Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — Page 2

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2®BB--Priee Of life Is living. The fact that one is on earth is no evidence .that he is alive,” exclaims a writer .’.who would have people, all of the people, more fully enjoy the present by making the most of it. Some people are so absorbed in mere money getting. some in mere money spending, land nearly all in one hobby or anotheii that few really enjoy life as it passes day by day, and not realizing that •“To-day is a king' tn disguise,” they never learn the meaning of true happiness. A boy and a dog bound together lie in the Charity Hospital at Bladrwel Island, New York. One of the boy's legs lacks bone above the ankle. Into this part of the leg a part of the dog - fore-leg has been ingrafted. If thdog dies another will be supplied. Tbv dog is a spaniel weighing about twenty pounds. Bandages of plaster of pans fasten him to the boy. The dog’s vocal chords are cut. When union between the boy’s bone and that of the dog has commenced the dog’s leg will he severed from connection with the boy’s, by cutting skin, arteries anc muscles, which now bind the dog to the boy. The skin will then be severed over the dog’s stump and all of the rest of the dog's leg will be cut from the boy’s leg except the ingrafted piece of bone. The surgeon conducting the experiment is Dr. A. M. Phelps, professor of orthopedic surgery in the University of New York. * It will be well for consumptives to be cautious about putting themselves under the care of doctors who profe*that they have adopted Prof. Koch’s system before the Professor himself has perfected the system, and before he has given the composition of the curative.lymph or the method of using it. There are but few of our respected physicians who would indulge in pretenses in a business of this kind. The most learned and careful members of our medical faculty are as yet engaged In studying the dispatches that are sent here from Berlin under Prof. Koch’s authority. They have great faith in the news that has thus been communicated, and probably more than a hundred of them are in Berlin, or have taken passage thither, to await developments. In a short time we shall have definite knowledge concerning a discovery which is of the highest importance to millions of sufferers all over the world.

