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Bradstreet and Dun See Signs of
Brighter Times.
THEIB WEEKLY OBSERVATIONS.
An Increased Volume off Trade Stimulated
fcy a Much Easier Money Market,
i A Noteworthy Gain in the
DAVISON
LOWE’S
■BBB’SSBBH
Industrial Pursuits.
New York, Sept. 9.—Braffstreet’s
agency in a review of the past week’s
business says:
The third successive week of improv
ing financial conditions followed by a
stimulation of demand for staple arti
cles at many points has practically satis
fied the commercial and industrial com
munities that the change for the better
is a result of improved conditions, and
that tho movement will prove continu
ous. The last of the premium on cur
rency has finally disappeared a^d the
tendency of bank deposits to increase,
pointed out a week ago, has become
general and pronounced. At nearly all
the larger financial centers funds are
more easily obtainable, though in a few
Instances at lower rates of interest or
discount. The fall in rates of domestic
exchange was widespread, and very lit
tle that is abnormal remains.
A careful examination of detailed tel
egraphic reports of the state of trade to
Bradstreet's makes it plain that easier
money has stimulated an increase of vol
ume of trade, but that tho improvement
In the financial situation has rarely been
greater than commercially. Industrially
the gain is noteworthy, so many mills
and factories have started up within two
weeks. New England cotton and woolen
mills remain very generally idlo, and tne
outlook is for lower wages in the former.
Evidences of reviving trade have appar
ently increased the demand of eastern
jobbers for dry goods and hardware.
Western holders of pig iron are said to
be asking an advance, but this is offset
by the lowest prices on record in some
tune.
Cotton and wheat receipts continue
very low. Advices from all directions
report very slow mercantile collections.
The most rapid gains in distribution of
merchandise are found along the Oliio
and Mississippi river valley. More mon
ey is being loaned at Richmond, and
there is a slight improvement in the vol
ume of trade. But there is no great
gain at Charleston, where meats and
rice are much higher, the crop of the
latter having been damaged 5 per cent.
At Atlanta the effects of easier money
and the growth of confidence are shown
in more activity in commercial and in
dustrial lines. Savannah reports a re
tarded movement of cotton, but better
prices and good demand for naval stores.
The New York banks offering to send
the funds needed to move cotton had an
enlivening effect on trade at Augusta,
where cotton goods and industries an
nounce a better demand.
The resumption of recently suspended
banks at Nashville has inspired confi
dence and more travelers are out from
that city, and more goods are being sold
by merchants there.
A better business is reported from
Memphis and a fair fall trade is coufi-
FALL. AND WINTER
COMMENCES; MONDAY,SEPT
GOOD
II.
Special .Rons in Every Department. Best Values Ever Offered in the Sot
SPECIAL RUN.
2,000 yards Best Prints Be, worth 7c.
1,600 yards Good Ginghams 6jc, worth 8c
2,000 yards best Ginghams Sir, worth 10c
1,000 yards best outing cloth 81c, worth
121 cents.
Cheveron Suitings 84c,
2,000 yards
worth 15c.
2,000 yards Epengline Suitings, 10c,
worth 12}c.
1,600, yards Black Satten, 8Jc, worth
lfi cents.
1.000 yards White and Black Sattens,
81c worth 15 cents.
BOO yards Moleskin Shirting, 84,c worth
124c.
750 yards Fine Madras Shirtings, 84c,
worth 15c.
805 yards Check Muslins, 5c, worth 8c.
400 yards Check Muslins, 6£c, worth 9c.
678 yards Check Muslins, 71c, worth 10c-
500 yards Check Muslins, 124c, worth 20c
450 yards Check Muslins, 15c worth 25c.
5,000 yards White Lawns, 5, 6i, 8, 10,
124 and 15 ctntp, worth double.
1,000 yards good Canton Flannel, sells
everywhere at 10c
1.50C yards Canton Flannel, 7c worth
124 cents.
1,800 yards Canton Flannel, 124c worth
15 cents.
1,000 yards good Sea Island, 6c.
350 yards 10-4 Sheeting, 15c.
1,000 yards 4-4 Bleaching, splendid qual
ity, 8c.
2,000 yards 4-4 ex'ra qua'.ity Bleaching,
10c woith 124c.
