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^“I,Cic!er®Su"*8TT. / ■* them. Bauer, Bat. 1832.
ATHENS, GA. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1891-8 PAGES.
Th e rain rei^cth supreme in Athens
ooa turone of mud now-a-days.
One tiling is
certain; Grover has put
democrats thinking.
The
treets will be paved where pave-
niost needed.
nients are
Another winter will tind Athens no
soft spot-
Athens is solid for the pave-
nnntsif they are put where they will
do the most good.
It i< said that the prince of Wales sits
!UU 1 plays poker and feasts all night.
After him was named the Royal Gorge.
don't hear much of Hill
We
now.
Come Governor hold a stiff upper lip.
-Ihe game is not near up yet.
“No Grover in their’n” is the verdict
that Col, Polk, president of the Na
tional Alliance renders for the farmers.
Tom Heed lias the grip. What a pity
thill his last days could not be his best,
ills tim" is soon out.
THE AMERICAN INIiTAN. fled w **h having possessed themselves of 1 the coming storm, and with the devotion of
■ tne riches of the Hamitic and Ueini'ic civ. j the Polish chiefs when they battled against
ibzstion—not satisfied with having made the combined forces of Germany, Austria
their own the wisdom of the Egyptians, and Russia, he sacrificed himself upon his
the arts the Assyrians, the religion of the country's altar.
H- brew—not satisfied with having assum-1 The events of the long and bloody war in
id the proud position of leaders and teach- | which Philip was driven from place to
eis among the nations of the Eastern place are familiar to all. Butin the bitter
world—not satufi-d with “all these they end when his bloody corpse fell into the
most cross the Atlantic to deprive the hands of Capt. Church, we should notice
poor Indian of his native paradise, the inhuman manner in which this civilized
It is melancholy to view the downfall of { and enlightened gentleman disposed of it.
any people, but to ns that of the aborigines Immediately bis Indian executioner was
The anniversary oration of Mr. Walker -America is one of peculiar interest and ordered to cut off bis head which was sent
King, delivered at the University Cnapel I » I'° kv where it was exposed to
last Thursday, was listened to with great The * were ,he °“ ce P road possessors of public view for twenty years. One hand
interest bv the large and cultured audience tl,e 80,1 we now 0,1,1 onr "wn, and by our was severed and sent tcB-iston and exhibit- ,
DTesent y auutenee OWD 8ltel lh( . y „ re „ t this moment being ed in savage triumph. His mangled body steer our state clear of the rocks, It is ne-
His snl.ieet “The American Indian” was I berdt; d *>ke 80 many wild beast in the I was quartered, each quarter bung to a se- cess iry that men should be trained for
one of great historical interest and the I moal desolaie wastes of wbat once tht re parate tree and there left to rot as a mono- mechanic!!; it is necessary that men should
near and forcible manner in which he owu “mlinent. And it cannot be denied nient of shocking barbarity. And yet we, be trained for business; it is necessary that
handled riveted clone attention from I tbat ,l,i8 great nation is now passing from I whose ancest<u8 committed this fearful men should be trained for the fine arts; it
his hearers’ tbe face “ f 1,10 eartb . Who would object enormity, will sneeringly call Philip's is necessary that mm should be trained for
Athens i- the coining railroad town
of the south. Within two or three
months tlie two greatest trunk lines in
tin- Southern States will cross here.
A certain young Georgia editor re
marks that electric lights are bad fora
parlor, as they can’t be be turned down
just a little.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce is
in the potential mood, present tense,
ami there i- no telling what it could do
if all its members were not so familiar
with its declension.
This is pure logic: A mortal is al
ways under circumstances. “Hejnever
gets above them. Under the circutn
stances he is forced to do the best he
can.”
tit
Texas paper lias ceased firing into
m il for paved streets and
says: An ordinance should be passed
requiring butchers to furnish a beef
steak which one tnan is -trong enough
to handle.
H-'ii. .1 ohu T. Boifeuillet will deliver
an address at the Georgia Chautauqua
in Albany next month as the represen
tative ot the Georgia Press Associa
tio'i. Mr. lloiteuillet is a very enter
tabling s| eaker, and will be certain to
entertain the Chautauqua visitors.
Cleveland never fails 10 raise a sensa
lion w hen he writes a letter on public
issues. He is a man who speaks out
wlnt lie thinks whether it be by word
of month, by private letter, or by mes-
s:up' to congress. l!e is a man of brain
anil nerve. \nd yet he is slightly off
on the silver question.
AS PORTRAYED BY THE ANNIVER-
SARlAN OF THE DEMUSTHE-
NIAN SOCIETY.
Mr. Walker King’s Able Address at
the Chapel Last Thursday—An Inter
esting Subject Thoroughly Master
ed.
day, as the brightest page in its history and
to this occasion as the proudest moment of
my life.
