<£!)e 3uKa importer.
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Published Every Thursday
IUKA, rt~&* s MBBIBSIPl
One of the largest manufacturing con
cerns in Brazil says that American ma
chinery is superior to anything made in
Europe. __
In 1890 the largest number of Italians
arrived in the United States in any one
year, being 52,004, of whom nearly
eighty per cent, must bo classed as un
skilled ; in fact, 15,235 stated to the in
spection officers that they had no special
gainful occupation.
The New York News predicts that this
will be an exceptional year for immigra
tion. The figures for a recent month in
dicate a larger influx of foreigners by
twelve or fifteen thousand than we had
during the same period in 1890. The
Italians predominate.
» A citizen of St. Louis makes a good
living by renting turtles to restaurants
for advertising purposes. He gets 82
per day for each, and they are always iu
demand. They are left outside the door
the'day before turtle soup is served, and
create a run the next day for the soup,
but they are not in it.
A recent writer suggests that the
sciences might receive new names that
would be self-oxplaining. He would
give us birdlore in place of ornithology;
fishlearning instead of ichthyology;
pianuore lor Dotany; starloro for ns
tronomy,etc. Some of these are occasion
ally used already, and there is no good
reason why we should not adopt all of
them.
cialism be
ck progress
om. Com
nks, would
of ancient
groups of
;re ruled by
s, superiu
lsiness and
: support of
The British Medical Journal, in an nr
tide commenting on a case of hypnotism
described in a New York paper, insists
that England shall pass laws to prevent
iifMrm t the reckless practice of hypnotism in
Great Britain. The article expresses re
f gret that reliable information is at hand
that several physicians of standing are
traveling in England under assumed
names and practicing hypnotism upon all
applicants, regardless of risk to health
and life.
An English engineer of high standing
In a recent paper on our new navy said
that in general workmanship and in many
details the new ships built in.this country
were equal to England’s best, and that
the armament of the battle-ships were
more powerful than that of any ships of
the same class built in Europe. In con
cluding his address he declared that the
work of the American contractors was
worthy o! study by all Englishmen in
terested in the subject.
Twelve of the twenty members of the
Congress at Berlin, in 1878, are dead.
They were Bulow, of Germany; Saint
Vallier, of France; Corti, of Italy; Bea
consfleld and Russell, of England; Gort
chakofl and Oubnl, of Russia; Andrassy
and Hay merle and Karolyi, of Austria;
Saadullah and Mehemei Ali Pasha, of
Turkey. Those still living are Bismarck,
Hohenlohe, Waddington, Desprez, De
Launey, Salisbury, Shuvaloff, and Kara
theodory.
The German press is not allowed a
special rate on its telegraphic corre
spondence, the Government making no
discrimination. In all other countries
press dispatches are transmitted at
greatly reduced rates, but Dr. Stephen,
Director of the German Telegraph, re
cently declared that he saw no reason
whatever for favoring the newspapers
thus. As a result of his illiberal policy,
notes the Chicago Pott, the press
messages of Germany constitute only
li per cent, of the total traffic, and the
German newspapers are among the dullest
on earth.
A groom’s right to wear a moustache
has been tried in Euglaud, with the
court’s decision in his favor. When
Mrs. Grimshaw's groom was engaged he
was smooth-shaven, but after a cold he
grew a moustache by bis doctor’s ad
0 vice, whereupon Mrs. Grimshaw ordered
him to shave or go without notice. The
Judge held that the demand was un
reasonable. If he had been a house
•ervant, wearing powder and white silk
stockings, suggests the Boston Tran
teript, he might have been required to
shave; but a groom was an outdoor ser
vant, and a moustache was a natural 01
protection against the weather, The J ^
T got 425 damages. J ^
A CASHIER ASSAULTED.
Ami Left to Die Amid the Burn
ing Building.
A Dastardly Deed of Desperate Rob
bers.
The freight depot of the Georgia Pacific
Railroad in Birmingham, Ala., between 21st
and 22J streets, was burned Monday night.
