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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Murk Tv,'urn’s income is SBO,OOO
a year.
Will Blaine stoplhegovernment
ii.ill or upset the stone?
Birmingham came to light last
week in her usual style of deaths,
murders and rapes.
Harrison seems to be ousting a
portion of his cabinet in their judg
ment of oppoinfmenls.
Anew bauk*is to bo opened in
Atlanta, called the Atlanta Trust
& Banking Company.
The Northern and Southern Pres
bytery, in convention at Chattanoo
ga. list week, did not seem to pre
vail amicably. A difference seem
fo exist in the faith ot either.
Gen. Sheridan's wife is erecting
a monument over him. New York
is supposed to be erecting a monu
ment to Gen. Grant, but the case
is not a supposable one.
The great Brines Bismarck is
coming to the age when his oppon
ents are downing him every time he
appears in the German parliament.
The old man is gradually losing his
grip.
At Am* rictks Ga.,22nd inst., at
night, Albert Bartlett and Henry
liigden became involved in a quar
roi, Barilett claimed that Higden
owed him a nickel. In the dispute
Bartlett killed Higden with a rock
dealing him a terrible blow on
the back ot the head.
The nineteenth annual session
of the Colored .Missionary Baptist
convention of'Georgia was held in
Atlanta last week. There were 52
associations, 1,500 churches, and
107,000 colored Baptists represent
ed. There were about 400 dele
gates present at the first morning
session. ,
The poisoning of one hundred
persons who partook of iea cream
at a chinch sociable, brings up a
question ot a serious interest, es
pecially at 11ris season. Perhaps
it, is impossible to accurately de
fine all of’the conditions under
which ice cream may become pois
onous. Sometimes it is the freez
er, and again it is the milk or the
Havering. It is about time f>r the
experts to go to the bottom ot the
rubiect and give us something defi
nite and reliable.
Chicago, May 22. —A special
from Standing Rock., Dak , says;
Ti:e Indian -here held a. big coun
cil Sunday and all agreed sot to
sign the treaty unless paidsll,ooo,-
00 ) for their land. They teel hurt
. • the way the government is treat*
i < hem with reference to the trea
ies of ISO 7 and 1870, and they are
nwliy getting no more now than
t ilO treaties called for. The bill
•■; ves Red Cloud $28,000 ter horses
I . , n from him by the government
. 1S 70, and as the Standing Rock
Indians lost three horses to their
< ne. and could get nothing tor
them, they are greatly incensed
Toe cos mission wilt go to Red
Cloud an : spotted Tail agencies
first, win no Indians are in good
humor t Red Cloud obtaining a
large sut . money, and it is prob
able that over three-fourths of the
males there will sign.
Blaine, Windom and Proctor May
Retire.
Washington, May 22.—1i is learn
ed on undeniable authority that
there was a grand row in yester
day’s cabinet meeting, and that
three of the cabinet officers tender
ed to the president their resigna
tion, to take effect at once, if cer
tain changes were not made.
Secretary Blaine opened the
question by delivering point
blank at the president an ultima
tum to the effect that it he could
not be permitted to have some lati
tude in the state department he
most positively declines to remain
in his present equivocal position
any longer. Secretary Proctor im
mediately indorsed all Mr. Blaine
had said, and declared that his re
signation would immediately fol
low Mr. Blaine’s Secretary Win
dom did not go quite 60 far, but as
sisted the other members in their
efforts to convince the president
that cabinet officers must be heads
of their departments, in deed as
well as in name. He said he could
not afford to remain in a mere cler
ical position.
The cause ot the outbreak was
the indisposition of the president to
make certain appointments desired
by Secretaries Blaine, Windom
and Proctor. They hare spent much
time trying to have several recom
mendations approved, and yester
day the president went so fa: as to
completely turn down several of
the proposals, and announced that
be was going to do the exact oppo
site, Not the least doubt has ex
isted here for several days that
Blaine’s days in the cabinet were
numbered, and is now certain that
the figure is small,
Locke's chances: a prominent
official in (he post office depart
merit said lie felt quite sure Col. R.