It la an old saying, and one worthy of some consideration, that the worst thing that can happen to any mover ment is for it to become ridiculous. This is especially true in America, where the sense of humor of the average man is so keen and mot is often better than an argument. This was illustrated in a country town in Kentucky only a few days since. A burlesque company was advertised to appear in the place and had posted some rather “loud” paper on the walls. A member of the council moved that the town marshal be directed to tear the paper down, as it was an offense to decent people. Then there was some debate and at last a member from one of the back wards arose in his place and moved that the sum of $lO be appropriated for the purchase of a sufficient amount of tobacco bagging to cover the posters. He said that this would spare the sensitiveness of those who objected and enable those who could not go to the “show” and would like to see the pictures, to gratify their curiosity by raising the curtain. Bishop William Taylor, whose work in Africa for the Methodist Church is known everywhere, says that while Stanley was not a missionary like Dr. Livingstone, his influence upon Africa was hardly less beneficial. “In sharp contrast with the former type of explorer stands Stanley, who has been as thoroughly upright in his dealings with the blacks as was Livingstone. All the slanders which have been circulated against him can be at once set aside as false, for from the blacks who have accompanied him on his journey, and through whose territory Stanley has made his way, there comes nothing but the accounts of the most honorable of treatment. Having met Mr. Stanley personally I can commend him and the work he has done in Africa in the heartiest manner.” The most reliable evidence of a man’s conduct comes from the people with whom he had dealings. If Mr. Stanley has won the friendship of the natives of Africa. Messrs. Ward Troup, and the friends of the unfortunate Barttelot will attack Stanley’s character in vain.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Eight thensand Alabama m'nsrs are on a strike. Gold at Buenos Ayres on the 2d was 209 par cent, premium. OH was struck at Cardington, 0., at a depth es 3,300 fart. King Kalakua want* to sell his kingdom to the United States. Leprosy is on the increase among the Indtans and ChineseThßrltfshCoTutnbla. Mrs. Snell, of Chicago, has renewed her offer of a reward of >50,000 for the arrest of Tascott. Fire at the Jefferson Barracks,St. Louis. Mo., roasted sixty-six horses to death. Loss, >16,900. Fire destroyed the cotton yarn mill of the A, Campbell Manufacturing Company, Manayunk, Pa. Loss, >300,000. The cold wave extends over the northern part of the country. New .York had considerable snow, in some places over a foot Fire occurred in the warehouse of the Farmers' Alliance at Newman,Ga., on the Ist, completely destroying it: Loss,>so.ooo. The new wheel trust includes all the factories inthe West but two. Wagon and buggy wheels have increased in price about 70 per cent A member of the 3. T. Case threshing machine company, at Racine, states that the company will not join the threshing machine trust that is being formed. ’ The New Orleans cotton firm of V. & A* Meyer has suspended, with liabilities aggregating 62,500,000. They say they wilj pay in full. Slow collections, tight money and a decline in cotton are given as the causes. A disease called “blackleg" has attacked the cattle of Eldridge township, a few miles southeast of Paris, 111., and is causing much apprehension among the stock raisersof that section. A number of fine animals have died, and a general epidemic is feared. John Hutchinson, who fled from Xenia 0., several years ago, to escape prosecution for shortage of his accounts as bookkeepdr of the JNational Bank, has returned, pleaded guilty to the charges against him, and been sentenced to the penitentiary fortwoyears The schools of Alton. 111., have been closed by the Board of Education because of the prevalence of diphtheria and scarlet fever. The decision is generally condemned by conservative citizens, who consider the children safer in school than outA special from Fort Smith, Ark., says: Four men, two on a side, met nn tnn highway near Maldron on the Ist, and fought with knives. One of them named Gillum was cut seriously across the neck and he Will die. Two others, Tom Hammond and his son, are badly cut. The Rollenhouse Manufacturing Co., of Passaic, N. J., wollen blankets, employing 800 hands, went into bankruptcy, with very heavy liabilities. The President invested nearly a million dollars in wool, expecting increase of price by the passage of McKinley bill, but the price didn’t raise. Five men were killed and three fatally hurt by the fall of a furnace at Juliet, 111., on the 4th. The accident occurred at the Illinois Steel and Iron Company’s works. Eleven men were making repairs, on the blast furnace, when it fell without warning, burying the men under the debris. Three of the men escaped. The question, “Shall women be admitted into the General Conference of theM .E Church as lay delegates!” has been submitted to the congregations of all the Methodist churches in the United States and the Philadelphia Methodist states that enough of the returns have been received to show that the women have carried the day, and, so far as the popular will goes, they are entitled to seats in the General Conference as lay delegates. In consequence of the favorable reference to Galveston, her superior position in connection, with the trade, of the great Northwest and with the commerce of South America, contained in the Presidents message, a Presidential salute was fired there on the 2d in honor of the President and in recognition of his compliment to Galveston. Mayor Fulton telegraphed the Texas delegation in Congress to wait upon President Harrison and present him personally with the compliments of the city. Special Treasury Agent Mason and secret service officer Treadwell descended upon a den of counterfeiters near Newmarket, Mo., on the 7th, and captured Horn Barker, a man by the name of Henley and a third counterfeiter whose name could not be learned. The officers also confiscated the entire plant, consisting of plates, dies and presses, and over >30,0000 in spurious money. The counterfeit money made by them has been shipped East for’ circulation, and Mr. Mason says it is a very dangerous imitation, especially the >2O bills. The public has been warned against them by the Eastern papers. The officershave been working up the case for over two months. The Indian situation on the 4th was again reported more hopeful. Severe weather and a driving storm of cutting sleet prevail at Pine Ridge. The troop s are hugging their camp fires, while the Indians sre freezing in their gauze-like tepees just outside the precincts. Agent Royer will call in the Indians at the agency and give them a big feed at the store house. Should the present storm continue, and particularly should there be a heavy fall of enow, the ponies of the Indians now here and whose hay has been stolen by the hostiles will die of starvation. At the best this winter will inevitably be very tough. There copper faces who have bowed their heads to government rule in the present instance art suffering, while their rebelious and thieving brothers are living on the fat of the land. The Government World’s Fair Board has decided to ask Congress for more legislation and more money. The law appropriating >1,500,000 for the Government exhibit isso vague that the Government Board will ask Congress to pass a joint -resolution defining the powers of the board, to indicate how far they may go in buying articles for exhibit and to explain what property of the Government maybe exhibited. Of the >1,500,000 appropriated there is a definite application of put 6*00,000. That amount is to be spent for a Government building. Archir a