Aud the chief clerk and cashier, C. H. Kus
8311, was sandbagged aud desperately in
jured.
The fire was unquestionably incendiary,
and there was an attempt at murder.
The circumstances are best told in the story
of night watch man Slade.
Sometime after 10 o’clock three men who
appeared to be tramps were seen on the plat
form by Slade and Russell. The latter or
dered them off, and one of them replied to
him with the words:
“We will see you later.”
Russell then remarked to Slade:
“Well, I must go to work.”
Slade then went toward the eastern end of
the depot, the business offices being in the
western end, ami Russell went to his work.
It could yot have more'than half an hour
when Slade returned to the western end of
the depot, and looking in was horrified to see
Russell lying apparently dead in the very
edge of the fast spreading flames.
The freight depot was on fire.
The papers in the office, the tlooriug and
desk were in a bright flame.
And looking through the doorway into the
great store room Slade discovered bright
fi mi s flaring up near the eastern end.
He leaped through the opqp window and
opening the door he snatched Russell from
the fire and hurriedly dragged him outside
the building.
This was about 11 o’clock.
Russell’s assailants had entered the window
which the warm night, had impelled him to
open, and had struck him down as he stooped
to the open safe.
Having done this, the villains made their
escape.
Slade cried out tin alarm, and two young
men going to the South Highlands on a short
route dummy train, seeing the evidence of
fire, leaped fi om the train and hurried to the
scene of the crime.
' anu gv>iii£ WUUI
ward rushed to the western end of the sta
tion.
The young men took the insensible form of
Russell, and hurrying down the long plat
form toward Twentieth street, caught a hack
and took the victim of the sandbag home.
The alarm had reached the tiro department
stations, the bell clanged forth the alarm, the
whistles of a dozen locomotives shrieked it,
ank thousands of people hurried to the scene.
Before the fire engines reached the building
tbe liames had gained great headway, show
ing that the building must have been fired in
more than two places.
And the hundreds of tons of water poured
in strong streams upon the burning struc
ture, were unable to save it, and it was prac
tical! all destroyed except the brick walls.
Whether the villains that assaulted Russell
secured any cash Is not known. They could
have gotten but very little, for thre is seldom
any < a-h in (tie office, freigut charges being
paid grueially in checks.
But the ii live is.uld not have been re
venge oh the part of the supposed tramps.
TV probability was that they were not
I* .'/>'' *•>’ prole- lonal Burglars, who acted
**t t »I llie money paid for
fmgb 1 ii - a n, heavier on Monday
than an iser itay ol the week, was in till
sate, mat in* > determined to have it.
Otie arrest whs made, the pwlice taking intc
custody on suspicion a man giving the name
of G. F. Scaulan, who is detained in the city
prison. Scaulau liad no story tell. He sim
ply said that he had gone there to see the
nrc.
There are many theories advanced, but ap
parently tbe only plausible one is that there
was a desperate attempt ut robbery.
Tbe cash drawer of the safe was secured
and it there was nothing of any consequence.
Delivery Clerk C'averly says that thort
could not have been over *10,01)0 worth of
freight in the building; but it was very near
ly all lost. He bad succeeded in sending out
all outward bound freight, except a small
quantity for Blossburg, and the city freight
is always promptly delivered by the com
pany.
The entire loss to the road is probably
*15,000.
1-arge numbers of freight cars were on tbe
sidetracks, but engines were hurried to the
scene, and the cars were removed before the
fire could reach them.
A reporter called at the I.unsford, where
young Russell had been taken, and found
him suffering great agony. Dr. Sexton was
present and giving him all the relief in hit
power. He was unconscious from the pain,
which was caused by the terrible blow on
the head he hail received and a blow in the
stomach, which had fractured a rib and
raised a great hmftp. The doctor pronounced
tbe wounds dangerous and the condition ol
the young man critical, though his examiu
ation ut that time had necessarily' been incom
plete.
