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EDITORIAL COMMEN r.
The logii-datiuv is trying to lent
'•lie Slate Bead for ! ' M'-)0 n year,
'i ill-- i-i w hat Dr. Felton' • hill asks.
The grind jury ul Oeoneo coun
ty has 10:1ml a number of irue-hills
i. a,lust whiskey peddlers.
.V straw -bun id lrusi ha- Icon
ft . * 0 I in Chicago; it includes sev
trt: . a (be largest manufactories
hi db: '.ll sia: >s.Tl)e capita' stock
a■ ; ,t; , .:... to !. 000,000.
i-\>r some weeks the crops ol ilis
fiO'iri have been suffering a severe
drouth. List week heavy rains
< sue*, and damaged the c -ops lAore
than the drouth.
,ay f-o .at denies the statement
t at he is trying to 1 uy the Clocu
o-o and Dalton railroad—tint he
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lias been borrowing large sums of
money lie says lie is iuamug mo e
than he is borrowing.
The railway mail service through
out the countly is creating no!' 'e
tremble with liie while clerks Imv
ing to instruct negro assis'.mks, /
greater imposition can never be
tnacled on I lie caucasion race.
Ben Bates, while umpiring a bill l
m ine near Owensboro, Ivy,, a lew
days ago, for two clubs of boys,
made a decision to which Frank
Morris, w'lo was at the babobiec'-
ed. A bitter quarrel ensued, re
sulting in Bates fatally stabbing
Morris with a pocket-knife. Be
is only sixteen years old.
According to the iatest statistics
carefully compiled by the board
of injury of Johnstown, Pa., the
number of lives lost in the devas
tated district was about 6.000; these
figures may be changed some little
in the future, as it is probable that
a a lew who are reported missing,
may have been absent on a visit
when the compilation was made,
W. 11. Davis, a negro of Pittsyl
vania county, Va., was recently ap
pointed by Supt. Vickery a posi
tion oi postal clerk to run between
ibis city and Pocahontas. lie was
given r letter to Postal Clerk Den
nis. democrat, containing the re
quest that he (Dennis) would couch
Davis on the route. Dennis, who
expected to be removed, refused (o
comply with the request, and l:is
action in the premises was prompt
ly reported to headquarters. The
refusal of Dennis to coach him was
fallowed by a like refusal or the
r rt of Postal Clerks Payne and
Davors (while republicans) both
u ' whom declared that (hey would
1 'so their positions before they
would consent lo run wilh a nig
ger. At last reports the colw.ed
pointed was still wailing to be
instructed in the line of his.du ’os,
awl the indications are (hat he wi'l
coniinue lo wait some time to ceine.
i’lie matter is in the hands of Slip .
Vickery, and Payne and Devers
are anticipating their removal ala
momeal’H notice.
The Worla’b Pair.
With, in three vein s will come the
hundred: nmiversary of ihe
a: . ‘test ev r.t mown to the olv 11-
j 1 ■ the d.Lv’Overv of Amei
ic , It xs an event which is pro
nou need by maul; ’>id unbms.bly
to he the greatest known in .he an
nals of the pa-.!.
11 wi 1! ho -•eh-dinV. 'U 1 y be- . n >t.
est fair world Ims 1 unv.l:l}
America will ho the toast of ah n
tions of;ho e .ri!i.
jI lias been mono.'.ed to ob.-bro
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tins anniversary li st by a wo: la’s
exposition, and af ei ward by ape -
inanent exposition of the ih’ce,
A me: !<•:•*. Tin* lab.or Ims met v ib)
I more favor frotn the House ■ :m
--mitiee on ioreign allahs, It wi'l
j be some hing vcry*d : Terent j osn
the ordina.y world's fr : r. It w 'M
be varied in e bibils. ?'l shoving
the phenominal progress of the
youngest nation on eaiili for the
past lour hundred ye.ms.
Washington will be Ike place
for the permanent expos! 'on. for
it is best suited of ah the cities on
the American continent. It will
lie a great show, embracing ihe en
tire world in its extraordinary in
terest. Every nation on the face
of the earth looks on America as its
guiding star, and right worthily
• has she filled her vocation. The
world's fair will reunite the coun
tries of the world with fonder ad
miration than ever for our coun
try, and it will be the fulfillment of
her destiny when America, the
youngest nation, “shall bind the
old to the oldest, when the Basilic
shall unite, though the narrow Bos
phorous has long divided."—[Ath
ens Banner.
Madness and Badness.
The devil seems to be gelling in
his work among the negroes in Lib
erty county, and in a good many
other counties.
It is unadulterated madness in
cue place, and unmitigated bad
ness in another. When one false
Christjs jailed another springs up
stark naked to take his place
When Judge Lynch gets through
with one black rapist he scarcely
has time to nap before his rope is
needed again.
There has been such an eruption
of crime and deviltry in our news
columns JaUly that it is hard to
take a cool and just view of the sit
uation. But il is time for hot and
hasty judgments. Let us be just.
