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EDITOR! AL GO hLENT.
int wrvwmw -* v.n.
Tho republican. huv slmwii
tin*i :.!ie boasted surp ■.> i-n'i a
(Imp iu the bucket.
lii? Enterprise s.iys Gurues
villc is a good maii.it fur r.ib
bits.
New York can hoy ’ak • i
slice of her fair funds ami buii l
her Grant monument.
Tom S’ 11 should be mailt
diree <v general of lie VurMs
Fair at Chicago. He did it with
liis little b o tie ax.
Ampt i coming tu tho front
in Ohio once more. Ampt is a
democrat ho patriotically
tries to ke: and tho republicans
in the rear.
Western Kentucky and wes
ern Texas were visited with
heavy v- ind and rain storms,
25th, inst. Much damage was
done to property. No lives
were lost.
At St. Anne De La Terade,
Qnec., the 25fc’i, inst-., a quart
of whiskey and a trililing moth
er-in law caused her son-in-law
to kill her, his wife and two
children. The mother in law
had been living with him for
several years. During this
time she had ruled and caused
the husband to hate the whole
household.
The Banner is still urging
the boycott on .Wannainaker*
The editor might as well settle
down to business and give the
medicine to his readers as it is.
Wannainaker has prepared the
dose. It lias been swallowed.
Democrats doi't care to know
its compound jnst now. Be
with them in ’O2 and they will
strive to throw it up.
A book agent now turns up
in Atlanta from Lamar county,
Ala. He says Rube Burrows
is there. Rube and his gang
met the agent and told him to
“git.” He did “git.” He says
lie “is not going back any
more,'’
The governor of Alabama
will have to deal with Rube,
like Crittenden of Missouri,
dealt with Jesse James. lie
will have to get one ofhis own
men to capture him.
As mentioned in these col
umns a week or so previous,
Pledger, the mail crook from
Lula to Athens, was released
on a bond of SSOO last week.
The trial took place in Atlan
ta. When he was arrested and
given an examining trial in
Athens, his bond was fixed at
$2,000. Quito a difference ia
justice between the two cities:
One is for condeming crime,
the other for rewarding it.
Pledger is now in Athens,
Mat Davis may give him a po
sition in the post office.
Si. • : : r Smith is preparing to
have Hawes' only true confes
sion published in book form.
The tm >k will be sold broad
c -st. Mm proceeds are to go
to Flaw- little son.
Of . -"-v I‘h will see that
if - • L v,ion up his tir
ing v ti e mob and protecting
t u c: he and the laws of,
his •’v ■ Mis : art of the |
tr.i ommending to j
to ■ foi it in Hawes’l
io aoui ho spoils
p v not be con
r • vert he less,
• w ~ j
e worlds!
I c stands; \
/ i urk, 107; |
Si. .Louis, 25; Washington, 18.
This is Hie vote ot the lower
house. The senate lias not
been heard from. That body
is said to bo in favor of Wash
ton. but, as there is no chance
for this place, and the senate
being republican, it will, of
course, go with the Chicago
delegation.
The Georgia delegation, with
the exception of Steward, vot
ed with the Xew York delega
tion. Steward for Washington.
Col. Candler is not pleased
with the editor of the llanner.
That editor insinuates that he
is not a democrat in all things.
Sir. Candler has a littio to
say in tho Constitution. The
point of his article is this:
“[ am not a candidate for
governor nor anything else,
and shall not be. I do not
know who is Mr. Gantt’s favor
ite, but if he will trot him out
I will compare records with
him as to length of service in
the democratic party, loyalty
to its flag and orthodoxy in its
faith, and will cheerfully abide
the verdict of the democracy of
my own district, tbe state of
Georgia, or the whole country.”
r lho Mississippi Legislature
now in session, is surprised at
their empty treasury. How
ever, no one but the public ex
penses of the state lias run off
with the money. Treasurer
Ilemmiugway’s going out of
office shows up clean books.
The boys will be out of pock
et change this session.
That body has now passed
an act which greatly favors the
country press. It has been
the law to have all acts, local
or state, published in the offi
cial paper—i. e., the one that
does the state printing. This
is to be paid out of the public
fund of the county it the act
points to that special county.
If a general one the state
nays for it and it is only to be
published in the paper doing
Hie public printing. This will
greatly add to the country pa
llors’ income. Though the laws
of Mississippi helping the press
are better than in this state.
Georgia’s Next Governor.
To please myself, with no
concern as to the result, I ask
oil the following service thirty
days ago, of an acquaintance
in each county in the state:
“Ask one hundred people for
whom of the twenty names fur
nished, they will vote for gov
ernor.”
“I have heard from each coun
ty in the state, except five, with
the result given below:
“Gen. Evans leads by thirty
six counties majority, as first
choice, Pat Walsh second; Tom
Hardeman a close third; Blount
and Northen tie for fourth
place, seven counties behind
Hardeman; with Black of Au
gusta, heading a badly scatter
ed field.
“That’s all. As my friend
Peediddie says, ‘As it was guv
to me, so I gin it to you.’ ”
[Mark Johnson of Nona, in Con
stitution.
He is Answered.
A correspondent, writing
from Bellvilie, Kansas, informs
us that northerners '.-an no! and
will not come south because
they would meet social and pu
iitica.l ostracism.
Cur Kansas letter writer asks
who our people would treat ?n
old man visiting our historic
points ol interest, if they found
out that he was William Lloyd
Garrison.
