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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. : Bargains m or adi es. AItGA IN S it O R M ABIES. 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