North Carolina Newspapers

; -. , . . HT" , - -. .- - . . I i . - v . 11 JL Re VOL. III. SALISBURY, N. C. THTJ , JULY 17, 1890 NO. 41. JLJly kJjOl-iLJJLJOALJ JUS JL RSD4Y f4s CAPITAL. WORVQP- T"HE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. rirtXXEDlX:s OF THE noCSK AXI fEXTE imiEFBD DEM BK RATIONS -QVEtt MAT TERS OF MOMENTOUS I-NTERE TO O0H COMMON COUNTRY. VOTKS. V V Tu i.Yip.hfiusp on Tufsdav. on motion York.Vjnatc amend I'll t mn 1 vi v - f inents -w ere concurred in : to the house bill for the admission of tbe state of Wyoming also the senate amendments were concurred in to the house bill grant ing right of way. through the United States military "reservation at t. Augus tine, Flft., to the.J:!onviilo, St. Augus tine and J lali fax Hivor lilrmd com- jKiuy. ine -spcaKcr aiI before" the hmici; tin sennte hill to adont rei'iriut l -r,3 for preventing collisions at sea. Jlr. Dingicy, of Elaine, asked for its immedi ate passage. After a brief -discussion the bill was passed yeas 12-. nays 4.. Mr. I'arqahar presented, the ronfcrereo . re port on the bill apjjiopiiating $75,000 lor the relict - ol A. 41. J.mery. jur. Jlynum raised the quest ion -of cousidera- ,tion, and the .house nays 72 to consider port. ' The house th cided- riivfr. 'Itransred and. .Texas uni into Mex:,& New 1 S LCI II I n persistently .since 1873". ie senate, in op- ;Tin .til tllO l-fMlhJlt Ir. Sherman de iv conference re- fended anil exol i THE -yeas 87, r the conference re- ' n, at 5 o'clock, ad- , "LIU ;" )( t. 1 lie. discussion was interrupted at f - j ' ."clock,- and tee bill went over without icsion till WSucsday, the senate pasj ng from ..tha subject to", the memory oi ;.hc late, ' Ucpresentative S. S. Cox, of .New ''York, which had bi'en made a special order for this hour, after being several times previously postponed. Mr. Iliseock oilered a resolution declaring that the senate luiu received with pro found sorrow the announcement of the death of Mr. Cox iand t-ulering to his family an .usurance of sympathy in its sad bereavement ; arud' he eulogized 3Ir. ("ox's charming -character acd accomplish ments. Messrs. Yoorhees, .Sherman, Vest, Dixon and Evarts also eulogi.ed the (lead statesman and t:fclitk-.d to their sense of less for his taking away, and the-, the res olution was adopted and, as a further mark of respect, the senate adjourned. ; In the house, Wednesday, Mr. Farquhar, of New York, called up the conference " 'report on the bill appropriating -73, 000 for the relisf of Albert II: Emtrv, and demanded the previous question thereon. After a good deal of time, used up bv debate, the conference report was agreed lo. Mr. Hit t, of Illinois, from the com mittec on foreign affairs, lcported back the resolution requesting the president to fw')ish the house with the correspondence between the government of the Luitcd States and Great Britain, touching the subjects in dispute in Behring sea since March -i, J 889. The resolution was adopted, . 3Ir. Ilitt presented the con ference report on the diplomatic aud consular appropriation bill. After con siderable discussion the report was laid aside for the present. Mr. Dingley entered a motion to consider the vote by which the marine fgnal bill was passed, and (hen, at 5:55, the house adjouinecc.- In the senato, Wednesday, ; Mr. Inwaits announced bis signature to the bill lor the admission of Wyoming as a State. The bi. now goes to the Prcsi- dent lor lm signature. Ou motion of Mr. shL'iir, the senate proceeded to executive ." iHjsincs-s. Tin doors were reopened at 1 o'clock. The sundry civil appropriation bill was reported, and Mr. Allison stated th t he WvOild ask for its consideration Thursday. Consideration of tlio confer ence report on t-.,c silver bill was resumed, arid. Mr. CoekrelJ continued his. argument against the report, it the conclusion of Mr. CockrelTs speecti, a lengthy disctw s'ou was iiHluhred in. Sliermau proposed . that an agrceniciit should made to take a vote at 3 o'clock Tiuifsjay. The senate 'then, at 5:50, adjolifaed. A. Jn the house, on Thursday, the democra tic programme" was carried out by. -Mr.' Outhwaite. of Ohio, raisin cr the Toint of order of no (juoruui present. Alter con siderable skirmishing the jourual of Wednesday's proceedings was read and approved: The conference report on di plomatic and consular appropriation' bills was adopted. Yeas, 114; nays, 00. Mr. Funston, of Kansas, submitted, and the house passed, the conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill. The house then went iuto committee of the whole on the laud grant forfeiture bill. Mr. Hooker,, of Mississippi after speak ing of the immense benetit accruing to the fouutry from the building of the great transcontinental line of railroad, argued against the forfeiture of .land granted to aid in the construction of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad. Pending further discussion, the' committee rose and the house, at 5 :35, adjourned. In the senate, on Thursday, Mr. Daw cS presented a memorial fr5m Lynn. Mass., protesting against the appro jriations for lec'tiirian Indian schools. IJefened. 