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ATHENS AS SHE IS-
Despite the hard tim< a and the
terrible financial stringency that
has prtva led for the last year,' in
the face of a crisis that has carried
down before it many of the strong-
THE SKIES ARE CLEARING, ar
The cloud that hoveted oyer tbe
Democracy of Georgia a few months
since and which threatened to de
stroy the integrity of the party hai
broken and driven before the whirl
wind of Democratic logic and reason
that is now sweeping over the
land.
The political skies are clearing
and the outlook is brightening every
day. 1 herb is a glorious work now
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0 GRATIFYING RESULTS-
A few months since the great ques
tion oi reducing the cotton acreage
stood out very prominently in South
ern agriculture. The farmers were
(Sailed upon to either reduce the
acreage of cotton or continue to live
in debt.
We ore pleased to learn that the
farmers of Northeast Georgia have
taken the right side of this question,
and from everything we can learn,
their decision is bringing to them
very gratifying results.
The cotton rcreage in Northeast
Georgia has been reduced folly twen
ty per cent, if not more, and tbe
decrease in acreage in cotton has
been marked by a corresponding in.
crease in acreage devoted to cereals
Wheat, oats and corn have beei
more largely plan‘p'1 than has nsn
\' ally been the case, and the crops are
growing nicely. The wleit is almost
ready to harvest; the corn is stretch
ing upwards in luxuriance, and the
fall o: ts will yield splendid crops.
The farmer who has decreased his
acreage of cotton and who intends
——this year to live at home, will find
that he has taken a very wise step.
THE LYNCHING QUESTION.
The Chioago Inter-Ocean, that
alwAj s takes the prize on misrepre
senting and abasing the peopled
the South, has contributed the la
test piece as follows-r'
While" 1 iliere are some things which
■~ 3 * fi'Sco’ rage ihe hope of peace, there
»
ic many : hat bid the philanthropist
d i o / worker in the cause of hu-
- »-nfy u> be of good cheer. Conn
e dvr ng the rircuni8lau' , es > the col
ri*«d raiA have made wonderful pro-
gic s in education and in the accu
mulation of p.-'ieay. With this
• e e has sprung np a re-
r hi oi via ng the better class
r he chief trouble now
ci r it, from ihr ignorant whites, who
brpinto'ca the superiority of the
co ortd (.evf'c in acquirements. It
i> argtly from this class that the
n.i b« and the lynching come. The
i ntiu-ent against these, however, is
l r wing. The best newspapers in
C corgia and South Carolina are out-
i poken against these lynchings,which
i hey Bay disgrace the South, and the
Governorj>f each of those States has
spoken ont in plain terms. Both
the newspapers and the Governors
call for the enforcement of law.
We fling back the assertion that
the negro is superior to the white
man, be he cultured or ignorant. By
virtue of the fact that Anglo-Saxon
blood runs through his veins, he is
higher in station in this life, ai.d
will remain so to the end.
No people are more opposed to
lynch law than the people of the
South, and in no section does justice
through the Courts do more speedy
or more effective work. And it
City of Athens has bravely weath-
eied the storm and to-day is in an
exceedingly prosperous condition.
Very few failnres have, marked
the period of financial depression,
and her business houses to day are
ail on a solid financial basis,
is doing as mnch bnsines^as hei
capital will allow, and her merch.
ants are hopeful of the future.
Athens has managed to keep up
he lick in bnilding and in th«
midst of dull times there is no*
more building going on in the city
than ever before in its history. Eve
ry year marks an era in bnilding
progress in* Athens, and notes tht
erection of from one hundred and
fifty to* two hundred new houses
These of course are filled with ne'
itizens and thus the city grow*
steadily in population.
Many improvements may be noted
now. Tie Bt~e> ti are in better con
dition now than they were a yem
igo ; the sewerage and sanitation o
he city has been largely increased ;
he public school system has beei
perfected and new school bnilding
have been erected ; the fire depart
ment has been enlarged ; the new
water works system is now in pro*
cess of construction. Improvement
is the watchword and progress is the
motto of the city.
The City Council is on the alet
to do whatsoever will redound to the
best interests of the city, and the:
efforts are appreciated by the people
The advantages offered by Athene
for the investment of capital and foi
the location of homes and for the
education of children are beyond
those of any city in Georgia.
