The Farmer AND
“WONK OS BEST, BUT WHAT’BB BEFALL, THE FARMER, HE MUST TEED THEM ALL:
‘SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORSOT, AND DATS OF AULD LANS SYNE?"
FARMER VOL. I.-NO. 34.1
RED SPRINGS, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1890.
[SCOTTISH CHIEF-VOL.HI.-NO.8
^i A. Sinclair
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NEWS SUMMARY.
FAYETTEVILLE,
N. 0
FROM ALL OVER THE SOUTHLAND,
"Practices in Cumberland, R-ob^on, Hare,
nett and Moore counties.
Sept, 25, 1888. 1 tf
□ 6 HIN~G~SHAw7~
Attorney and OonwaWiOR at Law,
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
Practices in all the various courts of the
State. Prompt attention given to all
business entrusted to his care.
Accidents. Calamities Pleasant News and
Notes of Industry,
VIRGINB.
George Miller was arrested at Alexan
dria, charged with using the mails to
defraud.
Five workmen were Injured by the
falling timbers in the new ice factory at
ton field, and pitching the babe In cover
ed it over with dirt. Another woman,
working nearby, suspecting the crime,
forced the inhuman mother to reveal the
spot where she had buried thebabe. The
dirt was pulled away and the child tes-
cued alive.
The California board of trade has ask
ed for three acres of space at the Colum
bian Exhibition.
Beans are quite plentiful ; so a'so are
Irish potatoes, being unusually early at
this time of the season. Straw berries
are not abundant, and retail at 12-1 and
15 cents perqvart. Green pea a are short.
Blackberries and rapberries promise an
CONGRESSIONAL.
THE SUB-TREASURY PLAN.
PASSING EVENTS.
PBEBBY PERUNS
Oct. BO, 1^
5 tf
• Burn.b©r Bridge-
HIGH SCHOOL.
B^’SPniNU SESSION OPENS JAN
I UARY 1, 1880.
A thorough practical school with prions
to suit the herd times. The health and
morals of the location cannot be surpass
ed. Write for circulars. Address,
J. A. MONROE, A. M.,
i Lumber Bridge, N. C
Principal.
Jan. 8. 13 ^
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
A Representative of the Alliance Argues
In Favor of It,
NEWS OF THE DAY OONDENSED
Meet in Asheville, N. 0.—The History of
the Body.
IS IT
1 YOU
LUMBER & LATHS
WANTS IF SO BUY OF
B. F. Devane,
—BED SPRINGS, N. C.—
^^Any quality and size bill can
filled at short notice.
bs
, Jan 24.
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Don’t Forget That
Biggs & Rankin
I —OF-
IRed Springs, N. O»,
—Are Manufacturers of—
Yellow Heart Pub: Lumber and Laths,
and can fill any bill promptly. Mill
located in. the heart of Long
Leaf Pine Section.
^GIVE US YOUR ORDERS.^
j Biggs &. Rankin,
1 Jan. 24, 1390 16 ly
Fitzhugh Bros.,
—-MANUFACTURERS OF—-
BUMBBR, - LATHS,
FLOORING, CEILING,
F . WEATHERBOARDING
—AND—
MOUL DINGS,
Red Springe, N, C,
Lynchburg.
Stuart, Patrick uty, give; y-rtic- -
u’ars of a ..eriou^ ^o-. ting affray in that ,
town. Joseph Staples, a well-known
young man, got on a spree and defied
arrest. The mayoi summoned a posse
of them to take him, when Staples
opened fire on Armilton Woolwine, and
inflicted a mortal wound. Staples also
tried to shoot Mayor Martin, but hie
mother prevented him. _ Staples was
then arrested and lodged in jail.
Memorial Day was grandly celebrated
in Richmond.
The Bnai Brith will assemble in Rich
mond on June 1.
Lightning struck a tree at Max Mead
ows, under'which a magazine had been
built to hold the powder, dynamite, etc.,
used for blasting rock, in constructing
a road. The fire was communicated to
the magazine, and a frightful explosion
ensued, tearing up tee trees, rocks and
earth, and blowing them into atoms.
Nearly every window iu the little town
was shattered, and those iu one side of
the Presbyterian church were blown
out.
Joseph Staples has been arrested in
Stuart, charged with shooting Hamilton
Wool wine.
Berry Penn (negro) was sentenced,
in Campbell county to twelve years in
the penitentiary for outrage.
TENNESSEE.