3lr. Stewart offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling en -the secretary of the interior .for information as to the ec !iou of sites for reservoirs by t ho direct :or df the geological survey. The senate resumed the consideration of-the'eonfer-ence report on the silver bill, and was ad: ircsscd b' Mr. Morgan in opposition tG :he report. Messrs. J)olph, Teller, Mitch ;I1 and Blair also participated in the de Date. The vote was then taken, and the conference report was agreed to yeas 9. htiysiO. The senate then adjourned. XOTES. Lieutenant G. J. Fieberger, corps, of Engineers, has made -the - following esti mates of the cost of river and harbor im provements in Virginia and North Caro lina : Harbor of Norfolk for the year end ing June CO, 1892, $150,000, l and to i-omplcte existing project, $457,744; ap proach to Norfolk harbor and United States navy yard to complete, $108,000; Nansemond river, Va., for this year, $25, 000, and. to complete, $142,500; Appo matox rivgr. Va.. for the year and to coTjap,.eter $80,080; Currituck 'sound, Co&ijok bay and North river brf?, N. C, fdr the year, 20,000, and to Complete, 39,886. The house committee on eteotions, Tues day, disposed of two Mississppi contested election- cases Hill versus 'Catchings, from the third district, and Kernaghan versus Hookc r, from the seventh. The decision was in favor of the sitting demo-, cratic raembds Catrhfcjgs;'and Hooker. The Florida as ; of Goodricli versus Bul lock was discussed at length, and a fina- ecision deterred until next week, al- gh it was npnarent that the majority is (Fjjttosed to leportin favor of theclaimt jf Sdrich, republkn contestant. lleprt"tative Lacy -was instructed tc notify Garland "to appear and maks arguraeBtV before the committee cesl Tuesday:- i:Vthe ca?e of KeprcsentaiiTe Ui etKiiir-idrcV of Arkansas . r DESTRlAGITVE FIRES. JACKPOXV 1 IXfU -lNSATI, ATLANTA -X&T or , awe leery establisiswie'nl : . . ... ' Mght ;Co., at JaS?oii ;r, . Any. i the build insr wa ; itli'.:fV.i .ri .i .,' Ol X y. is a h well- c overed by insttitoce. '.''''y ef the- buildings kne.a aei 6 . s'iu-.the winter am i ill i L I 5110 YiS. oiac weatner, turning Kjuit( Q9 Vfiist to a. iet. hl.ir.lf when 4Ki 5 uix auu a, new grijK.u. The buflalo often st.&wj immensity iJS o 30oo DoundK. that .JL lUtSU fvwioviiui uiuiu u. av4- . ot L n w Jersey; DruEaJhond & Co.. &nd Liggt-H & Myers &-Ci,t. of St, Louis, had tobacco rtored in the ; building, wbicb should have been shipped Wednesday, but owiug to the present freight strike could not ly remgyed. Tlie loss on the building is placed'" at .$lp, 000. There i $73,000 of insurance on the tobacco. A disastrous fire raged-all of Thursday night at Gaiincy, South Carolina, fifty miles south of Charlotte, :n the Air Line road. Four large Btoie houses with theit contents were tot d'y destroyed. Early Thurselay morning the oil re finery building of the Southern' Cotton Seed Oil mills of Atlanta va- burned to the ground, and about 215,003 gallons of reiined cotton seed oil lost. The stables were also burned, together r4th oil tanks and fiat cars, altogether Avcrth about $30,000. The total loss js son: ething be tween 'ninety and a hundred -thousand dollars. This was what was - known umoiig insurance men as a first lfete mill, and the rate of insurance w;us .-.not sc large as on ail oil mills. It was well in sured, however, carrying policies amount ing to 100,000. The insurance is scat tered in a number of companies. THE COTTON CROP. CJISTIC S Cg VEX BY THE DEPAI1TMEXT-04 AGIU C LT.T. CUE. Th .statistical report for June, of the depaatisent of agriculture shows an im provemeoi in the status of cotton, the average of condition having advanced from 8S.8 to 91.4 since the previous re turns. On the Atlantic coast the crop is generally well advanced, while it ia late in the southwest, where planting was delayed by the overflows and by heavy rains. That which was planted early be gan to bloom from the 15th to the 25th, and in the southwest ome bolls arc re ported as carty as April 30th.k While the plant is in various stigcs ol advancement from j Aide mngcol seeding? at is now almost invariibly in the full vigor of growth, of good color and high promise; very free from lust, free from worms ex cept weak invasions of the -first broods in the more'southcin belt. The present average of the July condition has been exceeded only once in the lait five year?. The averages are as follows, by states : Virginia l2, North Caroliua 95, South Carolina 95. Georgia 95, Florida 91, Alabama 95, Mississippi 89, Louisiana SO. Texas S9, Aikausas 89, Tennessee 93, Nearly throughout tnc cotton area two or thr-.c weeks of dry weather is re ported, but scarcely any injury frcm drought. Since the 1st of July heavy ram? liavc been reported on the Atlantic coast. DISASTROUS STORMS. ci'ivEX utxnnED rEori.E killed in AUAl'IA A IU.OW ATPLATTSnUKG, K. Y. A cablegram from Miscat, Arabia, says : A most destructive cyclone, resulting in appalling loss of li e swept over t'iis por tion of Arabia cn Tuesday. Immense dam age was done to houses and plantations, and seven hundred persons were killed. Rcliel corps arc organizing to go to the scene of death and disaster. Hundreds of .homes' aje in ruins. Vegetation is swept a"ay in tlie path of. the sforfn. . A special from Piatt sburg, X. Y., says that a terrific wind storm passed over that city Wedccsday afternoon. Several, lives were lost and an immense amount of 'damage was done in a veryshbit time. The storm was also severely felt at Cleveland, Ohio, Lewiston, Me, Indian- apoi Ind., Macs may' City, Mich., -anti orrences. t. Cosiaere tile damage tjlOUgll was done tit each of places nudoss ol life is repo ROBBERY WILL OUT. A SEATTLE CASHIER CIIAIJGED WITn AN . EMEEZZLEMET COM3II1TED LAST YEAK. A d if patch from Seattle, ,W. T.,' says: W. II. Bartlett was arreste i here Wednesday charged with the embezzle ment of a large suni of money from the Morgan National Bank, of Fort Morgan, Cal., while he was cashier in September, 1S89. It is said that Bartlett's shortage amounts to 73,000. When arrested he was employed as -a. freight., clerk cn a sound steamer.. A LONG FAST, A TAUTER WIIO HAS NOT TASTED T"OOD Oil DRINK FOR FIFTY-SIX DAYS. -A dispatch of Wednesday from Galena, 111., says: John Rath, a pauper in the county hospital according to the testi mony of the county physician and the superintendent, has not tasted feed, solid or liauid. in cicrht weeks. '... nese rled. TELEGRAPH ?JD "CABLE. WHAT IS G"0!NG ON IN THE SUSY WORLD. dt1 t)UTSIDE AFFAIR'S CCST DEXSEI 'fSCM NEWSY DISPATCHES FKOM CKOtE VRAM'S UOMAIX A2iD V.TE1AT T'K-E CABLE '111X08. Jlrs. Elizabeth White, of Xcwbtrrrport, Jlass died 'Wednesday, aged 101 yeare and n Tiioriths, Tb2 locke4 out cloakmakers -New Yoiik "lield"a monster meeting ifi -Cooper Unin halPThursday nighty flie locked out cloakn-akens of IKc ork parpued the. streets of Lhat city Tuesday. . Everytliing passed C& qurfctiy. '"ho pre?irdcnt, accomjauaiedy -Gesal itd IMrs.'well, ,Miss beweil,-ind Secr; tcry and'Sfrs. Hal ford, returned to-Yai-isgton, 'Tu esday from Cpe Jrley. The American riflessen wisiticg &Ger rcanuy pairl a visit to Irinee Bisaarck iTuesday. The prince shook hands with rah oho and expressed hisipkasurcat ihe wrisit. The ifermometer an Mocat WasbJifg iton, -N. H., on Tfcursdayr indicated ;wentyve degrees above .zero. . Tiie lop f Mount Washington is wfcke with scow W At tO- . ,.i. i expressea, ftt te sentcncc imposed. by the genuine :aucourt upon 'the nihiiii whe were gested .that ,-u paris for ijottins -against ihe ii;ai.ij.u. .mitj3 czai", Porttfi,,,, 'r,...o, 77 ' . O . fundi eiUhe state and was ' f?ntencd.to vdvc cafhi the penitentiary. A dis'fUjom Quebec jayvj Thetwo hundredj? rcVtf) the steamer Buensa A.yres, royal js.v&t- Ure Saelandera, vire detained at On 4se Isle Wednesday ouorniug.to be vaccinated. Tlie Turkish government Iim -sent. a ntsf.' noted.?- the British goveriaaaent.de- 'nmuiding tait it fix a date upe-a which a EiA'wt wiU;!ic evacuated by Bnti&h troop?, without .thCi-right of 'again occupying that . co-uvti-y.. A Lojidon.dispatch says: Queen Victo ria, though iictt sick, is represented as sull'eriag horn decidedly low spirits since the rcctnit death of the Dowager Marchio ness Ely. The marchioness was about the queen's own ge. Notwiihstandinij late denials it is reit erated that the Argentine Republic, Peru and Brazil have Xoiied an alliance against Chili. A prominent citizen of Brazil, now in Chk-igo, say that the alliance has been formed, but that it is defensive only. : '; A dispatch of Tuesday from F rrisburg, Mirh., savs: A great fire is raging in the m 11 yard of the Grand Haven lumber company, located at this place. One mil lion feet of lumber and many hundred , ! c. rds of slabs are already destroyed. - - w ' The Syracuse (N. Y.) Journal. Con gressman Belden's home organ, and a tending Republican paper in central New Yorkbiiterly resents Congressman Eel dec's appeal to editors to pass the force bilL and tells him to tend to his own duties. A dispatch of Tuesday from Chicago savs: " Yesterday's prediction of another warm wave is fully verified. Reports coming in this morning show all the cen tral west is baking hot. The heat is be coming dangerous." The thermometer. rtonrHi OS nt noon in New .Xjoyk-.. V Tok'do,": 0.,lspatcn says : . l nurs dav afternoon, about half the striking freight handlers at the Cincinnati, Ham ilton and Dayton freight house Avent back to yvork, and several at Lake Shore. A portion of the old men are back at the Iichipan Central, and St. Louis and Kan sas City. A dispatch from Buenos Ay res says: The president of the Argentine Republic has authorized the issue of bank notes to the amount of $100,000,000 for the pur pose of relieving the financial situation. The rejection of the proposed sterling loan has caused great excitement on the bourse hue. The National Educational association began its annual session