North Carolina Newspapers

- , -J. ESTABLISHED 1832 SIXTY SIXTH YEAR. NO. 12. SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1897. mm IS r ! iU - 1 K? Kfc M If i . - . ! The Foot of a Fly" i atys an eminent English doctor. "Will carryj enough poison to infect a house hold." 1 n summer -timt, more espec ially, disease germs fill the air, multi tudes are infected fall ill, die multi tudes escape, rhese messengers of tnisthiefdo not exist for millions. Why not f fircause ther are healthy end strong protected a ifcfoeodltt it against gun that, it it the weal- fit wilted, tht into bleeped who till thase who bW. H3 FeiilfiVf newtf fa) thlf I sttdrjfR Htjsh f eold dtfiop. iiitg gFiftf fj fise, Wu )Mf Ml H f)tg t'sfl Wliy Oof paigh health f W R ga ( fry ntttiHumiRi eyp hfilihy WfUJWM ef Cod-tivtr Oil, ii condensed nourish, inentj food tor tht tun Icing up of tht tysiem to revii tht stuck of disease. Jt should betaken in rtawniblt doses til summtrrlnng y ill thoM whoM weight i below tht standard of httlth. If yuu art losing ground, try t botUt . t Mot m0 uy all 4rtf lata at sat, aad frm - rum m AKKi is. NKW YORK ( OTTOS FPTUHES. New York, August tWCotton firm. Middlinu. upland, h oopMi.ldling Gulf Ul f'..k.. 1 1 1a 1 m r I . UIK'tl IjOW- Clot- eat. 7 04 7 64 7 Iff 7 ia 7 18 7 80 I i i 7 80 6-t t't) 7f ttii! tat. tag. 7 5980 7 208O 7 ldtdie 7 09(310 7 18$lg 7 18Q&17 7 90(091 7 98384 7 2887 7 90fJO t i t t I 1 1 t AllLMIst . . . M M I 7 52 736 7 19 7 07 7 10 718 Mil 784 fin 790 itt itii (September . . . t ictober November 1)0CGUtbt . . January . , February. r. ....... , warcu to ji ny ............ , funs, . , . July.... I 1 1 It I .lt.lt t WKWOOfc POTTO MAEXBT. Liverpool, August 0. Middling 4 e33. Futures Closed quiet but steady, August ,, v. , t, r 4 114 August and September. ... 4 09 t September and October. ..... , 4ul(&02 October and November a 5857 November end December 8 56(57 December and January. ...... 8 5556 J anuary and February ........ 8 5556 February and Maroh. . . . ... 8 55(56 March and April . 8 5657 April ami May 8 6758 OTHER COTTON MARKETS. .Charleston, Aug. 9. Cotton firm; middling 7. Wilmington, Aug. 9. CjffJtton firm; middling 8. Savannah, Aug. 9. Cotton firm; middling 7. Norfolk, Aug. 9. Cotton firm; middling 8. Charlotte, Aug. 9. Strict good mid dling 8; good middling, 8; strict middling . . ; middling 8; tinges, 7?(rfiH; Stains, 7, Columbia, Aug. . -Good middling 73; tirlct middling 1) middling 71: strict Jow middling 71; low mid dling 11 Market steady; BA1.T1MUUK lbJtlf)IH If !.. Firm, but quiet; western super fine, 8.70(9.98; 4.6024.75; winter wneat petto t apring do. 4.A(is4.8fl. Wheat. Week; eoot. outh, I M j (,) h,v September. 88j88j; Southern on grade teamer No, 8 rod 82uaJfgr; heat by aample 80(a8fl-do Corn Pull and easy; apot, 8H8lf ; month 3031; September 8080 j; steamer mixed 38i29; Southern while com. 85; do. yellow 35S36. Oata. Weak;No 2 white, old, 2727y; No. 2 mixed, 2824. . ' . - RICE. Charleston, Aug. 9. The rice mar ket was quiet with no sales. The quo tation s are: i rime o qam Good Fair.. Common ...44 . . .B444 ...8 &8J NAVAL STORES. Charleston. Aug. 9. Turpentine firm; at 24. Rosin firm: sales none; A, B, C, I) and 1.80; F 1.88; G 1.80; H 1.45; I 1.45; K 1.50; M 1.55; N 1.75; Window glass 1.90; water white 8. 80. Savannah, Aug. 9, Turpentine firm at 28; sales 842; receipts, 4,880; Rosin firm; sales 788; receipts 4,880; A, B, c, D end E 1.80; F 1.80; G 1.85; B 1.60; M 1.60; N 1.86; window glass 2.0ft; water white 8.80. Wilmington, Aug. 9. Turpentine steady At 84844; receipts 87. Rosin quiet at 1.80; and 1.85; receipts 880. Crude turpentine firm at 83(021; re ceipts 88. Tor quiet at 1. 16; receipt! 78. COTTON SEED OUi. , New York, Aug. 9. -Cotton teed oil ! COFFEE. I New York, Aug. 9. Options opened steady, ft points advance; ruled quiet, but snowed firmtr undertone. Euro pean cables being better then expected and Brazilian receipts lighter, which caused e rally in the afternoon, with covering e feature. The close wee steady at 5 to 1ft points net advance. Sales, 10,2ft0 bagsincluding Septem ber, 6. 80(06. 90; November 8.8ft; De cember. 7a?.0ft; January 7. Spot- Rio quiet; Cordova 104(0164; sales 400 bags Mar acaibo P. T. 1 SUGAR. New York. Ausust. 