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way to than through the columns Banos. Athens Is not doing the retell trade she should, and it can be traced to no other cause than a neglect on the part of oar merchants to prop erly advertise their bosinese. Even many of oar own citizens send off to AUnte, Augusta and other cities fcr goods that they can bay jast as cheap at home. The reason is that tLo dealers in those cities are con stantly heralding their inducements through the columns of the preaa, the gentlemen who own it ere enter- A CHAT WITH OUR ATHENS MER CHANTS. We do not write this editorial throogh a spirit ol co»pUint or cen sure, and neither with a hope to swell the receipts of the paper; bat are only prompted byan earnest de sire to build up the trade of Athens and help oar merchants. There is no denying the fact that, t»v»n as a whole, the business men of oar city are the poorest adverti sers of any place of its size in the 8oath. Even Americas, Brunswick and Albany, with scarcely half the trade orpopulation of Athens, fur nish their respective pspers with doable or tbribbie the amount of ad vertising done by oar merchants. This is not tbrongh parsimony or tbs lack of enterprise on the part of onr dealers, but they do not seem to appreciate the worth and benefit of printer's ink. This is s serious mis take. In this advanced age, It is last as necessary sad important to let the pnblio know what you have for sale through the columns of a newspaper that generally circulates in the sec tion where yon do business, as it is to have clerks or employ drummers. It matters not how long or well yoor business has been established, yon cannot afford to keep your light hid under a bushel. New people are constantly moving in, and even your old friends will forget yon if not continually reminded of your exis tence. Study the career of the lar gest and most successful business honses hi America, and yon will find that they owe their prosperity in s large measure to printer's Ink. Any druggist will tell you that it is need less to try and introduce a new pa tent medicine without advertising it, and a rale that will Apply to physic will also apply to any other line of business. Many of our merchants imagine that their name and business painted on a board and nailed up by the road-side will reach the trading pub lic. Experience has taught shrewd advertisers that this is money thrown away. People never thiuk of trail tains, sirable point to tap. Then to extend the road on to the M. A N. 6. will give ns a connection with Knoxville and the West, and place Athaps on an equal footing with any city in Georgia. We do not think there will be the alightest trouble about getting control of the charter to which our correspondent refers, ss snd have gotten the people to be lieve that they oan save money by patronizing them. The Athens merchants wait for a customer to come into their stores, and then try by the slow and tedious process of ward of mouth to convince him that they can sell as cheap as any city in the State, which is certainly the troth. It is mneb better to hire the Bahnsb to dram up your customers snd do your talking. Take the furniture business,' for instance. Athens has three of the largest and finest establishments in Georgia, and buyers can certain ly save money here over any .city in the State. And yet there is not day bnt Atlanta takes sway business from right under their nose, by the literal advertisements of the dealers of that city. A man never hi furniture mentioned but that bis mind Instantly associates P. H. Snook with it. There is no reason why the forniture dealers of Athens sfaonld not control all of the trade, and they can'do so by the use of printer’s ink. A man to take up the Banner, would not think there is a furniture store in Athena. An oc casional local is inserted on Sunday; bnt this is not the way to make ad vertising