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THE ATHENS B^NNEfc ? TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9 1890.
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PAY YOUR DEBTS.
It is dow a critical time with both
merchants and farmers. The price
of our great Southern staple is far
below the actual cost of production,
while the new tariff bill has advanced
the price of all manner of manufac-
tured goods.
But our Southern merchants are in
no manner responsible for this slate
of affairs, as they suffer as keenly as
the men who till the soil. They bor
rowed money to purchase supplier
and sold the same to farmers on
time, in order to enable them to
make their crops. To do this, they
strained their credit to the last notch,
and this places both their commer
cial honor and property at the mercy
of the men whom they have supplied.
Tiie Banner editor has stood by
and defended our farmers in all of
their struggles, and will continue to
do so. He will only advise for their
good and their interests. It is their
honor and credit we desire to pro
tect and preserve, when we urge
upon them the importance of prompt
ly meeting their obligations with the
merchants. We are in a position to
know whereof we speak, when we say
to our farmers, the country is now
trembling on the brink of a financial
panic, and it is in your power to
prevent or hasten this calamity. By
either selling or drawing money on
your cotton, and paying your debts,
you can bring all things right; by
withholding your crops from market,
you can precipitate this panic, that
like Samson when he pulled down
the pillars of the temple, will destroy
yourself as well as the merchant.
Most of our farmers belong to the
Alliance, and this organization will
be held responsible for the conduct
of our agricultural community du„
ring this critical period. To secure
the respect and confidence ot the
public, any man or association must
first build up a credit, and show to
the world that his word and honor
are unassailable. The eyes ot the
country are now turned upon the
Southern farmers, for the future of
the Alliance rests in their hands. If
they prove themselves the true aud
honorable men we know them to be,
and meet their debts promptly, if
even at a sacrifice, it will give the
Alliance a standing and respect that
can never be shaken. This must be
done. Let every sub-Alliance see
tbat its members pay their just
debts,for the honor and future power
of the»r noble organization binges
upon their obligations.
The farmers must not combat one
wrong by perpetrating another.
Their rights can never be secured
through failure to meet their honest
debts. Their field of battle is in an
other direction. Pay the last cent
yon owe, and then go to the polls
and vote for men and for measures
that will protect you against being
made longer the victims of oppres
sive laws, and give you control of
your own crops. These measures of
relief can only be secured by defeat
ing the republican party and through
the passage of the Sub-Treasury bill
We have recently conversed with
leading Alli&uccmen from several
counties m this section, and they as
sure us that they are doing all and
everything in their power to prevail
upon members to pay their debts, at
any sacrifice in the price of cotton
This is right, and vte believe that
our Southern farmers will yet avert
the threatened panic, and show to
the world that the Alliance is the
greatest and noblest organization
ever formed in any country.
charged him with selling out to Jo
seph E. Brown;—we find in Editor
Roberts one of his enthusiastic sup
porters ; i and like all new converts,
has carried his devotion to as ex
treme lengths as when he opposed
Gordon for Governor.
A man or a newspaper, to have
the respect and confidence ofjntelli
gent people, must show some consis
tency. If Editor Roberts was au
thorized in carrying his resentment
against Gen. Gordon to such ex
treme lengths as to vote against even
making his nomination as Governor
unanimous, he certainly should have
opposed that same candidate when
he aspired for the U. S. Senate.
The editor of The Banner was in
the same position as Mr. Roberts in
1886. He opposed Gen. Gordon, but
after his triumph, declined to attend
the State convention and vote against
him. Gen. Gordon had won a great
victory, and was entitled to all the
honors attached thereto. When he
again became a candidate for the U.
S. Senate—an office he had once re
signed—we again opposed him, and
was more earnest in our opposition
because of Gordon’s repudiation of
the platform of the Farmers’ Alli
ance, a most worthy and honorable
organization.
