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Democratic Ticket. 1888-
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN !
For Congress 9’h District,
__ AD. CANDLER.
WiJ tw Jersey g> Democratic, l
n< t altogether cm tain.
Decatur has had a good frost,
but the fever still hangs on.
Col. Candler is still stumping
his district.
Birmingham has a murder or su
icide every week.
Illinois is not making much of
a fuss over the coming election.
A big democralic jubilee was
hedd in Cincinnati lai-t Thursday.
Pickett's chances in this district
are small lie may carry one or
two counties, but it is doubtful.
Pittsburg. Penn., is encouraged
over the bright outlook for a boom
ing trade in the steel rail business.
Under all the restriction acts of
the U. 8., to prohibit the Chinaman
from landing on her soil, it seems
Ee will come in.
Within the last tew days a num
ber of thieves have been captured
in Eagle Pass, Tex , for robbing
trains.
A man in New York has just
been sent to the state prison for
two years and six months, for false
registration. Quite a dear attempt
to forge a vote for him.
Mr "Wilson, a base-ball champ
ion, asks that congress pass an ap
propriation of several thousand
dollars to drain a pond near Deca
tur, or else destroy the town.
The yellow fever is at last, dy
ing out in Jacksonville. The siege
lias been a lasting one. Total cas
es amount to something over 3,-
872; deaths. 333.
It is going to be “nip and tuck'’
with tlie democrats and republicans
as to who will carry Indiana The
Hoosior state is a curious one, any
how.
It dernoorAU* will do the duty con
Mgcet! tb<Mu,n<xt Tuesday will show
Luffs fas no i opnbheauHm ia her
bococh fly doing tliit Candler will
got. a ►<: id vote thrmghont the county.
It is said within the iast few
days over 50,000 new voters have
been registered in New York city.
Most of them will vote the demo
cratic ticket.
The rov'u licans of Nashville,
Tenn , are. u der no little exci te
rn :mt over the approaching elec
tion. j hey are making shrewd
arrangements to secure the entire
negro vole of the state.
Chairman Quay of the Republi
ran Executive Committee, New
York, it is said, has made the asser
ticm Ibalthe republican party will
carry that slate, if it costs a half
million dollars.
Next Tanadar will “ted the tsle of
uafold things ” The prospects arc
bright for a democratic: victor* . The
outlook Or exceed# that of 1884. The
voir tbiougaout the eoßutry will be
largely increased.
--Liss Francis E. Willard, presi
dent of the Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union, is bringine:
prohibition into politics. Only a
few days ago she made a telling
blow at prohibition non-partisons.
Blaine has been making some
lively speeches in Rochester, N;T.;
there is one thing certain he is not
likely to tell the republicans to
“claim everything in New York”
again.
I The seaport towns along the
Florida coast, will always be trou
bled with yellow fever, until they
prohibit the landing of vessels
from Cuba. This will hardly be
done. The United States can not
atFord it.
The Birmingham Herald expects
to enlarge soon. It is a morning
paper. The best thing the Her
ald can do is to get an editor, Since
Editor Rhodes, one of the ablest
writers in the state of Alabama, with
drew from that paper, its columns
hov ß been need to “no good”—the
Writers are a sot of unexperienced men.
Louisville. Ivy., has called a de
fail of fifty of the Louisville Legion
Kentucky State Guards to report
for service today. They go to Har
vard Perry County to attend the
circuit court; here a number of
persons engaged in the Eversole
French feud are on docket. Trou
ble is predicted.
Democrats
Be prepared to obargo the
next Tuesday. Toe the lino—the en
emy way rash from all mid?*—stand
firm, to w;,q the b*t>le the eneaey must
he dr ft-a ted Go to the pill# and oast
i’ic.et'- und the republican party i* ! o
blivion. by voting or Candler and
the ?r corafic electors. Thne* indc.
pendent iein will never rrsnrrect its
C <ii catcall P Bon!:# rv>Pß ; y
llow About Indiana?
The Nashville American pub
hsuMf a page of relics, received
from editors throughout the state
of Indiana, to the questions (1)
Who will carry Indiana? (2) By
what majority? (3) What are your
reasons for your belief? These
questions were put to the editor
of eve* v paper in Indiana, and the
answers published represent near
ly every paper in the state
The responses are about equally
divided between democratic and
republican papers Every democ
ratic paper says that Cleveland
will carry the stale, and the
average of the democratic estimate
is about 8,000 majority. Every
republican paper says that Har
rison will, carry the state, and it is
observed that the average of the
estimated republican majority is
about the same as that made by the
democrats.
There are about one hundred an
swers in all, and a striking thing
about them is that there is a re
markable similarity in the respec
tive relics of the papers. This
serves to show that the result is a
matter of great est uncertainty, and
that only an official count can set
tle the question as to who will
receive tho electoral vote of India
na.
