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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VIJ.
PARKERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
AND ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR TIIE ADVANCEMENT Ol
THE GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
Tlieieare 2,196 Alliances in Georgia.
*** in North
There are 100,000 Alliancemen
Carolina.
*** will
The State Alliance have a conven
tion at Atlanta, August 19th.
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Seven new chat tel's were issued on July
7tli, aud go to seven different counties.
*** hold
The Alabama State Alliance will
its annual session in Montgomery, be
ginning on the first Wednesday iu Au
gust.
* *
The Clarion Ledger denounces the cen
sus just taken iu Jackson, Miss., as be
ing grossly inacurate, aud calls upon tin
city authorities to have a city censui
taken.
.**
West Virginia State Alliance T ill b«
organized at Charleston. Kanawha county,
August 18, bv President Barbee of Vir
ginia, assisted by J. H. Turner, national
secretary.
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The Alliance of Alabama will use
bagging for the coming cotton crop.
Cost 5f cents per yard for 1£ pound pound bag
ging, six cents per yard f.or two
bagging. ***
Your presence at the Alliance meetings
tells the world that you know you havt
rights, and are williug to xvork and sac
rifice for their maiutainauee .—Florida
A Ilia nee- Farmer.
***
Jasper county, Indiana, has thirteen
Alliances and 600 members. There are
forty counties in the State under the Far
mers’ Mutual Benefit Association, with a
membership of 40,000, all voters.
*** organiz
The Alliance and all fraternal
ations were never more prosperous than
to-day. The order is embracing all and state*
aud increasing in thoroughness ef
fectiveness .—Arkansas Union Journal.
*
* *
The members of Cedar Rock (Ga.,)
Farmers’ Alliance, No. 497, have adopted
the following resolutions: Resolved,
That we -will not support any man for any
office who uses liquor done, or money, or suf- hi*
fers the same to be to secure
election.
***
The colored Alliance farmers over in
Alabama are takiug action in regard to
the ginning of cotton aud the sale of the
cotton seed. They hope by co-operation
to remedy some of tiie evils now com
plained of iu regard prices to high charges seed. of
ginning and low of cotton
They want the cotton seed oil mills not
only to pay better prices for seed, but
make earlier purchases of the saute.
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If our Alliance and Union ever wishes
to accomplish any great good they hold must
launch out into tbe deep—take ol
state and national affairs, where all the
great evils first exists, j>ut men at the
head of our government that will do the
will of the masses of the people, and not
the bidding of corporations and monied
sharks who have already brought out
country to financial ruin .—Industrial
Union.
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The campaign in South Carolina is be
coming comp icated to a degree that per
plexes outsiders. A wonderful thing tc
the uninitiated seems to be the notice
from the colored Alliance that its mem
bers will support tbe candidates agreed
on by the white farmers. This seems to
put the element which contends that a
division among the whites means negro
supremacy at sea. 11 is, however, the a na
tural result of the teachings of indeed Alli
ance, that all farmers, aud all
producers, have common interests, which
should be a stronger bond between them
than mere party ties .—National Econo
mist.
The Farmers Friend. Iola. Kan., says:
“Prejudice is being killed. Did you ever
think of that? The laboring people are
coming rapidly to their senses and fully
realize already that reform can only come
by being brought about by concerted ac
tion. All over Vhe country there seems
to be a grow ing demand for a change in
the political aspect of things; and when
such a universal demand is made it must
be heeded. An independent party, in
which tbe great common people could
join together in the election of candi
dates pledged to needed reforms, is de
manded. and must be t:ie outcome of the
present state of affairs.
* *
At present there aie six mills in Geor
gia manufacturing cottou bagging. There
will probably tie more. Two mills at
Augusta, one at Dalton, and one at West
Point, one at Rosedale, and one at Deca
tur. ate turning out the basging to cover
the cotton crop of the State. If the«e
cannot make it fast enough other mills
will be started in the manufacture of it.
Already ten thousand yards of cotton
bagging has been shipped to Southern
Georgia for the early crop. demand As soon for as
the crop blooms, and the
bagginu begins, the bagging will be
ready. Every bale of Georgia cotton will
be covered xvith cotton bagging this year.
/, adopted by
Among other resolutions
the Pickens County Alliance, at their re
cent meeting in Carrollton, Ala., are the
following: favor the free coin
Resolved. That we
age of ail Ter.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1890.
