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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. ML
FARMERS' ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR TIIE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
Those who oppose the sub- treasury
plan are opjrosed to cheaper money for
the people; there is do dodging this
statement. —Nat ion a i Econom ist.
***
The merchants, law’yers, doctors, all
are interrsted in the sub-treasury. It is
not class, it is for all. To protect tlie
farmer is to protect his creditor. To
protect both the farmer and their credi
tors is to put business upon a safe basis
and to bring prosperity to the country.
The Sub-Alliances of Georgia are the
source of all Alliance sentiment and all
Alliance strength. The sub-Alliauces are
for the sub-treasury bill and against any
candidate who will not endorse it. To
support and elect a man who is opposed
to it will be a disgrace to the Alliance.—
Southern Alliance Farmer.
***
There will be a grand reunion of the
Farmers’ Alliance of Alabama at the
Southern Exposition in Montgomery, on
November 11th and 12th. The National
president, Col. L. L. Polk, Capt. B. F.
Tillmnn, of South Carolina, Hon. John
T. Buchanan, of Tennessee, and Presi
dent L. F. Livingston, of Georgia, will
deliver addresses on that occasion.
* *
In a prospectus sent out by the Farm
ers' Newspaper Alliance is the following: divided
“Shall we allow our hosts to be
and defeated in detail by unscrupulous
politicians, working backed in the interest hireling of
Wall street and by a
press, and the whole paid for with our
money, wrung from our reluctant grasp
by Shy locks, usurers and soulless coi po
tations, to be used for our oppression?”
***
The Signal (Manhattan, hold Kas.,) principle says:
That a man can to the of
the Farmers’ Alliance and stand on the
platform of either the Republican for or
Democratic parties is as impossible us
“a camel, etc.” No man who sincerely
invokes reform legislation from Congress for
and other legislative policy bodies to-day will vote the
men whose party is to
rich.
*
The Farmers’Alliance will establish a
school at Morehead City, N. C. The
foundations for the building are laid.
Three hundred pur iiis cun be accommo
dated. Board and tuition will be fur
nished at actual cost. The superintend- aud
ent will purchase food at wliolesde
each pupil will pay his exact proportion of
the cost—which will be about $.5 per
month. The teachers’ salaries will be
divided among the pupils the same way.
***
The Alliance Times (Anderson, Ind.,)
says: There is no reason why the Alli
ance and F. M. B. A. should not woik
together in harmony. The objects of
the two orders are identical, and the good only
way to win is to work together witli
will and harmony. Let us have no ill
feeling on this score. What would be
better, would be for all the farmers’ or
ganizations to unite into oue grand body.
They could certainly do much more, for
where there is union there is strength.
***
A distinction should be made between
the sub-treasury plan aud the sub-treas
ury bill. The former Alliance was adopted by the
National Farmers’ made andjlndustrial the
Union, and it was the duty of
legislative committee to prepare the lat
ter. This they did us their interpretation
of a good plan to carry out the pupose of
the former. The committee and the or
der generally will be glad to have any
person improve on the bill .—Southern
Alliance Farmer.
Industrial Free Press (Winfield. KaZy,
says: True men will not be bribed, /jfcn
who are honest with themselves and With
their neighbors will walk up to the polls
this fall and vote for their best financial,so
cial will and political interests. Such men
turn a deaf ear to the howling* and
ravings of the partisan press and their
backers as well as their followers. Men
who read and have cast aside that sec
tional feeling of party, will be men who
work for tlie welfare of others as well as
their own.
V.
The Topeka Capital still has its daily
column showing the Alliance to be a
Democratic organization. Democratic
journals are equally zealous in demon
strating it to be a Republican aid society;
and all the while the people are still ex
tending and perfecting attention their organization
and paying no to the ranting*
•of either party. Members of the Alli
ance believe that they themselves under
stand the character of their organization
and their own motives and j>ur|>oscs fully
as well as do these hirelings of the old
parties .—Topeka [Kan.) Adtocats.
