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About The weekly banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1891-1921 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1892)
WHAT IS HIS FUTURE ? The civilized world looks upon the - negroes of America with interest; they are seen as a nation ot slaves snddenly becoming free and brought into the foil enjoyment of citizen ship ; and naturally, after twenty- eight years of freedom, the question of their future is one of exceeding interest. * • The negro has advanced as a role in education and in' material wealth but still there remains in him much of the simple manners of the ante bellum slave. * His work in the South has been mainly in the production of the cot ton orop, and in this line it will re- mafn for some time. The opinion has been ventured that the negroes will eventually remove to the West, and segregate themselves along the cotton alluvial belts of the Mis sissippi. Whatever may be done by the ne« gro in the next few years, his ac tions will all be watched with inter*' est, and throughout all this we might well ask the question, What ii his future ? * By Authority conferred in an order of the Superior Court of Clarke County,, the Receiver, Mr. J. W. Wier 5 has sold the entire Stock of Merchandise, formerly of Mr. A. Coleman, The entire stock sold in bulk. LOTTERY AND ANTI-LOTTERY. It looks like a campaign of false pretences on both sides down to Louisiana. The regular Democratic convention was unquestionably in the hands of the lottery people, and its nominees were dictated by thi same influence. Now comes candidate for Governor nominated by this convention and says he is ojt* posed to lotteries, but that the people ha n e a right to pass on the question and chater a lottery if they wish it. 1 he lottery Democrats are evident ly playing fast and loose on this question, and the Republicans are doing the same thing. The only genuind"anti-lotteay ticket in Louisi ana is that put forward by the bol ters from the Democratic convention, who nominated Mr. Foster on a square-toed anti-lottery platform. THE UNIVERSITY OUTLOOK. It will be gratifying news to every loyal citizen of Georgia to know that the University of the State promises to open again in a few days with a greatly increased attendance. The college has during the fall term which closed at the beginning of the Ohristmas holidays prospered most happily. It opened in Septem ber with more students than he.ve been in the ohapel on an opening day tor many a year gone by. This attendance has graduaUy in creased until the close of the fall term. Now the outlook is that, a great many new students will enter the University next Wednesday, and it is oertain that all the old ones vrill return to a man. The fact is, the University is en tering upon a new era of prosperity X and the promise is emphatically given that the old college will resume its former prestige. All Georgia will rejoice at this happy state of affairs, for there is a perfect tidal wave of enthusiasm now sweeping over the whole face of the South for higher education. A QUESTION AND ITS ANSWER. The great question of importance that confr^ote—the-people oi the ''South in these opening days of 1892 is in regard to the cotton crop and the financial outlook. How are we to get more money, and how is the price of cotton to be raised?. .Tufs is the question and ItiKttue answer when given will biing prosperity to our section of the Union. It is of prime importance that the circulating medium of the country sLould be improved and the volume of the currency substantially ino creased. It is nonsense to talk about the people being able to run on the small amount of money per ca pita now in circulation. The people must and will have more money and whether it come through gold or sil ver or other processes, they care no*. Year by year the MAX JOSEPH BOUGHT - 7 great massed of phople are growing poorer and poorer and getting deeper and deeper in debt. It remains to be seen whether or not the present Congress will grant s ibstantial financial relief. I It has been said that you camot gialate money into a people’s pock- e.s. and that if it were possibl less than ten years the rich an. scheming will have gobbled it I This tremendous large stock now in my possession, and