There was quite an excitement, at
Jackson, caused by the public whipping!
of a Frenchman named Manie, by an in
dignant citizen. Manie is a glass-blower.
He persuaded the nine-year-old daughter
of W. O. Cason to enter his shop, and
then attempted an outrage. He was
frightened by little Irene’s screams, and
released her. She ran to her home and
informed her father of the occurrence,
and he had Manie ^rested.
After consultation with bis i r j en j a
Mr. Cason decided that the propel t piu£
to do was to publicly whip him ^ch a
horsewhip on the public square. The
I man was brought out of jail, and in the
presence of a large crowd, he was given
850 lashes on the bare back, Mi. Cason
abnudant harvest this season.
■ The Charleston, Sumter & Northern
Railroad Co., proposes to erect at dace,
a round house, at Sumter.
E. W. Dobbs, secretary, writes that
the Farmers’Alliance’expe’ctB to have the
stock company organized by June 1 to
establish the cotton seed oil mill, ferti
lizer factory and cotton ginnery at Sum
er.
The Chesterfield County, Alliance
Warehouse Co., has been incorporated
by D. M. Bariantine, C. L. Evans and J.
L. Sellers; capital stock $10,000,
Blacksburg is to have an electric-light
plant.
The machinery for the Darlington can
ning factory has arrived and busy prep
arations are being marie for a commence
ment of business.
GEORGIA,
Villa Rica, May 13.—Yesterday a
amad dog went into Mr John Henslee’s
field and the children saw him before he
got near to them. They started in a run
to where their mother was, and by this
time Mrs. Heuslee had discovered the
vicious large animal, and she run between
the children and the dog, when he at
tacked her. She caught him and held
him fast until her husband came and kill
ed him. She was not bit, but was
bruised up a good deal, and had her
dress torn. Mrs. Heuslee is one of the
A Fund of $5000,000 Galled.for—Mem
phis Citizens Giris Testimony,
Washington. Mt. Edmunds intro
duced in the Senate a bill to establish
the University of the United States. The
bill provides that there shall be establish
ed in the city of Washington a corpora
tion to be known as “The University of
the United States.” It it to consist of
ard be governed by a board of regents
composed of the President of the United
States, the members i the President’s
cabin -, the Chief Juste .. of the United
States, and twelve cithuna, no two of
them residents of the - .ue State, who
shall be appointed by concurrent resolu
tion of the two Bouses of Congress.
A Sum not exceeding ^509,000 is to
be appropriated by the bill to procure
necessary grounds and .o erect the nec
essary buildings for the University. The
sum. of $5,000,000 is set aside as the
principal of a perpetual fund, the income
of which is to be used for the mainten
ance of the University. One section of
the bill provides that “no special secta
rian belief or doctrine shall be taught or
prompted in said Ur reity, but this
prohibition shall not be vised to ex
clude the study ani coigideratien of
Christian theology. No person other
wise eligible shall be excluded from the
benefeits of the act on account of race.”
color, citizenship, or religious belief.”
A delegation representing the Farm
ers’ Alliance appeared before the Ways
and Means Committee this morning to
advocate the passage of the bill to cre
ate sub-treasuries in different parts of
the country for the reception of staple
crops produced by the farmers.
The spokesman was C. W. Macune,
chairman of the Legislative Committee
of the Alliance, and the editor of the
National Economist, a paper devoted to
the objects of the organization. Others
present were Alonzo Wardell, South
Dakota; Benjamin Terrell, Texas; Na
tional Lecturer; L. F. Livingston, pres
ident Georgia State Alliance; R. M.
Humphrey, General Superintendent
Colored Alliance, and J. J. Rogers, of
the Virginia State Alliance. In addi
tion, there were present a number of
members of Congress, principally from
our Southern States.
Mr. Macune began his address by de
scribing the depressed state of agricul-
items of; Interest Put In Sha^ For
Public Reading.
Ten stores were burned at Auburn,
Neb. Loss, $50,000.
The passage of the McKinley tariff bill
will probably deprive the World’s Fair
at Chicago, of any interest to foreign
manufacturers.
The world’s visible supply of cotton is
2,300,400 bales.
In the Southern Baptist convention at
Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday $16.-
000 was raised to add to the fund of the
theological seminary at Louisville, Ky.
Myriads of worms resembling the army
worm ere making their appearance near
Lancaster, Pa., and are ravaging the grass
fields.
Morgan Butler, of New Hartford, N.
