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') '( Hi;' Y: 1 V- -i A, V.OL. J II. SALISBURY. lPJV C. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1890 il l . . W -I I It T 'J 1 i II 11 II Mil . f NO. 36. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL WORK OF .THE FIFTY-FlMT ; CONORE8S. PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND 8E5ATB BRIEFED DELIBERATIONS OTEB.'. MAT TERS OF MOMEKTOU8 INTEREST tO OUB j COMMON COUNTRY. NOTES. In the house, on Wednesday, Mr. Os borne, of Pennsylvania, presented the con ference report on the army appropriation bill. The report was agreed to. Mr. Morrill reported the disagreement of the conference committee on the senate . de pendent pension bill. The .house insisted on its amendment, ; providing a service pension, and a further conference was or dered. The house then proceeded to the - further consideration of the Alabama con tested election case of McDuffiie against Turpin. The first vote was taken on the .minority resolution declaring Turpin elected, and it was reported yeas 114, cays 130. . The majority resolution seat ing McDufiiie was agreed to yeas 130; nays 113, and Mr. McDufRie appeared at the bar of the house and took the oath of office. Mr. McKinley presented a concur rent resolution directing the enrolling lerk to enroll in the customs administra tive bill what is known as senate amend ment 91, in regard to the abandonment of goods to underwriters and salvors. The resolution was agreed to yeas 127, nays 5. The house then, at 4:05, adjourned. The resolution , for an inquiry into the management of the fish commissioner's office was taken up by the senate on "Wednesday, and agreed to. The presiding officer, Ingalls, announc ed as select committee on the bill for the establishment of the university of the United States: Messrs. Edmunds, Sherman, Ingalls, Blair, Dolph, Harris, Butler, Gibson and Barbour. The forti fication bill was taken up, the pending question being on striking out two items for the "Watervleit, N. Y., arsenal $248, 743, for the erection of a south wing, and $780,000 for machinery for twelve-inch guns, and inserting, in lieu of them, the following for boring and turning laths, rifling machine, and eighty-ton traveling crane fully equipped for the manufacture of twelve-inch guns, at Watervleit Arsenal, N. Y., $235, OuO. A long debate followed. Finally the amendment to strike out the two items described and insert the sub stitute was agreed tc-J-37 to 18. Amend ments were adopted providing; for the purchase and test of a new iniairjtry gun and two new cannons. All other amend ments were agreed to and all were passed. The senate then adjourned. In the house, on Thursday, Mr. McKin ley, from the committee on rules, re ported a resolution providing that the house shall proceed immediately to the consideration of house bill 5,381 (the sil ver bill,) and that consideration be con ' -tinued-until Saturday, at 3 p. m.. Mr. McKinley said that the resolution was in ' tended to give the house of repre sentatives an opportunity to pass some' 'silver legislation and give the coun try a silver bill, which would be in perfect response to the general senti ment of the country. It was to give the house' an- opportunity to pass : the Trill,-'-; which would tafyj all the silver bullion of the United States and utilize it fox mon etary purposes. It was to give the peo ple not $2,000,000 a month, but $,500,. OOt). The resolution making the i silver bill a special order w-as ndopied'-yeas 120, nays in. Messrs. WUliaius, 4f I li 'nois: and Lahham, of Texas, spoke iriop fcirtoTtntn m. and TavW Willi- nois, fayored it. . .PeudlDg debate, the house adjourned until 11 a. m. Friday. Among the bills reported in the senate Thursday from the committee and placed on the calendar, was the house bill to es tablish a national military park at the battlefield of Chickamauga The silver bill -w as taken up, and Mr. Iliscock ad dressed the senate in opposition 6 the free coinage of silver. : After a long dis cussion by Messrs. Sherman, Teller,Stew urt and Aldrich, the bill wenti(over. Several private pension and bridge bills were taken from the calendar and passed, Mr. Blair introduced a bill to prohibit the exportation of alcoholic liquors to -' Africa and islands of the Pacific ocean. Referred. The senate adjourned-, The silver debate was. resumed by the house Friday morning, Mr . Lind, of Min nesota, being the first speaken. A long running debate followed, then tliel'house t 5 o'clock, took a recess untit 8 o'clock, the evening session to be for "general de bate on the silver bill. Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, acted as speaker 2ro;te.m at the evening session. The house, at li o'clock, " adjourned until ,11 o'clock Satin-day. - la the senate onFriday,Mr. Piatt present ed a petition from the tobacco growers and dealers of the llousatonic Valley, Conn., in favor of a specific duty of not less than $2 per pound: on imported wrappers. Referred to the "finance committee. A new conference was ordered On the dependent pension bill and Messrs; Davis, : Sawyer and Blodgett were appointed conferees on the part of the senate. The silver bill was taken up and Mr. Plumb addressi4JS--SS2S Pending debate the president is-relatioa to the landing of an armed force from the revenxie cut ter, McLane, at .Cedar Keys, Florida, was presented, read ( and referred to the judiciary committee. After acting upon some local bills, and a brief executive session, the senate adjourned. The house Saturday afternoon passed the republican caucus silver bill . In the free coinage amcnament xuere vic ui senting votes from the republican side. However, all the southern men, except two from South Carolina, voted for the free coinage- amendment. The bill was passed ifXnjore haste than any measure of "Importance tjiat has ever went through the house. The vote stood 135 to 119. The bill provides for the issuance of $4, 500,000 of silver certificates monthly on the deposit of silver bullion. .''.. .'.''.-. '-' notes. The senate committee on commerce ia busy with the river and harbor bill. Indications arc that the tariff bill will be ready to report to the senate on Mon-. day of next week. The senate and house conference held another meeting Saturday, but no con clusion was arrived at. Th marine nosoital bureau has been lMOnayu-w- m w rr r rhandleur ' island. ressel from Brazil. . X delegation uifaboutj one Tiundred importers from New';.Tork city appeared on Wednesday before the senate commit tee on finance, to protest against the Da8sasre of the McKM& tariff bill. Republican representatives went into cauc vis immediately tipon the adjourn ment of the house Wednesday afternoon, to' consider the silver question. No defi nite action was agreed upon. " The president, Qn Friday, nominated James A. Pine to be collector of customs at Fernandiaa, Fla.tWiUiam X White, at St Mary's, Ga, William L. McMillan, surveyor of custondsjat New Orleans. 'mere is a movement on root in tne senate to have congress take a recess from the first of July to the first of October. The reason the men who have proposed this assign is that the senate , finahce committee will take at least three months to prepare a tariff bill, to j report to the senate as a substitue for the house bill, and that while this committee is at work there will be jio business for the houses to trarsact outside of that which they finish by the first of July.j , ' It is understood at Washington that a movement is on foot among southern men, who were ex-confederates, some of whom now reside in Jew York and others in the south, to rase a subscrip tion for the Grant monument, as it seems New York will never raise the fund for the monument to Grant at River side park. It is now proposed that the men wno iongnt on tne otner side come forward and subscribe I the additional money needed. I BUSINESS REVIEW. AM ENCOURAGING REPORT DU"N & CO. BEST OUT BY It. G. Dun & Co.'s review of trade foi week ended Saturday, JuUe 7. says: , All indications regarding legitimate business continue encouraging. At the same time there is a renewal of speculative excite ment, based on the prospect that the sil ver bill will speedily pass; both houses, and. in such a form that executive ap proval can be expected. There is no room to doubt that conditions ate improving for the productive industriesj and for legiti mate trade. Crop prospects have bright ened -wonderfully. The general average of prices has not been affected much as yet, but has turned upward, and manu factured products, with breadstuffs, show a general tendency to advance. The great industries show clearly a general tenden cy toward improvement. I In iron weak ness appears nowhere, while an advance in many quotations is reported, and the marking down of anthracite No. 1 to $18 by the Thomas company lis but a formal recognition of prices for the time current. Large sales of steel rails are reported, amounting to 30,000 tons, with $30.50 quoted here as the minimum. Consuming works continue so fully 1 employed, and stocks of pig-iron are believed to be so light, that f ear; of a further, decline dur ing the hot months, in which many furnaces close for -repairs has abated. Cotton; manufactures continue fairly ac- -tive, find--tfatj NSecline in rav cotton dur ing the wceMhas helped 1 a little.: The : Speculative markets are generally stronger I though cotton has fallen I over f, wnn sales at 840,000 Dales, me money mar ket has been variable, the j treasury hav ing taken in about $1,000000 more than it paid out. Exports from Nework iu May show an increase of j 10 J per cent oyer last year, and though the increase in imports, was about 9 peiv cent, there has been only moderate realizing. For eign exchange has 'advanced c-nly-.-a quar ter of a cent. In short. I the monetary prospect in all parts of i the country $ favorable to Business activity. 