Vet Windrim is now making designs for thia building, which is to stand in Jackson Park. The rest of the appropriation, is not enough to pay the expenses of the Fair Commissioners and the Government exhibit, therefore a million more will be asked for by the Government Board. The commission appointed by Governor Tbayer to devl se means for relieving the suffering esused by the shortage of crops in. Nebraska has submitted a report Lshpwing an almost total failure of crops in twelve counties, and that ten thousand families are in need of assistance. The Governor discourages appeals to outside States lest they idjure the credit of Nebraska but promises relief when the Legislature meets. In Frontier county there are eight thousand people, and a large portion of them are becoming desperate. Wheat only yielded one or at most two bushels to the acre. There are no vegetables. All the salable stock has been disposed of, and that remaining is being killed. The animals are too small and poor to furnish food. The committee says that destitution is greater than that caused by the Johnstown flood or the Chicago fire. Practically the same story comes from Canadian - county, Oklahoma. A special correspondent at Pine Ridge Agency, on the 4th, says, the hostile Indians are making use of every moment’s delay on the part of the military to move on them by streughtening their now almost impregnable camp in the dreaded Bad Lands. The 400 or 500 squaws with them are working day and night digging" rifle pits about the camp. This is something unusual if not wholly unprecedented on the part of the Indians preparing'for war The reason of this movement, our scout says, is more to insure the protection of the immense quantities of stolen beef and provisions in the camp than to insure a great slaughter of soldiers. The moment that these supplies are captures by the military, that moment the Indians must surrender, unless their thirst for blood is so intense as to lead them to fight until they are downed, either by starvation or United States bu 1 lets. .. . ■ - At best, whether the military can capture the bulk of the hostiles’ supplies or not, the Indians have undoubtedly secreted small quantities sufficient in the aggregate to run them for at least eight or ten weeks. Agent Royer fulfilled his promise to reward the friendless who continue staying in the vicinity of the agency, and has made a special issue of provisions. More than 500 squaws presented themselves at the store-house, Wednesday, and went away loaded down with food. There was not a male Indian in the throng. It is rumored that Two Strike, the chief under whom the hostiles are marshalled, is wheeling around within shooting distance of the agency for the purpose of getting additional pointers on the military.

FOREIGN.

An English trader and his son were eaten by New Hebrides cannibals. The London Labor Council has ordered a strike: against all of the steamship companies. The council wants to dictate who shall be employed. Four caravans of horses, sheep and cam els and thirty Kirghese horsemen who were overtaken by a blizzard on the Steppes of Eastern Russia, were frozen to death. The Catholic Hierarchy of Ireland has decided to issue a manifesto, declaring that the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland consider Parnell an unfit leader for the Irish party.

WASHINGTON.

