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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.” G-unnolSj Power & So., a. , —*— sIIARMONy - GROVE, DEALERS IN J Plantation Supplies. <MAr& . We Keep in stock a full".-upply of good and fresh goods. V e can not be surpassed iD Quality and Duranility. We buy at lowest market figures; we defy competition in prices. We want only a living profit on our sales. We do not claim to be Vanderbilts, nor do we wish to accumulate their fortunes. We are receiving dailv, a full supply of oar Customers every day wants. £2ST- Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Prices. MoneY SavcDl, We Sell Goods to Compoto With Any House in the Country. . i ■ . Merchants Bny Blank Books, Bchool Books, Paper Bags, Wrapping Paper, Twine and Stationery of Every Description From us at N. Y. Prices. D. W. MCGREGOR AND CO, (Burke’s Old Stand,) ATHENS, GEORGIA. E. E- JONES? Stock Larger Than Ever! Stoves! Stoves! —Stoves Bought by Car-Loads! — Aud Prices That are Bound to Attract Jones’ Standa’d Tinware. jJSST'Tin Roofing, Guttering and Job-Work, Call or Write for Priced. E. E. Jones, 209 B’oad St. ATHENS.