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BANKS tOLNTV 61EZTTB, rUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT HOMER, - - * GEORGIA. BY THE Banka County Publishing Cos. SUBSCRIPTION: Ob# year .... SI.OO Six month# - - * - .50 To Correspondent*. Write the news. Write plainly, arid give proper names correctly. We will correct improper spelling, and punclU’. ation. Notice* of niarri&aes, deaths, acri cultural and educational matters, Cbnrch and Sundaysebool work are specially requested. J&ntered at the Postoffice atllomer, Qa ., at tecond-class mail matter. Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Jan. 14. Valedictory. I take tliifi method of stating to my friends and the public generally that I am no longer connected with the Banks County Gazette as editor and business manager. My connection with the paper and with the public though it has been pleasant and profitable to me. I have lroen treated with uniform courtesy and kindness, for which I am profoundly grateful. I don’t feel that I am “clean goi.e forever,” however, as I am still a member of the stock company and hope to mix and mingle with tho people of Banks county for years to come. In taking leave of tho editorial chair I can Hay that I love every stock holder and subscriber and advertiser connected with the paper. I havo good reason to hope that the paper under its present manage ment will fill a large place in the homes and hearts of the good citizens of Banks and surrounding counties. Yours truly, Toecoa, Ga., T. O. Rorik. January Bth, 1891. Smallpox haw appeared in many places in Texas. The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. How much is it worth a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things? The five Hill conspirators have been taken to the penitentiary at Columbus Ohio. Thsrs at but three steps to heaven, out of self, into Christ, into glory.— Rowland Hill. One of the hardest tilings man has to contend with, is to keep from re venging an enemy. The most important thought I ever had was that of my personal respon sibility to God.—Daniel Webster. No man ever said a truer saying than Mr. Gladstone when he said “to be womanly is the greatest chariu of Wtoman.” He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get there.' The way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.—Bishop Home. The fulton county Alliance is go ing to organizo a company with ♦lOO,OOO capital for the purpose of esta dishing a canning factory. Fight hard against a hasty temper. Anger will como, bnt resist it strong ly. A spark may set a house on fire. A fit of passion may give yuou cause to mourn all the days of your life. The other day two revenue prison era in Fulton county jail were given morphine tor quinine. Both qjeu were in a very dangerous condition for quite a while. The direct trade, convention will meet in Atlauta to-day. This will l>e a meetiug in which every farmer is interested. The governors ot several southern states will be there. It is •aid that European capitalists will be represented. A vote on the silver bill will be siren to day. It is earnestly hoped hat free coinage of silver will soon -wine a law. Tyrant Tom Heed said he would not interfere with ton passage of the bill in the house. Some “Funny” Signs. Under the above head the Atlanta | Journal, a good old “anti” paper, ' which claims that prohibition is an | infringement upon the rights of free men, prints the following article: “The frequency with which elec ; tions are occurring lately is ‘riling’ the | barroom proprietors. “They are becoming satirical. “The state law compels all the bar rooms to close on election days, and during- the past two months there has been an election on ati average of nearly once a week. “The bar room men stood it with out complaint until last week, when an election for bailiffs occurred throughout the state. “Then they hung out funny sj gnf in front of their closed doors. “ ‘We are closed to day cm account of an election for that moat important Officer—a bailiff! a bailiff!!’ “Other signs similat/ to this are seen in front of such establishments all over the city. “To-day the regular county election compelled them to again Otos-j thir doors. And here are the signs announcing the fact “‘Closed on account of our regular weekly election. N. B. We pay license just the same.’ “A number of others have similar signs, all emphasizing ‘on accotyrf of our regular weekly election.’ “In front of one is the following expressive sign: “ ‘Election—Johnny Get Yoti'k Gun.’ “That’s all, but it's well understood. “And another proclamation w flic a began: “ ‘Get your liquor to-day or weep to-morrow. Regular election, etc.” The bor-roonis are right in their complaint. In the name of justice what right has our law makers to compel a man to pay for a thing that he does not get ? Wo arc in favor of all the prohibi tion we can got, but we want it hon estly. We are not in favor of selling tho barkeeper tho privilege of dealing out death and damnation to his fellow creatures and then demand that he close his doors the days that ho could do tho largest business. If it is just ibat he be allowed the privilege of murdering his brother and sending his wife and chi'dren to the poor house or to beggary, then why hamper him with prohibitory laws and deny him the right to sell when ho could do the most hurt? If it is expedient that the nation should be taxed millions of dollars annully to support charitable institu lions to take care of the paupers created by the liquor traffic then let the bar-rooms exercise tho privilege that they pay for. We want prohibition, but we want it honestly. If it is not safe to sell liquor then let us not license people to do so. Let us be consistent. Chief Justice Bleckley, of this state has little sympathy with those who do not pay their preacher. In de ciding recently that a certain church must be sold to pay the salary of the preacher lie said: “If any debt ought to be paid it is the one contracted for the health of souls for pious min istrations and holy services.” Tho chief justice has very correct ideas about the payment of debts, partic ularly tho obligations to preachers. There are a grert many people, lib oral in other respects, who will not pay their preacher or for their news prper as long as they can avoid do ing so.—Gainesville Eagle. The Election. The election last Wednesday passed off very quitly. There was less drunkenness than we have seen at an election in many years. We ure glad to see that our people are on the up grade on this line. The vote was a surprise to many, but all the men elected will make good oflieel's, and those who were defeated are among our best citizens and would have made good officers if they had been elected. There was a great deal of hard work among the voters at the Homer precinct and :5T2 votes wore polled. Asthediy began to wane excite ment began to rise and all the energy was brought forward. You could hear more said about the race be tween Messrs. Turk and Dyar, for clerk and Messrs. Henderson and Scoggins for sheriff. About four I o clock the news began to come in j faom the neighboring precincts and I you could see dozens of men meeting O’FARR ELL Furniture Dealers and Undertakers, and LEADERS OF LOW PRICES, the couriers to obtain the vote. The managers at Homer did not finish counting out the vote until half-past eight o’clock and long before this hour many of the candidates had the official vote of all the other precincts. Mr. Henderson was reported to have 22 majority over Mr. Scoggins and Mr. Turk 51 over Mr. Dyar. At 12 o’clock Thursday the vote of the county was consolidated and the following hs'ithcTCffnlL.—— m,m VOTE SHERI*#. F. M. Henderson - - 570 W. A. Scoggins - - - 567 B. J. Purcell 16 CLERK. L. N. Turk - 600 -RTT. f)yar- 7 526 collector. 'X H. J. David - - - 102& N. E. Wells - - - 93 RECEIVER. J. K. Chambers - - - 335 ■T. M. Segars - - - 651 Love Martin (colored) - - 127 J. 11. Breaks ... 15 TREASURER. G. Q. Forbes - - - 412 W. H. Meeks .... 311 iTTrMttiei : —T 210 W. A. Boling - - - . 198 J. R. Eubanks - - - g 5 BUKVEYOin~~" ' li. C. Alexander - - - 426 CORONER. O. 11. C. Smith ... 517 Joseph ParaonK - - - 126 Job Brock .... 2S Mo’ris - IK) "'At tins writing Mr. Scoggins is .speaking in strong terms of con test ing the election of Mr. Henderson. If this you will see the “fur. fly,” for both gentlemen will employ the best legal talent that can be had, iind no stone will be left unturned. Is It Sentenced to Death? It seems that the people of the county have determined that there shall never be a railroad to Ho.uer. Why have they done so? Is it be cause we are too poor? No, our means are sufficient, and what we need is will and energy. Build the road and develop our county. No county in Georgia has finer water, or water power. T core are plenty of shoals in the county with streams large enough to run the largest of cotton faetorios. Oim- timber is the finest on earth, and is in an almost inexhaustible sup ply. This ought to be put on the