It should make Athenians fiel
proud of their city. She is moviDg
forward at a rapid rate .; her future
is a glorious ons ; and in the woik
of advancing he.' interests every cit
izen should deem it a privilege to
help.
It will be rec mpenss enough t«
the patriotic citizen twenty years
hence to look abroad upon the Ath
ens that is to be and realize that ir
her great advancement and pros
perity are evidjcces of his energj
and labor.
THE LIQUOR
would be well for the Editor of the
Inter-Ocean to bear in mind that in
his own section there is just as much,
if not a little more, of this particular
kind of lawlessness than is to be
found in the South.
It is true that the press of the
Sooth have advocated the suppres
sion of lynch law. and it is true at
the Bame time that Governor North-
\ on, of Georgia, is actually engaged
in the same work, bnt if the editor
of the Inter-Ocean could reason in
stead oi abase and exercise common
ise instead of foolishness,he would
able to see that in the best regu
lated communities,there will be corn-
certain unnamed crimes, tho
penalty for which is the swift sen
tence of Judge Ljnch.
It is human natun to be shocked
; such crimes ; to be carried be*
the bounds of reason ; to be in-
beyond endurance; to seize
nearest rope and forestall the
relict of the jury,
i f
true not only in the
South, but in Chicago and Illinois
and the North,and so long as human
is what it is, this will
THE CHURCH IN
' IR D3.
Dr. W. P. Bainsford, of SL Geor
ge’s Protestant Episcopal church,
New York, is tbe advocate of s
question .b e methoj of dealing with
the saloon evil. Other reformer*
have preached, lectured and soogh
legislation against the saloon, saj s
the Savannah News. Moral snasioi
and the policeman’s club have here
tofore, been t'.e chief weapons iD
anti-saloon wars. Bnt Dr. Bainsford
suggests a radical departure. Com
petition in trade in his remedy, with
the church as one of tbe parties t«
the competition. He proposes tha
the church shall provide substitutes
for saloons.
He has no': perfected the system,
but, in a gee era! way, he proposes
- hat church people shall open sa
loons where beer, light wines and
o. flee will be served temperately,
md where reading roomB and other
ittraotions will be provided. He
vonld have these places open on
Sundays daring the proper hoars,
‘nit they should be conducted in a
egal manner, and with a view o* get
ing rid of the evils which now sur-
ound the saloons. He says he will
advocate this idea rigat along
hopes to interestfljnsiness men in the
project.
If Dr. Bainsford cou’d carry out
his plan he would, no doubt, find a
number—any number—of “business
men” in New York quite eager to
put money into a barroom under
church patronage, and who, if the
doctor desired, would join his church
in order to obtain the privilege.
Bnt it is hardly worth while to
discuss the propo3iiion; -there are a
hundred of objections to the scheme
where there is one argument in favor
of it. It is doubtful if Dr. Bains-
ford’s congregation will approve it,
and certainly nobody else wilL
kept np until the election day is over
next November.”
The Third party was born in dis
content and in discontent it will die.
The masses of farmers that lifted
the anchor and drifted away from
Democratic moorings were simply
deceived as to the results to be .ac
complished by this Third party.
They left the party honestly, cherish
ing the opinions that were their own
and exercising the right of Ameri
can citizens to think for them
selves.
Now that the Democracy is spread
ing its doctrinejthroughout the State
and proclaiming it from the hostings
m every district in Georgia, they
are listening attentively; they are
studying the questions of tbe day
with honest and patriotic hearts and
minds, and just as honestly as they
left the party, jnst so honestly are
they returning to the house of their
fathers.
The work of Democracy should go
m with undim nished vigor. It
should everywhere be a work of wise
and patriotic conciliation. Argu
ment should be need and not abuse;
reason and not villification.
There is no reason why those who
have gone off after the Third party
shouldn’t return to the Democratic
old. Tne Democracy of Georgia
has declared for the demands of
the masses of the people, and here
it home all are working and talking
for the same thing
There is no way in which to se
cure relief to the people save through
the Demociatic party. Therefore,
farmer friends and brothers, cone
back and fight yonr battles with ns.
I jet ne present an unbroken phalanx
to the enemy, and we will win the
fight.
