OF
GRAND CLOSING OUT
$25,000, WORTH OF BOOTS & SHOES
In arf Qualities, Widths and Styles, from the finest Hand-made to the Cheapest Machine Sewed.
We m Overstocked and MOST REALIZE THE CASH
For this stock, and in order to do so, we propose to organize a sale for I I
Al
Duripg which time we will sell all this entire stock of
I01S at Actual Manufacturers Cost
This is no Bankrupt Sheriff’s Sale, but a First-Class Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, thkmust.lfe
sold to realize. All goods sold during this sale
No goods booked during this sale except at regular prices, as this
Is being made for the sole purpose of raising money. We give below a
of some of our best goods, which will convince the trade that we mean business.
PRICE LIST, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1892.
Ladies’ Shoes*
Zeigler’s best Dongola, Button, at....... .3
“ Z. B., kid “ at.... ....3
“ “ hand-turned “ at 3
New York City hand-made kid Button, at 3
lland-made French, Button, at 3
“ “ Oxford Ties, at
Woman’s Glove*Grain Bals, at
Call Button, at
“ Dongola, Button, at
“ Genuine Goat Button, at.
“ Oil Grain Polish, at
Veal Calf Polish, at
2
.1
.1
.1
.1
.1
.1
30, worth 4 00
50, worth 4 50
20, worth 4 00
50, " worth 4 50
30, worth' 4 00
50, worth 3; 25
00, worth 1 50
00, worth 1 ‘50
25, worth 2 00
00, worth 1 50
00, wor'h 1 50
00, worth 1 Jfc:
Woman’s Veal Calf Lined Polish, at 1 00, worth 1 25
‘ Kip Polkas at 65, worth 1 00
*’ “ Polish 75, worth 1 00
Men’s Shoes.
Hand-made French Calf Congress at....5 00,
“ “ n “ “ Button at .....5 00,
“ “ “ “ Bal at 5 00,
“ “ Cordivan Congress at.. 3 75,
“ “ “ “ Button at..3 75,
“ “ « “ Bal, ..3 75
“ “ “ Kangaroo Congress at 4 00,
“ “ “ Button,at...3 00,
Jf —“ ife auaTbuJ^qj^ 3 00,
worth'6
worth 6
worth 6
worth 5
worth 5
worth 5
worth 6
worth 5
worth 5
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
i>V:
Hand-made Welt Congress, at. 2
“ “ “ Button at 2
“ “ “ Bal at 2
Men’s Best Quality American Calf at... .2
Men’s Congress, Button and Bals at 2
Men’s 1st quality V. Calf, at .1
Men’s 1st quality P. Calf, at .v.TTTl
Men’s Kip Harvard Ties at. ! 1
50, worth 3 60
50, worth 3 60
60, worth 3 60
00, worth 3 00
00, worth 3 00
25, worth 1 75
25, worth 1 70'^^
5b,~'worth 2 50
Boots! Boots!
Men’s 1st quality, Kip Boots at. 2
“ “ “ I Kip at 1
“ “ “ P Calf ss. at 2
“ “ Calf at .2
00,
50,
50,
50,
worth 2
worth 2
worth 3
worth 3
CHILDREN’S SHOES.—Of all the best makes, in large quantities, io all sizes, widths and at prices never before offered io this city.
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C. W. BALDWIN & CO
MR. JULIUS COHEN takes pleasure in calling the attention of his old friends and patrons to the above sale, and would be glad to wait on them In perso
IT IS NO MINT-
.THOSE WHO EXPECT A FORTUNE
FROM THE DISPENSARY
WILL 11E DISAPPOINTED.
Few Facts In Regard to the Busi
ness of the Dispensary—What Is
Being Done There—The
Quality of Liquor Sold.
When the Athens dispensary es
tablished, a great many citizens at once
lumped to the conclusion that at the
end of the first year there would be ac
cumulated profits to a large amount,
j In other words, they thought that
Witli plenty of. liquor in reach of the
teople, a great deal would
hs consumed and a great profit would
« derived therefrom.
Some thought that money would be
erived through it to pave the streets,
n build a city hall, and the like.
