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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
YOL. VI.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
Tins GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
True Alliancemen make pledges to be
reformed and not to be broken.
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There are lots of things said that never
come to pass, and one of them was that
the Farmers’ Alliance would die in six
months after organization.— Buchanan
Messenger.
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With stores and warehouses the
ance will soon be on both sides of the
question. Perhaps it will change the
feeling to some extent against the mer
chant and factor to know how it is them
selves.
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The federation between the
Labor and the Fanners’ Alliance is the
grandest uuion ever formed, and com
mands three million votes. It is the heel
of the people on the head of the viper.—
Industrial West.
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The farmer and retail merchant’s inter
csts are identically the same, therefore no
retail man can afford to fight the Alliance
movement, neither can the Alliance af
ford to fight the retail men. When they
get to understand each other thoroughly,
things will be different, aud they can of
work together for the best interests
each other.
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We would warn our friends against se
lecting for office meu who have neithei
said nor done anything for your cause.
Men who are not afraid to speak out aud
who use their means for the good of the
farmers are the men you should select for
official honors. They will not desert you
or your meetings as soou as elected.—
Arkansas ( Searcy ) Economist.
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Col. W. J. Northen, of Georgia, lia*.
excellent ideas on the subject of organi
zation among farmers. “The good reached, re
sults," says the Colonel, “already
give sufficient evidence that there were
many evils to be corrected and new poli
cies to be inaugurated on the farm.
Although the Alliance has been in active
operation but little more than one year in
this state, great revolutions have been
wrought in the agricultural interests,
while general busiuess has been put upon
a more secure basis. The Alliance has
urged to rigid economy in expenditure;
prudent management in all business ar
rangements; a close fellowship in general
interest; an intelligent study of all econ
omic questious and a faithful adherence
to any and every policy that seeks the
public good.—Alabama Alliance Journal.
A (Atlan
The Southern Alliance Fanner
ta, Ga.)savs: We regret to learn that
there are a few sub-Alliances in Georgia
which have never taken women into tlicii
ranks. No lolge is complete without
them. The Alliance is the great familj
of agriculturalists which is organized toi
the improvement of their moral, social
aud financial conditions. How can there
be a social improvement without women:
The very idea is absurd. There are many
things connected with the Alliance which
would be dead failures without woman’*
assistance, and we hope none of the
brethren will fall into the error of ex
cluding from their lodges their wives and
daughters. 'Woman is as necessary in
our Alliance as in our everyday life. The
■order is for the good of the family and
the wives and daughters should have the
privilege of participating in the grand
work.
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The Alliance of Georgia vety plainly
expresses its desire for a change of tht
system of convict labor in this state. A
convict system should not only be one ol
punishment, but of correction, and, when
possible, of reform. We cannot more
clearly express the demands of the ordet
on this than it is done by the executive
committee and president of the order.
Hear the forcible language which they
use. Candidates should be pledged: Tc
such changes in the penitentiary condition and system
as will ameliorate the treat
ment of the convicts, and as soon as pos
sible the system be so changed as worked that al!
able-bodied male convicts shall be
on the public highways, and that special
provisions be made for work-houses fot
women and children. Don't forget thi*
important part of your Alliance yard
stick. The present system of convict
labor is a disgrace to Georgia’s high civ
ilization. —Southern Alliance Farmer.
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EXTRACTS FROM ALLIANCE DECISIONS
HANDED DOWN BY THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE UP TO FEB., 1890.
I. If a person be otherwise eligible to
membership in the Alliance, the owner
ship of bank stock can not, and should
not disqualify him. He lias, perchance,
given us a lesson in savings.
n. A bank cashier is Ineligible. operating
III. Persons owning or ineligi- ware
houses for their own behoof are
ble. In the eye of the constitution they
are merchants.
IV. Agents for cotton seed oil milli
not controlled bv the Alliance are ineligi
ble Their interests do not harmoniz*
with the objects of the order.
