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Entered at the Pestoffice at Homer,
aa second-class mail matter.
Homes, Ga., Wednesday, Jan. 21.
Smallpox have made their appear
ance in Savannah.
Hon. Thomas Hardman, of Macon,
<• sL’k.
'
State treasurer Woodruff, of Ar
kansas is short in his account to the
amount of $94,000.
Governor Hill, of New York, will
be the next United States senator
from that state.
Atlanta will have another exposi
tion this fall. Atlanta and the Con
stitution never get left.
Raise your own provisions *t home
and keep out ot debt, if you want to
be prosperous and happy.
Prof. R. E. Mitchel, principal of
the Ivy street school, is dead. He
w* in the front rank of southern ed
ucators.
Commissioner Bradwell is on the
right line. He is going to deliver a
lecture in every county in the state
on the subject of education.
The discussion between Dr. Armis
tead and Carswell, at Douglusville,
has been closed with the devil on top.
He is always in his glory when he can
stir up strife among members of the
church.
It is stated by the Atlanta Journal
that the wife of William Freeman of
Nicholsville, Ky., has given birth to
a child with two natural faces, hear
ing different expressions. It is alive
and promises to thrive.
We want all the agricultural news
we can get. The Gazette is not,
and will not, fight any class or organi
zation. We want to make the paper
the best county paper in the state.
We hope the farmers of the county
will try experiments of different
kinds and let us have the result for
publication. You can do great good
by exchanging views.
While in Athens, Monday we were
reliably informed that Mr. T. L.
Gantt was soon to take charge of the
Farmers Alliance, publisheu in Atlan
ta. Mr- Gantt is now in Washington
for the purpose of buying the $4,000
stock in the paper belonging to Dr-
McCune. Mr. Gantt is a great advo
cate of the Alliance principles and
will no doubt keep the paper up to
it* present standard.
Let any one turn to the occasional
reports of the bonevolont societies,
end he will find the word saloon, or
one of its synonyms, staring at him
from every page and almost every
paragraph. It is liquor, liquor every
where, the beer-keg and the wine
cup! Let him read, for example, the
annual reports of the Societies for
the prevention of cruelty to children,
and he will tied that in nearly every
case in ail the long and fearful list of
crimes and outrages perpetrated upon
innocent and helpless childhood
which have come to the knowledge
of these societies, strong drink is at
the bottom of it—the drunken father,
the drunken mother. Let him road
of the work of the social purity or
ganisations, and he will find the wine
cup and the lewd products of the gin
mills, the obscene picture, the filthy
song before him as the chief things
to be fought against and overcome.
The brothel and the grogshop are
often one and the same; they are
never far apart.—Christian at Work.
A Plea for Public Roads.
Editors Gazette :
I wish to give my views on .be im
provement of public roads of Banks
county. Nothing will add more to
our county than good roads. The
present road law as it stands, compell
ing boys under twenty one to work
the loads is unjust. That to exempt
men over forty years of age from such
duty is also unjust. That the whole
system under which the roads of
| Banks county are worked is unwise.
The remedy I suggest is:
lath. Repeal the present law.
2d The passage of anew law and
a different system.
I propose this system of working
the roads of Banks county:
Ist. That each male citizen be
tween the ages of twenty-one and
forty-eight years be required to pay a
tax of two dollars annally to be ex
pended on the roads of his district,
he being allowed to work it out under
certain circumstances.
2d. That a special advalorem tax
be collected on all property for road
purposes.
3d. That a competent civil engineer
be employed bj r tile county, and that
all public roads be placed tfttdcr his
general control).
4th. That each district employ one
or more men with good road sense,
under whose orders all public roads
shall be worked.
6th. That no roads shall be changed
under any conditions except such
change be an improvement on said
road.
6th. That all roads are not as
straight as the nature of tne country
through which they pass will admit of
be straightened at once.
7th. That no temporary work shall
be done on public roads.
I now ask you as citizens of Banks
county to consider these things anil
see if it would not lie an improve
ment on the present system of road
working. Respectfully,
A. B. Means.
The legislatue of North Carolina
has passed a bill to pay the solicitors
of that state a salary instead of fees.
Georgia would do well to pass such a
law. ‘
Cheap.
Mr. W. E. Hope has been present
ed with a fine ten pound girl.
There has > een many changes of
families within the last two weeks.
There is quite a number of new
buildings going up in this neighbor
hood and carpenters are in demand.
Stock law has gone into effect in
Berlin district, and we are well pleased
with it.
We are well pleased with our new
preacher, and we are expecting much
good from his labors at Mt. Pleasant
this year.
Mr. W. T. Cochran planted thirty
acres in cotton last year and made
■early forty thousand pounds of seed
cotton which noted him nine thou
sand nine hundred and twenty-four
pounds of lint. He only used one
and one-half ton* of guano.
Most of the people are beginiugto
make preparations for another crop.
Hurrah for the Gazette. Every
body ought to take it, thereby sus
taining home enterprise.
If this does not find its way to the
waste basket I will write again.
Rex.
To Save.
Broadway, New Yoik, is crowded
with car*, trucks, mail and express
wagons, cabs, hacks, and private ve
hicles. Only by the superior skill of
the drivers ar collisions and a block
ade avoided. It is the main highway
of the trade of the State of New York
>
a commonwealth of five millions of
people, but it is also more than that.
