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<8T)t luka Hepotttt. « fOLISBMI Ktsst Tspomdat IUKA, * M8HS8HP1 ▲ curious instance of the perversion of popular pronunciation is found in the word Rickreal, the name of a little river in Oregon. Its original name, given it by the French, was La Creole. The military traiuing of the Chica go police force will in the future be in accordance with the new “Army Drill Regulation for Infantry,” adopt ed by the War Department on Sep tember 28. No more than one house in ten is finished at the time mentioned in the contract, asserts the New York Com mercial Advertiser, and half of thorn are completed from two months to a year behind time. Petor Henderson of New York has a standing premium of $10,000 for a blue ohryeanthemum, says the Brook lyn Citizen, and all the hybridizers are persistently at work trying to develop or originate that novelty. The exorbitant freight tariffs on the various railroads lias caused Califor fornia fruit growers to reduce the quantity or fruit shipped to Eastern starlets, and large factories for dry ing and canning the fruit are being made. _ me vxeriuau army ims a aw miming school for troops where every one |gt matt learn to swim. The best swim ill mers are able to cross a stream of several hundred yards’ width, even ! When carrying their clothing, ride sad ammunition. The morbid spirit of bravado which culminated in Bridgeport, Conn., in the formation of a Suicide’s Club with twenty members has so exercised its sway over the weak minds of theso men that seventeen have already killed themselves. * In no part of the United States was there more interest felt in the out come of the Chilian episode, maintains the New York Commercial Advertiser, than In the lumber producing regions of the Northwest, where the market has been seriously affected. Bfen Butler says be acquired bis great fondness for Revolutionary his tory in the long winter evenings when the family gathered round the blazing fire on the hearth in his boyhood home, and to the accompaniment of hot cider and roasted apples told sto ries of the battles with the redcoats. The recept stir in the freight lines of steamers caused by the trip of the whale back steamer Wetmore to Europe has been extended to passen ger boats for ocean service; and re cent designs for a vessel carrying 800 passengers have been made, which is expected to cross the ocean in live days. _ In 1888 there were employed in the fisheries of the Pacific States 1879 vessel fishermen, 8804 shore fishermen ALL OVER THE WORLD | A $75,000 fire occurred at Hardin, Mo. A $200,000 fire occurred at Mount Airy. N. C., Saturday. A fire in Clarksville, Tcnn., de stroyed several large buildings, 8. H. Bell was banged for wife murder at Windsor, Vermont, Satur day. Roswell P. blower was inaugurated Governor of New York, Monday. The usual New Year’s reception was held at the White House Friday. At Norcross, Mrs, Kitty Bagwell, aged 85, who lilved alone, was found burned to death. At Pine Bluff, Ark., while men were raising a large safe to a second story window, the ropes broke and the safe fell, killing William Price and wound ing two others. Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, has appointed ex-Representative Per kins, United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of the late Preston B. Plumb. _< _ THE YEAR’S FAILURES. Greater in Number Than in Any Previous Year. Mercantile failures for the year 1891, as reported by the mercantile agency of R. (f. Dunn & Co., are 12,278 in the United States, against 10,906 in 1890. Failures in 1891 are greater in number than in any pre vious year since the record has been kept by this agency, running back to 1857. The amount of liabilities, j however, is almost nreciselv the same as the previous year, amounting to $189,000,000. The amount lost, therefore, does not exceed that of the previous year, while the average of liabilities of failure is $15,471 in 1891 against $17,406 in 1890. The distri bution of loss in geographical sections shows that the liabilities of failures in the eastern states in the year just I closed were $10,000,000 against $27,- | 000,000 last year. Iu the Middle States the liabilities were $67,000,000 against $75,000,000 I !n 1890. In the Southern States a | marked increase in liabilities is noted, as they amounted last year to $44,000,- I 000 against $27,090,000 in 1890. In ! the Western States there is a decline i of $2,900,000 iu liabilities, which j amounted in the year just closed to $48,000,000 against $50,000,000 in the i year previous, while on the Pacific ooast, in 1891, the liabilities amounted lo $9,000,000 as against $7,000,000 in 1890. ^_ THE TIE-UP On the Texas Ulne Yet Unbroken Wagons Called In. The situation at Yoakum, Texas, is yet