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BISKS COUNTY GAEZTTE,
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HOMER, - - - GEORGIA.
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GAZETTE.
Homer, Ga., AVednesday, June 3.
The large dry goods house of John
Ryan's Sons, of Atlanta, has failed.
A few days ago a colt was folded
on a farm near Rome, Ga., with five
legs. _ _
Mr. J. M. Clarkson, of Walker
county, has a colt two years old that
weighs 1212 pounds.
A suit for SIO,OOO damages has
been tiled against the Southern Alli
ance Farmer by Mr. W. L. Mims,
of Waynosboro.
The Salt Lake Herald has changed
hands. Heretofore it has been run
in the interest of the Mormon church,
now the influence of the paper will be
against the damnable religion.
The Georgia State troops will go
into camp at Chiekamauga the 16th.
The boys will have a glorious time,
for the last legislature made an ample
appropriation to pay their expenses.
There is a citizen of Acworth, Ga.,
in the possession of a Bible printed
in the year 1637. Evidently it has
not been read very much, as it is said
to be in a remarkable good state of
preservation.
The Toccoa News comes forward
with another article on tobacco that
was printed in the Atlanta Journal
lauding the money-making powers of
the juicy weed, and compares ten
acres of Virginia land cultivated in
•W .inn TWacres.nf G. —V<i
rated in cotton. The article
gives the cotton a commercial value
of $450 while the Virginia man’s ten
acres in tobacco yielded the snug
little sum of $3,750.
New let us draw a little comparison.
Suppose that ten-acre gentleman had
planted his land in corn and used the
same amount of fertilizers and labor
in the preparation of the land and
in cultivation, he would have made, at
the least calculation, 600 bushels of
corn. A bushel of corn makes four
gallons of liquor or 2,400 gallons,
at two dollars per gallon makes the
sum of $4,800, and with just a little
water added would make it just even
$5,000. See?
Besides the growing of corn does
not injure land, or, at least, not half
so much as tobacco does. Neither
does the liquor do as much harm to
the human race, for millions of people
who would not dare to touch liquor
under any circumstances, and some
who rise up in public places, and
with flowing eloquence denounce the
liquor traffic as a damnable curse,
spirt the juice of the “devil-weed’
from parched lips, or whif the fumes
of the fragrant Havana.
Why not cultivate corn? There’s
more money and less harm.
Wheedling the Farmers.
There is an old and rich aristo
cratic class of aggricultural papers
in the East that have fallen in with
the plutocracy, and when not directly
opposing the farmers’ movement for
reforming old abuses they resort to
wheedling and tell him how brig’, t
prospects are growing and promising
for the future. The American Agri
culturist is conspicuous as one of this
class, and the following a specimen
brick from its pile: “The new wheat
is looking promising, and it looks as
though we should be able to put our
own price upon the crop,” says the
editor. “This means higher prices
for everything the farmer produces
aud immense business for the rail
roads. When the farmers and rail
roads are both happy at receiving
good prices, prosperity is insured for
every industry.” “Farmers and rail
roads” is good 1 This is a fair spec
imen of the taffy this class of agricul
tural papers are dishing out to the
farmers. The fanners should mark
these wolves in sheep’s clothing and
send out protests from every associa
tion against their double dealing.
They should be driven to openly es
pouse one side or the other. “Prices
are jumping up daily, but dealers and
speculators both home and abroad
are buying freely at the advance,”
continues this cheerful agricultural
paper. Not a word is said about the
process these speculators employed to
bear down the price till all the crop
was out of the hands of the fanner,
and now he will be compelled to pay
double the price he got for his wheat
for the flour he must buy. And the
big crop in prospect which ought to
rejoice the farmers to see it grow,
when it begins to turn yellow for the
harvest will be cited as an evidence
of “overproduction” and low prices
in the fall Money scarce, farmers
must sell, prices low, speculators will
buy up the crop, and railroad and
speculators, not farmers, will be happy,
while this class of agricultural papers
sit like dumb dogs on the walls of
zion, and never raise voice or pen
against the outrage that is yearly
practiced on the fanners by railroads,
speculators and the government. —
National Economist.
Hollingsworth.
The picnic at Harmony was a grand
success, though it was thought in the
morning that we would have some
rain, but it turned out a very beauti
ful day, and by 10 o’clock in the
morning a large crowd had gathered.
