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The1 M Inion. AXTON I. .r ; St ' L A DEMOCRATIC JOURNALTHE EOPLE AND THEIR INTEREST. t- VOL. V. NO. 9. M AXTON. N. C, TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1890. 1.00 A YEAR TOWN DIRECTORY. B. F. McLEAN Mayor. H W McNATT . If. BLOCKER, W. S. BYRNES, W. J. CCRKfE, . Com mi sioners. A J BL'ltCK, Town Marshal, j LODGES. KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No. 1,720 mt -or Second and fourth "Wednesday's at i T-ViOP. M. .1. B. WEATHERLY, Die- I tatorr B. F. McLFAN, Reporter, j Y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.30 P. M. WM. BLACK, President. MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK. Captain, mvts fim Thursday night of each month at 8 P. M. CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on second -hwJ fourth Monday in each month. -Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W. Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. MAX TON LODGE. KNIGHTS OF PYTIIIYS, meets every Friday night, except first in ea h month, at S o'clock. P.OBESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY Kcv .1 A Smith, President: E K Proctor. Jr., 1st Vire Pres. ; l)r J 1) I'rwm. 2nd V '. ; A I) Brown. See'y; Win Ulck, Tras. ixt Dcjositary ; Ex-Corn. Rev H O HiU. D I), 1. S Townsend, 1 P iMcK chern, J O GouRh, L MeKrehern; Auditing Com., K FMcRiw.O II ULx ker anl B ICal-dvveJI. KXErfTIVK COMMITTEE. Kev J .X Iijack, Kev P Meeks, It'. v-I F Finlayson, Jos McCoMurti, J P Smith, Duncan McKay, Sr. N B Brown, Dr J L McMillan. ACDITINO COMMITTEE. f P Smitli, I) H Meeill, J A Humphri-v' Place of next meeting Lumberton, N. C. Tinie of next meeting Thursday, May :Hh, lsv.t, at 11 :..'! o'eKek a. m. Bibles and 7esYu merits can be purchased ''of Win. Black,' Depository, Maxtou, N. C, t cost. All churches and Bible Societies in the county mviUH.1 to send delegates. Forwurd all collections to Wm Black, Treasurer, Maxton. N C. CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN, REV. DR. II. G- HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath at 4 P.M. Sunday School at 1C A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. METHODIST, KEY. 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 i m. GENERAL DIRECTORY OF Robeson County. .utiwiii r.va is i-lhv ti inn u u Senator. J. F. Payne. Representatives, T. M. Watson. D. C. Began. E. McRae. I W. P. Moore, Oountv Commissioners, B. Stancil, T. McBrvde. ! J. S. Oliver, C. S. C, C. B. Tow nsend. HherifT, H. McEachen. Keg'r Deeds, J. H. Morrison, Treasurer, W. W. MeRairmid. j J. A. McAllister Board of Education " J. S. Black, S .1. S. McQueen. Supt.-Pub. Instr'n, J. A. McAlistcr. Coroner Supt. of Health, Dr. F Lis R The Mormons are gaining a foothold 5n the' Canadian Northwest, and it is believed will make trouble for the Gov ernment. A clergy m a a at Pottstown, Penn. ho at the age of sixty-seven is hale hearty auJ active, has lived for many j years on one meal a day. which he e&ts at j night. This curious way of living has j ... , . . . t I completely cured him of dyspepsia, from ; .-which he was formerly a terrible sufferer, 1 and he declares that he is much healthiex j i,, , . . ' and happier than people who eat then . rr r r , three meais a day. Probably we eat toa much, comments the Chicago Herald, but ; I one imVht as well ask the man who i, i fond of the pleasures of the palate to ' starve on no meals a day as to live con- i tentedly on one meal. The travel to Europe during the sura jner of 1890 has beeuiibnost as great as at was last year. What, effect this will have on the finances; of he couatrj. ob 'eerves the New York Xtics, is. of course, a mere matter of guesswork. If 50,oO'J people go to Europe, and each one on an average expends $1000. tint is 850,- 000,000 taken out of the country. but as an j joflset to that we have the money brought , here by immigrants.' Wo have orti.'ial , freports of the number of immigrant, b'.i jthe statistics are confessedly incomplete, pince they do not include arrivals by Hand from British America and Mexico. (We may say that from 400,000 to 700. OOu j immigrants arrive yearly, but this is a ; trough approximation which may be j 50,000 or more out of the way. There J are no means of knowing the average amount brought in by each immigrant. Tt may be $50 or $100. We may