Do not be embarrassed in return"
iog to the Democracy. If two broth
el s in the flesh disagree and are es-
inged, it is their doty to come into
ull brotherly love and fellowship
rigain. Each one makes an advance
md in mutual concession they j sin
hands once more, and are as good
lienda as ever.
Now, the Democracy of Georgia
makes the first advance; it presents
be platform of principles adopted
at Atlanta, in which are embroidered
til these necessary measures of re •
lief which yon demand; it extends
the right hand of fellowship and asks
you to grasp it with the same gcod
spirit that prompts the offering.
Come back; heal the breach; re
store absolute harmony to the De
mocratic ranks: and let ns live uni-
*d as firmly as we did when our
-soiling precints were hedged in by
F deral bayonets and oar govern-
nent was in the hands of the stran
ger. * '
ueatli the daisies in the fall.
We’ll laugh a little now ourselves,
and next Nbvember we will langh a
little more.
The Bepublican party might as
well own np to the true state of af
fairs in this Republic. The people
are tired of tariff and pension rob
bery ; they are tired of unjust taxa
tion and reckless expenditure of the
money of the Government, and they j
have made up their minds not to
submit to it longer.
The sentence has been written that
.will consign the Bepublican party
to life-time imprisonment; and no
parden r.e >d be applied for.
We wou’d commend to our Ttrrd
party friends the assertion of -Gen.
Clarkson, that the R publican parly
would insist on JUs tl.c.ion on Force
bill ideas. If such a policy ou the pa’ t
cf the Bepublican ptrly does not call
f r an undivided Southern Democracy,
then we confess that we are sadly mis
taken in. our ideas tf government. A
direct men oe to the peace and happi
ness c f tbe South, and how can the far
mers of Georgia divide the Democracy
and aid in the consummation of such a
THE DEMOCRATIC PICNIC.
Prof. A. L. Barge, cf Nicholson,
dedicates the following poem _ to the
Democracy:
The Democratic party blows it* born,snd youvo
got to come as sure’s you're bom,
If you don’t, when y.u die, you U find a hot
place and meet the Third party face to face.
No matter whether Its day or night, you can
not hide yourself from tight,
So build your hopes on solid rocks, and put all
your votes In the Democratlc^box.
BURN IT INTO YOUR SOULS.
There are two things for which
the Republican party is responsible
that every true lover of his country
should ever keep before him.
They arethe tariff bobbeby and
THE PENSION INIQUITY.
Let every Georgian and every
Southerner study these questions
Let every Third party man read
-.hem. We are perfectly fair in this
matter. We do not ask onr Third
party friends to take the word of the
Athens Banner for it, nor even to
read what they term the ** partisan
press.”
Let thsm read the facts in the case
as they appear upon the government
records, and reading them with tiu-
mind of a statesman and the hear
of a patriot, make up their decision
if that isn’t a fair proposition, then
here is no each thing as fairncs?.
If they will do this there will be
no division in the ranks of the De-
mocracj of Georgia or the South ; i
'.hey study these two questions thor
•ughly there will not be five hundred
Third party votes polled in Georgi*
ext November.
We are willing to rest the entire
case upon this investigation, for we
know there has never existed in the
histoiy ot human government two
more diabolical infamies than these.
Enriching tbe rich, impoverishing
he poor ; strengthening the strong,
weakening the weak ; intrenching
interests of monopoly, destroying the
homes of the poor; adding to the
coffers of 'he swindling and filch
ing from the toiling bread-winners
i he hard-earned money of hones’
labor.
Oh, for some homing, scathing
words with which to write infamy
upon the party that sustains them!
Will a loyal. Southerner vote in
such a manner as to aid this party to
achieve victory ? Will Georgians
help to divide the solid wall which
protects them from the depredations
of this enemy ?
We think not. We have an innate
faith that Georgia, the greatest
State in onr illustrious section, will
stand squarely to the mark in ihi-
conteat.
Augusta’s new paper, the Daily Pm-
hibitionist, is out, and the first copy is
upon our table. Augu ta is going to
have a lively election, and the prohibi
tionists have pat on their war paint.
Tbe new paper can do a great deal cf
good, if its discussions ifre carritd on
in the spirit of reason and argument*
The cause is & noble one, let the paper
be as high in its ideas, and all will be
well.
