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GOJfcONG, JUDCE CRISP- COI Despite th low and onbecoming stoning that some Democratic news papers of the North are giving Judge Crisp, he is running the race for the Speakership most admirably, leaving all the other candidates and losing them behind in the clouds of dust thot retreat from his footsteps around the track. Judge Crisp is in the race with a record. He has a record m the minds of all loyal Democrats of this country, which counts for much. He is a ‘‘four times winner.” It is surprising to observe that one or two Democratic newspapers re against Judge Crisp in the race he is making It is not strange ei ther that he should have enemies among the Democratic press of New England when it is taken into con* siderationtthat many of those same papers are as fickle to the party as a school girl to her sometime lover. But, we are surprised to find that the Boston Herald, a paper that has always been sound in its Democra cy, should so suddenly change from supporting Judge Crisp to opposing him, with no better excuse than the mere rumor that Tammany is behind Judge Crisp. The Herald says Indications are to the effect that Tammany Hall is taking an active part in the contest for the election ot a speaker of the coming national House of Representatives. It was well understood many weeks ago that Mr. Crisp of Georgia was the candidate of Gov. Hill of New York for this office. Mr. Croker, who rules Tammany Hall, has, in addi tion, if our information is correct, within a short time enlisted in an earnest effort to see that Mr. Crisp receives the nomination. When the boss of Tammany moves in this way, it is understood that more than the office immediately involved is con cerned. It is part of a general en-» terprise to obtain possession of pat ronage at Washington. Tammany has not generally put out its schemes to the extent of controlling national as well as State politics, but there is reason to believe that this is part'of its present programme. We do not intend by this to say anything in impeachment of Mr. Crisp, who has the t reputation of an honorable and upright gentleman, and who is well qualified for the Speakership ; but it is a matter for serious consideration on the part of New England Demo* crats, and. indeed, of Democrats generally, it they can afford to en» courage Tammany Hall m this effort to increase its already dangerous power. Judge Crisp has already stated to the press of the .country that he was not the candidate of Tammany. He says Tammany, so far as he knows, will support no candidate as a po litical machine or organization. The truth is, Mr. Mills is more than apt to have sworn allegiance to the Gold bugs of New England that causes this attack on Judge Crisp in bis behalf. The Charleston News and Courier, too, with some well concealed insin cerity claims that Crisp ought not to be elected, because he is supported by the Ben Butler and New York Sun wing of the Democracy. Good gracious 1 The News and Courier confesses that it does not think Judge Crisp is proud of his support and is not in political touch with each an element, but still harps on the fact that he has such support and gives that as a sufficient reason for defeating him. What inconsis tency 1 The News and Courier is very fastidious in its Democratic fancies all of a sudden. If that pa per would think twice before it speaks and then speak frankly it would see and say that Judge Crisp has the support of the pure and un dented Democracy of the Solid South and much of the purest type of Eas tern and Western Democracy in his grasp. If his record for clean De mocracy has even shamed the Ben Butler wing and brought that into line so much the better and none the worse for Judge Crisp. Indeed, “it is better to be safe than sorry,” and thoee newspapers opposing Judge Crisp should get on the safe side before it is too late. In the meantime, go ’long Judge Crisp. Yon are Georgia raised and you haven’t gone back on your rais» in*. Go .’long; you’re a sure win- ner J THE THIRD PARTY. Oar dispatches yesterday from At. lanta state that in an interview with Senator Ellington he says there! unmistakably a Third party in Geor gia, fally organized and ready to sweep the State. He gives the names ofth ose who, he claims, have organ iaed the People’s party in Georgia and be thinks ths.t he is safe in the prediction that Georgia is going out i ranks of the Democrac ' Pshaw ! Mr. Ellington is mista ken. He no doubt believes what he says. But he was never more mis taken in his life. There is no probability of Georgia ever becoming tainted with Repub licanism in the mildest type. There can never be bat two parties in the South—the white man’s party and the negro party. The solid Democ racy of the South has been the salva tion of the South since the sorrowful days ot reconstruction. To divide the strength of the white man’s par ty—the Democracy—is to bring back in full force the sway of negro power in Southern politics. This will never be. We cannot think seriously of Mr Ellington’s statement. There may be a feebly organized movement in Georgia for the People’s parly, but it will not be countenanced by the intelligent farmers