*%
An exchange says that any measure
calculated to benefit any one class is class
legislation, and that as the sub-treasurv
plan is designed to help the farmers,
therefore it is class legislation. Nothin 2
could more completely misrepresent the
purposes of the sub-treasurv plan. It is
sot designed to help the farmer bv t'. giv
ing him anv class privilege, but help
him bv stopping fhere a class discrimination
against him is now a discrimina
tion against him bv low prices in the fall
when he is a seller', and high prices in
different seasons. Warehousiac is not
BLACKSHEAR GA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER <>, 1800.
essential to the subt-reasury plan; it is
only one method. -National Economist.
***
The following evidence of the effective
opposition of the Farmers’ Alliance to the
Lodge election bill. Is just received. Op
position by the president of the State
Alliance of Mew York will be a powerful
help: —■‘While
“To Whom rr May Concern:
striving for reformation all along the line,
and demanding among other things, a
free ballot and a lair counr, yet. at the
earnest request of Col. Leonid is F. Liv
ingston, president of the Georgia State
Alliance, endorsed by its conven
tion, and by other Southern State A11 i
liances, whose orders I am pledged to
obey in the matter of the pending elec
tion bill, I hereby however, promise to the oppose privilege the
same— reserving, views in satisfactory
of changing my presented of case such unlawful
proof shall be
intimidation, violence or fraud against
Alliuncemeu in these states at the Novem
ber elections as shall afford uudoubtel
cause for its passage.
John Livingston.
AGAINST THE LARD BILL.
THE GROCERS AND IMPORTERS OF PHILA
DELPHIA RAISE A HOWL.
A well attended meeting of the grocers
and importers’ exchange of Philadelphia,
was held Tuesday, for the purpose of
protesting against the passage by the
senate of the bill known as the “Conger
lard bill.” Two sets of resolutions pro
testing against tlie bill—both nearly
identical in their import—were pre
sented to the meeting. One of the reso
lutions askod of congress the passage of a
general food bill; bur, after some debate,
It was rejected by the meeting, and the
following resolution was Paddock, passed : chair
“To the Hon. A. B.
man of the agricultural committee,
United States Senate: The grocers’ and
importers’ exchange, of tho city of Phila
delphia, most respectfully ask vour hon
orable body to take into consideration
their protest against the passage of bill,
II. R., 11,508, known a* the Conger lard
bill. While we r.re desirous of having
laws regulating the sale of all compound
articles used as food, the provisions of
this bill are such that it legislates iu favor
of one article of food against another.
The restrictions placed in this bill on all
products in the least degree resembling their
lard are equal to a prohibition consider of
manufacture and sale. We cot
ton seed oil wholesome and valuable for
food. We are opposed to any legislation
which favors one article of food at the
expense of another.”
The secretary of the e xchange was in
structed to have a copy of these resolu
tions drawn up and forwarded to Senator
Paddock.
UNFORTUNATE COLON
VISITED BY ANOTHER TERRIBLE AND
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION.
A cablegram of Thursday from Panama
says: This isthmus has been visited by
another destructive fire. This time Colon,
Aspinwall, ily has suffered even more heav
than before, aud the loss is calculated
to exceed $1,000,000. Tlie section con
sumed embraced the whole of the city
front, and everything was destroyed save
a few stone walls, where stood business
house buildings in which for years a
large general business had been done.
The railroad company is a heavy loser hi a
cars, while shippers and consignees of*
through cargoes report a loss of at least
priucipal ninety car loads of freight, All the
business houses were destroyed.
Among this number were those occupied
by Messrs. Ehrmen, Mad tiro & Cuyos,
Pisa Lindo &. Co., Isaacs <fc Arch and A.
•fames & Co., as well as all the hotels, the
Panama Railroad Company’s office, Pan
ama railroad freight house and other
equally important buildings were among
those which fell. The suffering and des
titution resulting everywhere from the
fire strike with extreme bitterness and
severity on the transient population,
which is at present totally dependent
on occasional jobs of work for means of
subsistence. There is nothing on which
to employ the homeless, and starvation
stares th ;m in th : face.
THE NEGRO IN DEMAND.
