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18 IT 8PKAKKH CRISP?
The Constitution of yesterday contains
a special from Washington touching the
speakership question, that so nearly
a {Tecta Judge Crisp’s chances that it is
reproduced below.
While the matter is not necessarily
settled, the probabilities are very strong
that by some turn Mr. Mill will be out
of the race, and the Held virtually open
to Georgia's favorite son.
Reports received by prominent Demo
cratic politicians from Texas indicate
OUR INCONSISTENT PRESIDENT.
When President Harrison passed
through Memphis, the mayor who wel
comed him alluded to the determination
of the people to maintain Anglo-Saxon
supremacy in the South. The president
saw the point and dodged it. He stated
in his reply that he recognized the em-
barassrnents in particular cases, but in
sisted that the government could not ex-
VON MOLTKE DEAD.
'1 be second of the great German trio
has passed into history. Emperor Wil
liam I. V>*n Moltke .and Bismarck, three
names such as are seldom vouchsafed
to one age much less to one nation.
General Von Moltke died on Friday
night very suddenly of heart failure, at
OSBOIiN WILL HANG.
Charles Osborn, who shot and killed
I. M. Bradley, in the latter's store, in
Atlanta last year, will pay the penalty of
his rashness on the gallows. He has just
had a hearing before the supreme court
which sustained the verdict of the court
below, and it now only remains for
ist without “a profound respect for the i present generation, and his achievements
will of the majority expressed by the in the Austrian campaign of 18M, anil
the age of PI. His death removes the Judge Clarke to re-sentence the prisoner
most conspicuous military figure of the
voters.” This remark has occasioned
that a big deal is in progress, which if more criticism than anything the presi-
Americus, Ga., May 1, 1891.
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consummated, will completely change
the aspect of the speakership fight
The rumored deal contemplates the
resignation of Senator Reagan from the
| senate, to accept the presidency of the
on * [ new railroad commission created by the
| present legislature, and the appointment
Joe Mri.iiatton, the famous liar
insane in Chicago.
Tiik railroad depot at Terry was c
sumed by fire Tuesday night.
“M Quad,” of the Detroit Free Tress, \ of Roger Q.(Mills to succeed him in the
lias gone to the New York World at a
salary of $200 per week. It pays to be
funny.
Orr of 700,000 men employed by the
railways in the United States, it is esti
mated that 105,000 will be suspended
because of slack work for the next 90 to
100 days.
In his tour across the continent Tresi-
dent Harrison and his party did not
meet congenial political company until
they reached California, hut the gather
ings in that far away state were regular
love feasts.
Tjik grand jury at Waco, Texas, has
adjourned after a searching Investiga
tion of the alleged election frauds.
Thirty-four indictments were returned
against prominent citizens. A sensation
is the result.
Uncle Sam’s cash in the United
.States treasury will he counted to-mor
row, and turned over to the new treas
urer Nebeker. It will not take long to
accomplish the work in the present
depleted condition of the treasury.
It remains to be seen whether the
strikers in the coal regions of Tennsyl-
vania and other places will continue to
support the party which is responsible
for the present condition of affairs
throughout the country.
The French newspapers, in their ed
itorial notices of the death of Count
Von Moltke, recognize the military go-
nius which the great Held marshal pos
sessed, but reproach him for his advoca
cy of the annexation of Metz by Ger
many.
“Jack the Ripper” lias committed
one of his Whitechapel murders in New
York, and his victim is a woman. It is
safe to say that crimes of this character
cannot he practiced so extensively in
this country^as in England, and the per
petrator will soon be caught and brought
to justice.
Bill McKinley is preparing to say
farewell to Washington, and will leave
that city early next month. His pres
ence there has helped to put a heavy
burden upon the country, and the peo
ple of this section would willingly say
farewell to Billie and bis bill too if it
were possible.
The late King Kalakaua, of Hawaii,
was a member of the American Legion
of Honor.In 1881 a council of the Legion
was formed in Honolulu, and the King
became a beneficial member. It is be
lieved that this is the only case on rec
ord of a king being insured in an Ameri
can beneficiary organization.