market and let the owner receive the profits. Our farming lands are unsurpassed. Where is the country that has liner bottom lands, on which to grow corn, wheat, oats and all kinds of grasses! Our uplands are of the finest grade, and produce more cotton to the acre than the lands in middle and south Georgia. There are hundreds of acres in tho eoun y that farmers can make a bale of cotton to the acre, and there would be hundreds more of such acres if we had a railroad. Land in the county is worth more to day than it ever was before, and there is not a tract of land in the county but what would bo enhansed iu value thirty per cent as soon as dirt is broken for a railroad to Homer. There is a gentleman living in Mays* ville who owns land near Homer who says, that if we will do our duty to wards getting a road to Homer, that he will take pne thousand dollars worth of stock, for said he: “My property iu Banks would enhance in value mors than a thousand dollars.” Now, why not build the railroad du ring the year and show to the people of the surrounding counties that we are not going to bo left behind. When we build a railroad to Ho tner you will see peopla here every day wanting lands, houses and timber. Our town will grow and have a tine school, and our churches will be finished up in the manner that they should be, and the county settled up with men of means to develop our lands, timber, minerals, and utilize our magnificent water powers. Did you know that iti the very heart of the county there is an almost inexhauslable supply of the very finest magnetic iron ore. But how can this be utilized without some means of shipping. If we will build the road, we will see manufactories of every descrip tion going up, towns springing up in all parts of the county, property en baneing in value aud the most pros perous county and happiest people in all the land. j Clothing. Clothing, HATS, GENTS' FURNISHINGS,Etc, Largest Stock in the City. Prices to Please All. When here come and inspect tuv stock. GEORGE MUSE, 33JE CLOTHIER 38 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, GA, Books and Stationery. D. W. MGREGOR, 7 The BOOK STORE V ATHENS, GEORGIA. Work*. Christinas Goods and ! Books Niii everv variety. Wholesale ; prices fcoSmerehanis. y Pictures. ARTISTIC. Photographer v ; 34 Whitehall St, ATLANTA, - GA.. pfc~ IT j acre dry. AT. MA •TLVn.LL laF DEALER IN CLOCKS. JEWELSHV, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, ItKPAittixa and Engraving done with care aud warrented to give natis* faction. Op. Ihe college, Athens, Gn. Mi meg to Joan. “IXOTIQK!" Money l o Loan. Parties waii.ing to borrow money cheap on farm lands can get it on very short notice by coining lo see me or writing to me ai Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga. J.W.HILL. ShoemaMng. w . f ~ hTI l, i Boot itmi SSioe MAKES, IIOMKR, .... GEORGIA. Repairing of all kinds neatly done. FP.EE FOR EVERY QftE WHO Bfllili TAKE THE TROUBLE TO ASK FOR IT. ■i Os SEMY feMS a S a ijTiOIJ SUBSCRIPTION PRICE SI.OO PRR YEAR. THE CHEAT SOUTHERN WEEKLY, 1,51,000 WEEKLY, READ BY NEARLY A EIIiLUON READERS, *ST Agents make $25 to SICO per month working for us. Send for Outfit. Easiest paper in America to get subscriptions for.-os REN H9IX MAMK i OP. HA H PI.E. CO ** f .R. Write on a Postal Card tho name? and addresses of YOURSELF ao4 and Semple Copies of The tirt'al Weekly will be teat FiUSE of charge. 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NOTE.--If you want Gie&ouihc-ru Farm the best monthly for Farmers evvr printed, sendgl.C J and both Faria and will he sent you for a year. ' Address THE CCNSTiTUTIOH, ATLArITA, OA. ' | IF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF BANKS WANT TO BUT GUANOES [ 1 OR VEHICLES of any character they would do w ell to call on CAIIITH KRS Ac BETTS DEALERS nr BKWS, CiBBUCES. QLIHKURf WM, ROAD CARTS, FARM IMPLEMENTS AND STANDARD FERTILIZERS, Jing'gies From $3,j.00 Upwards. 610 II Clay tori and— Broad Streets, Athena Georgia. A TMs Space- Still Belongs And if any of the good people of 1 Banks want to buy a PIANO or ORGAN or any other Musical Instrument they can find it at our Mus'c House, and we will sell them at a lower price and on easier terms than any music bouse in Georgia. Call and see us at NORTH-EAST GEORGIA MUSIC HOUSE, 112 Clayton Street, Next door to Pcst-office, A-tlieiiM, - Georgia. Still The Ball Rolls On! AND THE People Keep Rolling In, AND I CONTINUE Selling the Goods. IF VO! 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