The Ishmaelite has been one of
the bitterest and most abusive ene
mies of the Alliance in the State—
and its flop over to Gen. Gordon was
doubtless more of an endorsement of
his antagonism to the farmers ‘.ban a
desire to see him (Gordon) elected to
the Senate.
In regard to The Banner be
ing entitled to any praise for the
election of Gov. Gordon, we have
only to refer Editor Roberts to the
roll of the House and Senate.—
He will see tbat seventeen counties
in the immediate range of our circus
ticn voted against Gordon to a man;
and had all the other sections of our
State presented as strong a front as
did Northeast Georgia,Gordon would
have been overwhelmingly beateo
We would like to ask Mr.'Roberts if
his section can show as strong a
front in support of Gov. Gordon?
The Banner stands to-day exactly
where it did in I086, and you will
find its editor in all tuture time fight
ing on the same line.
If
temptation removed from him.
you are forced to have money, sell a
portion of your land and raise it —
for the day you agree to pay tne in
terest demanded by the Wall Street
tyrants that day you sign away a
deed to your home, and the heritag
of your children and your children’s
children.
NOW YOU SEE IT, AND NOW YOU
« DON’T.
“While some of the papers are
laying vigorous claim to instrumen
tality in the election of General Gor
don to the Senatorsbip, the IshmaeU
ite suggests that the Atlanta Con
stitution and The Athens Banner
be added to their list. Probably no
two papers in the State did better
service for Gordon.”—Sparta Ishma
elite.
When criticism comes from such
papers as the Atlanta Journal and
the Rome Tribune, about The Ban
ner’s position in the late Senatorial
contest,weean bear it with patience—
but when such a journalistic flutter
mill as the Sparta Ishmaelite assaj-s
to advise, it nmkes us tired.
Foui ysars ago the Ishmaelite was
one of the bitterest and most abus
ive anti-Gordou papers in the State ;
and its editor carried his resent
ment to each extreme lengths that
even after Gen. Gordon had an over
whelming majority in the democratic
convention, Mr. Roberts was the
only delegate in that body who re
fused to vote* in favor of making
his nomination unanimous. While
this looked to us like a sort of pyro
technic display of consistency, we
thought nothing about i$.
But when this same John B. Gor
don makes the race for the O. S.
Senate—an office that the Ishmaelite
THE TW1TTY BILL.
We notice that the same papers
that advocated Gordon for the Sen
ate are waging a relentless war
against the bill introduced by Mr
Twitty—the Alliance watch dog from
Jackson county—to protect the peo
pie against the usurious law to make
debtors pay 10 per cent, additional
fees for collecting Dotes.
If there is any additional argument
needed to secure the passage of the
bill, it is the opposition of such fi
nancial sharks as C. P. N. Barker
and the Corbin Banking Co., whose
representatives in Georgia are loud
in their protests. Such foreign money
loaning institutions as these are do 1
ing more to make serfs of our farnS?;
than all other causes combined
They loan money on lands at an in
terest of from 13 to 20 per cent., and
there is scarcely an instance on re
cord where the poor debtor has ever
been able to meet bis notes when
due, and they are sold out of bouse
and home.
If the Twitty bill will drive out of
Georgia these Yankee Shy locks, and
relieve the farmer of their presence,
future generations will riss up and
call the author of this great measure
blessed. These money lenders are uot
content with the grinding interest
they extort from onr farmers, But
even want to make them pay an un
reasonable and outrageous cost for
collecting their notes.
These foreign loan agencies have
bankrupted the Western farmers.and
are now turning their attention to
the South. If some protection
not thrown by our Slate around their
victims, it will result in our laud
owners selling the birth-right of
their children, and the rising gener
ation of whites will become verita
ble serfs on lands their fathers once
owned. These Northern capitalists
are content to lend their money at
home for three or four per cent, in
terest ; hut make our poor farmers
pay four or five times that price, and
with a security, too, as solvent as a
Government bond.
