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TOT" .iiwns» clitiOjoD i h WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR ORANGE RIFLE POWDER AND NEW ARROW COTTON TIE. Bagging! Bagging! Bagging! Salt! Salt! Salt! Meat, Lard, Molasses, Syrup of all Grades, Staple Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, lower than anybody; and v *■' " ' rr 'T . all kinds of Farm Supplies. Wholesale and Retail Buyers. Give us a call when you are in Athens. ^ T. -WATERMAN, pnQPBlh.-lV«. Athens, Februaby 15,1881. Official Organ of Clarke Contj and City ol Alim Our Subscription Price. Until further notice, subscrip tions will be taken to the Weekly Banner at One Dollar a year, in advance. This applies Doth to now subscribers and to old ones’ who renew. Those who owe back subscriptions, however, must pay at tho old rate. We cannot re ceive back subscriptions at $1.00 par annum. The Virginia Press Association will attend Garfield’s inauguration. The new apportionment bill will probably not pass at this session. More democratic folly. The great danger now to Ameri can liberty, ts gigantic corpora tions. Petek Cooper, the lively greens backer, celebrated bis ninetieth birthday in New York last Saturday. Vanderbilt has paid the entire cost of transporting the obelisk from Egypt and erecting it in New York. The Advertiser thinks there are a thousand bales of cotton in Monroe county yet to be brought to market. MOSEY POSTAL CAROS. The Griffin Sun thinks that, in the absence ot fractional currency, it would be a good idea for the govern' ment to issue, tor transmission through the mails,money postal cards, redeemable at all money order post offices at their face value, less one- cent. The idea was suggested to the Sun because it wanted to send ten cents to a man to help him build a church, and it thinks an eleven cent l>ostal card would just fili the bill. The Sun’s idea is a good one, aud we should like very much to see it, or something like it, adopted by Con gress. It is a great deal of trouble to send a small amount by mad, and a person is frequently prevented from making a purchase of some small ar ticle which he really wants, by reason of the inconvenience ot transmitting the purchase money. The object of the United States post office department is to furnish mail facilities to the people, and these facilities ought to be increased, as the demand increases. Cannot some of our statesmen at the front take hold ot this idea and push it through ? Mr. Speer, here is a chance to “do the country some service.” What say yon ? BLASPHEMY REBUKED FROM THE BENCH. Mrs. Garfield will not intertere with the wine-bibbing at the White House. Few ladies have the nerve of Mrs. Hayes. Garfield aud Arthur have been formaly declared elected by the Sen ate and House of Representatives of the United States. IIeiuiert Bismarck is private secretary to his father, tho Prince, lie is said to bo uncommonly gifted, and gives promise of future great' ness. With very lew exceptions, the River and Harbor Appropriation bill is nothing more or less than a swindle. This year the grab is larger than usual.—Ex. Conkling called Butler a “person.' If Butler had called Conkling by his right name, it would have been un parliamentary—to use no stranger term. __________ A Delkware man wants Bob In- gersoll indicted for blasphemy. Bob is already so indicted, and is now standing his trial. It will not be many years before be will appear before the judgment seat to receive sentence. It is stated that a man in Way* cross, Georgia, named Curry, has started a fiddle-string factory, and is buying cats by the hundred. Is be related to “Old Rosin tho, Bow?