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ATHENS BANNER : TUESDAY MORNING, JULY’ 48,1891 ATHENS WEEKLY BANNER MPulillshert Dally, Weekly and Sunday, by THK ATHENS PUBLISHING CO, . REM8EN CRAWFORD Managing Editor. 0 D. FLANIGBN Business Manager. Thk Athens daily banner Is delivered by carriers In tbe city, or mailed, postage free, to any address at the following rates: $8.00 per year, $s.on for six month-, $1.50 for three months The Weekly or Sunday B ann*u f ’ .00 per year, 10 cents for 6 months. Invariably Cash In ad* anoq. Transient au. ertisements will be Inserted at the rate of fl.OTpor sqoarefor the first insertion, and toeenm for each subsequent insertion, ex. eep con ract advertisements, on wnioh special rates can be obtained. Local notices will bo charged at the rate of 10 cents per line each insertion, except when con* tested tor extended periods, wh-nspeetal rates Remittances may be made by express, postal note, money order or registered letter. All bnslnees communications should be ad dressed to the Business Manager SOME TRIRD PARTY FIGURES. Discussing the campaign of Jerry Simpson and his votaries through Georgia, the Charleston News and Conner says: The purpose to convert the Alli ance into a Third party is therefore openly and unmistakably avowed, and the members of the Order in South Carolina and other Southern States will do well to inquire what the movement involves for them. Suppose it is carried into effect, and the Third Party is organized, what are the chances that it will prevail over the two old parties, and accom plish its special ends ? That is an important question, snrely. Gen. Weaver declares that the proposed Third Party will “run right square over” the existing parties, and Pres ident Poik adds that it “ won’t hesi- . tate to wipe them oat of existence.” This is “big talk,” but big talk does not win political victories. The Third Party cannot rnn over the other par ties unless it has more voters than they have, and that it has not more voters can be readily shown. According to the United States census of 1880, the number of per sons engaged in “all kinds of occu pations” in the United States was 17 392,099, of whom 7,670,493—or less than half—were engaged in “ag» ricnlture.” Since 1880 several mil lions of immigrants have arrived in the United States, most of whom have settled in the cities, and, as is well known, there has been a con siderable movement of the farming popnlation from the country into the cities and towns.' It is reasonably safe to assume, that the number of persons engaged in agriculture in this country to-day-is not more than one-third ot the total number en gaged in all kinds of occupations. If this proportion could be accepted as indicating the relative voting strength of the population in the country nnd in the villages, towns , cities, the agricultural vote would be oneothird of the whole. But it can not be so acoepted. There are many voters in the cities, etc., .who are not .engaged in any occupation, and the proportion of actual voters to possi* ble voters is always larger in the towns than In the country. So that it ia safer to estimate the effective ‘agricultural” vote at one-fourth of the whole than at one-third. In this view cf the situation, then, the Third Party cocid not “run over* the old parties, even if it polled the whole agricultural vote of the coun try; and it ia far from being able to count on the-whole agricultural vote. There ere very many farmers in all parts of the country who do not be long to the Alliance and who will continae to vote with one or the otb« or of the old parties ; and in the Northern and Eastern States, and in some of the Southern States, there are thousands of members of the Al iance itself who will have nothing to do with the Third Party movement. A very considerable nnraber, more over, of the voters who are engaged in “agriculture” in the Southern States, and who are included in the estimate of the total of “agricultural voters” in the country, are colored laborers, and it is not too much to assume that half of them at least wonld vote the Republican ticket in a Presidential election, with a Third Party ticket in the field to encourage their hopes of Republican success. Counting the losses from all these classes, it is evident, we think, that tho Third Party, if organized on the basis of the Alliance membership in the Southern and Western States with thPglivided support of the Or der in the Middle and New England States, would not be able to poll more tbau ono-sixth, or less, of the whole vote of the country nr xt year. These are the plain facts of the situation