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SALISBURY. N. C, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1892.
NO.
SALISBURY
II.
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THROHGHODT THE SOUTH.
'Botes -tf 'Her Progress aM Prosperity
Briefly Epitomize!
And Important Happenings from Daj
to Day Tersely Told.
1. San Antonio special of Saturday
says: Encarnacion Ouza, brother of the
famous filibuster, Catrino Garza, has been
Teleased on (2,000 bail. Oarza ia tbe
Mexican who was captured at Key West,
Fla., some weeks ago.
A special of Thursday from Kroxrille,
Tenn., bbu: Frr-m reliable source it is
learned that the United States Expresn
company had becured the express privil
egaon tbe Louisville and Nashville rail
way and all its branches, and tbe opera
tion of the same will commence January
1, 1893.
A San Antonio, Tex., special says: Ii
is claimed by federal aut orities aloDg
tbe Rio Grande border that lartre num
bers of Chinamen are crossing the river
from Mexico into the United States each
week, and that tbe cus oms ofBci'ils an
unable to prevent it owing to lack of
river guards.
A meeting of business mn of San An
tonio, Texas, was held Wednesday, a
which it was decided to raise a fund of
2 COD to add to the $1,000 fund already
provided by the yoveruinent for the rain
making exp- diti n and expend it in pro
posed e.ipcrime&ts by General It, G.
Dyrenforth and his party.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
A bid was in reduced in the sena'e
Wednesday authorizing any qualified
elector to begin pr ' ceedings of contes
over the statu election of last August.
Ooodwyn was elected ns a Ko b man and
this bill is regarded s the opening gun
from Kollx side in the contest over the
governoiship. .
News has reached Ilileigh, N. C, of a
terrible murder in Yadkin county Thurs
day hs a result of which four negroes are
in jail. They are Pleasant Dalion, John
Long, Sidney Dal ton and Wiley Hunt,
and they murdered Esther Edwards, an
aged woman with whom they-hAd bad a
trivial dispute regarding the hauling of
some corn.
On Saturday eighteen thousan d pound
of dynamite and other hiuh grade explo
flives were Bent to Fort 8 m Houston
target range, two miles east of San An
tonio, Texs, where General Dryenforth's
rain-making experiments are to be made.
It is expected that a train of explosives
three miles long will be laid for the
first tost. The weather is clear, and the
barometer shows no indication of rain.
Donald W. B dne, state treasurer of
North Carolina, died at his home in Ral
eigh, Wednesday, after several months'
illness, of heart diease.. He was born at
Rahigh in April, 1841, 'and bad been in
continuous public service longer than
any m-m in the state. In 1857 he entered
the ffi.ee of the st te comptroller, and
remained until 18C3, when he became
chief clcik of the stite trea;-ury, serving
continuously until 1884, whtn he was
elected state treasurer.
A special from Charleston, S. C, says:
AU the law and equi'y courts in the
state adjourned Thursday in respect to
the mem ry of Edward McCrady, the
senior member of the South Carolina bar,
who die Thursday, over nine'y years of
age. ' Edward McCrady was a unique
figure in ante-bellum political history in
South Carolina and in the councils of
the Protestant Episcopal church. He
held' many offices of trust and responsi
bility. A special of Friday to The Los An
geles, C'al., Express states that there is
much ex: itemer.t and alarm caused io
northeastern Arizona by the threats of a
band of.Navajoes. undtr Chief Black
Horse of going to war against the whites.
A request has been sent to the troop's, but
Gcutr.it McCook thinks that the troops
are not n ccessary and believes a little ex
ercise o f caution will prevent a-hostile
outbreak.
The steamer Rosa Lee, from Astport,
burned at the wharf at Memphis, 'lenn.,
early Monday morning. An officer
awakened the pisenuers and all atove
the dock and thirty below got out safely.
It is thought that four laborers, who
were in a state of intoxication, were
burned to death. The Bteamer cost $70,
000, and was in the cotton trade. The
loas is complete. Insurance, $27,000.
Her maniiest consisted of S97 bales of
cotton and 2,003 sacks of cotton seed.
A R h igh dispatch lays: Gov
ernor Holt on Wednesday appointed
James E. Shepherd chief justice to suc
ceed Justice Merrimon. Judge Shepherd
is the youngest of the justices, being only
forty-three. He began 'ife as a telegraph
operator and earned sufficient mo ev to
prepare himself as an attorney. He was
an able lawyer. He was elected associ
ate justice in 1888, and his work on the
bench has been markei by thoroughness.
His promotion was expected and gives
general satisfaction.
The outgoing Western and Atlantic
passenger train leaving Atlanta at
11 o'clock Sunday night was wreck
ed short distance from the city. The
wreck was a bad one, smashing cars and
tearing up the track. Fortunately no
one was killed. Engineer Squires was
found to be pretty badly hurt, as was al
so his fireman. One or two of the pas
sengers were bruised up. The disaster
was due to train wreckers. An iron
band was fonnd fastened about one of
the rails. It was near the spot where a
train was wrecked a year ago in the
same way.