approx imate the number of tourists, but we Cannot estimate, with any degree of ac curacy, the average amount of money jthe y take out of the country. It is prob ble, however, that one otfsets the other, or aa much money is broughl into (tbe country by the emigrants as is taken put t7 the tourists. ! CREAM OF LOCAL NEWS. i i ' " ; The Happenings of This And Adjoin. ing States .Chronicled. Now Pay Attention and Listen, For Every Onfe of These Items Will Interest You, Whether Healthy, Poor oV Wealthy. Lame. Calt or Blind. TENNESSEE. A dispatch fjrom Memphis. Tenn., con cerning the projected mammoth electrical railway system! say! "C. B, Holmes, of Chicago, to-day made the final payment of 37,000 necessary !to close the deal and nssume control! of all1 the street-car lines ot "Memphis."' J The trtire street railway m stem of Memphis i comprises some 65 , i -miles of road. I This1 deal has been under negotiation fofj a long while. Negotiations! are in progress for the purchase of tlie minority interest in the Memphis & Charleston bv the Fast Ten- nessee, Yirgiui'k & Georgia, now owning the controlling interest. It is stated that the Memphis & Charleston stockholders will exchange iheir stock at 80 for East Tennessee bonds at 90. The new Presbyterian Publishing House at Nashville is to be built of Virginia gran ite, contracts for which have been award ed. ! - j There is copiiderable excitement rat Fowler s Station. nearDyersburg, over the eaptun of a wild negro woman with a ix-months-old baby; in her arms. She was never seen before. She was bare footed and dressed in rags, and is per fectly wild. She seemingly cannot talk nor understand what: is said to her. John Martin, a. track hand on the Chat- uanoogu Southern railroad, was run over J and killed by a Memphis and Charleston train in the yards in : .Chattannooga. He w as walking on the track at the time. A similar killing occurred at the same point last Saturday night. A front end collision occurred at Green ville Wednesday night, between No. 0, passenger, and No. 51, freight, about two hundred yards below the depot. Fifteen or. twenty were bruised up more or less. VIRGINIA. The new fair grounds at Charlottesville are being put in tine shape. The Funeral Directors' Association of Virginia have elected officers and finished the work of their convention at Staunton. Petersburg commission merchants re port peanuts in good demand; receipts very light. Prime, 7c; extra prime, 7c; Spanish, $1.50 to $162i. The Richmond Howitzers have decided to attend the Lynchburg fair October Oth. They will carry about forty men. The annual convention of the Sunday Schools of Prince George county was held at Sycamore church, in that county, Wed nesday, with -100 persons in attendance. The collections from the 2d Internat Revenue District for the month of August was as follows: Lists, $148.44; apple brandy, $21.00; cigars and cigarette's, $45,978.28; snuff, $30; tobacco, $125, 345. 9G; special tax. $927.20. Total, $172, 457.48. ; The llrst bale of new Virginia cotton was received at Petersburg, ahd brought 11$ ceuts. It was raised by Dr. R. S. Powell, of Brunswick! county. Two men representing themselves as agents of D. Appleton & Co., New York, have taken in Lynchburg merchants to the exteiit of ten or fifteen thousand dollars, bv means of fraudulent warrants for school supplies. j Clifton Forge has about 3.200 inhabi- tauK which be largely increased by the accession of the employees and their fumi,k.s miuirwl to numbei of new factories to bei started. The cor porate onterprises, iiK-luding investment and lnauufacturiny companies, have a to- . . .. . .lfwl k , tai t :1pitalization ot over f i. 000, 000. aud the town is the terminus of three divisions of the Chesapeake A: Ohio railroad and i. i .1. .1 . i -1 liart wrtu U1' "'Mvi me large Miops of tliat company. NORTH CAROLINA. The Peace Institute Raleigh under it? ' new principal Prof. ! James Dinwiddie ; opened Wednesday the 110 young- lady I pupiU. ! : Peter Pool had his; aim wrenched from . his houlder bv the machines of a cotton gin at Auburn. A destructive the af' Kenly. in John- ! stou euuntv. totally destroyed she hotel ; and two of thr lar.resf stores in th" place, belcngiu to Y)ung V Co. and Edirerton Bios. Several jerons iu the hof.d . had to jump ln.m the second story wiudows, and l:'rlv eM-apeil