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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1880.
THE BOOT ON THE OTHER T^Q.
It the silvermen wanted to be really as
unfair as the goldmen they might propose
a counter measure of partiality in legisla-
tion in (his way: to close the mints against
the holders of gold bullion; to open the
mints to the holders of silver bullion, and
to make silver coin the sole standard of
valuation of foreign coins. Then, of course,
the quantity of silver bullion which would
make a dollar would be substantially a
dollar of the only fully free character.
Then government might advertise for and
toy gold bullion and put into
its limited coinage of gold about as much of
that metal as would be worth a standard
dollar. Doubtless they would be attacked
•with the suggestion that they were not
treating gold as equally the money of the
constitution with silver, but they could quib-
ble as the goldmen now do by saying that
there was a certain amount of gold coined
end circulated in the form of dollars. Of
course common sense would say that tho
opening of the mint3 to private owners of
silver and the closing of the mints to pri-
vate owners of gold constituted a siugular
manipulation, reducing to ridicule the
spirit of the constitution, which mentions
both metals in equal terms. If other gov-
ernments acted in the same way gold bul-
lion might fall in price, and then this great
government of the United States might
make a " profit" out of its cornering sa-
gacity, end its agents might denounce gold-
owners for cupidity in seeking to have
coinage don- for themselves. The decliue
in the price of gold under such an arrange-
ment would probably be gradual, and if
the ban could be maintained a dozen years
or more tbe cumulative effect of long-con-
tinued prohibition would be divided be-
tween a fall in price of the disfavored me-
tal and a relaxation in mining the same.
But lie unfhinking multitude might be per-
suaded that it was a natural result of over-
production of gold. The goldmen seek-
ing the rehabilitation of their metal
would be told that a difference <f
25 cents .was too much to allow them
to jecover. Perhaps it would be vain for
tliem to urge that the apparent difference,
though great, was the gradual result of ex-
clusion from constitutional use, and that if
it would have been just to allow them to
secover by restoration a difference of four
cents at the end of two or three years it
would be equally just to allow f.hem in tbe
same way without altering the standard of
weight and fineness to restore value in ex-
change, by restoring-use, to a greater extent
the end of a longer period. But the rights
of other users of money might decide the
i-me finally if justice to gold-owners did
not, for every el'isen except a few unpro-
ductive creditors is iatero ted ia a fall ni-
t«i#l supply of honest money,an .1 it would uj
teen in the case of gold that all the guaran-
tee w hich a government can give of honesty
in coinage ia in not changing the standard
of weight and fineness of its cola. Unwit-
tingly, as The News presumes, Jlr. Crain,
iti his speech at Artillery hall, gave a mis-
leading impression of tho free-coinage bill,
being led into this by the habit of consid-
ering the price of silver bullion. Mr. Crain
stated that by the provisions of the bill any
holder of $50 worth or more of silver bullion
could take it to the mint and have it coined
into Bland dollars, " receiving in return
for 70 or 80 cents worth of bullion
one Bland dollar." Now which is it—
70 cents worth or so cents worth? This
question may show Mr. Grain's difficulty,
and that he has stated the case with an injec-
tion of his own imagination. Tho principle
of free coinage is that the holder may take
to the mint a certain weight of silver and
have it coined by paying charges. Ho must
take enough silver to make each dollar that
he receives, as the gold-owner does with
gold. It is obvious therefore that under
free coinage the weight of bullion which
will make a dollar is substantially a dollar,
and that eight-tenths of that amount is 80
cents. Whether or not the silver dollar
would be .at par with the gold dollar has
nothing to do with the question whether it
is really a dollar. Free coinage might
bring silver bullion to par with gold coin,
or it might not, but even if the government
were desirous by a change in the weight of
either or both coins to bring them as nearly
as possible to parity in the future under
free coinage, it could not at present know
what would be the proper amount to put
into each. It could not know this even ap-
proximately until free coinage had been
in operation, and The News does not be-
lieve that the government could make a
better guess at tho amount of silver neces-
sary to make a dollar at par with gold un-
der free coinage of both by tho Uuited
States than to tak# the amount in the pre-
sent silver dollar. If all Europe began to
coin silver freely probably the amount in
our dollar would be about one-tnirtieth
more than enough to hold it at par with
gold. Freo coinage is iti itself the
chief means of raising the price of
either money metal which may have
suffered by exclusion, but it is not with a
motive to affect the price of the metal that
free coinage is advocated. It is urged as
the safe, true and honest way of providing
a constitutional money in a quantity which
would be regulated by citizens' industry
and demand!', checked only by nature,
which l:as not made gold and silver so
abundant as to lead to an inflation that
would disturb values.
