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J o.' Bakton, - - Editor.
*i |l [UV>|u- ol lao All'. 1 Isiipjil Vvli
ley have expereoeed mhuo m--vc>o cold
weaker within lb? nss - f*>v weeks.
Aoo her icw mOiU'i i.i t-<ing mud>
i ) lor li rrif-oa. Ho neiiia lo Ijh .
dlde haul t piee-'e.
~4!itbaii(!* i, i'ii..mutn a:e t, i'l urg
ing a place for C<d ISio-ub in Harr’s
ob's cabinet.
ran. UuVi'.iuu is ./.i.ii.g |.
lions to assofiato bitu*t-)t wi>li a big
law {inn in A w York lifter the- 4:hoij
31 rob.
Business in Aew York is alittio
dull, 'i he speculators, no doubt,
are holding up until niter the in
auguration.
It is In liev.u u c president will veto
tbo agricultural toil, notwithstanding,
it having passed both bouses. Hi>
grounda in cm l to be good. Those >:e
qnsinted with the bill, ray there is no
raw to *pforce i’* measures, if parsed.
v If the fcu.roii v (in, uojiay in circu
lation in lur sect cu, she must leans
to keep what she has at home. This
can only he done by inviting more in
the shape of urn.utacturing her raw
material af h-'orn.
The btii to eswatiJish a lederal court
at Augusta, has passed tbo senate and
being sent back to the Loose for an
agreement to the sena'e amendment
retaisißg.it in the southern district of
Georgia. The bill is now before the
piesidtnt.
At a detuucraiiu eupp.r iu Washirg
ton, a low nights Gov, Hill of
Isew 1 crk, was present. Tito demo
crats assured hun they would put him
out for pret-i !-i,r n IS‘J2; and iu 1890
hj mutt giw place for Whitney. This
is a very good trair., hut Hill never
can entry' the party back iu power.
Allison has dedinod the treasury
oopointment with a view to secure
Ihe nomination for president in
It-02. lie may get it. At any rate
he is wise in declining to give up a
lifetime position in the senate for
a four years position in Harrison’s
cabinet.
As thu-ltd ot -iiar.ii is drawing
ne.iii, the prvMi ent will not have time
to examitio iutf aud get full details of
a t ri id the revenue laws. It
i. ihorght he will grim amnesty to
nil minor offenders, who. are awaiting
executive clemency.
Col. Can 1 er aud Sen. Colquitt are
urging the president to do so.
Mr. Blaine didn't pet the presiden
cy in 1884, bat in 1889, it seetrs !*
put the state secretaryship. It will be
a. void day” t tie magnetic
mm kesman of Marne gets left. Most
<M-ry one who dances to the music has
t< pay, but Blaine gets free music and
dancing, too, ii it the whole te
jmhlicaa patty to loot the bill. He
always goes in with a winning hind.
Parson Picked, if seems, must
Imve given up his idea of contest
ing the seat of Hon. Allen D. Can-
Her in the 51st Congress, inasmuch
n . li:e law allows him -:0 days in
■which to take testimony‘after Mr.
Candler’s answer made to the
points in his notice of contest, and
8‘,5 Jays have now passed and the
parson has taken no testimony
‘•that anybody knows of’’ It is I
very evident that the parson rea!l\’!
had very little idea of contesting,!
but just wanted to strut around a;
little and ‘‘show his suspenders.”
—[Clarksville Advertiser.
He showed •‘'em.”
•Tie p stuff ice appropriation bill,
which is before the house proposes the
following changes of salaries in Geor
gia: Assistant postmaster at Atlanta,
rmlary reduced from two thousand to
1700 dollars; at SavaKih, inorea3ed
from 1500 to 1600 dollars, salary su
perintendent money Order, Atlanta, re
duced 3700 to 1300 dollar; superia
rtunient of delivery, Favanah, increas
■ and from 1 000 to 1300; superintendent
mails. Atlanta, increased from 1200
to 1500; Savanah, from 1,000 to 1400
The Close Majority by Whiobthc Re
publicans Hold the House.