DoroI.ashviLi,k has a sensation in the
disappearance of two of its prominent
citizens—a man and a woman—the
former a husband and the latter a
widow. They have been tracked to
Jacksonville, F’.a , and lost, but their
friends aic still on the trail, and hope
that matters will turn up a little better
than gossip would have it.
The application of the Georgia Saw
mill Association for a JO per cent reduc
tion of rates on lumber was to have been
heard some time ago, 3ut the case was
postponed ut.the request of the sawmill
men by the commission. It was set for
hearing yesterday, and will bo vigorous
ly fought by the railroads who claim that
the rate is unprofitable as it now is.
Tom Wathon need not be afraid of
the Democracy of Charles F. Crisp. Tom
is a clever, sharp, well meaning fellow,
but his constituents will have cause to
feel surprisingly proud of him if, during
his term in Congress, he should show
half the zeal, ability and faithfulness of
devotion to Democratic principles that
have characterized Charley Crisp. Tom
has made a big mistake.—Ishmaelitc.
The evidence on both sides in the
famous Martin case at Birmingham was
concluded Friday evening, and nothing
new or sensational has developed since
the statement of the prisoner. Yester
day was consumed in argument and able
speeches were made on both sides. The
sympathy of the people of Birmingham
seerm to be with flu; fair defendant, and
public sentiment cannot fail to effect
the jury.
r., —:—: — . i Somehohy put up a joke on the Daw-
Thk SI. Louis Republic, the great I .... , ,,, , ..
_ . son, Ga., military company by sending
D.'mocrU.e d’ltivof the west, some time • . , .. v
J ... j them a telegram over Governor Nor-
then’s signature, telling them to hold
senate.
Reagan is one of the picturesque char
acters of the upper house. He is known
about the capitol as the “Last relic of
the Confederacy.”
Of late years he lias lost his grip on
Texas politics, and, realizing that his re-
election to the senate is an impossibility,
it is said that he was only too glad to he
come a party to a deal by which he
could he let down easily into the presi
dency of the railroad commission of his
native state, a five-year oflice worth
*0,000 per annum. The work is to his
liking, as lie has always taken agreat in
terest in railroad affairs, being a mem
ber of the committee which framed and
reported the present interstate com
merce act. His explanation of his fail
ure to vote on the occasion when that
bill passed the senate is one of the pleas
ant memories of the forty-eighth con
gross. He explained that when the votfe
was taken he was “down stairs taking a
bath, a thing he had never done before
in his life.” Of course, he meant that
lie was never before absent on such an
important vote, but his friends insisted
m “guying” him about his admission
that he had never bathed except on that
occasion.
It is known that Mr. Mill's heart is set
on Reagan's seat, and this will be his
last term in the house, whether he ob
tains the senatorsliip or not. Indeed,he
has very recently stated as much in a
public interview. Moreover, ho has
made a pretty thorough canvas of the
Democratic members of the next house,
and is discouraged at the prospect of re
alizing his speakership ambitions. He
and his friends, therefore, have gotten
up this deal, which will let Reagan
down into a soft berth, put Mills into the
senate and save him the mortification of
being defeated in his speakership can
didacy.
With Mills out of the race, Judge
0'risp, of Georgia, will liavo a walk
over.
Some of the Texans scout the
idea of the rumored deal. They do not
pretend to have direct information on
the subject, but arguing from what they
know of the political situation In Texas,
they say It is highly improbable. The
weak point in the program, they say, is
the appointment of Roagan on the rail
road commission. That appointment,
they say, would have to be made by
Governor Hogg, who was a violent anti-
prohibitionist during the famous Texas
prohibition campaign, and Reagan was
equally as violent the other way. The
feeling between the two men became ex
tremely bitter, and Hogg's friends say
that he would not sign any commission
with Reagan's name upon it.
In 1880 the census showed the lumber,
shingles and other forest products of
the Southern States to be valued at
$40,077,000, while in 1800 the value for
the same products has swollen to $102,-
122,000, threo hundred per cent, in
crease. Southern pine lands during the
same period have increased from about
$1.25 to prices ranging from $5 to $10
per .acre. It is predicted that the in
crease will be greater in the next de
cade, and that no better investment can
be found than southern pine lands.
