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THE PROGRESSIVE FAljtMEB: MARCH 8, 1892.
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AN ADDRESS.
Shod, Not Allow Party
Zeal to Injure the Organization.
Seo.-Treas N. C. F. S. A.
f Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 21, 1892.
L.R brethren:" What shall the
Jpst be"' for the Alliance in 1892?
ilvou weigh thi question calmly!
vou so, so shall you reap. A few
L affo the Alliance was unheard of
S?nrth Carolina. Four years ago it
n aineu such headway in the State,
0Iily one year old here, that the
r Alexander, came near being
Wed Governor though he was op
Wd nearly solidly by the whole press
ltheSta:e. Two years ago, through
f campig11 education, it sent four
f its members to the United States
n(rres3, and two others were elected
Medged to the support of our demands.
majority of the legislature elected
Alliancemen, a United States
t Wna'or chosen after he had pledged to
Support aeiiuinus auu uuuureus oi
bounT offices filled by our household.
ever has any organization been edu
cated so rapidly ; never has an organi
sation gained so many victories. What
nthe outcome? Two years ago your
I I nlan was introduced into Congress by
3 I Z.t hut it was contemntuoiisl v
laid on the shelf. We had no friends
in the halls of Congress. To day how
i3 it? We find more than half a hun
dred Congressmen standing manfully
for our rights, most of them of our own
Order. They are introducing bills in
our behalf and are. battling heroically
to have them made into law. For the
first time in half a century the work
ing people, the masses, have had bills
introduced in their behalf, and have
had champions in Congress who have
dared to face plutocratic power for
relief of the people. But will these bills
introduced be made into law? It is
possible some of them may, but not
probable, and why? Because our
strength there is yet too wek to cope
with the combined rorce3 ot those sent
there by moneyed corporations and
syndicates to frustrate any laws for the
relief of the people.
What is to be done? Must we by one
unlucky throw of the dice I03 all we
have g lined, cause our beloved Order
to be rent in twain, and leave no organ
ized body to dispute the onward march
of tyranny and oppression? Shall wo
by our headlong zeal, intemperate
haste destroy all hopes of the perpetu
ity of a republican form of government,
and permit a monarchy to be estab
lished over our children? God forbid
that we should do this. Yet we find
that some true, zealous, but incautious
brethren, are urging the Alliance to
take a fatal plunge over a dangerous
precipice of which they are unaware,
and whre nothing' but destruction
awaits it. We find that in a few of
our Lodges partisan politic vl meetings
have been held which the brethren
know is positively against the Consti
tution of the State Alliance of North
Carolina. The Alliance can never be
come partisan, because its Constitu
tion orders us in accepting members to
I -guarAraee them that . their religious or
political creeds are not to be questioned.
To endorse any party in our Lodge
room is partisan, for the Alliance of
North Carolina hold3 among its mem
bers Democrats, Republicans, Prohibi
tionists and the People's party; Let
us see what the trouble would be if we
let politics into our Order. We will
take for example a Sub-Lodge of sixty
male members, thirty-two of whom are
Democrats, ten Republicans, eight
Prohibitionists and the remaining ten
were for independent action or the
People's party. At a regular meeting,
all the members being present, a reso
lution was introduced and passed by
the thirty-two Democrats that here
after this Lodge should endorse the
Democratic party, and that all the
members should vote the Democratic
ticket; what would be the remit? The
remaining members would be driven
from the Order. It would break up
the Lode. Such has been done in
... few instances in this State,
xherevpr nartisan politics has been
jermitted to make headway in the
Alliance organizations in a county,
there you will find the weakest Alli
ance order.
Brethren, as an Allianceman, as
vour Secretarv-Treasurer, who has
only the good of the Order and the
country at heart, and whose fingers
rest upon the throbbing pulse of the
whole Alliance organization in our
State. I send this greeting to you, to
J jwarn and beg of you to halt and think
uciore iu n lou lute. iue piutwiamy
powers through their allies and agents,
have well nigh caused many of you to
take the fatal plunge over that dark,
fathomless abyss. They have driven
some of you to believe, through their
misrepresentations and persecutions of
our Order and its officers, that the only
redress is through a partisan political
course, and that you should ostracise
all other Alliancemen who will not
take the same fatal step. Are we such
cowards that a few men in North Caro
lina who hate the Order and its officers,
can force us to such an extremity, force
us to abandon what we have already
in our grasp, a complete victory for
our principles? What matters it to us
what the name of the party we affiliate
with, so we can save our homes and
freedom for ourselves and posterity,
even if we differ at the ball it box as
to the best method of securing these
reforms, which I hope wiil not be the
case. We must remain a unit in the
Order.