COTTON PLANTERS FROM OTHER STATES TO
RAID NORTH CAROLINA.
have A Raleigh dispatch says: Louisiana, Parties who
just returned from Ala
bama and Mississippi, learned from cot
ton planters in these states that the de
mand for negro laborers from North Caro
lina will this year be much greater than
last. The farmers must have tlie labor,
and that the agents will go after it in
November. Last year the agents got to
work too late, and the result was that
many negroes could uot be secured as
they had made contracts for the new year.
Not only will many labor agents and
representatives of railways Ire at work,
but planters will come themselves in
search of what they want. As a conse
quence another large exodus from the state
is expected.
AFTER THE EDITORS.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS OF NEWSPAPER MEN
UNDER THE NEW LAW.
A , ,, Montgomery , dispatch .. . , says: __ Die
newspaper men of Alabama have nearly
ail been caught by the anti-lottery law.
and the ? “ a ^ rfec Hurry of excite
meat over their wholesale arreat by fed
fraI « fficCT8 V Joe ***«% of th e °^ rk
, . f , r
to
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f=*' e bcinU.
TELEGRAPH AND .CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
fcsUSY onev mnoi WOKwU. r>
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CARLE BRINGS.
Cholera is believed to have broken out
aut in Barcelona, Spain.
German day was celebrated in St.
Louis by a grand procession, comprising
20,000 people.
Mrs. James Caley, aged one hundred
and ten years, died at Bridgeport, Conn.,
Friday.
A dispatch from London says that the
new tariff hill will destroy Birmingham’s
buttou trade.
“Jack, the Ripper,” has served notice
upon the London police that lie is about
to kill another woman.
George Bancroft, the historian, cele
brated iiis ninetieth birthday Friday at
his residence, in Newport, II. I.
The National Civil Service Reform
League met in Boston Thursday, Presi
dent George William Curtis delivered his
annual address.
The Grand Army of the Republic and
the ex-Confcderates hold a joint reunion
at Clinton, Ohio, Thursday. Fully 3,000
people were in attendance.
awarded The secretary of the navy, on Saturday,
a contract to William K. Cramp
& Sons, of Philadelphia, for the con
struction of two coast line battle ships.
The Spanish government intends to
enter negotiations with the United States
government for reciprocal concessions
touching Cuban and American products.
Thousands of mother of pearl workers
are Vienna, camping Austria, in Galizynburg destitute forest, condition. near
iu a
Several funds have been started for their
relief.
The trustees of the Peabody fund held
tlie closing session of their annijal meet
ing at Fifth avenue hotel, New York,
Thursday, and re-elected the officers of
tlie past year.
The two priests who were detained at
Pliiladelpnia under the provisions of the
contract labor law huve been released on
making affidavit that they came to this
country as lecturers.
The annual dinner of tlie Iron and
Steel Institute took place at Delnionico's,
dred in New York, Thursday night. British Two hun- and
and fifty members of
American institutes dined.
A special from Johnburg, Pa., says: At
5 o’clock Saturday morning tire broke
out, which destroyed the business portion
of the town. The loss is about $40,000.
Natural gas started the fire. „
The Mississippi river commission fin
ished its labors in New York on last Sat
day night, after reapportioning in the lower over
$3,000,000 for improvements
Mississippi and its tributaries.
A treaty bus been signed coasting by Germany trade
and Zanzibar, relative to
along tho east coast of Africa. The Ger
n.un government pays the sultan of Zan
zibar four million marks for the conces
sion.
Ex-President invitation to Cleveland be present lias at the accepted Thur
an
man banquet, to be given on November
12tb, under the auspices of the Thurman
club. Mr. Thurman will be seventy
seven years old on that date.
Intelligence received ut Paris Saturday
from Noumea, New Caledonia, states that
sixty leper convicts confined in the peuul
establishment there made their escape
last June. The authorities are unable to
discover their whereabouts.
Ex-Governor Philip Francis Thomas,
of Maryland, who was secretary of the
treasury under President Buchanan, and
who has held nearly every office iu the
gift of the people of Maryland, died at
Baltimore Thursday night, aged eighty
years.
The St. James Oatette (Loudon) of
Thursday printed an article commenting
in a sneering manner upon the movement the
in America to establish a fund for re
lief of the famine sufferers in Ireland. It
says the movement is simply a dodge to
secure the Irish vote.
