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THE 71 I 'J I TIMES. *
VOL. VI.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT the ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THE COUNTRY.
If the cotton crop of 1889 is as large as
that of 1888, 49,000.000 yardsof bagging
will be required to wrap the crop.
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* 5k
The farmers are falling into line. Hur
rah for the farmers I We like to sec the
under man in the tight come out first best
once in a w’hile.—Allen (Kansas) Tidings.
The ***
idly Fanners Alliance is spreading rap
over the state of Ohio. The Grange
has also taken on fresh life and its mem
bership has about doubled during the
past six months. — Southern. Mercury.
Some Alliances appoint committees to
go around, visit families who do not ap
prec ate the importance of education, and
talk the mutter up with them, and in
duce them to hi come interested in edu
cating their children.
* *
Th c New Era (Amherst, Va.,) states:
We find those who are settling up their
accounts with us are generally Farmers’
Alliance men. An Allianceman always
plishment does the square thing. With this accom
success is assured.
*** of
The Kansas Alliance, . 100.000 strong
white fanners, in resolution demanded
that congress should legislate for their
interest, ••that the people believe that
white citizens of Kansas have some rights
as xvell as the negroes in the South.”
5k
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Ohocktaw Alliance (Grayson county,
Texas) invested $1,200 in a gin and paid
the entire amount out of the profits in
two years, and last year made 40 percent,
on the $1,200 invested. This is co-oper
ation in the right direction.— Southern
.Mercury.
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The farmers of Central Illinois are or
ganizing very fast and erecting elevators
and co-operative stores. There are 40, -
>000 members of the Farmers’ Mutual Ben
efit Association in forty counties in Illi
nois, and lodges are being organized at
the rate of 100 per week. ,
k*5k
The Kansas State Grange and the
’Farmers’ Alliance have united, and
agreed upon an iron clad platform.
Among the things, they favor silver cer
tificates being issued in unlimited quanti
ties, and want the Australian ballot sys
tern adopted.— Southern Alliance Farmer.
***
To the Alliance brethren we would say,
this is the time of year to practice the
fundamental principles of our blessed
order. Make the farm self-sustaining: the
plant more corn and less cotton; let
strong help the weak, and the time will
soon come when we will be a happy, in
dependent people.—Warranton (Ga.)
•Clipper.
*"*
Borne of the old machine politicians
seem very much afraid that the Alliance
will damage itself by dabblingin politics.
Be easy, gentlemen, the Alliance can take
•care of itself: and while it is not a politi
cal organization, yet the members have
their opinions on this as xvell as other
subjects—and when reformation is needed
in that line, they are ready for the work.
—Southern Alliance Farmer.
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The regular quarterly meeting of held the
Allianccmen of Cherokee county was
at Canton, Ga., on Wednesday, The
meeting was a very enthusiastic one, and
the attendance large, The followin S
preamble and resolution was presente
and unanimously adopted: has
Whereas, The Farmers’ Alliance
been accused of entering into politics,
and for a fact will enter politics, but not
a* an alliance, but as citizens who are
iookiug to the best interests of the
.country, Therefore, be it resolved, That
the Cherokee County Farmers’ Alliance,
.duly assembled, respectfully request the
•executive committee of this county, to
appoint primary elections in which each
individual of the county can have a voice
in saying who shall represent them in the
federal and state offices to be filled this
year. committee, consisting of the presi
A
dents of the several sub-Alliances in
Cherokee, together with the county presi
dent and secretary, was appointed to
to formulate plans by which steps may
lie taken towards the building of manu
facturing enterprises in Cherokee, The
sub-treasury plan was indorsed by the
county Alliance, and a request made that
the sub-Alliances of the county take ac
lion thereon at once. There are about
-thirty sub-Alliances in Cherokee county,
svith a total membership of about flourishing 1.500.
and the order just now is in a
condition aud gives promise of 1 icing of
great benefit to its members.
Cs doing .