Y., presented to that village yesterday a
town hall building to be known as But
ler Memorial Hall. It contains a Post
Office. Justice’s Court, public library,
ture, which he said was the prune ; sium aad a large assembly hall,
cause ot trouble in other pursuits. 11 „„. 1a ,X or .„ ) ™J
all completely equipped.
existing conditions continued, he warn- .- -vr i
ed the committee that labor would be- Henry S. Ives, me Napoleon of finance,
, . i aw u a-rm Ar wnc were recent -
Dec. 18, 1889.
12-ly
1 John H. Inglis,!
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAXTON, - - - N.O.
Office—Room 21, McCaskill House.
Practices in Robeson, Richmond and
Cumberland counties Prompt atten
tion given to all business entrusted to
his care.
Dec. 4. 1889. 10 lv
Cape Fear & Yaffin Yalley Railreal.
CONDBNSHD SCHEDULE
In Effect Eebruary 16,1890.
Nohth Bound.
Lv Wilmington
Ar Faye tev lIe
Lv Fayetteville
Lv Sanford
Ar Greensboro
Lv Greensboro
Lv Walnut Cove
Lv Mt Airy
Lv Bennettsville
Ar Maxton
Lv Maxton
Ar Fayetteville
Lv Millboro
Ar Greensboro
L - Greensboro
Ar Madison
Daily Except Sundav.
No. 1. No. 3. No. 15
9 40 am
1 45 pm
2 15 pm
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6 .40 pm
7 10 pm
8 43 pm
10 45 pm
9 0-9 am
10 13 am
10 95 am
12 30 pm
7 35 am
9 00 am
10 10 am
12 35 pm
south Daily Except Bunday.
SOUTH BOUND Na . J(
Lv Mt Airy
Ar Greensboro
Lv Greensboro
Lv Sanlord
Ar Fayetteville
Lv Faye teville
Ar Wilmington
Lv Fayetteville
Ar Maxton
Lv Maxton
Ar Bennettsville
Lv Madison
Ar Greensboro
Lv Greensboro
Ar Millboro
9 15 am
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2 10 pm
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6 55 pm
W. R KYLE,
General Passenger Agent
J. W. FRY,
General Sunerintandanf
handling the whip. The blood stream
ed from Manie’s back, and when released *
he was barely able to crawl away. He’
was made to leave town at once. Public
sentiment endorses the punishment.
Morris Baker, city drummer for Max
Rosenheim, a prominent wholesale to
bacco dealer of Nashville, has gotten
away with $1,800 of his employer’s
money. Barker was a trusted employe,
and had been with Rosenheim over
eight years. He is twenty-eight years
of age and single. He. has been attempt
ing to pick the winning numbers, and
has also he’d hands in poker games,
and engaged in chasing the fickle god
dess in the crap-room. He has, until
now, borne an elegant reputation.
The South Pittsburg Pipe Works ot
South Pittsburg, sent the first solid
train of cast iron pipe ever snipped
from the South. Itconsisted of twenty-
five carloads and was shipped to Texas.
The train was decorated and festooned,
and its departure was the occasion of a
public demonstration.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Governor Fowle welcomed at Ashe
ville the General Assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church.
The Scotch- Irish Society of this State
was organized at Charlotte.
J. E. Carlyle’s turpentine distillery in
Robeson county was burned.
The Wilkesboro extension of the Rich-
bravest women in Georgia, and her cour
age put with her love for her children, is
too much for a mad dbg.
Albany. --The first watermelon
was pulled in Pelham today, hyJ. J.
Mize. Ventilated cars are now be
ing received to commence shipping.. Pel
ham is the largest melon-shipping point
in the world. The railroad is now put
ting in a double capacity side- track.
Atlanta.—Rev. Sam Small has
announced himself as a candidate
from Fulton county, for election to the
next Georgia House of Representatives,
on a straight -out Prohibition platform.
Augusta, 13—Mrs. D. Farmermade
a desperate effort this afternoon to
kill ?tfjo; y. a. n.>n.n~; ^ W^Fhing^on,
Georgia Mrs. Farmer learned that
Major Roane had been slandering her.
She armed herself with a self-cocking
pistol and went out in search of the Ma
jor. She found him at his livery stable,
and without asking for an explanation
she pulled her weapon upon him and
commenced firing.
Two shots were discharged, but the
Major was not hit. Before she could
fire again friends interfered and disarmed
Mrs. Farmer. She was then arrested,
but afterward turned loose upon her
promise to leave Georgia. Mrs. Farmer
says she is only sorry that she did not
kill Major Roane.
