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EDITORIAL COMMENT, i
Speaker Reed ought to in
quire what ex Speaker Blaine
thinks about his rulings.
The lattvJeh Davis contin
ues to receive lny.li tribute Rom
the press.
Cleveland, White county, is
living in hope of a railroad in
the near future. Ditto llorncr,
Banks bounty.
New York democrats dt cl are
that Gov. Hill will r.ot be a
candidate for the presidency in
1890.
As yet there are no candi
dates out for congress in this
district. Is it not lime some
body wa3 coming to the front?
Gov. Gordon’s private secre
tary, N. 0. Barnett, died a few
diys’ ago. Col. Cook has been
appointed in his place.
if awes’ attorney is now ask
r a commutation to life im
manent for him. Gov. Seay
v ' badly interfere.
Ii is said that the whisky trust
has di solved partnership. The
whisky ring, however, is still
doing business at the old stand.
The fact that Editor Hal
stead still slicks to Foraker,
shows that there is still anoth
er link in the sausage.
“The debates in congress
now-a-days,” says the Boston
Herald, “do not lack a certain
cgispness.” Quite true. It is
the Georgia touch.
It appears that Atlanta leads
the matrimonial procession.
To all those yearnful souls who
yearned in vain, they have
now a chance.
Col. Gantt of the Banner
and Mr. Johnson of tiie Oconee
Enterprise, have had a little
difference recently, through
their papers in reference to
Solictor Russell.
The president continues to
make appointments with an
unceasing hand, lie may wind
up with Mat Davis in the Ath
ens’post office. li‘he does it
will be a great slur to Athens.
The Boston herald alludes
to prominent mulatoes as “pro.
fessionul negroes. 5 ' r l here
seems to V>s a technical term
for everything in these days of
scientific research.
A few days hack in Cincin
nati, a dog carried a human
skull into his master’s home.
The detectives are much exer
cised over the case, and are
working it up.
Secretary Tracy’s wife and
daughter were burned to death
with his residence in Washing
ton, a few days’ ago. The sec
retary was badly burned him
self, and may die.
The business inen of Toccoa
are liberally patronizing the
CarnesvilleTribune. This is the
means of drawing trade. The
life of your business is in the
colum., of the newspaper.
The •■■.rizeus are preparing
to boy■ t Wannaraaker's dry
goods '. i>l clothing establish
ment ’hiladelphia, if the
negro Davis, is appointed
to the ns post office.
Con:' -man Dibble of
South ( ina, has a bill pro-
Vi ■, g . - second vice presi
] is intended to give
pi r Vor>. core time to look
ill;- ' ' -00111?
j ij . . Aim, Feh. 2.
The post office here and the de
pot were broken into Friday
light. About two dollars was:
taken from the post office and
soaia crockery out of the depot
and the mail sack cut open, but j
notiiing was taken from it.
Sir. Harrison got out from
u.ider the hat the other day,
smiled, and recognized Brazil,
lie might have given the same
performance a month or more
i ago, but no doubt he had to re
■ hearse tiie whole business.
Gilbert Lowe, the negro mur
derer of Jim Meadows, was
j
i hanged in Birmingham, 11th,
inst. This same scaffold will
doom Dick Hawes the 28th, if
a commutation is not granted
by the governor.
Kilrain fought another prize
fight in New Orleans the 2nd.
inst. His antagonist was a
young Frenchman named Felix
i Vacqueline. After three rounds
■ Kilrain was declared the win
ner. The wager was a thous
I and dollars a side.
Reed is becoming quiet and
congress is getting down to
business. Still the democrats
are not at all satisfied with the
proceedings of the past few
days. They feel that Heed has
insulted and mistreated them.
They feel that he lias violated
the rules of the house to satis
fy the personal wrath of him
self and party.
Nicholasville, Ky., Jan. 31.
—The liev. Stephen Noland
died suddenly yesterday, lie
was an evangelist, and claimed
that ho had divine visitations
from Jesus Christ, who appear
ed to him in bodily form three
times, lie gave a full account
over his signature in his news
paper, the Central Methodist,
the meetings, and described
the conversations in full. Many
members of the church, the M.
E. church south, so reverd him
to the last that they believed
to doubt his story was impiety.
New York, Jan. 31.—About
1 o’clock Monday afternoon,
Howard Potter of the crew of
Island Beach Saving Station,
was on the beach and saw com
jng towards him from the south
east what he supposed was
some lumber from a schooner
wrecked south of the station
On closer view he discovered
it was a sea serpent. The head
appeared to be like a pig fish,
or sea robin, and about sixty
or seventy feet long. There
was a large lump on its back.
It went to the north slowly like
a snake. It was seen about
one hundred yards from the
beach. It came in over the
Kara and went out again. It
was seen by four of the crew,
and they will vouch for it.
Near Knoxville, Tenn., a few
days ago, while some parties
were out duck hunting on the
Wataga river, they found a bar
rel Boating in the stream,,xln
the barrel was seated a hri&lit
eyed three or four year.old ba
by boy. The following in
scription were pnihed to the
little fellow's clothing: On one
side bearing the name “Willie”
and on the other, “My little
boy; we now part forever. Tis
the work of fate, though the
road you are to travel seems
perilous, to mine it is no com
parison, You "will never know
me or nothing about your birth.