The New York Frees has been
some alliance work lately. That i<=, its
correspondents in the east. west, north
and south were instructed to send in re
ports of the relative strength of the al
liances in different states, and the result
has been a surprise to the Press, and its
probable future influence upon the coun
lrv is made the basis of lengthy editorial
comment. The Press thinks that the
-Towth of the alliance in the past six
month*, from its small beginning in Kan
sas. is startling and has grave political
significance. It says:
•Take the census of 1880. Out of 14.-
744.942 males of all ages engaged in vari
ous occupations 7,055.983. or almost one
haif, were pursuing agriculture the as an largest avo
cation. Tnis is, therefore,
-.ingle element of oar voting population. of
The compact union of the farmers
BLACKSHEAK, GA. THURSDAY, APlvIL 10, 18M
the country in a political organization
would overthrow all other parties, combine be
cause lt would be impossible and classes to solidly
the other elements
against them, The general character of
the farmers of the country makes it cer
tain that they have the independence,
tenacity of purpose and integrity to stand
together. The labor unions will not beat
comparison with the Farmers' Alliance,
because in the unions are gathered mostly
men who labor by the day Void live from
hand to mouth. The farmer is self-sup
porting—a sovereign of the soil, inde
pendent only on his own exertions. We
shall xvatch the Farmers’ Alliance with
the interest that it challenges as the latest,
greatest, and possibly the most formid
able force in American politics.
tODTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
3ENERAT, PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
General Thomas F. Anderson, a mem
ber of the famous Louisiana returning
board of 1874 to 181ti, died in New Or
leans Wednesday, aged seventy years.
While six boys of R. H. Bakersville
and K. P. Wommack, ranging in age
from eleven to nineteen years, xvere play
ing in a sand cave Wednesday, near Ver
non, Texas, the bank caved in on them
and all xvere killed.
A delegation principally of cigar and tobacco Key West man
ufacturers, from
ind Tampa, Fla., entered a protest be
fore the ways and means committee, in
Washington, on Wednesday, against the
tobacco schedule in the new republican
tariff bill.
Sales of leaf tobacco in Danville, Va.,
market for March were 2,800,848 pounds.
Sales from October 1st to Alareh 31st,
were 10,893,499 pounds, Sales in March
last were 3,010,459 pounds. Increase of
the first half of the present tobacco year
as compared with the same period of last
year was 4.287,839 pounds.
At Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday the
grand jury brought in txventy-four indict
ments against Ben Pullen, jr., for embez
zlement of city funds to the amount of
“ city registrar
nearly $11,(10(1. Pullen was
from February, 1887, to July, 1889, and
collected eity rents in that capacity which
he failed to account for.
A telegram from Birmingham, Ala.,
Wednesday, says: Airs. Kate Eaton, of
Round Rock, Texas, is lying in a precari- be
oil- condition at Woodstock station,
low here, on the Alabama Great South
ern railroad. She was en route to Cin
cinnati, and walked off the train while in
her sleep.
Aunspaugh & Cobbs, one of the largest
and best known dry goods firms in Lynch
burg, Va., made an assignment Wednes
day. Their liabilities foot up about
$33*000. They have turned over suffi
cient property to liquidate their indebted
ness in full.
J. H. Haddell, treasurer of the Pulaski
Bank, of Pulaski City, Va.. was waylaid, hie
robbed and brutally murdered near
home. Wednesday afternoon. Two white
men. suspected of the crime have been
arrested, and great excitement prevails.
Lynching is feared.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Frank J. Hellen, Monday a young with $2,500 sporting in man,
left the city money
belonging to Nat Stanley, a saloon in Hellen’s keeper.
Stanley had placed the money
hands to purchase a saloon for him, and
the young gambler, instead of buying the
saloon for his friend, left the city. A re
xvard has been offered for his capture, and
detectives are on his track.
A deal was closed Tuesday by w hich
3,000 acres of land at Lenoir’s Station,
30 miles from Knoxville, Tenn., went
into the hands of a Philadelphia syndi
cate. A big steel plant, woolen mills and
a branch road to Harriman to connect
with the Cincinnati Southern are involv
ed. The land is the old Lenoir planta
tion famous throughout the south. Five
million dollars are to be invested.
