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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Harrisou and his parly aniveil
in Boston lasl week. The reception
was a grand affair.
The alliance of Alabama held a
big meeting in Auburn last week
They are determined to use cotton
bagging.
Pennsylvania republicans held
a big mooting at lltrrisburg last
week. They were loud in their
praise the present administration.
Sullivan gave bond for his ap
pearance at his preliminary trial In
Mississippi, last week, and return
ed with in's party to the North.
Now. that the people of Johns
town have undergone a drowning
out, those that were left are under
going an epidemic of sickness,
A history ol the life of Col. liobt.
Toombs will be published shortly
by his grandson Toombs Dußose
and Pleasant Stovall, of the Agusta
Chronicle.
The May brick trial has at last
ended. Mrs. Maybrick was tried
tor the murder of her husband.
The jury brought in a verdict ol
giulty. She will die on the gallows.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 7.—Re
turns from the state election up to
this morning, show that the demo
crats have an increased plurality of
IS,OOO over the election ol two
years ago, and that Monday’s ma
jority will reach 35,000. The last
legislature stood 102 democrats aud
3G opposition. That elected Mon
day will consist of 114 democrats
and 24 republicans.
The rumor that the Savanah,
Auaericus and Montgomery rail
road has been sold, llie president,
Col. S, E, Hawkins, denies the
statement,
Here is what he says in brief:
“Our road,"’ said Pres. Hawkins,
“has not been sold to the Central,
nor will it be sold. On the contra
ry, we have just perfected arrange
ments by which it will not only re
tain its indepence, but will give to
the people along its line all thj ad
vantages in through rates of a great
trunk line, as well as the advant
ages of all connections to two of
the most important parts on the
Atlantic coast—Savanah and
Brunswick.”
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 7. —Last
night the .urge Herald sent a mem
ber of' its staff, who used to live in
Frankfort, Ivy., and knew Dick
fate well, up to Scottsboro where
the detectives are holding a man
they think is Tate. The Age-ner
•dd representative telegraphs to
night that, while he can't swear
•' e man is Tate, he thinks he is.
Otherwise it is a phenomenal case of
I' u- t*. Livingston, as the prisoner
i nil., unbelt', still refuses to talk furth
- to h to state his intention to keep
p; <n nth shut and let the officers
j:- >ve tie is Tate it they oan. The
■ n is laboring under suppressed ex
u'ement. A sensational feature of
tee e ” was the prompt arrest yester
. • 7 ci ons of to e and nei. ies who arrest
ee* ij’vin The dateotive had
previcu,ly j erres*. ... v i had skipp
ed .his he-’.’ l T 1 : ~ one ci bis
l.cr‘h:r.t'r., i- . k p pears nee in
Scotiboro, promptly had him locked
up. Two deputies are guarding the
alleged Tate, who awaits identifies
tion by the Kentucky authorities.
Later:—A Courier Journal special
from ficot'e’mro, says the prisoner
there in jail is not Treasurer Tate.
He is now believed to be a criminal
wanted somewh re, aud therefore, will
not talk. Tati’s friends in Frankfort
say he is not in the Cubed States.
Georgia on Wheels,
It will be remembered that lasl
year the Central railroad fitted up
a handsomely decorated car and
litledit witli the products of Geor
gia's field's forests, mines and man
u factories.
This car was placed in charge of
Maj.W. L. Glessner, commissioner
of immigration, who took it up
through the northwest, visiting (lie
various state and district fairs,
where the exhibit was displayed
side by side with the products of
that section. This exhibit of Geor
gia s rich and varied resources serv
ed to draw the attention of thou
sands to this slate as a desirable
place of residence, and had it no!
been for the yellow' fever scare in
Florida, would, no doubt, have
been followed by a large influx of
visitors and setllers.
This year Maj. Glessner has ar
ranged a novel plan of carrying
Georgia on wheels. His idea is to
form a party of representative
Georgia farmers and carry them to'
the northwest, there to investigate
the products, methods and machin
ery of that section, that may com
pare them with theirs and adopt
3uch of them as are adopted to our
state. They will also speak a good
word for Georgia in their travels.
