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ATHENS ■ BANNER • TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 26, 1892 ATHENS WEEKLY BANNER i tience, for revolutions such as this I are not accomplished in a day. We know that the road leading up to this condition of affairs is a dark one and that dangers lurk in the shadow by the roadside. To travel it will require patience and perse' thk athknb daily manner is delivered I verance, but the goal to be reached by carriers In the city, or mailed, postage tree, . . , to any address at the following rates: *5.00per is fully worth the efforts that must year, $2.50 for six month-,81.25 for three months The weekly or Sunday BAHK^Bfl.OOper year, be expended 10 cents tor 6 months. Invariably Cash In ad- 1 ^ anoe. Transient adverilsements will be Inserted at Published Dally, Weekly and Sunday, by ran ATHENS PUBLISHING CO. T.W. NEED Managing Editor. J J. C. McMAHAN Business Manager. charms, let alone a snake—Mrs. Pot IN THE PAST* ter succeeded in riveting the odious ophidian to the spot by her steady an hour among thb musty old I horrible accident on -the ath- I HIS HEAD COT OFF- AN EC ZEMA ON A BOY RECORDS gaze, and, after staring at it without flinching for half an hour, it retired abashed and discomfited. In addi- IN tion to this gentle yarn concerning the curly snake, the same informant The F,r8t Case Ever Tried * n Th,s County Was for Slander-There Was nalCourt House In ENS BRANCH. THE CLERK'S OFFICE. A MAN NAMED SUMMERS Sufferings Intense. Head nearly Raw. Body covered irith Sores. Cured by Cuticura Remedies. I bought o bottle of Ctocura Bmolvwit. one hex Cuticura Saivs, and one cake of The servant of Elisha when he the nUe of suxiper square for the first Insertion, looked ont upon Samaria and beheld and M cents for esch subsequent insertion, ex- , r ra^s^n^ t o^inea emen “’° nWnl0hSP ® Ctol the 8warmin 8 110818 of the enemy, Local notices will be charged at the rate of 10 I m«n ifniid Rnt whpn Kliinh typaupH cents per line each insertion, except whenoon- was airaia# waen Jhiyan prayed wan* mide t * ndftd period8 ' wh nBpeol * lrate8 that his eyes might be opened, and were opened, lie teheld the *• •*-1 mountainB tell of chnrioto of ire and the horsemen of Israel. A GREAT QUESTION- I And so unseen forces are working There is one thing that stares the with the farmer in hi8 movement observes that among the splendid gifts lavished upon the actress by princely Indian potentates,the Nizam of Hyderabad gave her a basket | made of gold, containing a bird con structed of diamonds, with eggs of I black pearls. This wss merely a mark of admiration. His payment for her performances amounted to | 20,000 rupees in addition. Southern farmer in the face and bids him make up his mind as to his course on the subject. The cotton acreage must be re duced, and it mu?t be reduced in a most judicious manner. The last . , few years has demonstrated the fact P a8se8 our minds ’ and in P ro P ertime He may be discouraged, but let him have patience yet awhile. The moun tains teem with unseen hosts that will help us fight our battles, tLat will remove the doubt that encom- / conclusively that too much cotton has been raised in tbe South, and has brought the farmers to a point, where they are forced to sell their cotton for less than it cost to make it. Now, this state of affairs cannot last long. It must be remedied or it will work out a disastrous course by itself, and leave the farmer where he can’t plant it. What is the happy solution of the question '< To go on and raise another crop of eight and a half million of bales ? Such a course means bankruptcy to the farmer. To ’ go on and reduce the cotton acreage by half? Such would be equally disastrous. To our mind the proper solution is a much different method of pro* cedure than either of these, and we believe it will be borne out by any thinking farmer who has made up bis mind on the subject. Like all other questions it must will touch the body of our agricul ture with the mystic wand of devel opment and make our waste places to blossom as the rose. THE LESSON OF ECONOMY- The terrible financial stringency I fashioned letters through which we are now passing | across their pages will leave many wrecked fortunes thionghont the South. It will force many firms to the wall,and its weight will be felt on down the line to the humblest citizen. Yet in all evils there is one ele- Those Days. The Banner reporter was at the Courthouse yesterday, and while rum* maging around in the office of tbe Clerk of the Superior Court admiring the new book shelves that have recent ly been placed in the vault there, ran across some musty old books that con tained on their worn and soiled pages the aunals of Clarke county, long ago. Some were worn nearly to pieces, hut there was an antique look iu the old that were traced While Walking Along on a Falls Between the Cars