pay. Tou must keep up the work. A live retail grocery house, that will contract for a half column in the Daily and Weekly Bannzb for one year, and then keep SOMETHING FRESH ALWAYS BEFORE THE PEOPLE, can make a fortune. It is necessary to change the word ing of an advertisement the same as the reading matter in a newspaper. We are not writing this artiele i a complaint, for our paper is doing well; but simply as a lesson for our merchants to study. We. ought to hsve at Igast two pages of adver tising from otar Athens merchants in both our Daily and Weekly editions —for one reaches the city trade and the other oar county friends, would prove the best investment that could possibly be made, and do as much to promote the prosperity and build up the trade of Athens as the -completion of another railroad. prising and public-spirited citizens, and. will not stand in tbs way of the prosperity of their respective towns. Let oar North Georgia friends in terested in building this road start the ball in motion, and they can con fidently count on hearty and liberal assistance from Athens. Our peo ple are all anxious for this road, and stand ready to do their share when ever called upon. these signs five miontes after they, A FEDERAL COURT AT ATHENS. m I. .... —■ - . L- *■" ^XtfnrACnmfin /'amIImm - m arc passed. They are soon bespat tered with mud and split to pieces, and a stranger naturally associates a house with the character of its sign—and so the impression gets set in his mind that the board he has j nst passed represents a ramsbaokled, dingy old stock of goods. This is tree to human nature, and * if a merchant will study bis own mind, he will discover this is the same case with him. If a dirty, seedy-looking drummer comes into his store, he will associate the house he represents with the appearance of its representative, and govern his patronage accordingly. This same feeling of doubt and repugnance overcomes the countryman when he sees one ot these old warped and mud-bespattered signs on the road side. Again, a large amount of the trade now comes over railroads, and these signs are never seen or no ticed by the passengers on trains. They have other things of more im portance to attract their attention. The besf paying advertisement is a neatly displayed, well-written card in a popular and widely-circulated newspaper. When s person takes up a paper he does so with the sole purpose of reading its contents and getting information therefrom. Hence every item leaves an impress on his mind. If some article hesees advertised strikes him favorably, he is certain to give the dealer a call at the first opportunity. Again, a news paper adveifijaement is a constant reminder to the public—staring the reader in the face day after day or week after week. Any article that is worth selling is worth advertising. There is not a line of business in Athene to-day but that we honestly believe it would pay the proprietor his money back many times during the year if he would contract for a •pace in both the Daily and Weekly snzb, and never let his name or business disappear from ourcolumns. Not less than -1000 people read our Baily regularly, and more than XS,000 our Weekly paper. Is there, at Congressman Carlton has* intro duced a bill to hold two terms of the United States -Circuit and District Courts in each year at Athens, and the Judiciary committee of; the House has reported it favorably. No more important and useful measure to the people of Northeast Georgia has been proposed since the war. 