Thousands of friends outside of the
Orierare with us in feeling and will
ote for our principles if we will bury
Petty differences and stand solidly to
gether. Then we must not let partisan
politics divide us. and must show that
Ssve will not be driven from our rights
by a ringsters and would be bosses, who
are trying to control the political
parties to which individually many of
HMjrnDers belong.
rTl"r ea is in the minds of many that
ho claims to be a Democrat or
? blican cannot be a good Alli
a. Some Alliance Democrats
lat no good Allianceman can be
I anything but a Democrat; the same
j whu some itepuDiicans who think no
one but a Republican can be a trood
Allianceman. The Alliance teaches no
such doctrines as these, but promises
u,3 tt our Private political opinions
shall be respected.
Brethren, shall our principles live
and grow untd the whole country shall
again "blossom as the rose," or shall
they die by a suicidal policy of our own
and by that act, doom our posterity to
a life of bondage and shame? Shall a
brother be permitted to remain in the
Alliance and vote for our demands
through the Republiean party if he so
desires? Shall a brother be permitted
to remain in the Alliance and at the
same time claim to be a Democrat,
though he stands squarely on our de
mands? Shall a brother be permitted
to remain in the Alliance if he chooses
to vote for the demands through the
Prohibition or People's party? Yes,
surely he must. When he joined the
Order, did not you promise him that
his political feelings should be re
spected? Those who are unfriendly to
us and who wish to see the Alliance go
down, are calling every man who
stands upon the Ooala demands as a
Third or People's party man. This is
done to irritate you, to worry you, to
lash you out of the Alliance, to drive
you back to party affiliations under
" boss " rule, to break up the Alliance,
anything to keep in power.
If a man should come to you
"hungry, sick and naked" and you
take him to your house and feed,
nurse and clothe him, and he should
afterwards show his ingratitude by
claiming your house and your prop
erty, will you quietly give it up and
say this fellow is a rascal and demands
all I have ; that I will leave it to him
and go somewhere else will take my
wife and children and try to find some
other place where this fellow will not
trouble me? Is there a man in the Al
liance who would aci so cowardly, so
foolishly?
Let each one of us weigh this matter
carefully before taking any step that
might set us back from our cherished
demands a long time, if not forever.
We read in our declaration of pur
poses on the first page of the Constitu
tion, 22d paragraph, to endorse the
motto, "In things essential, unity;
and in all things, charity." I regret
to see such harsh vindictive letters and
resolutions published about some of
our brethren in our reform papers.
Are you showing any charity in these
attacks, my brother? Are you show
ing yourself a true Allianceman? Are
you exercising "charity towards offen
ders?" Are you "granting honesty
of purpose and good intentions' to
others Article 6, section 3 says:
" When any officer or member shall be
guilty of conduct unbecoming an Alli
anceman, charges and specifications
shall be preferred against him (in your
lodge, not through newspapers) if it
cannot be amicably settled. ' Section
4, article 6 tells you how the trials
shall be conducted. Have you pre
ferred charges through the proper
channels? Have you acted right in
making your charges public? Do you
not know that you have laid yourselves
liable to have charges preferred against
you? Brethren, you 'must not let too
much zeal lead you astray. Have you
followed the scriptural injunction and
taken "the beam out of your oxen eyeV
For the sake of our wives, children
and homes let us get nearer together.
