carolina sst 1 ' watchman our country may she ever be right rut right ok wrong our country n c thursday august 12 1897 six1t sixth year no 12 salisbury established 1832 title to the klondike fields news items pissiisisiiifiiiy 11 '" 01 '''^- 01 ' 8011 '- the firemen's association no valid objection caii be advanced to great britain's claim i how american producers ar being crucified incited by the newspaper publica tions recently tending to throw doubt upon the ownership of the klondike gold fields some of the high govern ment officials who would naturally be expected to deal with the question if it comes to a practical issue have been quietly looking into the matter with a view to preparing themselves for any controversy that may arise their views are in substance that there can be no valid objection advanced to the title of great britain to this territory a careful examination of all the reli able charts and maps made far enough back in date to be free from suspicion of influence of the recent heavy gold finds has convinced the officials that so far as the klondike fields as defined by the latest reporff are concerned there can be no questij but that they lie east of the one hut dred and forty-first meridian which de&nes the boundary line and so are within british territory by about thirty five miles at least as for the meridian itself it ia said that it has been iso closeiy located by the survey of the ca nadian and our own coast survey that there is not at any point a difference of more than 700 feet in the claimed boundary which of course would not substantially effect any controversy that might grow out of the title comparison of figures in this state and virginia on r r taxation gratifying reports of business im provement by dun & co j w porter of virginia eipusen th methods itesorteri to by tin pluto cratic press to hide the cause of falling prices of our products yjp^of a fly iav an emircnt english doctor will carrv eitouf:i poison to in^ctt a house hold in summer-time more espec jilly disease c^rrnj fill the air multi tudes arc inrectcju fall ill die multi tudes escape these messengers cf nvsth-et do not exist for millions why not \ because they arc healthy end strong - — protected a a crocodile is against gun shot it is the weak the wasted the thin-blooded who fall those who have no resistive power so that a sudden cough or cold develops into graver disease we hear of catching disease why not catch health ? we can do it by always maintaining our healthgr weigh of cod-liver oil is condensed nourish ment food or the build ng up of the system to resist the attacks of disease jt should be aken in reasonable doses ■ ii summer long by all those whose weight is below the stand-rd of health if you are osic rcund try a bottle new vox s:.l y a jrn twists at roc and i^m the markets vew fobs cotton ft'tcres n u l'ork august s^-cotton firm mnlijim upland s uoji middling gulf v ;. futures closed steady high low clos est est ing august 7(14 7 52 7 59(^60 september 7 m 7 26 7 20@30 october 7 19 7 12 7 15@16 november 7 12 7 07 7 09@10 december 7 hi 7 10 7 12@13 january 7 30 7 hi 7 16@17 february 7 20 21 march 7 25 7 24 7 23@24 april 7 26@27 may 7 89 7 29 7 29@30 june july livekpooi cotton market liverpool august 9 — middling 4 9-32 futures closed quiet but steady august 4 18@14 a ugust and september 4 09 a september and < jctober 4 01@02 october and november 3 56@57 november and december 3 56(^57 1 december and january 3 55®56 january and february 3 55@56 february and march 3 55@56 march and april 3 56@57 april and may 3 57@58 other cotton markets charleston aug 9 cotton firm middling 7 wilmington aug 9 cotton firm middling 8 savannah aug 9 — cotton firm middling 7 norfolk aug 9 — cotton firm middling 8 charlotte aug 9 — strict good mid dling s good middling 8 strict middling ..; middling 8 tinges 7^(rt 8 stains 7 columbia aug 9 good middling 75 strict middling 7 middling 71 strict low middling 7j low mid dling 7 market stead haltimoke produce market baltimore aug 9 flour firm but quiet western superfine 2 70@2 95 winter wheat patent 4.50@4 75 spring do 4 65@4.85 wheat weak spot 87£@85 mouth | 84f 85 september 83.4(^83 steamer no 2 red 82v/jjgj southern wheut by sample so^sii jo on grade 82 corn ihill and easy spot 31j@31 month 30|@31 september 30£@80 steamer mixed 28|@29 southern white corn 35 do yellow 35@36 outs weak;no 2 avhite,old,27@27 no 2 mixed 23@24 rice charleston ausr 9 — the rice mar ket was quiet with no sales the quo tations are prime 5 5 ; i«»od 4£@4j fair o|@4 common 3 8 naval stores charleston aug 9 — turpentine firm at 24 rosin firm sales none a h c 1 and e 1.20 f 1.25 g 1.80 h 1.45 i 1.45 k 1.50 m 1.55 n 1.75 window glass 1.90 water white 2.20 savannah aug 9 - turpentine firm at 5 sales 342 receipts 4,230 rosin firm sales 785 receipts 4,230 a b c d and e 1.20 f 1.30 g 1.35 h 1.50 m 1.60 n 1.85 window glass 2.05 water white 2.30 wilmington aug !). — turpentine bteady at 24<g>24i receipts fl7 rosin quiet at 1.20 and 1.25 receipts 360 crude turpentine firm at 22@21 re ceipts 86 tar quiet at 1 15 receipts 72 cotton seed oil new york aug 9 cotton seed oil nrna ; yellow crude 26@27 coffee new york aug '.'