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VOL. ONE. THE FARMERS JOURNAL, rtrr*ra -r.n vBMHBWifc-iruwyiHww!wt.TKaw , MMBw Tgr-PIJBUfrHSp WEBWSSDAY. 50 C'i'3. Per Year. int Artvanct*. Locals 8 Cojits Per .Liu'S First Inser tion, Each Additirm-il 5 Cents* Entered a ; > ftouond Chass Matter at the Homer. Ga., Post Office. „7r<. Barton. - ' Proprietor. ■numßaisgaasgsg-ißatßaM 'oentm. aaßJww. ~ k.skh A. C MOSS* ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOMER, ■ GEORGIA. Collodions made and promptly re mitted. P M EDWARDS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOMER, GEORGIA. Will practice in ail the Courts of the Western Circuit. OSCAR BROWN, LAWYER. Homer. Georgia. Will give special attention to ad ministration?, etc., and do a general practice in Binks and adjoin ing couniea ? W. I. PIKE, N ATTORNEY AT LaW, Jefferson, Georgia. G. W. BROWN, Msysvilie, Georgia. Will do a general piaciice. Collect, ins; a specialty. JA2IF.3 M. Merritt, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Maysville, Georgia, DR. A. H, STAPLER, lloiaer, Georgia, Special attention given to snrgcry, obstetrics and chrome diseases of long ft’andiog. ~ Y. D. LOCKHART. PhysiciaN, Homer, Georgia. J. W. Sumpter, GENERAL BLACKSMITHIKG. Homer, Georgia. and Waggons made to order. Repairing a Specialty. Ordiawf* Court, First Mondays in each month. T. r. Hill, ordinary. Superior Court) Third Mondays in March and Sep tember. k. l. Hutchins judge. Officers Farmer* Count 7 Alliance. M. L. McDonald, president, 0. H. c. smith, vice-president, w.r. Hill, secre tary, r. J. Dyar, chaplain, a. b. Means, doorkeeper. drarchea* Presbyterian (Jhurob, services 2nd Snnday in each month, ltev. Gr. H. ■ Cartledge, pastor. Methodist Church, services Ist Snnday' in each month, and Saturday before, 1 Revs. J. D, Gunnels and Jno. I. Pen dergras, pastors. V Baptist Church, 4th Snnday ineaoh month and Saturday before, Rer. J. F: ®oode pastor. Lodges Homer Lodge, mo. 82., I. O. 0. F., meets Ist Tuesday in each month, J. W. Sumpter, noble grand, T. F. Hill, secretary. Phi Delta Lodge ho. 148, F. A. M„ meets Ist Friday night in each month, v. a. watson, w. it., r. si. Edwards, g. w., i. w. snmpter, j. w., w. s. Long, sect’y., w. o. l. Garrison, treasurer., wiley Treldkill, s. v., c. a. owsu, j.d., jaeary orten e. a., A. I, cash, j. •. mTjT ri aT3 TifP'D TfiTTO I\T A T sJa JaeL e&I eda ram gov uLs esJ Xy M JW W naU tan calk a hdm NOTICE! September Crta, 1888. After this month ito notices ot any kind will bo inserted in this# paper without the nublication fees in advance administrators sale. Georgia, Banka Co.:—Agreeable to an order of ibo court of ordinary 0' Banks county, will be sold at auction as tbo court house door of said county on the Ist Tuesday in March next within tho legal hours of salo the (al lowing property to wit, Oao nharo in the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, sold as the property of Min ysrd Bandars, dec’d. Sold for the ben efit of the heirs of said estate. Terms cash Jan. 30, 1889. 7. W. owen, 39 4w. Adm’r. HOMER. HOTEL, G- C. Forbes, - - Proprietor. Having rented the Hotel of Mr?. L Cox, I respectfully eolicit the patron ago of those who have been , palroniz ing the house in the past. Comfortable rooms furnished mer cantile men and the traveling public generally; good fare as can be lnund in the market. 41 Itf. Money to loan on easy terms. From one to Sve years time. 3 mas. P, M JSd wards. IN otic*/ I will do any work in my line on time, nntii fall at reasonable rates, for all who are willing to make me sure of my pay. Respectfully, J. W. 8 UMPTER. Homer, Ga. LOCAL ITEMS, McElree’s Wine of Cardul and thedford’s black-draught are for sale by the following merchants in Bauks and adjoining counties: j e Stephens, Homer, Georgia. w. T. Duncan jewellsville, Georgia. George wiley, rewellsville, Georgia. Charles sweet, Alto, ceergia. j. l*p legrand, cramer, georgia. A. W. Bellamy, walnut Hill, georgia, Hatheoch and co„ Harmony grove, ga. power dt Gunnells, Harmony giove.ga. Baugh and Bro., sraysv-ille, georgia. tr c eims, Apple valley, georgia. j. b. mo wborter, port Lamar, georgia. Last Sunday was “a rainy day.’’ Judge Hill paid Atlanta a flying and business trip, last week. The Farmers Alliance will hold their meetings hereafter, upstsirs in the Dyar large two-story building. Master Sana Dyar has the prettiest setter pap in the state. Sam, “we” want that dog] Mrs. Harmon is quite siok. Dr. Lockhart, her physician, is nneasy as to rendering her medical aid. The party at the Homer Hotel last Thursday night, was a pleasant one, considering the rain and disagreeable evening for the attendants. It k feared the recent heavy rains may have damaged some of the coun ty's bridges. Judge Hitl will exam ine them ae soon as possible. Tha parfy at Mr. Wiley Sanders last night, was much enjoyed by those present. The usual neighbor hood gathering was out. No other medioiae is so reliable as Ayer’* Cherry Pectoral, for the cure ot coughs, colds, and all derangements of the respiratory organs. It relievos the asthamatio and consumptive, even in advanood stages of disease. ‘•On-word Anl Progressive!” HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1889. Tuesday the StJth inst., is the last return day for Banks Superior Court. TooJoa, Feb. 12. Last night the Davenport kotol and oight other build ings were burned. Total loss suppos ed to be $12,000. Cause of lira r.n known. %* My little sou, throe years of age, was terribly afflicted with scrofula. Hia hfead was entirely aovered with scrofulous sores and hie body showed many marks of the disease. A few bot ties of Ayer ; a Sarsaparilla cured him. [W. J. Breekett, Hymera, Ind. KS-WINE OF CAR DU I, a Tonic for Women. Tho Journal, will greet its readers with a Washington Letter every week from this on, from its old, tried and trne democratic correspondent, of years past. They will show np fiar rison and bis party socially and polit ically, each week. Nerves. As you stand and look, you so? many scenes, and, if you will gue space to time, you will hear many things, before going any farther, ob serve the position of your scenes; also, study well, the disposition and character ot the person or persons, be f>re you give notice to these “many things.” Some people like to pull their “coat-tails in tho sand,” and they want company, you know. Try tea for Dyspepsia. No other spring medicine has won for itself such universal confidence as Ayer’s SarstpsrilD. If is the most powerful combination of vegetable al teratives ever offered to the public, and is acknowledged hy profes sion to be the blood pnrifier. “Bofa, and no lather,” is the 1-gend which most young uren pin to theii streamers after the bull dog has sound ed his reveille just.ontside the front ysrd fence—[Russellville, (Ky.) Hoi aid Enterprise. The next call you make with the intention of taking her out for a moon light stroll, Andy, yon should bring that dog a whole “raw h>de.” for female diseases. The Journal gives most ofifcslo cal space to the deadly cyclone, but had the Journal been among the unfortunate, the cyclone would have given it space in the shape of an electric current, and ere this it would be printing the news in the invisible beyond, but, while it deeply sympathizes with the un fortunate, it gives thanks, that it and its many readers have been spared “the light of another day!” The Journal does not wish to im pose *r even suggest any offensive move on any one, but it believes if the county judge would grant an order to inolosj the court house tnd public park with a nice pailing fence, and trim up the trees, it would be sat isfactory to tb# taxpayers. The cost would be but- a trifle, and it would greatly improve tbe “Temple of Jus tice”—to say nothing of tbe prowling cow, hog and goat, that invade its premises daring tho summer months. Nearly court house and park in all other counties is inclosed—save those in the interiors. B®~BLACK-DRAUGHT tea cures Constipation. Not Man’s Hand, BUT THE SUPREMACY, Who Doeth all Tfiiags to His Will. Tha Cyclone.—On Monday mor ning last, at 4 o’clock, a terrific cy clone passed over tha lower end of the county, killing T.TI. Stevens and his son W, H. Stevens, and seriously injuring Mrs, StHYens, and Wm. Headers and wife. A loud, rumbling noise was beard in the direction of tho storm, at the time, and by 8 o’clock runners came from tho scene ©f the disas ter, to notify the people in town, and to secure the services of phy sicians. As soon as conveyances could be procured nearly every body in town went. The storm com menced on the east side of the Grove river at the Thales Neal farm aad took an easterly course, crossing over the river it struck Mr Wm, Headers’ house. Itwas an old fashioned, one story building stand ing on the face of a ridge, jutting in towards the river. It tore the house litterally all to pieces except a single room about 20 feet square with a small shed room adjoining, which was lifted up and