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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. Buy Your Shoes FROM E. I. Smith. & Comp’ny And Save Money, Athens Consult Your Interests ty Buying your DRUGS AND MEDICINES FROM Wads And Sledge, ATHENS, GEORGIA. We sell at the lowest possible prioe, and gurantee every article to be abso lutely Pure. Orders by Mail will receive prompt attention. Remember the name and place.—WADE & SLEDGE, Druggists and I haimaciste. 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