A dispatch from Aleridan, Aliss., says:
The commission before whom was tried
the condemnatory proceedings, on Wed
nesday allowed the Vicksburg and Aleri
dian railroad $40 per mile for the right
of-way over its lines to the Postal Tele
graph and Cable company, which is seek
ing New Orleans by xvuy of Vicksburg.
Work is being pushed on this new tele
graph line to reach New Orleans at as
early a date as possible.
EMIN PASHA.
ENTERS THE GERMAN SERVICE—WILL RE
TURN TO THE JUNGLES.
Zanzibar dispatches say: Emin Pasha
has finally accepted the proposals made
to him by Major Wissmann, and has
entered the German service. He will re
ceive a salary of £1,000 a year. lie has
given up the intention of returning to
Europe, and will leave Victoria Bagomoyo about
the middle of April for Nyanza.
He will be accompanied by a large cara
van and 200 Soudanese troops under
command of German officers. His deci
sion meets with strong disfavor in Zan
zibar.
DEATH IN A COAL MINE.
AN EXPLOSION KILLS THREE MEN AND SE
RIOUSLY INJURES FOUR OTHERS.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa.,says:
By an explosion of gas in No. 4 slope of
the Susquehanna coal mine, at N’antieoke.
three men were killed, four seriously in
jured and two slightly injured. The gas
is supposed to have ignited from an open
AT THE CAP11AL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the house, Tuesday morning, the
chaplain feelingly referred to the death
of Representative David Wilber, of New
York, and invoked for his bereaved fam
ily divine protection and comfort. The
house passed the bill of Judge
Crisp, extending the time lor
the construction of a county,-Georgia. bridge across
Oconee river. Laurens
The committee then rose, and' the fortifi
cation appropriation bill was l^isscd
without division. The amount appro
priated is $1,521,670. The zoological The
bill was passed—yeas H 7, nays 68-.
naval appropriation bill was reported, and
placed upon the calendar.
In the of the senate,’on o’clock Tuesday, meeting the experi- of the
ment 11
senate not proving successful, after
prayer by the chaplain, there was a call
of senators, when only twenty-nine second
answered to their names. A call
resulted in the attendance of thirty-six
senators. Then a motion was made by
Air. Cockrell that the sergeant-at-arms be
required to request the attendance of
absentees. On motion of Air. Kdmunds,
the senate proceeded to executive busi
ness.
The house met Wednesday at 11 o’clock.
Not more than fifty members were pres
ent, the chaplain absent, and the journal
not prepared for reading. In Turner, the morn- of
ing hour, on motion of Air.
Georgia, from the committoe on coni
merce, the bill was passed authorizing
the construction of a bridge across the
Oconee River at Dublin, Gu. At the in
stance of the committee on commerce,
several bills authorizing the construc- provid
tion passed. Among them, one
ing for a bridge across the Hudson river,
between New York city and some took point
in New Jersey. The house then up
the bill for the admission of Idaho as a
state in the union. Mr. Dorsey, of Ne
braska, in charge of the bill, opened The the
debate with a speech in its favor.
only opposition to^the admission of Idaho
came from the Alormons. They constitution protested
against the provision of the
which disfranchises bigamists and polyg
amists and persons who are members of
any association which encourages bigamy.
Pending further debate the matter went
over until Thursday. On motion of Mr.
Tucker, of Virginia, the senate Dill was
passed appropriating $11,000 for the con
struction of a road from the city of Staun
ton, Va., to the National Cemetery, near
that point. The house then adjourned.
In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Ed
munds, from the judiciary committee, the
reported back the anti-trust Dill in
form of a substitute, and said that there
was one section in the bill as reported,
which lie thought went further than it
ought to go. He would probably would betaken not he
in town when the matter
up, but some other member of the
committee would take charge of it....
