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"Last, Sunday altcrnoon the editor of
-*hi“ paper qazefi with, lulini ration and
raptu:v i:jv>u the finest hotel tfatlnii:#
-not only upon the Am**rie»n continent,
»,tu iji “:c cv.ilizcd world. It was tho
spruce de L«« n, at St. Augustine.
ile saw how the energy, enterprise
and capital oft lie. limn had transformed
a malaria-breeding marsh—a favor* <1
.ixi.vmuAL SESSIONS
1 GHKSS.
CON- i WHIPPING TH E J L'TE TRUST.
It lias been left for Thk Basxer to
Speaking of the suggestion that has 1 suggest to farmers the only practical
ieen started to have continual sesssions and certain plan by which they can
of Congress* the Savannah Morning ' continue to use cotton bagging without
News l.as this to say : J a pecuniary loss to themselves and a
and
It has been stated that there is a j proportionate gaiu to the buyer,
growing sentiment among congressmen J thus defeat tlieir arch enemy, the jute
and others iu favor of continual sesMons ; This plan is to make up the tare
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haunt of the tevfowl and alligator—into C(U , collt i, ul;i i sessions say . that tie ; additional ties*, and we see that the -\i-
parntlise;’lie lias erected country has grown too great for the I liunces all over the State have prompt-
learii.ug artists,afkl the handiw* rk of the
m -st skilled artisans in wood, metal
a id cloth; has surrounded this struc
ture with ail the lovely plants and
shrubi—Vv that the tn pics grow
We
impossible to dispose of or even const.!- i duty to inform tho AlHancemcn of the
lookctfjtnon miles of walks and streets ' frequently vicious hills are passed, be-
* 1 1 members who support them have
er many of them, and that as the bind- fl t thllt their Hnt i
ii ial measures cannot t>e taken up
without wading through the entire being recovered bj,
mass, except bv unanimous consent, a
great deal of valuable time is lost, and
frequently vicious b
P»«4 “ » ith 7 r - j power ';°o
ble. We saw where the enormous lor- ; a< wouUl tlo so jf (
than seven million dol-1 Were not favorably* <
>xpended at the crprice Continual sessions
-I * -*? °* i
a one-horse farmer s eot- c011gr< . S8 an d money tl<
■trust bagging was
tu le of more than seven million dol
lars had been expended at the caprice
of one man, and
n< tlargerthan
ton paii ti. The sight of a:i tliis mag
nificence—this lavish of display of
wealth—was pleasing to the eye and
block legislation,
tlieir pet measure
were not faverablv* considered.
Continual sessions of congress would
Washingtonians very
livelier during
flows much more
freely. It is hardly probable, however,
ttjat they would please any considera
ble number of the people. Cong; ess
has enough time now to enact all laws
the compresses with
jute, we raised a stonn of indignation
among certain men, and ouc paper was
accused of being a “trust organ” and
threatened with the boycott. We knew
that there was no foundation whatever
for this suspicion, and was not afraid to
rest the defense of our cause and claims
in the hands of the fair-minded and in
telligent Allianeenien of this section.
We propose to publish a newspaper in
tlie fullest acceptation of the term, and
felt that we would be false to our pre-
, 1 necessary for the public good., If the tensions, false to our patrojos, and false
cncOi eauly SK?s j on g were continuous, there would ; to our cotton producers did we fail to
gratify in r to the senses.
