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a Consolidated 1389 with the Athens Banner, Est. 1832. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10*1889 o-reat 30-day forced sale a grand success, and we have only 15 days more to sell the balance of twenty thousand do liars, and this oan easily do, as we are going to cut prices deeper than ever tins week. There is not a customer that has attended tills 30-day ■that did not buy twice as many goods as they expected to purchase, as soon as they found out the prices we were selling for., •respectfully invite all of our friends and customers to bring this advertisement with them, or they will find a copy of it at our ^ S o they will* see that this is a GENUINE SALE and NO HUMBUG. e would be under obligations to our customers if they would no* ask for samples or-—to take goods out on approval during this sale, as there are always eager chasers to buy the goods at the prices named. But if there are samples wanted from our regular stock they will be given with pleasure. During this sale you will large signs at every department of the special goals that have been reduced in price. OUR ATTENTION FIFTEEN DAYS. The Lower Level of Prices. idies’ cloths 54 inches wide, in all popular colors at 50c, regular price $1 per yard. -La- idack broadcloth full width at Joe, regular price $1.25. Grey camel’s hair cloths at worth 75. Henrietta cloths 44 inches wide going at 00c, former price 1.25. 40 inch series plaid effect at 45c, cheap at 75. 42 inch brocade cloths, all wool, 25c. French Dels and eider down at reduced prices. A few more pieces of the 25c sideba r.d cash- 5 pieces of 54-inch all wool Brooklyn plaids going to be offered at 80c per yard; filing entirely new and stylisli. All imported and American dress goods and trim at one-third off, to reduce rapidly for the next fifteen days. What Prices! ■# , £ 95 lbs of single and split zephyrs. Worsted in all colors just received and will sell it at [half what other merchants have been asking lor it. 25 dozen more of Fosters patent L]7 hook kid gloves at $1 per pair, in all colors, regular price 1.25 and 1.50. These (die best gloves in the world for the money. On Tuesday we will show you a complete jof children’s kid gloves. R. & Gr. Corsets are the best and are selling at pbpular pric J All cents’, ladies’ and children’s underwear going to be sold at one-third off for the It fifteen days. Children 25c hose for 124c. All Jerseys and blouse waist to be sold [less than manufacturer’s prices. A few ends of table linens slightly soiled going to be lit half of cost price. Gent’s and boy’s kid gloves, fur top, slightly soiled, 4o be sold per pair. Not many left. Cali early. Plushes, Silks and Velvets All fancy, striped and plain velvets Warranted all silk to be sold at $1; goods worth three times the money. A few pieces of very heavy upholestry plush, very wide, at $1.50, woirlh $2 50. All plain, fancy and striped silks oil center counters at 50c and 85c per yard, worth from $1 to $2 50, and these are not short ends, but can give you any number of yards you wish. We are offering in regular stock tlie celebrated “Regatta” brand of black silk we guarantee to give perfect satisfaction to the trade.We are the only house in the city that carries a.complete line of Priestly black goods in all the plain and fanr.v wears. We have reduced them trenty per cent off for fifteen days. Holiday Goods on Bargain Co Jr •£ J jp All of the articles named will be nice for Xmas presents and you now have a chance to uy ithem very cheap at the great thirty day sale, and remember there is only fifteen days eft* Beautiful mufis and boas embroidered h’dk.’f silk umbrellas. Silk scares and ties at 45c, worth 75c. Gent’s silk handkerchiefs and mufflers. Pocket books, card cases, ladies* plush boxes, fancy stands, writing desks, Albums, picture frames, gent’s leather dressing cases, walking canes, riding whips, toilet stands, perfume bottles, music cases, fancy mir rors, etc., and and a great many other articles that are nice for presents in plush and leath- er goods. These goods will all be placed oil center counters, and the prices marked in plain figures. Call early aud make your selection. rrrL j be sacrificed in the next fifteen days. We have sold a great many wraps this season. Now the balance we have on hand we are going to close out at fifty cents on ‘dollar as we will not have room to pack them up next summer. So we have decided to make prices and sell them quick. We