Anv person who keep* a store—i. e., is
emraiied in gain—5 buving and selling goods foi
necuniarv a merchant and is in
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eligible
A person who is a farmer and also i
lawyer-is he ineligible? If he be a prac
ticing attorney he is ineligible. that all duet
The constitution requires
be paid V „toV quarterlv in advance. A mem
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BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, MAY la. 1800 .
arrears and nat entitled to receive tht
new word.
Citizenship in Georgia is a pre-re
quisite Residence to membership does in the Alliance.
not constitute citizenship.
An unnaturalized person is therefore in
eligible.
I. A cotton buyer or salesnnn is inelig
ible.
Presidents of sub-alliances are not ex
officio members of the county alliance.
A demit cannot be denied to a brother
who is clear o f the books, and against
whom no charge is pending.
A sub-alliance lias the right to impeach
its president and expel him for cause.
A member wlio engages In the purchase
and sulet;f goods on his own account, or
on commission for another, renders him
self obnoxious to the constitution and
cannot remain in the order.
A member may carry a stock of sup
plies for tlic especial benefit and conve
nience of his hands on Ids farm, but if
he sell to other persons other than his
hands he becomes a merchant and i»
plitriblo.
Under a strict construction of the na
tional constitution, an alliance man can
not occupy the position of clerk in a
mercantile house.
Section one, article seven of the Na
tional constitution clearly sets forth the
prerequisites to membership in the Alli
ance.
An Alliance may designate one or more
of its members to buy and sell for the
order, under the supervision of the order.
An Alliance store caunot sell to persons
outside the order.
In originating a lodge the organizer elec
installs the officers, but at the first
tion, and thereafter, the retiring presi
dent installs the newly chosen officers.
If the then president be the re-elected
officer, the retiring vice-president will in
duct the former; thereupon the president in
will install the other officials. The
stallments are annual.
It is competent for an Alliance to
adopt llict with rules the and regulations and national not constitu- in con
state
tion. and to enforce the same by ade
quate penalties. An Alliance may adopt
a resolution in favor of the exclusive use
of cotton bagging, or forbidding and partic- fix
ularly the use of jute bagging,
and enforce a penalty for departure from
said rule; either suspension temporarily or expulsion. de
barred A suspended the privileges member of the is order, but is
still amenable to the law ; for suspension he
having been constitutionally removed,
is restored to full membership.
It is competent suspended for a lodge to summon of the
a member on account
non-payment of dues for trial on a charge
of conduct unbecoming an Allianceman. conduc
Neither a railroad train hand,
tor, brakeman or traokhaud is eligible to
membership in the Alliance, nor is a real
estate agent eligible. is of the books when
A member clear
he has paid all dues required by levied the con
stitution, and all assessments not
forbidden by that instrument.
If a secretary of a lodge be granted a
demit upon his statement that lie was
clear of the books, and join another lodge,
and the fact mentioned be developed it
becomes the duty of the sub-Alliance
which the brother joined to deal with
him on the charge of conduct unbecom
ing an Allianceman.
It a demitted brother apply to, and is
rejected by, another lodge, an applica
tion for membership on entertained his part cannot be
filed by himself or by any
lodge until six months from the date of
election shall have claps id.
Under the State constitution of force
previous to the consolidation of the Alli
ance, the Wheel, etc., a minister of the
gospel was eligible without regard national to
place of residence. Under the
constitution “country ministers ef the
gospel” only are eligible. submitted,
Respectfully V.
Martin Calvin,
Chairman Judicial Committee.
BURNED TO THE GROUND.
THE SINGER SEWING MACHINE FACTORY
IN ASHES.
The Singer Sewing Machine factory at
Elizabeth, N. J., Tuesday night, was dis
covered to be on fire nt 11 o’clock, Tht
entire fire department responded to the
alarm, but water from the stream engines
had little effect. The main building was
entirely destorved. Many narrow escapes
are reported. Much of the stock and
book-, and records of the company were
saved. About two thousand men were
employed in the building destroyed. flames worked
Later reports say the
their way to the adjoining building,
cleaning out the stock of the needles,
finishing, adjusting, inspecting department and mill
ing rooms. The pattern wai
also destroyed, with the patterns therein.
