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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 *** 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 • - 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. [Continued on first column 3rd page.] Buy You it Si‘OK 1 . FROM ? t cimiils JP, I rrr J, &£LU, CH f And Save Money , atpi.ns Consult Your interests by Buying your DRUGS AND MEDICINES FROM— C ?T7“ 3 p Ay> q r i ah rup V V QyltfSaW iMuVa hysala? V .j| ATHENS, T GEORGIA. We sell at the lowest possible price, 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 Pharmacists. Between Hodgson Bros., and Talmadge Bros., Clayton Street. 16 112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Postoffice, Athens, Georgia. Haselton & Dozier, Proprietors, a schools. Picture frames on hand or made to order at short notice. A full and com ing and painting in oil and water colors. MoneY SavcD! We Sell Goods to Compete With Any House in the Country. QvVwdv 'iUtQ.Vv Merchants Can Buy Blank Books, Bchool Books, Paper Bags, Wrapping Paper, Twine and Stationery of Every Description From us at N. Y. Prices MCGREGOR & ROBERTSON (Burke’s Old Stand,) ATHENS, GEORGIA . E’ffl Tft’k’T rf.r'iV m. if U Ja9&" Stock Larger Than Ever! c H * "vWTW 'f-: T ■ -Aj&lSk Stoves! Stoves! J| —Stoves Bought by Car-Loads! — And Prices That are Bound to A Attract Jones’ Stand a’d Tinware. p f&T-Tin Roofing, Guttering and Jot-Work, Call or Write for Prices. E, E. Jones, 209 B’oad St, ATHENS