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c I HE ENT IX. O. IVY, Editor and Publisher. Render. Unto -Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. ' $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance. VOL. I. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1891 NO. 39 IMES t AUTUMN WHISPERINGS. Tell It Not That Our Southland Is Prosy. -ue Will Tdl You About Many Im portant Happenings That Have Occurred During a Week. VIRGINIA. ',. lin, tii- condemned murderer of . i. tin- Italian, in Botetourt county, )..,. i ii.it -d. Mi:ini- 'iic-vy, ti,r-'ii'ii lli- war. a! L' -t.'l!-. an old inare who went died, aged thirty-five, 1 : ; :ttU!; i the exhibit of natural i i; : i-,.u j i u' Is made ly Buen.t Vis t a. tii'- tatt- Fair was that of mail, of whi' h th i' .-m- -xtcnsive surface beds in j ; : ,, ,-i Vi-: i near thy lines of the rail . It .i:t;,K I'd mu h attention in i with the yield ir will make nii ii l"ui: 'i into lime,, ami its value for ajriii intuial .inju rs. Under the old iin tli'i i- f making iron with charcoal f : i . i t - iii.ti I was used as the fluxing Mil !' J i.tl I.', lloiliti and Gvorgu Dye an- under r,'-r :,t a 1 C! ' !' i, JllioT COUlltV. 1, !.' -1 with 1 m j iii iii-pib-atel in the t i - - i i : , t i I- i '! n . kihc-, aim inrce cnii i mar t!nn- VVtdiit-sda v morning. ii 1! in i th man. who, on seeing the in li 'in--. went otne distinco to n- i'"'!- to ;ive th'- alarm instead- iiii; i-i tii'- ii'ii niiiir li-disr. .!!! tii of .tciici -on Davis, painted lr. Wil i.tia iail Urownr, for the Wi st m . 'i i.iini . bib, of Richmond, is said to ! i ' 1 1' t likeness of Mr. Davis as he ;(,,) in a at the time he took the reins of tii- t 'oah d -Tate (iovri nment. The pic tui i-a time-quarter length, the ..iiiv,i- m i-nring 5 feet 0 inches ly 3 I'M ! In -. Mr. Urownc in paint i i . l: tin- loitriit had nothing t i work Jii'ni hut the (J.tlt l.u-l. a detective pho 1j l;i ,ili and hisouu ret -l lection of Mr. Iv t- TIm I! t; i-t met at Norfolk. A ic jm i! otM-.s that during the past yea r i-iitv live mission:) ie.s occupied tun hundied and iweii'v two stations, liitm li'd .;;i'. setinoii-, bapticd 1,0!" i!ii!i. ai ed pat'-r nut 1 bigs 1 ,047, made 1J. :'.,! vidls to ! milieu for ic-lieiou- c an ei at io:i and layer, organiz ed new Sunday Si lmo's and fourteen iii -a . lulu he.,, were ( ngig.-d in buildng iiii iN . a Ii iii-i . of or hip, complet d li 1" e i hui i lies and sii'.t ained . one bun -ln-d and ighty-live Suud i. Schools at tiien station';. The tot.d amount con tiil'i'.tid lor missions during the p;ist ten i-.,i- been $1 1:J.;".:5 'it. '1 he elec li'in I i."ire!s ie-u!led in the r- -election of .-'iti t aU of the old otliccrs, t lie Hon. I.Taioi lLI!ion, of liichmond. re: eiv- ini: tlr U!animom vote of the body f or neMideut. NORTH CAROLINA. Alt' i a .ei v u y time in Haleigh the Fit tii Mu '. i"d ; diluent left for home Tlnird iv . II. I'. la :.tliaut, of North Carolina, the only eoloit d member of the next 0iu:res. i- a i .dlee graduate, and is Said to be the l;t edll' Mted llgr, with a Millie Vt cpl.oii, thst l;-is yet sal in t- e llousl-. . liie M irylaud Steel: Company is nego tiating I'm a i ui.ir arge suppiy of die'- iv r iic in Noi t h ('aroiina. Th' i ! i i. n mi the piopof-ition of issuing flo '!,! b .nl, for the completion of the (."ha' l.tte eitv hall and street work was e:riie i by a i arge majority of the vote ji'.li. ii. - tlii-'.tu Koh.'rts Weatlieily, a proiui ntnt isi" hint. ;omni tied suicide at Tyro :li"'-. P ividson c untv, Wednesday night. - Liicn.-a has been granted in Anson iunt bv the commissictn rs to Samuel Sheppa, i. The tax t-olie. tor of IJui li- gton, Iiv dell county, has defaulted. Work has commenrcd on the new Nor mal School p.iiihling at lire, nsboro, near the Female I'oliege.' Charlotte -s bceotr.ing the musical center of the State. The new School of Music thri-has net with wo'iderful success K 1'iisident I levciand cannot attend th" Ilal,iU'h Fx posit on. He r rites; "I know 1 M,o.iid enjoy a such ;i visit t my Neith t'aiol'na fiiemU and their neigh-ai-.d I am , i.tiu lv certain that "my r.. (!. ,, .:..!. ; t. i;.iinn:ent would fully aeo-i i nid, ,).,. h.i.pitable disposition JMu, !, .!uti-.u;l1( the locality. I thcre-r-::., t that 1 am obliged to decline , i'.w ita'ii ;i Oou ti fiasinit, for tin-i.-., ;i that n , i ;;gcuicnis and oc-a-- f..,i id waving homedur tlie pi- v, ; ,..,, ;, SOUTH CAROLINA. ! ',''n,, ; '- 1 wealthy and juoini i!e:u c .ai, .on u.eti hunt of ante-bellum "''i' -d at F.d-. V-!,i !.rt week. ' V i'!-;t :.'iig r. li nuskinp o strong t1-"''1' 'h - j. opo..d rew'countv of I a. a. ;:. Tl'.e State A"iarl0 Kxchange, . at a tiiMi! n-d:. sday. determined to move 'he l.-ad. ,.;,!!, iv o! t!i Fx: lunge to Co-iiin.-m... She I.-ti v.iU be made on hv i;.:ty 1. A eoinniiio.i for t ii utcr h.