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IMS tOLNTT (iIEZTTEji PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT j HOMER, - - - GEORGIA. —BT THE Banks I'ounty Publishing Cos. SUBSCRIPTION; On* year .... SI.OO Six month* - - - .50 To Correspondents. Write tbe new*. Write plainly, ami *• proper names correctly. We will •orrect improper spelling, and punctu ation. K*tice* ol marriage*, deaths, aeri •ailcral and educational mailers, Chore!) and Sunday school work arc •psciall/ requested. 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. Fire Work*, Christmas Goods and 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. Repairing of all kinds neatly done. FREE FOR EVERY ONE WHO WILL TARE THE TROUBLE TO ASR FOR IT. THE WEEKLYGONSTITUTION SUBSCRIPTION PRICE SI.OO PER YEAR. THE GREAT SOUTHERN WEEKLY,ISI,OOO WEEKLY, READ BY NEARLY A MILLION REAPERS, aer Agents make $25 to SIOO per month working fop us. Send for Outfit. 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