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Hcukb, Ga., Wednesday, Jan. 28.
Athens is to have anew fire alarm
system.
Gillsville is going to build a $1,500
school building.
Congressmen elect Winn, Everctte,
Livingst*n and Watson have been iu
Washington learning the ropes.
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Rrof. R. C. Alexander sa) s there
can be a railroad built from Homer
to Wilson’s church on the Northeast
ern railroad with very little cost.
The editor of the Gainesville Trih
uhe seems to be desperately in love
with Brother Craig, of the Jackson
Herald. Wonder if he is a married
man ?
Mr. T. L. Gantt says he is going
to build a hotel in Athens. He will
hare his hands fall building a hotel
and editing tho Southern Alliance
Farmer.
A few days ago J. E. Morris the
absconding bank cashier of Atlanta
was arrested in New Orleans and
brought back to Atlanta. The way
of the transgressor is hard.
The Cnrnesville Tribune handles
the Fanners’ Alliance somewhat
roughly. Miss Ellen ought to remem
ber that there are several old bache
lors belonging to the order.
We are glad to receive news items
from different parts of the county,
but we must have the Dame of the
sender or we cannot publish the com
munication. We don’t want the
name for publication.
Ex-post master-general William R.
Yiias has boon nominated by the
democrats of Wisconsin to succeed
Mr. Spooner in the United States
senate. There is no doubt but that
be will be elected.
There was a Royal Arch chapter
pf Free Masons established at Har
mony Grove last Wednesday night.
A. \V. Wolihin, Grand Secretary of
Grand Chapter of Georgia, was leader
in the establishment, assisted by those
who went from Athens.
■ The committee of the California
legislature, to which the subject was
referred, has reported that the bill
appropriating a million dollars for
the representation of the pronducts
of that state at the World’s Fair is
Unconstitutional,
Wliy Not Be Consistent ?
The press throughput the country
ever since the devastating war be
tween the states ceased has l>eon
teeming with advice to the fanner.
How he should lay his crops, how
fertilize, how to prepare, how till the
soil, and above nil how he should live.
He should ÜbC economy and live
within his income, no matter w lmt
his income amounted to. He should
by all means keep out of debt.
Now, after a number of veal’s of
' hard struggle the press or some
other factor, has waked him up to a
realization of his situation and ho
has gone to work in earnest to repair
*hxs lost fortune. In other words he
has seen tit to adopt the suggestions
of the newspapers, and in order to
more effectually put in practice the
newspaper theory he askes all his
brother farmers and kindred laborers
to join him in establishing an organi
zation foe the purpose of co-oj>orating
and consulting with one another for
the mutual benefit of all.
Dut the order is not fairly launched
before the press sees ruin lurking iu j
the atmosphere and cries aloud in
opposition. The more sensible and
prudent, however, saw that they were
beating the air and quietly acquiesced,
but there are a few country weeklies
who still persist in their war as though
they expected to accomplish some
thing they know not what, and should
they turn the tide in some other
channel they would be just as much
dissatisfied. In fact some people
wouldn’t be satisfied in the peniten
tiary.
Two men—one white, the other
colored—entered a grocery store,
three miles from Savannah Jan. 26,
and calling for drinks gave the pro
prietor, Henry Fehrenkarnpf, a S2O
bill.
The latter turned to open his safe
for change, and as he turned his
back one of the men covered him
with a revolver and ordered him to
throw up his hands. The negro
covered the clerk. Felirekampf
sprang for his rifle, and as lie did so
was shot in the back, the ball strik
ing his spine. The clerk was shot
twice by the negro. Fehrenkarnpf
fired twice. The higwaymen escaped
and the wounded men were brought
into the city.—Atlanta Constitution.
In No Sense an Observer.
Why does Mr. Rider Haggard
wander about collecting “material”
for a novel? The “material” with
which most of Mr. Haggard’s writings
are equipped might from all appear
ances have been furnished from a
primer history and a map. lie is in
no sense an observer—even though
he was the first to remark the pervere
vagaries of the African moon in ris
ing on different nights successively
from all four quarters of the heavens.
The faculty by which Mr. Haggard
holds his readers is that of a inugnif
cent, primitive, hashish-fed imagina
tion—not so difficult to exploit as the
imagination founded on observation,
but capable of engrossing interes
and attention. Why Mr. Haggaad
should scurry around after literary
material for his fanatic stories and
chimerical fiction is accordingly some
what mysterious.—Chicago News.
Coat.
We are having fine weather.
The farmers of this community arc
preparing for another crop.
There are more weddings to take
tn the neighborhood. Mr. E. S. Hen
drick and Miss Millie Massey and
Mr. J. E. Sheridan and Miss Amanda
Parker, of Mt. Air.
We learn that Mr. J. E. Ritcli lias
a good school at Berlin.
Mrs. Sarah Mize is visiting her
sister in Atlanta, Mrs. Ma*tlia Mul
ler.
If I see this in print 1 may write
again.
Why They Oppose the Business.
