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Banks County Journa i , VOL. I. LARGEST STORE NORTH GEORGIA MIL IK, Athens, tia. UMESJIjt BBV (iflißS NOTIONS aifiliS HATS. Merchant* will do well to get oui prices before burin MICHAKL I>UOS- AthCiii, tin ;*LIi!.IC DEBT STATEMENT. monthly statement. >{ the public debt shows that at tlioelosa fit bpsii'iest Monday the •toht. less cash iti the li-castny, naptinUtd to vi, Oil, <5Ol. an increase for the month of sl2, 588, 7*l, This increase is ;u cfuiiUed for by the decrease in the amount of cash on liana. The field is recapitulated as follows: liilfcivdt hearing debt. Sot". 3C5. 810; delits on which interest has erased sin. c matantv. $1,82H. 540 debt ben!iric no interest, s’BG 1 878, 774; lotai sl, ‘235, 578, 124. This amount, however, floes not include >5Bl, 213 933 in eertifea e* and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset lv an equal ainouutof cash in the treasury. —Silver Night Watch man. SAM JONES IS OUT. In -i four column article in the AUuoti papers, that irrepressible Homptv Humpty, Sam J inks, in nouuees himself in the j> ihevnatorin! rant —that isl e is in the race, hot tint, exactly running* He says la doesn’t have to run, for lie can s> on a stump ami heat most of tiios are now entered. His latter is a roast ot tin politicians, Gov Atkin son* and Ins followers in particuhir Vithou >h th,. purpose of the latter 1 ~ Cos 1 1..MM.7R he i <•, com *.>c .su ire of ridicule. Hero at* <>v i hoie- sej. clious from tin ■; polive and epistle. Ref i 1 .• C vNor.tc i’s f’i’i ms rec.eu •> ' ie' ter, he s iys ‘* Aixi: scared -that w.* , . . .. < ■.'.■■■ would :. a- ! t' it -■i.'ofid letter j j,.... j,. i., him i v. o It .v i si neSi t o that u-tt.er and fought it out wil.ii ill fin us long i-.s I co-'.d ki.4: c-r ii or . or ee.v, - - Wi an hnier ■itid I- -r< V" re ""no md teeth worn out, I’d j'.imn.- i ‘ ti'l I di, and. Oh, it dr. Canol a stu i to ih'it f r,t etc at -He t : men, 1 have made a lo' ot sh-.<-s; they ere my -10-s and v utr fit" ! ct‘! o lames, bate*: very fnh >w km s hi.s nauihjr.'.’ No one knows how seriously to take your Unc*e .Tones, hot he may \ et raise lots of .'and before tnc thing is over—Eagle* The negro postmaster at Lhkc Citv‘ S. C., a town of CiM) .uhub t*ifts *ra*’shot and killed by ku k'ui Tuesday night? His wile and child Were also kllltfd :md Ills two and ugh tors woundul. The Jr.'-it. ofne© was burned. This terribh* tr.nv- was the on{come ot bad feeling over (he tin j.ro's appointment .—Eagle OLi?aaeg of vzu* out 4 , itf'fd suffer vriih neuudgia. Thu* •• . ij q■ . and perrai *m ■■ : • by I<rr*-ma f Iron Hitters Every u;F n.;f tft'j blood, narvoa. nu\ Aunt - ; , ••bro.;:*’ or otherwise, rJlcuronbß to liro .vric’ ;• • • ?:irt * lLiwri ''iiit.i used for u m ; quurier of a century, it ati-.n.lh to-un . ■••**• vi u.inoin? o'ir valut'd rrn;i< 1 ;. •’us* i o". “‘ittci's ic cy fl;i IViJ’Fij*'' t S FOII S.vM JONES Columbus, Fi-b. 2*2. —Col C. J. Thorton, the well Known IV>pulit, who hit* been frequently spoken of as th“ Populism canidate in the ap proaching gubernatorial campaign, s-,id t>> a journal correspondent this oioi n Mg: / , : y n th lourti*' t t o u ••o-write I Sam •!••••<* vV:!, - o ,-C e!l>l p. p jlist p-irjy ip Geoi-.hu 1 s" d 1 give him rap support- i’he Pop'' ‘*l - believe? will mliy to tl- -.-vantie- s', and iftney.do he wnl surer ed the next governor <>l Georgia, 1 — JHE | CopyRIOMT. 