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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
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Congressman S. S. Cox died of
Lean trouble, 3Oth inst., in N. Y.
Tho po i-t and uliftt in the election fr
C it 11 . in tiii'-dstiict will be a beat
od one. Se.cvd prominent man's arc
mcitt ioued.
llsrri'C'ii o *ul! conunnmg bis t ur
and, at last account*, had just arrived
in New Y.uk. The office rockers’ pa
tience, ere this baa grown impatient.
Jno. L Sullivan ins aEiiounced
for Congress. Boston will now have
a chance to show her pat-pugilist
how much sho esteems his power
as fit far a representative of the
Massachusetts goddess of liberty.
Helena, Montana, suffered much
loss of iife and property from for
est fires Sfh inst. Over $1,000,000
worth ®f property was destroyed.
The fames were the fiercest ever
known in Montana. Tho Cokiey
ranch was made a barren waste in
less than thirty minutes.
The newspapers ot Georgia contin
tie their opinions ot the Hoff and pat
tersou duel. Mr Buff and Patterson
have submitted their grievances to a
committee of twenty one of the legisla
ture for arbitration. Mr. Buff says
he will abide by tho decision of the
committee, whatever it bo. Mr. Pat
terson, of course, if not honor bound,
must submit likewise, though he has
indicated uothing to the contrary.
It aeomj that the sentiment f>r
higher education is gaining grouad
in th® legislature. Itis claimed that
the negroes are getting ahead of
th© whites in the matter of educa
lion, and that unless liberal appro
priations are made for the Univer
sity, it will soon collapse. Vv e
would b® willing for the Uuiversi j
ty to have a goodly share of the
state’s money, if they would eshib
jish t high school in every county
of the state for white children.
Sen. Brad well's bill, providing
for six months’ schools passed the
senate last week. It went through
with a whocp and a rush, and if it
had been in the power of tins sen
ate to have appropriated the earn
ings of the state road, it would have
doubtless, passed, but as all appro
priations must originate in the
house*, that body will insert the
amount appropriated, as na amend
ment. It is thought the house will
pass the bill directly. This begins
to look like education for the mass
es. I; will be gratefully received.
The II un-Patterson Duel.
Perhaps the most disgraceful oc
currence that has taken placa in
1 lie legislature for several years, is
the recent attempt of tho two re
preseutatives of Bibb county, to ea
gag iu a duel. The people of Ma
.oll and Bibb county should as
semble in mass-meeting and re
, ■;est these two blood-thirsty re
presentatives to resign. It is not
c nly a disgrace to the country, but
• the entire stata. The members
ot the legislature of a great stale
like Georgia, should be moral,law
abiding n cn, ar.d conservators of
and lie p . a hd good order. Ja
of teso: '.i.': *o the cede for
iu? ft.fon.v dr did trances,
they n;;.i.’ ‘ i... nitled to th®
Lind ia'.: • : their friends.
Efforts of this kind, if seems, were
made, iu which tha speaker of tho
house and Gov. Gordon tnd other
gentleman ef high position and in
fluence, took au active part. Not
only this, but tho oily authorities
tried to interfere, and even arrest
ed one of the parties to preven t Iris
leaving tho city. It has coma to a
pro By pass, that tho Slate should
be so disgraced in the eyes of all
the civilized world; and we da
think such men should ho relegat
ed to the walks of private life.
The Grfurgia papers are lairiy teem*
ing with gubernatorial probabilities.
Col. L F. Livingston, president oi
the state alliance is said io be in the
field, and Col. W. J.Norttenof Harr
cock, president of tho state agricultur
al society, has already announced. It
was solemnly promised when the alii
ance was organized, that there should
be co politics in it, but already the
usefulness of this organization is handi
capped by a movement within its
ranks to convert it into a political ma
vhtne. However, Col. Livingston is
a good, plain man of ordinary ability,
and Col. Nor then is a good and true
democrat, who always gets the italics
in the right place. If either should be
elected tho interests of the common
wealth would be safe. But we predict
that the democratic party of the state
will taka the matter iu hand at the
proper time and select a worthy suc
cessor of Ggu. oordon, who will hold
the banner of the empire state of the
South, aloft before the world, who is
not tire ambitions aspirant of’aov trade
or profusion, but the choice of the
whole people.