The drink tariff, which is admitted
to be the cause of four-fifths, if not
a still larger proportion of the crimi
nal expenses of the country, and it is
the greatest demoralizing and brutal
izing element in society, it is very
properly resolved against by the
farmers’ organizations. The union
meeting of June 19th, declared itself
unalterably opposed to the traffic,
and the Indiana State Alliance, on
’22nd pf last month, put itself on
record in similar language, as follows:
“We consider the liquor traffic det
rimental to our interests, morally,
menially and financially, and are,
therefore, unalterably opposed to it
in all its bearings.”
To those who' have examined the
subject, it is not strange that farmers
who are our heaviest tar payers, are
thus hostile to the business. It is
the great waste of wealth, the de
stroyer of pros|eiity aud the menace
of good government. According to
the U. S. revenue reports, govern
ment tax was paid last year on over
91,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits,
aud 778,000,000 gallons of fermented
j liquors. The total retail cost of this
vast amount of liquor would exceed
81,‘200,000.000. This vast sum has
been paid during the year, for that
which has been of no benefit, except
to the distillers, brewers and saloon
keepers, and has been a total waste,
and worse than waste to the caunlry.
It was spent mainly by laboring men,
who could poorly afford the outlay,
and who, but for this wasteful and
harmful expense, would have bought
more bread, meat and vegetables,
clothing and other comforts. In
O'FARR ELL & FUNK Eft STEIN, Furniture Dealers and Undertakers, and LEADERS OF LOW PRICES
other words, they would have been
more liberal costomers of the fanner,
and would have given him a vastly
better market for his produce.
If this liquor had not been sold
and drank, there would have been
hut a fourth or a fifth as much crime
and criminal expenses to be taxed
for; but a fourth as many paupers
and insane to be cared for. The
new jail need not to have been built,
and instead of the criminals eonfined
there at the expense of the tax pay
ers, there would have been more la
borers, mechanics and others earning
money to expend for the products of
the farm.
In view of such facts the resolu
tions we refer to are most appropriate.
They mean something too. When
the farmers come into power, there
will be an earnest effort to abolish
the saloon, and we sincerely hope it
may prove successful.—lndiana
Fanner.
Hreuking l T p Camp.
In accordance with amended or
ders issued regarding the departure
of troops, two troops of the Eighth
cavalry marched to Fort Meade. The
Seventh cavalry and Captain Capron’s
battery started for Rushville and will
finigh the march in two days, when
they will ho joinod by the sick and
wounded, who will be moved tonight.
The cavalry’s winter camp will be
pitched on the Rushville road, about
six miles from the agency. The
company of scouts, to lie organized
from among the Indian police, wl.ose
term of enlistment expired yesterday,
is to lie sent to Fort McKinney, under
command of an officer of the Sixth
cavalry, and General Miles says lie
will select the Indian delegation to
Washington in a few days.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Sawed His House In Two.
Street Commissioner Patterson, of
Kansas City, Kan., and his corps of
workmen yesterday sawed off and
tore down the Kansas end of the no
torious Bill Lewiston’s saloon in
Toad a-Loup. The Missouri end
was left standing, yawning and bleak.
The saloon stood on the state lino of
of Kansas and Missouri, and Lewis
ran the place without a license. The
exact location of the line was never
determined until yesterday, ang-
Lewis, when arrested by the officer of
one state, always claimed to be doing
business in the other. Yesterday the
state line was definitely located, and
that part of the building found on
the Kansas side was sawed off and
torn down. —Atlanta Constitution.
Alone on His Island.
The story,of Dick Basset, the Her
mit who lives on a small is’and in
Traverse Bay, Mich., is interesting.
It appears tlmt the island is not on
any map. Neither the state nor the
general goveruent knows anything
about it, and when Basset who has
lived there twelve years, wrote to the
government to buy it, they replied
that no such place existed. Ba>set is not
a citizen on this account, has no taxes
to pay, and is not allowed to vote, be
cause he has no residence in the
United States. Recently he applied
for a warrant for marauders, anil was
refused, because the crime could not
be located in the United States. The
island contains two acres, is in a
high state of cultivation, and Basset,
who is a college-bred man, says be is
king of the smallest settlement in the
world, and owes no one allegiance.
Traverse Bay pierces the lower
peninsula of Michigan in a southerly
direction, is itself nearly divided into
two equal pints by along, slim penin
sula. In the western arm of the bay.
about twenty miles from Traverse
City, lies Hog Island, which contains
about two hundred and fifty acres;
just east of Hog Island is the queer
little neutral dot whereon Basset
makes his home. It is entirely sur
rounded by the state of Michigan, so
that no foreign power can lay claim
to it, and it is not likely that any se
rious opposition to its annexation by
the United States would be offered
by its single inhabitant. Basset makes
a good living in the summer ly fish
ing in the bay, and spends his winters
working in the lumber camps. If his
domain is ever added to the United
States it will naturally form a por
tion of Grand Travers county, Mich.
It is the source of a great dcil of
mortification to known that Mrs. H ir
rison of the White House is io. a
subscriber to the Uazetts.
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