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P. M. EDWARDS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IIO.MFU, GEORGIA.
;’T“ Will practice in all tlie Courts
Vp "T.- <rvn O’rrnif
UsJGAit LKU WN,
LAWY E R .
UoiiEii. Georgia.
Will give special attention to ad
ministrations, etc., and do a general
piactice. in Banks and adjoining c-oun
ties. Will loan MONEY at 06 per
mil. per annum.
G. w. iTeow N.
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Alaywville, tdeorgrin.
Wi!i doa general practice. Collect
ing a srieoialty.
J. X,. BITCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
,'i’ : r-ioi'., - Georgia.
Will prcciica in Jackson. Clarke,
I BUI, Banka Frasklin. Madison, ja.ud
, if •:' courts in th v*o:tnrn inn'ii it.
BO ELLC*S! :IDGE.
A'i lUIiNLY AT LAW,
r.';rv-iHc, Georgia.
Dr! E f! ADA IK,
DENTIST.
Harmony Grove, Georgia.
,j a.M its M. Merritt,
Attorney mid Counselor at Law,
Tf n y v Ule, fteorgia,
t T - -AY. I. PIKE,— s
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
,! i<. Fi- KsoN, Georgia.
" DK. A. H, STAPLER,
EfOitier, Georgia,
Special .it.eut:. n given to forgery,
rbA ' ’ ii'd chrome diseasos oi long
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V. D. LOCKHART.
P H YSICIAN,
1 oiner, Georgia.
Ordinary' B Court,
First i’loi C >•• s i each mouth.
T. F. Hill, ordinary.
Superior Court, •
Third Mondays in March and Sep
tember.
Cii'arches.
Presbyterian Church, services 2nd
Sunday iu each month, iO v . H. H.
Cartledge, pastor.
Methodist Chmch, services Ist Sunday
i: each month, ami Saturday before,
Pits. J. D Gnnneis and Jno. I. Pen
dergras, pastors.
Baptist Church, 4 ii Sunday in each
month and Saturday before, llor. J. F.
goode pastor.
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Homer Lodge, so. t>2., I. O. 0. 1.,
meets Ht Tuesday in each month, J.
W , Sumpter, oohla grand, T. I . Hill,
secretary.
Phi Delta Lodge no. 148, F. A. M„
iroe’f- I t Fr . .y night in each mouth,
w. a. v-atsoi;, w. si., r. M. Edwards,
t. v.'., j. w. sntnpter, w. s. Long,
rcc’tv-, 'V. o. J. oairison, tieaturei.,
v. tl i tnelokill, s 0., c. m ewen, J.D.,
Henry Green e. £>., a J. cash. j. a.
NOTICE!
k.coteml)i' sta, ISSB.
After this month no uouces ot any
kind will lii! inserted in this paper
without the pubHcat! ,!• roes in advance
MONt'Y TO VOAN
Ir) Rtitj s '! an I up war ■*: on less
cemmmstoa 1 ban any man L> pwrflmaat
Georgia. i\ M EowAi-ns. 52 G:u.
Officers liJla.uk.-i Av Sale
At 11 1ir, Uiin-0. xVd kinds.
JMcElree’s Wine nf Card is!
and thedford’s black-dfiaucht are
rnwan*. •2mau4i*AiMkMmrj*at~*amEr..~±- r< *
for sale by tire following merchants in
Banks and adjoining counties: j k
Stephens, Homer, Georgia.
w. T Duncan Georgia,
ivilev, jewed-villp, oeoigia.
charles sweet, Alto, Georgia
.i% Lee Lrgrand, craruar, get.rgia.
a. y. Bellamy, walnut Hill, geoigia,
Ilathcock and co,, Harmony grove, ga.
power & Gunnells, narmony giove. ga.
Baugh and uro., jiaysville, geoigia.
j c situs, Apple valley, georgia.
j b. mo vhorter, Fort i,ara\ genrgia
g o at ! Items.