Let nothing separate us from our
Order. Let us be charitable and fra
ternal to each other. If we will onlv
stand true to our principles, if we will
refuse to listen to the siren voice of
the tempter, the political office seeker,
who is endeavoring to lure us from Al
liance principles if we will make up
our minds to vote only for those who
stand squarely upon our demands, no
matter to what party they belong, no
matter whether he belongs to our Order
or Dot, we can win another signal vic
tory for reform. We can accomplish
this if we will by requiring every can
didate to state publicly how he stands
as to our deinands; and if he answers
in the affirmative, send some one with
our demands printed on a card which
he must sign and on which he should
promise not to antagonize but to wprk
for them to be made into law. Politi
cal clubs will be formed all over the
country. Be careful how you join them
or you will regret it. Let each one of
us determine to exercise his rights as
an American citizen by voting for his
principles in any party he may choose
and let us grant the same privilege to
all others. Let there be no ostracism
or public denunciation of a brother.
The duty of every Allianceman to
each other and to the Order is most
touchingly and forcibly picture 1 in the
verses below. Read them and ponder
them, and let each one of us be to each
other and to our Order as Ruth was to
Naomi, her mother in law:
And Ruth paid, entreat me not to
leave thee or to return from following
thee ; for whither thou goest I will go,
and where thou lodgest I will lodge :
thy people shall be my people, and thy
God my God. Where thou diest will
I die and there will I be buried ; the
Lord do to me and more, also, if aught
but death part thee and me.
Fraternally,
W. S. Barnes,
Sec-Treas. N. C. F. S. A.
NORTH CAROLINA AT ST. LOUIS.
Our readers will be interested in the
&.ddrpfis of our delegates to the St.
Louis Conference, found in another
column We suggest that all the
friends of Reform file this copy of the
paper away, as it contains the correct
copy of our Platform, and other im
portant matter.
The Democratic State Convention
called for May 18th the Georgia State
Convention is called for the same day.
It is claimed that D. B. Hill has great
strength among the Democratic party
officials of both States. We wonder if
Hill's fine election hand is in the early
calling of these conventions.
ZEKE BILKINS.
I xi tfif
III
Mr. Bilkins Gets Hitched to Dr. Caldwell
Partisanism Defined.
B. "Hello! Mr. Editor."
R "Hello! Mr. Bilkins."
- B. "Say, hitch me to Dr. Cald
well, of the Statesville Landmark and
the Charlotte Chronicle."
R "All right, go ahead with your
rat killing."
B." Hello ! Dr. Caldwell."
Dr. C " Hello I Mr. Bilkins. What
can I do for you?"
B. " I want you to tell me what to
do in politics."
Dr. C. "All Alliancemen should go
into the Democratic party."
B. "That would be partisan,
wouldn't it?"
Dr. C. 'Of course it would, 'but
every good citizen has a right to be
partisan."
B. "Wouldn't it be partisan to go
into a new party ?"
Dr. C, "Well oh that depends.
That would be a bad step."
B. "Well say, Doctor, you com
plain because people applaud Alliance
speakers and 4 blow in money on the
reform papers.' You never complain
when people applaud political speak
ers You don't complain when people
4 blow in mon y ' on the political pa
pers." Dr. C "That's all right, but the re
form papers are getting rich."
B. " Can you prove it? Our papers
are issued at low prices and none of
them make half the money 4 blown in '
on plutocratic sheets that are deceivin
the people year after year. The work
in' people directly and ir directly sup
port these papers, too."
Dr. C. "BuC the Alliance leaders
have deceived the people."
B. "Have they deceived them the
same way the politicians have? Betsy
says that they have deceived her, for
she didn't believe they were half as
honest nor half as smart as they have
proven thems dves to be. I guess that
is how they are deceivin' you politi
cians. If you fellows could fool them
or buy them they would be right nice
men."
Dr. C. 4 4 The leaders have not even
waited for the Democratic House to
pass the Silver bill or do anything."
B. 44 Hold up there, Doctor, you are
getting off the track. How long has
Congress been in session?"
Dr. C. 4 'Since the first of Dece mber. "
B. 4 4 Let's see, that is exactly thir
teen weekp, or three -months and one
week. Havn't they had time to pass
any bill ; havn't they had time to pass
500 bills?"
Dr. C. "But they had to get up a
set of rules."
B. "I guess they will put in the
next three months studyin' them rules,
the next three months trying' to find
out whether they are good ones or not,
the next three changin' them so they
will have to be changed agin and the
next three discussin' them an' the last
six months makin' motions to table the
whole business an' go a fishin'."
