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• i . . nizaliow into almost
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■ , ■ f '*.!(• s section seem !o bo
, ;! v "xx oondilien.
•: V , •i i c It))., got his
. ' 1 her day in Wah-'
Ii w•. pulled by n man
■'■ rj:. bo was nuul about
- . . •: :.>n ceremonies,
Eirr ■ Jit bus taken charge
of is or kil h ■.*-.• and turned off every
colored servant and appointed
wait* ones m iier .stead. It is said
that she (iis'ikes colored people
In the of sa c.fChas. Echols, charg
ed with the murderofThomas,the
Doted gambler of Gainesville, in
the Kitts house at Covington, dur
ing the fair last fall, the latter was
acquitted.
A lovely pair of queens met the
other day at San Sabastian. It was
Queen Victor! t and Queen Ile
gen! Christiana of Spain, It seems
that Victoria hid been promising
Christiana a visit for some time.
Sure enough, when she reached
San Sabastiau, Christiana was wait
ing for her, and as soon as her ma
jesty placed herselt in position
"Victoria kissed heron both cheeks.
Then the cannons fired.
Julia Coffee Pas been carried to
Atlanta and placed in jail for safe
keeping. The reporters have been
to see him and have described his
personal appearance. as;d his con
versation is detailed with much
ca-e. a? if the Icing of the Iliawaian
islpuds had stopped on the ground
iloor of the new state house, and
blowed his nose r-n a red bandana.
The New Ministers:-—.Bob Lincoln
of Illinois, goes to England; 'Murat
Halstead of Ohio, goe.t to Germany
as Envoy Extra rdi rary and Minis
ter
John Wicks ot Wisconsin, goes
to Bern Geo. B Loving of rnassa
( h isotts, geos to Portugal as min-,
istar and consul. Allan Thorndyke
Ilice of N. Y , minister to Russia.
Patrick Egan of Nebraska, min
ister to Chili, Tins. Rv;\ of Ivan
na-. miniiler to Mexico, Marion
Erwin a: tornoy for the southern
rifftrict of Georgia,
Tyre Glenn, W. S. Marshal for
Use western district N.C.
A couple were married in the
Foliate chamber in Nashville, Tenn.
on the 27th inst. Tha contracting
parties wero Sen. Pryor Carter aad
Mrs. Cordelia Jordan. The cere
mony was performed by Gov. Tay
lor, ia the presence of both houses
tf tils legislature. In order to car
• v out this novel plan of csaduct
;sg the marriage ceremony of its
members, both branches of the leg
is!.dure passed a special a<;t for that
purpose, Thus, it seems, the leg
i Mature of that sovereign state has
officially endorsed the holy estate
of matrimony, in a very impressive
way. A state matrimonial agency
with the governor at its head, and
the members of the legislature as
solicitors for the company, would
encourage young men in Tennes
tee to run for office.
Kniuioiu Thoughts by Buncombe.
Did you read that splendid
speech of Mr. Grady’s down at Al
bany, the other day? Ho has the
most practical way of putting great
truths of any man 1 know of, But
1 knew all the time that tlie coun
;ry people were grewing poorer as
!ii® ei:y increased in wealth.
When 1 go into the city and see
the evidences of wealth on every
side, tiio magniiLcnt buildings,
banks, manufactories, street rail
roads, parks, hotels and finely
dressed ladies and gentlemen, I am
made to feel that I am among peo
ple who are wealthy. But as so >n
as I gut out in tha country I seo evi
deuces of poverty and decay.
What an awful thing it is to'con
template this abnormal condition
®f things.
I was ono day standing on a
thoroughfare in Atlanta watching
the crowds ©f people go by, and
presently I fell into a brown study.
How long I stood there I do not
know. I was suddenly aroused
trera my reverie by a slap on the
shoulder, and a friend I had not
seen in years looked into my face,
and inquired what I was doing
there. I answered that I hadstopp
ed to admire tha evidences of pro
gress and wealth around ms, and
as I did so I began to think of heme
and ta compare the condition of
my neighbors with what was pass
ing before me, and wondering
where all this wealth came from. I
studied over it till I grew dizzy and
almost sick. I was tempted to g®
.home and sell out everything I pos
sessed and move to town.
I saw well dressed children there
on th#ir return from school. Their
tuition is free all the year! I paid
mine the other day, and it took the
last dollar I could rake together.