Cotton is looking well.
Will somebody linci a lien doolh?
It would do for a news item.
Mr. Warren Bowden of Belton,
was in town Sunday.
Dr. Stapler is doing some re
pairs on Ids dwelling.
. Several covered wagons passed
through within the last few days.
The most popular resort in Ho
mer is the public pump.
Mr. Francis Haulbrook af Mays
ville, was in town Friday.
Quarterly meeting met at Ebon
ezer Saturday.
Mrs. W. C. J. Garrison lias been
quite sick the past few days.
Hie infant baby of Mrs, YY. A.
Scoggins’ died Monday evening.
If a man don’t respect nis profes
sion, it can not respect hiui.
Look out for warm days and cool
nights shortly.*
License were issued Saturday to
Mr. xldams and Miss Crow. The
parties live in Nail’s Creek
Farmers are beginning to have
a littli recreation; crops are about
“laid by,”
stsrBLACK-DRAUGHT tea cures Constipation.
Last Wednesday night was a hut
one—the warmest of the season.
Mr. Robt. Stephens is gradually
rec >veing from his severe attack of
rheumatism.
Judge Uill and Maj. J. K. Tliomp
son gaye Atlanta a business call last
week.
The different schools in this sec
lion are receiving a good attend
ance. The teachers are competent.
McElree’s WINE OF CAROL!! for female diseases.
One of Homer’s good looking
young men says he ‘dikes - to take
the ladies out riding, and espe
cially that young lady whom he
taken Sunday evening ’’
C®~'WINE OF CARDUI, a Tonic tor Women.
** 'S’as ward Anti S' vsssrr w ivi !”
JIOMEA. BANKS COyN TV, < A... ITI/LSDAY. JFLY A.
Miss Lizzie Greer of A. in.- us.
visited the family of Mr. O. Y.
Forbes last week. She is now vis
iting relatives ia Maviville,
vm e • and lent oi Hom
er, said Satan!; y, people “pas*
througli Horner like it was a pri
vate-resident.”
The Jackson Count}* Singing
Convention will convene at Bold
Springs, Friday before the first
Sunday in August. J. I. Kay, Pres.
Mr. Idus Bowden reopened the
Academy, Mommy with a good at
tendance. Mr. Bowden’s health is
grad ual 1 y i m pro Vi ng.
Gov. Gordon tms appointed Hon. A
P. Watford of Banks, Malcolm John
eon of A lmta, Judge hosier of Ma
rietta, to serve as assessors At
lanta and Ctia-lotto Air Line raitroid.
Superior Court is slowly but
surely approaching. There are two
prisoners in jail—one for horse
stealing; the other charged with
burning a fence
TYy BLACK*DKRUTHT ted tor Dyspepsia.
The Sunday-school Celebration
meets to morrow at New Salem.
This is one of the best neighbor
hoods in the county. A good at
tendance is expected.
Mr. E. L. Bnekett of Hollings
worth, has a very sick child, so ,ve
learn from lion.-A. P. Watford.
Later; —-The little fellow died Tu
esday night.
No injurious effects can follow the
use of Ayer's Ague Cure. It contains
an tn GBing antidote and specific for
miasmatic poisons, together with reme
dial agents which purify and re invig
orate the system.
Some Uriel or thieves stole about
$lB worth of meat from Capf. En
och Anderson last week. Also, about
the same time, stole two hams and
one middling from Mr. Smith
Meeks,
The trouble between the two
schools in the Silver Shoals ueigh
borhooil has caused some trouble
with the patrons.
It is said the school board is to
meet to-day and adjust the matter.
Ike Allexauder, the revenue officer,
is in town this week registering all
who wish to make brandies, etc.
The boys are “kinder” coining in.
The guager will be along later to
see the boys when the kittle is
“brimming full,”
McELREE’S WINE OF CARDUI for Weak Nerves.