The general trend of the democ
ratic papers as to the “reasons for
unbelief” is that Harrison will lose
on account of his attitude on the
greenback question, the Chinese
question, the labor question, the
tariff question, the boodle ques
tion. the know-nothing question,
and further, from the fact that Cle
veland’s administration has pleased
the people of the state, and again
because of the constant republican
loss from the prohibition influence,
and also owing to the natural and
steady increase in the democratic
vote of the state, which, ia a full
vote, controls it.
The republican editors base their
belief on Harrison’s strength on
the tariff question, his war record,
his Grand Army support, the mat-
ter of state pride, rejaublican har
mony. dissatisfation at Cleveland’s
administration, personal populari
ty and the fact that Gov. Hendricks
no longer lives to carry the state
for the democrats.
The report of th 6 American off
ers an interesting study, but pres
ents no possible significance as to
the probability of the result.—
[Constitution.
. The Work Ended.
Washington, 24th, inst.—sow that
coßgreas has adjourned it will bo of
interest to give a conoise statement of
the results of the sission, locally con
sidered. Ia the matter of appropria
tions this session shows a more liberal
record than is the usual caso, and pro
vision has been made for a number of
public works. The following is an ac
curate and complete account .of all cf
the governmental expenditures author
ized durißg the past session, confining
•be list to Georgia and vicinity.
In the matter of public buildings,
the following ia the complete state
ment:
To improve and repair the court
house and post office in Atlanta, 120,-
000; completion of court house and
post cffico at Angnsta 100,000 dollars;
purchase of site and commonsoment of
building at Birmingham, Ala., 60,000
dollars, continuation of Savanah court
house and post office building, 75,000.
Promoting the light atatiou on Sand
Island, Ala., from eneroaehment of
the sea, 12,000 Provision is made
out of the general appropriation for
maintaining post lights, to aid naviga
tion on the Savannah River. To con
tinue the primary triangulatiou from
Atlanta toward* Mobile, 3,000; resur
vey of Mobile entrance. 3.000 dollars .
The appropriation of 5,000 made in
18S5. for tie construction of a road
way to the national e>;me f e r y near Ma
ilinta, is made available for expendi
ture, notwithstanding the limitation
imposed bv the original act The ap
pr >prjation for providing the heating
<ppaiatus or the Macon public ouiid
iug is also mads available without the
o iirfinal lioai ation.
T.iie following i* a correct mate
men' ot the expend fans to be made
ui the iuiproveiiitMn of rivers and har
bore dniiigthe pn-sant fiscal year.
Bniswick h**b r, 85.0C0 dollar*;
G limber! and sound 112 500, Altama
h> river 10 000, Chatahooohes liver
20 000, Coosa rifer 60 000. Flint river
20,000, of which intii 5,000 is to be
expended between Alban* and Monte
znma, and 15 000 below Albany, Ac
innlgee river 15,000, O’eoneeriver 12,
500, a portion of which may be expend
ed on the river between Skull shoals
and iho Georgia rdlroad bridge, Sa
vannah river, between Augusta and
Savannah 21,000, Jekyl Creek 5,000,
Roraerly marsh 4,633.77.
In Alabama the following.
Mobile harbor 250,000, Alabama
river, 20,000, Black Warrior river
from Tu-c&loosa to Daniels creek
100,000, Tallapoosa river 7,500, War
rior rivor below Tuscaloosa, 18,000,
Tombigbea from Walker’s brings
to Fnlton 4.000, Tombigbeo river from
Fulton to Y iennas,oQo, Tombigbeo
river below Yienna 6,000.
Provisions is made ont of the gener
al provision for the following surveys
with the view of future improvements
should they bo deemed necessary.
Flint river rook reefs at Albany and
above, Savannah riTer above Angnsta
and between Augusta and Andereon
ville, o’conee river, ocmulgee river.
In Alabama —Channel in and along
the Coesa river, from the rapids at
Wetumpka to connect with the im
provements already completed above
the Tea Islands, Warrior riTer from
Tnsoaloosa to Pemopolis far deepen
ing and widening the channel with a
view to the easy transportation of coal,
Ohoctawatchee river for low water
navigation.
Thera has not been mnch general
legislation of immediate local Import
ance to Georgia, almost all of it being
measures to authorize the bridging e
riyare; of this class thtro were passed
eight distinct acts, almost all of them
in tho interest of railroad corporations.
Toa only act of general importance
passed was that to repair tho govern
ment building in Atlanta, which has
already been classed with the appro
priations.
Thin completes the statement of lo
eal appropriations sad it can ba seen
Ib&t Gsorgia interests were not reg’set
#d. Results attained are attributable
to tba industry of the state delegation,
end those who were here expressed sat
isfaction that eo mnch had been previd
ti iu the allotment of appropriations.
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ATHENS, '' GEORGIA.
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