. options opened rteady 5 points advance ruled quiet but snowed firmer undertone euro pean cables being better than expected and brazilian receipts lighter which caused a rallj r in the afternoon with covering a feature the close was steady at 5 to 15 points net advance sales 16,250 bags.^including septem ber 6.80@6.90 november 6.85 de cember 7(g>7.05 january 7 spot — rio quiet cordova 10$@16a sales 400 bags maracaibo p t suoab new york august 9 raw steady fair refining 3 centrifugal 96 test 8jf refined bteady ' in new york the other day a young fellow cut off the nose of a music hall plnger and slashed her husband with a ru7/or when he was arrested a let ter was found in his pocket recommend ing iiim as a young mail of quiet tastes and steady habits wonder wlial he wonld have done if he had not bewi a quiet fellow old north state culungs southern pencil pointers the smallpox situation in birming ham ala is very much improved m a connelly of savannah ga . has been chosen us secretary of the nicauraguan canal commission alfred e holton las been appointed united states attorney for the western district of north cnrolina a gentleman who has been dead two months has been appointed postmaster at wahoo sullivan county tennessee during a game oi ball at eufaula ala , bose faulkner struck cal taylor on the head with a stick and death re sulted faulknei < eaped the charlotte observer says the prop osition to move the court house site from dallas to tirnstonia n c , has failed a majority of those who voted were in favor of ren oval but a majority of the registered v.-ters did not go to the polls the eome ga cotton factory has obtained a government order for 1,300 000 yards of heavy luck for mail sacks the amount of the contract is 250,000 the mill has been forced to purchase new machinery and employ a large number of hands at good wages the erection of a twenty-ton cottou seed oil mill will be commenced at la vonia ga , at once it is believed that the plan to utilize the water power of the james at rich mond for a great electric plant will succeed the old talbot machine shops at richmond va , have passed away after fifty years of life the depression of the times did it worried by business troubles wealthy samuel blair of chattanooga tenn , cut his throat and died in his bath tub j h milam of the seaboard air line at charlotte has mysteriously dis appeared his shortage foots up to 1,444.44 a sheriff's posse in coffee county ala , killed allven lightfoot and badly injured his son joe in attempting to arrest them for general crimes all about the north a rain storm at colorado city col , flooded the stre v s six inches an association composed of buyers for commercial houses in the various cities has been formed m new york cincinnati o , is the centre of a great new combine of manufacturers of wood working machinery the world says that 2,500 babies have been abandoned by their mothers in new york within the past year the na'.ional democratic association of colored men is called to meet in convention columbus o , on sept 33d ah the gas companies of chicago have consolidated the capital stock is raised from 400,000 to 25 000 000 stephen m carty who put up the firet telephone used in cuba died at new haven conn from heart failure caused by excessive smoking at st louis cotton is said to be cornered and it is likelj to remain so until september 1st when the official cotton yeai opens and the new crop begins to move the statements of the local warehouses show that the total number of bales in storage aggre gate 9,682 bales a gang of gold brick swindlers have come to grief in new york at sigourney ia , four girls were drowned in skunk river they were caught in the current while wading chas a dana the nestor of ameri can journalists owner and editor of the new york sun is seriously ill it is reported that senator gorman of maryland will not be a candidate for reelection at theend of his present term senator gorman will have served 24 years many of the principal life and acci dent insurance companies of chicago are refusing to assume risks upon the lives of persons contemplating a visit to the ivlondyke the gold brick swindle was worked on a new orleans saloon keeper for 7,000 by members of a gang who have operated extensively in south american cities and large towns of this country the men were arrested iu new york at hudson mass , an attempt was made to blow up a section of the tene ment house owned by the l d apple v rubber company in which several of the workmen employed at the factor v in the place of the striking help have been boarding miscellaneous american whalers this season have realized 702 44 within eighteen months