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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-09

SOUTHERN PACIFIC LAND. - The Southern
Pacific Railroad Company has sued Henry S
Morris to recover SLAP % on n contract for
the sale and purchase of 5l05 acres OF land In
Santa Clara County.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-09
ANOTHER.

z. line OF Texas St, $50 feet s. of Colusa-As an
entirety or three large subdivisions: 9th-st cable
continued comes very near this property: LOT 63I
100 or 3 lots ~ :Sx1OO.
For Catalogues terms. ETC.. inquire Of
EASTON, ELDRIDGE g. CO.,
Auctioneers, 63S Market ST., s. II.
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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-09

MORTON Special Delivery Office removed to IT
Geary street. One trunk. Soc; three trunks, ST.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
OUR EXCHANGES.

You farmers have been told formany
years that the Democratic party was
OPPOSED to national banks. Now the
next time you hear that, you ask the
man if he can find any Democratic
national platform since 1868, that has
opposed national banks. You will find
that he will be confused. for if he is
posted he will know you have caught
him.-AUiGnce V1ndGcotOr.
Don't believe everything the Metro
politan papers may say in the next
few days, concerning the Cincinnati
conference; they are going to try to
mislead you by preying upon your
prejudices as sur as you live. Look
for true facts concerning this matter,
in your reform papers; they are the
ones pledged to the people and the
truth. Union Banner.
Director of the mint Leech, has said
no more silver would be coined until
after July l.. That is what some of us
Alliance lecturers said a year ago, but
were laughed at. A few years ago
there was a terrible howl against fat
money and favored honest money, in
trinsic value money, ETC., but how as
to intrinsic value" of silver as COM
pared to national bank money9 Which
do the same howlers fight now, the in
trinsic, or the fata And more, the
national bank currency is not even re-
deemed in intrinsic money but green
backs.-KanSGS COmmOner.
A liquor seller once said boastfully
to a crowd of his townsmen, II have
made q thousand dollars during the
last three months" "You have made
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
Poetry
THE MORTGAGE.

He bought in 1886 a farm of stumps and stones,
His name was God-Be Gloriied, his surname it
was Jones.
He put a mortgage on the farm, and then in
conscious pride,
I'm twenty years III pay it up" said God-Be
GlOrihed.
The mortgage had a hungry NAV that swallowed
He toiled with patience night and day to let the
monster eat;
He slowly worked himself to death, and on the
calm hillside
They laid beyond the monsters reach good
GOd-Be GlOrited.
And the farm with all its membranes of
mortgages, stumps and stones
1t fell to young Melchlzedek Paul AuOnlram
Melchizedek was a likely youth, a holy godly
And he vowed to raise that mortgage like a
noble Puritan.
And he went forth every morning to the rugged
mountain side,
GIorifed.
He raised pumpkins and potatoes down the
monsters throat to pour;
He gulped them down and smaked his jaws, and
calmly asked for more.
He worked until his back was bent, until his
hair waSrgray;
On the hillside through a snowdrift they dug
his grave one day!
His first born son, Eliphalet, had no time to
weep and brood,
For the monster by his doorstep growled forever
for his food.
He fed him on his garden truck, he stuffed his
ribs with hay,
And he fed him eggs and butter, but he would
not go away;
And EIiphalet he staggered with the burden,
and then died,
And slept with old Melchizedek and God-Be
GlOrified.
Then the farm it fell to Thomas and from
Thomas fell to John,
Then from John to EleaZur, but the mortgage
still lived on.
Then it fell to Ralph and Peter, Eli, Absalom
and Paul;
Down through all the generations, but the
mortgage killed them all! -~-
About a score of years ago the farm came down
And Jim called in the mortgage and gave the
farm to him.
There's no human heart so empty that it has no
ray of hope,
So jim gave up the ancient farm and went to
making soap.
He grew a ffty-miIionaire, a bloated pampered
nature;
He owned ten railroads, twenty mines and the
whole State legislature;
And thousands did his gruf commands and
lived upon his bounty;
And he came home, bought back the farm and
the entire county.
S. ". FOss, in Yankee Blade.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
RELIGIOUS.

THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH TO THE POOR.
l do not hesitate to say that the de-
velopment of this power Of self-help,
self-respect, and self-dependence, can
be, and should be, the work Of the
Christian Church in all her branches.
If Christianity cannot to this extent,
leaven the masses of the wage workers,
it has failed, and, and, at least tempo
rarily, must continue to fail. The wild
ruin resulting from that failure may
recall the church of Christ to a field
that her faithless disobedience has led
her for a time to abandon.
She believes in the value of man; for
in him, be he never so fallen, she sees
a spark of everlastingness. She pro-
fesses to accept her Masters commands
as divine laws binding on herself. His
words and acts are perfectly plain; he
w contemplated the abolition of all
poverty, buthe did distinctly command
that men should, as they valued his
gospel or p~rofessed obedience to him
self, draw near to each other, forget
ting and ignoring those things that for
a short time made them to differ. He
declared that the innermost and eternal
verities of our nature all men have in
common; and that his followers were
to make much of these, while they
were to make less of their differences
of possession and attainment. Weak
ness, failure, poverty were to draw us
to brother, not drive us from him;
for in the prevalence of these drawing,
uniting, loving forces over the sunder-
ing and disuniting forces lay the hope
of our race-he called it the coming of
the kingdom Of the Son of Man.-ReU.
Dr.. ". s. R~ainSford, IN the April
Forum.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02

sympathy with them, who can COM
mand the support of disgruntled Re
publicans and Democrats who may be
dissatisfied with their own platforms
on the great issues2"
While we believe that the Democratic
party, which would now be all right
but for the influence of the eastern
wing, will ultimately champion the
cause of the common people, as it al
ways has done in past when left to its
own better Instincts, yet we are not
under the dictation or control of any
party. The end and not the party is
the thing to be attained, and we there
fore welcome relief to the toiling mil
lions, from whatever source it may
come.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02

THE RELIGIOUS Wharf.-The CASE OF PRO
FEssOR B~RIGGS-THE ISSUES INVOLVED.
Pulpit Review of Current Events by Rev. Thos.
Dixon, Jr., for Sunday, May II, 1891.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., preceded
his sermon this morning by the follow
ing review of current events.
The religious war that has been
brewing for a generation has now
fairly begun. With us it has at last
become national. What affects Pres
bYterianism affects directly the whole
nation. The dear old solemn owls
composing the Presbyterian Sanhedrim
of New York have delivered their YER
dict. They gathered themselves to-
gether, ~reverently adjusted their pine
board spectacles, gazed steadily at a
blank space, until they saw everything
with dogmatic clearness.
THOUGHT A CRIME.
Professor Briggs must be arraigned
and tried for Minking-a crime for
which they look up and truly thank
God they are guiltless! The Protest
ant religious world has been rapidly
dividing into two great classes during
the past few years-those who think,
and those who believe it is a crime to
think. Within the past fifty years the
world has been born anew. The point
of attack of Christianity has entirely
changed. Books that held high rank
ia the theological world are set aside
now as c~uriosities. Theology must re-
adjust its statements in the light of the
increased knowledge of the race or lose
its hold forever on the race. Religion,
founded in ignorance and superstition,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02

2. 1t means human dogmatic asser-
lions against the religion Of the Bible.
The men who make this fight make no
intelligent appeal to the Bible. They
simply use the Bible as a ~bludgeon.
With the bignees of the type and paper
and binding they try to beat out the
brains of those who refuse to bow down,
to a little God they have created, in
their own way. Professor Briggs ap-
peals to the Bible, and says, Come, let
us reason together. They appeal to
human dogmatics, and propose to try
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
Young CrIminnIs nt Akron.

AKRON, o., Dec. AFTER thoroughly
ransaciing the drug store of A. Warner,
bakery of s. B. Lafferty and the dry
goods store of John Wolf, Wednesday
morning, Frank Harding and Burt
Falor, we'll known young men aged
about twenty, were captured by Officers
Guillette and Greenless. The boys had
pounded away at the safe in each of the
stores, breaking off knobs and handles,
but couldn't get in. When the officer
closed in on them they had got back
again to the fourth story of the Odd Eel
lows block, from which they had slid
down a rope into the court, sixty fee
below, on which the windows to the
three stores opened They had about
$l5O worth of jewelry and other goods
on them, Harding's father is janitor Of
Odd Fellows hall.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
NATIONAL BANK BUSINESS.