A New Orleans special says: As a re
sult of the persistent editorial utterances
in The Times-Democrat calling for im
peachment of Major John Fitzpatrick
because of alleged inability to govern tbe
city during the strike, bis apparent sym
pathy with the strikers and general iist
lessness, it seems ss if action in this
direction is about to be token. All that
is necessary to bring the case to a trial is
for twenty-five tax-paying, property
holding citizens to file a charge in the
civil district court. It is said that pa
pers in the case are now being prepared
and will be filed in a few days.
A Columbia, S. C, dispatch eays: It
was ascertain ed Sunday that steps are
being taken to abolish the historic South
Carolina college, sn institution which is
the alma mater of a host of distioguised
men that the state has produced. The col
lege is dear to thousands of South Garo
fioians, and thi annouocmeat will be re
ceived with untold regret, and there
will undoubtedly be a hard struggle to
retain it. The superintendent of educa
tion, in his annual report to be submitted
to the general assembly, recommends that
the college be closed and that the build
ings be converted into a normal college
for both sexes. It is also learned that a
bill in accordance with this recommen
dation has been prepared and will be in
troduce in the legislature. '
A Mew Orleans dispatch Says: Tne
Louisiana State Lottery Company, since
it has no hope of existing in this state
after December St. 1894, when its pres
ent charter expires, is determined to do
the next best thing, and that is to make
all tbe money it can before it goes out .of
business. It is an open secret that Mex
ican and Havanna lottery tickets are
sold in New Orleans in large quantities,
in violation of Louisana's monopoly law.
The first move was made Frliay when
A. Bassett, brother of the ex-president of
the American lottery, and William
Churchill, a former employee of the Lou
isiana lottery, were arrested on the charge
f having in their pos-ssion over $5,000
worth of Mexican tickets. William Gil
lery and E. B nquet were also arrested
on charges similar to those preferred
against Bassett and Churchill. -
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A New Organization Formed by the
Morning Newspapers of the South.
The editors of the southern morning
dailies who have been holding fnquent
meetings the pa t year, perfected a new
new3 a-sociation at a meeting in Atlanta
Wednesday. Their papers, which are all
members of the Associated Press, are to
be withdrawn from that association, and
then organize the Southern Associated
Press. This is to be entirely separate
f'ora the A'sociited Press of New York'
and go -s into a combination with the
United Press and the Western Press As
sociation. The combined associations
make the strongest news service-in the
country.
For five years the southern morning
dailies have been trying to'iret the AsOr
ciated Press, of New Yo k, to treat them
as an association, but the older organiza
tion, whic served them with telegraphic
news, would only consider them iadivid
ually. This new association was aided
in perfecting its organization by General
William Menry Smith, manager of the
Western Press Association, and formerly
holding the sai e position with the Asso
ciated "Press; Walter Phillips, general
manager of the United Press, and P. V.
DeGraw, southern manager of the i-ame.
The capital stock of the Southern Asso
ciated Press is $30,000. of which one
half whs subscribed at the meeting. The
following directors were elected:
Captain E. P. Howell, Atlanta Consti
tution; J. C. Hemphill, Charleston News
and Courier; J. H. E-t 11, Savannah
News; Frank P. O'Brien, Birmingham
Age-Herald; Adolph Ochs, Chattanooga
Times; Page M. Baker, New Orleans
Times-Democrat; George- Nicholson,
New Orleans P-cayune; T. T. Stockton,
Florida Times-Union.
Captain Howell was elected president;
Captain O'Brien vice president; F. P.
Glass, 'Hon gomery Advertiser,secretary;
Colonel Pat WalsM, Augusta Chronicle,
treasurer. Annual meetings of the asso
ciation were fixed for the first Tuesday
after the 15th of November of each year
at such place as may be selected by the
executive committee.
EDITOR OCHS TALKS.
He Replies to Statements Concerning
the Southern Associated Press.
The New, York Recorder, iu its issue
of Saturday, printed the following from
Chattanooga, Tenn. :
"The publication in the New Yoi k Times that
the proprietor of The Chattanooga Times i-t dis
gruntled and will likely withdraw from the
Southern Associated Pres-, is without the
slightest foundation.
"I have for the past ten days persistently de
clined to receive the reports of the New York
Associated Pres, though tendered to- me every
day. The Southern Associated Press has.no
number more loyal than myself.
"There was every effort made to create a mu
tinous spy-it in the Southern Associated Press,
Sut it f&i.edof its purpose. The Southern As
sociated Pi es has ini smemoersuip every daily
newspaper of North and South Carolina,Floiid&,
Georgia, East Tennessee, Alabama, M s-isnippi
and Lnuisina that hits heretofore received the
New York Associated Press news, paying there
for $150,000 per annum.