9. Rew. steady ; fair refining 8i;-centrifugal 98 test 8$; refined, steady f In New York the other day a young fellow cut off the noes of a music hail singer and slashed her husband with a rasor. When he was aireafced a let- ter wna found In hU Docket recommend lug him as "a young man of quiet tiiMtea and sxeadv habtte." Wonder svlmt be would have done tf he bad not kgfafefl benu a quiet fellow? i-fflgn mm Comparison of Figures in this State and Virginia on R. R. Taxation. OLD NORTH STATE CULUNGS. Delegates to Farmers National Con gfessVthe Rxcellence of the Crops fthnply Wonderful. ' t w - The following delegates end racing wefe repretohted it the MtatB flWmitt'i Ai8eeietifi it fit 8tteill8 Ussweek' AiU6ille, (toilette, m Hfi, WiliibfifjF, yreeaibeie, Mufhsm, HileigH, WiieeB, Niwhwei, WiIwihh rt?B, liMldsNgfO 68d WiBitWHillWj f'eluRMe, UFiRgtbHFf, Hmbh 9m mm, tom Hmm Vmm, bi . cert eluded art. ,1 emas l. MnNuill, q) reyettevillp, president; , q, Nh:l.olsf of DurUew, secretary Pf. J. W. Grill Hth, of Grteusluiro. end PefRtH. pretidtntt; T. 4. limn, of Newtiern t rtaturer. The following it the result of thi riots: in the engine contest the Ne uerne steam art tngine'i time wet u, Winston 8:48 1-9; Atlantic!, of Htrnt, 4:08 1-4; Greensboro 6:19 WUmington 6:98 1-9. The flrtt wet $60, tecond 80. third 180, in the bend reel 150 vards dash atteville't time was 81 seconds. Berne 89, Greensboro 88. Dnrnam 0 OA uUm uu 1 n a. i.kn am Charlotte 88, Durham No. I, 88. The grab reel race resulted, Nef Rarna Mn 1 QS m 1,831-4; Atleutioa 8ft 1-3, Feyetteville 231 -4r South sides 33 1-4. In the long distance rapid steaming, Wilmington and Winston made fins snow. In the long distance throwing w "tvu WWMS f99 itjajau I J lUUUVRi . . a. as n F71 winntiH iiuii M.a r. i,i.M ureenshoro Juniors defeated the Fay etteville Juniors. Tht championship head reel race wee wonbvtha Atlantins. of New hern; the horse wagon contest was won oy toe Greensboro team the horse book end ladder rice wet won by Winston ; the hand book end ladder contest wee won by Greensboro, The next place of meeting it at Greensboro, Charlotte didn't get the tournament, but she got the promise of the Favetta ill boys, along with others, to go there the nest 30th of May. Much bat been said recently as to the taxation of railway property in Vir ginia and North Carolina. The follow ing are the facts as to suoh taxation The total value of railways in Virginia, muiuuiug property oausiae 01 ngui or- way, as well as street cars, assessed for taxation , ia $58, 889, 540. That in North Carolina, not including street cars and property outside of riuht-of-wav. ft 329,000,000. The gross earnings in Virginia are S50.000.000; in North Car olina $9,848,000. The net earnings in lrginia are $12.151. 000;in North Caro lina ea o nnn a o.. t..iin t ftrstl ginia, instead of being one and a half times greater than in North Carolina, should have been in round numbers four times as much. Governor Russell says railway property should be listed for taxation at e sum upon which it pays 6 per cent, upon net earnings. By this Virginia wouldhave a valuation of $800,000,000 and North Carolina $50.- 000,000. Virginia, besides, pays l par! pent, on net income, deducting inter est on funded debt end tixes. end this smonnt to only $8,000. With a thnilir tar, North Carolina could collect nothing save a small mm from the At antic Coast Line. Charlotte Observer. ss The commissioner of effrioultura satrs all the orop returns which oome in are remariaoiT favorable, in fsct the ex cellence of the crops is simply wonder: iui. ine returns lor August are rapid ly errivina from correspondents. None of these pot cotton below 100 per cent. and some put it as high as 120, compar ed with average years. There ia a larsra increase in acreage. The report as to corn ia the best ever received by the department It is a remark that 1897 may well be termed "a year of plenty. . f as Governor Russell appoints the fol lowing delegates from North Carolina to the Farmer a National Congress for the next two years: State at farce. J. S. Cunningham and Wm. Dunn; First district, John Brady; Second district, M. L. Wood; Third district, J. A. Westbrook; Fourth district. Ransom H in ton; Fifth district, Benehan Cam eron; Sixth distriot, Nick Gibbons; Seventh district, S. A. Lawrence, Up to the 6th the Charlotte Obi says: Of all the counties in the State from which returns Have been sent to the Auditor and to the State board of equalisation, Gaston leade so ferae in tr ease in values is concerned. The in crease in the value of