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EDITORIAL COMMENT. ii—nw • -immn mmv.im'* John R Lynch, ihe negro polilici. i' of Mississippi. w ns in Atkn a hist week with Pled;; or. It is purpose was t<> organ ize clubi in the interest of Har vis in's par v\ Alexander imy le of New Vo - k, has been awarded the contract to build the Henry Grady monument. Mr. Dovle ir, one of die twenty live that is a e made applications. William If Pope, teller of t'l. .Louisville, X Ci y Na na 1 . dm;, hia skipped to r.i da or some vhen? else. Lie car i 1 th hi n SJ9.O 0 oi die bank’s money. ile left the • alav right of ih s !. . • lend was hanged in -o vior;ati county, the 2> . as. or rap * and murder, of a it!-, white g.ri Thane g : was taken out and lunged to u telegraph post. His body was riddled withoverone hun dred shots. The hanging took p ace abou" 9A-o’clock tho 1,1 lowing night. The Banner’s special train didn’t arrive un til 11 .-50. Ihe negro had been hanging two hours. F x-Congressman Tan! bee who was shot by Correspond eat Kincaid a few days ago. at the cupii'd in Washington, is very low. The trouble grew out ot Kincaid publishing a scandal and implicating Taul bee. Taulbee slapped Kincaid in the face. The latter shot Taulbee in the head. Kincaid has been released on bond. Livingston has opened the campaign for governor. Liv ingstonisthe ailiauce candi date. Though this body has not. as yet, made its choice, it is known that it favors either Livingston or Northern Those t . 0 are its leaders. However, Livingston sajslhe alliance propose to do their lighting within the lines of the democratic party. How this will take through out the state, and what opposi tion may arise from the repub lican party, .just, now, cau not be predicted. The National, State Demo cratic Nominating Convention lias its claims, of course An other man outside of the alli ance may receive the nomina tion. The alliance will have 1 to be governed in this cnvon tion. if it would make a success fui tight within democratic lines. The Federal Judicial System The organization and machin er.v provided by the federal government for the administra lion of justice in the courts of the United States have not for two decades been adequate to the needs of their expanding business. Jhe result is that the judicial force, both in the interior courts and in the su preme court, has not beensudi cient to do the work devolved upon them in uoh way and with such promptitude as to se cure the rights of parties liti gant. These facts have been well understood for a long time, bat the unprecedented, number of bills introduced at the present hpssior:, both in the senate and tin house, o.i the subject indi cait-s that ihere is at least a probability that something will • t,e done. The Je! v.-:- < f .jit-lice in the supreme court—caused not by the fault of judges; but by att overflow of cases—are so griev ou i tint they have assumed pro portions o r a national reproach. By impairing respect and rev erence for law, they have be come a source of public dang er. Considerations of this character lift the whole subject above tha plane of parly poli tics and elevate to the range of a high public duty on the part of congress to provide a remedy for existing abuse.— [Constitution. I Dick Hawes. Friday the 2Sth, iust., at 12:- SS. Dick Hawes gave his life on the gallows in the Binning ham jail yard for the murder of his wife and 2 daughters. He walked from the cell wiih a coolness and nerve hardly ever displayed at the point of deal!). With him was SheriiT Smith and two ministers. Hawes was dressed neatly in his burial suit. On the left lapel of his coat was a boqnet of delicate red and white. In tho right hand pocket appeared a por tion of a delicate white ailk handkerchief. On his feet he wore a pair office toilet slip pers. His hair was combed re markably. Every hair was smoothly to its plaie; giving the full texture and shape of his head. As he came up the steps on the platform, he turn ed his face aside to keep from touching the noose that was soon to take his life. Turning on the scaffold, he faced the audience. lie sasv Mr. Kann, and told SheriiT Smith to call him to him. Sheriff Smith did so. Hawes said, “Kann, I want to die in peace with everybody. I want to tell you that I forgive you for the many hard things you have said about me in the papers.” Then he wanted to know if Mr. Milburn was pres ent. When informed (hat he was. lie gave Milburn iusluc tions to sea to his body. This was acknowledged and accept ed by Milburn. Then afeve,- ent prayer was offered up b ,r Dr. Purser, one of the minis ters who was on the sea Told; Hawes frequently chiming in with amen. After prayer was over Idawos walked out on Hie trap. He was asked if he had anything to say. He said all he had to say would be given to the public in his book. lie didn’t want die people to think lie was going lo die with a lie on his lips. Then Sheriff Smith Stepped up and put the noose around his neck. At this Hawes face turned extremely red. Sheriff Smith asked, “How does that feel, Dick?” Hawes re plied, “Its too tight around my neck.” Then he was asked to hold out his hands. This ha did. Sheriff Smith produced from his pocket a pair of hand cuffs. He fastened them on the rists. Hawes locked his fingers. Then a cord was tied around each arm at the elbow and tied behind his bark. An other was tied below his knees. Then Sheriff Smith took from his pocket a black silk cap. Hawes looked at it, and again reminded Milburn to care for his body; telling the spectators as Sheriff Smith was putting ihe cap over his head, “to shun whiskey and vile women. I wish I had.’’ Alter the cap was put on Sheriff Smith s epp ed back. Hawes called out in a muffled voice, “Hold on, down then, Joe. Let me stand here a minute, please!'’ After hu elapse of a minute, Sheriff Smith counted one. two, three! The tiap sprung and Ha we;,' body went down full length, and then sprang up an inch or two. He faintiy raised his fed twice, as though Tying to kick, iiis stomach and chest rose and went down like a bellows. In fourteen minutes the doctors pronounced him dead. Then ' Sheriff Smith cut the rope and Ihe body was received by four of tire dead man's friends and taken into a room in the jail |and laid on a bod. When the cap was removed Ihe face bore a mild repose. The features seemed natural. The body re mained in the jail until morn ing, when put in a costly cof fin and taken to Atlanta. The burial took place at Oakland Cemetery, Monday morning. Thus ends, seemingly, an un surpassed tragedy. Wanliiuaiuo I. eller. From the Joui nut’s Cortespondent Washington, March 3.— r i he senate elections committee is deep in the intracioies of the Montana Senatorial troubles. I Several hours were devoted i Saturday to discussing purely legal questions. The printed copies of the arguments ay Bayne and Jenks had not been received in time (o allow of consideration bv the members. A further meeting will be held next Saturday, in pursuance of the leisurely and dignified prac lice of the senate. Dr. Norviii Green, president of the Western Union Tele j graph company, has been for two days before the house pos tal commit lee, arguing in op position to Mr. Wanamaker's proposition of a postal tele graph. He contends that the English system has been run at a loss, even with salaries one half as large as those paid in this country, and where the distances were but trilling and Hie rates for long distances greater. The pressure for official pla ces centers about the Census office. Supt. Porter tries to shove oft' the applicants upon the chief clerk, but only par tially succeeds. The chief clerk merely surrenders to the ava lanche, and is miserable all day. The civil service saves the other departments to a great extent, but it does not relieve pressure upoa the Cen sus office. There are many haggard men and pitiable look ing women in the crowd that daily besiege the doors. The other day I heard one miser ably dressed old man telling another that he had worked on the census in 1860, 1870 and j 1880. What he had done be tween times, no man, not evrn himself, I suppos , could tell. him stood a hard faced woman who, I re member, has been discharged from three departments and more than once from each on account of incompetency. With her was her daughter, a beauti ful girl of eighteen. Any one acquainted about the depart ment could recognize a score of familiar faces in the crowd of applicants. The civil service investiga tion, even if ir should fail to accomplish the dismissal of that highly scented fraud Com missioner Lyman, has brought to public notice tw o deeply in teresting personage that might hive otherwise remained un known to fume. These are Ly in n's brother in-law Campbell and Rev. Mr. Bailey. The for nier is the individual who stole the exaniina’ion questions that Were peddled about town, for which mild offense he was re primatuled and uftewards twici promoted by Lyman, (lie sob commissioner. In his appear ance upon the witness stand In was abject and confused, con tradicting himself and admit inghis contradictions. Camp bell is the ideal poor relation always clinging to a bright man's skirts, ids coarse face, with its piggish, over-fed ex pression, fades into a red, bull neck and a frouzv suit of cloth es. Bailey is his opposite in*ap p arance. Neatly dressed; plump, oily, pursuasive. lie is the ideal of an upright man. nis complexion is as pure as a girls, and on his round jaws grows tha beard ol one that has never shaved, uis only bad feature is his mouth, a large or gan upon which rests a continu al smile that borders on a sum k and a “dod you is always < n his lips.” He is charged with having been promoted, without examination, as a sfen ographer, when he was abse lutelv incapable of doing short hand work, in violation © r -be civil service law. He has been carried on the rolls as a steno grapher without attempting to perform such duties, lie is a member of Lyman’s church. Very thrifty, this Bailey, The civil service offices are in the city hall and lie is general- ly called on during the hours when the government is sup posed to employ him to per form marriages for eloping couples. Quite a snuc little sum he makes in this way. He is also head of a praying band that goes about the streets in a big wagon, lidding meetings at corners, nis exposure does no mortify his Chad band. Meekf ly, he turns the olher cheek and the tear upon it is one of meekness and forgiveness. The man doesn’t really compie heiul his shame. It is comforting to think that the departmental forces are not composed alone of bung ling rascals and hypocritical knaves. The “Livery of Heav en” is not always stolen, as the patient Christian lives of so many useful government em ployees prove. Perhaps the future painter of cur manners will find a rich mine in the re cords of the investigation of the Lyman administration. The shooting of Ex Repre sentative Taulbee by Mr. Kin caid of the Louisville Times, is the final outcome of one of the most disgraceful scandals ever known in this city. About two years age the Times pub lished an account cfTaulbee’s indecent conduct with a wo man in a public place, audits truth lias never been denied. The most amazing feature of the case is that the woman is 1 still retained in the interior j department. Ever since the publication Taulbee, a power ful raw b med man, over six feet, has hounded Kincaid, a small, sickly man weighihg about one hundred pounds. lie pursued the game t o long, an l j now lies in the hospital with aj ball in his brain. The shooting J occurred in a corridor on tl.ej House side of the capilol. j Bargains mor bp adi es. AII GAINS ib OR ADI ES. I Will Close Out My Entire Stock Of Ladies’ Cloaks, Dolmans Etc t ~ AT FIFTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS I. A. Madden, MAYSVILLE, GA. Brumby’s LINIMENT. The Greatest Pain Killer in the World—Best Mothers’ -—<( RELIEF ON EARTH. >•- — fioF~G<>oA for neuralgia, stiff joist*, sprains, aches in baek, side and limbs, headache, and anything wbers a Liniment' is sj.pl cable. Dneetiona— Apply freely and often with the hand. PREPARED By It T. Brnmhy & Go, Drnggists and Pharmacists, Athena, Georgia. 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