"The ikratliern Associated Prem have, by con
tract, control in the tt.s mentioned, of all
news of the United Press, and the Western As
sociated Press, and through these two organi
zations, the two principal foreign news agen
cies. The proprietors and publishers of sou h
trn daily nowspap rs had everv oppor unity to
continue their relations with the Ke-v York As
sociated Pr sa, and on terms they could them
selves dictate, and they chose to decline all
overtures. It is supposed that thev know what
they are about, all being successful bus ness
men. The members of the Sou hern Associat
ed Press bear no ill will to the N6W York
Associated Press, but iuned 'the
movement that includes, with acceptiins
hardly worth mentioning, every daily new-paper
from Seattle to Bargor, and from the lakes
'O the gulf, to nut a s?op to arrangements which
enabled seven Kew York dailies to control the
news of the country and exact whatever pay
the Jem at dod.
The door i open to the New York Associa
ted rT88 to come in on equal terms with the
mc-t faVt red. Tne Southern Associated Press
hopes that its former New York City associates
may soon realize the folly of their tfforts to
s op the progrt sive move, that for a wonder,
was not commenced years ago."
(Signed) Adolph 8. Ochs,
Chairman tz. com. South. Asa. Pr
A COUNTERFEITING SCHEME
To be Worked on a Gigantic Scale
Kipped in the Bad.
Two men, Manuel R-driigu z,a Span
iard, and Thomas P. Parr, an E nglishman,
were arraigned in court in New York, Mon
day, charged with attempting counterfeit
ing. Parr says that he became acquainted
with Rodriqucs three weeks ago, who told
him of his plans, offering him considera
ble money to act as interpreter. Rod
riqut z is said to belong to a Spanish
gang who have been planning to float a
tremendous quantity of notes through
Spain, the West Indies and this country.
The arrest is regarded as most important.
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
Tie Hews of tie World ftnlsiset Into
Pitly aM Pointed Pararalis.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
The plant of the Desha Lumber and
Planing Company at Arkansas City,
Ark., was burned Sunday. Loss, $600,
000; partly insured.
A dispatch of Sanday from Canton,
O., says: William McKinley, Sr., father
of the governor of Ohio, is dying at his
home of heart trouble. On last I uesday
he celebrated in apparently good health
his eighty-fifth birthday.
A special of Thursday from Blooming
ton, III., says: Vice President-elect A.
E. 8' evenson will visit Atlanta, Ga.,.as
the guest of the new Commercial Club on
the 21st of December, and will partici
pate in its formal dedication.
President Harrison 'has made the fol
lowing appointments: John H. Gear, of
Iowa, to be assistant secretary of the
treHsury, vice Judge Crounse, resigned.
William Stone, Iowa, comm;ssioner of
the general iand office, vice Thomas H.
Carter, resigned.
A Washington special says:The treasury
department Friday began the issuance of
a new five-hundred dollar treasury note.
It is printed upon new paper, and pre
sents an rxceedinely handsome appear
ance. In the right hand corner is an ex
cellent vignette of General W. 1. bher
man in the uniform of a major general.
A Washing! on special of Friday says:
Lieutenat Peary who commanded the
Kite expedition into Nor! hern Greenland,
s anxiou to cmbaik on unother expeili-
! t5n -tViia t!m. TuitVi ta nnrnntA nf
tlU k i -J Villi - L bUU J.V.. jvjv "
reaching the north pole. He has already
made application for leave of absence for
three yeirs, t-anctioned by the bureau , of
yards and docks.
A new Republican morning paper, to
be called the Tribune, is soon to be
launched upon the newspaper sea in Cin-
c nnati. Its capital is $ 200, 000, distrib
uted among nearly a hundred business
men. Albert Lawson will be managing
editor and Charles Scott, both formerly
of the Commeicial-Gazette,business man
ager. At the annual meeting of the Confed
erate Survivor's Association of South Car
olina at Columbia, officers were elected
and a resolution was adopted requesting
the counties of the state to organize
county associations with the purpose lat
er of forming camps of the United States
veterans similar to those existing
throughout the south.
The Philadelphia furnace at Florence,
Ala., was lighted Sa urday night. This
furnace is the property of the Florence
Cotton and Iron Company, owned and
controlled by Pniladeiphia-a. . It is the
largest and best equipped furnace in the
south. The furnace has just completed
extensive repairs. A new era of pros
perity has been inaugurated in Florence.
Two masked men entered the bank of
Woodstock, Minn., at 8 o'clock Wednes
day night and demanded of Cashier Per
ry and his assistant, Mr. Craig, that they
f-pen the vault. One took P-rry in
chirge while the other forced Craii; to
enter the vult. . The robber then helped
himself to whatever he wanted. The bur
glars escaped with $1,000. Several par
ties have gone in pursuit of them.
