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r 1 AXTON HE A DEMOCRATIC JO UBN AL THE , EOPLE AND THEIR INTEREST. I VOL. V. NO. 5. MAXTON. N. a, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1890.1 S1.00 A YEAR i s i : J i h i f i 1 ! . 1 I i M n p li 1 1 til i I 4J r . I ' f TOWN DIRECTORY. B. F. McLEAN Mayor. H W McNATT O. H. BLOCKER, W. S. BYRNES, W. J. CURRIE, I Co mm is j sioners. ) A J BURCK, Town Marshal. LODGES. KNIOnTS OT HONOR, No. 1,720 meets cm jfrond and fourth Wednesday s at . . - . no t tj u'Viithfim.v rw. tatorr B. F. McLEAN, Reporter. Y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.30 P. M. WM. BLACK, President. MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK. Captain, meets first Thursday nights of each month at 8 P. M. CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on second avd fourth Monday in each month. Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W. Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTIIIYS, meets every Friday night, except first in each month, at 8 o'clock. ROBESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY Itev J A Smith, President: E K Proctor. Jr., 1st Vice Pres.: Dr J D t"room, 'Jnl V V. ; A I) Brown. Sec'v; Win Bleck, Trehs. ami Jeoositary ; Ex Com. Kev H G HiU, I) l, L S Townseiid, l) P McEccben., J o fouKh. H MEcch-rri : Auditing Com., K F MeKae.O H Hlocker and B DCaMwtll. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Hev JoKea Evans, Rev H G Hill, I D, Kev J S fclnck, Kev P Meek, iiev J V Finlayson, Jos McCollurn, JP Smith, Duncan McKav, Sr. N B Brown, Dr J L McMillan. AUDITING COMMITTEE. j P Smith, D H McNeill, J A Humphrey Place of next meeting Lumberton, N. C. Time of next meeting Thursday, May -'.iOth, m9, atll:W o'clock a. m. Bit)les and 7'estainentH can be purchaei or Wm. Black, Depository, Maxton, N. C, t cost. All churches and Bible Societies in the ;junty invited to send delegates. Forward all collections to Wm Black, 7rearer, Maxton. N C. CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN, REV. DR. II. G- HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath at 4 P. M. Sunday School at 10 A. M. Prayer meeting every "Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. METHODIST, REV. J. W. JONES Pastor. Services each Sunday at 11 A. M, Sun-4av School at 9 30 A. M. MASONIC. MAXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M. meets 1st Friday night in each month at 8 p. m. GENERAL DIRECTORY OF . Bobeson County. Senator. J. F. Payne. Jiepresentatiives, ) T. M. "Watson. S D. C. Regan. E. F. McRae. I W. P. Moore, lirjnty Commissioners, B. Stancil, I T. McBn de. i J. S. Oliver, C. S. C, C B. Townsend. SlierilT, II. McEachen. Beg'r Deeds. J. II. Morrison, Treasurer, W. W. McDairmid. ) J. A. McAllister Board of Education " J. S. Black, J. S. McQueen. Bupt. Pub. Instr'n, .1. A. McAlister. ConmerA Sipt. of Health. Dr. F Lisj R i P . . J.lJggB ' There are 5000 insane people in the city of New York, the New Orleans Timet'Dtmocrat asserts, and experts on insauity say that the ratio of lunatics is increasing much faster than that of the population. Again has a young woman carried oft the honors in an intellectual competition. The Boston Herald recently offered two scholarships of $$00 and $400 to be paid in four annual installments to the gradu ates of 1890 who should write the best composition on one of a number of sub jects. The winners ' are as follows: First prize to Miss Silvia Clark, of Pink erton Academy, Derry, N. H., for her composition on Hawthorne's "House of Seven Gables;" second prize to Albert E. Thomas, of Brockton, Mass., who took for his topic Coleridge' poem, 'The Ajicient Mariner." The law in Minnesota which require: 'that the execution of a murderer shali take place between midnight and dawu was enforced for the first time in the case of William Brodker, who was hanged shortly after midnight recently at Pine City. The Minnesota law-givers seem tc "have desired, remarks the Chicago iW, to add gloom ami solemnity to a ceremony most trruesome at best, but the hour mut a very uconreD.au ana unnme.v , -one ior iue rauruerer uicucn. - 1 j attentive reader of the accounts of execu tions knows that a baby never enjoys balmier and sweeter slumber than a con demned murderer the night before he is to be hanged. He also knows that he takes a very excellent and hearty breakfast iu the morning. The refreshing sleep and the hearty breakfast are always the feat- tires of the