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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, *. 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 “ 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/^’ i\ 0 ♦ 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.