Del' S A. B'odgett, a prominent man of
Grand Rapids, Mich., surprised the com
munity Monday by retiring from business
i;nd dividing his.esfate of $7,200,000 into
three equal parts, giving one to his son,
John W. B odgett; one to his son-in-law,
Edward Lowe and wife, and retaining
the other third for himself. His reason
is that he has made all the money he de
gires, and wishes no further business cares.
A Chicago special of Saturday s ys:
Auditor Ackermn, of the world's fair,
has tendered his resignation and has in
formed the local executive committee
that a leak exists between the tr asurer's
office and the gates. Mr. Ackerman does
not charge tho shortage to disbonsty,
but says thousands of tickets of admis
sion have disappeared, andashehasno
control over the men at tbe gtt 8 he de
clines to jeopardize his reputation.
A Chicago special of Saturday eays:
Another movement is on foot to unite
the prohibition and peoples' party. A
committee representing both organisa
tions ia Chicago, cailed upon Senator
Puffer and alter the conference Dr.
Taylor, chairman of the Cook county
prohibition club, was authorized to i-sue
a circular to asc r'ain the feeling of the
two parties concerning the railing of a
convention during the world's fair with
that ultimate object.
The Richmond and Danville rai'road
and the P-edmont Air Line, 1 aving been
t'nxranteed a mil mail service will soon
begin running a vestibule limited, leav
ing New York over the Pennsylvania
railroad at 4:30 o'clock p. m., each day.
A deal has been made , with the South
Carolina railroad whereby the time to
Charleston will be reduced to twen'y-five
hours and to Savannah twenty-four
hours, New Orleans to forty hours and
Memphis the same time.
General Rosecrana, register of the
treasury, wa removed to Fort Monroe,
V., Friday evening from Washi gton.
in tbe hope that the change would re-
move me present danger in nis case oi
paralysis. He has already lost the use
of his hands, and is almost completely
helpless. He is seventy three years of
age and his friends are very much alarm
ed over his "cdndition. His advanced
age and growing feebleness is well
nigh destroying the hope of bis recov
ery. A special of Thursday to the New York
Times from Albany says Governor Flower
has demanded the relgnat;ons of Civil
Service Commissioners Alex C. Eustace,
William A. Poste and John A. Sleichey.
The latter is the only republican on the
board. They were all appointed by Gov.
HUT. Treachery to their party ia said to
be the motive of the governor in the case
of the democrats and offensive partisan
ship in case of the republican member.
The commi8i-ioners are appointed by the
governor and are removable at wilL
A Washington special of Saturday
says: The complete list of the represent
atives in congress made ud from the elec
tion returns received in the democratic
national committee and compared with
those received by the clerk of the bouse,
agrees substantially with former es
timates. It shows that the democrats
have elected 222 members, the republi
cans 125 and the populists 7, giving the
democrats a majority of ninety. If tbe
democrats carry the election for congress
man in Rhode Islmd they will have a
majority of ninety-two over all opposi
tion. A Washington special of Thursday
says: Heavy pension payments this
month amounting to nearly fifteen mil
don dollars, and an unexpected falling off
in government receipts, has reduced the
cash, balance of the treasury to $27,650,
000, nearly all of which is either in sub
sidiary silver or on deposit with national
banks. Secretary Foster says that not-,
withstanding the recent unusually heary
demanda on the treasury and the fact
that the tugar bounty for the year will
amount to nearly ten million dollars
against seven million for the previous
year, be was confident there will be no
deficit in national finances during the
present fiscal year.
A SHORT COTTON CROP.
Six Million Bales is the Figore Ar
rived At.
The Charleston News and Courier has
had an exhaustive examination made of
th condition of the cotton crop of the
south, ex'ending over the entire cotton
belt, and on Saturday published the re
sult of its work. The reports show that
the crop is short far beyond the calcula
tion of all experts, who have thus far fig
ured on it. It further shows that the
g eater part of the crop has been picked
and rushed to mrket and that the late
t"p crop will amount to practically noth
ing. From these reports, which come
from the commissioners of agriculture of
the various states, and from trustworthy
newspapers, it appears the crop will
scarcely exceed s''X million bales.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says:
"Cotton fields in this and adjoining sec
tions are almost en irely bare. It is a
conservative statement to say that fully
nine-tenths of the crop has been picked
and marketed. A few of the large and
more wealthy planters have their cotton
in diSeient warehouses awaiting a further
advance, which is confidently expected.
Small tarmirs have, with scarcely an ex
ception, disposed of their crops, and it
is thought safe to say fully seven-tenths
of the crop h s been sold. The yield in
some sections is conceded to be 50 per
cent less than that of last year; in others,
about 25 per cent. The average decrease-in
yield may be put at 33 per
cent.'
The Memphis Appeal says: "It is esti
mated by conservative men that the crop
in ihe Memphis territory, west Tennes
see, Arkansas and .Mississippi will be
fully 40 per cent less than that of last
year. This showing is due not only to a
large decrease of acreage, but to various
o her causes, among which may be men
tion the disastrous floods which prevail
ed in the spring in Arkansas and Missis
sippi. The floods prevented the farmers
putting in any rot' on on their best lands.
