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Work hard if -the organization ia to accomplish what it is, intended to, in the way of .educating and' assisting the masses in relieving themselves of the iniquit ous form or igovernmen weare now diving under. . .Such discontent as is manifested generally by the masses -id strpng . etidenbe thatj something is radically wrong, f 'Vnv Wilmington .Srarj has entered upon its twenty-fourth yolume. It is the oldest daily, paper in the State, mu Ix ars evidence of prosperity, and still greater usefulness to the State, jjif we may judge by its appearance. Jt has for nearly a quarter of a cen tury enjoyedi the confidence of the pi-ople, and is ever watchful for all that jK'rtains to the growth and de velopment of i North Carolina. ii If old iMjhhcians can keep! far mers fighting each othert they j will le nil rhjht. See the farmers they put on their tickets and iheu . defeat them. See ;the '; fanners they are L - i i . : : r ' 1 r s ' . 1 1 r ; i promising anu encouragmg to run for oflice with no intention of nomi nating or electing. . Hon' long are he fanners going to be made fools of? How long will they continue to v go onl, in . the cold carrying wood that these politicians mav keeji wann and grow v fat? Er. It i acknowledged by all that a wHjaYer, witli an honest man at its ' .. . W- le k'Ihi, exerts a great influence for g)(t. in tni$ Mate, a reform press Viufioit is, organizetl to keen the Mieuibers of the Alliance 'and all in- tHtrial classes ostetl ill regard to tiblic matteri(,"and the pa pel s in this assot-iation extMJct snpjwrtj from those or w hom tliev are working. There an jbe no objection to readijig both Aldvk, but do not neglect t hose pajH'rs liat are tonsa.ntIv htrhtinp- for the ausii in whit h your services are en listed Fkwkr audi Wtter, laws are what iw .country needs. The making f .'jaws for. certain classes is the runs of the restlessness and dissat j . . u . i . ifwtiiii il ill i Hi ng tne iaixring peopie O 1 Oil i 011 : o'C tins ivmitry. ; 1 hey are aware. I hat, ii( i iminating legislation; has ' tcfii riiaeted when. t 1 ? . t they were! de- wc,ci. "c ; rird of their rights, ! hence, the , . A. r l n'-i : . . ..J..i :. i p...., o. ,,...ett u.i. 1 .campment it will dp service on his! country. A change musl; beiiand and sei for, the Xews sav wrought and that soon, or elsd the ..liar ot tins governmeni wiu ue . 'i mi a ,lak fii. A AiM H.VNir, a memlerof the Al-) liaiu'c, writing to the ! 'roqre sswe . FrMr lHwiits out in a clear and un- i I .: ll .1. i intv law of the sub-Treasury plan or oinethiinri of like character. ; lie ! !... ' t i liltil l lt 4tii liiv tvi,vvi )uild tlie uJn.hon rUseoiientlv ! th.". nut hanus would get employ- in jit, the inejiclmn't, doctor, lawyer i i - i 1 - 1 1 ami in fact all classes and professions wf nxMi would feel the effect of the fanners'-prosHeritv; The farmer would, have! more "money and of coilrseliis prosperity means the liet- t. r nciit of tlu condition of all classes. Tiik Vfhwir Farnrer says: Bro. Mil.)iarmid,-jf'the Robeunian, write u- that the Siiiinson, pul rtM'entlv and article attacking! Bro. dished in.thj? livbesonian reproduced I in the Pro- v.vzr Farmer last, wee k, wasi writ- t ti by' his s niilke the ex ' i 1 ' 1 ut suggest aff correspondent We dauation w i; th pleasure, that Bro. McOiarmid iitiruet nts siau (Yrn.'spoiui(eni, m A A . V . A. A wait until tl e truth comes out before Ii'-: sails into a. stranger m our miusu Stiiipn s,"dUl -' not say what was ha Tired to liim, and a st ranger in a to a hearing tranire land! is tjntitled tfoiv Wing; assiilled. Thk h'ttrol Home saysj; TheAlli-:u,u- is yt't getting along though the 1 'artisan papers stud it lis "busted to jiivs in several States. We have out -four charters, new ones, tnis w k --and organ ixcr ou; ijtfit for more. i-s ,the AlHance is going to pieces. Kvrry wJicrej we are called ton for National siK-akers. C 'Lilt be sup- l'lii'd: come to Ralieigh to hear uator IVffer Oct. 9th ! I ! f -and' again at Wurrentou, Oct. 10th. Presideut lUtler willj be with him, also State f.'rnm-r Bell.- The Iecturer Bureau "f nd district will beJ organized on the 13th October at 1 iocky Mount Kvf ry Coviiiitv .Lectured moist attend. STATE HEWS. THE- DOIN08 OF OUK PEOPLE BRIEFLY! AND PLAINLY TOLD. HAPPtVIKOH 'OF THE DCXSCD. Week It is stated that one cent a mile will be the rate given on all railroads in anu oni ox tne state, to itje fix po sition. This will insure large crowds W A . . .. w4 ox people. Mr. Charley Vance eavs that Ben ator v ance is about this time on his way to the iloly Land, and that he is expected (back by the middle of NoverabehU-Oreeoaboto WurJiHAn. Iter. A. ii. Philips, a former tesi dent of Clinton, now in charge of the colored Mission of the South, while in New York this Summer hid a special invitation to fill the Beephef pulpit. -Clijnton Caucasian. Senator Peffer will spekk at the Southern Ki position in Haleiffli on the 9th of jQctober. Reduced, fate? will prevail on the railroad ancti von can attend the fair and hear the great speaker at small cost Hejwili 8 peak at Warrantou