unchanged. Not a wheel is turn ing. A call was made for trainmen and engines to take out a Waco train, but a as not responded to. The strikers are willing to take out the mail, but no passenger conches. The strikers are confident of winning the strike. Mach inconvenience to the traveling public has been experienced. Private conveyances to Southern Pa cific points are in demand. The gre viance committee of federation em ployes issued an answer to Receiver Yoakum’s statement of the 27th inst., in which they say there is cause for the strike, inasmuch as the average pay of the of the operators is insuffi cient, and they had positive informa tion that a reduction of salaries is contemplated. THEY WILL. NOT SUBMIT To the Granting of a Pension to Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Commenting upon the fact that a committee has been appointed in Mem pais, Tenn., for the purpose of urg ing the various southern legislatures to vote pensions to Mrs. Jefferson Da vis, The Evening Ledger says; Should such a resolution be offered in the Mississippi legislature it will be knocked skyhlgh. Mrs. Davis is no pauper. Indeed it is understood that she is well fixed in life. She owns two flue plantations, a valuable and delightful home on the coast, and the titles to her work and that of Mr. Da vis, from which source she receives enough money to comfortably support herself. Dississippi has done enough for the Davis family, and it is time to call a halt. PACIFIC SHED STORMS Snow Twelve Feet Deep on the Level. Heavy Galea. The rain and snow storm which has raged for over twenty-four hours on the Pacific Coast, is the worst in years. Reports received by the Southern Pacific officials show snow in Shasta and Siskinyou counties, the deepest ever known since the building of the road- Actual measurement gives it at twelve feet deep on a level from Siskinyou mountains, near the Oregon line, down to Mount Shasta. The wind is now blowing a gale. THE SNOW BLOCKADE. Passengers by Rail are Heltl Faraway Homes Barricaded. The Santa Fe and Atlantic and Pacific railroad are seriouslyiblockaded by snow drifts. No eastern mails have arrived over the Santa Fe for four days. A number of engines are off the track in the blockade, and pas sengers are blockaded in the Raton mountains. Villagers in the mountain country are sutiering. _ ALL ABOUT BUSINESS Dun & Co. Tell of Trade for the Hol idays—The Outlook. Business failures ocourring through out the country during the past week, as reported to H. U. Dun & Co., num- I her for the United States :S07 and Can ada 22, or a total of 329, compared with 392 last week and 335 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 318. SATISFACTORY RF.P011TS. The old year has closed with a little more than the usnd holiday dullness in general trade, but reports as to ihe volume of tho holiday trade are main ly satisfactory. At Chicago it was" the heaviest ever known ; at St. Louis it was unusually large and in jewelry the biggest known, but at Philadelphia and at New prleans it was uot quito up to expectations, and at Little Hock unsatisfactory. Quiot in other trades at this season is not a bad sign, and nearly all reports add that the pros pects for the coming year are consid ered unusually bright. EFFECT OF LOW-PRICED COTTON. Exceptions are to be found at the south, where the unusually low price of cotton and the accumulation of ex traordinary stocks cause depression in trade and stringency in the money markets, but at New Orleans the mon ey market is easier, though still there is a strong demand there, and at lticli rnond and Savannah, it is plain that the South is one obstacle to general progress at present, the overproduc tion of cotton being the cause. Receipts at ports are no longer equal to last year’s, and yet do not fall off as much as expected, while the accum ulation of stocks has become a heavy financial burden, and the price has dropped three-sixteenth during the past week to 7 3-4c for middling up Ub vj I* ima. THE PROVISION MARKETS. The sugar movement is large at New Orleans, with prices improving, and the movement of rice steady, and tobacco is fairly sustained in the northern market, but the southern trade depends so largely upon cotton that a serious depression necessarily follows the lowest price for many years. It must be added that the greatly increased production of iron has made it very low, and thus strained the re sources of mauy new and costly works at the sftuth, while the bottom has gone out of mauy speculations in real estate. On the other hand, the west is peculiarly favored by an enormous foreign demand for crops, which would otherwise be depressed because the largest ever known. Wheat comes forward as rapidly as the crowded conditions of the railroads will permit, and