1897 BY. K P. PCWNO CO.. •‘lt is impossible to tell you. ” “Impossible?" "Absolutely impossible." “I will repeat to you my first qnre tion—why?" "Because i have sworn on my honor to reveal it to uo one." * Ah, uh!" arid Ginory mockingly. "It was a vow? That is perfect.” "Yes, Al. b> .lugo; it was a row." “A vow made to whom?" "To Bovere. ” "Who is no longer hero to release you from it. 1 under stard. " "And. ” asked Dautin, with a Tehe nronee whicii made the registrar's thin hand tremble as it flew over the paper, "what do you understand?" "Pardon," said M. Ginory. "Ton are not here to put questions, hut to an swer tlioso which are asked you. It is certain that a vow which binds the holder of a secret is a means of defense, hut the accused have, by making ceru men use of It, rendered it useless. ” The magistrate noticed the slmost menacing frown with which Dantin looked at him at the words “the ac cused. ” "The aicused?" said the man, turn ing in Iris chair. “Anr 1 one of the ac cused?” His voice was strident, almost Btrauglcd. "1 do not know that, ” raid M. Gino ry in a vary calm too*. "I say that yoa wish to keep your secret, and it is a claim which 1 do not lutmll" "I repeal, M. le Jngo, that the secret Is not mine. ” “It is uo longer a secret which ea* remain sacred hero. A murder bat baea committed, a murderer is to be touml, and everything you know yon ought le reveal to justice. ” "But if I give you my word af ham* that it has not the slight** bearing on the matter —with the death of Bov®*!" "I shall tell my regtotrur to writ* your very words in reply. He has decs it. I shall continue to question you, precisely because you speak to me of a secret which Ims been confided to you aud which you refuse to disclose to me. Because you do refuse?’' "Absolutely. ” "In spile of what I have said to yon? It is a warning. Yon know it well." "In spite of your warning. ” “Take care," M. Ginory softly said. His ongry face had lost its wonted ami ability. The registrar quickly raised his head. lie felt that a decisive mo ment hud come. The examining magis trate looked directly into Bautin’s eyes and slowly suit!, "You remember that you were seen by the portress at the moment when liovere, standing with yon in front of bis open safe, showed you some valuables?" Duntin waited a moment before he replied, as if measuring those words and si arching to find out just what M Ginory was driving at. This sileuce, short and momentous, wus dramatic. The magistrate knew it well —that mo ment of agony when the question seems like a cord, like a lasso suddenly thrown aud tightening around one’s neck There wus always in his exami nation a tragic moment. "I remember very well that 1 saw a person whom 1 did not know enter the room where 1 was with AL Bovere," Jacques Dautin replied at last. "A person whom you did not know? Y'ou knew her very well, since you hail more than ouco asked her if M. Bovere was at home. That person is Alme. Moniche, who has nuido her deposition." “And what did sko say in her deposi tion?’’ The magistrate took a paper from the table in front of him and read: "When j I entered, Ai Rovere was standing be i fore his safe, and I noticed that the in dividual of whom I spoils (the individu al is yon j cast upon tho coupons a look which made me cold. 1 thought to my sell, "lids man t'siks ns if he is meditat ing some bsd deed “That is tossy, ” bmsr.ndj- said Dan tin, who had listened with frowning brows and with an angry expression, “that Mine. Mouie'.ioaccuses mo of bv iug murdered M. Rovers I" “Yon ars lu too much haste. Mwa. Munich* ha* not said that precisely, phe was only surprised—rorprlsod and frightened—at you>- I xpression as Too looked at tli* deeds, bills and coupons.” “Those ooupens, “ i,sited Dautin rather anxiously—“have they, then, been stol en?" "Ah, that we know nothing about!” And the magistrate smiled. “One has found in Rovere’s r,afo lu the neighbor hood of 4110,000 francs in coupons, City of Paris Nads, (hairs in mining wile ties, rent rolls, but nothing to prove tfer.t there was before the assassination more than that sum." “Had it been forced open?” “No; but any one familiar with the dead man. a friend who kuew the secret of the combination of the safe, the tarn loiters forming the word, coolil have opened it without trouble." Among these words Dantin heard on* which struck him full in the face — "friend. " M. Ginory had pronounced it in an ordinary tone, but Dtuitin had seized and read in it a menace, lor a moment the man who was being ques tioned felt a peculiar sensation. It seemed to him cno day when ho had been almost