Now for nearly a century, as each year
has passed by. some ardent Demnstheniau
has stood upon this rostrum and plead with
yon to love, cherish and protect the in
terests of our beloved society. Yes, highly-
eight such occasions tell us that to-day is
the time for us to renew our pledges and
reconsecrate ourselves to the uplifting of
that banner. Within the sacred walls of
that society, whose historic name yon be
hold upon that ensign, are traiued the
geniuses who will sumd at the helm and
through Ihe raging storms of foreiga war
and the rolling chaos of civil strife, will
Mr. King is a member of Senior class, of , - - - -
the Demosthenian Society and of the P ni I ^ho have no historians or biographers of
Delta Theta fraternity.
His course in college has been or.e filled
with honors, and in the competitive debate
two years since be bore off the Demoslbe-
nian medal.
Below is given the oration in fall
their own to portray with fidelity their na
tive history and noble deeds, and thus per
petuate as a fair and just monument the |
memory of a truly lofty and noble race.
to an bumble, tribute to this dying people. | brothers cruel, relentless, and barbarous I the army and navy, but towering in ira-
savagi-s. I portance above all stands the oiator like a
Again, the story of the settlement of onr I lone beacon perched upon some lofty cliff,
own historic Viruinu presents a striking the effulgent rays of whose bri liant light
parallel to the colonization of New Eng- penetrate far into the surrounding gloom
land. Every event is too well known to blessing those who may be so fortnn&ie as
The few surviving sons of tne forest and I be»r repetition on this occasion. It would to be within its reach. To note the effects
praries of Noith America are at this time a I he but to recall the events in which the of oratory we have but to cast our glance
. . subject of great interest and importance to craft of King Powhatan was overmatched I backward and as far as the eye can reach
Ladies and Gbftleman lue parting I the civilized world, rendered more pecu-1 by the strategy of Capt John Smith. But we behold ghtu-ring wrecks, the debris of
years ot the nineteenth century may justly jaily g0 j„ this age by 'their relative pod- when we remember that the E: glish were I mighty . empires , rich with' overturned
congratulate the American people, lor in- tioti to and their rapid declension from the I simply intruders upon-'Virgini i soil, when I thrones, broken crowns and the crushed
deed we are a happy and prosperous na- civilized nations of the eaitb. A numerous I w ? remember that for. many years they oh- bones of princes. Standing upon the
•ion, In 1716 we were thirteen small and nation ot bunion beings whose origin is tained sustenar.ee from the 'Indians, com- shores of time, with a single beck of the
insignificant colonies scattered a.ong the beyond the reach of human investigation— pensatiog them with a few insignificant band, the mighty orators of the past with
Atlai tic coast. Our western iron tiers lay whose early history is lost—whose time ot trinkets and toys, when we remember that I their matchless power have checked and
within the deadly range of the Iudian rifle, national existence is nearly expired— at any moment the savages could have I turned into whatsoever channels they
and within reach of his seal pi ; g knife. On seven-eighths of whose countiy has fallen I ewept them from the face of the earth, it would, the restless human tide, and the
the east we were hatd pressed by British into the hands of civilized uien in the >8 no1 a hard matter for hs to decide which ureal epochs in human history stand as
bayonets, and English guns were ready to short space of four hundred years—twelve nation is obligated to “the other. At the immutable monuments of their glory,
send shot and shell into our eastern sea- I millions of whose bodies have fatten* d the I death of Powhatan . we were no longer What was it that fanned into a flame the
ports. But the dark clouds of the Ameri- soil ]q the meantime—who have fallen vie- beggars, and true to the Anglo-Saxon blood mouldering sparks of Greek patriotism aod
cau revolution have long since swept be- tints to whiskey—the small pox and the that has ever coursed through our veins, all nervedflhe Athenians to bear heir hreasts
yond our hor.zon, and the Indian is con- bayonet—leaving at this time hut a small surrounding nations must bow the knee, to the Ihvinc.ble phalanx of Philip ot
fined within narrow limits in the west. proportion to live a little longer in the cer- Now knowing that his cause was hopeless Macednn? 'It was the eloquence of Drtnos-
In the short sp’ice of one hundred and Lam apprehension of soon sharing a similar b'wed down with the weight of almost a tbenes. What was it that caused the simu!-
fourteen yea s, we have passed through all fate—this is the matter, ladies and genth - hundred years, so feeble that he must be taneous uprising of the Anglo-Saxon war-
the uiala and struggles of «-ur infant na- I i, # i, who-e rnen orj I appeal to yju to-day I borne by his braves upon a litter, the riors for the recovery of the Holy Land
lion, and to-day we are the foremost peo- to contemplate and pity. brother of the ancient king gathers his and made the earth to tremble beneath the
pie on earth. Iustead of thirteen small The conquest of the old world by our war riors and with the bravery «nd heroiim tread of those mailcovered hosts as they
and insignificant colonies pleading for re Anglo-Saxon ancestors was a contest oi displayed by the Spa; tan king at Thermo- marched toward Jernsalem? It was the
