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UNIS COUNTY GJEZTTR,
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BOMER, - - - GEORGIA.
BT THE
Biakt County Publishing Cos.
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To Correspondents.
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give proper name* correctly. We will
•orrect improper pelling, and punctu
al ion.
Notice* of marriage*, death*, asri
*e It ural and educational matter*.
Church and Bundayachool work are
apecially requested.
Entered at the Pettoffice at Homer,
6 a., at second-cla*t mail matter.
Homes, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 4.
The banquet of the real estate men
iu Atlanta was a grand success.
A* we predicted David B. Hill was
elected to the senate from New York.
Ingalls denies the report, that he i*
going to lecture. The man doe* not
appear to be utterly abandoned, after
all.
The Tribune-of-Rome seems to
think (T) that our next governor will
be an Atlanta man—Atlanta’* present
mayor.
Mr. Harrison i* mad because the
force bill has been killed. A man
with more brains than Harrison will
be elected president 1892.
Hon. William Windom, secretary
of the treasury of the United States
is dead. He died very suddenly in
New York on the night of the 28th
of January of heart disease.
The proverb says that the devil
always leaves the bars down, but
judging from the rapidly increasing
saloons throughout the country he is
now engaged in putting the bars up.
Jay Gould will soon visit the south
ern states. He will be on a tour of
inspection over the railroad? of the
Richmond terminal company, of
which he was recently elected a di
rector.
The Toccoa News advocates tobac
co culture in its county (Habersham,)
and seems to think it would be a
source of considorble wealth to the
people. God deliver us from such
wealth.
The late Earl of Shaftesbury said,
when epeaking of the wrongs of
young girls which he had been investi
gating: “When I feel how old I am,
and know I must soon die, I hope it
is not wrong, but I feel I cannot boar
to go and leave the world with all the
misery in it.”
" Tin Gazette, of Homer, is now
edited by our friend Colonel Mack
Edwards, son of Rev. T. J. Edwards,
of Alpharetta. And Mack will give
the people of Banks county a good
paper.—Alpharetta Free Press.
Thanks awfully.
The movement for. a cotton com
press in LaGrange has assumed a de
finite form. A petition for incorpor
ation published in the LaGrange
Reporter last week shows that there
is something in it.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
LaGrange is the town that supports
the newspaper and votes prohibition.
Georgia has never had a better and
clearer headed governor than W. J.
Northern He thinks well before he
acts and the state is safe in his hands.
He is not going to let seoretary No
ble govern the schools in this state
and divide the money appropriated
by the government equally between
the whites and colored of the state.
This would be an unfair division,
John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, has
been defeated for the United States
senate. It was done by the combined
vote of the Alliance and democratic
members of the general assembly of
that state. This was right. He
ought to have been defeated long ago.
The country has no use for such
tyrants as Ingalls and Reed. Judge
W. A. Pfeifer is the new senator
from Kansas. He is in sympathy
with the people and will, no doubt,
make an able senator.
The Atlanta Journal is one of the
brightest, newsiest and best edited
evening paper in the south; we could
safe!) say in the United States. The
Journal is an originsl psper, full of
vim and get-up. The Journal now
has two lightning presses upon which
to print their daily edition, one press
being inadequate. The Journal issued
its first sheet less than ten years ago,
and its growth has been marvelous.
Under the editorial management of
Colonel Josiah Carter and his able
corps of asssistants we predict for
the Journal a bright and prosperous
future. Tb* Weekly Journal is well
filled each week with choice and in
structive reading matter, and it bids
fair soon to equal any in circulation.
Vick’s Florai Guide for 1891 has
been received at this office, and it is
as handsome as ever, embracing some
new features. The prizes annually
offered for the best vegetables are
doing good work in the south, as well
as elsewhere. A Georgian took the
prize for melons with a hundred
pounder. t
Whisky Mon Aroused.
