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Jno. Barton, - - Editor.
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Th first in*t., Tennessee's
■laves enjoyed emmeipation
day.
Ths first inst., was emancipa
tion day with the siaves ol
South Carolina
Mr. Gladstone is eighty and
in good health. V e wish him
a happy now year.
The extreme north arid west
are undergoing heavy snow
storms aad cold weather.
A London school house hum
ed the first iast. Twenty-sev
en oeys were burned to death
in the flames.
Over 80,01)0 negroes left
North Carolina the first inst.,
for Georgia and Mississippi.
T ;ev go to the turpentine belt.
It is said tint Zulu has given
up drinking. Perhaps he will
now be able to write a nov ]
that sober people can enjoy.
If’ Mr. Window intended his
silver scheme as a Christinas
gift to the country, he should
have so labeled it.
Age dosen’t tone Bismarek
down. liis hand is as hard and
tough as ever. Yet, we trust
that a happy New Year will
mellow bis heart.
The return of li e republicans
to the federalism of one hun
dred years ago, will not give
their party er the country a hap
pyNew Year.
The Nashville Banner office
roof fell in the first inst., doing
considerable damage to presses,
type, etc. Several men were
slightly bruised.
The Press ol the North and
South, are not slow in paying
due homage to Georgia’s lament
ed Grady, they speak of him
as the “Southern Kfiight.’’
Barnwell, S. C., is threatened
with treubl<s. 'i’lie negroes say
they are going to burn the
town. Troops have been call
ed oat.
Gov. Me Kinney was inaugu
rated the first iiist. as Virginia’s
aew governor. The day was
observed throughout tiie state
By all democrat*.
The Journal is in recept ol
a copy of the laving Journal
Holiday Souvenir. The book
is handsome'.'* r" ; " ‘ofi. It was
Batten out for the carriers.
Washington’s Mew Year’s re
s'
ception at the white .house was
a grand affair. Mistress Mc
kee, the president’s daughter
acted as hostess and did the
honors of the occasion.
A Boston man has found r
snake in his bananas. A snake,
however, is a very common
place affair. Nothing less than
a hairy tarantula ought to satis
fy the culture of Boston.
A large lire in New York the
first inst., caused that city to
1 iso over a million dollars. The
i isurance will partly cover the
Jos3. The fire was caused by
a defective Hue.
€ol. T- L. Gault of t l <e Ban
ner. oilers the Elberton felarft-i
s i'.'. This is a good opportu
nity, fur some live mam The
paper is a weekly, published jn
a li- e town, and has a wall e*-
t.-bli btd -Irculatien.
i! is said that butter vas un
known to iho ancients. The
1 ■■■ i is • lually coming out
, " i
t: . 1:.. ncscsU were very
well oil’. People who knew
nothing oi the colored butter ol
commerce are to be envied.
Judge Gus'jn of the Macon
Superior court circuit, has re
signed. Walter lb Hill has
been recommended to the va
cancy, under the governor’s
consideration. Th* ie-ignation
is a (heme ofsonversation. lhe
judge’s friends do nut under
stand it.
Numbers iff people in Kansas
are suffering with cold and hun
ger. Tins is not an item of re
commendation to the state ask
ingemigration. Phople should
take warning and stay where
they are fixed. New countries
do not pan out as painted by
agents.
i The press of the state are
siow in naming the next gover
nor. So far, Gordon has made
a good and conservative oflicer.
Whether or not the state will
ask him to accept a uiird term,
is a silent question just now.
There are several prominent
men whose names, as yet, have
not been mentioned, that
would til 1 the gubernatorial
chair very gracefully.
The Journal has been prom
ised several correspondents in
the county this year. This is
what it takes to make a paper.
Every neighborhood likes to
see itself represented, and it
should take pride in encourag
ing ail public spirited enter
prises. A county never be
comes known without a paper.
Whenever you look on the di
rectory and find a county put
down with “no paper” in bold
faced black letters, then and
there you are bound to admit
you must look upon it as some
backwoods county almost in
the wilds of Africa.
Henry Grady would tell you
the progress of a country goes
with newspapers and railroads
in all enterprises.
It is thought there will be
several business changes in
Homer this year. One or two
more business bouses would
add greatly to the place and
build up trade. Homer is the
county cite, and of course has
tiiis advantage over her sister
towns. It is only an hour’s
ride to the railroad. This can
not advance the price of goods
from the market price. "Keep
the goods and the people will
come. How often do the unin
terested hear people say, “I
would trade in Homer if the
goods were there. They don’t
keep them.” This is the draw
back on Homer. It should be
remedied, and the more stores,
the more people will come.