While lo king upon this I | .
and grandeur tli prosaic thought forced. be a vast accumulation of useless "teas- i te}1 them the ^ rue state of a fl* a i rs . It
Itself uioi me, hv what means ttiaa** they* 1 ^ wiis right that h mhle members of
such a fortune accumulated, as to e 1_ i now . Congressmen would want their this organization should know the move-
able this uuny-tiiues millionaire to ex- j sa i,, r ies increased. They say they can- nientsof the enemy they were lighting,
pend the ransom of a Prince in gi ati- | not live now as they " n Jjjjj und not be permitted to blindly continue
I would buv a they get. Continual sessions vvouiU * J
r.. not be beneficial to the country. In | a struggle when all the work they
. . i fact, they would be harmful. 'J here is [ was undone by other parties,
palace as an investment for las idle j ,,i reai jy too much legislation,
pital—for by a judicious expend?
lying a whim, as a child
toy—for Mr. Klagner did not erect
did
c pital—:or
ture these millions would have brought
him many times more revenue than
when placed in this winter home for
the wealthy class of the North.
.V few years ago the owner of these
promises was comparatively a poor
man. In an idle moineiit the thought
occurred t*» him to fonn a vast combi
nation or trust that would uontrol the
petroleum product of our eonntr .
The oppressive protective tariff laws—
that are making the poor poorer and
e tabling a favored few to gather into
their coffers the wealth of the land—ei.-
n* led this con-pita tor against the il
luminating tiukl of the people to put
Ills scheme into successful operation;
a id it is said that his monthly income
is now counted by six figures.
When I thought of the source of all
tli in beauty and in agni licence, another
scene appeared before my eyes. The
drooping foliage, transplanted and
trained at such a great cost, became the
bended heads of that countless army of
poor sewing women, at their miduight
lamps—struggling to give tlieir little
cnes the daily loaf or save a loved
daughter from a fate worse than death
—who must turn their wicks lower, anil
render still dimmer the pale light
by which they wearily
Si itch, stitch, stitch the dreary hours
of darkness into day-dawn, that each
m ty contribute her little mite to add to
(iie gains of this monied autocrat. The
Stately pillars that uphold the building
are transformed into the bended form
c-f the honest laborer, who must toil in
tarkness or contribute of Irs scanty
wages to this despot; who, had he the
power, would pt-ee a tax on God’s sun
shine. The musical fountains in the
c-ourt, sporting with oryst.il waters
drawn from the very bowels of tlie
eart h, become the tears of widows over
*ue tax wrung from their little lamps
hy the man who scatters liis money as
%VMStefully as tliey do the sweepings
AN ACT OF JUSTICE.
from their pour rooms. The towers
pointing heavenward appear to call
The Banner opposed the bill intro
*hiced by Mr. Tuck holding our people
responsible for a still larger amount of
th • Solicitor’s insolvent costs, on the
ground t: a* Mr. Russell knew what
the ofliee paid when he accepted it, and
bad no right to demand a cent more
than the amount for which lie bargained
to serve tlie people.
We always endeavor to be
< onsistent in our oppositoin
1> or advocacy of measure’s
and now think it right and proper for
Cl; rke county to continue to pay the
Solicitor-General $’200 annually on bis
insolvent list, as this sum was a part of
the emoluments attached to the office
when M r, Kusseil accepted it, and was
so understood by that gentleman and
the people. For years the other Solici
tors have been paid this amount, and
i i? but fair and right that the present
incumbent receive the same showing.
Ic would not be acting in good faith for
the county uow to discriminate against
Mr. Russell.
While the recent decision of the Su
preme Court declares the payment of
this money unconstitutional, we do not
believe the tax-payers of Clarke coun
ty will objeet to continuing it, and our
Grand Jury should make a recommen
dation accordingly.
When we saw Mr. Rns ell endeavor
ing to have a bill passed shouldering a
still larger pnrtofhis insolvent costs on
our people, we advocated an amend
ment to the bill taking away the sum
already paid by Clarke comity. But
th**re is no possible chance now
for the passage of this act, and our tax
payers are willing “to render unto
Caesar th** things that are Caesar’s.”
In our opposition to Mr. Russell’s
LEI we were not prompted through per
sonal unlives, but by an hor.e>t desire
to protect the interests of our people.
THE RUSSELL BILL.
down rue vengeance of a just God upon j
lhi« oppressor of «he poor. The mas- j
si -, e blocks of stone in the walls are
the petrified hearts of Mr.