It is one of the chief avenues of trade
of the United States, and is more
than that. Through this artery flows
the life-blood of the trade of the
world in a large measure. On these
trucks are wares coining from r.n l
going to all quarters of the earth.
In cars and cubs are men on the way
to meet engagements relating to com
mercial affairs the world oYer.
The clang of the bell of an ap
proaching lire engine is heard. Trade
draws out of the way, cars are arrest
ed. Nothing is allowed to hinder the
swift advance of engine, hose carriage,
and hook-and ladder truck. A work
of destruction has begun, and must
be arrested. Property and perhaps
life are in actual peril, and must be
O’FARRELL & FUNKENSTEIN, t urniture Dealers and Undertakers, and LEADERS OF LOW PRICES,
preserved if possible. Therefore, the
trade of the world is arrested in
its rush, draws away to this side and
ibßt to give a free course to tho*e
who run to save.
Again, on the same great thorough
fare, at an hour when the hurry and
pressure of trade and travel is at it*
height, the sound of the bell of the
coming ambulance is heard. Some
one has been injured, perhaps severe
ly or almost fatally. Minutes are
precious. A life hangs in the balance.
Someone is suffering, is perhaps tor
tured with pain All men, even the
rough aad brutal, see visions of a
human form in agony, of a family de
pending on a bread wiuuer who is
hurt, who may die if relief is not
speedily given. The ambulance and
medical attendant have the right of
way, and now again the trade of the
world hastens out of the way to give
an open road to those who fly to save.
These spectacles, seen almost daily
by those who frequent this world’s
highway, are impressive, affecting,
pathetic, instructive. Thi* at times
fieics, always urgent, strenuous, hurly
burly, forgetting the things that are
behind and pressing onward to reach
the goal, acknowledges that above
every other business is that of those
who go to save. Time !s money to
these men on express wagons and
trucks and cabs and cars, but time is
a thousands times more than money
to those whose call is to save. The
resolute rushing throng instantly rec
ognizes that salvation is above every
other business, must have a free
course, and accompanies it with sym
pathy, and probably with many a
prayer that it may not he too late.
Shall the Church of Christ learn a
lesson from such scenes? Shall it
ho convinced that to nave meu from
death 18 an urgent business, to bo
attended to promptly, with energy
and all the power the Church can
command? Snail it learn that to
save is the chief work intrusted to it;
the work to which it has* been ap
pointed and for which it is endowed
and that it should be performed, even
at the cost of the neglect of every
other business, if need be? God
spares no cost to save; he gives his
only begotten, well-beloved Son to
be the Savior. The Lord Jesus gives
himself; gives all that he is and all
that he has, devotes the fullness of
tha Godhead, to save men. The
Church of God should feel that its
chief business is, under God,' to save.
—Christian Intelligencer.
Hollingsworth.
There is considerable moving and
changing.going on in this section at
this time.
The High school at this place will
open on the lirst Monday in February.
Tiie trustees have secured the services
of Professor W. H. Shelton, of Dab
lonaga, to teach for the present year.
Mr. Wade Ayers, of Habersham
county, has moved near thie place to
school his children.
Mr. John Payne, near Carnesville,
was up last Monday looking around
for a house to rent to move his family
in to send his children to school.
Mr. John Hobson, of Cornelia, has
moved his family in our midst to send
his children to school.
Dr. P. Y. Duckette and Mr. J. W
Peyton made a flying trip to Atlanta
on business Monday of last week.
They are two of our best citizens.
Mr. Charles Sweet’s store at Long
view was broken into Sunday the
11th of January by a negro, who
carried off a couple of suits of clothes
and some other goods and took them
to the woods and hid them, but they
were found on Monday, nnd he was
arrested and taken to llomer.
Bishop William Taylor, of the
Methodist church, says: "Poor Afri
ca’s deplorable condition under the
rum curse is darker than when the
stealing ef millions of its people caus
ed Livingstone to call it the ‘open
sore of the world.’ A hundred steam
ships that sail from many European
ports to the west, south, nnd east
coasts carry a cargo principally of
rum and gin. Hamburg alone, by
two lines of steamers, exported to
Africa 200,000 tons ef rum last year;
and many other cities, including our
own Boston, are engaged in the nefa
rious busines of turning a Missisippi
of death and destruction upon the
defenseless Africans, annually deci
mating whole sections of that coun
try.”
Clothmn-
Clothing,
HATS,
GENTS’FURNISHINGS,Etc,
Largest Stock in the City.
Prices to Please AIL
When here come and inspect mv stock.
GEORGE MUSE,
THE CLOTHIER
38 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GA,
Jiooks and Stationery.
1). It. M'GREGOB,
The BOOK STORE
ATHENS, GEOKQIA.
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Books In everv.variety. Wholesale
price* to merchants.
Pictures.
CWlotes
ARTISTIC.
Photographer
34 Whitehall St.
ATLANTA, - GA.
Jewelry.
A. 8. M AN DEV I RLE.
DEALER IN
CLOCKS, JEWEL2KY, SILVER
AND PLATED WARE,
Repairing and. Eng having done
with care and warranted to give satis
faction.
Op. the college, Alliens, Ga.
Money to Loan.
TToticir
Money to I^oan.
Parties wanting to borrow motiev
cheap on farm lands can net iL on very
short notice by comiiiii to see me or
writing to tu% at Jefferson, Jackson
county, Ga. J.W.HILL.
Shoemakiny.
W. F. HILL,
Boot mill 81ioc
MAKER,
HOMER, .... GEORGIA.
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