famine and pestilence have killed 8,000,000 people in india most kansas counties pay a bounty on wolves killed and michigan pavs for dead sparrows mr moody announces that he has no idea of retiring from his evangelistic work an explosion in the cartridge factory of rustchuk on the danube killed fifty-six people outright arrangements are being made for the establishment of a mail route to the klondyke region the highbinders in san francisco cal have posted a list of chinese who they will murder new york is still talking of a world's fair in l!»00 to commemorate the consol idation of the various cities which are comprised in greater new york from 12,000 to 15,000 natives are now under arms in revolt against the british in india and the rebellion is still spreading missouri has raised the taxable valu ation of her railroads and telegraphs-by over 3,000,000 and will add 750,000 to her revenue next year representatives of i'eter maher and tom sharkey have posted a second deposit of 2,500 of the 10,000 fora fight between the pugilists they will probably fight in s,in francisco during october the dawn of better days delegates to farmers national con gress—the excellence of the crops simply wonderful fewer failures the past week than in any week since the year 1892 by j w porter of virginia in the powder absolutely pure celebrated for its great lenvcninm strength and healthfulm-ss assures the food against allalum and form ol adulteration common to thejcneap brands koyal baking powik co new york silver knight watchman in view of the long continued decline of agricultural prosperity which has reacted upon all other industries and is making commercial business hazard ous to say the least we see men still | groping in darkness as to the cause and we see others ignorantly or wil fully misstating the eause and declar ing that it is irremediable while chron icling the damaging evidence of the destruction of values which is due to causes which are remediable the cause and the remedy have been long ago pointed out by some of the wis est and ablest men of the time and public opinion would long ago have compelled the application of that remedy which consisted in a removal of the known cause but for the determined effort to prevent public opinion by false statements and the closure of the col umns of so many of our great newspa pers and agricultural journals to any fair discussion of the subject thi is no light matter in a republic whose enlightened public opinion is our every safeguard the power of money to oppress is nowhn-f more aptly illus trated than in this attempted control of the vehicles of public intelligence every writer against the gold standard in this country and in europe knows how difficult it is to get any presentation of fact or argument against the gold standard before the people the late prof laveleye of liege university asserted in his last days after long and ably contending against the injustice of the gold standard that he had to pay for the publication of his papers in the great continental journals in a re public this is inexcusable it la dan gerous it is the first step taken to throttle liberty americans should be aroused to the danger ere it is too late truth and justice have nothing to fear in the arena open to public discussion a free and untrammeled public press was once deemed the palladium of our liberties have we such now most assuredly not when the press is closed to the free discussion of the most im portant questions which ever agitated our country one great agricultural journal which has a large circulation formerly took great interest in this question its control was secured and it was silenced and all discussion of the subject of bimetallism as affecting agriculture was stopped though its two editors are pronounced friends of bi metallism every number brings evi dence of the decay of the farming in terests yet the cause must not be dis cussed the weekly trade review of messrs ' r g dun & co for the week ending august 7th t-ays four years ago august fith 1893 the first of j'un's re views was issued with failures in that month amounting to over 00,000,000 while in the month just closed failures have been only 37,117 727 the smallest in any month since 1892 the state ] ment of failures by classes of business \ for july and for forty-six months shows j that in manufacturing failures have • been smaller than in any other month i in the entire period in trading smaller than in any month except one and in , many branches of manufacture smaller j than in most mouths of which reoords exist the pessimists who pronounced re j ports of gain fictitious and misrepre i 6enting have grown weary of their dis i rnal predictions and begin to see the j dawn of better days last mouth was j the first for four years of which the : volume of business reported by clear ing houses was larger than in the same month of 1892 and the telegraphic dis patches from