Resolved, That we favor the Alliauct
manufacturing their own fertilizers, and
that our delegate to the State Alliance lie
instructed to use his influence to that
effect, and that we pledge our heurty sup
po't to suck an action.
Resolved. That we favor the election
of United States seuutor by direct vote ol
.the Resolved. people. That favor liberal
we a more
« ipropriation for common schoo's.
***
A dispatch from Raleigh, says: The
Farmers’ Allianee of New Hanover couu
iy, N. G., has just done something which
is exciting comment. Two representa
tives of the Alliance appeared before the
democratic county executive committee,
and asked for conference, the object ot
which was to secure representation delegations, on and the
state and cougiessional
also on the legislative ticket. After con
siderable discussion, the Alliancentcn
were unable to agree, ami withdrew, and
the following resolution was passed by
the executive committee: “New Hanover
county Farmers’ Allianee souarht a con Ter
ence with the executive committee of the
county, and demanded farmers on the
legislative ticket, and representation in
the congressional and state conventions.
On being questioned they stated that they
could not promise to support any demo
cratic candidate who would not pledge the
himself to support the democrats of
Farmer's Alliance; that they would sup
port the republican candidate in prefer
ence should he accede to the demands ol
Farmers' Alliance, even though the dem
ocratie party divides its nominees with
the said alliance. We as democrats could
not.deviate from the platform of the dem
ocratic party, and by our action pledge de
the democratic voters to support the
mands of tiie Farmers’Alliance, and hove
therefore declined to accede to the de
mands of the committee with whom we
conferred.”
ABOUT TRADE.
XVHAT DUN & CO., SAY OF THE WEEK'S
BUSINESS.
The weekly review of trade of It. <4.
Dtiu A Go. says: The silver bill has
been passed and signed by the prsidcut,
but has had scarcely any effect in the
market as yet, excepting an advance iu
bar silver to 50s 31 d, followed by a de
cline to 50d. In interior money markets
there is a moderate increase of demand
though the supply seems to be adequate
everywhere. At Boston the market is
easier, at Philadelphia dull, and at Chi
cago firm nt former rates. Western hides
” higher, and there is good retail
are a
trade in summer goods. Cotton goods buyers. are
strong, but wool favors
Philadelphia reports very small
sales of xvi.ol and a bright out
look in groceries and iron. The Chicago
board of trade statistics continue to show
a great increase over last year in tiie
movement of all gram and flour and in
meats, while a rather better tone is re
ported in Philadelphia. In the iron
market there is an improved consumption dunand foi
structural iron. The large
of copper sustains prices at 17 cents.
Goal is lower. No definite improvement
is shown in the woolen goods market.
The speculative markets have been curi
ously variable. Wheat is more than hall
tv cent lower than a week ago, notwith
standing some evidences of injury from
drough. Corn has advanced nearly a
half cent and outs over 2c, without a
clearly definable reason, except in specu
lation. Cotton is an eight higher again
in spite of favorable crop reports. Hogs
and pork products are weaker. Raw
sugar has been advanced a sixth
tec ath. though refined is lower, and
the rip rec kies product offered be
low that of the trust. The gen
eral average prices of commodities is
nearly one per cent, loxver than a week
ago, and with no set-lmck in crop pros
pects considerab y lower quotations seem in
probable. The treasury lias taken
$2,100,000 more money than it paid out
during the past week, although it has
purchased 525,000 ounces of silver at a
price not much below #1.10. Foreign
trade continues unsatisfactory, as respects
tHe monetary feature, because merchan
dise reports from New York for half of
July fall twenty per cent, below those of
thesanie week last year. The stock mar
ket has been unsettled and dull, the fail
lire to settle the trunk line rates accor
ding to expectations having a depressing and
influence. Goal carriers were strong,
railroads generally report a heavy increase
over last year in earnings. Business
failures occurring during the week mini
her for the United States, 18»: Canada,
20. Total, 207, against 197 last week.
THE QUESTION SETTLED
REGARDING MEMBERSHIP OF SAI/IGN KEEP
ERS IN THE K. OF P. ORDER.
