL AMONO THE LOUISIAN!
PLANTERS.
The Louisiana Planters’ association
held a meeting at New Orleans on Friday
and adopted a series of resolutions pro
testing against a reduction of thc tariff ot
sugar without a corresponding reduction
on all other protected article; protesting changed
Against the duty on sugar ad being and
from specific to an valorem tax,
also against the standard lieing raised
thirteen to sixteen Dutch standard, color
test.
ANOTHER 8YNDIC ATE
INVESTING IN IKON AND COAL LANDS
IN THE SOUTH.
The fifty purchase miles from of the Chattanooga, town site of Tenn., Spring
City, "the Cincinnati Southern road by
on a
syndicate from Kentucky involved is reported. in tb«
Ten thousand acres sre
sale, the consideration being a half mil
lion dollars. The purchase is for ths de
velopment of iron and ooal Indus t ri es.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT Tin: ORDER AND IT8
MEMI 1 Elis A HE DOING.
ITBMB OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
OATHKHF.I) FROM V MtlOt's SKCTI08S OF
THE COUNTRY.
The Farmer's Alliance of Edgefield
eounty, S. (’.. has determined to estab
lish a Farmers' Alliance bank, to be loca
ted at some railroad point in the county.
The shares are fixed at #25 each, to be
paid in five annual installments.
*
Our Allianeemen should turn their at
tention to encouraging and aiding the es
tablishing of oil mills, guano factories,
and the manufacturing of farm imple
ments in their own section. These, en
terprises will keep your money at home,—
Frr/ifttii/r.
remedies ***:
The great for our troubles
must be found in national legislation.
Without it avc can never redeem the ag
ricultural interests of America from tliu
determined oppressions of a favored class, We are
to have equal rights to all,
and equal rates to all. — Southern .UUuure
Funner.
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The sub-treasury plan of the Alliance
extends the helping hand of the govern
ment to the Avhole people; the national
bank system confines its benefits to the
commercial privileged classes In the great cities and
equal rights centres. all and special Our plan privileges gives
to
to none.
Major George Chiisinuu, *;* Jacob Wisslci
and Mr. Prince, representing the Farm
ers’Alliance of the United Stales, havt
concluded to establish Alliance agricul
tural works at Iron Gate, Alleglien-.-y
county, Vn. The works will employ
find will to 500 hands, sub-Alliance and their products
go to evt ry in the
country, representing four million mem
bers.
*
The Cunimiug , utirioii kuv*: “W«
cannot do the Alliance and fanners of
Forsyth county a better service than to
keep before them the fact that there is
nothing they can do, is going to benefit
tlii-tn much until they have learned how tc
make their own bread and meat, and mist
their own stock. Think for a moment of
the immense amount ol money annimlly
sent tint of the county for what can b<
made at home.
•I*
The Sourthern AlFmnce Funner says:
“The venal methods which are showing
up in the opposition to the sub-treasury
bill,, are absolutely disgusting. A ma
jority of the papers which oppose the
bill, intentionally and maliciously re
fused to acknowledge tliat. there is a
national order in the United Htntes
kuoAvn as the National Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Union, and that the bill
with all of its promises of good to the
people, ciuinated from this source, The.
sub-treasury plan proposes to give us a
place where turn perishable farm products
can be stored, und 8ft per cent, of their
value advanced upon them for a term of
not more the than one year. be This inpependent will simply
enable farmers to of
speculators anil monopolists and put them
iu a position to obtain such a price as
the legitimate demand will warrant. Is
there anything wrong iu tliat f If there
is, somebody please show it to us- and
point out a better plan,”
*
The act requiring dealers in flour ot
meal to brand or print thereon the num
ber of pounds contained in each sack,
which was adopted by the Inst General
mind Assembly of Allianeemen. Georgia, should be is kept in
by all It ns fol
lows:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby
enacted by authority of tlie same, That
after the passage of this act, it shall be
the duty of each and every member, or
manufacturer of flour or of corn meal (and
every merchant or dealer) sacking said
articles, to stamp or have printed on each
sack in which either of said articles are
sacked, iu plain figures not less than H
inches in length, the exact number of
pounds of flour or corn meal, us the ease
may Ire, contained therein; provided, the
provisions of this act shall not apply to
grist ground for the toll. provisions Any person of this or
person* violating deemed the of misde
act, shall be guilty a thereof,
meanor, and, upon conviction
shall be punished a« prescribed in section
4310 of the Code of 1882, provided, this
act shall not apply to merchants or dial
ers selling flour or meal in quantities November Ic«m
than a full sack Approved
11. 1889.
To the Farmers’ Alliances.— All pe
tition* or memorials to the United State*
Congress from Alliances and unions should
lie mailed direct to our national secretary,
J. H. Turner, No. 511 Ninth street, Wash
ington, D. U. This is imiiortanf for the
following reason* office have record ol
1. That this may a
all sueb^retitions, their subject matter,
the number and residence of *uch pefi
tioners, etc. legi*!ative committee,
2. Our national
C. W. Maeuneand A. TVardall,appointed
at St. Louis, and whose duty it is to look
after all matter* presented by our order ol
a legislative character, will thus be Hi
bled to take cognizance of and give per
sonal attention to thc wishes of the breth
ren thus presented.
