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rY* •. . v,-- . JOB PRINTING -v>IVE THE- JOilN H. HODGES, Proprietor, Devoted toi Home Interests and Culture. TWO •noT.TiAHS A Year in Advance. I may be needed. All j ded,and at prices that will com- _ | pete wit! j any city. Call and IceV , X9 A. TRIAL. NO. 50. i at our samples and get our prBfr | and you will leave your orders. lift© 1111* •lift; ©1 ■WILLIS H. SSiglTTd^l FASTOlij MACON, GA. © ©, © e*4- S© © © e“K *3 ©* ■ © ef- © i—j- I hi • © - - m ©. © crq d 4 © e=b .© © © © H-J © m S' sag n © Y © rt- i © © 0 1 h © M i—i 5? © © • © hi © ©- © © * © m _ . o GC © © © ■ © ■ (i . © © © : h m ©* M* m ©.. o' ■ ' **4-- 2 'peri .... .Sw © ©■-- §1 *=>•« ©- •© m © © - m © hx Q N» J3' © tsS © © Til © © tmmmi © TH w* & © © - - © © -© © • S © xm a A 1—i © © © t © F V* Y r D 'NOOYM ‘HOIOV-J Ssvr-sJrgslriM IS '.,v~v . s&sss The Speakership in History. New York World. oiio o There are about half a dozen ex- Speakers living, and only two of them—Blaine and Carlisle—have any prominence. Keifer, the last republican head of the House, is living in a merited retirement at Springfield, Ohio, growling against the fates that keep his greatness In obscurity. Galusha A. Grow, who burst into the political horizon away back in the 50s, like a great sky rocket, as the youngest mem ber of the lower house, lived on his reputation until, after a de cade,|ie got to be speaker, and then petered out politically while he was still under forty. Robert C. Winthrop finished his career in the House of Representatives with the speakership, and he still lives, an old man of 80, in Massachu setts. Nathaniel P. Banks is an other speaker of the past, and not long age was happy in being a United States marshal. It is lucky for a speakership candidate; to come from a state which has had the speakership be fore. The office seems to run in states. Kentucky has held it fully one-fifth of the entire history of congress, commencing with Henry Clay and ending with Carlisle. Pennsylvania had fourteen years of it, and Viginia ranks next, hav ing held the office for twelve years. Sam Randall, who is now lying sick in his house near the capitol, served for five years as speaker, and the first speaker of all was a Pennsylvanian. His name was Frederick A. Muhlenberg, a rich merchant'of a powerful family in Philadelphia, and what is sup posed to be a statue of him,, but which in reality represents his brother, stands in the statuary hall of the capitol. Grow was also from Pennsylvania, and he still lives, I believe, in that state. Massachusetts has had the speakership ten years, Indiana eight years, Maine, North Caroli na and New Jersey, six years each, and Georgia, when Howell Cobb was speaker, two years. Twenty- four of the states have never fur nished a speaker, and we have never had a speaker west of Indi ana. Henry Clay was the young- j est speaker in point of age and term of service id the House. He was elected when he was only 32 years of age, and held the speak er’s chair longer than any other speaker. He was re-elected five times, and he resigned more than once. If Reed could carry out the policy of Clay, the country would lose nothing by having him in the chair. Clay did not let his speakership office • prevent him from taking part in the debates, and he was one of the most' fre quent speakers in congress daring his terms as the presiding offi cer. Next to Clay in-terms of office comes Alexander Stevenson, of Yirginia. He was for eight years the biggest man in congress, but to-day you will hardly find one man out of a hundred that knows anything, about him. r. Colfax, Blaine and Nathaniel Macon each had six years of the speakership, and it was after Colfax’s term of service that he was nominated for the vice presidency. While speak er he once left the chair to move the expulsion,of an Ohio member wbo bad made a speech urging.the recognition of the Southern Con federacy. This action was much censured at the time. New York has had the speaker- ship but once, and that was away hack during John Quincy Adams’ administration, when John W. Taylor was speaker. Taylor of history shows that only one speaker has ever reached the pres idency, while the greatest of the speakers of'the past have misera bly failed in theirjattempts to get there. Blaine, tbd plumed knigiit of the House of Representatives, has failed again and again in the tournaments for the White House. Henry Clay,_ the most magnetic and the most brilliant speaker the House ever ha.d, died a disappoint ed man because he could not step from the speaker’s chair into the presidential mansion, and the only speaker who has ever been elected president was James K. Polk, of Tennessee, who was speaker for two sessions during the adminis tration of President Yan Buren. Two Important Questions. Presidential Preaching- and —— - j Practice. GreensbCro Herald-Journal. I There are two important matters-! ' National capita! ^ which concern the interests of the J When President Harrion was a people which, between -this time ■ candidate he declared that the sur- and the state, campaign of next i pins revenue