The until New midnight York custom Saturday house night, was kept
open in
order to give merchants an opportunity under the
to enter their importations
present tariff rates, as only one day was
left them before the new law went into
effect.
A cotton-picking machine has been in
vented that the inventor—A. Campbell,
of Chicago—says will save 90 per cent,
in the cost of picking. A company for
the manufacture o? the machines has
been incorporated under tlie laws of Illi
nois, with $5,000,000 capital.
The statement shows prepared thst there by the treasury net
department of $62,008,767 in was circulation a
increase
during the f.:onth of September, and a
net decrease of $10,863,394 in money and
bullion in the treasury, More than half
the increase in circulation was in gold
certificates.
A Dublin dispatch says: The I.im
erick Corporation, at uiceting Tburs
day. adopted resolutions censuring the
government for the recent attended 'iipj>erary with ar
rests. The meeting was members who
stormy sccdcs. The op
peg :d the resolution «ere threatened
with ejection.
A London dispatch of Thursday says:
The National Gas Workers’ Union has
demanded that the London Gaslight and
Coke Company employ only union men.
A deputation from the union will wait
upon the managers of the company. The
company has a capital of £12,000,003,
and employs 11,000 men.
siumm. or the «h»> and m»
sissippi railroad, announced on Suuday
a $6 reduction on the trip between Ciu
eiunati ami St. Louis, also cor.eq><>mliug
rates from St. Louis, north ami north
west, and from Louisville south and
southwest. The Big Four intimates that
it will cut still lower.
Newspapers in the City of Mexico call
on the government the to action appeal to the United postal
union against of the
States government in forbidding the
transportation containing lottery of Mexican advertisements, newspapers
not
withstanding the newspapers bear the
Mexican postage.
On account of the McKinlor bill, two
large warehouses at. Cape \ lucent, N. \ .,
—Cape Vincent Seed Company and Cleve
land Seed Company—are lm-i!y engaged
in freighting from Canada all peas grown
there for them. Tho Cape Vincent Seed
Company has four schooners carrying
peas day and night and is now running
its warehouse day and night.
TO POSTMASTERS.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CARRYING OUT TIIK
ANTI-LOTTERY LAW.
Assistant Attorney General Tyner,
under direction of Postmaster General
Wanamukcr, has prepared a circular let
ter tojpostmasters, containing instructions
for their guidance in carrying out the
anti-lottery law. The instructions ordi- state
that the registered, law applies if to any letter,
nary or it concerns any lot
tery, gift concert or scheme described in
tlie act, and to lottery tickets, checks,
drafts, orders bills, for money, flic postal notes lottery or
money purchase of druw
or gift enterprise, and to the list of and
ings of any lottery or similar scheme,
forbids carrying them in the mails or de
seal livering them from the sealed postofficcs. The
of a letter, or any packet pre
paid at letter rates, must not be dis
turbed its for the purpose in of ascertaining its delivery if
transmission the mail or
at visions the postofficc, is forbidden will by tiie pro
o$ this act. Nor the mere
suspicion that such letter or packet re
lates to the lottery, or the fact that it is
addressed to any person known to bo
engaged in tlie business of conducting a
lottery, justify its detention or non-deliv
ery, except t list the delivery of registered
letters at the office or destination shall be
withheld when the postmaster-general
has issued specific orders to that effect,
Postal cards and unsealed matter may be
inspected when suspected of being pro
hibited lottery matter. The mailing of
interdicted matter by citizens to lottery
companies is n violation of the law as
well ns from is companies. postal
Wnen it Known that any
cards of unsealed matter is unmailable
under the provisions decline of the receive act., tiie it, post- and
master should to
whenever such matter is discovered in
postoffices, or in transit, it should bo
stamped “fraudulent” and sent on to the
postmaster general, with a special report
on the case. Newspapers au«l other pub
lications containing advertisements of a
lottery or gift enterprise, or lists of
prizes awarded, arc forbidden carriage iu
the mails. Postmasters should refuse to
receive or deliver them, and when found
in the mail in transit, they should be
held until instructions can be received
from the postmaster of general. relative
The sections tiie act to reg
istered the office letters delivery and ouly, money and orders to apply lie to
are en
forced upon direct orders of the post
master general. Tho term “lottery,” as
used in the act, embraces all kinds of
schemes, general or local, for the distri
bution of prizes by lot or chance, suoU
as gift exhibitions, enterprises, concerts,
raffles, or drawing of prizes in money or
property at fairs. Hence letters, postal and
cards and circulars concerning them,
newspspers, pamphlets and other publi
cations containing advertisements of
them, are unmailable. The act applies mail.