'large proportion of the revenue cases which are now tried at Atlanta arise in counties which are nearer to Ath ens and more accessible from Athens than Atlanta. The people who are interested in these cases are gener ally poor, and the expense of attend ing Coart at Atlanta, is much great er than it will be at Atlanta. A great saving-to the people will be effected by the passage of this bill. The people of Madison, Franklin, Oconee Jackson, Hart, Oglethorpe, Elbert and Greene, who have business the Federal Court, can come to Ath ens, and stay if necessary, for much less than it now costs to go to At lanta. Besides, they can try their cases Dearer home and nearer their neighbors and friends. The bill is right. The Southern District has Courts held at Savan nail, Macon and Augusta, aud there is more Iffisiness in the Northern than in the Southern. The Federal Courts ought to be brought as near to the door of the people as possible, to save expense and delay. or course the city of*Athens will be greatly benefitted. Two terms of the United States Court in each year held here, will bring a large number of people here who would not other wise come. Athens is now easily reached from all parts of the country around us, and by the time this bill goes into effect, the G., C. Sc N. will be built, which will make it still more couvenieut for the people to reach Athens. FEED fEUUU ta the honor to mxt- anoe the only appearance In Athena of the huBM ut iccomplisSed Artists, THE ALTA CALIFORNIA. • From the far distant West no pa per comes ladened with more bright newsy columns or more general read ing matter than the Alta California, published at San Francisco. It is a newspaper in the fullest sense, and is a great power in the upbuilding of our country west of the Mississippi. We commend it to our readers, and would be glad to see.i t come to every home in Georgia. Murder at HRS. Seon-SIDDONS, In her Celebrated The Costumes Vem by Mrs. 8COTT-SIDDON8 vet* made by WORTH, (SPECIALLY FOR HER AMERICAN TOUR. C. F. Kohlruss, Manufacturer ami Drier In Foreign a Domertks AUGUSTA GEORGIA PASSENGER SCHEDULE. GEORGIA SOUTHERN & FLORIDA R. R. Suwanes River Route to Florida. Taking standard Time Horrible and Atrocious Memphis. Memphis, Jan. 17.—{Special]—A hor rible double murder, which occurred in a suburb of the city Monday night; was reported this morning. The murderer is William Baker, a skilled negro work man engaged at the Southern Oil Mills, and his victims were Martin Wheeler and his eight-year-old daughter Nellie, also colored. Wheeler and Baker worked together in the Southern Oil Mills. Wheeler wanted to take a trip and he asked his friend Baker to take charge of his wife and child. Baker is au unmarried man and he consented to the arrangement. Wheeler went off and was gone several weeks and only returned last Monday night. Ue im mediately went to his home, and as his wife had already gone to bed he pulled off his clothes and weut to bed. Baker had became criminally intimate with the woman during Wheeler’s absence, and when he • heard of his return he secured a long dirk knife and went to Wheeler’s house. He opened the door And went into Wheeler’s sleeping apart ment. where Wheeler, his wife and his daughter were asleep. Baker plunged the knife deep into the sleeping man’s stomach before he could rise, drew the knife across his stomach and partly across his back. Wheeler tried to rise, and as be did so bis entrails slipped out in the bed. Awakened by Wheeler’s terrible cries, the wife and daughter saw Baker calmly wiping the blood off his knife. The girl jumped up and ac cused Baker of murdering her father. Not being satisfied with the one crime he bad committed, Baker seized a ebsir and strnck the child on the head, scat tering her brains all over the room. He then attacked the mother, but she escaped by a window. Baker then fled, and, although several officers are on his track, he is still at large. Wheeler and the girl both received, prompt med ical attention and were both alive this morning, but are not expected to live thronght the night. ltwm Ar. Ordelo,.. At. Tilton V... L No. 1 10 45 sin 1*61 iSCSf Lr.TIfton.... At. Valdosta Ar Jaoksonvle mspt 106 am 228 pm 410 pm 828 pm <45 pi 92) pi 813 pm 945 pm ■RSOam 111 (No. ^S) 630am 1040 an, 315pm