OTHER STATES.
New Orleans, May 17.—Mr. John A.
Morris, speaking for the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, after consultation
with his lawyeis to-day, offered the
Mississippi LE^E.
The Senate Committee JD Commerce
resumed the hearing u^onylanB for im
proving the Mississippi aver channel.
Henry Flad, a member of he Mississippi
River Commission, oppoed the Lake
Borgne outlet system am favored the
narrowing of the ohanni to 3,000 or
3,500.feet and building ryetments and
levees.
Col. Ernst, a member o the commis
sion, said he believed the impenditure by
the commission for the balding of le
vees was illegal.
H. B. Richardson, Chie Engineer of
Louisiana, spoke in favor f levees and
against the outlet, system'
Capt.Miller, of Mempls, a pilot of
fifty years’ experience, sal he thought,
the bed of the river was ising. Rocks
visible in 1878 had disappeared. There
are more shoals in the riv- than ever be
fore. In 1850 there we, but two shoals.
J his was due, he said, tclosing the out
lets of the stream. Gournment work
on the levees was wasted ecause of the
unprotected points.
Col. Ernst was recalledand said that
when the Government -arks now in
come desperate, and a great revolution
would ensue. History showed that
wealth had always lacked the intelli
gence to meet in time the necessities of
labor, and on its part labor had never
adopted the proper means to remedy the
faults it complained of. The objects of
the Farmers’ Alliance was mental, social
and George H.. Stayner, who were recent
ly released from, jail, have gone back
into business with the utmost expedi-
State Legislature,
now in session at
A Neat Idea.
The innkeepers in the countries on the
Rhine follow a practice which is worth
suggesting to persons of the same calling
in this country. They give their guests
a carte or piece of paper measuring about
sixteen inches long and four inches
broad, and which folds together like a
small map. This carte, when folded,
exhibits on the outside a view of the
hotel, also its name and the name of the
proprietor. On. opening it, the visitor
finds that the-other parts consist of lists
of the principal curiosities or public ,
buildings which are worth visiting in the
town and its environs, and along the
whole inside he finds a map of the chief
routes from the place. Thus the German
hotel-keeper’s carte is a card of his house {
and a local guide all in one piece of
paper, the expense of which cannot be
much greater than that of a common bill
0“- '
mond & Danville railroad has beer, com- j
pleted to Elkins, N. U., and will reach. 1
Wilkesboro, 19 miles farther on, in
about eight weeks. The Winston
Chamber of Commerce was banquetted
by the Elkinites upon the completion of
the road to that place. Elkins is a new
town of several hundred inhabitants
and bids fairto be a live business point.
The Richmond & Danville company will
extend this line on to Bristol, Tenn.
The Hickory Manufacturing Company
has put up a 13,000 gallon tank: for the
protection of their property against,
fire.
Charles Holden, aged 10 years, was
drowned in. Smith’s Creek, near Wil
mington.
Tracklaying on the 3 C’s from Ruth
erfordton to Marion is in operation.
The Commission House of Tardy &
Walker, of Charlotte, agents for Doran,
Wright & Co., closed in obedience to
an order from the firm. No money was
lost by the Charlotte customers of the
concern.
A company has been organized by the
citizens of Boone to build a telegraph
line to Blowing Rock.
It is reported that, the body of Clay
Barkclay, who was thought to have been
drowned in the Catawba river at Robin
son’s Ferry, has not yet been found For
a week past, hundreds of men and boys
have been working in the river search
ing for the body. The river has been
dragged for a great distance in either
direction from the ferry; dynamite and
other explosives have been used, but all
without success. This terrible occur
rence is now putting on a more serious
aspect. The growing opinion is that
the man was the victim of a fiendish
enemy,—that he was murdered,-and
this seems to be a plausible the
ory. The buggy, horse, whip, cushion—
everything, even the jug of whiskey
which was in the buggy-—have been
found. Where is the man ?
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A curious incident is reported from the
country, eleven miles above Greenville, a
negro woman, named Lou Gaillard, gave
birth to a child. Seeking to conceal the
i fact she dug a hole with a hoe in a cot-
Baton Rouge, $1,000,000 a year for the
extension of the charter of the company
for twenty-five years. That makes $25,-
000,000 for the entire term, the annual
bonus to be divided as follows: For
the public schools, $350,000 a year; for
the levees, $350,000; for the drainage of
New Orleans, $100,000; for the charity
hospitals at New Orleans and Shreve
port, $100,000; for the insane asylum at
Jackson, $75,000; for the deaf and
dumb asylum at Baton Rouge, $25,000.