Dr. C. "You are an old crank. You
are so stuffed with Alliance heresies
that there is no way of convincing
you."
B. 44 Say, Doctor, don't get mad. I
want you to talk with Betsy." .
Dr. C. "I have no time to put in
talking to women. "
Mrs. B. "Hello, Dr. Caldwell. I
want you to tell me if some of the Demo
cratic papers didn't lie when they said
the farmers were solid for Cleveland?
(No reply.) Say, Doctor, is it not pos
sible that the Democratic papers are
mistaken when they say that the Alii
ance leaders are deceiving the people.
(No reply.)
B. Hello! Mr. Editor, Dr. Caldwell
has got speechless, I reckin. He won't
talk any more, anyhow. Good bye."
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
Peffer introduced a bill to loan $100,-
000,000 to farmers in Kansas who
could give good security, and by this
means save their homes from the
money Jews of Europe. Sherman in
troduced a bill to give $100,000,000 to a
company to build the Nicaragua canal
and add to their already great wealth
the profits accruing from the enter
prise.
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS,
COPY.
DT T? ACT?
Capt. S. B. Alexander says of the St.
Louis platform : 44 It is one that all true
Alliancemen can and will heartily
support."
STATE NEWS.
j rt-a.ni of the State Press Drops of Turpentine
- od Grains of Rice from the East Clusters
f Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
Jorth Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
At Marion last week Mr. Flemming,
the proprietor of the Flemming hous,
died of Bright's disease.
Oxford Ledger : Our Baptist friends
are taking active steps for the erec
tion of a handsome nev church this
summer.
The foundation of the new county
court house at Wilmington has been
laid as high as the street fevel and the
work is progressing nicely.
The Concord Standard says there is
no doubt there is a decrease of at
least one third of the chattel mort
gages this year over last year.
T. H Vanderford and J. B. Lanier,
of Salisbury, have bought a gold mine
from Judge McCorkle and others for
$10,000. The Herald says they will de
velop it.
A telegram to the Wilmington Star
says it is a settled fact that the Oxford
& Coist Line Railroad will without
doubt have Rocky Mount as its ter
minal point.
Kinston Free Press: Mr. D. R.
Jackson, of LaGrange, was in Kinston
a few days ago. He told U3 that more
cotton would be planted around La
Grange this year than usual.
King's Mountain Neivs: The news
comes to us that Wesley Huffstetler
killed a negro man in Lincoln county
this week. This makes two homicides
for old Lincoln in the last fortnight.
Greensboro Record: Dr. T. A. Brooks,
a distinguished physician of Chatham
county, died Saturday at Siler, in the
63d year of his age. He held im portant
places of trust during the war and
since.
Lexington Dispatch : Two juiveniles,
of about 13 years, have gotten hold of
20 and a 32 calibre revolver and under
cover of darkness ran away from their
homes at the cotton mills last Monday
night.
Creswell & Brother's store in Char
lotte was robbed of many jars of brandy
preacher, and the safe which contained
$1,175 wa9 battered, but the burglar -
were unable to effect an entrance to
the safe.
Goldsboro Argus: A petition is
being circulated and is being numer
ously signed, praying Gov. Hold to
commute the death sentence of Weight
man Thompson to imprisonment in the
penitentiary for life.
Abel Bell, a colored brakeman of the
A & N. C. Railroad, whose home is at
Wildwood, accidentally fell between
two cars of the freight train Thursday
and was crushed to death, says the
Ne v Berne Journal.
The executive committee of the
Western North Carolina teachers' as
sociation met at Asheville Saturday
and decided that the next aianual meet
ing of the association should be held at
Waynesville, on June 14 17.
Durham is going forward steadily.
'Lcn work begins on the new Trinity
church, the new hotel, and that already
going on Dr. Carr's new office, you will
see some moving around in this part of
town, says the Durham Sun.
Charlotte Neivs : Bishop Lyman will
conduct services in St. Peter's Episco-
gal church to-morrow morning, and at
t. Michael's at night. Bishop Lyman
yesterday confirmed a class of ten; at
St. Mark's church, in this county.