These children did not appear to be
any smarter than mine, intellectu
ally, but the difference is so great
in their opportunities. It looks
like the fates are against the poar
country boy. He is just forced to
become a hewer of wood and draw
er of water.
As I returned home the poor cat
tle along tho lanes, the tumble
down barns surd fencing; and other
signs of poverty tended to add fco
my depression and despondency. I
then took up a newspaper and read
of a great strike. Thousands of
people were thrown out of employ
ment. Then I began to think of
the value of a home of one’s own,
‘•Be it ever so humbla, thers’s ns
place like koine,”
Reflecting on tho consequences
of this great strike, I. again thought
of the children I had seen in the
city. Perhaps many of them were
dependent upon their father’s dai
ly earni'jgN. I can conceive of nothiug
in this tioublesoc-.e world to likely to
upset a poor man and drive him to de
stractiwß, as being thrown cut of em
ployment with no hours to shelter him
aud with a wife and children around
him, shivering arid crying for bread.
God pity the poor in cities!
Then ia it not strange that so many
afeff-bodied men, capable of achieving
an independence, and a permanent
horns in tne country, should content
themselves to live ia cities and depend
upon daily wagon tor a living?
There is nothing that can give a
man that degree of independence that
proprietorship does. If a man cuu pet
his feet down on theenrth — We ?t ever j g
senad a rpot — and look around Mir.
and Bay "thin ia ccbne >' ho at once he
gins to be one of r. auiia’a noblemen
In time flowers spring tin around hi
door, and he finds thonsstnls of aitra*
lions there, around which hi* aflVc
lions canter, that ho never knew be
fore. As old age comes on, he finds
that quiet Stein.-ion and reot which be
so much needs, sad by this time bis
children are moderately well “fixed."
True, a constant stream of cash is
not coming in, but. in the end ha finds
that rnoro dollars remain with him.
Current expenses do not bar them
aw ay so swiftly.
Then, it one has sufficient strength
to work, I sey let’s go to work and
btrl-1 up the country.
A Lame and important Movement.
Tha New Y*rk Herald prints a let
ter from Mr. Parsons of Virginia, to
Mr. Thomas Sodden of Alabama, pro
posing a meeting of souihern protec
tionists, regardless of party affiliation.
Mr. Sodden agrees, and Chattanooga
ip named as the place and May as the
month.
The Herald congratulates the coun
try on this movement, and, although
r is a iieo trade paper, it hopes that
this protection raid will be successful.
It frankly says there is t question that
lies deeper than any economic differ
enre —that of sectionalism. Whiff &
j free trade paper, it would he glad to
see twenty-five protectionists sent to
coagriess, for factionalism would there
by be wipe 1 out.
The Herald will find thr.t the pe
pic of the South will reply to it with
i * >wn argument, tha democrats
who believe in a protective tariff will
say, as the Herald says, that there ia
><!) i-sue, the race problem, that cuts
deeper than economic issue. And for
the take of inis they will bo ready to
sacrifice their views on protection, jast
as the He:aid, for bob sectionalism,
sacriiicas its views on iree trade.
The meeting will be a failure. The
movement will l-o a fiasco. The so
called protection democrats are as true
to democracy as the men who led the
party to defeat last year. They stand
on the democratic platform of 1884,
on which the democrats carried tba
coumry, end believe it is a stionger
issue before the people, and a shorter
and better way to tariff reform, than
the platform of 1888, oa which wo lost
the country, and by which real tariff
reform was postponed, for tha Lord
knows how long. We do not believe
m protection for protection's take, bet
in the incidental protection that coaasa
from the judicious levyiag of necessa
ry faxes. We do believe in tariff re
form, but not in such a presentation oi
this issue as gives the house, senate
ami white house to the republicans.
Whatever may be the feature of thi*
protoetivetariff movement in the
fcffatii —whatever proportions it may
i evbaine, it shall mset, now and always
! the uncompromising opposition of the
| Constitution. We shall fight it to
| the latit as we shall fight everything
; that threatens the integrity of the
I democratic party. Auu Biaety-nine
: hundreths ot the so called protection
! democrats will stand with us, in spite
of the persistent and illnatured at
templs to drive them cut of tha ranks.
—Constitution.
The republicans ara at last getting
quiet over their rush ta the public of
fice orib.
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ATHENS, -- GEORGIA.
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(Bcrke’a Old Stand,) ATHENS, GEORGIA.
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