/VI TENTS FOR LANDS IN GREEK
COUNTY.
On the 21st of this month the trial of the
cases instituted by the attorney-general to
cancel the patents for lands in Greer coun-
ty located by holders of veteran scrip be-
gins. It was charged during the party con-
test for nominations of state officers that
these suits were brought for political pur-
poses. The principal object was stated to
be the defeat of Commissioner Walsh, and
that purpose having been subserved will
the cases be abandoned? The attorney-
general had apparently no personal inter-
est in the campaign; he was not a candi-
date; he had no uncles, cousins or kin of
any degree to help in that contest; ho was
in the abandoned land board boat and was
a member of its crew with Walsh and
Swain; he had at the beginning opposed
the locations in Greer county and he had
opposed even the leases of the lands in that
county. It is to be shown yet how the at-
torney-general could have been so inimi-
cal to Walsh as to have deliberately used
his official position to injure the land com-
missioner. If tho attorney-general gains
the cases and recovers the lands for the
schools and the State it will vindicate him,
and further than that it will vindicate the
affirmative act of the State convention in
defeating Walsh and its negative action in
failing and refusing to indorse the
administration under which the ques-
tionable disposition of these lands
was perpetrated. Now, had the
attorney-general been convinced that
the locations were illegal and the issue
of patents by Walsh and their final execu-
tion and delivery by thb governor wrong-
ful, and had yot considered the jeopardized
political fortunes of his colleagues in the
land board, paramount to the public in-
terests, and accordingly refused to bring
the suits, the froposed new deal in state
politics might have been a dismal failure.
What may be the decision in these crises
remains to be seen. That the State has a
strong prima-facie case is shown already
by the preliminary grant of in-
junction restraining further locations in
Greer county. Though ultimately the State
should fail to recover the lands enough is
shown to clearly justify the institution of
suits, and under such circumstances it is
about time for those interested to withdraw
unjust, aspersions and insinuations. But it
is said that the parties who have leased
lands in Greer county refuse to pay the
rent for the second year, and the land board
will request the attorney-general to sue
them. He opposed the leases at the begin-
ning when Lieutenant-governor (then act-
ing governor) Gibbs favored them, and
upon the same grounds in general that he
regarded the locutions as illegal. The
lands, he contended, were reserved both
from lease and location, the land office
having no authority to patent them, and the
land board no authority to lease them.
Now then the lease contract must, it is con-
tended, be regarded as illegal by the attor-
ney-general, and he can not, therefore, con-
sistently bring suit to enforce it. But the
land board will insist upon enforcing the
contract. Then, the land board not having
tho power to force the attorney-general to
stultify himself by proceedings that would
commit the State to the legality of contracts
which he had declared illegal, and in effect
bad officially condemned by the suits to
nullify scrip locations,must look elsewhere
for a lawyer. To bring suits to enforce the
lease contracts then is not expected
of the attorney-general. But the land
board may ask the governor to require
the assistant attorney-general to bring the
suits. This official is not in reality au as-
sistant to the attorney general, but under
the law is at the disposition of the gover-
nor, arid has been assigned mainly to the
duty of representing the State in the Court
of Appeals. If this course is adopted,
then why not also require the assistant at-
torney-general to appear ia behalf of the
land commissioner and governor in the
Euits brought by the attorney-general
to repudiate their action in the issue
and execution of patents to land in
Greer county? Should this suggestion be
adopted then it is in order for the attorney-
general to appear in behalf of defendants
in tbe suit to be instituted by the assistant
attorney-general to enforce contracts which
the attorney-general declares illegal and
contrary to sound policy. As the locators
of the scrip aDd the lessees of the other
lands are tho same parties, of course it
might appear to be very awkward and em-
barrassing to the lawyers, but that is not
very trying to tho profession. Tlie sug-
gestions tendered may not be adopted, but
it is very plain that they are reasonable and
that the action of state officials, which their
adoption would require is perfectly consist-
ent v. ith the awfully muddled condition of
the itute administration over land affairs.
