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Hie Col mbits •. - ,:i\ is
ihe hand* of tl > iand wilt
...eld to pay its indent ednes*.
1. l>, Eianlov . m mo-ormri con
■>totg veteran of Athcnfc, died on
24tL inst., of heart disease.
■•nerious, < • a., is to l)e 'milled
,h electricity, and to have an
electric railway also.
Iho Ahainai’.a hotel at Jessup
was tired by a demon and burned
to the around last week.
Water sold in Oklahoma Terri
tory at five cents per yd ass last
week. Whisky sold at 25. no doubt.
Carnesville wants a railroad
through to Athens. She wants I!.e
road (o go through ’I; lison county.
The republicans ot Gainesville, nro
engaged in a lively scramble for the
postofftce. Vim. A. Wood is the
latest aspirant.
A railroad meeting has been held
at, Cleveland, White county, in the
interest of a railroad to penetrate
Nachooehee Valley and thence to
Cleveland. Chrksville should look
to her laurels.
A heavy storm of wind, rain and
hail struck the city of Atlanta on
the 23rd. Sewers were washed up,
fences blown down in various por
tions of the city, horses were fright
ened and ran away, and many buil
dings flooded with water. A church
was blown down, telegraphic poles
broken, and damage was sustained
in various ways.
The supreme court has refused to
crant G.-noy il-tr -, • cdoied, anew tri
ei. Hards ws coevirted of the mar-
Per id M.->n ha?. fined drring.the riot
at Deeat'v f - r o \c ? r*i ago, #ard was
secter.ee ; tr> the peni'entiary fer life.
A motion !nr a no<7 tri and was over rnl
rft jo jjr-K P- c'jO'i. r (ourt, and the
ease w t- ka to the m ]reme eouit,
which ntal the judgment of the
tourr i i-i
Two At i-oiht iirenien wove crush
ed to do-'h by the falling walls >f
the .fuel,- on building on last Wed
tie-day. The two men were Wna.
I’. LoaHi ■:-id Harry Howell. Tue
biildiog h:d been consumed ly
i :nu the ‘ ills condemned. In
tip v, V; of removing them they
f.A it a : l two valuable lives were
1 i \. Another gentleman named
DrWeli was also injured.
ailyr B >ggs of the Cniver
ily\ wanD the rental of the state
■ \<nvideil between the common
s ■ ii'i lui; -1 aii 1 liie l niversity. It
>!:. J\] ji;l i.e appropriated to the
.••.tii*.’ on schools. The University
i... -.-b:! *. i, but the masses need
tise rrmey worse than the Univer
'i". JTho railroad belongs to the
]!■ '; 11 *. and it any body is to be
■f.l- i. let the people have it,
;■ m ! ol I Jik favored few. The.edu
< ■ a: pf the masses in the eiemen
- ;rv br inches of English education
is what Georgia needs,
I- an in arview with lion. War
Ih, Y. ( and . in, published in the au
p . a a Chronicle, Chancellor Boggs
of the S\ate University, takes the
j cition ! hat the rental otlhe state
road ought to be devoted to the
e. iso of education. He thinksfhat
of the *300,000 received from this
source, *200.000 should be devoted
to Iho common tdiool syste m of l he
Hate and Ilia remaining # 100,000
be given to the university proper nt
uhensaiui the brain h colleges. In
his opinien tliis would be a grand
iuvesluient for the state, and the
return from it would he a source of
wonderful profit.
The Yeterams Soldiers Home, to
be established in Atlanta, is receiv
ing no little encouragement. But
it is fair to say that we can not see
where it will better the veteran
soldier; neither will it help the tax
payer. The soldier is now receiv
ing a pension ol eight dollars per
month, anti this, and more will be
spent at the Homo. The soldiers,
some of them with families iu good
standing, surrounded by peace and
quietude, are getting along very
well on their eight dollars per
month. But put them in a pretend
ed Home, as it were, and they will
receive about one-third of their pen
sion in value, at the hands of the
pointed and proud keepers of their
Home. The tax-payer will pay in
the eight dollars per head per
month, all the same; but who will
reap its luxuries, if any there be?
Not the poor soldier nor his family,
if you please! Rather the kid glove
and silk hat will consume it. These
are facts without delusion The
tax-payer is making no complaint
with the present system of pension
ing the poor soldier. Why should
ale 1 1 .