at St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday, and the largest crowd ever known in the history of the -association was present.. -Governor Mcrriam. iu the name of the state of Minnesota,- in an eloquent address welcomed the teach ers to the state. A di patch of Tuesday says: The Chi cago stockyards will henceforth be con trolled by the Yandcrbilts. These eastern money kings have secured control of them, and the concern is to be capitalized for 22,000,000. and the stock placed upon the market. It is understood that Chauncey 31. Depew will be president oi the company. A dispatch of Thursday sa-s: The Clothing manufacturers' association, ol !ew York, lias given notice to their 1,-OOG cutter? that they would be locked out Saturday. The manufacturers state that this 'step is taken in retaliation or the boycott placed on one of thefr number at Fred Benjamin & Co's. Over 20,000 per son? will be thrown out of work. Letter carriers, attached to the central postofiice, London, England, weiit on a strike Wednesday. Delagates were ap pointed by the carriers to interview Postmaster General Raikes and laying the grievances of the men before him. Pending a, reply from the posttnastei general, the carriers connected with the central (.trice struck, and all mail deliv eries in the distiict covered by them sus pvnd'.d. A strike of freight handlers on all the leading rriiroads of Toledo. O., took place Wednesday afternoon. Men who have been working at 12. and 12 cents pei hour demanded 15 cents. The Lake S'lore; Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton: Wabasli. and St. Louis and Kansas City offered one quarter cent, but this was not satisfactory, and SO;) men in the Lake Shore yards went out;- ninety-five men in the Wabash freight house went next; the Michigan Contraband Tcleelo, St. Louis a id Kansas City went next. A Chicago dispatch of Thursday, says: A. big fight is .on among the brewers of tie city, which promises to be exceed i igly bitter. Tne battle lies between the English syndicate and a number of smaller brewers who have not been taken into the combination, or who have re- f u?ea to ctcome partners to Tt . The wholesale price of beer dropped from .$6 to $5 a barrel, and one brewery has re duced the price to $3.50 a barrel. It h believed in brewing circles that the war will go on until beer will be sold at less t'aan $3 a barrel " 'RING COTJNTERTEITEU3. "fiis Wonderful Ability in "Raising" Bills and Numerous Escapes. In the annals of Treasury crifiie there is no more noted counterfeiter than Pete McCartney, and his wife has been his chief -assistant. His last arrest was foi raising $1 bills to 50's, lie took the 'l50': figure, from a tobacco stump, and by pasting these over tfee "IV'-as able to make them look for &ll the wsrldlike $50 bills. He passed &umber Gf these, aud he tifeo raised $2 bills tc "SO's. He has been, a counterfeiter all-hte life, and he has 2iad a career which j-would make a dvjivfn dime novels, lie dns reformed a nuui-ber'of timer-, rscl his -wife,, who was engaged with, him In counterfeiting for ft jjng time. ' piei&ed wiS'a him to give -up the business. He A'ould not do ?o, showever, and -she wcut in with hini. It van tferongh. her that he oftra cscapwl -frsni prison. In 18GS, wke.n he was iE jail -at Springfield, 111., she appeared on irtiie ?-i,X) in her pcket. A McCartney's cell loor 'was anil both he and his wife scene witn week later found oien had disan- ps..Tv:a. it was suppjeea tnat tne snernr had been bribed. Afterilhis McCartney bee&jne a photographer, and later on opoci?d n livery stably fit Mattoon, 111. CXae day a secrct-serviee agent cpe to hi ix5 -a team -ant? McCartney recognized him.r He i iade some excuse, and taking all.tbe money from tlie cash drawer skipped out of the back door of the livery stable and escaped. At another time be was running u couKterfeit work shop ia an old log cabin in the little town of Osgood,. Ind., and-M.r&. McCartney was helping him. There wese two other woiflen connected with the gang, and among rits members were Fred Biebusch, a GermiMi capitalist of St. Iouis, and an old man named Lcyi and his son. liiesetwe latter were fictermmed couu .terfeiters, and the whole Levi fani gly engagapl in counterfeiting. VvTien the old man died one ef the jfirls )iesidd over the establishment, felu. was robust' and handsome, aad a dating manipulator of bogus money. She was very ladylike, I am told, and her bright blue ey&i gave no evidence of the secrets which she carried. With this gang Fete ?IeCartney and his wife staid for some time, and in 1870 ho 'was arrested whh a lot of bogus money on his person. He escaped again and shortly after this he was again arrested and taken into the same Springfield jail from which he had escaped. While he was here one of the chief deeietives of the secret ser vice called upon him ancl had an interview with him. During the interview McCartney said: "You don't intend to leave me here, do you?'' "Yes, I do," said the detective. "Well," replied McCartney, "lean get out of here easy enough. I have done it before and can do it again." At this the detective laughed, but Mc Cartney inquired his hotel and room and said he would return the call that even ing. At 10 o'clock that night the de tective, it is said, heard a quiet rap at the door. "Come in," he called, and McCartney entered. The' detective sprang to his feet and covered his visitor with bis revolver, .but Jcj'n frT!