FARMERS AIXIANCK.
Meeting of the Supreme Council of the
Ijittonal Union.
The Supreme Council of the Na
tional Faimers' Alliance and Indus
trial Union began its annual session
at 10 o'clock this morning in room
19 of the National Hotel. The last
meeting of the council was held at
Raleigh, N. 0. At that time the
president of the Alliance was the
il . p -fcT.il. I 1?
Dresent senator irom iorui i aron
na. Marion Butler. He roso
com mi tee on banking and currency.
The House committee asked us to
Bend a delegation before it and we
will do so After we have heard
from the committee we
MANN page: elected president., I
A Virginian Now at the Head of the Farm
: : : ore National Alliance.
After two protracted sessions
yesterday, the Supreme Council of
the National Farmers' Alliance man-
.11 1 ... Ln n x-v rv W i- W A V rl O 4f
ao.y luriuu aie buic u u , , disDOge of several
business matters and elect
Congress Washington Star,
routine
officers
. The Racket in North Carolina. tor tne ensuing year a report was
The political situation in North also received from the finance com-
Carolina is just now very much mittee, wnicn naa a nearing yester-
Presidential electors, j sion will be held today, begiuning at
there 9 a. m
mixed, but it is likely that an agree- day before the House Committee on
ment will be reached, if it has not liankmg and Uurrency. it was ex
alreadv been, to continue the combi- pected that the council would finish
nation of liepublican and Populists, its work las'1; night, but it was round
1: , i rt rt i;K4- t as suffsresieu uv oenaiui x i ituuaiu iu t jmpooiuiu w nv,u on ya-
r:. iHu. ?' fe Son The Kst ,WUy,iD ruect of the olutious throngh, and another ses-
.,11 v,Q n.f ,,mv,o cmihf fr,i. election cf the
Vliav till kuc cum 1 cii'i mo isvuijtb a " , i -i 1 1 j
i xi ,,i i. u .The trouble is. however, that
plisfced through the Alliance. The are eleven of these electors and it
council was called to order bv Fresi- a been decided whether the
dent J. F. Willetts of Kansas, for Kepublicans shall take six and the
mam vearsa national lecturer of Populists h ye or vice versa. It is
the order expected that an amicable under-
The morning session was spent in standing will eventually be reached.
AffpoHntTRn ovemniztinn Rnd in th in tue mean ume, xuiutauvc
.-.. v v...j !- - - - T . , C
aimointnient of committees for the r parson, or
trai -action of business. A press
oon.mittee, with Secretary D. P.
Dim -Hii as chairman, was appointed,
and all information for newspapers
was given out through him.
A:r: e de'e 'titcs is en? female.
Mis Helen S. Johnson of Pennyl-
vanin. rne is one or tne national
lecturers.
The council adjourned, after a
short session, until 2 o'clock this
sifternoon, when the reports of offi
rers and committees and the con
sideration of resolutions will be in
order.
The only interesting bit of busi
ness this morning was the appoint
ment of a committee to go before the
North Carolina, has
taken occasion to announce publicly
on the floor of thehonse that he and
150,000 Republicans of North Caro
lina will not agree to leave their party
and join the new silver partv now
So far it has been a busy session,
no end of time, labor, and fore
thought being expended in main
taining a mystifying secrecy. A
small portion of the time has been
spent in transacting business, while
the rest of the time was occupied in
trying to prevent any one from
knowing it. There was apresscom-
j mittee, charged with the express du
ty of dispensing news, and to this
committee every one seeking infor
mation was refeired. If anything
' ment a second secession, and predict
ed its failure. ''We tried it at the
instance of South Carolina thirty six
years ao," he said. "She imited
my State to join in the seccession
movement and we declined, and con
tinued to decline until we were
driven, or rather draped into that
horrible conflict, and Souih Carolina
got thoroughly whipped."
riT 1 . :. i .1 - i mii i
Hons- committee tm banking and' -ieuyir, exciaimeu j r. laioeir,
( iim 'v tomorrow to talk over th an unreconstructed south I arolm-
fina"-ia! situation. It is said that , ian- "Shf is not , ashamed of that
rwr.no,, w.,ii..r nf fh,f rnm miH act, and she would do it again under
nn-it the Alliance to send a com-llke circumstances. '
mitt.- before his committee. The J "i shamed of the fact art
!ee, ;h .n.noiHted to m bW thf ashamed of auy man who would in
Hon.-' committee today are J. F. j dorse secession or the motives which
Wili-tts. Kansas: H. L. LonoksJled t0 it," retorted ilr. Pearson,
South n?ikofa:-Mann Paee. Virginia: i amid !lPPlause'
forming in his State. In a speech really has been done besides electing
which he delivered in the Hons0 on '"officers and frarr
W'eduesdav nisrlit hecalled the move-1 with which it is
lrginia;
C. 11 White, New York: A M. War-
dall. ('nlio'-nia.