cognition among Ihe nations of the globe steel against steel—it was a contest in which PI lac he performs the las< act of a pa'iiot eloquence of Peter the Hermit What was
to-day, forty-two States and nine territor- ,ioewy arms and stout hearts overcame aml pouiS out bis lire blood for his wigwam it that roused the nations of Europe from
ies are enlisted under our banner, twenty- weaker and more effeminate ctviliz itions— »Dd bunting grounds. their lethargy and made them break their
seven entry ports and five billions of it was a contest in which a mighty race in Two examples of the open-armed hospi- allegiance with the Roman Catholic Church
property ornament the girdle of our coasts, all the strength and pride of manhood pre- | • a '»ty with wnicb our forefathers were re- | at that time the most damnable io-
and we are the guardians of the liberties I cipitattd itself bodily upon others and after
of the western world. Oo the Dorth the subduing them settled down quietly upon
march of our territory has only been Ini- their soil to enjoy the conquest But later, |
li.'ded by the snow and ice of an arctic when the sons ot these same Anglo-Saxon
ceived upon Columbia's soil are sufficient. I stitution that ever existed; expelled for-
I will not burden you with another ever the horrors of the inquisition; inau-
Neither would it be pleasant to repeat. the curated the Protestant Reformation and'
bloody struggles of another Indian war. I opened Ihe eyes of a dying world to the
climate. On the west and the south we ancestors, actuated by the eame giaiping Bat n, y ,a9k would bojncnmplete if I d.d living light of the true gospel? It was the
hive reached the natural limits of the coo- di-position, but guided by all the trickery uot mention the loul blot upon Georgia’s eloquence of Martin Lutner. What was it
tiuent. " and chicanery of civilized men, turned escutcheon, received as she j layed her that reared in the western skies that new
In 1776 we were three millions; to-day iheir prows toward the American shore, in P art •“ thie bloody drume. Where could constrilation of thirteen s ars, and wrested
we are sixty. Where in the annals of the I what manner did they come? Was it as reception have been more hospitable than | from a proud empire her richest colony?
world can a parallel be found to our pro- bold warriots with conquest printed upon •bat given by the Cherokee and. Cheek It was the eloquei.ee ot our Revolt! i inary
giess? The f-rests of a once v rgin con- their banners,proclaiming to the world that chiefs to G>-n, Oglethorpe and the early statesmen. Ho then, let us, ‘f we wish to
linent have melted away and cultivated they would subdue by the might of the settlers of Ge -rgia at Yaraacraw Bluff and exalt our state to the proud eminence she
fields have takm their places. Towns aDd sword the nations they should encounter? al Hols,on, when they took them by the well deserves, be forever found worship-
great cities have sprung up on every hand. Did they descend like the fierce Notsemen band and said, “Brothers here is land ping at the shrine of oratory,{and promot-
Tbrongh each valley the voice of the loco- upoB the English coast, or was it with ‘ nough for us and for you. Lie down upon ing the prosperity of the grand old Deraoe-
n olive is heard. A hundred rivers are gmoo'h tongues and flattering words that onr skins UD,il y° u 0411 m,,ke wigwams tbenian society, so that when anotheryear
plowed by steamships for the transporta- they decoyed the savages into their power, aud mala toT yourselves. How does this shall have passed, we can join in the cele-
ti«m of our products. Churches have and thus gained a footing upon the soil of accord with the sentiments expressed in | bration of the 90th anniversary with the
sprung up without number and our institu- the New World. Only a few tacts will be I Georgia’s legislative balls in 1824 when
lions of learning are unsurpassed. necessary to answer these questions. 1 Oglethorpe s sons said ' that it was absurd
Throughout the length and breadth of It is an old and familiar story how on I ,oal ! ow on “ independent nation to exist
the land, abunjance, prosperity and do- the twenty-first of Dec. 1620, the little band w,lb > n another? Who and whatwaa G.or-
in> siic bapoiness reign supreme. And our of Pilgrim Fathers amid a storm of snow K' a lbat she should claim priority to the
iy is not confined within the limits of I an( j sleet, stepped upon Plymouth Rock I C^ ck9 ‘! nd CheroKces ? Were they not
HARMONY GROVE.
THRIVING, GO-AHEAD TOWN
FULL OF PLUCK AND VIM.
items Gathered by a Banner Man In
Reference to Business Firms and
Other Matters of Interest.
blessed consciousness that our duty has
[ been noblo and successfully performed.
HERE’S A HOWDyTdO.
our own territory. The ships of a splendid I and began to Wild their rude huts. Tue I independent.nations long before, she was I
out - j I .. a j , ; ■ i I lipnrn of? Which nermittprl thp nthor to
An Interesting Case of Crantlng or
Not Granting a Pension.
commetce are found in the most distant I jf .yflowersailed away, leaving one hundrd I heard of ? Which permuted the other to I A Banner reporter met one of the
seas. Our tradesmen have penetrated every Uelpless sools unsheltered from the rigors g row , U P by t»s side? jiow long had it gentleman of the Banks County Guards,
nan of the i.ahitable glob.-. Our navy is of the fierce New England winter withou’ t b «m since the Creeks *wi 42herokees had acomnany known fromJMaiae to Mexi-
amone the lust and the‘Bt r and Str.pes’ l0 od, without clo bing, alone am.d the 1 " K ’“ ' *” 1 J wl “ - ----
wrues a
11
‘‘Toil.i !e p- iitenq>!> arrive
■ -s.ly iditor. You me wrong
com'lienee a faire chain), maia nous
v.'ilM dans l’hiver pourtaiiL—Bruns-
wi. k l imes.