to the foreign as well as domestic
Tiie instructions close with a notice that
the postmasters and other postal officials
and employes arc expected to be diligent
in carrying out instructions for the en
forcement of the act.
SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND.
A ROUSING MEETING IN INDIANAPOLIS IN
BEHALF OF TIIK IRISH CAUSE.
Tomlinson hall, ut Indionupolls. which
seats 0,000 people, was Irish packed Thursday
night by friends of the cause, who
had assembled to express their senti
ments regarding the recent arrests of
Messrs. Dillon nnd O’Brien, and tiie eon
duct of their trial at Tipperary. Mayor
Sullivan presided, and made a
stirring apoeal in behalf of Ireland.
Rev. J. rt. Jcnks. of St. Paul, Minn.,
Hon. William II. English, Judge N. B.
Taylor and other prominent speakers ad
dressed the meeting. A long series of
resolutions were adopted, among them
one, which, after denouncing Balfour
and Salisbury, pledged the meeting, by
all honoruble means at our command, to
sustain the Irish people in that great
moral struggle until it culminated in a
glorious achievement of home rule for
Ireland.
FIFTEEN MILLIONS
IX BONDS BEFORE THE COURT FOR AD
JUDICATION,
of A Ban Farmers’ Antonio Loan dispatch and Trust say*: Company Thecas*
the
against tho International and Great
Northern Railway Company for the tore
closure of second* mortgage bonds issued
by the said railway company, and in ae
cordance with a eiau-c in the mortgage
authorizing the fmeclosure on the failure
of the payment of the semi-annual inter
est, was ealied at Tyler, Texas, Friday,
The legality of the bond*, amounting to
$ 15 , 000 , 000 , is to be decided.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
EST ING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM Al t. POINTS IN T11K
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Twelve hundred miners are on strike at
Dayton, Tenn., against a reduction in
wages.
\Y. T. Martin was West hanged Virginia, Friday for at
Raleigh courthouse,
tho murder of his wife.
General Thomas F. Drayton, need
eighty-three years, the last surviving
classmate of Jefferson Davis, at West
Poin f , was taken suddenly ill «t Char
lotte, N. C., Friday night, and at mid
night it was feared lie was dying.
The democratic congressional conven
tion at Franklin, N. C., adjourned sine
lie on Friday without making a nomina
tion. Two thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two ballots were cast. The exec
utive committee was authorized to order
a new convention, or net otherwise as
they saw lit.
A Richmond, Vn., dispatch of Wednes
day says : Bottio Thomas Lewis, colored,
daughter of William A Thomas,deceased,
who is making a legal light, valued over the es
tate of hi r father, wh eh is at over
$200,000, has been offered $2.1,000 to
surrender her claims to the property, and
has refused.
A Montgomery, surprise Ala., dispatch executive says:
There was a at the
office Thursday tnorniug when the resig
nation of lion. N. H. Brown, as probate
judge of Tuscaloosa county, was received.
No cause is known for the judge’s resig
nation. lie has been probate judge of
Tuscaloosa for many years.
The Knights of Labor are increasing in
njimlMTs in North Carolina. It has now
30(1 assemblies and 12,000 members, a
gain of 3,000 during the year. The or
der is tlie strongest in Edgecombe, Hali
fax and Northampton counties, and lias
more colored than white members; inflict
the gain lias been mainly in tho colored
assemblies.