Young Russell is a son of Mr. J. H. Rus
sell, a prominent farmer and most worthy
citizen of Uniuntown, Ala. Hu lias been
here for some years und no young man in
Birmingham stood better than he. A tele
gram was .sent to ms iatner last mgbt.
At tbat h< ur of tbe night there are always
a great many people on the streets of Bir
mingham, hut last night the streets were
crowded with the thousands who were re
turning from the Bhptist convention aud
from places of amusement. These crowd
ed the Twenty second street bridge
from end to end, and through the unfinished
Twenty-first street bridge. On the former
there were probably ten thousand people
gathered, looking on at the raging fire below.
The few who heard that Kussell had been
sandbagged were filled with horror and in
dignation, and tlie villains who were guilty
of the horrible crime bad lawn caught they
probably would not have lived through the
night.
It was (he most sensational fire in the his
tory of Birmingham.
THE DAVIS MONUMENT.
Mrs. Davis Writes a Congratulatory
Defter to tlie Association.
The president of the Mississippi Confeder
ate Monument Association has received tlie
follt wing letter from Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
dated at Ntw York city, in rtfe enee to the
unveiling of the monument in Jackson, Miss.,
on Julie 3d:
“When the proposal was made to erect this
monument we fearu i years must ellipse De
fore it could he placed in position and fin
ished, hut the devotion and energy of the la
dies who undertook the work have achieved
an unexpected triumph, and be who has
passed away since its inception and whom
you have honored with a conspicuous place
upon the pedestal, aud an intense interest in
seeing the completion of your noble work.
To see his statue there honored by the peo
pie who conferral so much honor upon hint;
who knew and therefore loved him best, will
he the greatest gratification to his daughter
ind myself.”
Distinguished Nun Dead.
Sister Mary Agatha Bussell, founder of the
invent of Sisters of Visitation in St. Paul
id the oldest visitant in America, died n( I
e convent of Robert street and University I
twite, St. Paul, Minn., Sunday of 9)4 aye. j
U0E BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Report of R.O. Dun & Co., Showing
the State of Trade.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly roview of traile
sajs: The financial markets of the world
have “la grippe,” the disease imported from
Russia, ami a Now York variety by way of
London. The struggle to sustain Russian
securities against the disfavor of the Roths
childs, the demand for gold from German
bankers and the threatened withdrawal of
Russian gold from deposits in England,
France and Germany, account for much of
the unusnal movement of specie which has
been in progress. But accounting for it does
not stop it, and the actual outgo of about
$14,000,000 in April and not for from $9,000,
000 already, for nine days of May, has caused
some weakness in the markers. The advance
of one-half of 1 per cent at once in the rate
charged by the Bank of Euglaud is rightly
regarded as a notification that Euglaud
means to fortify itself in this great struggle
by drawing gold from New York. This sud
den demand comes at a season when this
market can spare gold with less inconvenience ,
than at any other, and the continued issues of ;
silver notes make the withdrawal fromcimt ,
latiou less felt, though the fact that forty- \
seven per cent of the customs receipts at New j
York are now in silver paper shows that the i
remedy cannot last always.
May starts off with a great plunge in spec
ulative prices wnich has for some weeks been :
anticipated. Wheat fell 15 cents in as many
days, much to the disgust of men w ho have ;
been predicting a famine before July. It is j
still a fact that the possible demand next j
year, on account of the failure of crops in !
France and elsew here, has to meet an excep- |
tioually favorable prospect, here, while the ,
export demand for wheat this year, evun since
prices have broken, is not large enough to
prevent the carrying over of a great unsold
surplus next July. Sales here last week were
but 65,000,000, but with net decline of 5%
Cents, and while corn has declined 8>a cents
In sympathy, and many speculators have
buffered, sales have been but 11,000,000
bushels.
