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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECOIi DER: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1891.
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Americus, Ga., Sept. 4, 1891.
THE H ITU*
GEORGIA'S SHAME.
From all over the state, from all th
S.mtlicrn States, and from the North | The immense crops with which the
comes the news of the condemnation of j whole country has been blessed and the
all right thinking peoplo of tlio action of j lieavy foreign demand fur grain must iu-
our Legislature in refusing to receive the ' o'itablv have the etlect of greatly stimu-
Confederate Veterans’ Home as a free i lati "S »" of our business interests and
jrjft. I creating a period of much prosperity.
To-day Georgia bows her head iu | IJut Jt should be remembered that the
The St. Louis Globe-Deiuocrat (Itep.)
says: “Mr. Harrison’s position with re
gard to the presidential nomination
seems to be that in case he cannot get it
he will not want it.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal pre
dicts that Mr. Reed’s tactics will not be
followed by the Democratic speaker of
the next House, and gives several highly
moral reasons for its opinion.
shame, for the final death blow has
been given the bill, and the same 04
misguided men, whom their constitu
ents made the great mistake of not leav
ing at home in the obscurity to which
they will hereafter be consigned, stuck
to their original error and refused to re-
couslder their vote.
This was to be expected of a set of
men whose ignorance is equalled only by
their prejudice.
Whatever might have been the general
Idea heretofore prevailing of the caliber
of the present Legislature, nobody could
have conceived them small aud mean
enough to vote down such a bill as the
amended substitute, which simply pro
vided that the home be accepted by the
The Boston Advertiser i
what Mr. Blaine will do
turns to Washington iu
Several members of the tribe of Benja
min are reflecting upon this very point.
They have a way of doing business in
New York whicM would make a coun
tryman's bead swim. The other day
Jay Gould handed a man a $2,000,000
check in payment for a railroad, aud it
was promptly paid at the bank.
The fastest time on record between
San Francisco and New York was made
recently by Herman Oelrlchs, in his pri
vate car, Grassmere, which crossed the
continent in four days, eighteen hours
and four minutes.
The Democrats of the second Tennes
see district have nominated J. C. J
Williams against John Houk, the Re
publican candidate. Mr. Houk will
have a good following, because he is the
sou of his father; but the Democrats
have a fighting chance, and will work it
for all it is worth.
Eight new cases of typhoid fever,
said to be due to the use of impure well
water, have been reported in Newark
since Saturday. The polluted condition
of the Passaic river has driven most of
the people of Jersey City and Newark to
use well or spring water.
Rki*oi;ts from Chili state that Balma-
ceda and the government forces have
been overthrown and the congressional
party are in possession of the capital
and aro decidedly on top. The effect
will bo a reorganization of the govern
ment, with a now president aud one
nearer to the people than the Balraaceda
crowd.
A physician in Australia declares
that ho has found a remedy for snake
bites that never fails, and that is a hypo
dermic injection of the nitrate of strych
nine. This is a very good cure, no
doubt, but it will never take the place of
the old time remedy of ono quart of rye
administered in quick doses straight out
of the bottle.
Tiie cotton planters of the lower Mis
sissippi valley have bocu holding meet
ings and pledging themselves not to pay
more than 40 or 50 cents a hundred
pounds for picking cottou. There is
expected to bo a vigorous opposition ou
the part of the pickers, and the planters
may be forced to pay the wages they de
mand or see their cotton go to waste.
discussing state uucon(1 »tioually, carrying with it
hen lie re- \ 1,0 ol)li « atiou to appropriate one dollar
.. . , for its maintenance.
.September. „ , , ,
.\ o reason short of “pure cussedness’
cau be assigned lor the conduct of these
men, whose names will go down to his
tory coupled with one of the most dis
graceful actions that ever characterized
any body of so-called representative
men.
It is attempted to palliate the offense
by the plea that these men were “con
scientious” and simply did their duty as
they understood it. Admitting this, the
fact remains that no set of men are fit to
go to the Legislature whoso consciences
are not enlightened by reason and com*
raou sense.