The Twitty bill is right, and no
true and patriotic man, who has the
prosperity and happiness of his
country at heart, can or will oppose
it. We want to see this bill followed
by others, looking to the protection
of our struggling and down-trodden
farmers from the tyranny of the mon
ey power. Let a bill be passed forbid
ding the usurious interest charged
by the Northern loan agencies, a Oder
the guise of attorney’s fees and costs.
If it drives such capital from our
border’s, ’twill be only the better for
THE SUB-TREASURY BILL.
The farmers and merchants alike
are now realizing the fatal mistake
tbat was made when the winding-
sheet of the Sub-Treasury bill was
woven in Georgia by the election of
John B. Gordon to the U. S..Senate.
Colton to-day is selling at from
two to three cents less per pound
ban it costs to grow it. The farmer
sees ruin staring him in the face,
while the merchant is in equally as
deplorable a condition. Now sups
pose that bill was a law, what would
the result ? The planter would
store his crop in a government ware
house, draw 80 per cent, on the value
thereof, for which he only pays one
per cent, interest per annum, and
with this money he could pay off the
merchant, and be in a position to
lake advantage of the increase in
price sure to come next spring. But
the beneficial results would be felt
immediately, for so sure as the spec
ulators saw our Southern farmers
holding hack their crop.-, they would
pay them full value, as the xorld is
obliged to have our great staple.
We have always contended that
the Sub-Treasury bill would help the
merchant as much as the farmer, for
when the tiller of the soil prospers
we all prosper, and when the farmer
poor the whole world feels the
^fleets.
Geo. Gordon’s election, while it
was a repudiation of the Sub-Trea
sury bill by the legislature of Geor
gia, does not change The Banner’s
position. We have always believed,
and still believe, this bill to be the
<.raode8t measure for the relief and
protection of our Southern farmeis
ever introduced, and its defeat will
seriously affect every class of our
population. We intend to battle for
it as hard in future as we have in the
past. One defeat does not discour
age us in the least.
Georgia are worse than no schools ; HIGHWAY ROBBERY
at all. They destroy good country
schools, and give the children in re
turn, only a smattering of education,
that is of but little if any service.
What is worth doing is worth doing
well, and this applies with especial
force to educational matters. We
want to see established all over our hlj?hway
SStata good free schools, where every county t
child can attend nine mouths during a white man named Whitehead
the year. - . stopped on the road and his money or
But there is one drawback to this ■ his life demanded!
tiiat our legislators must guard |
against. Wuile the whites pay an~
overwhelming portion of the tax«s,
COMMITTED IN BRADBERRY’S DIS
TRICT SATURDAY.
*
A Mr. Whitehead Stopped by a White
Man and a Negro—The Robbers are
Driven Off—They Make Good Their
Escape.
roDberv in Clarke
THE ALLIANCE ADVOCATE.
The Cuthbert Liberal has a se
vere editorial, demanding that the
Alliance displace Capt. Harry
Brown as editor of its official or
gan, and contends that his conduct
in the late Senatorial campaign not
only secured the election of G >rdon
to the Senate, but brought his or
ganization into contempt and disre
pute. The Liberal contends that
Capt Brown has proved hinu-elf ut
terly unfitted to have charge of the
slate organ of the Farmers’ Alli
ance.
Woile we admit ihat the position
assumed by Mr. Brown, in insisting
on the nomiuatiou of. Mr. Pat Cal
houn, certainly resulted in the elec
tion ot Gen. Gordon, at the same
time we feel assured that this gentle
man was prompted by the purest
motives. He took it for granted
that all Alliancemen knew and ap
preciated Mr. Calhoun’s loyalty to
the farmers and intellect as thor
oughly as himself; when, in fact,
there was a deep-seated prejudice all
over Georgia against electing to of
fice any man connected with a cor-
porqtinn. The mistake made was in
I rlngin j Mr. Calhoun Into the field
too soon.