Flagner and his associate
extortioners. The smooth and flower-
bordered walks, the chains of servitude
that bind the people to this heartless
aud grasping speculator, who has it in
liis power to permit the mantle of night
to remain unlifted in the homes of the
people, until the hand of the Creator
raises it with the morning sun.
I a»ked myself, what will be the end
of all this? Can a government that not
only tolerates, but olds and abets, such
a great wrong much longer exist? Uow
long, oh, bow Jong, will a patient peo
ple meekly submit to such outrages?
Is the day very far distant when the
masses will rise in insurrection against
tlie classes, and by a just and righteous
exercise of their power and numbers,
use these palaces—erected witili money
wrested from them by means even more
outrageous than when the highwayman,
with presented pistol, demands your
purse or your life—as funeral pyres to
blazon Into existence a new form of
government where the sweat of the
toiling masses is not taxed to swell the
fortunes of trusts? Or will the voters
of our great county resort to the more
peaceful Methods of the ballot, and
burl from power a party that tolerates
such wrengs, and place again at thl
helm Democrats, who stand
pledged to lift these burthens from the
backs of the people, and enact such
laws as will render the existence of
trusts impossible in our land of liberty ?
One or the other of these aUern..tives I
s e as plainly pictured in the future as
I s wthis • nr. lily palace erected by the
held of a great trust in that old Spnu-
Is’i eitv.
We see that the Supreme Court of
Georgia has rendered a decision, which
settles Solicitor-General Russell’s bill,
holding the people of Clarku comity
responsible for any of his insolvent costs
Some time since The Banner quoted
authority showing that it was a viola
tion of the State’s constitution to pay
out this money, and this recent deci
sion settles the correctuess of our
words.
It seems that the bill Mr. Tuck in
troduced would not only have been a
great wrong and burthen upon our peo
ple, but was an illegal and uiu^nstitu-
tional measure. This gentleman sup
ported the Olive bill because he con
tended that it insisted on an enforce
ment of our constitution; now let him
prove his consistency by withdrawing
a measure that tlie highest legal tribu
nal in Georgia declares a direct viola
tion of the expressed language of this
same document.
A prominent engineer, of Pittsburg
has prepared the model of a bridge with
which it is proposed to span tho North
River. This Pittsburg gentleman
probably hopes to be famous with fu
ture generations. Then he should con
template a dozen or more bridges over
the Hudson. New York will need them
in half a century.
Be it said, however, to the loyalty of
the Alliaiieenien, and their devotioii to
the pledge and argreemeiit they had
made, that dispite their knowledge that,
they lost on every bale packed in cot
ton bagging, and that
the buyer re-covered anti-trust
bagging with jute, that they did not
for an instant waver in their nght.
Even the opponents of the Alliance
must have felt respect and admiration
for men who so freely and unanimously
sacrificed their interests in defense of a
cause they knew to be right.
We are glad to feel that The Banner
was the first paper in the South to point
out a way to our Alliance friends by
which they can successfully defeat not
only the iniquitous jute trust, but also
the cotton exchanges that conspired
against them
We now say to the Alliance,.“Lay on,
My Du ft’, ami damned be he who first
cr'lls, Hold! Enough!” Use yo-.:r cot
ton bagging—use the Sibley mills c’.ot’n
—yes, even tear the shirt from your
back an i wrap yotir bales in it, before
buying a yard of trust jute! < The buy
er takes a tare of 21 pounds from each
bale you sell, and this you have a right
to add iu additional ties. You are now
on the surest road to victory taken since
the contest between the oppressors and
the oppressed commenced. You are
not now trying to accomplish an
undertaking that must result in your
pecuniary loss, but you are pursuing a
plain, practical,business course, that is
sure to win.