property in that oounty It $815,811 over 1898 and 84 H), 74" For tht flrtt time in three veers the Cabarrus jail ia dear of prisoners.! An other iuoident attending the term of oourt jail concluded to the ftct that not a whiskey case wet tried during the term something that hae greatly er prised even the publio, to aay nothing of the lawyers. Chir lotto Obterver. Durhsm paid $80,000 internal rev- enuetexfor the month of July, the seles beia at Tobacco, $96,808.90; $13,955.00; cigara, $057.45; cigarettes, snuff, $885.00, Total, $40,401.85. Kx ports were: Cigarettes, 1,802,500; to bacoo, i,eoo pounas. The railroad oommission reduces the tax valuation $500 per mile on the fol lowing railways: Georgia, Carolina ana m or mem: western mortn Carolina, between Round Knob and Paint Rock, and the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line. thus making the valuations, respective ly. $9,000, fB, 600 and $11,000 pet 1 raue. . Martin Roberts, of Reidsvil I e, baa been convicted of the seduction of (leorgie Willis, a pretty nineteen-year-old girl. 1 L A . M L A . m .18111 ne was sentenceo to twelve monn e jaU. ; . - i J serve T1TLK TO THE KLONDIKE FIELDS Ho Valid Objection CEO be Advanced to Gret BHtain! Claim. Incited by the newspaper publica tions recently, tending to throw doubt upon the ownership of the Klondike gold fields, some of the high govern ment officials who would naturally be expected to deal with the question if it comes to a prscticsl issue, have been quietly looking into the mutter with i View to preparing themselves for any controversy that may arise. Their flews ere itt sttbstinee that there can be4 no valid objection advanced to the title of Great Britain to this territory. A eatefiii eiitnihiUoh of ill the reli able fhsrts and maps made . far ehottgh ttiei in date to be free frooj iiispiettin efiaMtiefiee of lie reht mm. io d dfitit. hii efiiaeed .we no fir iff we Kieeaitff elni. m defifii I by liteMt wwm efieiRbeee aaeitif ftfeeHHeefHed, I Itt tut thai east (if the mum hill im and m HA U HIIIUS SI- V ft Z$ th located by the 1 ilfl utusely MMdiuiiK and our uwu ooest survey, that there is not at iny point a difmrenoe of more than 7oo feel in the oUimed lnMindary, which, of course, would pot substeutially effeotauy oontroveny that might grow ont of the title. A VoLcAMON KBUPTION. stive Hundred People Known to Have Perished and 15 Towns Destroyed. A tpeoial to the Chicago Cnroniole from Tacoms, With. , says; Fife hun dred reported killed up to July let to the record of the terrible outbreak of the greet volcano Mayon, on the ialand Of Luzon, one of the Fbillipioe gronp. On the night of June 84 this volcano begin throwing up ashes and lava in immense quantitiea, and the names were thrown upward considerably over too feet above the crater. The next dsy 66 bodies were recovered at a con sidersble distance, end the most recent dispatches to Hons Kong up to July 8th stated that not leee than 600 were known to have been killed. It it probable. Mid the dlioatobtt. that the loss of life will reach into the thousands, depending on the length of eruption. On that date leva ttreame end ashes hid reached the oitiet of Bacacay, Malipot and Libert, and their destruction was certain. Fifteen email or towns between these end the voloauo had been destroyed, and scores of the agricultural population bad beeu overwhelmed while attempting to ea- oapa, TlLLyMAN AT 11IJKVILLK. 1 mm, U I , He Defends the Dls usary and Tells Some Great Things About Hlra- self. Senator Tillman spoke to the farmers institute at Abbeville, S. C, delivering the first speech he has made in the State since the opening of the present sena to rial campaign. He defended the dis pensary law, and declared that the troubles it had been involved in were due not to the law itself, but to its un wise administration. He endorsed the tariff views of Senator MoLanrin, and Said that while he himself was not a pro teotionist. if there wet any stealing go ing on, he wanted his State to hare its share, He told his hearers that he wan the only farmer in the Benito, and that he therefore represented 80,000,000 farmers of toe united matei. He de olared that his speeches were at popular in the Senate as at home, and told bow. when he arose to epeek, the oloak rooms . , . . a a a- . , . always em piled and the geilertei fluid. .OVKKN.m7.NT JOB8. Civil Her v lot' K sam I natlo n a to Be Held September 