- b'en is smd toth,- Wa-cto- I.o.ui and Saving, Lank;. fapirai. ?C-".Oi) . Ihc.li-tii.t AiUatue Ketutcir, of the State m,t ,it (,,-.u,w I , t week, to di- 'he p.:t , work in this aaU' " t n.eial cis said that the ganization n.,s u xccllent t rder and the futuu- xioik woui l be packed as viLr. oiously sf heretofore, especially the cain I'aigii of ciur;iti,:i. Coihctions are being taken up in all the cob. icd c lunches th'onh the State to .pro' lire counsel to defend the ten negroes who wtre convicted of murder in Lau rens emi ty. on September 1st, aud sen tenced, to be hinged. The governor hm respite 1 the men and the movement is now to get a i ew trial. So fsr about half of the f 5,!0 needed has bren secured. Charleston News and Cornier: Lvirg &t Cen'ral wharf is the brig Feie T,. Crane, direct from Porto Rico, with a rgo of cocoanuts, which she wa". b-is.ily "i-rging. This 1" the largest rsrgo of :s eier n- eivc-d at th ? pert. It N.' t.-, of 235,000. The South Carolina Historical Society, being desirous of extending its opera tioDs over the whole State and enlisting the aid of all who are interested in them, has called a meeting, to be held in Co lumbia on the evening of December 1st next, to eitablish branch societies in every county, and to appeal to the Gen eral Assembly for aid in prosecuting its work. The committee which was ap pointed to anange for the meeting con sists of Messrs. Edward McCrady, Jr., Johnson Hagood. John Johnson, William II.-Crier, FJlison Capers, John L. Weber and G. W. Holland, and these gentle men have a printed a circular letter of invitation which they have sent to many persons, begging them "to extend the in vitation to everyone interested in the preservation of the history of the State." The co'lector of the port's statement of the exports from Chaiieston far the month of October shows a gratifying increase in trade. The total value of the ship ments was $2, .":, ?G1. The Custom House figures, so far recorded this month, show that the buduessof the port will be far in excess of last month.. The official statement for October is as follows :Value Sea island cottm. bags 328 $ 27,813 Upland cotton, bales 02,293 2,812,451 Phosphate rock, toBS 100 709 Rosin, barrels 2,604 4,000 Spirits turp tine, gal's 18.C0O 0,300 Cotton seeds, pounds 210,8j7 15,000 OTHER STATE3. Fannie Edwards, the girl preacher, has closed a revival at Bristol, Tenn. Flames destroyed apart of the business portion of Tampa, Flit., last.-Thursday. Loss -$.85,000. Texas wants to raise $300,000 for its exhibit at the World's Fair. The lum ber dealers and manufacturers have tub sciibed about $3,000 worth of lumber of various kinds towards the construc tion of the State building, and to exhibit the wealth of Texas in timber. Lake Palmyra is a part of the Missis sippi River at high water, but at present its bottom is dry. with a thiu upper crust of dry eaith and a deeper lower layer of soft mud. A half-witted negro who tried to walk across to tin island broke through tho ciust. In one day he sauk to the wa:st, aud in two days to the neck. On the night of the second day he was pull ed out. Some time ago C. P. Goodyear and other enterprising citizens of Brunswick, (la., undertook to deepen the harbor at that place by the use of dynamite. At a cost of a few thousand dollars they se cured an increased depth of 2 feet, though " engineers had estimated ithat hundreds of thousands would be required. Not satisfied with this Mr. Goodyear and his associates have offered to the city council to guarantee to secure 23 feet, and a contract will doubtless "be made to that eflect. TRAIN ROBBERY FOILED. An Interesting Story From Down in Alabama. Birmingham, Ai.a , Special. A story comes from Collinsville, on tbe Alabama Great Southern railroad that sounds very much like an attempted train robbery. The agent at Collinsville heard that an attempt would be made to rob the S-.-uthcrn Express ' which passed there about twelve o'clock. Shortly afterward fifteen men, nicely dressed, came in and took possession of the Station, refusing to vacate when . locking up time came The agent then called on the local au thorities, and the mayor and marshall, police aud a posse of citizens came to his rescue and drove the men away. Ihe gang was well armed and left threaten ing vengeance. The train at Chattanoo ga was notified and left therewith aU the train men armed to the teeth. As it pulled in Collinsville, four of the men reuipeared and attempted to board it, but the citizens fired on them and they fled. It is said one of the fellows was hit and fell, but got up and made off again. It is believed the attempt was planned to have been made below Col iinsville, but the train enmc through without being molested. All the train men on the division are now armed and an extra lookout is observed. Oue of the gang has been arrested, but his story has not vet been obtained. SAW THROUGH HIS DISGUISE, A .Reporter Assumes the Role of a Servant and is Ejected From the Kaiser's Train. A cablegram from Berlin, says: A re porter disguised as one of the imperial domestics smuggled himself aboard the Kaiser's train from Potsdam for Kreuz, and was takiug copious notes in his ca pacious brain ofjthe royal sayings and