800 yards 4 4 Cambric, 15c worth 12}c.
Cotton Checks, 5c.
Brown Shirting, 5c.
Heavy Wool Jeans, 25, 334 and 45c,
worth 25 per cent. more.
Casimers, full line for men and boys.
FOR MEN.
We have ju9t received an Elegant line of
Imported Suitings in Suit and Pants pat
terns, French, English, Irish and Scotch
Cussimeis. We can save you from $2 00
to $5 00 on pants patterns and from $5 00
to $10 00 on suit patterns.
NOVELTIES.
25 pieces French and Scotch Flannel
Novelties, Eiderdowns In plain, and fancy
for children’s and ladies’ Jackets and
Cloaks.
LACE CURTAINS.
We closed out a Bargain lot of 500
pairs Lace Curtains, they will be on salt
this week at half their real value.
New Line Portieres for windows and
hails
Njw Shades Good Floor Oilcloth, 35c
per yard.
DRESS GOODS.
This stock is far ahead of any ever ex
lnbited in Athens. We have some of the
best and cheapest things in the mark-t:
SPECIAL RUN.
10 pieces Camels Hair Suitings, grays
and browns. 24c worth 43c.
26 pieces Fancy Suitings 24c, all shade?;
10 piecesWaffteWeave Suititg- 1* yards
wide, 5 yards for $1 95 worth double;
5 pieces Check Suitings 14 yards will.-,
49c worth 85e;
1,000 yn-la Wool Tr*cot H yards wide.
27ic, $1 35 for dress patterns worth double;
25c COUNTER.
50 pieces assorted Dress Goods choice
for 26c worth from 40c to 75c;
NEW WEAVES AND
COLORINGS.
Di igonals, Waffle Weave Dimity eflec's,
Facjd Brocade Woolen Novelties,
Hop Sickings, Ladies Cloths, Habit Cloths,
Silk finish Serges and Henriettas;
Evening Shades in Henriettas; Light
Blue, Pink, Canary, Nil", Lilac, White and
Cream;
BLACK GOODS.
We have a great stock of the best French
and German makes, S.lk Warp and Silk
finish Hemi' ttas, Serges, Diagonals, Muin-
mv Cloths, Ladies Cloths, DeAlmas and
Rips;
SPfiCI^L:—200 yauls Extra flue 19
twill Lustrous Black Silk Warp Henrietta
$1 25, can’t be matched for less lhau $1 50
500 yards 40 inch all wool Henrietta and
Serges 49c, good as you get elsewhere at
05 cents;
SPECIAL.
95c
201 yards 01 ck Armure Pure Silk
worth $1 25;
350 yards Sa in Duches $126, worth
$1 50;
Satin R' adaours, all Silk, 75c, $1 and
$1 25;
EVENING SILKS.
I > India China and Lansdown, both
plain and fancy Wedding Gowns a spec
ialty;
SPECIAL.
SILKS.
Ail the new things ia Saun Faced goods;
Real Satin Duchess all Silk;
Real Sitin Rbadamers.all Silk;all shades
including White and Cream;
Full Line Plain Satins and Black Silks;
159 Child’s Reefers, all wool, nicely
trimmed, 98^, worth $1 60;
200 better grade $1 25, worth $2 60;
No-? is the time to buy School Jackets.
We have just received a sample lot of
over 500 Childrens. Misses and Ladies
R efera, Bl ztb, Jerseys, Jackets and
Capes. On sale this week at one-half
their real value—a look means a sale.
A BARGAIN.
60 Ladies Eton Suits, fine Diagonals,
$2 75, worth doublf;
75 I’K zer Suits $2 59, worth double;
It 0 Bolero Jackets $1 49, worth double;
Handsomely embroidered in Silk and
Gilt, deeorsted with Silk and Gilt Balls,
Garments manufactured to sell for $5 00
and $6 t>0, choice this week $1 49,
lot) Ladies Colored Skirts 49c, worth 75
100 Skirts 65c worth $1 00;
60 Ladies New Style Capes, light weight,
for Fall and Spring wear $3 50 and $4 50,
worth double;
HANDKERCHIEFS.