At Milwaukee, Friday, the supreme
lodge of Knights of Pythias concluded
its sixteenth biennial session. Before ad
journment, the long talked of liquoi
question was settled. A long and bitter
debate was entered into between the pro
hibition representatives and local option
nun. Tbe latter finally won, the supreme
lodge deciding that the various grand
lodges xvere to judge whether saloon
keepers would be admitted to niemlier
sbip in lodges subordinate to them.
CANT BE BOTH.
REV. KELLEY, D. D., WILL ENTER THE
POLITICAL ARENA.
A Nashville dispatch says. Rev. D. <’
Kelly. D. D., having decided to remain
*n the prohibition ticket for governor,
has been compelled to give up hi* church
at Gallatin. Presiding Elder B. F.
Ilayne- announced from “the pnlpit of Dr.
Kelly's church at Gallatin Sunday that
Dr. Kelly could not lie a preacher and *
[sditieian at the same time. He will
breach hU farewell sermon next Sunday.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUU
COXI MON COUNTRY. —NOTES.
The journal having been read and ap
proved, the house, on Wednesday, went
into committee of the whole, Mr. Peters, of
Kansas, in the chair, on the land grant,
foifeituie bill. Pending discussion, the
committee rose, and .Mr. tflwcney, of Iowa,
presented the conference report on the
liill authorizing the const ruction of bridges
icross the Iowa river, at Wapello, Iowa.
No quorum being announced, the House
idjourued in without action. Mr.Pasco
the senate, on Wednesday, referred
offered a resolution, which was
to the committee on foreign relations,
.ailing on the secretary of state for in
formation as to the arrest by Spanish Diaz, au
thorities, in Havana, of A. J. an
American citizen and a minister of the
gospel. Mr. Teller introduced a trill
giving a pension of #2,000 a year to Mrs,
Jesse Fremont. Referred to the commit
' tee on pensions. Mr. Sawyer introduced
i hill to establish limited postal and tel
egraph service. Referred to the post
irtice committee. The senate then went
into u brief executive session. The doors
were reopened st I :80. On moti u of-Mr.
Hawley, the bill to establish a national
military park at the battlefield
;>f Chickamauga was tukeu from the cal
endar and passed, with some, minor
amendments. The senate resumed con
sideration of the sundry civil appropria- being
tion bill, the pending amendment
to increase the appropriation for survey- $600,
ing public lands amendment from $200,000 agreed to to.
600. The was
The next amendment that provoked dis
mission was oue increasing the item for a
topographical survey from $200,000 to
$8001,000. This brought out a lengthy
debate. During the suspension of the
discussion, the senate hill to authorize
the construction of bridges over the Ka
vuunnli, Oemttlgec and Oconee river A was
reported and placed on the calendar. Mr.
Dawes, from the cemmit.tcc appropriation on appropri
ations, reported the Indian
bill, and said that immediately after the
conclusion af the sundry civill appropri
ation bill, he would ask the senate to
consider it. It calls for $7,168,811,
against $0,022 688, as the bill came from
the house. The discussion was resumed,
and Mr. Plumb argued in support of the
amendment and in general defense of the
desert land law, swamp land law aud
other land laws of the United States.
Mr. Call replied to Mr. Plumb, and was
still on the floor when, at 6 o’clock,
without action on the pending amend
ment, the senate adjourned, having dis
posed of only three pagis of the hill
during the day.
Immediately after reading the journal
on Thursday the house went into com
mittee of the whole (Mr. Peters, of Kan
sas in the chair) on the land grunt forfeit
ure bill. A short debate, participated Cobb of in
by Messrs. McRae of Arkansas,
Alabama, and Paysou of Illinois, ensued.
On motion of Mr. Herbert, of providing Alabama,
-an amendment was adopted permitted
that all cash entries heretofore
to be made xvithin the limits of the grant
to aid in the construction of the Alabama
and Florida, or the Mobile and Girard
railroads, be validated and patents issued
to purchasers thereof, provided that the
government retains the purchase money.
The bill was then reported which to the the house
anil passed. The bill, is sen
ate bid with the house substitute therefor,
forfeits all lands granted to aid in the
construction of railroads opposite to, and
coterminous with a portion of any such
railroad not now completed. Tiie house
adjourned.
