NO UG-
;ol. xxii.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1891.
1
COL. LIVINGSTON.
I SPEECH OF THE UREAT ALLIANCE
LEADEU WORTHY Of THE DEMOCRAT
, Til AT HE IS.
monopolies aud weighs heaviest upon the
farmers, and weighs still heavier upon
the cotton producer. They tell you that
foreigners are taking up onr land and
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sending u tenants irom iwnpe ucuaucueu
and full of crime, and cultivating those
flf there is any one thin;' wo need in largo-areas of land. We are opposed to it.
-jcne perilous times, in this period of the Wo want our land fur our chilJreu and
story of this country ofurs, if there mf own people. They tell you that.
one tliiog we need more than another, ''li..y tell you they arc in favor of a fair
J8 brave, conservative, deliberate, cool ballot, not under the supervision of the
30 to deal with these great questions United Slates. There is n jt a single
at are now agitating the minds of the doctiine held by the Alliance people that
eoplo of this country. does not tend to lessen, and to remove
' - ff there is one thing I bate, either in abuses by the Government,
.ihupdi or state, social or political, it is The old Democratic office-holders when
fance and impudence, and there are I was a boy dared not offer for office a
ie men who have got a good stock in second time, if they had not put their
e of that kind, who have got a super- vote-t and their tongue and their power
Indanceofit. against every single constitutional in
flow, I said on that night that I was fringement, and every single abuse from
democrat. I said 1 stood on the Dent- party government. Applause. That
ratio platfortu and that I was in favor was the kind of Democracy men had to
Wery plank in it. I said more than measure up to when I was a boy. That
it that any Democrat who went into a ia lust what these farmers Alliances
fite.it, whether he agreed with the major- are driving after, light now
I or with the minority upon any propo- and they have their heads on it, and they
iion adopted by a Democratic con- are coming like a cyclone, and they are
Sntion, that he was bound by the action coming in the Democratic party, and
of the majority, or he could not be a good f0me of you fellows had better look out
and snuare Democrat, I" Applause I fAnDlausel It is the object of
said that I had ever been and ever would the Alliance and their leaders to
be bound by the majority vote in the harmonize, and not to divide, not to dis
Democratic party anywhere and every- tract. I want to say this: I do think
where. Applause. in my soul that a peace breaker and a
When I accepted the nomination at disturber, a neighborhood broiler.
the hands of the Democratic party in the a man who hunts around, whether io
Fifth Congressional district (and there polities, in the church or in the neigh
are those in the bouse, perhaps, that borhood, or in the family for a division,
beard me in my acceptance) in winding and for strife, I do think that God Al
up my speech I said: "Democrats of the tnigbty and the country has got less use
Fifth Congressional district, this bunner for that fellow than for anybody else,
that you have placed in my hands shall Applause. I read it this way in the
never trail in the dutt while committed Scriptures," Blessed arc the peace makers."
to my keeping. I tell you my dear friends wo have found
That does not amount to anything, I in the Alliance order since wo have or
suppose. Was there an "if in that? ganized h Georgia, "Blessed is the peace
Some of these Jeffersonian "straights" maker." We have fouud that the man
want to know if I would vote for Crisp, who goes around stirring up strife, get-
I said yes, as a Georgian I would. I ting up division, is a curse to our order,
preferred him for two two reasons but and I want to tell you Democrats who do
they were not satisfied with that, for they not belong to the Alliance, who think we
came around on the edges and wanted to are not Democrats, if you catch him you
knows after two or three days in the At- wi catch a tartar. You had better let
lanta papers if I would go into a Demo- him slip through your fingers into the
cratic caucus when I got to Washington Republican or the Third party ranks, and
City and abide by the caucus io all strict- thank God when he goes. What do you
ly party qucbtions that came before that want? Peace? Yes. And harmony?
caucus. I said, yes, I would. But af Yes. Union? Yes. United effort?
tersaying all these things, and making that Yes. Why? Because, for twenty fivo
speech of three quarters of an hour a few years we have labored to a disadvantage
nitrhts him. I am to be subjected to a few polically, financially, commercially. We
more questions, and another catechism or have been dominated.
