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Banks County Gazette. ggggl. LOUAI.NLWSAN! >N 0 F.S. GATHERED FROM TOWN' AND COUNTY. Little Items two Short lor Heads Rst Lung Enough to In terest the Reader. NOTICE!—AII those indebted to: the Gillette for let'll advertising ami other matters must t ome forward and setlia st mice. A change in the management of the paper makes immediate payment imperative. In sheriff sales where sale is not effec t ml the* plaintiff is responsible for printer’s tee. All accounts that are not paid at once will he sued upon. J“T Read stiiry on fourth page. All subscriptions to the Gazette are payable to S. L. Cos. Ca'l at this office and get ur prices Wotc Luting a buggy. Several iainilies Lave moved to our tovi n recently Tin- Atlanta exposition seat Bie-i hi* ash' , all o\ or the country. M . J. J. An derson called at our office a few d.i\s ago and had toe Guzt ur scat to his ton, 3>lr. A. J •AndeißOU at White Line, Ten:. Mr. Alex J. Stubbs, Agent of! James Med. Cos., of Philadelphia, spent Sunday here. Vmlii mijil) & Emmett will pay the highest Market price lor chickens, ami ah kinds of produce. Mi'-W. I) Purcell, the largest man in the county, was in Homer Monduy. Bring that lead of wood at once, we won’t need i when the weather gets warm. If you need a good t.cw ug machine sec us Instore buying, wo can save you money. You can have your eves tested nnd fitted to the best glasses made by Dr Leidston at Skiff ti e the Jewelers Athens, Ha. * Prof. J. E. Hitch will move down near Athens in a few days. Air. Hitch is one of the county’s best citi zens, ami we regret to 10-c linn. Col. Brown will go into the real estate business soon, i? you want to sell your land put it in his hail.l*. Cornu, uiiica l ions for publication should reach this office Monday or Tuesday preceding day of public 'lion, as we go to press Wednesday. Homer High School is growing everyday. Tire re’s sixty names en rolled already. .Mr. W. P. Hums i s assisting Pref. Di-ndy. Mr. Steve Gardiner visited Gaines ville Tuesday, and on Lis return broke out with measles. Mr. Homer Tnompsoi. will remove to bis farm sue and half miles from town soon, and 31 r. I{. T. Thompson will run the Merchandise business of! R. T. Thompson it Bro. W e welcome our Grove Level cor- ! respondent, and hol e she will continue : to write every week. Go to se Yarbrough & E*imet when you go to Maysville. They hare any fifing you want and will still you cheaper than any one in town, and besides that they will give voa a draw at a ten dollar bill for every iollar you ;ra<le with them nul l Feb. YARBROUGH & EMMET very cordially invite all their Banks county friends to call in anti examine their stock of goods before buying else where. They have a complete line of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Shoes, Crockery, Tinware, and always keep a select lin of Groceries. Such enterprising men as Smith &, Eberhart, at Maysville, deserve tlie patronage of all who trade in Maysville. They pay the highest market price for all kinds of country produce, cat tle cotton, cotton seed, and, in fact every thing the farmers have to sell. They als keep a general line ei merchandise at prices lower than many who sell exclusively for cash. Items From Grove I.evel. As there has not been a communt cation from our neighborhood in some time, we desire again to send a tew items perhaps of local interest. Prof. J. I. Pittman his a flourish ing school ut Ridgeway. Prof. Pitt man is a successful teacher and well deserves the patronage* of his people. Alls. Dean, who has been visi.i.ng friends and relatives around Grove Level church, has leturned to her home in Hall county. Does Mr Zack Vaughn cry over production ? Wo see ho is not yet done gathering the fleecy staple. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Holbrook, who have been on an extended visit to mends in tin* community, have re turned to their home in Gordon county. Air. James Mintz, a fvrnmr citizen of this part of the county, will make Forsyte cunty hits future home. Mr. M. 1,. Cox, who had saved quite a sprinkle of cotton for a spring picking found to a sad disapointtneut that “Oid Santa Claus’’ gathered it for him about Christmas times, we suppose. Did any one of the children receive such a parcel ? Rev. El lory D. Miniz, alter spend ing sevcial days visiting here, has returned to i.is home in Forsyth county. Mrs. John Ti.lfo"d, who has been confined to her bed with rheumatism for seme time, we are glad to say, is improving. In a short w hile Mr. J. H. Man gum will make Atlanta his future borne. We wish him unbounded sue cess in his new field. Don and Lee. Hellion ami Lula Items. M rs. Kate Myers, of Atlanta, is visiting relatives here. Mr. It. L. Scales, who has been visiting his mother in Bullion, has returned to Atlanta. W. C. Boling is quite sick with measles. Lula is gradually recovering from the effects of the fire. Col. Huggins has opened up anew stoic,and has bunt some commodious livery stables: Mr. S. S. Carter has built, a ware iuiiisc in I.ala and a nice dwelling near there which has helped t lie looks <d things generally. Mr. Andrew Pittman and wile, of Atlanta, are visiting relatives in Belitoli. Mr, Claude Scoggins, of Harmony Grove, visited lus parents Sunday. Miss Maggie Allen Has returned home after an extended visit to the lauiily of Col. Huggins in Lula. “Tht Belle,” which has been run ning to Toccoa, now stops in'Lula. We regret to learn that the family of Mr. 11. N. Govvder is sick with measles. , We are glad to see Mr. Boling, who has been sick, out again. M. Tlie Negro’s Pi lend. In Tuskeenee, Alabams, Mrs. Loren Williams, wife ot a prominent Chat tanooga lawyer, in an address to the students of the Colored State Indus trial College, recently, said : “In the north the negro is crowded out of everything. The trades unions forbid his learning or working at any trade. Tney fire not allowed to he allowed to be street car drivers, car penters’ brick masons, founders, ma chinists 01 waiters in lwtels. “In the South, white and colored laborers work side by side in ail the shops and fields, and the white man makes no effort to hinder the negro from making an honest living and acquiring property if he will. “Soon the time will come when the Southern negroes will protest against tlie unfair treatment of their brethren in the North.” PJETTHA LGIA cared fcy Dr. Mile*' Pam “Dm e*ot a done. ' A4 at! drug* late IIOMKIL BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: JANUARY 23> 1890. TEACHER'S COLUMN. DEVOTED TO THE INTER EST OF EDUCATION. Communications for this Coumn Should be Addressed to Editor Gazette: Editor Gazette : Please si ay me space to thank Prot- Demly for his kind and complimentary references to myself, and to most lmartiiy second the suggesstion that he take charge of the “Teacher’s Column” so generously offered by yon. Prof. Dendv is on the ground, and in every wav fitted to conduct the column to the benefit of all. I hope the teachers will take ad vantage of your liberal offer and tell ua of tho educational progress in their several sections. 1 hope to have the pleasure of saying something, myself, occasional!. Here’s to you. Strep t ox, may your efforts to run our County Paper be as successful as h wish them to be. H. \\ . Wooding, C. S. C. Items From Gainesville Fugle; Rev H. S. Allyn, well known to our people, will go as a missionary to Brazil. Power & Williford of Harmony Grove last Week killed a red Jersey hog that weighed 041 pounds net. To-morrow is the day set by Judge Kimsey for Seymour Keener to be hanged. Put the Governor has re spited him for thirty days to have his sanity examined into. Duke llurgess, a negro hving in Banks county, carved up another ne gvo of his acquaintance last week, and alone* put out for Gainesville. He arrived here in good order and pro ceeded to smooth his ruffled plumage and began to make himself perfect!', at home. Pretty noon the sheriff of Batiks eouuty, finding that, his eagerly looked for hoader was here, notified Chief iSfansbury to hook tip with Duke and let him know it. 'I lie two S’s, “Stansbury and Bmith.’’ soon seemed possession of the person of the Duke which was wanted to fill an exalted position in the juli of our neighbor county. This is not the first Banks county negro who has fled to our Queen City as a haven of rest. \V* can most safely assert that when wrong-doers wish to find a city of refuge they had betier tackle some other place. Gain esville lias long sime beeamo anything but a place to-evade the eagle eye of the law. On Saturday night last Miss Eliza Pitman died at her home about 4 miles south of Lula. She was buried at Bethlehem Sunday. What caused her death is unknown- perhaps old age. Last Saturday afternoon Mr. Charles Colbert and Miss Lula Mar tin ran away and were married at the home of