Even in the very climax of ern >-
tional religious excitement very
lew negroes start out as false Mes
siahs. Even in their worst mo
ments of wickedness very few com-
mit violent assaults upon women.
On the coni rary, nearly all of them
are industrious toilers, smiling at
their work, and at peace with their
neighbors and all the world.
Still, the Diet can not be disguis
ed that too many negroes are either
mad or bad, and they are increas
ing in number. The asylum is no
! check upon cue class, and the gal
lows is in danger of being over
worked.
What is the remedy? Will edu
cation induce the Liberty county
Christ to get into his trousers aud
preach orthodoxy? Will it change
the average rape into a short and
simple courtship, duly hedged in
by tiie color hue? It is doubtful,
and more than doubtful.
One reforming influence we have
failed to cs imale at its full value,
iasre are almost countless numbers
o* mat'd and law abiding colored po
p’e who own homes, or expect in 01?.1
thorn—unit and women woo Rye do
■ rimy am law • I itizcnd who
have at hb u t the welisi* ,nd pfoeper
i *y 01 theit riiee. Aaiu'i;’. the r!ni. are
proMc'-e's. teachers and intelligent
well 11 •’-.(> c >n?d, i: tt v ii n ’hi x
c 1" •i: m-e : vea. pxij eme a ooutrmlinu
inlh ereo over th'dr lichieu. Pulli
. | in. 11, i-.dior than IW, beeps th
•a hue* *(i-- : ;!-t Wbv eri not tii do
goes. v i'li t heir julpit and
t ••hurls, bm|. 4 up a public opinion tha
will hold the blanks in cheek?
Ti e uni ions of b!a !?s in the South
rm st eo operate with tboir white neigh
hors if they look for happiness and
piosperity. When they turn their pas
sinus 100 e and defy the law they arp
always the greatest sufferers in the
end. Th*> trou Ule with t hem hereto
fore has been their disposition to stand
aside and all rv a few among tlmni to
K've fall play to tbo'r vices without
c 'lid earning aid opposing tham.
When idle and vicious negroes si e
tat they me despise i aid ostracised.
Cy their own race, they will become
proportionately as few as such charac
ters are among the whites-
Intelligent colors:! rn-.n who arc
working for the best inter ists ot their
people ; will indorse thsse ideas, but
t! ey rnur-t not sup there —they must
caivy them it t > theirclinrel e school*,
wo kshops, fields and into every circle,
from the group on the doorstep ot the
cibin to the largest community. This
‘ ii the kind of education most needed
by the bro’her in black.— [Constitu
tioi..
Wasiiitiglim JLetier,
[Fmrn the Journal’s Correspondent ]
Washington, Joly 22 —With every
one that can get away from this hot
city, out of town, from the president
who has gone to Deer Park, to depart
mental messenger, who has gone down
the river for a day’s outing, Washing
ton has nearly a deserted appearance
on Sunday. The houses along Con
nectiout avenue are closed for the sum
mer, and that thoroughfare, which is
wont to be the afternoon parade ground
of fashion on foot and in carriage,
showed yesterday only a few solitary
warfarers. Pennsylvania avenue, dem
ocratic as it is, respecting its loiterers;
at 3 o’clock ou Sunday afternoon in
mid-summer boasted only a few apolo
getic passengers by, who are wonder
ing why they did’nt go out of town
themselves. The sidewalks were as
hot as frying pans; the asphalt pave
ments seemed to sizzle under the July
sun yesterday.
At the coiner of Pennsylvania avsn
ue and seventh street is a wide space,
where hacks stand on week days and
which boasts a curiously shaped drink
ing fountain which was erected fire
years ago by some Western man and
which has never, by any chance, con
tained water since its first month’s ex
istence. If there is any breeze in the
business part of the city it is here.
Acfcss this deserted space at 3 p m.
comes a wiry lame, little old colored
man, with a Bible under his arm and
without any preliminaries he kneels
down beside the fountain and prays
long and earnestly. A seore of loiter
-1 ers slowly gather around him, and he
commences to harangue them. His
sermon is rather long, and is like the
efforts of most old colored pre.aehets,
extremely doot.inal and the text is tpk
en Irorn Revelations. He concludes by
getting the Johnstown fori or s in some
mysterious jumble mixe i with the use
of wim among congressmen.
The score of loiterers that have
gathered are aow doubled and as the
colored man departs, a long bain and
white mao with a lor of black charts,
comas iu view. These charts have
ships drawn on them and mountains
and pyramids with novel letterin'
scattered about. The •white man be
gins his discourse without prayer and
for half an hour explains the
ou the chart, the whole thing appear
ing to fc& an object lesson, treating of
the deliverance or the children oi Is
raol cut of bondage. Tue white man
is not au exhorter, ar.d, indeed, he be
comes so much interests iiu his sub
ject and wanders so far into specula
tion that he haa no time f>i exhorting
before ha is interrupted.
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