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BMS COUNTY GIEZTTK,
PUBLISHED EVKKV WEDNESDAY AT
HOMER, - - - GEORGIA.
Bunks County Publishing Cos.
SUBSCRIPTION:
On* year - SLOO
Six months - - - - .50
To Correspondents.
Writs tlie news. Write plainly, and
give proper names eorrectly. We will
serrect improper spelling, and puuctu->
ation.
Helices of marriages, deaths, agri
saltcral and educational matters,
Church and bundayschool work are
•pscially requested.
—as-stars rcrarr
Entered at the Pottoffice at Homer,
Ga., at tecond-clatt mail matter.
House, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 18.
General Sherman is dead. It is
said his last hours were peaceful.
The State Agricultural society
will hold its next meeting at Athens.
Col. P. M. Edwards, the editor of
The Gazette, was in Harmony Grove
Saturday night riding the Masonic
go*t.
The night school in Atlanta was
opened Monday night. This school
will fill a long felt want among the
working class of that progressive city.
Tip Harrison, a clerk in the execu
tive department refuses to have any
thing to do will) the pensions of the
confederate soldiers, the claims come
through a pension agents hand.
It will be remembered, that the
Rev. T. Pickett failed to bo elected
to congress. It is now stated that
lie is now an avowed candidate for
the state Bcnate in his senatorial dis
trict,
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The long talked-of change of the
Covington and Macon railroad into
the Richmond and Darille Nystem has
materialized, and now trains will run
through, carrying sleepers, from Lula
to Macon via. Athens.
How could the people got along
without the Atlanta Constitution?
When it comes to news it is unsur
passed, nay, has not an equal in the
state as a morning newspaper. Long
may it live and bring us the news
from all quarters of the globe.
The Tennessee river is forty feet
above low water mark at Chattanooga
and the city is almost entirely sur
rounded by water. The trains on
some of the railroads can not enter
their depots, as their tracks are cov
ered with water
Mr. Cleveland has ruined his
chances for the presidential nomina
tion in 1892 by coming out against
the free coinage of silver. It is the
best thing for the country that has
happened, for he is not the man for
the place. We want a democrat
elected that will turn every republi
can that holds office out, and have
truly a democrat administration.
When Me. Cleveland was president
almost as many republicans held
office as democrats. This ought not
to be, for to the victors belong the
spoils.
Banks County Alliance met in call
session and was addressed by Col. H.
P. Farrow on subjects pertaining to
the good of the order. The following
resolutions were adopted as the senti
ment of Banks County Alliance in
regard to the executive mansion
e&ucus:
Resolved, That we condemn with
all the power within us, that self-con
stituted committee that met at the
capitol the 6th instant, and published
resolutions condemning our state
organ and its editors, and we beg to
remind them that we have an exteu
tive committee to overlook our inter
ests in this respect, and we recognize
said committee as the only source
from which said complaint should
come, and we pledge our support to
the Southern Alliance Farmer so long
as it is recognized by proper authori
ties as our state organ, but in due
time we would be glad to see the sug
gestion made but our National Presi
dent, Polk, in bis annual message at
the National Alliance, at Ocala, Fla.,
carried out, by our state organization
owning and controlling our state
organ.
Our last legislature was elected
iijon the promise of a short session,
thereby curtailing the expenses and
a saving of the people’s money, but
alas, it bag not turned out that way.
The last legislature cost the people
more than the legislature of 1888 for
the same length of time. Here are
the figures of State Treasurer Harde
man. The forty-eight days’ session
of the last general assembly cost
861,375.87. The corresponding ses
sion of the legislature for 1888 cost
857,374.12. This makes a difference
of over four thousand dollars. But it
is all right. It was the people’s
money they were spending, and if
they at the summer session stay very
long, and pass a few more outrageous
and unjust appropriations the people
of the country cannot raise cotton
enough to pay the salary and expenses
of members; besides they will have
to pay a higher state tax than ever
before.
Wile Beating.
We clip the following editorial
from the Gainesville Eagle, and we
want to say amen to every word in it.