witn their lives. Herbert is. lili h-'s betn eommis- sioued as poM in:i!er at Edfe,vwd. and Jan;e T. Jird:iu at Matthews. The Biblical Record this week reports .i4 additions to the Baptist church in the i I StHie last week. i i Rev H . W. Battle'; has tendered his re.irr.ViH",ri a past Or of the Baptist Chun h of New Berntj to accept a call at WiNosi alniut the loth of September. ( apt. T. B. Evansj of Reidsville, a well known newspaper man. died of fever at li home, on Tuesday. He leaves eight children. Evans was a son of the late C. N. B. Evans, editor of th? old Milton Chronicle. j The Board of Dirt t tor of the OxfordOr phanAyiiimTueday. inatiimouly elected Rev. J. T. Hau is. presiding elder of the Durham distiic. as mijh-i inteudent to succeed Dr. B. F Dion, who lately re signed in order to arcjept the Prddenc of the lirtensboro Fcinule Collect . J. W. Bradford lias been re-elected chief Ol police of Winston, Anthony Taylor, colored, was struck on the head with a rock by a negro nam ed Tobe Smith, at Oxford, MouJar". Taylor' fkull Wus fractured and he mtv Sooth Carolina. The Columbia Canal board held a meet ing at which Engineer Holley gave the board information as to the effect of the brack water caused by the Canal dam. Mr. Holley stated that the $35,000 of city certificates would abundantly suffice to complete the Canal dam, and that it would be finished before the close of the year. As soon as the cotton harvesting is over on the State farms a much larger convict force will be available to work on the Canal. Col. J. 0. Oibbs, of Columbia, with a partyj began -on Monday a survey of a new railroad from Greenwood to John ston. The Carolina, Knoxvilleand West era is graded between Ninety-Six and Johnston as a narrow gauge line. The Greenwood people want the new owners of the completed line to run it from Greenville to Greenwood, and thence to Johnston, and had thi survey made. The proposed line touches the old grade about twelve mile from Greenwood. The distance between Johnston and Greenwood is bv the new route alout 'bitty; five miles! The Carolina Southern Railroad h:i secured the entire right of way froai Che raw to Suinpter, and the solicitor of Un load is now negotiating for the right of way through Surupter. The road will run through the. western part of that city, and will eontiuue on to Savannah, Ga. and thence to Jacksonville. Fla. The handsome residence of Dr. M. t . Parker, of Anderson, was destroyed b fire. The tire originated in the clothe closet on the upper floor, supposed to be from matches. The ceiling aud roof were ablaze before it was discovered by the in mates of the house. Despite the refusal of Sumpter to bur den itself with a big debt to secure the Three C's Railroad, it is rumored that :hat line will be extended there within the next year. The statement is said to have come from the attorney of the road, although it it is not vouched for. A State commission was issued for the jrgauization of the Smith Submarine En gineeering and Stevedoring Company, of Charleston, with a capital stock of $2, 000 in shares of $50 each. Its genera! purpose will be "submarine diving and loading and uuloadiug vessels. GEORGIA. While boring for a solid rock founda tion in the Oconee river for the draw bridge of the Savannah, Americus iv Montgomery Railroad, an artesian well was struck in the middle of the river. Iron piping was being used and struck, the w ell at a depth of 52 feet after pass ing through several feet of mud and : strata of quicksand. The water spouteo! from the end of the pipe high in the air, aud is said to be clear and cold. Then is some talk of the railroad company siuk iug a larger pipe and utilizing the supply which is believed to be abundant. Contracts have been closed for the building of a cotton mill to employ 6"t bauds, rolling mill, machine shop and foundry, handle and stave factory and a planing mill l the new town of Kensing ton, which is being developed by the Kensington Land Co., organized at Chat tanooga. Tenn.. with F. R. Pemberton. president About 1.000 persons will be furnished employment on the completion of these enterprises. A man in Banks county entered a no gro church while services were going on. aud commanded the preacher to o He was arrested and fined for disturbing public worship. At a negro, baptizing at High Shoal Sunday, thirteen women and ten men re ceived immersion. The ten men weiv baptized in one minute by the watch, the preacher saying, irrace over rive of them at a time. West Mitchell, of DeKalb county, owned mule th it disappeared mysteri ously lat week. h- (hought that it was stolen, smd sent men to principal points.to jf.