The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1892-04-08
NEWS FROM THE WHOLE UNITED
STATES.
Reported by the Hon. Eii Perkins, Phlloso-
pher and Lecturer.

On the Eric train last night was Eli
Perkins. Just arrived from an extensive
trim down through the Southern States.
Yes" he said to reporter, 81 am lust
,rom Texas and Missouri via Charleston,
savannah, Atlanta, Birmingham, Vicks-
borr. San Antonio, Galveston, the Stal1ed
Plains of Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, and
can give YOU the last news from the en-
lire United States. What do YOU want to
know
We'll, how are the crops!
The immense cotton crop is swamping
fine entire South They raised 5000, 600
bales. and million more than the world
wants The price has fallen from 0 cents
to J., in Texas, and the surplus is piled
m around the stations with no one to
buyit.
Who is hurt by the low price
THE cotton merchant Many farmers
sold at eight cents, but ruin stares the
Southern merchant in the face The en-
tire South is depressed, and they cry out
TO the North for sympathy. | saw so 600
bales piled up in Fort Smith. The Red
and Brazos rivers are lined With it, The
farmers corn bin is empty, and the mer-
chants who have not failed are not able to
carry him through another crop. Meet
inc> are being held all over the South re-
commencing the restriction of the crop
this year.
How do they expect to restrict it,
BY putting in more sugar. rice, and
corn. The price dropped too late for a
wheat crop. They are in trouble in the
sugar country in Texas and Louisiana, be-
cause lust as they want to plant more sugar
Mr. breckenridge, of kentucky, jumps up
in Washington and offers resolution to
take the two-cent bonus off of sugar.
This would DESTROY the sugar industry and
throw Il million more bales OF cotton up
on the market Then South Carolina
which used to make l,0h0,000 barrels Of
rice, and Louisiana, which made 500 900
barrels of rice, want tariff against
cheap Chnise rice, which has about broken
NJ American rice planting.'
w hat argument do they use in speak
Ing Of a tariff on Chinese rice and Egyp-
,ian cotton?'
They say: You Yankees put tariff
on tobacco and wheat to help your farmer,
and why can't we have 4 tariff Oh Chinese
rice ="
How is tie winter wheat CROP
Il bring GOOD news about wheat" said
Mr.. Perkins. 1T is simply superb every
where. have not seen such Il stand of
wheat in sixteen wears. The last govern
ment report was made when there was
some doubt about wheat But there have
been recent warm rams from North Caro-
lima to the Staked Plains in Texas, and
every kernel sowed has come up. 1t could
not be better in Kentucky and Tennessee,
and the farmers in Texas. Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Illinois. indiana, and Ohi4,
have told me within four days that they
never had such prospect. The wheat is
short. 1t hugs the ground, but it is even,
and looks just as they want it to look for
asplendil crop Along the Atchison and
Missouri Pacific roads, clear into Colorado,
the ground is soaked with long, warm
rain
Did You see any political changcs?'
Yes, the Farmers Alliance is pcterinS
ont like the old Greenback party. They
have all come out for free silver, and Mr..
Weaver, the old Greenback candidate, is
Their man for the Presidency. The Farm
ers Alliance in Texas legislated against
aliens holding property in the State. and
millions OF dollars were driven out CT
Texas. The Texans blame Gov. Hogg.
the Alliance Governor, for all the deprcs'
SION in Texas. Clarke, who is now rum
nns against Hogg, will be triumphantly
elected Governor He saws: 'Hogg drove
oat the Scotch and English aliens, and
they now let their money to the Yankees
a tour pep cent and the Yankee comes
down ana lets il 70 the Texan at ten per
cent. The Alliance fellows in Kansas
nave 50 ruined the State BY taking re-
Pudiatlon and free silver that almost all
mortgages in Kansas are now written
PAYABLE in gold ="
WHAT about the old Southern Democrat?
lie old east-iron Democrat has given
up Cleveland, 1ho Stuffed Prophet never
e"'nuSed ihem,and now that he has spoken
against free silver the Democrats have
aFYpPeH him. They have also began to
lax a1oai German They say German
can carry the solid South and all the sill
seF States because he traded his silver in
n , with Wolcott for votes against the
SOUTH ''''''o
Il found the Texan is given to making
,Gn Oh the Arkansan The Rev Dr.. Pri-
t li president of the Normal College at
huntsville. told me that he asked a pas
from '0'''e p"
Wizard kun from?' repeated the
man, man; why. you're the twentieth man
' a'l'. asked that to-day, ] kun from
N."l a SAY Now, dog on YOU, laugh"'
ro, AT leAarkana, where they burned the
AYR; ,,} al IT the stake. continued Eli, 81 saw
him. m', o' leNas boy in the depot. Patting
-" 81. On NJ me head, asked inquiringly:
~. 2re you good little boy?'
,bo lou ! GU bet am, he'said proudly. I'm
a sn' ' '', boy i'll Texas; you ask my father