Capital is beginning to learn that all in-
vestments in this section are safe and
sure, ami investors are putting their
money in industries and real estate
here.
An interesting rumor came yosterday,
through a well informed gentleman, to
the effect that the Macon Construction
Company had raised the money to pay
its debts, and the Georgia Southern
would come out of the receiver's hands.
Supplementary to this report was the
statement that the Georgia Carolina and
Northern had renewed negotiations for
the building of the Macon and North
eastern —Constitution.
The methods prevalent in the late
lamented American congress seem to
have become so contagious across the
water that oven the venerable and
smooth tempered Gladstone lost his
temper and called an opponent, Mr. Rus
sel, a liar. Arc American polities des-,
tined to set the type for the world to ,
follow?
dent has uttered since he left Washing
ton. The reply shows a narrow and
perverted conception of our government.
If there is one thing which the constitu
tion of the United .States did not estab
lish, it was a government of mere ma
jorities.
In providing for the election of pres
ident, the electoral system was adopted
in order to overcome the rule of sheer
majority. In establishing the senate
of the United States the power
of the majority was overruled
and each state was given equal repre
sentation regardless of numbers. The
right to abridge and regulate suffrage
was left with each state, in order to in
sure a harmonious and homogeneous
constituency. This government is not
now’ and never has been built upon the
rule of majorities.
But if President Harrison accepts this
theory why does he not act upon it ?
When the national election came off
last November a Democratic congress of
143 members in majority was returned.
The Democratic majority was over 1,000,-
000. In the face of this decisive and
overwhelming verdict,why did President
Harrison continue to insist upon the pro
visions of the McKinley bill and the
force bill ? The president's annual mes
sage, just one month after the election,
urged the passage of these pernicious
measures in spite of the fact that they
had been repudiated by an overwhelm
ing majority of the people.
The truth is, the southern people have
preserved a republican form of govern
ment in spite of the presence and pre
ponderance of an ignorant class, unfitted
by training or tradition to exercise the
suffrage. They have maintained their
loca» governments pure, have kept their
own houses in order. This may not. bo
strictly according to President Harri
son's theory that masses shall prevail,
instead of virtue and intelligence, but it
lias been the salvation of home rule in
the south.
Thk friends of Mr. Cleveland say that
he has borne with great patienco the at
tacks made upon him by Editor Dana of
the New York Sun, but that patience
has ceased to be a virtue, and conse
quently tbo ex-president does not now
lose an opportunity to bit back with all
the vigor he possesses. It has been ob
served that in nearly all of his late
speeches he has something to say about
the traitors skulking in the Democratic
camp, and this has come to bo accepted
os a reference to the editor of the Sun
whose Democracy to say the least is de
cidedly erratic, and whose support of
Ben Butler In 1884 caused him to lose all
the influence he might have possessed
in the couuclls of the party. Mr. Cleve
land Is a very strong and positive man,
and it Is safe to say that if he gets fully
aroused he will spur Dana in a way that
will cause him to regret having attacked
the ex-president.
A word of praise from Editor Sid
Lewis of the Islunaelite means a great
deal, for he never hesitates to say just
what he thinks, be it favorable or other
wise. Hence Thf. Timeh-Rkcordkh ap
preciates the compliment paid it by the
Islunaelite, knowing so thoroughly the
fearlessness that has always character
ized the opinions of this brilliant jour
nalist. The editor of Thk Timks-Rk-
cokdkk has known Editor Lewis for
twenty-three years, as well as all his
kith and kin, and thinks candor and lovo
of truth is no less conspicuous tliau
their ability. Long may Editor Lewis
continue to his sledge hammer
blows to ail kiut> of crookedness, gam
mon and hypocrisy.
Thk American Tract Society held its
annual meeting Sunday in the First Con
gregational church, at Washington, 1).
C., ex-Justice William Strong, LL. I).,
president of the society, presided. It is
estimated that there are to-day in the
United States at least tw enty millions of
people who are not reached by the ex
isting organized denominational agen
cies.
the Franco-Prussian w ar of 1870-71 rank
him among the most famous warriors of
modern times.
