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THE BANNER-MESSENGER.
‘The Official Organ of Haralson County.
IICCHANAN, GEORGIA, JAN T.%, 1801.
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION PATHS.
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The Advance says there is no candy to
be found in Wliitesburg. Santa Claim
must have struck that place at a late
boun
Tho Augusta Evening Herald says “it
comes pretty straight” that Gould is in
charge of the Central railroad. . Is it pos¬
sible?
The Wall street editor who says that
the ilvcr do 1 ,lor is a debased coin, eon
tinues to take it for subscriptions.—At¬
lanta Constitution.
We see whore you are right.
The Southern Cultivator, as avcII as
being one of tlio best agricultural papers
in the world, seeins to be closely connec¬
ted Avith one of tbe best men in Georgia,
and that man is Gov. Win. J. Northern
Tlieie is great truth in this from the
Chicago Inter-Ocean:
Now and i h-.,a you come across men and
women whe remark, “I hate children.”
It is always safe to run a black line
through the center of their names and in
every relation in life give them a “wide
berth.” A man or a woman who “hates”
innocent children treads the riskiest path
of any man or woman in all this universe.
The so much talked of religious dis¬
cussion at Douglasville is siad to be near¬
ing a close. A few men and newspapers
took occasion to denounce this debate,
but as yet Ave have seen nothing disgrace¬
ful about it. It is said by those who
know that the discussion has been friend¬
ly all the way through. Doubtless much
food for thought lias sprung from this
friendly debate.
Now is th n time for small men who are
ttimefftod with tiie Alliance lb *
spicuous by opposing the sub-treasury
plan. Such persons can find ready ac¬
cess to the columns of the opposition
press and can be read, not for what they
say but for what they are. A few exam¬
ples of this character have already ap¬
peared; not much of an increase need be
expected. It is a lonesome, unprofitable
condition.—Economist.
Many years practice have given C. A.
Snow & Co., Solicitors ot Patents, at
Washington, D. C., unsurpassed success
in obtaining patents for all classes of in¬
vention. They make a specialty of rejec¬
ted cases, and have secured allowance of
many patents that had been previously
rejected. Their advertisement in anoth¬
er column, will be of interest to inven¬
tors, patentees, manufacturers, and all
who have to do with patents.
HOMJES FOR THE PEOPLE.
The home life of a people is the best
measure of its moral elevation. The vir¬
tues vviiich are bred and nurtured about
tbe domestic fireside are the strength of
national as well as individual character.
A home-loving people will be found inva¬
riably to bo a patriotic people. Honesty,
courage, benevolence, thrift and the other
. qualities which go to make a good citizen,
find their firmest rooting beneath the
hearthstone, and attain their most health¬
ful growth in the sweet atmosphere of a
happy home.
It is a most fortunate thing for any
community when tiie number of its house¬
holder increases. It is true that tiie
house is only the outer shell of the home:
i A sbul and beauty ave in kind and help
ful hearts. But the ideal home is one
which belongs to those who dwell in it.
It may be the simplest of cottages,but to
them it is the most precious of all earthly
habitations. Though it be'plain to the
eye of them who idly pass for those who
have set up beneath its lowly roof tlieir
dear household deities it is more lovely
than any palace “painted with vermilion
and ceiled with cedar.”
Every man ought toclieerish an ambi¬
tion to own a home. That is a good
mark to set for earnest work, a line in¬
centive to correct habits and true econo¬
my. It is better to begin with an humble
home than to wait in the hope of making
more show a little later. Every homo is
beautiful where a happy family lives.—
Atlanta Journal.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS
There is a growing class in this coun¬
try, which will have to be squelched by
the people or they will ere long become
strong enough to squelch the people, in
fact in many places they have almost suc¬
ceeded in doing it already. The class re¬
ferred to is the profesional office-holder;
and the newspapers of the country are
largely responsible for the great power
exercised by this class. According to the
argument of the average editor the lon
gcr a man holds office the longer he ought
to bold office, and carried to its logical
conclusion it would give us an office hold¬
ing aristocracy that would eventually be¬
come as powerful as the nobles of Europe
were in feudal time. Out upon such log¬
ic; it is un-American. and directly con¬
trary to the ideas of the founders of this
government. There is no man to-day
holding a public office, high or low,
whose removal would in slightest degree
injure the interests of the country; on the
contrary, there are many in office whose
removal would be a positive and direct
benefit. In a government of the people,
as this Avas intended to bo, rotation in
office means everything that a healthy
circulation of the blood does to the indi
vidiial human being.