&eveW - rey tnireti,t.5pay-niy respects; ana i am sroiii'r u:ieK xou do not need to shoot me." The Greatest caution had to be exercised in the care of McCartney at this time, and he was usually searched after his wife .ad paid him a visit.- At one time, after she left, a small bar of lead was found upon him, and he would probably have escaped had this noi be.n discovered. One of his former es capes he had made by means of the tin foil which was wrapped around his chew ing tobacco.. He had pressed it into shape, and in some way had managed to get out by means of it. At another time lie dismiised himself as an old man, and a third time he escaped while in the keep ing of two" United States marshals. ; lie. was captured in Indiana pome years ago and put into the penitentiary, and it was here that he had to serve out his sen tence. His term was fifteen years, but he got something off for good behavior. During his imprisonment he oilered the marshal $ 1,700 for a steel saw, but the official was honest and would not give it to him. -McCartney at one time lectured on counterfeiting ami. he acted the part of the reformed counterfeiter. He an nounced that he had abandoned his trade and was going to be a good bov for- the rest of his life. He passed out counter feit bills to the people who bought hi? tickets, however, and lie supplied ether counterfeiters with plates which he en graved on the siv. He was a man of wonderful parts and during his life acted as an artist, a miner, a livery-stable keeper, practiced medicine, and acted as a commercial traveler. Gold Underpinning-. There are some comfortable features about Helena, the Montana metropolis, which would be appreciated further Fast. The city is built mainly in the celebrated "Last Chance" Gulch,, which yielded in years past more than thirty millions of dollars in gold dust. The abundance of the, precious metal led the miners into shiftless ways, and the washing of the uirt; was carelessly done, leaving con siderable yellow dust in the ground When excavating for a house now, the soil removed is again; treated, with the result usually of finding enough gold to materially help pay for the walls. It is said that a gentleman, a resident, with an eye to thrift, has provided the foot scraper at his dwelling with a receptacle to catch the droppings, and once a month he has a "clean-up" which about pays his rent. Such opportunities- would excite attention in other cities, but the vast output in the neighboring mines constantly pouring into Helena sb gorges the town with gold and silver that they have ucconie almost a kct. drug on the mar . SO MUCH IS CEKTAIN. "Do you believe that money talks, as the old proverb says?" "I never heard money talk, but I've travelled with it and found it to be mighty od cornpanj." u5er? NV F AMPS' ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS OF THE ORDER ITS MEMBERS. AND WHAT S8 KEIXG DO'E IN THE VARIOUS JsKCTlONS FOR THK ADVANCEMENT OF TH7Sl GREAT ORGANIZATION. LEGISLA TION, NOTES, KTC. - The Alliance is a power in'the land. It 3 real amusing to see . "how men who has-c heretofore been leaders in politics Qs.ail before iL.Daicspn Journal. ' The farmers of Texas seem determined to -cover their cottou this year with cotton jugging. It "will require 50,000,000 yards wrap the cotton crop of the South. The sub-treasury .seems to be an issae in South Carolina politic?, Respite the fact that the candidates have as yet neobeen asked to declare their views upon it. - - We are -for the sub-treasury bill because -it is surcto protect the product of the fanners from the wholesale robberv of speculators. And isn't that eaougiif- kovihci'iijli'ssenger. The secretary of Greenville, Fla.. Al liance reports that the wholesale mer chant i have ordered their salesmen not to sell to Alliance stores. A general war ever theaaattcr is brewing in that sec tion. Tl'Iinnesjta has 30,O.C& Alliancemen and. ,o& still eoKiing. Kansas has over 100,000 rfiember and still increasing. Most of the' states are pretty well organized. The other labor organizations are also flour ishing. People are having their eyee opened. At pres?st over 100 papers are support ing the Alliance in Kansas. When the Vree Pvjss came out in the interest of the farmers over a year ago, the papers that were even friendly to the cause were very scarce. Surely the organization is be coming more popular. Kan. Free Press. .... Instead of criticising the farmers in their efforts to rid themselves of some of the burthens placed on them by class legislation, would it not be well for some of our wise statesmen to