The resolution offered by Air. Hale to
change back the daily hour of meeting Edmunds to
12 o’clock was taken up. Mr.
moved to amend by making it take effect
on Alonday, the 14th, instead of next
Monday. The Edmuns amendment , was
rejected, yeas 27, nays 29. The resolu
tion then agreed to. The conference re
port on the urgent deficiency bill was pre
sented and agreed to. The senate then
proceeded to the consideration of the
Alontana election case, the majority report
being in favor of Wilbur T. Sanders and
Thomas C. Power, and minority report
being in favor of William A. Clark and
Martin Alaginnis. Air. Gray yielded the
floor without concluding resolution his argument, of
and Mr. Evarts offered a re
gret at the death of Representative Wil
ber, of New York, which was adopted,
and Messrs. Hiscock, Squire and Kenna
were appointed to represent the senate at
his funeral. The senate adjourned.
NOTES.
The nomination of John R. Mizell to he
United States marshal for the northern
district of Florida, was confirmed by the
senate in secret session on Wednesday.
It is* understood that the attorney-gen
eral will an appeal fnitu the decision
of the court of eluims, which makes tin
government responsible to members of
congress for their loss of salary through
the Hilcot defalcation.
A dinner was given at the white house
Wednesday by the president and Mrs.
Harrison, in honor of Mr. Whitelaiv
Reid, United States minister to France.
The decorations were beautiful, and th*
company was a brilliant and distinguished
one.
The senate disposed of the nominations
of Judge Swayne aud United States At
torney Stripling, of the northern district
of Florida Tuesday, after an executive
session of five aDd a half hours, These
cases were before the senate in five execu
tive sessions, and were contested as no
other nominations have been for years.
They were finally confirmed by a stout
party vote. The nomination of John B.
Mizell to be marshal for the same district
in still before the judiciary committee.
ANOTHER FURNACE.
ALABAMA'S ALREADY LARGE IRON INDUS
TRIES BEING SUPPLEMENTED.
Furnace N’o. 3, of the DeBardeleben
Coal and Iron company, at Bessemer,
Ala., was blown in Wednesday with
elaborate ceremonies. Fires were lighted
by Vice-President Milton H. Smith, of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad, who
was present with a party of director# of
that road. Another furnace at the same
nlace will be blown in next week.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THF. OKOItOl A STATIC ALLIANCE MAKE
AN INTERESTING REPORT.
The committee of three, Livingston,
Brown and Pope, made the following re
port on the policy of the Georgia State
Alliance as to the enforcement of that
clause of the constitution relating to cor
porations remaining competitive:
\\ iikkkas, Paragraph 4, Sec. 2, Art. 4
of the constitution of Georgia declares:
“The general assembly of this State shall
have no power to auth arize any corpora
tion'to buy shares or stock in any other
corporation in the Stale or clsjwhcre, or
to make any contracts or agreements
whatever with any such corporation
which may have the effect, or be intended
to hare (he effect, to defeat or lessen com
petition in their respective businesses, or
to encourage monop Jv ; and such con
tracts and agreements shall he illegal and
void.’'
Yonr committee respectfully suggest
the enforcement of die above constitu
tional clause in its full and original intent;
to-wit: That corporations shall remain
competitive, not for given points or lo
calities, but for the whole people and the
entire state; and that the powers of the
interstate and state railway commissions
be so enlarged as that they may co-oper
ate. one with tlie other in regulating clas
sifications and rates, and the warehouse
features of railway cars and depots. And
these regulations should be based upon a
reasonable cost of const ruction, equip
ment and running of roads, and not upon
watered stocks or high prices paid foi
stocks for purposes of consolidation and
control.
Railroads must recognize the interest
and rights of the people in chartered cor
porations, such and the laws of the railroad State should
be ns to empower the com
mission to enforce t he same, and I lie com
mission should he made to do its whole
duty in the premises.
L, F. Livingston,
A. F. Pope,
11. C. Brown,
(’ommittce.
TO ALLIANOEMKN.
The Executive Committee of the Geor
gia! State Alliance, with the President
Atlianeemen coiicuring, do most earnestly urge nil
in the State to demand of
any candidate for any Stale office, or
seeking to represent them in f lu* Georgia
legislature, or the United States congress,
to pledge To themselves, and if elected, their
1. support do all in power
to further legislation in compliance with
the foregoing To adopted resolutions. public
2. a revision of the present
school system, thereby affording more
extended facilities for common education.