The situation is anything but edifying to
the public or to the parties in interest who
may and doubtless have acted, so far as
they are concerned, in perfect good faith.
Gfkeuai.ly speaking, tho consular re-
ports are now properly confined to state-
ments of facts, but the consul at Rheims
uircourses in favor of reciprocity, basing
his observations upon tho infinitesimal pro-
portion of American products consumed in
his district. French consumers are the
losers by the exclusive policy of their gov-
ernment, but this country pursues a simi-
lar policy, and complaints on the Ameri-
can tide are heard ouly when some other
government beats this government at it, or
w hen it is so in appearance, though perhaps
in the main the ability to exclude American
products depends upon the protectionist
regime in this country. In the case of pork
tho American producer is discriminated
against in some foreign countries, but the
san_e pork-producer does not get any ad-
vantage from the protective tariff. How-
ever, the protectionist countries of Europe
are gradually injuring the base of their ex-
porting power, and thus making way for
growth of American trade with other coun-
tries, when the United States shall adopt a
more liberal policy. The New York Com-
mercial Bulletin, speaking of an approach-
ing ceremony, says:
Tlie Chamber of Deputies we observe, has
designated President! lie la Forgo and M. Spul-
Ier to represent Hint body, so that tho rare op-
portunity will be presented to deal with tho
popular branch of jovernment, as* It were,
face to face. Some of these visitors arc nco
nomlsts, merchants and business men, and as
theirprcsenee among ug on so auspicious au
occasion is itself a guarantee of their dealrit
that the two leading republics cf tho world
should maintain file-nelly relations, it would
bo a matter of regret if the occasion should be
permitted to evaporate in sentiment or rhe-
torical tinsel. If Liberty Enlightening the
World has any mission at all outside tbe realm
of poetiy, if seems to us that mission is to dis
pel the oark ages delusion that governments
or peoples are benefited in any way by pro-
hibiting orobetructing international exchange.
John Sherman is so much of a charlatan
in finance that the Chicago Times, a gold-
standard medium organ, has deemed it a
eluty to expose his fallacies more than once
of late. This it does very ably and timely,
because the senator is proposing a silver
pe>)icy which must inevitably lead to con-
fusion and loss by the government. He
would have government buy and put so
much silver in a dollar that it would pro-
bably be worth more than a dollar on some
change in the market, and if the govern-
ment were to change its coins to keep up
with differences of mra-ket price in a
bullion which fluctuates the more be-
cause it is deprived of its principal
natural vent, the government might
have any number of different sizes of silver
dollars in circulation together—which
would be an object lesson in flatism cer-
tainly. But with the government as a
buyer of the whole supply of silver, how in
the world could there be a true market
value? What is a market when on throne
hand there is a buyer who has a monopoly
of the principal use of the article supplied,
and there are consequently few other buy-
ers, while on tho other hand there are sell-
ers who can not sell for t certain use ex-
cept to that one monopoly—the government
buyer? Such a state of case would make
an opening for collusion, favor and scoun-
drelism in government transactions to rig
the alleged market.
There has been a great deal of promise
at the beginning of every great and dis-
astrous strike and boycot, but have they
not generally been failures? If there is any
boycot that has the element of success in it,
it is the silent boycot. The noisy fellows
of to-day will be complaining in a few
week® that they are " black-listed."
Henry Gkorge is criticised on the ground
that he took away his stereotypes from a
printing-house in obedience to the demands
of a trade union. It is too nice a point for
outsiders to determine whether Mr. George
acted from sympathy, on his own fair judg-
ment, or under moral compulsion as an
office-seeker. Respect for the entire liber-
ty of persons is a good thing all round.
Is our William Henry a mugwump?
Chicago was pretty well prepared with
bogus $10 silver certificates within a few
dayB after the appearance of the new issue
at Washington, and before the genuine
ones had been seen by many people. The
fraud was so well printed as to pass exam-
ination at tbe banks. There is a slight
flaw on the back of the bill. Caution is
requisite.
A consular report mentions Japanese
paper money being some years ago at 182
yen in paper for 100 yen in silver. It has
been regarded as a feat in statesmanship
to bring the paper to par. But that de-
pends partly upon the amount of the i3sue
and the feat appears much when it is un-
derstood Ihst the government was endan-
gered at the time by revolution, and as
soon as this danger was past the restora-
tion of its credit was assured.