As to the Liberal’s insinuation
tbat bribery was at the bottom of
Mr. Calhoun’s nomination, this we
do not believe. In the first place,
those who know the high and honor
able character of Mr. Pat Calhoun,
will tell you that he is incapable of
securing office through any other
than the fairest and most honorable
ends. We feel tbat Editor Brown is
too true and loyal an Ailianceman
ever to oetray the high trust be
stowed on him. • His position was an
error of the judgment, and uot of
the heart.
But the Alliance should be very
wary of lending an ear to the counsel
of its enemies. Ihey now hope to
create discord and division in the
ranks of this organization, and if
confidence can be destroyed in the
leaders, it will be a long step gained.
If the Alliance has dirty linen to
wash, or finds a skeleton in its closet,
do the needed work quietly and
within your own ranks. You can
take care of yourself without ac*
cepting the counsel of men who only
seek to advise to work the destruo
tion of your organization.
the negroes are given an equal share
of the funds. This is not right. In
framing a new school bill, provision
should be made for a more just and
equitable division of this fund, so as
to give to the children of the whites
the taxes their race pays, and the
negro his pro rata share. Surely this
can he done.
If our public school system is to
be extended so as to levy an addi
tional tax on the whiles to educate
the offspring of every vagabond ne
gro, the people of Georgia had rather
see the whole aysiem abolished at
once. They are sick nigh unto death
with toiling in the field aud having
their hard-earned money wrested
from them that the hlack9 may sit
in the shade and be educated at their
expense.
It is a curious coincidence that
the conference of those who believe
in taeearly coming again of Christ
should have been held during the
time when the Indians of the West
are having their “M essiah”
Premillenialists believe that
will come soon, set up his
upon earth and convert the
They insist that they find this faith
clearly stated in the Scriptures, but
it- must be borne in mind that other
eminent scholars of orthodox de>«
nominations hold the belief to be as
unfounded as the expectations ol
the Miilerites.
eraze
Christ
throne
world.
Last Saturday night, a white man |
named Whitehead, left Athens and
started for his home in Walton county.
He was Driving two large mules and
his wagon was laden with provisions.
He had some money tin his pocket and
also a bottle of whisky.
As he was going along the roarl in
Bradberry’s district, he heard a‘noise
in the bushes and was s rprised to see
two men step into the road directly in
front of his mules.
They did not delay matters long. One
was a white man and the other a negro.
They stepped quickly to the mulds and
cut the reins from them. They demand
ed of Whitehead all the money or valu
ables be had. Whitehead refused to give
it to them and they dragged him from
the wagon. In the scramble they se
cured his bottle of whiskey, but White-
head eluded their grasp and ran down
the road as fast a^ his legs could
carry him and leaving the
men in 'possession of his team. He
went to a neighboring house and got two
men to go back with him to the sceue
ol the robbery.
They found the two men still in pos
session of the team. The two robbers
on seeing the three men approach, broke
and tied.
The white man’s name is Sisk, and
the negro’s name is Spencer Lester.
Mr. Whitehead has sworn out a war
rant for them, charging them with high
way robbery, and every effort is being
made to effect their capture.
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A meeting, in which 160,000'
King’s Daughters were represented,
was held in New York last Monday.
Five years ago the Order numbered
ten members.
A COWARDLY RUFFIAN.
GEORGIA’S SCHOOL SYSTEM.
It is evidently the intention of the
legislature now in session either to
abolish the present public school
system of Georgia, or render
it more efficient. This is a matter
that demands the earnest consider-
. , , , ati in of our law makers. The mis-
the poor land.owucr to have thia orablo little three-montho school, or
Brutally Beats a Uttle White Boy.
A ttetid incarnate!
Charlie Shaw brutally assaults little
Robert Patterson!
Yesterday an assault was made on
the person of little Robbie Patterson, a
son of Air. J. W. Pat.arson of this eity,
by a negro boy almost grown, named
Charlie Shaw. The little fellow was
badly bruised and the skin broken in
several place by violent blows on the
face ami head from the negro’s fists.