Gov. Gordon has issued the fol
lowing proclamation in reference
to the Washington centennial, and
order bearing upon memorial day:
Whereas, the government of the
United States was formally organ
ized on the thirtieth day of April,
1780, in the city of New York, by
the inauguration of George Wash
ington as president, and
Whereas, the federal congress
has declared the centennial of this
most fortunate event in our histo
ry, a general holiday, and the presi
dent ot the United States lias re
commended that the people of the
entire country repair to their re
spective places and woTslri j on Tu
esday, April thirtieth, at the hour
of nine o’clock in the morning to
join, in commemorative exercises
appropriate to the day.
Now, therefore, I, John B, Gor
don, governor of the state ol Geor
gia, cordially respond to this re
c mmendatioa and do hereby de
signate
Tuesday, the 301 h day of April
ISB9, as a legal holiday, and recoin
; mend that the people of (his state
| shall assemble at their respective
i # A
i places of worship at 9 o’clock in
| the morning of that day, to give
thanks for all the blessing.-; which
we enjoy, and to ask God as the an
thor of theso blessings to continue
them to us and our children.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the executive department,
at the capitol, in the city of Atlanta,
this 2dth day of April, a. and, 1889.
By th© governor.
J. B. Gordon, Governor.
Jas, T. Nisbet, Sec. Ei. Dept .
Wa-hin 'j(on liVti t-r.
j From the Journal’s C 9 ires pendent |
Washing'on, April 21, 1880 —o<-
spi'e the rast amount ot tun the r ew*>
papers are h:> ving over try squabbb
ot Me A di.stur’s lour bun bed and tk<
New York aide-men over '.he qaastioi
of t recede urn at the Ccnfer.niai If 1*
hrstiou of Washington's in align ration
the interest is deep and wide spro;.
and the ohceivanee of lire day will no
he lestricted to the crowds in New
York. Ti e day will be observed her<
not only as a public holiday, blit ai
the anni vsreury of a supreme event it
American history.
It may be the agitation over flu
ce’ebration that has so largely increas*
ed the number of visitors to Washing
ton's old borne, Mount Vernon on ti e
Potomac. I was turpressed on a casu
ai visit last week when I counted sev
er y-five people in the party aid the
guide told me that the number, m am
s.ott of weather, during the past win
ter, so long as tLe boat bad been able
to rtns, had not fallen below fifty.
Think ot the pil jfims to this tomb in
a year; nit uninterested visitors, no
tourists who merely drop in to see
fine!) places in traveliog, out people
i who come hundreds and oftimes Una
sands of miles to seo this i pot. I was
struck by the eager interest taken in
every feature by an English advocate
in the party. On tha beat g>ing back
h said that more than anything else
he bad looked forward in visiting
Americi to seeing Mount v traou. He
bad his pock a: s stuffed full of p! oto
giapbs tiv Mr. JJiiiou aud bulbs pur
; chased troni the estate’s conservatory,
| and lot ke ! supremely happy. To
! tell the tiu’h, the foreiga visitors are
Car more enthusiastic admireis of Wash
iagtoD than me Americans. While a
griat number of, our own scholars hve
been keeping up a post-tooitem hun
lor Lis lani s, the students of other
eocntiies have regarded him only as
the grandest hi* orical figure in the
annals of modern snuggles for liberty.
The old place at Mount Ye non is,
however eh qnent evidence of the es
teem in which tl e father ot bis coun
try in he’d by his peop'e. Every rear
i-cps improvements made ou the (state
lusiou ■’ • : h a', a eonsi ierabl t
cleyatioh above ; ho over, but the de
scent is in no place veiy precipitous.
Wit bin the last two tears, a private
donation has entirely restored the <ld
dei-r puik of Washington’s ilav on
'thfa old liver front. A great Core
well and a fise iron fence, with a par
ticularly imposing gateway, now in
closes the park, and a score of deer
DI3V bn <; *i n.
So, in the mansion. The donations
ere continually coining in, and the
pieces of old turniiure and brica brae
are so numerous ss to unduly crowd
some of the rooms, if ginetous souls
would now buy back the library which
was sold some time in the Ihitties to
the Boston library, the funrishirgs
would appear as complete ns possible.
The old tomb where the remains of
George and Martha Washington re
posed prior to their removal to the pres
ent tomb, has been fully restored with
in the two last, years. In fact the
thought and zeal exhibited by the la
dies ot the Mount x ernon Association
are a monument to American w> man
h>od.
The old church at Alexandra, from
which just a hundred years ago last
month, George Washington issued and
j rode away to bt ioangurafrd* tit New
York, is as oarelolly preset ve-U I was
seated just back ot the old Washing
ton pew last Sunday, ami I tried to
imagine bow George must have longed
to be one of that pew on . nth Sundays
whoa tho spiritual food off-ted by the
pt s f ->r was paineiilarly stale, and when
Lc- bad but to look out o' the window.
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