Brformer Crain of 1880, who was prone
to mugwumpish independence and saw no
celestial beauties or sacred obligations in
the convention system, is rather a queer as
well as severe commentary on the thick
and thin machine partisan Crain of 1336,
who loathes mugwumplshness and adores
the convention system. But who was it
that stigmatized consistency as the hobgob-
lin of fools? Was it Emerson, or Carlyle,
or Terrell? Mr. Crain might as well be
consulting authorities in this matter for
use in present or future cases in compari-
son of Crain versus Crain.
A valued New Orleans contemporary
draws the attention of Texans to an ill-
natured and defamatory article against
Texas published in a Chicago paper, and
suggests that Texans should see it and pun-
ish Chicago in business matters. Texas
people, if The News understands them, and
it thinks it does in a general way, are in-
debted to their friendly New Orleans neigh-
bor for its evident good wishes,
but as to revenging themselves for an in-
justice they may be permitted to
think the matter out differently. They will
not. hold the merchants of Cticago respon-
sible for any ill-tempered or untruthful re-
marks of any newspaper about Texas.
Neither will they deprive themselves of the
privilege of buying at the very cheapest
rate the very best goods to bo had, even if
the goods come from Chicago, for
thfct would be a polioy of res-ente
t y Texas upon Texas rather than
upon Chicago. Probably the Chicago sheet
which speaks ill of Texas has not a suffi-
cient acquaintance in Texas. So far as it
does circulate in Texas it may injure itself
by its malice and untruth and that will be
its punishment. The News makes free to
say that Texas is on the whole ft healthful
and bounteous State,fitted to furnish homes
for many home-seekers yet east as well as
west of Chicago, and any northern paper
belying this State does a greater wrong to
its own readers or some of them than to
tie collective interest of the people of
Texas.
Wnn.E Mr. Hewitt's recent tariff bill
inaiked only low tide of Democratic pro-
press in that it was simply for the relief of
certain manufacturers and to simplify im-
portation formalities, Mr. Hewitt's ringing
declarations in his speech at New York the
other night was an evidence that a thought-
ful business clement is becoming impatient
of the smothering process. The speaker
and the president, as Mr. Hewitt holds,
should insist upon some satisfactory pro-
gress and tho people should not elect mea
who will not work for tariff roform, and
that in a sense beyond revenue reduction.
Mr. Hewitt—though his views of favoring
the manufacturers, and trusting to them to
"divide" with their workmen and with
'consumers, are such as The News has
heretofore sufficiently criticised—put genu-
ine feeling into his appeal for determina-
tion on the part of responsible officials and
independence on the part of voters in this
vital question.
Why should any one eat a certain kind
of beef or pork if it is not the best and
cheapest to be got? But if any one is usiag
a certain kind for that good and sufiiciout
reason his discountenance of it probably
would be tantamount to using some other
Line! not so good or cheap. Iu that case
(he boycot costs something to those who in-
dulge in it. Delegate Barry and the rest of
the Knights of Labor who propose to boycot
and bankrupt a great Chicago packing
establishment may have the very strongest
will to injure somebody, but they should
rniad that they do not injure themselves
ard benefit the fellows they boycot. When
consumers undertake to starve the possess-
ors of a surplus of alimentary commodities
by refusing to consume, it is plain to see
that the former are on a much shorter road
to steivation than the latter.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
Under the caption, " Mexicans selling out
their ancestral lands to foreigners," the El
Paso Times says:
Foreigners now own about 12,000,000 acre <
of land in the state of Chihuhua, mostly
Americans and Englishmen. The Highlanu
company is Scotch. With one exception,
all these big purchases of property have
been made within the last three years.
There ere only three or four large Mexicau
estates left in the State. When foreigners
( lice get a footfiold the foreigners show a
disposition to move out. Land may be had
fiom u6 to 50 cents per acre.
'ihe El Faso Tribune says "no newspaper
iuEl Faso need fear libel suits; they are all
judt ment proof." The fact that they are
unable to pay large sums has saved many
Texas papers from libel suits under tho
present odious (as they have been con-
strued) laws.
The LaG range Journal has not lost all
taste for stump speeches. It says:
The present* state campaign seems to
have subsided into " innocuous desuetude."
What has become of the little cavalryman
and his host of troopers? Shall we not
have the pleasure of hearing his melliflu-
ous voice in this county before election day?
