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/j) wtw imCc-. 0 AmTJI HPl# LN&aajfcfry tkau&L- Bocal, State And National News VOL. TWO. -he -Uiunnevs i'oxunul. *-•. l Organ of Banks County '•'* mvirmoa':*; war .u A'MMJMnirm.T b PUBLISHED THURSDAY. 50 Cts. Per Year. ii ,t(1 viaucr, Bocals & Cut>; Per Bine First liiser* tiou Each Additional ft Gouts* Kumren as Second C<ar>s Mauer ai (he Homer. Go. Poet. Office afno. Burton, - Proprietor. P M- EDWARDS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOMER, GEORGIA. ?ar Will practice in all the Courts ef he ■ *'■• n Circuit voowlit BROWN, L A W YER. Homer. Georgia. Will give special attention to ad ministrations, etc., and do a general piactice in Banks and adjoining coun ties. Will loan MONEY at OH per r<>nt, per annum. G. VV. BROWN, oX llaysville, ttcorgla. Will do a general practice. Collect ing a rpecially. and. B. BITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, .JefiVrson, - Georgia. Will i>rcue a in Jackron, Clarke, Hail, Banks, Franklin, Madison, aud I; t e r- nvt- in the Asern circuit. HO WEBB C- STANDRIDGE. AT i'ORNEY AT LAW, >S(l)>Vi!!e, Geergia. Dr. E F. ADA!it. DENTIST. Harmony Giove, Gporgia. Jajzes M. Merritt, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Jlaysville, Georgia, I— —W. I. PIKE, N ATTORNEY AT LaW, .1 i teehson, Georgia. "" DR. A. H, STAPLER, Momer, Gicorgia, Special niter lion given to surgery, obstetrics and cnron c diseases of long s'anding. V O. LOUKIiAKT. p hysiciaN, ilomer, C^eorgia. Ordinary’s Court, First Monti iys iu each mouih. T. F Hill, ordinary. Superior Court, Third Mondays in March and Sep tember. Churches* Presbyterian Uhuicli, services 2nd Sunday in each mouth, iie Y . Cx. H. Cartledge. pastor. Mel hodist Chuich, services Ist Sunday lit each month, and Saturday before, Revs. <l. D Gunueis and Juo. I. Pen dergtas, pastor'. EapuslChurch, 4 b Sunday in each month ami Saturday before, [lo v .J. 4. pc ode pastor. Lodges* Horner L >igc, so. f<2., I. O. 0. F , meets 1.-st Tuesday in each month, J. W. hump'd, lioLie grand, T. 4. Hill, secretary. Phi lielta Ledge no. 148, F. A. M„ meets Ist Friday night in eacn month, w. a. wataou, w. m., p M. Edwards, f yr., J. w. t-UHJpfer, J w., w. s. Long, tic’tj., w. c. J. Garrison, treasurer., Viiey 'iisldiiiii, . v., c. ft. Given, J.D., Htciy oreea s. s., a J. cash, j. s. NOTICE! *>*■• H>tenber i*h, After this month no notices ot any kind will he inserted in this paper without the publication fees id advance moneytoToan In sums ot S3OO and upwards on less coimuission than any man in north-ast Georgia. P. M J*ldwards. 52 6m. Ofßners Blnnko For Sale At this Office Ad kiwis. JVfcESree’s Wine of Cardu! and thedford's black-draucht are for sale by tlie following merchants in lJaniis and adjoining counties: j r Stephens, nomer, Georgia. , w. T Duncan jewellsyille, Georgia. George wiley, jewellsville, Georgia. Charles sweet, Alto, ceorgia j. Lee Lcgrand, cramer, georgia. a. S. Bellamy, walnut Hill, georgia, Ilathcock and ro,, Harmony grove, ga. power & Gunnells, Harmony giove. ga. Baugh and nro., Maysville, georgia. j o bims, Apple valley, georgia. .T b. mo vhorter. Fori i.amar, genrtria. iiOCitl % terns. News dull and scarce. Roasting ears will soon be in. Judge Hill is doing some repair ing on his dwelling. Messrs. Power and Goss of Harmo ny Grope, were in town last week. Protracted meeting will open at the Methodist church Sunday, a good attendance at Presbyteri an services Sunday. Miss Minnie McNorton returned home Monday. Watermelons, as yet, have not made their appearance. A good deal of sickness reported throughpuf the county. A Miss Brown of this county died from typhoid tever last week. Messrs, Rorie, Garrison and Ed wards returned from district confer enee Monday. W. F. Morris left lor Texas Mon day, on a prospecting tour of sev eral weeks. a Theatre goers missed it in not taking advantage of the excurson to Atlanta. 