Fifty thousand finished machines and
18,000,000 needles were consumed. The
loss is estimated at $2,000,000, fully in
sured by tbe Singer company. All work
is suspended, and over the burned 3,000 operative* building.
listlessly gaze upon
Work cannot be resumed under two
months.
REFUSE TO GIVE IN.
TBE COLLECTOR OF CROP STATISTICS HAY
ING A HARD TIME OF IT.
Comptroller-General Whright. communication of Geor
gja j s in receipt of a
f rom the tax collector of Lowndes
CO untv, saving that the farmers there are
refusing to give in their crop statistics,
The bill requiring the giving in of cron
statistics was framed and pushed through
q v Mr. Martin V. ‘Calvin, of Augusta,
since it began to operate a great
many complaints have been coming in
from the tax collectors. The Lowndes
county collector saysthe claiming farmers refuse that
to give in crop statistics,
thev are acting under instructions of Col.
UnafftUm, pr=id»I ol lie Suu Al
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OK MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OCR
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
In the bouse on Wednesday the great
lariff debate was begun. At one o'clock
Mr. McKinley moved that the house go
into committee of the whole for the con
sidertion of the tariff bill. In making
this motion he said that he would en
deavor to close the general debate by
Saturday evening. Mr. .Mills, of Texas,
thought the time fixed was too short.
Two years ago the democrats conceded
twenty-three days for debate, and he re
monstrated against the short time now
proposed. Mr. McKinley's motion was
agreed to, and the house went into com
mittee of the whole, Mr. Payson, of
Illinois, in the chair. On motion of Mr.
Mills, the committee granted Mr. Mc
Kinley the privilege of speaking without
limit, and ou motion of Mr. McKinley a
like courtesy was granted to Mr. Mills.
In the seuate, ou Wednesday, Mr. Gib
son presented a resolution of the Missis
sippi river improvement convention, late
ly held in Vicksburg, and of the southern
press association, recently in session
Charleston, S. C., in favor of the levee
system and of the Eads system, Anion
the bills reported from committees an
placed ou the calendar were the follow
ing: House bill to fix the regular terms
of circuit and district courts for southern
district of Alabama. House regular ap
propriation bills for the army and for the
military academy. Mr. Call introduced
a joint resolution authorizing the inter
state commerce commission to investigate
cases of interference by railroad cor
election porations of (in United free passes) with the
Slates senators
aud members of Congress. Beferred.
A bill for the transfer of the revenue ma
rine service to the navy department but wa*
taken up by a vote of 00 to 24, at 2
o’clock it was displaced, under last Fri
day’s agreement, by the senate bill au
thorizing the issue of treasury notes on
the deposit of silver bullion (the Jones
bill). The bill having been read in cx
tenso, amendments were offered by Mr.
Sherman and Mr. Plumb. No vote wui
taken on either side of the pending
amendments, and Messrs. Vest and Teller
gave notice of substitutes which they
would offer for whole bill. After execu
tive session, the senate journal adjourned. Thursday
After reading the
morning the house went into committee
of the whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in
the chair) on the tariff bill. A lengthy
discussion was entered into by Messrs.
Dockery, of Missouii; Burrows, of Mich
igan ; McMillin, of Tennessee; Milliken,
of Maine, and Flower, of New York.
Mr. Flower summed up hisopiniou of the
bill by reciting a legend that was victim found
penned “Judge Lynch” to the in corpse of the territory: of
a western
“He was a pretty mean man in some re
spects, but lie was a blamed sight worse
in others.” All speakers during the day,
with the exception of Mr. Dockery, are
members of the ways and means commit
tee. At the conclusion of Mr. Flower’s
speech (which was greeted with ap
plause) the committee rose; and the
house, at 3:30, took a recess until 8
o'clock.
In the Senate, on Thursday, on motion
of Mr. Morrill the house bill providing
for the classification of worsted cloths as
woolens was takeu up for consideration.
The bill was discussed until 2 o’clock.