all parts of the country given this week show gratifying im provement this is probably due to | a larger yield of wheat and good j prices though the crop is probably not as large nor are prices thus far as high as in 1892 but of cotton the price is j higher and the yield probably larger i than in thut year other farm products j are realizing good prices and the pos j sible decrease iu yield of corn may help to market the enormous surplus brought over from last year liquidation of a powerful com bination in wheat broke and wheat advanced 3 cents on tuesday a gain of 1 1-2 cents for the week it is the wrong season to expect much from industries and yet there has been material increase in the number of bauds employed iu the iron manu facture because of the satisfactory ad justment of wages dispute with the amalgamated association and the open ing of numerous establishments which have been waiting while the coal min ers strikes seem each day more iely to end iu n permanent settlement bene ficial to both partit . meanwhile the demand for most tin i shed products is steadily increasing the feature this week being large pipe contracts for kussian oil fields sumatra and ger many the sales of wool as comparative returns by months show bear little re lation to the actual consumption iu manufacture but heavy liquidation since the new tariff bill was enacted gives the impression that some dealers are no longer confident of a speedy ad vance nevertheless prices have risen during the past few weeks nearly one cent per pound manufacturers are buy ing but little though they are increasing the output and are able to report an advance of 10 per cent in prices of goods with rapidly increasing orders promised prosperity comforts us as it were this tremendous impairment of the purchasing power of the farm is ol our country is the cause < ; . f manifold evils which afflict our country and the world instead of being caused by the shadow of a threatened crime as this wanton writer calls the struggle for relief it is th result of the most gi gantic crime ever attempted the at tempt to chance the standard of pay ment after getting the nations under bonded debts aggregating certainly one third the total wealth of tl^e world w r e may more truly reverse mr at kinson's assertion and say that our present great losses arc duo to our having so long tolerated the fraudulent rnd unconstitutional attempt to change the standard of payment not the stand ard of value as mr atkinson falsely calls it by which the spoliation of the people is permitted under forms of law there is no standard of value there can be none for value in a market rela tion determined by the supply and d mand of this thing valued in men's minds by their desire to keep it or to exchange it a standard i a fixed quantity or measure under the sanc tion of law or of custom value is subject to many changes it is ideals as our supreme court once de clared a volcano in eruption five hundred people known to have perished and 15 towns destroyed a special to the chicago chronicle from tacoma wash says five hun dred reported killed up to july 1st is the record of the terrible outbreak of the great volcano mayon on the island of luzon one of the phillipine group on the night of june 24 this volcano began throwing up ashes and lava in immense quantities and the fl*mes were thrown upward considerably over 100 feet above the crater the next dav 65 bodies were recovered at a con siderable distance and the most recent dispatches to hong kong up to july 8th stated that not less than 500 were known to have been killed it is probable said the dispatches that the loss of life will reach into the thousands depending on the length of eruption ( n that date lava streams and ashes had reached the cities of bacacay malipot and liberi and their destruction was certain fifteen small er towns between these and the volcano had been destroyed and scores of the agricultural population had been overwhelmed while attempting to es cape the following delegates and racing teams were represented at the state firemen's association at fayetteville last week asheville charlotte con cord salisbury greensboro durham raleigh wilson newberne wilming ton goldeboro and winston-salem columbia orangeburg sumter flor ence from south carolina the offi cers elected are james d mcxeill of fayetteville president j c nichols of durham secretary dr j w grif fith of greensboro and parnell vice presidents t a green of newbern treasurer the following ia the result of the races in the engine contest the new berne steam fire engine's time was 3:41 1-2 winston 3:4 1-2 atlantics of new berne 4:08 1-4 greensboro 5:123-4 wilmington 6:261-2 the first prize was 00 second 30 third 820 in the hand reel 150 yards dash fav etteville's time was 31 seconds new berne 32 greensboro 33 durnam no 2,34 salem 33 1-2 salisbury 38 1-2 charlotte 33 durham no 1 33 the grab reel race resulted new reine no 1 