SSCpm CC1KO NORTH. Lt Jacks’nvUe Ar. Lake City. Ar. Jasper.... Ar. Valdosta. “Ho. S 796 am 10)0 1106am 1212 pm 148 pm The Race Problem. A colored man is working at the oi mill who explains the relations of the different races in quite a unique way. He says tliat when God made, man he made three races, the negro. Indian and white man. He also made three boxes. In one be nailed up ink, pen and paper, and another bows, arrows and tomahawks; in the third, plows, hoes, pitchforks and other iron tools. The negro was given ibe first chbice. So he first felt the taining the Mill weight of the box containing the pens, ink, endpaper; but said, “Huo-ot dis too light.” Then he felt of the box in which were put the bows, arrows, and tomahaks, “Lemme feel de udder,” said he. Next he felt the weiaht of the one containing plows, hoes, pitchforks, and other farm fools. He fonnd this heavy; so he said; “I takes dis.” Then looking around to see that the white man and Indian did not see him, “toated” off his box as fast as he coaid. When the In dian came he chose the box having the tomahawks, etc, leaving the pens snd paper, best of all, for the wbiteman. —Rockdale Banner. COTTON GINS ENGINES AND EEPAIRS, . AT Bottom < Prices, WRITE TO Geo. R. Lombard & f o. Wor^ AN IMPORTANT RAILROAD- The Dshlouega letter, published in our paper yesterday, has created considerable discussion in Athens, and meets with hearty endorsement Foundry, Machine, Boiler and Gin and Supply House, Augusta, - Ga Moh7 d* Grant & WiIIcox, H Insurance Agnti Merceandise Brokers. Lv. Tinea ....- Ar. Cordelo... Ar. Macon.... 317pm 531pm No. 4. 419pm 790 pm 810 pm 0*0 1100 pm 1**8 nm *60 am Ne. IS. 700 am 936am 1201pm •05 pm (No. 14) 700 800 am 1120 am 1030am) 710pm Trains Hos. t, *, 3 and 4 atop between Macon and Tifton only at Cordele and at station, aouth of Tifton. Pullman Palace sleeping car* on train* No*. 3 and 4. All train* arrive and depart from union depot Macon, except No*. 11 and 12, accommodation train*, whicu arrive and depart from Macon junction. A. C. KNAPP, Traffic Manager, Macon, Ga mt at a « • tauiv ash „ . ... . J. T. HOJB. Gen’l Pas*. a£*t, Macon, Ga. ‘ J. H. DORSEY, Solid ting Agent, Macon,Ga Keeps on hand at all times a full line of FAN0Y AND FAMILY GROCERIES Fall Measure, Honest Weights and Good Quality Guaranteed. IF YOU WANT Good Vinegar, Syrup, or Sugar Give Him a Call A very fine line of CRACKERS, and a Fancy Brand of Which will always satisfy. fresh. Best of Always Lard, Sams, Dried Beef and Breakfast v. c,xi Bacon. Come and See 1889. FOFt SALE. The lot on which the Livery stable on Thom* street stand. The lot can front two stores on Thomas street, and a good residence lot on Strong Street. Apply to J.S. Williford, Heal gstate Agent All the property lying on tlie corn* r of "Broad and Foundry streets and known m the Head property. The lot runs to the right-of-way of M. A C. It. R., and U very valuable and la now vayinit hand.-omelr. J Apply to 4 J. 8. Williford, Real K state Agent. Also town suburban small farms of 1 0,»,« add GO acres. Also a number beautiful Iota on Barber street. These lota bcautlf'-l, tow priced. NOTICE. Ih verity property to exchange for farms is the country. *T* TAN YARD. I have fur sale two miles from the city a wen equipped tan yard. Everything now, eight or nine acrea of land attached, only 1-4 mile from N. E. R. 1L, which has aide-track where bark caubedeliverod. The property la not offered because the business does not pay, hut hocatmc owner desires to change his business. Apply to J. S. WtLLIFOUD, neal Estate Agcur 26> LOOK AT THIS. I will sen a bargain In a pretty little farm o. I*f acres of good lard just out.lde of city limits. There are two houses on the place, one well plastered, well of good puro water, abo spring on tho p'-ce. Price 31,600 and no leas. Apply to, J. a. WILUFOBD. Real EMato Ageut. FOR SALE. Aen le 6 ic.im eoitape <i» College