There were a few men in the body
whose impotent rage against the voice
of the people so far overcame their dis
cretion that they let the real cat out of
the bag; and that was, that the opposi
tion to this measure was founded in the
fact that they suspected it to be a scheme
of Atlanta to unload some sort of Trojan
horse on the State. In plain English, it
was Georgia versus Atlanta, a fact made
patent by Baldwin of Randolph, and
another member, whose name was not
given, who shook his fist at the gallery
and shouted, “Atlanta isn’t on top yet!”
But the most monumental ass devel
oped in the whole affair was Atkinson of
Coweta, whose conduct the Epglish lan
guage is too poor to properly character
ize without descending to a level where,
in any contest of epithets, nature and
education would give the honorable
member the advantage over anybody
but a Billingsgate fishwoman.
Perhaps Dr. Hawthorne’s reply to him
is the best that could be devised; and
what is therein said of him, the ring
leader, is worthy of reproduction:
The citizens of Atlanta who met at the nr-
tesian well, and in a peaceable aud dlgulfled
manner gave expression to their views upon
a question ol public policy were not “a howl-
Ingmob.” There was not a man of the (3,000
gathered there who Is not the peer of Mr.
Atkinson In everything except bitterness
and profanity. No man has ever outlived a
speech so offensive to every lover of truth
and virtue, and Mr. Atkinson will not be an
exception to the rule. His mistake Is a dis
aster from which be can never recover. The
verdict of the disgusted public will be that
his rashness and Irreverence disqualify him
for any otilce In which ho would be expected
to represent the Interests an 1 feelings of a
Ch l-tl.tu people. .1. B. Hawthoknk.
crops must first be gathered aud then
sold before the farmers can reap the
benefit, and then from the farmers the
money will return to active circulation,
and business will prosper. The im
provement will be gradual, and its full
effect will probably not be felt for some
months. In the meantime the South,
notwithstanding the dullness usually seen
just before cotton begins to move freely,
is pressing forward in the solid develop
ment of its industrial Interests. Proba
bly the most important enterprise report
ed for many weeks is the announce
ment that leading English capital
ists, represented in this country by
the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage and Trust
Company, have purchased a controlling
interest in Port Royal, S. 0., thus unit
ing in the development of that port
English and Western influences aud the
Richmond Terminal Company, giving
assurance that the South is to have
another great deep-water port. The
tendency of the foreign trade of the
country is to seek outlets through south
ern ports, and this will prove of great
value to the whole South, as it means
the building up of a number of great
commercial cities along the coast from
Newport News and Norfolk to Texas.
Another important enterprise reported
is the sale of 200,000 acres of coal and
timber lands in West Virginia to Vir
ginia and Northern capitalists, the re
ported price being $1,000,000, and the
sale of smaller tracts aggregating 7,000
acres for $175,000, for immediate devel
opment. West Virginia also reports a
$100,000 paper mill oompany and a
$75,000 wagon manufacturing com
pany; a $1,000,000 coal and iron
company, reported a few weeks
ago as organized in Georgia, will build a
seventeen-mile railroad, open coal mines
and build 200 coke ovens; at Middles-
borough, Ky., $1,500,000 of debenture
bonds have been issued for carrying out
the developments in progress there; a
$600,000 ore mining and manufacturing
company and a $300,000 lumbering and
mining company have been incorporated
at Cedartown, Ga.; in North Carolina a
$200,000 tobacco manufacturing company
has been organized; in Kentucky a
$500,000 oil aud gas company; in Vir
ginia a $250,000 machine manufacturing
company; in Mississippi a $20,000 buggy
making company, etc. After the crops
have been gathered and harvested, and
money becomes more abundant for in
vestment, as it then will, we shall see a
wider and healthier activity and greater
prosperity throughout the South than
that section has ever had.—Manufactur
ers’ Record.