Both wrong. Sliamee ooee Melican
nniniiee puttin' once airs! Volapuk,
Oke. fenokee. Ya ! Ya !
^ • ♦ M —
The Dallas Morning News thus sizes
up the average Texas law-maker: We
can almosr. hear some of our great men
making speeches down at Austin. They
strike their desks with their fists and
ami shake their heads in rabid disgust.
They foam over at the mouth and are
wild. Who will attempt to hold one of
them. Tiger!
are reverenced and respect, d by every na- wilds of an American forest. Where, and 1
tioo on ea' tb. . ask you to ponder seriously as you considei,
But how much l>ku a dream does it seem could any company of human beiugs be
lo us, standing amidst the growth and de- left in a more destitute cuuditinn and more
velour.), nt of the present, viewing the vast completely at the mercy of those upon
nanoiama of ciii’8 and towns that now whose shores they had been landed without tre 5f“ re - ,
covers our beauti.ui land, when we r.fleet ^mission? In U.e rn.dst of that fierce I Not content with having wrested from
ib .t tour hundred years ago American soil winter tue piigram father stood in his rude Philip the rocus of New England, nol con-
been able to drive the little handful of in- I co, and inquired of him if there were
truders beyond a mure formidable bound- I many widows living whose husbands
ary than the Mississippi? Bat now when I belonged to this famous company, who
Ihe white man is able,might triumphs over a re entitled to a pension under the late
right, and to-day the poor Indian starves, | act of the Legislature
and we enjoy the fruits of the illy gotten
then a wild. rues?. Not. yet bad the buffalo bosom thinly clad and shivering with cold,
anu til- antelope been s'at tied from theirM At her breast his babe, and clustering
wild retreats by the shrill whistle of the around lierkness bis cbilaieo Ciyit.g for
canine* still smoothly flo ed the wnt.rs of bread. Love them as he mny, hanger and
our ure.it rivers, unruffled by the powerful cold must sooner or later claim them as
propellers ot a thriving commerce. Our 1 Uwtul victims. The savages of Massachu-
conunenl stood fresh from the hand of setts came to the rescue and the colonies
Moil), r nature, cloibca in all the beauty of w ^ re saved. And thus the red men of New
her primeval robes, as fresh and blooming England warmed back into life the ser-
hs a biidr on her nuptial eve, awai ii g the pe m that in a few brief years was to coil
arrival of her future lord. Bui alas, how , 18 ugly length closer and closer around his
soon were tier msgnificsnt lobis to be rent bo.iy and at last prove more fatal than the
and the glow ol health to leave her cheek, garment of Nessus.
Says the McDuffie Journal: The
farmers of Georgia use annually 300,000
tons of commercial fertilizers, so says
Commissioner Nesbitt. How much of
the cotton crop is required to pay for
Hus immense amount of fertilizing
materials? When you have ciphered
"ut that problem then add to it the
amount annually paid out for horses and
mules, and you will begin to see where
the hard earnings of the farmers go to,
IT WILL RISE AGAIN.
I he S D»:e free coinage bill was
practically buried in the House of
Representatives yesterday by tbe
adverse report of tbe committee on
c linage.
i he republicans,seeing tbeirchance,
did not meet the question fairly, but
sent the bill to the bottom of tbe
calendar with 1200 measures ahead
of it.
And, hence, so far as this present
congress is concerned, the question
of free coinage is at rest.
Rut '‘it is a long lane that has no
turning,” and the action of the Fed.
trul Senate will yet be vindicated
aud that of the House will yet be re
pudiated.
ihe next House will be so heavily
free coinage as to pass it even over a
president’s veto, while the Senate
•buy be tbe same.
11, however, Harrison should veto
, e biRf it will be incorporated into
the• tight in 1892, and made an issue
before the people in the presidential
tamp a jg n>
The people are determined to have
•ree coinage of silver, and tbe gold
bugs will have to crawl into , their
bfles in the wall.
Like Banquo’s ghost, the free
coinage bill will not down at the bid
‘Rng of its foes.
Though buried now, it will rise
rise again.
rrver. 1 The colony ofthe Puritans, as is well ? S^^Slon* SS of1W ^entitTedT a pensmn.
Ou October 12,1493,as the cry of “land > known, was founded In tue territory of 8 “ h»n.»^« ,h ’onr P nimhlr« she is stin livin 2 in Banks county, and
rang <>ui from tbe Pints the eyes of civiliz-1 Sachem, Massasoit. For fifty yean P 8!r ' 1 5’- ta„d»“^Sd*flft? needs the pension,
d man for the first time rested upon the this powerful chief fostered and protected to hand? “1 hope Tip Harrison will let her
undo soil of - new world. , | in the midst, of bis country tbe infant | | draw the money, as her husband was as
gallant a soldier as ever shouldered a
musket,” said the old veteran, with
proper respect for the memory of his
dead comrade.
content With all these things the govern
ment must snatch the last crumb from the
red man’s tattle and deprive Osceola of
Florida of even the poor swamps, and
leave him a miserable captive loaded with
chains to die in Fort Sumpter because be
had committed tbe great crime of defend
ing his country.
