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Americus Recorder.
OffirlatOnrati of Webtler Coaaty.
riulr. ji .\e 3T, mu.
A Pbila<lilp' , i* paper predicts
•that Mr. Blaine's next book will be
; ‘Wbat I Know About Bolts, Bol
ters ami being bolted." Tbe New
York Times think* it will not take
Mm twenty years to learn all there
is to know about that.
8eaator Blair has Introduced in
Ana senate a bill to appropriate
4500,000 to promote the proposed
-exposition of tbe agricultural and
acobsnlcal capabilities of the col
ored races of tbe world, to be held
In Chicago next year.
Tbe independent republicans
bare decided to bold aconfer-
■enco after tbe demoeratio con
vention to decide as to wbat shall be
their. course. If tbe democratic
momineee is favorable, they declare
Shat he shall have their entire sup
port- .
It Is stated as a fact that Secre
tary Lincoln will not support the
Blaine and Logan ticket. Be
likes Logan, but can’t endure
Blaine. This is rather an awkward
position for a young man who for
several months was mentioned
more than any other for the sec
ond place on tbe ticket with Blaine
Ex-Gov. St. John, of Kansas,
•who is perhaps the most Influential
•Republican in that State and the
■laeder of the Prohibition party
then, has announced that he will
not support Blaine. He said the
other day to a reporter of the 8t
Louis Republican: "I cannot vote
for any one who accepts a nomina
tion-upon such politloal clap-trap
t* the Republican Convention at
at Chicago adopted as a platform.
Tbe number of colored Catholic
mono In this oountry is slowly but
.gradually increasing. They are
known as the Oblste Sisters of
iProvidenoc. This organisation
'WM‘ Instituted for the amelioration
• of the condition of the colored race
i in this country, as well as for their
splrtual and temporal welfare. This
. community was founded in Balti
more by tbe Rev. Father Joubert,
a Bnlpician, on the 3 th day of June,
llflM, and was approved by Pope
•Gregory XIV on the 3d of October,
UK1.-
'The Chattanooga Times says that
the Independent Republicans of
the North, who arc organising a
bolt against Blaine, are all wbat it
calls “free traders," and that they
do not care anything about the
^personal charge* wade against
f Blaine. This coincides witb what
we have Item urging for eomc time
. —that the onlv way tor the Demo-
-crate to gain recruits from the Re-
^publican party was to take ground
squarely against its high protec
tive tariff |)olicy. Tbe Times, how
ever, don't want an nliianee with
theae bolters, on account of their
tariff view*. We do.
MISiONSTRl lilt.
Tire Republican last week pub- j
liahed a “playful editorial" by tbe |
Junior, pledging tbe support of the
paper to the Independents. It
seem* that its readers and • • x-
-change* failed to deteet the humor
in the article and took tiro old Re
publican to task lor its abandon
ment of the Democratic parly—
necessitating an explanatory edito-
vial in the last number of the Rc
•publican that it we* still clinging
•to the old party and the old ticket.
‘It is probable that the great Inde-
•pendent editorial of 1880 may have
•obscured the Imnior of tbe Inde
pendent editorial of IS84.
FATHERS IJMSRAEL.
Messrs. John H. Martin of tbe
Courier. J. T. Whitman oi
Dalton Citiren. Rev. J. W.
of the Wesleyan Methodist,
C. W. Hancock ol tbe Americus
Bspublicsn, and C. U. C. Willing-
ham of tbs Cartenviiie Free Press,
or* the oldest editors in Georgia,
-ali of them having been engaged in
tbe business for over thirty-live
years, and sll yet aHe to wield a
fseile pex Ali honor to these
father* ia journalistic Israel. They
were the pioneer* in the good work,
tbe brunt of battle, and are
nving of all honor.
EDITORIAL EXCURSION.
CoL £. P. Howell, chairman of
the committee of arrangementa,
announces in Sunday's Constitu
tion that tbe preliminary detail* In
arrangement of tbe excursion of
the Georgia Press Association have
been perfected, and on the 23d of
July U is proposed that the party
leave Atlanta. The association
will meet there in annual session
on that day. The East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad haa
kindly invited tbe party to make a
trip over their road and the invita
tion will be accepted. The route
ia from Atlanta to Roanoko, Va.,
thence over the Shenamlah rail
road to Western Maryland and to
Baltimore. The East Tennetsoe
officials have made every arrange
tnent for a pleasant trip to Balti
more, including stop# at Luray
Caves, tbs natural Bridge and other
places of interest. An effort will
be made to extern: tbe excursion
to a point farther North than Bal
timore.