Congressman Owen is for Harrison in 1832. Republicans at Washington agree that there will be no revision of the McKinley bill at this session, A proposition is being considered to reduce pension fees to sl, which would go farto ward stopping questionable methods by claim agents. A free-coinage bill, introduced by Senator Plumb provides /or a double unit of 'value—a dollar- of 412% graing standard silver, or 25.8 grains of gold of full legal tender quality, Any holder of bullion is authorized ta.have it coined, or to receive certificates of deposit for it, as provided in the act of 1878, and the certificates are to be full legal tenders. Senator Teller’s bill on the same subject, differs from the above ; in that it fixes the weight of the silver • dollar at 400 grains of standard silver and 1 contains no provision in addition to exist- ’ ing law for the coinage of bullion received at the mints. General Miles, who is in Washington in daily consultation with Secretary Proctor, : General Schofield and Secretary Noble, j upon matters relating to the Indian situa- . tion in the Northwest, believes that the danger is imminent. “The seriousness of the situation,” he says, “has not been exaggerated. The disaffection is more widespread than it has been at any time for years. The conspiracy extends to more different tribes that heretofore have not been hostile, but aro now in full sympathy with each other, and are scattered over a larger area of country than in the whole history of Indiana warfare. It is a more comprehensive plot than anything ever inspired by the Prophet Tecumseh, or even • Pontiac. The causes of this difficulty are 1 easy of location. Insufficient food supplies, 1 religious delusion and the innate disposiI tion of the savage to go to war must be held responsible.” In the House, Tuesday, Mr. Frank, of Missouri introduced for reference a bill making an apportionment of the Representatives in Congress under the eleventh census. It provides that after the 3d of March, 1893, the House of Representatives shall be composed of 356 members, to be apportioned among the several States as follows: Alabama, 9; Arkansas, 6; California, 7; Colorado, 2; Connecticut. 4; Delaware, 1; Florida, 2; Georgia, 11; Idaho. 1; Illinois, 22; Indiana, 13; lowa, 11; Kansas, 8; Kentucky, 11; Louisiana, 6; Maine, 4; Maryland,tJ; Maßsachusetts,l3; Michigan, 12; Minnesota, 7; Mississippi, 7; Missouri, 15; Montana, 1; Nebraska, (1: Nevada, 1; New Hampshire, 2: New Jersey, 8; New York, 34: North Carolina, 9; North Dakota, 1; Onio, 21: Oregon, 2; Pennsylvania, 80; Rhode Island 2; South Carolina, 7; South Dakota, 2- Tennessee, 10: Texas,l3; Vermont. 2; Virginia, 10: .Washington, 2; West Virginia, 4; Wisconsin, 10: Wyoming, 1.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE.