Charlotte Chronicle : There are 200
students at the Biddle Institution
the largest number since the school
was established. There are now 50
inmates at the poor house. This is ten
more than Was cared for last winner.
Smithfield Herald: Two convicts
to the penitentiary from this county
this term of the court. Sam Privett,
an old negro preacher, for two years
for stealing cotton and Tom Barnes,
colored, for two years for stealing
meat.
Kinston Free Press : Sheriff Sutton
showed us a very deceptive counterfeit
half dollar the other day. It appears
all right to the eye, but does not ring
when dropped. Counterfeit silver
coins are said to be in pretty general
circulation.
Raleigh Chronicle: Upon request,
Gov. Holt has ordered an exchange of
courts between Judges Bryan and Shu
ford, whereby the former will hold the
Spring terms of Iredell and Dare, and
the latter will hold a two weeks Spring
term of Nash court.
A safe blower broke into a store at
Flowery Branch, on the Air Line Rail
road, Saturday night, and robbed a
safe of $100 in small change. The rob
ber was captured yesterday in a neigh
boring town. He had drilled a hole in
the safe, and shattered the bolts with
powder.
Marion Free Lance: Mr. J. A.
Swan, who lives about three miles
from here, has a daughter four years
and six moi ths old who is three feet
two inches high and t o feet four
inches around her waist. Her waist
measurement lacks only 10 inches of
being her height.
New Berne Journal : Owing to the
heavy track caused from the rain fast
time could not be made. The first was
the $300 race in wnich Fray ley's gray
horse from Salisbury was the winner.
Time 2.40. Skcond race was for a $150
Eurse. It was won by Tom, a bay
orse from Durham. Time 2:42.
Shelby Aurora : The revenue r iders
invaded the precinct of Ben's Knob
and arrested John Hoy le on the charge
of illicit distilling. He was brought to
town on an old charge two years ago
when a blockade still was found and
destroyed on his land. He was bound
over to the Federal Court for trial.
Two children of Samuel Smith, of
Silver Valley, aged 12 and 14 years,
were bitten by a supposed mad dog
one day last week and were brought to
town Friday to test the powers of Mr.
J. N. Oraver's mad-stone. The stone
!
fwas applied and stuck to the wound
and the patient was declared cured,
says the Lexington Dispatch.
I
Roanoke Beacon: We regret to
chronicle the failure of Mr. G. H. Har
rison, who made an assignment n
Monday for the bene it of his creditor?,
with Mr. A. O. Gay lord as trustee. In
his assignment the town of Plymouth,
of which he ras Treasurer, is made
one of the preferred creditors for the
sum of $844.
Charlotte loses one of its best citizens
in the death of Mr. Latta Johnson,
who was born May zvta, 1857. lie
was a nephew of Col. William John
son and a cousin of Mrs. A. B. Adrews,
of Raleigh. His estate is valued at
$150,000, says the News. He was a
Presbyterian. - He was enthusiastic
oa fine stock and an ardent agri
culturist. Winston Sentinel: It was learned
here to day that Mormon Elders are
having trouble in Ashe county. They
visited one section a few days ago and
that night they were visited by an
"organized band of citizens who gave
the Mormons' notice that they must
either leive the section or die. The
Mormons, of course, chose the former
and skipped.
Asheville Citizen : Natt Atkinson &
Son, the Asheville real estate dealers,
are engaged in hunting specimens of
Western North Carolina trees to be
sent to the North Carolina forestry
building at the World's Fair. Nine
specimens are to be sent, each one to
be twenty- five feet in length. Some of
the specimens are to be gotten on the
Vanderbilt estate.
Durham Sun: When the Sun went
to press yesterday afternoon the case
of Charly Stevens, for the murder of
Bryant Jones was being investigated.
A number of witnesses were examined.
From the testimony elicited in was
concluded that the killing was done in
self defence and the justices discharged
Stephens, from the custody of the law.
Norwood Vidette: Mrs. Caroline
Hearne, grandmother of Mrs. Robert
Tyson, of this place, died at the resi
dence of Mr. Carl Burns, in Anson
county, last Tuesday, aged about 80
years. The wife of John Wad dill,
colored, was accidently sho'; with a
pistol some time ago. The ball entered
her upper lip, and knocked out several
of her teeth.