have all the fashionable shapes Imakes to be had in this country You can buy from us a $5 garment for $2.50, a $10 jacket for 5 00, a 15 OOdolmanfor 7-50 or a 2fl.OO 10 00. Wehope to see everybody at our store this week. We will guarantee prices against any reliable house. V. T. HOUSTON; MANAGER. JULIUS COHEN feiom MY. PXESDAY WILL BE THE SOL EMN DAY. ICltlzeus Will Do Honor to the ory of Mr. Davis-Tliey Will ow Their Deathless Lovo for the Patriot. DETAILS OF THE DAY. pg to the tact that the tuneral of Nil Davis has been arranged for pwlntsday, tlie citizens of Athens IfK'poned the memorial services, been fixed for next Monday, •'M day. ► services will be held all oyer the ► ou that day, aud the Confederate 1 f°rs will all be informed in time ffiiig their lust tribute of deathless I' 1 their old soldier and chieftain. PHamfe,derate survivors of Athens Nnheust Georgia hud already sig- their resolution to pay this trib al respect before any orders from rtordon were known, and the pa- ‘ spirit that prompted the citizens to fix a Memorial day in r ** the dead President can but be I ®ed by every loyal heart in the 111 States. *People of Athens iwved Mr. Davis. Tutizen holds his memory dear, |y ll ‘ remember until their deaths »re reg re t he so kindly expressed ' ^ttg able to visit Athens a few !H n ce in response to the invita- '4him to come to our citjHlI is ir > Miss Winnie, was his substi- ? cepting the invitation, and *tura that was tendered her by Ll “«nians is still a bright page in Memory. No king ever Jwore '•■r uiadem than the deathless love •he people of Athens which gray hairs today, ■services next Wednesday will . mis love in deeds—not words. |„. ei T store he closed, everwbusi* PP®dl and let every man, wo- Jy* child come out to pay tribute ■ President of the Confeder- University will turn over the riiapel to the use of the citizens >ets will be in the line of 'Mill the Facultv will take part AA'ces. The Lucy Cobblnstf- ; also take part in the services, ; -A-Butherhord will close the 1that day. When notified yes- R\lhfc services, Rutherford I 'id gladly, give jiolitlav on EWJD Itt^tor'of Mr. Davis, and R]' v::0 le school wo. - * THE COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS. The committee that was appointed last Friday night by the Mayor to ar range a suitable program for the Me morial day, have made the following repot t, which, with slight variations, perhaps, will be carried out next Wednesday: Capt. C. G. Talmadge, Marshal of the Day, to select his assistants. The citizens to assemble at monu ment at 11:45. Procession will march to the college chapel in order as follows: 1st, Mayor arid Couneilmen and Mayor and Conn- cilmeu elect, 2nd University Faculty, 3rd Military Companies, 4th Lucy Cobb pupils, 5tl\ Home School pupils,' Gth Public schools. The Confederate Veterans Survivors’ Association will hold a meeting in the Mayor’s office, and will take part in the procession. On the -stage will assemble Mayor arid Couneilmen, Trustees,’Cuasicellor arid.Faculty of the University, speak ers, committee on arrangements, and Marshal anil his assistants. TIIH CEREMONIES. In the college chapel there wiii be a number of speeches made by prominent speakers after prayer by Dr. C. W. Lane. The names of the speakers have not all been arranged, but they will be representatives of the City Council, the 'old soldiers, the citizens of Athens, and the college. Judge Harris will be asked to preside over the meeting. A FINE FARM. A MODEL FARMER WHO HAS A MODEL FARM. Mr. XV. A. Gilleland it a Good Farmer as Well as a Good Clerk of tlie City Council. Points of His Excel, lent Management. DANIELSYILLE DOINGS. What Ia'Happtnloit *■ ® nr Neighbor ing Town. Last Tuesday as Mr. R. E. Fortson was on liis way home from Elberton, his mules got frightend and ran away with him, hurting him seriously.— They also tore his buggy to pieces.— We hope he may soon recever. Mr David Long of this county and Miss‘Carrie Witcher, of Oglethorpe, were married at the home of the bride’s parents, last Wednesday. This is a union of two of the most clever and high toned young people of the two counties, and we with then* host of friends wish them every imaginable pleasure and long aud useful lives. Airs J. H. White and her daughter in-law Mrs. W. L. White of Montague county, Texas, are now in this section on a visit to their many relatives.— They arrived in Athens last Sunday anil came over Tuesday. 