At 2 o’clock the silver bill came up as un
finished business. Various propositions
were made on both sides of the chamber
a h to the order of business, and finally it
was agreed, by unanimous consent, that
the silver bill should go over till Monday
next, and should then come up after the
formal business of the morning hour and
be continued as “unfinished business”
until finally disposed of; that the bills of
the admission of Wyoming and Idaho as
States, should not be taken up until after
the final action on the silver bill; that the
worsted bill should be resumed,and that af
ter final action on it, the appropriation bills
(army, military, academy and pensions)
should be taken up and acted on—Satur
day being devoted, as usual, to bills on
the calendar to which there is no objec
tion. j.fter this arrangement was arrived
at, discussion of the worsted bill was re
sumed. Several amendments were offered
by democratic senators and all were de
feated, as was also a motion to postpone
until next December, by which time the
subject of the bill would be disposed of
in the tariff bill. The Dill was then
passed without amendment—yeas 22, nay* his
20, and now goes to the president appropriation for
signature. The pension fiscal
bill (appropriating then for taken next Amend- year
$07,090,761.) was up. and
ments offered by Messrs. Sherman
Washburn, to increase the number of
pension agents from eighteen to twenty, dis
and twenty-one, gave rise to a long
cussion. As the vote disclosed absence
of a quorum (only thirty-four adjourned. members
present) the senate at 5 p. m.
NOTES.
Both houses of congress adjourned
Tuesday on account of Senator Beck’*
,unera '
Tuesday, The republican agreed silver committee, on
to report to a caucus with
the bill reported amendments. by Senator Jones,
one or two
A large number of applications for
pensions are coming up from the southern
.tates from soldiers who served in the
Mexican and Creek Indian wars.
Tbe house committee on elections, Wed
DC sday. began to hear arguments on th«
of the contested election cases—tha*
f Eaton versus Phelan, from the tenth
the The following president postmasters on Thursday appointed Virginia
John T. Davenport, Oordonsville; John
H. Johnston, Danville. Georgia—Thomas
.1. Watt, Columbus: Alias Stella R. f.aird,
LaGrange. Tennessee--Airs. Lula 11.
Smithson, Pulaski.
The monthly report of the treasury de
partment at circulation Washington states the total
amount of on the first of May
nt $1,487,998,773. The coinage of tin
mints during April past aggregated it
value $•'5,01)0,200. double eagles, The valued gold coinage war
06.000 at $1,020,
000: the silver 0.000,000 standard silvo
dollars and $15,000 worth of dimes.
The president on Thursday Indiana, nominated
George \Y. Steele, territory of of Oklahoma; to be gov
ernor of the Ro
bert Martin, of Oklahoma, secretary ol
the territory of Oklahoma. Supreme
court officials of the territory of Oklaho
ma—Edward 11. Green, of Illinois, chief
justice; Abraham ,1. Scav, of Missouri,
uml John G. Clark, of Wisconsin, asso
ciate justices; Warren S. Lurty, of Vir
ginia, United Stales marshal; Horace
Speed, of Oklahoma, United States attor
ney.
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NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
rtTIIY ITEMS FROM ALL FOINTR IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, KIRKS,
FLOODS, ETC.
A special of Tuesday from Shreveport,
La., says the river is still rising and is
now seven inches above the 1884 mark.
The comptroller of currency has
authorized the First National buuk, of
Cardiff, Tenn., to begin busiuess with
a capital of $50,000.
A dispatch of Wednesday says: Six
hundred fishermen in Pensacola, Fla., are
on a strike. The men demand u cent a
pound advance. A fish famine will result.
A contract was signed Tuesday in
Chattanooga, which Tenn., by the terms of
the United States government or
dinance works of Boston, Mass., will be
moved to East Chattanooga.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Jackson,
Miss,, says: Ex-Governor Lowry and
Colonel W. II. McCardle have joined in
the work of writing a history of Mississ
ippi, from its first settlement to the dnys
of Jefferson Davis.
The sporial train bearing the remains of
the late senator, members of his family
and committees of congress, left, Wash
ington, Tuesday at 8 o’clock o. m. for
Lexington, Ky., over the Cm lesapeake
and Ohio railway.