Cold, wet wi ather has been prevailing
throughout this section for tho last two
weeks and complain's are general among
planters that ihe damage to the cotton is
general therefrom. The top crop will
prove an almost total filure, owing to
this weather, as im nature bolls are re
porter to be decaying. It is probable
hat from 50 to 60 per cent of the crop
in this territory has been marketed."
E. Craighead, correspondent at Mobile,
telegraphs that, the cotton crop of Ala
bama i- plac d at 650.000 bales. Leading
members of th Mobile cotron exchange
estimate the crop short by 40 per cent,
and that half of the crop has been sold.
Other r ports from tbe cotton belt
arree that the crop is from 34 to 40 per
cent short and that the lu k of the crop
gath- red has alrea 'y been marketed.
Secie ary Hester's weekly New Orleans
cotton statement shows a still greatei
drop in the movement of cotton during
the past week, the d ficiency compared
wi h s ven correspond ng days of last
year ben, upward of 140,000 bale-dim
makes the dec ease for the first eighteen
days of November 329,508 bales frcm last
near. .
DISASTROUS STORMS
Sweep Over Several Western States
Doing Considerable Damage. 4
A Chic. go special says: The fl ct of
the storm of Friday and Friday n gbt is
evident in the interruption of telegraphic
communication with the wst
Here in Chicago the wind blew at the
rate of forty to fifty miles per bur at
times thr ugh the night. Neither of
the telegraph companie has wire work
ing to St. Paul. Mmneapo is, Du'uth,'
Sioux City, or Kansas points. Communi
cations with Ktos s City is irregular,
and at times cut off al'ogether. Ti e
storm extended from Illinois west to the
Rocky mountains, south to the Indian
Territory and nor h to the Canadian line.
All telegraphic communicati ns within
this district is absolutly cut off, and it is
imposs ble to more than conjecture tbe
amount of damage done.
rjTJRRIOuLHE AT BALTIMORE.
A Baltimore dispatch says: A hurri
cane of unusual violence swept np Ches
apeake bay at noon Friday, and played
havoc with buildings al ng the water
front of the harbor and with vessels
moored therein. The wind reached tt.e
velocity -of sixty miles an hour. The
harbor was well filled with vessels of
every class, and a gr at deal of damage
was done to them. An immers? grain
e evator, belonging to the N rthern
Central railroad, in Cant n, was consid
erably damaged, the wind shaking the
great building until wide cracks appeared
in the walls. Nj estimate of the loss by
the hurricane is given, but it will neces
sarily be Urge.
THE 8TOBM IS I XT) IAN A.
Dispa'ches from English, I id., state
that a tornado of forty-eight hours' du
ration increased in force early Friday
morning and wrecked nearly every win
dow and chimney in the town. The
fronts of several business houses were
blown in and there were several narrow
escapes from death. Two hundred huge
forest trees were uprooted.
ALLIANCE IN CONVENTION.
Animal Moil leeDni ol tie (Mer
in MempMs, Tennessee.
Demands Adopted and Officers Elected
for the Ensuing Tear.
A memphis, Tenn. f special says: The
first open session of the Farmers
Alliance was held Tuesday morning.
President Louck, Messrs. McCune, Till
man, WardelL members of the executive
board; Secretary Turner and delegates
from every state were present. President
Loucks called the x convention to order
and expressed his agreeable surprise at
the large attendance. He stated that
the political harvest of 1892 had been
successful and now the work of sowing
for a greater ttarvest in 1696 would be
gin. Hon. A. L. Nims, on behalf of
Governor John P. Buchanan, welcomed
the delegates to the state, and Farmer
Dean, of New York, responded. He
said the Alliance, more than any other
body, was wiping out Mason and Dixon's
line. Major Fleece, of Memphis, and
Colonel Gates welcomed the guests to
the city. Marion Butler, of North Caro
lina, responded to these speeches, after
which a committee on credentials, con
sisting of Messrs Deming, of . Pennsylva
nia; Burkett,; i f Mississippi; Otis, of
Kansas; Ellington, of Georgia, and
Southworth, of Colorado were appointed.
route d fficulty wa- expert aced in
organization wh ch culminated in a bolt,
and those opposed to the peo trie's party
captured the body, held a caucus and con
cluded to foim a new association, em
bodying the d- ctrine of the alliauce, but
holding aloof from politics. The Tau
beneck faction having captured the, con
ference, many of the delegates refu ed to
attend the executive session. A tempo
rary orgauization was fully effected, how
ever, aud the body bean to shape mat
ters for the issuance of a manifest'.