exports, though re duced last year, are very large again this week, and for six months liave exceeded 120,000,000 bushels, flour included, whereas the greatest move ment ever known in the last half of any previous year was 115,000,000, in 1879. The price has declined nearly 1 per cent during the last week: corn 2 1-2 and oats 1-2, but prices are highly satisfactory to western farm ers. Pork products are a shade lower; cotlee nearly a cent lower; oil five eights lower and the prices of all com modities average more than dne-half of 1 per cent lower for the week. The money markets continue well supplied and undisturbed and the treasury ha= again paid out more than 81,000,000 in excess of its receipts for the week. Foreign exchange tends lower, in licating larger imports of gold at no iistant day. Foreign trade continued sxceedingly favorable, for while the increase of imports at New York dur ing the paBt montli has been about l 1-2 per cent increase in exports there have been over $10,178,000, or about 37 per cent, which would indicate an Bxcess of exports over imports exceed Ing $46,000,000 for the mouth. The stock market has been strong toward the close of the year, and divi dends declared have been encouraging but the records of receiverships dur ing the year includes twenty-six rail roads with 2,159 miles in operation and $84,479,000 in stock and bouds. MRS. t>AVIS’ SUIT. The Demurrer of the Publishers Sus tained by the Courts. The Superior Court of New York City has sustained the demurrer to the complaint of Mrs. Varina Davis, widow of Jefferson Davis, in the action against Robert Belford and Edward Lange. The demurrer was on the ground that she had improperly joined causes of action in her complaint. Mrs. Davis made a contract on March 4, 1890, in which she agreed to write two volumes of memories of her hus band, whiclj Belford was to publish for six years, she receiving 12 1-2 per cent on the retail price of the books soid. Mrs. Davis says that Lange agreed to give a bond of $10,000 that Belford would keep the agreement. The book was published last March, and three mouths after Belford made a statement showing that $4,001 was credited to her. She alleged that Bel ford is now insolvent, and he and Lange have tried to constrain her to assign the contract. She asked for $4,001 as against Belford and $10,000 from Lange as liquidated damages, the decree declaring the contract broken and an injunction to prevent Belford from assigning the contract to others. There is a big boom in the lobster hhaiina nf Vnvu Si'nlui f6m AriHlnM. ALLIANCE NOTES. I SEWS OP THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS. - I What is Being Done in theSVariou* | Sections For the Advancement of the Great Organisation. There are now about 800 labor and re form papers in the United States and they publish truths and facts that the monop oly press dare not imitate. * * A large Citizens’ Alliance club has been organized in Indianapolis, lud., and a people’s Cougrcss was also formed to discuss the ccouomic ipiestions.of the day. ¥ ¥ * Why call the Sub-Treasury plan class legislation when it will benefit at least 95 per cent, of our population? Is there any other law on our statutes that will bene fit as many?—Faulkner County Wheel. t» * id The People’s Journul (Anderson, Ind.1) says: It was shown in the national meeting of the Alliance that the AUlxnce now has a larger and more active mem bership than at any time since it was or ganized. * * * The Alliance representatives in Con gress stood nobly to their colors, not voting for either Crisp or Reed, hut for one of their own number. May they prove true to the trust imposed in them is the one wish of their supporters.— Standard Farmer. ¥ * * I he Toiler (Nashville, Tenn.) says: The want of capital (money) is the great barrier to our material progress. En glish capital is flowing in abundance at 10 per cent, yet our vast resources are undeveloped and thousands of millions of our wealth is being lost to the world for tbe want of money to work with. * It is a contest betwoen invested capital and the vist army of wealth producers and the lines are drawn in every city and hamlet in the land. The mechanics and laborers and smaller merchants of the cities should speedily join the great army of organized farmers in their effort to emancipate the people from the money power.