Lincoln Courier : Mr. Sam Lander,
the mica man, has for s )me time been
working a mica mine in North Brook
township, this county. He says the
mica is found there in grea j quantities.
He had a beautiful sheet in town this
week taken from this mine, and the
piece would square about eight inches.
Mention some minerals not found in
Lincoln county.
Mr. W. A. Misenheimer, of Cabarrus
county, who was running a saw mill,
stumbled and fell near the saw. The
edge of his shoulder struck the saw
while running at full speed, sa s the
Standard. It drew him in before he
could be rescued by assistants, and tle
saw cut its awful course right through
his neck, hi3 head rolling down on one
side and his body falling on the other.
Two men were very seriously hurt
at Hub, on the Chadbjurn & Conway
Railroad. They were at work in the
Hub lumber mill, when some ma
chinery broke. G. A. Johnson was
struck by a piece of iron weighing one
hundred pounds, making a severe contusion-
on his chest. The other man
was hur i about the head Jonson i at
Wilmington for surgical treatment, the
Star says.
Mr. John Armstrong met with a
peculiar accident yesterday. He was
standing with one foot crossed over the
other, whetting his knife on the heel of
his shoe, when the knife slipped, he
lost his balance and fell against a post.
The knife was run into his foot and an
artery severed . The wound bled dread
fully but was soon attended to and he
will be able to walk in a day or so, says
the Charlotte Chronicle.
The last raid of thieves made at
Rocky Mount Tuesday night has been
brought to light by the arrest of one of
the men at Wilson, telegram to the
Wilmington Star reports. He is a
negro and says he is from Wilmington,
and is named Albert Chesterfield. He
confessed and said Tom Moore induced
him to go in with him and share the
spoils, as he had gone into several
houses and had not been caught.
Salisbury Herald : A singular inci
dent occurred on the railroad within
the city limits yesterday evening. A
car loaded with lumber jumped the
track at Shober's bridge and ran along
on the ties until it reached the bend
near Mr. John Verble's home, where it
took the track again. The employes
did not discover that it had been off
until the train stopped and the car was
found badly shaken up. .
Charlotte Chronicle : The sash, door
and blind factory yesterday received
an order for a large lot of their goods
to be shipped to Florida. Wednes
day night sme very discriminating
rogues visited the barns of Messrs.
Will McLaughlin and Will Lee, of
Crab Orchard township. Thev stole
Mr. McLaughlin's bridles and some
other harness fixtures, and then went
over to Mr. Lee's and stole two of his
mules.
Stanly News : Mr. Edmund Freeman
has again recovered his voice. During
his dumb spell he says he felt like he
could talk if he could stand upon hi
head. Acting upon the suggestion by
his children, to lay across the bed and
place his head on the door, he was en
abled to talk so long as he remained in
that position. After several repeti
tions of this experiment his voice re
turned; though it is weak, coarse and
somewhat unnatural.
Wilson Advance : Mr. David Nolly,
Wilson's inventive genius, returned
from Washington Monday where he
secured a patent on an automatic
freight car brake, that is the biggest
invention of this kind of this age. Not
long since he patented an automatic
cable car grip. By means of this
simple, yet useful invention, a car can
be run across a cross cable without re
leasing its grip. There is an offer of
$150,000 for this last invention, and all
Wilson people sincerely hope Dave will
be able to pocket it.
THE r LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week,
London, March 2. Forty sealers
frozen to death, have been discovered ,
in Halifax.
Bridgeport, Conn., which is essen
tially a manufacturing city, has a.
population of 48,000.
Mr. John Marshall, one of the old -residents
of Pittsburg, Pa , died on the -19th
inst. in his 67th year.
London, Feb. 27. Two hundred
thousand miners in the coal mines of
England were laid off to-day.
The annual production of Bawed lum
ber in the United States would load a,
train of cars 25,000 miles long.
New York, Feb. 27. The census of
New York City has been completed.
This city has a population of 1,800,000.-
Washington, March 2. The House
of Representatives to-day voted in
favor of the election of Senators by the-
people.'
New York, March 2. The storm
along the coast of New Jersey continues
to rage to day and much damage to
shipping is feared.
