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II rriwvrrf 11 . ii 1 1 ii I VOL. II. CHARLOTTE, N. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1890. 7d NO. 64. EFORM MOVEMENT. kpirZTZ OF ALLIANCES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. aw that Show tlie "Wind Items of Interf t to citizens interested in Welfare of the People and of the Nation. tin' mie Sumpter county Farmers' As- ,:tion met fcaturaay, March 1, and ;cteJ delegates to the State conven- 1 1 j l i :j 4- i. n lte a State ticket, subject to ratifica- lCQ it shall meet. The delegates re instructed to oppose, the idea of t minuting a State ticket. Sumpter uuty is almost unanimous against e Shell manifesto. The Newberry, S. C, Observer ys : At the meeting of the County Alli- Lce Friday a resolution was adopted pproving the plan of establishing a b-operative cotton seed oil mill, and committee was appointed te mvesti- ate the matter and report at the pril meeting. A committee of three oni each sub-Alliance was appointed ascertain the amount of subscrip- on that can be secured in the Alli- hce and report at the April meeting. The Yorkville, S. C. Enterprise tys: The Alliance is still growing, the Vtest returns for Spartanburg county kow that there are sixty-three sub tlUances. with a membership 2,630. iho State' according to returns, for quarter ending Sept. 3.0, 1889 We were 24 ,7 43 male members and 4'J"' teinaie memucrs, "iu6 u" j membership of '28,235. This was September last, now there are sev- j al tiiousanu muie. Anson Coimtj Alliance Agency. om the Wadesboro Intelligencer. t a meeting of the Anson County , it l .i i nr. ,3 armers Alliance, ieiu iu tyauesuuiu st Monday, arrengements were per- cted for the establishment of the Anson County Alliance Business gency" in Wadesboro, N. C. The rick store recently occupied b Hardi- qu & Allen has been rented by the lliance and the headquarters of the p-encv estaDlisnea inerem. xue acronan tt i 1 1 ho in fhnrc of Mr. W. P. j jDavis, County Business Agent, and Kvill be run in connection with the ptate Business Agency. It is not pro posed by the Alliance to carry a stock 3f goods but simply to purchase gro ceries, machinery and all kinds of ag ricultural implements on orders, re vived from members of the Alliance. So credit business will be done. The following Board of Directors, Vvho will have general charge of the usiness, have been elected for one ear: F, T). Gaddv. J. M. Flake. j , r. J. M. Dunlap, H. Haynie and L. Little. Alliance Triumph. r.'iutho Abbeville Medium, ' President Stackhouse of the State aruiers' Alliance says that the jute J-ust is now ottering to sell bagging for this . We presume the statement is correct. It indicates m for the Alliance and should encourage that body to continue its work against monopolies and trusts. If such a re- ducting can be effected by so short a period of union and concerted action .there 15 no telling how much more fau w to lighten the burden un- er wbieh our farmers are groaning. e War against the jute trust has een in progress in this State for only One Vfar TU. n: xuc .-vinauce met wuu great opposition but the success of their effort has silenced most of their Pponents. We now hear nothi nif nf ctton baggmg being so flimsy and Worthless. The Charleston buyers are u0 longer clearing seventy-five Cents Der hnlp frnm tVio atnnidit.v nf tbo Alliance. The farmers had en- 1 aured the exactions of the jute trust urtil there was no remcdvbut to fight tbe monopoly. They are in a posi on now to diktat thar. tile trust This advantage has been gained by landing together and is an iuduce- ment for the members of the organiza- tion to persevere in the good work. The farmers are now in better heart than they have been for years. They have had more ready money, have met their obligations more easily and begin this crop year under better con ditions than usual. The outlook should be gratifying to every man who desires the general prosperity and happiness of the country. If the farmers prosper all other occupation will reap some of the benefit of their good fortune. The Alliance is on the crest of the wave. The Loss in One Year. From the News and Observer. The Democrats' last Congress sought to make some changes in the laws and policy of the government for the ad vantage of the farmers, but the Re publican Senate stood as a stone wall against the passage of these measures. The Democrats argued and urged but in vain. The Senate would not hear. They turned a deaf ear to the patriotic statesmen who presented the facts of the situation, and plead for the interest of the farmers. We have now had the proof of the pudding. The country has tasted and. the taste is not good. The situation is known by ex perience, but it does not rest merely on the testimony of private individ uals. The Department of Agriculture itself lays the fact before Congress, and the facts speak louder coming from that source because the statisti cian is a Republican. The corn crop of 1888 was 1,987, 790,000 bushels and was valued at 678,561,580, while for last year the c-op was 2,112,892,000 bushels and was valued at 597,918,820. A crop, greater by 125.000,000 bushels, was worth $80,000,000 less than the year before. That in regard to corn. Wheat shows the same result. In 1888 the wheat crop amounting to 415,868,000 bushels was valued at $385,248,000 ; but last year, a crop of"490,560,000 bushels was valued at only $349,491,700. A crop, 75,000, 000 