1 Ueywill rc- pi'iin about six weeks, wc learn. the useful and profitable. This article is not written to bring Mr. Gilleland prominently before the public, but the point to be made of this is that the only sure means of improv ing a farm is stock. Mr. G. has or is making one mistake. He is noc culti vating any of the grasses. He is too much dependent upon corn, fodder and oats. Whereas, he ought to sow clo ver, orchard grass, etc, W, H. T. Four miles from Athens on the Jef ferson road is situated on a high eleva tion the old Uolsey place. The land when in its primeval state was poor, very poor, as is evidenced by tlie natu ral forest growth, some of which still exists in spots, being scrubby black .Jack, Spanish oak anil scrubby post oak. ,. The soil of the farm is of two classes, red and gray, with a good foundation of red clay, ~ close-grained and heavy. About twelve years ago this farm was taken in hand by our popular clerk of council, Mr. W. A. Gilleland. Bushes and gullies and galdeu spots have dis appeared. Terraces, ditches and deep plowing have figured conspicuously in its improvement. Mr. G. is on tlie right track. He has a herd of some 28 or 30 head of graded Jerseys, all of which are fed entirely from the pro ducts of the place. These cattle are tlie manure-making machines of the farm. Mr. G. gathers leaves, pine straw and woods earth in abundance and spreads them in bis cattle yards, the result of which is a large amount of fine manure, which is compounded in Jan. with cotton seed and cotton seed meal and acid phosphate, and applied broad-cast. This present year on about 30 acres in cotton the yield will be near ly or quite a bale per acre, as 23 bales have already been gathered and there is yet to pick G or 7 bales. An abundance of corn has • been gathered to run the place for another year. A large barn is filled with oats, hay and other produce. At this present time he has a large area sown in fall oats which are beautifully ■ con fi rn is. as to his entering the minis- green and luxuriant, and if they stand j ^ r y j s n0 ‘ Q 0 ubt to be attributed to this the January freezes will yield enor- (1;ist grea t affliction of his life. There mously. Mr. G. lias justfinished plant- are hundreds of Georgians who admire, ' vea, idealize Mr. Graves, who will join us in saying that in whatever protes- mon persimmons. s j on i 10 intends for the rest of his rife Upon the whole, this is a model farm, t0 use t i ie magnificent talents with run by a genial, unobtrusive gentle- , w hich he is endowed, it is certain that man, whose time is mostly taken up j he w m a power for good and useful- with his official duties as clerk of the , ness> council of the city of Athens. Mr. G. i . ’ cells a ^ood deal of gilt-edged Jersey - b 11 tw the citizens of Athens at fan- Holiday Goons.—A most complete - - a t to be fortu- assortment of Christmas good', consist- A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER. That’s What Hon. John T. Graves Will Probably Be. For some days the report has circula ted in tlie press of the State that Hon. John T. Graves, editor-in-cliief of the Rome Tribune, would abandon the edi torial chair and enter the pulpit. When shown this report Mr. Graves has declined to make a statement either affirmatively or negatively, and Ids hundreds of friends all over the State have awaited, with deep interest,further developments.. Yesterday a gentleman of this city received a letter from a prominent merchant of Borne in which he confirms the rumor as to the en trance of Mr. Graves into tlie ministry. The writer says that the impression in Rhine is that Mr. Graves will soon be come a Piesbyterian minister. Mr. Graves has all his recent life been identified with newspaper life, and since his return to Georgia the brillian cy of his rhetoric and the ripeness of liis learning have been conspicuous in the columns of the Atlanta Journal and of his present charge, the Tribune of Rome. Last summer, however, a cloud came over the clear sky of liis exist ence. His brilliant and beautiful wife, the help-mate of his early struggles, the incentive to his increased useful ness, the sharer of his recent triumphs, passed away to tlie bright world beyond. Since that time Mr. Graves has been in many respects, a different man. The rumored change which the latest news ing a hog orchard of 280 everbearing mulberrv and a large number of com- THE FUND HAS STARTED « mu cereirtomc: Hope they may have a nicest pleasant ; n rices- Itis a rare treat to be fortu- ; assortment of visit amongst their formei lueijds aig n'ate enough to look, over ■this]orderly, ing of dolls numerous relatives.,, j- j ‘ neat aqd tTsiifty plajte/hnd unu wpll re- be Is. Judies, r. navis, ;imi < . . ---7. ,.i.’f.uj ,rh»siviro-Ac- mv a visit from anyone wild woupd en- everything ill m4«» -j&•*W ,Kk '' ,ia • “ *? Ils, tea sets,- doll furniture/ es.i carriages rfnd In fact ih ine way of toys’can be Rosa You de Lerth' And It Will Grow Until a Princely Huns Dm been Raised. Atlanta, Dec. 7.