as they appear to us, and they do not promise so well for the success of the movement which Gen Weaver and President Polk are ad vocating in Georgia as to induce the farmers of Georgia and other Souths ern States to rush into that move ment blindfolded. If the Third Par ty scheme is carried out, it will sure ly weaken the Democratic party more than the Republican party, as it will draw its followers mainly from the Southern States, where the strength of the Democratic party lies. The result of the movement, therefore, can only be the defeat of both the Third Party and the Demo cratic party in the next Presidential election ; and that means th9 con firmation of the Republican* party in power, and the establishment of the policies which it represents, for another long term of years.: The 8nggcstion is made clear. but be abused the democratic party with Watsonian virulence. A11 this goes to show that Mayor Brown will do anything for the sake of office. The democratic parly is always glad to get rid of such members as Mayor- Brown, of Athens.” ^ It is news here in Athens that Mayor Brown ran for the legislature last year. It is not known generally here that Mayor Browu has ever ran for the legislature here in this connty. But it is known that Mayor Brown is as good a democrat as anyone who ever edited the Tribune-of* Rome. Everybody here knows that. ADVERTISE THESOUTH- some interesting pointers LOOKING TO THIS END. An Open Letter From the President of the Inter-State Immigration Bu reau—It Makes Interesting Reading, For An Athenian. ——■ Here’s an 5 A GOOD MAN CONE. In the death of Mr. Giileland Ath ens loses a good Citizen, a - faithful officer and a man whose life-work has been for the up-building of his city. A good heart is stilled in this sudden stroke of death that will be sorely missed in this community. For more than twenty years Mr. Gilleiand has served as Clerk of the General Council of the City of Ath ens. In this capacity he has served faithfully and well. Before that be had served nobly in the civil war. He had also rendered valued service in a Governmental position jnst after the war. Mr. Gillelancl has always been a good and nsefhl citizen. More than this, he was a- pious man, with a generons heart. The grief that comes at his death is as general as it is genuine. ATHENS AS A MARKET. 1 It is certainly a gross mistake to fancy that Athens is not a perfectly desirable market place. In fact, to do the enterprising merchants of the city full justice one who has inquired into the facts must conclnde that this city sells groceries much cheap er than the grocery merchants of At lanta, and in many instances below the market prices in Augusta, r \ >'■ No better evidence of this fact is necessary than to observe the widea spreading and ever-increasing terri tory covered by the wholesale mer chants of the Classic City. An army of busy drummers, rep resenting such firms as Talmadge Brothers, O’Farrell it Ash, Hodgson Brothers, J. S. King & Company, and a dozen other excellent firms have established in three States a reputation for Athens In the world of grocers as to crown her most en viably as the beBt market in this section of the Sontb. From a large planter very near Augusts, who has once traded here for his plantation supplies, comes this message : “lam convinced that Athens is a better grocery market than Augustaand a hotel man in the legitimate terri tory of Atlanta, writes to an enter prising firm of onr city, “I will give Athens my orders in the future, find ing I get goods from five to ten per cent cheaper than in Atlanta.” This reputation is fully deserved. Athens is unquestionably the best grocery market in Georgia, and odt thrifty wholesale iperchants are uni ted in the determination to keep her so. Tax Southern Affiance Farmer finds that the ladies of Athens paid Colone Livingston a very gracious tribute while he was here. Says that paper: Upon the plates oi each of the dis tinguished Alliancemen that visited Atbens was placed a flower and card with appropriate inscription The flowers placed for all the other visitors were either yellow, purple or red; but in tbo face of all the sl&Dder which has been heaped upon Col. Livingston by the enemies of the Alliance, the queen ly women of Athens, that home of re- 1 finement and culture, gave to him a perfectly white flower, emblem of purity, and upon the oard inscribed these words: “To our next Vice-President, Hon L. F. Livingston, from the ladies of Atbens.” Athens loses five thousand dollara each year in the overcharge of freight on coal. Five thousand dollars is the interest on one hundred thousand dol lars