Two Mormon elders have been tramp
ing through Washington and Holmes
counties, distributing their religious
tracts. They went by the names of El
ders James and Maxwell, and hailed
from. Utah. They have proselyted to a
considerable extent, especially among
young unmarried women. They secured
a party of eight women and left for the
West last week. Abram King, living
six miles from here, had two daughters
in the party. King and his son, with
his neighbors, the wife of one of whom
was with the “converts,” pursued the
Mormons, and on capturing them lied
them to a tree, stripped them, flogged
them unmercifully, and let them loose
and began firing on them. The Mor
mons ran into the swamp and have not
been seen since, and it is believed that
they perished. The young women were
brought home, and every one of them
were well switched, their parents mak
ing each one whip the other.
The
Cotton Seed Cake,
fact that nitrogen in the
South
can be purchased in cotton seed cake at
seven cents per pound., while throughout
the North it is rated in other fertilizers
at nineteen cents per pound, is worthy
the attention of our readers. We do
not wish to see cotton seed cake largely
used as a manure. It is nutritious food
of a high order, and should be used as
food first, and afterwards as manure.
When fed to sheep it is not only an ex
cellent food, but ninety-five per cent, of
the nitrogen, and still more of the phos
phoric acid and potash, is returned to
the soil in the droppings of the sheep.
There are many places in the Southern
States where impoverished and run-down
land could be very profitably renovated
by pasturing with sheep. If,the sheep
are allowed one pound of cotton-seed
cake each per day, it is astonishing how
they will clean up the land destroy weeds,
brunches, etc., and the droppings of the
sheep will so enrich the land that
nutritious grasses soon cover the soil.
Do not go into fancy breeds at first. Buy
liberally, especially of cotton seed cake,
and the i ncrease of mutton and wool will
far more than pay for the cake, and you
get the land cleaned up and enriched and
iwell stocked with grass for nothing.
and finanncial improvement.
Republicans in the North, and Demo
crats in the South were working in the
same direction, and the result had been
to bring together, shoulder to shoulder,
all classes of labor, black and white,
that were engaged in the cultivation of
the soil. Harmony of purpose charac
terized the efforts of the Alliance, and
the prejudices of generations had been
sunk In the pursuit of the common
wealth.
Atthe St. Louis convention, two mil
lion farmers had been represented, and
they had proposed a remedy, set out in
the right direction. If it was rudely
framed and the idea indistinctly ex
pressed, they relied upon the wisdom
of the committee to give it the proper
form ; but they believed that they had
found the remedy for their ills.
The farmers asked no favors and no
class legislation.. They were now suf
fering from the latter. They did not
ask the enactment of any unconstitu
tional measure, but as a great debtor
class, as men who had gone out in the
west after the war and laid the soil un-
tion,
A dispatch to The News and Courier
from Points Pleasant, N. J., states
that a number of cases of condensed
milk was washed ashore that
near Cedar Creek. Life Station. The
cases are marked 9. V/. & Co., Charles
ton, S. C.
New Rcrk, May 19.--A Parkersburg,
W. Va., special, says that Frank Tolli
ver, the noted brother of the Kentucky
Tollivers, was hit with a brick and
killed by Frank Leffler Wednesday
night during a quarrel. Leffler has been
arrested at Athens, Ohio.
Frankfort, Kv., May 16.—9:15 p. m.
Carlisle was nominated for Senator this
evening. The last ballot stood Carlisle,
72; Lendsay 43.
AN EXCITING ARREST.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has convened in Asheville, N. C.
It is made up of an equal number of
ministers and ruling elders from seventy-
one presbyteries, covering the southern
states.
The opening sermon was delivered by
the retiring moderator, Rev. H. G. Hill,
of North. Carolina.
So far as known there will be no ex
citing Questions before the body, and it
is hoped that much active, vigorous
work will be done in beh^ oi cue great
enterprises which the church has in
hand.
HISTORY OF THE BODY.
This body of Presbyterians dates its
distinct organization to 1861. When
the war began, the old-school Presbyte
rian church was co-extensive with the
United States in territory. Many hoped
'hat the church would safely ride the
storm of war, but when the assembly of
that year met in Philadelphia in May,
there was a large majority of Northern
men in the body. There was much de
mand for a “deliverance,” and a resoui-
tion was.passed setting forth in sub
stance, that it was the duty of Presbyte
rian;. to uphold the United States govern
ment administered at Washington. The
Southern members of the assembly and
a considerable number of leading North
ern members protested against that ac
tion, but it passed, and as Southern
Presbyterians' were then living under
the confederate government, they were
of necessity shut out from the assembly.