A correspondent of the United Press
interviewed Dr. Macuneand that gen le
man made the following statement: "I
withdrew from the convention hall be
cause the national committee of the peo
ple's party are attempting to secure the
control of the a liance. They have used
foul means and have gone so far s to
make up a slate of officers. Considering
that these men were in control of the
convention and had determined to carry
out their measures, contrary to all alli
ance traditions and principles, I with
drew from the ball and shall remain out
as long as such methods are being used
to ' divet the purpose of the alliance.
The delegates who left the hall felt the
same as I did about the matter."
The following demands were adopted
by the national all ia ce:
FINANCE.
We demand a national currency, safe,
sound and flexible, issued by the govern
ment only, a full legal tender for all
debts, public or private, and that with
out the use of binking corporations; just,
equitable and efficient means of distrib
uting direct to the people at a tax not to
exceed per cent., to b provided as set
forth in the sub-treasury plank of the
Farmers Allitnce, or some better system;
also by payments in the discharge of its
obligation for public improvement.
(a) We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and ;old at the iegal
ratio of 16 to 1.
(b) We demand that the amount of
circula'ing medium be increased to at
least 50 per capita, exclusive of legal
reserves.
(c) We demand a gradu ted income
tax.
That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the future as not to build
up one industry at the expense of
another.
(e) We believe ihat the money of tho
country bhould be kept as much as pos
sible in the I anis of the peop e, and
hence we dema d that all national and
state revenue shall be limited to the nec
essary expenses of the government eco
nomically aod honestly administered.
(f ) We d mand that postal savirgs
banks De established by the government
for the safe deposit for the earnings of
the people and to facilitate exchanges.
LAND.
The land, including all natural resour
ces of wealth, is the heritage of the peo
ple and should not be monopolized for
speculative purposes, aod alien 'owner
ship of land should be prohibited. All
lands now held by railroads snd other
corporations in excess of their sctual
needs, and lands now owned by aliens
should now be reclaimed by the govern
ment and sold for actual s ttlers only.
TRANSPORTATION.
Transportation being th-means of ex
change and a ublic necessity, the gov
ernment should own and opperate rail
roads in the interest of the people.
(a) Telegraph and telephone, like the
post office system, being a necessity for
the transmifsion of intelligence should
be owned and opp rated by the govern
ment in the interest of the people.
In the election of i fficers H. L.
Loucks, of South Dakota, was re-elected
resident; Marios Butler, of North Caro
ina. rice presdent; L. H. Taylor of
Nashville, secretary; Ben Terrell, of Tex
as, national secretary; members of the
executive board : L. Leonard, of Missouri
Mann Page, of Virginia;! E. Cann, of
New York; H. C. Deming, of Pennsyl
vania. .
Other officers chosen are as follows:
Marion Butler, of North Carolina, rice
president; Benjamin Terrel, of Texas, na
tional lecturer; L. K. Taylor, of Texas,
editor of the Toiter, secretary and treas
urer; Leaverett Leonard, of Missouri,
Mano, of Virginia, H. C. D mmioe, of
Pennsylvania, J. E. Dena, of New York,
members of the executive committee.
WILL I83CK AH ADDRESS.
Dr. Macnne is pr paring an address
which will be signed by delegates from
every southern state, and which sets
forth the position he assumes, and which
wss made nee asary by the action of the
convention. President Loucks repre
sents what is designated by many of the
delegates aa ?be political faction of the
third party ini under bis leadership
they think he will endeavor to swing the
organization, as a body, into line with
tbe leaders of the third party and the
non-political standing of the order will
be lost.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
The Election Did Hot Cans Any Bad
Effects.
R. G. Dunn & Co.'s weekly review of
trade says the presidential- election has
interrupted business to some extent in
all parts of the country during the pist
week, but by no means as much as usual.
At nearly all points the value of trade
has been fairly maintained and the un
precedented activity of industries has on
ly been interrupted by tbe election holi
day. A ft vera storm throughout most
of the northtra states has embarrassed
tbe movement of products and has check
ed some trades, but was. very welcome
to dealers in winter goods, who had
found the unusually mild weather some
what depressing to their feutiness. The
distribution of other products has been
fully up to the average and the report!
regarding: collection art. f ron. almost, all
points qnite satisfactory for the season.'
The money mirkets have not been dis
turbed, though their working has been
iomew bat closer at several important
points, and foreign necessities and the
scarcity of commercial bills have caused
some decline in foreign exchange. It is
feared that Russian needs aod tbe failure
to place the desired loan in Paris may
cause further withdrawals of Russian bal
ances in Eastern Europe.
AAt Philadelphia most trades have
been dud, but iron is firmer, and tho
colder weather brings m- re demand for
ooot- and shoes. The manufacturers of
obacco are pressed to their full capacityt
the wall-paper trade is large, and ihl
trade in chemicals steady.
At Baltimore business is g'"od, witl
;ncr asing export, aud southern eoliee
tions Letter than was expected.
At I ittfburg the production of iron in
creased, I ut also the demand. The treu
eral tone is slightly better than before,
with larger orders for wroujht pig. Glass,
especially plate, is in lare demand.