of the State. It will never amount to a row of pins. The Alliance of Georgia is an alli ance of patriots and true Southeroers who will not barter the principles for which their fathers fought and died on the bloody fields of Virginia to a few sorehead Yankee politi clans of the West for a few faithless promises. The Alliance of Georgia is an alliance for right against wrong; for political freedom rather than po litical bondage ; for Democracy and National economy, and never for Re publicanism, though it may be dis guised in the sugar-coated name of People’s party. The Alliance of Georgia is faithful to Alliance principles, and the Alii- ance of Georgia will fight for them under the Democratic banner. Senator Ellington is very much mistaken in his belief that the Geor gia Alliance will forsake the first principles of a white man’s govern ment. They are not that kind of men. in the last legislatme a committee was appointed to inquire into the lease of the Central railroad to the Georgia Pacific. That committee found that the Constitution of Geor gia expressly provided that no snch ease should be made io this State, and therefore, declared the lease il legal. In the face of this com mittee’s report, the Senate refnsed utterly to discuss the Berner bill, and laid it on the table forever. Now for the consequences. The prediction is easy that retribution will come some of these windy win ter days. depravity, gratifying the animal na- j Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has un tnre rather than appealing to the in- . sheathed-his pen again to sketch Geor- tellectual man, then it becomes an £* a plantation life. enemy to civilization. The Banner is no sensational pa. per. If we give the news clearly and with clean methods, we do not fail utterly in our purpose. THE ELECTION- The municipal eleotion is over and the Mayor and Aldermen have been i lected for the ensuing term The contest was conducted on a high plane and the candidates who did not succeed have nothing to regret. Athens will call for them in the future. Mayor Brown who retires from office next January, has made the city a most efficient officer. He has guarded her every interest well, and has worked steadily and effectively for her good. That her citizens appreciate his labors no one can deny, and that his record as Mayor, will be pointed to as a model is very evident. Hon. H. C. Tuck, the mayor-elect, is a young man of sterling ability, and has served bis county ably and well in the halls of the General Assembly. He is active and progressive, and will keep the old town moving onward. Tbe different aldermen are all good citizens, devoted to the interests of the city. Now let every one pull for the good of of Athens and her fullest develop ments. We believe that in the hands of the next mayor and alderman, the future of the city is absolutely safe. Dtjriko tbe past ten years there has been a decided increase in tbe fishing interests of Washington, notably in the oyster fishery, tbe yield of which has advanced from 15,000 to 60,993 bushels; in the salmon fishery, in which the catch in 1880 was reports d to be 350,- 000 pounds, and in 1888 was 16.319,736 pounds; in the vessel fishery for food species (including halibut and salt sal mon) which has been established in re cent years, and the product of which in 1888 amounted to 676,000 pounds. The four-seal fishery has declined consid* erably in value, though to a less extent in number of skins. SMALL POX IN GEORGIA. With reference to the small pox scare in Georgia the Columbns En quirer-Sun has this to say: It has been pretty well demonstre ted that it is not Bafe to leave with the newspaper correspondents that habitate the .Georgia coast tbe duty of sending abroad tbe news about either yellow fever or small pox. For a week they have been basy alarm ing tbe State and staffing the coun try abont an epidemic of small pox at Harris Neck, in Liberty county. These reports moved the Mayor of Savannah to call on Governor Nor then to take immediate steps to check the contagion. Of coarse, the legislature never took snch impor tant action as to establish a State board of health, and make an appro priation for it, so the Governor had to appeal to the Federal Government for help. Following the visit of the health officer of the Government^ the reports were sent abroad that “Small pox is spreading rapidly among the negroes !” “Condition of the people deplorable F’ “No medical atten tion f* “No Jood P’ “Entire coast in danger 1” Onr dispatches this morning show that the alleged epidemic is under control,and that it has been confined within a radios of five miles. So the matter has been very greatly exag gerated, as the State of Georgia has not been seriously threatened. THE RICHMOND & DANVILLE. Marion J. Verdery, formerly of Augusta, writes a letter from New York to the Augusta Chronicle in which he says in substance H’b “good-bye John” to the Richmond Terminal. He gives a most exciting account of how the stocks and secu rities of this giant combination of railroad monopolists have tumbled within the past week. The condi tion of the company’s affaire, despite their ability to rally now and then, s doubtful at best. Some