5u3iness iauures last weeK numuer, ior me unueq. States, 179; Canadaj 20. f For tlie corre sponding week last year the figures weqe 200 failures in the United States and 25 in Canada. ; THE FLEECY STAPLE. REPORT OF THE SEW ORLEANS EXCHANGE REGARDING THE CROP. The New Orleans cotton exchange is sued a statement. Tuesday, embracing thirty-nine weeks of the season, from September 1st to May 30th inclusive, this ana last year, . showing that 7,078,915 bales of 1889-1890 . have come into sight at the ports, overland points of crossing and leading southern interior centers, including the takings by southern mills. Up to this time last season the amount brought into sight was 6, 805,112 bales, op Bay 98. 08 per cent of the entire crop. The statement shows there were brought into! sight after May 30, last season 33, 178 bales. It indicates that of the supply .this season 2,117,592 bales have been taken by American and Canadian mills, including 429,587 south of the Potomac, and 4,725,047 have been exported to foreign ports.3t also shows that northern mill 'takings and Canada over land is 32,960 bales ahead of the cor respoiding thirty-nine weeks of last year, and that excess in foreign exports for the season is 220,537. Between the 1st .and 13th of May, inclusive, this season's stocks at American ports and twenty-nine lead ing southern interior markets haver de creased 17,910 bales, against & decrease during the same period last year of 122, -334,; and are now 141,278 bales less than they were at this time last year. : WICKED STUDENTS RESORT TO VANDALISM ?N CELEBRATION, OF THEIR VICTORIES. A dispatch from Boston, says: The Harvard boys held high carnival Satur day night over their victories in the Yale baseball games. During the night the college buildings were defaced with vari ous mottoes, inpluding some profane references to Yale. Th statute of . John Havard was besmeared (with red paint. The inscription was hidden, and sculp tors will have to chisel away the paint. There ia much indignation over the van dalism. THE WILL BROKEN, THE TDLDKN KESLDUART ESTATE TO BE DI VIDED AMONG THE HEIRS. Judge Beach, of the 1 supreme court ol New York, has decided in favor of Coh George H. Tilden, the 1 contestant of thi ' 01..aut fu Tf v T -ii Ir c 1.1 t TVl ns4 ikl thn erecutors to distribute th reiiduary estate among the various heirs. HEWS OF THE SOUTH. ' - i- BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER ESTING NATURE. PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THB SOUTHERN STATES THAT WELL ENTER TAIN THE READER ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. The Virginia State Firemen's associa tion met in Alexandria Wednesday and elected officers. - The Alabama Republican State conven tion, at Montgomery, adjourned oc Thursday after adopting a platform. Rear Admiral Gherehardi and twenty eight officers of the North Atlantic squad ron were entertained in Charleston S. C, on Friday by the city council. Frank Mcllvaine, cashier of the Sul phur Deposit bank, at Sulphur, Ky., ter mites east of Louisville, has left for parts unknown, and it is beiieved he is short in his accounts. A car load of watermelons, bound Toi northern markets passed through Macon Ga., on Thursday. The melons were raised at Cullum station, on the Savan nah, Florida and Western railroad. The Congregational Union, of England and Wales, has called an international council of Congregationalists, to meet in London in July, 1891. The denomina tion in the United States is invited tc send 100 members. A big movement has started in Middles borough, Ky., to erect colossal statues ol Grant and Lee on Pinnacle mountain, Cumberland Gap, Ex-confederate sol iiers and grand-army of the republic men ire pushing the enterprise. The posts and wires of the Postal tele graph have been erected from Birming ham, Ala., as far as Bessemer. The line is to be built on through to New Orleans, and four wires will be stretched between Birmingham and the Crescent City. Five thousand people participated in the confederate memorial services at Win chester, Va., Friday. The address was made by Colonel H. Kyd, of Hagers- town, Md.. and the decorations of the graves and monuments were elaborate. A dispatch of Wednesday from Union, S. C, says: The crop prospects are bet ter than for a good many years ; cotton has a start seldom equaled. The oat crop is excellent, the Spring rains making them. e The wheat crop is not so good A Battlefield, Miss., dispatch says: A monstrous snake was captured near here Thursday. The huge reptile had forty seven rattles and was over nineteen feet long. Its skin, after being stripped from its body, held six pecks of bran. A Greenville, Miss., special says: The first cotton bloom was. received here Thursdrir from George C. Bronson's Lake Washing-,fci place. This is the earliest bloom rectVred in- the last twenty years. Crops thfjighout the country are- doing' splendidrm - : ; The hi Knt a rooU.rlrpASAri -mnn -with" a bullet-L Is in nis neau was on ajiuts- . , -i rm day. founJ near Jacksonville, Fla. A 3crap of per in nis . vest pocKei naa on it the narf,e, "J- House, Piqua, O." The coroner's Tf rendered a verdict of . sui cide. A dispatch from Linden, Texas, says: Three negroes, Tom Mills, Fletchej Hol den and Henrv Holden. were hahffed nefc Saturday for the murder, of James Mc Gregor, a white man, at Atlanta, Texas, on the 7th of last December. All con- A dispatch