4th inst. “Climbing up the Golden stairs!” Why not walk up them, if. your iaith is sufficient? It does a fellow good, sometimes to lead him t o the looking glass re gardless his good name. Dr. Lockhart and Col Oscar Brown paid Jell'erson a call this week. The farmers have n (tiling to talk about, • Grass is whipped out and crops are good. McEtree’s WINE OF CARDUI for female diseases. Messrs. Smith and Burch, sales men of Atlanta, were in town this week—on their way from Carnes ville to Harmony Grove. Mr. Idus jßowden has been quite sick the past week, in consequence of which, he has had to suspend his school until Monday. “OnwiM'd Arm? f’fOKPc-sivc!” HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, (la., THURSDAY, JULY IS, i- >. Mr. Charlie Simms, the genial book keeper of the large firm of Comer Bros., Mavsville, was in !own yesterday. McEt-RCE’S WINE Or C * )Ul for Weak Serves. Mr. Oscar B>uwn has oecu e.e-’ied : president of Homer Bell Lettroß Lit i eiarv Club. Now let the mam hers go to work ami get i:p some good litera ture. The Boottimg and rertorative effects of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral are real zed in all caseß of emits, toughs, tinuat or lung tri-uolee, while its poweiful healing qualities • ate shown in ihe most SeiiouH pnlrno iarv disorders. Messrs, I. E. iiiil anu C. a. Meeks have opened schools; the lormer at Burlin, the latter near Silver Shoals. £*J‘WINE OF CARDUI, a Tonic for Women. Died 11th inst., the veteran mother of Messrs. W. 11. and N, L. Meeks. Mrs. Meeks was seven ty-nine years old, and had lived in this county all her life. Many a young girl shuts herself out from society because her lace is cover ed with pimp'es and blotches. All disfiguring humors are removed by purifying the blood with Ayer’s Ssr sapariila. This remedy is the safest aud most reliable that, can be used. The New York Journal has the thanks of this otlire for an oil paint ing containing the portraits of all the leadingjournalists of the North and South. The painting is very fine, and Ihe Journal will have it incased in a frame. <ryBLACK-DRAUGHT tea cures Constipation. Don’t stop caking a paper to bor row your neighbor’s. Dogs days are approaching. "We tried to break one of the cur’s backs with a billet of wood the other night, from our window, but when the stick struck the cur was equal to Sullivan in warding oil' the blow; but a big Tom cat came along and gave him a threshing all the same. Try tea for .Dyspepsia. The citizens of Homer are making preparations for the Athens’ Presby tery. This association of ministers and laymen meets here next month. Ta hies, etc., are being lengthened, and people who have lived heie for years without inviting their nearest n ieh bors to eater their thresh-holi are go ing to stretch their hospitality. Deloit, Kan., June 25 —Editors Constitution: —Please inform your many southern readers lliat anoth er ot the original (77) Banks Coun ty Guards has been “mustered out.” G. B Forbes died in Beloit, Kan , June 21,1889. Although his lat ter days were spent far from his native state, he loved and cherish ed the cause for which he fought so long and well, and which he ev er defended by voice and action ’as long as he lived, Flease ask Athens and Gaines ville papers to copy. By so doing you will oblige greatly a brother of the deceased. Respect’y. vours, Tlios. B. Forbes. ( oitimuuica.ned. Mavsville. G., July 8, 1889.—Ed itors Journal:—For ihe better in -1 formation of those who desire to at tend Ihe Sunday-school Conven tion, which will be held at New Salem on 2<>lh and 271 h of this month, I will slate that all Sun day-schools in tlie county are urg ently requested to be represented at the business meeting oi Friday Ihe 2Glh. This day is set apart lor discussing Ihe means and githering iinformation for ihe advancement of the Sunday-school interest, j The constitution entitles all Sun diy-school officers to membership, land each school is entitled to one representative lor each twenty-five members or fraction thereof. The Dublic exercises ofthevari- A ons schools will take place on Sat urday. i’heir representatives will please report on Friday, Ihe time required for their respect iveschools so the committee can make satis factory arrangements Respt. C. T. Bacon, Secretary. Things Out of Reason: —Music in a sick room or closeby. A sight of trouble for the amount of relig ion. Big pretentions and little faith. Slamming the door when a gentle push will close it. Pretending to carry the stall of knowledge and refinement, and yet doing and liv ing like a . Wailing two years for an answer that can be answer ed in less than a second. Society that’s not society, Thinking ev erybody is under your subjection. A