Only one thought more and we sba'l
conclude. Possibly, Gen. Miles says, “if
we should put ourselves in tbe place of the
red man we might comprehend his feel
ings to-day as he battles against our troops
ti ncu nvei vaucjro, hac i ueiilii overcame massus.-uii hdu uih posset- i ___ «ho* tbis want «..»*
gems between the ruggid heights. In the glo ' D 8 descended to bis brother Philip. But ^!l£rnin hv slvtw millions
shndv retreats ot vast lorrsis the timid deer now the insignificant settlement of half a tloent had been overrun by Eixty mi ions
sk DDod nimbly as yet unf.ightened by the CenlU ry before had develop^ intba flour- People, from Africa India or China
buuMman’s horn. Over the prairies count- i9 hing community. Cities and forts had ^“^eS ^ere older and better than
I. ss millions of the lordly nwoi.s roamed, been built and tbe people were not only a “d beltelR werei older ana Detter tuan
Ann ruling over all and thus fulfilling the a ble to defend themselves but to dictate to oure » nhti<»tn» r ..i a ?n
divine command, we find here also the sons tbe surrounding tribe*, their former bene- guage, jmbits al, d rehgi , ging us
of Adam—Ihe red men of tbe forest. factors The whites grew insolent towards |
Ot tbese aboriginal inhabitan'B, tutored I tbe Indians and were determined tbat
alone by the hand of nature— whicn is the Pbilipshould be subservient to their views,
hand of God—some sixty millions were !□ justification of the acts of this chief in
fouud ou Ameiicau soil. In North America what followed, I would simply direct you
aloi e twenty millions of our brothers, to the r* cords of Plymouth Colony as they
clothed it may be in red skins but originally now exist, aod ask you to take note of how
i-uised at the same breast as ourselves, were they point to the fact that our forefathers
the uod sputed possessore ot tne sod. were the first to pick tbe quarrel, how for
Ladies and gentlemen, it shall be m,. | a crime commit ted in Phiiip’s own territory
two Railroaders Nearly End Their Days
in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Feb. 18.—Mr, George W.
hair according to tluir fashion, five upon I Watts and Mr. Adam Jones, two watch-
the same food, sing tbe same songs, wor-1 men for the Western and Atlantic rail-
ship the same Allabs, Vishnus and Brahmas; . Ber i 0 uslv injured by a Geor
and we realize that such a conquest and “! . ™ u “- . /
the presence of such a horde of enemies f>i a Paoific tram Tuesday mght.
bad become a withering blight and a de- The two men were counting.the num-
straying scourge to our race; wbat then her of Western and Atlantic cars stand-
would be our feelings toward such a peo- | ing on a side track, near the old soap
factory, on Marietta street, when the
pie? In considering this question we may
— " T~ r~- h „„ imnartiftl I lawful «.„i.Wt« nnr forefatiieni 6e able to realize something of the feeliogs out-going freight train on the Georgia
very
days
have melted swsy .
,oyo.. Ud i »..d E ».le„ OT . a. I »<. Omul . ^1 ZZ
from twenty miinons of happy prospvrotw sober and thinking men and women, as x * w0|lM , t0 y ,. a> as creatures The loss will reach *100,000; no insur-
human beings, fed by the bountiful band m .. n and women whoTiavei a.love for jus whom , be LordGod Almigh'y hasendow- once. The road would have _been in
of nature, they have dwindled ''ce, truth and nght. where is ihe prmce of ^ ten(ler an ^ gV mpatheiic natures; i operation March 1st. but the fire will
• j_ J ...<1 Atfu fhniiarinfi thflt DOW UTHCT I ♦n.riaw who Allilhl 17 fit And WOUlU DOt LSP I ..**.• p dclsj Of QU16ty d3^S«
Crcenbacks as Waste Fapea
Albany, Ga., Feh. 19.—A guest who
registered at one of the hotels here,
handed an envelope to the party tem
porarily in charge of the clerk’s desk. It
got in the waste paper and was accident
ly found by the nignt clerk, who discov
ered several hundred dollars in the pack
hundred end fitty thousand, that now drag to-day who ought not and would not I anneui to vou arbelng" who have a love I
out a wretched existence upon western re- to resent such an insult to bis power ? I f ^P: us .: ce y lrut i, an( j r j»ht* I aDDeal to vou
aervatlons; sad how in thh trie! space a where is the monarch worthy to have the women P to wnder
m nulstion of sixty millions of whites have Danie , if be does not protect the life or his “ “ nd I atTsure
fobbed them of their lawtul possessions. gu hj,cU? Justly exasperated and indig- f of «sen"
r °Th<f Indians of No.tb America nbne Philip dec,ared SiltSStS cbivah^nadon wt
shall claim our alien,ton for when we have it-g. But even now in the taee.ot insult t .. .