few hours that precede an , . t, execution. But under the new law there jis no such enjoyments for the murderer kn Minnesota. He will go to bed after iaupper, be called up in the middle of hi, . . , , . leep and be hanged an an empty stomach NEWS SUMMARY. FROM ALL OVER THE SOUTHLAND, Aocidenta, O&laznities. Pleasant Hewi and Notes of Industry, vTRODTIiu Tt iq , vention of business men in Richmond. i , 1 I r annual t om nfironpA huch m oAltn in Loudoun are now in session, and sev eral extra mar-hps rtp attached to tVia ; trains to accommodate the crowds going j there b b The Odd Fellows' Association, of Petersburg, held a meeting and decided to build a"nall to cost $23,000. It is to he three stories high. TLere is to Lc live stores on the first floor running back one hundred feet, j The two outside btores, north and south, will have a sec oii -story fifty-six ftet long. On the second rloor theie will be ten offices handsomely furnuhed; on the thud Hour thtie are to be two lodge rooms. Work ou the building will be commenc ed about the first of September next. A gentleman from Southampton eoun ty, savs that the crops there are the finest I that hae been made in tw enty years, and will be verv abundant. The school census; of Chesterfield county ggregates lightly over tx thousand. There is an increase of forty over the last ceosus! In the Powhite district the school population has increas ed over two hundred. j A dispatch from Richmond, Va., sajs that a deed has been filed in the chanct ry court by the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad C . mortgaging to the Central Trust Co. of New York th road, rolling stock aud depots, to secure payment ot bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 and interest. These bonds were issued by th company for double-tracking the road from Richmond to Petersburg. The State of Virginia to-day present halt a dozen illustrations of condition which that many years age would havt been cocsfdered impossible. It is true there were a few who.bel oved that de velopmeat of Virginia's resources acd the construction of new railroads would eventuate in the creation of new indus trial centers; but the man who might then have been so bold as to prophesy that half a dozen towns, which had prac tically been at a standstill for a genera tion, would before the close of the cen tury spring into nev life and grow like certain "Western municipal prodigies were then growing, his prophecy would have been branded as chimerical and visionary. N0BTH CAROLINA. The much talked of encampment ( Confederate Veterans at Blowing Rock, Watauga county, took place on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday and attracted an immense crowd of old soldiers aud visitors. f The following postmasters have beti; appointed in the state: Benj. F. Doy- all, Powells Point; II, B. Willis, Edge wood, Robeson county. A little ripple was created in Morgan ton . commercial circles last Mouda morning by the announcement that Mi J. L. Anderson, dealer in boots anu shoes, had made assignment. Mr. D. J. Hicks is made assignee. The Confedetate Veterans of Meekler, burg Camp held their Annual picuic iu Charlotte Thursday and it was largely attended. In a drunken row near Morgantoa, Dave Brittaiu was fatallv stabbed, it charged, by hi Cousin' John. The preliminary examination into th homicide Saturday, wherein Officer Wil Ham Hogue shot and' killed a Cokrui man n.nned Joucs at Raleigh closed anu Hou-' wa held without bail o hnswe; a chngc of minder at the September tern, of the sup-nor court, j Rev. Sa:n Jones ha? written a lettei announcing that he will commence a sr ries of nn etiugs in' "Wilmington on Seji tember J)tli. and will continue ten day or longer. Mnny doubted whether or not Mi. Jones would accept the invita tion to go to Wilmington, as violent cp position to his coming has been expressed bv some of the local ministers there At Moreliead City, on Wednesday, th North Carolina Tobacco Association closed its fourth annual session bv the elec tion of Capt. J. S. Lockhart, of Dur ham, president; W. C. Reid. of Oxford. first vice-president; and Garland E. Webb, of Winston, secretarv. Goige L:.w, mate! of the schooner James Ponder fell Terboard and w9 drown :d Friday night at Wilmington while climbing over the ship's to go ashore. ! Investigation of the recent murder rf Sam Potter, in Greene county, has brought light the existence of White Cap in that neighborhood. One man i