Chobcs—
Then j tin the Democratic picnic,
It’s a gwine to take place to-day.
I’m on the committee aud Invites you all,
And I ain't got time to stay.
Old Poitdat man *m mighty shy, he’s tryin’ to
fix you so you’U die,
He’ll put you in a bad place an dar you’U
stay, and wait fer da cornin’ of de Judg
ment day.
He’ll break yonr back, and pull yonr nose, he’ll
burn yonr eyes and pinch your toes.
When tbe punishment comes you'll jell and
shout, and kick Uke the devil because you
can’t get out.
taxon old bachelors wherewith to meet
the expenses of the government.
Fifth, we arc of the opioion, # f t , p
having cirefuily, prayerfully, ard f or
years pondered over the matt* r, that
matrimony is by all odds the happier
and moat desirable etiits of mar, or
womanhood as well as the most bene
ficial to the nation; and we call up 0(1
all true lovers of their country to come
at once to the rescue and unite with
U3.
So you see the campaign is opened
in earnest and will be run from now
until tbe first day of January ’93 with
all the zest and desperation *h t f,, ur
years of accumulated wrongs can g lve
to a party.
The summer school to be run by tbe
professors of the University of Georgia
will be a splendid institution. It will
afford a great opportunity to teachers
who desire to become thoroughly profi
cient in any one course of study, and
will add to tLe immense amount of goed
work in the cause of education that bas
been done by theTJniveraity of Georgia
in past years.
CHORUb—
Now third party sinners take oar advice, come
back to our party you’ll find It nloa,
i This chance for glory don’t refnse,but step right
ba k in de democratic shoes.
Co<*e oat of yonr darkness into day, leave Poet
and pensions behind to stay.
Forever forsake your ways of sin, an’ your dem
ocratic brothers will take you in.
Chokus—
The Third party people around here
aw very anxious for Tom Watson to
come over and deliver some speeches,
but from [resent appearances the mem
her from the tenth will have his hand#
full until November, and then he will
not be in demand any longer, for both
he and his party will then be “in the
soup.”
Gideon’s Band, the new seoret order
in politics, doesn’t setm to he running
hingsin Georgia as It expect* d. It
. hirty men in each county are expectet
to y»le all the balance, this little ordei
might as disbanb before the honest
yeomanry of Georgia plant it beneath the
daises.
M&hone cl timed to be a tetter Demo
crat than Ben Hill What is he now!
Speer claimed to be a truer Democra*
than Candler. He now fills a Republi
can life-office And Bacctimonion:
Tom Watson will journey in the same
dirt ction.—Isbmaelite.
The Third party has initiated all tht
mosqui toes in this section into full fel
lowship, and they are sitting up late a
eights to convert Democrats, bnt in the
f 11 when the election comes off they
will a’l be gone into the great beyond,
mosquitos, Third party and all.
If anyone wants to see a sample of
Georgia agriculture he shonld pay
visit to Col. James M. Smith’s mam
moth farm in Oglethorge county. Tht
crops around there are in splendid con
dition.
Roswell P. Flower, of New York, is
now beiog prominently mentioned as a
probability in the line of Democratie
nomination. It js believed by his friend
hat he can unite the factions in Ne*
York tnd also carry the doubtful states
and the Solid South.
THEnegro in the South every day is
coming to a more complete realization
of the fact that his best friend is the
Southern white man, and that the best
interests, of those men are his best in-
tjrests.
The Athens dispensary plan is at
trncting ttention even in far off Cali
ftr iiain communities that are strag
gling with the solution cf the liquor
question.
-Editorial Comment
The Flood Problem.
Atlanta Constitution.
Within the past few weeks tbe floods
have damaged St. Louis and vicinity to
the extent of $11,000,000, Sioux City
$2,000,000, and the Mississippi valley
generally to the extent of forty or fifty
million dollars.
We shall not have to look far to find
the cause of these destructive floods.
The New O leans Democrat says:
Af'er the destructive frtshtts in
Pennsylvania in 1880, which, beside*
iverwhi lmirg Johnstown and the Con-
uemaugh valley, flooded the lands on
he Suequebanna, Juniata and Allegne-
nv rivers, destroyir g 5,000 lives and
$35,000,000 of property. Major C. W
Raymond was selected to investigate
he subj ct, particularly tie
■vest f rz of the Susquehanna.