* Proably not, if the proper spelling is “ Beau.” Mr. Samuel J. Tildes has con tributed $100 toward tho expense of E. Payson Weston, the prdesrian, who is going to London to contest for the Astley belt. Mr. Tilden proba bly did tli’s because there were no poor in New York who needed help. There is a little heroine, named Ida Lewis, who lives on the coast near Newport, Rhode Island. She saved two men Irom drowning the other day—which makes seventeen that she has saved. She ought to have a monument when sho dies, aud largo pecuniary rewards until that time. The onslaught on Ingersoll made by Chief J ustice Comegys at Wil mington Del. was from the bench, the remarks were addressed to a grand jury. iDgersoll had lately lectured in the place. The Judge said: “Blas phemous language was used near where we are assembled by an auda cious disciple of the defamers of re vealed religion, for the purpose ef ex posing its doctrines to contempt and ridicule; and, to what some cousider the reproach of the people of this city no man stepped forward to call him to account for his defiance of the law of the State. I say to you that the law ot this State is against the insulting of God by reproachful or derogatory language or expressions, and exciting tho passions of the people by treating their religion with contempt. No community such as ours can exist as a moral organization, where men are allowed to speak without challenge against the very and only foundation upon which it securely rests—the overruling pewer of God. When we dethrone His majesty and erect in His place our own notions of right and wrong, we shall soon pass into a state of life not restraining, but effect pro moting our inherent propensity to evil, for no candid man cau pretend that our impulses are not toward the gratification rather than in the re straint of our passions.’’ His Honor added that blasphemy was an ancient common law offense, and was also made a crime by a Delaware statute as long ago as 1740. The punish ment until 1826 was the pillory, the brand, and the whip. He said that Ingersoll might be arrested by any officer without a warrant, and added: “It is, I hope, hardly necessary to say to this community, and to assure the people of it, that if any one shall he convicted of the crime ot blasphe my there wi|l be no stint of the full measure of punishment the law now prescribes. And wc shall in no wise he deterred from the performance of our duty by the sneers of the devo tees of any other faith than that of the body of the people of this State, or the deprecatory expressions of those who think the right of free speech will be infringed thereby.” GET OCT OF THE OLD RUT. One of the most important lessons to be learned by our people, says the New Orleans Times, is the necessity of a greater % variety of home produc tions. There was a time when im mense crops of cotton and sugar pro duced by cheap labor in a measure justified their cultivation to the exclu sion of almost every other product, but that time is past, and the sooner we recognize the fact that the only road to prosperity and wealth lies in the economy of all our resources the better. This is not a new nor alto gether an original idea, bat it is one that will bear repeating until its full force is admitted. The soil, the cli mate, its many natural advantages have endowed the Southern States with every element of wealth. Al most every article of food, and the com merce of this country, cau be produced here at its minimum cost, and wc can see no good reason why we should be dependent on the Northern Staten for supplies. There was never a greater mistake than to argue that because sugar, cotton and rice will pay more money to the acre than corn, hay or potatoes, therefore, the former should be produced and the latter should be purchased; or that because it is less trouble to buy horses and tuules than to raise them, we should pay a lair price for them, plus the cost of shipping, aud plus a profit to tho dealer. Wealth does not consist in the amount ot mon. ey that passes through eur hands, but in that portion of it which we retain under our control. Every pound of food produced, and every article man ufactured at home represents so much more money added to our wealth and a profit to the producer or manufac turer. The space of a newspaper ar ticle is not