should be used in HERTZ, A Good Calculator. St. Louis Bepublic. Postoffice Inspector Jesse B. McClure, who had just returned from Arkansas, entertained a num ber of his friends in the lobby of the Midland recently with anec dotes of his trip through that state. “A very amusing thing took place on one of my runs out near Newton/’ said He.. “I had got off at Newton, a town on the Arkan sas river, and was making my way out to Batesville, a village situated at the terminus of a branch road running out of Newton. On the way out we were delayed for near ly an hour at a small wayside sta tion. Just before the train start ed a man and his wife entered the car. When the train started the woman kissed, her husband good bye. The man was evidently a Hebrew. In the car beside the stranger and myself were two na-. tives, and a long lank fellow with an immense heard, and the other equally long and lank, coatless and vestless, and with but onesuspend- We had just fairly started year, should receive their earnest consideration- The most prominent of these two questions, perhaps, is that concerning local legislation and its cost to the people of the state in lengthy sessions of the legislature. There is really no sound reason why the time of the Assembly should not be entirely occupied in disposing of acts of a general na ture, as there are no. reasons why a local board or the courts of the country should not be empowered to pass uponinatters of local con cern. Of the two remedies sug gested—the courts or a special board—we favor the latter. Three or five.men in every county should compose a[this board, and they should have annual or semi-annual sessions, of say ten days. The members to be paid a stated sala- ry. We believe the costs of such a board to the counties would be less than the costs of the Superior Court for the same time. It may be, however, that these local mat ters could be more rapidly and successfully disposed of by the courts, hut we think not. How ever, either of the methods would be satisfactory, and would accom plish the object aimed at—the re moving from the legislative calen dar the immense amount of trash in the way of local bills which now impede the general business of the state. And the people should in sist that some action is taken by the next legislature to remedy this evil. To accomplish this it should be made a strong issue in the next campaign. Another question of moment is that relative to the passage of a dog law. This has been a neces sity in Georgia for many years, bub bills introduced for that pur pose have been repeatedly defeated. : But the strength of thos8 in favor buying bonds and not deposited in j j the banks. Since be has become' President he has not reduced the JY H. rable Clothier and Furnisher, MACON GA- when the bearded native opened a» conversation with the dejected- looking Hebrew. “You look like a man who has seen much trouble, stranger,” he began, stroking his long beard, and looking Inquiringly at him. “I believe you are in trouble rightJ ft ., aw . Ma inerease a each now ‘ year, and at the last session of the “No, answered the Israelite, I * legislature tfie bill ; lacked only a am not over burdened with sor- j £ew votes necessary to its passage. row. FtrareU deal, ana as ^ to the importance of the bill, o£ those who have endeavored to en- I have jnst left my wife I am, caurse, not in good spirits.” “Born here?” queried the man with the beard. “No, sir, I was born in Germa ny.” ‘ So you have crossed the ocean, eh?” “Yes, I have crossed the ocean eight times.” At this point in the conversa tion the one-gallused native; who had been an attentive listener, changed his seat across the aisle to one directly in front of the trav eller, and abruptly interrupted him: “You say, Colonel, you were born in Germany ?” “Yes.” “And that you have crossed the ocean eight times?” “Yes.” “Then, ’cordin’ to. my rales o’ rithinetic,” ejaculated the native, giving|his one suspender a vigor ous tug, “you are at this moment on the other side of the Atlantic sue- 'NOXXOO ■ 'noxxoo nm NOXXOO ceeded Clay in 1820, and he was again elected in 1825. He was a noted congressman in his day, and was the first member of the House who put himself on record as against the extension of slavery, He was born and- brought up in New York, and during his later days went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he died in 1843. The present speakership is look ed upon somewhat as giving jts successful candidate a move to- waffi the presidency. The record ter into sheep husbandry in this state fully understand. The num ber of inferior and half-fed dogs in nearly every county has render ed any attempt to raise sheep” al most futile. As a matter of pub lic progress, the passage of some law to protect this industry and to put an end to the worthless breed of dogs is almost an absolute ne cessity. These two important matters should be .fully considered by the farmers and the ^people of the state, and pertinent questions should he asked those who offer for political suffrage during the campaign of 1890. ocean. Love in its varied phases can acquire purity and dignity only when guided by inward power over ourselves, that is in itself the very germ of nature. A.Woman's Discovery. .