Tonigiit an open session will be
"1 indorse every word of it, re
plied Mr. Talbert, hotlv.
"Well,"said Mr. P arson, "I have
heard it said that if hell ever breaks
gate Wise of Arizona, and to receive
a del Ration from the Knights of !n South Carolina, and I believe that
is true trom tne exliioition made nere
igh
some propo-
night
be in session
or possibly
morning.
Labor, who will make
sitio?
The council will
until tomorrow
until Tb prepay
e piss committee declined to
give ; lit- of delegates in attendance,
but Mated that about thirty States
are represented.
The only thing of a political na
ture I v ;.;o In fore the council will
be in the shape of resolutions. These
resolution?, it is said, will be sensa
tional. They will outline the polit
ical TnhVy of the Alliance, and will
be an appeal to the members of the
order for independent political ac
tion in this year's struggle. The
Alliance in the past has put forth
nrnv platforms and suggested many
i-suf . bn" leaders are now i-.in-ing
in iiir :ii.jveuieiii; to make tne
fmar'M-il isMie practically the cn
one this year. It will be a hard
thing to denruiv.ee the Ocala plat-
f i
ioi ni anu Uie suo-tieasury vagary
even r vear, but it is felt that
this most be done if anything is to
be accompliohed. The Alliance men
will be besought to leave party affil
iations behind and to vote for silver
men. Independent political action
bv the order was advocated at the
last lncetin'' of the council by Sen
ator PntW. who said: "Th parfi
san the puiiucoa tool curves his
parh r"ght or wrong. The highest
type of a pai riot is a non-partisan;
he supports any party that furthers
the principles of honest government;
be fights any party that serves monop
oly i '1 clas interest to the detri
ment of the people; he cares nothing
for tu nrm" of the label of the
partv, but whatever party his consci
ence, enlightened by a correct
knowledge of facts, shows him he
should support for that one election,
he support with all the zeal and
ability that his Maker has blessed
him with. This I conceive to be the
duty of all true Alliance men with
rtf( r. ;;cc- to politics.
"When the political evils from
which v. l are suffering are corrected,
and, ni'irk my words, no party will
ever do it if this organization goes
down, then let the Alliance give its
chief attention to its original pur
pose. I u t al so remember that it will
be. even necessary for us to keep well
informed on political questions and
take k"en and active interest in
the actions of all political parties,
lest the enemy of the people should
then corrupt our government again."
Those sentiments were in advance
of other lenders at that time, but are
now looked upon as proper and
timely.
Other resolutions to be introduced
will dicct:.:-3 the currency question
and take the position that all money
should be issued by the government
itself.
I Co not think we will
any resolutions on ' the
rpocfio-.i, said Secretary Duncan to
a S.: r ' -porter, "until the commit
people of the
at large which
see broken up
tonight."
The colloquy was quite exciting
tor a few moments, but Mr. Pearson
closed it with an eloquent declara
tion, thanking God that the Mason
and Dixon line had been obliterated
from the map, an assertion which
elicited another round of applause
Washington Post.
Gentry Shipped to New York
The Alamance Gleaner of this
week says: "Messrs. Holt aud Scott
expect to ship the trotting stock bt
Alamance farm Saturday for New
York, where they will be sold next
week. There are sixty head and all
are in prime condition. It is expect
ed that some of them will bring fan
cv prices. Though the stablish
uieni. io young in years the proprie
tors had gathered together and bred
some of the very best that ever took
the real, and it had become a mat
tei' of pride to the
county and State
every on a regrets to
so soon.
"Tuesday morning a car load of
Shetland ponies arrived at Alamance
farm. Though Mr. L. Bantcs Holt
is going out of the trotting bred
horse business, his innate love for
stock will not permit him to go out
of the stork business altogether.
Two more shipments of ponies are
expected, we learn. We hope the
venture will prove profitable."
Surprised all Around.
We have just heard of a farmer
who came to town and purchased a
new suit of clothes, placed the bun
dle on the seat beside him and start
ed home. When nearing home the
idea struck him that it would be a
surprise to discard his old patched
clothes and go home in a new suit.
He pulled off hisjduds and fired them
in the Kanawha river at three mile
bridge, a piece at a time. When he
had nothing on but a shirt he reach
ed for the bundle, but it was not in
the wagon. The night was chilly
and he went home at a two-forty
gait. He surprised his family com
pletely, and the next morning when
he went but and found the parcel
hanging on the brake of his wagon
he was, somewhat surprised himself.