toctifiod hvinrr r!VM virl ft fl-ttPr on tain of White Caps." Potter was an im i moral and odio. s character, ana had re ceived two or three notices to leave. SOUTH GABOLDfA. A charter has ben granted to the An derson Gioning and Manufacturing Com pany. Capital stock 25,000. J B Lisle attorney, of Columbia, ha bought a hill at Landrum, whereon he proposes to erect a hotel . h Congressman Elliott haa sucee I in keeping in the sundry ciYii sppro, r a tiobm an a r ,priation of $75.00o f. r ' tne constructin of a fiist clas fog a nal aud light ship at Martin' In iuir:, Port R'yal haibor, The census returns from Centre town Rlch,and OJ,.M. h,ve for some j reason not sta ed Ueii r i-cted hi Super- Tisor Delavan Yates and Manson J. Wil: Hams, colored, baa been appointed to re take the census therein. His commissiou is for this woik in a portion of the torth crn division of the township, but he says ithat the whole has been rejected. He will be assisted by Gretn Jackson. At sunrise the dead body of a well lr ssed and respectable looking white man wa9 found lying in the road by the the side of the track of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, between Graniteville and Vaucluse. The body has not been identified . ; The Governor has pardoned C. P. Hand, who was convicted at the June, 1'890, term of Court, for Lancaster coun ty of forgery, and sentenced by Judge Wallace to imprisonment in the Peniten tiary for one year." He also pardoned Daniel Black, who was convicted at the June, 18)0 term of Court for Sumter county of assault and battery ith intent to kill, and received from Judge Hud son a sealed sentence until November 14, 1890. He has respited Alexander Ben v. t vho was convicted at the June, 1890, eim of Couit, for York county, of mur der, and sentenced by Judge Wallace to be hinged August 15, 1890. ; pparently the vegetable fibre question jis to be practically solved this season. I nil in this State. A Charleston compa tiy has built ahd equipped a factory, and ias a field of ramie which promises well. The fibre is to be cured by the Pankuin focess. This factoiy is now manufac uriDg moss fibre, which finds a ready' nuiket in the North. Another South jj'arolinian is experimenting with n acre of okra for fiore purposes. The ti 1'ie of this plant is equal to the btst of jute. TENNLS8EE. Tony Houston, an employe of th hattanooga plow works, was tragically ud fatally injured. A steel drill five et long and one and a half inch in di- iinetei, fell sixty feet, and struck bib ght shoulder, passiog through the luDg wd impaling him on the rod. Physi- lidus say he may live several days, but (ti)not recover. j! The East Tennessee, Virginia and (ieorgia Railroad Company has ordered (jb.-uplete vestibuled trains to be built f r operation on the through line from Jacksonville to Cincinnati. The East ffnnesiee is also preparing to build acut l to connect with the Cincinati South ern, five miles east of Chattanooga. S, S. Jerome, general southern agent the Armour Packing Company stated ejxpend $200,000 to build a hundred ton ire factoiy at Atlanta, to supply the stor ;ife houses of the company at Atlanta, (Jhattanooga, Knoxville, Augusta, :hnleston, Savannah. "Wilmington and Charlotte. i il Tu,. 'VT..1 :n "ll. . 11 i n . i ue xiauvuie, vuaiianooga ana oc. .ui iail way Friday decided on another it in freight rates from all points on its tines to New Orleans and Texas: points, feveral days ago a reduction of 15 per ieut. was announced, and now the rate cut below the medial line, what was charged a week aero. The demoraliza- ion is due to the rate cutting inaugti ated by the Cromwell Mne ot steamers rom eastern points to New Orleau3. Will Jones, a negro convict from Shtl- v c juntv. who has served about one jialf of a ten year term for rape, is at lh . )int of death in the hospital at the beniteutiarv at Nashxille. His condition jis the result of a wound inflicted by Will Allen, a white man fr..m Hay wood coun ty, who is in for passing counterfeit ni .n v. Jones had reported some mis- conduct of Allen's to the foreman, aLid beaiincr of it Allen approached him. and after a few words stabbed him in tin- lef. side, near the heart, with a lotur keen chisel, which entered Jones's kit lnny. The Standard Oil Company has leased for a term of 23 years the copper pioper tv at Jjuclttowo, and will commenc. :o; eiating the mines about the first i September. Accotding to all statement-;. thre mines are very lich iu