"Yon pays your money and takes
your choice." We publish in this
issue two item* of new* regarding
tbe political a intentions of John
Kelly, the great Tammany chief.
In one it is staled that ho thinks
Gov. Cleveland will and should be
the Democratic presidential nomi
nee, while in the other it it stated
that he is opposed to Clovclsnd and
will not support him if nominated
It is unfortunate that the Demo
cratic party should be under obli
gations to such a man as Kelly,
and we have long thought that the
Democratic part,v should transfer
the light from the East to the West
and let John Kelly eeverely alone.
With the right kind of a platform
Democracy can win without New
York, and can thus free itself from
the dictation of the corrupt rings
of New York. John Kelly Is a
Democrat only in the name, and
carat very little which side wibb,
so long ns he can manipulate affairs
In'New York city.
It is singular how small an
amount will bankrupt a Wall stroot
millionaire). There 1b-Commodore
Garrison, said to lie wortli $20,000,-
000, who fails because $300,000 of
his notes are protested. Tbe
bubbles are burstiug rapidly and
men who arc called rich to-day are
beggara to-morrow. There ia an
other singular thing—and that ia
that men engaged in legitimate
busiuess are not so easily bank
rupted. The millionaire* of WaU
street scorn to bave been living
upon the interest of their debts.
The Griffin New* gives tbe At
lanta Constitution a couple of
pokes in the ribs, ns follows:
The reformed "crack brained
theorists" of the Constitution
should give to a suffering majority
of thoir party tile recipe by which
they were cured of their free trade
madness. Common humanity de-
mauds this.
The Georgia delegation should
carefully watch their colleague,
Evan l*.. Howell, lest in a moment
ofiibscnt-uiindedncs*,forgottiug the
present altitude of hi* paper, he
should try to slip a British tree
trade plank into the national Demo
cratic platform.
The people of Soul It west Georgia
would like to see some now rail
road* built, and believing that the
railroad commission stands in tlio
way of their building, they would
like to see the law creating that
commission modiffed. They can
only secure its modiffcallou by tlio
election oi legislators pledged to
such modification, and they should
sec that candidates express them
selves squarely upon tiie question.
It is reported from Ohio that
Congressmen Converse, the demo
cratic member from the thirteenth
district ot that state, lias decided
to abandon tbe pursuit of a renomi-
nalion.—Constitution.
If we are not mistaken Mr. Con
verse waa one of the Demoeratio
Congressmen who voted against
the Morrison bill. Ail of which
shows that it is extremely unwise
to make the tariffs political Isaac.
We don't want to be considered
obtrusive and meddlesome, bnt we
really would like to see some can
didate for legislative bonon come
oat and declare hit views upon the
milroed commission and other sub
ject* of public interest.
Referring to tbe Georgia delega
tion and tbe sentiment of the State
the 8avannab News aays: The
convention at Atlanta yesterday,
to choose delegates to tbe natioaal
convention at Chicago did its work
quickly and harmoniously. Tbe
delegitcs-at-large and the district
delegates were selected without
any regard to their views on tbe
tariff, and no attempt was made to
take tbe sense of tbe convention
on tbe question of tariff reform.
On this important question the dele
gatee are, doubtless divided, and
and when it comes up before the
nslional convention, as it most
likely will, they will be fonnd act
ing inbarmoniously. There is
nothing more certain than that tbe
sentiment of thia State is strongly
in favor of an Immediate and radi
cal reform in tbe tariff, and that
sentiment.ought to find emphatic
expression at Chicago if there
should be an attempt to commit
tbe party to any other tariff doc
trine than that declared in tbe
platforms of 18TG and 1830. Tbe
delegates witb one exception sre
reported to be in favor of Cleve
land and McDonald for president
and vice-president. This appears
to be the popular ticket at present.
If New York is united in pre
senting Cleveland's name it is
probable that he will be named for
president because New York is
considered necessary to Democratic
suceest, and there is, therefore, a
very general disposition to sllow
that State to name the presidential
candidate.