D. Locke will not receive the ap
pointssent lie desires in the post
office department. There has been
a number of persons who have en
tered protests in various ways
against Locke’s appointment. It
appears that Locke has a great
many enemies in Georgia, who
have been waiting for an opportu
nity to put him in the soup, and
they think now is the time. Charg-
made against him that he is
a political and has
done his party more hanen than
good, and the best tiling tor the par
ty is to keep Locko on the outside
where he can do no more harm. It
appears that Locke has tried to im
press the postmaster-general with
the belief that he has a politicai
following in Georgia, and that his
appointment is a great national ne
cessity. Locke's true political posi
tion in Georgia has been fully de
scribed to the department, and
from what was said to-ctav it seems
that Col. Locke will find if difficult
to.secure the place his friends
are asking to have hits appointed to.
What in au apron string, Mr. Bill-
IDgS?
Billings.—“A her •picked husband
generally rashes a good apron string.
Wherever the madam ir, thereh is.”
Wasliinglon Letler.
[From the Journal's Correspondent.]
Washington, May 20, 18S9 —Pros.
Harrison will confer a favor upon an
anxious score cf applicants by filling
the vacancy on the supreme becah a ;
once, it was expected two weeks age
and the candidates and their fristfdc
are very impatient. It is hinted tha
the president is retarded by the qnal:
ty of the applicants. If so, he is over
particular, for csitainly a dozen men
as able as Chief Justice Fuller have
presumed themselves, and it did not
take Mr. Cleveland loDg to select Mr.
Fuller. The truth is that the fow
men at the very front of the legal pro
feesion conld not be induced, on ac
count of the smallness of the salary to
accept the position. The honor would
not prove sufficient inducement, tor
although tho appointment might still
lock well in a biography, the charac
ter of the men appointed to the su
premo bench in the last twenty years
has been such cs to lower the foizner
standaid.
The cunrlidate most talked of is At
torney General Miller. It would be,
of coarse personally pleasing to the
president to tfeaa honor him, bat he
might find a serious objection in that
it would deprive him of his oldest and
most steadfast friend in the cabinet.
If he can do it without seriously in
commoding himself, you may be sure
that the president will thus elevate his
old law partner. The neoessarv
changss in the cabinet woald bo easy.
Seereiaiy Noble oiigiually expected
and particularly desired to be attorney
geoerat. The multiplicity ot annoy*
icg details in the work of the interior
department and the utter disregard ©f
sound law practice in its various bu
reaus, have combined to make bis of
ficial life even a burden. Added to
this he he has political ambition, be
ing even said to have the vice presi
dential bee in his bonnet and further
a habit of trying to d© the work of the
entire department, in so far as distri
buting all patronage and supervising
ail or dors ara concerned. Decidedly,
Mr. Ivnoble would make a good attor
ney-general, and the administration
would be relieved by the transfer.
In such an eyent, Mr. Clarkson
Would doubtless ba appointed secreta
ry ot the interior, a position which be
has always coasted. To tho politi
cians of the republican party, his selec
tion would be eminently satisfactory.
It is said that in his present position
of assistant-postmaster general, he
considers party service as the flrst and
supreme recomtneudution for offke.
He is. a spoilsman after the heelers
own heart, though ba would not go so
far as to appoint a man wbara he hon
estly thought incotnpe tent. It was
stated when Mr. Clarkson accepted his
precast position that the first vacancy
in the cabinet would be his. At that
tiusa it was thought that John Wan a
maker had accepted tke post office poit
frlio merely for the honor and would
soon resign. That, however, is now
extremely improbable, and the present
ir most decidedly Mr. Clarkson’s gold
ea opportunity. If these cabinet
changes bo made, Mr. Chauccey I. Fil
ley ot St. Louis would doubtless be
selected to fiil the vacancy caused in
the assistant postmaster generalship.
The deat h of Alien Thorndyke Rice
adds to Bros. Harrison’s trials, that of
selecting anew Russian minister at aa
early day as possible. The pressure
tor tho place commenced as soon as the
breath was out of Mr. Rice’s body
Half a dozen prominent state-men were
on hand this morning ready to urge
.the claims of various candidates. I
’believe that William Waiter Phelps
w ill be the lucky man, at least if Se
cretary Blaine has his will.
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