of Saturday from Laredo, Cal., says: A stage running between Laredo and Gviererro, Mexico, which left this city with Mexica mail and two pas sengers, was held ur bv Mexican bandits o- ' - 1 w -twenty miles down the Rio Grande. One passenger was robbed of f 700. A Iliawassee, Ga., dispatch savs: There Vcrc twelve hundred and eighty acres of wild lands of Towns county sold at( sheriff's sale here on Saturday. The land sold for an average of eleven cents per acres. The timber on the la'nd is worth more than the land brought at auction. A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch savs: Thc articles of incorporation for the Ala- oama, ueorgia ana x ionaa itaiiroaa uo. were on Thursday filed in the office of the secretary of state. - The proposed road is to run from Birmingham, Ala., to Colum bus, Ga., and ifb capital stock is fixed at three million dollars. - At Suffolk, Va., Friday morning, fire entirely consumed H. W. Bradshaw'e planing millj dry kilns, and a lot of lum ber, togetheT with all the tools and ma chinery. The loss is about $40,000; in surance $11,500. Six cars of the Nor folk and Western Railroad company were also destroyed. : A dispatch from Water Valley, Miss. , says : Three freight trains on the Illinois Central railroad were badly wrecked Saturday at Springdale, causing great damage to the road, but no loss of life. The accident was caused by conductor Ruffin, of the rear north-bound train, misreading his order. A dispatch from Ban Francisco reports; E. C. Foster, -general agent of the depart ment of justice, is still investigating the filibustering scheme against Lower Cali fornia. He has securea confessions from two of those most prominently connected the schecie that confirm the essential cor rectness of the expose published. The city of Richmond, Va., has insti tuted suit in the chancer'- court against the estate and sureties of the late Aylett R. Woodson, who for several years prioi to his death, in 1887, was city collector, for $36,270.26, alleged to be due by reason of a shortage in his accounts. Among the bondsmen are some of Rich mond's most prominent business men. A Raleigh, N. C, dispatch of Satur day says : The general reports as to the tobacco crop are very H ayofable, but in Nashville, Wilson and IIalifa3c counties the crop is in a precarious condition. The danger is that the plant will go to seed, which, of course, "destroys the crop. All torjacco is endangered, and no one seems to know a remedy; I Argument was commenced in the cnancery , court at Kicnmona, va.. Thursday, in the case of LeVis vs. Thomas, administrator. This is a case in which & dying man acknowledged a colored vfomari as his daughter, in the presence of witnesses, and gave. Ijer all nis personal property. He died .without a win, widnpw his rel atives are sueing the colored woman for the property. A dispatch of Wednesday, from Jack son, Miss , -says : In view of the prevalence; of a disease among the horses m that locality, supposed to be glanders, Governor Stone has communicated with Professor Tracy, of the Agricultural and Mechanical college, and expects an in spector & be sent by the United States government to investigate the disease. The board supervisors have also : ap pointed inspectors who are authorized on certain conditions to kill stock supposed to be infected with this malady. TELEGRAPH AND ?CABLE. WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE BUSY WORLD. ' A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE 'AJTF AIRS COJJ-. DESSED j "FROTKEWST " "DISPATCHE8 FllOif .UJfCLE 8AM'8 DOMAIN AJO) WHAT ' "HIE CABLE BRINGS. ''''' . - ' : ' The New York supreme court, on Fri day, affirmed the conviction and sentence of ex-sheriff Flack. While firing a salute from a Haytian corvette, at: Philadelphia, on Saturday, a premature (explosion occurred and several, men were wounded. Steamers arriving at Baltimore, jNcw York and Boston continue to report many icebergs, and some of them ef large di mensons, dn their passage. A dispatch from London says : Cholera has crossed the Caucasus, and appeared in the southern provinces of Russia, making its way westward. President Carnot, of France has par doned seventy-two workingmen who were convicted and sent to prison for offenses in connection with the recent strikes. Richard L. Edwards ; of Cincinnati, was drowned7 three weeks ago. When found hisf hair had. turned white, it is supposed from fright while drowning. Mrs. J. C. Ayer, widow of the noted patent medicine millionaire, is to erect a hospital inj New York city for consumpt ive patients, at a cost, it is said, of $3,000,000. i ' The prosecution of the striking car penters of Chicago by their old bosses is being continued. The strikers' pickets are arrested as fast as one shows himself near a noa-union job. " An Egyptian claims to have discovered the sarcophagus of Cleopatra, and has written to the directors of the World's Fair, at Chicago, offering to sell it, with the skeleton Of the queen, for $60,000. Henry Hoffman, a discharged employe of the LaClede flour mill, St. Louis, has been arrested, and has confessed