The stock market has been weakened by the
gold movement, in spite of the very harmo
nious meeting of the Western Traffic Associ
ation that would doubtless cause a strong
advance in prices, w’ei e the fear of a heavy
outgo of gold and possible disturbances in
Europe once removed. An element for
strength is the accumulating evidence that
t.h« \vhp«f nmanpof, thA Wsst. is remsrkftblv I
good.
Iron already feels the stiffening influence,
and some kinds and grades are a shade higher
than a week ago, with large buying of pig
iron at unchanged prices. The demand for
structural iron is for the time lessened by the
extensive strikes in the building trades, but
for bar and plates there is more demand.
Wool is scarce, and manufacturers not in
clined to activity until the new clip comes
forward freely.
At Philadelphia fine wool is two cents
lower, aud trade in liquors, oils, tobacco and
cigars is quiet, iu drugs good, and iu chem
icals and jewelry fair, with an improvement
in paihts. Collections are ou the whole some
what improved, but there is yet much com
plaint. At Pittsburg a slight improvement
is seen in Bessemer and some kinds of manu
factured iron. New Orleans reports a fair
trade, with cotton in moderate demand at
ssmewhat better prices, and sugar was active
but lower. At Savannah trade falls off some,
but prospects are bright, and at Jacksonville
business is brisk and hopeful iu all branches.
In short, while the present trade is not quite
as active as usual, the outlook would be
highly encouraging but for foreign and mon
etary uncertainties.
Failures of tlie week number 212; for the
corresponding week of last year the figure
was 185.__
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAT
EPITOMIZED.
A Concise Review tor the Week of
Dolagi from ell Over the
World. •
President Harrison received a big ova
tion in Utah.
Madame Blavatsky, the well known
theosophist, died in London.
Forest fires have done great damage in
northern Wisconsin and Michigan.
An incendiary at Manning, Iowa, destroyed
$30,000 worth of property.
Fire in New York destroyed $1,000,000
worth of property.
In Providence, R. I., fire destroyed 600
bales of cotton, with a loss of $20,000.
II. P. Hammett, president of the Piedmont
and Camperdown Cotton Mills at Greenville,
S. C., is dead.
At Nutvri/.i-r Tonn P Wolf, shot and
killed William Holliday, Jr., and falally shot
Pleasant Holt. Trouble about land title
caused it.
Bulkley, the alleged Governor of Connecti
cut, has filed an answer to the quo warranto
proceedings brought by L. B. Morris. Bulkley
claims he was chosen Governor by the Leg
islature and that Morris is not Governor.
Dispatches from Guatemala say that a
revolutionary movement has started at
Amajsak, Honduras*, Domingo Visquez be
ing proclaimed, and that the movement was
seconded by bad elements from Salvador and
Nicaragua, but that peace has been re-estab
lished.
An Ashland, Ky., dispatch says: While
workmen were engaged in dismantling the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, prepara
tory to rebuilding, the ceiling and timbers
fell upou Manager J. B. Stephenson, aged05,
killing him instantly, and fatally injuring
three others.
A special from Marshall, Mo., says: Wm.
Price, a negro, was banged for rape upon a
white girl, who afterward suicided from
mortification am] to avoid appearing in court
to describe her treatment. That is believed
to be the first case in this State whbreopon
the regular process of law lias been gone
through in a criminal assault. Shorter
methods have been the rule.
DON’T CABK AT ALL.
The Italian Consul Will Not Be Put
Down Just Vet,
The department of State is ignoraut of any
intention on the part of this government to
demand the recall of Pasqual Norte, Italian
consul at New Orleans on account of his
public utterances, as reported in som? papers.
It is not felt that the consul has not done
auytbing in derogation of the majesty of the
government of the United States. If he had
it would not be necessary to demand his re
call. The Stito department would simply
withdraw his exequatur which would leav®
the consul without any official status in thM
Uuited States.
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ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OP THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBER8.)
What Is Being Done In the Various
Sections IV>r the Advancement
of the Great Organization.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND TI1K THIRD I’AKTT.