“Another wonderful discovery has been made, and that, too, by a lady in this country. Disease fas tened its clutches upon her, and for seven years she withstood its- severest tests, but her vital organs were undermined, and death seem ed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly, and could not sleep. She bought of ns a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discov ery for Consumption, and was so much relieved upon taking the first dose that she slept all night, and with one bottle has been mi raculously cured. Her name is Mrs. Lather Lutz.” Thus -write W. C. Hsmbrick & Co., of Shelby, N. C. Get a free trial bottle at Holtzclaw & Gilbert’s drug store. The participation of Captain Gray, of a Grand Army post in New Orleans, in the funeral ser vices of the late Jefferson Davis has caused a considerable hub bub among a certain class., of northern people, who would, find their occupation gone if sectional bitterness should die out. Speak ing of these people, the Philadel phia Times says: “When Gen. Grant was buried, the whole coun try applauded the Confederate generals Johnston and Buckner for appearing as pall bearers; and there is not now a northern or southern soldiers’ organization that does not decorate the graves of the blue and the gray within their react! on Decoration Day; but the country is yet full of sense less wranglers in and out of sol diers’ organizations who were so pungently described by Geh. -Grant as those who did not warm up to the war until after its bloody battles were fought.” surplus as fast or redeemed »» bonds as fast as the previous Ad ministration did, and what is more, he has not reduced the deposits as fast durmg the last five months as he did daring the first four months. During the first four months of his term he reduced the bank de posits 81,286,614, and during the last five months only 859,709. In- the first four months he scarcely reduced the deposits as much as his predecessor did in. each month of the last ten months of his term. But even that “cautious and grad ual recall of the deposits” was too fast for somebody. Who was it? Whose “commercial interests” would have been imperilled if President Harrison had continued the policy of President Cleveland? There'is one feature of this mat ter that is still more interesting. Daring the month of last July the deposits in the banks increased 81,- 498,386. This administration not only stopped the policy of this rap id withdrawal of the deposits, but it increased the deposits nearly a million and a half in one month.'- Wasn’t this expedient “unauthor ized and dangerous” as long ago as l ast July ? Possibly it is only when Congress meets and is liable to ask questions that the expedient be comes “unauthorized and danger ous.” It was only two days be fore Congress met that the Secre tary made public his intention of withdrawing the deposits. The Wall street speculators had got the news before and used it. Whose “favorite banks,”. Mr. President, had to be' helped last J lily, and what banking influences have deterred yon and Secretary Windom from - withdrawing the deposits as rapidly as President Cleveland and Secretary Fairchild did.? The average amount of money in the hands of your disbursing officers, Mr. President, for the past five months- was 837,081,861. The average amount of money in tiie hands of President Cleveland’s disbursing officers during the same five months of last year was 831,- 425,292. What are your officers a half million dollars on hand more than their Democratic pred ecessor had? Aretheylending.it? A German medical journal re lates a remarkable instance of the effect of nervous excitement. A locomotive engineer on a passen ger train on rounding a curve sud denly saw a train about sixty yards ahead, and stationary. With great presence of mind he reversed his engine, signaled for the brakes to be applied, and, by vigorous ac tion, prevented a disastrous colli sion. The excitement of the mo ment was tremendous, but only a violent trembling of the legs re mained, and he continued at his post. But the great mischief had been done. After five days he had to-relinquish his duties, and he gradually became unfit for all work. Once a robust, stalwart man, he has became very thin, hi* gait is slouching and toilsome, and his speech slow and stammering. He is suffering from what is known as “railway spine,” a most dis tressing disease. His digestion, memory and ability to sleep are impaired, and a singular diminu tion of nervous sensibility has taken place over his whole body, so that he. scarcely feels the prick of a needle sufficiently deep to bring bicod. His legs are also be numbed up to the knee,.and, alto gether, the man is a wreck. Though in Europe, Dom Pedro says he is still Emperor of Brazil. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Jures Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala- ria. Nervousness, and General Debility. 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