do ings en route, when he was detected by the vigilant Baron Lyncker, of the Em peror's personal eutouragc, and wa.sj'orc ed t admit his identity and Emission. Some of the eminent persons on the train thou lit hanging would be too light a punishment for the intruder, but it was finally decided to put him oil' the train at a lonely spot in the woods, whence he wo ild have a long walk before reaching a place of habitation. This was done, and when the Emperor inquire I the reas on for stopping the train -and was 'told what had occurred he laughed heartily and expressed his approval of the punish ment inflicted upon the enterprising young man. Advance in the "i?rice of Broom. Schenectady, N. Y., Special. The broom manufacturers of the Mohawk Valley attended a meeting of broom manufacturers in Chicago last week. -Several States were represented at the meeting. The manufacturers resolved to advance the price of all kinds of brooms fifty cents a dozen in consequence of corn having advanced from $ SO to f 125 a ton and the crop being short. The manufac turers say that there is not enough corn to last until next season's crop, and that means higher prices yet. La Grippe Revisits Now York. Ni:w York City, Special. La grippe, or Russian imlucnza, has made its appearance in this city. It leaked out at the health department that among the deaths reported last week was one from la grippe. OUR APPROPRIATIONS. "What the Government Will Spend for Coast and Harbor Improvements. Washington-, D. C, Special. The annual estimates of General Casey, chief of engineers of the United ' States army, for the coast and harbor improvement for the year 1802 contain the following recommendations: Virginia Cape Charles Citv harbor,' 120,400; Jaaes river, $3,73o,000, of which 1400.000 can be profitably expen ded in 1892; Ocoquon river, "$35,000; Aquia creek, $30,000; Xomi creek, $30, 000; Urban a creek, $13,000; York river, $150,000; M.ittapoui river, $220,00); Pa munkey river, $10,000; for Norfolk har bor and approaches, cvtiinated $157,000; approach to Norfolk harbor and United States navy-yard, $108,000; Nansemond river, $1 32.500'; from Norfolk harbor to Albemarle sound, N. C, through Curri tuck sound, $8,677, cstimatrd, but $25, 000 could be profitably expended ;- Staun ton river, $50,000. North Carolina Roinoke river, $131, 000, of which $01,000 cau profitably be expended in 1802 ; Oeracroke inlet, N. C, $510,000' of which $100,000 for expenditure in 1801 : Pamlico and Tar rivers, N.'Y., 50,0(0; Neuse river, N. C , $r0,500: inland water-way between New Berne and Beaufort, N. C, $57,000; Beaufort harbor. $23,000; water-way between 'New river and SwanOioro. N.C. , $38,000; Cape Fear river, N. C, $25,000; Iilack rier, N. C. $3.5o0; Cape . Fear river, above Wiiiningto: N.C , $173,000, same river belu v Wilmington, $1,055,-U0-), of which $3o0,000 is to be expended io 1832; Yadkin river. N. C. $5,000. Building: Macadamized Roads in the South. Jefferson county, Ala., is takiog the lead of all other Southern counties, if not of every county in the United States, in the vigor which it is displaying in ma cadamizing its roads. It has already 110 miles of macadamized roads, 30 more now under construction, aud contracts are soon to be let "for seven miles addi tional, which will give that county a to tal of 150 miles of first-class roads. The people of that county are to be congratu lated upon this splendid illustration of their broad-minded business judgement, and it is to be hoped V. at their example will be followed by every county in the South. Good reads are essential to agri cultural prosperity, and they are just as important to the South as new railroads; in fact, it is a question whether the county subscription to new railroad en terprises would not in the long run yield etill better returns if invested in good macadamized county roads. Every mile of good roads constructed would enhance the value of all adjacent farm property increase the profits of farmer?, attract the best class of settlers, and help to increase the prosperity of the whole State. The Birmingham Age tells the story when it says: "The best of it is, wherever these roads lead out from B rmingham, the cotton patch is disappearing and diversi fied fanning is taking its place " It is time for the South to inaugurate a road building .period, and nothing that it could do would have a greater effect upon its general prosperity. Ex-President Hayes in Mississippi., Jackson, Miss., Special. Ex-President Hayes, accompanied by his son and Dr. J. L. M.. Curry, ' spent the day here investigating the Tugaloo university and Jackson college, both college institutions being suppoitt-d, in part, by the "Slater fund. A large number of prominent citizens called on Mr. Hayes, and, after paying their respects, discussed the pros pects of getting the board of trustees of -thcPeabody fund to rescind its action cutting Mississippi off from any of the benefits of that fund. Mr. Hayes said he was in favor of restoring the Mississippi share of the appropriation, and