3. To such changes in the penitentiary
system as xvill ameliorate the condition
and treatment of the convicts, and us soon
as possible the .system be so changed as
that all able-bodied male convicts shall be
worked on the public highways, and that
special provisions lie made for work
houses for women and children.
4. To a reduction of state and national
taxes. Asserting that only should taxes
be levied for revenue, and that to an eco
nomical und judicious administration.
5. That in the revision of the protec
tive tariff, the burdens now resting on
the agricultural and laboring classes, shall
be lessened to the greatest possible extent.
(J. That our representatives in the na
tional legislature shall advocate the pas
sage of such laws as will prevent specula
tion and combines, that seek to interfere
with prices of prime necessities and pro
ductions.
7. To an abolition of the national
banking system, and the substitution of
legal treasury notes in lieu of national
bank notes, and in sufficient volume, in
conjection xvith gold and silver, to do
the business of the country on a cash
basis.
8. That the sub-treasury bill of the
National Alliance now pending in con
gress, or some better system for the relief
of the struggling masses, be passed.
Felix Coiifut, Chru’n
A. F. Pope,
A. W. Ivey,
T. J. Stephens,*
J. G. Taylor,
(-’ommittce
I concur in the foregoing. F.
L. Livingston, Pres.
TO ALLIANI KMKN IN GEORGIA.
Tlie demands of the executive commit
tee to all candidates seeking State offices,
members of the House of Representatives,
State Senate, or United States Congress,
sent you for consideration and adoption,
should have your immediate attention,
and when adopted do not fail to demand
an unequivocal answer.
L. F. Livingston,
Pres. Ga. S. F. A., and I. U.
A PLOT REVEALED.
COMMITTED SUICIDE RATHER THAN ACT
THE PART OF ASSASSIN.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the
London Telegraph, says that a man, who
committed suicide there Sunday, left a
letter in which he confessed that he had
been engaged in a conspiracy against the
life of the czar. The letter said that the
writer and his fellow conspirators had
drawn ballots to decide who should take
the czaj's life, and the lot had fallen to
the writer, who, rather than commit the
deed, had determined to take his own
life. The letter also gave names of the
writer's accomplices, several of whom
have been arrested.
THE CLA88 SUSPENDED
FOR REFUSING TO ATTEND THE COLLEGI
EXERCISES.
The faculty of Amherst. Mass., college
on Saturday suspended the entire fresh
man class. The class had refused to at
tend any college exercises whatsoever,
until three of their number, under diseip
line for trouble, were reinstated.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TEL E
GRADII AM) ( ABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WOULD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
In consequence of the discovery of a
conspiracy burg (Russia) among university thestudents, St. Peters
has been closed.
The Manchester, England, Guardian
reports that there are few important
transactions, and inquiry for heavy goods
is moderate. The lies! prints are firm,
with a steady demand,
F. IL Townsend & Go., drygoods and
eomiui.ssinii merchants, at 75 Worth
street, New York, assigned Wednesday.
The firm Iris had it rating of $125,000 to
$200,000 in luercuntilc agencies.
About one thousand journeymen plumb
"i's of Chicago quit work Tuesday and re
solved to stay out until their demand for
$3.75 as the minimum day’s wages, and
a half holiday on Saturday has been
granted.
The l nited States grand jury at New
York, Tuesday, handed in au indictment
against abstracting I*. .1. and Clanson misapplying for cinhezzleinsnt— funds of
the
Sixth National Batik and making false
entries.
The czar ami czarina recently paid a
visit to the Russian military prison. They
conversed with the prisoners and asked
them to state the causes which led to
their imprisonment. The czar ordered
the release of sixty of the prisoners, and
a reduction of sentences of sixty others.
Jules Simon, the great Frenchman, in
an interview at Paris, said he considered
Emperor William sincerely solicitous for
the welfare of the working classes. He
said that the decision of the labor confer
ence w ill be a great stride for Germany,
tail in only a few minor points will they
advance French legislation.