Colonel W. J. Talbert, of South Car
alinn, superintendent of the penitentiary
and lecturer of the State Alliance, whose
utterances on [the subject of the third
party have been widely quoted and have
attracted attention outside the statu, in a
recent interview, gives the follow ing ns
his position on the third party questiou:
“My idea ot the principles of ihe Alli
ance is that they are the principles of the
democracy; that there is nothing incon
sistent in being both au alliiinccmau and
a democrat. Our order is political, hut
uot partisan, amt in its ranks men of
both parties are fighting for reforms
without, ^however, renouncing their
party ullegiance. We piopose to
indorse for congress, or for the
senate, or for president, only
these men |who will advocate the
reforms we demand, but we will make
our fight in the primaries or conventions,
as the ense may he, and will abide the
voice of the majority of the party, w heth
er it is for or against the Alliance candi
date. Now, as to a third party, I waut
to say this: 1 am opposed to it, unless we
find that the reforms we advocate cannot
be brought in any other way. If they
cauuot, then there wil he time euough to
decide ou a course of notion. It might
be that a third party would bo found to
he the best, or it might uot. I have
never crossed a bridge before I got to it,
rode a horse faster than it could go, or
paid a debt before I got the money and,
therefore, I can’t say wliat would he done
if it should be found lhat the Alliance
could not achieve its ends through either
of the old parlies.”
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THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE EDUCATIONAL
CAMPAIGN,
The National Alliance Educational
campaign is meeting with unreserved
commendation trom nearly everywhere.
This campaign involves the holding of
two or more great Alliance mass meet
ings in each state, to last two days or
longer, during the summer months. The
ablest and most favorable Alliance speak
ers are to attend each meeting, and it is
proposed to have an interchange of
speakers between the several sections of
the country. Among the states whose
presidents and executive committees have
enthusiastically endorsed the movement,
and have already named the times
and places for the meetings,' are: Ala
bama, Arkansas, Georgia. Illinois, Indi
ana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mis
souri, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, West Virginia, Indian Territory
and Oklahoma Territory. The States of
California, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan,
Mississippi, South Dakota and Virginia
have all declared in favor of the cam
paign, and are now arranging for the
best times and places for their meetings.
Nearly every State has urged President
Polk to attend those meetings, and he
will be at as many of them as he can
possibly reach.—Farmer's Advocate (Tar
boro, N. C.)
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TILLMAN TALKS.
Governor Tillman, of South Carolina,
wants something better than the sub
treasury bill, and in his own view of the
question, that something better he be
lieves to be the free coinage of silver,
combined with the issuance of green
backs, either on the government’s own
credit or on land. On being asked his
opinion of the future of the All ance,
the governor said: “It is hard to say,but
it seems to me the order has a greut
future. Even when its political reforms
have been secured, there is its business
organization to hold it together. Already
the order has done vast go id. not
only in affording direct relief to the
farmers, as in the jute bagging light and
through co operative stores, etc., but by
teaching them the secret of acting to
gether, of co-operation. It has showu
the farmers that they can do something
when united, and that without uuitv thev
are helpless. There is one danger the
Alliance will have to gunrd against, and
that is the individuals who would use the
Alliance vote for their selfish ends. The
rank and file of the order will have to
relegate to the rear those leaders who
would attempt to enforce uuanimity; to
measure inen by a ‘yardstick,’ and ostra
cise or expell all who refuse to do their
bidding.”
***
In reply to a request from the Weber
county, Miss., Altiunce, asking for his
views on the sub treasury plan, Governor
J. M. Stone, who has frequently and fa
vorably been mentioned as successor to
ex-Seuator Walthall, has submitted a
letter, the followioir beimr au extract
therefrom: “So far as the sub-treasury
is intended to supply an increase of
money, it promises nothing good to the
farmers, who, above all others, will be
the victims of the evils of any inflation
which will disturb values. They need
for their welfare a currency as steady and
stable as themselves. Traders uud spec
ulators, those lookiug out for corners,
can riot amid the excitement of specula
tive values and fluctuations from disturd
ance, leaving the farmer and laborer no
sort ef even chance in that condition of
things. Promise of opportunity to ob
tain money at a low rate of interest by
depositing cotton and getting an advance
of BO per cent, of its value is, I think,
a delusion or a snare.”