Thk Banner does not seek to secure
the support of the Alliance or any oth
er class of men by concealing news, but
is ever ready to prove its devotion to
the interest of our farmers, for to these
men do we all owe our daily bread.
THE WXlTRE r .NT0N~TRAGEDY.
The municipal campaign continues
to warm up right lively and the can
didates are putting tlieir names in the
political pot. Everybody seems to he
in favor of the Democratic primary.
Athens will sparkle among Georgia’s
most prosperous and beautiful cities
when she has procured the new rail
roads, the city park, and the electric
JrhU.
The McGregor-Cody tragedy result
ing iu the killing of Gody in Warren-
ton last Saturday has thrown the
whole State into a whirl of excitement.
It is one of the most notable tragedies
that has occurred in Georgia for many
a day, as both men were prominent and
highly esteemed by their fellow citi
zens.
Tlie different vumors that have re
sulted from the terrible tragedy go to
show that there are seine dark myste
ries connected with the old feud of
which this was a deplorable end, and
that some of the best blood of that sec
tion of the State is stained with the
causes of this direful deed.
The truth of these rumors, however,
is questioned by many.
We do not believe thft there will be
any more blood shed over the affair,
for reports say things are becoming set
tled and a peaceful quietude reigns in
the little town of Warrenton, despite
the fact that every one thought that the
killing of Codr was only a beginning
of a bad busines in that town.
Maj. McGregor is now iu jail at Au
gusta and awaits a trial.
The affair is a most deplorable one,
for it was between two much esteemed
gentlemen of worthy families.
HAPPY HIT.
The Baaiter’s Pointer Proved
Practical.
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THE PARSERS WILL PUT HIRE TIES OH
THEIR COTTOH-COVERED COTTOi
C1E1M
The Banns? thd Fir :t Piper to Make ti e
Sclulicn of the Puzzling Tars
Question.
FIVE CGUHTIIS ADOPT THE PLAN.
Tin: Banner's plan went like, wild
fire.
The farmers everywhere at or«ec saw
the sound philosophy and economy in
putting nine ties on their cotton-eov-
^PERFECT
ered cotton to counteract the jute tare
States Government. Endorsed by the heads of o
and Puoltc Food Analysts, as the Strongest, Purest and most lleaitwfili Cl reat taj».
Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, Limeor Alum. Dr PHoe'-r. ,• r r -
tracts, Vanilla, Demon, Orange, Almond, Rose, etc.,do notcontain Poisonous^
apd they have talked about it and reas- 91
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., New York. Ch’ca^o "'t 0 '
i i mm , fril|il ct,
'■O'Jijl
oned over ic together until it has gained
the universal approbation wherever it
has gone.
This approbation took the practical
shape of a forcible resolution at the re
cent meeting of the Alliance of five
counties in this section of the State
providing for a strict adherence to the
plan as proposed by the Banner. The
resolution was passed and tlie farmers j
will all send Jtheir cotton into market
covered with cotton bagging and with
nineties embracing the white robed
bales.
We knew from the outset that the
plan was a good one, and felt assured
that a suggestion of it through on**
columns would put the farmers on to .'a
most valuable pointer.
Our expectations to this end have
been fully realized, and we feel that we
have rendered the farmers a just anil
most valuable service.
The Banner professes to be ever on
the alert for the interest of tlie farmers
and feels gratified when it can be of ser
vice to them. We have been with them
heart and soul in their untiring warfare
against the jute trust and when many
of the exchanges at the North began to
close down on the cotton bagging and
on the tare question, we were the first
to solve the satisfactory answer to tlie
puzzle and The Banner feels proud to
have given to the farmers, before any
journal, the plan of putting on nine ties
on cotton bagging, thus eounteract : ng
any advantage that jute may have had
in the tare.proposition recently adopted
at the New Orleans meeting.
Since this plan has been adopted, we
have seeh vas’ quantities of cotton com
ing into the city with nineties to the
bale, and we feel sure that the farmers
have opee again surmounted all ob
stacles and are decidedly on top in the
fight between jute and eotton.