He arrived at the a une conclusion as
he French engineers, that the cause cf
these flocd3 was to b; found in forest
emoval and that the remedy lay in
forest replacement; and he lays down
he following four laws as beyond dis
pute:
1 Tbe presence of a f rt st on a sur
face prevents the formation of a torrent
1. The clearing away of a forest
renders tbe soil a prey to torrentB.
3 The development of forests leads
o the extinction of terrem*.
4.. The felling of forests increa«es the
violence of torrei tsand may even cause
them to be renew* d.
The reforesting plan has been success
fully tried, and onr contemporary thus
summarizes tbe results:
France has passed through the same
experience that we have. The great
finds which occurred in souther
France in 1866 due to tbe deforestation
of the Frerch Alps, created a loss of
$50,000,000, and stimulated population
agitation. The result was the adoption
>f the vast scheme of reforesting -he
Alp#. Stable land was planted with
trees and sod, at.d unstable lard was
auppoited with corrective works. The
young forests and vegetation he d the
«now8 and spring rains in check, and
there wasso-m no sudden surface wash
to feed the creeks, no swollen creeks to
feed the largtr tiibutaries, and no mad
tributaries to feed the great torrei ts.
The results have been almost marvel
ous. The notorious torrent of Bourget
which commenced at an altitude of 9,-
uOO fee, had for nearly one-half its
leng h an extreme pitch of 54 to 100 and
creat-.d land slides innumerable, bas
now been subjugated for ten years by a
young forest of 988 acres, planted in 1872
The forrest cf Biou Bourdoux, starting
from the mountain at at an altitude of
1,500 f.'et, ritso* td'ng at a pitch « f 30
800, euttit g a ohand* 1. with * p« rp u-
(Hciilar depih of from 300 to 400 feet an
creati' gar its mouth a cone of debris
covering 600acres, has el-o been tame ’
and the tetri tori which is washed t’a
been made a garde * again.
Hare Is Our Chance.
Atlanta Journal.
Tb«re are n^w 39 Democrats and 47
Republicans in the senate; al*o two
Farmers’ Alliance men—reffer.rf Km-
eas, and Kyle, of South Dakota.
The terms of 8 Democrats will expire
on the 4th . of March next—Bate of
Tennessee, Blodgett, of New Jersey,
Mills, of Texas, Cockrell, of Migsouri’,
Faulkner, of We*t Virginia, Gray, of
Delaware, Pa#co, of Florida, and Tur-
pie, of Indiana.
It is hardly probable that the Re
publicans can eleot the succe#sor of
any one of these, except, possibly, Hr.
Turpie. -
Tbe terms of 24 Bepublican senators
expire at tne same time, all from
northern states. The Demo
crats have a good pros
pect of electing the successors of Davis,
of Minnesota, Felton, of California,
Hawley, of Conn cticut, Hiscock, of
New York, Paddock, of N.-bmka,
Sanders, of Montana, Sawyet, of Wis
consin, Stewart, of Nevada, and Sruth-
bridge, gf Michigan. A gain of 4 sea’s
would make a tie between the Demo
crats and Republicans, and there is do
good re a# on to doubt that 3 of the-e
gains will be secured in New York,
Michigan and WL-consin. Another
would be certain in Connecticnt if the
popular vote could elect a senator.
There is no likelihood of tbe Demo
cratic strength in the senate being re
duced by these elections, but a hopeftq
prospt ct that they will obtain a major
ity of the body.
.A Suppliant to Democracy.
Savannah Morning News.
Congressman Simpson, of Kansas, bas
Itnied, through friends in Topeka, the
r port sent out from Washington re
cently that he he ht.d decided not to be
a candidate for re-election tocoi grs*
this fall. He is not only seeking a re-
nomination, according to bis friends,
bnt within the last ten days bas written
letters to half a doz n prominent Demo-
rats in his district urging them to se
cure for him the indorsement of ' the
Democratic p'rty. Simpson admits that
unless he has the support Of the* Demo
crats his chances are slim. It is safe to
assume tb it he will not get the ibdor#e
ment he seeks.
” HE LAUGHS BEST WHO LAUGHS
LAST.”