copptr. Owing to hgfd difficulties for the pis-t :!1 vears. jenouslv affect ini? the title to j . - the property, no one has felt dispod to . i . . l i operate it; but n w mat tnete nave teu settleil it is said that the next legislature will authiuize their base to the oil io n nanv for '25 veais' time. This meaus ih- revival of a very important industry n: Southeitetu leunesee. QE0BQIA The Farmeis' Alliance of Lincoln Icouutv will open a co-opetative store at frincolnton on October 1st with a eatn- ftal of $2,000. A board of six directo s lias leen elected to in mage the cocceri . j L II. Pattill was arrested at Augusta, under a warrant ued out by Chief c f (Police Twiggs before Magistrate Dav. l-harging him with the murdtr of Mr. Chanes P. Hudson, whom he killed in a street fight Saturday night. The Atlanta elephant has arrived and jformally introduced to the people of SAtlaata by a great parade aod show. She wsi bought at Hamburg with funds raised by the Constitution. Her perma nent home will be in the zoological garden that is now being formtd at Atlanta. A number of animals have already been secured r.nd the 'citizen are already talking of our f'Zoo.'rt The Constitution t even ting competitor, the Journal, has lecurtd a tiger as its contribution to the collec tion of animals. j The eleventh Georgia regiment held their annual reunion at Gainesville and i a basket dinner wss spread at Findle' j Spring. It was a large and enthusiastic meeting, and was ex joyed by the old veterans to the fullest extent. The meeting was presided over by that grand old man, Geneial Longstreet, and cx ! Governor IfcDaniel made an address, 1 which was cheered to the echo. Two bd'es of the new crop of cotton were received at Hawkinsville. The first, grown by John D. Dupree, weigh ing 443 pounds, was classed strict low middling, and sold for 15 cents. The second bale was raised by Godfrey Love, colored, and brought 11 cents. LeConte pear shipments from the southern part of the state are now near iag a close. The receipts show a hand some increase. The growers have re ceived good and uniform .prices the season through. The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Atlanta. & West Point Railroad Company was held at their office in Atlanta. The fol lowing officers were elected for the "nsuing year: C. H. Phinizy, president. H. M. Abbett, secretary and treasurer. The following directors were chosen : D. N. Speer, Pat Calhoun, J. W. Green, W. B. Eerry, A. E. Thornton, Jacob Phi nizy. Mr. A. E. Thornton succetd ed General E. P. Alexander as a director of the company. FLORIDA Unknown parties broke open the jail at Quincy on Tuesday night and released two murdereie Ollie Rice and Sam Edwards. The town of Madison will sink an artesian well, J. A. Durst, of Crescent City, having the contract. The Citrus County Hard Rock Phos phate Co. has been formed and incor porated with a capital of $100,000. The Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax railroad company will build their machine shops at St. Augustii e Ground will broken in a few weeks. L. J. Haisdell, of Ocala, sold 934 acres of phosphate land in Marion, Citra and Hernando counties to J. A. Harris, of I itra, for $40,000. Summerfield parties purchased 1,000 acres of the rich "dirt" near that place. The St. John's & Santa Fe Railway is projected to Jacksjnville, a distance of. 75 miles. The new county court house at Meyers will have iron fronts. Green & Thomp son are the contractors. OTHjjJi STATES. Reports say that the rice crop in Louis iana is magnificent. At Point-a-la-Hache rice is heading and being cut. The first Texas cotton bale sent north was sold at auction in Baltimore, and realized $220 for the benefit of the Texas Orphan asylum at Houston, The Louisiana State Alliance is sitiing at Baton Rouge with closed doors. When Montgomery, Alabama, granted the franchise to the Capital City Water Company it reserved the right to pur chase the system at the expiration of any term of five years from that date. Tne first term will expire next October, and the city council is now considering the question of buying. The city council h is authorized a committes to ask for bids to pave Commerce street with bel gian blocks. The franchise has been granted to P. B . Bibb and associates to construct and operate an electric lighting plant. Eaoam.pm.8ht N 0 State GnartL In the encampment of the Second and Fourth Regiments, North Carolina State Guard, at Wrightsville last week, there w ere six hundred men in camp. The com panies represented are: Second Regiment. Co. B, Lumber Br dge Light Infantry, Capt. J. I Mai loy ; Co. E, Maxton Guards, Capt. Wil bam Black; Co. A, Sampson Light In lantry, Capt. Wr. A. Johuton; Scotland Neck Rifles, no letter, Capt. G. S. Wrhite, temporarily attached to the Sec ond Regiment. Fourth Regiment.