placed on the tables and shelving^, up-stairs, over Max Joseph’s store, WILL RE SACRIFICED, beginning MONDAY, JANUARY 3D? UNTIL ALL IS SOLD. * -i CLOTHT.N G-* The CLOTHING is placed down stairs iD my store, and divided into 4 lots. Lot 1: Choice of the 16 00 and 18 00 dollar suits for 10 dollars each. Lot 2: Choice of the $12 and $14 00 Suits for $8 00 a Suit Lot 3: The $7, $8 and $10 Suits for $5 00 each. Lot 4: The $5 and $6 Suits for $3 00 each. 300 pair of PANTS are divided in three lots. Lot 1: At 76 cents a pair ; Lot 2: At $1 50 a pair; Lot 3; At $2 76 a pair. The last named are very fine goods The SHOES, TTp-Stairs. Fine Men’s Shoes, at 75 cents a pair; Fine Ladies’ Shoes, at 75 cents a pair; A better quality marked $2 50, at $1 00 a -pair Th.e Dress Goods Down-stairs on the main floor. All goods which were marked 10c. will be sold at 5 cents. All Dress Goods which were marked 20 cents at 10 cts. All Dress Goods which were marked 30 cents at 15c. All Dress Goods you buy you will have to pay only one half, or 50 cents off from the dollar, at what you paid before. Crockery, Hardware and Notions, aU Up-stairs- A good many useful articles for the household, such as Cups and Saucers, Plates, Butter Dishes, Trays' Globes, Glass Chimneys, Fruit Dishes and many other articles. They are not in my line of business. I will close them out at 25c. on the dollar, or one fourth of manufacturer’s cost. Hats and Gents Furnishings, on the main floor. These you can have at 50 cents on the cost of manufac turers prices. [pip All kinds of Small Wares. Notions, Blankets, Quilts, Towels, up-stairs. The prices are fixed on thes* - and only one-half or 50 cents off from the dollar’s value. I call special attention to merchants, and those wanting goods in large quantities. The prices will be made satisfactory. I had to rent extra ware-rooms for my XWO ENORMOUS STOCKS*. P* ve hundred feet addittonal shelv- ings 1 had put up and thirty tables made beside the quantity of cases stored away. Is it not natural that I AM COMPELLED TO FORCE THE GOODS ON THE MARKET? No charges for drayage to the depots, nor boxing to merchants buying in quantities. All goods will be promptly delivered in the city limits. A large force of extra sales-people has been added to this sale. The early comer will have a chance to pick the most wonderful bargains Athens ever showed up in mercantile circles. MAX JOSEPH. 219 and 221 BEOAD STREET. ATHENS, GA. There is a great deal of troth in this statement when viewed superficially. Bat if yon place enough money in the country, it generally gets down to the merchant with whom the far mer deals. Then how is the farmer to get it ? Let Lim raise his crops and sell them to the man who under the new financial system has the money to pay for them. < It is no surprise that with so little money in circulation and such a large crop of cotton,the prices should go below seven cents. Then how is the price of cotton to be raised, and how is the farmer to make a profit on it? In the first place he mast resolve to farm on the intensive plan. If he has one hundred acres of land and finds that he can only tend fifty acres well, let him tarn the other fifty out. It will pay him better to work the fifty well than to work the hundred poorly. Again, he can raise most of his home supplies if he manages right, and'thas in reducing his cotton acre age, raise the price of the staple. This can only be brought about by absolute co-operation, and that co-operation can be secured by the Farmers’ Alliance. If that is done, then that order will have gained a more signal victory than if it had revolutionized the continent. THE NEW YEAR. The Banner greets its readers this morning with the best wishes for a happy -and prosperous time during the New Year tkat ie before them. The old year is dead and with it all the victories and defeats*.