was wil ling to treat the state's action in not pay ing the bond held by this fund as "an cient history," and take a new start. Dr Curry occurred in this expression of the ex-president. The Best Part of Central Africa. A cablegram from St. Paul de Loauda via Belgium, says that Lieut. Lemaiiuel ha3 returned from his expedition to Ka tanga. King Msiri has submitted to the Congo State and recoguized its sovereign ty. Ihe Lieutenant established a station in his country. Msiri is the most power ful ruler in Central Africa. It was thought he might assume a hostile attitude to ward the whites, but Lamariuel had no difficulty in assuring his friendship. His people are great traders, and the copper they take from their nuues is exported as far as the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. Great hopes are enteitained lor the fu ture of this country, which, every white man who has yet visited it say. is adapt ed for Avhitc colonization owing to its lofty altitude and sr.'ubrious clima'e. The Liquor Question in Charleston. Charleston, S. C, Special. The prohibition question i revived here, and the legislature will hear from Charleston when it meets. The advocates of prohi bitionists have prepared a petition, which has uite a number of signatures. The antis say, however, that they are mostlj signatures of women and children, and m the other baud, the wholesale liquor deik-rs and the retail grocer assoc"atioa and the German Turn Vercin are prepar ing counter petitions, and have a joint committee, one charged with the man agement of the campaign ia Columbia. The Liberian Emigration. The emigation of coined people from the UnitecUbtates to Africa, and in par ticular from New York to Liberia, goes on t-o steadily ih to lend a special interest to the views of Arthur Silva White, szc n tary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Mr. White says the foreign Powers colonizing and acquiring proper ty rights in the Dark Continent must ag ee on a uniform programme before tbe interests of Africa can be developed along natural lines. This seems directly to vine-em every emigrant from Afr."ca. Florence Bank Fails. A Florence. Ala, special says: The bank of Florida failed to open its doors. The officers refused to make a statement and the assets and liabilities cannot be ascertained. FARMERS' ALLIANCE. Annual Address of President Joseph of the Iowa Alliance. it "Monopoly is the Arch Enemy of In dustry and the Political Mon- X, ster of Modern Times." At Des Moines. Iowa, the other day, President J. M. Joseph tlelivered his anl- nual addres, and said in part: -- "The duties of the farmer include very much more than the cultivation of the land and the production of crops5 , Upon; him more than upon any one else, tle peuds tbe chracter of public inst tutions and the welfare of all classes of people. With him mainly rests the responsibility of good or bad government. fw "That there has been a great awakeaS iug among farmers during the past few years in matters pertaining to their rights and duties everybody knows. Tbe Far1 mere1 Alliance is the result of the dissat: isfactiou produced by an unjust systetn of distributing the benefits and burdens of public institutions." - f "Statesmen of all parties, while sup scribing to the fundamental doctrines of our government, are found advocating measures and policies subversive of them. For a score of years they have been plantf ing seeds throughout our industrial apd commercial system utterly at variance with the doctrine of equal rights. Tpi day we are cursed with privileged classes existing by virtue ot legal enactments to as great a degree as many of the natiohs of Europe. We have broadened the foundation of the splendid temple our our fathers began, but we have "not raised its walls, except with a single - stone, 3n 100 years. The emancipation of the black man is the only achievement in the interest of humanity worth recording in this c:en-r tin v. ' r;N "Monopoly is the arch enemy of indus try, the political monster of modern tims It lias come to be a constant, ever pres cut menace to free government JIt rears its head in every field, it clutcjics at tue throat of every honest toiler, f: It beset? the public highways. It interests every market. It is intrenched in court and Congress alike. The horse leacjjTs daughter of holy writ was uot more rapa cious. As a political force, it domi nates botn the great parlies. Its ten dencies are toward arbitrary, despotic government. The home of the monger is in the modern contrivances we call cor porations. I "The forces of nature, the natural pro- due's of the earth, the equal gifts of Gkd to all the children of men, arc walled-.xip by the omnipresent corporation.Thc goods, me rignts, me uenenis mane, mailers .:oi corporate ownership and distributed Mq the few, while many are shut out fronj a "Public instrumentalities, the railroad. the telegraph, the financial system drjft enormous revenues into private cotters, while they exist under a normal condition of public control. This