***
The Farmer» Vidette, of Alexandria.
La., reports line progress in the order in
that state. The Vidette reminds its
readers that “the farmer must educate
himself. He must familiarize himself
with everything that goes to constitute
government. He must take un interest
in his surroundings. He must awake to
the fact that duties and obligations as a
citizen require r. knowledge bow to per
form and discharge these in au intelligent
nanuer. He must, if be wisheidko pros
per, cease to think by pioxy, a\d do so
rimself. He is a man, a being whatuoves,
ives and fee's, and not a machine Vho ij
et in motion by he who desires to
ie is not the docile beast of burdeomkat
some men would make him. He needs
education, and should driuk deep ut tho
fountain of knowledge. It is iu nis reach
und he should avail himself of it. He
must do his own thinking, work his own
salvation, thus be iu fact, that which he
is now ouly in name—a man.”
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Several colored Alliancemen of Sumter
county, Georgia, aro reported to have
bought a large tract of land iu that
county, and have put up a saw mill.
They are shipping lumber all over tho
Slate, la sides setting out over 2ltO acres
iu fruit, and Superintendent Richardson,
of the Slate Colored Alliance, says this
beats politics. The colored Alliance is
marching on to victory. There are in
tho Smith to-day over 2,000,000 mem
bers. The time is near at hand when
this grand organization wilt demonstrate
to the world that its members intend to
keep abreast with the times and demand
the same recognition granted to other
races and nationalities in the United
States. The agricultural fields will work
out the race problem.
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Labette County /Statesman (Oswego,
Kas ) says: “Teaching the science of
government is one great object of the
Farmers Alliance. Too much ignorauec
has prevailed, and the word of dema
gogues has been taken too long for the
welfare of the people. False, systems and
ialse policies hnvu so enveloped the
farmers and laborers'that life is perpetual
hell before them. They are aroused at
last to the misery and injustice of their
condition, and they are struggling man
fully to i scape from it. They neither
stop nor slacken their work until success
crowns their labor, and justice shall once
more bo enthroned iu the government.
Speed the day.”
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The People's Press (New Castle, Ind.)
says: “Take good cure of yoursub
Alliance; use every means to keep it
pure; strive to make it an educator; la
bor to keep, up an interest; teach the
doctrine of truth, justice and social
equality; stimulate the youug mind as
well as the old to a higher and nobler
Tllirnnsn in Hffi • Plllf u hirrh Hnrrrr.o of
social fellowship in the Older; invite
free discussion on the-living issues of the
day; do not expect to accomplish too
much in one duy, but lie satisfied to see
your strength iucrease day by day.”
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Mississippi and Tentnessee are now
making it lively for their United States
senators. The various Alliance organi
zations are askiug Senators Walthall and
George and Senators Harris and Bate how
they stand in regard to the demands of
the Alliance platform. The senators to
be elected iu both these States will have
to make very active campaigns and prove
themselves stronger with the people than
the Alliance, or else suffer defeat at the
hands of the order, if they refuse to ac
cept the platform of principles laid down
by the Alliance.
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Under the dcw congressional appor
tionment in Alabama the Sixth District
Alliance was cut in twaiu. President K.
W. Beck, who was sent into the new
ninth district, calls u convention of Alli
ancemen from Jefferson, Blount, Bibb,
Perry and Hale, to meet in Handelph,
Ala., to organize a District Alliance foi
the new district.
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The county Alliances in Florida are
taking action in regard to President Polk’s
circular relative to lecturers for the Dis
trict Alliances. When these shull have
been provided In each congressional dis
trict the lecture system of the Alliance
will be fully completed, concerning na
tional, state, district, county and sub
Alliauccs.