SPECIAL-
200 Lidies Silk Initial {Handkerchiefs,
all colors 19c, wo’t'i 37;
100 dczsii Lrdies Pure Lmeu Hem
stitched 10c;
35 dozen Ladies Pure Linen Hem Em
broidered in colors 15 j, worth double. -
50 jg >z-n Ladie« W tit' II -m E nbnid-
eaflWure Lintn Irish m ke25c; can’t b
unSHihed fur l«“s thin 50c;
100 Ladies C)! >:el H :oi from 4.t te 15c,
splendid values;,
GENTS—
Fine Cambric White and Colored II m,
8, 10,12)^ and 15c.
B st lice G ml. Liien H n.lktrchiefs in
Athens;
z00 cozen Children’s Sjhool llandktr-
chiefs;
SPECIALS.
100 doz-n flue Lace Pins, with lovely
stone settings 10c, well wor'h 25c:
100 d. zen Rubber and Metal Hair I in*
and Ornaments::
200 Bandos from 5 to 253 1 ac'i;
500 Windsor TVs, extra siz-% lovely
Checks, Strip 9 and PI aids 2oc; no such
value ev,.r offered in A'lcar;
250 Plaid Ties, pretty Plaids and Stripes
18c. worth 25-
300 Wi-Uoor T.es, pretty styles 5 ■, worth
double,
GLOVES.
All the new styles and shndings in
Shopping, Driving, Street, Dres9 and
Ev-ning Gloves;
500 pairs R*lKidT5:
worth $1 25. Every
i G
O'ttj
300 pairs Bints S Dutton‘2
shades, 96c, worth ji 03. Mr W.
HOSIERY.
100 d< zan Ladies Fast Black 11
worth 15c; U( *l
100 dozen Ladh F,„ n, Jct
st atus 15c worth 25"; M
Our 25c, 334c and 493 eU(ij .
equal in the market;
100 Dozen Ribbed
boys and gitls school hose, 01.1, Z
100 Heavy Ribbed,nns-junst,.,.
18c, worth 25c; ’ 18
Our lire of Royal Seattle# f 0:i ,
small children and school cbil! rta t ,
and 33c, can’t be matched in A’i erv '
Full line Ladies Exira Sizes:
gan and Fast Black, both phi, l3if
lined:
New Umbrellas: Special !„i tulJ(
use;
New lot Rubber Gossimers;
New lot Table Linens;
New lot T iwels and Napkins;
New lot Lhcjs and Euibroidtriei:
New lot White G irate, Fine Cay
i.awr s, Nainsooks and Dimities;
100 aozen Val. Lac. s 20c di-z.-c;
Ammonia best . treng'h, 8:;
Buttermilk Soap, 10:;
P ar’s Soap, 11c;
Good Pins, 4c:
Good Needlts, lo;
Best Needles, 5r;
500 yd Spool Bas ing Colton,4c.
SHE AS THERE. J he looked up to the box oontamiilg the j
I presidential p :rty when the report rang 1
MRS.
dently expected. The volume of mer
chandise distributee! from Mobile is lar-
ABOUT HR, LINCOLN'S DENTIL
per, but receipts of cotton there are un-
“ "Kbt.
expectedly light. Relatively less rain is
reported from Birmingham and New
Orleans states that the business is more
brisk. Rice is short and higher in price.
Sugar prospects in Louisiana are excel
lent, but is for further gains.
Farmers in southern Texas are holding
cotton, which is reported by Galveston
to restrict collections somewhat.
. R. G. Dun & Co. says:
Wliile the money markets have greatly
improved, they are yet far from the nor
mal condition, and the crops are in
doubt. The monetary situation has
changed but little, for there has been
abundance of money, and only confidence
In employing it is lacking.
Failures for the week have been only
823 in unmber against 885 last week and
480 for the week preceding, and 25 in
Canada against 33 for the same week
last year. While one large mortgage
Company swells the aggregate of liabili
ties for the week, the average of the
other failures was lower than usual, 202
being for less than $5,000 each, and only
(our over $100,000 each.
She is one of the Surviving
Three Members of the Cast
—An Interesting Story.
Major Schreiner Missing.