***
It is said that ex-President Cleveland
and Senator Ingalls are cousins. If this
be true it accounts for much of the bitter
feeling existing between the two gentle¬
men. No hatred can approch that felt
by near relatives who have quarrelled.
***
The neAvspaper opponents of the lion.
Jerry Simpson, in effort to down him by
silly ridicule, are giving him a lot of free
advertising that he may utilize in the fu¬
ture. A man named Lincoln once had
similar experience, and he became one
the greatest men in American history.
It’s the contents of a man’s head and not
covers his feet that counts in the
battle of life.
***
There are two great questions—the
greatest in every nation—into which pol¬
itics should never under any consideia
tion be allowed to enter. They are our
financial system and our foreign rela¬
tions. Upon these two questions avc
should rise above partisan politics and
be patriotic Americans, standing shoul¬
der to shoulder against the whole worlfP
if necessary.
***
Suppose for a change, Congress should
V' jp-politics for awhile and adopt a lit¬
legislation for the benefit of tlio coun¬
try at large. We know that this is an im¬
possible sort of a supposition, hut all the
same it would he a mighty good thing to
do, and a thing that would add much to
the popularity of the individual members
who could succeed in bringing it about.
***
It is now being charged that money is
the factor that is to determine who shall
succeed Mr. Evarts, of New Fork, in the
United States senate. That would cer¬
tainly be nothing new; money has been
making senators for some years, and will
probably continue to do so until the Sen¬
ators are elected by a direct vote of the
people, as they will be in the course of
time.
Let those people who think tho killing
of the Indians such a horrible tiling re¬
member the biblical law: “lie that firaw
etli the sword shall perish hy the sword.”
Had the Indians not shown their inten¬
tion to kill they would not have been
killed.
■ V
Congress may defer financial legislation
until it is everlastingly too late. If it
does, avoc be unto those who are respon¬
sible for it.
***
Stanley discovered a good many things,
jiut its dollars to ginger cakes that lie
couldn’t find the pocket in his wife’s
dress to save his soul. There aro some
things which no man can do.
FIGURE OUT.
The people are taxed in the United
States for federal purposes $800 a min¬
ute. [
The people are taxed in the United
States for federal purposes $53,400 an
hour.
The people are taxed in the United
States for federal purposes $1,281,000 a
day.
The people arc taxed in the United
States for federal purpose $8,971,200 a
week.
The people are taxed in the United
States for federal purposes $35,884,800 a
month.
The people are taxed in the United
States for federal purposes $467,827,490 a
year.
Here tve see the beauties of protection
under the McKinley law set forth with
mathematical precision.—Chicago Globe.
correspondence.
WOLF PEN DISTRICT.
Everyone I guess in tlio county, and as
for that matter most, of tho counties in
this part of the State, know Uncle llich
ard Price, lie is honest, straigli-fovvvard
and reliable—an old time country gentle¬
man—open hearted and kind.
Well, I had a talk with him the other
day about “Olden Times in Haralson.”
He Raid,
“Did you ever hoar about Wolf Pen
district?”
“No,” said I.
“Well, I’ll toll you about a court I once
attended there. The wolf pen stood
about where Mr. Geo. Hamilton’s store
now stands, and many a hungry liopus
learned thestory of ‘Walk into my parlor
said the spider to the Hy.’ In those days
wolyes, catamounts, panthers, .wild cats,
bever, deer anil turkey wero plentiful iu
these* woods, and it was common for you
to walk through the woods and find tlio
fore quarters of a big buck. They did
not want any but the choice parts, and if
you run short of hog meat by cholera or
any other bad luck, your neighbor
thought nothing of sending you over as
many shoulders and hams as you wanted.
Hogs Avould run in the woods and get fat
enough to kill, and if you wanted a little
deer meat all you had to do was to shoul¬
der your rifle and go out on the hills and
bring down a buck just suited to your
mind. Meat was from one to three cents
a pound, and corn had for the asking.
The ehesnuts kept the hogs fat, and the
cane tops and the mast kept the cattle fat.
Cows would give milk all the winter
and keep' sleek and fat.”
“Uncle Richard, speaking of chestnuts,
what do you suppose caused all the
chestnut trees t*) die?”