The Bayou city is looking up. The Age
says;
The Southern Pacific workshops will be a
big thing for Houston if Alex. Terrell don't
succeed in abolishing all the railroads;
and the Houston and Texas Central Union
depot will be a big thing also. It will not
employ so many hands nor pay out so
much money for labor, but it will be the
busiest place in Texas, and will make
visitors from north, south, east and west,
and fiom Europe, Asia, Africa aud Galves-
ton realize that Houston is a railroad city.
Galveston acknowledges the corn al-
ready. People north, south, east, west,
Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceanica will fol-
low. The Age is like the pioneer who
heard the hum of a bee in a far away
prairie and said: "I listen long to his
familiar hum and think I hear the sound of
the approaching multitude."
The Age anticipates the erection of a
great central depot " with a railroad yard
of tracks, on which the trains of all the
companies that run roads into Houston—
the Houston and Texas Central, the Inter-
national and Great Northern, the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, the Texas and New
Orleans, the Houston and San Antonio, the
Houston East and West Texas, the Texas
Western and the Texas Transportation—all
standing side by side with smoking locomo-
tives and passenger coaches, taking on and
putting off journeyers from all parts of the
habitable globe." This will take the con-
ceit out of the city where the panther laid
down, which now carries the legend," More
passengers get off and on the cars at Fort
Worth than at any other place in Texas."
The Age does not forget the fact that the
Central road, which is expected to build the
depot, is in the hands of a receiver, but it
says:
Mr. Charles Dillingham, the managing
receiver here, is a man of action, rather
than words. He says little, thinks fast,
decides piomptly, and acts quickly. The
receivers can not of course do anything
without the order of the court, but what
tbey ask for is very likely to be best, both
tor the public and those more immediately
inteiested in the road; and that kind of re-
quest the court usually grants.
Thie is from the Houston Age:
The Austin Record announces Colonel T.
L. Wien as a people's candidate for tne
legislature. It says tbe people have im-
portuned him to run. Is he the man whose
character w»s so fearfully, hopelesslv and
eternally ruined by a Galveston News
report of a legislative investigation that it
took $10,000 damages to repair it?
SoitEeems. The Age says in its usual
tumorous way:
The Age advocated Galveston as the best
location for the medical branch of tae
State university because Galveston could
show tbe biggest death rate. Ihe college
was voted to Galveston five or six years
ago, but has not yet been established. The
Age is disappointed.
Why it has not been established is one of
tbe puzzles in tbe law and the way it
works. It is hard to find the reason why
the Law college should be flourishing and
tbe medical department non est. The State
makes lawyers, but net physicians.
The Fort Worth Gazette seems to think
Dr. Rankin will gather in a good many
loese votes in his canvass for Congress
against R. Q. Mills. It says:
Hehas notabjured his Greenback theories.
He has merely put them out of sight for the
time being, as a matter of expediency,
which is peifectly well understood by his
Gieenback friends. He expects to get their
votes, as in the past, aud he will get them.
Dr. Bsnkin, we are credibly informed, is a
member cf The Farmers alliance. He never
misses a gathering of the alliauce, whet'ier
itisapinicor funeral, and is count ; s'
confidently upon alliance votea. H >-.v
many to will get is rather
problematical, but undoubtedly lie
will get some. Then the anti-monopoly
clubs in the district made Rankin's eause
their own, and have indorsed biru right
and left. The Republicans, ton, took the':-/
cue. INearly every Republican iu the dis-
trict who goes to the polls will vote for
Rankin. Meanwhile, the Prohibitionists
waited and let events take their course.
They saw all the anti-Mills and anti-Demo-
cratic elements aligning under the R.iukin
banner, and then they called a convention
at Waco. It was not largely attended,
but it accomplished the purpose for
which it was called by declaring against
Mills, and urging Prohibitionists through-
out the district to vote for Rankin, lr, is a
heterogeneous mass, but it has numbers
and votes. Is if. strong enough to beat
Mills? Most assuredly not, it the Demo-
crats in the district do their duty. But
there should not be lethargy among the
Democrats. The only wonder is that any
Texas farmer, who is a Democrat, uo mat-
ter if he is a member of the Farmers alli-
ance, anti-monopeily club, or even if he is a
Prohibitionist, should be found opposing
B.Q.Mills. The farmer will never linu a
warmer or a more earnest friend.
