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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Alliancemen Governor Til1man and
Ben. Terrell Debate.
spartanburg is the Scene of a Great
Discussion of Alliance Demands.

srARrANBuRe, s. c., Especial Cores
pondencc. The debate between Gov
i1llman and Hon Ben TIE rell was held
IN the Alliance Hall, behind closed doors
In great secrecy. hs
Reporters were finally given extracts of
the speeches covering the maiu points
col. TERRELLE
3 Yves yxaymls- -xeosi 4 m6FWS67gFs
-tie $dfd u " ygtgitsszfIe gsis hatf flearoed 10 know
aud appreciate the South Carolina a lii
ancemen aud those who were not only
allied with hims sSorganically but in
thought aud principle. TAppiaus". rc
had come net only to::9tcach as best he
could, but TO be taught, for mutual en-
lightcnmcnt was the spirit of the arc.
Applause lie was glad to m 1t so
skillful and able an opponent. Going
into The argument he said that the sub
treasury was one of the demands of the
Allitncc and as such it should be ,espcct-
cd. lie felt and knew that neither the
Alliance nor any other popular organiza-
lion could exist if it did not ask me
thing that would benefit the whole peo-
pie He held that the men of the St
Louis C"nv ntion were equal in brain
and influences to any delegates that ever
attend Il a convention. That convection
was composed of men who in the end
represented the sub A lliances and there
fore the PEOPLE. He then discussed
GOVERNMENT CONTROL
of transportation, th, -tai.a demand OF
the Alliance. He held that the constitu
tional right of the Government could moi
be controver ed, aud the Alliance wa.
only asking The Government to carry out
the law. He held that expenses of tn.
railroads in lobbying, etc must be paid
out of the peoples pockets lie tn n al
luded to the demand for financial re-
form, or, as expressed by the Oca'a plat
form, the abolition /, national banks aud
the establishment of sub trcasuri,s
The position of Col. Terrell is here
given in his language as follows:
"We demand the abolition OF nation :,
banks. BY this the Alliance means bank.
OF issue. We beiteve the Government
alone has the right'to make money and il
the national banking system the Govern
ment has delegated that power to tn,
banks, without restriction as to tn,
amount they sho4A keep in circulation
With the latituae great abuses hav
grown up in conn3 Etf6s With them, ant
the, the * solaHags gss 5sase sen ,aspsndsd = =
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
The First Lord From a Colony.

A London cablegram, says: In the
House of Lorjs, Lord Mount Stephen.
formerly President of the Bank of Mon.
treal, and now President of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, who was in May last
reised to the pecragc, took the usual oath
and subscribed to the roll Of peers This,
it will be remembered is the first instance
of a native of British colony being
made peer.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

A western Kansas man says that Sec
ton OF the State has great future be-
tore 1t. There is nothing that grows in
tne temperate zone that does not flourish
tnere- Nothing is lacking but water,
and that is being supplied BY irrigation.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

The total consumption of pork pro-
ducts, exclusive Of lard, in the United
states last yesr, is estimated at $685.
ooo,o0O pounds, which would make an
average annual consumption per capita
OF about fifty eight pounds.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

Says the Pittsburg Commercial Bulle.
tan: "The discussion as to the means
OF remodying our immigration evils
seems to fal! short of the gist of the mat.
ter. The remedy that must cure the
evils is one that will he applied not on
this side of tho waters, but on the Euro
pean side -
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
James Gordon Bennett Indicted.

New IoKK, Especial. The gr nd
Jury has found an indictment against
james Gordon Bennett, charging him
with misdemeanor in publishing in the
N. Y. Herald more of the details of the
execution by electricity of Smiler, Slo-
cum, Wood aud Jugiro THAI the law al
lows.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

The reclamation of the Okensenokee
swamp in Georgia by means of drainage
canals running to the st. Mary's River is
proposed. The area of the swamp is oro
square miles. There will be about
sixty-four miles of main and 1000 miles
OF lateral canals and many small agricul-
tural drains.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
Foreign Notes of Real Interest.