condition is an economic absurdity. ip "No solution of the great problem of equitable distribution can be found out side the public ownership of natural forces and materials. f "Partisans have raised a gbost and. named it paternal government, forgetting that the people aie, in theory and ought to be in fact, the government, forgetting that except for the paternal carej f of government there would not be a corpo: rati ;n on the face of the earth. Yet pjir t sans build no adequate defense against the combination that clutches labor -by the throat, that glowers industry with the eye polyphemus, sucking up her t In stance to the wall cf bare subsistence. : , "The $00,000,000,000 of wealth in our country is the result of the genius and industry of ad the ages gone. It is a sp'ef.did legacy to leave posterity. That a small minority, who have contributed nothing toward its accumulation, should inherit the whole of it, to the exclusion of the great majority, is not ouly a fla grant injustice upon the face of the mat ter, but it maiksthc fact that in hurnan affairs there are yet whole realms in jhe matter of equitable distribution urjex-' plorcd, matters of vast concern ; to those who come after us. " iy1;' "The Farmers' Alliance as ai organi zation, is the natural result of the neglect of political parties to consider economic questions from the standpoint of merit lather than of party advantage. : The farmers have beco:r.e weary - with' the long-drawn quarrels over minutes : and barren contests of mere place hunte s-; "The animosities of a contest fo tight to a finish many years ago ought to have been buried long ago, aud would lave been except for the partisan who fojmd political capital in keeping alive the fin alities and jealousies of the sections against each other. : "The Alliance seek fo reunitejthe people into one harmonious nation itb equal rights for all. It seeks to limiff.the power and curb the rapacity of corpora tions. It seeks to reform the industrial system to the end that thV products,! of industry may be fairly distributed f fjlts task will not be finished till the-e resiilts are achieved. It was not botn in a nfght nor w ill it perish irr a day. It is a' pro test against plutocratic tendencies, against extravagant pub ic expenditures, agi.nst unequal taxation, against the spoliation of the working classes against tkef-fex-ploiter and speculator in the products of the field, the mine and the factory: against the whole class who make a .mo nopoly and live by usury, agaiust th .-private ownership of public instrumentali ties, against the whole po'icy of 'inflated capital aud bonded debts . "The Alliance demands a sufljeseut volume of money to enable iud ustryj 1 to exchange her products on a cash basis, to the end that labor may escape the f -burden of interest that now rats up hersus- tensnce in maintaining the credit sjfUm. "The Alliance" recognizes thatj jtke government monopolizes the creati H of money and ins'sts tat this fact carries with it the duty to provide a sufficient volume of money. The Alliance : iilds that the volume of money is not sufficient as long as .verage interest is abovef he average profits of industry.' "The fanner and mechanic may r well a?k each other why they should be. put to the expense of maintaining a jthird class of people digging metal counters from the earth to enable them, tblf ex change their products, or why they should be burdened with an interest-eating bond as a foundation for a circulating medium. when they coif d furnish the security for the medium of exchange themselves at one-fourlh the expense. "Ihe past six months has lifted the fog sufficiently that all tray now see where the ceutre of the great industrial battle is to be. Politicians mav beat the bush yet a ltttle longer over an insignifi cant difference in the adjustment of the tariff, but the real contest cannot be long delayed. We must fix the status of the ruling force in America. "Shall it be money or manhood? That is the question. We must settle the question whether our medium of ex change shall be a great national labor saving machine,- as great as the nation's industries, as strong as the nation's arms, as sound as the nation's heart, or wheth er it shall continue to be a tool of mo nopoly, nominally under public control but really controlling the people, and ex acting tribute from industry by the rob ber's rule of 'what the traffic will bear.'" "Our chief school and hope lies v. ith the sub-Alliances Let us plant these in every neighborhood, push the Alliance press and literature into every home. Let us renew no subscriptions to the par ty press of either party that misrepre sents or opposes our demands. Ave far mers and mechanics cannot afford to do it any longer. "Let us stand firm by the colors of the Alliance. Let us cultivate a spirit of fraternity with all kindred organizations. Let us put the Alliance above our fealty to any political party, and in the great contest for the emancipation of industry from the domi nation of monopoly, let us