; Chicago, Sept. 9.—Major Schreiner,
In charge of the United States govern
ment postal exhibit at the World’s Fair,
h&3 been missing since last Monday. His
friends now believe tiiat he has met with
on accident. He had between $300 and
$400 when he left his home. He was
dressed stylishly and wore several pieces
"of jewelry of a sufficient value to attract
the attention of robbers. Major Schrei-
Met has served 20 years in the United
8tates army. About two years ago he
retired on a pension and has since lived
In 'Washington.
Ball Fight* or Hloud.
• Paris, Sept. 9.—The whole district
round the summer resort Biarritz, on the
Bay of Biscay, has been roused by the
report that the government will suppress
btul fighting in France. Bulls have been
bought and toreadors engaged for a fight
Sept. 17 in Bayonne, five miles from Bi
arritz, and if the government interferes
there will be a riot. The government is
■between two fires. The president of tho
Society for the'Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals has already given notice that it
will prosecute Premier Dupuy for per
mitting the recent Imll fights "in Dax,
hear Bayonne.
A Supposed Lynching in Murray.
DaIton, Ga„ Sept. 9.—White Caps
Visited Spring Place, Murray county
Thursday night, after a negro suspected
Of burning the barn Of E'arvey Ellis,
Jjh6 lives one mile from Spring Place.
They got the negro, and the last seen of
him they were leading him out of town
^ith a rope around his neck. Nothing
toas seen or heard of the negro since.
Murray county people in town say they
suppose he was lynched.
Another Confidential Man Gone.
(SSlCxco, Sept. 9.—Robert McEveiy,
a bookkeeper at the Merchants’ National
S ik, is iuisfdng. It is reported that he
bezzled $25,000, four-fifths of which
he was blackmailed out of by a fellow
clerk with whom he lost comparatively
small sums at the races.
Some of the people of the first ward
mention the names of Messrs. J. H,
Me&lor and J. B. Coob as suitable can
didates for Aldermen. The municipal
question is attracting the attention of
ill parts of the city now.
———-
EVANS, OF THE
COMPANY, TA T KS
“ZEB”
One of r,->e three surviving members
of the ccmp .ny playing at Ford’s The
atre on the night of the assassination of
President Lincoln is in Louisville this
week.
Between the second and third aots of
Z3b,” the quaint Hoosier comedy
which has been making a bit at the Bi-
u since Monday, a reporter for The
Times had an interview with Mrs. J. H.
Evans, who appears on the programme
as “Katheryn Evans,” and plays the
part of the old maid who never bad a
beau On the fatal night at Ford’s The
atre Mrs. Evans, then a young actress
was in the cast, and rushing out upon
the stage after the shot was fired, wit
nessed the subsequent exciting events.
Her husband was afterward arrested for
complicity in the crime on account of
the faot that the two bad been together
a short time on the day of the shooting.
Evans was released upon proving his
innooenue.
“Everyone knows, of course, that up
on the night President Lincoln was
killed, Laura Keene was starring in
Our American Cousin’ in Ford’s The-
tre," said Mrs. Evans. “There were
twenty members of the company, only
two of whom are now living beside my
self. These are Harry Hawk, the com
edian, who was the Asa Trenchard to
Miss Keene’s Florenoe Trenchaid that
night, and who is still upon the stage,
but where I do not know. The other
survivor of the company is W. J. Fer
guson, who is now with Mansfield’s
company at the Madison Square, New
York oity.
“I was living in Washington City at
that time, on E street, with my hus-
band, J. H. Evans, and Harry Hawks
roomed at our house, which was but a
few doors from Ford’s Theatre. My
character that night of the awful trag
edy was Mrs. Sharp, a housekeeper.
Booth, the assassin, was a frequenter
around the theatres, and being a mem
ber of the profession, had the entreto
the theatre at all times. Upon the
tragic night which will ever live in his
tory on account of his mad sot, we had
not seen Booth around the theatre, and
none of ns knew or thought anything
about him until during the third act,
while Harry Hawks was alone on the
stage and we were all in our dressing
rooms, the pistol shot was heard and
we all rushed upon the stage. Mrs.
Lincoln was holding the drooping head
of her husband between her hands and
oalling for help.
“We did not see Booth jump upon
the stage, nor did we see him afterward.
Harry Hawk, as I said before, was the
only member of the company on the
through the bouse he saw Booth spring
upon the edge of the box and down up-'
on the stage with a glistening knife in
his hand.