The senate, on Thursday, resumed • n
siderution of the sundry civil appropria
tion bill, the pending question appropria- being on
the amendment to add to the
of $.800,000 for topographic surveys, should a
provision that one half that sum
be expendedvweat of the 101st meridian,
and that the act of October, 1888, reserv
iug irrigable lands, be repealed. Mr.
Call continued his argument of Wednes
day against the amendment. Mr. Moody
argued in favor of the amendment and
spoke of its transcendent importance to
the people of South Dakota. Mr. Mor
gan then addressed the senate. He was
followed by Mr. Reagan. Without finish
ing his remarks, Mr. Reagan yielded the
Boor for a motion to adjourn, no prog
ress having been made with the bill for
the day. After a short executive session
the senate, at 6:15, adjourned till Friday
it 11 a. in.
In the house, on Friday, Mr. Cannon,
of Illinois, for the committee on rules,
reported a resolution providing that the
house shall immediately proceed to the
consideration of the 'original package”
bill, tbe previous ordered question to be consid- the
ered as on Monday, after
reading of the journal, aud that the house
shall consider the bankruptcy bill, the
previous question Wednesday, to t>e considered reading as or- of
dered on after the
the journal. The house decided-—yeas
115, nays 55—to consider the resolution.
The “original package” bill was then
taken up. Arguments pro and eon were
made by Messrs. Taylor, Culberson. Ad
ams, Reed, of Iowa, and Morse. Pend
ing debate the house took a recess until 8
o’clock, the evening session being for the
consideration of private jiension bills.
Nothing was done at the evening session
■jf the house. Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee,
raised tbe point of no quorum on the first
motion made, and the bouse, at 8.80. ad
journed.
On Friday, the resolution’offered Thurs
day in tbe senate by Mr. Allison, making
it in order, in the consideration of appro-
print ion lulls, to move to limit the debate
on the amendment* to live minutes for
each senator, was presented. The resold
tion was laid on the table, subject to call
hereafter. Consideration of the sundry
civil bill was resumed, the pendingques
tion being, ns on Thursday, $2o0.000 the amend
ment increasing from to $800.
000 the appropriation for the topographic
survey. After a long debate upon a line
with those of the two or three preceding
days, tile amendment was agreed to.
O tter amendments recommended by the
committee on appropriations were agreed
to. The bill was then laid aside, sixty
three pages having heen disposed of out
ol a total ot 114. Mr. Atuson gave no
tice that he. would ask the senate to re
main in session Saturday until the hili
would be completed. Mr. Vance intro
duced a bill providing for the the repeal of
the tax of ten per eeut on circulation
of state banks, and providing that no
higher rate of tax shall be levied on such
circulation than on that of national
hanks. Referred to the finance commit
tee. After a brief executive session, the
senate at ti.10 adjourned till Saturday at
11 a. m.
The home, pn Saturday, resumed com
sideration of the original package bill,
and almost the entire day was eon
sumed in speech making. Pending de
bate, the hots 1 took a recess till S
o'clock, the evening session to be for de
bate only. resumed
The senate, on Saturday, eon
sideration of the sundry civil appropria
tion bills Various amendments were re
ported and agreed to and the bill wh*
reported to the senate mid all the amend
meuts agreed to in committee of tin
whole were agreed to in bulk, and th»
bill was then passed. The inriiT bill wa>
taken up ns unfinished business, and Mr.
Aldrich gave notice that lie would move
o take it up at 2 o'clock on Monday.
The senate then, at 8:45, adjourned till
Moudiiv at noon.
TWO BIG BLAZES.
ONE AT MINNEAPOLIS, THIS OTHER AT DEN
TON, TEXAS.—HEAVY LOSSES.
At Minneapolis, Minn., on Tuesday
afternoon, the large seven story warehouse
of the Secuiitv Warehouse company,
owned by Wood & More, xvas burned, en
tailing a loss of nearly a million dollars.
The. fire, caught upon the second floor of
the building, aud is supposed combustion. to have
been caused by spontaneous
It'soon spread to the upper floors, which
were tilled with agricultural implements,
white on the fourth floor were 500 tons ol
binding twine, which added fuel to the
flames. 'file burned warehouse was
erected in April of this year, aud was
used us a storage and transfer wan house,
and one of the largest establishment**, of
its kind iu Minneapolis. It cost ubout
$50,000 and was insured for $85,000. Its
proprietors say they will rebuild at once.