learned a few incidents concerning tho L n d injury, he baited and submitted the dis- * Tliev waste us av like tbe Aoril snow
sufferings and wrongs of these people, ad pute to tbe arbitration oi Mass, Bav Colony. I. ^ ’ P shrink awav- and 1 -—-—
will lie revealed tons „ f 15^ « we go toward the | 'I!™?*, ^
lue wuoie siory ui uuinounne cou.u wiusiy .. . -v-jf «ii th _ i flnd ereu severuiuuuu
of oppression- It is Plymouth but that bis subjects should sur- the western \ •&- He kept it until a lively search in
ly nations over-lap- r.-nder up their guns, their only means of an FXw a Dem«L1L^a°ns:-ThSwh e ich thembrmng developed the ownership of
the envelope.
It iTa*sadfact.’that the whole storyof | Butcott>ing could satisfy the avaricious I follow us as we go
the human raca is one of ' T *
but tbe story of mighty _ - . _ ^ -
ea “TbS'sssy , re » m .».™. i as* h » ft
begin with tbe earliest accounts of man- moned peremptorily b. tore the council-. of onr P beloved society
kind and upon the very spot where the My God. where was such insolence ever be- But I would eveTfeel
Gorden of Eden was sitnaUd. The few , 0 re practiced upon the human race. T..»t t b '“ ftEn hntv had b°en left mi
faint rsvs that emauate from tbe earliest I an independent chief because his ekiu was I , , . . .. . , m u - .t-
S.SR? the nations struggling red sh.mld refuse to obey bts Mhnr. w bS&Stoli
for supremney. The earliest authentic his- when they had a mind to comma, dhim, of for wKlXll ever toS iu-
tory of mankind beginB with the migration the justice of whose mandates be wtou-ji dehted lo you. Believe me when I tell you
westward o* th* : Ary eh peoples from tbeir I to inquire, surely these tbiugs csll for do J , . » annn*rlate more tbun aov favor that
homeihccntral Asia. 7^ve after wave of comment Ba, the haughty spirit of our ^“o^ffibDSbn^hwmld^
this mishty human tide has shaken the savaRe hero was equal to the emergency,[ f ?.* aDD ^ a t e it as a gift from^ne I Jay Gouid says he is feeling weU.
shores fanher and farther !.^nii P d r .u a , h^wr n'd'ue^t onir^wlth brotber t0 another. If tbe Fates should Pear trees are beginning to bloom in
in succession reaching a more dia'ant der, replied fflat ^ wi md treat on y 8lrow roy p , lth with tbe sweetest of flowers Tallahassee.
clime, till At lust the jarring ot tbenmig y e samecounuw that actuated’Wil- a,>d cast at my feet tbe brightest laurels, I Stanley says that lecturing is a more
surges has" been felt upon the America I p‘ . * Oriintfe believimz himsHr am 8ure none can ever be appreciated I tiresome business than exploring Africa.
SS? “ft Bx-S«retary Bajatd ba. aged a good
Friday a Banner representative spent
a very pleasant day with the clever and
accommodating people of Harmony
Grove. Of coarse he made the Central
Hotel his stopping place, aud right.here
will take occasion to say that there is
not a more popular house in Georgia.
It is kept by Mrs. Barber, who knows
exactly how a hotel should be run. Tbe
rooms are comfortable and tbe fare ex
cellent as many of the drummers from
Athens and other points can testify to.
Harmony Grove is one of the growing
towns of the State. A new bank build
ing iasoon to be erected, while another
large brick building will go up at the
same time. Contracts for these have
been let. Tbe homes are all comforta
ble and tasty and not a few of them
new.
The financial condition is. very good.
The tax rate is only -40 enjs on the
hundred dollars. With a population of
800 and the cotton receipt* annually
being 14,000 bales, and a splendid trade
from all the neighboring country, we
repeat the financial condition is good
and the outlook bright.
To, add to this her town affairs are
placed in the hands of capable and wor
thy officials. Mr. T. E. Key wears
worthily the honors of the mayor aud
has for his councilmen the following
gentlemen, all honored and respected
business men: Mr. E. B. Anderson,
John D. Barnett, Dr. F. M. Hubbard
and Mr. D. C. Nichols. Mr. W. W.
Stark is City Attorney and Mr. W. A.
Quillian, Treasurer.
Her educational facilities are very
fine. The Harmony Grove High School
is something of which all the people of
Harmony Grove may be proud. It is a
handsome brick structure, costing
*8,000, and it is the paying for this
building that makes the taxes as high
as 40 cents on the hundred dollars. The
school is presided over by Prof. J. H.
Walker, a graduate of the University,
class ’87, a very popular and well in
formed young man. He has for bis as
sistant Rev. G. W. Duvall, and Misses
Lizzie Peek, Ida Shankle and Mbs Ad-
die Stokely is music teacher.
The number of pupils enrolled this
season is more than 200 with 153 now in
attendance. In this number there are
twenty-five boarders. The rate of tui
tion is very low, the average being two
dollars per month. Four years ago
Prof. Walker took charge, the number
of scholars being 80, while the average
attendance this year has been 180.