that, out of revenge he set fire to the mill, by which it ( was destroyed. Thel loss is about $75,000. V"''' ' " V .' The cracker-- no4z.recctly formed at. MrnntApQiis, having proved unsatisfac tory, a cracker trust, witbfa capital of $10,000,000, has been formed. It is to include and conduct the entire cracker business of the country. Councilman Maloney, from the joint standing committee of ways and means of the Baltimore council, Wednesday night, reported an ordinance authorizing the sale of the city's 32,500 fhares of Baltimore iaad Ohio common stock. The London Times declares that the order to aispatcn tne American cruisers to Behring sea slnacks too miicn of the methods of th first Napoleon in dealing with weak statesmen, and that if the or der is executed British men of war mu follow. P . An explosion occurred Thursday after noon on the German junk steamer, Hans,, on the Deleware river. Thirteen men were caught in the flames, and several were badly burned; one has since died. The loss on vessel and oil is about $150,- ooo. F Burglars blew open the safe in Brow n's bank, Chats worth, 111., at 2 o'clock Sun day morning. The building caugHt fire and seventeen store buildings, compris ing the mijiin block, were burned. The bank contained $15,000. The Home Market club, of Boston, Mass., had for its special guests Saturday evening, Secretary of War Proctor, Speaker Rbed, Congressman Dingley and Greenhalge, while among the 250 gentle men present were many who were prom inent in national and state affairs. It has S come to the knowledge of the police of St. Petersburg, Russia, that the nihilists in France are engaged in a fresh conspiracy against the life of the czar. The f rench police were made cognizant of the conspiracy by the authorities there and placed on track of the conspirators. A Jolieti, III., dispatch says: Bernard Dealey, a jife convict, who received word a few days ago that his sentence had been commuted and that he would be free next October, dropped dead Wed- nocrlnv tcMIa ffn5ner his oruvl fortnnfl His excessive joy undoubtedly produced. heart disease. A LincolB, Neb., dispatch says: Meagre reports received from Bradshaw. a hamlet of some four Or five hundred in habitants,! about fifty miles west of Lin coln, state; that the town was swept away late Wedesday night by a cyclone. Six persons are reported killed and twenty five or more injured. The nejro conference opened - at Mo hawk Lake, N. Y., Wednesday. A number of distinguished men from all rjarts of tljie country were present. The conference is called to consider the ques tion of Christianizing and educating the colored people. Among the speakers were ex Tourgee. resident Hayes and Albion KILLED BY LIGHTNING- A BOLT STRIKES FOUR MEN, KILLING TWO OF THEM. A Detroit ifyde'Praaspecial from Cairo, Mich., siys: At 7 o'clock Wednesday evening four farmers were struck" by lightning- four miles west of here T. N. Taggett, f Edward Goodchild, William Holmes and Matt . Ringle. They were engaged in Trforming an operation on a young norse. a tnunaer storm came up suddenly and a bolt of lightnin g struck in the midst of the men. Goodclmd and Holmes were dead .when assistance ar rived, although no marks or traces Of the current could be found upon their per- Ti 1 - j sons, imgie anu laggeii are recovering. FARMERS' ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS OF ITS THE ORDER MEMBERS. AND WIIAT IS BEING DONE TS THE VARIOUS 8ECTION8 FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION. LEGISLA TION, NOTE, ETC. ' An Alliance warehouse will be built at Cheraw, S. C. A baggage factory will be built at Winona, Miss. . ' . v - The Alliancei in Putnam county,' Fla., tell the county commissioners that they must ber more economical in' the disposi tion of the county funds. . . The Alliance covers "all the territory from Texas to Minnesota, from 'Maine to California, and yet it is hardly five years old. Alliance Vindicator. Alliancemen should attehd every one of their meetings. Things will be dis-" cussed that may benefit you. Know what is being done by vour lodge. Mineral Post. - . The Farmers' Alliance Exchange of South Carolina has been in operation two months and a half and has done a busi ness in that time aggregating $50,000, Cotton Plant. ' Will those men who oppose the sub- treasury plan place themselves bh record against the national bank plan, the whisky-warehouse plan and other like schemed? We pause for a reply. (At lanta, Ga.) Southern Alliance Farmer. - Cowley county, Kansas, Alliance will celebrate the Fourth in grand shape. They have secured Ralph Beaumont, of Washington, D. C, and L. L. Polk, National President of the Alliance, , as principal speakers for the day. An immense elevator will be built at St. Joseph, Mo., in which a large quantity of wheat will be stored and held for bet ter prices. A bank in that city will ad vance money to the farmers. This fe the Sub-Treasury lan by private individuals. Alliancemen and all others have a right to ask questions of the office-seekers, and the office-seekers, have a right to an swer or not, just as they