One Hundred and Ninety-Three New
Banks Organized During the Year.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The report of
the comptroller of the currency shows
that during the year ended Oct 81, 1891
1893 new national banks We're organized,
possessing an aggregate capital of $780,
100000, thus exhibiting a growth large
ly in excess of the annual average for
past years.
During the same period forty-one asso-
Citations went into voluntary liquidation,
and twenty-five became insolvent, leav-
ing as a net gain for the twelve months
1877 banks, with a capital of ST., ,553 900.
The number of banks in operation Oct.
81, 1891, was 1854 having in capital
stock, 1854, 1876, 1855; bonds deposited to
secure circulation, $l52, 1850; bank
notes outstanding, $171 1868, ,94S, includ-
ing $35, ,430, 72l represented by lawful
money deposited for their redemption.
The gross circulation has decreased
1851 ,085 during the year, while that
secured by pledge of bonds has increased
$11 ,795, ,101. No increase of notes secured
by pledge of bonds has occurred since
1881 until the present year.
In number Of failures the present ex-
ceeds any previous year, but others have
been more disastrous in point of capital
and liabilities. 1t is noted that more
than one-half in number of the banks
which became insolvent during the peri
cd covered by the report were located
in the western states, and that these
failures were chiefly due to the effects
Of four successive crop failures.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
RUSSIA NOT IN II.
The British Government Nego-
tiating With China,
With a View to Help Suppress
the Rebellion.

In Return China is to Sign Treaty of
Alliance with Great Britain, Pledging
Herself to Oppose Russia in Event of an
Anglo-Russian War-Bellef That the
Revolt VIII Spread.
New York, Dec. 4.-The Herald's
Paris dispatch states that although the
Chinese legation persists In denying the
Importance of the insurrection in China,
the advices received by the French gov
ernment do not bear out their estimate.
According to one official dispatch the
British government is negotiating with
China with view to lending her assist
ance in men and money against the
rebels. In exchange for the service
China seems disposed to sign a treaty of
alliance wit England, and pledging her
self to oppose Russia in the event of an
Anglo-Russi0n war.
The French government has sent or
ders to the commanders Of the French
ships in the east to hold themrelves in
readiness to sail for Chinese waters.
Missionaries and diplomatists familiar
with Celestial ways are of the opinion
that the instruction will soon spread
the southern provinces. 1t is the wo <
of the secret societies which extevd
throughout China.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
SANITARY SURVEILLANCE.
Illinois Board of Health Takes Action ON
the Steamship Change.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Dec. 4.-The secre-
tary of the state board of heal,h has re-
ceived communication from the state
board of health of Maine, reciting the
fact that a change has been made in the
ocean steamship service, whereby
passengers formerly landed at Halifax
or Montreal are now landed at Portland
and thence sent west on the Grand
Trunk and the Canadian Pacific rail
roads. The first steamer this year land
ed at Portland Nov. II, and Nov. 24
another charge of immigrants including
one hundred Russion Jews was received
at that port.
1t is suggested that in view of the un-
sanitary condition of these immigrants,
of the prevalence of smallpox and of the
threat of the importation of the Russian
plague, it is of interest to the entire
country, especially to the west and
northwest, that there should be some
surveillance over this class of persons.
The secretary has transmitted the COM
munication to Governor Fifer, accom-
panied by letter recommending that
the general government be urged to SIP
plement the inspections recently estab-
lished on the Canadian frontier of Nil h
igan by similar measures on the coast OF
Maine
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
HALF A MILLION HOMELESS.
Seven Thousand Killed and Ninety Thou
sand 'BuIldinps DESTROYED.

