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EDITORIAL COMM ENT.
Til© pi’tiaidviat n preparing hi;
massage. Wonder iJ'there will be
anything; in it favoring tUs South’s
progress since the war?
Ti*e state of North Carolina ha*
now under arrest thirty lynchers.
The trial will beau interesting one.
It may have a marked tendency to
suppress m >l> law.
The alliance says it will :ontrol
the next Georgia legislature. Well,
if they do it on democratic priaei
plcs, they may. The present one
needs to he controlled by' soma or
ganization.
Is it possible that Vice Pres.
Morton has taken out a liquor li
cense fer his hotel in Washington?
The second highest officer et the
land, an accessor to the increase ef
crime! Wei' may the hangman’s
rope lloarish!
Tke Banner claims to keep in
democratic lines. This is nothing
mere than the Press of the South
must do. Next ye&rwiil be a tell
ing ©no of how strong democratic
principles are in the South, and
what binds them.
As yet nothing has been dene
with the state road. The legisla
ture, it seems, has found an ale
.phaut in Joe Brown’s betterments.
Stn. Brown wants pay, and lfthe
state don’t want a big iaw suit it
will have te pay him.
Judge Lewis, with a band of Go
armed men, holds the fort in La
mar county, Ivy. Ho claims to
have been sent out by Gov, Buck
ner. The Howards say'' they will
uot violate Buckners’ erd*rs, and
are leaving the county.
The Montgomery, Ala. Exposi
tion promises to be a goad'one.
Excursion fares will be given ©n
ail connecting lines to th city.
Montgomery is the prettiest city
of 25,000 the writer has seen any
where in the South.
There are some newspapers m
tiie South slill engaged in undue
criticism to Gov. Hill’s speeches ot
a few weeks ago. For instance, lhe
Charleston News & Courier. This
journal makes an attack on the
governor as saving “I am a demo
crat,” Hid the News & Courier
expect the governor to say he was
a republican coaling South to be
tray Southern democracy? It looks
a little that wav to democrats.
The Dr. Cronin murder trial is
censurning wonderful time and r.s-
Miraing a peculiar shape. It now
holds lha position of a farce on the
part of the prosecution to get at
the real murderers. The testimo
ny is perjured. Before the trial is
done with, it will exceed the Tom
Y/oilfolk easy ot this state, and
may cost Chicago several thousand
Vollars over that of Berry county.
Ilubo Burrows and his gang are
a .Bn parading Lamar county. Thy
people are frightened out of their
1m: .■■rd many are leaving. The
k, ;: ;vft >: • sh t-riffs the 25th f
Ifif-i -.th !:■;•■ JR‘Bit: is making the
B-in . h.' -. o that there is a Ben
gal hen in r The Bir
immihtun re* - ‘>’l uraed rsi week
•Iter a several days’ hunt without
my clue to the desperadoes.
Tho K©vtml.v-r v> ntury will con
'>ain a draft of Pr*s. Lincoln of
ISGS. Tin’s, the substance of a tries
saga for February st!>, 1805. Lin
coin proposad to pay $400,000,000
as ?.n indeuiuity fund to slave own
tws, complete pardon for political
of] eases. and the release or' cMufis
cr.tetl properly, except under cer
tain conditions. This he submit
ted to his cabinet. But his coun
cillors bitterly and unanimously'
opposed his message as far as these
measures.
Had Lincoln lived he might have
proved loyal to the South and re
deemed himself of the great wrong
to the South, that now hangs over
his temb. But, with virtue to the
depressed South at Ids death, it
was net a Southerner that fired ilie
fatal shot. Edwin Booth was not
a Southern man by heritage, wlnt
might have been his simpatliy that
prompted him in his stage drama
in a New York theatre, to shoot
Lincoln in his private box, he in
creased renewed strife and a mere
heated hatred and suppressive of
the North for lh© South.
Against Trusts An I Monopolies.
