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Xinealt Statra Aiul National Nots-h. VOL. TWO. The Pav incus Tmxnuvt. Official Organ of Hanks County winuw i —w.ir-iwHMii'iiiii aam*'. -*<i-wrawwMMn . PUBLISHED THURSDAY. 50Cts.PerYear. Snlac-snJinn iu Advance. .Locals 8 Cents For Lire First Inser tion, Each Additional ft Cents- Entered as .Second Class Matter at the Homer, Ga.. Pot Office Jixo. Barton. - Proprietor. P. M- EDWARDS. AYTOR.NEY AT LAW, HOMER, GEORGIA. rjpSF' Will practice in all the Courts *f the Western Circuit. OSCARBItOWN, LAWY E R . Homer, Georgia. Will give special attention to ad aunistrations, etc., and do a general practice in Banks and adjoining coun ties. Will loan MONEY at 06 per cput, par annum. g 7 \v. brown, C\Vw v q\ ca) y Jlayisville, Georgia,. Will do a general practice. Collect ing a s pecialt v. J. L. BITCH. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Jefferson, - Georgia. Will practice in Jackson, Clarke, llall, Banks, Franklin, Madison, and *!| f,he courts in the "'OStom eirnnir. HOWELL C- STANDKIDGB ATTORNEY AT LAW', Georgia Dr. E F. A DAI 11, DENTIST. Harmony Giove, Georgia. .Jami-;s M. Merritt, Attorney and Counselor at Law, ’laysville, <*eor@l!. W. I. PIKE, N ATTORNEY AT LaW, .1 KFFl 7 ilfilN. GeOTUIIA. ~DK. A. H, STAPLER, 'BComer, Georgia, Special ari.r.'in) given to surgery, cbs’e.iks and cutoirc uiseasea of long R'ari'btisr. V. Locke vkt. PHYSI C I A N, lloiik'S', Georgia. Ordinary’s Court' First Mondays it) earn month TANARUS, F. lliii, ordinary. Superior Court. Third Mondays iu March and Sep tember. Churches* Presbyterian Ghuich, services 2nd Sunday in each moutu, IL V . G. H. C’artledge, pastor. niethodist Church, set vires Ist Sunday i a each m**ntl, and Saturday before, Levs. J, \J Gunneis and Juo. I. Pen- Orgras, pastors. baptist Church, 4th Sunday in each uiimtb and Saturday before, Re*-- J L. •Juneau pastor. Homer I. 0. O. F., t icets Ist Tuesday in each month, W. i . Pool, noble grand, R. J. Lbar, tcretary. Phi-PGra Lodge no. 148, F. A. M„ men's Ft ’p; Gy night tu cacn month, w. a. Watson, w, ji., p. M. Edwards, s v , . sutupter, i w., w. s.Long, s . . }. oatrison, treasurer., v iky Tteldkitl, s. 0., o. h. owen, j and., i eu y iiryt'Li ). s., a. J. cash, j. <s. NOTICE! seyteitibcr ,ila, After this month no notices ot any kind will be inserted in this paper without the publication fees in advance MONEY-TO t OAN In sums of S3OO and upwards on less commissicn (ban any man in northeast Georgia. ff. M Edwards. 52 6m. Cffleiys Blanks For Sale At this Uifire, Ail kinds. JVkESree’s Wine of Cardul and THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT are for sale by the following merchants in Banks and rtdjoiU mg UiUnUosl J. E Stepher*. Homer. W. T. Duiman, Jewellsville. George Wiley, Jewellsyil e. Charles Sweet, Alto. J. Lee Legrand, Cramer. A N. Bellamy, Walnut Hill Hatebe.ofk am 1 Cos., Harmony Grove Bower ami Wiiford, llaimony Grove B ugh and Biot her. Mays vide. •J. C Sims. Apple ' alley. J B McWhorter. Fort Lamar. 4£ocal Items. Pulling fodder and sowing tur nips is now tlie topic.' Mr, J. D. Hill is reported an ap plicant for the Ilomer post office. Now that the crops are laid by, what about a railroad meeting? The weather at present is unset tled, with indications of rain. Officers blanks e.n ea lound at this office. The reads are in a line condition lor hauling, notwithstanding the recent rains. ea-WINE OF CARDUI, a Tonic for Women. Mr. W S. Morris lias returned from a visit of several weeks to his brother in Fort Worth, Texas. The Methodist church will be painted and the Baptist church re paired between now and spring. The names of the grand and traverse jurors will appear in next issue of the Journal. Mr. J. W,Sumpter attended the Grand Lodge ot I. O. 0, F. at Rome la3t week. Mrs. McNorton aud her daugh ter, Miss Minnie, are visiting her daughter Mrs. Oscar Brown. e-y BLACK-DR AUGHT tea. cures Constipation. Five candidates were baptised in the Hudson Sunday morning, Rev. Mr. Duncan officiating. Rev, Mr, Rorie is conducting a protracted meeting at Mt. Pleas ant Church this week. The public park looks somewhat better since the trees were trimm ed, but they need several limbs taken off yet. Try ice. tor Dyspepsia. Mr J. J. Turk has cotton bowls open. The opening was noticed several days ago. In mentioning file Dodd house last week, an error was