The Mississippi constitutional conven
tion on Friday considered the subject of
public education. school The committee’s six re
port makes the age to twenty
years; provides for a four months’term;
a school fund to consist ot poll taxes to
be retained in the county where collected,
uud to be supplemented for whites by and stuto colored funds;
separate school to
be provided, and sectarianism foiled.
The prohibition convention of the sixfh
congrcsssional district of Virginia met at
Roanoke Saturday, and nominated Wil
liam J. Shelburn, of Montgomery county,
for congress. Twenty-two delegates,
representing three counties, were pres
ent. vention Mr, and Shelburn accepted appeared the nomination. In the con
The nominee is a farmer and a member
of the Alliance, lie wus elected to the
legislature as a democrat in 1877.
A rather novel and extraordinary case
was developed at Montgomery, complaint Ala.,
Wednesday. Mrs. Estes lilod a
against the railroads before the railroad
commission, iu which she alleges that the
freight charges on u pony shipped from
Trenton, Texas, to her in Montgomery
ninouut to exiiorbitunt, $<15. a charge which she re
gards as and claims Is more
the than animal is worth. Tho pony is
advertised to ho sold by tho railroad
authorities.
The sales of leaf tobacco iu the Dan
ville, Va., pounds, market which in is September pounds were
998,313 033,448
less than the sales for (September last. The
sales of tobacco for the year ending pounds, Hep
(ember 30th, were 24,925,070
being 3,878,770 pounds less than for the
previous year. The price paid this year
was $’.3.22 per hundred jiounds. being
$<1.47 per hundred pounds more than tiiut
paid tiie year before.
Mf-s. Alma Avmu Durham, has presented N. to
'J’rinity college, at land in 0., 543
aejes of valuable Johnson county,
with tin: proceeds of the sale of which
the A vom memorial building is to be
erected Jn memory of her late- husband,
Willis l|. Avoru. This is the fifth build
ing thus given, and in it a divinity
school is to be established. The other
four buildings given are tho main build
ing, technological building, science
building and liorary.
A dispatch from Rome, Ga., says: This
pluce continues in a highly excited state
over the developments iii the case of Mrs.
Wimple, who, it was discovered Hatur
day, had boon )>oUoucd by her friend and
neighbor, Mrs. Doss McKee. Efforts to
relieve Mrs. Wimple were unsuccessful,
and she died Sunday afternoon. Mrs.
McKee is still at large, but officers arc
making a vigorous search for her. She
is a young and attractive woman, tweuty
tlvc years of age.
CONGRESS ADJOURNS.
THE FIRST SESSION OK THE FIKTY-l tRST
CONGRESS CLOSES.
The first sessjoR of tne afty first con
gress is, no wore. At « o’clock Wednes
day afternoon, after ten mouths of turbu
lent w rangling and riotous partisanship
it breathed its last. The closing hour*
of congress were uneventful, save in the
house. Tha senate dragged along sleepi
ly. passing private lulls and then went
into executive session. The pnsldent
and his oabiuet president came to the Capitol, and
Copied the s r'Kjui. the first
time it has been occupied Cleveland since always Arthur's
administration, .Mr. re
maining at the white house. Mr. Harri
•on wanted to Is.- on hand to. sign tilt
bills as rapidly »* they passed during the
dsv. The first to receive bit signaturt
wut the Uts ff.bill.
NO 21.
TRADE TOPIC8.
DUN* CO. REPORT THE OUTLOOK AS EN
(OURAGINU.
The weekly review of trade of R. O.
Dun & Co. says: Never before has there
been in any month so great an increase
in circulation or so large a payment ol
the public debt as in the month just
closed. The aggregate circulation is
now $1,4118,072,709, having increased
$02,000,707 in September. Money mark
ets in all parts of tho country have
turned to greater ease. Congress has
adjourned after passing the tariff bill,
and there is already nctivo preparations
in many cities for new brunches of manu
facture Domestic or an enlargement of operations.
trade is improving in all direc
tions, at least for a time. There is also
an show improvement in exports, which uow
for the past month again of 7 per
ceut.
