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GAZETTE,
Homer, Ga., Wednesday, June 10.
Col. W. E. H. Searcy has with
drawn from the race for president of
the State Alliance.
Governor Northen has issued an
order to tire penitentiary lessees to
separate the male and female convicts.
This is a move in the right direction,
and should have been done long ago.
We do not envy Dooly county in
the history of crime. She recorded
four murders during the month of
May. .
A solid piece of silver weighing
thirteen ounces was recently found
in an old Indian grave in Habersham
county.
Mrs. William Samples who lives
near Carrolton, gave birth to four
babies a few nights ago—two boys
and two girls. At last accounts the
mother and children were doing well.
Condemning the Semite.
When Secretary Bayard, during
the Cleveland administration, refused
to give the endorsement of this* gov
ernment to a proposed international
agreement prohibiting the introduc
tion of alcoholic liquors, fire-arms and
ammunition among tbe lives of the
Pacific islands—an agreement which
liod the support of England, France
and other European con litres—his
action excited great surprise and
vigorous condemnation throughout
Christendom. In England it was a
matter of wonder that the United
States, which bo,, diatuvicotl all otlu.r
countries in promoting radical tem
perance ideas, should stand in the
way of so humane and reasonable an
undertaking.
Hut the present administration, in
its attitude touching the international
aspects of the liquor issue, has mani
fested a far more serious indifference,
and to indifference has added offeu
sivencss. The great anti-slavery and
anti-liquor act for Africa, passed by
the Brussels conference of 1890, in
which sixteen powers were represent
ed, and approved by every other gov
ernment interested, was not ratified
by the senate, although it was under
stood that a failure to ratify it would
cause the entire measure to fall to the
ground, since the approval of every
power participating in the conference
was requisite, and since the limit of
time originally fixed for ratification
would expire before tbe senate could
meet again. And our state depart
ment, on December 15th, 1889, at the
instance of leading brewers and malt
sters, addressed a circular to all our
consuls iu Mexico, Central and South
Amends, instructing them to procure
and forward such information as
would enable the United States pro
ducers of boor to extend their market.
—The Voice
il“ ltutu Is Ours
The Charleston’s peaceful pursuit
of the I tut a ended peacefully.
Without tiring a gun, or shedding
a drop of blood, the Cbillian insur
gent vessel no sooner reached home
waters than she quietly surrendered
to the United States war vessels
waiting there for her, and turned
over to them the arms taken on
board at Sun Diego.
And thus, the consequences of our
negligence in allowing the vessel to
skip out of an American port have
been mended, after a good deal of
worry and labor. It might have
been worse. If it bad not been for
the decided stand taken by our gov
ernment., it is more than likely that
the insurgent cruisers would have at
least threatened a show of resistance.
But the revolutionists knew before
•jhe itata had been forty-eight hours
out at sea thal our big republic meant j
business, and they very prudently j
decided not to antagonize a power |
that might be a useful friend or a
formidable enemy.
So the Itata is ours, after all. We
have recovered the arms, and the
Halmaceda government will have no
cause for complaint. Right on the
heels of the Itata’s surrender comes
the intelligence that Balmaceda’s
agent is at Havre to get a cruiser re
lieved of the embargo which lias
been placed upon it there. If lie
succeeds, the situation will assume an
unpleasant phase for the insurgents.
They will practically have all the
foreign powers against them, and
their revolution will speedily collapse.
—Atlanta Constitution.
[Communicated.]
The World’s Fair.
As one of the common people and
tax-payers, I wish to offer my protest
against the inuch-talked-of appropri
ation for the purpose of making a
state exhibit at the World’s Fair.
Let us look at the matter from a
common-sense and business point of
view, because I am not a constitution
al lawyer, and do not propose to
argue the legal side of the question.
It is enough for us to know that the
framers of our fundamental law in
tended to protect our state from just
such reckless expenditure of the peo
ple’s money, and I think tho question
of tho constitutionality of the appro
priation has already been answered
in tho negative.
There is one thing I notice in these
days: Every body is trying to pan
der to the wants of the farmers, but
tho leaders \v,unt the offices for them
selves. If the legislature makes an
appropriation of #50,000 or SIOO,OOO
to advertise Georgia in the World’s
Fair, how much will it benefit the
farmers of Banks county, or of North
east Georgia, or, in fact, how much
will it benefit the farmers of Georgia?