Av. ‘CATHARA IMA,’ 18 A SURE CtTRR, wbm taken according to 41- mrtkms, ■m*|| Aooocap&tty tsobDfltUo. GOLDEN OIL! Tor gbenutttm, Neuralgia. Sprains Sara Throat, Patna In the Chart and Back, etc., rhould be v*ed extern*Uv In connection with CATHARAIMA In cam of Influenza. CATHARA IMA, a earn cure tor Catarrh, •te. Fries. Fifty Cent* per MW Fnpamdby the Catharaima Co., SAVANNAH,. GA. ‘Red !A.utIiraejite w The Best ever Sold in this -Market. “Grlen Marv” “Coal Greet Southern Mutual Insurance Co Y; L. G. HARRIS, 8. THOMAS, Becretary Y.L.G B. J.A. L.H. RXSIDXXT DUUCTOBS ! - jhgsl. Far Bale. One two-story house on Foundry street, lot extcodlna back to Covington A Macon Railroad. A splendid lot fur a warehouse. Also, one large dwelling on Oconee St, now used by Public School. This prop erty is valuable. Shackleford A Hattaway. Real E-date Agents. EXCHANGE HOTEL, And ALL-NIGHT Restaurant. I HAVE opatod at my old stand on Wall Street, the Exchange Hotel. The Bill of Fare is the Best, and the Accommodate vUl please all You can alao be .applied on short Voided with MCE Ffi THE MOST CHOICE JanU-tf FISH. B. H. LAMFKIN. Keep lari in Winter Cool in Summer. The fc lee Company Is prepared to furnish the Best Black Diamond Coal and Wood During the winter and lyiQbJEl In thejsum Older* left at *yi 24 M=% Clayton S crivegrnmptattention. ATHENS! MONEY TO LOAN AT SIX PER CENT. X ATLANTA TRUST BANKING CO. C. C. Chandler, Agent, Jefferson, Ga. The firm of Mitchell andChandler has 0RR & HUNTER, Proprietors. “Splint” Cml. Blacksmith Goal and Coke Give us your order now and get the kenef of summer rates. THE MOST COMPLETE -LINK OF— BOOTS a SHOES X3ST ATHENS, IS AT THE ONE PRICE SHOE STORE, Satisfaction guaranteed with every pair. The Best Instruments at Lowest Prices. See a partial list of our customers for reference on any of them :piA.isros. di solved by mutual consent.' I will con tinue to negotiate loans on farm mort- guages in, ; •tt. -* of Jacks Banks, Oconee, Madison and other pla ces by special contract. An extension of five years will be allowed, but the borrower can pay back the money at any time. Partial payments can also be made at any time. Honey can be secured at very short notice Don’t fail to see me before borrowing. Yours Truly, 13-6-dw-0m C. C. Chandler. W.M. PITTMAN dealer in Florida Oranges, Messina Lemons, Northern Apples, Northern Cabbages, Floor, Irish Potatoes, Meal, Yam Potatoes. Meal, Lard. Sugar, Corn, Coffee, Hay, Tea, Brand. Bice, Tobacco, Grits. Cigars. Snuff, -Soap, - Starch, 1.1’ < Biuine,' Pearline, Potash. No. 19 E. Clayton St., ATHENS, GA. J. T. ANDERSON. «x BROAD STREET, .ATHEISTS, GA. Offers the following bargains In real estate: 1100 i $500 4 AAfT For a desirable building lot on Mil- 1UUU ledge avenue containing one acre. Will buy tho prettiest buildings lot . on Mllledge avenue containg lacre. W1U buy a one acre lot and a 4 room house on Hodgson street. House oc cupied by a good tenant thqnn For a good 2 room house *nd 2 acre lot (pOUU in East Athens occupied by goed ten ant. CQA A Will buy 5 acres of land with 2 good CpOUVJ houses on it. Oce.-pied by good tenant in Ea>t Athene- 011 Ann WlUbny a oomparaHvelyaew 4 ran (pAUUU houee and^aere lot on Baxter street occupied by tenant 79 per mouth, % cash, bal ance on long time. <C1 KAA Fora six-rocm dwelling, two-room vp-LUUU servant house and 2 acre lot more or les9 on PnlaJd street, close in. We represant the STRONGEST COM PAN I and our facilities enable ns to place desiraM property in Athens and adjoining counties on LIBERAL TERMS. Dkrsonal attention glvec to all business entrusted to our care. We are alto Resident agents for the Famous “SMITH PB.KMIKK TYPE-WRITER. An ilt- ve>tlgatlou will satisfy you of it. superiority r other T ge-Wrltcr*. New improvement's In every wayr Gall and see them at our office. No. 218 East Clayton Street, ATHENS, GA. Grant & Willcox, Agts- MAXWELL’S Livery and