A few papers and politicians
continue to harp on tbe exploded
theme of nominating Mr. Tilden,
In apito of bit irrevocable declina
tion and his valedictory letter,
whioh will take high rank among
the best compositions of modern
political literature
These irresolute papers and pol
iticians are fortunately few in num
ber and of little Influence, and tbe
real objective point of the Demo
cratic party will not he obscured
by tboir oblique vision. We must
take things as they sre, not as
they might or should be. Let the
party take the best advice possible
—the advico of Mr. Tilden, him
self, in III* admirable letter.
While the Recordf.b prefers
Cleveland, believing him to be the
strongest and most available man
tbe Democrats can nominate for
president, still we have great ad
miration for Thurman, Bayard,
McDonald, Palmer, Carlisle, Hoad-
ly, Morrison and others who Uave
been named tor tbe presidency.
These are all good men and sound
Democrats, any one of whom would
make a belter president than tbe
country lias had I'or thirty years.
Should tiie Demouratic national
convention in its wisdom see lit to
nominateoneol these the Rfoobdku
will alicerfully acquiesce and labor
earnestly to elect him.
Asotbrr Presidential Tirkel lu the
Field.
Ciiicaoo. June 20.—At the after
noon session or the American pro
hibition convention, a platform was
adopted which declares that the
God of the Christian scriptures is
the author of civil government:
favors the use of Bibles in schools;
asserts that God requires and man
needs tiie Sabbath; demands strict
prohibition laws; the withdrawal
ot all charters to secret lodges, and
that their oaths lie prohibited by
law; opposes prison ami imported
contract labor; favors a revision
of tbe patent laws; pledges the
party to vote for women suffrage;
asserts that the civil equality
granted by the 13th, Mth and l.'itii
amendments should be extended
to tiie Indians and Chinamen; that
international differences should lie
settled by arbitration; that land
and other monopolies should be
discouraged; that the government
should lurnWIt a sound currency;
that the tariff should be reduc’d
as fust as the necessary revenue and
vested business interests will allow;
that polygamy should at once be
suppressed, and that tbe republican
party is censurable fortbe long neg
lect of its duly in respect to this
evil, and demands a direct vote for
president nnd vice president of tbe
United State*. The preamble adopt
ed by tbe National Christian asso
ciation, in 1875, was also adopted.
The convention then proceeded to a
nomination for president ot the
United 8tata*. S. C. Pomeroy, of
Kansas, Governor St. John, of the
same state, and Rev. J. Blanchard,
ot Illinois, were, named. Or the
77 vote*cast, Pomeroy received 74 v
and the nomination waa made
unanimous. For vice president, J.
A. Conant, of Connecticut, was j
nominated by acclamation. '
SEW GEORGIA RAILROAD.
TBX SAVAMMAU, FLOS!DA AMU WEST
ERN WILL MOT AID IM TIIE COS-
STSUCriOM OF TIIE DAWSON
AMD ALMAMT EoAD.
Savannah Xm.
A Morning News reporter called
yesterday at the general office ol
the Savannah, Florida and West
ern Railway to learn what under
standing, if any, bad been arrived
at between tbe company and tbe
projectors of tbe Albany and Daw
son Railroad. Supt. Fleming re
marked that Col. Haines, the Gen
eral Manager, had gone to New
York, and that he was not prepared
to give any information on tbe sub
ject; “in fact," he said, "I know
nothing about it.”
The reporter stated that the Co
lumbus papers bsd announced that
representatives of the proposed
road had gone to Savannah to bave
a consultation with the officials of
the'Savannah, Florida and West
ern, and asked whether they had
arrived.
"II they have I have not seen or
beard of them, here.”
"What in your opinion would be
tbe result of the consultation if tbe
gentlemen should come?”
“That would depend npon the
nature of the propositions whioh
they might make. In my opinion,
as long aa there is a Railroad Com
mission tbs Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway Company will not
deem if expedient to take a hand in
building anv new railway lines in
Georgia. The company has the
right to invest its oapttal where it
is most advantageous to its inter
est. You know It has been con
structing railways in Florida, but
it might have built some in Geor
gia. Hence I do not think it prob*
ble that tbe management will do
any work of that kind in this State,
at least for the present.”
Cleveland Ind*Kellj.
Information came here to-day,
saya a Washington special to the
Baltimore Sun, from New York,
which ia consideted of a reliable
character by some of the best post
ed Democrats, and whioh put* an
entirely different phase on the po
lities! situation. According to the
statement whieb is made, the friends
of Cleveland did not dare to move
for an indorsement of hlseandldaoy
at Saratoga because of the cer
tainty of absolute and Ignominious
defeat. Kelly, it is represented, is
not placated in the least by tbe
tremendous concessions tnado to
him, but is ns determined as ever
to knife Cleveland, and will resist
to the last any attempt to present
him as the choice of New York.