Rev. J. B. Poole, Mr. Poole officiating. Married, at the home of the bride's parents at Maysville, Tuesday night Jan. 7, Mr. Arthur Smith and Miss Pauline Bryant. .Mr. Smith is a young nfan of excellent moral charac ter. Tlie bride he has won is ene of Mavsville’s prettiest and most thor oughly amiable young women. The Cillsville institute, under the management of Mr. D. G. Bickers, began its sixth year Monday, 6tn in stant, under prospects which bid fair ta develop into one of the most suc cessful terms the school has known. you canIje LIEVE The testimonials published in behalf of flood's Sarsaparilla. They are 1 written hy honest people, who have! actually found in their own experience i tliat Hood’s Sarsaprilla purifies the blood, creates an appetite, stronghens I the system and absolutely and per-1 manently cures all diseases caused by' i impure or deficient blood. HOODS PI ELLS for the liver and bowels, act promptly, easily and ef fectively. Stolen Mule! SSO Reward On the night of January 4tk 1896 one black mule medium size, yeight, about 750 pounds, two saddle marks on back. Supposed to hav been taken by a man about 27 years old, weight about 14.0 pounds, and about 5 ft 6 inches in height, lijht complex ioned, small sandy mustache nud sandy hair, slight impediment in speech, SSO reward for return ot mauand mule, or *25 for either man or mule. A. M. Davis, Toecoa, Ga. Gov. Atkinson is making a record in the executive mansion in more ways than one. Tile first birth ever re corded in the historic house was that of Miss Georgia Hardeman Atkinson last fall. And a brilliant gathering witnessed the liist marriage that has ever been celebrated in the mansion on last Tuesday evening. Tho con tracting parties wore Mr. Albert Chase Miller and Mrs. Maude Cook Murray, a beautiful Ohio woman am! w arm friend of Mrs. Atkinson who has been visiting tho Governor’s family since Christ mas,—Ex. Popular Monthly's Great Leo Ar -1 iclcs. There is no American, living or dead, Norik or South, who stood nearer the hearts of the people, or whose memory is held witk more sa cred affection, than General Robert E. Lee. All on this side of the wiped out but nevur-to-be-forgoften “line” feel that they know him; but there is (till much of his family and his ances tors that has never yet been told. On this account tho Gazette is pleased to note the announcement of Frank Lcs lie’s Pobular Monthly regarding the series of notable Leu paper that begin in the Febuitry issue. Tho first is •'Tfie Ancestors of Gdicual Robert F*. Lee and the Titm-s in Which They Lived,” by Mrs. Judge Roger A. PiVor, of New Verk. whole series, beginning with the earliest colonial times down to the present date, will be enriched with numerous partraits and illustrations of special interest, heretofore imprinted, and a large speaking likeness in water colors of General Lee Altogether these articles will form a valuable addition to the history of the gioat men of the uaiion. A matter of opinion. ■I gentleman was greatly surprised and pleased the'olher day at the re ply a lady gave to the question : ‘ - D<> you plant Vick’s Seeds?'’ Her an swer was : "I always pi int Vick’s seeds in the front yard, but wo get cheap seeds in the back yard, which I know is a mistake.” It pays to plant good seeds, and we advise our friends who are thinking of doing anything in tins line t* send 10 cents tor Vi 'k’s Floral Guide lor 1895 This amount may be duducted from the first order. James Vick’s Son, i Rochester, N. Y„ are the pioneers in this line. MACK YOURSELF STRONG If you wsulci resist pneumonia, bron c'rlis, typhoid fever, and persistent etii'-liH and co'ds. These ills attack the weak arid ru.i down system. They can find no iooihold where the blood is kept puto, r'ch and full of vitality, the appetite good and diges tion vigorous, with 'food’s Sarsapa rilla, the one true blood ptuifier. HOOD’S I’ILLS cure liver ills, constipation, bilhousnex.s, jaundice, sick headache. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, DRi A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. nows this! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any rase of Catarrh that cannot bs curud bv ll.ill’s Catarrh Cure. F. -T. CIIENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Wo the pndei'signt 1. have known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business tranaclions md finan cially able to cany out any obliga turn made by tileir hi :n. Wi-.