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editorial comment.
A rillodub bus been organ
ized in Mu-on.
AJait'sv.ile, on. tc-porls some
lino iron deposits.
Editor Nappi ..■*■ of (ho \Ya !
ton News, :ui.i sienoitriplnt-for
tiiis district, att-mb .1 court.
Several counties in Alabama
have instructed for Judge Wil
liam Richardson for governor
The ! eavi.-st snow for the
city of New Veil;, this winter,
fell the 19th. It measured 01
inches.
Report from iounos-ej says
tire fruit crop throughout that
state has been killed. r i ho
early bud and lute frosts did
the work.
The poor house and correc
tion house of New Hanover, N.
0., were burned (lie lbtii. In
cendiarism is thought to have
been the cause.
The alliance men of Kansas,
have served notice on the re
publicans in congress that there
are some matters quite as im
portantas the negro question.
A north Georgia editor says.
t; A bushel of com makes four
gallons of whisky.'’ A little
further on he says, “Those not
able to pay the money tor this
paper, can pay us in corn.”
The attempt to ignore Colo
nel Livingston won’t do. The
neatness and dispa ch with
which he pulled the cat from
the piggin deserves ihe high
est praise.
Chas, Echolls, who was triod
for the killing of Thomas at
the Pitts house in Covington
a year ago, is now a raving
maniac in Mississippi, lie says
Thomas’ ghost haunts him.
Hon. F. C. Tate made a good
.impression on the people here
List week. Mr. Tate will be in
the field in this district for con
gress. While Banks has pledg
ed herself to no one, Mr. Tate
has a strong following.
Baptist Convent ion.
Washington, G \ . March 19.
—Tile sixty-eig’it session of
th : s venerable body will meat
at Washington,Gn., April 21th.
Washington will dispense ele
gant hospitality.
The Georgia eihors are de
clining right and left to serve
their country in the legislature.
They are right; they deserve
nothing less than congress; but
from tiie way tilings are work
ing iu Vy ashington now, it is
doubtful if congress deserves
them.
Thus. 11 Sparks of Milton
count v. came of.: war like race,
liis father, grandfather, and
great grandfather were all sol
diers. Ills grim! grandfather
and lather v< in the war of
the devolution, his father in
tin v;;r (,f 1 ' 12, and lie him
self "‘ns a soldier in liie war be
two- the state.’.
An enraged delinquent
.ul-'Cii roeentlj r wrote
to a Georgia editor ;!'■ follows:
- I- v ,v another Word in the
;>;•>•••( . about the monc;. 1 owe
von. t viil con::-, to town and
.tv-su- the devil out oi. you.’’
'i • •• edi - '• •• ijii:* “Come
■/ ; . My wife says
■ ' ,-•> : ,!:• devil in me for
- etfa uc
i.* :Mg him oui, per
: -■ t!i • peace in the
The Great Exposition.
Washington, March 10.—Mr.
Chandler of Massachusetts, pi e
seated in tha house to and >y the
repor. of the special commit
tee oa the World's Fair. It. is
exceedingly long and is accom
pania 1 with voluminous ap
pendices The provisions of
the bill have been given in
these dispatches. Ihe report
takes up the bill section by sec
tion, explains the eli\ ct of each
and states the considerations
which governed the framing of
each. The committee Inis giv- j
en cireful consideration to the,
statements of representatives '
of the finance committee of the
city ef Chicago, as to sub
scriptions to the stock of
$5,000,000 and believes the
subscriptions were made in
good faith, and that they will
be paid. Some of the state
ments made by the chairman
of that committee are append
ed to this report.
The committee also accepts
the statements and representa
tions made by the citizens of
the city of Chicago, through
their committee, as to their
ability to raise an additional
$5,000,000, and are of* he opin
ion that they are made in good
faith, and will not berepudiat
ed. The committee claim that
the government of the United
Stales does not assume any
risk, but is asked to enact such
legislation as to demonstrate
that it is in sympathy with and
desires to encourage the palri
otic efforts of the citizens of
Chicago in this great national
and international exposition
that will mark this important
epoch in the history of the
world and to commemorate the
life and services of Christoph
er Columbus in a manner wor
thy the continent which he dis
covered.
Counting the Cost.
The Philadelphia and imes is of
the opinion that the adoption
of llie Lodge national election
al bill will lead to a condition
of inextricable confusion iu ev
ery stale that his not been wit
nessed since the federal alien
and sedition laws of John Ad
ams. To the confusion, the
Times also adds the cost, which
it estimates at not less than
$10,000,000, which will be paid
out to between 150,000 and
200,000 newly created federal j
officials.
The bill, even under the
moderate estimate of the Times
takes the shape of a tax bill,
and it is to be hoped that this
view of it may touch some of
the northern republicans in
their ter.derest spot—the pock
et. The tact should be borne
in mind, however, that the esii
mate of the Times fails to cov
er one-tenth of the real cost of
the law.