of city bonds. A Height rate that is just would enable the citizens to pay interest on improvement bonds with out the Iobb of a cent—when would such a tax do Athena most good—in the coffers of the Terminal or in the city treasury? Athens and Atlanta are about the same distance from the Tennessee coal mines. Coal that cost Atlanta manu facturers two dollars and a.quarter costs Athens manufacturers three dollars and seventy cents. Without her water pow ers where would the Atbens manufac turers be, handicapped by seventy-five percent greater cost of fuel ? What say yon gentlemen to a push for the Chat tanooga or Judge Thomas’s road ? Speaking of the principles of the people’s party and of the democratic .party, and in a tone of advanced apolo gy for entering tht third party a corres- spondent writes, “what’s in a name?” Can it be then that these third party men are only searching for a better name—a more enphonious sound than democracy? It sounds very harmoni ous in onr ears. No. one seriously objects to the third party cranks coming to Georgia and howling with all their might. The pie understand them and know exactly what the broken-down politicians are after. They are perfectly harmless.— Darien Gazette. Certainly. The man most have but littte faith in Georgians to fear they are going to betray the faith of their fa thers. 4 Postmaster General Wanamakeb’s business with the wrecked Keystone bank of Philadelphia may have been perfectly honest and legitimate, but it is very unfortunate for him and for the administration that it should require so many explanations. Thb tbird party does not live in Geor gia. If it is ever born down here it will die an infant’s death. Such anithals from the wild and wooly west have be acclimatized through a long process before this sunny clime of ours is cal culated to invigorate then with new life. , Sentimental love sick Tom Gibson, of the Augusta Evening News, sings editorially this plaintive ditty; She loves to dally with the surf That bolls upon the sandy beach, And, careless’mid the breakers foam, Swims gayly out boyond my reach, And I, poor serf of her caprice, Would vainly kiss her dunplca hand, But. poorer than the sounding sea, Alas! I haven’t got the sand. Is it unreasonable to predict that if the Terminal company refuses to give Athens relief from the present exorbe- tant coal rate the merchants of the city will turn every shipment they make to the G., G. it N. upon the completion of that road? CAPTAIN WYATT OWEN •• . .— WRITES A LETTER TO CAPTAIN PHIL G. BYRD. OF ROME, HOW IT CAN BE DONE. AND PREVENTS A DUEL. That Military Sensation Exploded at last Like the Blank Cartridges used at Ghlckamauga Giving only Smoke-j’Peace Reigns I\ In Warsaw ” __ interesting letter to the farmers ol this section of the Piedmont section. - It is written by the President of the Inter-Stare Immigration Bureau, and bears upon the matter of advertising the .South. This is the most vital issue for tho southern people to determine—the ad vertising of their resour, es—and the Banner takes a great deal of pleasure in publishing the letter. Here it is: To The Pkoplk of The South : If & merchant has goods to sell he does not expect a customer to buy un til he sees the quality and the price. If the south has lauds, water powers, minerals and timber to sell, they can' not be sold until they are advertised, and unless what they are capable of pro during and the quality is shown to those who desire to purchase. The opportunity presented to the people of each countv m the South to advertise its resources, free of cost, at the Southern Inter-State Permanent Display and Exposition is an excep tioua 1 one, and no' wide, awake, section can afford to be let out. Below w e give a list of articles and the quantity that can be exhibited. It will cost bm very little to oolleo^theart tides for exhibition, and all southern railroads are transporting the exhibits free. All that is necessary is to direct to Southern Exposition, Raleigh, N C The following are among the articles that are desirable from each section of the South to place in the Southern Ex position to be held in the city of Ral eigh, N. O.: One-half bushel of eaoh variety of the following: Barley, buckwheat, corn, oats, rye, wheat, nee, grass seed, cane seed, field peas, beans, dried ap ple- 1 , peaches, quinces, prunes, cherries, wild and cultivated berries, nuts and acorns. -* Preserved fruits in half-gallon glass jars. One to ten pounds of each variety of cotton;in seed and lint;fl ix and jute iu various stages of manipulation. Ten pounds of each variety of sugar; the gallon of eaoh variety of molasses and sorghum; honey, one'quart or one to ten pounds in comb.