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Ex-Sen. Riddleberger of Vir
ginia died the 211 h iusY, after
an illness of a month.
The Mississippi legislature
has elected R 11. Henry oi
Jackson, state printer
The Banner says there arc
some newspaper censors in
Athens.
The workmen of the Birm
ingham rolling mills, now out
on a strike, number over 1,000.
Dr. Carlton will be in the
race in the Sth congressional
district for re election. Don’t
know that he wiil have any
opposition.
In consequence of the demo
crats being too much for the
republicans in the Ohio senate,
the lattor are awaiting the re
turn of the absentees.
David Thorton, a citizen oi
llickman county. Tenn., is one
hundred and twenty-seven
years’ old. He is one of the
few who live to see this ripe
old age.
Reid B. Barnes, who shol
and killed Lon Carroll in Ope
lika, Ala., several weeks ago,
had his preliminary trial, 23rd.
inst. He was acquitted on the
grounds of self defense.
Brazil has at last been re
cognized by this government.
The President has received the
proper credentials of the new
ministers as extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to the United
Slates.
Little Lucy Zarretta, the
Mexican midget, said to be the
smallest woman of the world,
died in San Francisco. Cal., a
few days ago. She was on a
blockaded train and died from
gastric fever.
Congress is devoting a good
deal of time to the race ques
tion. This is a novel way to
kill time. The negro’s vote,
some way to make capital of
it, of course, is what the repub
licans are after.
Sen, Ingalls confesses that
his recent speech was calculat
ed to arouse the negro. The
senator should remember here
after that he does not own the
social and political in 11 tie nee of
the world.
It is believed Mat, Davis
will get the Athens’ postoffice.
The president should see
the postofficois kept well fumi
gated during the hot months.
If not, what will become of
the Athens’ postoffice?
They shut ’em out. The Y.
M. C. A. of New York, have
expelled the female members
from their society on the issue
that the NV. C. T. U. have gone
into politics by joining the
Chicago prohibition clubs.
Miss Nelly Bly has made a
1 rip around the world in seven
ty days. This is the fastest
tme on record. She is now
rt:sting at her home in New
Y >rk. Miss Bly belongs to the
i ;)ortorial staff of the New
Y>>rk World.
aeon, Jan. 2ti.—This morn
i;.. a light was reported at po
V■ , headquarter-; having oc
c -dlasl night in east Macon
'■ <>n Charlie Childers and
.' --ey, which came near be
'*ry Kerion-:. Childers
is ■pistol ad M issey a
Chih’or- was cut on the
• y IVa soy, but before
due’ pistol specia
ls interfered.
The Journal acknowledges a
copy of the lithographic shod
from the Washington Post of
the “Three Americas” —why
the Worlds Fair should he h. ld
at the nation’s capitol in hon
or of the 4l)0;h anniversary.
It must be remembered that
Chicago and New York are al
so putting forth their claims.
Some of the counties of this
congressional district are advo
eating primaries. The Journal
has nothing to say on this score.
But, suppose A gets one-fourth
of the votes of his county; B
gets one fourth; C gets some
thing less than one fourth; D
gets something over one fourth
and is declared the nominee, is
he the county’s choice?
The democrats and republi
cans of the New York legisla
ture have split all to pieces on
the adoption ot measures to
hold the World’s Fair in that
state. Chicago may probably
get it.
As the fair will need $5,003,
000 to start with, and there is
a measure giving aid with the
government’s money in an en
terprise of this sort, it is likely
that the cite will be located at
W asliington.
Mrs. Morris of North Caroli
na, Ins been acquitted of the
charge of smothering her hus
band to death with chloroform
a few days ago. He was found
dead in his bed with a hand
kerchief over his face thorough,
ly saturated with the deadly
drug. Morris was a wealthy
old bachelor of forty-five. Ilis
wife was a young woman of
twenty. The proof, though
circumstantial, was very strong
against her.