^ g°° d deeds and shortcomings have ■passed' into history. With the midnight hoar last night passed away a year filled with great progress for Athens, and rounded up with the complete reconciliation of all factions and the determination on the part of oar peo pie to march forward in solid pha lanx, conquering and to conquer. The New Year affords splendid opportunities for our people ; it rests with them to say whether or not it shall be one of progress for our city We are now just at that point where it will require nothing short of per fect unity of action to pull our city through successfully. In the next twelve months changes will come to the city for her benefit, if her citizens work system s’ically and energetically as a unit A great many questions will arise for settlement that will tax their minds and energies. The water works question, the sewer question, the question of 6treet improvement, great the inauguration of new enterprises, the fostering of small industries, and a general advancement of the inter ests of the city will claim their un divided attention. Let that attention be given ; let no factions quarrelling arise to destroy the unity that now exists among our people ; let oar every aim be for the upbuilding of Athens and Northeast Georgia; and when the record of 1892 is completed our citizens will be proud of their work. The Banner esteems it a privilege as well as a duty to take its place among those who are laboring in this direction. -Editorial Comment German newspapers are printing the assertion that the weight of tbeWorld’s Fair buildings will cause them to break through the ernst of the earth, with the result of precipitating the entire city of Chicago forty feet and submerging it under Lake Michigan. But nobody need stay away from the fair on this account. It is probable that the Ger man papers are mistaken, but if their prophecy were fulfilled the city and the show wonld go on just the same. Chi cago is not only a phoenix in a fire—it is a duck in a deluge. The elements are Chicago’s most bumble servants. The dynamite crank is inscrutable. He blows up the Czar because he is a despot, attacks a millionaire because he won’t give him money and assaults the Frenob Legislature because the French police are looking for Nihilists. In each enterprise there is nothing for the crank except, possibly, destruction. That man will he “leader of the House” who, without regard to official rank, shown himself most capable of rendering on the floor of the House the most efficient service to the cause of Democratic reform. And great will be bis praises in every section'of the South if he carries through to victory a measure for the enlargement of the cir- CHating medium. The grip is no respecter of persons. It tackles aSpeaker Crisp .with as little compunctions of conscien ce as if it had fastened its grip on the lowest type of mankind. Here’s hoping, however.thao Speakei Crisp will be able to call the House to order ’I uesdav. The men who will lead in the Dem ocratic House are the men who do the hardest work for genuine aggressive tariff reform—which means for a tariff for revenue only. And it will make no difference what committee they are on. There Is a difference between the British rnd the American idea of a pen sion. What would our old soldiers think of a pension of twenty -cents a day, to be commuted for a lamp pay ment and free passage as a pauper to a foreign country? This is Great Brit ain’s idea—New York World. It is not easy to decide whether Fobakkr is simply athis old tricks, or whether he has really canght John Sherman at bis, but the latest develop ments of bribery charges are eminently characteristic of Ohio Republicanism, whether they are trne or false. Yes, and we would he glad if the government of the United States wonld furnish a free pass to Africa for a largo- number of its pension gobblers-atfade- iiberate swindlers. They ought not to bs allowed to liya-hf this goodly land. "^Thb Madisonian comes to our table with a New Year’s issue, and at the same time Editor Mare A. Candler makes bis bow to the public. The pa per will continue to be issued by Edi tors Candler and Furlow, and will still be one of the brighest and newsiest weekly newspapers in Georgia. The cowboys in Texas don’t wear red neckties, and they bounce every stran ger who does.—Savannah Press. The editors are all safe, then,. foi they never get that high up in the world. Most of them are naturally op posed to capital punishment and don’t belieye in being neck-tied. True Alliancemen of Georgia are de monstrating the fact that they want no third party in theirs. The delegates to the St. Louis convention go pledged to vote as a unit and four out of five are opposed out and out to the third party. Congressman Livingston is chairman of this committee. 