The land speculators, and owners of
coal and iron and marble mines are
able to advertise themselves; the r.il
rords are able; the business men are
able; the manufacturers are able, and
tlie cities arc able to advertise and
doubtless will do so if to their inter
est, and if it is not to their interest
why should it be to the interest, or
in anywise the duty of the state to do
it for them, and make the tax-payers
foot the’bill?
You remember what Judge Jim
Brown told us when lie was a candi
date for congressional nomination.
He said there are always a 'few fel
lows around who need some little
office to keep them up, and first one
office and another must be created to
give them a job, an ,1 in this matter
tuere are. no doubt, lots of good fel
lows waiting around to get the job of
going to Chicago in 1893 and repre
senting the empire state of the South
at the World’s Fair, for the money
there is in it.
The state is now bearing tbe heav
iest burden of her history. The dis
abled soldiers of tbe Confederacy
and their widows, many of whom are
in actual want, must be looked alter,
and it is more than likely that some
thing over one-half million dollars
annually will be required to keep
them from starvation. This is a
charge t at the state has assumed,
and there is no backward movement
in a thing of this kind. Wo must
continue to pay them as long as they
live. The public school system of
our state must be supported, and the
University appropriations will
grow instead of decreasing in amount;
some folks say the public roads must
be worked and kept, up by taxation,
and already the people are growning
under the heavy load of taxes they
are now compelled to pay.. Besides
all this, we have to pav the interest
on the public debt and discharge the
state bonds ns they fall due. Add to
these amounts normal current ex
penses of our state, and we have as
much as we can s'and. Theiefore
I say lei our legislature do like that
of New York state, leave the fair
business to those directly interested. !
, V. D. L.
A Masonic Meeting.
An occasional Grand Chapter was ;
organized at Harmony Grove last ;
Wednesday evening; with Past'
Grand High Driest, J. W. Oslin, aet
i ing by proxy for the Grand High I
| Priest. 11. W. Bell, acting deputy
I Grand High Priest, W. T. Stapler,
King, W. B. Barnett, Scribe, T. P.
Hudson Captain of the Host, J. X.
Hudson Principal Sojourner, C. S.
Bates, Royal Arch Captain, J. P. j
Wood, W. A. Mathews, and F. M. j
Hubbard, masters of the first, seeond
and third Veils, Neal Little, Secreta
ry, J. I’. Hudson Treasurer and G.
W. Hawks, Sentinel. Altar the
Grand Chapter was opened they re
pared in a body to the chapel of the
Harmony Grove High School, where
the following officers were publicly
installed: W. B. Ilaygood, High
Priest, R. S. Cheney, King, W. W.
Jordan, Scribe, W. A, Quillian,
Captain of the Host, R. H. Hawks,
Principal Sojourner, W. W. Stark,
Royal Arch Captain, G. W. I). Har
her, W. B. Power and B. B. Hawks,
masters of the first, second and third
Veils, W. J. Goss, Secretary, T. E.
Key, Treasurer, and C. T. Nash,
Sentinel.
After the installation of officers
Dr. Oslin made one of finest
Masonic addresses ever delivered in
Northeast Georgia. His speech was
well received by the companions and
the public generally.
Upon motion of companion, R. S.
Cheney a resolution of thanks was
passed, thanking the choir for their
kindness in furnishing such excellent
music during the exercises. ■—
The Grand Chapter then repared
to the chapter room, and Dr. Oslin
presented Oslin Chapter with a val
uable present, the'Ark of the. cove
nant. We say without the fear of
contradiction, that it is the finest Aik
in Georgia, beautiful in design and
color beyond description.
The Chapter received the Arte; the
speech of acceptance was made by
W. B. Ilaygood, and his speech puts
him in the front rank of speakers in
Masonry. Upon motion $ committee
of three was appointed to write the
proceedings, of the convocation.
The Harmony Grove Age, Jackson
Herald, and Banks County Gazette
to publish them.
June the 4th 181)1.
W. W. Stark,
W. J. Goss,
P. M. Edwards,
Committee.
In Eulogy of Water.
It is related of tho late Emory
Ston’s, that when sitting around a
wine table with a number of legal
friends, he insisted on drinking iec
wnter. They taunted him for,abate
miousness, saytng:— P _t
“What is there in water? Yon can
say nothing for it.”
Picking up bis glass, be exclaimed;
“How do you expect me to improve
upon tbe beverage furnished by nat
ure? Here it is—Adam’s ale—about
the only gift that has decended unilc
filed from the garden of Eden!