Ex.
1 1
r.g a resolution,
in ten ned to en
lighten an anxious public today as
to the opinion of the Supreme Coun -cil
on the financial question, this
committee has been most successful
in concealing the fact.
It was noised around that there
was oppositiou to the re-election of
F. F. Willets, as President and
when the election took place, an
entire new ticket was elected, as fol
lows: Mann Page, Virginia, Presi
dent; II. C. Snavely, Pennsylvania,
lev President; R. A. Sjuth worth,
Colorado, Secretary and Treasurer;
H. L. Louck, South Dakota; W. P.
Bricker, Pennsylvania; J. F. Wil
lets, Kansas, and W- L. Peake,
Georgia, Executive Committee
These officers were all installed
yesterday afternoon and President
Page presided at the night session.
Mr. Page is a strong free silver ad
vocate. Mr. Willets, the former
President, stated that there had
been no contest over the election,
aud that Mr Page was the only
candidate for President. It was
customary for the alliance to
chauge its officers yearly, choosing
men from a different section of the
couiury.
ihe liuance committee submitted
its report at last night s session,
aud it was stated afterward that a
resolution on the subject was in
course of preparation, but that it was
not in proper shape to be given the
public. Washington Post.
All Head of Southern Cotton Mills Invited
to Chicago.
Augusta, Feb. 10. By special
resolution of the Augusta provision
al committee of the Chicago and
Southern States exposition, the pres
idents of all Southern cotton mills
art invited to attend the Chicago
convention February 19 as delegates.
All Sou t her u railroads are also re
quested to send representatives as
delegates. The matter of transnor-
tation of delegates is now receiving
the attention of the committee.
Nearly all of the leading roads and
connections have agreed to furnish
reimportation for authorized dele
gates to Chicago and return, and Sec
retary H. II. Stafford, of Augusta.
requests that all delegates wire him
immediately upon their appointment
. If a man knew he
was going to be hanged,
he. would certainly
make everv effort to
prevent it. He would
do everything he could
and strain every nerve
to the last minute to
Tt himself out of his
Eredicament. Men
ave been saved from
hanging after the rope
was around their necks.
There are ways of dying
that are not so quick
that are even more cer
tain. The mail who
neglects his health, and
who in sickness refuses
to take medicine, really
has the rope of disease
around his neck. He
will die if he doesn't
throw it off. A man
who would struggle
against hanging ' may
yet be careless about
his heaffll. He may be
c traveling straight to-
xward consumption and
pay no attention to it,
and yet death by con
sumption is much more terrible than
death by hanging. Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery will cure 98 per cent,
of all cases of consumption. Consump
tion is likely to be caused by weakness
and in its turn, it increases the weakness.
The "Golden Medical Discovery " is an
invigorating, strength-giving and flesh
making medicine. It increases the appe
tite, puts the digestive organs in perfect
order, purifies and enriches the blood,
and builds up firm, healthy flesh.
If
In one chapter of Dr. Pierce's great thous&nf
page family doctor book "The People's Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser," are scores of let
ters from people who have been cured of con
sumption, lingering coughs, throat and bronchia
diseases by the use of "Golden Medical Dis
covery." Their full names and addresses are
given and their cases were generally pronounced
hopeless by the local doctors, lwenty-one
to oav for mailinir only, will
one-cent stainos.
secure a free copv of this gTeat book. Address,
World's Disoensaf y Medical Association, No. 663
Mam bireet. Buffalo, N. Y
BORN 1886- STILL ALIVE
f GOODS
Prices (o Suit the fas.
Our friends will please take
notice that we have opened
one of the
Insurrection In Formosa.
St Petersburg, Feb. 10. A
dispatch from VJadivostock says the
insurrection against Japanese rule
on the Island of Formosa is spread
ing, len thousand rebels are re
ported to be operating against
Tamsui, Suucho and Kosuki. The
railroads and telesrraDh lines havo
been torn up and destroyed. The
rebels fight with great courage. The
situation is looked upon as being
serious. Governor general finm
CD --j
s ill and will be replaced bv Sairo.
Minister of Marine.
Most Complete
Stocks of Clothing
ever brought to this city at our
splendid stand
No. '10 West Trade St
Importing Egyptian Sugar.
Philadelphia, Feb. 10. Twelve
thousand and three hundred tons of
sugar are now afloat on the wav to
this port from Alexandria, Ejpt.
These cargoes are on board the
British tramp steamships, due
March 1st. The importation of
Egyptian sugar is a new thing made
necessary through apprehension of a
short Cuban crop.
consider
financial
portwd on
it;:
this mo:
visit to
!)2
has
re-
Sudden Death of Congressman Crane.
