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EDITOR! A I, ( ' v-.n'NT. >•—t*-w-w .- .v* ..’fcw- v • • 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. Buy Your Shoes FROM T C? ?4 s © f^/VB |S V B l "VS Ja • &JLsL QQ WWauaLL tiiij And Save Money, Athens t juiwiMe—n—wusiiwiwraiiwi. .r-u Commit Your Interests by Buying your DRUGS AND MEDICINES from ATHENS, ' GEORGIA. We sell at the lowest possible price, and gnrautee every article to ba abso lutely Pure. Orders by Mail will receive prompt attention. Remember tbe name and place.—W ADE & SLEDGE, Druggists and Pharmacists. Between. Hodgson Bros., and Talmadge Bros,, Clayton Street. 16 aiscL ta* JLICJsXS 112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Postoffiee, Athens, Georgia. Haselton & Dozier, Proprietors. ''wVQAAwb' \ VW' ~ t ; ■ j Uv'vU’vb \jQav V 1 1 Yiobns, and all kinds of music?.! instrn -■ '] imui'.s on h”K_d and for aide nt tqcvtiy ic- Vp' t > pi ices tor !>, 'U on the install* W r. . -I iion t. Special rates to churches and } >: tv '. a O : ' ■ .i- . V. . i . 'I 1 -ds. Picture frames on hat; Jor made M jt ’ii on-or at klioi? not ce. A full feud com viA' . ■, y'.... >iete stock of Artists’ Material n-r draw ■■■ . , V* mg and painting in oil and water colon. 1). P. Haeelton, Thos. H. Dosier. MoneY SarcDf We Sell Goods to Compel® With Any House in the Connery. ‘O/QXvii'Od'fw v QAAQ* C\*v V3VV Vtjji QOYw'wVV\/W'+y QoVv'ds V-A V Merchants Can Buy Blank Books, School Books, Paper Bags, Wrapping Paper, Twine and Stationery of Every Description From us at N. Y. Pi ices MCGREGOR. & ROBERTSON (BuTke’s Old Stand,) ATHENS, GEORGIA. 0 Stock Larger Than Ever! , . mmi Stoves! Stoves! —Stoves Bought by Car-Loads!— And*I J rices That are Bound to j Attract Jones’ Standa’d Tinware. ■0 Tin Roofing, Guttering and Job-Work, Call or Write for Trices. E. E. Jones, 209 B’oad St. MIENS ’