The liquor dealers of North Caro
lina are considerably exorcised over a
movement they have discovered to
change the existing law regulating
the granting of licenses by boards of
county commissioners. The move
ment was started by the county com
missioners of New Hanover, who are
trying, by circulars, to get all the
boards' of commissioners iu the state
to unite with them in petitioning the
legislature to make the change. The
liquor sellers claim that the proposed
change would place them at
the mercy of third party boards
all over the state, as the clause which
now reads tha - . on certain conditions
county commissioners “shall issue
licenses” has been changed to read,
“may issue licenses.” Several other
radical changes are proposed, and the
scheme having aready gained consid
erable lioadway, it is causing conster
nation among the liquor men.
A Chicago judge has just granted a
man a divorce heause his wife pre
ferred life in New York to living in
Chicago with her husband. New
York may put her tongue in her
cheek at Chicago’s divorce courts,
but Chicago judges know a good
cause for divorce when they see it—
Chicago Time.
The Montezuma, Ga., Record has
Brother Branham, of the Tribune-of-
Rome down pretty fine. IJere is
what the Record says: “The editor of
the Tribune-of-Rome is not a farmer,
but a school teacher. The next thing
you hoar ho will be advising the far
mers to plant billy goats near the
fence so their horns can run on the
rails.
Mr. E. W. Halford, the president’s
piivate secretary was in Atlanta a
few days ago, and while he would not
discuss politics, said he thought the
political atmosphere would be cleared
of all fogs before 1892 and that the
republicans would again elect the
president. He evidently has been
dreaming, for it will go down in his
tory, that Mr. Benjamin Harrison was
the last republican that occupied the
white house.
If you are the happy possessor of
a true friend, you have no right to
make merry over his little defectß
and trifling weaknesses of character,
especially in tho company of those
who dislike him. To do so is, to put
it mildly, very thoughtless. If friend
ship is anything more sacred than
a mere name, it ought to make a fre
quent use of the mantle of charity.—
Nashville Advocate.
A writer to the Methodist Times
suggests that the church should at
once “put her prayers into practical
shape, and use her influence to lessen
temptation” by beginning with those
Methodists who hold grocers’ licenses,
and by discountenancing the baneful
country custom of treating people
when shopping. We also say that if
every Methodist church would ban
mil alcohol from the Lord’s table, the
licensed grocers would be deprived
of the last plea they cau possibly use.
Sir Coutts Lindsay has a scheme
for establishing a circulating picture
loan society in London, similar to
that of circulating libraries of books
and music, >
O’FARRELL & FUNKENSTEIN, Furniture Dealers and Undertakers, and LEADERS OF LOW PRICES
THEN THEY HAD PAPERS TOO.
An Amnnlng Episode of Street Car Travel
la the Capital City.
A Washington gentleman relates the
following street car episode witnessed
recently;
“I boarded a north bound cable car
down in the heart of the city about
dusk, and as usual there were no
seats left I took a position near the
door. At the next comer two young
women got in. They were bright look
ing. and one was particularly prepos
sessing in appearance, but she seemed
to be very tired—from having operated
a typewriter all day long, perhaps.
Every man seated In that car save two
was snugly ensconced behind his even
ing newspaper. The two without news
papers were each huddled up like a
ball almost, and had their hats pulled
down over their eyes and pretended to
be asleep.
“A small newsboy squeezed himself
through the crowd on the platform and
dried out hiß evening papers, with poor
success. On his way out he was stop
ped by one of the young women—the
prepossessing one. Her face lightened
up as by some bright idea. She whis
pered something hurriedly to her
“ ‘IU dare you to do it,’ replied the
other.
“ ‘AH right; I'm not afraid. Here,
boy, give me two papers. Give me the
hugest, and never mind the change,’
she said eagerly.
“Then, in a perfectly self possessed
and matter of fact manner, she walked
to the oenter of the car, where sat the
two individuals with the slonch hats.
She took the papers with her, and her
movements were followed by the eyes
of most every one in the car.
“ ‘Here, gentlemen, please have a
paper,’ said she, thrusting one of the
sheets toward each of these men.
‘For it is too bad that of ail this car
load you should be the only ones with
out anything to engage your attention.’
“And the two men, at first not com
prehending the situation, took the prof
fered papers, but tlie laugh of the
others who had witnessed the per
formance brought them to their senses.
