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J no. Barton, - - - Editor.
Bt. Louis bad a big fire new
year's morning.
California and Nevada had a to
tal eclipse of the sun Ist, inst.
Congress is not doing much of
anything.
The legislature has adjourned.
It will have a called session in July.
The Presbyterian conference
meets in Atlanta re\t June.
President-elect liarison's new
year’s reception was large and cost
ly. ‘
The Ist, inst, was a galla day in
New York—Gov. llill's inaugural
day. This is his third term.
Sentinel Wilkes, a bay stallion,
■is years’ old, sold Ist inst. in
Lexington, Ky , for $25,000. W.
0. France was the purchaser.
The Natchez, one of the finest
steamers running the Mississippi
River sank the Ist. at Lake Provi
dence. She cost $190,000.
The only thing on record now to
•xcite national curiosity will be
mdeaireof thousands of people to
be present at the inauguration of
Harrison, 4th of March.
Pres. Cleveland's new year’s re
ception presented a brilliant occa
sion. Correspondents say the
white house was never more full;
the parlors and reception rooms
were beautifully and costly decor
ated,
Mr. Gladstone ielegr.pis as folLw
from Naples:
“The Tablet’s version of my etter
to the Maiqois D’Rit-o tombin' the
position of the people i unnustw 11 by.
The atatemen that t tecum in nin
ternatiorui arbitration upon the ft man
question is incoriect undei the prereut
circomstanres ”
Vhr London JJaily Telegraph in n
loading ai icle on th • 1 (,lt
Ameiiean —J-m er to Kn*. an- 1 .
•• vVe bare always connived to teak
them more English thm they w re t> -
fore they c>n• to .E ii'hnh - on!d
BU ine come to London as United
States minister, Engli-hm > would
t-ke it as a compliment, I u ho<ver
Mr. Harr son chooses, L '• r'fciu to t-e
persona grata he'p ’’
In Dublin 1 liink* like 7h>
peasants in th* vicinity of Our ' -na.
gho an ‘ Falcarrab, in thcounty Done
pal, have aimed iheuiselve-, fortified
their houses, destr< yed the bridges
and blocked the roads, in readiness to
Tc-sist the evictions which w ill bo at
tempted to morrow. Troops and po
lice on duty in the region mi*h wiib
ilifdcul'y, rnd the appeaiNme of the
district is tint of a country where war
is going on. A romui ssary was lost
while crossin" the temporary bridge
I had an interesting chat with a
colored worn n who was a slave in
Maryland just previous to the as
sassination of Lin Join. Speaking
of that tragedy, she said: “I didn’t
see Booth when he came to Dr.
Mudd’s, but I saw his boots and
razor. Tho boots were long ones,
and must have reached to his hips.
You know that Booth was captur
ed in Mudd’s barn, which was burn
ed to the ground. The soldiers
came down there with a rush, and
were goiDg right by when a little *
boy, not snore than five years old,
told them that there was a man in
the barn. He was betrayed by
that little boy/'-[Boston Traveler.
Manual Training in rublic Schools.
The idea is gradually taking pos
session of the people that the pub
lic school system of this country,
while it gives a very fair literary
education to the young, is not al
together perfect This idea, in the
concrete, so far as it has developed
in Georgia, is represented by the
state school of technology in this
city, and by the supplemental
training schools at the state uni
versity and at Emory college.
The public school is good far as
it goes, but a merely literary course
and by no meanß a perfect one,
fails to tit the youth of the laud to
make their way in the world. The
whole object and aim ot the public
school system is to fit the young
people of the country for life—to
aid in making them good citizens
and useful members of the comrau
ir’ty.
There is no better citizen than
an industrious one—no better edu
cated citizen than the one who pos
sesses at once the impulse of in
dustry and the knowledge and
skill necessary to direct it in the
proper channel.
This matter is attracting atten
tion in all the large educational
centers, and it may very properly
be discussed here in Georgia,
where tho interest in public educa
tion is as large and as serious as it
is in any part of the country.—
[Constitution
Busine** in Coigress u Grit ding
S<o w
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Tlu* li irdn of the international Copy
righ* b l! are m iking a great, effort to
i-ncnre consideration tor the moasur
,i.. t. ir iH session, but theii
chances of hicccus fisem slim. Thee
i* corcideiabl oppoaitieo to the bill,
hut Boareely enough to defeat it under
toe ordinary circumstances. They bo
lieve that if they could get a day fix
ed for its consideration, they could
pass it But they have aluioht despair
ed f this. Tie trouble ia with the
uimittee nu rubs . That committee
ot ill declines to hold a meeting. The
chairman of the various committees
having important liUa on the calen
*ar to which there is no objection,
bare been doing all they could to in
duce the speaker to call a meeting of
the eomraitt*- to arrange the order of
business for the house. Theie is an
necessity for such airangemen*. In
Ivc it will be impossible to dispose of
any tf these mew,res unless some or
d-r o( bnsii.f as is agreed upon. The
immb rs have. bow-ver, about given
np the hope of getting a meeting of
the committee. Mr. Carlisle and Mr.
Mills aie Mill afraid of the pension
bills, and doubt their ability to con-
trol the house if they once let it loose
from the present tie-np. Besides the
p*nMon hills there are some that take
money from the treasury and other
wise objectionable for other reasons,
that they are afraid of. This kept
them from meeting daring all the lat
ter part of last session. After the
eleotion it was thought they would
meet, but the manner in which tie
petition has keen received indicates
t'r. at there will be oo order of business
arranged for this sttsion,
Foreign Missions Attacked.