-Co. A, Statesvillt Capt. J. F. F. Armfield;Co. B, Lincoln to ., Capt. W W Motz; Co. C, Waynes ville, Capt. R. A. L. Hyatt ; Co.JD, Mon ro-, Capt. W. C Htath; Co. F. Ashe vil V. Cipt. Dufi Merrick; Co. G. Con , ord. Capt. J. F. Reid ; Co. K, Dallas, Capt. W. F. Holland. The Atlantic and Danville. Tmmediatelv upon the heels of the ' news from England that Commodore i Bateman has secured sufficient funds for ' the completion of of the Atlantic & Danville to some point West, presuma .iw Rrictol romes another rumor that W . tne tist lenneaeee. irgima x wr"'K' hss acquired the road. If true, this i-a ' very important deal as it will give the East Tennessee its own liBe to tho At I lantic coast. The statement is now ad 1 vanced that Bristol will not be the west ' ern terminus, but that Johnson Cty. Tenn., is the favored place. The Comet, of Johnson City, says that the road will be constructed from Wilkesboro, N. C. following the Yadkin river to the top of the Blue Ridge and crossing through , Cook's Gap, strike the headwaters of the Wautauga, to Johnon City. Nature's Hotel. The most remarkable hotel in the 1 world U in California, on the road be I tween Santa Cruz and San Jose. It is a ' well-known fact that California pDees the largest trees in the world, and a j shrewd hotel builder has conceived the idea of usiDg a group of these mammoths, ; thus saving himself the cost of building j or rent. The hollow trunk of one tree, whose circumference i about twenty ! two yards, is arranged as a reception room," and the aunounding garden, ; sheltered by a thick roof of spreading ! branches, Jerve as dining-room and I mnoking-room. A number of other ; smaller hollow trunks make comfortable bed-rooms. furnished in the roost ap proved style, and some tree at a little distance axe occupied by the hotel staff. Jfru York DUpaUK . THE ALLIANCE. 4B0DT FOUR MILLION MEN 00 INTO P0LITI03. Origiij, Organizition axd Growth of the Order.- The Orange and Other Fann er Organizations axd What They Are Doing. In all the sudden selking affcr the power of organization, which within few years has marked a hew industrial and commercial era, the farmer has been the last to adopt the idea of union with his near and distant colleagues. In busi ness and in politics it has been persist ently said that no combination ot farm ers could be effective because the great army of yeomanry is so scattered that it would scarce have more than the strength of individuals, no matter how united in sentiment and'purpose its members might be. All manner of combinations of skilled and unskilled laborers, trades men and manufacturers have with ease accomplished purposes quite beyond their reach but for well organized co operation, while the -farmers looked on for years immovable. There has come to the farmers of the land within a few months a sudden conception that they might possess a power greater than that of any existing organization in trade or industry. They are trying the experi ment of organization on a large scale, and the movement is fast attaining the dimensions of a political revolution. It will be in the nature of a revelatior. to most people, tven to the farmers themselves, that almost since yesterday about four millions of the jeomanry of America have banded themselves togeth er with a determination to become a united and potent factor in the politics and commercial affairs of the country. To-day their influence is just beginulug to be felt in Washington and in the State capitals of the North and South, East and West. It is an open secret that these organizations, which are gaining in membership thousands daily, propose to dominate, if they can, the next na tional conventions of both parties, and to take an active part in national and State politics from now on. The farmers' organizations which are now of national proportions are these: The National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, formed at St. Louis last year by the Union of the National Farmers' Al'iance and Co-operative Un ion of America and the National Agri cultural Wheel. Other Farmers' organi zations have