25 seconds durham no 1,221-4 atlantics 2 1-2 fayetteville 231-4 south sides 23 1-4 in the long distance rapid steaming wilmington and winston made fine show in the long distance throwing water winston won 239 feet 5 inches the greensboro juniors defeated the fay etteville juniors the championship hand reel race was won by the atlantics of newbern the horse wagon contest was won by the greensboro team the horse hook and ladder race was won by winston the hand hook and ladder contest was won by greensboro the next place of meeting is at greensboro charlotte didn't get the tournament but she got the promise of the fayette ville boys along with others to go there the next 2uth of may <•> much has been said recently as to the taxation of railway property in vir ginia and north carolina the follow ing are the facts as to such taxation the total value of railways in virginia including property outside of right-of way as well as street cars assessed for taxation is 53 389 o40 that in north carolina not including street cars and property outside of right-of-way is 29,000,000 the gross earnings in virginia are 50,000,000 in north car olina 9,846,000 the net earnings in virginia are 12 151,000 in north caro lina 3,257,000 so the taxation in vir ginia instead of being one and a half times greater than in north carolina should have been in round numbers four times as much governor russell says railway property should be listed for taxation at a sum upon which it pays 6 per cent upon net earnings by this virginia would have a valuation of 200,000,000 and north carolina 50 000,000 virginia besides pays 1 per cent on net income deducting inter est on funded debt and taxes and this amount to only 3,000 with a similar tax north carolina could collect nothing 6ave a small sum from the at antic coast line — charlotte observer «»»■ the commissioner of agriculture says all the crop returns which oome in are remarkably favorable in act the ex cellence of the crops is simply wonder ful the returns foi august are rapid ly arriving from correspondents none of these put cotton below 100 per cent and some put it as high as 120 compar ed with average years there is a large increase in acreage the report as to corn is the best ever received by the department it is a remark that 1897 may well be termed a year of plenty " governor russell appoints the fol lowing delegates from north carolina to the farmers national congress for the next two years state at large j s cunningham and win dunn first district john brady second district m l wood third district j a westbrook : fourth district ransom hinton fifth district benehau cam eron sixth district nick gibbons seventh district s a lawrence eighth district j l byers ninth district w g candler ■*•»• up to the 5th the charlotte observer says of all the counties in the state from which returns have been sent to the auditor and to the state board of equalization gaston leads so far as in crease in values is concerned the in crease in the value of property in that county is 315,311 over 1896 and 410 941 over 1895 •»•> for the first time in three years the cabarrus jail is clear of prisoners an other incident attending the term of court just concluded is the fact that not a whiskey case was tried during the term something that has greatly sur prised even the public to say nothing of the lawyers - charlotte observer durham paid 80,000 internal rev enue tax for the month of july the sales being tobacco 25,203.90 cigarettes 13,955.00 cigars 957.45 snuff 285.00 total 40 401 35 ex ports were cigarettes :> 1,802 500 to bacco 1,650 pounds — ■+•+■ the railroad commission reduces the tax valuation 500 per mile on the fol lowing railways georgia carolina and northern western north carolina between round knob and paint rock and the atlanta and charlotte air line thus making the valuations respective ly 9,000 8,500 and 11,000 per mile *•» martin roberts.of keidsville.has been convicted of the seduction of georgie willis a pretty nineteen-year-old girl he was sentenced to twelve rnod in jail tlllvman at abbeville he defensjs the dispensary and teils some great things about him self senator tillman spoke to the farmers institute at abbeville s c delivering the first speech he has made in the state since the opening of the present sena torial campaign he defended the dis pensary law and declared that the troubles it had been involved in were due not to the law itself but to its un wise administration he endorsed the tariff views of senator molaurin and said that while he himself was not a pro tectionist if there was any stealing go ing on he avanted his state to have its share he told his hearers that he was the only farmer in the senate and that he therefore represented 30,000,000 farmers of the united states he de clared that his speeches were as popular in the senate as at home and told how when he arose to speak the cloak rooms always emptied and the galleries