It is reported that a $10,000,000 En
glish syndicate is negotiating Va., and with vicini- mill
owners in Wheeling, W.
ty, with a view to buying all or the
greater part of the nail and rolling mills,
steel plants, furnaces, etc.
Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, on
Monday, sent formal notice of Senator
Beck’s death to the legislature, and the
election of a successor will consequently
take place on May 18th. A joint resolu
tion of respect and regret was udopted
by the legislature.
The Lookout Rolling Mill company, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., closed a contract
Thursday by which the entire works will
lie moved to New England City, Gu.
The removal will be made at once, and is
caused by fiattering overtures made by the
New England City company.
Dispatches from Brusley Landing, Plu
quemme, St. Mary, Morgan City and
other points in Louisiana, report the
overflowing water rising everywhere be
tween the Mississippi River aud Bayou
Techc. There is but little hope the for im
provement in that section until flood
now coming down the river has run out.
A Raliegh, N. C., dispatch says: The
returns of crops for April, as made by
one thousand correspondents, and as sum
marized by the department of agricul
ture, show the following percentages of
condition: Wheat, 84}; outs, 81}; rye,
86$; corn, 90; cotton, 92; clover, 95;
meadows, 98}; orchards, 04.
The Confederate Veterans’ camp, of
New York, held a meeting attend Tuesday night
to perfect arrangements to the un
veiling of the monument of General
Robert E. Lee, at Richmond, Va., on
May 29tb. There was a large attendance,
and the members were enthusiastic over
their proposed return to Dixie.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says:
The papers in the suit to be brought
against the officers of the Btate Farmers’
Alliance are about prepared understood and they will will be
filed at once. It is
charge that $1,200,000 has been misap
propriated, but by whom or in what man
ner has not been made public.
Joseph Ross, freight conductor on the
Air-Line railroad, was run over and
killed Wednesday morning, near Spartan
burg 8. C., junction. The accident hap
pened while Ross was walking on the
tops of the cars superintending the shift
ng. He dropped between the cars and
his body was cut in two.
According to the report of the State
Commissioner of Tennessee for April,
the condition of the crop on districts April 20,
was, in the wheat growing of
West Tennessee, 15 per cent, below an
average; in the wheat counties of the
central basin, 21 percent, below, and in
East Tennessee valley, 14 per cent, below
The annual ... meeting of ... the x Noriol. - r r„u- ami
^tern Railroad company was he ld at
Roanoke, \ a., on Wednesday. Tbefol
lowing^officers were re-elected: Jr. J.
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TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN
BU8Y WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS
DENSED FROM NEWSY
FROM UNCLE SAM’s DOMAIN AND
THE CABLE BKINOS.
Vienna dispatches say that strikes con
tinue to occur throughout Austria.
Five hundred tinners struck in
Wednesday hours' for nine hours’ work aud
pay.
Seven hundred workmen have
locked out by the Hanoverian
mills at Berlin, Germany.
Twenty thousand strikers at Roubaix,
France, resumed work ou Thursday.
The strike is practically ended.
A colored woman who is believed to
have been born in 1777 or 1778, died
at Topeka, Kansas, Tuesday morning.
The German reichstug opened Tuesday
and the emperor read his speech from the
throne. He suggested legislation
better tha condition of the workingmen.
Grave speculations have been discovered
in the customs department of Buenos
Ayres. The revenue lost bv the govern
ment is estimated to have reached $ 10 ,
000,000 annually.
Tha new torpedo boat, the “Crushing,”
Wednesday made the trip from Washing
ton to Mount Vernon in forty minutes. It
usually takes river boats two hours to
make the trip.
The Chicago Fanners' Review reports
the pospects for a good crop of spring
wheat thus far quite encouraging. The
acreage is reduced below that of last
year in most of the state in the wheat
belt.
The carpenter’s strike in Chicago has
ended, the carpenters and builders sign
ing an agreement by which the men arc
given an eight hour day, over time to be
rated as time and a half and Monday work
double time.
The governor of Kentucky has before
him an anti trust bill, similar to (hat of
Missouri, which lias passed the leirislu
turo, but strong efforts are being made by
sign interested parties to induce him not to
it.