- Two pounds of each variety of to bacco. - Ten tounds of each variety of grass; one bundle, six Inches in diameter, of each variety of grain in sheaf. Hops,}five pound; broom corn, ten or twenty five headf; garden peas and beans, oae gallon of each variety dried. Plants and growing shrubs in pots. Spirituous liquors, wines aud a 1 kinds of liquids, one quart of eavh variety. Minerals, building stones, precious stones, mar’ and phosphate rock, any size specimens, soils, one foot square as deep us desired, boxed up so as to re tain the same shape as when taken from th ©ground. Wood nnd timber specimens, if in sawed form, one inch thick, any width and length; if a section is sawed from the tree, to l-e any size desired; if Bplit from the tree, the section to be large enough to square at least two or four inches, by (our feet long. - - Manufactured goods, from cotton, wool, flax, aud silk, each fample usual width, six yards long; from wood or iron, one specimen of a kind Stuffed birds and animals; Indian relics and curiosities; photographic views of buildings, farms aud scenery, one of a kind ' The above list of articles may be added to, both in variety and quantity, according to what is produced, manu factured, or found in each state or com munity. I The cheapest means of advertising is to have a dozen columns of one issue of your county patters devoted to the ad vantages that your connty can offer to land buyers; and have one to ten thou sand printed, and send to us for dis tribution among the large number of visitors who will attend the Permanent Display, which is continuously open to the public, aud the Exuusitiou proper, to be held during October and Novem ber. 'l he visitors will expect to see wbat the (South has to offer home-seek ers and capitalists. Do not wait uutil October. Take this work up at once, for the Permanent Ltispiay is now being arranged in the city of Raleigh. The Permanent Dis play will be kept open all the year round so that wbat is sent iri at once will be doing your section great good, fend you can add to it from time to time as you make collections: Respectfully, , y. ; J. T. PATRICK, Secretary, Raluqh, N. C. THE GRAND LODGE MEETING. Athens has paid unjusf tribute to the railroads in tbe pool for five years to the amount of five thousand dollars a year. Is not an outlet to the coal fields absolutely necessary? GOOD GRACIOUS! It is positively ridiculous to hear I a man talk with assumed confidence about a matter upon which he is to<- I tally ignorant. The following edi-1 torial was printed in the Rome Trii bune, though just who could have I written such bosh will probably never | be known : •’When Mayor Brown, of Atbens, was a candidate for the legislature last fall, there was nothing too mean for him to say about the Alliance. Well, Candidate Brown didn’t go to the legislature. The other day in Athens, at the Alliance Third-Party meeting, Mayor Brown, who wanted to be Representative Brown last fall, made the address of welcome. In that address he not only swallowed the Alliance and the Ocala platform, Every consumer of gas pays tribute to the railroad companies to tbe amount of his share of the excessive freight charge on coal. It is the veriest nonsense to talk about leading the farmers of Georgia by the noses into radicalism of any sort. The Third party is a bete noir to them. ' ’ ’ - * ’ j- BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CATARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and Completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucong surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on pre scriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure manufac tured by F. J. Cheney «fe Co., Toledo. O.. contains no mercury, and is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood ana mucous surfaces of the sys tem. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure yon get the genuine. It is tak en internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. 