A few months since the Republi
cans were cbnt-kling over apparent
livision in Dtmocratic ranks con
cerning the man to be nominated at
Chicago for the Presidency.
They always glory in division
among Democrats and they feasted
their souls upon what they thought
would disiupt the Democratic party.
No sound Democrat can identify him
self with the pause of prohibition which
wou!d violate the personal rights of
the citizeu, and ru'ely trample upon
his private and sacred rights as a free
born man.—Augusta Chronicle.
So our esteemed contemporary bas
fashioned another Democratic yard
stick, and would rule all prohibition-
iisls out of the patty because “no sound
Democrat can identify himself yfith the
CAU8e of prohibition.” We are just as
good a Democrat as the esteemed
Chronicle editor and we are also iq
favor of prohibition, and we would
gently inform him that the majority of
^he counties of Georgia are dry, as are
also a majority of h- r citizens prohibi
tionists. According to the above clip*
ping thfs would make G*eorgitf no
Democratic state, a proposition the
phronicle is not ready4o admit.
The warfare is still going on in fhr
columns < f the Bant s county G. ze'te, I
between Editor Hames, third partyit--, [
and Dr Lockhakt, dome orat.
The Third party after the el etion
this fall will be somewhat like the man
who strnck Billy Patterson—impossible
to find.
The agony will be oyer with the Re
publicans in a few days and they will
have named the man whose name will
be mud next November.
Fspnand £ramor< p3 in Northeast
Georgia this year are going to be abun
dant in their yield, and the heart of the
farmer will he made glad.
Educational circles are being stirred
now oyer the announcement of the
opening of the Normal school in Athens
in J[uly.
Where the Woodbine Twineth.
Oglethorpe Echo.
Where is the People’s party of OgL -
thorpe? The Ejho ancwe»s:*‘-Duad,
d. ad t Saturday’s di«cussion sounded
its funeral knell. The Third party -s|
no~mor*\ This is freely admitted by
many who hayebeen sympathizers wi'h
the movement. They admit that they
were laboring under a delusion which
was thoroughly exposed to them in
Saturday’s discussion. They frankly
say they were wrong and as frankly de
clare their reallegiance to the Demo
cratic party, being convinced that it is I
the party for the people.” And there '
are a lot more counties in Georgia “in j
the same boat” with OgUthoipe. As &
matter of fact there is no room in Geor
gia for a Third party. The Demcctatic
platform is broad enough and compre
hensive enough to satisfy every voter j
who is not a self-seeker.
NONE WILL ESCAPE.
The Americus Timcs-Recorder says
, - th® Georgia delegation to Chicago will
rhey watched with eager eye the vary as much in personnel as in politics.
Clarke County politics may begin to
| boil at any morneqt now.
progress of the Third party and de
lighted in the possibility of break
ing the solid phalanx of Southern
Democracy through its agency.
Things have changed aronnd somes
what in the last.month or two. The
quiet Republican camps have been
alarmed by ihe appearance of the
Plumed Knight in their midst, and
now the fight is being waged with
and bitterness between Blaine
and Harrison. There is a little dis.
cord prevalent over the line in the
Bepublican kingdom we believe.
Tbe smile that passed over the
visage of the Republican goddess
when the Third party started out
with such, a rush has died into a
frown upon perceiving that that
party iB rapidly losing ground in the
South and that the Southern Democ
racy is preparing to wrap it care-
Atnong tne heavy-*e’ghts are Farmer
Smith with his 256 pounds, Clifton with
275, Duncan with 250 and Fred Foster
and Col. McArthur with 300
Then the re are R’chat Jaon, duBignon,
Myrick, Gnerry, Candler, Brown and
Barrett who em’t aspire above 140 to
150, while the otherB maintain the aver
age. Clifton holds the champion belt
for good looKs, while Judgi Brown is
more noted for his brains than for bis
beauty, heir g a brother of your Uncle
Joseph.
The crip Outlook is very encouraging
in Northeast Georgia.
The Third party men are prone to
say that they can control the negro
question. Perbapi they will remember
days when they were unable to control
the negro question, days when Democ
racy was their only safe-guard agaicst
enslavement, days when under the flag
of that glorious party they fought br ek
the encroachments of the negro in poli
tics, days which _ an undivided Democ
racy now alone can prevent recurring.