That the results of such a trip
must be greatly beneficial to Geor
gia is obvious, as these farmers will
come back with enlarged ideas and
experience, and lheir neighbors
will closely watch any new meth
ods and machinery which they may
adopt.
The Central railroad will furnish
the party with one of their hand
some sleepers and arrange for its
transportation over the route laid
out. The party will be composed
of representative and practical far
mers, selected by the State Agri
cultural society and the state alli-
ance, each organization being priv
ileged to select one from each con
gressional dislrict.
Tlie parly will leave Atlanta on
Saturday, August 31st, and ivill
spend two weeks in visiting state
and district fairs, experimental
tarms, agricultural colleges, stock,
dairy and fruit farms, No effort
will be spared to make the trip a
pleasant and instructive one.
The Central railroad to be com-
J menced for the liberal and enter
prising spirit it has displayed in
thus aiding in the development of
the material industi .e and calling
; attention to the rich and varied re
! sources of the state. It has lotcon
-1 lined its werk toihe territory frav
; arsed by itr lines, but has general
j lv worked, for the interests of the
i entire state, and this proposed far
; ners’ excursion is but one of many
| instances of its thoughtful liberali
ty —[Constitution.
WitMttiti*-ton I,otter.
[From the Journal’s Corre pon lent J
Washington, Aug. s.—The census
of 1870 Was taken by the united States
marphalw under the direction of a su
periutendent, who .vmkid under tin,
secretary of the Interior. As the mar
sbalu were employees of the depart
ment of justice, the confusion was yen
great. The act of 1879, which goyari
ed the census taking of 1880, and will,
w'ith a few modifications, apply to tha
o 1890, was properly the work o
.lines A. Garfield, lie present a tiv.
C -x, Gen. Francis A. Walker and
Eugene Hale. It provides for the cen
tering of the work at Washington ano
the enumerations by per.-ons who are
solely appointed, except the supervis
ors, by the superintendent of the cen
FUS.
The house to house count will com
raence on the first Monday of next
June, and will involvo inquiries as to
age, sex, nativity, race physical oond •
tion, and a dozen othir things. For
ty thousand enumerations will be in
the 175 census districts and for each
of these districts the president will, in
February, appoint a supervisor, who
will receive $125 per month and in ad
dition thereto $1 for every 1,000 ol
the population in thijkly settled dis
tricts, and one dollar and forty cents
in others. The enumerations will be
paid two cents for every inhabitant,
birth and death reported; twenty cen a
for each farm aud thirty cents lor each
factory recorded, and for every veteran
of the late war fire cents. In addition
to these out door employees the many
special agencies which are yery eozy
places for the friends of statesmen, in
volving little labor and no expendi
ture of ideas, the duties being merely
to go to manufacturing establishments
in cities and ask pointed questions and
put down the answer.
The amount of information ohta'ned
and the number of subjects treated in
our census are amazing. Every field
is covered. Great Britain sends apo
lieeman around in the evening to och
honse with a printed slip askiug infor
mation, and in the morning he carries
it away, and the thing is done. But
in this country census taking is invoic
ing everything on hand. The work of
the Tenth Censns was embraced in
twenty-two volumes, and soraeof those
were not issued until 1887. The
work bid fair to last forever. There
was even a volume demoted to forest
tiees, and two volumes of long wind-
ed essays on social subjects. It was
a dumping plaee for waste information.
Tho new census will attempt to be less
ambitions, though the projectors of the
census 1880 made the same promise.
1 saw in the corridor of superintend
ent Porter’s office on Saturday the ver
itable orginal census office clerk, at
least he was so considered when the
census of 1 870 was made, and I wou and
not be surprised to learn that spici
mens of his youthful penmanship are to
be found in the musty records of the
census of 1790, still preserved in the
interior department. In 1870 be was
held in office by Henry Wilson, and
in 1880 by Senator Hear, He was
promptly discharged at about the first
general redaction of eletks after the
taking of each oenscs, and was never
seen until the next one was announced.
On Saturday ha seemed as chipper as
ever, asked me for soma chewing to*
tnicco and was surpused to learn that
i did not use the stuff, aud informed
me mysteriously that he “had Porter
down fine;” “botrowed*’ ten cents aud
drifted . way, poor old wreck.
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