serious trouble in the ranks of this colossal consolidation of Southern railroads may safely be predicted. There is too mnch fluctuation. Too much uncertainty. It is pitiful to see the commercial and financial interests of tbe South thus bottled up to be shaken up and mined at the will of these Northern capitalists. It is more a matter of pity sines the Georgia legislature has allowed the Richmond Terminal to gobble np such prosperous -roads as the Central of Georgia. It is an outrage that the people’s interests have been so disregarded by their legislative representatives. Now is a good time to recall that His sketch in Sun- day’s Constitution entitled “On Tur ner’s Plantation” was in keeping with his high standard of literary work. There is at Baltimore, Ireland, a fishing school where boys receive in- struction in all branches of a sea fisher man’s work, and in suoh allied indus tries as net-making, boat-bnildlng, cooperage and sail-m&kidg. The rare phenomenon of red scow occurred in the past spring at Balt Lake city. This is caused by the develop ment of a minute fungus which likes to germinate in snow under favorable con ditions called protococcus nivalis. Here’s a word to the students of the Georgia University. In Heidelberg, all university students have been excluded from the theatres. This action was taken in concert by the city and unis varsity authorities because the students have been bowling down every perfor mance they did not like. Tbe general public concluded that they bad some rights which the nniver-.ity students were bound to respect. Hence the pro hibition. Perhaps this, may serve as a useful warning on this side of the wa ter. Mbs Dr. Felton is engaged in form ing clabs all over Georgia called **’1 he Before Breakfast Club.” The object is this: That each farmer shall pledge himself to set apart for his wife a cer tain portion of his ground. To this he shall devote some time each morning before breakfast. For she says too ma ny farmers’ wives have nothing at all except what he oan spare after paying np, and if this ground is well worked it should supply enough to clothe her at any rate. THE JEFF DAVIS MONUMENT- What has become of the movement in the South to erect a monument to the memory of Jifferson Davis, the dead chieftain of the Confederacy ? The question is not altogether out of place it appears to us, and there are hundreds of people here in Ath ens and all over the South who have contributed to the fund, and who would like to know what progress has been made and what progress is likely to be made in this matter. There has oeen very much said about the Jeff Davis mono menu It has been “ talked np” and “ written np,” until it is a familiar theme in every household throughout the Southern States. But it now seemB that the interest is beginning to wane. It is shameful to tell it of true and loyal Southern ers, but it is the truth, they do not manifest the same interest in the matter now as they once did ; pero haps it is because there is no leader to take op the movement where it has been left off and carry it on to that success which it so richly de serves. It we are correctly informed there has been bat $30,000 raised as the fund for erecting a monument to the memory of tbe Confederacy. The South ought to give at least four or five million dollars to this purpose. This could be done very easily. Why cannot every citizen pay as much as the subscription price of his news paper and thns make it an easy as sessment, bat a certain one? The Banneb believes that right here in Athens there are hundreds of dollars that are ready to go to this uud if there were only a leader to start the work. Would it not be well to have a meeting and start this ball rolling at once ? Why not ? If the Democrats do not elect their candidate for president next year they will have no one to blame except them selves. The country wants honest money and tariff reform. That sound democracy. Go to the people on that issue and success is certain.— Charleston News and Courier. Correct; but the people want a little more of that “honest money” than they have been getting.—Athens Banner. Very well, then. Boll up jrour sleeves and go to werk.—rAmerican Union. And so we will. The first thing the Democrats will do is to elect Crisp Speaker. Five century plants, all iu bloom, is the interesting and very rare eight now to be Been in Los Angeles, in the gar den of the church of Our Lady of ATI Angels. They are said to be growing about a foot a day. CLEARING LAND. A Vermont farmer picks the apple seed from bis cider presses and sells them for use in the manufacture of prussic acid, He gets about one busbel of seed from 140 bushels of apples, Eli Terry founded the manufacture of clocks in America in 1794, and the centennial is to be celebrated in less than eighteen months in Terryville, Conn. Editor Hal Moore is authority in poetical matters. Bat that was a great joke on him saying John Howard Payne was the author of the “Last Rose of Summer.” Labor Saving Device* for Removing Stone* and Grabbing Oat Small Timber. The clearing of land is heavy work which is frequently left from year to year because of its hard character. To obviate the difficulty such