No medicine is more conscientiously
prepared, more powerful, or mtrehigb
!y concentrated than Ayer’s Simpa
rilla. Its standard of excellence ii the
result oi careful study. This prepara
tion is acknowledged by the Medical
profession to be the best blood pari tier.
The roving wolf that appeared
| around here this spring, was killed
jin Athens a few nights’ ago, com
j ing out of a hen-house wiili 2 chiek
, ehs in ils mouth. Io another col-
J umu appears the notice from the
I Athens Banner.
A Miiiitea F r.
[Vv titter, hr tl . . -cvnai b/ ikuiby.]
[r, love’s gigariiio !i*t
AiS gentle k the P : e'*m r.t Jr,
Sh sweetens every c u;v ? m n
N\ rth beauty uncommonly iau.
Sin- wins and is wood,
And the sunsr.es tmi • madis
YYreck the he .its of the boys,
C'l thru, Atlienisti adi.
She wt-; the cynosure of the group
’Yiiiiein the luirg eiie stani;
She seized the boyi'h tanseb —
O! thou, Atithenim maid.
Her charms, lik - sparkling rosea
Arrests the fr Jickeome eye
Ot the jovial inouutain tab
As she wears the sad good bye.
Gala as the morning sunbeam
Dancing in the moruii if May,
She hurled Cupid’s i.uhtie quiver
And ?folo a lad’B tieart away.
as will be seen i he cuu lty's jirop
erty from last year’s digest has de
creased $36,000, The total digest
for this year, as shown on Mr. and.
K. Clmmbers’ books, the Keceiver,
is ; 8.34.Q5. Last year it was
$136.34.05. Wh tt caused li-is de
crease, perhaps some will atk The
Journal will say tiie Loan Associa
tions has principally been the cause
a fanner having a $2,000 jdaula
lioii can only receive a loan for
hardly one half. If you want <o
see a county’s wealth diminish let
her gointo a'thing of this son—one
of the worst monopolies that ever
sprang up in the South. It incour
ages sloLhfulnos& into her prosper
ous people, by letting their farms
go down, and they are sold for
comparatively nothing. Will this
iucourage soul hern immigralioiß
(Comm st t: icalod,
Maysville, June 24—Rev. II
R Bernard preached an interesting
sermon to a large congregation at
the Baptist church Sunday.—Mes
srs. B. 11. Green and Ben Wood,
two of our enterprising young far
mers, are visiting in Cherochee, N.
C, —Mr. J. P. Warnie of Oxford,
Ala., is visiting relatives here.—
Mr. 11, J, David is attending court
ai Gainesville this week.—Sir Wil
liam Saville has just completed his
magnificent residence on his farm
near here. It will be known as the
“Saville Mansion.”—Mrs. O. S.
Forbes is gradually improving from
a spell of fever.—Our town will be
deserted to-morrow and Saturday
The summer dullness has put in its
appearance.—Some ace condemn
ing the old guano houses, and say
they ought to be taken down. The
odors from these buildings are not.
pleasant. Our council ought to in
vestigate the matter. —Mr. I. 11.
Madden has moved into his new
store house, and is nicely fitted up.
—The new awning placed round
the Comer Bro's. store adds much
to the looks and cooliness of the
building.—Our streets are getting
dry and dusty. — Mr. a. B. Means,
our new postmaster, is attentive
and accommodating m keeping the
office open—Success to the Jour
nal; it is slowly, but gradually gain
ing ground, and is 'asked for and
read by a number who say they are
going to become subscribers.