'New York city has allowed for the payment of salaries in her police de partment for the coming year the mag nificent sum of $4,589,508. That sum ought to provide handsomely for “the finest „ Thy. old year’s legacy to the new year is in Washington an excess of ix^rfffT tures over receipts ;in New York it is a restoration of majority rule in place of mi norit^us’urpation. It is now easy to understand what be came of the enormous population of the ancient world. War and pestilence were followed by grip. A Chilian war, lasting two years, with the pensions that would necessa rily follow, would be a rather costly venture. When the moon-faced despot and the star-eyed goddess come together in this congress there will be a total eclipse of the lunar end of the collision. The third party people continue to do the whining and the democrats are hard at work for the relief of the toil ing masses. “How?” “1 spent it before Waylins I Children’s Department. could borrow it from me.”—Washing- ton Star. “That was an appropriate piece of music they badjit the cattlemen’s annu al dinner.” “What was it?”' “The band played Beethoven’s Concerto in Gee.”—Harper’s Bazar. There is nothing in the world mo-e aggravating to a man with a secret than ea '«h<‘n-ware jar stood Hodgson Bros, will not occupy the nel to meet people who have no curiosity. , bl * s ' m '; nt w '< ld -’ w »— Swift building, as was at first given Atchison Globe J uoiaiiii* ud to the IhfIii—»»»«h tiu>r u u>o a 1 “Where’s the daughter ?” asked a Be douin Chieftain of his wife. “Oh, she’s sitting out on the steppes with her young man!”—Puck. The Test—Mamma: My darling, don’t you think you’ve eaten enough? Maudie: Me don’t know. Me^ ain’t dot a verwy bad tommickache yet.— Harper’s Bazar. Tommy: My grandpa has voted for twelve different presidents. Jimmy: Ah, de ole man’s not in it. My daddy voted twelve times for one president. Indianapolis Jour nal. “A cynic is a man who is tired of the world, is he not?” the young language student asked. “No, no, my child,” replied the knowing tutor. “A cynic is a man of whom the world is tired.” “See that idiot looking at the chorus through the large end of his opera glasses.” He’s not an idiot. That ir the Rev. Dr. Sampkins. - He is trying to get the chorus as far from him as possible.—Epoch. A Nashville special says that the res- , „ ' T. Kir ~ idenceof General T. Kirby Smith at Sewanee, Tenn., was burned about day light from unknown causes. He ha an insurance on the building, hut loses the contents and is practically penni less. His friends have already started a movement looking to the raising of a sum sufficient to reinstall the old vete ran and his family of nine children id their formerly' comfortable surround ings. jfcEiicit" -. o:or ^ preacher in ... specimens of the worms so extracted, about a quarter inch in length and of a flatten ed shape, dark brown or nearly black in color. He says tooth-ache, abscesses et<L, are often caused by these worms,’ and the trouble is relieved on their re moval. A Paris dispatch states that a dis patch from Madrid says that news has been received there comfirming the Statement that the Japanese govern ment has seized the Volcanic Islands situated about 300 miles from the Car olina Islands. It is added that the Spanish government has instructed the commanders of Spanish men-of-war at the Phillippine Islands to visit the Spanish possession in Oceanica and on the Chinese and Japanese coasts in or der to watch the movements of the Japanese cruisers. Who’ll be the next chief of police? Write it with a 2. MERRY VOICES that Of two women choose the one will have you.—Texas Siftings. A fashion note to be observed is that grass widows should not wear weeds.— Texas Siftings. Many of the applicants for divorce ac knowledge that they have made a sour mash.—Natural Weekly. , A Valparaiso, Ind., special says: The division of an estate in Scotland will make the eight heirs living in the United States possessors of comfortable fortunes. A cablegram received at Hammond, Lake county, apprised Mrs Kitchell of the death of an aunt in ..cotland whose fortune is variously es- w™ a t® d at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. I he heira, with one or two exceptions live in different parts of this country.' An organized effort will at once he made to secure a just and equitable set tlement of the estate. L It looks as if the Tammany tiger had devoured the entire stock of democratic olive branches.