“For reasons which were known only
to a few of us in the company, Hawk
thought Booth was about to carry out a
threat he bad made several days before
to take his life, and he turned and ran
from the stage just as Booth jumped np
from where he had fallen and limped cil
with his leg broken. It was on account
of Hawk’s running from tho ttage and
concealing himself in his dressing-room
that people were cor fu?ed os to where
Booth had gone, and waited to search
Hawk’s room before they were put on
the right track.
In the meantime B 30th bad secured a
good start on his horse, which was wait
ing for him at the door, and Hawk was
arrested as a conspirator. Two or three
days before the tragedy, Hawk and
Booth, who bad always been almost in
separable, bad a quarrel over a young
lady upon whom they were both oall
ing, and Booth told Hawk that if he
ever called upon her again he would
run a knife through him Hawk had
called upon the young lady the previous
evening, and when he saw Booth stand
ing on the edge of the box with a knife
in his hand and a maniacal glare in his
eyes, and jumped towards him, he
naturally feared for bis life and fl*3.
“It chanced that this circumstance
aided greatly in prompting Booth’s
escape, and Hawk was therefore accused
of being a conspirator in the plot and
came near being murdered a dezen
times. My husband, J. H Evans, was
well acquainted with Bqotb, and on
the same evening that the shooting 00-
curred, was with him for a short time.
On account of this faot he was placed
under arrest, but was released shortly
afterwards. He noticed nothing wrong
with Booth at that time, and he was
orazy, he was only crazy upon that one
subject. While my husband was with
him he was lively, and a social glass
was taken by them before the separated.
“The scenes that followed that shot
were awful and beyond description.
The question of the assassin’s where
abouts was the principal object of in
terest following Mr. Lincoln’s death,
and the police, United States cavalry
and detectives were engaged in a vigo
rous and oonfoBed search. Hawk, who,
as I said, was at first supposed to be an
accomplice, having his room at our
honse, it was searohed, from garret to
cellar, upon the remote possibility that
Booth was concealed somewhere under
the roof. Walls were sounded, the
bedding pierced through a’d through
with swords and bayonet*, tbe tranks
and wardrobes broken epan and
searched and every possible place of
concealment pried into. The sonnd of
g.Hoping hoofs outside the door, as
messengers rushed to and fro, for
months afterwards that any degree of
quiet and order was restored.
H Nowyon mast excase me,” said
Mrs. Evans, adjusting a early wig be
fore the looking-glass and rubbing on a
little more powder. “I have told yon
all about the awfnl night. I wish I
could blot it ont of my memory.”
BABY RUTH’S SISTER.
President Cleveland the Proud
Father of Another Girl.
B0EN SATURDAY, SEFILLiBER 9.
Slid 1* tli« Third Child Horn in tin: White
House, hut the First liver Horn to
a President — Many Con-
gross*! cn Congratulate.
Washington, Sept. 9.—The prepara
tions at the White House were not in
vain. At 12:30 o’clock another daughter
was Lorn to President and Mrs. Cleve
land at the White House.
Tho mother and daughter are both
doing well. There is much pleasant ex
citement in the city. The new3 was
promptly telegraphed to the capital,
where the senate was in session. Imme
diately thereafter the senators, who had
been engrossed in finance, retired to the
cloak rooms to discuss the event.
Senators Palmer, Mills and many inti
mate friends of the executive went to
the White House to carry their congrat
ulations.
This is the tliird child bom in the
White House. The first was Captain
Hall Walker, now of Montgomery, Ala.,
whose father wfts private secretary to
President Polk.
The second was Miss Letitia Tyler,
also of Montgomery, but wVo is now in
the government service in Washington.
Her mother was • on a visit to her
grandfather, President- Tyler, at the
time of her birth.
Baby Ruth’s little sister is, however,
the first child ever bora to to a president
in the White House.
$1,112,091,198 outstanding in United
Slates notes, treasury notes, national
bank notes, gold and silver certificates
and currency certificates, divided as
follows:
$1 bills, $39,866,353; $2,31,190,255; $5,
$233,387,809; $10. $312,034, ICC; $20, $239,-
587.480; $50. $45,097,105; $100, $75,829,-
170; $500, $20,142,000; $1,000, $45,441,-
500; $5,000, $14,875,000; $10,000, $84,-
640,000.
