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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. Buy Your Shoes # • FROM E. 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