please. In fact it is well, to know how a man stands on public issues before he elected to official position". Acicorth Post. '--,' . The enemies of the Sub-Treasury plan and the farmers tell you thatV will - not benefit the poor man for that jill to pass. x Do not be deceived by such talk. The Sub-Treasury pln, if adopted will assist in freeing the poorest farmer from the clutches of those . "so-called . friends." That's what's the matter. -., - -. " . ' ' . ' The chiefs of the Alliance organization throughout the United States, report to the New York Herald, a membership of about 2,000,000; of these there are some thing over 1,000,000 votes, with the mem bership rapidly increasing. The Alliance is becoming a power in the land which -will soon be felt in the political as well as the commercial world .An Alliance in Davidson county has expelled their President upon the follow ing charges: 'First, for using language in open Alliance calculated to disorgan ize ; second, for denouncing the State Or gan ; third, for putting wrong construc tions on the demands made by the Alliance for the purpose, as we think, of misleading the members.- Progressive .farHer,, Raleigh, N, C. As yet we have seen no argument against the Alliance sub-treasury plan that has any weight when weighed by the scales of justice and equal rights. The farmers only ask that they be aided to secure a fair compensation for their labor by advances upon a deposit of evidences of wealth. Bankers are enabled to rob the people with the consent, of the gov ernment, by the use of the evidences of indebtedness. The Alliance proposition is more honest, more honorable, and more just. The .Tocsin. ' " The object of the Farmers' Alliance summarized, is to unite the farmers for the promotion of their interests, socially, politically and financially. How can they promote their interests socially with out understanding their social condition, and how can they promote their political interests without understanding their po litical condition, and how can they pro mote the financial interests without un derstanding their financial condition, and how can they understand these conditions without a discussion of them? Dexter (Kan.) Press. A most powerful farmers' organization, a branch of the Farmers' Alliance, is un der way in the State of New York. The obligation of members is as follows: "I hereby affirm that I will do all in my powder by vote and influence to serve the passage of an equal tax . law, and such other laws as will, in my judgement ben efit the agriculturists of the state." This, new organization is said to be going ahead like a lightning express train, and it is expected that by fall its enrolment will- contain 100,000 members. Tltt Toiler. At a meeting of the Fulton county, Ga., Alliance some days ago, the follow ing resolutions were passed : Whereas. The Fulton County Alliance, in convention assembled, do recognize in Colonel L. F. Livingston a gentleman of higb. personal character, a statesman of unsullied record, a veteran of faithful jervice to Georgia, and a consistent, elo quent and able exponent of Alliance prin riples ; therefore, , Resolved, That in further recognition of the conspicuous services he rendered to our order in this State, we hereby an nounce him as our choice for the next governor of this State, and request him to announce his candidacy at his tarliest convenience. An eminent animal painter in New York declares that from an artistic standpoint the tiger is the most interesting animal in the world. .... . ... ARLISL P'ft LETTER. EE ATS SUB -TREASURY 8CHEMX 18 ?OT PRACTICABLE. To B. F. BWard, of Tuskegee, Ala., Senator Carlisle fcas written a lengthy letter in response tcfj. Howard's request for the senator's vieVj upon the agricul tural sub-treasury proposition, as con tained in the bills beforCongress to pro vide for a system of warehouses for farm' J . I produce throughout the country to be op- craicu uy lae government, wiycn is to is sue its notes upon the prodbrfs stored therein. Senator Carlisle saysyiat Mr. Howard's statement that he and tttse as sociated with him are in favor ofjual justice to all and special favors to ndjae, embodies some democratic doctrine, jtid if it had been strictly adhered to in dia gress in the past the twenty-five yef W vils, of which farmers and others ju'Jtly complain, would have been avertednd the whole country would now be prf iper ous and contented. 