This plan allows the farmers to use
the cotton bagging without fear of
losing aught by the exjierinient. They
have settled the whole question of
whether cotton bagging could answer
the purpose of jute in the affirmative,
and we congratulate them on having
taken up so perfect a plan as is this,
and bid them a hearts godspeed in the
work of whipping out the the jute.
Our mission is to look out for the
interest of the farmers and we warrant
them we are always studiously contem
plating their welfare.
-AND-
ATHEJNtr.
MACHINE WOKHS,
Manufacturers of Iron
Castings, Mill and Maclu
Shafting, Pulleys, HangerJ
Baxes, Cotton Presses,
M ills and Evaporators,
Seed Crushers and Circulirj
Mills
soil tbe Atlas iSteam Engines, Injectors, jet JU
Valves, Piping and Steam Packings, Water Wheels
Belting Cloth. We have competent mill-riglits and
send them out and erect mills anywhere in the
can furdish estimates.
Write to ns or call and >ee us fi r anything you mar need about your Cri.-t M 1! or u-
ATHENS FOUNtu K I AND MaCHINl
Athens, v^eorgifi
GEOROl •» SEED COMPANY. M U'0% LO:
(SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHERN SEED COMI‘AXY(,
Wholesale <fc Retail Farm & Garden Seed
THEO. MARKWALTER’S
STEAM
Marble and Granite Worksl
MANUFACTURER OF
MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES aND STATIUS!
Stealing Bagging.
A cotton man of Athens tells us that
one reason that there is so much com
plaint about the Alliance bagging is
that draymen in the city are cutting
out the ends of every bale they haul,
and hiding the stolen cloth in their
pockets or bosom to use it for making
garments and other purposes. This of
course leaves tlie ends of the bales en
tirely bare, and the cotton falls out.
It was some time before the compress
men discovered this practice, and took
steps to put a stop co it.
The Legislature shows no sign or
willingness of an early aljoiunment.
They prefer to Settle the State Road
question while they are at it, and it" is
well that they should.
'
ELM ON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink.
For biliousness and constipation take
Lemon Elixir.
For indigestion and foul stomach,
take Lemon Elixir.
For sick and nervous headaches, take
Lemon Elixir.
For sleeplessness and nervousness,
take Lemon Elixir.
For loss of appetite and debility, take
Lemon Elixir.
For fevers, chills and malaria, take
Lemon Elixir.
Lemon Elixir will not fall yon in any
of the above diseases, all of which arise
from a torpid or diseased liver, stomach,
kidneys, bowels or blood.
Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozlby,
Atlanta, Ga.
50c. and $1.00 per Dome. Sold by
Druggists.
A Prominent Minister Writes.
After ten years of great suffering
from indigestion, with great nervous
prostration, biliousness, disordered kid
neys and constipation, I have been
cured by Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir,
and am now a well man.
Rkv.C. B. Davis, Eld.M. E. Church
South.
No 28 Tatnall St. Atlanta. Ga.
The | Farmer’s Alliance Warehouse
and Commission Company has petition
ed for charter and will begin operations
at once.
Enclosures, Capinge and Likenesses Guaranteed of Statues and Bu*ts, iMl’OKTEH
NATION OR FOREIGN GR NITKORM RBLE.
Contractor for Building Stone of al! kinds Floor and Heartli Tile and 1,110
Agent i*»r the Be t i ENCE COMP NY in the World. . heA Ofl*
The mo t complete '••election of designs in the south, origin* -1 ! designs ti- 11 * n
pondence solicited. Prices to suit the Times.
520 «n«l 531, BROAD STREET.
AUGUSTA. GA
H owell co b -t vs. the north-
e as tern Railroad « o., the liteiuupnd and
Danville lUilroad • o., the Richmond aud West
Poi t Terminal Railway and Warehouse Co.,
••nd tlie Centra' Trust * otnpany of New Yorkf
Petition f >r relief and c ncel atlon $315,0 0 o
bonds. Cla ko Superior Court.