But such will not be the case, and the
leuple w ho have been expecting that
night as well be prepared to be disap-
loiuted.
’1 lie dispensary has been In operation
for lour months, and from the bus-
kess « one in those four months a pretty
ir estimate can be drawn as to what
e year’s business will be.
The commissioners were seen yester-
iy by the Banner reporter and some
foresting facts were obtained concern*
g the workings of the dispensary.
After the four months during which
le dispensary has been established, it
[found that the business is falling off
a considerable degree. The sales for
itober, the opening month ran over
,000, for December were $ 0,500,while
r January they only went to $4,700, a
crease of $1,800 between December
d January. The faot of the business
that the four best moutbB of trade
ve gone, and that the' sales for the
it of the year will not average as high
they have during these four months.
One cause for the reduction of receipts
mug Jan. probably was,the reduction
the price of corn whiskey from thir-
ceuts a pint to twenty-five oents;this
e item making a difference of about
5 i<cr day. At any rate the business
falling off at present aud will not be
[it has been, while the expenses re-
a about the same.
What it has Done,
v’hat has the dispensary done in a
tii ess way since its establishment?
profits for the'four months have
Pn something less than a thousand
Jars per month, and as the averagi
| the remaining months of the year
hardly be that high, it is safe to
I that the profits fur the year will
j exceed ten thousand dollars. They
not reach tha*. mark.
|hat will the city receive from the
Bnsary at the end of the year ? It
be remembered tlmt thedl*,
without capital, aud be
AhtMi
the end of the year, a large part of the
profits will be invested instock paid for
out of the profits made during the
year.
If a profit of ten thousand dollars i>
declared for the first year, about five
thousand dollars will be represented in
stock and the remaining part will be in
cash. These profits, of course, wi.l be
equitably divided between the city and
the county according to a plan to be
agreed upon by the Mayor aud the Or
dinary, but necessarily the city will re
ceive no large amount of money as it
will own the stock on band.
This represents in general terms what
the profits from the dispensary will be
and bow much the city will get from
that source.
How It is Managed.
The question may be asked, why the
profits are not larger? The ans
wer is plain. The bill
allows the commissioner to lay a profit
of 50 per cent on the cost of the liquors
They have laid 50 per cent on the in
voice cost of the stock, but out of this
gross profit must come all expenses,
room-rent, salaries of manager and as
sistants, bott'e*, freight, license, and
other items of expense. Thus tbe net
profit will probaly not exceed twenty-
five per cent. Tbe commissioners have
been to a great deal of expense in tbe
start, which will be materially reduced
in the future.
The Qsallty of Liquors Sold.
There are complaints going the rounds
as to tbe quality of liquors sold at the
dispensary. Of course the dispensary
was not established here unanimously
and there are many who are opposed to
the system, and these reports may be
traced to tha feeling of Opposition still
prevalent to a degree in the commu
nity.
The Banner reporter asked tbe com
missioners in regard to tbe quality of
tbe liquors sold, and they replied th&t
having no earthly interest in selling im
pure liquors to the people, and
in fact put there for exactly
the opposite purpose, they could say
that the stock is of tbe very best quality,
that it is absolutely pure, that when an
invoice of liquors is received a sample is
taken to Prof. H C. White aud his anal -
ysis as to its purity secured before it is
offered lor sale.
The same grade of liquors is sold at
tbe dispensary at cheaper rates than in
any other city in Georgia. There is no
reason for selling.bad liquor aud it is
not sold at the dispensary.
* As to the Profits.
As to the question of profits, the com
missioners are not trying to make a
money-makirg machine out
of the dispensary. They do hot try to
encourage tbe consumption of liquor,
they simply place it where a man can
get it if be wishes, and get a pure qual
ity, t>».
i law on the subject precludes any
f enormous profits when it says:
the dispensary shall be managed in such
a way as to pay its expenses, and any
revenue derived shah be simply an in
cident thereto and not tbe object of the
dispensary.”
The General Result.
There can be no doubt on tbe minds
of Athenians as to tbe good results of
the dispensary. At least this is the tes
timony of a majority of the people. Ac
cording to tbe best evidences to be ob
tained from citizens who have watched
its movements'there is no increase in
the amount of, drunkenness in Athens
and the evils of bar-rooms and blind
tigers have been eradicated.