carried some 50 or sixty yards down r the side of the hill. The crib, stables, smoke house and other outbuild ings were also torn into splinters and carried away. Mr. Headers and wife were thrown out of their beds and down under the floor of the room in which they slept, where they remained severely wounded, and stunned, in an un conscious condition, until about daylight, when they were rescued from their perilous condition and carried to the home of 4tx, J as. 0. Wood. Passing down the lull in its furious march of destruction, it next struck the house of Mr. Stevens, some 300 yards away. The Stevens family consisted of nine persons. Willie, the eldest son, had been running on the rail road for some time as a fireman, and had been severely scalded in a railroad disaster. Me bad made his arrangement to return to At lanta on Monday, and bad set an alarm clock to wake him at 3:30. A short time after the alarm went off his father arose and was in the act of kindling & fire in the fire place. Mrs. Stevens was the first to hear the approaching storm, and told her husband that she thought a cy clone was eoming. A heavy rain storm had just passed and Mr Steves replied, “0! 1 hope not.” At tkat instant the cyclone, in its mad fury was upon them. A tree was blown across the house, knock ing down the chimney, which fell on Mr. Stevens and killed him in stantly, Willie was blown out of the house about 75 yards and his thigh broken and otherwise injur ed, His piteous cries for help v. a* heard by Henry, a younger brother who had also been blown through the crashing and flying timbers,*: some distance from tho hoi;-. Henry was badly hurt, himself, but; as soon as possible lie ran to his brother, but was unable to render much assistance, until death kind ly released him from hia suffering*. Leaving Willie, Henry now return ed to the house and found hie moth er fastened down under the Ltd and a number of heavy timbers, which had fallen upon her With the assistance of smaller children ho released his mother from her terrible situation, and then ran across the branch and up tha steep hill on tli© other Pi le, to look for hie Grandpa Meadsis an-'l his wife, whom he found th.ire under tha floor as already described. Tom. Stevens had not yet been found. It was then thought that he had been blown away in the storm, until the neighbors came in and found him under the huge pile of rocks, where the chimney had fallen up on him, and crushed the life out ot him instantly. Whei the cyclono reached Mr. Prior Wright’s farm, it semi to have partially spent its force, but a number of tenant houses were un roofed, and a Mrs. Rice was se verely jfcruised. By tho time if reached Bold Spring the force of the cyclone had be -n spent. The most terrible destruction thatevor has been witnessed marks the track of the great stoim. Th* heaviest oaks and mighty mon archs of the forest, were twisted in to splits—torn up bv the roots and sent whirling tnro igh tho air Pine bushes and other small brush were tern up from the ground. House hold furniture, belding, clothing, farming tools, dead cattle, pigs, poultry, and eve* birds, are scat tered along its track, or thrown in to tree tops. The lumber in Mr, Stevens’ house was litterally torn intoeplin ters. An iron harrow was torn up and the clock was found under tho debris of the building, where it bad been thrown only a few moments after it rattled off the alarm to awaken Mr. Stevens and his son Wilhe, forth© last time on earth. The hands had stopped live min utes past 4 o’clock. The main track was about 500 yards wide, and p issed just over th© track of a former cyclone of years before. Asa toilet article, Ayer’s Hair v ig or stand* nnrivaled. It cleanses tho ssalp and removes dandruff, cures itch ing burners, restores the original color to faded and gray hair, and promotes it growth, In about a mouth tue road over seers w ill make a dash through their respective noighbortmods end “warn the hands.” From Btolsor 20 will walk over from throa to four miles of road, as they go along they will throw in a few pine tops sad scratch a go pher plow through tbe gullies oa the sides of tho road and leave the ftjrt m there to wash out or fill np the ditch es or some other place. The overseer will walk in front of tha hands and, whist!/a tune, and they will than say * the road is worked. The oemmiseion •rs will then fine Bom9 poor fellow two dollars because he was sick and failed to be in the procession. This is Geor gin lw, *** NO. 42.