also been absorbed by the Alliance, and its growth within a year has been marvelous. Its officers at Washington ay it has a membership of more than 2,000,000: The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry; the oldest and best or ganized of farmers' association has more than 20,000 subordinate organizations distributed through all the States and territories. The National Farmers' League, a new and rapidly growing organization, is en tirely olitical in its objects. It pro poses to act in harmony with the Alli ance and the grange, and to enter active ly into every department of politics. Its membership in New York State is 40, 000, and all have joined within six months. The National Colored Farmers Alii ance and Co operative Union is a South ern organization, with headquarters a Houston, Texas, and a membership, it officers say, of fully a million. The Farmers Mutual Benefit Aseocia tion has about o00,000 members, with Moun: Vernon, Illinois, as headquarter. The Northwestern Alliance, wiiu headquarters in South Dakota, in strong in Kansas and neighboring States. aui is a similar organization to the National Farmers' Alliance first mentioned, with which it may consolidate. The Patrons of Industry, with hea quarters at' Huron. Mithigan has 90,000 members in th;it t::t and as many more in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Newr York. Only cue of tbepe organizations i- avowedly political in its purposes, et almost all propose to take an active part in pdirics henceforth. Mott of them confine their political influence strictly to the protection of the farmer' interebts in legislation, and all aim to be strictly non-prtis tn in their efforts. But it io clear that what ii really a new fctor in politics and in trade is being creattd, and that already it h vs developed gigan tie proportions. THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE. Before the next Convention of the National Farmers' Alliance meets t OcaU, Fla., in December next, it is ex peeled that fully 3,000,000 farmers will be enrolled io its membership, all pleug ed to support the industrial, commercial and political aims of the Older. It i only a few months since the came of the organization became known, but already it has become active at Washington and in half the States of the Union. The AUiance is really a combination of older organization1!. A Farmers' Alliance waa started in Texas io 1873, and also in New York about the aatue jear. The Alliance started in New York spread westward a a Don secret organization, and became a strong organization north of the Ohio river and west of Pennsyl vania. The Alliance ktarted in Texas was chartered as a becevolent sasociation by the Slate in 18So, and as a secret or ganization it took on its period of rapid growth and development about the jear 188. Io 188? it Lad a membenhip io that State numb-ring ever 100,000, and united with the Far mm.' Union, at that time organized in Louisiana, 10,000 Strong. Thee two o aniztion aaao ciated tbemttivfs together utder the general law of Cugrtrv& regul-iiog the incorporation in the District of Colombia as a national trtde union tinder the name of "The National Farmers' Alli ance and Co-operative Unioo,n and thU Order completed its consolidation with .he National Agricultural Wheel on the fim day of October, lt9. The Alliance is a secret organization, having its secret work in the manner of other emi-social orders. Its member ship is not strictly confined to farmers, ' but it takes in ihe rural population. Both setts are admitted to membership, with 10 as the minimum age. Only white persons aro admitted in most States, and colored delegates are barred f . l : . i i rri 1 iiouj me uauoui luum n.' i ne ruics j permit the admission of country doctors, preachers, mtchanrcs and school teach ers. Persons engseit in any of the following occupations are excluded: .Merchants, bankers, broekrs, commission merchants, cotton, grain cr produce buyers, lawyers, city doctors, preachers and school teschers, Und agents, book agents, peddlers, canvassers, livery stable keepers and saw mill men; all dealers, speculators aud gamblers, an4 any others whw greater interests do not harmonize with f Arming. When a person iseugaed in farming and in ad dition thereto follows one of the occu pations that are not admitted the rule is that he cannot be admitted, but the a8ociation is allowed to make some exceptions under conditions prescribed u the laws