sufficient to elaborate these propositions to their logical conclu sions, bnt they will suggest to the thoughtful planter or man of business the necessity of getting out of the old ruts that have guided both planter and merchant iu the past. The great need of the South is to retain more of her money at home. Planters will find that the extra cost of raising their own supplies will be their most profita ble investmebt, and merchants will learn that to encourage home manu facture is the sure way to success. Burned to Death. The inscrutable providences of God. were never more fully illustrated than was done in Macon connty one day last week, when Mrs. Souter, who had lived and buffeted with the world— had her joys and sorrows, successes and disappointments for over one hun dred years,caught fire and was burned to death. She was so old and child ish that her daughter, with whom she lived, had to tie ner to keep her from the fire. It is supposed she fell and her dress caught' fire. For 75 years ol the one hundred she had lived she had been a member of the Baptist church. Insanity, Whisky and Pistols. Insanity, whisky and pistols are the three great causes of all murders in our country. Whisky inflames the murderous passion, the terrible pi-tol crushes the leaden ball through the brain, and insanity saves the life ot monster .who did the killing, and an other victim fills the grave, and bis soul sent, perhaps, all uoatoned be fore llim, the great Judge. Another witlow., more fatherless children are thrown on the cold charities of* the world — CartenviUe Free Press. THOMPSON & HEINDEL, Dealers in Every Description ot Building Material —AKD— f V> ••••*. 310 Jackson Street, AXFOTSWA, Q&. E VAN WIXKI.E. IV. JI f -.1 J /. K i W. WALLACE Bo YD. E. VAN WINKLE & CO.. VACT-CTRB1RS OB’ Prosperity und Corruption. The age of prosperity, says the Louisville Courier Journal is apt to be also an age of corruption. A full treasury, such as ours will be during the next few years, will tempt the cu pidity'ot men and parties. Extrava gance in official circles will become more and more common, and expen* dilures will steadily increase. There is grave danger in all this, but it is scarcely worth while to refer to it; the people are incredulous and indifferent in time* ot prosperity jnst as they are superstitious in times of adversity. A bill has been introduced in the New York legislature legalizing lot teries at church lairs. It is estimated that about 1,000,000 tons of iee will be harvested this sea' son in and around Boston. The American Miller puts the area of the United States available for wheat at 470,000,000 acres. The late Henry Wilson is quoted by Mr. Z. L. White as saying that nntil he was twenty-one years old he never had a dollar in money to spend for anything. Daring his whole ap prenticeship bis master never gave him a penny but once; then he pre sented the boy with three cents, and allowed him to spend it at a muster. That is a tolerably fair specimen of New England customs. It is estimated that at least ten brakemen are killed every day in the United States, or 3,650 during a year. The Dumber killed or injured in a year is not less than 10,000. Life insurance companies generally decline to take risks on brakemen of freight cars, and those on passenger cars are only taken at an extra rate. Large cotton factories are to be built next spring at Vicksburg, New Orleans, Louisville and Charleston. One hundred and fifty thousand acres of land in Mississippi have been sold to a Scotch land company. Stanley Mathews is not the presi dent’s brother in-law, but a sister of his is-tnarriid to a brother of Mrs. Hayes. The lovely Mary Anderson was comfirmed in the Catholic faith last Sunday at St. Matthew’s church by Archbishop’ Gibbons. A bill has been introduced in the legislature of Arkansas looking to the creation of the office of railroad su pervisor to regulate business. The thirteen year old daughter of Ex-Gov. Brown, of Missouri, distin guished herself at a