The annual report of the Southern Pa
cific railroad shows that its gross earnings
for last year were $40,04it,207 ; operating
expenses, $00,004,005. There was a de
of ficit $1,879,4811 of $90,472 tliia year against a surplus
last year.
Monroe A dispatch Shellenbcrgcr, from Philadelphia, Doylestown, says: J.
the
Pa., lawyer, who ran away several week*
ago after swindling clients and farmers
in Bucks county out of nearly $150,000,
returned Monduy night and smrendered
to the sheriff.
in At Boston, libel suit Mass., on Tuesday, the jury
the brought by Broker Jnmct
Burt, of New York, against the Boston
Advertiser wherein the plaintiff sought
to recover $25,000, brought in a verdicl
for $12,500 for plaintiff.
The Bt. Petersburg correspondent of the
London News says that the Russian gov
ernment has resolved that the delegates
to prison congress shall pledge them
selves not to raise prisoners a question in Siberia. regarding
prisons aud the
M. Ellwood Lancaster, a real estate
agent Wednesday. of Philadelphia, disappeared on
He is charged with the em
bezzlement of funds entrusted to him by
various parties to invest. The amount i*
variously estimated at from $50,000 to
$70,000.
At Freeport, Banner county, Neb., on
Wednesday, a young man named daugh- Clark
had been courting Miss McIntyre, a
ter of wealthy parents, and proposed to
her, and when she rejected liim, shot bet
in the chest. He then blew out hi*
bruins. The doctors say the girl will die.
Robert. Nickett, chashier of J. M. Ber
key & Co., real estate and investment
company, of Denver, Col., was arrested
there Monday charged with being a de
faulter. It is thought that the amount of
defalcation will reach between $5,000 and
$9,000. Gambling is supposed to be the
cause.
It is announced nt New York that the
“Big Four,” consisting of the Cleveland.
Chicago, Cincinnati and Ht. Louis Rail
road company, is to purchase $10,000,000. the Alton
and Terre Haute at a price of
A special meeting of the Alton and Terre
Haute stockholders will be called to ratify
the sale.
A Wall street authority estimates like that
Abram S. Hewitt bus something $5,
000,000 invested in the south. He is
largely interested in various furnaces and
foundries, and is the owner of much real
estate. Mr. Hewitt is one the shrewdest
aud most successful business men of the
north.
The statistical report of the American
Iron and Steel association for 1889 has
just made its appearance at Philadelphia.
The report contains a table showing the
production of iron ore, coal, pig which iron,
and steel by all countries, from it
appears that the United States now pro
duces twenty-six per cent of all the iron
ore that is mined, and twenty-six per
cent of all pig iron, and tbirtv-two per
cent of al) the steel that is manufactured.
As the full details of the Longue
Point© asylum fire became known the
horror is intensified. It is known by the
last report to the Quebec government instead
that there were 1,780 inmates of
1,300, and thi* much is ccrtiain that no
one will ever know tbe numl>er of vic
tims. Frorn collateral information it
must be that there are 150 dead. It is
now known that many of the wards were
locked and in cases where the firemen
did not break in doors whole rooms full
perished miserably. The loss on the
buildiug ia placed as high as $1,500,000.
NO .V2.
FROST IN MAY.
ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI VISITED BT
HEAVY FROST.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Pekin,
111., says: A heavy frost settled down hers
early Tuesday morning and ice formed.
The strawberry crop, and peaches and
pears, are very badly damaged. At Mount
Carroll, III., the drought was broken
Tuesday, damage but grain a heavy frost fruit later than did inora rain
to and the
did benefit. The prospect for fruit was
never 111., poorer than now. At Springfield,
hoar-frost vegetation Tuesday was covered with a garden white
morning, and
ation vegetables from are distinctly nip]>ed. Inform
the country reports it to be ft
killing frost, affecting vegetables and
possibly fruits. No indication is given
as to whether it lias damaged winter
wheat. Ice was formed in Springfield.