—Weekly Ilepublio. *** This from the Alabama (Selma) Minor: “The sub-treasury idea is in uo senie sectional, nor is it tinctured with favor to any class. It is as broad as the indus tries of the people. The principle is that ( industry shall furnish its products as se curity for the amount of money necessary j to carry on the business of the country, ! the money to be issued, directly by the . government to the people.” * * The Western Advocate (Mankato, Kan sas) says: Men who recognize the great havoc that contraction has made with the price of land and farm products, should not reject without due investigation and consideration, all methods proposed to remedy the evil. The comments and misrepresentations of the party press on the subtreasury plan, should have no in fluence on those who are seeking fo* the truth. Let everyone give the plan honest consideration. * * 4c The Arkansas Farmer (Little Rock) j puts it thus: If every farmer in the country could draw interest on what he has as well as what he owes, and a good deal that his neighbor owes they would be the most prosperous class of all citi zens. This is just exactly what the na tional bank does. The scheme is accur ately and skillfully fixed up by the na tional government, and to make the swindle still better the whole capital in the deal is practically exempt from any taxation whatever. *** The Charlotte Chhonicle intimates that j the North Carolina Congressmen will do , pretty much as they please in Washing- | ton, regardless of what the Alliance asks j them to do. In answer to the Chronicle’s intimation the Progressive Farmer adds: That is all right. They may do that way. Several members of the legislature of 1889 did that way, too, but when the ! roll was called they didn’t answer the next time an election was held. Our Congressmen are free men. The voters can vote for whom they please neat year. ik ik Clarksburg Current (Clarksburg, Mo.) truthfully says: “That which any laborer creates is of right his, and any process that deprives him of the enjoyment of and the possession and use of it is unjust. The wealth of the earth, and of the United States in particular, was created ; by the joint labor of the ^vhole people; i then of right the whole people ought to own it and enjoy it, but do they? No. Then there is awroug somewhere in the governmental machinery that causes a wrong distribution. The Alliance is an effort to find the wrong and correct it. Then why fight it? * * * The Arkansas Farmer (Little Rock) says: The anti-sub-treasury committeo turned up at Indianapolis as expected. A committee was appointed by President Polk from the National Council to meet them. Livingston, of Georgia, was the chairman, and respectful attention was given to Dr. Yeamans in his presentation ot objections to the Ocala demands. When he was through Livingston inform ed him that the “committee was ready to listen to a better proposition, if they had ono to offer.” This seemed to puncture the auti-sub-treasury bubble, and the doc tor said “he had none to offer.” This is about the result of all such controversies. They can object and condemn, but do not suggest or propose something better. NATIONAL ALLIANCE DAT. The Supreme Council wisely set apart the day on which our alliance all over tne country will hold their first nu i-tiiig in January as “National Alliance Day,” and requested that the meeting should be devoted to the discussion of our demands, i and that a collection should be taken up to aid in the distribution of alliance lit erature, A most important, noble an l worthy object is thus presented for the consideration and action of our alliances, and we trust we may hear that a general and universal interest has been taken in the matter throughout the whole country. Let us start into the great work of 1892 with an enthusiastic earnestness that will tell on the good of the Order and the advancement ot our cause. *** ITA8 COME TO STAY. The Sub-Treasury plan has arrived at that stage of existence where it is per fectly able to cure for itself, says the National Economist. It is no longer wearing infant’s cloth ing, but stalks forth in garb of manhood, j ready and anxious to meet all comers. It | will be a fad and wiser individual who seeks to bar its onward march by an at tempt to supplant it with something more palatable for the two old parties. The great common people and the Sub Treasury plan are in perfect accord and will submit to no intrrfi'rence. Let no one be alarmed about the Sub-Treasury plan being preserved intact. It is the bulwark of the Order and is so recognized by every candid member of the Alliance. This fact has become so firmly rooted and grounded that no innovation ever so trilling will bo permitted.—Progressive. Parmer. * * A STRANGE. We fail to see how it is that certain people are continually cryingeout that “tile Alliance must not go into a third party,” and in thesnmebreath yell lustily that it should go into the Democratic party. Keep cool, gentlemen. The Al liance is not going into any party. It will not be made the tail to nuy political party’s kite. It will remain, as it has been—a great educational force and maintain its intenrity und organization, a9 such. Its members can go where they please . If they want to stay in the old parties, it is their unquestioned right to do so. If they have lost faith in both the old parties and feel it their duty to go into a new party, they have just ns much right to do so, aDd no one nor no party can prevent it. So be quiet, gen tlemen. This is yet a free country, and the members of the Alliance will not forget it. They are free to act with any party they choose.