“A bill has been introduced into the
legislaaure of Irfdiana providing that
any man who shall be proven guilty
of whipping his wife shall himself re
ceive sixty lashes, and that the pub
lie shall be admitted to the jail
yard to see him whipped. This law
should pass. It would be a good thing
if a similar statute were enacted in
every state. Fining a brute who is
guilty of such a crime is light penalty.
He should be thrashed soundly.
Wherever this whipping penalty is
enforced, it has had the effect of
greatly reducing the number of wife
beaters.”
It is now authoritativelr stated that
there is no truth in the report that
dead Indians in the late unpleasant
ness were scalped by the troops
Their only sufferings in that line
were in being skinned by the Indian
agents.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Washington Post predicts
that it will be a long time between
handshakes with the governor of
Georgia and the governor of Wall
street. The governor of Georgia can
stand it.
Fair Shopper—“ What is the dif
ference between those two pieces of
good?” Clerk—“One is marked high
er than the other.” “Yes, but what
is the real difference between them!”
“I just told you—a marked diffier
enco.”—Buffalo Express.
' Put Up That Pistol.
It it only about a month until out
superior court will be in session, and
we want to call attention to the fact
that there is one criminal statute that
must be inforced for the protection
of our lives and property and that is
tine statute against carrying concealed
weapons. It is astonishig. but it is
true, that more pistols are being car
ried concealed to day than ever before
and the class of people that carry
them most, are the young men and
boyß of the country. This thing of
carying pistols does not make a man
out of any one, but on the contrary it
is a wrong principle.
There is no better evidence of a
man being a coward and one that does
not want to support and live under
wholesome laws, than the man or
boy who carries a pistol.
A correspondent wants us to ex
plain the silver bill for his inform a
tion. There has been no silver in
our family for seven years, and we
know nothing about it.—Atlanta
Constitution.
When jou make a mistake, don’t
look back at it long. Take the reason
of the thing into your own mind and
then look forward. Mistakes are les
sons of wisdom. The past can not be
changed. The future is yet hi you r
power.
A Sweeping Decision.
I notice in a recent issue of the
Gazette an article on the supreme
court’s ruling on the rights of an indi
dual to retail liquor. The ruling is
this : “No citizen of any state, or of
the United States has the inherent
right to retail liquor.'’
Commenting on this in the afore
said article a writer in the New York
Voice infers this from the decision of
Justice Field, that if the right is not
inherent in one man it cannot be so
O’FARRELL & FUKKENSTEIK, Furniture Dealers and Undertakers, and LEADERS OF LOW PRICES
in a million men, and therefore no
man nor any number of men can
grant the privilege of retailing whisky
to any citizen of this union.
My purpose is to follow this ruling
of the highest power in this govern
ment just a little farther than this
writer, or rather to apply the logic of
his position to our county and com
munity.
If it be true, as the court says, that
no citizen has the right of retailing
liquor, it immediately follows that
every man who is thus doing is cleai ly
violating the law, and is amenable to
the law.
To bring it nearer home. Each
licensed retailer in Banks county
who sells whisky violates the law
of the land. The fact that men have
under the semblance of the law been
so doing is no proof of its legality.
The greatest power in this govern
ment is the supreme court. Above
senate, house o i representatives, pres
ident, all. The senate and house may
pass a bill; the president may sign
it and make it a law, but the supreme
court, all-powerful, may say that it is
unconstitutional and it falls to the
ground.
This being true tliere follows this
sweeping conclusion that all law, or
so-called law which conflicts with
this decision ceases to be law. Then
every whisky vendor, whether licens
ed or unlicensed, is violating the law
of the land, whether laws have been
passed against them or not.
Now, how can we know if this is
the real meaning of Judge Field’s
decision ?
We will illustrate how it might be
tested:
Suppose you arrest one of the
licensed retailers and by due process
of law arraign him before the bar of
Judge Hutchins. The Judge, after
investigating, says that finding the
man with a license ho has no power
to inflict any penalty upon him and
t iros him loose.
Now, what next ?
You appeal from his ruling and
carry the case on up till it reaches the
highest power in the land, and this
power, basing its decision on its
previous ruling, reversts Hutchiu’s
ruling. That settles it. Judge Hut
chin under that reversal would have
to inflict the penalty prescribed.