-atch the thieves, but by hunt ing in the pasture found the mule in a gully with its throHt cut. Dr. T. J.- I. Pattillo, a prominent plan ter of Lee county., living ;tt Adams Sta tion, had his arm caught in a gin. aud ter ribly lacerated. He was taken to Al bany and his hand had to be amputated. Sixteen barbecues have been given in Wilkes County, this year. Two hundred and thirty- eiyht carcasses were consum ed. OTHER STATES. Geu. Isaac- F. Harrison died at Fort Worth. Texas, a few days nur0. Gen Har rison fought through the recent civil war with distinction. H- entered the Con federate service from Louiana as captain of the Tensas cavalry, uuder Gen. Kirby Smith, and ros- through the different grades' to the rank of brigadier general. His services were mostly w est of the Miss issippi River. He was 74 yean of age at the time of his death. Last spring the Fort Worth, Te x . Moss Collar. Bugging A. Cordage Co. obtained a quantity of okra seed from Dr. M. Cham bers, of New (irleins. La. . a fibre expert of considerable note, and planted 100 acre about 7 miles north of Fort Worth. Dr. Chamber now proposes to remove his decorticating machine to Fort Worth, ;ind exhibit what can be done with the native okra, which he states proves es pecially adapted for manufacturing pur pose. Rosa Bonheur claims that she ha painted her best picture iiac the at tained the age of fifty. Germany manufacture over $10,000, OW wertb of cbitirta'a ton mryjnx 1 FARMERS NEWS & NOTES. Tlie Best dugir Project Discussed by ail Intelligent Harjlander. Our Farmers' Alliance Department Filled with Interesting Hatter Pertaining to Their Order, and the Latest News in the Agricultural World. Ohio has more than 280 Alliances and 22,000 member. Alleghany county, N. Y., has S3 strong Tanners' Alliances at work. The Atlanta Journal made a present of $1,000 in cash to the Georgia Alliancs Exchange last week. The Alliance Warehouse at Worthing. Bakota, for the storage of grain, has been opened and is ready for business. An Alliance store has been opened at Sycamore, Ga,, and is already doing a good business, the Hawkimmlle Ditpatch says. An Alliance store will be opened at this place about the middle of October, with Mr. Mid. T. Williams an manager. - Chatham Btcotd. We are glad to learn that the Contract for the Farmers' Alliance tobacco factor has been let, and Work will begin ' in a few days. Person County Covritr. Col. L. L. Polk has been elected Presi dent of the American Farmers' Associa tion, which recently met in Reading, Pi. There was a most enjoyable Alliance picnic recently at East Ellijay, Ga., the attendance being large, the dinner abun dant, and the speeches numerous and en tertaining. The Thomasville, Ga. Timet-Enterprise learns that the Alliance men of Metcalfe district have purchased the Stegall ware house at Metcalfe and will r"u it in the interest of the order. Hawkinsville, Ga., has an Alliance cot ton warehouse ready for business, with A. T. Fountain, President; J. B. Wilcox, Secretary; J. M. V. Wiilliams, weigher, aud Messrs. James Coady, J. D. Pearce, S. R. Mitchell and M. E. McAnally a? directors. The Mt. Gretna Exposition in Pennsyl vania, was a grand success. It was esti mated that over 40,000 people were pres ent on Thursday. Dr. Talmage preach ed a sermon Sunday. Among the speak ers of the week, were Col. Polk aha Mr. Dunning, of the Economist. It is stated by the Enterprise, of Carns ville, Ga., that the Eastanollee Alliance is constantly growing, having one or more to initiate every meeting. They are or dering the cotton bagging through the Exchange of the Farmers' Alliance of Georgia. The Cedartown. Ga., Standard publish es resolutions of Wesley Chapel Alliance, that they will not patronize any gin that uses jute bagging for any purpose ; nor patronize and merchant who sells jute bagging. Any member violating these resolutions will be expelled. The Farmers' Alliance of Georgia con templates building a railroad between two and three hundred miles in length, and to put a line of ocean steamers between Savannah and Europe. The Georgians are men of big ideas and are usually fuc cessful, no matter how colossal the enter prise undertaken.