'A But, says the senator, the farmersMave Deen taxed so long- for the beneut of other classes and have .seen so mucl islation for the aggrandizement of lleg- corf" porations and syndicates that their .pa tience is exhausted, and finding it impos sible, for the time being at least, to abol ish a system which has oppressed anl despoiled the greatest industrial interest of the country, they are- now demanding that the very policy which they "have heretofore denounced as unjust and. ruin ous shall be applied to them, or rather a part of them, for no scheme has ye been. suggested that would operate alike , upon all farmers. But no evil canbft corrected; no wrong-can be righted by" increasing its magnitude and extending the scope of its operations. There is but one effectual remedy for the evil, which undoubtedly exists, and that is to reverse the policy which produced it. . - The senator, after rehearsing the fea tures of the proposed sub-treasury plan, and noting the fact that farmers them selves will pay more than their fair share of the cost of . erecting ware-houses, and that the officers connected with them will be partisans of the-administration in power, says there are more than 5,400 cojinties in the United States, but not more than one-third of them, - if that many, produce and sell annually-more, than $500,00) worth of wheat, corn, oats and cotton-:'. Therefore, not more than one-third of ; them could ' possibly avail themselves of this plan, if it were adopted. It win "be seen, therefore, at the very outset, that it is a plan to com- Eel the government to issue and distri ute money for the benefit 'of peo ple living in " ncii and produc tive counties at the expense pi ; peo ple living in poorer;-and t less productive ones. . 3Ioreover, it, is a-toian to enable unscrupulous speculurors to" take advant age of the farmers' pecuniary necessities, and extort exorbitant prices for food from people who reside in the cities, towns and villages, and from people, who reside in the country, but do not own these par ticular agricultural products, is evi dent, that no farmer will subject- himself to the labor and expense of transporting his products to public r warehouses, and to all the other charges which he must pay for the storage, for handling and for taking care of them while there, when he has barns and granaries at home, unlesa he is in debt and absolutely needs the money, which the government is to ad vance, and if he is in that unfortu- ;e condition, from what source is he afterwards to acquire the means to redeem the products by returning the money and interest and paying the warehouse charges? In a great majority of cases, he will never be able to redeem them, but will be forced to loose the re maining twenty per cent value of his pro duct, or sell his warehouse receipts for whatever he can get for them, which will be very little, for it must be remembered that after he gets his . warehouse receipts he has remaining an interest of only twenty per cent, less charges for interest, storage, etc., and this is all he can dis pose of. He will find the time rapidly approaching when he must have money to redeem his products or sell his small remaining interest in them, or allow them to be sold at public auction by the gov ernment, and this will be a golden oppor tunity for speculators, whose agents will swarm all over the country ready to take warehouse receipts from the embarrassed owners for a merely nominal sum. A receipt is simply a privilege of rer demption,like a pawn-broker's ticket, and the farmer being himself unable to re deem will be forced ultimately to dispose of it at any price offered. I do nqt think that any considerable number of intelli gent people in this country will unite in asking the government to establish a sys tem which will compell them, in a large number of cases, to sacrifice the product of their labor. Senator Carlisle argues at some length to 'show that the annual expansion and contraction of the currency provided for in the bill, would result in absolutely de stroying the market upon which the farmer must depend for the sale of his crops, and that the cotton farmers, who support the sub-treasury plan, would be especial sufferers, because the plan, in the writer's estimate, would close every cotton factory in the country. No such facilities as this scheme will af ford for controlling markets for a purely, speculative purpose have ever existed in this or any. other country,' and no more perfect system for the oppression of the people - could be devised. The exact quantities of products on deposit in the several public warehouses will be known in every commercial and financial center. Combinations to purchase and hold the receipts could be easily made, especially when they can be procured by the pay ment of a small per centum of value of deposit. - In conclusion Senator Carlisle says: "I have thus given you, as briefly as the nature of the subject would permit, some reasons why I think the proposed plan for the relief of farmers would be injurious, instead of beneficial, not only to them but to all other people of the country, but it would be uncandid not to say, distinctly, before closing this 'com munication, that even if it could be con clusiyely shown that this, or any other similar scheme, would be pecuniarily beneficial to any particular class of our people, I would still be unalterably op posed to Its adoption, because, in my opinion, it would be another wide and dangerous departure from the principles upoh whick our political institutions ar$ founded: It would be, in fact, Che long est step yet taken in time of peace towards the consolidation of power in the'hands of the federal government, -and the sub- . jection of the private affairs of the people.; : to the