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' .> It xm.r U <feUv*T*d ■ untiled, to*t»«c In'*. ’ l:|Tf nZSBSX&AXSfiP* •*> Ml eetitt lor 6 m-nlba Invariatdy <-**.■ In «i- Tnudtlmt advert *fin«.w « ni b* monied at the rate <i( «lw |> r <K|U*rc lur U-e List In** )<»“• » d Ween » foremen .nW<ju«-nt tow rtloru rv- ccpt coo r»ct ftdvert rented*, on waleh asocial Lueafn<2icea wlU oe charge-; at the late ol W cents p*r line each Innertiou, except when con tracted lor extended period*, wn u special -ate* nj i tK.* mdtf* InUtuim may tie made ly rxpi mi, postal Dote, money order or r-guttered letter. All buxine.* communi> ailou* should be ad dreMod to tlie liuxiotsa Manager. that b« I all the honor* and recognition corded the white pension grabbrrsof the Onion nriny. Let there be grand n.uniou of the G. A. R- Let white spirits add black, brown spirit* and grey, all meet and nifrgle on the most lovin'* terms of social equality. ELIMINATING THE NEGRO. The Richmond Times very wisely Certain seribbera have res««rrected the Caaiak-Waslv difficulty am! given it a coloring which the faffs do not war- The position taken bv Sena- «»'• A »««■ lej orter, who by the 1 ivay hurriedly witnessed the frat-as. n THE ATHENS BANNER We intend to make The Banker not only the organ of Athens and the surrounding country, but for Northeast and Middle Georgia. Oar daily edition we will send to all the towns and villages, while we are de- termined to place our mammoth weekly in every farmer’s home. We are daily adding new names to oar list, and hope by the close of the season to enroll 10,000 new subscri bers. We want to secure a good, Sncrgctic agent in every locality, and such a man can do well canvassing for us. We claim that we are now publishing the ’seat and newsiest weekly paper in the South There is not an occurrence of importance in the whole world, that reaches the press, but it is recorded in our paper. We re-write every article, and by condensing all the important facts, are able to give a great deal of news in a small space. This is a conve nience, too, to our patrons, as they can obtain at a glance all informa tion without wadiug through col umns of Bmall print. We ask our patrons to speak a kind word fo The Banner to their neighbors, and when they are through with their paper to loan it to a non-subscriber to read, that he may in turn become a subscriber. lor Morgan, ol Alabama, ou the res olution of Senator Butler, of South Carolina, providing for the coloniza Mon of the negro from the South on tiio ground that aulagoniem between the races is constantly increasing! aud there is no other remedy for t!i6 trouble, is startling iu its ultraism. Mr. Morgan uot only favors the re moval of the negro from the South, but from the country altogether. He wants him colonized in the Congo basin, Central Africa, since that country, be maintains, seems ready' for conquests of civilization, and our American negroes exported there, could promote civilization more rap-* idly than could be expected from any efforts of the whites. This might prove a very satisfac tory answer to the negro question if it were practicable, bat we are afraid it is wholly otherwise. In the first place, where is the money to come called on I>r. Cfttfisk and obtained from him the fo’Soe'ing state merit ol t-lie af fair: In the summerof 1801, as you know, nearly every m n capable of beariug arms bad left the city.!, Tty University Was at its la.-t gasp and shortly thereaf ter suspended. In the faculty of the college was a young man who, haviug passed an exceptionally good examina tion, bad just been elected tutor in mathematics. W 1>. Wash was ids name, and although we shortly came •n collision, it lias always been a pleas ant recollection that even then I did him justice. Brave even to ra-hness, patriotic, self-sacrificing and thorough ly imbued with tlie doctrines of State sovereignty as exemplified in these days in the speeches of such men as Yancey, Toombs, Brown, T. R. It. Cobb and others, he saw it necessary to take a personal part in the great struggle which had then begun. “I bad, at that time, been recruiting a company, wbicli afterward, under the name of the Mell Volunteer*, covered itself with glory on more than one well fought field. About the same time Mr. Wash opened a list for volunteers and was meeting with reasonable success. Finding the field here had been thor oughly swept, I went dow'n into Ogle thorpe county and sncceeded iu enroll ing some thirty-odd good men there, NEGROES AS