-Oxford Day. The directors of the Brooks Alliance warehouse, at Quitman. Ga., recommended to Alliance men that do cotton be sold on the streets by them. By this means there will be sharper competition and better prices secured. The Conyers, Ga., Alli once not only boycotts jute bagging, but all substitutes for it except cotton bag ging, and will not patronize any gin that uses jute for anybody. THE BEET SLOAK PROJECT. Mr. George B. Morton, vice president of the Cape Fear and Cincinnati Railway Co., writes to an exchange as follows: I read with much interest your editori al on "i lie sutrar beet in yesterday s pa per, and all on account ol the fact that I have given the piestiou of beet sugar and its possibilities of great revenue to the Carolinas a very great study, and I am convinced that in the very near future, not over two year- a the most, the reve nue to the two Carolinas can be iucreased over one million of dollars from the raw ing of sugar beets. I have leen experimenting -itli the German seed sent to m- directly from Germany, the seed leing known a "Dip pe," "Kleiuwau7leben" and 'Lenraire's Richest."' These st-ed I had planted un der the following Condition: I hud the sandy loam fertilized with superphos- phates of lime, which contained 12 per m cent, of phosphoric acid. I u-d 200 pounds to the acre I had the soil plough ed ten inches deep and thoroughly bar- rowed, and the seed put iu bv hand in rows eighteen inches apart. After the leaves began to show I lud the best plants thinned out. tint thev stood seven inches apart. I f and this thinning nut i'i order to make the i process necessary i beets show a high-i orrccuisire or saccria- line matter, and my experience show roe that the thinning out Miould take place before the beets how sii leave, or oon after four let hav irn.wu. The beets after grown :veraed ' pound and tbe result in ugar eu:eu: wn from 10J per cent, to 12f per rt-ut.. hoting ao aver age of 11 j per cent. .'.--ltarine matter. The cost per n? re. as i,ear I could fig ure it out, allow ing my ecd to cost me 15 cents per rw.iml u..d H pound to tbe acre, was for prodm i:n iy, labor $1 per day :) Ploughing, preparing the Intid ncd owing 4 Ploughing ot't 1 2- Thinning out, bating, polling, tepptof; and Joeding itQ, wftgess. 80 00 5 00 Total, $30 75 After weighing til good marketable beets 1 netted 12 tens and had fodder and small beets enough to feed csttl m for.sTeral days. If we had.refinery in Carolina to take those beets, the price paid being accord ing to what percentage of sugar matter the beets contained, the result to the farmers of the Carolina would be a fol-' Iowa: Cost of raising and delivering to refiner v an acre, or 12 tons of beets " $30 73 Revenue from sale of 12 toon of beetp, it id average of $0 per ton 75 00 . Leaving a net profit of 44 Vi 1 firmly believe that, taking fhe avrT' age farmer throughout the State and let ting him raise beets. With an average per centage of say 11 percent, of saccharine matter and a yield of twelve to fifteen tons to the acre, he will average a net profit of $:J5 to 37 per acre. There are many things necessary to know concerning this sugar beet question, but, Mr. Editor, those who go into the plantiug of sugar beets will very soon J learn just what is required to raise the J best sugar leet. The agricultural de partment at Washington have spent many months of investigation of this subject, and will shortly issue the most valuable statistics on this subject ever published. 1 have not seen the questions put by yoiw correspondent a few weeke ago, but I can assure him that before long if the final tests which I shall make the coming season prove as satisfactory as those above mentioned, that a refinery to produce o00 barrels of sugar per day from beets w ill be erected in either North or Boutb Carolina, in other words, the buildings will be put up at the most convenient point, transportation, etc., being one of the main points. You will pardon this long article, but it is of such great importance to tbe Caro linas that too rnuch cannot be said on the subject. To show the great position beet sugar holds in the world, I will quote: The output of caue sugar in 1889 