23, Civil service examinations will be held in Columbia, S. C. , on September 82 for the following positions under the government service: Bookbinder, olerk of the departmental service, eomposi tor, electrotyper (of all kinds), elevator conductor, jauitor. messenger, press man. railway mail clerk, skilled laborer (male or female), stenographer, stereo types stock examiner, tagger, type Writer, watchman. One wishing to stand the examination san Beleot an v t one of the above callings to be exam ined upon. All applications must be on file in the office of the Civil Service Commissioner, Washington, at least ten days before the examination is held. Examinations will be held in Charles ton on the 24th of September and the 25th of October. ATLANTA OPERATIVES STRIKE. Negro Women Were Employed and All the Other Hands Quit. Ae a result of the employment ol twenty-five negro women in the folding department of the Fulton Bag and Cot ton MBit, Aflanta, Ga. , 1,400 men, women and children have gone out on one of the largest strikes that hat ever occurred in that oity The willa were forced to shut down their entire plant, end it will efloot fully 9,000 people ol the working classes, when the notiot Wee put up that the mills were closed much disorder broke out, and it was the inclination of the strikers at first to cause trouble, but the police reserve force arrived in time to qnell any dis turbanoe. l ' j HsWEEaBggimEsaiu---- - Iowa Colony In Alabama. A number of Iowa families hive se cured a concession of 6,000 aorae of land in Shelby eouuty, Ala , 80 miles south of Birmingham. The tract ia to be laid out on the colony plan, bnt each colon ist will own his own property. Buslnees Men as Swlndlert. Three prominent business men of Pittsburg, Fa , have been arrested and bound over to the October term of oourt, charged with conspiracy to defraud the National Loan k Investing Company, of Detroit, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country. The case promises to be a sensational one, owing to the prominence of the accused, and the amount claimed to have been secured by them, which it said to be in the neighborhood of $800,000. Him thiMumi.liau I ft fW.Iffn,JHI urvev ui ins i a News mit 1 1 . Pool iwr n Pencil Pointers. The smallpox situation in Birming ham, A1e., is very much improved. M. A. Connelly, of Savannah. Ga, bee been chosen m secretary of the Nioauraguan Canal Oommission. Alfred E. Hoi ton bias been appointed United States attorney for the Western district of North Caroline. A gentleman who has been dead two months has been appointed postmaster at Wahoo, Sullivan county, Tennessee. tDtiring tt game of ball at Eufsuji, Ala, a Rose Faulkner struck CeI Taylor ealle nejd Witt a Hick atid deeth re enlted Fittikhei ieapetl JJIeTSitltttte teef sats the pfoh- EiHefi to move m WHft Jtottae He ill; A mm fit if mm who vtitFil were 1H fivOr Hf fili trVil, but athaiMtitt heftieiHleFed v'deft did hhI mm 1h epeilit IjiMMs, Mi. frtftitt-y loo HMBtrt iguveromeR mm !' irds of heavy hn mm er the toMiraci s vwum. m mill has been furoed to nurc ihsh vonii, da., at once. It is believed that the pita to utilise the water power of the J amis, it Rich !mcoeed ,MWio P',M, wU The old Til hot machine shops, at Richmond, Vt, hive patted away after 5ty years of life. The deprtssion of the tiroes did it. W by business troubles, weelthy Samuel Blair, of Chattanooga. Tenn., out hia throat and died in his bath tub. J. H. Milam, of the Seaboard Air Line at Charlotte, has mysteriously dis PPwed. Hia shortage foots up to $1,444.44. Athtriff's posse in Coffee oounty, Ala., killed A liven Llghtfoot and badly injured his son Joe, in attempting to srrest t hem for general crimes. AU About the North. m A.rnA?torm tof"1? C, Col., flooded the strevaels Inebee. An association composed of buyers for commercial houses in the virions oitiet has been formed is New York. Cineinoitl, O., is the centre of a great new combine of manufacturers of wood working machinery. The World says tbst 8,600 babies have been abandoned by their mothers in New York within the past year. The National Democratic Association of Colored Men is called to meet in convention Columbus, O. , on Sept. 23d. All the gas companies of Chicago, have consolidated. The capital stock is raised from $400,000 to $25,000,000. Stephen M. Cart v, who put up the first telephone used in Cuba, died at New Haven, Conn. , from heart