1 merely offer this as an illustration
The principle is as far reaching as
this government. It applies from
Maine to Florida. It moans, carried
out, the annihilation of the whisky
power. I see in this decision great
hope for the prohibitionist. When
the power that be begin to see and to
turn their pow er for right, it means
that revolution is at hand. The
whisky element will tremble and fall
from the heights upon which, for
centuries, they have been entrenched.
And let all the people say: Amen!
W. A. Harris.
Items From Cheap.
Rain, rain, rain.
Mr. Dock Pruitt, is still vefy low
with pneumonia fever. He is receiv.
ing every attention his neighbors and
physician can give and we hope he
will soon be well again.
We are going to work the public
roads as soon as the wether will per
mit, strictly according to law.
January, the half of Eebruarj is
gone and there has not been a day
that the ground would do to plow.
Rev. J. J. Pendergrass, preached a
fine sermon at Mt. Pleasant on the
second Sunday.
Rev. W. A. Harris, "failed to read
Ids appointment here Sunday on
account of sickness.
Miss. Fannie Cochran, is teaching a
fine school at Mt. Pleasant. She will
teach five months, two this spring
and three in the fall.
Mr. W. E. Hope, is having some
nice chimneys built and otherwise
improving his home.
Every body ought to take their
county paper first and then as many
more as you want or need.—Rex
Amy—Young Mr. Dolley hns-pre
posed to me. Mabel—Of course you
accepted him? Amy —Well, no. I
bad expected to, but in his proposal
he used an irreconcilable figure of
speach, and I thought I could not
risk ray life’s happiness w ith him. lie
said, “Amy, will you walk with me
down the stream of life?” If he had
even said wade down the stream of
life I could have accepted him; but
the idea of walking in the water!—
Harper’s Bazar.
The Cigarette.
If the author of the benevolent ae
to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to
minora would come to Atlanta, and
take a stroll on the principal streets
any fair day he would realize that, to
some extent, he has lived and labored
in vain. The youthful mouth still
puckers about the deadly combina
tion of cheap paper and mean tobacco
and the odor that arises from the
effort seems to grow worse and worse.
—Atlaata Journal.
And yet some of our contempora
ries are advocating (he tobacco cul
ture in Georgia. Why impoverish our
lands by growing a production that
is dealing out dea*h and damnation
to the precious youth of our countiy,
and entading ruinous diseases upon
unborn generations? Gou save our
boys, and deliver our country from
the awful curse, tobacco, in every
form.
Tillman’s Independence.
Tbe appointment of B. O’Neill,
George W. Williams and Jacob
Smalls, all bank presidents, as com
missioners of registration for Charles
ton, has stirred up the politicians of
South Carolina, and the political pot
is once more boiling. Both factions
of the democracy, ringsters and re
formers profess to be satisfied, al
though it is known that both sides
had sent other names to the governor.
The three commissioners, D. A. J.
Sullivan, John B. Reeves and Henry
Schachte, sent in by the county demo
cratic ex-committee, and endorsed by
the Charleston delegation in the leg’s
lature, has been endorsed by Senator
Irby, chairman of the democratic
state committee, and by Congressman
Shell, the father of l he farmers’ move
ment, and it is said that this was in
accordance with the deal made be
tween the regulars here and the Till
man executive committee during the
recent campaign.
Governor Tillman, however, refused
to deliver the goods. The reform or
Tillman faction had also sent in three
names, two of them being the names
of notorious political cranks. These
were also thrown over by the gover
nor. None of the new appointees
were consulted, and their appoint
ment was as great a surprise to them
as it was to tbe public. It is proba
ble that all three will consent to serve
as everybody seems satisfied to have
it so. Their work is to straighten
out the entanglement in the registra
tion books, caused by the confusion
in the number of polling precinct.-.
These being different for state and
municipal elections, they have nothing
to do with the appointment of mana
gers of election.—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
There are peop’e who would a great
deal rather be the whistle or the bell
of a steam engine than to be one of
the driving wheels.
Moss.
The farmers are getting ludiind
with their work on account of the
bad weather.
We are glad to see that the people
of this community and the surround
ing country are sending their children
to school. We hope the people will
continue to do so until their children
are educated so as to make them use
ful.
Mr. Willie Wells vfsitied relatives
and friends in Franklin county last
week.
Mr. Samuel Rice has sold his farm
to his sons.