The population Of Belgium amounted
na the last day December to g. i41 ,0i1.
BRUSSELS has about 500, 600 inhabitants.
French drummers are tn be excluded
from Alsacc- Lorrain>, aui the French
speak Of shutting German drummcrs out
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

Holt granted permiiissssioa 6 tbs Newbes,
ry rifles to enter this State, armed and
equipI cd for the purpose of going into
camp at Hendcrsonvillc.
At the close of Gen. NJ. w. Ransom's
speech at the campat Wrightsville, Fri
day, all the old veterans united in giving
the .'Confed rate war ycll," as it was
given in the dark days of war, for the
benefit of the visitors present
Advance sheets of the crop reports for
July at the agricultural department, show
the average condition of cotton over the
state to be 543 against 102 for the same
time last year, the lowest average for
wears
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

INC Norm af5}lna rniycrsity Alumni

have established large number of free
scholarships at the University. Young
men of talent and character who need
help in getting an education and who
can furnish refer nee as to their needs
and merits may obtain assistance by ap-
plying to President Winston Mt Chapel
Hill, N c. Early application is desirable.
The University also offers free tuition
to all young men intending to preach,
AID the sons of preachers of all denomi-
nations. 1850,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
p ner, I,.HSsa not Ne%l Iesss.SI sS z SHI

IISlAS1o0I Or "A | =.
ssS.sa3 g6E lSf my acres ci 81
land and is yet IN a prosperous financial
condition. He grows ten acres of po-
tatoes, keeps sixteen COWS, sells butter
and Jersey cattle. His sons and daugh-
ters help to manage the business.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
AUGUST GLEANINGS.
Some Rare Pickings of Interest
Garnered.
they Are Presented Our Readers
With tho Assurance That
Every Item Is Worth
Perusing.
VIRGINIA.

Work has been begun on the $14, OOO
Chesapeake and Ohio passenger depot at
Clifton Forge
The Virginia Fair Association conclud.
cd its session at the White Sulphur
Springs Hon. Jno. Randolph Tucker
WAS 1olAaindA Ap.Asi3n
Jno. Eppcs, manager of the Western
Union Telegraph office ut Suffolk, was
murdered from an ambush laid for him
by an unknown person last Wednesday;
the murderer escaping. The affair has
caused much excitement.
Th:s. Morris, a colorcd man, came to
sowo last week from the vicinity of Stu
art His age is said TO be 10 years. He
is the father of AZ children. and has been
married five times. All of his wives arc
dead.
The Craig Mineral division of the
Chesapeake and Ohio rail- Dad has been
completed to New Castle, and passenger
trains are running.
The Roanoke churches are wonderfully
prosperous. The new $4,000 First
baptist church was dedicated Sunday
week. Dr. Hawthorne, of Atlanta. preach
ing the sermon. st. James Methodist
church was also dedicated on the same
day by Rev. Collins Denny. Last Sun
day, Bishop. A.Ay ilson, of the South
ern Nc hodist Vhufch, dedicated Trinity
ta5trn,clc. ST. Marks Lutheran church,
which will cost s6o,0OO, is we'll under
way. st johns Episcopal congregation
is erecting $4,000 stone church and
rectory. The PIe:bytcrians arc erecting
n $4,000 house of worship aud are pre-
pairing to begin building another much
tincr structure. Calvary Baptist church
IL erectinsa $500 edifice on Camp
bell street Grace Methodist Episcopal
church South will soon begin the con.
strnction of a fine house of worship ir
o., cas- crn part of the city. The church
of the United Prethren have purchased
grounds and VII build at an early day.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