The confusion and collisions
to which the law will lead, and
for which it will be directly re
sponsible, will be by far the
costliest features of the propos
ed law. It is an attack on the
South in its purposes, and in
all its parts, and the result of
its operations will be the dis
organization and demoraliza
tion of the business interests
of this section. The intent of
the bill is to provide for the
domination of ignorance and
r: : •.-iSiiess in states and com
munities where these elements
.re in ’ majority,
T:tk s o. f domination led
to chaos, confusion null law
lessness dining the roeonstr.u
tion period, aud it will lead to
worse now, because the inter
ests at stake are larger and
'more important, and the reac
tion will be greater. Follow
ing the confusion that will at
tend the operations of the p;o
prosed law, the industrial
will receive a set back so far
as its progress and develop
ment are concerned, that will
be seriously felt all ovtr llie
country. For the South is ijo
longer isolated as it was just
after the war. Its wonerful re
sources have attracted millions
of northern capital, and thou
sands of northern settlers. It
is connected by the closest busi
ness tics with all the other sec
tions of the country, and any
measure calculated to serious
ly disorganize its business, re
tard its development and in
terfere with i'.s industrial de
velopment will beieitin every
state in the union.
This is where the real cost
of the measure will mount up.
It is an easy matter to esti
mate the salaries of the now of
ficials to oe created under this
bill, but no estimate can cover
the loss which this section and
the whole country will sustain
as the result of this fresh re
publican attack on the prosper
ity of the South.—[Atlanta
Constition.
Wasbiugsvu J.eUcr,
From the .Journal’s Correspondent.
Washington, March 17.
The death of William Preston
Taulbee, the cx-ltepresenta.
live shot by Chas. E. Kincaid,
! correspondent of the Louisville
Times, makes one of the most
distressing murders in Wash
ington that is known in many
years. The murderer is pros
trated by the result of his act
and in his frail health and ex
citable temperament his physi
cians fear that he will die be
fore the case can he tried. The
feeling of Kentuckians here is
much divided. One would
suppose at first from the news
paper accounts that sympathy
was all with Kincaid, but now
that it is established that he
pursued his man and shot him
before he could turn,sympathy
is going the other way.
Keprescntati re Henry Cabot
Lodge introduced his long talk
ed of Federal election bill in
the house Saturday. The bill
has tiie essential features of
the Australian ballot system
and provides for the Federal
supervision of elections. The
system new in force in Mas
sachusetts is made applicable
to (he entire country in con
gressional and presidential elec
tions. Each polling place is
put in charge of six judges-or
supervisors, three represent
ing each political party. Yot
ers who can not read or write,
may have tickets marked by
one supervisor in the presence
of another o 1 the opposite par
ty. Primarily the elections are
in control ol the slates, but up
on the petition of five hundred
voters in any district the Fed
eral government will take ab
solute control. On this clause
the fight will be long and hot.
From the day the last excur
sion Lout on tiio Potomac ties
up late in the fall until the
spring moruin.';. when the whis
ties sound again, tfto average
Washingtc nian, he of ■ oiuile.!
recourses and boundi L
on Sundays stays Into in bed.
T.ie Sabbath sun lias looked
scornfully down the deserted
streets for good three hours,
catching only glimpses of an
occasional policeman or a be
luted rounder, an early milk
man or an enterprising new.-
boy, before the town gets up.
And whether ho looks out
through cracked window panes
o" through luce curtained
French plate, the citizens votes
that it will be, like all Sundays
at. the capital, a (lull day, that
is. lie so votes if ho is a worldly
c tizon.
It iias come to he locally a
; roverb that Washington is a
dull town on Sunday. The
stray visitor from New Orleans
t his you so with many sighs
for the matinee, and the Lake,
and the shell road. The Sr.
Louis man, bitter from loss of
die fair, endorses him. The
Cincinnati tourists longs ior
his native hill tops The New
Yorker is lost in astonishment.
Washington is voted a dull
town on the Sabbath.
To him who is not lost to the
beauties of a May morning gra
ciously given to windy March,
the suburbs and the road hous
es beyond oiler some compensa
tion. The wheelmen know this
and while the majority of man
kind stop at home and grum
ble, they are away over the
hills, oval - roads full of historic
reminiscences, to Tenalytown,
Bladensburg, or ancient Alex
andria, fast asleep between the
sluggish Potomac and the Vir
ginia hills. It is nightfall be
fore these silent wheels again
strike the magnificent city
streets, bringing a thousand
glimmering rows of lanterns,
like meteors, Hashing through
the shadows.
The cidzen who goes abroad
on horesback, and he is gener
ally accompanied by the clti
zeness, enjoys the day and has
the additional advantage of
knowing that this fad is full of
fashion. There are few cities
in tiiis country that contain
more good riders, perhaps no
city of the same population.
The members of the foreign le
gations set the style, and the
riding academies have done
yeoman service in developing
lhs riding talent that slumber
ed undeveloped in society.
What of the rest of mankind
and womankisd who are not de
vote l to an orthodox o'oserv
ance of the day and who re
main in tow a?
They walk hard and long.
Up Connecticut Avenue, out in
Georgetown, about the hotels,
down Pennsylvania Avenue,
over on Capitol hill, they wan
der like uneasy spirits, There
chief summer joys, going down
the river on excursions an l go
ing up the river rowing, are not
yet open to them. So they
must needs walk.
And the character of the
crowds vary. Between lower
Pennsylvania Avenue and Con
necticut Avenue on a sunshiny
winter afternoon, there is the
difference between wealth and
poverty, the difference be
tween content and misery, the
difference between the ir.s
and outs. About the down
town hotels is a large sprink
ling of shuffling shabby gentili
ty, confident or abashed.as the
case may be, but obviously
shabby.
T ire Money Loan Associations
v, nit it understood they will
n,;-.k no loans to the black man
Bargains or y adies.
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