suggest some thing better, or give place to some one who will vote for the present demands. Southern Mercury. The National Alliance (Houston, Tex.,') national organ of the Colored Farmers' Alliance, in commenting upon Mr . Mids' letter upon the sub-treasury plan, says:. "The farmers w,ant to knojv why-they have , been discriminated agnir.st, and while they, create seven-eights of the wealth aud pay directly and indirectly seven-eighths of the taxes, that they can't borrow one dollar from the government while the Rational bankers can borrow $350,0: 0,000 to loan to the people at from 8 to 20 per cent. If the farmers' organization could ac a complish nothing more, they have proved to be one of the greatest schools o poli tical economy ever known and are doing more to set the people to thinking for themselves instead of allowing others tc think for Yhem, than any other society in existence! Go Avbere yon may and you Will nmi me uihsus lamiug juiuiju,w'rpiV:if i.- ' ?uue, vi j.nsnviiie, UD-'tn subjQP ts$b&vtt?etr9, ; -aErO- they vere wnoflyfgnorant of. They no longer look to party bosses for their opinions, but study for themselves. Torch of Lib erty. The Iowa (Des 3Ioines) Tribune, says ; "If ever there was a proposition spit upon and kicked out with ridicule, that is just ihe treatment which the Farmc s' Alli ance sub-treasury bill has received at the hand.s of both old parties in Congress. At the same time that ridicule is heaped upon the proposition of the farmers that the Government shall issue money upon the con -perish able products of their farms, a bill is railroaded through to issue hundreds of millions of money upon the products of our mines. " We understand that another one of the infamous Buel bank circulars from the Bank Association of Wall street, is on the secret breeze, calling upon all the banks in the South to see that ro Aliianceman goes to Congress from the South, and not to extend credit to any one favorable to the Alliance measures. 'Is this not enough to exasperate the people to desperation i Go to the conventions, brethren, if you bare to sell the sliii ts off your backs to get there, and when there stand as firm as the everlasting hills in your righteous demands. Farmers Alliance, JacJcsomilh Fia. The Kansas ("Newton) Courier says : "The farmers of this country have at last real ized the necessity of organi:ing and looking after their own interests and not waiting for others to do so for them. The time has come when every toiling eon' of America will Lave to be up and doing. We have been slaves of capital ists "for many years, r.nd our condition has been growing worse, and now we can look around us and see nothing but star vation staring us in the face. How long wilt this state of nftairs last? . We have but one way out of the trouble, and that Is to band ourselves together and be true to ourselves, our families, and our God." Tlie Democrats of Yv'ayne count-, North Carolina, derlars in their plat form: "That we favor the abolition of the national banking system, and the. substitution of a better system that will take the control of thj money of the coun try out of the hands of the few, a system triat will give us. an clastic and flexible currency, one that will contract and ex-' pand exactly with the annual products of the country, thereby furnish'ng a just and fixed measure of their value, and that tht sub-treasury bill lately introduced in both Houses of Congress comes more nesrly ef fecting this than any other measure yet offered, and that we approve of and in dorse said bill." The Alliance asked congress to pass tht sub-treasury bill or something as good 01 better in the interest of the farmer?, but congress failed to pass' the bill or any thing eke pertaining to the great agTicul. tural interest of our land, but on thl ether hand they can and do grant priace- ly appropriations to this river and to thai harbor, to this big matfs widow, to that city for a line government building, tc this rational park, and tbat joltotht national cemetery, to tins battleship, and that military post for libraries, gymnasi ums, amusement rooms, etc. While this may be well enough, we think the farm ers who have nothing that is not taxed to pay these appropriations, should havvj some" consideration. Farmers, are you going to submit to such measures forever? Southern Jfesmtaer. , . A Greensboro, N. C, dispatch, of Wednesday, says: ' Duriugthe past year th Farmers' Alliance of North Carolina has grown rapidly, and to-day they num ber more than a round 100,000 souls in this State. While the organization is non-political, nevertbeless its leaders and members are determined that it shall be heard in the balls of legislation. This fall nine congressmen are to be elected, besides the other state officers. The first congressional convention met at Greens boro, on .Wednesday, for the purpose oi nominating a Democratic candidate foi congress from the fifth distiict. '1 here were three candidates, viz: J. C. Buxton, of Forsyth county, a lawyer and very able man; David Settle, of Rockingham county, a popular politician and "Uncle,: Baldy ' Williams, of Granville county, a farmer and member of the Alliance. The first ballot resulted in the nomination of the Alliance candidate by 213 votes.