Tha 10th inst. another White
Chapel murder was discovered in
London- The body of another “fall
en” woman was found with the
head, arms aim limbs severed, and
missing. The intestines were ex
posed from the abdomen and lay oil
the ground, The amputation and
disseclion were skilfully perform
ed, and presented, in appearance,
the work of an expert surgoant.
The murdering of Jude women in
London has been going on for ever
a year. The murder, or murderers,
seem to evade detection through
some invisibles means of an Omnip
otent power, so to speak. The
shrewd hand and watchful eye of
polLe and detectives have been un
able io trace any clue to the perpe
trators.
London is on© ©1 the ancient cit
ies of corruption. But these lude
outcasts that invade her streets,
havo CBIUB down from |eueration to
the present. There ih nothing wonder
fnl, new or atrange in these characters
that could possibly interfere with her
morality now, more than centuries
back. As then, as now, they tvers
licensed to carry oat their Satanic de
Bros, and why, at this late hour has
London’s moral and virtuous sense be
come so a’< ashed and demoralized, as
to take advantage of its laws aad he
no longer protected by them, and rr
vetsgo Ckriati&aky on thcie wretches
ot pitty with such cruel deaths, it
would f-ecin, is without reason, r&. :rc
or judgment, to dcroaad protection at,
tie-La., is of an English gwr-iument?
London should ty ic r.eitLer money
nor lib) ill defeiiOit.s.; the cuptuta and
j notice of her law v- i* i? the parpetra*
nns ot these sickao in stub orders.
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An Insult.
The gratuitous insult being of
fered (o the Alliaweo by certain
parties, that the alliance is encour
aging its members not to pay (heir
debts, is false in every point and
onglii to bo effectually resented by
every true aiiianceman.
“Because, forsooth, we say “do
not rush your cotton to market, ’’
wo must be accused of opposition
t© honest payment of debts. Those
de tiers who ar@ having their circu
lars, in which they advise early
sale of cotten, extensively publish
ed, are direclly interested in the
purchase of cotton and of course it
is to their interest, to buy it as low
as possible. The farmer wants his
cot ton to bring *a good price. Of
course this is contrary toths inter
est of lhe buyer and he wants to
force early sales by saving tha far
mer is morally bound to sell bis
cotton as soon as it can be picked
and ginned. Thera are no obliga
tions maturing before October and
most of them on October loth and
Nov. Ist. When our National Cot
ton Committee says “sell no cotton
in Sep I ember -1 ’ tiiey mean every
word of it and h ava the best of rea
son for it. If apy one claims that
this smells of dishonesty, it is be
cause tho gambler lias a nose
which is only use to such odors and
can't recognize any other. There
are twa sides to every question and
if the. farmers want to have a little
to say about the price of their eot
lor this season, it is no more than
their right. Tiiev certainly had no
voice in pricing the goods they
have bought 6 n time or tha guano
tbey have foolishly signed away
(heir manhood for, er the money
they borrowed with all the inter
est the law aID wed added on and a
heavy discount, which tho law did
not allow taken oil - .' No, they had
no voic3 in all thesa mailers for
I hey were in a fight and tho worst
kind of a fight at that. Now the
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merchant, the guano dealer, the
banker and the warehousemen have
their obligations for tbeea things and
the obligation include* all the profits
which could be tacked onto what the
farmer got. Is ha morally bound to
rush bis cetton into market and sell it
for less than tha cost of production
simply to gratify the dealers, when he
knows that euck folly would leave him
in debt? Is it not his duty to get al!
he can for his cotton? If by holding
it for awhile he can realize more mon
ey for it and le able to pay off hif
debt and ba free, is it cot his duty to
do so?
Fanners have been working while*
other men did their thinking for them
un i! they have about run out and
have deiotminai to not ordv do tboir
own woife, but their own thinking too,
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Wo film ply hr’ vf) to eay to those
who propose to comment upon tho pel
icy of tha alliance that onr order is de
voted to honesty and justice. While
wo eie deieimint'd to be honest, wo
rr. also determined to have a little jus
tics along with it.
The National Cotton Committee
decor it wire to instruct us to demand
12 1 2 een*K 'o: onrVotton just now,
}>ut tbey say “sell no'cotiou in Sept.”
r no tbe alliance will hoar them.
lostmctioOH for October will reach
f: - Alliance sn time. Don’t be in a
hurry and don’t take tbs fidgets. Tho
cotton commit.too will prepare you for
tho r- -h and the instructions will
conic ou time.— [Southern Alliance.
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Stoves! Stoves!
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