Franco Will Fenil u Delegation*
Nhw York, Sept. 9.—France alono
among foreign nations, sends to the
World's Fair representatives of her lalsjr
unions. Forty-nine delegates will arrive
on La Gascogne. The French govern
ment has appropriated' 150,000 francs to
defray their expenses.
Two Men Killed at a Crossing.
Philadelphia, Sept. 9.—Fred Nus-
pichel and Fred Stone were killed wliile
crossing tho Pennsylvania railroad at
Hart lane in a carriage by a fast freight
train. The carriage was smashed. The
horse escaped with a few scratches.
The Hay In Congress.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Tho honse,
after the transaction of some unimport
ant routine business, at 12:30, adjourned
till Monday.
In the Senate.
Tho resolution in reference to the na
tional banks of New York, Philadelphia
and Boston, to their reserves, and to
their refusal to pay checks of depositors
in currency, which was offered by Mr.
Peffer, was laid before the senate and its
author addressed the senate on the sub
ject.
T# R. Gibsons Lack*
T. R. Gibson, editor of tho Augusta,
Ga., News, was tendered, by wire, a
good consulate. He has liis choice of
three good places, and as soon as his se
lection is made it ia believed his appoint
ment will be announced.
Who Wiil Succeed Quincy?
Washington, Sept. 9.—The news of
Mr. Quincy’s resignation has started
innch gossip regarding his probable suc
cessor. There is a strong impression
that the post will be offered^to ex-Con-
gressman Andrew of Massachusetts. Mr.
Andrew was a member of the foreign
committee of the honse, and is familiar
with the routine of the state department.
He is rich, and can afford to accept a
poet which, though highly honorable,
pays the incumbent only $3,500 a year,
in spite of the fact that he is frequently
called upon to act as secretary of state.
Our Currency Circulation.
Washington, Sept. 0.—An official
treasury statement shows that there is
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED.
Rio Do Janeiro Threatened with Bom
bardment by tho Revolutionist*.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Martial law
has been declared in Rio De Janeiro,
and the city may lie bombarded by the
revolutionists’ navy. Word to this ef
fect was received at the state depart
ment at noon, from United States Minu
ter Thompson, stationed at Rio Dc Jan
eiro.
Tho state department at once commu
nicated with the navy department with
a view to finding out what United State*
vessels were available to the scene of the
disturbance to*protect American inter
ests.
A Startling Discovery.
Arkansas City, Kan., Sept. 9.—The
secretary of the interior is reported to
have discovered, too late for the infor
mation to be of practical value, that the
arrangements for the grand rush in the
Cherokee strip are without waxrant of
law. Commissioner Lombreaux, the
land officer, in a letter to a resident of
this city, admits the nre-emption laws
are repealed and that the entries should
be made under Homestead law only.
A Settlement in Sight.
Louisville, Sept. 9.—A settlement
of tho trouble between the Louisville
and Nashville strike is almost certain
within the next few days. The shops
will open again within a week. The
strikers have referred their side to a
committee, who will act for them and
consult the officers of the company and
arrange an agreement for a basis of
wages, upon which tbe men will start to
work again.
A Railroad’s Liberality*
Augusta, Gl., Sept. 9.—The Port
Royal and Augusta Railroad hah repair
ed all damage to tho road caused by the
storm, and all trains are now running
on schedule time. The Louisville and
Nashville road will handle free of charge
shipments of donated supplies for the
storm sufferers on the South Atlantic
coast.
In talking with some of our friends
from the country yesterday, they ex
pressed the fear that the rains of the
last few days would damage cotton
gaeatly, as so much of it is open.
Mrs. H. T. Rogers, who has been
down with fever for such a long time
is slowing improving, and with care it
is hoped she may soon be restored to
complete health,
LETTER FROM MR. SKIFF.
He Announce as a Candidate fot May
or and a Oi l y Clock.
WE HAVE THE Bl
ASSORTMENT OF I
Williamsburg, Mass , Sept 6, ’93.
Editor AthkN3 Banner
Economy is needed in every place
and by every person. These ha: d and
dull times demand it, and where more
should it be practiced than ia Athens
Lwlt just now at the financial condi
tiou of the city, every nerve and means
that could be lawfully reached has been
brought upon the people by taxation
to meet its expenses which has of late
accrued. From whence comes to the
city these extra expenses ? It is not
economy that has done it.can plainly be
seen by those who have contributed by
specific taxation and other ways for the
support of these unnecessary expenses.