two from a few more newspapers. When I use the word advisedly. I do not
will that tud? I want to say to some take it back. We have been dominated,
Democrats iu this country: My dear financially and commercially, for twenty-
friends, I want to say to you who have five years. A few years ago the farmers
never brought anything into the Demo- of Georgia owned 75 per cent, of all the
cratio party, that I am going to watch business and the wealth, and the lands
you and see that you don't take anything ot Georgia, but to-day we own only 17
out of it. Laughter and applause. per cent. Withio the last three years
There are plenty of Democrats iu the the cities have grown immensely iu prop-
country that would die and be buried erty, in taxable properly. Tho cities
to-morrow, and the only thing they could havadded niillioiVs m three years, and
say was that they had voted for a Dem- thj country has losV millions. What do
oorat if he suited them, and if he didn't on want? Do we Vant to fight? Fight
they voted against him. They are the leach other? It reniityds me of two angry
young Democrats was on that line. I
beg you to remember that Atlanta is not
one-half of Georgia, or this country, and
you nice, young clever men are not the
only Democrats in this country, but these
men who wear brogan shoes are Demo
crats also.
I am going to tell you tho truth to
night. Gentleman of the Democratic par
ty, if you don't get down to harmony; Alli
ance people if you don't get down to harmo
ny, if you don't track that line, this coun
try is gone, and your liberties are gone
with it.
CAPTURED A WILD MAN. FOSTER'S FORECAST-
A STRANGE CREATURE FOUND AND
8TRAN0ER STORIES TOLD OF HIM.
A FLORIDA LAKE CONE.
DRY LAND WHERE STEAMBOATS RAN
AND ALLIGATORS PLAYED.
A very peculiar spectacle was to be
seen on the outskirts of Gainesville last
week. Alachua lake, a sheet of water
from ten to fifteen miles in length and
covering some 40,000 acres of land, is no
more.
On its banks were lying thousands of
dead fish, dead alligators floated ghastly
in pools of black water and the atmos
phere was heavy with noxiousgascs.
Men aod boys were there in throngs,
crowding around tho pools left by the
receding waters, and with hoes and rakes
dragging to shore hundreds of lish which
bad sought their depths for refuge. The
waters were fairly alive with their strug
gles for existence.
Except for a small Etream known as
Payne's creek, flowing from Newman's
lake into the sink, the two main ba?ins
of the sink and a few stagnant pools, no
water is now to be seen where, a few
years ano steamers were plowing their
way.
This is the second lime since 1823
that a similar occurrence has taken place
At that time, the earliest in which there
any record of that part of the country,
the bed of the lake was a large prairie,
Payne's prairie, having in it a body of
water called the sin k and a small creek.
In 18G3 heavy rains filled up the
very men who are sitting in judgment
upon the other fellows. I said if yo
would stand upon this Democratic plat
form, if you would como and meet the
Alliance Democrats of this country uuqq
these two great fundamental principh'if
Democracy, "Equal rights to all, social
privileges to none," and local wjfgov
ernment, I would gusrautoe tlu the
Alliance Democrats would strike bands
with you, and we would be Di.mocra8
f Georgia and Democrats of tlu wll(,le
country, baud in hand aud Uttrt,-iD.
heart. Applause.
I aver, as president of the State '.
ance, there is not one singlo "8migcn
of treason to the Democratic party or
against the government within an 1'li,,nce
lodge. There never has been, nn tiu.re
never will be, I do not suppose, What
are the Allianoo people doing'jf What
do their lecturers say when the. to
the public? They tell you tlm ljw tax
ation is unjust. They tell yoif, jt a ai.s.
criminnting. , They toll you it js c.iia
legislation, , They tell you f'l'fh- finan
cial system of tliid ooutitry if t0 protect
Vittens fighting over in bone, lor God s
sake lot us stop. There is but one way
out of the trouble, and tyiat is by united
effort on the part of ever single man in
the whole country. OurVneiuics want a
division. Our enemies lugh in their
sleeves and gloat to soous divided
They say as long as we keep iho lawyers.
and the merchants, and tne funuura fight
ing each other we will manage the fi
nances, and the commerce, and tho poli
ties to suit ourselves. Applause. And
here we are a set of fools, if you will ex
cuse: every man engaged in it is a natural
born fool, and if he follows it any louger
he is a knave. Applause Here we
are, fighting each other, while our cno
raies gloat over it, fattening over our dis
sensions.