There is also another schotl in two
miles of the place presided over by Mr.
J. E. J. Lord, with one hundred names
enrolled on the list of scholars.
Religiously, Harmony Grove has a
record not to be ashamed of. The Bap
tists, Methodists and Presbyterians
each have neat and comfortable boild-
ings in which to worship.
Rev. Wm. Coile fills the pulpit at the
Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Newton, the
Presbyterian'and Rev. G» W. Duvall
the Methodist. Tlte attendance on both
church and Sunday School exercises is
very gratifying to the good people of
that section.
In the secret fraternities the Masons
are most popular, there being two
lodges here, the Royal Arch and
the blue'and both have a large active
membership. On Thursday night a
large delegation of their bretherin
went to Jefferson to institute a new
lodge.
Among the largest and strongest
business firm is that of Hood, Anderson
& Co. They are the gentlemen who will
shortly commence the erection of the
new Rark building, and who will own
a large share of capital stock.
R. A. Echols & Bro. are manufacturers
of wagon and buggies and also handle
Western work. They have 20 years
experience in the busines and have been
at their present location 12 years.
The photograph gallery is presided
over by Mr. T. J. Allen, who has been
an artist all his life. His gallery is a
favorite resort where his specimens of
work are complimented 8 on all sides
He has been at bis present stand 2 years
and in that time has made 9,000 pictures.
His prices are very reasonable. For
cabinets he gets *1 for 4 and $2.60 per
dozen, card size 4 dozen $1, other prices
in propotion to 8x10 pictures.
Stapler & Co., W. J. Stapler and T
Cole, proprietsrs of the wagon and
buggy works, have & splendid business
They put out quite a lot of new work
which always gives satisfaction while
they do a large business in the repair
line. They use nothing hut the best
material. Nothing infearior in this
line allowed in their shop. They manu
facture cultivators, and shipped 200 of
them to South Carolina this year.
They have been in business three years,
and their success has been all that they
could have hoped for. Their wagons
and buggies will compare very favorably
with any offered on the market.
One of the leading business houses
of the place is that of Mr. C. D. Stark,
who has been merchandising at his pres
ent stand for the past five years. The
increaso in his business is very great
Frotn $10,000 his sales now reach
$25,000. He carries a full line of gro
ceries and dry goods. An evidence of
bis prosperity is found in the fact that
all liis clothing, ready-made, were sold
out before Christmas. Mr. Stark never
fails to sell a man the second time who
will give him the first showing, He
also has a fine line of buggies and har
ness, and has also a good trade in this
line. His shoe trade is also quite an
item. We have no hesitation in rec
ommending this bouse as_ one of tbe
most prompt and reliable in Harmony
Grave.
W. A. Quillian & Bro. have for tbe
last ten years occupied their present lo
cation, and their business has steadily
increased all these .years. Mr. J. J.
Quillian. of tbe firm, is now in Cincin
nati baying buggies. They sell num
bers of these as well as harness. Their
stock of dry goods and groceries is very
large.
Power & Williford are among the
leading houses of the place, carrying a
splendid line of merchandise. The wri
ter did not get to speak with either of
them, as one was North and the other
in Athens. But, we could see from
tbeir stock and learned from the clerks
that the firm was enjoying a splendid
patronage.
Among-the prominent firms of course
we must number T. E. Key & Co. Mr.
Key went from Athens to Harmony
Grove several years ago,and commenced
business, carrying a general line of
Ex-Secretary Bayard has aged a good groceries, dry goods, etc. Mr. Key was
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glad to know that his house has a large
and growing trade.
The Hardman Hardware Co. have a
splendid trade. The business was es
tablished seven years ago, and has ever
been on the increase. This establish
ment is the only one of the kind in the
town. They, carry a splendid line of
pistols, stoves and tinware; all kinds
of buggy and wagon material. Also
agents for the Eureka Cotton Planter.
Have a good line of blacksmith tools,
farming implements and rubber belting.
A general drug business is carried on
by Dr. L. G. Hardeman & Bro. Mr. T.
C. Hardeman, of the firm, was in college
here last year and hqs many friends in
Athens. They do & wholesale and re
tail business.- A stock powder manu
factured by them is one of the best
preparations of the kind on the market.
They also handle the Hawks and Rosen
berg Spectacles.
Dr. L. J• Sharp is also a wholesale and
retail druggist. He is a graduate of ’83,
at Ohio Medical College. Attended
Poloclinics Post-graduate school in 1889.
He gives the principal part of his time
to thepracticeof medicine. The whole
sale drug business is under the manage
ment of his brother, Mr. B. B. Sharp.
He also manufactures Parasiticide, a
remedy for itch, which is a perfect suc
cess, relieving in 30 minutes, and harm
less as soap. This preparation is in the
hands of Mr. P. W. Sheppard. A great
deal of it is sold in this and adjoining
states, and almost without any adver
tising.
The Barber band, which furnished
the music iu the chapel here this week,
is one of the attractions of the place.
The serenades by this band are always
appreciated.