work occa sions, a New York farmer, writing to the New England Homestead, says: “I have invented an attachment to my stone boat by which the team is com pelled to do the loading of heavy stumps, rocks, etc., and which facilitates the moving of large quantities of rnbbish, the leveling of knolls and filling of cradle holes. As will be seen in the cat, the right hand rail is removed from the com mon stone boat and the boat plank is attached to the boat by a heavy hinge. This extra plank is drawn by a chain at tached to the team the same as the main boat We will suppose a heavy rock has been pried oat of the earth. The chain of the wing is loosened and at tached farther back on the main chain, while the block at A is inserted to sep arate the wing from the boat Tbe boat is then driven beside the rock, and as the team proceeds it will frequently take its place on the boat without effort on the part of the driver, the wing tending to force it in place. If because of its shape this Is not readily done, a very little pry ing while the team is in motion will set it where it is desired. Meadow land which ta to be leveled most first be Mb. Jerry Young, of tbe Southern Alliance Farmer, is in the city Mb. Young says the Alliance is growing stronger in Georgia every day. The Demostbenian society will have a handsome hall. The old society will be kept alive for generations yet un born. A Cold wind was whizzing around the corners yesterday but theu the can didate was there and kept the people’s hands warm all day. The candidates are coming in on tbe home' stretch now. Bee bow they run! Give the Glee Club a big push here. It will encourage them and help them and thereby help the University. Make your engagements for the Glee Club soocert on December the fourth. SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM. Tbe day of sensational journalism has passed ; thanks to the advance ment of bnman civilization and so* cial refinement. The Banneb does not take any stock in each journalism and is more than pleased to note that it is not countenanced by the American peo» pie as a whole as it was but a few years ago. To air vicious crimes and wicked cn8toms before the public, and espe cially to do it in vulgar and-unclean language can but deprave rather than elevate tbe people among whom Lese crimes were committed. The first duty of the press is to work for the elevation, the culture, the refine ment of mankind. When it o’erleaps this sphere of usefulness and becomes a mere mir ror of human passion and human Many persons look upon Brazil as small affair and think a revolution there cannot be easily encompassed. It is true that the population is compara tively small, being only Jabout’ 12,000,- 000 all told, but in territory it is atx ut equal to the whole of Europe, or abcut 200,000 square miles larger than the United States. Brazil has few railroads and poor telegraph eervico, so that it sometimes take months to communicate with remote states or provinces. A big red-whUkered Irishman pre empted an island near Minneapolis, built a shanty, and defied anybody to remove him. He was known as tbe King of Boom Island, and he gained considerable notanety by his venture. He slept in the sbanty at night and hired a small boy to watch the claim daring tbe day, but in the course of time the loneliness became oppressive, and he has resigned tbe claim and de serted tbe shanty. The Russian newspapers are report ing a singular discovery in Central Asia. They say that In Russian Tur kestan, on tbe right bank of the Amon Daria, in some hills near tbe Bokharan town of Karki, a number of large caves have been explored, which were found to lead to an underground town built apparently before tbe obristian era. The water in the lakes and streams of western Connecticut is so low that many mills have stopped running and others have had to return to steam pow er. Cider mills, however, are in active operation, and if tbe threatened water famine comes tne farmers will be the gainers. Pay for your paper is a good way make Thanksgiving day enjoyable. to Thebe are4,000,000 of people in the United States who have red hair. The annual proauction of sawed lorn her in the United States would load a train of cars 25,000 miles long. Add ing the timber for railways, fencing, mining and export, the train would be 72,000 miles long. Adding to this fire wood, etc., it would be 288,000 miles long. William Obb, who died at his home in Troy, N. Y-, recently, claimed to have invented and used the first cylii - drical wall paper printing press, and to have been the first to. combine wood fiber with rags in the manufacture of printing paper. The Point Creek, Kan., poet, singing ot the- “tumble” that the calamity pol itician took in that state at the Inst elec tion, sings: Up was the stuck, And in the very upness Of hi* stuckitude He fell. Cold weather and oysters are with us again in profusion. The number of presidential electors on tbe new basis will be 444. Cent coins are a legal tender only in sums of 25 cents. Govebnob Hill knows by now that he “ain’tin it,” we reckon. Thebe will be more cotton this year than was supposed it seems. It was a remarkable election—Re markable. is here; now