lady that’s not a laily. Putting religion on the outside of a church. A member that’s not a member. Trying to be true to others, and un true to yourself, Trying to break down a business by withdrawing your patronage of fifty cents. Gir ingdollars, when’you should give cents. Giving cents when you should give sense. Living in fine houses to keep company with the lesser. Trying to blot a stain from your character, when it has devel oped lo last through ages. Trying to ride the good name of your kin folk ffideath, A hill before a town. A rise before a fall. Going in sheeps’ clothing at home, and going abroad with that of the hyena. Going to the country grocery and buying vhiskey on credit, when you have the money in your pocket, and hoodwinking the outward show of religion, by pushing yourself into its purity of hymns of praise. National Cemeteries. Distributed among the 85 na tional cemeteries of the United States are 325,250 soldiers’ graves, of which 148,832 are marked “Un known.” At Vicksburg are 10,- 615 graves, at Nashville 10,533 and Educational. Agricultural Aud Mining New-- at Arlington 16,254, the other cem eteries containing less numbers. The cost of tiie cemeteries has been Jrom $250,000 down. Al Arling ton a single monument covers the bones of *2,111 unknown soldiers, gathered after the war from the fields of Bull Run and the route lo Ihe Rappannock. The grave of Gen. Sheridan is at Arlington. Near Salisbury, N. C., in irenehes occupying a space not more Ilian four hundred feet squre, are the bodies of 11.700 Union’prisoners. 'it rlt'jtrajiliic. Empire City, Oiegon, Jky 15 Mrs. fiNtenshaver and child were bru tally murdered on the farm of J hu Gilman, near Coquille City. Thursday night and buried in a gulch near the house, where they were found to-day. The husband 'was working up the liv er, returning home Saturday. Thev were tenants ot Gilman, who wanted them to leave, which they refused un til tlitir lease expired. After the runnier of the wile aud child, g laiari laid in wait Saturday and attacked Eatenwiniver on his approach io his home, but he escaped and gave the alanu, which resulted in the discovery to day of the remains of his wife and child and a ready-made grave for the husoanii. The murderer aud his wife have been arrested and may he lynch ed. Ozark, Ala., July 15 —Heury Dua cau, a whitu Baptist preacher, vn!l he tried here this week far wife poison ing. It was an atrocious crime, .->he being en ciente, mid lie eloping with a young girl the next night. Wheeling, W. *a., July 15 —At a picnic at Ilea’s linn, ou the Ohio Riv er, yesterday, Jacob Francis, a weal thy farmer, was assaulted by John and James Howland and Thomas C@ok. Francis’ friends took par t and a pitch ed battle ensuing, kuires, revolvers and stones being used. Francis was stabbed three times in the tmck and terribly beaten about the bead. His ii juries are fatal. One of the How lauds was shot in the arnu and Cook’s skull was fractured with a club. Oth ers of the party received serious but nor fatal injuries. Cook and the R>wr lands were desperate characters. The tight grew out of a family leud. Louisville, Ky., July 15. Near Hickman, Satuiday, John .Steam, a farmer, was shot and instantly killed by Jas. Thompson, a neighbor. A pjese is searching lor the murderer. Winchester, v a., July 15. E. CL Jordan, well known throughout the United States as the proprietor of Jor dan White Sulphur Springs, in this county, died this morning. He was bitten on the hand by a pet squirrel two months ago, and blood poison set in. His atm was amputated Friday. I’ittshurg, Pa., July 14—E. J Ly ons, deputy sheriff of Edgefield coun ty, S. C., arrived in tni- city last night (or the purpose of taking charge of John Yelriee. alias Rev. E F. ffieui on, who is wauted for the murder of Officer James Blai kmore of South Carolina. Lyon brought with him J. E Strong, who has known Fleurou since childhood. Roth then are co tain that Fiemon is the man wauted. Newark, N. J., July 15.—-Arrange mems are being made to form a leather trust in this city. Ttiiw is the center of the trade in leather. St. Joseph, Mo., July 14 —The tank of the consolidated oil company in this city was struck by lightning earlv this morning and destroyed by fire; Less seventy five thousand dollars. Insured lor about one third. NO. 11.