-The farmers are jubilant over their success, and declare ths is only the signal TorJa sweeping victbiy al .along the lice. ' "' The Industrial Free Trees (Winfield, Kans.) says: "The money kings hate the Alliance because it.is educating the peo p'e, aud showing the money kings up in their true light. The professional politician hatxj3 the Alliance, for in educating the masses it shows up the politician as a trickster and traitor, and makes him lese his inflneuce: The chronic office seeker hates the Alliance, for it shows him up as the tool of the moneys kings, and they hav6 no use for him. l,t: hurts all their pocket books and that is the tendercst part about thtni. The partisan pres hates the Alliance because it shows the masses how they have been duped by the press in the em ploy of the liberty assassins (the money kings). It also has a tendency to cut in on their financial outlook. None of those fellows want the farmers to join the AUI auce or any other labor organization, be cause they show those fellows up in their corruption and viciousness, and will cause all sensible men to abandon them. That takes the power to oppress away from them, aud without that power they cannot steal the hard earned wages of th farmer and laboier, hence no spoi's, nc money, no prestige, no . iufiuence, nc slaves, but all equal. That is why they kick." THE NEW OFFICERS ELECTED BY Tllffi SUPREME LODGE Ol THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. A Milwaukee dispatcd slays: The su preme lodge of the Knights of Pythias f the world, on Thursday, elected their supreme officers : Chancellor, George B. Shaw, Eau Claire, Wis.; vice chancellor, W. W. Blackwell, of Henderson; pre late, Ed. L. Black mer of San Diego, uai. ; master 01 exchequer, . J. Willai of Wilmington, Del.; keeper of -reeordf tenn. ;- master of arms, G. II. Morrison. Df San Francisco ; secretary of endowment rank. W. B. .Kennedy, of Chicago; inner jruard, Dr. M. C. Bartwell, of Cheyenne; Duter guard,' J. W. Thompson, of Wash ton, D. C. SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS. a ' m t 7 IiEFORT OF TnE DEPARTMENT OF ACHI CULTUKE PISE SHOWJ.XG . The department of agriculture issued its monthly crop report Tuesday. The condition of the crops. is better than at the same time for many years. The cot ton crop promises, to be the largest on record. The 'condition of cotton is 101 against 88 at the same time last year. The corn crops arc very fite, but has suf fered somewhat for want of rain. Since the reports were sent in, however, there have been general rains throughout the state. The condition of rice i the same as last year, with a. slight decrease in acreage. The other crops are in fine condition. SWITCHMEN STRIKE ON THE I.OUISVILf E AND NASHVILLE RAIL LOAD TROUBLE EXPECTED. A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says: The s v itchiness strike on he Louisville and Nashville which was organized a few days ago is beginning to assume an ugly look aad fifty sped d officers were sworn in Wednesday morning. No acts of vio lence have been committed us yet, but the ..strikers gathered at Ihe yards and depots and ss:i:med a threatening atti tude toward the new men. The strikers c aim that the strike, which started orig iual'i' at Cincinnatti, ill be extended all along the line if their demands are not granted. . THE BOODLE ALDERMEN O? NEW YORK, RETURN OUT. AND ARE EONDEE A New York dispatch says : To the sur mise of a great many people Billy Molony. reading clerk of the board of aldermen oi 1SS4, and Alderman Dekcy, walked into the district attorney's office Wednesday morning. Both were indicted for complic ity in the Broadway surface road bribery case, and both have been refugees in Can ada and Europe since the first of those celebrated arrests was made. They were at ence taken before Judge Martine in the court of general sessions. Bail was fixed at $40,000 each, which they gave and" thev were ie!eased. THE FATAL KEROSENE. THK USUAL RESULT FOLLOWS A FIItE-K.IXDI.ER. ITS USE Al A dispatch from Erie, Pa., says: Mrs. Mary Gallenstein undertook to stimulatt her kitchen fire with kerosene Wednesday. An explosion followed, and she was roas ted to a crisp. Her baby was ako badlj burned. NEWS OF THE SOUTH) BRIEF NOTES' OF AN INTER ESTING NATURE. .....v. imn.s -w-rYr ITT. TOrVTS - null iimno itivf .-"-----jr..