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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
In an explosion at Paris 300 mi
ners were buried alive.
Ii the Dr. McDuw murder trial
at Charleston fhe seven negro jur
ors wore for acquittal.
Crops are reported line in Ala
bama and Mississippi. Especially
is the fruit crop of these sections
said lo he the finest, for ten years.
1 dsfressmg is the late of Johns
town The recent rains rushed in
.and Washed away the temporary
bridges—doing other damage.
The president and W ana maker
are moving 4th class postmasters
with a high and not lenient hand.
It is said some of file p. m's, are
kicking harder than a young mule.
In the Lynchburg, Va, wreck on
the Norfolk & Western Railroad
near Thaxfon. 2nd. insb, a number
here wounded and killed. The
scene of the burning wreck was one
indescribable.
Atlanta enjoyed a “shirt war”
last week, which caused the down
tail of the fabric to the glory ot the
purchasers. The rebellion of. prices
was between the firms of High
and the Ryan Bros. Shirts sold
for tour cents a piece.
From our exchanges if will be
seen news is scarce. Even the dull
ness can be seen in the Washington
letters. This classic city of the
Kingdom seems to be napping; ap
pointment of office is the only no
ticeable boom in business.
ex-President Cleveland had a
narrow escape at Sandwich, Mass.,
3rd, inst., while out riding with
Col. Jeiferson. Their horses be
came frightened—ran ofi. throwing
Cleveland and Jefferson out of the
carriage, slightly injuring them,
and tearing the vehicle ail to
pieces. .
The Charleston jurors have not
only proven tnemselves n ttorious
in freeing McDow, Hut have found
themselves equal to the emergency
in another case—that of Mungen
maier. Such verdicts are a curse
to civilization, tlie peace and digni
ty of the country, and an imposi
tion to the laws of the land.
The increase of Crime.
According to Mr. Wines, the great
authority on prison statistics, we
had in 1850 only 290 imprisoned
criminals to a million population,
but in ISSO fve had 1,169 to the nail
lion. Mr* Wmc-s predicts that tke
census of 1890 will show a further
increase.
Now, what is the cause of this in
crease? There is less liquor used
in proportion to population than
there was la 1850. Education lias
made wonderful strides. Churches
and ot her Christianizing and civil
izing influences have been actively
at work.
It is very strange. The optimists
say that we are growing better. The
statistics prove that we are growing
worse. What is the explanation?
Clearly we can not charge our in
crease of crime to the liquor evil er to
ignorance, btCanse those cvii.i are not
fee, n tno with cur population.
We can not hold infidelity responsible'
unless we take the position that n any
of onr churches have departed from
the right path, and are churches only
in name.
Mr. Wine’s figures are enough to
make the thoughtful paU'e. If ui
per oeutage of crime L to quadruple
every thirty year*, what will he tb<
status of this nation a few general iom
hence’; — [C oil st it ti' > on.
Parson Duncan, residing near
Newton, Ala., eloped with a Miss
Baldree a few days ago. About
ten days previous to Ihe elopement
he had buried his wife, and is
known to have bought strychnine
and morphine. The last heard
from the twain they were looting
it in the direction ot Florida.
The 3rd, iust., at Waycross, as
Sheriff Henderson went lo teed his
prisoners, three of them were at
Ihe entrance. As soon as the door
was opened they seized him and
fried to get his pistol from his belt,
but failed. In the meantime, two
escaped, but were captured a mile
outside of the town. In tha scuffle
the sheriff knocked one down and
shot another in the head
The State School Fund.
Hon. Wm. 11. Felton ofCarters
ville, will introduce, during the
next session of fhe legislature, a
bill to dispose of the rental of the
slate road.
The entire proceeds of the Wes
tern and Atlantic railroad are to be
appropriated to the schools of the
state, one-half to the common
schools, and one half to (he colleg
es and university. It is estimated
that the state road will rent for
830,000 a month, *or $360,000 a
year, and the appropriations to the
various schools should he as fol
lows/ To common schools siss,-
000; for higher education and ex
perimental station college $21,600;
technological school, $21,600; girls
industrial school, 21,600/ ten
branch colleges (1 for each con
gressional district) $54,000; univer
sity’s new chairs, eic,, $30,000; to
tal SIBO,OOO.