Illinois Dispatches and received Iowa show from other points in
that, frosts were
quite reported general. Fruits and vegetables ara
A St. Louis, seriously Mo., damaged. dispatch Heavy
reported various says: sections
frosts are from
of this state, and it is feared that the
wheat crop has been injured. In many
places in others small trees fi nits in bloom were suffered destroyed, consider- while
ably. The frost was particularly heavy
in Dike and Audrain counties, in both
places ice forming considerable and the ground being
frozen to a depth.
A HOLOCAUST.
AN INSANE ASYLUM BURNS DOWN—OH*
HUNDRED VICTIMS,
A dispatch The from Montreal, Longue Canada, Poiute,
says: insane asylum at
nine miles from here, caught tire at 11
o’clock Tuesday night, and was totally
destroyed. Nothing remaius standing
but blackened walls and chimneys. It
contained thirteen hundred patients, or
rather prisoners, and eleven hundred are
accounted for. Of the remainder a con
siderable number escaped to the woods
and bushes, and are scattered through the
country. What the number of dead is is
purely a matter of conjecture and can
never hr ascertained, since no other record
is kept than that in the asylum books,
and they are also destroyed. Taking into
consideration the whole of the evidence
from the firemen, half the sane inmates,
the sisters in clmrgc, bystanders and per
sonal observation, it Is a conservative
estimate to suy that a hundred victims
met their death, though some assert that
the number is double that stated, and
others place it below this figure.
THE BOILER EXPLODED
TERRIIII.Y MANGLING THE ENGINKEH AND
FIREMAN A BRIDGE DESTROYED.
Just ns a freight train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Bantu Fc railroad was cross
ing Wellington, a small bridge a few miles eust of
Kan., Thursday evening tha
engine engineer, boiler exploded. John Mack,
wna (rushed and scaldod to
death. The fireman, name unknown,
was scalded and mangled in a terrible
manner. His recovery ia doubtful. Tuo
force urd of the explosion destroyed a bridge
sixteen cars of cattle were precipita
ted below.
GEORGIA BOND8.
$1,900,000 of the state’s security sold
TO JOHN II. INMAN.
The state of Georgia sold on' Wednes
day one million nine hundred thousand
dollars of the bonds of the stute bearing
three and one-half per cent per annum,
at par. This is the best sale ever made
by a seuthern state, and has been ex
ceeded by but few northern states.
These bonds take the place of bonds that
are bearing seven per cent interest, and
it wiil make quite an item of suviug in
the interest of the state.
SUE ING THE STANDARD.
PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED To TAKE FROM
THE COMPANY ITS. CHARTER.
Attorney-General Watson, of Ohio,
brought suit in quo worranto in the su
preme court at Columbus. Thursday, to
lake from the Standard Oil Company its
charter, for violation of laws in various
wars. The petition refers to the general
laws against monopolies, and cites the
fact that the Standard Oil Company has
forfeited its rights by going into the
Standard Oil Trust, of New York, and
receiving trust certificates in lieu of Its
former shares of stock.
Figures .Regarding Flight.
Among recent investigations which go
to encourage believers in future flying
machines, are those proving that greatly
exaggerated ideas of the force exerted by
birds have been held, and that large birds
have wings proportionately much smaller
than those of small flying creatures. Cer
tain insects flutter enormously large wings
nt the rate of 200 or 300 vibrations jier
second. The vulture is 100 times as large
ns the swallow, but its wings arc only
fifteen times as large; and the Australian
crane weighs 8,000,000 times as much as
the gnat, while the latter has 150 times
as much wing surface per unit of weight.
The eagle in full flight, instead of using
155-horse power as was formerly compu
ted, exerts only a fraction of one-horse
power. minute A pigeon flying 2,200 hour) feet per
(nearly 25 miles an exerts
1-200th of a horse-power per pound,
equal to 0}-horse-power fora flying ma
chine weighing one ton at 25 miles an
hour, or 50-horse-power jht ton weight
at 50 miles an hour. That mechanical
science will be equal to adjusting these
figures to the requirements of air-travel
ing, seems only a reasonable deduction
from the fact* as they stand.