There is another reason why we cannot
afford it. Lying dovn uuder the social
fabric of this country is a combustible
clement we cannot get rid of, and we
must Btand united. You know what ele
ment I refer to. That is our object; that
is the o'jv.ct of the Alliance people, and
' my whole speech the other night to those
Tho usually quiet little city of South
Wes City, Mo., was thrown into intense
excitement yesterday moruing by tho
sudden appearance of what was supposed
tobeamauiac, who came rushing through
the streets to the terror of men, women
and children. Only after a severe strug
gle was he captured by tho marshal and
his assistants and lodged in jail, where he
had to be changed to the floor.
He is of medium height and of a del
(ill EAT STORMS PREDICTED FOR OCTO
BER THESE STORMS WILL INDICATE
WHAT THE COMING WINTER WILL
HE.
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A remarkable penou oi great storms
will occur during the first half of October
that will be surpassed only by those that
will occur in March, 1802. There will
be three storm waves during this storm
period, which will cross the continent
from west to east along the usual storm
center routes. The first of these storm
waves will be most severe in the Missis
eippi vailey and the last one on tho At-
icato build. Yet he snaps trace chains aQtic eoast The first of tbes(J 8torm
as though they were made ot twine, lie wam w;u bo due to eave the pacjfi0 coast
is a most woe-begono specimen of the about September 30, cross tho Kocky
human iaimly. His talk is more like the Alleghany valley from October 1 to 3
chatter of a moDkey or a poll parrot than an(j reach the Atlantic coast about the
anything else. His entire body is covered 4t, qq tle 2t,d this storm wave will bo
with hair. nrnssinn the Mississinni river not far from
o ri
For the past six months there have St. Louis, and will then be of very con
been tales told in regard to a ghost hav- siderable force io Illinois and Missouri.
ing been seen in the timber in the south Accompanying this storm wave may be
and west of this city. One man claims expected tornadoes, cloud bursts, hai
to have seen him astrido a phantom aud severe gales and within one or two
horse, high up in the air, aod come to days following it killing frosts will visit
town speechless and had to be escorted most of the localities north of latitude 36
home. with a strong probability of frosts much
Then he was again seen by a full- further south. Hurricanes will develop
blood Cherokee, who was scared out of great force on the north Atlantic at this
his wits. This Indian is an intelligent time, but I cannot give their exact loca
man. Ho first saw the man crawliog cation, but they will probably be not far
on the ground snake fashion, and as he cast of the West Indies. These hurri-
supposed, he was watching something, canes will become very fierce along the
but on nearer approach the wild man Atlantic coast trom 1st to 18th ot Uctoher,
sprang to his all lours aud outran the Ihese storms will lndicatewhatthecoming
Indian's horse. winter will be. 1 expect very great storms
mi ,: ...) ...i , ..I , from the 1st of October to the last of
AMI Uiuai DUUBUllUllUl IUIU JCt- LUlU uvuut
WOMEN IN TROUSERS.
WHAT ONE OF THE SINNERS HAS TO SAY
ABOUT PROPOSED INNOVATIONS.
March and if this period of storms cover
ing the first half of October proves to be
of more than usual force it will indicate
could not move for at least one hour.
Who tho wild man is and where . he
prairie, but tho water disappeared after
snort time an a tne prairie was g beheaded and devoured the rattler
ill I
arJ wn'1, Thnn with a wave of his risht hand he
In 1873, after a series of heavy tains, , . ... . d:MDDeredi The
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tne sin oveinoweu ana tne crcex sweu- . . . gQ terrifie(j that b(J
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ea to tne aemenstons oi a late.
During several years the water in
creased till a larger lake was formed, and
for fully fifteen years sufficient depth of
water stood over the prairie to allow of
small steamers.
During the last two years, however,
the waters have been gradually lowering,
and about three weeks ago they commen
ced going down with surprising rapidity,
the lake falling about eight feet in ten
days, until now nothing is left of Alachua
Lake but the memory of it.