As an idea of the magnitude of the
domestic trade it appears that actual pay
side ments through tho clearing-houses out
of New York were, in September,
1(1 j per cent gn liter than Inst year. This
is partly due to higher prices, for tho
general average of commodities has risen
1 per cent during the past week, and
been over (1 per cent above Inst year for
the past mouth. But earnings of rail
roads, as far as reported, for September,
show a gain over last year of 7 J per cent
in the movement of cattle uud cotton
particularly. The iron market is singularly
sustained
in spite of tho unprecedented production
by bar, im unprecedented and demand for iron plates,
skelp, sheet which structural and
wrought pipe, keeps all tho mills
crowded with work.
Cotton and coffee have boon unchanged
in price, with oil and hogs lower, hut the
price on wheat has advanced 3 and corn
1 for the week, with moderate sales,
while oats declined IS cents.
The general soundness of trade is shown
by reports of failures, which for the third
quarter of 1890 are smaller in number,
and the amount of liabilities than for the
same quarter of 1889, though in Canada
rather larger in both respects. Tho de
crease in number in tlip United Htatcs
\Vus small, 2,19(1 this year against 2,27tt
last year; but liabilities arc but $35,452,-
43(1 against $39,227,045 last year, show
ing a decrease in the averago for each firm
failing.
Business failures for the week number
sponding 1(1(1, as compared last with 172 for corre
week yeur.
THE MONEY COME8.
ALABAMA ALLIANCEMKN ARE GETTING
, All VAN'.'K« ON Til KIR COTTON.
A Montgomery dispatch of Thursday,
says: General Manager Guilher, of tho
Alliance Exchange, in this city, is pro
ceeding in u painataklng and methodical
way to advance the farmers money on
their cotton in Alabama, lie has the
money to advance to the farmers, — $115 per
bale on 500,000 —bales, ami all he uskM is
that the farmers hold their cotton for hie
agent. In the last issue of The Alliance
Herald is published an important notice
addressed to the “Alliance warehouse
men,” to eueli nnd every Bounty Alliance,,
to each aud every suh-Alliunee, and to
each and every individual Allianceiuan
throughout the length nnd breadth of
Alabama, signed by Jolm B. Harris, c/ho
lies recently been made manager of thci
cotton department of the Exchange. Mr.
if,arris states that ho is daily receiving
more letters than he can answer from
farmers desiring ndvaoces on cotton, uud
odds:
“1 wish to soy to all at the same time
th it when you have cotton to sell, get it
in lots of 100 to 1,000 Imlcs, and while
you are bulking it, place it where there
is a railroad station agent, and tell thin
station agent to write to his general
freight freight agent and give you the through
rate on the cotton from thut par
ticular station to Liverpool, and when
you have this rate, then 1 can tell you
how much I can pay you on middling
basis. I will pay for cotton through the
nearest bank.”
A CALL FOR AID.
ran: hush relief committee publishes
AN APPEAL TO AMERICANS.
The American committee for the relief
of the famine in Ireland publishes an ap
peal to the people information of America. The most
trustworthy from public and
private sources in all parts of Ireland is
to the effect that the complete failure of
the potato crop makes another groat fam
ine in that most unfortunate land prac
tically inevitable. The point of actual
suffering from hunger has uot yet been
reached, but the (lays of starvation, un
less help comes, are not far off.
The appeal says the worst fears have
been realized. The potato rot or blight
has spread through all parts of Ire-laud.
It will not do to wait until the Irish
people have proved the existence of a
famine lack by dying by the scores for the
of food, Shall men fall dead upon
the public highways because Americana
have said : “\Vc will give you relief uext
month, but not now?” Tne Irish people
need aid now. The American committee
appeal* for immediate contributions of
money, provisions and clothing.
UTAH 8 FIGURES.
TIIE LAND OF MORMON ISM SHOWS UT WELL
IN POPULATION AND \»F.ALTII.
Arthur I>. Thomas, governor of Utah,
in his annual report, places the popula
tion of the territory, on estimates of the
census decade supervisor, at 220,000; increase
in the of about 35 per cent, For
eign born ponulation brought to the ter
ritory under Mormon auspices was about
1,800 a year. Assessed valuation of all
property in the territory for 1890 is $104,-
758,733, an increase of 10 per ceoL