It is an encouraging sign to see
the democratic party everywhere
taking a decided and determined
stand against monopolies and trust
and the legislation which aids and
protects them. On this line, which
is closely associated with that ot
tariff reform, the next great politic
al contests of the country are to be
fought, and it is none too early for
parties to betaken their respective
positions.
It is already apparent that ©ld
party lines will be badly broken by
this issue. The alliancemen of the
South have generally taken their
stand against trusts and monapo
lies, and now we have reports tint
in the northwestern states, arising
industrial ©rdr called the Patrons
of Husbandry, is organizing with
opposition to those combinations
as its cornerstone. In both these
organizations old party aiigments
are ignored in the purpose to anta
gonize the trusts and monopolies
that are the great business and
commercial of the times.
It is to be regretted that the dein
ecratic legislature of Ueorgia lags
in the enforcement of the eoasfcitu
tional prohibition of the great" rail
road trust. But the present indica
tions aro that there will soon be
such an amusement agiinst trusts
and monopolies generally that the
performance of that duty can not
be much longer delayed.—[Atlan
ta Journal.
Costly Coffee.
According to Mr. Jeseph J.
O’Donohue, the coffee-drinkers of
the United States arj paying for
this article $30,000,000 a year
mere than they ought. This is a
big sum of money aad the state
ment is worth looking ini®.
iuoi’G is ho coiiea trust, and no
solfo® “combino.” There was an
attempt to corner the eoilbe mar
ket so me months ago, A number
of dealers got together and organ
ized-for the purpose ot buying 0 all
the coffee in tho m irket,* but tho
: coinor fell in with a irunendious
<'.isSi hi.J s'M!K> of 'ho organizers were
b <ll y hnr*.
le vie-a* <>f t ’ et-e facts, Mr O Dono
line's *a? merit is in-oresiiog. Lithe
a* fence of any treat, com bib r o- c.rn
or. how ta it that t o oantrii rs id
tlurt country pay 8.0 000 J 0 dollars i
year more thin ceffec* i- worth'?
Alr. O Donohue says that too cause
r<t tba trouble is epe<ula:inu—the cof
foe exchange of New York nelliu and
buying 22.( 00 000 beg*- of coffee when
tho crop is only worth 8,000 000 bees.
11.' sr.ya that this sort ot thing has
cbiven him on* ot business
Mr. oDouohns may be right in his
conclusions—he ought to know what
te is talking stout—end yet it is
(infer that speculation doesn't have
t e ranie ehecr on the price of co ton
that it baa cut tho price of coffee.
Perhaps some wbe man will rise
up and tell us tho reason why. jVloaii
wliiia (bo puzzle is ono to wrestle
with.— [Atlanta Constilniion.
WKitin^iuu
[From lhe Journals Correspondent. I
Washington. Oct. 2S —He who
Gares to write on a nubject so thread
Issue --a that of drink, will find a hold
of ripe promise in Washington. Yes
terday afternoon I was passing one of
the most exclusive restaurants in tko
city, when I observed three young la
dies emerge from the elegant vestibule
and outer a public hack that bad the
cat tains partly drawn. All three
wc-ra reiy young written and very
beautiful. 1 knew two; one was the
daughter of a United States Senator,
tbs others nearly related. All were
drank; they were not simply tipsy,
but drut.k. One dropped her bat aud
tbe exertion required to replace it, eo
exbarts ed her thnt tbe vigorous sssist
at’co of'be driver was necessary. Two
fcelpiesK dudes who tried to start a
quirk flirtation with tbe young women
were promptly anubb. and, sn aoti a
which cast perhaps one ray ot tun
sh ine across their record.
T.;e sadness of the drink story is no-'
where more marked than in the case
of Ilenry D. Gregg, who went a few
days ago to the Missouri pentifentiary
lor live years as sentence for stealing
a horse and boggy. Gregg was the
sv.k of an able Irish divine, and after
graduating at Dublin university c&me
tj thid country. He entered the serv
ice of Gen. Sheridan as his private sea
ralary, and was afterwards a clerk in
tbe war depart, neat. Ha was a man
of pleasing address and considerable
ability. Every opportunity was giv
en nixi, but he would not reform. He
finally dritted west, and his arrest fin
ishes the story. W bet temperance
lecture could toil more? What but
the s,molest words are needed to tell
the story of his degradation?