Organizers are now at work in every
state and territory in the union and sub
Alliances, C'ouuty Alliances, district Al
liances and State Alliances are being
formed us rapidly as possible. President
Polk recently visited Columbus, Ohio,
and orgauized fnere a State Alliance.
Some Alliance papers think it was too
great a hardship on the Alliancemen to
love to pay a difference of a dollar a bale
for cotton bagging, and are gratified that
they can now purchase jute bagging at a
reasonable price under Alliance sanction.
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no aver county JXeeiew (Kosednle, Miss.)
says: “The Alliance of Boliver county
will support no man for the legislature or
senate unless he pledges himself to sup
port men for the United States senate
who will advocate the sub-treasury bill.”
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In its march northward the Farmer’s
Alliance is establishing its official organs
all along the way. One of the largest,
handsomest and best edited of these is
the Farmers’ Alliance Journal, of Balti
more, Md., an eight-page weekly.
***
In Pennsylvania, West Virginia aud
some other states the Alliance.has largely
increased its membership by absorbing
the Patrons of Toil, an organization which
preceded the Alliance in those states.
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Tiie new editor of the Toiler, at
Nashville, Tenn., in his sululatory, says
the change in ownership nud manage
ment does not mean a change of policy.
Not Entirely Correct.
A subscriber writes to the New York
Sun as followa: I have a dispute with
a frieud about the head on she silver
dollar. I say that this Government is
bound by a treaty of 1776 to keep the
picture of the ruling sovereign of En
gland on its ooius, and so the present
has Queen Victoria’s face on it. My
friend says I’m all wrong. Please de
cide.
To this the editor replies: Yon’re
not entirely correct, Pat; in fact, you’re
a little wrong. To tell the truth,•Pat,
your ooutention needs considerable
changing before it will be oorreot; in
fact, it needs to be altered entirely. If,
now, you were to say there was no
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain in 1776 -that waa the
beginning of the Revolution, Pat—and,
that there never was a treaty which
bound the United States to keep the
head of the reigning sovereign of
Great Britain on its coins; and that we
never have kept the sovereign’s head
on our ooius, and that the bead op the
silver dollar is not Qneen Victoria’s
head—then, Pat, you would be light.
As it is, Pal, you’re wbuul Whew!
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THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
Meet lu Annual Convention Iu
Birmingham.
Tun Convention Makes a Good Be
ginning, wild Rushes Business.
The Southern Baptist Convention crowded
- a great ileal of work into its first session o*
three hours, and wont to dinner with a good
conscience and a good appetite, after voting
the whole of tlie afternoon to the American
Baptist Educational Society.
Between 1,'JUO ami 1 ,K0(\ delegates have re
ported and have been assigned to hotels, and
when the great body came to order ill
O’Brien’s Opera House at ten o’clock Friday
morning, the first Uoorand stage were packed
with members, and a hundred or so remained
on the outside. Dr. Chambliss, of Missouri,
who helped to organize the first convention
forty-six years ago, conducted the devotional
exercises, and began by reading the Psalm
which has the words: “Behold how good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to
gether in unity.” \Fbeu he gave out the
hymn, “Amazing grace, how sweot ths
sound,” the great audience uf 1,600 people \
rose and joined iu the song. It was a grand
chorus which filled the auditorium and per
ceptibly u fleeted the audience.
The long, tedious roll call, and the cross
fire corrections, were followed at length by
two addresses of welcome. Mayor Lane
made a capital short siieeoh in which ths
Birmingham idea was well kept to the front.
He said the people here invited two great re
ligious bodies to meet with them this year
because they liked that kind of company.