Now is the time to turn over a new
leaf, just on the eve of the municipal
election, by selecting the right kind of
men to fill the chairs that will be va
cated by those whose term of cilice soon
expires.
It is not the fluent speaker,the smooth
talker, nor the button hole nuisance
sort of men that is wanted for Mayor
or Alderman, but the ones that will
pull off their coats and go to work fur
the good of the city and citizens prac
ticing economy in every possible way
it can b8 done.
Such men can be found that are
ready to serve the city, and that with
less salary than the present officers,and
some of the employes are now receiv
ing.
Let the good people of Athens, one
and all, be economioal. The oondition
of the country asks for it, your own
situation requires it, the financial state
of the oity you live in demands it and
it is your duty as citizens to work for
its adoption and now is the time.
There are towns in this section nearly
as large as the city of Athens that is
governed by three selectmen, at a year
ly salary of two hundred dollars each.
The clerk and treasurer also receives
two hundred, tax collector about the
Same. They appropriate largely for
schools, have good sidewalks, paved
streets, water works, a town clock and
other improvements as a oity and taxes
twenty per cent, at least less than in
Athens. Thoy believe in economy and
are practiciag it.
There have been numerous names men
tioned for Mayor of Athens, but as yet
have seen no announcements, and Mr.
Editor, you will please publish the en
closed announcement in the column
you reserve for that purpose. If, by
chare', it should be the first one the
others will follow like a flock of sheep,
if one jumps over the wall the others
are sure to go. After due considera
tion I think myself justifiable in taking
this step, as Athens needs a city olook,
and a good economical mayor, one that
will work for the upbuilding of the city
and welfare of the people that dwell-in
it, ar.d for abolishing that unjust har
den, the specific taxation.
Expect me in Athens in about two
weeks and then can be interviewed by a
Bannkb reporter. Very Respt.
V. W. Skiff.
EVER SHOWN IN
ATHENS. GI
150 Assorted Bed
Suits just received.
Parlor Suit?, Side
Hall Racks, Rockers, <
and everything else to I
found in a First-Class
Th6re is nothing in
Section to Match our Jt £
either in Style, Quality 1
Price. See them.
Dorsey & Ste
street.
BROAD
n EOBGII, Clabkk COOK*!
“ ting for coanty purposes.
Ordered ’hat the following
hereby made upon tlieStat* t* 1
followingcounty purposes: ... ^g
1st. To pay the leeal
county due, paat due, or tob***
ring the year, 8 05 per cent.
2nd. To build or repair Court
Bridges, Ferries or other im™
cording to contract, 6 «
3d. .To p_aTSherj(rj,_J»iloGoroth^r
fees th it they mayne - ^perc<
salaiy of City Court Judff
4th. To pay Coroners, 30.100 j* - ^
6th. Topty the expoore’ °' w iteh«“
Ball its, non-resident
cases, fuel, servants him,
the like, 7.66 per cent
6th. To pay Juror*, is ri P*' . a 1
7th. To pay tne eipcnses M
of the poor, Etc., 3.^0 I* . g j
8th. Topay oth«r lawful <*»«“• ^ ,
And any surplus Twinedi byjy w i
levies to be if nec ® ,?a ’? r fv P ^
charges agalMt^th^ur^^.f
A true extract Horn the»»{^
S. M.HERBINUTON.Ordlo*^
; BAh* -
administrate
B y Virtue rf an order from
nary of Claike count) ga,^ c
fore the Court House d°or lu (|lC J
tween th legal h’ura
day lo OctoD^r next. Uie ^ ot udo, ^
pnperty: *111* 1 ** trac , n jdStiff
Improvements thereon lu
and in the city of Athene
mote or less. on bprtrB ^ pis* ,,
“Cloverhurat,’’ *“? 0 f*S i ided
Mrs. BUzt F. Maddo:ir» r tj o%7T
her death, .old * .h? lin’po 88 Zjni
E, F. Maddox for the j u woo.
debit and mating d*£$jOX,
Sept. Uth, IMS
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