Ihe prospects are more encouraging at
Louisville nd business is fairly active,
but a Nashville trade is fair and at
Little Rock depressed by small
receipts of cotton. At Memphis
the election interferred to some x
t nt and t New Orleans busi ess was,
urvil a tew days ago, at a s ands'ill nn
account of the great strike. The output
of pi-iron, November 1, was 171,080
tons week y, an increasoof 13,055 tons
during the month of October. Produc
tion in the last half of 1892 seems likely
to be not far from 4,188.000 tons, and
stok8 in October have been reduced 77,
t'00 tons, which indicates a consumption
larger than a year ago. The deliveries
t.f rails for the year are small, not over
1,250,000 tons. Bars are more active,
owing. to car building, but plates are
quiet and new orders f or ' structual work
are scarce.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
Proceedings of the Convention In Con
cord New Hampshire.
National Grange Patrons of Husbandry
assembled in its twenty-sixth annual ses
sion at Concord, N. H., Wednesday.
J. H. Brigham, of Ohio, presided.
Twenty five out of thirty-four grange
states were repnsented. 'Ihe grange
was opened in the sixth degree and after
obligations to new memb rs were imposed
it was opened in the fourth degree, and
J. R. Dodge, representing the depart
ment of agriculture, ws introduced.
Preliminary work was then performed.
The session was resumed Thursday.
Mortimer Whitehead, lecturer, made a
report. He saw anions the measure
which he found most genera ly discussed
and asked for at this time in the oranges
of the couutry were rural free mail de
livery, a postal telegraph and telephone
ai d government ownership and control
of the same.iii the interest of the quicker
dissemi ation of news, matket reports,
weather forcas s, etc.
'I he road question was discussed the
lecturer tukiutr the cround that whi'e
the farmers ad ni ted the need and ad-
vantage of oetter roads, that they should
first insist upon the equalization of taxej
by which the farmers would not be call
ed up'-n to do more thai their fair share
of the expenses of building and sustaining
a better road fey-tern.
Numerous resolution. were introduced,
the principal ones b--ing by Mr. Char
tiers, f Virginia, urging the past-age of
the Paddock pure foo i bill and the cre
ation of a road division in the depart
ment of agriculture. Tbe reports of
state masters were recti vrd, all showing
increased membership t.od improv d
financial condition.
AN ILLINOIS CYCLONE.
The Little Town of Red bud Demol-ished-A
Xnmber of Fatalities.
A cyclone visited the town of Redbud,
III., Thursday mortdpg and the lit le
hamlet is now a scene of wreck and
desolation. H uses, barns, fences snd
orchards are leveled to tbe ground and
spread over the surrounding country.
A large double brick houso occupied by
D. D. Perry as a dwelling. ofS'e and
t compo-ing room was entirely destroyed.
The fam.ly were buried in the ruins, but
1 managed to extricate themselves with, ut
serious injury. Peterson's agricultural
warehouse was bl wn down and fourt--en
other residences destroyed. The eleven-year-old
son of Mrs. Jacob Koch was
killed instantly and bis mother fatally in
jured. The others injured are Mrs.
Peter Earden, Mrs. Luuis Bager, Julio
Lcfnn, Mr. Btitman, Ad den Starr, Mis
Emma Crow and Mrs. John Manderfelt.
Many of the people are without clothing
and shelter in a driving rain storm. Alto
gether thirty-five houses were destroyed.
The property loss is estimated at $100,000
A London cablegram says: The Irish
Time, in its issue of Thursday, contains
a sensational article in reference to the
bankruptcy of the widow of Charles
Stewart ParnelL The article states that
Mrs. Path til has been driven into insol
vency by adverse circumstances. Ihe
article states that when Parnell died
there was not enough money in tbe
bouse to bury htm and friends defrayed
the expenses. Parnell had expended
forty thousand pounds in freeing the es
tate at Avondale from mortgage and in
fruitless attempts to make the mines on
the estate profitable. This left Mrs. Par
cell with no other resources but a small
annuity from her aunt
WIIXIUC COLUMBUS ItAXDES.
The Claims of Various Islands
aldered.
It is rather strange that while the Old
World and the New are vying in paying
honors to the immortal voyage of Cofum
bus, the actual spot on which he landed
is to have no part whatever in the cele
brations. San Salvador is left
out of the account This, fc
the more singular since, when the quad
rice n ten nial ceremonies were first pro
posed, among the earliest suggestions
was that of a triumphal visit to that isl
and. Castelar, in 1883, proposed that a
delegation, of ships from Spain, Porto
gal, Italy, France, England, and the
United States should follow the course
of Columbus from Palos, touching at the
Canaries and arriving at San Salvador as
he - arrived ; and afterward Edward!
Everett nale suggested that our Gov
ernment should send a 'vessel to San
Salvador, with orders to make a landing
there on the 12th of October, 1892, and
then follow the. course of the discoverer1
from thatpoint, as set forth in his log
book. But nothing of this sort has been
dune.