The sink is considered the cause of this
change. There is evidently an under
ground paswgooonnocted with it, and
for some reason not understood this under
ground passago has been acting as a drain
until all the water in the lake has been
drawn out. Atlanta Constitution.
the man comes fiotn a source which can
not be disputed. The gentleman lives
in Arlfnnund nnfl in u minister of the
gospel. He will make an affidavit that that 1 havc Dot the
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hi . i . i . uuu we may iiieu cuiiuueuuy cauitui
B saw linn sonio time last Aucrust near ' J 1
Prn,n . fflntnr store in Benton eountv very cold, severe and stormy winter, setting
.trim, .rtridflnf In, tnrin. with two io lluite early- SaturQ wiU PafS itS
w.v....0 . O' J I .i i i o i t1 1 x L..
1. Rn.kes. Onr, was an immense dia- e(nlno lne 1881 01 wlooer' BUl1 lu luiu
o t w .m. - - At v
mond rattler and the other a large black- lunuence allrlDUe 1,18 8real
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snake. Alter coins through several Blorms mm M,t : u""u, u"JBl 11
contortions of the body the wild man
W. S. Foster.
THE SOUTH'S PROCRESS.
ITS PROSl'FRITY IS SOLID AND ITS AD
VANCEMENT SURE.
Anglo-Sa xon men and women of the
tenth eeutury were clothed similarly, ana
the lloinan costume of which no one can
be a greater admirer than Appreciative
Charles Dudley Warner, is externally
almost identical for both sexes. Dr.
Hammond prescribes trousers for all
women who do manual labor except such
as is strictly confined to the bands. He
thinks sewing machines should never be
worked by women in skirts, and he rc-
servts gowns fur tho drawing-room and
the ball room, relegating saleswomen,
physicians, surgeons and nurses in hospi
tals to trousers, giving as one argument
that "flowing draperty worn by the wo
man physician and nurse is more apt to
absorb contagion than the closely-fitting
trousers of man, and hence renders them
carriers of disease from house to house,
or from person to person."
There are trousers and trousers. The
trousers of Europe and America are
neither Useful nor ornamental. They are
an excrescence, and the sooner men re
turn to the breeches of their forefathers
the better. But the trousers of Turkish
women are by no means unsightly, and a
costume modeled on that of the harem or
modern Greece, might combine utility
with beauty. However, before making
so great a revolution, why not adopt the
fashion of the first empire ? Can there
be any attire more healthful and charm
ing than that with which the lovely
Empress Josephine has made us familiar?
In this, as in the only perfect dress
that of ancient Greece the waist line
comes below tho bosom, few skirts are
needed, and hoops and bustles arc impos
sible. If Amercau women were not ab
solutely snobbish iu their allegiance to
Paris dressmakers, if they thought for
themseves and dared to call their bodies
their own, they would meet in council
and make their own fashions. Until
public schools and private seminaries turn
out self-helpful, able bodied individuals,
instead of rickety parrots stuffed with
book learning, the reign of common
sense will be postponed.
Sister siuners, what are you going to
do about it? Kate Field's Washington.
The Manufacturer! Record of last
came from no one knows. The proper week contains its quarterly review of the
authorities have been notified aud will bo industrial progress of the South, show-
here to day. Great numbers of people ing that notwithstanding the usual dull-
are coming in to sec him. He glares at ness ot the summer and the late finan
them sometimes with a fiendish expres- cial stringency, there has been a steady
sion. At other times he grows restless and solid advancement. The Record
and utters horrible screams ana yens. says;
WORLD'S FOOD SUPPLY.
AN ESTIMATED DEFICIT OP 200,000,000
BUSHELS OF WHEAT AND RYE.
St. Louis Republic.
I LOVE MY COUNTRY.