It appearing to the court that the she* ft has
not served the Richmond and West l oint Ter*
initial and vv arehouse company,and the CenPal
Trust < om aniesof New York, parties defend
ant in the above stated case, because the v do
not reside inClarke county or the state of Geor
gia, or have ag nts • r officers in add state, a-.d
that they reside out of the state. It is ordered
by the court that service be uerfected by publi
cation upon said parties in Thb Athkns B\n-
N/.n for at least two moatlu t efore the next
term of • larke Superior ccur, 3d Monday iu Oc
tober. 18S i. and that they then apoear to plead
and make deitnse. N. I . HUTC *INS,
judge of Sn eriorC- urt Western < ircuit.
A true extract from tha minutes.
C. I*. VINCENT,
Clerk C.S.C.C.
LAND SALE.
By agreement all the heirs who are of full ago
and for the purpo-e of division, the undersigned
a* agents will sell to the-highest bidder foreash
at the courthouse door in Athens, within the
legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in No
vember 188!), the two tracts of land in Clarke
county, one on the Middle Oconee river, adjoin
ing lauds of J. N. Weir and Mrs. Mary C. Benton
and containing two hundred and thirty acres
more ? or less the other the one joins above
described adjoin sMrs. Mary C. Benton, and
fronts South on the road leading from
Athens across Mitchell’s Bridge and
containing one hundred and live acres
more* or less. Both these tracts He about live
miles from Athens aad a:e valuable lands
paitlyin cultivation and partly in original forest.
Improvements suitable for tenants. The con
tract of sale and the lam is mav be seen on ap
plication to undersigned. The owners reserve
the right to selbat private .-ale before the date
above and the right to allow any one owner to
bnyjat the salfe.
JohxW. Weir
Harvey Akcuer.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
G EORGIA—Ol.ARiiE ( xi rrv— !?y virtue of
sn order of the court of Ordinary of Clarke
county, grimfe l at the August teim 1889, of sai l
court, will be sold before tnc Court House door
in Athens, Clarke county, Georgia, on the llrst
Tuesday iu October next, within the lsgal hours
of sale, the following pjxtpehiy to-wlt: All that
tract or lot of land lying on ntrong street, With
all the improvements thereon; lot cohtain'ng
half acre, more or less. Terms cash, and sold as
the property of Jair.ej Newton, deceased,
Jobv *. WiM.ivo“sn Adm’r.
G EORGIA, Clarke cousTY-TitM 3; ?
Court of said eunty: „ -
1st. The petition or .James M.wg*
min B. Williams, ueorge Dudley Thoan-
desire to ue meorponucu .... .. •-j „• c
the privilege of renewal at the « ^
that
carry on is tnat oi a
nnd' business , h ^ prop**
Sffi?SSSiiSifiSllSS^ e f
G s£ iI1 TIie capital Its
».<•“'ras"2*t£l£S<! M
755lBw*%SSSi
f. p»»*« . w 5f2
to
I at present twentv-Hye th M )d
with the privilege of
stock at will to one bundled thoa^ *
Ten per cent, of said twenty
lavs lias been duly paid m
n-s tias been duly paid in. coad* l 'j!I|
Wherefore petitioners pra> »® d iartJ
a order granting lh.s application.*^ ^ gr
itln-r them under the nsme, an 1 *
an order granting in.t> •*ri'"-- t
rating them under the . *’ g ^ciWd.
pose and for the time ** ert “ ^ § yitvtt
Petitioner*' W' 1 * 1 -
Superior Co r*, do
ime have been dulyfli
from file minntes
and that same have been duly »
ed- _ „ t, Vm.-rKIlT.CIW*-*
This Sept 20,1888. C. D. VnK*»*