—Progressive Farmer. HE HE THE QUESTION SETTT.ED. After two days’ consideration by the committee appointed for that purpose at Indianapolis, they reported unanimously in favor of the Ocaca demands, changing only two words to make the meaning of the Sub-Treasury plank plniner. This ; report was unanimously adopted by the Supreme Council. Thus we are sure to have a union of sentiment throughout the entire nation in the ranks of the Alliance, j North, South, East and West. For the present, therefore, we may settle | down to the conclusion that j. the battle , is to be . fought on the line of the Ocala platform. The objectors have totally failed to pres ent at any time “the something better,” j that we have hitherto said that we would accept instead of our own plan, if it was offered to us. But as those objectors , were those, who for one reason or another, I are satisfied with the present state of things, it is hardly to be supposed that they would furnish a more efficient rem edy for the ills of the farmer than the ; plan organized by the Farmers’ Alliance. , —Pcnuinsula Farmer. * * * TOILING ON. Under the above suggestive caption the Alliance Advocate, Louisville, Tenn., says: The masses of humanity to-day are toiling, and pinching, and saving, from one year’s end to the other, and they receive only a miserable pittance upon which to subsist, and nothing is laid aside for a rainy day. We see this in our own immediate neighborhoods— men with families to support, who barely earn the food they eat, and are unable to procure sufficient clothing to keep them comfortable. The outlook is dark to them, and tbRt their children must in herit only hardship and toil grow ing more severe with each succeeding year. Where shall relief be found? Will the plutocrat release his grip on the throat of the toiler, or the bonds man grow weary of turning into his coffers the earnings of his slaves? Shall we look to the men who have brought degradation and poverty to the loilers to remove the burdens they them selves have imposed upon them? History lifta Jit warning voice, crying from the shores of Ireland an alarm made more crrible by contrast with the happy past. Pauper labor prevails throughout the old countries, nnd the tendencies in this country are in the same direction. Aliens ire constantly securing immense tracts of and in this country, and every effort is I ceing made to control legislation in the interest or tnc plutocrat, and against the Farmer and laborer. Toiling on, day after Jay, the laborers have allowed these wrongs to pass unnoticed, until now Ihcir removal will require herculean ef forts. The wisest counsels must prevail, and organization must be perfected, and educated up to the needs of the hour. There is no call for anarchy. The American people have weapons all powerful in the ballots they are as yet permitted to cast. It is no longer a question of whetherthis or that party wins, but human liberty is at stake, and a revolution must take place in order that labor may receive the hire of which It is deserving. Laboring men—before you is a struggle as sure to come us the revolutions of the earth. Bare ye your arm for the work now; to delay means the awful arbitrament of force. Wait 'Airunpoauo juosaja « ;o smojjii; 31 qjooj .suofhup mob £hiu no£ Moj.iour or ‘sioqttq eq pjM SMOjq jno£ A'sp-ox Mpdsap jo u.ioqnojrn|OBU oqj joj jou THE SNOW BLOCKADE. Passengers l>y Rail are Held Faraway Homes Rarricaded. The Santa Fo and Atlantic and Pacific railroad are seriouslv,blockaded by snow drifts. No eastern miflls have arrived over the Santa Fe for four days. A number of engines are oft the track in the blockade, and pas sengers are blockaded in the Raton mountains. Villagers in the mountain country are suffering. A good formula for layer cake is as follows: One cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of sweet milk, the beaten whites of four eggs, two cupfuls of flour and a heaping tea spoonful of baking powder. It is proposed to build up a diamond cutiiug industry in the Kimberly dis trict, South Africa,by placing an export duty on the rough stones and paving bounties on the cut goods. t ■ ■' l, THEY VALUE THEIR LIVES And Americans In China in Great Trouble. Edward Bedloe, United States con sul at Amov, in the province of Fo Kien, the region of recent disturb ances, lias arrived in