on the lOtt, as will President Uutler and State Lecturer Bell. CJoldsboro All mure Sentintl. i Wayne county's exhibit fori the Southern Inter-State1 Exposition: winch opeiaat Kaleigh next moiith, is beinsr dilisrentlv accumulated I bv tnat inueiaitigable and; admirably public spirited worker, Lt T. II. liain, secretary of the Eastern Claro- lina Fair anil stock Association, kho has charge bf the. exhibit! Gdlds- boro Argu. Tl til I m ' r j. iJiocK, oi uaoarrus, wno re cently discovered a rich vein of gold on his plantation is still takingfout the Precious stuff in imntl kIzm! chunks.' i lie has found sevferal pieces worth $50 each, and still the gold is so plentiful that , Block pre f era to work the vein rather than gather his opening cotton. Char lotte CJtrOHikle. The. Charlotte JVews imderstalnds i that there is shortly, to be a decipive .: conference in Charlotte m" relation to the Southern extension of the Roanoke & &uthern road. The cbni- to, begin bni)din? South from 1 Win ston, and the location of the route is shortly to be decided upon. The drawings of the engineers have been submitted tt the authorities. )n Tuesdl y Policeman DupreeL' in accordance Ooldsbord, ith a telegram from rrested J ohn Wodten and wife, col red, and took them to uQldsbord tc answer to the charge of abandoning a four mouths old in- int. leir rri B - arnv at Goldsboro. The man was given thirty days in jail, and the w onian was turned loosd to care for Press. : the child. Kinston Free The navw department has cheer- f ullv aereed to equip the Charlotte Liffht Artillery an the most complete manner: the requirements are tor a ' i 'L maniuir the lwmi rpTTIPIl TS Jirft tor emborslli p 0r 80. men. The cfcm- panv is io A a combination of naval, militia and -lit Li:n ,r M-.r.-v "V" - V -V"' 1 up to govemnieait reguiarions : i, every respect. vitrjicii annual piow; liatll ' Ij savl, a; training ship will take the company out u sea iui uuu. . n . I a. a .j :n tlr .1. Reynolds is having a crddit- able race track built on his farm inst east of Winston. Mr. -Reynblds ' ig a man who delights m such -slwrt and it is lielieved by many that k-ac- . lUir will DC as OOiilliai ucic iu a rm T ! nwulniH.ri nrpanhed twice -Sui: at the Hefolm Club Room to ineiteas- iu!r audiences of Lutherans. It w as lmtioiiiieetl that . a coiisrregatioii I of o v i ( that denoni natiou . wiUue. orgaiiizeti v'..-.- ..A i Un,. 1UII IV All If U1LJI I. U V - lilll "V. a. ' I - of whom are l hjre in the Twin CitJy. Winston Sentinel. Efforts are being , success! ullv made, .the raise! from u ) n rham Globe states, to f 5,000 to $1 0,000 f oi t he erection of -a suitable building for the itsV of Trinitv College, as a I me- rmorial in Honor of the Rev, Dr. Brax ton ICravedi. its President lllus anion nt i to be paid m ten eijual T.J I ' - I monthlv installments beginning , i a "! ter the akiubunt of $5,000. shall been! pledged, and a meeting of the de- subscribers thereof be held, to! tennine jdejtinitely. upon the pla; is of pro- constructidn aud puriose ot tne posed building, and upon the amount to be exWiidetl in the erection v the same. Not niailv davs ago w'e mad b an- ( other pleasunt visit to the sphjndid farm of (Mr. J. B. Yellowley, iu t be- low town, and enjoyed a feast o de- licions grapes, lie has a large Kiue- vard in jwttich are manv ot the very lest vatuities of grapes. At this' season net has tne jcnpperiioug, James. Metisch and Illium, the titter vnif i8iuHvprtHl and nainetl bv Fit ' - fc- - ei by his uncle, fehe late Col. E.C. Ye low- ev, the jfok-mer owner of the which lue gavi the same name. dace Be- sides erowning an '-abundance of fruits, MrJ Yellowley is a stron liever ni trucking, and is: very i 1 snc- cessful il !in it. Last bpring he fehiiv Ped from a four acre mtch ujearlv 10,000 pmrts of strawberries. He next than Is making a larger paicu tor year. He also has little more an acre lof asparagus, now in it i sec - for he bud vear, and says next ipnii expects to sell S200 worth of roots ields from that Iatch. Asrsiragus u. croD coiltiuuouslv every vear If or a lie lime, i n is propeny i-uiuiaicu, and is d vf ry profitable crop. U reeu- Nfille Jiejtector. .... i. t .n . "Proiresx-Tie Stnie of &oi" Another Bright Chipttr In the Dls- ' tory f Kortk fartllBi's THEClTTiOX THETAR. Tarhoroof To-Day and WJiat She 1$ Doing Indurie$ Operating In Its 'Prosperity 'and Growth Her Manufacturers Find a Market in the Northern State-j-Her "Tobacco Interests is Assuming Commercial Importances Wiat Has Been Done TJiere and Wt Mag Be Done. Staff Coi rl $Ute 1 Chronicle. Tarbokoj K. C, Sept, 21,-91'. Ibehrst party, of settlers who raised a few huUmpou the banks of the river; Tar iil not! dream that they were creating a beautiful, pro gressive, bus v town as is Tarboro to day. Nor did they think, as they lighted their tire upon, their hearths, that they were kindling flames which should m after years make the fur nace irlow. the Btiiudle hum aiid tha whirl of wheels to take ! the place of the murmurs of the primeval forests. Little did they think that their small patches should bf turned into broad fertile farms of cotton, tobacco and grain, or that ther rude huts would be supplanted 1)4 niaguificent piles of brick and mortar. But such has been the case, and in few towns in the State to-day display more vigor. enterprise and growth than does this "city on the Tar.f "' Its history is therefore worthy of examination. It has not been like Newberue, Fayettevillei or Raleigh. the scene of important) event in the State's history; bor has It been mark ed by the rapidjty of it growth like u insion, uurnaui, iienuerson, ASlie- ville and others; But its jears have been marked by? a steady, healthy growth, and brightened by the warm colors of romance aud the ; story of a unique.