The same autbonly states that
outside of Kelly it bas been fonnd
impossible to reconcile certain
influential Demoeratio elements
which are hostile to Cleveland; that
the victory supposed to bave lieen
won by Cleveland was mere shadow
and not substance.
Should future events conQrm this
view, it adds muc t to the embar
rassment and complications of tbe
Dcinocrntic situation. With Til-
den and Cleveland eliminated,
there is uo man in New York to
whom the Democrats can look.
The candidacy of Flower would be
so absurd and ridiculous a* to in
vite overwhelming defeat. The
impression is strong tlmt John
Kelly doe* not want any New
York man, but will throw all his
influence in favor ot soma one or
the other of the Western candi
dates. He lias ever so much more
chance to pursue the even tenor
of bis way it an outside candidate
is selected, and so he van rule in
New York city, it is believed to be
a matter of complete indifference
to hint who is President. No mat
ter who is nominated by the Dem
ocrats, Kelly will play into the
bands of lbs Republican* if lie can
make a better bargain witlt them.
Prominent Democratic Senators
to-day said the situation may as
sume'such a shape us to impel tbe
convention to lay the nomination
at the feci of Mr. Tilden. Influen
tial Democrats from various parts
of the country, who wore here in
consultation, agreed witlt this view
and expressed tbe opinion that cir
cumstances might occur under
which Mr. Tilden would yield to
the pressure nnd feel constrained to
accept tbe nomination.
Tammany Selld for the .Nominee,
New Yobk, June 21 John Kel
ly bas said to a representative of
the Morning Journal: “I am glad
everything here bas been so peace
ful and harmonious. Mr. Flower is
a very capable man, and I esteem
him very highly. I expected that
be would exhibit greater' strength
in the convention and am amazed
at the alight ehoving made by hie
friends. Governor Cleveland, I
bave no doubt, will have the vote
of tbe seventy.two delegatee from
New York, end be shouh), ofeonrse,
be nominated at Chicago and elec-,
ted next November. No matter who
may be the cboiee vt Chicago Tam-
main list! will be found solid for
him at the (tolls."
A Pen Picture of the aril Service Be
fore the Wur.
WuMsfto* Uttar.
“In the better days of tbe Re
public,” said an old official, "we
civil servants did not have to work
so bard aa we do now; In foot oe-
tore the war it waa considered
rather unofficial to do mneb work
during office hours. Tbe idea of a
per diem official of any sort work
ing at hard as some men who are
paid by tbe day work now would
nave been considered perfectly ab
surd. I remember my friend
Street, a very elegant Virginia gen
tleman—be always played witb red
checks—waa once given tome Fed
eral employment at per diem. He
had a sallow faced schoolmaster
from Maine, who bod been living
on a salary of $150 a year, as an
assistant. Street went off one niflht
soon alter hia arrival on a regular
old-fashioned ‘time.’ He visited
all tbe bars and ‘banks’ in town,
and patronized them all. He drop
ped ail the money he had left into
tbe tiger’s month. Tbe morning
after be sobered up he walked into
his office. The Yankee assistant
came forward, smiling and bowing.
‘I’ve finished nearly all our work,
sir,’ be began, showing Street a
great mass of manuscript; ‘I’ve
been working nine hours a day, air;
I ean work a Tittle faster and longer,
sir, if yon desire.’ Street waa
apeeebleaa witb rage. ‘Tear that
stuff up,' be aald to the poor olerk,
'and throw it in the Are, and don’t
let me hear again of your writing
more than a page and a half a day.
Why you’re taking the bread out
or the months of my wife and chil
dren.' The clerk soon learned
wisdom. They stayed in office for
years. After awhilo the clerk, who
had never seen so much money in
his life, came to Street to say:
don’t know what to do witb
money, eir.’ ‘I know a bank,* said
8trcct, ‘where a wild time grows;*
and that night be showed that 1<«-
nighted Yankee all the faro games
in Washington. Tbe Yankee earns
on so rapidly that he srassoon bor
rowing money at 2 per cent, per
month.
Why Railroad Enterprises Languish.
Sensational Features and StarHii£ Prices
-HAVE MADE-
Why hat snob a State aa our
glorious Tennessee only induced
tbe bnilding of forty miles of rail
road track—and that, too, from
four different companies aa tidings
and extensions—during the entire
year of 1888?