MEETING OF THE FARMERS AT OCALA. FLORIDA. Many Hundred* of Delegate* PresentAddress of the President—The Proceed, tag*. The National Farmers’ Alliance convened atOcala, Fla,,on the2d. A publie meeting was held at the Opera House, at which were one thousand people. President Rogers, of the Florida Alliance, presided. Gen. Fleming welcomed the delegates, and was followed by the Hon. John S. Dunn, State Senator, and a prominent aspirant for the U. S. Senatorship to succeed Senator Calk President Foulks, of the South Dakota Alliance, also made a short address, in which he predicted victory for the Alliance at the ballot box in 1892—a sentiment ■ which the delegates cheered to an echo. All the speakers of the afternoon dwelt forcibly upon • the breaking down of sectional lines, and predicted the general prevalence, within a short time, of the ideas embodied in the Alliance platform, adopted at St. Louis President Polk was introduced by Mr. Rogers, and delivered his annual address. After a few congratulatory sentences, he said: Profoundly impressed with the magnitude of this , great revolution for reform, involving issues momentous and stupendous in their character as affecting the present and future welfare of the people, the public mind is natuf all jr directed to this meeting with anxious interest, if not solicitude, and you can not be unmindful of the importance and responsibility that attach to your action as representatives, coming from States and localities remote from each other, and differing widely from each other in their material and physiological characteristics, and marked by those social and political differences which must necessarily arise under our form of government. It is our gracious privilege, as it shall be your crowning honor; to prove to the world by your harmonious action and thoroughly fraternal co-opera-tion, that your supreme purpose is to meet the demands of patriotic duty in a spirit of equity and justice. The address congratulated the Alliance on its achievements since the last meeting, and then reviewed the causes of agricultural depression. The president declared that this depression is an anomally to the student of industrial progress. He said: Retrogression in American agriculture means national decay, and powerful and promising as is this young giant republic yet its power and glory touch not the degradation of the American farmer. The harm incident to the centralization of the money power and the upbuilding of monopolies was then pointed out, and both political parties were condemned for forcing and encouraging this condition. With reference to extending the order, the president nrged that additional organizers be sent at once into Oregon, Washington, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Arizona and other States. In his remarks upon the proposed National legislative council President Polk said: I would respectfully suggest that a legislative council be formed, to be composed of your National president, who shall be ex-officio chairman, and the presidents, of all the State Alliances represented in the supreme council, and that this body shall hold its annual meeting within sixty days after the adjournment of the supreme council at such time and place as may be indicated by the National president; that it be empowered and authorized to appoint such legislative committees as in its judgmentmay be wise, and that it be required to transmit to each of the States, in printed form, through the National secretary ,for distribution to the reform press, lecturers and membership of the order, all such measures or bills, together with arguments in their favor, as they may decide should be enacted into law. j President Polk said that an organization of this kind would wield a mortal power which would enforce the respect of any legislative body to which it might appeal. Touching upon the political action of the alliance, President Polk said: While our organization is political it can not be partisan or sectional in its action. In support of we proudly point to our whole past record and to the recent popular election, and particularly to the noble and patriotic bearing of the brotherhood in Kansas and South Carolina. In reviewing the record of the alliance during the past year, and especially with reference to the legislation demanded by it, the speaker declared that Congress bad persistently ignored all alliance propositions and even suppressed discussion of them, notably in the case of the measure known as the sub-treasury bill. “Congress,” he said, “must con • nearer to the people or the people will get nearer to congress.” The remainder of the address was devoted to a discussion of financial reform and the policy of the alliance in uproqtjng sectionalism. As outlining the future financial policy of the alliance, President Polk said that it will demand the restoration of silver to all the rights and qualities of legal tender which gold possesses; the issue of government currency direct to the people; the equalization of taxes; prohibition of alien ownership of lands: ownership and control of transportation lines by the ! Government; a limit of public revenues to the economical administration of the Government; gradual taxation of incomes and the election of U. S. Senators by a direct vote of the people. At the conclusion of President Polk’s address the Alliance resolved itself into a sort of “love during which C. A. Power, and old Union soldier from Indiana, moved that all ex-soldiers in the hall who indorsed the sentiments expressed in the speech of President Foulks, of South Dakota, with reference to the burial of sectionalism, rise up to be counted. The motion prevailed and between forty and fifty stood up amid the wildest enthusiasm. Under the inspiration of this good feeling an ex-Union soldier from Wisconsin stood up in his seat and called upon all Union soldiers present to give three cheers for the old confederates in the Alliance. They were given with a will. Then it was the confederates turn and they cheered the old soldiers of the Union with a volume and heartiness that raised no doubt as to the ended with a wild, old-fashioned “rebel yell.” As its echoes died away one aged veteran of the confederacy shouted in a voice that rang out clearly through the hall: “That’s the genuine article. I’ve heard it before.” The convention then adjourned until 8 o’clock. la the National Alllangeon the 3d, Press