WAS IT RABID?
SEVERAL PERSONS BITTEN BY
DOG OR DOGS.
LITTLE FRED SLaGRAVES,
a Banner Carrier, one of the Victims—
His Severe Wounas—The Dog
may or may not . Have
Been mad.
TO ADVERTISE ATHENS
Mr. Jesse Gantt Will Give the City a
Write up.
Mr. JesseT. Gantt, son of Col. T. L.
Gantt, of Oconee county, is in tbe city
in the in'erestof tbe “Mining and Man
ufacturing South,” a paner published
in Atlanta.
The paper is a monthly sheet and is
devoted to the upbuilding of tbe inters
eats of Georgia and the South. It is
owned by Messrs. Krouse and McBride,
of Atlanta, and Mr. Gantt.
Tbe object of Mr. Gantt’s visit to
Athens is to secure advertisements of
the city’8 industries, aud to give the
city an illustrated write up.
Several prominent Athenians will
write for the paper, and it will be edit
ed by Gol. T. L. Ganttfrom his borne in
Watkinsville.
The first issue will appear March 1st,
and it will be a handsome sheet Mr.
Gantt will pay close attention to his pa
per and make it a good one.
Monday night about 10 o’clock ft was
reported on the streets that a negro boy
had been bitten by .a mad dog, bat be
fore the truth of the report could be as
certained, he had gone home, and his
name could not be learned. 'There were
some doubts expressed at that time as
to whether he was bitten by a mad dog;
but,there was no doubt but that he had
been bitten.
Yesterday morning about 6 o’clock as
little Fred Seagraves, one of the Ban
ner carriers was going out South Jack-
son street on his round with his papers,
he was encountered by a dog and badly
bitten. He was accompanied by John
nie Vickers, who also received a scratch
wound, but was not hurt to any extent.
The wonnd of Seagraves was a very
ugly qne and Dr. Benedict was called to
examine the extent of the wonnd.
A large ohunk of
ing eaten a biscuit containing powdered
glass put out by some one to poison
dogs. It is to be hoped that the dog
was not rabid and the little boy will ra
pidly recover from his painful injury.
Meanwhile, let the dog law be strict
ly enforced,let them either be kept from
the streets, muzzled or killed,
A CLEVELAND CLUB
To be Orgnnlzed In Athens at an Early
Date.
In a few dayB a Cleveland Club will be
organized in the oity. Mr. F. M. Hughes
aud other young gentlemen are taking
an active interest in the matter, and a
strong club will doubtless be organized.
Mr. Hughes says that Grover Cleveland
has made the best President the United
States has had since Jefferson, is a sound
democrat, and the choice of his party*
therefore he should be the nominee of
the party.
D. B. Hill has a strong following in
Athens also, and a Hill Club will doubt,
less be instituted shortly.
HAUSER’S DEATH.
Sensational Developments In the Ni
hilist’s Demise.
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.
The Session to be Held at the Court
House February 27th.
As will be seen from a card in anoth
er oommn, from Rev. H R. Bernard,
county school commissioner,all teachers
in tbe county, (white and oolored) are
flesh require'! to attend the session of the
was torn from the calf of life leg. The Teachers County Institute, to be held at
FIXED PRINCIPLES.
We admire the spirit of . a man who
says a thing and means it, who cannot
be moved from fixed principles. We
admire the man who recognizes that
business must be conducted on honest
and just principles. We admire a man
who not only makes a reputation but a
character. We admire the man (and
the women tool who buy their dia
monds, silverware and jewelry from
Skiff the Jeweler, because be conducts
his business on honest and just princi
ples.
THE GREEN UOODS MEN
Have Been After Many Athenian Citi
zens.
Tbe green goods men have been after
a great many citizens of Athens.
The article in yesterday’s Banner
brought out tbe news of various instan
ces of the same kind that have occurred
recently in Athens, and quite a number
of geutlemen exposed a desire to be
able to get tbe scoundrels iu their power
and give them a sound thrashing
One citizen says he would give twen
ty-five dollars to catch up with one of
these rascals and hopes that some good
ci'izen will reply to their telegrams, go
and see them face to face, and torn them
over to jus;ice.