- ; j. ' " j. '; lhe men who have shaped its de velopment have bfeen almost, without exception marked by striking pecul iarities of thought; and 'motive." The strength of their mental fiebre has been iuwroughtjiii its material pros- perity. Indeed mind, thought, and invention have shaped j its material progress. Its growth from a cluster of. rude houses t4 a beautiful and prosperous little! city, second in social and business life jo no town in the State gives it an individuality of its own. - -. -I-'.! l.-i . -j"- . Wherever we jj mid the existing conditions estabiilhed as to natural advantages joinbtt with agriculture, afJiJiandmaid, stikmlatd by the en the heTreauIf f llVlf rtimateiy"' a i community healthy and prosperous in its affairs. jRormerlyi town build ing was greatly j the Outgrowth of chance selection! Now this has been entirely revjo.lutionized. Natur al advantages, sue h as raw material and fuel, supj)lenen ted by ; labor and transportation fjaQilitiea) are the auto cratic powers tha must be turned to. These four esseiitials for a manu facturing town,! raw nniterial, fuel, 1alMr. and tra hsbortation. Tarboro tt, & .dcrfui extent. Sit- , ... ,r x,.i.,t 1 lilt". I iuijicsi aguviuuiai iTwii in thp K!ito if '.North- Carolina . n . u tni. .unsurpasseui n rushes mst it ahd on its bosom bears the commerce of jthis thriving busy mart and of the 'surrounding conn- ties 1 have always objectel to the word "boom on account oi tne inuis criminate usexf Jhis very expressive uiiuuuauauic. . ihk : m uvovmn-o aciiy:wnaL is . nu uivi.ijg iav, ,o farboro. Theiel is 116 other word that so .well expreso'es the life and ac tivitv resulting! from the awakened energies which generate new forces and create npw , potentialities oy 'which new en ernrises; spring into existencHvand new cities are built al most in a day, uslby iiagic. Where there is no "boom" nieil sit in j front of their stores whittling goods ; boxes and watching the boys play . marbles. But the "bo0n here is 111 no seuse spasmodic. The men in charge of it do not '-lielieve in! that Wi of thing. Being cautious and conservative they avoidthe mad i lish which has well- nigh wrecked sb many iindred enter- prises in tne rMWtu. In., every diii'ction ludim 1 ! Tarboro na'turtj has be I arboro naturu lias storing, a wealth of material and soil to be brought forth and j uiade into ten thousand different articles of useful ness. Its lonH stretches of fertile land are a storehouse of virgin tim ber for fuel aiYijthe various features of 'wood, working. ' Three of the iKwerf ul rail Wats of the country and an!elegant line ox boats upon the lar river iuriusn ajrooiv yiuu. wuijiru tion rates on freight, and rapid arid direct communication with every portion of the country, j r re f I i - J. A V quent trains land: ample facili- : ins "'11"- i in the w ay of transportation oi per- I i sous and prop sous and propers v to oe meu uo Wirf . r, 1 . " A. - I these facts not fhave au important bearing upon Tdrboro's future? Ileal ly it is difficult to select from the range of general industries that cannot le conducted here to advan- i 1 . A planing null using tne tan pines and sturdy oaki so abundant here; a cotton factory fto make into cloth this staple ofr Kdgecdmbe for the fanners at theirf very doors; a kuit- f ting factory for pose and underwear ! for both se'xesi 4otton jaiul yarn fac- j torv to supphj this knitting mill and I others with "tarn; agricultural im plement works tf meet jthegrowiugde- mand for imp or improved machinery; pnos phate mills to f make into fertilizers for the soil the iwaste material of the TARBOROV N. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1891. earth: t varan and carriApe fmtorTt a shoe and narneai factory; a peanut mill; two of the largest tobacco ware houses in the State, and still the list is incomplete. The field is very broad. And just as surely as I write there win one aay be a large manufactur ing city here on the basks of the Tar river, drowning its murmurs in the roar of machinery and the hiss 01 steam. Already in the autumn sunshine there is the flash of the tin roofs of new " manufacturing - enter prises and the air is filled with the hum of busy life and bright, fresh- looicing new nouses line the streets. M Being in the finest cotton region in the State, Tarboro's growth and prosperity up to the present has been almost entirely due to this cotton in dustry. ' But old things have passed away. Cotton has ceased to pay. and the producer has very naturally casl about tor some other crop by whicli he might be able to reap a due re ward for' the toil expended: Ana the land to the great surprise of many; has been found to be admirably aaaptea to the production of the finest tobacco. 