recent school room fire, by getting out of the win dow and sliding down a lightning rod to the ground. Senator Butler went out of his way to attack Conkling for tho lat- ter’sutteraoces out .of tho Senate, and Conkling, in his lordly, imperious way, got tho better him. Butler’s object was to “defend” bis State, llow long will it take to convince the Southern representatives of the futility of alterrps to “defend” their ecotion ? TttERome Tribune says its young man hardly ever sees the Banner, and Governor Blackburn, of Ken tucky, who is also a doctor, declares that influenza among men and ani mals is always followed By a visita tion of cholera, and as the former has been unusually prevalent this winter, he predicts that the latter will rage next summer. Ho asserts that the epizooty is due to too much azone in the atmosphere and cholera to a lack of it Nature in her compensation follows too much with loo little, at.d so it goes. A new feature in our financial his tory has just appeared, as we learn by telegraphic mention. The announce- The Georgia State Agricultural ...... - - - Convention, which was to have met when he does he feels like lie hadn’t „ leDl j a to tho effect that a Russian , t Bainbridge, February 8th, seen anything. This is doubtless true; • government loan for $85,000,000 is but how funny it is to find several , 0 p U , on the American market. Mr. Aaron Burr Hays, of New York, who died the other day, was remarkable for two things. He was the oldest bank cashier in the world, and the only mau in America named after Aaron Burr. His name was a thorn in his side, and he never signed his name other than “A. B. Hays.” Dr. Carbon, of Leechburg, Pa v while attending a severe case of diph' therm, is said to have received some of the virus on a sore spot on bis hand,, and to have died a day or two after wards iu consequence. The bad ef fects were felt within two hours of the inoculation. Prof. Blackie told a horrified Glasgow audience the other day that be considered each games as cricket, croquet, lawn tennis, billiards, cards, backgammon and chess proper for Sunday recreation, bnt drew the line at large dinner parties. ^ WINDOW GLA.SS. The largest and beat assorted stock Glass in the city. PETTY. . In balk, also in boxes of 1 to 5 lbs. White Lead and Zinc. Strictly Pare, made by the Kentucky Lead and Oou Co., which we guarantee as good as the best. Also the well known Nassau White Lead and im ported French Zinc. Prepared Paint. The Celebrated Paint, made by Wads worth* Martinez <fe Longman, which we know to be good. Brushes. full lino of Paint and Whitewash Brushes. Colors. A largo and assorted stock of Colors inOil, Also, Dry Colors, Tarnishes. White Demur, Coach, Copal, Furniture, Japan, Asphaltnm, &c. Kalsomine. Johnson’s Celebrated Preplied Kalsomine, all shades. oil. Linscod Oil, Raw and Boiled. Builders’ Hardware. A large variety of Locke, Kim and Mortice Locks, Suriace and Mortice Blind Hintrew, All sixes and styles of Door Butts, Inside Blind Butts (brass and iron,) A flue line ot Padlock*, , Yale Store Door Locks, £ Yale Night Latches, Screws in any quantity and every size. And everything you want in the Hardware line. Boors, Sash and Blinds. The largest stock in Augusts, at bottom figures. Send for price list. Ill LUSTERS, BRACKETS AND MANTLES, And almost anything that con he made out of wood, we are prepared to make it. Yellow Pine Lumber. In any quantity, rough or dressed. Wo pack and deliver all of our goods fine of ehaige. Thompson & Heindel. bl5. *10 JACKSON STREET. Eleven dog bills have been intro duced in the Missouri legislature thus far.- Last year twenty-two dog bills, one goose bill and one rat bill were passed, bnt the need ofzoological leg islation still exists. “ At the Peabody dinner on the 2d inst,,”.8ays a Washington correspon dent, “ General Grant’s wife was royally attired in rich velvet, superb black- pearls and a blaze of dia monds.’’ • * t» < The new New York bank, of which. H. Victor Newcomb is the chief mover and Logan Murray prominent officer, starts with a capi tal of $4,000,000, with the privilege of increasing it to $7,000,000. •I '■ — From FTank L. Haralson, State Librarian Atlanta, Ga., January 14,1880, —Messrs Hutchison & Bro., I have tested -your Neuralgine, both on my self ana on others,.and have found it to bo all that is claimed—a specific for neuralgia and headache, I recom mend it to a suffering public. .•r» »l». Yours truly. nov.30. Frank L. Haralson. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ALL SIZFS, WITH SIMULTANEOUS LEVEE-HEAD BLOCKS, OE SCREW. Ail kinds of HiaWoRK, Cistings, Canos Gins, Fens, toms, Cotton Presses 4 General Iron Work. SEND FOE CATALOGUE AND PEICES. P.‘O.CBOXl83, ATLANTA, GA. jan.2Stb.1881. I keep constantly on band . good atock of SAW MILLS Both Screw and Batchet Head Blocka. suited to LIGHT or HEAVY Powers. Also PORTABLE ENGINES Up to FIFTEEN HORSF. POWER, and . can furnish Larger Sizes on short no-ice. CIRCULAR SAWS Be th solid blad* s and insert ed Teeth constantly in stock at Lowest Prices. I handle NOTHING but the Best oi Machinery, Yet my PEICES ARE LOW. Et3T Don’t buy MACHINERY of ANY KIND until you wr te mo for TRICES and TERMS. s. F. PKEIK.INS, jan25 (P. O. Box 43'i 34 West Mitchell (Street, Atlanta, Geogia. JE2 Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Cane Mills, Plantation MaoHin©ry d Engines and Boilers. Cotton Screws, Shafting Pulleys, Hangers’ Journal Boxes, Mill Gtar- .w, Gudgeons Turbine Water Wheel, Gin Gearing (cheap), Judson’s Governors piston s Circu lar Saws and Gammers and Files, Belting and Babbitt Metal and Brass Fitting, Globe and Check Valve* and Whittles, Guagea, etc., Iron and Brass Castings and Gin Ribs, from , 1. GEO. R. LOMBARD & CO., FOREST CITY FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WO It ICS, Near the Water Tower, 170 Fenwick Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. REPAIRING promptly done at Lowest Prices. leblS F. A. BRAHE, 70S Broad street, A.TTG’O'STA, GA., JJAS now on hand and daily receiving one of the Finest Stocks of JEWELRY, WATCHES. DimondLs and. Silverware EVER EXHIBITED IX AUGUSTA! u These Goods have been selected with great care, and are fuflv warranted. My stock of STERL ING SILVERWARE oomprises some of the most elewant Goode ever mannftcuired. Also stage end complete line of Reed * Barton’s celebrated TRIPLE-PLaTED ,W ARE This i* HEAD QUARTERS for , Bridal and Holiday Presents. CALL and EXAMINE MY STOCK, and be convinced that you can buy the Finest Good* at the VERY LOWEST PRICES. ;< WATCH WORK AND EVERYTHING ELSE WARRANTED! Gold and Siltrer-Seaded Canes a Specialty. ' COMPRISING ALL THE NOVELTIE8 AHd!nEW DESIGNS lit' Body Brussels, Tapestry Brussels ;ia j .11 paragraphs from one issue of the Ban ner in one column of the Tribune. These paragraphs are malicious, doubtless, and slip in while the young man is asleep, Mb. B. F. Williams, ot Auraria, Lumpkin connty, is making arrange* meats for a telephone line 40 miles long, wbieh shall surround the gold region ot North Geoigia, and will connect Gainesville,' Aoraria, Dsb- lonega and DawsonviHe Is one eon- tinaons circuit. After this is done, it is proposed to stretch a main line from'Atlanta to Gainesville thus mak ing direct communication with the gold country. This is the first time that soy Euros pean national loan baa ever sought negotiation on this side ol the Atlan tic. The ootirae of such money oper ations has always heretofore been in the opposite direction. A rosT office in Camden county has been named Garfield. This is the first of the name, and congressman Nichols deserves whatever credit there is attached to it. ui i The New York Tribune says.;, “ft postponed on account of an epidemic of measles at that place. It ia now called to meet at Thomasville, Feb ruary 22d. 