27~Sold by Druggists, prioe 76o. per bottle. The Good Templars Will be Welcom ed to Classic Athens. The meeting of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Georgia will be held in Athens for three days begining next Tuesday morning. Through a mistake it was announoed that this meeting would be held on the 21st inst. It is now found that it will be on the 28th inst., and the local lodge is making every preparation to entertain the Grand Lodge delegates in royal style. Ah entertain ment in the way of an amateur the atrical rendition will be one of tbe at tractions. Then there will be public speaking one night during the meeting and probably a feast will be tendered the delegates by the members of Evans Lodge of this city. While the work of the Good Templars has not been as vigorously pushed in Georgia during the past year us it might have been, it is a source of congratula- lation to the members of this order that the progress of tbe order has been forward and nothing has been retro graded. The work of the order will be pushed more vigorously forward during the present yfear, and lodges will be estab lished all over the state lor tbe promul gation of the doctrine of total absti nence. The Grand Lodge will convene Tues day mon.ing with about one hundred delegates in attendance. The bulge sings truce. Captain Wyatt Owen and Captain Phil G. Byrd now stand hand in hand beneath the friendly shade of the olive branch. And the Clarke Rifles have no bayo nets to charge against the Hill City Cadets, of Rome. “Place reigns in Warsaw,” and Mr. J. H, Duncan will fight no duel as it was rumored he would be apt to do. Everybody in Athens has kept pretty ‘ well iuformed on the military seusation be. tween, Athens and Rome, since the breaking up of camp at Chickamauga. Every one knows of tho cara written by Mr. J. H. Duncan who was at Chickamauga with the Clarke Rifle’, and published in .the Athens evening paper scoring Captain Byrd of the Rome company with some bitter criti cisms as to his conduce on the field. Every one knows of a card that appear ed in the same paper shortly afterwards from Mr. Dnncan declaring that, it was not his intention to make any unbe coming attack on Rome’s captain. Ev ery one knows how bitterly Mr. Dun can was rebuked by a member of Rome’s company in a Rome paper, and every body knows how equally bitter was Mr. Duncan’s reply. And knowing all this the next thing to expect was a challenge to be setat Mr. Duncan by the member of the Rome company. Every one did expect it. Mr. Dnncan himself expected'it. But it wont come. Peace is restored and Captain Wyatt Owens brings it about. capt. owen’s letter. The following letters published in yesterday’s Tribune of Rome tell the whole story: Athens, Ga., July 17, ’91. Captain Phil. G. Byrd, Rome, Ga. Dear Captain : I feel constrained, ii the face of the many articles, that are going tbe rounds in the papers, to write yon a Utter, in whioh I wish to advise you and your command that, neither myself ooreny of my eompany are in the least responsible for them, nor do we sympathize with tbe author, who, by the way, is not a member of the Clarke Rifles. The extreme good feel ing which existed between onr com mands whilst in camp I am certain will always be cherished by my company.. My “charge bayonets” had nothing personal in it whatever. I found my nsvision under a heavy fire, and when I ordered them to return it I was told they had no ammunition. There were but.two things for me to do: one was to retreat, and the other was charge. During myfour long years of actual service, I never learneed how to re treat, and I did not wish to teach my men such movements there. When yon consider the fact that my men were out of ammonition and being fired upon, as they were, you will see the key to tbe charge, whice, I believe, was received by your men in the same friendly spirit in which it was intended. With warmest feelings of regard for yourself and command, in which my company join, 1 remain, very tyuly. Wyatt Owen; 1 Captain Com’d’g Clark Rises. CAPTAIN BYBH’S REPLY. Captain Byrd, not to be overdone in honorable courtesy, sent the following letter in reply It will be observed that he spells Dnncan with Here’s the letter; Captain Wyatt Owen, Athens, Ga. Dear Captain—Your esteemed.lavor of July 17 to band. I will say that, 1 was expecting just such a letter from you and would have been disappointed had it not come. ■> I believed I khew the officers and men of the Clark Riflles too well to take any stock in the dirty attack made on me by j. h. dnncan, and made up my mind from the first not to rush into print, but to wait until the matter reach ed your eyes and allow you tho privi lege of writing. Had yon not done so I would, perhaps never have complained, having sired up that author of those articles before be wrote them; but it does me good to see yon so anxious to prevent a misunder standing between our commands which were on such good terms of fellowship while in camp. If you will do me the honor to look over ihe article that appeared in tbe Hustler of Rome, and which excited duncan to such quixotic flights, I think, sir, that you will find that I have stated nothing that I did not see from my