'The result is that King Cotton has lost his hold uixm the people and the golden-hued leaf reigns instead, bringing in its train increased in prosperity and plenty. The most remarkable results have been attained in the cultivation of tobacco and over 2,000 acres in this county are-now covered with some of the finest tobacco crops I remember ever to have seen. One can almost feel the warmth of I the fever-heat and catch" the pleasant odor of the golden weed as he mingles with its inhabitants, lhe opening sales at the new warehouses on the 23d iust. bid fair to be the largest and finest ever known 111 the State. In addition to this, trucking has been found to be a very profitable in dustry in this vicinity. And as the season here is more than a week earl ier than that of Norfolk truck-farming: supplementing Edgecombe's great tobacco industry will doubtless usher iu another era of prosperity. In educational and moral advan tages, as in other ways, Tarboro is peculiarly fortunate. Its schools and churches are of the best Be sides several very efficient enterpris ing and extensively patronized pri vate schools, the graded school, un der the efficient superintendency of Prof. J D. Howell, is an honor to the town. The,' Fakmers Advocate and the Tarboro "Southerner are untiring fac tors in pushing the development of the place. The editors of these two newsy and able sheets are men of ideas, convictions, and enterprise. Eminently fitted for the positions of I trust and power- that they occupy j they have at all tines directed! their enterprise- to'tne grow til aiiu.ueeiup 1 ment of the place. ; Another factor in the development of the place is the Tarboro Land aud Improvement Company. This compauy is thoroughly organized and has been for sometime actively at work. It has purchased the tract of land known as' the W. S. Battle property, coutaing 250 acres, which they have laid off on a liberal plau giving broad streets, avenues, and alleys.: The! property of the company is being rapidly brought up and im proved, lies immediately . contiguous to the; corporate limits toward the West and is beautiful land. In view of the facts as we have shown, that this town must of necessity become a city,; this property is well worthy the attention of those seeking a safe and profitable investment As to the future of Tarboro, noth ing but a degenerate and unenterpris ing public spirit can make it less bright than the past' Possessing as it does the combined advahtages as an-' infinity; of industrial resources and a, geographical position which makes, it a railroad centre, it only needs public spirit aud ambition on the part of her citizens to bring her rapidly to the front in wealth and intelligence. ! r KED AlEKKITT. Government Loans at 2 per Cent. : DeiMlwomI Indepeiivlent. ' . Well, why not! For years bank ers have been borrowing from the government at 1 per cent Is it wise, to loan to capitalists and refuse, to loan to wealth producers upon equally good security? It may be remarked first that the proposi tion that the government should loan Jegal-tender notes to individuals is now a new or strange one. -It has been for years the coustant practice of the government to loan such notes freely upon the security ' of bonds, -which are certainly not better secur ity than real property. These indi-. vidua! s are, however, called bankers; and they borrow the money, not for the purpose of productive industry, but for those of usury. The gov ernment simply- puts the indispensi bletool of trade into their hands and forces the wealth producers to Py .-i j t A A. ..A- .. ... 1 them tribute. Juit as tyrants used to farm out the public revenues, so now. 6iir government farms out the business of supplying money. This custom has the sanction of financiers. By the whole banking fraternity .of th'e nation the principle is pronounc ed to.be just aud the practice wise. It is sanctioned bv the two great po litical parties. ;Wheu all are agreed a mn tinu-tiw p manlwrn it wisev and esteem it a settled fact that t . . !l .. 111. 1 i, . U .. the principle of government loans to individuals at a.low rate of interest -4 turned. It only remains to be de termined what persons may borrow ana what security they may offer. Shall bankers alone enjoy the priv- IieSFn bonds be the single form of security that may be pledged? Why iji this limitation desirable or necessary There can be but one answer, which is, that money canoe kept scarce. It is doubtless, safe to lend money freely1 to bankers, for tney wan not take more than thev can profitably lend again. It wonhl not he Politic for them to overstock the market with their own particu lar wares. We have waited in vain for the clear and concise statement inat; wiu plainly show how, why, and in what manner the mass of the 'peo ple iare benefited by a scarcity of moupy.i until this statement is pro duced, we are justified in the assump tionithit the reverse of this is true that the wealth-producers of the na tion would be more prosperous, be auieio live oetter and save more. with; an abundance of money in cir culation than with the present short supply. 