The assault was substantially unpro
voked and the negro’s attack was un
justifiable. The Mayor hauled him up
aud gave him $15 and cofets or six
months on the streets. The negro’s
financial condition governed him in se
lecting the latter alternative.
THE SILKEN TIE.
A Quiet Marriage In Cobbham Yester
day.
A quiet marriage was solemnized in
Athens yesterday at ihe lovely home
of Mrs. J. J. Chandler on Cobb street,
The contracting parties were Miss
Leila Chandler aud Mr. A. L. Frank
lin.
The ceremony was beautifully and
impressively performed by Dr. C. W.
Lane.
The marriage was a qniet and unos-
tensatious one, there being no one pres
ent besides the immediate family.
Tiie bride is one of Athens’ queen-
liest daughters, whose witching beauty,
confined to her sweet manners, unite to
render her one of our loveliest orna
ments to society.
AMONG HIS FRIENDS.
Mr.T. A. Hodgson on a Visit to His
Old Home.
Our esteemed friend Mr. Torn Hodg
son is on a visit to Athens, and will re
main in our city for sometime Torn
hails from the wilds of Washington, D.
C., and we are glad to see that rural
life agrees with him so well. He is one
the most universally popular buys our
city has ever turned out. and like all of
the name, is a superior business man.
Mr. Hodgson has a fine position un
der Unele Ham, and as lie conies under
the civil service branch, party changei
have no effect on his job. He has the
auditing of all the accounts for the Dis
trict of Columbia, which is a very re
sponsible task.
He says there is a great diffeience be
tween the republican and democratic
administrations; rhat :he former is
much more liberal in appropriations,
while the democrats look upon every
office-holder as a thief, aud keep a con
stant watch over them.
It is a matter impossible for an office
holder to defraud the government, ex
cept through contracts. Ever thing is
run on a business basis, and the last
cent must lie accounted for.
Mr. Hodgson says tiie advance in the
price of Washington City property is
p enomenal. Ten years ago he saw a
lot sell for less than $10,000, and the
same property brought lately $20,000.
Good central real estate sells at $00 a
square foot. He says ail the Virginian
towns are improving, and cites Roanoke,
that in 1880 had only 250 inhabitants.
Today it boasts 22,000.
Tom Hodgson is a warm advocate of
the Farmers’ Alliance, and says there
is no doubt about the great democratic
victories in the north and west being
attributable to that organization.
for Infants and Children*
“Castorl a is so well adapted to children that I Cantor!* ceres Colic, Constipation,
I recommend it as superior to any prescription I Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation,
known to me.” H. A. Archer, M. D., j 8*“ riee P- "»* promote: 4
111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication.
Ths Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, N.Y.
YOU MUST PAY HIGH,
Else You Can’t Have False Teeth—The
McKinley Bill’s Work.
It seems there is no end to the abnox-
ious features of the McKinley bill.
Yesterday an Athens dentist received
from Claudius Ash & Sous a circular ad
dressed to ‘‘The Dental profession of
America,” which said:
“The McKinley bill having raised the
duty on artificial teeth of our manufact
ure from $17 50 to $52.50 per 1,000, we
are unable to import any further
Georgia, and gives promise of an illus
trious career m his chosen avocation.
To Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Franklin
Thk Banner wafts its cordial congratu
lations and wishes them a pleasant voy
age on the sea of life.
They will reside in Jackson.
ship-
ments of these teeth', * * * Many
Ihe groom is one of the leading mem- | 0 f ti, e profession are fully aware that
hers of the bar at Jackson, Butts county our London house, and all its branches,
have been liberal buyers of American
dental manufactures, and for reasons
that need not be mentioned here it
would have been in the interest of the
profession if the pre-existing high rates
of duty had been lowered instead of
raised. They will also understand in
whose interest this increase has been
made.”