With these facts In their possession, is
it not a hasty utterance to say that
„ _ _ they can take care of the negro quea-
fully ip its shroud and plant it be-, tion by themselves.
Richmond Will Give $5 OOO.
apiece. I AaantaCon8tlt . utlon '
Mr. Eb Williams came up from Au
gusta, his old home, yesterday and
brought a message from the Democracy
of the Tenth that Col. J. C. C. Black
will be their next congressman. The
enthusiasm is growing all over the dis
trict. Col. Black has a good fighting
chance in Warren. Pom tyatson no
longer has a clinch on McDuffie. Wil
kinson county is safe. The Democrats
are organizing clubs all over Columbia.
Men who have been recognized as
staunch third partyites are wrltingeards
saying they are tired of following Mell
Branch of raising “less cotton and
more hell.” Hancock is almost aa
solidly Democratic. Augusta promises
a three thousand majority for Col.
Black, and if the promise is kept there
is no doubt of his election.
Mr. Williams is to make a speech
with Col. Black after a little. Mr. Wil
liams has also been invited to deliver the |
annual commencement address at East-
Fourth Party Platform.
Albany News and Advertiser,
A great deal cf attention has been
given to the Third party and it is very
well known that there are very few
people who are aware of the fact that
there is a new party in Georgia now
known as the Fourth party. It evi
dently means business for its platform
has already been promulgated and put
before the people.
Despite the fact that a great deal has
been aaid against the organization of a
new party in Georgia, this Fourth
party is going to take well. Tbe main-
planks in its platform has a great deal
to-recommend to the voters.
The organizers ot the party demand
that all whocome into their ranks shall
stand flat-footed, without doubt or flick
ering. Here are the planks in the plat
form of this new party:
First, we desire to express our love
and approval of all “corners,” and we
denounce all those who are forever and
eternally denouncing them as injurious
to the country.
Second, *e are unalterably and ever
lastingly opposed to any Third party.
Third, we believe in free and unlimit-
j ed candy and soda water.
Fourth, we beliefs in a
There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all ether disease# out to
gether, an-l until ti>e Ksi few yea"- was
supposed to he incurable. For <• great
many years doctors pronounced it a To: al
iiis- ose, and prescribed local remedies, aid
by corstantly facing to cure with local
treatment, p.o ounetd it incurable
Science has proven catarrh to b* a consti
tutional distant, and therefore r< quirts
constitutional treatment. H-iltV- C 1 anb
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cht-ne> & C
Toledo; Ohio, is the only constit ti- nil
cure on’he market. It is tak n inter
nally in dose from 10 drops to a teaspoon-
ful It acts direct-y on tbe blo -d -.nd
mucous surfeces of <he ays ent The-
offer one hundred dollars tor any cam it
fails to enre. Send for cuculara and !e ti-
monials. Address.
F J. CHENEY & CO., T 1- do, 0
ESF'Sold by Drugg sis, 75c.
Th* Terrible Mine Disaster Is Keen
Worn© Than Fir»t Reported.
Prague. Jane 2.—Farther particulars
concerning the burning of the. silver
mine show that the fire began in the
Marine shaft. Speaking tnbre connect
the surface with the various galleries.
When the fire was discovered no re
sponse could be obtained from the tabes,
bat later, to the joy of the rescuers,
voices came from the gallery next to
the banting level.
Denbe smoke, which killed four men
Using the water hose, they falling to an
enormous depth among the flames and
smoke, soon prevented further attempts
to rescue the imprisoned miners. The
smoke most have by this time pene
trated all the galleries, and it is feared
that none of the entombed men will es-l
Cape. All the carpenters in Perzibarml
are at work preparing coffins for the
dead.
Tbe mines belonged to the state and
had been worked since 1830.. They aro
the deepest in the world, and yield fif
teen tons of pare silver annaally.
Mr. Chas. N. Hauer
Of Frederick, Md., suffered terribly tor or»r
ten years with abscesses and running sores oa
his left leg. He wasted away, grew weak and
thin, and was obliged to use acane and crutch
Every thing which could be thought of was don*
without good result, until lie began taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
effected a perfect cure. Mr. Hatter •*
the best of heal’d). Full particular* oi