Those who want to do busi
ness can do it anywhere. We
venture Mr. J. E. Stephens sold
a larger slock of Christmas
goods here during the holidays
than any other house in this
section of northeas Georgia.
The business a man does, to
a great extent, is with him.
Tiie Philadelphia Press has
changed its force. It now pro
poses to employ nemo but the
National Protective Printer’s
Fraternity. Tha Union man
have been given their discharge,
As wo are a member of the for
; mer, we congratulate tire or
! ganizition in getting control of
the Press. This organization,
like all others, has its sworn se
crets. by-laws, etc. They are
strictly moral, jdst and elevat
ing—sworn to protect and edu
cate. The Union men liavs
■c.: much to break down this
organization. They luve injur-'
ed their own. Within tin? last,
three years the National Prin
ter’* Protective Fraternity lias'
grown enormously, 'flic mem
b rship new numbers over 75,-
0 )0, Even Mr. Powderly with
his two million Knights of La
bur, asked for membership, hut
before being initiated a vote
was asked through the mails
■ from every member, and a I>l a * k
b dl was unanimously sent in on
! the grounds that Its proposed
a ceptaucs to the order of the
• Faioa men were before their
c immittee of Receivership h r
! consideration. And again, on
| the grounds that. Mr. Powder!
ly’s views, generally, were not
'in conformity with the Nation
al Printer’s Protective Fraterni
ty. This organisation is an or
der standing on its own merits.
e.cliff.
From the J U'nal’s Correspondent.
Washington, Dec. 23.—The
announcement of the house
committee chairmanships was
made Saturday and the com
ments of friends on the indvid
ual assignments are highly
complimentary to Speaker
Reed’s good sense. Twenty
nine out of the fifty-six places
go to the western states; the
middle states receive sixteen,
New England seven and the
Pacific Slope three, while the
South gets only one. The
promptness of the selection of
the committees is surprising.
The first howls of disappoint
ment come from the west,
where the supporters of Mr.
Reed in the speakership con
test have been carefully re
warded, and where many of
tiie leaders have been unceri
moniously turned down in the
selection of committees. Mr.
Reed seems to have felt an ob.
ligation to his party to take
good care of his opponents in
the race, but there his self im
posed obligation ended, lie
could not be expected to take
care of all the men who had
carefully searched liis record
last summer and fall, to try to
defeat the pet ambition of his
life. “Farmer” Wade of Mis
souri, secures the Labor com
mittee. Mr. Reed’s three Kan
sas supporters have received
substantial evidence of his re
gard. Funston heads the agri
cultural committee; Perkins
gets that of Indian Affairs, and
Morrill receives the Invalid
Pensions chairmanship. Car
ter of Montana, who endeavor
ed to swing the new states in
to line for Mr. Reed, gets the
appropriation committee on
mines and mining.
On the other hand Repre
sentative Thompson, who is be
lieved by tire speakers friend’s
to have pushed McKinley’s
candidacy by unfair means as
against Iteed, is badly left,
lie is an old and able member
and ambitions for leadership.
To be practically ignored is
hardly pleasant, and although
Mr. Thompson said nothing
very publicly, he cornered the
speaker in the members lobby
and told him a few things that
tired the blood in the speaker’s
face. As he walked indignant
ly away Speaker Heed looked
like a mammoth school boy
who would like to lick the boy
he had just quarrelled with,
was that boy not too small to
strike.
But this was not the only
disagreeable episode of the
day. After the committees
had been fully announced, Mr.
Cheadle of Indiana, in a few
dignified words, resigned his
position as a member of the
committee on claims. A place
on this committee was otlered
Mr. Cheadle in the Fiftieth
congress and flatly refused,
and the repetition of the ap
pointment was regarded as a
downright insult. The recog
nition of a solitary appoint
ment to such an important
canin.i tee could not but be re
garded by Mr. Cheadle as a re
buke for having led the repub
lican bolt that re elected Ur.
Milburn, the blind democratic
chaplain ol the last congress,
as chaplain. Mr. Cheadle nat
urally resents any attempt to
discipline him, and by this re
commendation has the unique
distinction of being the only
member in the house who has
a place on any committee.
Speaker Reed has therefore,
cne more bitter enemy in his
own party.