THE LIGHT DAWNING.
The following is a very sensible view
of the race question from a Northern
newspaper. It is from the Chicago
Times, and was written as criticism of
ex-Senator Ingalls’ recent article bear
ing on that subject in the New York
Truth. The Times says:
“There is reason for the fact that
stared hi in in the face when he saw the
negroes dwelling together with white
men and without the bitterness he had
formerly believed existed. Held for
generations in slavery, it were beyond
the limits of possible human effort to
raise the negro as a race at once to the
level of full citizenship. Whatever the
motives that led to his enfranchisement,
the result has been injurious to the race.
Allowed the exercise of his full rights
and American civilization would pass
away were the negro ruled by force of
numbers. The denial of those rights
may not be defended under a fair con
struction of ethics. Nor can the killing
of a human being by another be so de
fended. In both cases there is established
an anomalous conditiou when ethical
rules do not apply and man does
that which is necessary and not right.
The Indian possesses equally the rights
of the negroes. But the best opinion of
the ruling race is that the exercise of
such full rights would not be for the
ultimate benefit of the whole race, in
cluding in that term all human beings.
But these problems are to be worked out
by the people of the different sections.
Their settlement is delayed by partisan
harangues and the denial of simple
truths.”
This question is now’ mush better un
derstood at the north than formerly. A
kind of fanatical exaltation of the negro
and prejudice against the southern
whites, which grew out of the war, led
to a very perverted idea there of the
status of the races in this section. Such
perverted ideas were industriously kept
alive by the Republican press and poli
ticians for political purposes. Articles
like that quoted above show that time
and study are revealing the truth and
that the matter is coming to be properly
understood.
AS TO SILVER COINAGE.
When doctors disagree, who shall de
cide ?
It is remarkable how the doctors of
the body politic disagree on the silver
question. The boldest statements are
made by those who ought to know, yet
these statements often show’ the grussost
ignorance. Even such au intelligent
paper as The New York Evening Post
fails into a palpable error. It says:
The silver men boldly demand that the
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that the j parted with. It is certainly peculiar to j government will not buy the silver at all
s in Brazil I see the Alliance and the railroads own- —it will simply coin it, and return it to
There is reason to fear
emancipation of the negroes
will result as disastrously as it has in 1 ing a newspaper jointly. Here was a
Hayti and Jamaica. Agricultural and journal championing the fanners’ order,
domestic labor is said to be completely which is the enemy of railroads, and
demoralized. It is very difficult to ob- \ living in part on the money which the
tain field labor or house servants. The j corporations advanced. In this light It
ex-slaves think that freedom means • no t hard to understand why Editor
freedom from toil, ami they refuse to Brown objected to Editor Gantt publish-
work fov love or money. ing tlie anti-lease editorial. Perhaps it
Suppose the railroad men who bought
stock in the Southern Alllanco Farmer I government shall not only buy all the
refuse to sell out, what will the Alliance j product of their mines, but shall buy it
do about it ? The organ lias lost money, i above its market val
and a part of the stock was cheerfully ] If the free coinage act is passed, the
The latest attempt at transplanting
the .Southern negroes is that of the
Langston Colonization Society, which is
said to have 850 agents in the South
seeking for negroes to colonize the Okla
homa Indian lands, which are soon to
be thrown open for settlement. Possi
bly the struggle for existence iu that
land of droughts and blizzards may have
a tendency to elevate the race.
Tiie Delaware peach growers are pe
culiarly unfortunate. In 1889 and 1800
there was such a falling off In the peach
crop that the basket manufacturers sus
pended business to a large extent. This
year there is a large crop, but it is im
possible to obtain nearly enough baskets.
The price of baskets lias risen from
3 to 5 cents, while the price of peaches
is unusually low. As a consequence
canned peaches will be plentiful next
winter, and so will peach brandy.