of the Order. The purpose oT tne Allisrce as offi cially declared are these: " l'o labor for the education of the Hgricultural clashes iu the science of eco nomic government in a fctrictly non-partisan spirit. To endorse the motto: "In ihinj.H essential, unity; aud in all things, charity" To develop a better state uuntaily. morally, socially and finan cially. To create a better understanding for sustaining civil officers in maintain ing law and order. To cocstantly strive to secure entire harmony and good will among all mankind and brotherly love among ourselves. To suppress personal, local, sectional and national prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry, and elfih ambition. To assuage the suffer ings of a brother or sister, bury the dead, care for the widows and educate the orphans; t exeicise charity ; toward offenders; to construe words and deeds iu their most favorable light granting honesty of purpose and good intentions to otlurs, and to protect the principles of the Alliance unto death." The overning body is the uprcme Council, which is composed of delegates fii'in the State organizations. The ex ecutive officers are a pteddcht, vice president, secretary and tfeasurejr. Tho Mib'trdiimte Alliances eek to provide the mem ers withmch social, edueation m1. auil commercial advantages; as can o.; gained by co-operation. They en deivor to secure the highest price, for the produce raised for sale, and the lowest price on the commodities that must be purchased. Of the jpolitical'r methods of the Alliance ona of ( its offi-! cial declarations is: j 'Our political methods are j strictly non-partisan and must ever remain so, 'ecause every candidate, before! takiag, t:e pledge, is aKsured that it will in no; nay conflict with his political or religi ous views. All political parties are ieprceoted in our ranks and j all aro x per ted to work in their respective p irtits to secure a just recognition of ihe rights of the farmer. All questions in political economy will be thoroughly discussed, and when the Order can agree on a reform as necessary they will de mand it of the Government and !of every olitical party, acd if the demand goe enhteded they will devise some way to enforce it. The most essential reforms must come from legislation, but that does not t.ei -arily compel the respon sibility of ch 'osing candidates and fill ing the offi. va. Such a course fnay be come neceesary, but will not be jresorted to under anv other circumstance n i PUESENT GROWTH Of THE ALLIANCE. The headquarters of the Alliance are ou 9th street, Washington, where, are the offices the president, secretary and executive committee. The officers are: L. L. Polk, of North Carolina, president; B. H. Clover, of Kansas, vice president; J. II. Turner.of Georgia.sec retary; H. W. Hickman, of 3iisouri, treasurer; Ben Terrell, of Texas, lec turer; C. W. Macune.cheirman of execu tive committee. Following the examples ( the Repub lican and Democratic Congressional committees the Partners' Alliance haa etabliihed a literary bureau in Wash ington, vrhich will have a tendency to increase the uneasiness and discomfiture already felt by the Congressmen who are inimical to the theories advaoced by this young but powerful organization. The bureau is located in an bid and dismantled church on 9th street, and, although it is large and roomy, j. it has been found cecearr to secure additional Quarters in an adjoining building. In ths old church the official organ of the Alliance is printed. In the building tfd joining the church are the headquarters of the Alliance, and it is atid tint from this Luiloicg it mapped oat the line of action, i the re aults of which are designed to alleviate the condition of the suffering j farmer all over thin broad lacd. It is a bus pUce, although there is an air of idjsUtt that eTTdes the sanctum of the high priest of this setrtt order. While th9 doors are open to every caller, j and all visitor are treated with uniform coorte-1 tj, yet there is a feeling that there is a concealed goat or a butting ramj which tempera the action of the uninitiated.. Ail of the important work is sect Ctitj from Washington. Lecturers and agent of the Order are constantly coming and going. They come to from a leog tour, remain closeted with the secretary for a few momenta, and tha start out on an other missionary trip. I
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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