Tho San Antonio Light (Republican)
says:
The disappointed Democratic office-seek-
ers in Texas are stirring their circulation
by spying out the delinquencies of their
successful competitors, and reporting to
Washington. The participation of these
federal office-holders in local politics has
opened a very wide eloor of complaint. Un-
loose her, Gallagher, and let her go.
The Alaska-like coolness of the Houston
Age manifests itself in this:
An itch for office is a fearful disease. It
is making some men try to drag the Demo-
cratic party in Harris county down into
such a rut as it was long ago dragged into
in Galveston. Such men deserve disastrous
defeat.
If Galveston had shunned the bad ex-
ample of tho Bayou city politicians In stead
of following it things would have been bet-
ter. While the Age preaches old-fashioned
Democracy, tho boodlemen get away with
everything in eight. The Age prints a
poem that describes the way elections are
eiarried in that ilk:
firing them in from furthermost lands,
1'iecTous votes, I ask of your hands;
Bring them in, the all colored host;
Lose not one lest the cause be lost.
Jlilns them in to the voting feast,
Uilna tliein in from the west and east,
Noitli and south—from the haunts of sin—
Bring them in; brirg tlio voters In.
The Age still lives in the hope of seeing
Galveston submerged and sunk into the
depth of the sea. Alluding to the late
storm, which did no harm here, it says:
It seems, though, no great deal of dam-
ago was done. Tho wind changed or sub-
sided. and the waters found their way back
into their regular channels and beds, and
railroad trains began running again, and
the town is safe once more; but no person
can tell for how long.
In the meantime Galveston will fulfill
that part of Scripture which says buy. and
sell and get gain; ye know not what shall
be in the morrow.
The Houston Post says:
Some Galveston people don't, like for
other folks to talk about their little storm
matters.
Talk as much as you like; only tell tho
truth. It goes without sayiug that some
people and papers besides those of Galves-
ton exaggerate such things—some because
they like the marvelous; others because
they don't like Galveston. The Post, t,o its
credit be it said, is not in the habit of doing
so.
•W03DEEFUL DIYfXOPMEHT.
The Great Btrideg Kow Being Made by tho
Soutii'g Industries, Especially Coal
and Iron.
Baltimore, October 15.—The Baltimore
Manufacturers Record, in its quarterly re-
view of the South's industrial growth, says:
Even the West in the days of its greatest
progress, probably never made such tre-
mendous strides in advance as some por-
tions of the South are making. The center
of interest for some time has been in the
iron and steel industries, and with these
the activity has been wonderful, though in
other lines of diversified manufactures
there is also remarkable progress. Among
the principal iron and steel enterprises
now under way. are five new fur-
naces, basic steel works and liOO coke
ovens by the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad company, who already have
five furnaces in operation. This company
has a capital of $10,000,000, and when ti e
new iurnaces are completed, will have a
daily capacity of about 1,400,000 tons of
pigs. Two furnaces are new building by
the Debardeleben Coal and Iron company;
one by Samuel Thomas and associates, of
Pennsylvania; two under contract at Shef-
field, Ala.; two by Nashville and New York
capitalists, at South Pittsburg, Tenn.; one
by the Coalburg Coal and Coke cimpany,
of Birmingham; one at Ashland, Ky.; one
at ./Etna, Tenn.; one of Colera, Ala.;
an $800,COO iron company, at Florence,
Ala.; Bessemer s eel works, at Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., and Richmond, Va.;
two stoveworks, each with a capital of
$500,000, at Birmingham; two iron pipe-
works- one to be the largest in the United
States, at Chattanooga, and a similar enter-
prise at Wheeling, Ala. A $800,000 compa-
ny has been organized to build an iron
manufacturing town at Bessemer, Ala. A
$3,000,000 company, composed of northorn
and southern capitalists, has purchased a
large part of South Pittsburg, Tenn., where
two furnaces are in operation, aud where
three more are to be built; also, iron pipe-
works and other manufacturing enter-
prises, while two other iron centers are to
be developed near Birmingham—one by
the North Birmingham Land company, aud
another by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
railroad company. During the last niue
months there ha3 been organized in the
South foity-two ice factoiies, iifty-six
foundries and mschiue shops, one llossi-
mer sleel-i ail mill, sixteen miscellaneous
iron woiks, including iron-pipe works,
bridge and belt works, etc.; five stove
foundries, nineteen gasworks, twenty-three
electric light companies, eight agricultural
implement factories, 114 mining aud quar-
rying enterprises, twelve c image and
wagon factories, nine cotton mills, nine-
teen furniture factories, twenty-one water-
works, forty-four tobacco factories, seven-
ty-one flour mills, ;>02 lumber mills, not
counting portable sawmills, including
sawmills antl planing mills, sash and
door factories, stave, ban.He. shingle, hub
and spoke, shuttle and block factory, etc.,
inat'dition to which there was a large num-
ber i f miscellaneous enterprises. Tne
Manufacturers Recorel says that duriut;
tbe first nine months of 1880 the amount of
capital, including capital stock iu corpor-
ate el companies represented by ne v manu-
facturing and mining enterprises organ-
ized or chartered at lue South aud in the
enlargement of old plants tmd the rebuild
ing of mills that veto destroyed by fire, ag-
gregated about $83.8114,!200 against 1 >
lcr the corresponding period of ISii.