Telegraphic advices announcing the
death of cx-Senator Pomeroy of Kansas
bring to mind that bo was one of the
first settlers of Kansas, aud also recall a
somewhat interesting correspondence
between the Senator and the equally
noted Editor “Brick” Poineroy, in which
the latter asked the Senator by way of
claiming relationship which branch of
tho Pomeroy family he belonged to. To
that inquiry the .Senator wrote in reply:
“Which branch do you belong to? I
belong to the other.” Possibly no
other man ever got so far ahead of
“Brick.” If he ever made answer it
was made so faintly that it did not reach
the public. Yet “Brick” always prided
Idmself on bis ready retort.
I was the incongruity of the situation
which induced the Alliance last week to
appoint a committee to buy tlio Farmer
outright. The Times would advise that
the joint control be continued. It would
teach a beautiful lesson, showing to the
world that w hile in theory men may
differ radically in their beliefs, in their
practical affairs they can hold the mop*
harmonious relations. It affords a prac
tical illustration of how the Alliance lion
and the railroad lamb cau lie down to
gether and for once get up with tho lion
on the inside, bo long as there is a
deficit to make up, why not let the
plethoric railroads supply it?—Savannah
Times.
Bkadstueet’s report of railroad
earnings for the first six months of the
year show an increase compared with
the same period of 1890 of 10 per cent,
in the Southern group of roads, 10 per
cent, iu the Pacific group, 13 per cent,
oil the coal roads and 3.2 per cent, by
the trunk lines, and decrease of 4.1, 2.8
and 2.0 on the granger, Southwestern
and Central Western roads. The South
leads, as usual, all other sections except
the Pacitic coast, where the gain was
the same. During June there was a
general increase in earnings, and South
ern roads showed a gain of 2(3 per cent.
the owner in silver dollars. The owmer
of silver bullion will take it to the gov
ernmeut mint, just as a farmer takes his
corn to mill, and have it coined just as
coin is ground to meal. The govern
ment will cliargo a small sum for mint
age, or “seignorage,” as tho miller
charges toll. The silver men simply de
mand that the government shall extend
the same courtesy to silver that it does
to gold.
The Empire State Bank, Atlanta, Ga.,
has petitioned the Legislature for a
charter. J. R. Tolleson and others arc
the corporators. After Tolleson’s little
escapade with Judge Clark, it would
seem that he would dodge a bank as if It
were an anaconda. But some men never
know when they get enough of a good
thing.
The Democrats of Minnesota had a
meeting at St. Paul Saturday for tho
purpose of carryiug oat an arrangement,
so it is said, to make a fusion with the
Farmers’ Alliance of that State, w here
by the Democrats will support S. M.
Owens, the Alliance candidato for Gov
ernor, and in return will bo given the
Uuited States Senator. It is claimed
that the Allianco and tho Democrats aro
in close touch, and that the latter have
no objection to casting their votes for
Owens, tho farmers’ candidate, as he is
decidedly Democratic in his views and
principles. If the combination is made
the result will be the retirement of Sena
tor Davis next year and the election of
one more Democrat to the United States
Senate. The Republicans who have
bided Gov. Merraim for the Senate are
trying to prevent the fusion, but their
efforts are meeting with very poor sue- j
cess.
JUST SO.
The Philadelphia Press, in an edito
rial on congressional gerrymandering,
says:
The apportionment committee of the Geor
gia legislature has agreed upon a bill divid
ing that state Into eleven congreislonal dis
tricts. The little opposition it has encoun
tered seems to foretell Its early passage, and
approval by the governor. If It becomes a
law Georgia will be the tenth state which
has rearranged Its congrrssional districts
since the bill apportioning representatives
among the different states, under the recent
census, w’as passed by cougress. The other
nine states are Alabama, Arkansas, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan. Indiana,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and California. lie-
districting bills were also Introduced into the
Oregon and Washington legislature, but
there is no record at hand of their passage.