1 1 hat some other class would be straitened by this changed condi tion ,is possible; but if this be a fact, it llH Vet to Vx mikI cfrnnirln stated, and made reasonably probable oeiore it can demand our notice. Nowf let us try to look ahead a lit tle aidsee, if we can, w hat w ould probably follow the enactment into law of the proposition we have stated The first effect of such a law Mould be to reduce the rate of interest from 10, as. at present, to 2 per cent per annum.! H. very farmer who, owed money, upon which he was paying 10 or more per cent, would propose to get a loan from the government at 2 pier cent, which would compel holders 6f mortgages to reduce their rates fo the same, hgures, so that the openiug of a supply of 2 per cent money would soon make 2 per cent, the regular rate for all well-secured loans.? That such w ould be the cer tain result can not be questioned. Lenders would not allow their mon ey to lay idle and thus force the is sue of , new money, to an unnecessary extent j It is always in the interest of moiey lenders to have the supply short. I Jlere, then, we have one re sult which would certainly "follow the enactment of the proposed law. Would it be a good result- or a bad one? that is the question.' People will largely decide this according to their jpersonal interests. But one thing 'is certain, so : long as the nia- onty f the people are borrowers or wealtMproducers, tMe majority of the people would be blessed by thechauge. There s 110 avoiding that fact The effect of an ample volume of curren cy iipoi the business and enterprise of the I conn try was illustrated by uok lnigersoii as toliows: DUSUieSS; was picaocxi w uic oiv y niiv. The productive power of the nation was developed to the utmost Every wheel 4'as in motion, and there was employment for every kind of labor. There" vas a constantly rising mar ket and Everybody worked for every body. , j On every hand fortunes were being nade and a tide 'of wealth swept dyer the country. lints be came houses, and houses became pal picti floors With carpets and for the first time iif the history . of man, the la borer.aiul the artisan tasted of the lnxuriesfof wealth. Butlaias! This was too much for the reigning authorities "of the coun try. They couldn't endure such general prosperity, and therefore a radical Change of policy was: resol ved upon fain entire reversal of the ma chinery jof government At t.be dic tation, bij the money power a, contrac tion of j the currency was ordained and decreed in order to double and quadruple the value of,? and- pur chasing power of invested money. This eohstitutes the philosophy of the whole movement And how was it to be ferected? By converting all the glvfernmeut paper afloat into government bonds bearing interest and fxiempt from taxation. Ac cordingly the necessary authority w asgraiTted the Secretary and Treas ury, af d the work began and pro-1 ceededl at such a rate that the Sec retary fiii his report of December C, 18G9ives a "Kecapitulation of all kinds lot government paper that was issued as money or was in any way used as j a circulating medium and that remained outstanding and . un redeemed on the 30th of June, 1859" and thej amount was 475 millions. So th4 Volume of money had been re ducedfin four vears about a thousand million of doyars and the bonded debt increased in proportion. Now as monv is the very life blood of business as it fills and flows through the veins of the body politic, the ef fect of this depressio'n of the volume of theicjurrency in the country was terrible altogether beyond the pow er of dur pen to descrile. there fore lfeten to Col. Ingersoll again, as he describes its . "Iuf 1862 came the crash, and no land language can describe the ago nies suffered bv the American peo ple from that, time till 1879. Thon- sandsiupon thousands, who supposed. ! that thev had enough for their de ! .J " t 1 clinirig "vears and for wife and fami- lV, siuddenly found themselves pau pers knd vagrants. Business was brought to an end, men stopped dig ging ore, spindles cease to hum and the fire-s died out ; in the furnaces. The men who faced the . glare of the forge wer,e in the gloom of despond encvJ for there was. no employment for them since the employer couldn t ! sell his oroducts. lhe factories ! rSoll weTelall closed, the workmen demor alized and the roads of the country filledj with tramps. and oh good security can not be uues aces. Tatters were changed to gar ments,! and garments became Vol jes. Walls Iwere covered with pictures, GEXEBAL KEITS. Ilealdsburg, Cal., had a shock of earthquake, V Gen. Schofield has approved the new army tactics. Congressman William I Scott, of rennsyirania, died last week. B. G. Bruce, one of the best known turf authorities m America, is dead. The Columbia Chemical works in Brooklyn were burned, loss $100, 000. - :. i . . , . , .