The entire rental of the state
road should be,appropriated to the
education of the common people—
lo the general school fund. The
university has been supported by
taxation, and if reports are true,
the discipline and general work of
the college ?re not commendable.
Ten branch colleges—one in
each congressional district—to be
supported by the state, as auxili
aries to the university, is more than
the people are ready to undertake.
Private colleges and denomination
al schools are building up all over
the state, and they should be fos
tered and encouraged by educating
the poor boys and girls of the land
in the elementary branches,
A comparison of the condition
of the public school system with
that of the university, will con
vince any fair mind that the com
mon schools need liberal appropri
ations; they need building up in ev
ery nook and corner of the state.
Why then frame a bill to appropri
ate half to the university and offer
the remainder as a bait? The state
road was built by the poor people
in hard times, and if it is to be rent
ed out, we say turn every cent, of
the rental into the state treasury
for the education of the poor boys
and girls of the state at home. Tui
tion is free at the university aliva
dy, and if poor people were able to
board their children away from
home, they might obtain fhe bene
fits of the university as it is, bin
they are not able to bear the ex-
pense, Besides all this, it is not
certain that the Slate University
will remain at Athens. Already
ihe technological department is lo
cated at Atlanta. The medical de
partment is at Augusta, and it is
only a university in name. In time
the whole college will be moved to
Atlanta. Therefore, we deem it un
wise to make further appropria
tions to this '‘one-horse” college.
Wasliingion better.
[From the Journal's Correspondent.]
Washington, July 1, 1889 —Tha
books of th government are closed an
nu*lly on June 30, and this year the
date was looked torward to with un
usual interest. The office seekers about
the hotel corridors spoke confidently
of the changes that would take place
“before July 1, anyhow.” Despite
prediction to the contrary, the weighty
day has cotne aad gone, and the num
ber of departmental changes have been
surprisingly few. The dischargee were
far lees numerous than even at the
eloso of the first fiscal year of Air.
Cleveland's administration. To say
that the office seeker is hot ie to put
it too mildly, he is wild, and he is not
cheered by reading the long lists of
new diplomats appointed. “Pie,” to
the average office-seeker, ie to be found
in appointment of offices in this conn
trv and he is not to be contuted by tbe
appointment of some wealthy gentle
man with his hair parted in the mid
dle to be envoy extraordinary and miß
ister excruciatingly te the court of Yar
boo. The regular oftioe seeker sniffs
at the other fellow’s appearance and
snorts at his alleged republicanism.
Pre*. Harrison who baa had a pair of
eye teeth cut, so far as the hungry are
concerned, anticipated the onslaught
of June 30, by quietly stealing away
to Baltimore during the morning
hours with the ostensible purpose of
bringing homo Mrs. Harrison.
Thp agriraltoral department since it
has been raised to the dignity of hav
ing a representative in the cabinet is
more than ever before, the recipient of
the attentions of cranky people every
where, who imagine that the govern
ment could issue enough money to
make all the people rich and that the
government that would stock fish
ponds could not, logmally, refuse to
stock farms. The mail received by the
agricultural department contain* daily
a thousand odd requests. Every one
has heard of the c< ngressmaa, who
during the last session, a let
ter from a blundering constituent read
mg, “Please send me the agricultaral
department.” And the congressman
was not a bit surprised, hut said that
he had often expected that it wou’d
come to this: he had been asked for
the department in detail and now he
was not astonished to be required to
furnish the whole thing. Anithis re
niteu a! errror of this bneolie corres
pondent is out distanced by
peal of hundreds of people.
A man near mansfield, Ohio, mod
estly takes the cake. He write*, ‘‘l
wish yon would send rae at once, de
livered to Mansfield, rair sf heroes,
two mules, a yoke of oxen, three Ald
erney cows and a spring wagon and a
sulky plow. Also some seed. I sup
pose there are other things yoa giye
away, but I won’t bother yon now. I
will see Sen. Sherman when I go to
town, if he is to heme. Ho ia a great
friend of mine. During the election
be told roe i could have everything ia
fhe agricultaral department if I want
ed it.” The intelligent voter is a ersa
ture of curious mental construction.
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