America, Chicago’s great litera
ry weekly, is in favor of spending
the money raised by the churches
for foreign missions in missionary
work at home. It even goes so far
as to say that “rotone cent should
be expended in supporting mis
sionaries in their vain endexvors
to convert a few scraggy heathens
at the antipodes who become Chris
lians for business purposes only ”
This attack has, of course,
brought the advocates of foreign
missions to the front with a reply,
and they naturally make the point
that America is hostile to religion.
In response our bold contempora
ry quotes the following from Can
on Taylor’s recent article in the
Fortnightly Review, entitled “The
Great Missionary Failure:”
“Since, by the most recent esti
mates, the population of China is
382,000,000, of India 254,000,000,
of Africa 200.000,000, of Tapau 38,-
000,000, and of Coylon, Persia,
Afghanistan, Corea and the Bur
mese Penisula 42,000,000, it will
be seen that the non-Christian pop
ulation of Asia and Africa is up
ward of 920.000,000, so that the
annual increase by excess of birth*
over deaths must exceed 11,000,-
000, Dr. Maclean, the principal
of a training college for missiona
ries, estimates the actual increase
ol native Christians due to mis
sionary efforts at 60,000 If this
estimate is approximalely correct,
it would take the societies 183
years to overtake the increase of
the non-Chiistian population in a
single year. For every additional
Christian we have every year 188
heat hens or Moslems.
According .to n.un, Haig, flic
opviKcsinan of the societies, the an
nual increase of native Protestant
oinislians in India due to labors
of thirty-five societies is 19,311,
and the increase of Roman Catho
lics is 21,272, or 40,583 in all But
for every additional Christian there
are about twelve additional Mos
lems and fifty two additional hea
thens. It would take ail the agen
cies put together sixty-four years
to overtake the increase of the
non-Christian people in a single
year
China is, perhaps, the most dis
heartening case. The population
is reconed at 382,000,000. The an
nual increase by the excess ot
births over deaths would be about
4,580,000. Last year the Church
Missionary society baptized 167
adults. At this rate it would take the
JOciety 27,000 yoa;s to overtake the
gain to heathenism in a single year,
and if the population were stationary
it would take more than 1,680 000
years to convert the Chinese einpir.
8o mneb for qnautity, and now
whar is the quality of the convene 9
Mr. Johnston, the well known African
traveler, who is British vi consul in
the Cameroons, says; ‘ln marry im
portant districts, whets the mission a
lies have been at work for twenty
years, they can scarcely number, in
honest statistics, twenty t Loire con-
verts. In ether part", where large
duo. here of nominal Christians exist,
their rel gion is difCredited by mim.
bering auong its adherents all the
drunkards, 1 ar*. rogues and unclean
livers in the colony. In the oldest of
our west African possessions all the
unrepentant Magdalenes of the chief
city are professing Christians, and the
most notorious one in the place boasts
that she never missed goin; to church
on a communion Sunday.’ ”
The Oh anaomts are quiet
st present. The peaking has tested.
Gunnels, Power & Cos.,
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DEALERS IN -Jf.
Plantation Supplies.
We Keep in stock atoll* apply of good and fresh goods. We oan nol he
surpassed in Quality and Durability. We buy at lowest market figures; we
defy competition in prices. We want only a liviDg psolit on our sales. Wa
do not claim to be Vanderbilts, nor do we with to accumnlate their
We are receiving daily, a full supply of our Cottorners er ry day want*.
O$F“ Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Higrest Market Piiees.
Xmas Announcement.
ATHENS BOOK STORE.
gffiP*("'HRTSTM AS BOOKS:—Our stock of Obristm* B >ohs has beta
.-elected wi'h great cute end will, we believe, meet the tastes td our many
Iriends. Youug pe pie’s books without end — irom Sve cents to Libraries fif
teen dollara. Ait B oks Our book table contains many choice an books ap
propriate foi Chna tnas gitts. We have also added largely to our general
stock el L teraiy Ware, and we believe we can suit, all requirements ia th#
way of book? for presentation. We have a larte selection oi Standard Auth
ms in nets MailMuj bom five io iorty dollars. Man oi them we olf<r at about
hali price. B 1 BLES—Pocket Bibleß, P**- Bible*.
j .rce oi praye, uuofes and hymn®. A ffne selection oi the Fata
ous Oxicid Tra< hers' B b'es. The smallest Bilble in the world, 6iz9 oi a poek
et test ament. Albums — Our photograph albums been selected iroin va
rious uiaiiu ac ones, both at home and abroad. In leather and plush goods,ia
1 his line we have an (Xceliont assortment, including -all the newest designs ia
'li a pc, style and get up Piiees od quarters iro.m otse to twelve dollars. Ottr
'how room above the storeorby the same stairway as the Young Men’s Chris
iian Association rooms, has been placed under the charge of Mi®s Anna Pat*
man, who dining the Chiistmaa season, will bs aided by other young ladies.
Dolls, Building Blocks, alphabet blocks, games, tool chests, tin toys, dinner
He, hi .-quo, ffguies, vases, bronze goods, etc., velocipedes, express wagons,
Frames, etc CuiistmaH cards, 5 cents to 6 dollars e&ch. For 25 cents ws will
mail seven 5 cent cards, or ihree at 10 cents. For one dollar we mail 30 at h
cents, or 14 at 10 cents each. Mail orders promptly attended to. Space is
limited or we in ght mention other goods.
D. W. MCGREGOR & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers t
Bowks and Stationery, Athens, Georgia.
. !■ JONES!
Stock Larger Than Ever!
Stoves! Stoves!
—Stoves Bought by Car-Loads!—
Arid Prices That are Bound to
Attract Jones’ Standa’d Tinware.
g@oF~Tln Goofing, fluttering and Jcb-Wcrk, Call or Write for Price*.
E. E. Jones, 209 B’oad St. ATHENS.