The losses are as follows: National
(’< rduge company, binding twine, #285,
000; insured. William Deering & Go.,
of Ghi' ago. $125,000. Emerson, Talcott
& Go., Rockford, 111., #25,000. Grand
Detour Flow company, Dixon, Ill., #25,
000. American Road Machine company,
Philadelphia, $10,000. Appleton Man
ufacturing company, Appleton, Wis.,
$85,000. O. S. Kelly Waterbury A Co., Springfield,
Ohio, $10,000. L & Co.,
New York, $100,000. Wood A Morse,
$50,000. Miscellaneous loss, at least
$200,000. In addition to these amounts
are the losses of individuals who had fur
niture stored. 'Ihere wus a large quanti- insur
ty of silverware burmd. All the
ance, save that on the building, was held
outside of the city. Fire
A Denton, Texas, destroyed special says; of the
Tuesday morning of Denton. one The
principal business blocks
loss is $100,000, with an insurance of
$45,000. The fire engine was out of
order. The heaviest losers are: A. Gra
ham, drygoods, building and stock, $28,
000; C. A. Williams, drygoods, building
and stock, $18,000; Mrs. Kowskey, #5,
000 .
RESOLUTIONS PAS8ED
AGAINST SAISHATII DESEC.iATION AT TIIK
COMING WORLD’S EXPOSITION.
At a large meeting held in Harwell
hall, Chicago, Sunday afternoon, the fol
lowing resolutions were passed unani
mous y by a rising vote:
Resolved, That the legislature of out
state called to meet this week and take
action in reference to the World's Colum
bian exposition, be closed Sunduys.
Resolved, That injury to our city, stuti
and nation of European Sabbath can
not be estimated, and thut, America!
institution of a quiet Subtmth niu-t not
i*- trampled in the dust.
Resolved, That the example held by
*ue United States of America at Philadel
phia in 1876 and in Paris in 18H9, shall
be continued, and that we owe to thr
workingmen of the world, nation, and enpeciallv this
to those of our state and that
precious boon of a rest day be saved for
them.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be forwarded to the senate and
house of representatives and to the gov
t-rnor.
Resolved, That a copy of similar reso
lutions be forwarded t<> the commissioner* president of
the United State* and the
of the World's Columbian exposition and
board of directors.
The resolutions were introduced and
adopted after speeehe- following iqsin tb*
statements made by Major D. W. White,
just from I»n<lon, regarding tbe iztere-t
beimr taken in the fair.
The average daily pay of locomotive_
gineer* in Great Britain is $1.46; of firemen
ninety-one cents; conductors, ninety-seven
cents; switchman in Great Britain, eighty
five cents; In the United Ktales, $1.60; flag
men in Great Britain, eighty-one ceoto; to
th* United States. $1 12.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT 16 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY or OtlSIlK At FAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DI8PATCHE*
from uncle saw's domain and what
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The Russian government has ordered
the building ot four new ironclads.
Two blocks of houses were destroyed
by tire at Hot Springs, Ark., Wednesday
night.
Eugene Schuyler, American consul gen
era! at Cairo. Egypt, died in that plan
Friday.
The coroner at ( hicago is making an
investigation sion "Tioga into the cause of the explo
on the "’
A whole family, consisting of father,
mother and six children, were suffocated
by charcoal fumes, in Paris, Thuisday.
The director of tiie mint was informed
lint $700,009 in gold bars were drawn
Tom thciussy office in New York, Friday,
or shipment to Europe.
The Mexican government lias grunted
Mr. Peniche, representing F.dison, an ex
ension of six months to establish the
aistal phonograph system.
A report has reached the polic e of New
York that a Chinaman grocer lit No 15
Mott street has become afflicted with
eprosy and was being eoueealed by bis
'mauls.
The supreme council of agriculture at
Paris 1ms voted a duty of five per cent on
Tiltons, five frillies per 100 kilos on wheat,
tnd eight francs per 100 kilos on wheat
flour.
Violent wind and rain storms passed
over Allentown, Pa., and Trenton, N. J.,
Thursday afternoon. Four persons ground at
the latter place were felled to the
by lightning.
A Buenos Ayres dispatch of Sunday
says: Conflicting reports arc current the o
the discovery of a plot, against gov
eminent. Heini-otHeial papers dcelari
that the reports have no foundation.
