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EDITORIAL COMMENT. I'iH- president wants a private ofiice. ilethinks the While House entirely too public. '! lie night ol the Kith inst , A. j. Wiley killed W. J. I’olot in At Uinta; wile trouble was Hie cause. China ha > had a i.isastrous llootl from a waterspout bursting. Many liws were iost. The president and part of his cabinet aie spending the summer at Deer Dark. Chinese have bought a large por tion ol the mines in California and funned a syndicate. Several counterfeiters wore ar rested at. Ktfanake. Ya., 10th, insf. In their possession were found a number of 50 and 5 cent, pieces. JIal! Superior Court is in session (jninesville. '.! he trial of John (jodee is not likely to come this up lerm. The defendant is suffering from his throat wounds, lje is now in the Marietta jail. The Olive Bill is no little topic of conversation. It gives food for the critic in his idle rounds. There is nothing in it- likely to pass. It ha S been modified —another name for a bill entirely different. A bill is before the legislature io fix compensation for grand ju rors’ reports to be published. Also a bill to have grand and traverse jurors drawn trom the same box. This is a good move. A lew days ago (Jen I’oslmasier Wanamaker returned to his large hatting linn in Phiiadel])liia. On his arrival lie ask what had be , onie of Ins old clerks that had been in his employ lor year?, l'lie new keeper replied as they were democrats he had turned them out. 1 n the State Convention at. Jack son, Miss., lGthinst., J no. M. Slone received the nomination for gover nor; Lieut.-Governor, M. M. Evans; secretary of state, Geo, M. Govan; auditor, W. W. Stone; attorney general."!. M. Miller/ state treasur er, .1. B. Evans; supt. educat’on, J. W, Preston. The Charleston News and Cou rier says: “All well-read people know 1 hat it it the negro that has turned the tide of immigration from the South ever since the tide ol im migration began to llow; indeed, that it is the black man that has kept our green hills and fertile valleys from being crowded with people anxious to leave the icy North for our more congenial clime.” The Richmond Dispatch adds fh* following indorsement; “Therecan be no other reason. The negro is [i good laborer f>r some reasons; but he is not of the kind that whito men will consort with Would that the negroes could be equally dis tributed over all the states and ter ritories. Look at the new states pii -,(.(■ what t• r .ni won 1 have been 10-da** ol had a few or no nec: - I'so. It is ib-' i.nare w 1* Jo itogc t. uy oi act ixijloca- The McCarty Hi 11. The Banks County Alliance at Silver Shoals, adopted a resolution endorsingfheMcCarly School book bill, and asking our representative to favor its passage. We are some what surprised at this, for we arc certain that a large majority ofotn people do not favor the bill. While we do not doubt llie honesty of Sen, McCarty's nm'ives, and be lie?e that he thought its passage would benefit t ie people en mass, still we differ from him in this re spect, and we advise Mr. Coggins to go slow in making up his mind, when he goes to vole on the pass age of the bill. If he will take the pains to inquire lie will find that a large majority of those who know the merits of the bill aie opposed to it. The hill proposes to adopt a uni lorm system of school books for the state tor a period of tilfecn years, and provides that a contract be made with a publishing house to furnish school-books at a certain stipulated price for that time. VYe are opposed to a uniform system, because the needs of our people are not uniform. It is too much like the patent medicine business —one remedy for all diseases, and all climates. It would practically deprive our people of all advances in educational matters for 15 years; and instead of preventing and tore stalling the ruinous effects of mo nopoly, it would create and legal ize one of the biggest kind of mo nopolies. It is undemocratic and unwise, and our people do not want it. Still After Randall. The Boston Herald, which is not a democratic pm per at all, except in the interest of imigwumpery, has late formation to the effect (hat at a recent informal meeting of the democratic leaders in Washington, it was resolved to do everything possible to keep Mr Randall in the background. But this is not all. Mr. Randall is not only to be kept in the back ground, but he is to be snubbed in every possible way, so that he will learn that his place is in the ranks as a humble private instead of at the head of the column as one of the captains. Curious as this information is it is not new, and if the Herald’s news is trust-worthy, it shows Hint there are certain prominent demo crats who, instead of learning any thing from defeat, are inclined to apply the same tactics in fhe House where there is a democratic minor ity that were employed when the democrats were in the majority. But, as matters now stand, the people will be able to perceive 11 re true inwardness of the fight on Mr. Randall. It is a light that is not made in lhe interests of democratic harmony and unity, but in the in terest oi' a few politicians who seem to be jealous of Mr. Randall’s fame. That great