G. A. R. MEN. That truly loyal aud patriotic or ganization, the Grand Ainiv of the Republic, is now wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement over the admission of a colored post into their ranks iff. Louisiana, and one com mander went so far as to resign soon er than sign its commission. This iB a nice howdy-do. From the viluperous utterances of jndig- ■ nation by the G. A. R. whenever nigger chicken thief is sprinkled Bird-shot down South, we thought its members were longing to take the rother-iu-black into their arms, find bedew his raven brow with tears of fraternal affection—that the odcr of.the African woold be sweeter to their nostrils than breezes from Aivaby the Blest—that they longed for the day when they could press his thick lips, and smooth bis woolly head with the hand. of aflection that nothing would delight this noble order so much as to gather the dar key under its wings, as a ben doth her brood, and rapturously exclaim “ Once you was lost, but now you’re found r It indeed 'pains our heart to see that we have been laboring under such a hallucination, and that the Grand Army of the Republic has no . more hankering after nigger equality thou the veterans ot the COnfedera cy. It seems that the sentiment of the! G; A. R. is that, from a Southern stand-point, .the colored man is gentleman afid a scholar, and should receive every honor and recognition— i.c., from the South. But when it comes to swallowing a small dose of the extract‘of coon themselves, they „ sure at once taken with a violent at tack qf black vomit. Woll, well, well. This is certainly a strange and incongruous world we live in—especially that little section of our mundane sphere located north - of Mason A Dixon’s line. Here we find the greatest Iovei of the nigger- the only men wiio claim to have shouldered their baskets (by proxy) to Bet him free—uow refusing these charges admission into their ranks These same, humanitarians are en tirely willing to show their devotion negro by permitting him to iu the same coach with the white of the South, and they are so willing to endure him so long as finea.his depredations and out „ to his former owner—but never, well, hardly eVer, wijl they take this' same dose themselves. We are heartily in sympathy with the colored troops ih their laudable ambition to become enrolled in the A. R. ranks. If these white sol- thought the negro good enough iiis life for the North and isk by their enough to little liolida, hat the w FA.RR BROS., House and Sign Painters DECORATORS AND DEALERS IN Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes. No. 17 North Jackson Street, Next Door to Banner Office. from which will be necessary to which brought my company up to the carry into effect such an idea ? . Ac re * iaiCn,B of the Confederate govern- cording to the census of 18S0, the black population of the country was 6,566,766. At the Northern Presby terian convention, held in New York last summer, it was stated by one of the divines, who had made a study of his subject, that the Southern ne gro was increasing at the rate of five hundred a day. It stands to reason, therefore, that the six and a half million of Afro-Americans of ten years ago have easily increased since to not less than nine million. To transport these 9,000,000 col ored citizens to the great Congo basin and giye them a start—as, of course, the government would be ob liged io do if it attempted to colon ize them in the Dark Continent— would cost, on an average, of not less than $200 per capita, or the enormous sum of $1,800,000,000. Before that tremendous figure the large surplus in the treasury' would sink into insignificance, and after it was-all swept away it would be but ns a drop. Rich as is this country and exhaustless as may be its capa bilities.. it possesses neither wealth nor resources sufficient to supply that vast amount of money without an enormous increase in popular taxa tion. In the next place, suppose that the means for the exportation of the ne groes to Africa could be provided aud the people were willing to vote through Congress to saddle them seles with an amount which would double the present national debt, Uow could the negro even then be sent to Africa, if he saw fit to refuse to go ? A horse after being led to water, cannot be forced to drink, and neither can a- colored citizen after being led to the side of . a ship bound for Africa be forced to get aboard contrary to his inclination. This is another obstacle to Mr. Morgan’s plan worthy of careful consideration. Then, in the third place, it is very doubtful if one of the main argu ments advanced by Mr. Morgan in defence of his pbsitiob would be ac complished. 