Perhaps in one respect the failure to
include the Bahamas in the cele
bration is fortunate, as at the outset
there would be a doubt as to the true
landfall of Columbus. For, among the
many points of dispute connected with
the great navigator's career, this has
been one of those most persistently con
tested. The geographers and historian
do not yet agree in regard to it. What
we know is that the island renamed Sm
Salvador by Columbus was called Guana
hani by the natives; that it was flat, waa
well watered, and produced trees, herb
age, and various fruits; . that it was
nearly surounded by a reef and had a
large lake or lagoon in the interior. But
taking the?e points fron the description
given by Columbus as correct, the au
thorities still diller widely in their at
tempts to identify it. For a long time
Cat Island, the northernmost of the can
didates, was gencrallv accepted as the
true San Salvador. It
earliest fixed upon,
tained in a later
was one oi tne
and was sub
genera tion bj
of Washington
Tarducci, a re-
the powerful support
Irving and Humboldt.
cent biographer, is also incuned to' ac
cept this solution. But other claimants
for this honor appeared Mariguana,
Samana, Watlings, Acklin, the Plana
Cays, and the Grand Turk. The claims
of Mariguana were advocated by Vara
hagen in 1804; but the fatal defect in
this case is the lack of a lagoon in the
interior. And it may here be added that
this same lack strikes out Cat Island,
while a further objection to the latter is
a hill 400 feet high, which docs not ac
cord with the statement of Colombo
that the island was flat. Harrisse sug .
gests that the Plana Cays anoH
its . neighbor, Acklin, would re
concile the ""discrepant", terms "oT
" small " or " rather large," which
Columbus uses as one would apply
to what he first saw and the other to the
actual landing point. The claims of
Turk's Island were first brought out by
Navarrete of Madrid in 1826, and were
advocated by Samuel Kettell of Boston
the following year and by George Gibbs
in 1846. This Grande Salina ot the Turk
Islands was also accepted afterward by
Caleb Cushing as answering fully to a
tracing of the route of Columbus back
ward from Cuba. The Grand Turk ali?
has the required lagoon.
But tbe weight of modern opinion has
eliminated these claimants in favor of
Samana and Witling's"-' The former,
called also Atwood's Key, was first hit
upon by Capt. G. V. Fox in 187G, and
his conclusion was adopted by Mr. Hale
in the suggestion of an expeditioa
already spoken of. Far greater au
thority, however, is gradually clustering
around Waiting's Island. Situated in
latitude 23 degrees 55 minutes north
and longitude 74 degrees and 28 minutes
west, this island is found to answer the
description of Columbus perfectly. H
wa first selected as the true Guanahani
bj Mnnoz in 1793, close upon a century ago;
but its chief support dates from 185ft,
when Capt. Bec ker of the British Hydra
graphic Office, an expert . in cartography,
published a treatise advocating it. Pee
chal soon afterward followed this lead,
and Major in 1870 deserted the claims ol
Grand Turk and became an advocate of
Watling's Petermann, Daniel, Stdn.
and Markham are others who have yielded
to the same conclusion. To one of our
own naval officers, however, must be
awarded the credit of giving a new and.
valuable support to tbe claim
of Watling's Island. It is worth noting
that Irving's choice of Cat Island
had rested upon the authority of Capt
A. ft. Mackenzie of our navy, who had
worked out the solution for him, and
that Capt. Fox had as carefully broughi
forward the claims of 8araann; while
after them Lieut. XJ. B. Murdock, s
1884, plotted backward the track of
Columbus from Cuba, and found thV
Watling's answered the conditions bett.
than any other island, in addition t
all this evidence, which includes the
striking arguments of the . well-known
geographers, Major and Markham, was
made a few years ago by Gov. Blake, who,
while Governor of the Bahamas voyaged
from island to bland with the logbook oi
Columbus in his hand, carefully noting
every point and eliminating one aftel
another of the claimants, until he had ful
ly settled upon Watling's as alone
answering the description of Columbus,
which it did perfectly. About two years
ago Mr. Cronan made a similar voyage
and reached tbe same conclusion. There,
also, Mr. Wellmsn, of the Chicago Her
ald expedition, placed a monument. Wat
ling's has one-third of its area occupied
by a lake; it is fertile; it has the reef
except at Graham's Harbor, where there
is a narrow entrance, with the bluff hard
by. . This, then, gathers authority as th
spot which caused the joyful cry of
'Land V from the Pinta on the memora
ble 12th of October, 1492, and on which
Columbus first set foot. New" York
Times. ' ' '
When, as sometimes happens, one is '
forced to wear an uncomfortably tight
shoe, it may be of value to know that
folded cloth wet in hot water laid over
the pinching point will often speedily
afford relief. Change the cloth several
times to keep up the heat, which shortly
stretches the shoe and shapes it to the
fool
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