BR0Y/NV/C0D.
Sisrfc
The letter Written by Mr. Cowoll a
Time Before His Suicide.
Brown wood, October 11.—Tha following,
is the letter written by Mr. M. II. Cowell,
who recently committed suicide itt t'ui>
place:
Broinnooccl, Tex., September 7, fSS3.—
My Dear Fiiend: Last night and to-
day I have had so many acuto
pains extending over tho ri^ht side*
of my face, and of so extreme a character,
and so easily o.ciied iato activity, that I
cire:ad very sericfusly that it is oulytbepre-
cuiser of a spell of the most Ravore form of
my disease; and being situated as I a.a,with-
out funds or friends to whom I can go for
tbe kitel of care and atteutioii which my
perfectly helpless conditiou at stub tiinj'
requires, and also being-unable for various
reasons to go back to Galveston and bo
nursed by my family, they being unable at
present even to take care of themselves,
owing to my long sicknesses for years past,
and especially since reaching Texas, hav-
ing kept me under heavy expenses, aud
finally completely exhausted all my sav-
ings so that my family had nothing left but
their furniture, 1 can come to no other
conclusion than what I have for u longtime*
past foreseen—that my health being so un-
certain as to practically make me unre-
liable end useles.., either to continue to b»
able to support myself or mv family—and
my life a constant burden and misery to m*
during my frequent excruciating spells of
suffering, that it is folly to continue to liv*
and endure such sufferings and bo reduced
to the point where I shall be dependent on
charity. All that has kept me alive up to
the present has been my determination to.
struggle along just so long as I could man-
age to do anything toward snpporting my
family. For myself, I have often
wished I were dead and over it
all long ago, but whilst I
had any funds in haid to lead me to hope for-
a possible chance to pull througn I was will-
ing to continue to endure and suffer tha
martyrdom which my chronic disease has
madej my life for some years past. Now^
1 have come to a point, as I said before
«here 1 can neither help myself nor my
family, and shall, therefore, when I find
myself at the crisis of my sufferings, take a
sufficient opiate to end my miserable exist-
ence, and beg of you to do me tho last kind-
ness of seeing that medical examination is
made cf me to establish the fact beyond the
possibility of doubt that 1 am dead before'
attempting to bury me. This cau best bt*
clone by a surgical examination of my face,
which will at the same time discover the
cause of all ray troubles for the benefit of
the medical profession, and at the same
lime establishing the fact of my being
really dead. I wish my funeral to be of the
least possible expense, and without any-
religious ceremonies of any kind. Anel
I can only ask that all my friends
anel relatives will not think harshly
of my action, but show their sympathy for
the snft'eiings which so many of them
know I have had to endure for so many
years by having feelings of nothing but
pily for me and my family, by extending
what aid they can to enable them to make a.
fair start to take care of themselves, now
(hat 1 am unRble to fill the place of a pro-
tector and supporter to them any longer;
None need have any other regret for me
than that 1 have been reduced, through uo-
fault of my own, to Ihe dependent and help-
less eoneiiiion 1 have at last reached.
M. H. Cowell.
POSTAL-MATTEH8.
G old th wait e.