'The negro while in closest contact with the wLites can only rise to a limited poiut of civil ization, and it lias been the invaria ble experience of. the world so far that, removed from white influences, be easily and rapidly relapses into barbarism. As a pioneer of civili zation in Central Africa, therefore, he would not be likely to prove any greater success than he has proven in the soma capacity m Liberia or Hayti. regtmentB of tlie Confederate govern incut, which at that time fixed not only the number of meu in a company, but their physical condition as well, and accepted no volunteer who, could not pass the required examination. These men from Oglethorpe had been appoint ed to meet in Athens on a certain day for enrollment, and with the country man’s idea of makiug assurance certain ly sure, had come up a day ahead of time. Air..Wash, seeing these men in town, and knowing nothing of my agen cy in bringing them here, opened a live ly crusade among them for his own com mand, aud secured some enlistments, and my company was decimated to that extent. Meeting Mr. Wash the next morning I protested against his inter ference with my men, and a heated ar gument resulted. In the course of the controversy Air. Wash made use of an expression that I answered by slapping liis face. Mr. Wash struck "at ine in stantly, but whether his blow bit me I do not know. Friends interfered and we were separated, and tiiat is all of it.” Dr. Camak does not say that the few boys in college at that time got hold of the matter and that effigies of Wash and Camak enlivened the monstrosity of college life; iior that, the locust tree, in front of the library, boro fruit that the botanical professor could not account for; nor that old Sain, the janitor, caught a cramp from climbing the said tree which remained with him to the last, notwithstanding his efforts to drive it off by wearing the garments that hi daily gathered from its branches. These are matters that the doctor forgets, and his modesty will not allow him to recall what all our older citizens remember, that when Capt. Wash fell in the front, of battle fighting bravely for the South, his name, bis deeds and bis honor bad no more zealous custodian than was found in the person of his former antag onist, Dr. James Camak. Theseareold matters now and we should not have referred to them had it not been neces sary to put in its true light the char ac tor of an honored ciiizen. A STRANGE ANIMAL. ’ Mode* of Execution. Austria, gallows, public. Bavaria, guillotiae, private. Belgium, guillotine, public. Brunswick, axe, private. Chilli, sword or cord, public. Denmark, guillotine, public. Ecuador, musket, public. France, guillotine, public. Great Brittain, gallows, private. Hanover, guillotine, private. Italy, capital punishment abolished. Netherlauds, gallows, public. Oldenburg, musket, public. Portugal, gallows, publics Prussia, sword, private. Russia, musket, gallows or sword, public. - Saxony, guilotine, private. Spain, garrote, public. Switzerland, fifteen cantons, sword, public. Two cantons, guillotine, pub lic. Two, guillotine, private. United States* other than New York, gallows, private. I, bav- into en- CREAM tQWDE* Used by the United States Gorentment. Endorsed by the heeds of the Great VTniveraiUee ftjd Public Food Analysts, as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price's Cream Asking Powder doesuot contain Ammonia. Llmeor Alum. Dr. Price’s Delicious Flavoring Ex- kects, Varilla, Lemon, Orange, Almond, Rose, etc.,do not contain Poisonoux Oils or Chemicals. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., Now York. Chicago. St. Louis. Clothiers, Tailors. Hatters, Furnishers, All goods marked in PLAIN FIGURES. Prompt attention given to mail orders. Measure blank furnished upon application. Eiseman Bros., 17 and 19 Whitehall Set, Atlanta. Ga » M. MYERS & CO. have received their Holiday Goods, and invite you to call and see The Prettiest Line Of Goods suitable for the HOLIDAYS ever put od sale in Athens. Respectfully, M. MYERS &. CO THE MOST COMPLETE -LINE OF- Ilsr .ATHEISTS, is ;at THE ONE PRICE SHOE STORE Stalks Abroad at Nigbt and Terror izes the People of Scott County. Geohoetown?Ky., Jan. 9.