Feed Stables SPECIAL TO DROVERS. Lexington, Georgia. or^es. Buggies. Hacks aud Surreys for Hire. Gentle Jloi -«*8, Safe Drivers. < u-ioinetti.aerv- e-1 Day or Night. Stock in my Care receives Best of Attention. Hutes Reasonable. E. Maxwell, Prop’r. A GENTS wanted nt once for Life and l?.eml- niacenceu .Jefl'urson l>avh. Kditedbv Jus tice l-amar,U. 8. Supreme Court. Part ci pro ceed* given to erect a monument to Mr. Davii. Complete outfit $1. Address It. II. WOODWARD A CO., Baitin*ore, Md. A few generul agents wanted. d-Jau2 H 9u 91: bHV 16275< acres of as fine land in Ogle- 5 county, 4 mF nice lot on .Jacktcu street. Terms ea-y, I will Bell - „ ^ thorpe county,4 mile* from Maxeys dipot and 4 miles of Barnett’s Shoals, where is now being built onoof the finest factories.in the Mate, for o dollars per acre and a good 4-room dwelling aud all the barn and stable neesaary, and about 200 acres of land in cultivation J. T. AxdkksoK, R. E. Ag’t- Mrs. Polony has placed her desirable lot on Broad street next to Dr. Pbpe’l office in my handri for sale. Size of lot 00x112. Till* lot must be sold In the next ifew weeks, A ttplendidrir- er farm containing 200 acres, wfthlnb 1-2 miles Of Athens. J, T. Andkbnon, H. E. Ag’t. No. 111, Broad St. Miss I.ncy Bishop, Athens. Capt. J J. C. McMahan, “ Billups Phinizy, “ Col. E. T. Br.o\vn, “ W.B. Jackson, “ Mrs. Raphael, “ M. B. McGinty, « W. D. Gfiffeth, “ Mrs. E. A. Crawford, “ Capt.W.W. Thomas, “ Miss Ellen Mell, “ J. T. Tolbert, Danielsville. P. F. Crawford, Lavonia. W. H. IfforiOn, Crawford. W. H. Cheney, Bairdstown. ORGANS. L. M. Coin, Athens. Williams Lodge O. F. “ H. T. Huggins, “ 1st Baptist Church “ 2nd Baptist Church, “ Mrs. E. A, Phelps, Winterville Baptist Church >V. II. Wright, Bunksvitle. Mrs. Dr. Thurmond, Jewelville. W. W. Bright well, Maxeys. ” - '• tCh Methodist Church, Winterville. O. A. Waddell, Milledgeville-I J: P. Wilson, Greenesboro. Misf- Maggie Thurmond,Lynchburg,Va r]j. A ‘ ' ~ W- L. Adams, Monroe, Ga. C. L. SORREL. w. B. HAINES SORREL <fe PTA.T3STES. Have just opened up a CARRIAGE AM) WAGON SHOP, Comer Jaekaon and Washington streets. They are prepared to do all kind* of BLACKSMITH ING. HORHB- SliOEING, etc, will alao build wagons, eurriages and other vehicles to order. All kinds of re pairing done promptly sod at reasonable prices. Hr. Haines has bad twenty years experience in the bosiaesa. eight of which were spent at tbe ohl Hodgson shops. Giro us a trial and we will give you satisfaction. REPAIRING AND HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY Wdly ’ . . Respectfully, / SORREL dr HAINES Augusta, Ga. Special high, quality Bottled Beer for family use. Prompt attention to orders. ' ■. ■ G. A. MELL, HJH.L INTO MELL & LINTON, Insurance A_Q-ents, tenreseibt tho. REST nnATPAvree Bepresent the BEST COMPANIES and Insure Desirable Property in Athens and vicinity on most favorable terms. . Utt of Companies. Home of New'York Phoenix of Hartford......* .Liverpool and Lromlon and Globe.... Insurance Company of North America North British and Mercantile Germania of New York Hartford of Connecticut Georgia Home •••*.... Atlanta Home Savannah Fire and Marine. New York Life Insurance Company..., .......... ........... Capital. ,.$3,000.000 . 2,000.000 ..£2,000,000 . 3,000,000 ..£2,000,000 . 1,000,000 ., 1,250,000 ... 300,000 ... 200,000 ... 200,000 ....(Mutual OFFICE foblTdtf SB Aiull. $8,961,65 5,061,24 lnU.S. 0,963,81 8,696,96 la C.S. 3,472,61 2,808,71 284,83 232,66 99,480,U AT BANK OF THE UNIVERSITY. Witherspoon Ac Hamilto ges Sign Painters f 4 1 XT • . ew, .. w. Royal Insurance Company, of Liverpool, England. Grant & Willcox, Agents, , Wholesale and Retail Dealers in While Lead, Oil, Varnishes, Turpen’inc Brn^ 1 es Dod ’: forct tne P'“ ce . 122 CLAYTON SIR I ET A i Ufc.:NS, ttbOUGIA. jy We wiil.do your Painting promptly and give aatmfaction every particular. - ~ J 6 itherspoon dc Hamilton.