Against the traffic ia ram a bitter
war ia waged by the organized tem
perance sociotie/, but without mtlob ef
fect. lhe commissioners seek bv more
or less judicious methods to limit the
trade. At present the consent of a
majority-of the property holders of tba
block cb which the saloon is Htnated,
is required. This year the commis
si oueis an non need that no license
would he granted to women. This
was bo cleat ly nncon£titatian.al that
it has ham abandoned.
Miuoisg the better clans of men in
business and political life, drunkenness
Ist rather on the wans. Twenty years
ago no on© jo Washington drank Mg
er beer and very Gw touched ale. Ev
erything wss brandy and whiskey. A
(ContiV:ucd OD 3:d l'?Q n .)
A ki m warn ”1 JWM , "
h i\n & m i j H *i* H &
viida aLiaisa Ja w eUaWWr4ai c'?t
ci V,y>- Would not Create such an excitement among the 1 adieu as *as si-rht of
VIA DDES’S great Display of Bargains is Creating. It i*
Itiioh among Buyers, and not a tew rows among angry and jcatcu* com pc. u. •
its LT Vui roar, the whole lion tribe. Madden is net under tee o'd, bat
0 i3 selling at
Under Bed-Rock Prices,
*
IJonce thfl rapture of Buyers and roar of competitors. Do yott w,tn. a Tt @
r-xcireiuent? Take in my tstoro. Can yon read thsso prices and Itsap away?
Aiitcnb' best Cotton Cheeks only 5 ets. per yard. 7 l-B*.h shirting (heavy) 5
roots
712 cents”per yard. Calico from 5 cts. up. These prices speak for ch-m
MjJve*. Don't let rhe sun go down without bringing your five senses to my
store and putting me t the tebt.
DON’T GO TO BED WITH THIS ON YOUR MIND
and dream of Coming to morrow—-to morrow the bsugain birds may be ah
Mown away pd leave yon the empty nest. Come, coma today; bring your
neighbor. D<> somebody a good turn and put him oa the traek of on opportu
nity as rare as snow ri July. Coma straight to
I. A. Madden, maysville, ga.
Buy Your Shoes
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112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Pos'.office, Athens, Georgia.
Haselton & Dozier, Proprietos.
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fmßmsMm 0
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QAfcw vsQAA^Qw,
bfl Violins, and all kinds of musical ii’.etru-
Ul ent9 on hand aud for sale at greatly u
vfsv£'' *dueed prices for curb, or on the install-
I'h Ar||| ment. Special rates to churches and
• . /i. schools. Picture frames on hand or mad©
7*'l‘ AM''Al; t-> order at short notice. A full and com*
■ A > ; -V T k.k;to H'ock of A i tie to’ Mitcnal tor dratr*
%.. • ; fwk'Akiug and painting in oil aud water coloia.
i>. P. Haselton, Thos. ti. Dozier*
1870 Fv-nr Car Load* Cooking- Stoves and Ranges Have been order—>lß39..
ed io Coniiaenca the season wita by
fcpsj _ etp| *f
d-M & afii 3 Ui 1 *Ja4 M b
THE LEAD!MG STOVE
uL' Cf i hi ifh;
.!?• Aer ttf K!>rmea*t ■■R Tnf: J,
T "WOB V 'Vf ••
My prioos Can not be be -t! With
Ibereased Facilities, I am prepar'd to if- oA^dRfV:.WW
r ait all purchasers. Sea my stack of • Wr.- ’-0 o
Roofing Guttering, Tin and Sheet
1/ tai Work! Tinware Cheapest
Asad JKEsTP/ Call On Off WSITS
E. E. Jones, 209 B’oad St. ATHENS.