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bms mm ciEzm, rVBLTSHKD KVKKY WEDNESDAY AT HOMER, - . - GEORGIA. BT THE Banka County Publishing Cos. SUBSCRIPTION: On* year .... >I.OO Six months - - - - .50 To Correspondent*. Write tbe news. Write plainly, and fit* proper names correctly. will correct improper spelling, aud p?. ctu ation. Notices of marriages, deaths, fferi •vltcral and educational matU' S , Church and Sundayschool work 'arc specially requested. Entered at the Pott office at Homer, Go, at tecond-class mail matter. 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. a 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. Clothing. Clothing, HATS, GENTS’FURNISHINGS, Etc. Largest Stock in the City. Prices to Please All. When here come and inspect mv stock. GEORGE MUSE, THE CLOTHIER 38 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, GA., Books and Stationery. I). W. M GREGOIi, The BOOK STORE ATHENS, GEORGIA. Fire Works, Christmas Gooffs and Books in everv variety. Wholesale prices to merchaut*. Pictures. C. W. Motes ARTISTIC. Photographer 34 Whitehall St, ATLANTA, - GA. Jeiec/ry. Trma nd ey ille. DEALSR IN CLOCKS, JEWELERY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Rep Aim no and, Enguaving done with care and warrented to give satis faction. Op. llio college, Athens, Ga. Monet/ to Loan. l\oTici:r Money to IjOhii. 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