- ' ; - . It is said that Africa ; and South America will .sbortl v be coiinected by .i.u ; 4 - .' - . . , V - - -. Three boys were killed in the'Chi- cago stock : yards, while stealing a iiue on me train. - ; .1 11 a . , Spain has been "the scene of riots last week. -1 No lives lost but much property destroyed. ; I - . . uvi wo, vvuuum iu jail ai btaunton,. V a., for murder, have been carried to Charlottesville, as lynch ing is leareu. . ;, . -. . Capt Anson, of the Chicasro base ball club, has been asked to write a play founded ! on baseball, and - it is suggested that he play the hero.; Ex-Congressman Bowdeu. a lie- publican boss of Virgi u ia, says he thinks nothing could be accomnli sh ed by a fight iu that State this year. The Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College has opened the fall .se&sionJ with Over 200 hundred students present, many of them com- iug irom xMortnern states. Gov. Hill spoke twice in Pouffh- keepsie, N. Y. He says Democrats are confident, New York is a Demo cratic Stated and he denounces Re publican legislation roundly.-'. Young Mitchell. chamiinn i mid dle-weight of the Pacific coast, and Keddy Gallagher, of Ohio, fought in San Frauciscc Mitchell winning in the 13th round. v .-!"- It is now stated that Blaine will not be a candidate for President but prefers the renominationof Harrison. However, m politics, nothing is cer tain, and Blaine may yet" be put lie fore the Americaii people for that honor. I- , .v - . " i . - .--, ;. . Two Italian . immigrants at New- York when. . crossedquestioned, ad mitted: that thev 'had never been here before, and had 'bbrtght natural ization papers in Havre and were nh- der contract 'to work for the Chapin ron iviimng uompany, Jlichigau. Both will be sent back. Ex-Gov. Moirehoiise, of Missouri, committed suicide ', last week by cnt7 ing his throat wi-tu a pen Kline, m the absence of friends who,. being his con di tion, were They had just gone anxious about watching him. gle on earth.- - - ; ,. r . A dispatch from Washington I). C. savs: A uumwr of life.! saving station keepers have resigned f recent ly and all have given as a reason the small salaries which the government pays them. The life saving service made several attempts to liave tlxe salaries.-of the keepers raised by Con gress but thus far without success. . Commenting ;oir cotton manufac turing in Georgia, South Carolina and North . Carolina, the Boston Journal of Com met ce ' says the con- sumption, per spinuie, oi me . mius in these States was 33-100 of a bale for North Carolina, 34-100 of a bale for Georgia, and 38-1 of a bale for South Carolina. Apparently 'con sidering the relative hnmher'of spin dles andamount of cotton cousununl in these States, finer counts .of yarn were spun in Georgia than. in South Carolina, and in North Carolina than in either of the State's. A dispatch from Illinois says: ; Two weeks, ago the ' farmers of Warren county w ere praying for warm weath er to save their-cofn crop.. Their pe titions were more than granted. Big ! crops of corn are assured but the sit- nation is alarming, ihe oldest res idents never j experienced" hottter weather in September. Vegetation is literally burned up. The farmers are compelled to feed their stock as in winter and many are hunting wa ter as the wells anil stf earns are dry. Yesterday and Monday the mercury registered 100 in the shade. The Savannah fries says: "This year's cotton'crop will not he over 7,500,000 bales," said a cotton man yesterdav. He was talking to a buy er, but he was convinced neverthe less that his belief was well founded. There are a great many who agree with hinv The weather now is verV favorable for the rapid opening and harvesting of cotton. , So favorable in fact that many sections report that the immature bolls are opening under the influence of the hot 'dry weather This causes a loss in weight to the 'planter. - An early frost is calculated upon bv many to cut off the Crop and end tne harvest ing by Nov. 1. A Quincy, Fla., special to the Ere ninq Telegram says: Over 160 ci gar makers-in the Owl factory here refuse to go to work this : morning because the manager has in his em ploy two workmen .not members of th cigar makers union. 'Yesterday thev made a formal demand for the discharge of .these men but the man ager refuse to discharge them. All the union men struck-- "Tfireata '.of violence were -made against the two non-union men yesterday.; -There was much excitement on "the streets last night and there were fears of an outbreak. None occurred, however. and to-Iav everything is quiet but both "sides are stubljprn. The po lice protect' the non-union men. Tlie Owl factory is-owned bv Straiton & Storm, of New York. Health Deiuitm ect COSPrCTCD BT Dr; J. Wi JoXM, LA"TK -imcsinKXT Statk Bo-asp 3 ; or Health. JMcrvklc Life Im Scwtr Air. ddma dclirtml before th CVoTlon Mtcro- copicai ana .torml History Club. Cror don. EnrUad, Apnl loth, liWR. bj Alfred Carpenter, M. D , P. -. My attention was first attracted to sewer air in the years, 1853, 1854 and 1855. f AVe had a ventilator fixed to the sewer at theFrieudsf School in 1W4, which was then in Park Lane, Croydon. One of the