failure caused by excessive smoking. At St. Louis cotton is said to be cornered and it is likely to remain so until September 1st, when the official cotton yeai opens, and the new crop begins to move. The statemeute of the local warehouses show that the total number of biles in storage aggre gate 9,082 bales. A gang of gold brick swindlers have oome to grief in New York. At Sigonrney, fa , four girls were drowned in Skunk river. They were caught in the current while wading. Chat. A Dana, the aettor of Ameri cau journalists, owner end editor of the New York Hun, it serioutly ill. It it reported that Senator Oorroau, of Maryland, will not be a candidate for reelection at the end of bis present term. Senator Gorman will nave served 34 years. Many of the principal life and acci dent insurance companies of Chicago are refusing to assume risks upon the lives of persons contemplating a visit to the Klondyke. The gold brick swindle was worked on e New Orleans salodn keeper for $7,000 by members of a gang who have operated extensively in South American cities and large towns of this country. The men were arrested iu Now York. At Hudson, Mass., an attempt was made to blow up a section of the tene ment house owned by the L, D. Applev Rubber Company, in which several of the workmen employed at the factory in the place of the striking help have been boarding. Bllseellaneotts. American whalers this season have realised $702,449. Within eighteen mouths famine and Jjrtjljnce have killed 8,900,000 people Most Kansas counties, .pay a bounty on wolves killed, end Michigan pays for dead sparrows. ..Mr-Moo-y eanouuees that he has no idea of retiring from hit evangelistic work. An explosion in the cartridge factory, of Rustchuk. on the Pstnube, killed flfty tix people outright. Arrangemcnta are being made for the ettiblishment of a mail route to the Klondyke region. The highbinders in Bin Franoisoo, Cel., have posted a list of Chinese who they will murder. New York is still talking of a World's Fair in 1 900 to commemorate the consol idation of the various cities which are comprised in Greater New York. From 12,000 to 15,000 natives are now under arms in revolt against the British in India, and the rebellion is still spreading. - Missonri has raised the taxable valu ation of her railroads and telegruphbv over $3,000,000 and will add $750,000 to her revenne next year. Representatives of Feter Maher and Tom Sharkey have posted a second deposit of ga.ftOO of the $10,000 for a fight between the pugilists. Th-v will probably fight in Ban Francisco during i. I...- VUI4VUOJ . rr ran is 1 ! -4- Gratifyirig Reports of Business Im provement by Dyn & Co. I : THE DAWN OF BETTER DAYS. Fewer Failures the Past Week Than In Aug Week since the Tear 18a, The weekly trade review ef Messrs. ft; G. f in,, Co., for the week ending Atttfust 7th, pars: Fan yeefft tie, August nth, nmt the toil of I Mitre o--18 wi wai isefiedi with fiiiefei ia that IMMHIm NHPOBttiHlf fcegVef $TW, 1881,1881, while iit tht weeth jail etotert faHnF have )hmm H&lyfMIW?, (Hi MoelM in mm lutmiu nm latii: The ttati ment ef feilMtm by eleetei ef hminett fr ifwlf nd fnr forty "ill Months shows: fhtt III Manufacturing failure! biff been smeller i hen in my other mouth in the entire period, in trading smaller then iu any mouth otuept on end in many brinohus of mauufauturi mallet than in most mouths of which reoordi etist. The pessimists who prouuunoed re ports of gain fictitious and misrepre seutiug have grown weary of their dtt roal predictions and begin to see the dawn of better days. Liet month was the first for four yeart of which the volume of business reported bar oletr ing houses was larger then iu the same mouth of 180J, end the telegraphic dis patches from all parte of the country given this week show gratifying im provement. This is probably due to E larger yield of wheat and good prices, though the orop is probably not as large nor are prices thus far as high as in 1803; but of cotton the price is higher and the yield probably larger than in that year. ( M her farm products are realising good prices, end the pos sible decrease in yield of corn may help to market the enormous surplus brought over from list year. . Liquidation of a powerful com biuatiou ' in wheat, broke and wheat advanced 8 centi on Tuetdty, a gaiu of 112 cents for the week. It is the wrong season to expect much from industries, ami yet there has