-.. cAT-TiicrW l VE8 THAT WET TAIN Trigy ACCIDfo FLOODS, KT 7" 'fc frf9' A Eaton Kouge, LnM ilipatcVOt;. Governor Nichols, Monday afternoon, r . turned to' the house the lottery tiu wuuy . out his approval. - ; It was rumored in Louisville, Ky.. Tuesday, that the warring factions oi Harlan court house on. last Thursday night - aitrned the court house with all the re- :ords. - The first bale of TcxaV cotton crop of ISO:) arrived at Galveston Wednesday oight, from DuyaL . It classed good mid--aling, good staple, weighed G50 pounds - rod sold for $100 1 "' A disp-.tcb from Day's Gap, Ala. gays fxDr. John Monroe killed his foui . children on Sunday and then committed suicide. It is thoughjt Mnrpe was! ir sane on tC-subject oiTetiKWoa. ' --I . if CJ . . . .. . -- . Lnuuicrator J. P. '.Cameron, of Tu Dion i county, JS. U., reporta tne uj ery oi a coiorea man wuo caiia-.ii- y jonn jjncner, anuciajnja i jju x. ? Word rfeacl'ird San Antonio, $3xas,roTn Laredo Thursday evening-, thatriualipbx if raging iJiere, although every efTort is be-" -lag made to keep the fact quiet. A large ..' number of deaths have occurred; and there are many new cases. A S;in Antonio Texas, special says: Iu ' . Columbus, Colorado county, City Mar- - -shal Pipe shot and iustniitly killed Ed, Young, J(hu and liobeif Stafford, sons of II. II. Stafford. 'Ihe fight occurred in a saloon, and thirty shot were fired. . The board of trade of Paris, Texas, ha ipp luted six enumerators to take a new : 'census of the city, being satisfied thai ' the federal census is imperfect. Austin, too, is greatly disappointed, aud claims - 5,000 more people than the census shows. A Brunswick, G., disratch, of Tues day, s:iys: "It is authoritatively stated that the L. & N. Mill at an early day gel coutml of the Atlanta and Florida and complete the road to Cordcle and thence bm'd direct to Brunswick. This move will assure Brunswick's future." , The Republicans at Raleigh, N. C, are " ' indulging in some strong talk agairjst the - -VN Federal election law, now before con gress, mere is a sentiment crystaJizinc to the effect that any Iiepublicftnho f igus a petition to put the law in Jpera- ' -t ion in that section must be 'crucafied.'"'' . - - A dispatch of Wcdccfday from Louis- vil'e, Ky., says : The family of Mr. Watson, censisting of his wife,; eight ' , ; year old sen and a fifteen months old . ;' infant, were burned to death, near Har mony, Ky.. (n Saturday nigh't in-tht it , - beds, alcng with their house. Mr. Wat- ton was away from home. v. The fire -was-incendiary. . t- George II. JIcFadden & Bro., of Phi. delphia, have leased a large-track of laJtTl at the Air Line Junction, -near Charlotte, N. C, for the purpose of erecting a cotton ' . compress, which is to be one of the lar gest in the south.. They havcn frontage - oi cuu leet. onviue uicnr-.'i-ftTjanv nie- a railroad platfSrm; iand will at once erect i the compress and the necessary buildings. A dispatch of Wednesday fro in, Hal-., eigli, eays: By the terms of the amcndei funding law, the funding of North Caro lina bonds has tea ed. TLcrc remain nearly $1, CC0, 000 of bonds in the hand.s of holders unfunded and not juesented to the state treasurer. The act of 1871 enumerated $17J26,000 of bonds as the . ' recognized general debt of the state,, and :nc oonus issued lor tne old ones bear : "',, four per cent interest. ' THE LOTTERY WINS. THE dOVEROn's VETO RETURNED TO TUI HOUSE OF REPRE8ENTATIVEB. A Baton Rouge, La., special says : VrcdncEday night the lottery question and governor's veto were submitted to the judiciary committee of, the senate, with instructions to report within an hour. The committee, by . a vote of eight to three, made the following re port, which was adopted by the senate, thus disposing of the whole matter: Resolved, By the Senate of the State of Louisiana, in general assembly con vened, that in vindicat'on of the consti tutional right of the people of thtj Elate, and in keeping with the dignity of this Senate, a distinct and separate, though co-ordinate branch of the government, the veto of the governor, which h with out authority or right, be respect fully returned to the house of representatives, and the clerk of the senate be instructed to furnish his excellency,'.- the' Govcrner, with a copy of this resolution. - ' The report was adopted, and the whole matter :s now disposed of. AGED 8AN ANTONIANS. SOME R I'll ARK ABLE LONGEVITY SHOWJT BT THE CENSUS ENUMERATION. The most notable feature of the ccn.mj enumeration in San Antonio is the re markable exhibit of longevity. The list of people between the ages of eighty- five and ninety is a long one, while there, are three individuals who have wstnb- - lished by record that they have lived over 103 years. These aie Mmc. Candclaria, who witnes ed the massacre of the AIv mo, ar.d is 1 AO 3 years old. X r? . Una Dickinson, aged 100, and Faibc CarroiI, coiorea, agea ivo. ' TAKIN CARE OF .NT'MLERO.Vi:", V ' "Jean, run to the pastrycoSk's andgot me a couple of patties.. Iletc are'ifix'' sous. You may cat one yourself. Jean comes running lackv with Jliis hands empty. "Here, monsieur, ; arc three sous; they'd only one patty left." Le Radical. - ' 1 J ' "Did the prisoner at the bar itrikp voir in the altercaiiod,?,' asked the lawyer. ' "JNo, sar, boss,'.1 replied the dusky prosecutor, "he biffed.meTite bcliine de lcf year. Ef yo'll; jes'Jeaa obcr a little ways I kin sho' yq.tle ' acf spotV ---'Tl;? lawyer didn't lean.- Atlanta Ccntitu- r