Nature’s common carrier—not created
in the rottenness of fermentation, net
distilled over guilty fires! Virtues
and not vices are its companions.
Docs it cause drunkenness, disease,
death, cruelty to women and children?
Will it place rags on the person,
mortgages on the stock, farm, and
furniture ? Will it consume wages
and income in advance, and ruin men
in businessT No! But it, floats in
white gossamer clouds far up in the
quiet summer sky, and hovers in
dreamy mist over the merry faces of
our sparkling lakes. It veils the
woods, hills of earth’s landscapes in
a purple haze, where filmy lights and
shadows drift hour after hour. It,
piles itself in tumbled masses over
cloud domes and thunder heads,
draws the electric flash from its mys
terious hiding-places, and seams and
I shocks the wide air with vivid lines
|of tiro It is carried by the winds
! and falls in rustling currents of liquid
I drapery over all the thirsty woods,
| and fields, and fixes in • God’s mystic,
eastern heavens his beautiful bow of
| promise, glorified with a radiance
that seems reflected out of heaven
itself.
“ft gleams in the first crystals of
i the mountain tops and the dews of
t e valley. It silently creeps up
each leaf in the myriad forests of the
world, and tints each fruit and flower.
It is here in the grass blades of the
meadow,” —Golden Moments.
Mount Carmel.
Miss Belie - Rucker is visiting her
cousin, Miss LillianJSardiner.
Air. Steve Gardiner had the good
fortune to find a bee tree, and he in
vited several of his friends to help
him cut the free and eat honey, but
to his great surprise when the tree
was felled it was found to contain
only two bees. After great trouble
ho succeeded in hiving them, and
now, girls, if you want to live on
honey just take Steve.
Air. Swop Cox, one of Homer’s
best boys, was up the fifth Sunday.
He said he came up hunting huckle
berries and flowers, and also his
heart that he lost not long ago. We
rather think he was successful, as he
found lots of huckleberries and one;
fair Lillie (Lillian), and, we suppose,
found his heart in her safe keening. I
From all appearances, however, we
think he carried hers back with him
in exchange for his, so he is not heart
less.
Misses Samantha Furr, Ellen Pru- 1
itt, Belle Rucker, Lillian Gardiner,
accompanied by Mr. Steve Gardiner, i
attended the Hollingsworth com
mencement last Friday. On their
way, at the top of the hill near Mr.
Griffins, some part of the harness
broke, the mules got loose from the
buggy and took the back track. The
girls thought they were having a jolly
ride but the buggy quit the road and
run into a gully, turned over, spilt
girls, supper and all. Fortunately no
one was hurt, but some of the girls
had to remain under the buggy until
help Some from a field near..
Rev. Ford Gowder'x litte daughter
was bitten by a rattle snake last week.
Dr. Johnny Bryant- was called in, and
owing to his skillful attention she is
rapidly improving. By the way
Johnny seems to be very popular in
this community.
Rev. Ford Gowder preached a
good sermon Sunday, and administer
ed the Lord’s supper and foot-washing
to his flock.
A Craze for Whisky.
Barney Coleman, a young man a*
one time a member of one of onr
leading churches, was locked up at
the station-house to-day ou a charge
of forgery.
His story is a sad one, and is hut
anotln r illustration of the young man
who tarries with the wine cup until
his eyes are red.
Coleman was arrested by Detect
ives Crim and Cason for having
forged the name of J. D. Brady to an
order on -Mr. Joseph Thompson for a
quart of whisky.
The officers say he lias been carry
ing on this business of obtaining
whifky in this way from Mr. Thomp
son for some time.
From what they say the young
man seems possessed of an insane
thirst for whisky and will sacrifice
anything to satisfy that thirst.
On visiting the place where he
hoards the detectives were informed
that he took anew set of knives and
forks from his mother a short time
since and pawned them for enough
money with which to buy a quart of
whisky.
Detective Crim says the young
man’s mother presented him with a
coat and vest costing twenty-six dol
lars, bat after wearing them a few
days lie sold them for ono dollar and
a quarter and invested the money in
whisky.
When the cell door closed upon
him this morning, lie remarked to
the officer in a grim sort of way,
‘ Well, I guess I’m gone up for awhile
anyhow unless the boys stick to me
and help me out of this.”
Coleman’s case is a sad one, as he
is very young, and hut a year or two
ago had the brightest prospects ■ be
fore him.—Atlanta Journal.
The Capitol Dome.