The temporary ad justment of the striki
of the Louisville and Nashville switch
men and hraketuen. made ten days ago a
Louisville was, on Thursday, made pinna
nent. The men are conceded a largi
share of their demands.
(Superintendent Porter, of the censm
oillee, Thursday, completed an oflieia
rough count of the population of the city
of New York. 'I he result shows a popu
lution of 1,518,501, an Increase ol 25.4
percent during the last decade.
The meeting of strikers at Trenton, N.
J., Iron works, announced to conic of
Saturday, did not take place. There ii
no change in the situation either at thi'
mill or at the New Jersey Steel and iroi
works, w here 400 men are out.
A ( hicago dispatch says: The switch
men employed by the Chicago, Itoeli
Island and Pacific railroad company, he
tween Fourteenth street and South Chi
cago, struck Saturday morning and, as i
consequence, all business on the line is a
a standstill
A dispatch received at Paris, Saturday,
from Montevideo says that the finaneia
situation there it becoming worse. '1 h<
government of Uruguay,the dispatch says
will negotiate a loan in Loudon. A
the i lose of Montevideo bourse. Friday
gold was quoted at 284 percent premium
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
under date of Sunday says: 'Hie IU Uni
renal publishes an account of a butt It
between the Guatemalans and San Hal
vadoriatis, in San Salvador, in which th<
former were defeated with heavy loss
The Guatemalan force numbered 0,000
Eight prisoners, who were confined in
the Pulaski county jail at Mount City,
seven miles from Cairo, 111., escaped Fri
day night. Some oue outside imugg led u
rope to them, and they reached tin
ground through a scuttle hole. None ol
them have been recaptured.
The American consulate at Pari* i*
overrun with French merchants making
inquiries and complaining of the effect*
of the American customs administrate
bill, it, is apparent that they have uever
la-fore been confronted with such a seri
oils measure, enforcing an absolute, exact
and honest valuation.
A special of Saturday, from Chamber
liu, H. !>., says: Judge Henry, of tni*
district, has sustained his temporary in
junction closing the original grounds imektig*
houses in this city. The given
for the decision are thut the enabling act
admitting (South Dakota to statehood
authorized the enactment of h prohibitory
clause in the state constitution.
A New York dispatch says: What i«
believed to be a fraul settlement of tbt
•loukmakers’ troubles wuh reached Satur
day evening. Barondeo, the Russian rulei
of tbe operators, made a complete ‘ flop,
mil urged a ratification of the agreement
with a slight amendment. It is believed al
the men will at once return to work.
A dispatch from Anderson, Jnd., says
While Louis Pippin was digging a well
near here Friday afternoon hi- pick broke
through into a hollow at the liotfoin.
There was a rush of son-in-law, gas and Pippin
dropped dead. IPs David
Walker, wa» lowered into The the bodies well, and
nc. too, was suffocated. tvi re
recovered two hours later.
In his sermon in the cathedral af Ar
nagh Ireland on Sunday, Rer. Mr. Mac
Neece denounced secret societies, lit
•cferred especially to the Ancient Orctei
A Hibernians. He said this society,
which had foundered in America, was
-eeking new members in Ireland, and he
warned ail Catholics against having any
hiogto do with the organization.
The export* of specie from ended the port ol
Sew York, for the week fiaturday,
NO 10.
Inly 10. amounted to $'8,470,181, ol
which $2,828, 181 was in gold and $142,
I'flO in silver. All tb«; silver and #2,
:l2:i. 181 in gold went to Europe, and
#5.000 in gold went to South America.
The imports of specie, for which the week,
amounted to $140,881, of $98,507
was in gold and $42,781 in silver.
At ( hicago, Satmdav afternoon, the
Unittd StaU s nuthovitiis seized 250 bnr
tels of naptha lielonging to the Genesee Oil
company, of Buffalo, which was shipped
then- on the steamer Tioga. The setsuro
was made because of the violation of the
law regarding the shipping of the fluid;
the company marking the barrels of naptha
imply ••Diamond B." The stature un
der which this seizure was made pro
viiUs for the sale of the oil, and the sum
derived therefrom to he appropriated to
l ucle Sam.