SAVE MONET AND SUFFERINGS One
feature of the thousands of testimonials
that have been given iu behalf of S. S. S.
is remarkable. In numbers of instances
it is related that a great deal of tim j and
money have been spent in a vain effort to
secure relief from disease in tho usual
way. A knowledge of the virtues of
Swift's Specific would have saved the
'The most trying period which the in
dustrial growth ot the couth has ever
encountered has been that covered by
the last nine or ten months. It would
Gen. Longstreet says that on one of have been natural for a rapidly develop-
the long night marches in Virginia the ing section like the South, whose thou
only way he could get rest was to lie sands of new enterprises were being
down on the ground while the column organized or were under construction, to
was passing and sleep for an hour or so. have felt tho effect of financial troubles
He woke up just as the stragglers were more seriously than any other section,
nnmiiK' alonff the rear aod heard an old but such has not been the ease. Ot
n a
Georgia cracker soliloquiza about tho sit- courso many enterprises just getting un
uation: "I love my country and der way when the panic came hove been
I'll fight for it, and I'll die for it, abandoned, but this has been mainly in
and I'll go naked and barefooted fir the line of development and town com
it, but when this war is over I'll bo curs- panics. The manufacturing enterprises
ed if I over love another country." in operation have gono along steadily.
Hanking and general business operations,
rttMSiTMPTinN :ITICKD. though Bomew hat restricted in volume
have stood the finam-ial strain remarkably
An old physician, retired from prac u, thfl ,,, j,,nriWjilin
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time ana me money, io say noui.ng o. two, Having nau p.aceo. u uuuus uj . . R , , Bl.non.nv
the prevention of the suffeiing. There an East India missionary the formula rUnnii.K to thoir full capacity and
neca DO no sucn misiaites maue now. ine i oi a simple vegeiaoie remcy .or nmkin wime .)r(lfit; colton wm W
great Diooapurmer w iorsa.e oy urug- r - v 7 JZ3i been busy, and in nearly every line of
i i .i o o o I linn, rmiuuiiiiin. Vvmuiiu. anvuma uu . . . -
gists everywnere, anu me o. D. . com- - Affections, also a
pany in Atlanta will send to any address -tive and miiciJ cure for Ncrvoug Dc.
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tneir treatise ou jjioou bou ouu xiuco baity and all .Nervous uompiaints, aner
free and a pamphlet containing a few of having tested its wonderful curative pow-
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the thousands of testimonials they have re ers in thousand ot enses, nas icit h ins
. , , i . . j duty to make it known to his suffering
cowed from those who have experienced " J . . , . . . -
the benefits of this wonderful medicine d " lievo b sutr,rjn,, i w;
send free of charge, to nil who desire it,
"JlM, the Westerner; will be present- this recipe, in German French . r Kuglish
edat the hall to-ntglit. It is highly . R . ., .
spoken of by t lm press everywhere aod mmnf, tni paper. w". A.
had a long run iu Now Y. ik City. Th So, SJ0 l'vcia' iilock, Rochester, N.
clav will not be cut. ' V ' I . apr ly.
manufacturing there has been a steady,
substantial gain, even dining the great
monetary stringency. J he way m which
the fc'outh has stood the strum has sup-
prised the lumueial world, and has mate
rially strengthened the conli.lenne of the
capitalists of tho North in the gieut
future of this section. During the last
nine months 2,473 new manufacturing
enterprises have been orgnnited.
An exhaustive study of the world's
food supply in the American Agricul
turists emphasizes facts of grave import
ance to both America and Europe. It
declares that the half has not been told
about the European shortage in bread
stuffs, which not even a bountiful crop,
this year would have relieved. Contin
ental powers, especially Russia, suppress
the facts as far as possible. In many
Russian provinces the scarcity of food
became apparent is far back as February
last. In the Konstantinovoka district
many families have not cooked a meal
since E ister, but subsist on bread, soak
ed rye, graiu, ki , bestowed in chaiity.
That eastern Germany is in practically
the same plight admits of no doubt. Ac
cepting the largest estimates of produc
tion, both at homo and abroad, and eves
assuming tout the Uuiud States aud Can
ada cau export 22.-1,000,000 bushels, tb
American Agriculturist sli'l finds a de
ficit in the world's food supply of at least
200,000,000 bushels of wheat and rye,
with a possibility of the shortage being
twice as great. Ad-b'd to this is tho al
most total failure of the potato crop in
Ireland, and n sciions curtailment in the
yield of potatoes on the Continent.
If tin; above statement is correct, all
bread-stuffs, including rice, ought to bring
higher prices.
If you foci weaw
and all won. out take
BROWN'S IRON .BITTERS
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorta.
When slie boeamn Mtss, she clung to Castorla.
Wlieb tut. hail rwHron, she gave them Castwiv.
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