Goi.ijthwaite, October 15.—Tho weather
remains quite cool. The rains have put the
grass in fine condition. Stock will winter
well with a late frost. The cotton crop will
be much better than was expeoted. The
Farmers alliance bought in about fU'ty
bales of cotton to-day. Local buyers
bought it. The alliance men are contem-
plating opening a grain-store, or rather
they want to oreler their own corn and feed
by ihe carload. They now have a carload
of salt and flour here, which they sell to
members at about first cost. The political
pot is boiling in this section.
The Eeccnt Order ol tho Fostmaster-general—
Bewares for Attempted Robbery.
Washington, October 15.—Postmaster-
general Vilas has issued tho following or-
der: Whenever any letter prepaid at less
than one full rate of postage, or any third-
class matter, not fully prepaid, of obvious
value, sikh as magazines, music, pictures^-
books or pamphlets, scientific or otherwise*
likely to be of permanent use or personal
value to the addressee; or parcel of fourth-
class matter not fully prepaid and being
otherwise mailable, is deposited in any:
postoffice and addressed to any other post-
office within the United States, it must be'
postmarked with the date of its receipt,,
indorsed, " Held for postage," and except
in cases mentioned below, the addressee
notified by the next mail by an official pos-
tal card, and a request to remit sufficient
postage to fully prepay it to destination.
Such matter should then be held two
weeks for reply, and if, at the ex-
piration of that time, the required postage
has not been received, it should be marked-
unclaimed and eent to the dead-letter office
as unmailable. Matter directed to places,
so remote from the mailing office that the-
notice can not be returned by the addressee-
in two weeks, may be held not longer than'
four weeks. But upon the receipt of the
proper amount of postage, the stamps'
should be affixed to the matter so as to cover
but a portion of the words, " Held for
postage," and properly cancelled befor»
forwarding thff same. When held for post-
age, matter bears the card or address of a
sender from within the delivery of the mail-
ing office, it should be immediately re-
lume <1 to such sender for proper postage.
Notice of detention must not be sent to the
addresses of matter properly held for post-
age which is directed to foreign countries,,
but if the name of the sender be^unknown,
it should at once be sent to the dead-letter
effice. It a sender himself pays the postage
befoie the addressee, the letter will be in-
dorsed "Postage subsequently paid by the
writer," and the additional stamps affixed.
Sboulel the pastage be afterward received
by the addressee, it will be promptly re-
turned to him.
And also the following:
A reward of $200 will be paid by this de-
parlment, upon conviction in the United
States court, for each person who may
have been e»gaged in robbing or in attempt-
ing to reib tbe United States mails, by at-
tack, while the mails are in transit upoa
any post route.
This offer is applicable to offenses com-
mitted during the fiscal year ending June
30,18ts7, and the reward will be paid on
satislacteiry evidence to the person causing,
arrest and conviction.
FAKDOHED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Executive Clemency Extended a Convict Wha
Was Serving Out a Lile Sentence.
Washington, October 15.—The president
bas granted pardon to Charles Thomas, a
coloied man, now serving a life sentence
in tbe West Virginia penitentiary, for a
inui der committed in Arkansas about ten
jears ago. Tho pardon was issued on the>
lecommcndation of Judge Parker, of
Arkansas, before whom tbe case was
tiied, and because of mitigating circum-
stances surrounding tbe crime. Tnornas,,
it seems, on returning to home one diy
after a short absence, discovered that a
mac, whom be had always regarded as a
fiiend. and fcir whom be had done mmy
acts of kindness, had alienated the affec-
tions of his wife, and taken her from his
home. He became wild with rage, pursued
the guilty couple and shot the man dead.
He was tried, convicted and sentenced to
be hEnged, but the sentence was commuted
to imprisonment for life. Considerable
sympathy was manifested for hica, and a
sirorg appeal made to executive clemency.
The ptesident, iu acting ou the case, said
l.e was satisfied the man had been suffi-
ciently punished for what he had done.
Bradley Arrested.
Cleveland, October 15.—Last Monday a
well-dressed man, about40years old, ac-
companied by his wife, arrived at Silver-
thorn's suburban hotel, at Rocky River,
six miles from Cleveland. To-day Mat
PinkertoD, of Clijcago, placed him under
arrest and took him to Chicago. He proved
tnbeJ.F. J. Bradley, defaulting manager
of the Pullman Bleeping Car company, who-
disappeared last July, after liavinir em-
bezzled $85,000 from Ihe company. Brail-
le v formerly had chare« of the" Pullman in-
tuests at Chicago and Detroit.
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