Of the ten reupportIon meats, Including
Georgia, thus made, seven were the work of
the Democrats, two of the Republicans, and
in one st«te the control of the legislature
was divided. Of the Democratic apportion
ments, only that now’ being arranged in
Georgia cau be called in any sense fair. This
rndoubtedly makes the eleven districts of
Georgia solidly Democratic, but there Is no
very wide disparity in the population, and
tiie bouiuiary lines of the districts do not
show an evident •ff»rt to wrench counties
from their natural position. It is not neces
sary for the Democrats to do this in Georgia,
ms there is a safe white Democratic msjailly
in Die state, and the colored vote is practi
cally a uonenlty. Iiut the Democrats should
have whatever praise the new npportioment
merits.
Our Philadelphia contemporary no
doubt scrutinized the now Georgia dis
tricts with partisan eyes iu the hope of
discovering something objectionable.
The fact that it pronounces Georgia’s
plan of reapportionment the only one
out of seven Democratic states that can
be called fair is, under the circumstan-
ery handsome tribute. If the
Press has failed to discover any gerry
mandering down here it is no use for
anybody else to try.
The world is full of surprises. Every
day or two some now invention or a
business enterprise of extraordinary
magnitude startles the people. And the
thieves aro not behind tho rest of the
Id. Recently they organized a
burglar’s trust. That was rather start
ing. The king thief, however, lives in
Kansas. He hired a threshing machino
and laborers and threshed out over4,000
bushels of a farmer’s w heat that was
stacked in a field, carried it to market,
got the money for it and disappeared.
Tho farmer who owned the wheat lives
several miles from w here his wheat was
stacked. The thief was a bold fellow’
and took many chances. He secured
about $1,000, aud is now’ cnjoyiug him
self, probably.
Ex-Chief Justice Drake of the court
of claims was once addressing a meeting
of the Washington City presbytery
against theater going, and, being asked
where the Bible condemned it, answered
that of course theaters were not men
tioned iu the Bible. This remark brought
up the Rev. D. 8underlaud, of the First
church, like a shot, but in his suavest
manner, with “I beg the judge’s pardon,
but we read in tbo book of Acts of tbe
Apostles that St. Paul went to the thea
ter at Ephesus.” The judge was iloored.
—Washington Post.
AMERICUS. ,
From time to time, in the history of
our land, there have come spells of
stagnation of business and uncertainty
which.have led to feelings of despond
ency and almost gloom. This is the
history’ of eve**y land and every condi
tion of the human family. Why this is
so, no one cau hazard an opinion. But
the fact remains, that it is foolish to
imagine that distant fields are ever
green.
From one end of the country to the
other comes the universal wail of
“Times are changed!”
While this may appear to be the truth
on the surface, yet there is no change.
During the past fifty years men who
are now living distinctly remember
wheu the outlook was ten times more
threatening of disaster than the present.
We of the south have no special
grievance. Wheu we look abroad, and
read of the convulsions in London and
New York, and other financial centers,
we must conclude that ours is but the
common lot, and there is no use of sigh
ing for pastures new.
Nothing is more commou than for
active men to sigh for other fields of
action, on the first b-eqth of dullness.
But why not consider the outlook ?
What field of activity is unoccupied ?
Where can capital or ability drift to that
promises a better field than at home ?
Where can any man go to where he will
find a better opening or a brighter
promise than right here ? In tho univer
sal stagnation which pervades the whole
country at this time,why not act sensibly,
and conclude that every community, in
every part of the land, has its own
burdens to carry, and that we will do
our part best by standing by our own
people, and helping, to the extent of our
ability, In tiding over the days that are
dark and dreary. Let us do this cheer
fully, and when the sun of prosperity
again shines, we who have stood at our
posts of duty will feel that we have done
our part to lift the financial clouds that
now hang over, not only Americus, but
our entire land.
-' < >urier
LINTLESS COTTON.
The Charleston News and
again calls attention to a remarkable
riety of cotton which it described a v'*
ago, aud announces now that it *
come to stay,” that is, that it has
itself to be
THE COTTON CROP.