A remarkable instance of profitable
agriculture is afforded by Jersey far
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Southern Express Company will
transport free of charge any exhibits of
fruit or flowers to be sent to the horti-
cultural show at Greenvi,le, to be held
on the 18th, 18th and 14th of August
Governor Tillman has received a cour-
teous personal letter. from Governor Page
-inritaiion . s,ss' ~ ~ l{de s6f the Ben
nington bsstle monument August 10.
The committee appointed at the last
NEE ing of the board of trustees of the
South Carolina college, to make recon-
mcndations for president of that insti-
tuition, will recommend the election of
DIR. James Woodrow, of Columbia, for
that position.
The 18th anniversary of the first battle
of Manassas was celebrated i'm Charleston.
by military demonstration and unveiling
of monument to soldiers of the WASH
ington Light Infantry who died during
the war OF secession.
patent has been issued TO p. A.
economic process forV the chemi.
cal heat stored up in " Ytte of alum
ina to make alumina aAf >huric acid
Before next summc = imbia will
have a water works plan viii pump
and filter 1900, 900 gallds daily from the
Congarcc river. Six car loads of ma
chinery for this plant are now in that
city. The canal recently sold to Boston.
parties will supply the power to an i'm
mense turbine wheel, which in turn will
run the pumping apparatus.
Col. James G. Gibbs, agent of the South
Carolina sinking fund, will sell at public
auction 8, 900 acres of valuable land in
August and 20, 900 acres in September,
He has recently located upwards of 25.-
600 acres of State lands on the Savannah
river said to be well stocked with CYPRESS
timber, which latter Inc will offer for sale
in one lot.
TENNESSEE.
Commencing August 1st, the business
men of Chattanooga will be furnished
with a fast freight line from New York.
The route is via the Pennsylvania and
Queen and Crescent systems, and is all
rail.
Thrcc negro lne rihlz1noanaled
bytthe.9 IL
| Goodlcisville I8 (]lly IftaFHS6n
They were engaged Id blowing out els
tern. Dave Carter's eyes were put out and
one hand was blown off; his injuries are
fatal. Eli Fidcs aud Robert Gee were
badly burned and lacerated, but may re-
| cover. ~
GEORGIA.
| The Macon and Northern railroad has
been turned over to the Richmond and
! Danville company.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
NORTH CAROLINA.

Clev Gland Springs is reviving in popu-
larity us summer resort.
James B. Lucky, Sheriff of Lincoln
county, died Friday, after four weeks
prostration with typhoid fever.
Col Fred A: Olds, Quartcrmaster
General of the N. c. s. g., has rendered
his scsignation, to take effect early In
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
TENNESSEE.

Commencing August 1st, the business
men of Chattanooga will be furnished
with fast freight line from New York.
The route is via the Pennsylvania and
Queen and Crescent systems, and is all
rail.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
GEORGIA.

The Macon and Northern railroad has
been turned over to the Richmond and
Danville company.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

TtheE Ei'TBIIc srE galleries duri,,.
Mhcn they Sc-nlcrlv o,s, ..lss..s
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

They were engaged Yn blowing out cis-
tern. Dave Carter's eyes were put out and
one hand was blown off; his injuries are
fatal. Eli Fidcs aud Robert Gee were
badly burned and lacerated, but may re-
cover. fss
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07

A resolution was passed endorsing the
Ocala demands.
AT the morning session President
Stokes again rendered his resignation,
which was again refused. by resolution
he was authorized to employ secretary.
The following resolution was also pass
ed.
Resolved, That the thanks of the State
Alliance arc due to our State lecturer,
Bro. w. j. Talbcrt, for the manly fight
he has made in defence of every interest
of our Order.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-19
EXCUsING CRIME.

One of our newspaper contemporaries
SENS DESTROYS Of discrediting the exposure
Of corruption at Sacramento in connection
with the votes for a United States Senator
because the documents are not published.
Peraars our contemporary does not realize
that every possible effort will be made to
cover UP the tracks Of guilty parties. THE
CALL is anxious that the frauds should be
lad uare and the parties engaged in them
punished, but where so many persons are
guilty cf an offense which ought to send
EN- lie penitentiary the evidence will
b. made away with if possible. For several
years past the public have been aware that
bribery has been of common occurrence,
until now it is possible that a certain class
of persons have come TO regard it as legiti-
mate. The men who have possession of the
Documentary proof Of bribery should be held
to the strictest accountability as TO what use
they make of the papers in their hands. 1t
will not answer TO attem It to destroy them
or place them beyond the reach Of the COM
munIty. We have no doubt whatever that
bribery has been practiced in Sacramento
during the present session of the Legisla-
ture, but it is likely that the parties con-
cernad will do their utmost TO cover up their
crimes. VIII the public permit this? That
is tn question.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-19
OUR SLOW GROWTH.