drowned during a boating party that same agony had seized lum; it seemed that ho had fallen into some abyss, some icy pool, which was para i lvzing bite. Ovt-osHo to him the vf.en HOMER. GA., THURSDAY. MARCH 3, 1808. Inlug magistrate experienced a contrary feeling. The raster of a book and line feels n similar sensation, bnt it was in tensified a hundred times in the magis trate, a fisher of truth, throw ing the lino into n human sea, the water pol luted, red with blood nud mixixl with mad. A friend! A friend could have abused tho dead man’s sue rat and opeued that safa. And that friend—what name did ho bear? Whom did AI. Ginory wish to designate? Dautin, in spite of his song frnid, experienced a violent temptation to ask the man whut he meant by those words But the strange sensation which thin interview caused him increased. It seemed to him that he had been thors a Irsag lima—a very long ttmo since he had ararad that threshold—and that this littlo room, separated from the World lik* a monk’s cell, had walls thick enough to prevent any one from hrowing anything mkida Ha felt as if hypnotised by that man. who at first had met him with a plwasuut air, und who now bent npou him those hard eyea Something doubtful, like vague danger, surrounded him, metiaced him, nud he mecbnnicully followed the ges ture which M. Ginory made as lie touch ail tho ivory button of un electric bell as if on til is gesture depended some wgit of bis lifia A gated tetewd. X Ginory raid to him in a short tono, (m butte berg brought?" "X. Beroordct has just brought thorn to me, M. le ffugo." "Uivo them to ns " Ho then added, "Is M. Bernardo, here?" "Yes, X to Jn*a” "Vary weiL" /acqute Dantin niasinbiuad the little man with whom he had talked tn tho toanuj from the boom of death to the tomb, where ha Itad heard aoraeon. call "BornardeL " He did not know at the time, but the name bad struck him. Why did his presence seem of so much importance to this examining magis trate? Aud he looked in his turn at AL Ginory, who, a little nearsighted, was bendiug his head, with its sandy hair, its bald forehead, on which the veins stood out like cords, over his notes, which hud been brought to him; inter esting notes, important, without doubt, for, visibly satisfied, AI. Ginory allowed a word or two to cscapo him : "Good I Yes—yea—fine! Ah. ah! Very good!" Then suddenly Dautin saw Ginory raise bis head and look at him. as tho saying is, in the white of the eyes. He waited a moment before speaking and suddenly put this question, thru* at Daatin like a knife blow: Since The Greet Fire At Maple YEARGIN & CHANDLER, SUCCESSORS TO J. C. Yeargin and Son, HAVE OPENED UP IN THEIR' NEW BRICK STORE. THE Largest and Nearest stock ot Furniture, Coffins, Burial Robes and Shoes ever offered In Maysville, and they have the nicest Hearse in Jackson, Banks or Hall County. A1 L KIN ns OF COFFINS OR CASKETS, BURIAL ROISES OR BURIAL SHOES AT LOW PRICE you CAN AL WAVS GET WIIAT YOU WANT IN THIS LINE! LOOK! Rent! Tills Our Furniture stock i complete. Bedsteads from *1,50 to SB,OO. Suits of Furniture all prices. Beaure.uis from $3,00 to $20,00. Chairs of all kinds! Cheap rocking chairs 50 ets to SB.OO each. Safes find Wardrobes all style*. Bed springs $1,50 to $4,50. Extension Tables, Lounge*, Trunks Baby Carriages and Cribs, also a nice line matting and Carpets at prices to suit the times. In fact we carry any thing kept in a first-el. ss I or:ittv.ro House. Note thll: We send your photograph off and have it enlarged free of charge in our customers. Come •u and see sample*. Satisfaction vr.aranfeed- We arc also agent* for Wall Paper. Conn m nd see samples. hhh “Are yon a gambler, as I find?" Tho question uiado Jacques Duntin fairly bound from his chair. A gambler! Why did this man ask him if he was a gambler? What had his habits, his cus toms, his vices eveu, to do with this cause for which ho had been cited—to do with Hovero’s murder? "Yon are a gambler, ” continued tho examining magistrate, casting from time to time a keen glance