-t A Traps, Wholesale .Drug gists, To!cb; >, O. W.m.dimq, IviNNiN *V M arm in, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, (). Ha'l’s Gaiarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting d'rectly upon ike blood and miiciious surfaces of ilia system. Price ”6c. per bottle. Sold by all l)i ugg sts. Testimonials free. A Man with a History. lltjl l.oUy Covfml v lt!i I-itiuyv*;. I 'Juij as ot v.t anil TJinriivJit wna Culii,-- s.i> dry up. (/> :i r’:. A .Mvai Lite, ‘Jcr<i<.. t JlairAer) Mr. John YV.Thcmas, J r., r.f Theta, Tcna., Sr a nmn with a must interesting iiislory. “It was in ’ld, raid lie to a reporter who bail set:ml him for the ntovy of Ills life when 1 was working in the silver mines of New Mexico, that my troubles begun. ‘ “ From simple iiniiieation my malady de veloped iotoi', ehiMnie inaliiliiv to ta-.<■: any substantial food, and at times I was pros trated by spelt; of heart pni pi lain n. On the llta of April, 18MS, 1 Unlotiily col* lapsed, end sir and v* 1 nan i .r.i*, in f ict i was noi fully myself i itii ,'vjv. On Member i.4 I weighed but .0 pounds wh.eiv.is iny normal weight is t'lb poumls. All oyer my body there were lumps from the size of a grapo to the size of a walnut, my fingers were cramped *<> that .1 erupt n it mofft tliaa half straighten them. 1 luul en tubiy hut control of my lower limbi; ami lay hand tr "iibled so that l o"ii'd not drink without spilling the lim-.id. S’othing won hi remain oq my stom&c-i, and it seemed that i must dry up before many nmre days had passed. “ i raa.de another round of the phytiieians, calling in one after the other, and by iho aid of morphine nml other medicines they gave in i lmiuuged to live though barely through the fall.” Il’erc .Mr. Thomas displayed hi* arms, and just above the clbosv of each there was a lari'.! irregular stain as large as the ptum of the band and of a purple color, the space covered by the mark was sunken nearly to the bone. “ That ” said Mr. Thomas, “is what the doctors uid by putting morphias iuto me. “ On the 11th of Deco.other, ISiIJ, just eight months after 1 took permanently to bed—X shall nevsr forget the date—oiy’cousin, JoeJ Fuller, of Carters’ t'rcei:, railed on me an<r gave me a box of Dr. Williams’ I'ink Pills for ITki Poop Ic. raying they bad cured hint of partial paralysis, with which I knew ha had all but (Tod. I followed his directions and began taking the medicine, ns n remit i stiftu hclisreyun to-day tho most surprised man oa earth. Dock ut my hand, it is us steady its yours; my face has a healthy : ok about it; ] havo boon attm.diiig tn my duties fir a month. Hinc I I*, .-.n iaki,.g the pills l have gained 30 pounds, aud I am iii.d gaining. All the knots have dinap. pcarrd from my body except this little kernel here in my palm, i have a good appetite and I am almost ns strung as 1 it at was. “ Yesterday T rode thirty-seven miles oo horseback, I foal tired to-day but uotion. I lined to have from two tj four spells of heart palpitation every night, since 1 began tho u'<e of the pills 1 havo had but tour ifvils altogether. “I know positively that I was cured by Dr. Williams] I’iak Pills, and 1 believe firmly that it is the most wonderful remedy i’l <*xilions* to-day, ami every fact I have prs m toil to you is known to my neighbors •is !I os In ’.! }• ;■ If, and they will cordfy to ‘•ho truth of my remarkable cure.” HOW TO EN.iOYGOOD HEALTH If you are suffering with any skin or blood disease, Rheumatism, Catarrh Ulcers, Old Sores, General liability, etc. send stamp to the Blood Balm Cos., Atlanta, Ga. for book of won derful ceres, free. This book will point the way to speedy recovery. Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) is manufactured after a long tented prercrijttion of an eminent physician, and is the best building-up and blood purifying medicine iu the world. Beware of substitutes. Price SI.OO f®r large bottle. See advertisement elsewhere. For sale by Druggists. TEN DOLLARS FOB A N AME. The Georgia Southern & Florida By., in additiou to their famous Pull man Buffet trains, “Quick Step” and “Dixie Flyer,” have inaugurated the fastest Pullman line in the South be tween Macon and Tampa, tbo route being Georgia Southern cfc Florida to Jasper and Plant, system to Tampa, leaving Macon dai.y at 11:28 p. m., arriving in Macou at 4a. in. As the names of its two Jacksonville Pullman trains have become household words, it desires to chiisten its