The leading American manufacturers
of artificial teeth and other dental
goods have formed a., combination or
trust, and ttiat the leading dental Ate-
S ots of the country are not allowed to
andie the goods of any manufacturer
who refused to join the trust, and that
any dealer who sells any teeth for less
than the price set by the members of
the combination is subjected to a fine
of $100.
The price of teeth has been advanced
in/he i ast few months about seventy-
five per centT This is but another ex
ample of the result of the McKinley
bill.
Their Faith in God.
A very pathetic incident is related
of two old gentlemen in Oglethorpe
county.
They were ranked among the most re
spected citizens of that county. They
had seen the years come and go with all
the varying vicissitudes of life, and had
reached that point on life’s journey
where the shadows lengthen and “the
almond tree nourishes. ”
One of then, lay upon a sick bed aud
the blood which had coursed through
bis veins for so many years was fast be
coming chilled. The shadows of death
were gathering around him and he was
waiting in patience the call of his Mas
ter that would summon him to his eter-
ual reward.
The other was at his dying friend’s
bedside. The friendship of a long life
had knitted their lives together in
brotherly love. And almost inside the
pearly gates, the dying man asked his
friend if be nad any message to send by
him to the other world.
“Yes,” said the other. “Tell my
dear friend J that I will soon be
with him and enjoy the reward of the
blest. Tell my dear child who is in
heaven that a father looks lovingly to
the moment when he will again be with
his child.”
And many other messages followed.
Just as tranquil as if they were mes
sages to tie carried to some distant city
on our own earth, and just as confident
was the one that the other v/ould be the
bearer of the messages that would soon
be transported beyond the skies.
Then came a final good-bye.
The two oil friends parted, and in a
few days the soul of the father in Israel
crossed over the river and rested under
the shade of the trees.
The other is living yet and knows
that soon he will join his friend.
A pathetic yet forcible illustration of
their faith in God.
No liniment is . in better repute or more
I wdely known than Dr. J. H. McLean’s Volcan-
ip Oil Lipimeut. It is a wonderful remedy.
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TELEPHONE No 54, .... Ill BBROAD STREEf
A PIfK HANDLE.
PLAYS THE MISCHIEF WITH THE
CRANIUM OF A SON OF AFRICA.
Knocked Senseless—Somewhat Im
pertinent in His Demeanor and Pays
the Penalty.
Heavy Cotton Receipts.—Athens*
cotton receipts are reaching high fig
ures, and 100,000 bales will be some
thing like the grand total this seasou.
Money continues tight but the fleecy
staple continues to arrive, and the mer
chant and farmer live in hopes.
Carp Teeth.—It is not generally
known that carp have teeth. The jaw
bones of a German carp, are filled
with pearly white teeth The *eetb
would measure a quarter of an inch in
width. They resemble the teeth of a
hog more than anything we can com
pare them with.
A Farmers’ w arehouse.—Hon. Jas.
M. Smith ii building a large fire proof
brick warehouse at his farm, and will
have it ready for his next crop. This
is quite an enterprise for an individual
i farmer. hut is charafit
Another scrape on the G. C. & N!
An ebony gentleman knocked sense
less !
A white man uses a pick handle with
disastrous effect!
A difficulty occurred on the Georgia,
Carolina & Northern railroad which
resulted in a negro named Nathan
Crawford having his skull bruised by a
blow from the handle of a pick.
The negro was impudent in his lan
guage and made some grossly insulting
answer to a Mr. Glass, an overseer on
the road, who leveled him with a pick
handle.
The blow from this formidable instru
ment was a terrible one which may yet
cause the death of the negro.
He lay for some time out in the old
field back of Dr. Lyndon’s, the senee of
the trouble, before he was carried home.