'Atlanta has invested $4,000 in Bernhardt’s performance in tlimt city for one night. She plays “ Camille.” Hie amount ia the largest turn ever realized for the first day of any one night performance Bernhardt has ere had. Hugh Whittaker, is in jai|,in Cams ruing, Forsyth county, on the charge of bearing his wife. Jogt before her. iug incarcerated he managed to oh- racy, it it could have itself vaccinated j D to execution, against blunders.” Borne troth in | the drag was discovered and taken that, if it did come from the Tribune, from him. $25,00 REWARD A ' BfecONDED from the Clarke Oonntv Con vict Farm, oo Monday, the 24th of Jiaoary lsst Alford Robinson, (alia* George Robineou) a colored convict, he la SS yean of ace, shoot 6 feet S Inehes high, will weigh 18* poande. rather dark,-end eallin in dispoafitoo,' The left aide of his b«ad, sod Crane shaved perfeotly smooth with h floor whan he left. He also has a aeon jaet show the pit of his otomten shoot 2 inches in length; also has old shackle sears stars both eukles. He i* extensively known in Jef ferson; McDuffie and Colombia oountics, and ts 1 understand tat this year been in the employ ofCoLFokon. The stave reward will be paid aw Us apprehension and lodgment In any ssfii jail so lean get him. . .. J. R. TUCK, erinteodoot Clarke County Convicts. NOTICE. rraOSE who are indebted to the undenta X either by note or aeeoont, win please sad settle op. The year is nearly gone, cotton is s good remane! stive prioe, and ns sos can -say that cotton is too low to salL I hops this noties vrin be sufficient, sad that all who are behind with ms wUl settle at once. .Those who do notooueap and settle trill soon find their'.dotes and aoooonts in the hands of an oOearforcbUectioo. ’ decT-w2ra B. C. DOBBS. •;K*' . ALL WE ASK IS TQ CALL AT THE FURNITURE STORE R. C. HEGGIE & CO. And exstnine oor stock,’ end we will give yon the LOW EBT PRICEB ever before otfor«3 In theCtty— THIRTY-FIVE(gSATOVDOLI. AR.°Spl3ndidBED-ROOM SUITS ranging from gU.no>o ssw.uO psrtrtth? BU£t^ 8«.reta*, Chairs, Spring Beds, Mattresses, e.c.^tTqoslI^ U!\y PRICES. ; v .in Q. T-TSCjCTB <£& CO., fob,?’ 1 •’ S39 Brood 8lU, | ATOtSTA^toGA’, NEW AND ORIGINAL.DESIGNS—PRIVATE PATTERNS. OUR DRAPERY DEPARTMENT Coj. tains every tiling New and Artistic in Lambrequins, Lace Curtains, Cornices amV Window , a ’, .Y| .„ ■ Shades, ' FLOOR OIL OLOTTIS, i all wMtV8 nn<l pne'*), Cocoa and Napier Matting*—fbr offices, hotels, etc—all (Trades. Wall *apfcr from the cheapest to the ;<moat elaborate Fresco designs. Ornamental Ceilings, Dado Panels, etc.. Our Goods Warranted. KENDRICK,’ CARTER & ECKFORD, 50 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Go. jon.2S.1881. I >■■ , •: •' TU.i’j . ►<f /jtui ! SOLUBLE PACIFIC! u ’Fallf *1 Jitf.i ytii': ’ . ( * y MAGNOLIA ACID ITOitt :hrl 235? ,-d3 £. ALWYS C11EAP 4S THE CHEAPEST! sAlk by- - ORR <fc Trrrrnrtu 'JM I. .1-1 ' :iUn NEW CARPET STOKE! ii (OvwrB. i D.Smyths* Cs.’sCsooKtiySfore.) , A LARGE stock at CABPETB of all gisdee, firom the cheapest to the beat. Tfifferljiem at the, ’LOWES NEW YORK retaUPHICBB. ; , f ( • ' Lambrequins, Shades, Con, anil Up'iolststy a Sped Good (MOitment of NOTtfWbHAM LACES knd ANTIQUE T^ACE Ct/KTlllRS’lin i&nd. A f n ti (Ins of 1 • • * /’ *! *r! * i;;t)e* < . • 11 ’ TJpliolsteiry C3v-oo«a.js,"'*‘i And everything periSnlrg to the kaetnaed. - Upho’.atering «g«U kinds done. Corpstr mads arid' kid te orders! .Old Carpets takyi->asayl ariT -. .tmlssvw . o-i AU^Senralalfreceive prompt attention, A call is reepectlhliv solicited before pi „ where. R^fisrentes: J.TT1 B. Hoox, Dr. J. S. CotW*. J. H. VomnMWurjf 6bl5 nr. 1.1 I U ■ li jeuiu ’>*!' vr J ii-rfl •, .til Ti ■ leu JiJtMi nil...! itl.v J fi! • ,! sili • • lnviinj'jS - ilUtH art) u It '..ill;: <£ t J MORRIS, J-l— In order to increase hty stock oT MtLEINERV nrtd FANCY DRY GOODS. I have moved to the store formerly occupied by Sattad & Oo^. h.v ■ , *.•> ■ u.-i nwyTtfl am'qO _ j .... a „/- f 5 BROAD STREET, Where Ikeep * full line ol JXRY GOODS, ^BQE3, NOTIONS, etc. MXLLINEKYA SPECIALTY PX® MOE.HXSS.1 linery AT to 'make room for Sty Don’t make a mistake. I have raoved from No. 13 to No. 5 Broad street. Janll