The size of the republican majority
in the next bouse is yet in doub . it
has not been eat tied yet, but if they
s> t the ctrtilicates in the two West
v i)g‘nia diatrietSj and that for
in the disputed Tennessee district,
they w-il; have a majority of seven. It
is a most remarkable thing that at
this late day the matter should etili be
ia doubt. Most democrats, however,
are ready to concede that tbe republi*
curs of West v irginia will get their
certificates, and that E vans will get
his, but as matters now stand the re
publicans are only positively assure!
of 163 members or one majority. This
is working in the minds ofthe republi
eanaof the house with all the uncer
tainties as to the chances of death,
and is more weighty than any other
consideration in convincing them that
there mast be an extra session. There
are many oilier reasons advanced;
each afieotifig a certain set of members,
but this matter of organisation influ
ercee them all, an 4 even West Virgin
ia certificates are no longer in dispute,
and the majority is fixed at seven, a
majority of them will not regard it as
secure enough to admit of delaying nn
til December. Considering this, the
three hundred employes around the
house, whose pay goes oh until the
opening ef the 51st congress, are very
much exercised over the loss of eight
months, salary, provided the extra ses
sion commences in April.
The Constitution blows over
getting ahead of the Birmingham
Age-Herald in its special news of
the Hawes’ murder confession. It
seems the latter sent a notice to
the former paper fo be published,
stating that an extra train bearing
400 newsboys would arrive in At
lanta anddistribute the latest from
the Hawes affair. Whereupon the
Constitution got hold of one of the
Age-Herald’s—printed the news
and distributed it before the Bir
mingham train arrived. The game
on the latter’s part was not worked
right. It left an opening like the
Constitution last fall, when it an
nounced the day before the state
legislature election last fall, it
would publish tho entire vote of
each county the following morning
after the election; and nearly every
country paper in the state beat the
Constitution at least 12 hours by
publishing the result of their coun
ties iu extra form, as it did the
Birmingham extra last Week, feo
you see the Constitution did not!
add much of a feather to its cap,
last week, after all. Old Ithodes
was lacking on the Age-Herald.
Had he been there, the Constitu
tion would have never got there,
lie is a printer and writer from the
word “go.” Thelstato press of Ala
bama gave him up two years ago,
when ho took his departure from
the morning Herald, as its founder,
proprietor and chief editor, as los
ing its ablest writer. Mr. Bho
des’ health forced him to retire, but
not, however, until he has accumu
lated quite a fortune. He founded
the Herald years long past under
peculiar and stringent circum
stances, and financial pressure, and
when Birmingham had no railroads
and iron mines—as it were, aliltle
dingy village,he started the Her
ald as a weekly paper, with “a
job-press, a handful of type, and a
bottle of ink,” as tbe Observer, now
the Journal, was termed, when it first
started. But Mr. Rhodes soon devel
oped Birmingham into a city by pub
lishing her advantage* to the world.
Col. Candier on the Tobacco Bill.
A Washington correspondent
gives the following account of
what Col. Candler says in refer
ence to his vote in favor of refer
ring the Cowles tobacco bill to the
appropriations committee and the
effort on the part of sumo democrat
ic papers to read him out of the
party for so doing. When asked
what he thought of it, ho being
one of the number read out @f the
party, he said:
“Oh, that's a chestnut. There are
three or four states out there in the
center of the country where nearly
all the whisky is made. They are
the home of the whisky ring. The
ring is a power. Some newspap
ers out there court it and guard its
interests. It has been their custom
for some time to read out of the
democratic parly at least once a
week every democrat who dares
to think for himself on revenue
questions. I have always been a
democrat. I was a democrat when
soma of those new light democrats
and tariff reformers were in swad
dling clothes, and so was Ilandall
aud all the rest of the proscribed
twenty-three, I was a democrat
when some of them were muster
ing under another flag. I was an
ardent tariff reformer when some
of those jealous gentlemen were
neophytes in tariff reform and de
mocracy. I have preached tariff
reform trom every stump in my
district for five years. Every vote
of mine has been on the same line.
The same may bes lid of Barbour,
and Wise, and Vance, and Hen-
derson, and Cowles, and Tom John
son, aud all other democratic mem
bers from the two Virginias and
North Carolina. We have always
spoken and voted to reduce tariff
taxation ’and at the same time for
internal repeal. By their reading
out process champions of an odi-
ous republican internal revenue
system have well nigh read the
states named out of tile democrat
ic party. Cleveland carried West
Tirginia by 500, old Virginia by a
paltry 1500, and North Carolina
by a beggarly majority. The sys
tem must be repealed if democrat
ic ascendency is maintained in the
districts cursed by the operations
of these laws, Eepeal them at once
Ad harmony is restored in tiio
democratic party and it will be
a unit in favor of a reduction of tar
iff taxation Perpetuate them and
tlie south will never again be ‘sol
id.’ .Mark the prediction.”
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