Anthens, July 23.—For several
days past there has been a fright
ful, commotion among the citizens
in the northeastern part of our city,
oyer the nightly appearance of a
wild animal in that vicinity. The
beast, had been frequenting the
J..<2r put' vr al. .JrriVi.: (, t r hj And M i.iinr: W
yards and chick; n .'uo.-ls of .-evcral
citizens li\ Gig m-ar K. • nor!hern
depot, and bn:! Lbieo s.-vera! dugs
belonging to m gvo-s -b- tiie neigh
borhood. Ji.'jt it .vas ‘.IOUUUt to
be a mad do. . but as no si an.-- oi
hydiAphobia i-ln-*.ved tip on ;ije>i
nines that were bitten by ihe un
known animal,thecuriq.-i. ■' of the
citizens in ; ;; P. v, -ini: ,* g. -w ; :
fetr'e and they il;-iermin<i to icili
the beael the ik x: . bno in- made ins
appearance Lm-t- tSatniday ilgln,
the oppoffunity. About 12 o’clock
some darkies wore aroused hv x
no He from the Miicken roost 3, and
with loaded guns went out iq lay Ay
the thief, i’retty . mi animal
resembling a v ,;f came out. oi tiro
bouse wi'b two grown bens in its
mouth. Tffo dsidib:.' a-not i; an i a;-
preached it with tear and u . .utiling o
('X !, uiine their curb,:;s tinor. b4ip
said if was a leopard an . sawi
it was a roaiing lion, read; no one yet
knows what it is.
it nscmbles a cross between a wolf
and a dog very strikingly, 'and has
played havoa wuh the chi 'kens the
pa.-t tew nights.
' cirjirHjniic.
Athens. July 22. Near* -nfer Sit
nrday afternoon, a white m*n -mi a
negro woman, whose naiaue <• m J no'
he ascertained, became involved in a
row. The woman was the possessor
of a razor, and with venom-nous fury
she slashed his tight sum open from
the shoulder to the elbow, ami from
loss of blood lie came near dying. He
is stilt in a critic it condition.
G’ovington, July 22 —Last nighs
about dark a negro, DanMiLne, age-1
22, attempted to assault a lesoectable
white woman, Airs, l! chael Stunner,
living six miles from Covington. Her
screams brought assistance, but the
negro etcuped, but afterwards was cap
trued. This morning as he was being
brought to town be was taken from
the officer by sixty masked men ami
hanged.
Cnthbert, July 23.—fudge John T.
Clarke, judge of the Butaula circuit,
was the victim of a horrible accident
to-day, about two o’clock at Smith
vilie, in v/nich hs lost bis life in the
twinkling of an eye. His head was
almost completely severed from the
body, beneath the wheels of the west
bound Macon aud Montgomery passeu
ger. He was on his way to hold court;
at Macon, in Judge Qustin’s place--
Having agreed to sit in the famous Cue
ton State Life insurance case.
Kansas City, July 22.—A spec’al
from Albuquerque, N. M., savt-; List
Sauuday three catrte aud horse thiev
es, mrmbeiH ot a notorious band of
M'xicans who have Buuuiitted inanv
depredations in his city, were attack
ed by Bepu.y Sheriff Uhas. L. Oee>.
and a pos.-e. Owens and one .Mexi
can was kilted, i’he other two Mexi
cans were caught an t itnpii.-’oned in a
vacant house near Ivehy- List uitjht a
paity of cowboys piofeedei ,to the
house where tho remai-aing twothiev-o
weie, overpowered theguaid aud tiatig
el the piisoueis.
Stillwater, Minn, July 22—D >i>
Younger, the Ali-soari oat I aiv, muse
;die in prison. lie is in the l**r st*g
ot consumption, aud prominent men of
Missouri have been living to seonro
his pardpa. Gov. Moriain said to
Col. B onough and ex-(J>v. Marshall,
last night on their presentatiou of a
targe petition: "i may as well sav to
you now, once for all, that 1 shall do
nothing in the case—nothing at all. f
have my own personal feeling in the
matter, and 1 should not bo moved to
interfere in tho case ot Bob or ai y of
them, even if Haywood’s wile could
come back from the grave and sign
your petition, or if Haywood’s,surviv
ing daughter should join in your ap
peal."
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