That Is easily said,but the experience
of those who have tried this has usually
; being the purpose of this act that I been failure
wound was dressed and the little boy
carried to his home on Herring street
in East Athens.
At first no one thought of it being the
bite of a mad do*, though the cur that
did the biting showed some little evi
dence of hydrophobia, suoh as frothing
at the mouth. It is said by some that a
rabid dog will not bark, and both young
Vickers and Seagraves Bay that this one
barked and growled before inflicting
the painful wound.
Later in the morning Mrs. W. B.
Hosey was attacked by a dog at her
home on Herring street, but sustained
bat little ’injury from the bite. Mr.
Charlie Williams killed the dog. It was
a tan colored hound, and the descrip
tion given by the little boys of the dog
that attacked thorn tallied with his ap
pearances, except they said that the
dog that encountered them bad a leath
er color around nis neck. This one did
not, so it must-have been a different
dog.
Dr. Benedict was seen in regard to
Fred Seagraves’ injuries. He said that
while the wound was necessarily pain
ful, it was not likely to prove fatal. He
did not think the dog bad hydrophobia,
as it. was hardly pr ;bable .that dogs
would be thn attacked at this season of
the year; such is not impossible, how
ever. ' •' '
Tbe question as to whether the same
dog attacked all these parties is doubt
ful. Some think it wa3; others that it
was not, or else how did the collar get
from his neck. Others advance the
theory that the dog,was not rabid at
all. but was raging with pain from hav-
the court house in thiB city, Saturday,
Febrnaiy 27th, beginning at 9 o’clock
a. m. This call is made in obedience to
instructions f/rm the State schoq) com
missioner / /
NOT
But Will Make the Race If the People
Want Him,
“Col. Gantt has made no formal an
nouncement of his intention to . make
the race for the congressional seat from
this district,” said a citizen of Oconee
county yesterday. “But if the people
signify their wishes to have him repre
sent them in Congress, he will enter
the lists and make things lively too.”
San Antonia, Tex., Feb. 9.—The
mysterious death here of the world-
hunted nihilist, Padlewski, continues
to be a sensation, and fresh interest is
aroused as link by link a chain of evi
dence is established showing that the
assassin of General Silieverskofi, in
stead of being a suicide, was a victim of
czar’s veugence. „
He was found dead in a public park
one morning with one bullet hole in his
head. It was supposed he committeed
suicide, and the coroner’s verdict was to
that effect. Later inquiry revealed that
the wound in Padlewsky’s head was in
flicted by a bullet of larger caliber than
that of the revolver found on him.
Besides this, secret papers which he
was known to carry and never showed,
were missing when his body was found,
as were subsequently the official papers
concerning his death, which were evi
dently stolen from the district clerk’s
office. These facts, together with the
knowledge that detectives were on the
trail of Padlewski, or Otto Hauser, as
he called himself in Texas, lead the
Polish nihilists here to believe conclu
sively that Padlewski was murdered by
detectives for the reward offered by the
Russian government for his apprehen
sion, dead or alive. Attorney James L
Wilson of Galveston, was here several
days ago investigating the case, and had
hauser’s remains exhumed for the pur
pose of identification.
Wilson refused to make known his
business, but it has since been learned
that he is the father-in-law of the Rus
sian consul at Galveston. It is pre-
ed that his investigation was made at
the instance of the consul, representing
czar’s government.
Whether the identity of Padlewski’s
remains by the Russian government is
sought as corroborative proof in con-
{ motion with the reward, or otherwise,
] is a matter of conjecture, while in the
* AM A fs « n a«*.#1 amS aL A 4* fL AWA Ifl
A COFFIN FOUND
IN THE WATERS OF THE OCONEE
RIVER,
TWO BOYS DISCOVERED IT.
lit Waa
The Lid Has Disappeared and It Was
Empty—Had It Ever Contained
the Body of a Human
Being?
A ghastly find it was.