toward his notes "Oneof the Inspectors of gambling dens saw yon lose at the Gcrcle des l’ublioistes 25,000 freuciH in one night." "It is possible. The only important point Is that I paid them. ’ ’ The response was short, crisp, showing a little irrita tioa and stupefaction. “Assuredly, ’’said the judge. "But you have no fortuuo. You have recently borrowed a considerable sum from the usurers in order to pay for some losses at the Bourse. ” Dautin became very palo, h!3 lips quivered and his hands trembled. These •tgne of emotion did not escape the eyes of M. Ginory nor the.registrar's. “Ie it from your little notes that you have learned all that?" he demanded. "Certainly,” M. Giuoryreplied "We have been seeking for some hours fur accurate information concerning yon; started a sort of diary or rough draft of your biography. You are fond of pleas ure. You are soen, in spite of your age —I pray you to pardon me; there is no Bailee In the remark; 1 am older than yoo —everywhere where la found tho fa tnoue Tout Berts which amuses itself. The easy lifo is the most difficult for those who have no fortune. And, uoc-ord ing to these notes—l refer to them aguin—of fortune you have unne. ” "That is to ray," interrupted Dautin brusquely, “it would bo very possible that, in order to obtain mouey for my needs, in order to steal tho funds in his iron safe, I would assassinate my friend?" M. Ginory did not allow himself to display any emotion at the insolent tone of these words, which had burst forth almost like a cry. Hu looked Dautin fall iu tho face, and with bis hapds crossed npou his notes he said: "Monsieur, in a matter of crimiunl Investigation a magistrate eager for the truth ought to admit that anything ie risible, even probable, but in this case ought to recognize the fr.ct that you have not helped me in my tasi A wit ness finds yon tete-a-tete with the vic tim add surprise* your trouble at the moment when you are examining Iln vere's papers. I ask what it was that happened between yon. Yon reply that that is your secret, and for explanation you give me your word of honor that it had nothing whatever to do with the murder. Yon would yourself think that I was very foolish if I insisted any lon ger. True, there was no trace of any violence in the enactment, whatever subtraction may have been made from the safe. It appears that you are in a position to know tho combination. It appuors also that you aro certainly in need of money, as clearly known as it is possible to leant in a hurried inquiry snch as has lien mudo while yon have been hero. I question you, I let you kpow what yon ought to know, and you fly iuto a passion. And, note well, it is you yourself, In your anger and your violence,, who speak first tho word of MI I.I,IN*CUT DEI’ARTMENT. This Department will be' complete. As the people 'ill know we carry a large stock of Mrilncry and Ladies’ Goods. We can furnish anything desired by the ladies in this line and suit them in at tide and price - We invite all the ladies to come to *#e us- JEWELRY AND NOTIONS. \Yc id;-. - carry nice line <-f Notions and Fancy Article. Jewelry a pe eialty. Fine line reliable clocks. Pictures and Picture i r imes If you want any size frame bring us your picture and we wili frame it neatly and cheaply Large stock sta ; iotierv and School supplies all kinds. Barge stock window shades all kinds. On tho morning of Fob. 20. 1895, wa sick with rheumatism, and I■*> bod until ADiv 2Jst, when I got a Dottle ot Chamher'ain’s Pain Balm. lhe first application of it relieved me ;il nio t entirely from the pain and ilm second afforded complete relief. Inn short time I was aide to be up and about again'—A. TANARUS, Moreaux, J.uver e. Minn. Sold by E. T. Thompson,, Homer, Ga. which I htivo not pi onounoed a syllabio. It is you who have jumped straight to a logical conclusion of tho suppositions, which are still defective, without doubt, but aro not tho less suppositions. Yes, it is yon who Say that with a littlo log ic ona can certainly accuso you o tho