—[Special to Ban ner.]—-The movement set in operation for the raising of a fund for Jefferson Davis’ widow and daughter has started and there is no telling where it will stop. Dispatches received to-day from various portions of the State indicate an enthusiasm which can find expression in nothing less than a princely amount to be presented to the family of the late head of the Confederacy. Montgom ery, Ala., telegraphed to the Evening Journal that she “will do her full duty in any movement of this kind.” - The’ Confederate Veterans’Associa tion of Macon met last night and form ulated plans for aiding the Davis Fund. The Journal has received the following telegram from Richmond, V#.: “We start subscription here to-day.” RiChard F. Bierxie, i;? ; Editor State. Augusta telegraphs through Col. C. C. Jones, Jr, that memorial exercises will be held in that city aud a fund im mediately started.''. Columbus will im mediately set to work to raise its fund and Savannah will do the same. ATLANTA AS USUAL LEADS.. The Davis Fund in Atlanta ran up this morning to $1,500 in fifteen min utes, Hons. Hoke Smith, E. P. Howell, M.C. Kiser, J. W. English, Sam In man W P Inman, G W Parrot, AG Rhodes and H W Grady each giving $100. After the subscription lists were started the finance committee called on Governor Gordon, and at their sugges tion he issued the following additional call to have subscription committees appointed in each state: Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7. As tlie commander of the United Con federate Veterans I respectfully suggest that you appoint a general committee for your state to receive funds subscrib ed for Mrs. Davis and her daughter. The movement is well under way here, and eminent success is assured. The fundis to beinvested ; for and presented.to them after conference by the commit tees of all the States. J. B. Gordon. The Georgia committee was imme diately appointed by the governor. It is composed of one member from each state senatorirl district as follows: senatorial districts. 1st District—A R Lawton, Savannah 2d District—S D Brad well C Nicholls Butts A McDonald, I? Pendleton 7th District—Robert G Mitchell 8th District—J D Harrell 9th District R B Doster 10th District—Richard H Hobbs 11th District M C Edwards 12th District—Wm. Harrison ,13th District—A S Cutts 14th District—George Jordan, Haw- kinsville loth District—A G McArthur lGtli District—MereerJIavnes 17th District—H H Perry : 18tli District—C C Jones 19th District—Columbus Heard 20th District—TF Newell 21st District—Richard Johnson 22il District—M H Ross 23d District—C C Duncan 24th District—W S Shepherd * 25th District—Henry Persons 26 th District—James S Boynton* 27th District—H D McDaniel. 28th District—RB Nisbet. 29th District—J E Strother. 30th District—Thomas Swift, Elber ton. „ 31st District—J W Robertson. 32d District—W P Price. 33d District—Sam Dunlap. 34th District—W T Smith. 35th District—W L Calhoun. 30th District—P H Brewster. 37th District—James M Hewitt. | 38th District—Joe A Blance. 39th District—H P Bell. 40th District—C J Welborn. 41st District-YE W Watkins. 42il District-^W F Aver. 43d Distiiet—W H Black. 44th District—>W H Payne. .The committees are requested to act without further official notification from General Gordon. answering Gordon’s call. The southern governors are respond ing heartily to Governor Gordon’s call for a memorial meeting all over the south. The following answers have been received: Tallahassee, Fla.—John B. Gordon: Your message is my first intelligence of the death of Mr. Davis. The procla mation suggested is eminently proper and will be made by me. F* P, Flemixc. The governor of North Carolina tele graphed the following: I cordially approve the suggestion and will do so. Dax’l G. Fowler, Governor. From Alabama came the following: Your telegram reached this office in absence of Governor Seay. It lias been repeated to him, and he will advise with you direct. J. K. Jackson, Private Sect’y. ( < Apples nuts and Pittman"; J orajfcges, oemdies, raisins at. W. M.