The De Soto, a Cincinnati &
Memphis passenger and freight
steamer, was buraedamile be
low Owensboro, Ky., the 30th.
inst. She had on board about
700 tons of freight. All of this
wits lost. She was valued at
$30,000, and was insured for
SIO,OOO. There were thirty
live passengers on board. All
were saved without injury, but
their baggage, etc., were lost.
Brown Richardson, the negro
fireman, could not be found
and is supposed to have burn
ed in the llames.
Sen. Ingalls’ speech in the
senate a few days ago, is cal
ulated to encourage the already
bitter feeling of the negro to
ward the whites. But, then,
Mr. Ingalls was not directing
the northern negro to murder
and arson. He was hitting
the South a dead blow. The
southern negro is treated too
well, and knows full well, it
would not do for him to carry
out Mr. Ingalls’ instruction. It
would bring death to him where
peace now reign. The south
ern people are making no fuss
over the negro in any shape or
form. If Mr. Ingalls wants to
encourage social equality with
the negro and whites in the
South, all he has to do is (o
come south and try it. He will
return with the treatment of
the North—a coat of tar and
feathers. The negro in his
place is all right. The white
man that tries to push him out
is worse than he is.
If the Africans shall go batk
to Africa if, will be no such
journey as that of the children
of Israel. They were forty
years in making it, and n ;t one
who was alive and more than J
twenty years of age when the,
march began, was permitted to
live to its termination. Their
journey was a disturbed <ne
Tuey were bitten by venomous
s rpents, they encounteredj
famine, thirst and plagues.
r J he Moors in their return to j
Africa, left in their pathways
encumbered by their dead, old
and young. The lance and the
sword were the instruments
which stiinula'ed their pro
gress. There will he no snakes,
thirst, famine, plauge, lance or
sword in the return march to
their native land of the Afro-
Americans. It will be first
class traveling the entire route.
Meals will be served at all sta
tions and ample accommoda
lions on all the steamers.—
[Chicago Herald.
Ihe Speech Made a Stir —An
Atlanta Negro Compared the
Treatment North and South.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 30.—The
Atlanta delegation to the Chi
cago Afro-American convin
tion returned yesterday and
was accorded a reception at
night. One of the speec lies de
livered by Jackson McHenry
has stirred up the community
to-day. For an hour and a
half he compared the condition
of the colored people in Illinois
and Georgia, He said:
“The negroes up there are
just as good as white folks, you
don’t have a policeman stand
ing to run you in every time
you ask for something to eat in
a decent place, and if you
want to, you can marry a wdiite
girl. If you wan a short hair
ed girl you can get her, and if
you want a long haired one,
you can easily get her. That’s
the way they do up there.
Those negroes free down
here. When the white folks
have a dance you see the ne
gro fiddling for them and call
ing for them. V/hdn we had
our ball up there it was differ
ent. The white men fiddled
for the negroes and called till
the sweat rolled from them.
They fiddled for us because we
paid them for it. Lid j t ou ev
er see that down here? No sir.”
That negro should have staid
in lili noiß. The first thing he
knows, lie will find himself to
the end of a rope.
Wa uinatva i.eln-r.
From tho Journal’s Cirreepondent.
Washington, Jan. 27.—When
one learns that Mr. Peters of
Kansas, receives on an average
one hundred letters every day,
there is seen at least reason
why he writes to his conslitu
ents that private interests must
: take him bank to private life.
Tiiink of what it is to write one
hundred letters a day when you
I know what to say, and then
! add to that the labor of referr
ing in many cases to the vari
ous departments for informa
tion upon which to base a re
ply. Of course in some offices,
as in the pension office, a re
ply comes to the congressman
in the shape of a letter to his
canstituent and all it generally
needs is to be endorsed and
transmitted, but even this rep
resents double labor.
Of representatives from
central states, Mr. McKinney’s
mail is the largest, though this
has only been true during the
present congress. Owing like
wise to his position, Mr. Reed’s
mail exceeds that of any East
ern member. Mr. Cariise, of
course, receives the largest
mail ef any southern member.