—[Special] —The people in the vicinity of White Sulphur,this county, are alarmed at the presence of a wild animal of some .de scription in the neighborhood. It has only been seen at, nigbt, and no one knows what it is. Some -negroes who claim to have seen it, say it isa hyena, -ome a tiger and others a wild cat. The dogs in the neighborhood are afraid to venture from the house at nigbt, a num ber of them having been attacked and torn .to pieces. One night last week the the strange animal bit a number of ’ fat hogs belonging to Mr. Robert Bratton, who lives just below the Sulphur, which died of hydrophobia. Two or three weeks ago the animal was seen on the farms of Mrs. Alice Brown and Mr Lawrence Long. 1 DEFENDED HER YOUNG. Two Boys Have a Desperate Encoun ter With a Wolf. Fort Smith, Ask.,Jan. 9.—(Special.) Sunday afternoon,in the Boston Moun tains, some twenty miles tiorth of here, two boys named Ge.irge and Charles Gray were out in the woods and fouud what they supposed Were puppies ly ing under the ledge of a rock. They caught the animals, which snarle'd and bit furiously, apd started home. The supposed puppies were a pair of cub wolves, and before the boywhad gone far they were attacked by a large she wolf, mother of the cubs, and. both were lerribly bitten and scratched. The boys drew their pocket knives in defense, and after a hard fight killed the wojf. Eighteen Passengers Died. Boston, Jan. 7.—{Special]—The bark Margaret, which arrived here Saturday from the Exit coast of Africa, had a menagerie aboard, consisting of twelve snakes, pythons and cobras, four hun dred cockatoos and parrots, an otirang- outang, two small ring-tailed monkeys, two fourteen-foot alligators and one gorilla. For a week the bark rode through a howling gale, wTiieh made thing* uncomfortable for everybody on board. Both the alligators and all the snakes died from the cold and the bad passage; the two monkeys and the ourang-outang were chilled tti death, and only the gorilla, remained alive. Captain. SaVgeht says the gorilla was so ugly, that nortiiug'eould kill him. ' ' Notice. 1 ft : > i< All persons are hereby warded not to purchase a note given' by ; the under signed to James Cheney, dated the 20th Dec. 1889, and due Is the consideration failed Jan. Sth, 1L... Si 1st of Nov. 1890, said note hgving Fresh Fish and oysters received daily ! at Booth Bros. tf -OF- Satisfaction guaranteed with everv pair. PIANOS and ORGANS. The Best Instruments at Lowest Prices. See a partial list of our customers for reference on any of them PIANOS. Miss Lucy Bishop, ’Athens. Capt. J .1. C. McMahan, ‘ r Billups Phinizy, 4 ‘ Col.,E. T. Brown, “ 'TV. B. Jackson, “ Mrs. Raphael, 11 M. B, MeGihfW “ W.'D. Griffetli, Mrs. E. A. Crawford, “ Capt. W. W. Thomas, “ Miss Ellen Moll, “ J. T. Tolbert, Danielsvillc. P. F. Crawford, Laconia. \V. II. Morton, Crawford. W.H.Chenoy, Bairdstown. ORGANS. L. M. Cain, Athens. \VU 1 lams Lodge. O. F. 1 • H. T. Huggins, “ . I*t Baptist Church . 2nd Baptist Church, “ Mrs. E. A. I’helps. Winterville ’.Baptist Church W. II. Wright. Baukavillo. Airs. Dr. Thurmond, Jewelville. W. >V. Brightwell, Jlaxcyi. Methodist Church, Winterville. O. A. Waddell, Alilledgeville. J. P. Wilson, Greenesboro. Miss Maggie Thurmond,Ly nehbnrg,^Vu W. L. Adams, Monroe, Ga. Northeastern * Coal * Yards »0RR & HUNTER, Proprietors. ‘Ked Ash Anthracite” The Best ever Sold in this NTariket. “Grlen Mary” - . “CoalCreek “Splint” Coal. Blacksmith Goal and Coke Give us your order now and get the benef of summer jrates. 6-13^ m lull Hill OF NEW YORK, LARGEST, SAFEST OLDEST MOST RELIABLE’ Assets Surplus, New Insurance, Insurance in Force, Paid Policy Holders in 1888, Increase in Assets, . Increase in Surplus* Increase in Insurance written, TSTO BESTHICTIONS. If you pay your Premium, the Company Will pay vour Claim. GItANT & WILLCOX 213, KAST CLAYTON STREET C. L. SORREL. W. li. HX.INKB SORREL & HAHSHES. HsTs jngtopened up » CAKR1AGE AM) WAGON SHOP, Oorncr Jack-inn nnd Washington streets. They are-prepared to do all kinds of BI.AChSMITIUN'G, HOKSK- SBOE1SG, ets, will also bnild wagons carriages and other vehicles "to order. AH kinds of re pairing done promptly and at reasonabie'prices Mr. Haines' has bad twenty years experience in the business, eight of which were spenx at the 6ld Uodgson shop*. Give us it trial, and we ' will give you satisfaction. . REPAIRING AND HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY l 89d|y : : Respectfully, SORREL A HAINES $126,082,153 7,940,063 103,214,261 482.i26.i84 14,727,550 7,276,301 1,645.622 54,496,251 DAVIS 4 G . 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