rejoice in the promise of battle and the hope of vic tory." , v $2.50 A Tii EE. How would you like to sell your tim ber at that price, brother farmer? How many of you arc. selling wood de livered at the railroad for fl.50 a cord? How manv are selling crossties at 20 cents apiece and haul them several miles, maybe? Well, farmers, $ 2.50 a tree was paid a few days ago by a Northern lumber com pany for 200,000 soft wood trees, stand ing, in a Southern State a little north of us. - You ask if farmers sold that batch of trets? Well no, they had been sold bv the original owners some years -ago for a mere song; and the immense profit in this last tiade went to the speculators.. Farmers, the timber of the Northern forests is nearly exuaustea. lnc lm- mmeuse lumber mills operating must move, and they must move South. They have their agents all through the couth buying up lauds at a ridiculously low fig gure. A lew years nence tne tanu you sell them at $3 an acre will be worth all the way ten to twenty-five dollars an acre. Hold on to your timbered lauds, larmers. lnc near iuture will prove them to be a mine of wealth to you vou may in less than five years 6ell the timber at $2.50 a tree and have the land left. TO STORE CO'ITON. It is stited thit the Greenville, S. C, County Alliance has decided to store a large portion of their cotton crop. They have made arrangements with local banks to advance 80 per cent, of the present value at one per cent per mouth. The storage for the first 15 days will be free. The tot .1 cost of storage and insurance per month will not exceed 25 cents per bale. This is rather a costly way to hold cot ton wlien compared with the Sub-tre's-ury, but with a short crop and April fu tures already higher than for the present month, it doubtless will be safe if a large number of farmers will make simi lar arrangements. But without unity of action it will avail but little. However, it should be tiied. If we make but little nothing will be lost. It is certainly sui cidal so sell all this crop at the present prices. Let every cotton county go to work and see if anything caa be done at once. That was quick w ea k of President Polk sceaking in California on the far off Pa cific coast and exactly oue week from date to stand with bis people on the banks of the Blue Albemarle at Elizabeth City. The Tarboro Advocate says that Col. Harry Skinner and Judge Bourne will soon discuss the Sub-treasury bill. Time aud place not yet agiccd upon. The factory inspection committee of the Illinois Woman" State Alliance have found 106 shirt factories working chil dren from ten to twelve hours daily for the fat salary of $1 per week, in the en terprising city of Chicago St. Louis Monitor. The farmers of Iowa after ten years of hard work, of thirteen and one-half hours to the day on an average, find themselves $05,000,000 worse off than they were a decade ago. Industrial Edu cator. Col. Polk went to California upon the invitation of Senator Leland Stanford, and it is understood that he is to be paid a vast sum by the railroad king. So says a New York paper. Next ! ! The Farmers' Alliance will run the Warehouse which w ill soon be vacate 1 by Mr Gravely, on Church street, oppo-ite the Eagle, "says the Rocky Mount, N.C, Ph'pnir. Visiting the City By the Sea. Charleston, S. C, Special. 1-Uoited States Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason and his family, who are here en route to New Orleans to look into the su--rar bounty question, were tendered a formal reception by government officials. The pa'ty was taTcen on an excursion to Fort Smith and the je t es by Coraw.and er Greene, of the light house department ma government steamer. BANKERS AM) SILVER. C Free Coinage Discussed by the Con vention in New Orleans. "Is it Practical to Have a National Kate of InterestP Discussed. Nkw Orleans, La., Special. At the Bankers' Convention .W. P. St. John, of New York, read a ppcr on the silver question. He urged the reopening of the mints to equally restricted.coinage of gold and silver. He says bis plan v. ill tend to unite the currency. by providing a sin gle automatic issue in lieu of any capri cious issue of circulating notes. These no'es would be redeemable in coin, the coin reserved for them being at face amount of the notes. Hon. John Jay Knox, ex-Comptroller of ihe Currency, replied to Mr. St. John, arguing against the free coinage of silver. Mr. Johnston, of Birmingham, spoke in favor of an honest silver dollar. Mr. George Rutlege Gibson then read a fancy descriptive paper on "Wall Street." Mr. Gibson briefly reviewed the history the history of stock exchanges and devo ted much space to the principles and benefits of speculation; tlie ethics of speculation; the utility of the middleman or broker; the community of interest be tween Wall street and the country; the influence of the Stock Exchange and the international relations of Wall street. Mr. Gibson treated his subject from a Wall street standpoint. Speaking of the rela tive value of railroad and farming prop erty iu