While there were conditions that made
his career in 1871 more successful than
it might have been had Frarce's armies
been properly led, there is still no ques-
and set a day for the execution.
In handing down the decision the su
preme court expresses its views of the
case as follows:
The evidence discloses that an atrocious,
unprovoked and d liberate murder was
committed by the defendant. The ver Jiot
flndlug him guilty and Imposing upon him
the penalty of death, in »ur opinion, renders
exact and substantial Justice. After a
thorough, careful and anxious examination
„ ... . . . . , . of the entire record we are fully convinced
tion of hi. great genius us a strategist j thnl the judgment of the court below should
and a leader of armies. stund. It Is well Known that Juries are re*
He possessed all those elements of j luctant to take away by their verdicts the
character which go to constitute a great j 1 ve * ° r the,r fellow-creatures, and wh®n
... , ... good men, in the faithful and conscientious
military man, combining as lie did some j discharge of a painful duty, enforce and vln-
Oa the characteristics of Napoleon, Wel-|dic«te the law as thf Jury in this case un
lington, Grant, Lee and Jackson. j doub edlydid, we do not leel authorized tj
History will, without dispute, assign d, ** coura K e them and others who may try
to him a place in the very first rank of
modern military men, for so signal was
h casual in future bv setting aside a verdict
whl'-h Is manifestly right
It is the first time in a number of
the display of his ability in the great j years that a plain verdict of murder has
campaigns that even his enemies, if he i beeu rendered in Fulton county, as in
had any, could not fail to' recognize the
hand of a master in the planning and
execution of those movements that not
only changed the map of Europe, but
made of France and Austria second
class powers, while the German Empire,
consolidated by the military success for
which he w'as entitled to the chief cred
it, forged to the front as the peer of any
European power, with the possible ex
ception of Russia.
In the rauks of Germany's generals,
there Is none who can handle his sword;
and with his death the last of the great
leaders of modern warfare passes from
the stage.
Flohida is now getting a dose of the
two-thirds rule, and the leading papers
are calling vigorously for the legislature
to break the deadlock. The Times-
Union says:
For nearly two weeks the people of Flor
ida have been watching the political drama
now being enacted at Tallahassee, and the
spectacle has not been an edifying one.
They see a small minority of the Democratic
members of the legislature attempting to
dictate to a strong majority In the matter of
a nomination for United states senator—a
minority which has no idea that Its own can
didate can Lm elected, but which Is directing
all Its efforts toward prolonging the present
dead ock in the hope that It can ny this
means defeat the re-election of Wilkinson
Call. This line of ac ion does not suli the
Demrcratic masses of Floridu. and they are !
ju-tawakeningf. a full compr.hen»lo.i of L, OU g re i lcction . The convention ad-
I he auoii-a'ous position of this minority and ! , , , „ , . ,,
Ihe enormity of It. offense. Thl. .lorn, of dreaaed by Koraker <s a thoroughly rep.
most cases the juries have been lenient,
and attached the recommendation of
mercy. But this case should bo a les
son to all “pistol toters.” Osborn was
mad and no doubt prepared for a fuss
before lie left his own place of business.
He did not collect the amount in dis
pute, but he succeeded In blighting two
happy homes, and bringing his own
neck to the hangman's noose.
At thk Republican league convention
in session in Cincinnati, Ex-governor J. . , , , , „
B. Koraker made a decided sensation by bl * N ” he d f larcd * Cleveland ban.
UNRESTRICTED IMMIGRATION.
The Republicans of the northwest
have to draw it very mild to keep from
hurting the feelings of the sensitive
bummers, anarchists and murderers who
exercise the rights of American citizens
in that section of the Republic. The
Republican league club in session in
Cincinnati among other questions, dis
cussed unrestricted immigration, and the
following was a paragraph, worthy of
special note, in the resolutions intro
duced:
* Recent events have made more appar-
ent than ever the necessity for exercising
the sovereign right Inherent In our nation,
as in all others,to use discrimination in the
admission of forelgnersas residents In this
country. We, therefore, recommend such
changes In our laws as will effectually pro
hibit the Immigration of paupers and crim
inals, and of people so alien from us In their
ideas and haolts of thought that th**y can
not be esslmllaled in the body politic."