From every part of tho country comes
the report of great damage to the cotton
crop by too much rain, rust and cater
pillars.
It is the same old cry, aud the aston
ishing feature is that the south does
not get used to this state of affairs, for
year by year the same story goes out.
The crop is boomed all June and July,
and the price-makers in Liverpool are
cabled by their agents of the magnificent
crop prospects in the United States; the
figures are fixed on the basis of an im
mense yield, prices tumble, and when
the shortage shows up the south’s pro
ducers cannot hope to profit by it, for
the crop.has long ago been bought by
those English sharks, and our buyers
can only go by the rules outlined for
them, and pay such prices as the code
allows.
The success of the cotton crop is never
a certainty, and nothing can safely be
counted on until the trying mouth of
August is weathered through, and even
though there be an overwhelming crop
up to that time September and October
rains inay greatly damage tho staple; so
eally tho crop is not in any way safe
until it is picked and housed.
There is no crop liable to as many dis
asters in its course of maturing as the
cotton crop of the South, and some w*ay
to regulate prices so as the farmers can
come in on the home stretch is a subject
open for discussion.
proven
a permanent variety TL
people are evidently in abetter moodf
taking up its cultivation than tliev « '
a year ago, for the relative Import^'!
of cotton seed has increased with thed.
cline in value of the lint.
The lintless cotton originated W | t]l
Mr. H. T. Ferguson, of Spartanburg, s
C. A few days ago he exhibited iu tb t
town a stalk loaded with bolls, all fln e j
with large, plump seed, and nothin,
else. IIo claims that he has perfected
tiie variety, and that he will have s ee d
enough this year to plant tiie entire
State.
Before the uses of cotton seed became
known a lintless eariety would have
been regarded merely as a curiosity
and tiie idea of growing it for profit
would have been ridiculed. Whether or
not it will pay to grow it now is a qu e ,.
tion that can be decided only after trial
If it does pay the people will not he
surprised, for, as tire News and Courier
says:
These are record.lirenktnq times, acd t! le
cottou plant Is as foil of surprises as a moii-
key. A hundred years ago there was some
doubt about whethercottou could be grown
tu this country. Tills year there is consider-
able doubt whether we can stop Its growing
Twenty years ago the seed were regarded at
a nuisance. Now th.y are worth morethau
the corn crop, hay crop, wheat crop and ho,
crop all combined. Ten years from now the
lint may be a nuisance, and Indeed, it is next
thing to that now,
A special advantage claimed for this
variety is that it yields about one third
more oil than ordinary cotton seed.
The bolls are filled with ieeda like that
of sea Island cotton. They need to be
gathered as soon as they begin to crack,
else the seed will fall out. The esti
mated yield is four hundred bushels to
tbe acre.
TERIvIBLK WARNING,
The best newspaper story of the sea
son comes from Tbe Bainbridge Globe.
Here it is:
He walked id and put down a dollar,
a silver dollar, that clanked like a car
riage wheel in the stillness of the sanc
tum. Said be:
“There, take it and credit my sub
scription quick.”
"What’s the matter?” we said.
“Well,” said he, “last week I was’
fishing out on Spring creek; a thunder
storm came up, and it rained and thun
dered, and lightning flashed all around
me. I crawled into a hollow log to es
cape it. The rain made the log swell up
until I was fastened in and nearly
squeezed to death. I began to think of
all my sins and to repent. Suddenly 1
remembered that my subscription to
The Globe was not settled up, and I felt
so small about it that I was able to back
right out of the log at once !”
A SEASON OF PROSPERITY.