made in stating that Mrs Dodd was dead. McELRES’S WINE OF CARDUI for Weak Nerves. ‘’Obwuwl Amt Progressive!” HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1889. A light took placti at a negro meeting af Webb’s creak last Sun day in which one negro was cut up severely. WINE OF CARDUt for female diseases. Protracted services closed at the M. E. Church Friday night with a large atlendance. There were a number enrolled for membership. Mrs. Johu Hill, Sr., and her daughter, Airs. D. G. Yeargin, lias been quile sick with fever the past few days. Dr. Lockhart, re ports them recovering, Now is the time to advertise for the Fall trade. Meichants should know their territories and advertise to their patrons they are ready to sell them goods. This they can do through the different papers of their teiritories. Mr. C.N. Briggs filled the pul pit at the Baptist church last night. The congregation was large and many went forward to be prayed for. Mr. Sumpter joined byleltler, which severed his membership with a church in South Carolina twelve years ago. The toaic and alterative properties of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla aro too well known to require the rp cious ad of auv exaggerated or ficti’ions certificate. Witnesses of the marvelous cuie* ef fected by this preparation are to-day living in e v ery city ami barn!®' of the land. acliuinii*tiitioi'B sale- Georgia, Banks County,—Agree ably to an order of the court of ordina ry of said eonnty, will be sold at the court house door of said county on the let. Tuesday in October next within the legal hours of sale,-the following property, to-wit: One tract of land in the 284 district, g. m,, in said county, known as the W. D. Stephens land, end containing 243 acres, adjoining William Kesier on the north and W. T. Martin on the south and the home place on the west; all in original for est except 20 acres in cultivation wiih ordinary buildings on same; sold as the property of R. G. orump for the bene fit of the heirs and cteditors. Terms one-third cash, balance due thirty days thereafter. A H Crump, Administratrix Aug. 28, 1889. The remedy whieh most, successful ly combats malarial disorders, is Ay er’s Ague Cure. It is a purely vege table componnd, and contains neither quinine ccr any o'her dangerous in gredient. Warranted to cure chills 3ud fever. It is reported that Miss Donnie, sister of Mr. if. M. Edwards, will be married in Logansville this week, where her father is stalioned iu charge of the Methodist church. This will be news to her attquain ; ances here, where her family re sided and her father had charge of the Methodist chu'ch, several yea s ago The journal bespeaks for MissEdwaids and her suitor a long, successful* and happy life.' Burned to Death. A little child of Clinlun Emm ett's met with a horrible accident last Friday about 12 m., which re suited in iis death about 10 p. m. that night. The little fellow was a line, vigorous hr beef ten months, and crawled inlo the fire in Hie ab sence of its mother and was burn ed from ihe soles of its feet to Jhw top of its head almost, the skin be ing literally burned from tin chest and abdomen. Medical aid was summoned as quick as possible, but the poor lit tle innocent suffered mortal agony for near two hours before a physi cian arrived and administered a hypodermic injection of morphine, and applied other remedies for its relief. It then became quiet, but all that could be done by the phy sician, kind parents and friends, only afforded partial relief until death released it from its agony. Its funeral and burial took place from the Baptist church Saturday evening, Rev. Mr. Duncan offieiat ing. A number of distills have started up since the peach crop came in. Now and then the bloated gauger passes through here with a nose as red as a coal of tire. A moral gov eminent, indeed, he represents; but it is Hie laws of the country far man to violate them, and the gaug er is their representative of de fense in collecting the revenue. When wo hear of the government making a big appropriation ©{ thou sands of dollars to build a monu ment to the nation's president and sidesmen, we think ©t the whis key revenue, wo think of the de serled homes and untimely graves that mark this broad land annual ly in the face oi the laws of civiliz ation, Christianity religion and ed ucation—all asking for protection trom