Berlin, Feb. 27. Everything is
quiet here to-day, but there are grave
fears that the socialists will attempt tc
work vengeance by the use of dyna
mite. Danville, Va., March 1. Informa
tion was received here yesterday of the
fire at Hills ville, the count seat of
Carroll county, which, it is said, de
stroyed half the town.
Twenty nine acres of glass are to be
used in the roofs of the Exhibition
buildings at Chicago. The thickness,
of the glass is to be uniform viz.,
three sixteenths of an inch.
The Lumbermen's Association, in ,
session at Washington, adopted resolu
tions protesting against the enactment
into law of thebill pending in Congress
to remove the duty on lumber.
Vienna, March 1. Miss L. Risley
has died here of influenza. The day
after her death news was received of
her appointment as the leading con
tralto of the Paris Grand Opera,
Milwatkee, Wis , March 1. Fire on.
Water street last night destroyed L. D.
I. Leiser, dry goods; E. Lowers, toy
store, and damaged several otker build
ings. Loss $100,000. Partly insured..
New York, March 2. Van Tassels -foundry
and a couple of furniture
houses were burned this morning. Nine
families who lived over the f urniture, r
stores narrowly escaped wuh their:
lives.
Judge Thomas Nixon Vandyke, loni:
one of the most prominent men of Eas)-
Tennessee, died in Rome, Ga , yeitei
day at the residence of his son. H
trial altairs.
Tuscumbia, Ala , March 3 Miss Luhi
Meadows, aered 18. while dustiner-!!
ture over a mantle yesterday, &aa bC
severely burned by her clothinf tS catch-1
teen received here to the eizfect that
George J. Gibson, ex secretary of the '
whisky trust, was arrested at-Peoria;
under an indictment found against the
officers of the trust at Boston.
St. Petersburg, March L In order
to stimulate the manufacturing of cot
ton goods in Russia the government
has issued a decree that tae imported
duty on raw cotton shall be refunded
to exporters, of the manufactured
product. ' -
It is stated in Londor insurance
circles that Mr. Ross, the claim settler
of the National Marine Insurance Com
pany, has been appointed British
arbiter in the dispute between Great
Britain and the United States regards
ing Bering Sea.
Richmond, Va., March 4. Last night'
a pa-jsenger train on the James River
division of the Chesapeake & Ohio
road was wrecked by a huge boulder
on the track twelve miles west of
Lynchburg. Engineer F. H. Plapp
and fireman W C. Mosely, of this cityr
were killed.
Jacksonville, Fla , . March 3. A
fire which broke out at 2 o'clock yes
terday in East Jacksonville, destroyed'.
five dwelling houses and a public hall. -The
occupants of the cottages in some -instances
had very narrow ebcapem
The total loss is about $10,000. In
surance $4,000. ; -
A general reduction of about 10 per
cent, in the wages of furnace em
ployees is being put into effect in' the -Birmingham
(Ala.) district. No trouble
is apprehended, as the necessity is-v
generally recognized among the men..
The furnaces are all in blast and pre
parir g to face the low prices.
Birmingham, Ala. , March 2. A gen
eral reduction of about 10 per cent, in
the wages of the furnace employees is.
being put in effect in this district. No
trouole is apprehended as the necessity
is generally recognized among the men.
The furnaces are all in blast and ai"e
preparing to faca the low prices.
The famine in the province of Arveu
in Hungary, is becoming more ascS
more intense. Many children have
died of hunger. Seventy-five cases of
death from starvation have been, re
ported in two months. The people's
food consists of hominy mixed with,
tree-bark, or maize mixed with chopped
straw.
Anniston, Ala., March 3. Zaideev
Howard, a young white woman ora
Glen Addie street, attempted suicide
last night by taking morphine and it
was only with most persistent work;
that she was resuscitated. The causo
of the rash act is not known, thougli
it is said to be a disappointment in. & .
love affair. .
A dispatch from Tripoli states tbnt
the opposition to the firman, recently7
issued by the Sultan makheg the nar
tives liable to military conscription,
was so determined that the firman bar
been withdrawn. The alarm is nor
subsiding; the business houses are re -opening,
and affairs are resuming thei r
normal aspect.
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