sand butldlngs DestrOyeds
VANCOUVER, b. c., Dec. 4.--Advices
from Japa by the Empress Of China
give later news regarding the great
earthquake of Oct. %. Careful figures
now place the number of dead at 1900
and the injured at 1920, with S9,rJ0
buildings wholly and 2s,695 partly de-
stroyed.
Over 100000 people have been rem
dered hon 5less and destitute, Many
curious frC tks of the earthquake have
been noticed. In one place a tissuie
swallowed up four persons who re-
mained Wis ole, but whose rescue proved
to be impossible. Fortunately the
weather remains mild. Rain or cold
weather would cause terrible distress.
Decent burial has been given to most Of
the bodies recovered from the ruins n
the larger WINS, but horrible scenes as
presented j the country, where t4le
people are unable to inter their dead.
Foreigners have come forward gener-
ously with gifts of money, clothing,
medicine, etc Twenty thousand dollars
have been contributed by foreign re-
dents excll i've of the Chinese fund,
which is large. Shanghai has sent $5,-
900, and 10000 has been raised in
various ways in Toxic. In addition TO
these sums the Japanese government
has made a grant of $2,225, 900 to the
prefectures that suffered most.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
Stricken with PARALYSIS,

NEwBURGH, N. Y, Dec 4.-Major E.
G. Boynton, at one time quartermaster
at West Point, has been stricken with
paralysis at his home here, and lies in
a critical condition. He is well known
in regular army circles, and is the author
of history Of West Point, as well as
other works. Boynton was graduated
in 1916 from the military academy. He
took part in the Seminole war and was
wounded in the battle of Churubusco in
the Mexican war. He was stationed at
West Point during the civil war, and re-
ceived the brevet of major for his faith
fnl en1.Nicn
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
CAUSES APPREHENSION.
President Peixotto May Have Adopted
Energetic Measures.

President PeixottO May Have Adopted
Energetic Measures.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-There has been no
definite news or regular through tele-
graphic communication with the indie
pendent Blazilian province of Rio
Grande do sui. AS the last news re-
ceived was to the effect that the junta
of that province had refused to disband
its troops and that President Peixotto
had resolved to restore the union of the
United States of Brazil considerable ap-
prehension is felt in commercial and
other circles here.
1t was feared that the new president
may have determined upon energetic
measures to bring the people of Rio
Grande do Sal to terms and that, in con-
sequence Geographic communication
with that province may be cut off The
more conser ative view taken of the sit
uation is that there is absolutely no news
of importance enough to call for its
transmission to Europe, and that the ne
gotiations which have been in progress
for some time past between the new
president ard the insurgents are still in
progress, and that mo news is better
than bad news"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
WANT RECIPROCITY.
Negotiations with Representatives of the
British West Indies.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Sir Julian
Pauncefote and the representatives of
the British West Indian colonies have
had another conference at the depart
ment of state with Mr.. Foster, relative
to the negotiations of reciprocity
agreement under the tariff act. 1t APP
pears that there is more ground for
concession on the part of the colonial
representatives than was at first ap-
parent.
Figures have been collected to show
that while the United States takes more
than half the products of the islands, the
average rate of duty upon our imports is
nearly twice as large as that paid by
other countries. AS the colonists appear
to be willing to make such reductions in
duties paid by United States products as
will not discriminate against the mother
country, there is reason to believe that
success will crown their efforts to secure
a reciprocity agreement with the United
States.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
OurRAGE BY BANDITS.
Fire Used to Compel Priest to Give Up
His Money.

hAb uuueys
MADRID, Dec. "A frightful outrage
is reported from Villagadora, Some
bandits who had heard that the priest
of the parish was well-to-do man,
broke into his house at night. They
tied the only servant securely on bed
and, seizing the priest, told him, with
many threats, to point out where he
kept his wealth. The father, thrifty
man, refused to tell, and adjured the
bandits not to incur the vengeance Of
heaven by interfering with servant Of
the church
The bandits were not moved by the
appeal, but proceeded calmly to light a
fire Then they applied the priests feet
to the fire, bringing the feet nearer and
nearer to the flames until the victim
shrieked with agony. They told him
they would roast his feet off If he did
not tell where he had his money. The
priest held out until the skin began TO
burst, and the odor Of burning flesh was
stirling. The priest, rather than lose
his feet which the bandits said they
would consume, to be gradually fol-
lowed by the rest Of his body, at length
told them " here all he had, amounting
to $50, was concealed. The bandits took
the money and departed. The priest Is
in precarious condition.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
WOMEN AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
Mrs. Palmer Talks in New York About
Plans and Prospects,