He was deprived of consciousn ess by
thfrforce of the blow and was in this
condition some hours afterward. A
Banner reporter visited the scene of
the encounter and was directed to the
house of the negro some distance from
the Ice Works. The man was lying in
a senseless condition, his breathing was
labored and heavy and he was suffering
ajjood deal of paiu apparently. The
place where he was struck was swol
len and bleeding slightly and Dr.
Steedly was unable to make a thorough
examination. The white man left soon
after the difficulty, but it is not thought
tbat lie has gone with any intention of
avoiding an investigation.
McElree’s Wine of Cardul
and THEDFORD'S BLACK • DRAUGHT are
for sale by the following merchants in
E. Lyndon, Athens, Ga.
J. B. Fowi.er, near Athens,
J. W. Hardy, near Athens.
R. T. Brumby, & Co, Athens,
L. D. SlkdgkA Co. Athens.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
I am a candidate for Clerk of ihe
Court of Clarke countj - , having received
the endorsement of tiie Democratic \>m-
ty. J. K.Kenney.
I hereby announce myself for re-elec
tion to tiie office of Tax Keeeiver ot
Clarke county, having been endorsed
by the Democratic party.
David E. Sims.
1 hereby announce myself for re-elee-
tien to the office of Tax Collector of
Clarke county, having received tiie en
dorsement of the Democratic party.
H. H. Linton.
I hereby announce myself for re-elec
tion to the office of County Treasurer
of Claike county,having been endorsed
by the Democratic primary.
C. J. O’Farkell.
farmer,
Smith.
but is characteristic of Col.
Will Run for Mayor.—Capt. John
A. Cobb, of Americus, will make the
race for mayor of that progressive little
city. Capt. Cobb is au old Athenian
and lias scores of friends and relatives
in our city. He is one of the sterling
business men of Americus aud will
doubtless be elected to the position of
mayor.
Land Sale.—Mr. E. G. Ware has
sold his beautiful farm in Oconee coun
ty to Mr. Malcom, of j Walton, for $5,000.
Mr. Ware will probable njove to Athens
next y£ar, and make our city his future
home*. We would be delighted to have
him as a citizen.
Madison Bananas.—Madison Mad
isonian : • Mrs. W. S. McHenry
; has a bunch of full grown, ripe, Madi
son, Morgan county, G orgia-raised ba-
j nanas, which are as sweet as imported
ones. This fruit was grown in her yard
! in this city, plucked before .the cold
‘ snap, and have been kept in her room
ever since, where they have ripened. A
bunch of Madison raised bananas is in
deed a curiosity. We tested one, which
had a most delightful flavor.
■■ !” " ft
An Immense Carp.—Mr. Jerry Gray,
of this county, caught an immense carp
last week in the Oconee river near the
mout.i of Sandy Creek. It weighed ten
pounds and was a perfect beauty. He
hail it prepared in the best style for a
Thauksgivirg dinner. The flsh was
first skinsed and then baked, being
stuffed with rich dressing flavored with
onions. It made a very rare and pala
table dish.
I hereby announce myself for ve-elec-
tion to the office of Sheriff of Clarke
county, having received the endorse
ment of the Democra 1 c party.
* ohn W. Wiee.
I hereby announce myself for re-elec
tion to the office of Coroner of Clarke
county, having been endorsed by the
Democratic party.
J. A. Pitneb.
Having been nominated by the Dem
ocrats of Clarke county for the office ot
County Surveyor. I hereby announce
myself a candidate for re-election to
that office. C. B. Daniei-
d&w.
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troubles, and is unequalled
as a liniment.
L. D. Sledge & Co.,
Proprietors.
febl6d&wlv
B UY in Auenrt. September,
or October and pay wh«t
crops are sold. Spot Cush
Prices. The Lowest known,
d ost a little cash down, bahice
December 18th. No interest.
Oar entire stock—any mi. ^
price or style. BEST Sum
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Write for Clrcular-
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The only sate remedy jor
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Decatur.
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Eighth and Ninth Districts.
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but you get it for that.