The bill embodying all the essential
features of the the St. sub-treasury Louis meeting plan, and as
adopted has hr been introduced in both houses
which mailed
of congress, is now being secretaries as of rap- all
idly as possible to the
the' Alliances and union.*: throughout the
country, "au together with other printed mat
ter of imjiortant character. The inat-
NO g«
ter thus mailed is earnestly commended
to the immediate attention of the broth
erhood.
All papers friendly to our cause are re
spectfully order requested to copy the above.
Hv of
I,! L. Poi.K, Piest. N. F. A. and I. U.
.1. II. Tu iin Kit, Secretary.
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS
IMl'OSED ON TRAVELERS TO TIIC DOMINION
OK CANADA.
The convention supplementary to the
tenth article of the treaty of 1H-12,between
Great Britain and the United States, con
cluded ratifications at Washington exchanged July 'London, 12, 1889, anti
nt March
11, 1890, Avas proclaimed on Tuesday. By
the terms of the supplementary conven
tion, the provisions of Ihe tenth article of
the the original folloAving treaty additional are made applicable to
crimes:
L. Alauslaughtcr, when voluntary.
ti. Counterfeiting or altering money, ut
tering terfeit or bringing altered into circulation coun
or money.
ft. Embezzlement, larceny, receiving
any money, valuable security, or othet
embezzled, property, knowing the same fraudulently to have been
stolen or ob
tained.
4. Fraud by bailee, hunker, agent, fac
tor, trustee or director, or member or offi
cer of any company made criminal by the
Ihavs of both countries.
5. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
(I. Rape, abduction, child stealing,kid
napping. Burglary, houac-brcukiug shop
(. or
breaking.
8. Piracy by the law of nations.
9. Revolt., or conspiracy to revolt by
two or more persons on bourd ship on the
high sens, against the authority of the
master; wrongfully sinking or destroying
a vessel at sea, or attempting to do so;
asHauits ou board ship on the bodily high harm. seas,
with intent to do greviuus
10. Crimes and offenses against the
laws of both countries trading. for the suppression
of slavery and slave
Extradition is also to take place fot
participation in uny of the crimes men
tioned in this convention, or in the afore
said tenth article, provided such partici
pations be punishable Political by the laws expressly of both
countries. offenses are
excluded from Ilia operations that of ths
treaty, and it is stipulated people ex
tradited upon one charge shall not he held
to account for any other previously had com
mitted until they shall have an op
portunity to return to the country whence
extradited.
AN EDITORIAL JAUNT.
MF.MlIKHS OK THE GEoROI A I’UF.MK.AHSOt IA
TION IN Till-; LAND OF H.nWF.KS.
Tlie Georgia Press association arrived iu
Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday morning.
They visited the sub tropical exposition,
where they were received und shown
about by Director General Moran, Secre
tary Adams and Representative Dillou.
President Dillon ni idr- a short speech of
welcome, which was replied to by Presi
dent W. L. Glessner. The editors are
guests of the Plant Investment company,
and will be given a trip to Cuba by that
company.
BI8M ARC K’9 FAREWELL.
THE MAN OF “IRON AND JII.OOD” RIDS
KM ration WILLIAM ADIEU.
The A dispatch farewell audience from Berlin, between Germany, the say*:
em
peror und Prince Bismarck was held
Wednesday morning. The interview
lasted three-quarters of an hour. The re
tiring chancellor was heartily cheered which e:i
his wav to the palace by crowds
had gathered along the route. The em
peror permits Bismarck to retain the title
of prince, with that of duke of Laueti
burg, as socoi 1 distinction.
GREAT FIRE IN CHINA.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED HOUSES DKSTKOTE6
AND I WO PERSONS KILLED.
The city of Pekin, front China and
Japan arrived at San Francisco on
Wednesday, bringing advices that on
Februury 27th, about 1,500 Japa nt-se
houses were destroyed by tire in Tokio,
and seventy-eight were partially killed and de
stroyed. Two persons were
about twenty-five firemen, more or lc--,
severely injured. On the preceding and tiny
187 houses were burned in tlie city , on
March 5th, about 800 were destroyed and
several firemen were injured. The fires
were of accidental origin.
A NEW NAME.
THE COTTON OIL TRUST REORGANIZED AS
THE COTTON OIL COMPANY.
Kinsl »tej» in the reorganization of the
American cotton oil trust at New York
have been taken and on Tuesday the
stock exchange admitted to its dealings
common and preferred American stocks Cottou of the new Oil
corporation, the
company. The company now owns
about #41,500,000 of certificates of the
American cotton oil trust* out of a total
issue of $42,185,000.
THE PRICE OF A LETTER.
A RUSSIAN WOMAN WRITES TO THE CZA*
AND IS EXILED.
Mr. George Keenan, at Kansas City,
Mo., on Wednesday furnished additional
Particulars in regard to the well known
Russian lady, Mary Tscbrikova, who is
about to be exiled to Siberia for having
written a personal letter, concerning Rus
sian affairs, to the czar. Mr. Keenan says
the lady is known in Russia as an able
and talented writer upon social and polit
ical subjects, and lias never been a revo
iutioaiat.