Plans and Prospects,
NEW YoR,, Dec. A number of
women met Wednesday afternoon at
the house Of Mrs. Ralph Tautmann, first
vice president Of the board of lady man
ayers of the Columbian exposition, for
the purpose of listening to an informal
talk from Mrs. Potter Palmer the pres
ident of the board, who came from Chi
cago few days ago. She said, among
other things:
"Women are to be on some of the ilIr-
les of award and we feel that the record
of the work being done by them in all
the various manufactures will be of
great permanent benefit to them. We
are not going to have a separate exhibit
for women, for they have shown decid-
edty that they desire to compete with
men. | think the special exhibit in our
own gallery e shall be forced to have
competitive. otherwise the manufactur-
ers will not give us a moments thought.
ut has been said that although many
women in the various states have made
contributions to the woman's building
New York has not. | should like to su
gest that Ne, York contribute the door
to the woman's building"
1--WE have no very fine wood, but a
door can be constructed which will do
us credit, 81 id Mrs. J. G. Croly.
And Mrs. Palmer added: II think the
most vital thing is that women here
should begin to discuss in their clubs
and other organizations the duties con-
nected with the fair, that the benefcent
and helpful work should have some
practical form of exhibit. The ethical
and educational part of this exposition
will make a great impression upon those
who visit us from abroad"
Before the women dispersed they ar
ranged to form special committees II
beginning active work in connection
with the fair.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
HIS NECK STRETCHED.
Probably the Wickedest Man in PhiladeE-
phia Dies on the ScaffoId.

Probably the Wickedest Man in PhiladeI-
phia Dies on the ScaffoId.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4. - John Nc
Manus was hanged in Moyamensiug
prison yard Thursday morning. He
passed restless night and breakfasted
lightly. After ascending the scaffold he
deliberately sat down and took off his
shoes, having sworn that he would
''never die with his boots on" He
then stood up, and in a broken voice
said that he humbly asked for forgive
ness, and said that he freely forgave
everybody The drop fell at 1908, and
at 1929 he was pronounced dead, cut
down and the body given to friends
The politicians always saved him be-
fore. They have STAYED off his hanging
for two years. In conversation
Wednesday with his counselor, Maxwell
Stevenson, urged upon him the duty of
making some preparation for death, he
said: ''Why should l? If l did would
be a hypocrte. | can't ask pardon of the
Almighty for deed which I did not do
deliberately. | am not meeting Chris
tian doom. | am condemned by the law
to the death If dog
L LIS 10 lIlG LIE CACGlitt I'LL Ltl4iltI
Connell, who was very nervous and also
very grutf, refusing any information
whatever to newspaper men.
McManus' Career.
John McMlnus was one of the most
notorious ch racters that ever disgraced
this city. The crime for which he was
sentenced to death was the killing of
Eugene cCtinnis ON Feb. 81, 1890 The
murder was committed in fit of jeal-
ousy, on accO INT of a woman named
Amanda Cross, familiarly known as the
"Queen of the Slums." McManus and
the woman were living together. He
found her in company with McGinnis,
and after few words shot the latter,
who died the next day. When McManus
was arrested he attempted to shoot the
officer, but was overpowered and locked
up.
He was tried and convicted and sem
fenced to be hanged. A new trial was
applied for, but was refused. His
friends then brought what influence
they could bear on the board of pardons.
Failing in that direction they next ap-
pealed to Governor Pattison to commute
the sentence to imprisonment for life.
The governor declined to interfere and
the sentence was ordered to be carried
out.
McManus was forty years of age, fair
and slim and lid not look the desperate
character that he was.
The record he leaves behind him is an
almost uninterrupted chronicle of crime
and violence. In his early life he shot
killed sailor and served five years in
the penitentiary for it. He fatally shot
Barney Reilly in a Democratic mass
meeting in December, 1879, and made an
attempt at the same time to shoot
Squire McMullen, well known politi-
clan, but was thrown out of a window
before he could accomplish his purpose.
He was acquitted of this crime for want
of direct evidence. Riots, brawls and
numerous attempted murders led up to
the fatal shooting of McGinnis.