Elite information received by Mr. Val
entine, Brazilian minister at Washington,
shows affairs in Brazil to be quiet and
endeavoring peaceful. The government, it is said, is
to nrrange mutters so that
the first general election under a republi
can form of government can take place, if
possible, earlier than next September, the
time originally fixed.
A dispatch of Tuesday from St. Peters
burg, Russia, says that the czar has been
attacked by a sudden illness. The sui
cide who left a letter in xvhich he con
fessed that lie hat! plotted against the life
of the czar was a naval officer who he
mother longed lo an aristocratic family, 11 is
and other relatives reside in Mos
cow. The matter has been hushed up.
A Philadelphia special says: Rhodes
& llro., operators of the Acton, Knowltoii
and West Branch mills, in Acton town
ship, Wednesday. Delewure Tin: county, Pa., is suspended
failure attributed to
the general shrinkage in the value of all
textile, fabrics and to the luck of market
for manufactured stock, of which a large
amount is now stored up.
HOW IT 19.
REI'ORT OF THE PURCHASE CF THE
EKLANGKft SYSTEM EXPLAINED.
Referring to the announcement that the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad hud purchased, comprising for $5,500,000, the Cin
the Erhmger system,
cinnati Southern and Alabama Great
Southern, the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette says: “Thin announcement is
erroneous, in so fur as it speaks of any
body buying the Cincinnati Southern
railway. It is leased to the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific company,
which has a capital of $3,0' 0,000. Tlie
controlling shares are held in London by
a syndicate headed by Baron Erlanger, which is
’and it is this fifty-one per cent
supposed to be scooped by the Brice
Thomas syndicate.”
HEAVY DEFALCATION.
MARYLAND’S STATE TREASURER SHORT II*
IIIH ACCOUNTS.
The joint committee of the Maryland
legislature appointed to investigate the
defalcations of Stevenson Archer, treasu
rer of the state, made a report Saturday
night of the result of the investigation
in Baltimore. They enumerated five
classes of bonds, of which there should
be in the treasurer's hands a total ol
$500,000. The found $845,000, showing
a deficit of $127,(00. This amount u
exclusive of coupons on some of then*
bonds not accounted for, amounting
perhaps. to several thousand dollars more,
WOMEN CRU8ADERS
ATTA( K A HEAR WAGON AND SMASH ITS
< ONTKNT8.
A dispatch from Fannington, Mo.,gays:
Wednesday morning the crusaders, head
ed by Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Foster,
opened their campaign. Armed with
sledge hammers, they stopped smashed Glut six
Thomas’s beer wagon and
barrels, cm plying the beer into the street.
Saloon'men at Kansas City are expecting
h visit from the crusaders.
ORDERED OUT.
tee CHICAGO BOARD OK TRADE VS. THB
WESTERN UNION.
Officials of the board of trade at Chi
cago Tuesday notified the Western Union
Telegraph company, that commencing
i none of the company's opera
j fors woul ,j lj0 aw ,.., to the floor of
£ j j(; excban „ e This action is supposed to
be a I ,ew step in carrying out distribution the hoard's
(>f prt!ventinff the of
market reports to bucket shops. .
NO 2 f
THE INDUSTRIOUS SOUTH.
MANY NKW MAM KAOTItlSd ENTERPRISES
I- st A 111. IS II ID-OKOIUIIA I. E ADS.
Heports compiled by the Tradesman indus- of
Chattanooga. Teiin., of the new
tries ertnblished during the first three
months of 1890, in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia, show a total of 853
against a total of (191 for the same period
in 18(89. The Tradesman reports from
all sections of the southern states indicate
greater activity in the planting of new
industries in the south at present
than any other previous time in
its history. The most notable
feature in the report shows that sixty-four
cotton and woolen mills were established
during the three months against thirty
three in Georgia the corresponding leads with quarter Ala- last
year. fourteen,
bama, North and South Carolina each
nine, Texas eight. During the three
months twenty electric light works were
organized; Georgia leading with ten.