new route with a name that, wilt boas approbate and popular a its two sisters. Mr. ■j. A. Macdonald, General Passenger Agent, Macon, has therefore offered a p ;e of ten dollars in goJd{ for the most oppropriatc name, bearing in mind that the train passes She famous Suwanee lliver by daydght. All that is necessary is to send in this clipping givind name of paper and date, to gether with the name and address of one or more parsons who expect to visit Florida this season, to G. A. Macdonald, G. P. A., G. S. * F. Ry, Macon, Ga. PR OEE SSION’A L CARDS. ()SCAR BROWN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSEI.LOB-AT-LAW, HOMKK, A. ill practice in all the eo.irts and make col lof.ion (\ specialty. Care and jiromptness in every bus! less. v. I). LOCKHART, M. I>. HOMER, GA. X3T' Office west of public square. Monej' to Loau. I am now ready to negotiate loans scoured by real cstnts on easy term an ! with reasonable promptness 1 will sell real estate for a reasonable commission. Giv® me vour terms, and I will place your property on the market. Call at my office. Oscarßrousk, Homer, Ga. For sale. One fine bred Tennessee mare 8 years old, weight 1100 pounds, and will brins? colt next spring. Works well anywhere, qualities good, and cells have all been mare colts. He sir* s are registered lionises. Call ou or write to J. C. Burns, Grov* Level, Ga. Among the lrhtt and flower novcl l.:cs which 1890 brings us, wo notice that the enterprising and reliable firm oC James Vick’s Son’s Rochester, N. ' -i hi’c already calling attention to ihrec, which seem to have won great favor where known. Thev are the DOUBLE SWEET PEA, the only mm in the world true to name, “Bride <;!’ Niagara,” the “Early Leader Tom ato,” the earliest of all the early tom do family and sure to become a great iuvorite, and already famous Black berry, the “RATHBUN,” 1’ ri’iii the praise and compliments riven so abundantly to the “Bride of -Wigra, ’ this sweet pea must be more than chanting and from the encom iums lavished on both the new tonsato and this new blackberry, it is pretty certain no garden desiring to have iho first and best of every thing, cart *b; without these three new com irs. Cy t he way, readers, are, any ot v*u so Jar behind thyytimes as not to know “Vick’s" Floral Guide?” If any of yen have never seen it, send 10 cents te this firm at Rochester, N. Y., and get - copy. You cau deduct this from tin* first -’cr >r seeds and the pleas uro and ivt'ormatieu their Guide will -’.tve yo will centainly induce yeu to keep up the acquaintance. HE CEBT t VfEtK The Atlanta Weekly Journal's Great Offer—Clubbed With This Paper for a Nom inal Sum, __ Can you afford to pay Arc cant* month or one cent week for tho news of tbo world? You can get the Atlanta Weekly Journal for loss than that. It is the cheap cut paper in the south. The Weekly Journal has been vastly im proved of fate and now goes out to it* reuders a five, clean, complete, up to doty family newspaper, equal to the best in' thr United States. It oontnins ten [ages and la briro full of bright reading all the way through. Ts:< Daily Journal's now* nervlce cpveia the world and th cream of it all comes in the Weekly. With Sam Jones’ philosophy, Bill Nye’k humor, stories from the bent writers in the country, profitable hints for the farm, bright, instructive goseip for the women, The Juvenile Journal, as a part of it, for the children and attractive miscellany for the entire household—it cornea to you at only 50 cents a year. You car: send this to The Weekly Jour - nal, Atlanta, in stamps, ores you plsase. Sample copied vHU be sent you Iroe. Tho coming year is going io be alive with interesting happenings. To keep tip With them you need the Atlanta Weekly Journal. And by a special club bing arrangement, we are now able' to give you twelve month’s sub scription to both that pa;>er and The Baaks County Gazette fur B€cts n year. Go t* Skiff the .foweler Athens, Ga. for fine clocks, watches, ebaius, charms eye glasses, silverware of every de scription, and everything kept in- a fist class Jewelry store. VVANTED Several trustworthy gentlemen or ladies to travel in Georgia for eHtaliltehed reliable house. Salary £7BO andexpenses. Steady position: Enclose reference and sell-addretsed stamped envelope. Tlie Doininn Company Third f loor Omaha Bldg, Chicago, 111. If you wish to buy Jewelry or have it repaired at low rates, go to V. W.- ttkiff Athens, Ga: NO. 37.