A foreign born delegate objected to
this language, because,as be said, while
the meaning of the words might be all
right, they would be distorted by the
enemy with telling effect on the foreign
born Republican vote of the northwest.
They bad bad experience and wanted no
more. The debate grew hot. The Malia
was denounced. One delegate asked
where the line could be drawn to define
who was not fit to assimilate with the
body politic. Another retorted that in
Now Orleans the line was drawn on the
lamp post. Finally it was m’ved to
strike out all after the word “criminals"
and this was done, and the resolutions
adopted.
John P Gbken, the colored lawyer
and orator, does not like the new term,
“Afro-American," for the people of his
race. “I like the word ‘negro,’ with a
exalting Secretary Blaine at the expense
of Mr. Harrison. The response was
spontaneous and overwhelming. Blaino
was ranked with Lincoln and Grant,
nnd given all the credit for whatever
success the Harrison administration lias
attained. It is no wonder the few friends
of Harrison in the convention were much
disgruntled, nor is it any wonder that
the friends of Koraker and Blaine at
tempted to smootho matters over by
trying to create the impression that the
orator did not intend to refer to Blaine
as the ruling spirit of the administration.
Tiie fact should not he lost sight of,
however, that the clamorous approval af
Koraker’s remarks by the convention is
even more significant than the remarks
themselves, and it is this fact that is
likely to give Mr. narrison food for so-
indlgiuttlon In nweeplngnverlheeotlre mate.
By another wee. It will have so thundered
11. appeal. In the ear.of the ob.tru tins ml
noilly that yielding to the popular will mu.t
t>e Inevitable. No body of men—no matter
how bitter and how determined It may b . In
Its contest lor Ihe con.umraatlon of it. own
plans—can long refuse to listen to the voice
ofthe people. If It delays this seceding to
the popular will, retribution I. lure to follow
with the most dl.astrouselfects.
Among the the other qualifications of
Secretary Foster he is something of a
wag. With a solemn faco he ropcats his
opinion expressed some weeks ago, that
lie did not think there would he a sur
plus in the treasury next year. Fc’l str
ing the squandering of a thousand mil
lion dollars by the late congress this
piece of wit may he denominated ghastly.
Tiik dearth of news among the news
papers is fully illustrated by the fact
that when Doctor Talmadg
side whiskers, leading metropolitan jour-
rials write it up in elaborate style. In
fact ii appears to be more of a sensation
than tiie revolution of a .'south American
It bas been a puzzling question for
sometime as to how the Allianco of the
west and south can sufficiently reconcile
their conflicting interests upon economi
cal political questions to enable the or
ganizations of the two sections to agree
upon a party platform. It looks impos
sible for them to do It. Now significant
mutterings are already heard, and the
alllancemen of the west are threatening
to go back to the Republican party if
southern allianccmen refuse to join them
in the new party movement, and this
they can never do, hecauso the princi
ples of the Democracy are nearer in
touch with their desires and their per
sonal benefit.—Montgomery Advertiser.
With the month of May the Sunny
South enters upon its eighteenth vol
ume, and, in order to give the anniver
sary appropriate celebration, a banquet,
complimentary to the press of Georgia,
will ho given at tiie homo of the Sunny
South, Atlanta, May 1st, at S o'clock
p. III. Tills banquet is tendered by the
editor and proprietor, Mr. John II.
Seals, and will doubtless he largely at
tended by the editors of the state.
Tiik only decent thing that has been
said by tho press, anent the late imagina
ry episode in the domestic circle of Mary
Anderson Navarro, is tho following from
Editor Branham:
Why not let Mrs. Navarro, formerly Mary
Anderson, alone? She has ceased to be a
public character, and she certainly does not
deserve to he made tue object of unpleasant
and untruthful gossip In the newspapers.
resentative body of Republicans, and the
enthusiastic attitude of these men to
wards Blaine allows that he is still the
real leader of tho party. Mr. Harrison
may hold down his secretary of state,
but lie cannot control Blaine's friends.