and 1890 w as reported at 2,228,000 tons. Beet su gar for .same period, 3,550,000 tons, being 1,322,000 tons more sugar made from beeLs than from cane. Agitate this question, get the farmers interested in it, and the taxes of the coun ties nod State will soon be reduced to a minimum. I am, very truly yourt, George B. Baltimore, Md. Morton. . FAKMEES TO THE FRONT. In all ages of the world, nations have been strong in the proportion that agri culture was prosperous and carried on under the substantial condition of propri etorship. The rural homestead has al ways been the altar of patriotism and every public virtue, and when this char acteristic was lost anarchy and disintegra tion has followed. A rural citizenship I has always been the prey to designing j men, who coveted their substance without I emulating their homely virtues. Know ing but little of the cunning ways of tbosc versed in statecraft, depending solely upon honest toil for bread, and re moved trom those populous centres that breed all manner of vice, they have beet victims of vicious greed, and by degree huvc surrendered the birthright secured and defended by their sturdy arm and ittoiute patiiotifem, and have sunk into seivility. Their downfall has presaged th: of their countiy. But tbife were ancient times. To re peat itself iu history must deal with re peated conditions. In these days and iu this country the farmer is a different man. He knows uis rights and. unless all signs Thii. will maintain them. He may be slow to realize tbe necessity for doing something, and this tardirn-ss may have been construed as Mlent consent on his part to drift with the tide if he sinks with the ship. But when he hang hi coat on the fence and goes to work in earnest, he i alwayt equal to the emer gency, and those who think otherwise, deceive themselves. Whrn the country needs raving, and others refuse to do it a.r immense jost of fanners, accustomed to hard work will be fount! ready. Thej hikve niumiv hffu steriae tenifeT ou the ship id State, luMing to tbe officers l r? - and cr.r to carry tiken safely. If they find that the orheer a-e drunken and the crew disorderly ami mutinous, they will not hesitate 'to man the tillVr and the yard. Tuey msy do jrne rough unsci entific work at the sts.rt. but what they hu k In kill. they may make up in main strength and awwan!us. Aud that' what7 the matter with msuy place hold ers -who have let the iut-ret of the people ).k out fT itelf. while they gave their j v hole Mtnaum to p,rty rxpeOJeDcy as sfle '.mi.' their Tenure u umce. iczas A fKOCHMlTtOX. j Wheieav It i the duty of a!l mankind ' to acknowledge the Proidece of Al- mighty God, to oS.-y Hi will, to begrate- ful for His l-iieiit wid Uinuiy to implore Hi protection and fv.r; aud whereas, , by virtue of authority eted in me at the last meeting of the County Alliance, I hereby appoint th- l :h of Septrmber a day of thanksgiving and prayer by the . Sub-Alliances of Ah- coaniy. Each and every member i inot earnestly invoked to assembled in tiflr place of divine wor- , ship on said day for trie purpose ol ac- know ledgiug our grai.;d: and thankful i ness for the pnprri of . such bountiful ; harvest and earntly to implore a continua 1 tioe of divine bie.i:. Given under m fbt 23lh day of August in f our Lord, 1890; . 4 as. It XDI, etc Shipping from farm THE MEN WHO HAKE OUR LAWS. Who We Will Continue Xxt OfSce), and Hew Public Officer Sleeted. - W. J. Rogers has been nominated fer Conftrmm by the Democrats of the Second North Carolina district.. j -, Capt. G. W. BlieU, of Laurens, 9. is announced as a candidate for Coogim. He was Capt. Tillman's leading IrinkJ in (be up-country and did mote than any one man to make the farmers newement successful. He now asks the Democrat of this district to consider Ms claims to and fitness for the office. The Hon. Lewis T. Baxter, Republican candidate for Governor of . Tennessee, opened his camaign at South Pittsburg Tnursdsy. j The Virginia Republican Aisoelatiou hetd a long and cnttKwisstic meeting ax Washington. Plans were made to aid in the coming campaign. The following w ere appointed to confer with the Secre tary of the Congmsioaal committee in the' interest of the awocilion: WL P. Cox, TT, H. Wilson, C. L. fSearib, F. D. Lee, P. E.Whorton, D. W. Jones, snd J. H. Harrison. Resolutions indorsiag tbe re-nomination of Representative Browne and urging similar action in the care of Representative Bowden were adopted. The Democrats of the fifth Georgia district met at Atlanta and nominated L. F. Livingston for Congress. 