They turned red, and soon found it
convenient to ride the rest of the way
on the front platform. A number at
men who Imd enjoyed the other fellows’
discomfiture, and admired the woman’s
nerve, tendered her and her friend
seats. Both, however, declined with
thanks, saying that under tne circum
stances they were well satisfied to
stand.’’—Washington Poet
Pfw Hook*, but Good One*.
In the distant days when I was-a
boy, books—at any rate among us
•choolboys In secluded Mona—were
not easily procurable. We possessed
bat few ourselves, had never heard-of
simulating libraries and saw only one
weekly newspaper, If we saw any at
ill Perhaps the modem schoolboy,
who reads half a dozen newspapers,
who is often familiar to boot with ail
the sporting newspapers and all the
“society" newspapers, and all the IIP
erary and religious journals, and who,
besides swimming every day la these
turbid waters of popular Journalism,
may surfeit and satiate himself with
scraps and tid-bits and shilling shock
ers, and novels with green and yellow
backs, and sensational literature of ev
ery possible descript ion, may bo inclined
to regard us with pity as vry benight
ed beings. I think, on the contrary,
that we were distinct gainers by not
being buried under mountain loads of
nonentity and rubbish. We could get
hold of Sir Walter Scott’s novols, and
Fenhnoro Cooper’s and Capt Marry
at's, and had read them all and dis
cussed their characters among our
selves.—Canon F. W., Farrar In Fo
rum.
An As In the Mall*.
A huge ax, such ns Is used by fire
men, came In the malls a short time
ago, and landed In the dead letter
office because it was nnmoilable for
three reasons—it Is sharp pointed, It is
over weight and over sir a Axes are
not allowed in tho mails, although
some people think there is no limit
prescribed. There are persons who
would start a threshing machine or a
sawmill through the malls if a poet
master could be found reckless enough
tp give it a start—Cor. St Louis
Globe-Democrat
Ductility of Gold Wire.
Gold can be drawn out Into wire*
which possess considerable tenacity. A
wire only one-twelfth of an Inch in di
ameter will bear a weight of about 180
pounds. But that Is not so strong as
Iron, copper, silver or platinum wire.
The ductility of gold, however, is so
great that one grain weight of this
metal can be drawn out as a wire to a
distance of 600 feet—Chamber’s Jour
nal.
Tho late Joseph Edgar Boehm, the
Viennese sculptor, who was so great a
favorite of Queen Victoria, was very
fond of horses, and trained his own to
pose as models for his equestrian work,
one of these animals, a thoroughbred
mare, having learned to pick her way
about the studio without disturbing &
tool or cast and to rear or hold a leg
immovable in uir at her master’s com
mand.
Do you want to teach your dog
tricks! Let him bo alone with you,
when you are at work with him. 11 is
attention will wander to every one and
everything else if you attempt to teach
him In a room where there are others.
Trainers who prepare dogs for perform
ing in public do their training at night,
everything isstill * _
Clothing.
Clothing,
HATS,
CENTS 1 FURNISHINGS, Etc.
Largest Stock in the City.
Prices to Please AH.
Wbeu here come and inspect my stock.
GEORGE MUSE,
THE CLOTHIER
38 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GA,
Books and Stationery.
D. W. M c (xREGOR,
The BOOK STORE
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Fire Works, Christmas Goods and
Books In everv variety. Wholesale
prices to merchants.
Picture*.
C.W. Motes
ARTISTIC.
Photographer
J2r34:Whitehall St.
ATLANTA, - GA.
Jewelry.
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DEALER IN
CLOCKS, JEWELERY, SILVER
AND PLATED WARE,
Repairing And. Engraving done
with care and warren ted to give ealis
m.
action.
Op. the college, Athens, Ga.
Money to Loan.
NOTICJE!
Money to Loan.
Parties wantiug to borrow money
cheap on farm lands can get it on very
short notice by coming to see me or
writing to me at Jefferson, Jackson
county, Ga. J. W. HILL.
Shoemaking.
W. F. HILL,
'Boot and Nlioc
MAKER,
HOMER, .... GEORGIA.
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