the West, he claimed that to the railroads, in the increased transpoitation facilities furnished, the farmer owed most of the increased value of his farm proper ty. Mr. Gibson expressed the opinion that the bankers . of the interior of the country owe it to themselves as influential citizens of the communities in which they live to combat the feeling of hostility in many sections to capital and to Wall street. He paid a high tribute the morals of the VYa II -street banker and brokers, especial ly as to their integrity iu financial mat ters an i their scrupulous regard for the inviolability of contracts tlfjy make, even in the hurry and bustle of transactions upon the Exchange. A paper was read by William C. Corn wall, of Buffalo, N . Y., on "Canadian Bank Currency," and one by Hon. P. W. Peeples, of jacksou,. Miss , on "States manship in Finance " The topic for discussion Was: "Is it practicable to have a national rate of in terest ?' ': GOOD REPORTS OF THE SOUTH. Steady Progress All Along the Line. The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti more, of November 14, in reviewing the industrial progress of the South, says: "Many leading bankers and capitalists have lately been visiting various pu ts of the Suuth, aud their reports are unifor mally favorable as to the splendid pros pects of this favored section. Financial troubles throughout the world have, of course, had their natural effect in restrict ing new developments to some extent, and the folly in Southern farmers in rais ing too much cot on during the last two years has paused very low prices, which have had some retarding influence upon all business matters in this section; but despite these temporary drawbacks the South is forging ahead solidly, and is steadily attracting increased nt ention to its vast natural resounds and advautages which insure its abundant prosperity in the near future. The wonderful record of the last ten years will undoubtedly be far surpassed by the coming ten. F. r 12 months the conditions have been against the inauguration of new enterprises in any part of the country, but with the re turn of more activity after the first of the year, when the crops have been gathered and sold, there will naturally follow a revival of new industrial and railroad de velopment work. Even during this un favorable period the South sh iws a long list of new enterprises every w eek, and among the more important ones reported in this issue of the Manufacturers' Record arc an extensive electric railroad with Inrge power houses, to connect Baltimore and the manufacturing suburb of Curtis Bay; the placing of '$2,000,000 of bonds for cabling a street railroad in Baltimoie: a $1,000,000 mining company in North Carolina to purchase large high-gi.de ore properties; the enlargement of the steel works at Chattanooga; a $150.f 00 ' ice manufacturing company at Norfolk, where new enterprises are started nearly every week; a $200,000 enlargement of a brewery at Fort Worth, Texas; $100,000 hotel and improvement company iu Notth Carolina: a $50,000 woodworking com pany, Columbus City. Ala ; a ''00.00 ) development company near Petersburg, Va., by New Engfcmd capitalists; a '400 barrel mill at Staunton; a $10,000 mining company at B!ack-burg, S. C ; a $b,00 manufacturing coin pain- at Florence. S C. ; water woiks at Elgin. Texas; a $20, 000 electric light and power company at San Angelo, Texas; a $1'. 0,000 and an $8000 coal and coke company and a $48,000 gas company in West Virginia; the purchase of 20,000 acres near hliza tethton, Tenn , by a nevv town and de velopment company; coal mine in Ken tucky; $25,000 emery wheel company at Tallapoosa, Ga. ; a $39,C00 flour mill ard elevator company at McKinney, Texas; the sale for $100',0')0 of a rolling mill at Bessemer. Ala., which is to be enlarged snd put into operation; a ' large c al . washing plant at Birmingham : a $ltO, 000 phosphate company at Lake City, Fla. ; two $50,000 manufacturing compa nies in Bdtimore; a $50, 00 or mhiir-g and Washing plant in Teuutwee; 150,000 water works at Orange, Teias, etc. Fassett's Campaign Expenses. Albany, N. Y., Special. The state ment of the election expenses of J. Sloat Fa?ictt was tiled with tbe Secretary of State. Fa-ssett's canvass cost him $8,450, as follows: To State committee, $5,000; travciir.g expense?, hotel bills, self and oth-!.