been material increase in the number of bauds employed in the iron menu fart are because of the satisfactory ad juatnieot of wages dispute with the Amalgamated Association and the open ing of numerous establishments which have been waiting while the coal min ers' strikes seem each day more Mxtly to end in a permanent settlement bene ficial to both part u t. Meanwhile the demand for most finished products is steadily increasing, the feature this week being large pipe contracts Jot Russian oil fields, Sumatra and Ger many. The aales of wool, as comparative returns by months show, bear little re lation to the actual consumption in manufacture, but heavy liquidation since the new tariff bill was enacted gives the impression that some dealers are no longer confident of a speedy ad vance. Nevertheless, prices have risen during the past few weeks nearly one cent per pound. Manufacturers are buy ing but little, though they arevrapidly increasing the output ana are able to report in advance of 10 per cent, in prices of goods, with rapidly increasing orders. The temporary curtailment of output by cotton mills continues, but doet not yet bring improved prices for products, ntthough the demand is generally gain ing. failures of the week have been 887 in the United States, against 240 last year, and 99 in Cinada, against 88 last year. WESTERN UNION APPEALS. Resists the Reduction In Telegram Rates Made by t he N. O. R. R. Com mission.; The Western Union Telegraph Com pany has appealed from the order of the railroad commission making 15 cents the rate for a ten-word day mes sage. The company contends that the rate is not just and reasonable and that it would force the company to operate at a loss; also that a oommission has no power to make the rates for tele grams. The company alleges that at 25 cents it has operated North Carolina busi ness at a loss. It files a prayer for re moval of the case to the United States Court for the eastern distriot of North Carolina. The prayer alleges that the commission's order, violates the fifth amendment to the United States con stitution in that the enforcement of said rate would be taking the company's property for publio use without just compensation; that it violates section 1 of .the fourteenth amendment to the constitution ; that it violates section 8 of article t of the constitution, and also violate! the United States act of 1866 to aid in ! the construction of telegraph lines. The prayer further sets forth that the com Many is of New York and not a citizen or resident of North Caro lina. .John Van Home, vice-president, eight thit prayer. . The Tennesee Election. A general election was held in thit State on the 11th to decide whether or not a constitutional convention ahall be held. Bet urns show that the calling of a convention has. been overwhelm ingly defeated. A light vote wis pol led, but little interest being shown, aud in some voting districts the! polls were not opened. In Nashville, With a voting population of 15,000, the' total vote cast Was less than 1,000. Freight Rates on Cotton. The Georgia State Railroad Commis sion has refused the petition of W. H. Jirewer. of Griffin, and D. G, Purdue, of Savannah, representing the freight and transportation bureau of that city, and others, for a horizontal reduction of 25 per Cont. in freight t etes on cot ton. a. Tho Bimetallic Commission. The British government baa informed the American bimetallic oommission that they wiU probably reply to the proose!s of the commissioners on be half of the United gtetjNsia, October. Mil if THIS CROSS OF GOLD. NOW AMERICAN PRODUCERS ARf BEING CRUCIFIED. J. W. Porter of Virginia Kxpo-c the Methods Keeorted to by the Pluto cratic Press to Hide the Cause WaUug Prices of Oar Products. i of J. W. Porter of YfTElniE In the Bflver Knight-Watchman.) in view of the long continued decline' of agricultural prosperity, which has reacted Upon ill other industries, and Is miking eommpt ciai business hatard ous. to say the least, we see men still S feeing m dat-khee 88 to ths Muse. m we eee other iieoreeUr or wil fully" fflltHHjHHf the eattie. ttnd deelif- Mte i ha hi ii iM-brHMtiahle, wHit fttrae Iriing, ike ftoffiiglRK ifitlfeee ef ih dsftiiHPMflR ef veltiti webdi it due le! PfHef WRleh 8FI r-amedlebll- The, mush end the remedy hevt been leftg! Ho hMlntml mil hy snum of Mis wit- tit ami ihitet mm of the lime, eM publio opinion would logg tgo