'Senator Vance, it N reported, haspro- posed an amendment to the tariff hill, which provide iu substance that sny goods imported in (his country, which shall have been 'purchased with the jJro ceeds or value of farm products' sold in foreign countries, Khali be admitted at rates of duty ranging from 25 to 50 per cent, of the rates fixed in the bill. As very few goods, however, are imported into this country that have not been pur chased with the proceeds or values of tbe products descnled. Senator Vsnce's amendment amounts in effect simply to a proposition to render the new bill loop- erative, if it shall Ik passed to the ex tent of the sweeping exceptions wnich have been indicated. The plan of the Senator from North Carolina is an excel lent one, no doubt, even though it is somewhat clumsy, but we fear that it will not meet with that degree of favor at the hands of a Republican Congress which is necessary to its adoption. High dutle in the bill and low duties at the ports is not exactly what the protected manufac turers demand or would be satisfied with, but it is just what Senator Vance kindly offers to them in tin interest of the farm ers. On the wit i.. . i is amendment must be regarded , iht of a political joke, and tl 1 b terests will ae- cept It doubtless as the crowning effort of his life in that line. Nru and Court- Eager Buyers for Okefenokee Swamp. The owners of the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia and Florida, it appears, have refused to consummate the sale of theit property to the English syndicate which offered to purchase it last July at fl.Sft per acre, or $1.05 in advance of the pdee paid by the present owners. The propri etors have practically completed a surrey of the tract, and, it is stated, tbe survey ing corps found timber worth $2,000,000 that can be cut and marketed compara tively easy, and estimated that 500,000 acres of the swamp is underlaid with a deposit of sulphate, and the land alone, embracing from 600,000 to JKW.OOO acres, to be valued at $15,000,000. General P. M. B. Young, of AsheviUe, X. C, U owe of the original purchasers. . 1 The Injury to Cotton. A Raleigh. X. C, special says: The injury to cotton by the rain is becoming great. Farmers who arrived here i torn Johnson, an important cot ton-growing county, says an extensive reduction ..f the exjected erop will result. The ruins of Augut hurt the crop which wa forming during the earlier part of that in ..nth. and that rust, which attacked the cotton earlier than usual, has badly affect -ed the top crop. , The same statement ap pli to nearly all this section, and whue the c rop will'be fsr larger than the last ..!-. t-t it will fall below tbe Julv and Aurmt etiraite, which were that it would lie the best crop ever grown. The crop is opening very freely and will be picked early. Wonderful Increase In Alabama The returns so far made from the assessment of property in the State of Al abaxna show a large increase in the val ue. Twelve counties evidence a total valuation of $3M7ft,33.71, end a total increase over last year of $1359,110. Ot the twelve, Madison county heads tht list with a valuation of $,904,223, tad Franklin county shows the greatest ia rreav of value, amounting to $348,171. The policy of the State has been since 186? to gradually reduce teritinn, and, although the total asBesament will bt greater than last year the revenue will isj afl probability be less, because of a far ther decrease in the tax rate. A Conflagration in Cocoa. A Tituville, Fla., special says: "A m Hal OrtMcugrr from Cocoa, a town ots Ji.diao River, twenty miles below here, lring news that fire broke out there Fri day at 10 o'clock and deatroyed nearly tbe whole town, including O. K. Wood's f ur tdture store snd stock, J. R, Dickson & Bro ware Lou- with a stock of general mi rvhantdi-, Stilling & Taylor's hard ware -.tore, D. R. Graffs jewelry store, the t ity meat market, and half a dozen dwell ings, Stilling a Taylors stock was valued at $15,000, insurance $3,000, The loti on the other buildings is pertly covered by ia-uTtsce, v
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