Not one single new railway en
terprise of thirty-two incorpora
tions whioh bave scoured charters
for bnilding railroads in Tennessee
has laid a mile of track.
Why do the incorporators
of tiie new railroad enterprises
hesitate to begin work?
We let Mr. Huntingdon, one of
the most largest and most inter
ested capitalist* who is contemp
lating railroad building in Tennes-
see, answer. He says:
Perhaps 1 should not tell you
that we would not insist npon
this subscription in Nashville, and
along the line, were it not for the
fact that both the State of Ken
tucky and Tennessee have very
ntneb discouraged the investment
of capital in railroads in those
States by adopting laws virtually
putting railroad property at the
mercy of irresponsible commissions,
ami which have the power, and are
continually tempted so to exer
cise it, as to deprive investors of
ail fair remuneration for the uso
or their money. Railroad money
is nt present very difficult to ob
tain, especially fertile States where
litis hostility to corporations pre
vails, and 1 expect to see a g.'cat
dcclir.e in railroad building on this
account.
Guilty Talk.
IfflriboiiUn.
The Atlanta Journal says: “No
Walerson crankisnt, no Morrison
patch work must r.c allowed to do
moralize and hamper the democra
cy this summer.” To which wc
add: No Randal protective tariff
travesty, no white washed whig
foolishness, no independent advo
cate, will be permitted to blaze the
rotd tlio party will travel. Pure
reform tariff democrats will hue to
the lino at Chicago; let the chips
fall where they will, and Randal
and his tariff faction must follow
that lino or walk with their solid
republican congressional allies.
The hauging of a California
murderer was useful to the science
of surgery. Ilis arm had been
fractured a week before in an effort
to escape. After death it was
found that the initial process of
healing had begun, and that it was
effected by the organization of the
blood which was poured out around
tbe break at the time of injury.
This held tbe bones in place, and
proves wbat was not known before,
that prompt adjustment in a frac
ture is essential.
There are about a thousand
convicts in the Kentucky State
penitentiary; their labor-is leased
at forty cent* a day to a firm that
haa permission to employ a certain
portion of them In coattracting
railr ads. About 500 of them are
an employed at that low rate of
wages.
Its like has Seldom been Seen ii
the City of Ameritns!
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from the tuiaar to tbe millionaire.
Theae good* ware mad* to aall, ware
bought to tail and hava got to aaff.
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ia ttniqn* and elegant, embracing all the
latest and ebaateat designs:
Hamburg Edgeing and Inaartion and
All Over* to match, in andlsaa variety and
price*, from 3|o lo 14.00 par yard.
8paniah, Oriental, Escnrial, Pompadour
and Irish Point Lace, at matohlesa price*.
For Yoke* *nd Slcovcs wa have Black
Spaniab All Os-era, All Ovar Laea good*.
Tucking and Puffing.
WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT
contains everything that ia naat and taaty
aver manufactured in that line.
India and Iriah Linen. Lawn*,
Embroidered Urea* Pattern*,
Nainsook, Swiss Mna|in,
French Mull. German Lace,
Check*. Italian Laoe Ptqne.
Iiuasiau Cambric, etc., etc.
Wo ask an examination of onr Urge
assortment of Nottingham Lace Cnrtaias
in pul re—IIJ yard* long.
A bountiful and seleot line of Cliarn-
brevs. Seersucker*, Figured Lawn, and
Mull*. Including onr 40 inch Victoria
Lawn at 15e.
Theae goods are selling very rapidly
ami although wo are oonstantly ordering
more, we fear we cannot at all times aup-
ply the demand.
Turkey Red, Bl. ached and Cream Dam
ask—Choice and Cheap.
Largs line of Bedspreads and Quilts.
Onr Extra Largs white 75c Couateipaua
‘•Beau tha World."
Towels, Crashes, Napkins and Doylies
in auffleiant quantity to keep band*
clean for n generation.
Linen Lin Bobea and Table Cover* to
suit all.
HOSIERY!
Long and Short, Fine and Common,
White, Blaek, Ringed, Streaked
and Speckled.
No one has ever examined these goods
and failed to get soiled in Quality and
Price. Come to C na—we wilt treat you
right.
J0H R. SHAW,
Clothier, Hatter,
Shirter, Shoer,
-asd-
Dry Goods Dealer,
FORSYTH STREET,
: Georgia.
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