a seemingly careless and un godly people! Is there not reason that the penitentiaries are full, murders are committed and hang ings take place every week? The very 1 tw that executes the murders’ death on the gallows, set the trap to put two-thirds of their necks in the Eoosa and launch them into eternity, from a life of darkness that might hava been spent in a pro longed existence of sunshine and grayhead*! The laws of the land in protecting are an imposition and a gr@ss insult (if not waring) against civilization, Christianity, religion, education, peace and pros perity. You may elect your men and till your representative halls with the ablest talent the world af fords, but on the whiskey traffic they are drones in suppressing its evil. Mr. A, D. Willbanks has the thanks of this office for three very large Lacont Pairs. They are as large as can be grown any where iu this section of stale. Mr. Joseph P. Wilson, traveling salesman for the Athens Manufac turing &• Importing Cos. of China, Crockery, Glassware, etc., spent Educational. Agricultural Amt Mining Nows- Saturday and .Sunday at the ho;el Mr. \V ilson is a very pleisanf gen tleman. courteous in manners and conversation, and will build up a good trade for his house in this section of country. 'lrlegrapbic. Moberly, Mo., Aug, 26 —Fonr tramps, arrested here for vagtao<‘?, were put up at public outcry ro-Jay trm the court house steps. Trie sabs had keen duly advertised according to law, arid there was a large Crnvd prps ent. Trie bidding was not very spirit ed. Two of the u..trips went, to farm era for two dollar* a bead, and aaot ti er was bid in for 75 cents. The fiurth t'anip could find no purchaser and lie returned to jail. The throe who were sold mast serve their purchasers for 4 mouths. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 26. Re ports were received to-dav from the Ashehoo rice fields by F. W. Wagon er, E Means and other big planters that harvesting had been commenced It is estimated that the fields iu that vicinity will yield from fifty to sixty bushels per aere, with tolerably lair weather from now out. Reports from the eui;e lire region of the stats con firm this staieuieui. Biimingham, Ala., Aug. 26 —Near Jasper, Walker county, to-day, aa un known uegro assaulted a sixteo.year old white gill named Madia Saudis. Her little companion's cries failed to attract attention, when justin time she thought to tell Madia to continue her struggles a little longer, aa she saw her brother coming. This frightened tbs negro, who made oil. The whole oouu try is being scoured for the wonld.be rapist. Chattanooga, Tenr,., Aug. 26.—A vholesa c poisoning occurred here to day through the use ot impure tainted meat. Lydia Wildham keeps a color ed boarding house and has teo young negro men boarders, working at oneot the furnaces. One hour a her the lot weie taken violently sick from tainted meat. Some of them will die. Raleigh, n C , Aug. 26 —News baa been recoiled of an outrageous crima ia Yancey county. John Hughes and a woman, his mistress, were seated on a log in a pass in the mountain. El. Murphey rode up and esited the wo man to go down the mountain with him. This she refused to do. Hugh cs then told Murphey to go home to his family. Murphev walked towards Hughes with a revolver drawn, threat ening to shoot him. Hughes picked up a stone, the woman jumped between the men. Hugl.es put his arms upon the woman’s shoulder, and Mnrphey shot him, striking him in the temple and killing him instantly. Ha then pulled his coat off and spread it over his face. Then he and the wr> man proceeded to rifle the pockets of rhe dpad man, taking therefrom quite a sum of money. He threatened to kill her if she told of the crime, but not fearing Murphey’* threats she told Hughes’ brother. Hughes was a wid over. Murphey is a married man and has been lodged ia the Yancey county jail. Asheville, n. C., Aag. 2C—.A seri ous stabbing affray occurred yesterday at Turkey Creek camp ground, thir teen miles west of this city. While the campmeeting was in progress a man by the name of Will Fore and Amos Lunsford got into sn alter cation it the spring, near one corner of the ground, and within a few sups of where the services Were goiug on. Words brought on blows, when Fore drew & huge knife aud stabbed Luns ford in the abdomen. The wounded man is to day reported to be dying. NO. .17.