Capt. Alexander, supt, formed his
school in line and they had a nice
march, followed by a lecture by Rev.
Ausburn, of Noith Georgia Sabbath
School Conference, which was very
impressive and eloquent, after which
the contents of well filled baskets
were spread and enjoyed very much.
Following was a gleeful time with
the young men and young ladies, or
a general sparking.
After dinner all assembled in the
church where we had a good sermon
by Rev. E. L. Sisk, pastor of the
church.
Our Sabbath school has been in
progress for more than a year and
out of the fifty-seven Sundays of its
e\Ljjenr-pnr," Superintendent, Mr. I.
i w r, has uui misttbu
t\vd* . Success to our Sunday
Bchoo!|pßuy it live long and prosper.
Messrs. P. F. M. Furr and A. V.
Hill and Misses. Vittie Hill and
Vinie Cape, were up at the picnic at
Harmony Saturday.
Messrs. J. T. Peyton and Arthur
King, of Mt. Airy, were down in our
midst Sunday.
The people’s party of the Unnited
States “demand the abolition of
national hanks as banks of issue,”
national control or government own
ership of railroads and telegraphs,
and limitation of taxation to the
needs of government. If we take the
entire net profit of all the national
banks, all the railroads and telegraphs,
and add to their sum all that has
been wastefully expended by govern
ment, the aggregate falls five hun
dred million dollars short of the an
nual waste and tax of the liquor
traffic on the people. And yet rail
roads, banks and government ex
penses formed the theme of thrte
principle resolutions, while the liquor
traffic was not even mentioned.
And these fellows pretend to he seek
ing relief for the taxburdened people.
—Demorest Times.
The Ohio Legislature at its recent
session passed a law prohibiting the
sale of liquor in houses of prostitution,
and the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette calls upon the Mayor to
enforce the law against these pi ices.
The Gazette is getting on perilous
ground. Does it expect the respect
able people of Cincinnati to hang
around such places to see that the
law is obeyed? That is the way it
expects them to do in the case of
prohibitory and Sunday laws.—The
Voice.
A Mississippi paper that arrogates
to itself such a monopoly of demo
cratic power that it unhesitatingly
reads out of the democratic party
every farmer who says that he is for
the Alliance first and party second,
clips an article from one of the most
radidal republican papers of lowa,
slandering and denouncing the sub
treasury plan, and rolls it in its dem
ocratic mouth as a sweet morsel that
should convince democrats of the
South that the sub-treasury is undem
ocratic. What could be stronger evi
dence of the fact that the abominable
sub-treasury plan is undemocratic
than the fact that the republican pa
pers of the North oppose it bitterly?
It follows, therefore according to this
demo-republi-cratiean paper* in Me
ridian, Miss., that democrats.who are
farmers must not advocate anything
that does not meet the approval of
the partisan republican papers of
lowa. Truly, necessity makes strange
bedfellows, and five years ago the
farmer thought those fellows were
enemies and would fight always. But
they are professionals, that explains
it.
Two lawyers when a knotty case was
o’er, "
Shook hands and were as friendly as
before.
Zounds! says the client, I cannot see
how f~
You two can be friends who were
such foes just now!
Thou fool! says one, wo lawyers
though so keen, -*-
Like shears, cut not each other, but
what’s between. *.
—National Economist.
When quite young at schooT, Daniel
Webster was one day guilty of viola
tion of the rules. He was detected
in the act, and called up by the teach
er for punishment. This was to be
the old fashioned ferruling of the
hand. His hand happened- to be
very dirty. Knowing this, on his
way to the teacher’s desk he spat
upon the palm of his right hand,
wiping it off on the side of his pant
aloons. “Give me your haifd, sir,”
said the teacher very sternly. Out
went the right hand, partly cleaned.
The teacher looked at it a moment,
and said, “Daniel, if you sill find
another hand in this school-room as
filthy as that, I will let you pff this
time.” Instantly from behind his
back came the left hand. “Here it
it, sir,” was the ready reply. “That
will do this time,” said the teacher;
“you can take your seat, sir.” —Sel.
Our Young People.
