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MAKE Dawson grow by spending your money at home. SPEAPER CRISP will sail for Europe in a few days. Senator Bacon sails today. THE Howard bank at Cartersville has suspended payment. A shortage of cash. PRESENT indications point to a bountiful crop this year. All nature seems ripe for a rich harvest. MANY other states are moving in the matter of road improvement. Georgia can't afford to stand still. We need better roads. SECRETARY HOKE SMITH has named a cousin as counsel in an Indian claim case with a $24,000 fee attached. This is Hoke's specialty, THE Monarchs are winning at ball with their accustomed regularity. As before remarked in these columns, the Monarchs are mighty. MONROE, a plucky little north Georgia town, has quit talking hard times and raised $75,000 for a cotton factory. This is the spirit that makes a town grow. THE dove crop, this year, is said to be an unusually iarge one, and the gunners of southwest Georgie, some of them noted shots, are getting ready for the war. GOVERNOR ATLINSON continues to improve and will be up in a few days. It is also likely that he will be able to attend the Milledgeville commencement next year. A YEARLY advertisement in one col umn of the New York Herald costs $30,300 for the lowest and $130,000 for the highest priced column. We don't charge that much for ours, however. CUBA has practically appealed to us for aid to help her form a republic like our own. Over 1000 Americans have sent letters of encouragement. But letters are of little use in running a war. MR. JOSIAH Patterson has been down from Tennessee making goldbug speeches in Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah. Mr. Josiah Patterson's time must not be very valuable, else he would devote it to something that promised better results. Ex-CONGRESSMAN Bryan, of Nebraska, made a free silver speech in Atlanta the other night. He had a great audience, and was given an ovation. He said that the silver sentiment is growing, and he announced his belief in a victory for it in 1896. HERE is bad news for the Georgia colonels. The civil service commission, in giving a schedule of the examinations to be held the last six months of this year, announces that Georgia has received more than its quota of offices, and that no one from this state need apply for examination. THE Albany Herald notices that some very strange and funny things are allowed to go on sometimes. The income tax law was found unconstitutional and was knocked into a cocked hat. The ten per cent. tax on state banks is unjust and unconstitutional, but is allowed to stand because they say they don't know what to do about it. PROBABLY the smallest warrant ever issued by the government was drawn Saturday. It was for one cent and was made payabke to Grover Cleveland, pres ident of the United States. It appears that in calculating the amount due the