Congressman Harmer looks
further than Speaker Reed for
the autlir of his sorrow. He
believes that Sen. Quay is his
enemy that has done this thing.
With a long and honorable con
gressional experience and suc
cessful service as a committee
chairman during the last con
gress that the republican party
controlled, he naturally expert
ed, despite liis friendship for
McKinley, that he would re
ceive something more than as
signments to fourth or fifth po
sitions on a few important com
mittees. He was the leading
republican member of the com
mittee en Naval Affairs during
the last congress, and naturally
liis friends thought that the
chairmanship of that commit
tee would come t® him.
With the announcement ef
romrnittees congress adjourned
until after the holidays and the
lobbies are deserted, for even
the lobbyist has a home or a
boarding house or hotel substi
tute for one, to which he retires
once a year to pay tribute to
the domestic gods. The amount
of destitution to be spasmodic
ally alleviated this Christmas
time has been materially less
ened by the mild character of
the weather. Hunger is per
haps erroneously presumed to
be quite a pleasant sensation
so long as the thermometer is
above the thirties. The dis
play of Christmas goods is tlia
most remarkable ever seen in
this city, but the volume of
trade is not so large as during
recent years, except last year.
Not even low prices tempt pur
chasers.
Sen. Ingalls look occasion en
Saturday to lender his regards
to tha Tenth Census and te ex
press a hope that the next one
would not be a repetition of
the last in rockiest expenditure
of money and the gathering ef
usoless data.
Savanah, Jan. I.—Two
weeks ago an invitation was
extended the Grand Army of
the Republic to join with the
colored military companies in
the celebration of emancipa
tion day. At that time it was
understood that the white post
was embraced in the invita
tion. To-day when the whites!
did not show up in line, the!
blacks explained that the invi-j
tation did not originally in!
elude the white post, but the!
colored post.
A MAN UNDER THE BED
*££&• Would not Create scchan excitement among the ladieaas hi
night of MADDEN’S great Display of lGrguna is Chi-atio*. It m
Causing apm tea ltueh among Buyer*, and <* a tew rowe among *
gry and palcu* coupetitoi*. Let ’* roar, the whole hou ti w
MaDdkn in not coder the bed, but be is soiling at
Under Bed-Rock Prices.
Hence the rapture of Boyers and roar ff eompetitor* Do you vrant
< little excrement? Take in my store. Ca-i yon read tHso pines "“ 't
keep away? Athens’ best Cotton Cheeks only 5 eta. per yaid. / | 8
shirting (heavy) 5 cent's per yard. 4 1 4th sheeting (heavy) f> ct..
o : oghams (a groat bargain) 712 cents per yard. Caiieo trorn nets,
up. Tbone prices speak for themselves. Dea l let rb.o son go down
vriihout bringing your five sense* >o my store and putting rue to tbo
tent.
DON’T GO TO BED V/ITII THIS ON YOUR MIND
and dream of Coating to morrow — to-morrow the bargain birds m:y
be <*ll flown away nd leave you the empty nest. Cane, corao today;
bring four neighbor. Da somebody a good turn and put him oa th*
traek of an opportunity as rare as snow i3 July. Corn* straight to
I. A. Madden, MAYSVIL.LE, GA.
Rush’s Drug Store-
At Crawford’* Old Stand, Clayton Street, Athens, Georgia.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Fine Teilet Soaps, Brushes *nd Combs. Fary Articles in great
variety. |££S“Tbyidaiana pressriptionß carefully di*peutd.
\ AthcnsMusic House
112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Postoffice, Athens, Georgia.
Haselton & Dozier, Proprietrs.
QbutaAk & tosWjSb,
at greatly reduce cl prices for cad),
or on the installment. Special
rates to churches and schools.
Picture frames on band or made
to order at short notice. A full
land complete stock of Artiste’ ila
i'eiial tor drav ing and painting iu
. 'AAA- D. I*. Kasehoa, Titos. 11. Dozier..
1870.-Four Car Loads Cooking Stoves and Ranges Hare been-ISS9.
ordered to Commence the seasou with by
THE LEADING STOVE
JEJenler Cl t _ V‘, '■
My prices can not be beat! f.- , A
Wi : h Increased Facilities, lam -1U" v*
prenaredtoßr.it all purchaser’. 'V'v.sL'*.
See my stock of
Roofing, Guttering, Tin and
Sheet Metal Work! Tinware
1 :;opesT And BEsT/ Call On Or WRITS
E.E. Jones, 209 ATHENS.