The Capitol dome at Washington is
the only considerable dome of iron in
the world. It in vast hollow sphere
weighing k.'OtHWOU pounds. How much
is that? Rare titan tons, or;d
yiust the weight of 70.000 lull grown
pi'f 'ns, or about equal to 1,000 la
’debt 1 coni cars of four tons each,
which, if strung out ono behind the
other, would occupy a mile and a half
of track.
On the very top of the dome the
allegorical figure '‘America,” weighing
13,085 pnuuds, lifts its proud haul high
in air. The pressure of this dome and
figure upon the piers and pillars is 14,
477 pounds to the square fixit. It
would, however, require u pressure of
755,285 pounds to ‘lie square foot to
crush (lie supports of the dome. The
cost of this immense dome was little
short of §1,000,000.-St. Louis Re
public.
Parrot Scare* a Hawk.
Speaking of parrots, Mr. R. A. Hous
ton tells a story how a tame parrot of
his routed a hawk. The * parrot was
hoppin g about in the yard, when the
hawk, probably mistaking it for anew
breed of chicken, pounced down upon
it. Polly gave a squawk that rather
startled the bird of prey, and then
turned on the fierce intruder with such
vigor, beak and talon that the stronger
bird was driven from the field in great
shape. The parrot is no meek barn
yard fowl.—Springfield (Mass.) Home
stead
AND WE ARE GOING TO RAISE A LITTLE RACKET
OURSELVES
IPoir mu© cinsli
ON THE REMAINDER OF OUR SUMMER STOCK OF
White Goods, Summer Dress Goods,
Cheviots, Ginghams and Millinery.
We have had our share of the trade in this line, but we want to
CI.aOWE OUT CI^FaAN
So we can offer This Fall and Next Spring an
Entire New and Rresh Stock.
Come and see us and we will covinee you that we mean just what we say.
T. E. KEY & CO., Harmony Grove.
WILLIAM l J. GARRISON
May sville, Georgia,
Has a full line of
GI-MOK AL MERCIIA M>ISE
And will sell as cheap as the cheapest. Also a well selected stock of
Ready-Made Clothing, Hats and Shoes, and
FARMING IMPLEMENS.
Jiooi* in"! Stationery.
RiCHARDS & CO.
T. S. CA-fMIKi.L, Mtx
Book Sellers and
STATIONERS,
AND DE.U.KRS INT
Music, Musical Instruments,
and Fancy Goods,
Keep on hand a full line BOOKS and
•STATIONERY usually found in a
First Class Book S.ote.
West side Fublii Square.
7-21 GAINESVILLE, GA
Photographs.
Photographs.
LOOK 1 l ERE!
NOW
is your lime to go to If armony Grove
and have your Photograph talon,or
old pictures enlarged. You wiil find
the price lower than any other place
in the state. I make a specialty nf
cabinet work. My price are FOUR
for ONE DOLLAR or TWO DOB
LARS AND SIXTY CENTS PER
DOZEN. Come now cr you might find
me gone or prices up. Call when in
town and ace me.
92-415 T. J. ALI.EN.
Druggists.
I, L J. SlllliP.
Gives special attention to the
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,
In bis Wholesale and lie tail Drug busi
ness he carries a complete line of
PATENT MEDICINES,
Druggists' Sundries, Paints and
Painters' Supplies,
Hmnc Paints guarantee*! tbe brstby
Coolcdge A Bro., of Atlanta, Ga.
Landreth's Garden Seed,
that has each paehage Rated, and all
unsold on November Ist is burned at
Landreth’s expeuse. Sole proprietor of
PAR-A-SIT-I-Cll >E,
that cures ITCH in 30 minutes.
Address all orders to, and call on
him, at Harmony Grove, Georgia, to
get the best goods at the lowest prices.
Periodicals.
This “Papal Controversy” will be
the first discussion for publication
lever held between Daptists and Ro
' man Catholics. It will begin April
: 25th, 1891, and appear in the Church
j Progress and American - Baptist at
I the same time, occupying five or six
columns per week, for six months or
: more.
Proposition: “Resolved, That the
Roman Catholic Church is tbe True
j Church of Goth”
The Church Progress affirms;
The American Baptist denies.
The Church Progress is endorsed
iby two Archbishops and seven Bish
ops of the Romish church. The
j American Baptist containing both
I sides, will be sent eight months for
one dollar.. Address I). B. Ray,
Editor, 1310 piive St., St- Louis, Mo.
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tinue teaching or give up my school and
sell books entireiv.”
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