San Francisco by the steamer Oceanic, on the way Jo Washington, on a leave of absence. Consul Bedloe is a Pennsylvanian, has been United States consul at Vieuna and an attache of the American lega tion itj Egypt. He went to China in February, 1890. He says the last news he got was from Admiral Belknap, of the Asiatic squadron, at Yokohama, on the way here, and that it was to the effect that there wore disturbances in North China, and that it looked war like. The real political disturbances, said Consul Bedloe, are in the moun tains back of the city of Choan Chin, sixty miles northwest of Amoy, and at Sioke, forty-eight miles northeast of Amoy. I have received reports from missionaries who expected trouble at any moment. “Trouble is also expected at Foo Chow, where there is a large arsenal and several forts. If the rebels get possession of these forts we have no war vessels in the Asiatic squadron that could approach Foo Chow. They would bo no better than pasteboard boats against the formidable Chinese vessels. Now, seriously—and you can put this in any form you choose, but I wish you w onld bring out die gravity of the situ ation—Americans are all alarmed because of the defenseless condition of thpir wives and children. So much are they alarmed that they think of expatriating themselves.’’ THE STRIKE IN TEXAS. All the Pari iculars in a Nnt Shell— , Trouble in a Railroad. The entire San Antonia and Arkan sas Pass railroad system is tied up, aa the result of a strike. Operators claim they have been poorly paid and that the system of removals and reductions have been inaugurated by the new superintendent, George Sands, late of the Texas Pacific. Several station telegraphers’ salaries having been re duced and fearing other reductions the Order of Telegraphers appointed a grievance committee to secure the signing*of a contract by the manage ment of the road maintaining the pres ent operators, during good behavior, at existing scale of wages. The man agement refused to meet this demand, but claimed that no general reduction of wages was contemplated. The de mand of the railway telegraphers was backed by all other operatives, who on this particular road are federated for concentrated action. The paraly sis extended over 605 miles of the system. One operator went to work at Bcarene, but quit after receiving a curt, message. The conduotor and en gineer ottered to take tho mail car out, but Superintendent Sands refused to let them do so, unless the entire train was taken. District Superintendent Evans threatened to prosecute the officials of the road if the mail is not carried. Nothing approaching a set tlement has been reached. Receiver 'iokumisin Galveston and Receiver McNamara is in Mexico. Business is blocked on the entire road and 830 men are out. The Mileage Record. The Engineering News, in its an nual summary of track laid in the United States, says there has been 4.000 miles laid of new railway dur ing the current year, bringing the lotal mileage in the United States to 171.000 miles, a falling off of 1,500 from the increase of the previous year. Georgia constructed 250 miles, ■ind is second on the list, followed by Washington and South Carolina with 220 and 219 miles respectively. Ivev. W. H. Morris Pardoned. Itev. W. H. Morris, of Greenville, Butler county, was convicted last week of embezzlement of school funds as county superintendent of Butler county. Upon recommenda tion of the Alabama Methodist Con ference of preachers and many other citizens from various localities, he was pardoned Wednesday by the gov ernor ; a criminal intent not having satisfactorily been shown. Convene College Rurned. A Bpartanbutg, S. C., special says: at midnight Sunday Converse College was discovered on lire and the main building destroyed. An alarm saved the lives of about seventy-five inmates, fifty ot' whom were pupils. The col lege was a mile from the town, with no adequate water supply. The loss is $80,000; insurance, $40,000. The college is in its first year. Spontaneous Combustion. A tire accredited to spontaneous combustion occurred in Brooklyn Sun lay evening, destroyed the four story G'ain elcvaton of Francis G. Pint? to sons and causing a loss of $100,000. I'lie flames spread to tho grain storage varehouse and its contents were dam aged by water. •-—--- t A Probable Strike. Three thousand operators of the hlpin National Watch company stand ready to strike aud only wait the ngiml to do so. Several hundred workmen in the department walked Hit Saturday. , ; | E S rt is a very common thing for s young asu to make a sudden resolve that In will be a great mao, and then to spend »ll hts life waiting for greatness to come » him. In order to erect a mat'diflee- ; salaoe, It u expedient to begin bv .. .untOaih# dirt to * touaiauaa. ' 2