Well, tho people who tried
to elect Horace Greeley to the
presidency would find it an
easy matter to treat William
Lloyd Garrison courteously it
ho visited the earth again. Af
ter the recent friendship and
literary partnership existing
between Jefferson Davis and
dames ILodpath, it is nonsense
to say that a respectable repub
lican and abolitionist of the
old-time stripe who comes
down here and behaves him
self, would meet with anything
but fair and pleasant treat
ment. lied path was once our
bitter enemy. N r ow he is till
ing the magazines with his
praise of Jefferson Davis, whose
kind heart and lafty character
greatly impressed him while
he was enjoying the hospitali
ties of Beauvoir.
A republican who is a good
citizen, trying to build up the
country, will find, when he set
tles in the South that his neigh
bors do rot care anything
about his politics. They will
help him in business and out
vote him in politics.—[Consti
tution. -
Waxltiugtou t.cUor.
From tbo Jou nal’s C r espotide :‘.
Washington, Feb. 24.—The
friends of civil service reform
are not cast down by exposure
of Commissioner Lyman's du
plicity. Ills testimony is only
surprising in that it is hardly
usual for a man accused by the
newspapers and denying most
vehemently all the charges to
go upon the witness stand
and confess everything. Ly
man confesses, in short,? that
he had his daughter examined
' for an appointment when she
was not eligible, and promoted
his brother-in-law, Campbell
twice, after that interesting in
dividual had purloined lists of
questions for the Use of a lady
friend who desired to be exam
ined for promotion. Lyman
says he did reprimand Camp
bell, and when asked whether
he would have discharged any
one else for the same offense,
lie refused to answer. With
very few exceptions, newspap
ers that have always been dis
tinguished as advocates of civ
il service reform are calling
loudly for Lyman’s resignation.
Thus far the investigation by
the House Committee has not
revealed anything detinnenta'
to Messrs. Roosevelt and
Thompson, and it is to be sup
posed that it will not. The
friends of the system do not
forget that upon the integrity
of its officers depends the suc
cess of any system, and the
dishonesty of Lyman, Camp
bell and their associates, and |
no more reflects upon civil ser-!
vice, than does an absconding!
cashier condemn banking.
The commendable proposi
tions advanced in the senate;
for the building of addilims to !
the White House and several
other public buildings, togeth
er with anew government
printing office building, has re
opened the old scheme of pur
chasing the land sou'll of Penn
sylvauia avenue from the cap.
itol to fifteenth street. This
was a pet plan of the congress
men of fifty years ago, who saw
i:i their minds’ eye a vista of
ru'L’ic palaces extending in
one majestic line up the uven-j
ue for two miles. For these
many years the owners of prop)
erty in that locality have lock
ed for the clay congress would
make tho appropriation Pa
tience has given out in some
cases and expensive warehous
es have gone up. Ihe ether
day Sen. Ingalls oven reported
in favor of allowing an addi
tioual nilway depot upon this
section. The value of the land
has always been kept, high in
anticapation of this gigantic
deal. Business has moved
rom Pennsylvania avenue to
F street, and now all the big
furniture and dry goods houses
that used to compose tho north
side of Pennsylvania avenue
have sought other quarters.
Still the price remains big.
The expense, however, would
be but a small consideration
had not nature put her ban up
on the plan. Twice within tho
past year, and previously at in
tervals of three or four years,
the major portion of this land
has been covered with water,
backing up from the river, and
many of the streets have been
three or four feet under water.
The laud is mostly made land,
a marsh having been there
once, and old inhabitants tell
of duck hunting in its wilds.
The cellars are still useless, be.
ing 'iable to be flooded during
any heavy rains.
Photographs of different
floods in this district are dis
played in places along Penn
sylvania avenue. They show
business houses flooded to the
middle of the first floor, water
lapping the store floors as far
the north of the street and ho
tels like the St. James with the
lobbies flooded. And yet this
is the sort of property that
sharks'try to sell the govern
ment. 1 believe that despite
the money Ilia combined land
owners can give to lobby a bill,
the scheme will fail. So long
as there is dry land to be had
congress will hardly be induc
ed to buy a marsh.
Taking a lunch amid the
clinking glasses in the restau
rantson either tfrfe house or sen
ate side of the capitol, one
would hardly believe that for
over fifty years there has exist
ed a quiet, earnest temperance
society composed entirely of
representatives and senators.
The society is little heard cf
and its quiet February anni
versaries pass by unacyiced by
the world. Some of the mem
bers; many of them—are men
who were once excessive drink
ers, and their reformation has
been to them the hardest bat
tle of their lives. That is why
so few of them strongly identi
fy themselves with the big pro
hibition movements. Their
days of dissipation are sore
places in their lives, which
they seek only to forget. On
the old rolls of Ihe society ap
pear the names of such men as
Edwsrd Everett, Lewis Cass,
Rufus Choate, Joshua It. Gid-
dings, Henry A. Wise, Millard
Fillmore, and Franklin Fierce.
To-day the names of Sens. Col
quitt, Biair, Hawley, Mitchell,
Teller, McMillan, Washburn,
Wilson. Frye and Dawes ap
pear upon the books. One of
tlie most interesting facts is
that Robert Smalls and John!
E. Lynch have been members!
of the society. These men who j
have risen from the depths of j
poverty and race prejudice,!
•: re learned the advantage of i
sobriet y. :
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