-. estimate! i 5?.o; pntuug pos ter-, i outage and cleric 1 help, estimated a" id. 200. . Mi-s Bradr'on ht pubbe1'e 1 r.ity r.cre' during the past thirty ) ears. SAM SMALL BEATEN. He ia Attacked and Badly Disfigured by a Saloon Keeper. Atlanta, Ga., Speciatf Rev. Sam W. Small, a well-known evangelist, was assaulted iu an Atlanta barber shop by Tom Miner, a saloon proprietor, who hai recently been made tno object of Some very harsh criticism by Small. In a pub lic speech iu Prohibition Hall, in this city, Small attacked Miner personally, stating that to sell pop-skull liquor on Decatur street," he was neglecting his wife aud children and leaviog them ia penury and want. He continued his ref erences t Miner in this decidedly per sonal strain: Small went into a barber shop to .get shaved, aud Miner accosted him, saying that this. irss the' first time that he had had a chance to see him. "Do you know who I am, 6ir?M - asked Miner. With the statement that he was Tom Miner, he assaulted the eSTTgelist, broke his eyo-glasses and knocked tut one of his front teeth. Bystanders immediately separated them and thc- trouble ended. Rev. Mr. Small says it was (imply a cruel attack of a thug and if he had expected it he would have been fully prepared, but he was taken completely unawares. He was not hurt enough to prevent5 his ap pearance at a rally at Prohibition Hall at night, where he made a speech vigorous ly assabing the liquor tragic and faloon keepers. Miner snys Small"s assault on him several days ago was entirely unpro voked and unjustifiable; that he did not make it ns a minister, but as a campaign stump speaker, and that it was so outra geously unjust to himself and his family that lie determined to resent it as soon as he met Small, wh'ch he did. HE DEFIED THE SHERIFF, :. And Drove Judge Bynum From the Bench. The Ashcville, N. C , MounUin Home Journal reports that r. most disgraceful and flaring occurrence took place at Burnsville, Yancey county, last week, and says the facts are these: One of the, btt citizens of that county, Solomon Carter, had "died very suddenly, and wai being buried. Garret D. Bay, another, lcadiug citizen of thc same town, had, not lived on good terms with Mr. Carter during the latter's lifetime, but ns death' had removed one of the two, Mr. Ray, thought he would aid in paying the last tribute of respect to his departed neigh-j bor and attended the burrial. This so, enraged the son of Mr. Ray that he shot at his father several times, whereupon Judge Bynum ordered the arrest of young Kay. He defied the sheriff, but walked into the courthouse, and. with his double barrel gun, drove the judge from the bench, cleared out the assembly and de liberately walked off. THE FARMERS' CONGRESS. Some of the Resolutions Adopted and Rejected at Their Meeting. Sedalia, Mo. The Farmers' National Congress unanimously adopted the fol lowing resolutions: Recommending state control of live stock exchanges; recom--mending the passage of a national law requiring the stamping of artificial hog products; demanding the passage of a Federal law prohibiting gambling in farm products; endorsing the principle of re ciprocity. The following resolutions, previously reported upon adversely by the commit mittee, were rejected by the Congress: Demanding the coinage of silver dollars of the value of 100 cents each; demand ing Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs; demanding national revenues derived from taxes from imports which come into competition with home manufacturers; demanding Federal pro hibition of the sale of intoxicants, and demanding the cession of arid lands to the various States in which the arid lands are situated. Scrut of Eagle's Nest, or, the Me moirs of a Staff Officer Ssnvrwa in Virginia. Edited from the M8S of Col. Surry by John Esten Cooke, au thor of "Fairfax," "Hilt to Hilt," "Mo hun," etc , etc. - "Look how the leafy banners red "as though dyed with blood point for- ward, rippii-g as they come! Sec that "vivid, dazzling flash! is it lightning, or "the glare cf cannon? Hear that burst "of thunder, like the opening roar of "battle Jackson is advancing! "A quick throb of the heart a hand "half reaching out to clutch the hilt of ' the battered old sword on the wall ' then I sink back into my chair. "It was on'y a dieam!" Such are the concluding sentences of the most thrilling romance of the War between the States; a romance that stirs the soul as with the bhst of a bugle; a story that tells of Stonewall Jackson and Lee, of Jeb Stuart and his legion. Ma i:a&sa, Chancellorsville and the Wilder ness, of Mordaunt t and Fenwick and sweet May Beverly, of battles that were fought and won, of the 6tory of the struggle when the boys in grey did bat tle for the grandest cause that has ever enlisted the tcrviecsof'a patriotic people. "Surry of Eagle's Nest" 13 intense in its dramatic interest There is not a dull line in the volume. It i the best book of its kind that has been written on isith er tide about the late war. It should be in every old soldiei's library because it w ill refresh his memory as to bow bat tles were won "in thebsave days of old ;" it should le read by every Southern boy because it ttlls how his father fought for ni incirile. "ilo.v the hoof-strokes tear along! "How the phantom horsemen shout as "thev charge! How the ghot of Stuart ride!" The book is hands mcly printed and well illustrated. It is for sale by sub a ription o dv. or sent by mail, postage free. Price $2 00. From the, "Uhar'e$ ton Keur,'' Xarch 23, 1900. ( VT litl.LIMillASf. robllshr. 33 West 23d Street, New York. i . An old Indian burying gronni ha been discovered near VYiciieaJ, Con. necticut.
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