ACTION OF THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN,
In December of that year in Augusta,
Ga the Presbyterian church in the Con-
federate States was formed. The open
ing sermon was preached by the Kev.
Dr B M Palmer, then ana now the
pastor of the first Presbyterian church,
of Naw Orleans A large number of able
ministers and elders, now dead, were
members of that body.
Ifter the war the name was changed
to that of “The Presbyterian Church in
the United States,” the northern branch
being “The Presbyterian church in the
United States of America.”
progress between .St. Lbw and Cairo I der
wfcke completed. . Cgf cn — *1 tenth of i they protested agai
tribution with borrowed money,
- a contraciion of
ten feet would be seared.
Ex-Congressmn Moore, of Memphis,
expressed the option Liat a combina
tion of the levee ad. outlet system was
the true solution of he difficulty.
South Oaroina's Grope.
From the reports of 'he correspond
ents of the Department oiAgriculture in
all parts of the State tin following facts
ha. been learned and ree estimate? as
to the condition of he crops given
therewith been made.
The acreage in whe^ has been de
creased about 7 per lent, below last,
year, and the condition is 30 per cent,
less than at the same tine last year, and
has been materially injured by the Hes
sian fly.
The damage by the winter freezes was
nominal. About 9 per 'ent, of the crop
was drilled against 91 per cent, breads
The drilled wheat is generally reported
in better condition, ^he crop was, as
the currency at a ti when their debts
become due, and asked that the condi
tions be restored to what they were when
the money was borrowed. They asked
justice, pure and simple. The scheme,
he thought, would not over stimulate
production. The farmers were actually
starving themselves in order to pay their
debts. He had no doubt that the scheme
a rule, sown later than n 1888, the aver
age date of seeding befog December 1st.
As usual, the early saving is reported
in better condition than the late.
The acreage in oas is reported at
about the same as lastyear and the con
dition is 16 per cent, oelow that of last
year. The falling off is attributed largely
to the ravages of the dessian fly, and a
small percentage has been injured by the
late freezes. The acreage in both rye
and bareley has been slightly reduced
and the condition is not so good as at the
same time in 1889.
It is estimated that 2| per cent., or
13,000 bales, of last years crop is still
in the hands of the growers.
Judging from the reports of the de
partment’s correspondents, the farmers
of the State are in better condition than
ever before. Notwithstanding the enor
mous increase in the quantity of com
mercial fertilizers purchased, the de
crease in farm supplies purchased is 25
per cent, of that last year.
There is a scarcity of labor reported
from some sections, on account of the
emigration of the negro farm hands to
the turpentine farms of Georgia and
Florida. One hundred mid fifty-five
correspondents report labor as “good,”
seven as “bad" and sixty five as “indif
ferent.”
From November 1st, 1889, to April
1st, 1890, about 165,000 tons, of
commercial fertilizers were sold in the
One Kan Takas. But the Others at A>ex-
andria.
Alexandria. For sometime past the
government authorities have been, on the
lookout for certain parties hereabouts,
who have been sending circulars through
the mails offering counterfeit money for
sale. These circulars instructed those
who wished to purchase the “queer” con
siderable about it, and to address their
letters to Culpepper.
kogtoffi^e Inspector obs. who has
. in Culpeper, be ^ the train mere
— mediately after t^ ^ he suspected
of being the counterfeiters. He iept
his eye on them, and when Burke’s sta
tion was reached, telegraphed here for
an officer to arrest the men when the
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a j im.m
favored would greatly favor the agri
culturist, and cited Instances of the es
tablishment of similar ideas in the Ar
gentine Republic and other countries.
Mr. Flower, a member of the commit
tee, said that his objection to the scheme
was that it would simply be a precedent
for the extension of governmental aid to 1
other industries. If the plan were
adopted, he said, we would have to
grant similar protection to the mining
industry and other industries, and before
a great while the government_ would
have everything “In hock.” He be
lieved that the farmer would be better
off if he regulated his own affairs. The
States and the people, and not the gen
eral government, were the best judges
of the amount of curreney needed. The
farmers, he believed, could obtain more
benefits under the State bank system
that once prevailed in New York than
from any aid such as that provided for
in the bill under discussion.