hare riom 1110 tht snpltcethin of thit rs.medy whloh consisted In i rtmovil of the known caii,hut for the determined effort to prevent puhlln opinion by ftltti statements, end the cloture of the eoi-j umns of to many of our greet newtpa pert and agricultural Journals to any fttr discussion of the subject, This Ii' no light matter In i republic, whose enlightened public opinion it our every1 safeguard. The power of money to oppreet it nowhere more aptly Illus trated than In this attempted control of the vehicles of public Intelligence, livery writer against the gold standard In this country and In'Europe knows how difficult It Is to get any presentation of fact or argument against the gold standard before the people. The lete' Prof. Lsveleye. of Liege university, asserted In hit last days, after long End shly contending against the injuattci of the gold standard, that he had to pay for tht publication of his pspert In the great continental Journal!. In i re public this it inexcusable, It It dan geroue. It it the flrtt ittp taken to throttlt liberty. Americans thould be aroused to the danger, ere it Is too late Truth and Justice have nothing to fear in the arena, open to public discussion,; A free end untrammeled public press' was once deemed "the palladium of our liberties." Have w such now? Most' assuredly not, when the press Is closed to the free discussion of the most Im portant questions which ever agiteted our country. One great agricultural Journal which has a large circulation, formerly took great Interest in this question. IU control was eecured. and' it was silenced, and all discussion of, the subject of bimetallism as Effecting agriculture was stopped, though its two editors are pronounced friends of bi metallism. Every number brings evi dence of the decay of the farming in terests, yet the cause must not be dis cussed ! It recently published the following from the Tribune (N. Y.): "Farms In England are selling at a ruinous reduction of their former valuc,and In many cases cannot be sold at all. Many properties within two hours ride of London are deeerted In many cases farms have been told for loss than one-tenth their value twenty yeart ago. Well-to-do firmer arc abandoning the business and going to the colonies or to the cltlet to itart life anew. Although the tit uatlon is grevtous, there msy be con solation in the feet it It worn on the continent. We have not yet suffered so severely in this country," it continues. Now, as to its last con clusion, what are the faots? The abandoned farms of our East ern states are an older story than the ones in England, and so is the emi gration of its eomen, to whose sturdy manhood both owe their greatness. We can instance as great a decline In farm values in almost all the older states, and then the sequestration of all debt or Interests in farms, largely or nearly paid for, which has been constantly go ing on. Coupled with this lot we pre sent the following from Mr. Edward Atkinson's address recently delivered before the New jersey board of agri culture, as published by the Southern planter (Richmond, Va.). which lauds Mr. A. as the greatest statistician and an emit ' iit authority. He attributes the enormous losses which the farm ers have sustained in the last two years in the decline of their staple crops to "the shadow of a threatened crime," and he then says: "The pen alty which the farmers have paid for tolerating the effort to tamper with the standard of value of the nation haa been a loss of one-third of Che farm values of their great products In the returns of 1895 ss compared to 1891, in the sum of $750,000,000!" Continuing, he says: "This loss hit by to much reduced the purchasing powers of the largest consuming claw in the country in lK9fl." Let the reader compere thit astounding statement of the cause of the loss of $750,000,000 In one year's be ing "the shadow of a threatened crime," with the foregoing statement of a gold bug editor of the worse condi tion existing Ji England End on the continent of Europe, where no "shadow of a threatened crime" clouds the land scape of the fund holder. And these "outlaws to reason" presume to teach; and they find room In journals, profess edly agricultural, which will not permit an exposure of Its Infamy to appear In their columns. Why! the above Is on a par with the wolf's logic to the lamb In Aesop's fable. We meet note the ad mission made of the