standpoint on the bloodless field of Chickamauga’s last battle. If we fired on your men in the smoke and excitement, I must confess that 1 did not see them, the orders having been given for the flanking division not to move iu where they would be affected by the central division, of which I was in command. However that may be we were perfectly satisfied at the ending of tbe charge, and the boys of my com mand are very highly pleased with your letter, and are much relieved to find that dnncan Is not a member of the Clarke Rifles, for whom they'bave the greatest respect. I will state, before elosing, that Ser geant Bale, of my company, had my permission to answer duncan’s card,but now, that I find that duncan is not a member of the Ninth Georgia Tegiment, I shall instruct him not to notice bis last and dirtiest attack. With deep feelings of regard for yourself and the Clarke Rifles, in which the Hill City Cadets join me most heartily, I remain, Yours truly, \ Phil G. Bind, Captain Com’d’g Hill City Cadets. Cotton Planters. Iron -A-ge Cultivators- Clark’s Cutaway Harrows. *W eeding Hoes. falmage& Brightwell’s. TheeannereJeb NO. 13 NORTH JACKSON ST., [BANNER BUILDING], Why You Should Patronize the Banner Job Ota. When one has work of an artistic nature to be executed, he naturally ca ries it to the very best artist convenient. Of course, an expert workman skilled mechanic has the latest and best machine. . -* enable him to accomplih the most satisfactory results. No one wishes to p ill ku a workman wlm doa not keep abreast with the improvements of the clay, foi It • an impossibility f« him to turn out a novel and artistic job. In printing, styles are constantly cling ing. Type faces that were popular last year, are now rarely used. Better efeca are seen by the most casual observer. our type mobs are all new In Thb Banner Job Office there is to be found the largest selection of sev and artistic type in Northeast Georgia, if you have a Poster as large as a newspa per to print* and want it executed in an attractive style—in a style that will “catch the eye”—The Banner office is the place to have it printed. If you have an in vitation card that you wish to appear, as if it were lithographed, send it to ut R fact, we qave the best selection of type for any kind of work that is printed- THT BANNER JOB PRINTERS. No matter how good material a shop -may have, without skilled mectak* the best results cannot bo obtained. It is even so in a printing office. We the most artistic and skillful printers to be obtained. We refer you to sample*« our work for proof of this assertion. After all, one’s work is the best w»J *J which to judge his ability. We have no “cubs” to “butcher” work. •^our presses^ . Without good presses, it is impossible to turn out first-class work. W jobs, which are otherwise artistic, are spoiled by poor press work, laj®’ vanner Job room there are five of the finest presses made—Adam’s Patent Press, The Cottrell & Babcock Cylinder Press, two of the latest improved Oor®* Presses and Golden’s Pearl. WE PRINT ANYTHING That can be printed. Our Stationery is the very best, and our prices a» tnglylow. ft you wish the very best results, dou’t wait ’till your statioW gives out, but send your work in now, so that we may have time to make « truly artistic job. - THEO. MAE/EW A-IATER, . Manufacturer iOf GRANITE AND MARBLE MONUMENTS AND STATUARY- . Importer Direct anil Contractor for Boling Stone. Marble Wainscoting and Encaustic Tile Hearths AGENT FOR CHAMPION IRON FENCE CO, dr- The boat In the world. liew Deslgua t Original 1 lesh.-ns 11 Law Wee* 11 . 1'rices and Designs cheerfully furnished. AH work guarani**® OFFICE AND STEAM WORKS, 529 and 531 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA,GA March 16- wly. .Children Cry fyr PlteHer’i CiUSfMu r \ Dr. Riggers Huckleberry cordial is a sure cure for all Bowel trouble*. For sals bf ail dealer*, DISSOLUTION AND COPARTNER SHIP NOTICE. The firm of Vess, Vonderau <fc Bick ers, is this day dissolved by mutual con sent, Mr. A. L. Bickers selling his in terest and good will to the remaining partners. Mr. A. S. Parker has pur chased an interest in tbe business and the name and style of the firm in fu ture will be Yeas. Vonderau & Co., who assume all liabilities, and who are authorized to oollect all accounts due the old firm. Yeas, Vonderau & Co,, July 1,1891. JESSE THOMPSON & CO., MANUFACTURERS 1 DOORS, SASH, BLINDS. YELLOW PINE LUMBER, MOULDINGS. BRACKETS, Dealers in Window Glass *' —and— . >.. BUILDERS’ HABDWABE- PLANING MILL AND LUMBER YARDS, Hale St., Near Central R. R. Yard, Augusta, Ga* Dee. 17—wly. 1 '.irnirVv.'V „■