The western members are,
however, the most richly fav
ored, or cursed with correpund
e its.
Apart from letters received
from pension and other claim
ants which always have a legit
imato purpo e. there are a wen
derful number of idle add pur
poseless letters received by
congressmen, and generally
answered. In every comniuni-1
ty you will find some man wl o
is always offering the congress
men advice by mail. In priv
ate life he may be the soul cf
mild good nature, bur he liar
bors about liim a wild desire to
write and in the secret w itch
es of the night he indites
realms of wisdom to his mem
ber. Perhaps he is an inlluen
tial man in his way and can
control a dozen votes among
his relatives, a id if so the con
gressmen probably knew it and
he get? a patient answer.
Sen. Ingalls gets more let
ters than any man in the sen
ate. His mail often reaches
three hundred letters in a sin
gle day. No other senator gets
near so many. Sen. Plumb,
his colleague, receives a very
large mail and so one must con
elude, considering also Repre
sentative immense cor
respondence, that Kansas is a
great state for letter writers.
To a certain extent, Sen. In
galls succeeds John A. Logan
as the man to whom old sold
iers must frequently write
about pension claims. Sen.
Logan’s mail was simply enor
rnous as regards pension mat
ters. It grew so burdensome
during the last few years of his
life that the majority of the let
ters of reply from the pension
bureau were never transmitted
to him at all, but were mailed
by the bureau directly to the
claimant.
The only men in congress
who escape a great mass of cor
respondence are new members
from remote eastern and south
ein districts and extremely un
popular old members serving
ttieir confessedly lasi term.
The amount of labor attached
to many years of such work is
appalling. The secret of suc
cessfully doing it lies in never
neglecting it. Up to his last
illness, “Sunset” Cox never re
tired at night until the day’s
correspondence was disposed
of. The letters that he could
answer intelligently were an
swered at once, be the reply
ever so brief. To this unvary
ing promptness and to the
courteous character of his com
munications, he owed in no
small measure his very long
and successful public career.
Now' that everyone is trying
his hand at civil service reform,
Gen. Rosecrans has turned up
with a bill, which he has sub
mitted to several members of
the .house committee and ae
claims, has been received w'ith
favor. It provides that the
clerical force of the govern
ment shall be classified accord
ing to congressional districts, 1
each district to have its proper
quota, and when any vacancy
exists, the particular congress
man entitled to the appoint
ment shall be notified. He
shall then nominate not less
than four candidates Ihe
place, who shall pi..-- a .m
--selves for examination o
the civil service comm: -•••.
The successful candidal
ing the office for six j e
Bargains For Ladies,
I Will Close Out My Entire
Stock Of Ladies’
Cloaks, Dolmans Etc
AT FIFTY CENTS ON T3E DOLLAR, FOR THE
NEXT THIRTY DAYS —-
I. A. Madden, MAYSVILLE, GA.
Rusk’s Drug Store-
At Crawford’s Old Stand, Clayton Street, Athens, Georgia.
Wholesale and Itelail Dealer in
Fine Toilet Soap*. Brushes and Combs. Fansy Articles in great
variety. preseriptiona carefully dispeDsrd.
Athens Music House
112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Postoffice, Athens, Georgia.
Haselton & Dozier, Proprietrs,
iii.in.n'fr... on hanl and for g^io
1 • ■ hand water colois.
N.. • I). P. llaselton, Thos. H. Dozier.
1870,-Four Car Load* Cooking S-ovcs and Ranges
ordered to Commence the season with by
2. E- JONES!
THE LEADING STOVE
Dealer of Noribeast
Mr prices can not be beat!
With locieased Facilities, 1 atn
prepared 10 suit ail purchaser *
Roofing, Guttering, Tin and
Sheet Metal Work! Tinware
tlieojjea'ff Anti BEsT/ Call On Or WRITE
E. E. Jones, 209