The Alta says: There is no marvel
greater than the slowness with which agri-
cultural California makes its way in the
East" A partial explanation of this slow
ness may be found at Sacramento. Eastern
papers which gave their columns to a de-
scrption of our moving show-windew,
California on Wheels" now devote even
more space 10 the details of the Senatorial
election. These details would be exasper-
ating if they were not so nearly true. AS it
is they are Notifying. We claim to have
the richest State in the Union, a soil and
climate unequaled in America. What is
the result? Scores of men have been elected
to represent the people of the State who
hardly attempt to conceal the fact that their
votes are for sale. Out of 40 men there are
about thirty who are not in the market.
This fact would not be so terrible in itself
but for the other fact that the mass of the
people take it as matter of course. They
do not protest against beirg sold out. The
average man will shake hands with the
boodler when he returns home and con-
graduate him on the good use he has made
of his opportunities. Now, there are pee
pie, merchants, business men, property
holders, manufacturers and mechanics, who
regard this systematical thieving from a
dollar and cent point of view. TIE boodlers.
they say, get away with a million, or half a
million, as the case may be. They seem to
think that the evil is measured by the
amount of money the boodler succeeded in
taking from the public Treasury for his own
benefit. But the money stolen from the
public is the least of the evils resulting
from the public indifference to official
wroDg-doiag. The State is rich, and the
money taken out Of the Treasury can be
replaced the next year. But the shame of
low tone of moral sentiment is not so easily
removed. Wel-to-do people from the old
Eastern States do not like to take up their
residence in a community where stealing is
regarded as no crime. The present Legis-
lature voted 100000 to enable California to
make a material show at the Worlds Fair
But the scandal of this session of the
Legislature will do the State more harm
than the finest possible display at Chicago
will do good There is not, probably,
thinking man in the State who would not
give his share of million dollars to have
the record of the last three months at Sac
ramentO blOtted out
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-19
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS.

Holman Of Indiana predicts that one of
the first acts OF the Fifty-second Congress
will be the passage of the constitutional
amendment providing for the election of
Senators by the people. He is, perhaps,
right A change in the method of electing
Senators with the aim OF preventing the
corruption which now marks elections by
Legislatures has commended itself to public
approval; and, though during the Fifty
first Congress the Senate did refuse to con-
slider the subject, it was apparent from
remarks which fell from members of both
Houses that when the reform came up for
consideration in regular way there would
be few aTOlOgistS for the present system.
Reforms. however. are Of slow growth.
All the Tory instincts of the country, and
other instincts of less honorable origin,
have in the past resisted attempts to put
the upper chamber of the National Legisia-
tuTe on a cOmmOn-sense footing. Being
further removed from the people than the
House Of Representatives, the Senate has
always been relied upon to check the march
of progress. and has commanded the good
will Of opponents of progress. During the
long anti-slayery struggle which preceded the
war the Senate was the stronghold of the
pa!tisans of slavery. and since the war it
has stood in the way Of reforms which were
demanded by the House on behalf of the
people, and has been approved by the class
which resistS al reform. 1t has become a
mllionaires' club, body representing cap
ital, corporations, SyndicateS and trusts
anything but the States or the people.
1t is ma tural that the millionaries should
object to the abolition of their club Too
many men in the United States lock for
ward TO browning their life's laborS by Sc
curing a seat in the Senate through the use
OF money, and on the other hand sinai. p0l-
tcans who seek prefeTment in a less am
bilious walk rather like a system which
holds out to members of Legislatures an OPP
portunity for selling their votes twice in
every six years.
The people, it may be said with con fidenec,
demand a reform which shall restore to the
Senate the usefulness it possessed at the or
ganizatlon If the Government. They are
tired of a system which puts up a Senator
ship to the highest bidder. If Senators
were elected by the people at large in each
State the odds are that suitable men would
be chosen almost on every occasion. Poll
tieians in quest of elective Office would be-
gin by running for the Legislature; from
that post they would advance to a candidacy
for Congress, and from the ittest Congress-
men the ablest and most popular would be
chosen to run for the Senate. Thus. all
other things being equal the State would in
an average of years get the service of better
men and would not be represented by money
bags.
If the Fifty-second Congress should pass
a constitutional amendment making SEN
ators eligible by the people it would have to
be submitted to the States, and in few
States a spirit Of conservatism might en-
danger its ratification. But enough States
have been educated on the subject to ensure
for it the requisite vote.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-19
ORIGIN UNKNOWN.
Three Frame Buildings Wiped
Out by Fire.