—Washington Post. _ An Atchison, Kan., special says John Delaney, a wealthy farmer ot Doniphan county, Kan., took sick a week ago and died in a few hours. The day of the funeral bis wife was taken ill, and in twenty-fours she also died. The two sons in California were telegraphed for. ibey arrived in time for the funeral obsequies of the mother, and now both sons have died, apparently of the sum * disease. It is supposed that the cause of the death of all of them was tin’ moving into and sleeping in the rooni^ pletod. n6W ^ 0U8e tbe r Sad just com - * 'v 'M .TWO I ITS OF CROCKERY. MI-8 MINNIE K CAMPBELL. ( apt JW. A ; Hankins leaves soon for nts borne in Virginia and carries with him bis interesting family. Mr. Mendel Morris’ new houses on Harc^ck Avenue are nearly finished., He will also improve the house now oc-ji ouj iedby Mr. JP. Funkenstein. i| . Will Not Occupy it — saw?*”*- »»■»«»»»« binding up to the light—such as there was out. —a sweet tts-rose. • Gretcheu, poor child, raised her wan face from her pillow itndg .z d upon it with all her soul in her sad eyes. How beauiitat it was! It seeined almost as if a bit of heaven tad c m<-down to her. And **s she draDk in the air breathed from ibe creamy peia.s a strange new longing into her heart. She felt almost as it she would like to live. And, do you know, it was the little flow- or jar that dm it—the homely litti • jar full ot warm browu earth hugging its wealth of hoy rootlets so tenderly! . Rifth upon the mantel in a stately draw ing-room, summoned by luxury and ele gance, and soft light and rich perfume, stood a beautifully Sevres vase—empty. It secured to wear always on its tace a smile which said, more plainly f»r than words: — ‘'Do not touch me, if von please, good people; lam too delicate't-be handled; 1 ani to be looked at, not to be used.” Year after year ji stood there, gathering dust and impurity about it in the shadowy turners, till oue day a careless hous, miiu laid her rude hands upon it. and the lovely shattered fragments crumbled at last to dust in the asb-barrel. My dear young friend, will you be the earthen jar—bumble instrument for shed ding beauty and sweetness upon some dr ^ ry l ,fe ? °. r '*'11 you be the Sevres vase beau tit ui without but empty, impure, and useless within? *V FORECASTING. a- ) r—— f ’ ome world shall reawake; -rtty from ija brief, dream tortured sleep; country, from its slumber pure and _ , ^P. To Souks uf birds In every flowering brake; And mon light hearted, or with hearts that ache. Shall rise and go what they have sown to reap; H w"?., women8m,le * or8,1 aloneand weep For life once sweet, grown btffeer for love’s B wrtV th .f t u dar ’ 8haU not !>e here-not we; we shall have done with life, though few may know. Between ns then rhall awful stillness be who spake such words of bliss, such words or woe, Aawtnds remember, chanting fitfully— Chanting as now —above ns lying low. Philip Bourke Mara ton In Atlantic. The Care of an Umbrella. There axe a couple of points with re- KJE-*? the ,f are . , of an umbrella with which I would wish to, supply the pub- hc, for I am a crank on the subject. One If “ connection with the rolling of it riba dotllla so aa not to injure the nhs and joints, firmly grasp the points below the cloth with your right hand left till the T h n dowmvard wiHt your left till the folds are nicely laid. Tho other ts when the umbrella is soaked with wet, set with the handle resting on the floor and let the water run off the ends of the ribs. If yon set it with the feyule down the water will rust the iges at the crest.—Interview in St Louis Globe-Democrat. L mot punishment. 1. .—Messrs y ithe new Pr4Cticat.lt Dry —Madison county belongs now practically fo the prohibi tion council. On New Year’s day the last bar room, except one, in the entire county was closed. /1EORGIA CI.AI1KE COUN I Y—< Oi'RT or '-*Ordinabv.