Forty three Hour and grist mills, North
Carolina and Virginia each leading with
seven; the total during the same quarter
Inst year was fifteen. Forty-three
foundry and machine shops were organ
ized,Tennessee leading with eleven and
Alabama next with ten. Twenty three blast
furnace companies in the were corresponding organized, against
seventeen quarter
last year; Alabama seven, Georgia six,
Kentucky ten, Tennessee live, Texas anil
Virginia ono each. Twenty-seven ice fac
tories were organized, against twenty
four in the same period last year. Forty
nine mining companies, twenty-one oil
mills, seven potteries, eleven rolling mill
companies; tiftystreet railway companies
against, seventeen in the corresponding
period of last year; eighteen waterworks
companies; 1(17 wood working establish
ments, against an aggregate of 130 in the
corresponding ticeabte period is the of last fact year. that A no
feature not a
single natural gas or oil company has
been reported in the past three months us
organized in the Mouth.
A FLOODED CITY
GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, DELUGED BT
T1IE URBAN OF LEVEES.
A special of Monday to the Mcmphii
Appeal , from Greenville, Miss., says:
Tlie protection levee north of this city
gave way at noon despite the most heroic
efforts on the part of the people, and the
waters poured existence, in upon has the city, which,
since its been above the
level of the Alississippi at its greatest
height. The flood is a tremendous one,
and the volume of water that is pouring
in from the three breaks above is spread
ing out in all directions, inundating plan
tation after plantation, which in the flood
of 1882 were above water. It is greatly
feared that the heavy wind and rain now
prevailing will causu the levees to give
way in new places. The water at latest
accounts hail reached Washington avenue,
mie of tlie principal business streets of the
city, and the people were navigating in
skills. No lives have been reported lost
and no actual suffering is anticipated,
unless this overflow continues for a con
siderable length of time. A later dis
patchsays: It now seems that all the
low land below Helena, Arkansas,
will be overflowed within the next
two wc: ks. A break in the levee of
about fifty feet occurred about mid
night Holiday night at Austin, Alias.
There and is no possible way to close foundation the gap,
as the levee is on a sandy
for a mile from that point, the break may
increase to an unlimited extent. All the
plantations in the vicinity of the break
are being rapidly submerged, and tenants
ure leaving without saving any of their
effects. Rain has been falling in torrents
all uii/ht.___
The Mule Went Just the Same.
Yesterday afternoon a man with a
wagon load of wood drawn by a team com
posed of a horse and mule, turned out of
Pearl street into Clinton avenue, and
started up the hill, Reaching a |>oiiit
opposite < Impel st reef. I he mule suddenly
braced itself backward and refused to
budge. Of course the horse was brought
to a standstill ul-o. Free application whiah its of
the whip only made the mule
long ears, but every time the driver ap
proached the mule it would rcarand kick
until the man retired. A crowd collected
and it looked as if the man anil his
charge were in for an all night halt.
,Just then a team of bighor-cs drawing
a light truck earne along. The driver
took in the situation. If*- drove up and
backed down in front of the refractory
mute, took a hitch on the pole of the
wood wagon with a stout rope, secured
it to the truck, and then whipped and up. in
The mule didn't want to go, was
clined to kick, but the big team went on
up Glinton avenue and Ten Broeck street,
while tin- mule looked a picture of comi
cal despair as lie was hurried rexistlcsslj
along.—[Albany (N. Y.J Journal.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
THIRTEEN PEOPLE KILLED AND INJURED
BY GIANT POWDER.
A special from Birmingham, Ala.,says:
A coal magazine mine of Coaiburg, giant powder ten exploded miles from in
a at
this city, Monday afternoon, with terrible
results. Sixteen colored convicts were in
a room close to the one where the powder
was stored, Thirteen of them were m
jured, six fatally. Four are reported Giant dead
already, and others cannot live.
powder was used by the miners, and a
quantity of it was always kept stored in a
room down in the mine. A boy went into
the magazine to get some powder, and it
is supposed tire from his lamp caused the
explosion.