Sheets of flame and clouds of smoke issued
from A. Pron's fertilizins works, at the
corner of De Haro and FL Dorado streets,
few minutes before o'clock yesterday
morning, and on alarm was turned in from
Box 152. Two engines and as many hose
companies responded promptly, but the big,
shedlike building in which the works we've
situated was soon a mass Of ruins.
The building was stored with tallow, and
streams Of the blazing liquid flowed in all d.
rections. Adjoining the works were three
story frame building owned by CorOFa u
Dominica, and the twO-stOry frame resi-
dence OF Mrs. C. Gilbert. Flames commu-
nicated to these structures and quickly con-
sumed them, because, owing to the feeble
pressure Of water ana the long distance of
MIGRANTS from the fire, the firemen could do
little beyond protecting adjacent property.
In addition TO the long lines of hose, the
firemen were further hampered in their
work by the swampy nature ii the ground.
The origin of the fire is unknown, but Fire
Marshal ToWe is making an investigation.
Two watchmen in the vicinity could give no
account of it. The loss amounted to $4,000,
and was partly covered by insurance.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-19
NO DOUBLE STANDARD.

The Aita says: "There can be no double
standard of value. The standard is the
measure OF payment and to have two diff
ferent measures would make commerce i'm
possible and finance farce" The accepted
meaning of the term double standard" is
standard arrived at by the use of two kinds
of money. All the gold money and all the
silver money constitute the standard-that
is, the measure Of values for commodities
We speak of the single gold standard or the
single silver standard or the double stand
ard with reference to the elements compos-
ing the standard. Exactly speaking the
use of both gold and silver forms but one
standard. The market value OF gold and
silver in respect to each other may vary, but
the total money of the two metals continues
to create the standard; in other words, the
measure by which the value of commodities
is determined for record
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-19
HOLMAN's LAW.

Judge Holman, known to fame as the
" great objector,' is represented as yentur-
ing the prediction that the next Congress
will pass an act requiring the election of
United States Senators by the people. The
bill, he thinks, will be introduced into the
House almost as soon as Congress meets
and there will be little delay in its passage.
The Senate will not dare to refuse to pass
the bill. In this way men are made ridicu-
lous. OF course Mr.. Holman never ex-
pressed the opinion attributed to him.
Some Of the Examiners young men faxed
an interview with Mr.. Holman and the
home Office had not sense enough to correct
the correspondents blunder. Mr.. Holman
knows perfectly well that the Legislatures
of the several States are required by the
Federal Constitution to elect United States
Senators. He knows also that law of
Congress cannot override a constitutional
provision. Legislatures will continue 10
elect United States Senators until az amend
ment to the Constitution restores to the peo-
pie the power the trainers OF tre Consttu-
ton gave to the Legislatures. The law
which governs Senatorial elections is the
provision that one vote shall be taken each
day after voting commences. The two
houses of Congress may IN Ike other prOvis-
ions as to the details Of election, but it can
not take the power Of election from Legs
aturaS