Remember that the young men of
our nation number about one to nine
of tlie whole population, or seven
million for a sum total in the whole
land. Remember that onKgri mil
lion of these "ever 'darken WHpPfrircß'
doors. Five millions of youilg men,
upon whose shoulders the destiny of
this nation will soon hang, are grow
ing up undeveloped in their religious
life, one sided in morals. What are
you going to do about it ? Surely
the present awakening all along the
line in young people’s societies and
work is none too soon and has in it
the promise and potency of the reli
gious future of America.—American
Baptist.
Erastus.
Not seeing anything lately from
this portion of God’s moral vineyard
I thought I would drop you a few
dots.
We had a fine rain last week that
makes things look flourishing. Wheat
is fine, oats are good. Plowing and
chopping cotton is the order of the
day. Good stands of cotton have
been obtained, though late. Early
corn and cotton looks well.
Kcv. C. T. Burgess has been quite
sick with the grip, but he is up again.
We have a fine Sunday school at
Hudson river church that lived
through the winter and is booming.
There was a singing society organ
ized at Hudson river Sunday the 24th
ult., with the following officer’s: W.
J. Burgess, president; G. W. Huff,
vice-president; B. B. Alexander, sec
retary; S. J. Langford, chorister; E.
D. Baugh, assistant chorister; Dr. B.
B. Chandler, organist; Miss Ella Huff,
assistant organist. Singing, preach
ing and Sunday school at Hudson
river next Sunday.
Mr. .T. F. Gober and Miss A. B.
Culbertson has returned from school
at Hiawassee.
Mr. B. E. Lord had his stable
struck by lightning last week and a
fine mule killed. The stable was
burned with some fodder.
I’he following story about a tree
near Athens, Ga., is told by the Prarie
Farmer. In the early part" of the
century the land on which it stands
was owned by Colonel W. H. Jackson,
who took great delight in watching its
growth and in enjoying its shade. In
his old age the tree had reached mag
nificent proportions and the thought
of its being destroyed by those who
would come after him was so repug
nant that he recorded a deed of which
the following is a part: “I, W. 11.
Jackson, of the county of Clarke, of
the one part, and the Oak treefgiving
location) of the county of Clarke, of
the other part: Witnessed), That the
said W. H. Jackson, for and in consid
eration of the great affection which
he bears said tree, and his desire to
see it protected, has conveyed and by
these presents does convey unto the
said Oak tree entire possession of
itself and all land within eight feet of
it on all sides.”
Berlin.
We have had a nice season this
week, and crops are looking well and
farmers ought to be happy.
Miss A. 0. Hall is convalescing
after a protracted illness.
Mrs. Jack Hall is again blest with
another limb.
Miss Janie Ash is slowly recovering
from her late illness.
Miss Emma Sheridan is quite sick,
but we hope to see her out again soon.
Mr. J. J. Anderson has the best
corn of anybody, and Mr. J. IV. Eng
lish lias the finest cotton.
Mrs. M. L. Wilson has transplanted
a lino patch of corn, and it is growing
as well or better than if it had never
been taken up. She is a most excel
lent lady.
The correspondent speaks of the
Cost boys being bashful. They ought
to come to Berlin and see how brave
our boys are.
Jewelville.
Everything is quiet with us. We
have had rain and the cotton is up,
but the nights are too cool for cotton.
Wheat looks fine, but oats are very
poor.
Previous to this it has been dry
and dusty. We can’t guess the cause
unless it was on account of so much
fussing and lowing among our friends
just over the hue in Bushville district.
Our baliff was run nearly to death
about three weeks ago, but we are
glad to state every tiling at peace
now, and we have had rain.
We have a young Solomon in our
neighborhood. He knows every thing
but one and the rest of us knows
that.
Success to This Gazette.
BE TEMPER ATeT*
BY ISAAC POWELL TAIJOIL
I wish to admonish tae young and the
old,
To let strong drink alone and save
their gold;
For it ruins the mind and destroys
the soul,
And does mysterious things yet
untold.
But men will falter and men will lie,
For they drink that whisky they call
pure rye;
But yet they have sense, and will not
refrain,
While their wives and children cry
and complain.
They care not for the hasty coming
doom
That is sure to befall them late or
soon,
And carry them to that land of end
less woe,
Where the saints and the Christians
never go.
It has fiery tongues and yawning
hells,
Secretly hidden about among the
dells,
Where men may go in the stilly
hours of night,
And drink and revel to their hearts
delight.