Impairment of the purchasing power of the greatest con suming class in our country in 1896 of $750,000,000---over $10 per capita for ev ery man, woman and child In it; for It must comfort the men who seek re lief by more taxes more revenue and In the openelng of more mills Instead of mints. Comfort them, Just ae their 2 PaV"U rV'Am WDER iMifly imm end .ttrw of IHOlM.oh ef tuefini fflW fdftMt promised p-inesniy enm forte us, it II were. Thit tremendous impairment of llin pnrchaelim power of jlm rnrmcre of our country It the cause df manifold evils which ifflhi our country and the world, f nit end of helm caused by ,,te lhadow of a threatened 4 riiur," at title wanton writer calls the struggle for relief, It it the result of the most gi gantic crime ever attempted -the at tempt to change the standard of pay ment after getting the nations under bonded debit aggregating certainly one third the total wealth of tb world. We may more truly I reverse Mr. At klnson's assertion, and say that our present great losses are due to our having to lortg tolerated t he fraudulent and unconstitutional attempt to change the standard of payment, not the stand ard of vsJue, as Mr. Atkinson falsely calls it, by which the spoliation of the people le permitted under forme oMaw. There it no standard of value There can be none for value In s market rela tion, determined hy the supply and de mand of thit thing valued In men'e minds hy their desire to keep It or to exchange it. A standard it a fixed quantity, or measure, under the sanc tion of law, or of custom. Velue i subject to mtny changes, It le "Ideals," aa our tupreme court once de clared, v he World'- We. I looked from out the grating 0 Of my spirit's dungeon cell And I saw the Life-tide rolling. With a sullen, angry swell; And the battle-ships were riding Like leviathans in pride W hile their cinnon-shot were raining On the stormy human tide. Then my soul in anguish wept, Sending forth a wailing cry: Said the World "This, comes from hea ven!" ; , Said my soul, "It is a LIE!" I looked from out the grating Of my spirit's dungeon dell And a sound of mortal moaning On my reeling senses fell; And I heard. the fall of lashes, And the clank of Iron chains, And I saw where Men were writhing Under Slavery's cruel pains. Then my soul looked up to God, With a wo-beclouded eye: t Said the world, "This comes from hea ven!" Bald my soul, "It It i LIE!" 4. I looked from out the grating v . Of my spirit's dungeon cell , And 1 beard the solemn tolling Of a malefactor's knell; , 4 And I saw the frowning gallows Reared aloft in awful gloom, While a thousand eyes were gloating O'er a felon's horrid doom, And a shout of heartless' mirth On the wind was rushing by: Said the world, "This comes from hea ven!" Said my soul. "It is aLIE!" I looked from out the grating Of my spirit's dungeon cell Where the harvest wealth was bloom- inT . Over smiling plain and dell; f And I saw a million paupers With their foreheads in the dust And I saw a million workers Slay each other for a crust! And I cried. "O God above! Shall thy people always die?" Said the world, "This comes from hea ven!" Said my soul, "It Is a LIE!" Augustine Duganne. i Whenf The trust hsvi control of congreee end the Edmtnlelratlon. When will they relax their grasp? Christ' ministers were commanded to "feed" hie "sheep." When will they cease shearing them andtransforming them Into mutton? Whn? The devil it the general manager of humsn affatrt. When will he abdicate and give Christ a chance to rule? Working-men of the United States, hy the use of their hsltots. ould chsnge their serfish condition to that of free men. When will ey do It? Socialism proposes to hew out a broad highway to better conditions and Illuminate It with the light of com mon sense. When will those who need emancipation walk In it? Railway Timea. Packer Break the Record. The Kansas City packers have broken their record for the first six months of the rear. They killed during that per iod i ,665.000 hogs, 412,600 cattle and 470.000 sheep, which figures indicate an increased slaughtering of 875,000 hogs, 43,00Toattle mS$06jS)0 sheep ov4r the first half of 1666. This enlargement is said td be the resnlfpf 4n Increased supply of live atdok in the Kansa terrVtry and extesion oj.tride. 90 U f71 ttealHH ariufrefttt Wl mm mmm I ' w I r , Mill g I fj I 1 m A - SseeIes . I I 1 II 1 1 ! I ill H i 1 A X - 'S. e-eseVgfi i M1