The extensive machine works of S. J.
r. Todd, one of the oldest manufactu
ring establishments in Patterson, N. J.,
was destroyed by fire early Sunday morn
in"-, entailing a I as of about $150,000.
I lie Todd machine works were the pnn
■ipnl establishment in the United State*
for making hemp and rope machinery.
Its owrer was the pioneer iu this country
in producing improved machinery for
»MA ’Miunnsr. 4 liii-gi* force of skilled
mechanics will be thrown out of employe
incut,
A Cincinnati dispatch says: An ami*
cable si tllemcnt of the present trouble*
on the Big Four whs reached Saturday.
The puHscnger engineers and firemen on
the Big Four are adwfured to $8.50 pel
hundred miles for engineers, and for fifty- tire*
live per coni, off that amount
men. The old Bee line freight engineer*
and firemen were granted an advance to
$4 per 100 miles for engineers, with fif
ty-live per cent, off that rate for firemen.
'1 he Louisville and Nashville road has
also made a satisfactory settlement with
its brakemen and switchmen.
A BOYS CRIME.
WANTED TO EXTERMINATE THE OLD FOLKS
IN ORDER TO GET THEIIl PROPERTY.
A dispatch of Thursday from Anna,
111., says: A terrible story of youthful
depravity cornea from Gorville, a small
town in the western edge of Johnson
county, remote from railroads and tele
graphic stations. Monday night, a sup
posed burglar broke into the house of a
farmer named Morris Sullivan. On fired being
challenged bv Mr. Sullivan, he at
him, inflicting grappled a mortal with the wound. murderer Morria nnd
Sullivan
was also fatally shot. The alarm xvoa
given; neighbors came in and caught, the
murderer, who proved to be the sixteeu
yeur-old son of Sullivan. He gave as a
reason for committing the atrocious crime
the fact that lie was tired waiting for tba
old folk's property.
THE ITALIAN EXODUS.
LEAVING HIE COUNTRY AT THE RATE O*
175,000 A YEAH.
A cablegram from London Days:
The emigration statistics for the year
1889 issued by the It ilian government,
show an increase iu the number of de
partures from Italy so large as to cause
much uneasiness in regard to the coun
try’s e-'sllable material for tnilitury aug
mentation iu the event of an emergency
demanding a large addition to the army.
The returns just published show that
luring the period mentioned nearly 175,
000 Italians have sought homes in other
countries.
AUSTRALIA BOOMING.
t ill. GOV KILN XIENT ASKKI) TO AID IN THE
I UNSTIM ( 1 ION ot RAILWAY*.
A dispatch of Sunday from Melbourne,
Australia, says: The premier has intro
duce l in parliament a railway bill, pro
viding tm the construction of 1,017 miles
of country lines and thirty nines miles of
suburban line s, the whole to cost of A’1‘2,-
51 0,000, besides a grant from the treas
ury of £2,000,001 . lie said that the
scheme wus necessary in order to meet
the growth of the population, increasing which, as
the census proved, was America. foster Tho
than the imputation received. of
bill was well
TANNER OUTDONE.
AN ILLINOIS MAN’S LONG FAST—SIXTY DAYS
WITHOUT NOURISHMENT.
John Roth, of Galena, III., who outdid
Tanner in his celebrated fast, died Tues
day at tin- county assylum, having passed
his sixtieth day of total nbstioence from
food or any kind of nourishment, except
a small quantity of water, which was
forced into his stomach mechanically ev
ery five hours. For such au absolute
fast, his record is no doubt the longest
ever made.
A FAMILY CREMATED.
A HOLOCAUST IN QUEBEC IN WHICH FIT*
PEOPLE PERISH.
A dispatch from Quebec, Ontario,aaya:
At 2 o’clock Friday morning fire was dis
covered in a barroom on St. Joseph
street. The flames made such rapid pro
gress that the whole house waa soon
ablaze, and a family of five people was
burned to death.
Farmers tt-roughont North and South
Dakota are becoming agitated over the ecare
ity of labor. Hundreds of men are needed
in every county to save the big wheat croc
which it now coming forward. Wages wifi
be from per day from the opening of
haying July to December tbe end of the threshing season.
15 to 1.
So successful has Wn the fishing of blue
isli this year that dealers in New York city
nave been unable to dispose of oil sent to
them for mle, and consequently large num
bers have to be thrown away, or rather ora
.brown away in order to