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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. ARGA IN S Ja Olt JLj ADI ES. I Will Close Out My Entire Stock Of Ladles’ Cloaks, Dolmans Etc AT FIFTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS I. A. Madden , MAYSVILLE, GA. Brumby's. LINIMENT. Tiie Greatest Pain Killer ix the World—Best Mothers’ —<J RELIEF ON EARTH. >• STG-ood for neuralgia, stiff joints, sprains, aches in back, side an<i limbs, htadacbe, end anything where a Liniment' ia sppl cable. Direction* —Apply freely and often with tho hand. PREPARED By li T. Brumby & Go., Druggists an! Pharmacist*, Athi-ns, Georgia. AthcnsMusic House 112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Postoffice, Georgia. Haselipn & Dozier, Proprietrs. : rV* V-l installweno Sp^eoi *- r |>. X’. 1:,,,, i.-,. TtM. (I- Doziex. 1870,-Fonr (Jar Loads Cooking Stoves and RaDges ordered to Cotnmenco the season with by E. E Jones, THE LEADING STOVE T^plglgpill||&“ Itealer oi rSoitlicavi /'y My prices can not be beat' - With loot eased Facilities, I am prepared to snU ail purchaser-, * s “ Roofing, Guttering;, Tin and Sheet Metal work! Tinware CheopeiT And BFsT/ Call On Cr WKSTB E, E. Jones, 209 ATHENS.