“Money making and industrial develop
ment,” said Mr. Lane, “were not the only
thiugs in which we can put our souls. We
have lhe will und the power to put behind us
the sordid things of this earth, and driuk
from those pure sources of social and relig
ious culture which give to life its chief charm
ami its only solace. Wo point with pride to
the number of church buildings here us evi
dence of religious fervor. I know that true
worship may be held in any kind of a buikD
ing, hut it is sad to see a man considering
anything good enough for him as a Christian
and nothing good enough for him as an indi
vidual. When people provide magnificent
churches, we know that is from the love of
God. Schools have well been called adjuncts
of the church, and on this accouut we invite
you to inspect our schools and their magnifi
cent buildings.
“You sometimes hear us called ‘Bad Bir
mingham.’ 1 know that there is much here
that is bad, but I think we can show more
that is good.”
Rev. Dr. Pickard, of the First Baptist
Church, began his address of welcome by
saying that nineteen years ago this place was
a solitude, where the partridge built his nest,
which is succeeded by the whistles of indus
tries representing millions of dollars, and in
the sequestered home of the deer, with the
palatial homes of 00,000 people.
Then he showed how eight Baptist churches
had grown up here in the nineteen years, all
but one self supporting, and four were the
largest in the State, as well as leading churches
of the Southern Baptist convention. Speak
ing of the religious growth of the city, he
said :
“Bad Birmingham is the best church-going
city I have ever seen. There is not church
capacity enough to satisfy her people, and her
Sabbath sun never kisses the spires but scores
of people are turned away from the pews and
churches of the city. There seems to bo a
holy enthusiasm for religion as well as for
money making. There is nothing large
enough here. Our churches are not large
enough, our schools are not large enough, our
jails are not large enorgli, [laughter], and the
opera house is not large enough. So to-day we
have four churches which cost $350,000 and
yet we have not room.”
The election of officers resulted in the unan
imous choice of Judge Haralson, of Selma,
who has beeu president of the convention!
since the death of Dr. Mell. He has just eu
outrb of t.be autocratic methods of the bench
to ""dispatch business, and the convention*
moves steadily under his parliamentary guid-'
ance. There were four rice-pfl&sidonts to
elect, and Dr. Hawthorne nominated Gov
ernor Nor then for the first. Of course, the
Governor was unanimously elected and in
vited to a seat on the stage. The other three
vice-presidents are Professor Charles L.'
Cocke, of Hollins’ Female Iustttutoof Vir
ginia; "Colouel James A. Hart, of South
Carolina, and Dr. T. T. Eaton, •Louisville.
Dr. Lansing Burrows was, as Uftfal, made
secretary, and Rev. O. F. Gregorvwas made
assistant. 1
Then came the reading of Dr.iH. AgjTup-.
per’s report for the foreign mission board.! /
He showed that the collections for the
were $115,523, which is $4,343 more th&i
year, and $20,3 )5 above the average of
years. Of the whole amount of $1/““
contributed in forty-five years, $812,t
raised in tbo last decade. The deficit.1_^
year is only $5,(528, while the Methodists I
ni-mmi, umi hid riiuaiivwu
Missiu mry Union lias a shortage of ^■^PfS
The interest, paid on loans is $1,088 leas tlaB|
last year, and Dr. Tappet' urges more syi**S
tematie giving, to do away entirely with OlM
necessity lor borrowing. The report pajjif: ; ’
tributes to tbe memory of Dr. J. H. DeVotie,
of Georgia, and Dr. Heury J. Ellison of
Virginia. Dr. Tupper mude a running corns 5 i,
ment on tlie various Helds, showing nearly all >,y
to bepros|>ermis. AI together there are eighty- yi
six missionaries m the employ of tbe board, i ig
In interest tlie chief feature of the day waa !f
tlie meeting of the American Baptist Educa- .?}
tional Society, which was called to order at 8'
o’clock, it developed the fact that there iaa<
three-year-old organization which has raised
three millions of mouey to invigorate the
Baptist educational institutions of the coun- j «
try, and mapped out a programme which
contemplates nothing less than a great
national system of education under Baptist
auspices.
When tbe reading of the report was ended
the great audience arose as if by a common
impulse and sang “Praise God from whom uli
blessings flow"”
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