Oh! may the people of our southern
land,
Unite and form one great temper
ance band;
And sweep out whisky, brandy, rum
and gin,
And keep men from committing so
much sin.
Oh! let temperance sound over the
land,
And let the winebibber reel, lie or
stand;
Then we’ill sign the pledges on our
poor hearts,
Where truth and beauty dwells and
ne’er departs.
Let us work, let us sing, and let us
pray,
For the little, the great, the young,
and the gray,
And we’ill be more temperate and
more w ise,
Beneath the bright and dazzling azure
skies.
The thought, it fills ray heart and
soul with glee,
To know we live where temperance
is free;
For Georgia’s hills are the home for
me,
Where we can live with the brave
and free.
God always has an angel of help for
; those who are willing to do their duty.
How Is Your Appetite.
If it is not good
you need a tonic.
Hunger is a sauce
that gives your food
a flesh-making and
strengthening pow
er. S. S. S. is fa
mous for its health
giving and building
up qualities. It is
the best of all tonics.
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FARMING I M PLEM EN S.
leaal A dvertiseman ts.
GEORGIA: Banks County.—No
tice is hereby given that a bill will be
introduced at the .summer session of
the legislature of Georgia, to be en
titled An Act to provide for the re
moval of obstructions of all kinds
other than dams used for operating
mills or machinery of any kind from
tne rivers, creeks and other running
streams in Banks county, to compel
the owners of the lands in said coun
ty through which such streams may
flow to remove said obstructions, or
provide in what manner the same
may be removed when such land
owners neglect or refuse to remove
such obstructions, and to provide
compensation therefor; to provide for
the drainage of the lands in said
county through which such streams
flow, and for the extensions of drains
or ditches through the lands of anoth
-eTpifitr toTTvwiAefer fu 1 * wi*W p . , i r r.& 1
damages which limy be sustained by
such land owners through whose
lands such drains or ditches shall be
cut or extended, and for other pur
poses. J. J. Axdf.ksox,
June 1,1891. Neal MjCoy,
Taylor Armor,
($5.43) ‘ and others.
Sheriff Sale.
GEORGIA: Banks County.— Will
be sold oil the fust Tuesday in July
next before the courthouse door in
Homer, said county between the le
gal hours of sale to the highest bid
der for cash the following property
to-wit; One tract of land lying in
said county containing two hundred
and four acres more or less, adjoining
lands of Mrs. Vina Motes on the
north, lands of Ida Kidd on the east,
lands of James Dodd on the West
and lands of Tom Anderson on the
south. Said land levied on as the
property of W. W. C. Kidd as admin
istrator of M. J. Hendrix deceased, to
satisfy two executions issued from the
Justices court of the 265th district
G. M. of said comity in favor of 1.. G.
Hardman against W W C Kidd, ad
ministrator of M J Hendrix deceased.
Property pointed out by W W C Kidd
Levy made and returned to me by
J E Stephens LC. This the first day
of June, 1891.
p F. M. Henderson, Sheriff.
GEORGIA: Banks County. —To
all whom it may concern: F M Hen
derson, administrator of the estate of
Bennett Rylee deceased, lias in due
form applied to the undersigned for
leave to sell the lands belonging to
the estate of said deceased, and said
application will he heard on the first
Monday in July next. June Ist, 1891.
(2.00) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA: Banks County. —To
whom it may concern: W C Cham
bers administrator of the estate of
Joshua Simmons deceased, has in due
form applied to the undersigned for
leave to sell the land belonging to
the estate of said deceased, and said
application will be heard on the first
Monday in July uext. June Ist, 1891.
(t‘2.oop) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
Notice is hereby given that a bill
will be introduced in the legislature at
the summer session to be entitled An
Act to submit to the legal votei s of
Anderson district No. 465, G. M., of
Banks county the question of prohib
iting the sale of spirituous, vinous or
malt liquors in said district and for
other purposes. June Ist, 1891.
Mark this. A nation cannot pros
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Mr. James J. McCalley, of
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sick and suffering during
the whole time. After try
ing all the remedies, includ
ing all the doctors in reach,
he discarded everything and
took Swift’s Specific. He
increased from 114 to 158
pounds and was soon a
sound and healthy man.
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