teachers, who was of an inquisitive "turn of mind, got ou the roof and smelt at the opening, w ith the siHpience of a severe attack of sickness. It was the first case in which Twas able todraw a distinct inference as to cause and effect withwhichil 'came into con tact, though I was then satisfied. th(U sewer gas did cause much' illness in the town. It was not long . before, that event that I had ventilated the soil-pipes of my house, : then iu the Dingwall Koad, the! first ventilator of the kind' which was put tip in Croydon, and by that means,,! think, a - saved ray household from the inva- sion oi, typnoid lever, which affected my neighbors in every house in that road right and left of me. From experiments carried out at that' time in various houses in Croydon. I w as satisfied as to the dangerous charac ter of sewer air . when coming from unuushed, unventilated sewers, and I deternuned to do my lHst to get the Croydon system of. sewers both flush ed ventilated. It was not. however. until after the year! 865, with its distressing events, that the local au thorities would agree to adopt the princiule tliat everv individual boii should have its own protector from the invasion of obnoxious gases. About that time the experiments of the German scientist, Professor Ke- ber,, of Dantzic; who followed; up Erzcnburgh's' discoveries, had made out the connection between' Jiving orgauisuis and disease, such as tliat Which produced splenicrfever in cat tle and relapsing-fever in huuian be ings. . I legan my own experiments on sewer air about : this time,, and tried to get some facts from personal i. 1: . . .. t 2 1 i i , t . ooseraiiou wuicu snouiu ue worthy of a place in the literature 6f this I society. I had proved 5 to my p wii satisfaction that potato blight was caused by a mould f uiigiiB (the Per oiujsjtora infettau); though I did not, for one uionient claim to?lje the discoverer, but -only verified- that from another fungus '(the Ai'eruieus hichrfthans). I detailed Iny observa tions upon Peronosjora infest a ns in the Times newspaiiers, with tlie rJ suit of drawing upon me the angers of those who were worKing ni.iiie same held, tiertiaps in a more conciu-; give measure that I did, but of whose work in that particular field I was, like most other people at that time, quite unaware. I followed' out my observations upon sewer .'air-by siisi pending microscopic slides, in those positions iu which sewer air was dis tinctly found to make its exit. It was while I was. so. engaged that jl made out that a number pf M r.' Iji thani's charcoal baskets were insertl into openings into which air some times entered. These lisket hiul teen providel to' obviate the mis chiefs from seweri by purifying the air by means of charcoal; some were 6eiiingss for the admission of ; air rather than as exits, ihis was es pecially the case with two or three openings at or near to xne ..ion -iiy- sery, which had been compiaineu oi as nuisances, but whicn were con- clusi vely proved to my own satisfac tion to be completely lunocent ot offence, for , air went in insuad of coming out, though it is qyite jiroli able that there was a reverte action occasionally. It was evident to me that the smell then complained pt came from some Other source than the sewer irrating. The examination of the slides , that I placed in the . . . -i ' : 7 m gratings showed a variety oi orgain isnis such as had been found iu tlie wards of a large hospital, but I could not recognize any that I could accuse of being typhoid, or other disease germs, which were the" organisms I was more especially searching for. The arrested, organisms were vibrios micrococci ana vegetable germs, -innocent of malignant action 'ou man, as far as our knowledge then exten- dwl. I was not at that time awarefof the plan of cultivation by mean a Jehitine solutions such are as; now of successfully used in similar inresti nation s-r-some of these :L exhibited on a former occasion to the member of this societv. I exhibited also tuinii wneo.imens and diarrnuns ire- pared by Dr. Heron, showing these developments, when I last addressed the society upon the subject oi uis- ease germs. My last attempt as investigation in this direction was made upon' a ven tilating opening at the sides of my srarden upon Duppas Hill Terrace. The results of that investigation have been Published in St T nomas 'Hos pital retwrts for the year They in vol vCl a medical questiou which I was anxious to submit to the medical profession, and did not 'de-. tail them to this society. The .sub stance of niv observations, which were carried on in fthe Winter of 1880-81, was that certain smells Came from tliat ventilator which-varied in nature as well as in intensity. Sometimes the jsmel I was excess! jely offensive from the presence of su phide of ammonium; at others there PRICK. FIVE CKXTS. r n .!n,iM7 and U4 urs a sweru hav-like txlor VrmVh lyuiu noi i -alll dwtinctlJsrfTeh wve. I never melt th.nt Vtictiiar smell at that vr witlmut c ttina relaxrd throat and a 'ciigh in the next dav ot tm, and ' on'tWoeca 'Slons a distinct feverish attack last ing for forty-eight hour?. There was one point of imitrtance in the microscopical, exaniinatiou f the slides which 1 sojndi-! in' the ven tilator vit, that wlH iirVer t he (, -hay-like snu-ll xistel . sonic verv minute highly rvfra&iive' orgunism. smaller than theordinarv inirrtHcci. were seen, which wort-, alwavs abnt when tlK' nwrt t' hav Mu-irwa t r- . ceived. I never su ffert-t f Mm r,.! ..l throat after inhaling iht t lwv smell, and I came to the rohrlo.i.