TMeresting People.
It is thought that Carlisle will
strong lead on the first ballot
seat, in the Senate made vacant
State, against 126,568 tons for the samel
period in 1880-’89—an increase of about
30 per cent, over last year, which would
indicate a large increase of the cotton
acreage for 1890.
The remarkably open winter has been
very favorable to lire atnck of all kinds
and they are reported as in generally
fine condition. The deaths from winter
exposure have been nominal and con
fined to but few localities. The per
centage of loss from diseases is excep
tionally small.
About 5 per cent, of the hogs in the
State have died from cholera,—Soothen
Cultivator*
MR. LIVINGSTONE SPEAKS.
The National Lecturer of the Alliance Ou
the Sub-Treasury Plan.
Washington.—Congressmen from ag
ricultural States and members of the
Farmers National Alliance crowded the
Wavs and Means Committee rooms at
, Gio Capital to hear Mr. Livingstone, the
national lecturer of the alliance, expand
his views on the Pickier bill for the es
tablishment of sub-treasuries for the de
posit of grain, oats, corn, tobacco and
train reached this city.
Lieutenant Smith was on baud when
the train arrived, but Inspector Jacobs
pointed out to him the wrong man.
Lieutenant Smith told the Inspector he
was mistaken and then went through the
train to look for the alleged counterfeit
ers. He found one of the men who turn
ed out to be George; Miller, a
son of ex-detective Miller, of Washing
ton, and at once seized him. Miller of
fered resistance but was ioon brought
under subjection by Lieutenant Smith,
The other man; during the excitement,
quietly got off the train and made his
escape. Miller was searched, and on
him were found some counterfeit circu
lars, a pistol, etc. He was taken to the
station-house and afterwards before Unit
ed States Commissioner Fowler, who af
ter an examination held him in two thous-
and dollars bail for using the mails to
Miller is jailed awaiting bonds-
defraud,,
men.
THE
Colored
SOUTHERN' METHODISTS.
Theological Seminary—Ladies'
have a
for the
by the
death of Senator Beck.
The first woman to apply for admission
to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Mich
igan, is Miss Flora W. Tibbits, of Ann
Arbor.
The oldest living ex-Cabinet officer,
both in age and date of service, is George
Bancroft, who was Secretary of the Navy
for a year and a half under President
Polk’s administration.
The only special invitation to the un
veiling of the statue of Robert E. Lee
on May 29, at Richmond, are to Lee’s three
predecessors in command of the Army of
Northern Virginia, Generals G. W. Smith,
Beauregard and J, E. Johnston; Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Stonewall Jackson,
and the Lee family.
New York Tribune : Dr. Potter, pres
ident of Hobart College, as General Sec
retary of the Church University Board
of Regents, will address the students of
the University of the South at their
commencement in August.
Women Officials Resign,
The women who were recently elected
officers of Edgerton, Kansas, have re
signed, owing to the ridicule and criti
cism to which their official acts have
been subjected by certain of the male
citizens. A special election for major
and other offices, thus left vacant will be
necessary. It is believed that the wo
men, whose administration has, on the
whole, given satisfaction, will be re-elect
ed.
College--Printing; the Ritual in the
Hymn Book,
In the General Conference, at St. Louis,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, George W. Walker, president of
Paine Institute, at Augusta, Ga.. sub
mitted a report. The Institute is for the
benefit of the colored Methodist Episco
pal Church. The session to close in
June has been the most successful one
since the school was established. Thir
ty-five young men are preparing for the
ministry and there are 184 pupils all told
in this school.
A Rifle Expert. Shoots a Little Girl,
Mrs.. Mary E. Cody was tried in the
Borough Court, at Stanford, before Judge
Curtis for the shooting of 11-year old
Mary Kane. Mrs. Cody is an expert
rifle shot, and travels with Washburn &
Arlington’s tent show. On Saturdayaf-
ternoon when she attempted to shoot a
half dollar, backward, with the aid of a
looking glass, her hair becameUisarrang-
ed, and when she attempted to fix it the
rifle was discharged and the bullet struck
the little girl, who was sitting on the
other side of the tent. The bullet en
tered the girl’s left side, very close to the
heart, and the child is in a precarious
condition with the chances against her
recovery. The Court discharged Mrs.
Cody on the ground that the shooting
was accidental.