Yesterday afternoon, two small white
boys, Frank Saye and Tobe Watkins,
were playing on tbe banks of the Oco
nee near the Georgia rail
road trestle, when their attention
was attracted to what seemed to be a
small boat that bad drifted against the
bridge.
They hauled it out of the water, when
to their horror they found it to be a
coffin.
It was not long before several had gath
ered around to view the coffin. It was a
small coffin, evidently that of an infant,
and was painted on the outside a dull
red color.
The lid of the coffin had disappeared,
but the evidences of a lid having been
there were present.
There is no idea as to where the coffin
come from or who put it in the river.
The whole affair is shrouded in a mys
tery.
Back of it all there may be some joke
or it may he that some little child has
been sunk in tbe waters of the Oconee
by an inhuman parent.
Farmers* Alliance Resolution.
CAETH'GE, Ills., Feb. 10.—The Han
cock Fan. jrs’ Alliance has closed a two
days’ secret session here, and passed a
cumber of peppery resolutions, among
which was one favoring the free and
unlimited coinage of dollars of the pres
ent standard ; these gold and silver dol
lars to be equivalent to legal tender
units of account in the United States.
, meantime it is evident that there is
' much in this mysterious affair that has
not yet come to light, and develop
ments are awaited with
much anxiety by a ' local
colony of Polish nihilists, several hun
dred strong. Local officials are non
plussed Since Hauser’s death letters of
his have been found establishing furth
er his identity and connection with - the
nihilists of the old country, both in
Poland and France.
To Join the Little Tycoon.
Springfield, O., Feb. 10.—Mrs. Cora
Stephenson Cohan, acknowledged to bo
the handsomest lady in the city, leaves
next Thursday for Atlanta, Ga., where
she will join the Little Tycoon Opera
Company. She is an accomplished mu-
sioian. the owner of a sweet voice and
the wife of John Cohan, the popular
saloonist.
.ikAfla CnatAfla
ma
Mixed paints, all colors, linseed oil,
varnishes, paintbrushes, etc., at Pal
mer & Kinnebrew’s 105 Clayton street,
opposite post office. |
Joseph Manley Don’t Know.
Boston, Feb. 10.—Joseph H. Manley,
Mr. Blaine’s old first lientenant,was seen
at Young’s Hotel where he is sojourn
ing, but he refused absolutely to say
any thing on the subject of Mr. Blaine’s
withdrawal from the Presidental con
test.-
Commonplace Death of a Hero.
Bhaxoein, Pa., Feb. 10.—James D.
Thomas, the only survivor of the awful
Fernandale S. W. colliery disaster of
1887, in which eighty-one men were
killed, has jnst died.
It is not what its proprietors siv, but
wh«t Hood’s Sarsaparilla does, that
makes it sell, and wins the confidence of
the people.
TOUCHED HIS HEART.
m
A Message caused Judge Newman to
Let Him Go.
Atlanta, Feb, 9.—W. H. Collins, a
moonshiner confined in the Fulton
county jail received a sad message by
telegraph from his home in the moun
tains. it told him that his wife had
been speechless for three days, and was
not expected to live. The poor fellow
was all broke up on the receipt of this
sad intelligence. He was in jail, under
sentence, and could not get to his wife’s
bedside without the permission of the
United States Judge. Tearfully he
sought the jailer. “I must see my wife
before she dies,” said he, in broken,
stuttering, pained accents. “I must see
her once more. It would be horrible to
stay locked np here, not far from her,
and her die and be buried without .me
ever seeing her.”
There was li tie hope, it seem3, for
the poor moon -biner to see his. wife.
There was yet teu days to spend in the
jail before he could go free. Jailor
Miller, however, telephoned to Judge
Newman and informed him of t e facts.M^^^
An hour later a bailiff came down to ...
the jail for Collins and carried him t»> f
Judge Newman’s office. The poor fel
low told his story, and when it was done
the judge wrote a complete discharge
for Collins. vjj&jf
“You may go to your wife,” said he,
“but I hope you will find her much tet
ter when you get there.”
The words of thanks and sobs that
rose in the poor fellow’s throat choked
him, and rendered speech impossible,
and on the first train he sped away “*
the bedside of his wife.
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