Want of room prevents a more ex
tended notice.
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A BUSY SCENE.
WHERE INDUSTRIAL ATHENS fS
CLEARLY SET FORTH.
A Wonderful Industry Is That of Klein
and Martin—What a Plucky Pair of
Mon Have Done for Athens—Great
I mprovements.
After studying awhile the old “B.
G.” said he could only name one, and
there was some doubt about her get-
tiug it, as the death was due to a fight
member of this famous company was
also at home on furlow.
He and Nat Harris imbibed a little
too much corn whiskey, and a fight
was the result. Bob McCollum stabbed
Nat Harris aud killed him. Bob was
arrested and put in jail at Horner. He
had his trial at the- next term of the
Superior Court, found guilty and sen
tenced to the penitentiary, where he
stayed until Gov. Brown turned out the
convicts.
Now the question is will the widow
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Duquesne
Traction company’s power house at Bon
New Street Railroad.
Carrollton, Ga., Feb. 19.—It seems
now that Carrollton’s street railroad will
materialize very soon. The . matter is
being worked up and lines will be built
ere long to the depots from. the poblift
4- busy scene of industry.
That’s what confronts the eye of the
visitor who enters the spacious rooms of
Klein aud Martin’s wood and iron
shops.
Here is to be seen the livest and most
industrious set of laborers, the best reg
ulated system of work and the most
complete and attractive stock of vehi
cles, harness, carriages, buggies and
wagons for farm and city use to bo
found in Georgia.
BOMB WONDERFUL ENLARGEMENTS.
Some very notable enlargements have
recently been made in every department
of the shops, and what is better for
Athens’ future prosperity,as well as for
the continued success of this enterpris
ing firm, many more improvements
will be made before the year is ended.
The concern grows bigger every day.
•‘Yes,” said Mr. H. E. Martin, one of
the enterprising members of the firm to
a Banner reporter yesterday, “we have
determined to build up our establish
ment fully in keeping with the wonder
ful growth of Athens and her surround
ing country. We have very greatly en
larged our facilities for turning out the
very best vehicles to be found in any
shops South.
THE MACHINERY IS PERFECT.
“Besides almost doubling the floor
space of our building we have brought
into|use at some expense it is true, the
very finest machines and tools known
to tbe science and trade.
“We have employed and keep con
stantly at work more than twenty
bands, equal to more than thirty with
the use of the very latest appliances.
And what is far better tbe prospects are
such that lead us to contemplate even
greater additions in the near future.
“But look at some of our work.”
Here Mr. Martin conducted the re
porter to a spacious hall and ushered
iim into a scene of many dazzling at
tractions.
Dozens of handsome buggies, car
riages, surreys,road carts and other ve
hicles drawn up in solid lines were
there, and tbe shapeliness of their fash
ion and tbe beauty of their color almost
outrivalling the rich varnish of an old
Stradivarius violin made it„a charming
array of workmanship, in very truth.
“We are also better prepared to do
repairing than ever before and for
making vehicles to order. The wood
work and iron work is all carried on to
gether and we can take an order for a
wagon and have it finished before night.
How does that strike you?
“Yes,” he continued, “we are ready
at all times to do the very best repair
ing to be done in any shops of this coun
try.. Wagons or buggies are put i&_
good shape on short notice, and horse
shoeing Is executed according to the
latest improvements. If anybody
thinks, however, that we only do re
pairing they are mistaken. We are
each day turning out wagons, buggies,
carriages and the like in rapid succes
sion, and our harness department is al
ways filled with the very best single
and double harness to be found in the
land.”
“There are six departments to our in
dustry now: Wood work, blacksmir,h-
ing, painting, trimming, horse shoeing
nd tbe harness departments.
“The harness department is as com
plete as any other, though it is only a
recent institution with us.”
The reporter came away concluding
that there is not a more successful ana
thorough establishment in Athens than
this, and not a more enterprising pair of
f entlemen anywhere than are Messrs.
[. E. Martin and J. H. Klien.
’Rah for Klein & Martin!
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Produce.
New Yoke. Feb 21.—Floor quiet; city mills ex
tra. 85.00a5.85 for West-Indies; Minnesota extra
$3.4jQ5.65; super fin* 83.15Q5.S0; fine, 8&G0Q
3.45.
Wheat opened at higher, and further ad
vanced in first hour; Na red winter, 8L1$$
cash; May. $1.0T.
Corn strong and steady, tat unchanged; Na i
mixed, 64Ho cash; March, 62}da
Oats dull; No. 2 mixed, tatfo cash; do May
Mfce.
Now York Futures.
The opening and closing quotations of cotton -V, rj
futures in New York. Adi
New Yoax.J'eb. 21.
VST I Sn^^UThiTw^ta ^ f^r I to live, my meuioiy
he i? still in good health.
sick during our stay and we were sorry
not to get to speak to him. But we are
February. -
March..'
Jnuo
July
August.
September
October-
November
December.........:
January.
Colton quiet and
40,000.
Opening.
.. 8.77£5..
.. 8.75®...
.. 8 820..
..8.200..
. 8.870..
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