-in lhat the highly rt fratie imrticj.s were the germs hich ga' im tlu relaxed throat and that th v were non-existent when: put refaction was thoroughly estahlislnHl. If I had known anythlug f gelatine cultiva tion then, I should-'. h rtainly have cultivattnl those getnw iud trUnl to prove their,' conntt tion w ith muii' what si hp lar organ ini "w huh are foniulin diphtheria and fHuHns;or infectious pneunioniii. (Some ca.-H of thexe diseases ditl vxit on Diipas Hill about that time.) It n while making t hvse ' jnvotiat ions t hat I discovered. ar-defe 'in ntv own h ft eyej which leil me lo gin- up uiicro scoJucal n-s an h, and w hich has since disabled iu' from aif-ting at thesot-ietjfs uiii-,rtniipic'- 'demonstrations.-.;" i :-- - -' .- . Since that time I hn. lKt n tilu cating inysi'lf by th iiiicroMt.j.ie studies of . others , in thi-'.-KtuV -direction. It has Nt-n clearly provetl bv exjHTiment that lu-tnal pntri faction is generally destructive. of the life of disi-ase germs, so that the only re sult which need follow the iiihala- . tion of the tiff endive cnlor' from sew ers' is the neoi-Rity of callinv the attention of the hxal aut horitws to the fact that the sewer is a" 'newer of dejoit and U-fore the btink e.nietl might have, been a source of danger -fo those; pasfcing l.y that locality We may depend ujHin; it that it is liot the sewers which, tiuk thut.are the most dangemus, though befurV pu trefaction was complete jt was .possi ble that there might have Iwin dis ease germs escaping from t hat Pur- . ticiihir ojK-uiug, though I shall show iireseiitly that they nwl nt eveite serious alarui. - I jet us go. i back U the Iiabitat'of t he. genii, w hich will a pj na r i n our next issue. Sewage and Iif rbagr. We were talking, a. jnoutli or no "Lsince, with a travelled Wiliningtou ian who had spent much time iif Ku and towns visTtetj. " iie ui mn so thorough wa "thy hiineijal ys tem that yoij'would nitee Uie leut litter or tilth of any. kind. in the streets. The t; Wan e.elklit, wa jrHjijft I v re- and the garbage iiKve J. None wuh allow eil t Ik de- M-ited in the treets. W thought of that ami what Our eye .'have. Meii aud'oiir iute has smelt: in thi.4 far bred town. .The Tirol let t im of sme odors' is enough, M.i..illy to bring on an attack of. Jiay feveior' wMe. After talking with -our., frirnd we were fortunate enough to get hold f fhe oiTicial report of Dr. Keyer, uu American cit i icn e take hin. to lie, but.it is not stated, w ho i-itil Ber lin, Dresden and other German cit ie. He disciwws at length the -ewac o'f Berlin, which i H-rfect. "-"Nothing but surface water, wate from yard-, kitchens and rtater-eo-et, in jermit ted "to mil; I into the ewcr. The streets are - Wing coiitiuuomly cleaned, by" i roinpetent force. On everv siuare' there-. :re ornamental iron .receptacle' ior in ui'i. The night carts .rejnove all th;- He says "no bit! of- paper, garbage or dt- jris of anv ;kinl are Ki:itrfi to re thrown into tht htr t.-. The are collected in bag-. and bou.- and hauled out of the itv." He adds, and if is .. instructive: vaa a.t in this country, U ri-jillv unknow u. ' AU of the Howap; mat ter m i .for cul tivation around the cit v. ' . He nay-i, Originallv all around ' frlih wan a liarretf plane, but now it ; is estfeme- ly fertile. In eerv f.'reet there is a sewer uresuen ai anoiner - very clean city ; he visited. So with FraiikforMn-the-.Majii. ; We cannot follow: him in hi-s fiao- nate reHrt, He tell how the sew ers are coii'structed,, and how .-ach system is adaptel t'7 th-j.artiiu- lar cities ..-according to circum-itan- " i t ces. In I'ari-J he a the lnwt aduiira- ble syUiii, ujx;n w hich lie enlarge. He avt that lonneriv i Ji- en emptiMuti the river S ine, but not -i. . . in, I now. The iontentji are an rurnei bevond the .cijly- vfor.-'irrigating and eurichiug the land. 1 here, are four systems ii, u.'Jor. removing e-:ejooi accumulation the r..niMT rtr the movable, the -iilter and th ttrt. No litter or"iilth U al! d in the streets. If you.drojhaiivthiug m tne streets th jol ice wili y.i' kly le after; v'ou. f'rfe i t ' evatem. J at length, tliat l)r.heyrr through a grH'tt frvr and . . ' '....-.' i t waJ 6Urpnetl at Uie'ei--) oi-o-jrr. "Nothing unpleasant u; found. He savs the iscwere ur1 .foti-tanuy flushed' with watr,"; and iW tr!-tirai are thrown intd th Vtre. t'. Every town and city ought to itudy'ihe Euroean eaiupl- ' and then do likewi--.' I's.Wic heulth,. cieanlineks and comfort require the best possible sauita'ion. No such thing. as .'projer.-sanitation n -j.os:ble with the streets rfil k-d ' with noxious and 'nauseous rcfu -,' i.ru re eweri to do the needed work. 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