Mr. Richard Simmons and several
of his children have been quite sick,
but we understand they are improv
ing.
M. John Sellers and some of his
family have been sick, but we hone
they will soon recover.
Some of our boys are attending
the school at Hollingsworth.
Mrs. Selina T. Motes opened her
school at Broad River church last
Monday,
We want to say that we were well
pleased with the iast issue of the Ga
zette. May it continue to grow and
prosper.
Red Road.
The grand jury of Hall county
has recommended the establishment
qf a county court for Hall county.
Old Parkrieh—“Should I let you
have my daughter, do you think you
are able to keep her, sir?” Young
man (doubtfully)—“l’ll do all I can,
sir; but you know* this is Chicago.”—
New York Sun. ,
Jgjfi This Space Still Belongs
M Km! Dim,
bmL And if any of the good people of Banks want
- to buy a PIANO or ORGAN or any other Musical
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and we will sell them at a lower price and on easier terms than any
music bouse in Georgia. Call and see us at
NORTH-EAST GEORGIA MUSIC HOUSE,
112 Clayton Street, Next door to Pcst-office,
Athens, - (ieor^iii.
HARDWARE STORE.
I>uv Youe HARDWARE at the lowest prices. We are headquarters for
FARM IMPLEMENTS,
BLACKSMITH TOOLS, WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIAL,
Cook and Heating STOVES,
TINWARE, WOODWARE, RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING,
Sash, Doors and Blinds,
Also Agents for
EUREKA COTTON PLANTER,
Best in the WORLD!
Call nud Sec Our Goods.
HARDMAN HARDWARE COMPANY
Harmony Crove^^orgia.
#!UY\<E
tbe old CO
reliable
Mason & HamlinX y.
180 -,_
in ue. Baby
inets, for Teachf.es, $22'... O,
sell a splendid WalnutVvv
*~u/Case, 6 ft 1 in high. Octave cou|v\ - /\
double action Organ ‘for S4O.
VBoat ii if vnu can. Pianos from.
y\|22s to $1)00. We deliver tluyvT
?;AO's di at your house feef. of/0
akok. No money until ’
\ forget the (dace. Y. il
djjlyC. A. new building,/* *
Athens, Georgia/’ ->
V, V Hope Hack /v
* eSt Manager/^’
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♦ MARBLE + WORKS, *
Georgia.
MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS, CRADLE TOMBS, BOX
TOMBS. HEAD AND FOOT STONES OF ALL SIZES. A
LARGE STOCK OF FINISHED WORK IN MY
YARD READY FOR LETTERING, ALL OF
WHICH I AM SELLING VERY CHEAP.
ftssss A. R. ROBERTSON S “Sk
purchase a Monument or Tomb Stone. It will pay you to go to the Athena
Marble Yard. Correspondence solicited.
Looks and Stationery.
RICHARDS & CO.
T. S. CAMPBELL, Makackr.
Book Sellers and
STATIONERS,
AND DEALERS IN
Music, Musical Instruments,
and Fancy Goods.
Keep on band a full line BOOKS and
STATIONERY usually found in a
First Class Book Store.
West side Public Square.
7-21 GAINESVILLE, GA
Paints and Painting.
Use Economy
AND PROTECT YOUR HOUSE BY
PAINTING.
And it will not rot down on you, and
the beat paint is sold by
JOHN L. ARNOLD,
No 250 Broad Street,
ATHENS', GEORGIA.
He keeps always on hand a large
stock of the best paints in the city.
Also contracts for House and Sign
Painting. 11-5-91
Shoemaking.
W. F. HILL,
Boot Jinul Shoe
MAKER,
HOMER, - - - - GEORG I A.
Repairing of all kinds neatly done.
Jewelry.
A. S. MANDEVILLE.
DEALER IN
CLOCKS, JEWELERY, SILVER
AND PLATED WARE,
Repairing and Engraving done
with care and warrented to give satis*
faction.
Op. the college, Alliens, Ga.
Money to Loan.
AOTICE!
Money to ; Uoan.
Parties wanting to borrow money
cheap on Dmi lands can get it on very
short notice by coming to see me or
writing to me at Jefferson, Jackson
couu ty, Ga. J . W . HILL.