But, should you safely reach
your journey’s end, console
Yourself with these words,‘i
was horn honorably.’ May God
bless you forever. Good bye. i
“Mother.”
Our Late Secretary of State, j
The death oft! e Hon. X. 0. ■
Barnett, Georgia’s secretary of
state, while not altogether un
expected, will come to our
readers wRh a shock this morn
ing.
Mr. Barnett had held the
state’s commission longer than
any of his contemporaries. Its
was also the oldest of them all.
He was full of honor and full
of years at a time
when some of our middle
aged statesmen were just en
tering public life. Through
more than one generation and
numerous administrations lie
was reflected to the office of
secretary of state, and, as a
rule, without opposition.
In youth and old age the
venerable secretary preserved
the same traits and character
istics. Duty was his guiding
star, and he gave the same
painstaking attention to the
smallest details that he gave
to the most important matters.
While his system w?.s the very
essence of method, it was sing
ularly free from anything like
red tapeism. The humblest
citizen writing from a back
county received as prompt and
thorough service as a high of
llcial commanding influence.
These qualities were soon re
cognized. Parties and politi
cians wrangled, and peace and
war alternated, but it soon
came to be an understood fact
that the secretary was not to
be disturbed. He had no ene
mies and anything like serious
opposition to him would have
sealed any political candidate’s
fate.
The life of such a man shows
that it is possible to serve the
state in high official station,
and yet remain so far above
the atmosphere of ordinary
politicians that the barbed
shafts of envy and detraction
are never aimed at a mark so
lofty, so far beyond their reach.
Secretary Barnett was a
model man, as well as a mod
el official. He had a heart of
gold, and the hundreds of
young men aided and encour
aged by hitn will sincerely
mourn the death of their best
friend, while the people of the
! commonwealth will deeply sym
; pathize with the afflicted fami
ly of Georgia’s oldest and best
loved public servant.
A grand old man—a gentle
man of the old school—the
great hearted friend of the peo
pie—all this and a hundred
fold more, will be said of Na
than C. Barnett.—[Constitu
tion.
AVllsliiiiiiton LBlter.
Fiorn the Journal’s Correspondent.
Washington, Feb. 3.—The
last week in the House was
the most turbulent in many
years. For the amount of con
fusion and bitterness indulged
in, there was comparatively
little personal feeling develop
ed, and Speaker Reed is prob
ably as popular among his
democratic colleagues as he ev
er was, and that is saying con
siderable. The result was to
all effects decided Thursday,
when the Speaker’s iron will
prevailed, and the question of
whether or not members who
are present and silent can be
counted as voting, was settled,
for the present, in the affirma
tivo. Though on Friday the
democrats were able to fight
off the consideration •ot t lie
question taking up the first
election case, for over four
hours, yet the acknowledg
ment of defeat had to come*
On Saturday the battle had
eased down to a skirmish and
Ihe lire was spi’iliess. The
galleries were comparatively
e npty.
The result is certainly a vio
t ry for Speaker Reed, but it
was one expected by the most
experienced men on both sides
of the house. It establishes a
fact that was notorious before,
and that is that Speaker Reed
is a man of remarkable perse
verance and unvarying good
combined with an iron will. In
his manner the Count Fosco
was sever more urbano, of
course, there is one thing that
detracts from his victory and
that is that the democrats did
not put up the best light possi
ble. Mr. Carlisle had propos
ed taking a stand purely upon
parliamentary law and fight
ing the speaker without confu
sion, but he found himself un
able to control his forces and
bedlam ensued. The so-called
“impassioned orators” took
the bit between their teeth and
ran away, and impassioned or
ators is of about as much use in
a debate on purely parliamen
tary questions as he is before
the United States Supreme
Court.
Throughout the week the
democrats missed one man and
lie is Samuel J. Randall. He
iiad written Mr. Carlislo to
stand firm, but he could not
give Mr. Carlisle his cunning,
his force and his knowledge of
parliamentary law. No man
now living in this country has
all these qualifications so high
ly developed. In short the
democrats were unable to use
their full force unitedly-.
But though temporarily de
feated the democrats have de
termined to stand together and
to dispute the ground inch by
inch until the republicans are
compelled to present rules for
the guidance of the house. In
this effort, so long as it remains
legitimate in its conduct, the
democrats will meet with a
large amount of sympathy
from business men throughout
the country who desire to see
legislation actually in motion.
In the meantime the republi
cans are to-day making strenu.
ous efforts to secure a quorum
of their own members in the
houso to dispose of the pending
election cases. Saturday’s rate
showed a strength of 163, or
two less than a quorum. In
the morning Mr. O’Donnell
turned up audit was thought
that, with the vote of the spea
ker, the party in pow’er would
have the necessary 165. It
was discovered to their sorrow,
however, that Representative
Neidringhaus, the gentleman
with the strange and wonder
ful biography in the Congres
sional Record, had slipped off
to New York. He was tele
graphed for. Meanwhile, Mr.
Rockwell of Massachusetts,
sent word, that although he
was ill he would come if abso
lutely necessary. The other
absentees are Wilber of New
York, whose severe illness
places his attendance out of the
question, and Mr. Caswell,
whose wife died on Friday, but
who will, nevertheless be here
tc-morrow.
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