filled it recently published the following from the tribune n y the world's lav i looked from out the grating of my spirit's dungeon cell — and i saw the life-title rolling with a sullen angry swell and the battle-ships were riding like leviathans in pride — while their cannon-shot were raining on the stormy human tide then my soul in anguish wept — sending forth a wailing cry said the world this comes from hea ven said my soul it is a lie i looked from out tho grating of my spirit's dungeon cell and a sound of mortal moaning on my reeling senses f ii and 1 heard the fall of lashes and the clank of iron chains and i saw where men were writ under slavery's cruel pains then my soul looked up to god with a wo-beclouded eye said the world this comes fruui hea ven said my soul it la a lie i looked from out the grating of my spirit's dungeon i • and i heard the solemn tolling of a malefactor's knell — and i saw the frowning gallowa reared alofl in awful gloom while a thousand eyes were gloating o'er a felons borrid doom and a shout of heartless mirth on the wind was rushing by said the world this cornea from hea ven said my soul it is a lie i looked from out tho grating of my spirit's dungeon cell where the harvest wealth was bloom ing over smiling plain and dell and i saw a million paupers with their foreheads in the dust - and i saw a million wori slay each other for i crust and i cried o god shall thy people ah said the world this comi a from b ven " said my soul it is a lie augustine i ug nine farms in england are selling at a ruinous reduction of their former value.and in many cases cannot be sold at all many properties within two hours ride of london are deserted ♦ * * in many casts farms have been sold for less than one-tenth their value twenty years ago well-to-do farmers are abandoning the business and going to the colonies or to the cities to start life anew * * * although the sit uation is grevious there may be con solation in the fact it is worse on the continent * * * we have not yet suffered so severely in this country it continues now as to its last con clusion what are the facts the temporary curtailment of output by cotton mills continues bu does not yet bring improved prices for products although the demand is generally gain ing failures of the week have been 237 in the united states against 240 last year and 2i in canada against 32 last year government jobs civil service examinations to be held western union appeals september 22 civil service examinations will be held in columbia s c , on september 22 for the following positions under the government service bookbinder clerk of the departmental service composi tor electrotyper of all kinds elevator conductor janitor messenger press man railway mail clerk skilled laborer male or female stenographer stereo typer stock examiner tagger type writer watchman one wishing to stand the examination san select any one of the above callings to be exam ined upon all applications must be on file in the office of the civil service commissioner washington at least ten days before the examination is held examinations will be held in charles ton on the 24th of september and the 25th of october resists the seduction in telegram kates made by the n c r r com mission the abai doned farms of our k;ist crn states arc an older story than the ones in england and so is the emi gration of its yeomen to whose sturdy manhood both owe their greatness we can instance a.s great a decline in farm values in almost all the older states and then the sequestration of all debt or interests in farms largely or nearly paid for which has been constantly go ing on coupled with this lot we pre sent the following from mr edward atkinson's address recently delivered before the new jersey board of agri culture as published by the southern planter richmond va which lauds mr a is the greatest statistician and an emii ent authority he attributes the enormous losses which the farm . rs have sustained in the last two years in the decline of their staple crops to the shadow of a threatened crime and he then says the pen alty which the farmers have paid for tolerating the effort to tamper with the standard of value of the nation has i en a loss of one-third of the farm values of their groat products in the returns of 1895 as compared to 1891 in the sum of 750,000,000 continuing i says this loss has by so much reduced the purchasing powers of the largest consuming class in the country in l896 let the reader compare this astounding statement of the cause of th loss < » f 750,000,000 in one year's be ing the shadow of a threatened crime with the foregoing statement of a goldbug editor of tho worse condi tion existing in england and on the continent of europe where no shadow of a threatened crime clouds the land scape of the fundholder and these outlaws to reason presume to teach and they find room in journals profess edly agricultural which will not permit an exposure of its infamy to appear in their columns why the above is on a par with the wolf's logic to the lamb in aesop's fable we mu.