bushels greater than the year be- fore, was worth 86,000,000 less. , Oats shows the same decline. In 1888, the farmers raised 701,000,000 bushels of oats valued at 195,424, 240 ; last year they increased the'erop 50.000.000 bushels, but it was worth 24,000,000 less. The industry of the farmers was more productive in 1889 than the j year before to the extent of 250,000,- 000 bushels of these three great staples ; but the ciop was worth 150, 000,000 less, according to the figures of the Department itself. Indeed, if the prices.of 1888 had been realized for the crop of 1889, the farmers would have gotton 252, 000,000 more money than in 1888. The decline in price in one year alone thus cost the farmers in these three staples 250,000,000. Does not this result look like the Democrats were right when they urged a change in the policy of the government. Yet while the farmers are suffering so, the Republican representatives at Washington are not considering their wants and needs, but are devising means to squander the immense sums that are unnecessarily exacted from the people, and making it easy to raid the treasury. They have eyes, but see not ; and ears but they will not hear. They will not hearken to the cries of distress that come from the farmers. The Starch Monopoly. All of the starch manufacturers have gone into a big corporation, under the maxim E Pluribus Unum for from thirty concerns one only arises. These factories are all situated at the North, from Iowa eastward, and they have cronft into an organization which will D O run each factory as heretofore, pre- serving its trade-mark and customers, but the entire business, price, amount manufactured, and all that will be in t one hand. That makes a monopoly, and there will be no competition be- tween the thirty concerns, all the I property of the same company. 51ST CONGRESS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEN ATE AND HOUSE. Miscellaneous Items of Interest at the Capital Political and Personal Gos sip, Etc.. Etc. In the House on Thursday the 27th the contested election case of Atkin son, Republican, vs Pendleton, J)em., was called up. Pendleton made an argument in his own behalf. He said that he had carried the first district of West Virginia by means as fair, as honorable, as upright, as had ever been used in any election in the his tory of the country. The vote was then taken on the ma jority report. The Democrats refrain ing from voting in order to have the contestant seated by less than a quorum, so that the question of the right of the Speaker to count a quorum may be taken before the courts. The vote resulted : Yeas, 162 ; nays, 0 ; (the Speaker counting a quorum). Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, raised the point of no quorum, but the Speaker ignored him, and the newly-elected member, Mr. Atkinson, appeared at the bar of the House, and amid ap plause on the Republican side, took the oath of office. The President has sent to the Sen ate the nomination of Henry C. Cald well, of Arkansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, vice David J. Brewer, resigned. Mr. Skinner has introduced in the House a bill appropriating 100,000 for a public building at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The committee of Senators appoint ed for tha purpose of ascertaining who it is that gives out the verbatim re ports of the executive sessions have been hard at work ; having questioned the employees of the Senate and sub poenaed several newspaper reporters, who save the committee detailed and o lucid accounts of the procedure by which they manage to report faithful ly all the debates on nominations and treaties. It is expected tnat the com mittee will make its report to the Sen ate in a few days, but it does not yet appear whether they will be able to locate the leak to the satisfaction of their colleagues. Under the Tules of the Senate the various doorkeepers on the gallery floor are required during executive sessions to lock the doors and station themselves not less than six feet from the outer rim of the door knobs. There are something more than a score of doorkeepers thus faith fully on guard, and it is understood that the result of the present investi gation will be an amendment to the rule requiring the doorkeepers to sta tion themselves hereafter not less than ten feet from the door knobs. President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph company, appeared before the House, committee Friday and made an argument against Gov ernment control or ownership of the telegraph lines. The House Committee on public buildings has reported favorably a bill appropriating $25,000 for a public building at Reidsville, N. C. In the House Wednesday the con tested election case of Arkansas was taken up, and Cate, Democrat, was unseated, and Featherstone, Republi can, was seated. Several measures have been intro duced in the present Congress for the J improvement of the condition of the working man. The most notable of these bills is that presented by Mr. j Anderson of Kansas, and is designed J to create a Lmted btates Commission j of the Arbitration of Strikes or Lock- j outs. I his body is to consist ot nine member?, to be appointed by the President, and no Commissioner may be interested in a common carrier or shall be permitted to accept of passes from one. Each man is to serve three years, and is to be paid a salary of 5,000, They will earn their salar iess by investigating