and Decapitated—A Brother of Summers, of Llthonla. It is not often that the old Georgia road records a death resulting from ac cident on its lines. But • one occurred yesterday near Pope’s station about ten miles below Athens that was horrible in the ex treme. A construction train was running along near this station on the Athens Branch, about half past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, filling up wash Cuticura Soap, for my .on, aged thirU>en ye*n, Flat Car I ~ h0 afflict®! with ecrema for a long , n d is I Ume, and I am pleased to aay that I believe the tnais | , scared him. Hla Buffering, were to ad being nearly raw, hi* ears being the gristle, and his bodywaa covered 31b condition was frightful to behold. ,ve now all disappeared, his akin to bright, cheerful In disposition, and to y day. V.y neighbors are witnesses with sores. The sores have now all dlsai healthy, eyes bi working ©very —.. — # „— to this remarkable cure, and the doubting ones are requested to call or write me, or any of my neign- bore, WM» 8. STEPHENSON, Winchester P. O., Union Co., N. C. J Stubborn Skin Disease I nsec the Cuticura Remedies for about four months for the treatment of a very stubborn case of skin disease, something like eczema. I will state I tried a great many other advertised reme dies and had been treated by local physicians, and ail to no purpose. The Cun CUBA Remedies did the work, and my body when I commenced was absolutely covered. B. D. McCLELEN, Telephones! F OB ELECTRIC TELEPHONES forpriva .lino purposes, writ*' to the v Southern Bell Telegbie aM Teleerejli Ctl JOHN D. Dec. 15—wtf EASTEBLIN, District Hupt„ Atlanta, 0. Piedmont, Ala. t I MONEY! MONEi! On Kami Security,! At 6 Per Cent. A- G. McCurry, Athens,Gal Office Clayfon Street, over WinfsorRhos I Nov. 17— i78twl8t. 1 deed book and turning to the front page, found the record of The First Deed ever recorded in Clarke county It was a deed to a house aud its furni ture from Nathan Stroud, and bore the date of February 18th, 1802. It was ment of good ; some bright spot that I g jg ne( j b y Wm. Hunter aud Samuel Cuticura Resolvent The reporter picked up the oldest I ..... t k J t h orOU gh I The new Blood and Skin Puriaer and greatest of j -——-----— >——I : suuye. | rcmovo tlie caase), and Cuticura, the great Skin j „ ■ nt flof niH I Cure, and CuncuBA Soap, an exquisite Skin Beau- I I he train was made up Of llat cars, I extema iiy (to clear the skin and scalp, and j THE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION- The session ot the State Agricul tural Society at Cnthbert next month will be a most important one, and the farmers of Georgia are looking forward to it with interest. They will send np large delegations from every section of the State, and the great questions of the day will be discussed ably and with an intention to solve them in the best possible way. The meetings of this Society are always lull of interest , they always result in the farmers having a wider and better knowledge of agricultural subjects. One of tbe important qnestions coming before this session of the Agricultural Society will be that of shines in the darkness. So with tbe present financial condition of tbe country. There is in it a stern and rigid lesson of economy that must result iu benefit to the people. True it is that our farmers and laboring men had already econo mized to a great degree when this Hunter. Other deeds, subsequently recorded, bore date way back in the preceding century. The First Court. The minute book was an interesting one. The first few lines recorded »be ojganization of the fiiat court in Clarke county, and contained a record of the fact that on that occasion the commiss ion of the judge was read. Judge county, and he took bis seat on tbe bench in December 1801. There was no court bouse in those hard financial year year attack them, Thomas P. Carnes was the first judge but under the existing circumstances who ever presided over a case in Clarke they have economized still further I and realized that there are many things that can be dispensed with in I days, and the minutes bear record of tbe hard times. fact that this first meeting of the court m , . ... . c . , ... was held at the residence of Isaac Hill, The country will benefit from this E lesson of economy. If hard times are to continue, then tbe people will , ..... . tlle State Fair, and whether or not it be adjusted by the law of supply and | ahall be held again. The First Case of Slander. The first case ever sounded upon a be better prepared for the work of I Glarke county docket was that of Wy- ....... lie Roberts vs. Nathan Gann, and the retrenchment and will be more capa- t , . _ . ... charge was slander. So it seems that ble of making ends meet; if better somebody ha d been talking too much times come, they will be less apt to | even in the early days of the state squander any of their earn