—(hambers, ~ December 4*ta 18 -1. Tbe appraise apiiointed“’upon'"appltcatl'c)i‘ 0 di Brown widow of Carter Hr .wu tor it - V l»l .tl 1II..WU IUL || twelve months support having filed their re turn all persons concerned are herebv cited *r show cause if any th y have at the nexi Feb aty term of this c urt why said appti a- tion should not be granted. 8. M. HERRINGTON, ” Ordinary. EOiiGlA, Clakke Cocntv, erdinar vlofflcc, November 2nd. l*ai. Mary A. j r iuu > atary a. Hughes, administratrix of John H. Hughes, de ceased, represent that she lias iulK dig,-barged the duties of her said tru-t and pr ,*s lor letters ot dismission. This is therefore to notify all persons to show cau e, 1 any thov can, bn ot uefore tho llrat Moima* in February next whv said administratrix should not be discharged from said trust. , 8. M. Hf.bbin'g t ov, Ordinary, NOTION TO DEBTORS AND CKEDITOM: All persons Indebted to Stevens Thoma', lati of said couutv, decease-;, are hereby notill d t- make immediate payment to the nnderstgneci and all persons hav.ng demands against the es tate of said deceased are notified to renter the same properly proven, to the undersigned. W. W. Thomas OEO. DUDLKY THOMAS, v, o.v ecutorsof Stevens Thomas. -Deo’d. JUGC* oti) a 1891, ^ ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Agreeably to an order nf the Court of o rc |j nary ot Clarke county, w 11 be sold at tbe couj bouse doorof said county, in the city of Athent Georgtaron the fiist Tuesday In Jnnuar , 189 within theJcgal hours of sale, the follow in propertp, torvit: A tract of land lying In sal county containing one and one half acres, mor or less, loinin}; lands of Thomas Allman an Frank Mortompn the Tallassee Bridge ron S e ^Lf 8 i ro " , '“T ; ■SPS./Ssor.g’a, whereon Be c(eath mt ^ ,tl,e — a ® e -d, resided at the time of hi deceased, for d ISM. B. H. NOBLE, Adm’r. of Betty Founds, Dec’d.. • . 8 ® ,d a* the property of Bettv Poiind ^?i S< i < \\? u r lhe Tjirp 086 of paying debts an distribution. Terms cash. This Dec. 7ti ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Agreeably to an order of the Coutt of Orel navy of Clarke county, will be sold at the eon house door In Athens, Georgia, on tie fir !, next, wl Tuesday In January, 1892, next, gal hours of sale, the fotlowinf within the xuiiowing prop city, t wit: A tract of land lying in said count ..... v. miiu lying in sam coum. known as Lot No. 8 on railroad map. contai lng one acre of land, more or te.s, lying t- tween the lots of Mi s. Lizzie Johnson and F. Wilson, on the Elberton road in Buck Bran District, of said county and State. ALSO, A tract of land in East Athens, confalnii one-quarter (Ji) of an acre of land, more less. Sold as the property of A. L. brown, d ceased, for purpos • of paying debts and fi distribution. Terms cash. This Dec Ti b, i8ii B. U. NOBLE, Atlm’r. A.L. Brown, Dec’d. fvEORGfA CLARKE COUNTY—ObpixabV '^Office, Dkcemukb28th, 1891—J-T.Andei son, administrator on the estate of John Goolst * leased, has i ” — ,.n we estate oi uuuu uw... col a deceased, tub applied for leave to sell tt land of said deceased. This is therefore i lauu oisaia ueeeaseu. notify ail concerted to file tbelr objectu r,i j any they have on or before tho first Mono >’ ■ February next, else leave will then be yw said applicant as applied for. S. M. Herrin o i >• t Ordirb.iv ADMINISTRATOR'S SALK. Pursuant to order of the court of Ornlnai granted at the September term .891, will be so to thb highest bidder at tbe court honse door i first Tuesday in Februs y, the foj Athens, lowing real estate, bci uging to the estate ■ Harr et Jackson, late of ^id county, decease to-wit: 'mat totlrontingsouin, >n. , it? 8 Punishment; the Are al 'd ten feet on Broad street, adjoining on tii *b'ht« a soul. ever, while it torture*, - ea ~t lot of .'l. B. Mciiinty, on Hie north lot that nmnakes Home old desire A ?. d o the “me foundation builds a higher Hath more than joy for him who acquiosci*. A v' dark ^ 38 , 'caches us to love the light, And e^b ef f, ° f Chilllre "' "arm abed. Ami crj mg for the toys put by at night But even as a blinded painter might fleT Pal “ U ou in dreams of radiance —Amelia Rivet in Harper’s. 1 M . Hunter, and on the west Church street, na lng a frontage of one hundred and mnety-e’B 1 feet on t hurch street. Termscash. WILLIAM 0. ROSETTE. Adm’r. ot Harriet Jackson. i The Banner forms c Deeds and other legal papei are drawn by Messrs 1 . BarrOi &> Thomw, ~7~ : f- -j-v.