any disputes arising between railway, steamboat, or telegraph companies and their em ployees and recommend an amicable, equitable settlement of the differences. If the terms of arbitration are refused, findings of facts are to be submitted by the Commissioners to the United States courts, and, if approved by the Judge, the decision must be accepted as final, and the contending parties must do as advised or be punished by the court. Speaker Eeed Declines the Invitation. Washington, March 1. Just be fore the shooting affair at the Capitol Speaker Reed showed to Representa tive Stewart, of Vermont, a letter which he had addressed to Representa tive Caruth. Mr. Stewart thought the letter was too good to keep private and gave its contents to several col leagues through whom, in turn, it reached the press, to the discomfiture of the Speaker. The letter reads as follows : 4 1 Dear Mr. Caruth : I shall not accept the invitation tendered me by the Blue Grass club. The reason is very simple. I notice 'that Jay F. Durham is its president. Now, Jay F. Durham assured me, during the late disturbance, that if they had me in Kentucky they would kill me. Knowing said Durham to be a journ alist, his declarations to me import absolute verity. I do not wish to be killed, especially in Kentucky, where such an event is too common to attract attention. For a good man to die anywhere, is, of course, a gain, but I think I can make more by dying later and elsewhere. Yours truly, "T. B. Reed." A Shooting Affray in Washington. About 2 oclock Friday, at the Cap itol at Washington, a pistol shot was heard to ring through the building. Chas. Kincaid, correspondent of the Louisville Times, had shot 5V. F. Taulbee. ex-Congressman from Ken tucky. The affair grew out of a scan dal about Taulbee which was publsh ed in the Times, causing the separa tion of Taulbee and his wife. When they met in the Capitol Taulbee in sulted Kincaid, and called him a cow ard, whereupon the latter fired, the ball taking effect below his enemy's left eye. The wound is not thought to be fatal. (Jueen Yic.'s Cook. Queen Victoria has a fancy for Vi- enna and Frenth bread and rolls in all sorts of odd shapes. Besides having it made up in a score of foncy twists and curls, she always has some baked in the form of little dolls. These are for her grandchildren when they eat at her table. Her private baker is S. Petrozy walski, a Polish refugee to whom the Prince Consort took a great fancy once. The Queen pays regular ly once a month, and does not demand Sunday bakingSv When some of Mr. Petrozy walski's customers have grum bled that they didn't get fresh bread on Sundays Her Majesty's forebear ance was quoted, and this usually stops their complaints. The same ba ker also supplies the Princess of Wales and other members of the royal family. The Queen dosen't like freshly baked bread, but always a lit tle stale. A Big, Tall Family This. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 18. John Roberts lives in Lamar county with his wife and twenty-two children fifteen boys and seven girls, the youngest of whom is about 18 years old. There are six sets of twins in the family. . All of the boys are tall, none being under six feet in height and ranging from that to six feet seven inches. None of the children are yet married, and they live under one roof in a double log house of three rooms. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are strong and healthy, and have not yet attain - ed a great age, their oldest child be- ing about 40 years of age. The par- ents were married at 18 and 14 years, respectively. GENERAL NEWS. NEWST ITEMS OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS. The Work of Pencil, Shears and Pas'te Pot Through Our Mail and Exchan ges for tlie Past Week News in and Ont of the State. Rich iron mines are reported in Stokes county. The municipal elections in Iowa on Monday show Democratic gains. Senator Allison was reelected to the Senate from Iowa Tuesday. J, L. Reagan, of Lowell, made an assignment Thursday, Feb. 27th. Cap. W. H. H. Tyson, of Chatham, shot and killed himself last Tuesday. Vice President Morton stopped two days in Charleston last week enroute to Florida. The Mississippi river is within two feet of the highest water mark ever reached. A "trusted employee" of a Louis ville bank skipped Tueaday with 60,000 in cash. Richard Hawes was hanged at Bir mingham last Friday for the murder of his wife and two children. The trustees 4f the University have made a regulation forbidding the stu dents to enter inter-collegiate foot ball contests. J. Stone, convicted of manslaugh ter in Wilkes county and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary has been pardoned by the governor. Internal Revenue Commissioner Mason is on a tour through the South ern States visiting the Collectors of In ternal Revenue. He will visit States ville as the guest of Dr. J. J. Mott. Fifteen cars of a freight on the Air Line jumped the track near Ayers- ville, Gra., last Friday caused, from a wheel of a heavily loaded car giving away. Great damage was done to the cars though no one was killed. Judge McRae decided in favor of the railroads at Raleigh last Wednes day in the suit instituted by Hodge against forty railroads in this State claiming the revovery of 500 from each for failure to make annual re ports as required by the law. During the past year it is officially computed that 10,000 persons have emigrated from the