fdentLivlngstone, of tho Georgia Alliance, and L. E. Polk, of the National Allianaa* said that they had engaged in corrupt practice in the election of a Senator from Georgia, and asked for an investigation. A resolution opposing the federal election bill was adopted unanimously and ami? much enthusiasm. The resolutions declare that: Whefbts, In the holy war which we have declared against sectionalism, the firesides • of the farmers of the North, East, South and West are the citadels around which the heaviest battles are being fought, and to the end that victory may crown our crusade, and fraternity and .unity reign; therefore, be it . « ’ Resolved, By the National Farmers’Alliance and Industrial Union bf America in National counsel assembled. That we do most solemnly protest against the passage of said Lodge election bill; most earnest, ly petition our Senators to employ all fair and legal means to defeat this unpatriotic measure, which can result in nothing but evil to our common and beloved country. The Louisiana lottery was also denounced. In the National Alliance on the 4th a committee was appointed to secure closer relations ot the Farmers’ Alliance and Citizens’ Alliance. An appeal was made for similar action in connection with the various labor organizations. In replying to this Mr. Livingstone said : “The Farmers’ Alliance deserved no particular credit for havingdiscovered that these reforms were necessary, nor for taking the lead in the matter. The masses of the country were practically in the same boat,and all should work together.” “The money power of thia country,” he continued, “backed up by the money power of . Europe, and aided and encouraged by railroads and corporations, is our common enemy. To meet this enemy and to cope with it successfully, co-operation is absolutely neces. sary, and tit must soon come about. I therefore recommend co-operation and fraternity with other National bodies, but not consolidation.” Glimpses of a third party movement appeared in the convention Thursday. It is chiefly agitated by the Kansas delegation. Gen. John H. Rice, candidate for the Kansas Senator* ship, and Captain Power, of Indiana, have a call to be issued to the Farmers’ Alliance and all industrial union* of America which favor the principles of the St. Louis platform, to meet in convention in Cincinnati the 23d of next February to consider the third party or people’s movement. The name of this new party will be the “National Union Party of America. ” This call is not expected to be issued before the close of the Ocala convention. The efforts seem to be to keep the National Farmer’s Alliance from inaugurating the new party and yet to make it the main basis ol the new National party. Various resolutions were introducod and referred. The National Alliance on the sth took steps looking to a consolidation with the F. M. B. A. The St. Louis platform, with some amendment, was adopted. A part of the platform now reads that “the liberty to control and operate all such lines shall vest in the government, and if, after a fair trial of this system, it is found that it does not afford relief or effect reforms in the management of them, the government’s ownership shall be complete;” also, “that every Alli ance lecturer,State and National, and all newspaper organs of the Alliance shall support the St. Louis and Ocala platforms, or suffer suspension from the order, and further that no candidate for any national political office shall be supported by the Alliance members unless he indorses this platform, and any subAlliance not complying with these conditions may be suspended at the pleasure of the President.” Resolutions were adopted partially exonerating L. L. Polk, Dr. Macune and Col. Livingstone for their part in the Georgia Senatorial election. Officers were elected as follows; President —L. L. Polk. Vice-President—B. F. Cover. Secretary—J. H. Turner, of Georgia. Nat. Lecturer—J. S. Willies, of Kansas. A public meeting at-night was attended byj2,ooo people. T. V. Powderly was among the speakers. A resolution was passed reciting that the United States census returns with respect to farm mortgages were grossly incorrect, and calling upon all county and sub-alliances in all the States °f the Union to take immediate steps toward securing accurate statistics from the county records and make prompt reports thereon. A resolution was adopted, also, opposing the opening of the World’s Fair on Sundays. During the past year 1,009 new charters were issued to sub-AN liances as follows: West Virginia 252, Colorado 151, Indiana 132, Michigan 106, Virginia 95, Illinois 87, South |Carolina 83, Ohio 61, Pennsylvania 59, New Jersey 20, Minnesota 5, lowa 5, Oregon 1, Oklahoma 1. State charters have been issued to the following States: Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, Michigan, West Virginia, Oklahoma and North Dakota. COLORED ALLIANCE. At a meeting of the National Colored Alliance on the sth a resolution was offered reciting the fact that the Farmers’ Alliance aimed at the betterment of the condition of the farmers industrially, morally and socially, and regretting, criticising and condemning the action of the white alliance in passing a resolution in opposition to the federal election bill because such action has no reference whatever to the aims and purposes of the organization, and was calculated to check the growth and influence of the Alliance. The resolution was discussed at some length. The opinions expressed were not so much in favor of the federal election bill as in condemnation of the white Alliance for going out of its way to intermeddle in politics. At night, at an open meeting, several colored men delivered speeches. They all agreed that the money power, transportation oom panies and corporations in general were oppressing the masses of the people, and they plainly intimated that they were ready to vote hereafter for their own advantage and not for the benefit of office seekers and money kings. AU this is in--1 terpreted as undoubtedly indicating th* leaning of tho colored Alliance toward a new political party. v ' , the third party. Following is the call for a third party conference signed by Gen. Rice and John Davis of Kansas, and by about seventyfive other Alliance men. I Whereas, In unity there is strength, therefore it is desirable that there should