Frank Jackson, of Sampsonville,.Erie
County, Penn., can place his arms
against a wall, and reach seven feet
eleven inches. He has remarkably long
arms. Jackson is six feet high. The
bssijsach aute^wi is sewa^eSt.
cotton.
Mr. Livingston said ‘ b e “ 0
misapprehension concerning the objects
of the Alliance. It was not seeking to
displace the ruling political parties.
The sub-Treasury bill had nothing to do
with the tariff. The farmers asked that
the sub-teeasury bill be passed. Filty-
eight homes of farmers had been sold in
Connecticut in one day week. Re
lief was demanded, and the farmers
knew how to get it.
He quoted President Lincoln s pre
diction that corporations would be en
throned, that the property of the coun
try would be concentrated, and that the
republic itself would be overthrown.
He thanked God that the last prediction
had not come true. If Congress refused
to endorse the sub-Treasury plan, he
said, it should remove the restrictions
hedging in the national banking system.
The sub-Treasury plan gave the farmer?
a chance to escape the speculator by
allowing him to deposit his crops in the
sub-Treasuries at any time, and spared
him selling at stated seasons. If the
sub-Treasury bill were passed .there
would not be a bucket shop left in the
United States. There need be no fear
that the bill would cause the farmers to
form a trust.
Bringing His Pistol Into Pl^y.
Cedar Keys, Fla.—Mayor Cottrell
has succeeded in terrorizing this city,
and has caused much lawlessness since
Saturday last. On that day the light
house-keeper was shot at on the street,
by Cottrell, but was not hit; the same
afternoon Cottrell “held up; the agent
of the F. C. & P. Railroad with a double
barrelled shotgun, but the railroad man
disarmed him. .
The mayor next visited the Lnited
States Collector of Customs, and with
his city marshal by bis side both With
drawn pistols, insulted him foully, ““
George W. F. Price, president of the
Nashville College for young ladies, made
a report. The college continues in the
same line of prosperity as heretofore. Mj .a,„« .
The committee on episcopacy reported threatened to put him in jail the mo-
that it had examined the members of the men t he dared to leave his office.
College of Bishops as to their work and
character, and had approved of them all.
The committee also recommended that a
Bishop be assigned to reside on the Pa
cific coast.
The committee on Sunday schools rec
ommended non-coneinrence in the me
morial asking that churches separately
be allowed to name a day for Children’s
Dav. The committee on commissions
recommended non-concurrence in the
memorial for ordination of deaconnesses.
A resolution was introduced asking
that a plan be devised for reaching [the
poorer laboring class in large cities with
religions instruction.
Several strong anti-liquor traffic reso
lution were introduced and referred. A
rtsolution to change the basis of repre
sentation in the General Conference from
1 in 34 to 1 in 42 was offered,
Dr. Hunt, of the American Bible So
ciety, made an address to the Conference.
After a long discussion, it was decided
to print parts of the ritual iu the hymn
hooks.
’ Cottrell also threatened to horsewhip
the Episcopal minister, and Ins wife,
most estimable people. The clergyman
went to Tallahassee to complain to Gov.
Fleming, and on his return was escorted
to his home by his patishoners.
Cottrell has committed a long list of
lawless acts. He killed his brother-m-
taw over a drink of whiskey, shortly
after the war. He had eight indictments
to answer at the last term of the county
court; but as matters were so arranged
that the fury drawn was an illegal one,
he got off. He was formerly a deputy
collector, but the present collector dis
charged him. Collector Pinkerton left
for Jacksonville on Sunday, and a tele
gram has been received from him saying
that he will return with four deputy
U 9. Marshals to capture Cottrell and
his allies. A large number of prominent
citizens have left town with their fami-
lies.
St. Joseph, La., May 17.—Serious
race trouble is threatened here. The
white residents have organized, and
with Sheriff Young and a posse have
gone to the plantation where the trouble
A colored blacksmith shot and
IS.
Flovd’s great Chicago bucket institu
tion, a concern supposed to have sand,
or rather wood enough in it to float in
any sea, careened badly and suddenly
went over. Buckets are not much use
in turbulent waters, as those who trust
themselves in these crafts should know
by this time. When operators get too
unanimous, it becomes too much a csss
of the tail wagging the dog, hardl y °°^
sidered a permanently successful unde -
taking, however confusing J t x W ° e tor
killed a negro named Clark. A laige
crowd of negroes made an attack upon
the blacksmith, and Manager Trimble ^^ --— -
shot into the crowd, killing the leader, j a time, to locate the respite! y.