-st note the ad mission madf of thf impairment of the purchasing power of the greatest con suming class in our country in 1s9g of 1750,000,000 over 10 per capita for ev ery man woman and child in it for i must comfort th nen who seek re lit f by more taxes iore revenue — and in the openeing of more mills instead uf mints comfort them just as their the western union telegraph cora pan v has appealed from the order of the railroad commission making 15 cents the rate for a ten-word day mes sage the compa contends that the rate is not just and reasonable and that it would force the company to operate at a loss also that a commission has no power to make the rates for tele grams the company alleges that at 2 cents it has operated north carolina busi ness at a loss t files a prayer for re moval of the case to the united states court for the eastern district of north carolina the prayer alleges that the commission's order violates the fifth amendment to the united stutes con stitution in that the enforcement of said rate would be taking the company's property for public use without just compensation that it violates section 1 of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution that it violates section 8 of article 1 of the constitution and also violates the united states act of 1866 to aid in the construction of telegraph lines the prayer further sets forth that the coiinany is of new york and not a citizen or resident of north caro lina john vanhorne vice-president signs this prayer atlanta operatives strike negro women were employed and all the other hands quit as a result of the employment ol twenty-five negro women in the folding department of the fulton bag and cot ton mills atlanta ga , 1,400 men women and children have gone out on one of the largest strikes that has ever occurred in that city the wills were forced to shut down their entire plant and it will eflect fully 2,000 people ol the working classes when the notice was put up that the mills were closed much disorder broke out and it waa the inclination of the strikers at first to cause trouble but the police reserve force arrived in time to quell any dis turbance when tho trusts fiavp control of roi and the admtaistratlon when will th«y relax th ir grasp christ's minis re were c mi to feed his sheep whei k ill they r as shearing them and i thpm into mutton when the tennessee election a general election was held in this state on the l"ith to lecide whether or not a constitutional convention shall be held returns show that the calling of a convention has been overwhelm ingly defeated a light vote was pol led but little interest being shown and in some voting districts the polls were not opened in nashville with a voting population of 15,000 the total vote cast was less than 1,000 thp devil is th g i • ral human affaire win n w ill and givp csirisl a i ham e to ru workin&men f ■ • ' by the use of their ballots cduld chang their -' i h frpr men when wi ' m - \ do it 7 iowa colony in alabama a number of towa families have se cured a concession of <>, 000 acres of land in shelby county ala so miles south of birmingham the tract is to be laid out on the colony plan but each colon ist will own his own property socialism hew out i broad highway to better condition and illuminate it with the light f • ■» nn mon ffpf 1 when will those who nee ] f mancipation walk in it railwaj times business men as swindlers freight kates on cotton three prominent business men of pittsburg pa , have been arrested and bound over to the october term of court charged with conspiracy to defraud the national loan & investing company of detroit one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country the case promises to be a sensational one owing to the prominence of the accused and the amount claimed to have been secured by them which is said to be in t neighborhood of 200 0q0 the georgia state railroad commis sion has refused the petition of w ii brewer of griffin and j g purdue i if savannah representing the freight and transportation bureau of that citv and others for a horizontal reduction of 25 per cont in freight rates on cot ton packers break thw rocord the kansas citv packers have broken their record for the first six months of the year they killed daring that i r iod 1,685,000 ho<,'a 412,000 cattle un.l 470,000 sheep which figures indicate an increased slaughtering of 375 00u hogs 43 000 cattle andlo^ochj sheep over the first half of 1898 this enlargement is said to be the result of an increased supply of live atook in the kansas city territory and extension of trade the bimetallic commission the british government has informed the american bimetallic commission that they will probably reply to the proposals of the commissioners on be half of the united but ia octobw