ngs on that which is unnecessary. demand. As matters now stand, there is no doubt in our mind but that the cotton crop is far iu excess of the demand for that staple. It must be reduced until the supply and demand balance each other, and then everything will be in its nor mal state. The Society at its last session de dared the Fair off for one year, and it will not be determined as to where it will be held until the August ses sion of the Society, but it will proba bly be discussed at this meeting. The State Fair was a good institu- THE WORLD’S RAILWAYS. The first locomotive was bnilt and tion, and we hope to see it held this II we go into the question of whj faU somo oae of , te ciliea of the demand is not larger than it is, Q eor<r ; a we run abreast of the financial ques tion, and readily conclude that the lack of money i6 one main cause. There is not a farmer who could not i made its 8ucce88 f u i trial trip in Eng- with ease use up a bale of cotton a land> but America was quick to year in making necessary clothes for l dopt the locomotive and ha8 die . his family. The scarcity of money Europe ftnd nearly &n ^ forces ihe farmer to sell his cotton, I r88 t of the world combined in its use. and do without the clothes. The I The Railway Age has just published question of under consumption is I an interesting diagram, showing tho one that cannot be argued upon in— I railway mileage of each State Jann telligently. It is self-evident and r y 1,1892, and the combined rail- needs no argument. way mileage of the world. By this Yet, until there is more money in table it appears that the total rail circulation upon a basis where all way mileage of the world is 383,500 deserving citizens can reach it, there miles, of which the United States is no use in raising so much cotton, alone have 171,000, or 45 per cent ot The acreage most be reduced this the total,and North America 187,500 year to meet, this law of supply and or nearly one-half. Europe has 141.* demand, and when there is more 000 miles, or 30,000 less than the money in the land, as there surely United States alone; Asia, 20,000 will be in the near fature, farmers South America, 16,000 ; Australasia may return to their present custom | and plant mors cotton. * 13,000, and Africa 6,000 miles. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION* BE PATIENT YET AWHILE. I National Democratic Conven Those who are best acquainted ^ is now the talk everywhere, with the farmers and their condition wkere W1 ^ 11 be held and what will say that the outlook for their pros- done a ^ er 14 18 called together, perity is gloomy—that the young C0Dtest f° r location seems to men are leaving the farms and going kave narrowe d down between New to the city, and that still harder ^ ork an< * Cincinnati, and as between times stare them in the face unless tkese two » we 816 ln favor of New something is done to stem the tide. We do not like to look upon the gloomy side of any qneetion ; it is I ence w bere the convention is held, much better to put a bright face up- after the delegates get there they on everything. Like the late lament- ^ rame a decent platform and nomi® | York. It doesn’t make so mnch differ- if ed Grady, “we always bet on sun- | shine in America.” nate an honest candidate The country isn’t interested much THANKS TO ALL* Since the new management took charge ot the Banner, we have re ceived many congratulations and kind words from oar friends, both in Athens and throughout the State. We deeply appreciate what they say | Abs^om^ Barney, of ns and will strive to merit at least a small amount of praise. The press of Georgia has been es- Tbis case was dismissed on payment of costs equally by the parties. The first jury case tried was an ejectment case Tbe oldest mortgage on ihe records is one dated Sept. 7,1807. The First Grand Jury, Tbe Grand Jury is such au important part of the court that it would not be amiss to mention tbe first Grand Jury that ever harassed the criminals ot Clarke county. It was composed of foreman, Richard Wood, John Cunningham, Willaby and on one of them was a train hand named Summers. The cars were not moving very ; rapidly, and Summers was walking leisurely along on one ol them. He was reading a letter, and evident ly little dreamed that he was so near death. On he walked until be reached the end of the car. and still beiDg engaged in reading bis letter did not notice that he had reached the end of the car. Andiu a twinkling of an eye He Stepped Between the Care- It was a step to death, and the poor fellow must have realized it. He made a vain effort to escape, trying to dis entangle himself from the cars, but it was of no avail. The engineer stop ped the train as quickly;&s possible, but Summers was a dead man ere it came to a standstill. The wheels of the car had passed over his neck, Severing His Head from the body. Death was instanta neous and Summers hardly felt any pain. His body was taken from be neath the wheels and carried to a neigh boring house, where it was prepared for burial. The news was brought to Athens last night and the residence cf Summers was not then known. It is said that he was a brother of Summers, of Lithonia, the man who created quite a sensation in Georgi restore the hair), speedily and permanently cure every species of itching, burning, scaly, crusted, imply, Hcrofnlons, and hereditary humors, from icy to age, from pimplea to scrofula. Bold everywhere. Price, CuTutUHA, 60c.; Soap, 25c.; Resolvent, $1. Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation, Boston. Kg- Send for “ How to Cure Skin Diseases,” 84 pages, 50 Illustrations, and 100 testimonials. QIMPLE9, black-heads, red,rough,chapped,and rllJl oily skin cured by Cuticura Soap. WEAK, PAINFUL BACKS, Kidney and Uterine Pains and Weak nesses relieved in one minute by the Cuticura Aiiti-Patn Plaster, the first and only pain-idUing plaster. CURE YOURSELF!' ^Iftroubiedwith Gonorrhcee^ rGleet.Whiteit.SpermatorrhcEa'i for any unnatural discharge ask* your druggis; for a bottle of 3ig «. It cures In e few davs Swithout the aid or publicity of a 1 doctor. Nor-poisonous and 1 guaranteed not to stricture. \ The Universal American Cure. Manufactured by iThe Evans Chemical Co.l CINCINNATI, O. U. 11. A. iubsoriha A. R. ROBERTSON, Fine Marble and Granite Monuments AND TOMB STONES, _A. r I' VERY LOW PRICES. Title Best Iron Fencing for Grave Lots. Oct 8 dwtt. A. R. LOEEFTSON, Marble Morks, Athens, On. TALMAGE & BRIGHT WELL HARDWARE. 13 EJ. Clayton St re e t. Hammock, John McFalls, David Stu- art, John Smith, Robert Day, Samuel 80m e Ume since by leaving Lithonia Kellough, William Duke, Jeremiah with eight hundred dollars belonging pecially kind in its notices, and the I Brown > George Gray, Haudley Brewer, to the Georgia railroad and then re wish of the Banner is that unlimited prosperity may cjme to each and every newspaper man in Georgia. Absalom Autry, John Strong, Wm, Dortham, Jos. Clarkson, John Smith, I [ Roland Taylor, John Meloue, W m. Me- ione, and Thomas McCoy- turning with,a cock and bull story about being captured by brigands. ThiB is one of the very few deaths -Editorial Comment Even the old record books themselves among employes of the Georgia rail- The precocious mind ~of the small child is illustrated by tbe story of a Sunday school teacher who was ex plaining to her small pupils, day before yesterday, the stocking of the ark with its animated population to Noah. “The animals all went in two by two," she told them. “Did the insects go, too? 1 inquired a 6-year-old girl of the class. “Yes," said tbe teacher, “the insects and all.” “Why, it must; have been horrid to have the fleas and mosquitoes there," said the tiny critic. “Why didn’t they leave them out?" Papers continue to discu is the chan ces of Blaine and Harrison and their I chances of carrying the country. These | republican journals might as well view the question in this light: “Which one will put np the best fight and save us j from a Waterloo.” The democracy is going to win and they might as well put j that in their pipes and smoke it. looked interesting; they told of the ear ly days of the State, and on their pages were recorded many, instances of inter- | est even now. road from accidents on its trains. THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED. CAN YO0 FIND THE WORD? There is a 3-ioch display advertise ment in this paper, this week, which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of each new one appearing each week, from tbe Dr. Harter Medicine Go. This house places a “Crescent" on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word, and they Will return you Book, Beautiful Lithographs or Samples Free- WHAT ATHENS OFFERS Pleasant to the taste, surprisingly quick in effect and economical in price—no won der that Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is the leading pieparaiion of i s kind. “Oh! woman, m thy hours of ease, un certain, coy aud hard to please.” With children hurt, long hours she’s spent. Do try Salvation Oil, the liniment. • EATS NO BREAKFAST. The Story of To Those Who Think About Changing Their Location. Something for people who do not live in Athens and who may be think ing about changing their location tore- member. That Athens has the best system of public schools in the State. That tbe Everything is quiet now, but be fore you are aware of it, there is going to be a regular political cannonade in Georgia. Governor, Congressmen, President, and minor officers—won’t things be red hot? State University with a Faculty the equal of any in the South, and the dis- I “ bnVbTdoesn’t “eat" anything Prominent Citizen of Athens. The Atlanta Constitution tells the following story about one of our bast known fellow-citizens: Col. W. D. O’Farrell, of Athens, who is one of the most successful. wholesale grocers in the state, is a man with one very strange and fanny peculiarity. He hasn’t eaten breakfast in six years. He never has breakfast on his list of meal boars. He says he'doesn’t want it and won’t eat it. He eats supper at 6 or 7 o’clock, like any other man, and goes to sleep as ear ly or as late as any other man. He ris es in the morning very early and goes The Macon Evening News uses a por tion of Hon. James M, Smith’s ntcer- anceson the agricultural question to prove the text that “there is more in the man than there is in the land." Whkn Gabriel blows his born he’ll have to toot loud to drown the excuses of people who have been dealing in other kinds of futures.