Si-eakkb Rkki> has had a number of
imitators, hut the speaker of the Con
necticut house stands at the head of tho
class, and could give even Mr. Reed a
few pointers on how to run things. He
counted the hats in the cloak room to
make a quorum. All that is now neces
sary to constitute a Connecticut Repub
lican house of representatives is a speak
er and an assorted lot of hats. Heads
or brains are not at all needed.—Jack-
sonville Times-Union.
An Italian editor in New York wants
Count Rudini to call a congress of the
European powers to join in a demand
that the United States shall remodel its
constitution so as to afford protection to
foreign subjects living in this country.
Tho thing that is needed, however, is
f ir the United Siates to protect itself
against these self-same foreign subjects.
Mit. K. Inukksoi.l Waiik, who now
occupies the editorial chair of the bright pression wa
and newsy Athens Evening Ledger, is | party.
liti
Tiik reconciliation between Major
McKinley and ex-Govemor Forakcr,
which was begun by tiie lattor's eulogy
on the former at the Cincinnati conven
tion last Tuesday, will probably bo com
pleted when the State Republican Con.
vention assembles hero on June lfitli
It is announced that tho ex-governor
will presont tho name of tho ex-congress-
man to the convention and ask that lie
he unanimously nominated for governor.
The deadly two-thirds rule lias got in
its work in Florida, and Sunator Call is
just a few votes bolow high water mark,
though lie got a clear majority in the
caucus. It is doubtful whether he can
over gain enough votes to he elected,
and the plum may go to a dark horse.
Ed. Hammond, formerly of Atlanta, and
a brother of Judge IV. R. Hammond, is
favorably mentioned for the position.
An Iniianai'olis travelling salesman
refused to pay 10 cents extra fare for not
having purchased a ticket, and was
ejected from the train. Ho has just won
a $2,000 damage suit against tho Lake
Erie and Western railroad, which ejected
him. This case was regarded as a test
of the rule adopted by railway compa
nies to compel people to buy tickets or
pay extra.
quet recently. Sensible man. Why
should a negro bo ashamed of his proper
designation, any more than a Chinee, a
Jap, a Hindoo or an Indian? A pure
blooded negro ought always to insist
upon being called a negro with a big X
not “colored,” for that means the va
rious shades between the block and
white, which miscegenation has dis
graced the puro blooded race with.
When negroes learn to be proud of
being negroes, and their natural color
they will make better citizens, than
when they are ashamed of being called
what they were created, negroes with a
big N.
Tiik New York Herald on last Sunday
put on special Sunday trains throughout
New England to deliver - the papers that
day, in place of letting tho papers wait
for Monday's mail. The Herald calls
this enterprise, but tho Atlanta Herald
and the Constitution ran enginos over
Georgia a dozen years ago every day in
the week to supplement the slow mail
scrvico by regular trains. As great as
the Herald iB it can get a few dots from
Georgia newspapers.
Tiik city authorities of Savannah are
after the Oglethorpe Club of that city,
and in an elaborate opinion the city at
torney says that the club is liable for the
regular license for running a bar. The
club did not commence operations until
the United States revenue was duly
paid, and bow they arc liable for the
one tax without the other is a mystery
to the attorney. They have been ope
rating for several ycare without the city
license, and now propose to tight it out
in tho courts.
United States Sknatob Gkobok
opened the political campaign in Missis
sippi Wednesday, in a threo hours’
speech at West 1‘oint. Ho announced
his opposition to tile sub-treasury
scheme, and said tiie only reliof farmers
would ever get from their present op.
through tiie Democratic
The great pow-wow of the Republican
league at Cincinnati had not been in ses
sion moro than an hour when the fact was
established that Secretary Blaine is to
day tho most popular man in the Repub
lican party, and that ho will ho olfered
tiie presidential nomination in 1HH2, and
hescochcd to accept It on tho ground
that his strong personality is required to
load the party to victory.