democrat has been put in the background, lie has been compelled to take a back seat. He has been snubbed and abused, and rend out of the party. He has been slandered by some of the alleged representatives of the people for whom to: has done no much. B'U, in spite of al these >h ng he has alwnvs n it a rci I t 'e leader—his posi lion has always been nseuied Saintly icier m j e*s tb d iiuwih rin ilia b-dy "'ill have , .me in pettier on issues that ate e rn wh t nw and yet very old. Tie w I h ive to deil wi h anew tepubl uan &iiii pf to bring about tederal n> oi fer-n<e in eleotionn in the Smitt When this fight is on. no dem -era -! ! a .’e any opportunity to snub Mr R-.ndall or to read him out of the pat ty. A serious, if not a vit tl issue wit b:iv to l-e dealt with, and in the erne' gerov that will sorely arise Mr Ran .Ml will stirelv he found where his pa. riot -m. his state nianship and his e - p nine* entitle him ' be. He wII fund le dine the deuioetatinj; minor ity as he let) it before in a sm-c sful fight against the attempt to blit round the voting plat es of the country with federal bav- rr ["Const j'miou. IVHalting-lon l.citcr, [From the Journal's Correspondent j Washington. D. C., July 15. 1/ it has done nothing el<*, the civil str vi a law lias put a partial atop o nep othm in the government office*. Ten ’.ears ago a man and wife could work at adjoiiing desks and their child could g’O-v up and he trained for a dtuibr portion. In those days tren ilie policeman raised his boy to he hearty and etiong, had him enlist in the army at eighteen and serve five y ars and come back and be a police man, under the fossil’*-d law provid ing that police rauet be honarably die charged soldo rs and sailors. This law wae ex eibnt at the e ose of the war and was intended to favor the voluute r soldier returning to the dn ties of peace. Now that the volunteer sold or is a middle aged old man, con gress refuses to repeal the law. Three recent appointments have caused gnit comment as instances of nepotism One of there appointments b ilv mas J M 'rgau, commissioner n I ldian affair*, of his wife as his pri vate vC’etarv at a government salaiy of mo tliousaiid -toll r- 1 The secant is that of the wife of Mr. Doichester, superintendf-nt of Indian schools as ii epector of Indian schools at six doi lars per day and expenses. The third is that ot the daughter of Commission er Tanner as hist private secretary at c ue thousand and six hundred dollars per annum. Tois last, the appoint ment (fa school girl position that many experienced ex soldiers have tailed to fid satisfactorily, has the id ditional objrctiou or being in bad.jti.lg mont. The argil man's against tlic ap poiatnoects of relatives to office are as old as the govs’umeut. Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, all felt strongly tin the subject regardin’; it as a dang erd s movement tending to creati 3U itin'O ;raey of office holders. .That arch was not tire result long ago is a : mystery, though finch appointments as three show a teasuring desire to grab everything in eight. Alluding to'.ha civil service law lion. .1. D. To y’or of Otsio, states thathe agr; e.; wi .h the commi/S'Ci a s n their statement that comparatively few o’iiege hted men obtain posi ions j through the examinations. Ho thinks that.they are evidently correct in slut ing t|iat the large majority have rec sv eti oulv common school educali ms. Xho logic if easy. A college bred man, as Bob Ingersoli se.ys, can cot read w >tn ease ten years after gradn - tiou the diploma bo won His ammo iy of earlier studies is dimmer. The exact longitude and latitude of some unimportant Afric-n cape is forgotten; iho date of tee bait c of Junes' Cross Road is gone accompanied by rule* for solving mmy problems m arilbraetic. But Your Shoes ' FROM E. I Smith. & Cosau’ny And Save Money, Athens Consult Voui iiittiksis t.y Buying y->ur DRUGS AND MEDICINES FROM Wade And Sledge, ATHENS, •' GEORGIA. We sell at the lowest possible price, and gnrantee every rrtiele to b* eb'-o intelv Pure. Orders by Marl will receive prompt attention. Remember tho name and place.—WADE & SLEDGE, Druggist? and Pharmacists. Between Hodgson Bros., and Talmadge Bros., (. ; avion Street. Athens Music House, 112 Clayton Street, Next boor to Puatoffin*, Athens, Georgia. Haselton & Dozier, Proprietors. ai "'wvo.v.si, Ow.v*u,S> (C\ •y- \ ■? OUv Ac \i VVw V , Yioiins, and all kinds of musical instru *4fS| i dneed prices tor cash, or on the 'usia I ”- " '' ''* mint. Special rates to churches and fit schools. Picture frames on hand or mads Jm to order * short not ce. A tut I Hint •:•• ’* '^ etf> s, °‘'k of Artis's’ Material 'or draw njr nnd painting in oil and water eoiion. MoaeY SavcD! We Sell Goods to Compete With Any House iu the Country. W VVQV’Vv'bw. i ' Mno! ants Can Bty Blank Books, S’bool Boobs, Paper Bags, Wrap pi eg Paper, Twine aud Stationery of Every Description From us at N. Y, Puces MCGR.EGOR. & ROBERTSON (Burke’s Old Stand,) ATHENS, GEOPRiA E * gss yai-., fi S3* ~|WJ| dW a aid* Stock Larger Than Ever! Stoves! Stoves! And Prices That nre Bound fo Attract Jones’ Standa’d Tinware. Roofing, Gntteting and Jol -Work. Call or Write for Prices. E. E. Jones, 209 B’oad St. 4THFF"