—Exchange. cipline unexcelled, is located here. That here you can find such insti tutions of education for young ladies as the Lucy Cobb Institute and the Home School. That Athens has the best railroad fa cilities of any city of 12,000 inhabitants in tbe South That yon can see more real substan tial buildings now under construction than any ever before in tbe history of the ( ity That The Athens Electric Street Car line, traverses more miles inside the corpot ate limits than any street car line after supper until dinner the next day and doesn’t eat dinner until 3 o’clock. In response to the inquiry, “Do you not get hungry before dinner?" he said: “Np, I never am hungry—that is, not any more so than the average man. I think people eat too much* They don’t need to eat more than half what they do eat.” SIX GRAND-MOTHERS, Forty Uncles and Seventy-Five Cous Ine Living. It is not generally known, but there in the U. S., in a city of same number I is a child in Athens, son of a Methodist AGENTS FOR Clir>per Plows, Hampton Plows, C lark 5 s C utaway Harrow s. These Messenger Boys were sent out to make special delivery of Catalogues, and told to hurry. This idea so excited them that they got all mixed up and don’t know which is which. They want you to pick them out and put them in their proper order, so as to show the name of a leading piano. Here is a hint. The catalogues tell all about the famous S6FT-STOP and other patented improvements. For further information come and see HASELTON * DOZIER, Athens; Ga. of inhabitants. That the times are hard no one I in question of location, but in deny, and that the farmer is I to platform and candidate, it bearing the brunt of the battle I ^ 8 8 0in 8 to speak in decided tones, against financial depression every Tariff reform, economy, financial thinking man will admit. The conn- re ^ e *> an< * a 8°°d man to carry these try needs more money with which to measures to victory. That is an out build up into the glow of health its * ine tke Democracy’s true policy. depressed interests, and the masses ...... r 1 MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER- . , . , A pretty item is found in a Trans- tune of the currency i. ncrensed. . p Mre . Jame , Brow0 And when-the ccrrccyrs Increased. PotWr wllo „ n0 . j0 „ , to _ ___ “ d the wards Sonth Africa While .he »» government admtnmtered «Wnoml- Iodlafrom Au , habad oally, the farmer will have a chance show what is in him, and not till minister, who has six grand-mothers, The Council is to be highly com mended for the vigilance it is exer cising in regard to the preservation of | the health of tbe city. That Athens has the best Fire Insur- forty uncles and seventy-five cousins ance Company in the United States. j living and enjoying good health. This That Athens has tbe best Accident is indeed a rare case, and if that boy Insurance Company, for the time it has should ever want to go to congress he then. The accomplishment of this end rill require much labor, toil and pa- to Benares, says this paper, a ven omous snake by some means entered | the carriage. Fixing her eyes— which are beautiful enough to fasci nate the most indifferent to feminine $100 DOLLARS REWARD. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that tbsre ia at least Insurance a gents to be found outside been doing business, in the union. That Athens has the cleverest, mo-'t energetic and accommodating set of one dreaded disease that scieDee has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is of A'lanta. That if anything prevents you from I the only positive care known to the movlc 8 to Athens this spring that you | medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional treatment, Hall’s Ca-| can buy your goods cheaper here than tarrb Cure is taken internally, acting I ““f’ By “H directly upon the blood and mucous 1Iun * our advertising columns, you can | surfaces of the system, thereby destroy- always fin _ , thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and find the place to buy. - That just at this time there is some of ! -n— -- — “““ aubi. juou au tats ;ime mere in some oi Sis ’>« “ io,s ,or , tare in doing Its work. 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