Government of Vilna, Russia, chiefly to America. This wholesale emigration has had an unsettling effect upon the Russian peasants of the same province, who without the necessarv means are emu lating the example of their richer j neighbors The authorities are inter- j ferinS to stoP the emigration. The colored Republicans of North Carolina are in revolt. They claim that they are not receiving sufficient recognition in the way of places by the administration. A delegation have appeared in Washington and is making things hot. State Sen ator Williamson, who has been in the North Carolina senate for twelve years, is one of the most indignant of the delegation. Said he: The white Republicans are becom ing alarmed at our demonstration, and well they may. We are made tools of by these white politicians at election time and then dropped, and we have about concluded to quit. Personally, I think the sentiment among Republi cans is to let Harrison kill himself politically, and every move he makes in our country is in that direction. I am fighting for principle. Mr. Cleve land offered me the mission to Liberia, but I declined it because I am a Re publican. Now, we are in, I want my race recognized. The Louisiana Lottery. San Fraxcisco, Feb. 26. Now that the Louisiana Lottery has been defeated in North Dakota an attempt will be made to reinaugurate the the scheme in Nevada. Three years ago efforts were made to establish a lottery enterprise there, and a year ago it was again before the Legisla ture. It has been said that all this time the the Louisiaana people were really behind the scheme. The fact that their twenty years' charter will ; expire iu Louisiana this year, and that ! they cannot get it renewed there, has made Nevada their last hope. The , chances of success are good, as the j State is in need of money, and many j legislators will back the scheme. Sen- ator Torre, who is now here, favors lottery, and he says Senators Sharon, Belknap, Boyle, Williams, and Orms by will support it, and it is likely to go through. 1 POLITICAL TALK. 1 Public Sentiment iu Regard to the Con gressional Race in the 6th District. The friends of Capt. S. B. Alexan der, in the 6th Congressional district, favor him as the proper person to suc ceed Congressman Rowland. It would be no easy matter to settle upon a better man. Capt. Alexander is a worker, and workers are greatly need ed in Congress. Strfsbury Watchman The Stanley Observer says : The Democratic papers in this dis trict are busy fixing up the Congres sional slate. The Charlotte Chronicle has" annonced the names of a host of possible candidates from Mecklenburg. The Mecklenburg Times put out an editorial feeler for Capt. S. B. Alex ander, and the Wadesboro Messenger puts forth the name of Mr. J. A. Lockhart. Well, the collection is a splendid one, but hold ! ye editorial quil drivers, "tote fair." Stanley count' has never had ihe Representa tive. She is an important factor when votes are to be counted, then give her a showing in the offices. She has Congressional timber and more than one specimen, but we refer to only one. She has a gentleman who is a keen lawyer, has had extensive legis lative experience, possesses a large fund of general information, and full of public spirit, he would go his full length for the interest of his constit uents. We retor to the Hon. Sam. J Pemberton. Give Stanly county a chance, please The Hickory Press and Carolinian says : The Mecklenburg Times of last week quotes from a number of letters and conversations touching its sugges- to send Capt. S. B. Alexander to Congress, instead of making him Gov ernor, and all favor the idea The farmers are keenly alive to every prop osition which promises any relief from their oppreesed condition, and they know that relief must come from national rather than State legislation. They will probably send Capt. Alex ander to Congress. Congressional Outlook ia the "Pivotal" There is much talk in the Fifth Congressional District, known as the "Pivotal" District, as to who will be the next Democratic nominee for Congress, It is learned that Capt. A. H. A. Williams, of Granville county, will be a candidate, and" that J. C. Buxton, of Winston, will also be in the race. Ex-Governor Scales and Ex-Judge Gilmer, are mentioned in the same connection, and it is un derstood in Rockingham that Col. Dave Settle is a candidate for the place. The friends of Mr. C. B. Watson, of Forsyth, will also be on hand, it is understoon, to see which way the kittens jump. State vs. Temple. In another decision in the case of the State of North Carolina against Temple, on an appeal from a decision of the Circuit Court of the eastern dis trict of North Carolina, in fa?or of Temple, who brought suit to compel the State to carry into effect a law of 1869 which provides for raising taxes to pay interest on the special tax bonds of the State, the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court and remanded the cause with in structions to dismiss the complant., The court also decided a case ap pealed from mississippi declaring con stitutional the law requiring the rail roads to furnish separate cars for the white and black races. Time and Opportunity. Miss Priscilla (aged 40) No, Edith, I don't believe in these early marriages. You'll have time enough to get sick of a man if you stay single for ten years longer! Edith Time enough, auntie, but maybe no chance.
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