foi Thanksgiving Christmas! Thebe will be services at all the churches today. Go out! It is time to build that monument to Jsffbbsoh Danis. Sunshine and wind—no bad combi nation since the rains. Cleveland maybe nominated after alL And then again, he mout’nt. Hill has gone to Washington, him stay there. Let It never rains but it enough, Sunday night. poured, sure Politics are quiet all over the coun try. Go it, gentlemen of the woods. Be sure to go to church today. Taanes for a good Mayor! Thanks awfnliy! Now For Athena! Shake, Mr. Mayor. The government of Japan gets a large proportion of its revenue from the railroad and telegraph companies that it owns and operates. The question of public taxation is always under serious consideration by tbe statesmen and economists of Japan. Malor I. B. Donaldson, who was United States Marshall in Kansas dur ing the wild days of the pro-slavery •onflict, is still living in Sun Marcos, Texas, at tbe age of ninety-fire. It Will do Better. Covington Star. The Athens dispensary is saidito have cleared $1,500 the first month of its ex istence. A Crisp Breeze Is Blowing. Atlanta Constitution. And speaking of this contest the best reports from Washington and New York are to the effect that Judge Crisp will certainly be elected Oh, Let David B! Macon News. It will be up-Hill work to deliver Georgia’s electoral vote to David B. Sometimes it’s Easy to Map. Atlanta Constitution- The Athens Banner confidently says that Hon. William H. Fleming, of Au gusta, will be speaker of the next house. The Hanker is mapping out politics in a lively manner. A Ball For a Bawl. Savannah News. The Glee Club of the State University at Athene w ill give a concert at Atlanta Dec. 10. Subsequently they will attend AN ATTACHMENT TO A STONE BOAT, plowed, when the attachment will quick ly take np a load if the boat be weighted If there is very mnch of this scraper work to do, the edge of the wing should be shod with a atrip of steel, like an old cart tire or piece of saw blade. The out side rail of the wing also should be high ar than for atone. The hinge should not be too loose. It shonld keep the wing on the ground by the weight of the boat.’ In the second cut is shown a plan foi grabbing small timber, originally ex plained by a Pennsylvania farmer in The Country Gentleman. He says: “I use two pulley blocks in extricating stomps. I frequently nse three. The accompanying sketch "Sftt show the man ner of nsing pulleys., A third block could be used to pass the terminal lint tinder to get lower draft, for the team In the illustration onr object is to take the tree out ‘root and branch.’ By meant of a chain we attach the block B, con taining two pulleys, to the tree aa high aa practicable. The block A, containing one pffiley, is anchored to a stamp oi tree close to the ground. Anchorage should be rather farther from tbe tree than is shown in the sketch. One end of tberope is made fast to the iron loop of the single pulley block. The other end of the rope is first passed over one of the doable pulleys, then over the sin gle pulley, then over the other double pulley and lastly the end of the rope C is made fast to the doubletree to which the team is attached. The team started while a man back of the tree stands with an ax and strikes across Ut ile ridgea of earth which are thrown np by roots, each time severing a root, till over goes the tree. two fulley EXTRACTING BLOCKS IN STUMPS. • “A third block with single pnUey fMwetimee sailed a ‘snatch block”) may he attached independently to the anchor stomp er to seme other low down an eherage, and the rope C passed under Hie pulley before attaching the team. That will bring the draft low down and give the team mnch better chance to plant their fast firmly on the ground. By using a leng cable in place of a chain to connect the tree and block B, an anchor age may he made at a greater distance from the tree, as circumstances may in dieate. One and a half inch rope what I ase that I call a cable. The rapidity with which a man can take hitches and tie knots in the rope will largely determine the number of trees which may be uprooted in an hoar. We have averaged as many as ten trees an heur." Th« IcehoaM. Hoard’s Dairyman says: “In an ice house it makee a mighty sight of differ ence whether the heat that penetrates the side soon strikes an air chamber and has a chance to go into the air, expand it and be carried np and ont, or whether it goee on through a thin wall and strikes tbe sawdust and ice. Several such chances to .get rid of the penetrating warm air leaves the ice comparatively free from the influence of the sun's rays. One who has tried it advises keeping tbe seed potatoes <rt as low a tempera- tore as pessible without freezing them. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Cures Dyspepsia, In digestion & Debility* Mr. Bd Booth, a very clever yonng gentleman, who has been connected with the telephone service here for some time, will go to Richmond, Va a ball giyed in their honor by the Alum- f J? eD f>*8® in the telephone business in ni of Atlanta. that city, and will also study etenofra- | pby. We wish him much success. 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