Washington, Feb. 10. Repre
sentative William H. Crane, of Tex
as, died suddenly this morning, at
the residence of a friend. He was
serving his fifth term, and was one
of the best known members of the
House.
Suits Against the Company.
The Record says that at Chatham
court next week there are fourteen
cases against the Langdon-Henszev
oai company, xnese suits are
brought by the families of the miners,
who were killed in the recent explo
sion in the coal mine at Cumnock.
The plaintiffs allege that the owners
of the mine did not use due care and
that their negligence caused the ex
plosion, and therefore these suits are
brought to recover damages.
TheErastus Wyman Indictment.
New York, Feb. 10. District
Attorney Fellows today recommends
tlie dismissal ot the indictments are badly injured. Th
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
Providence, Feb. 10. The boiler
of the Ann & Hop mills, Lonedalv,
owned by the Goddards, exploded
this morning, Patrick McCoheii was
killed, and Hugh McClaren will
;i"u"uuij imte ur lour o titers
We bought our goods a1 the
very lowest cash price and it
will sui prise you to see how
low we sell good goods. For
example we sell a good suit of
clothes that wears well and
looks well enough to wear to
church, for only
We want your trade and will
make it to your interest to give
it to us.
We will be glad to have you
inspect our stock at any time
RACKET STORE :
V 1 X M. - 1 1 - 1 1 1 . 1
uur Isi gren snne purcnase coming in aau, am me sn e oounie-tr '
with buyers Our s be sales in January lad al1 the department
span to ih December record. h i: a wonderful sale was made duri i.-'-Cl
but it's gone int" mercantile history and Jooms up the t- wer in speak i.at
success. We are eoins o beat thit months record yet, and U e pr?itt 3
last year 'f we can, $40,000 increase in saies over the previous vear wv,
one says that i a gooi business alone, and it is !Now we are, v rih'r.
noes an; a s or us nave ae'ermined to double oar dil kjencc to roach ! '-,
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our np cne rear, wow to ao tms. w most rum every stoue nc nr ,!,
irr at thing i-we must sl 1 our goods chap. Our buyer will stay in N,',
good part of the time. 1-st some good bargain hould pass us. V !r-'in.,
shape to se'l good i hean we ever were. 'ash makes us veTy c--jf:i,.
l 1 ,3 i! j.; .I;... -l ; 1 . 1 r, ' "IS'
vui euue ueparmieui iu quHuiaiy. qiiauiy au price uan no equal. lunneTi i
are using tnis department in tne interest ot our trade tor the npxt cl.-.vs
l : i . - ah . i i . . i . i i . j .
suoei i exact cost 10 us. u mroujn me no ise me of-sr, r-T valu
Si
ar.d I'
S Can ,i
ereu up. auu tut) srre t uartraius are aiwayss coming in anu smjo. us vi- i y
No uce 6okine for anything to compare with our Olothine, Hnt
sioi-K, Always iuii up or tne opsi ore:ains inai. aoiiars win Duy
wiiai ur ss vjuuu". ijiuen., iry u uus iinu vorseis, w' couiu devote a f
column to ourCrocki'y, G!a:P nd Tin department. The stock is thp'bt
State and prices 'he lowest. W- are cut ing the 1 fe out of competition aj t
the line. Gent's Furnishing. Shoes, Carpet. Rugs and Matting a the'verrl
possible fgures. Our buyer is now in the Northern markets, vithtt7
dollar, looking up a stock of corn gand cob crusher bargains. for rnrrsrirl
summer trade. It will nv vou haDdsomelv to vi:it the Racket. T j'iri
Ijowest rices ot any hoe in the Kouth.
Williams, Hood & Co
Succe?ore to W. J. Dswif & Or
GET OUT OF THE WA
THAT'S WHAT THE FALL AND WINTER
GOODS MUST DO, SO AS TO MAKE
ROOM FOR SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS.
:0: SUITS REDUCED :o:
I
135.00 Suits now- $25 00.
$25.00 Suits now $21.00.
$17.25 Suits now $15.50
$15.50 Suits now 13 25.
:0: PANTS REDUCED :o:
$8.25 Pants now $6.25.
$6.25 Pants now $5 25.
$5.25 Pants now $4.25.
$4.25 Pants now $3.75.
$3.75 Pants now $:100.
Embrace the opportunity and order a suit or
pair of pants of some "all-the-year" at tlieo re
duced prices. No tit, no charge.
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and their superior construction.
They require little tuning,
less repairs and give as much
satisfaction to the r owners as
any Piano on the market for
the price.
New styles in beautiful natu
ral wood cases; low prices.
FINE
Tuning and Repairing
A SPECIALTY.
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