The Manufacturers’ Record of this
week, in an article headed, “A Season
of Prosperity Ahead of us,” makes the
following prediction:
“During tho latter part of this year
there will bo increased activity through
out tho suutli, followed in 1802 by still
better times, with heavy investments of
outside tnonoy in railroads, in mineral
and timber properties and in manufac
turing enterprises, and tho south will
make rapid and substantial progress in
tiie development of its iron interests, in
tlio creation of a steel business which
will rapidly expand to inrgo proportions,
in the building up of a still greater for-
Tin: statement comes from a director
of tlio Bank of England recognized as
one of tiie foremost financiers of Kurope,
that “it is probable that not less titan
'-‘10,000,(100 of gold will bo shipped from
Kurope to America between this and
next December. I tiling it quite within
hounds to estimate that at least 010,-
000,000—say'$•‘>0,000,000—will he sent in
actual golti from Kurope to the United
.States before Cliristmastide.”
Tiik project of establishing In Ala
bama colonies of Germans to he raised ! ci S n commerce, and in tho growth of
in Germany, by a Berlin colonizing com-1 southern seaports. Tlicso will be some
pany, is of interest to that state. A nf 1,10 'catling lines of advancement, but
large tract of land has already been pur-1 E rcat Progress will ho made in .lie gen-
chased by tiie company, and a consider- j cra * 'ut'ustrial and business Interests of
able body of colonizers are already eu* j *wholo south.”
rolled, and will sail for Mobile before
tiie end of tlio year. Alabama is ex
ceedingly anxious to enlarge its popula
tion by immigration and lets plenty of
line and fertile lands. The south lias
attracted only a small proportion of the
many millions of Germans who liavo
come to the United States within tlio
past forty years; but if ouco the current
of German immigration should ho turn
ed this way it would ho very likely to
increase rapidly in volume, and it would
surely be a powerful influence in tlio
promotion of tiie prosperity of this sec
tion.
The copy of The Atlanta Constitution
of tho 27th should be preserved by every
old Confederate household in Georgia.
It shows who voted against tiie defend
ers of Georgia and who voted for them.
Keep tiie list for future generations to
read. The editorial iu that issue is also
well worth preserving. It voices the
sentiment of ninety-nine out of every
hundred of the people.—Augusta Even
ing News.
Athens complains of excessive coal
rates, claiming that they aro charged
812 per car more than Atlanta. There
is room for reduction in coal tates
throughout all sections of tho state, and
as this is tlio season when tlio larger
part of the winter supply is shipped it
wauld not he a bad time to lower tlio
rate a little, if there is a power in tlio
state which can effect tlio end desired
Thk leaders of tiie Democratic party
in Ohio have settled on the 17th day of
September as tiie time for tho formal
opening of the campaign. Kverything
is working harmoniously, and Senator
Brice says the party is in a good condi
tiou to carry on a victorious campaign.
Governor Campbell, too, lias regained
his wonted good health, anti is vigorous
and buoyant.
Some days sinco tiie cotton planters of
Western Tennessee, at a meeting held
in Memphis, proposed to reduce
tiie wages of cotton pickers from 73
cents to .70 cents a hundred pounds.
Similar meetings have been held in
Mississippi and Louisiana, at which
planters have pledged themselves to pay
no more than 40 cents per hundred. A
press dispatcii from Now Orleans of the
22d inst., says: “This reduction will he
vigorously opposed and resented by the
piekers, aud tlio chances are that tiiere
will bo a big strike on this question.”
Tiik Herald quotes Mr. Atkinson as
threatening the press of tho country
with “a stab in tlio hack.” What better
could bo expected of a man who stabs
an old Confederate soldior in the back
and then relegates him to the poorhouse
to die ? Is an editor any better than a
ippled Confederate soldior in Mr. At
kinson’s estimation ? By his owu state
ment, stabbing in tlio back is ids favor-
method of attack. Mr. Atkinson s
constituents will “stab hint iutlio back
at tho next election.
It is conceded that Hon. W. A. Little
of Columbus will receive tho appoint
ment of attorney-general, which the
governor announces lie will make to
day, Hon. W. C. Glenn, the other ap
plicant for the position, has withdrawn,
and this leaves Capt. Little the only ac
tive candidate in the field. *
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