supervision and - control of a cen- V. tral and irresponsible authority." DEATH ON THE RAIL. A PASSENGER TBAIN WRECKED AND FIVE ' HEX KILLED. ' A dispatch from Rockford, , JH., says : The Northwestern passenger traiuCfroro -Freeport, which "reaches Chicago at o'clock, jumped the track two miles west of here at.ll o'clock Friday anorhing, on account of a broken wheel. ; A gang of section, men were, working about two hundred feet from the point where the engine lef t'the rails," and before they could get away the train had run them down and toppled over them. The entire train was wrecked and the engineer and four ol ' thj section men killed, outright. The fireman, two station men and some of the nuaspnrrpra werfi iniiiri ? A PHOSPHATE "SYNDrC ATE ORGANIZED IN BARTOW, ; FLOKIDA .WITH " v' -y"'.- OYER A MnjiON'CATlTALi; - :A;$istek'oiiJlbay:'ni.;Bartow . Flo".'. nWll4( Hnn V, Vi" tl4 Iffhate syndicates Jn Florida was formed ' yeiy' 'fefetly fa Bartow? It is called - the-- American jurying ana improvement ;om- piny with a cipital stock Of $1,200,000. They own 4,720 acres of the noted phos phate bed on the Alafia river. This com. pany is now preparing to mine and have a contract to deliver 10,000 tons of phos phate in a certain length of time, begin ning July 1st , 1 ENGLISH CAPITAL AGAIN BROUGHT INTO REQUISITION IN s , WEST VUUJINJLV " A dispatch from Wheeling. W. Va.. says: The negotiations which have been going on for the past two months between the iEtna and Standard rolling mills and? representatives of an English syndicate? . for the sale of the mills, came to an agreement Thursday so faras the .23tna is concerned. The. price paid is $750,000 and a forfeit of $15,000 has been de posited. The negotiations for the Stand ard mill will probably, be completed within a few days. :- " A CYCLONE'S WORK; TWO INDIANA TOWNS' REPORTED .-T HA VK !. Information'was received at. Jefferson ville Ind., stating that lluntfngburg and Jasper were almOit sweptfcway Monday night by a cyclone and that many 'per sons were killed and injured. Hunting burg is seventy-five miles distant from Jeffersonville, and Jasper - .eichtv-two miles. No particulars were given, as tele- graph ind telephone wires were down. A BIG SCHEME. EFFORTS OF NORTH DAKOTA TO GET THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY. A Bismark, Dakota, special of Wednes day says : Efforts to secure a charter for the Louisiana Lottery in .North Dakota are being, renewed with great , energy. The state is swarming with agents ol the, lottery, and it is said that $500,000 will be expended with the view to . securing the election oi a governor and legislature favorable to th scheme. A GASOLINE EXPLOSION IN WHICH ELEVEN FIREMEN ARE BURNED, SOME OF THEM FATALLY. On Friday, at Philadelphia, while fire men were engaged in extinguishing a fire in a small building of the Penn Globe ad Gaslight company, the flames reached the storage basin in which were twelve bar rels of gasoline. A tcrrimc explosion followed, and eleven firemen were caught in a shower of burning oil and were badly burned. Some of them will probably die from their injuries. ' . WILL WIN. TWO-THIRDS OF LOUISIANA'S LEGISLATURE IN FAVOR OF THB LOTTERY. A dispatch of Thursday from Baton Rouge, La., says: A poll of the mem bers oT the Legislature of Louisiana hows that the necessary two-thirds vote will be secured for the proposition to submit to a vote oi me peopie a cuubh tutional amendment permitting the re chartering of the Louisiana state lottery. 350,000 Russian Beggars. Russian , offcia's have recently col lected statistics concerning the number of beggars in Russian provinces and cities They have published the reports from sixty-three ti's'.ricts and eight cities. According to these reports Russia has about 3 0, 000 beggars, all of whom carry on begging as a bueine s with the endorsements of village, city and church authorities. Up v. ard of 3,200 of them are of noble blood, 3,491 are of the clerical calling, 20 were once merchants, 43,434 huois'.ers and small traders, 181,932 peasants. Of all the cities Moscow has the largest number of beggars; 26,000 persons solicit alms daily "within its limits. Sevastopol has no beggars at all. Of the provinces Livonia leads with 16,000 beggars. Moscow and Courland come next with 15,000 each. Warsaw has 14.0C0, Xishni Novgorod and Wjatka 10,000 each. Moscow, of all Russtan cities, contains the most beggars of noble descent. The Greshdanin, a Russian publica tion, thinks that these figures give no adequate idea" of the prevalence of beg gary in Russia, because they were gath ered bo hurridly and often carelessly that many big district and cities were unable to register more than two-thirds of their paupers). Its calculation of the number of beggars in Russia results in the conclusion that more than 500,000 Russians outside of almshouses live on the charity of others. The statistics in question nave been laid before an Im perial Commission, which is expected, to recommend a new and comprehensive plan "for the care of beggars in village and city communities. ' it 2 -i -i 1 u V j t. - ... 4