murder “ ono whom you called your friend.” Each word brought to Dan tin's faco an angry or a frightened expression, and tho more slowly M. Ginory spuko tho more measured his words, emphasizing hla verbs with a sort of professional habit, as a surgeon touches a wound with a steel instrument, tho questioned man, put through a sharp cross exam ination, experienced a frightful anger, a strong internal struggle, which made the blood rush to his ears and ferocious lightnings dart through his eyes. “It is easy, moreover," continued AL Ginory in a paternal tone, “fer you to reduce to nothingness all these supposi tions, and tho smallest expression in re gard to the role which you played iu yoor last interview with Bovero would put everything right ’’ "Ah, must wo go • aek to that?” "Certainly, wo must go back to that. The whole question lies there. Y'oa come to nu examining magistrate and tell him that there is a secret; you speak of a third person, of recollections of youth, of morul debts, and you aro as tonished that tho jtidgo strives to wrest the truth from yon?” "I have told it. ” “Tho wbolo truth?” "It has nothing to do with Rorere’s murder, and it would injure someone who knows nothing about it. 1 have told you so. I repeat it." “Yes,” said AI. Ginory, “you hold to your enigma. Ob, well, I, tlio magis trate, demand that you reveal tho truth to me! I command you to tell it. ” The registrar’s pen ran over the paper and trembled ns if it scented a storm. Tho psychological moment approached. Tho registrar knew it well, that mo ment, and tho word which tho magis trate would soon pronounce would be decisive. A sort of struggle began in Dantln’s mind. Ono saw his f:-.co grow haggard, his eyes eliango their expression. He looked at tho papers upon which AI. Gi nory laid his fat anil hairy hands—those police notes which gossiped, as peasants say, in speaking of papers or writing which they cannot read and which de nounce thorn. Ho asked himself what moro would be disclosed by tlioso notes of tho police agmts of the scandals of tho club, of the neighbors, of the por ters. 110 passed his hands over his fore head us if to wipe off tho perspiration or to ease away a headache. Continued on fourth page. IN CONCLUSION. Now we want to sav to our cus tourers that we have been in business here for the last fourteen years and we liavo always tried to sell good cheap and treat t’’e people right. Wi have been burned out twice now and will T.o’u-ccv *e your trade. So call ynd see us before buying elsewhere. We defy corn:' !ion in prices Out motto is’ quick sales and small profits.” We guarantee to meet any prices at Gainsville, Harmony Grove, or any where else. All tve ask you is to see us before you buy. ST&ONG POINTS: Durable Roller Chain. 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The king of patent flours, made from the\^jK||l choicest winter wheat; prepared with the greatest care by the best nulling process known to man. vßjfSq See tlifit tin* lirnrul on the next flour you buy is “ Igl.?lieart Brn. Mw*!* Ijowi.” \pKiftt IGI-EHOART BROS., Evansville, Indiana. A. R.ROBERTSON SVSonuments and Tombstone^Wcrks. atiikns. ga.. j have always "on hand and for sale a Urge stock of MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES At r;o c k i; o;t to m i* ric es. MOXuolli NT S , TO M I?, II F. A1) and FOO 'I >S TO N E ,‘v M (! (. RADI- K TO M P. S. You iliouhl always <p, uutl .see RO 1 L HI SON Sand tget his priced Remeaibor ROBERTSON Pays nil the Freight to your nearest depot. A. 11. ROBERTSON .. 115 Thomas St., Athens, Ga. f4 GRITS EAST ERN R. R. OF GEORGIA r,i;T\Yi:i;x Athens and lula time TABLE No*2. To Take Effect Oct. 18. 1597. SOUTHBOUND NORTHBOUND *rt* n fl ■ a l* It Uaily Hail;, NOKTMEASTEKN RAII ROAD STATIONS. I'o.lT Daily toil* lixSu ' “ 8 A. M. P.M. A.M. I.v ArA.lt. r.M,A.g .-> ;z> BIS UOS W 1 .ula N MS* * T }? SIW Ui! r.'llni. *“ !£ **• .- •*, s .ui it ‘y; Mavsvilic l'J is * *• | s :;.l o W 13 Athens ivAM* pV A M K. K. HEAVES. State Ag*>iU # R. W. SIZBS, SO. 48.