be a union of all the variously named ins' 1 dustrial organizations that stand on com-' mon grounds to thisend. The from various States, whose names are hereto signed, make this call for a National conference to be composed of delegates from the following organizations, viz: The Farmers’ Alliance, The Farmers’ Mu-> tual Benefit Association, The Citizens’ AU liance, The Knights of Labor and all other industrial organizations that support the prinejple of the St. Louis agreement of- 1839. Each State organisation to send one delegate from each congressional district and two from the State at large and each district organization to send not less than three delegatee and each county delegation not less than one delegate, to be chosen according to the custom* of each respective organization during the month of January, 1891. Also that the editor of each newspaper is hereby invited as a delegate that has advocated the principles of the St. Louis agreement and supported the Alliance candidates nominated in 1890; the delegates to meet in the city of Cincinnati, 0., on Monday, the 23d day of February, 1891, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of forming a National union party based upon the fundamental ideas of finance, tranportation, labor, and land in furtherance of the work already begun by those organizations, and preparatory for a united struggle for country and, home in the great political conflict impending that must decide who in this country is the sovereign, “the citizen or thedollar.” A dispatch to the Indianapolis Sentinel says: “The third party movement is gain : ing ground rapidly. The presence of so 1 many representatives of the national labor and industrial organizations strengthens the opinion that the entire ‘reform’ element in the country will join this new movement The western and northwestern delegates are said to be practically united indorsing the Rice-Davis call and it Is predicted that they will demand of the' Southern Democrats in the Alliance to joint in the movement—this in payment of debt incurred by the latter to the Western 1 Alliance men who sat by and raised no protest against the passage of the antielection bill resolution. It is not believed,' however, that the Southern members will! renounce one particle of their allegiance to the Democratic party. This third party project is the uppermost topic of discussion in the hotels and everywhere in the city outside of the Alliance hull.”

TILLMAN AND THE NEGRO.

Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, was inaugurated on the 4th. In his address, speaking of the negro, he said: “In our own State of South Carolina, the triumph of. Democracy and white supreme acy over mongrel ism and anarchy, of civilization over barbarism, has been most complete; and it is gratifying to note the fact that this was attended by a political phenomenon in which was a surprise to all of us—our colored fellow-citizens absolutely refused to be led to the polls by their bosses. “The opportunity of having their votes freely cast and honestly counted, which it has been claimed is denied negroes, caused! a ripple of excitement, and the consequence is that to-day there is less prejudice and more kindly feeling between the white) men and the black men in South Carolina than has existed at any time since 1868. “When it is clearly shown that a majority of our colored voters are no longer imbued with Republican ideas, the vexed negro problem will be solved and the fear of a . eturn of a negro dominition Will haunt us i.o more. Can I not appeal to the magnanimity of the dominant race? Can not I pledge in your behalf that we white men of South Carolina stand ready and*willing to listen kindly to all reasonable complaints, to .grant all just rights and safe privileges to these colored people; that they shall have equal protection under the law and a guarantee of fair treatment at our hands I

AGED MRS. TURPIE.

Senator Turpie’* Mother Burned to Death Near Delphi. Mrs. Mary Turpie, over ninety years of age, and the mother of the Hon. David Turpie, U. S. Senator from Indiana, met with a horrible fate at her home near Delphi, Wednesday. She has been living with her son, Mr. Robert Turpie, a younger brother of the Senator, for the past thirty, five years. Wednesday morning about 9 o’clock MY. Turpie stepped out to transact some business with a near neighbor, leaving her alone in the sittingroom of their home, wherein burned cheerfully an open fire. He was gone, he tates, only about half an hour, and on his return to the room where he had left his mother a most horrible sight greeted him. His aged parent was lying dead upon the floor near the open fireplace with nearly every vestige of her clothing burned to a crisp He found her body most frightfully disfigured by the flames, and her life had evidently just left her body. Mrs. Turpie was a native of Scotland, and had come to America when quite young. She was -a most estimable lady, and greatly beloved by all. Mr. Robert Turpie is greatly prostrated over the very sad occurrence.

THE MARKETS.

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