When a rotten orange struck Seott
Thornton the other night while playing
Richelieu i.. Atlanta, the audience
quoted Shakespeare on him, and said in
the language of Hamlet: “A hit, a pal-
p ble hit!” Scott, liowover, understood
this quotation as alluding to the render
ing of tho play by himself and not to the
presenco of oranges and other vegetables.
Ex-Joubnalist Sam Smai.i. in a re -
cent speech in Philadelphia counted the
press as among the first agencies against
the Sabbath. Sam is nothing if not a
crank. Because lie was an unmitigated
sinner while a journalist, he should not
condom the press generally. Very fe' r
newspaper men are as wicked as Sam
was when ho was one of the fraternity.
Since General Fremont’s death a doc
ument has boon found that entitles bit
heirs to an island in San Francisco bay
worth $10,000,000. Whllo tho old gener
al was fixing up documents covering
ten million dollar islands, why didn t he
include San Francisco, or even -' e
York?
Who will now liavo tho temerity 1
say that China is not a highly enlighten
cil country? The latest proof of th’
fact is her indignation at the app"' n
I one of the youngest managing cditois in M „ ... ,. , „ - ., ... . , I mctlt of that mouthsome crank, lb" -
utsolf his tll0 state. ’ His work, though, slum. I T ‘ C ’° f M ’* b “ e ’ W,th 'V. Blair, as United States nun.-’
iliat lie is euterpiising ami thoroughly
v;.: able.
1 accustomed energy is urging a “pine her court.
i voting contest to name
tho t .vo most popular clergymen in .St.
Louis, agreeing to send them on an
tended trip through Europe. The Globe-
Democrat, the Republican paper,institu
ted a similar scheme to name the two
most popular bar-keepers in that city,
promising to send them over the same
route. This circumstance shows the
moral fendi ncies of the two parlies in
that vltf.
themselves iu readiness to keep out of
the way of King Humbert’s licet of Ital
ian ironclads that would he menacing
the coast of Georgia in a feu days.
A fikim k newspaper war is now raging
between tiie Gainesville Register and the
republii
Tin: i
i the pi
pie oft h<
Mlt} '
I»r both part it
lent's spe
is that Ik
ition <
ament of tho
the whole of Fulton c
as part of that city,
square miles in her Jiti
siting-1 doe
e peo
ple the proj
1 r has been publicly announced that j
| Editor IV. 3f. Kersh, of the Fort Valley
f Atlanta wants
mty incorporated
,’hieago has 172
is, and Atlanta
•t left when it
of claiming the
arth.
Ex-Stna rojt Hi..wit say that the mis
take of his life lias been too much talk.
Isn't it rather strange that tho venerable
statesman lias just
question
palace” to illustrate the timber resources i
of the south at the Chicago exposition, j
Such a palace can he made a veritable
thing of beauty.
In view of the death »»f Barrett and
the retirement of Booth, it has been sug- j
sted that the recent brilliant
The Bird of Wisdom.
t in a hickory ( tr ‘‘‘J; inor ,
I h« -Goble
, i OV elv old '>9‘V,
Golden Medical Dis,«|$
gested that the recen t,nil,.,,,1 success | Wiirl , llUt(1 ,„ ngi liver and bWJ
of fceott lhornton in Richelieu m Atlau- j remedy, a powerful tonic and alterau ^
ta in a i ks him as the successor of these and a reliable vitalizerfor weak pe^' ‘
eminent tragedians.
Carnesvillc Aribune, and between the j Enterprise, w ill lie married on the 2i*th I perpetual mod
Tribunc-of- Rome and the Atlauta Jour-j ot May to Miss Lizzie .Snead, daughter j now made a discovery known to
nal. of Col. Claibourn Snead, of Augusta. J body else in the United States years ago? . ent cl
-ciTiioe Gam. is still leading in the Florida • contains no alcohol, ami is a
^ just senatorial contest, but he may he sacti- without a peer. There is no risk i»' ^
every- liced to break the deadlock in the pres- iug a guaranteed article. Your 11 '
panacea for scrofula, hip-pdu
ikcs, fe»er-sores. swellings ami ,u
alcohol, and is a
pres- j iug i
back if it don't benefit or cure.