“I can’t say; but when I was.a young
man, or not so many years ago, I could
go out on the hill sides and gather a wag¬
on load of them. I have raked up a ham¬
per basket full in a few minutes, and
they Mere great for the swine.
But I wanted Jo tell you about a court
I attended at Wolf Pen district. To il¬
lustrate the character of the people and
to show what little importance they at¬
tached to the meat question. It was a
cold Saturday and the bailiff had levied
on a huge quantity of pork, about 1800
pounds, I think. We had a big log lire
and were crowding around when the
bailiff put it up to sell. It got noised
around that the meat had been killed in
the woods, that is, the man who owned
it had killed other people’s hogs, and no
body wouldn’t bid on it. They wouldn’t
touch it; and to show their contempt for
such actions, they allowed the bailiff to
bid it off for liis cost—about 35 cents.
He said, ‘Boys it’s cold and lets have a
lire.’ So they all took hold and in a few
minutes the flames were sky high. They
piled the last pound on and gravy ran
down tlio ravine one or two hundred
yards. No; people were honest in those
days—no monkey work in theirs.
“Great change since then, Uncle .-li¬
ar d”
“Yes! Yes!”
And liis honest old breast heaved anil
a sigh escaped from his truthful lips.
“As I said, the pen stood about where
Hamilton & Brown’s store stands in Kra¬
mer—two railroads cross there now, and
instead of tfie low of the doe, the bark of
the wolf and the groan of the panther;
the. shriek of the whistle, the ringing of
the bells; instead of tiie scent of the
blossoming magnolias and wild flowers,
the delicate aroma of tlio rich and choice
viands of Boatright’s elegant hotel; in¬
stead of the silvey tingle of rill; the
wafting notes of the bobolink and dole¬
ful melodies of the wliippoowill; the
chink of change and the shoving of coin
tells that the money changer ai.d the
merchandise vender is holding the do¬
main that once nature claimed as her
own.”
He took a stick and made a curious di
agram on the ground with odd nooks
and corners, cupolas and such tilings,
and I said, “Uncle Richard, what are you
doing?”
“Oh! I’ve got a spurt of these new
fangled doings on me, and I’m going to
tear away the old house and build one of
these new style portieoed edifices.”
Then he drew a plan of the olil one and
the lids grew moist and -with a nervous
twitch the iioav one went out and gazing
at the old he arose, stalked away to join
some friends, but I had a faint idea that
pearly drops were near the surface.
We may outlive them, but a sturdier,
more honest set of pioneers never hewed
away a forest than those who made Har¬
alson bloom and grovv into the bAnner
county of Georgia.
C. J. J CHAN.
Take The Bannf.is-Mkssengeii.
Uncle Axil Tell* of 11 in Trip to Lookout
Mountain.
Messrs. W. 0. Brannon and S. M.
Ayres have moved to the Itrjndleo moun¬
tain—to tlio land of hogs and corn—Mar¬
shal county, Ala.
Mr. T. It. Rowell and I went with the
above parties to look at the country. We
wentby tho way of.Cave Springs, a nice
town and a business place. We next went
to Coosa river at Bradford ferry. There
we saw some line land,but corn there was
worth eighty cents per bushel, On the
other side of the river, about three miles,
is Bound Mountain furnace; the next
place is the Blue pond, which is said to
have no bottom. ’ A few miles further
we struck the Lookout mountain. This
mountain is very steep, and the rocks
are large, both in and out of the road.
The Lookout mountain is a nice coun¬
try for farming. It’s level and a good
place to raise stock; plenty of grass all
over the woods. People seem to be do¬
ing well there. We went down the moun¬
tain at Collinsville gap. It’s about one
half mile down the mountain and so
rocky you have to lay your tobacco away
until you get down to the rock fence. At
the foot of the mountain we struck Lit¬
tle Wills valley, a ritch country. About
one mile from the mountain we came to
Collinsville, a business town and the cot¬
ton market for the two mfwmtains. It
seemed to me that they bought the most
cotton of any town of its size and done
the most trading. Going through Big
Wills valley we found corn worth sixty
cents per bushel. We struck the Sand
mountain at Boden’s gap. The Sand
mountain is the levelist and it looks like
the best farming country' I ever saw.—
Some people there make a bale of cotton
per acre. It makes from 12 to 25 bushels
of corn per acre. Land there is wortli as
much as it is here, and is still going up.
Albertville, one of the nicest little
towns l ever saw, is on the Sand moun¬
tain. It has a rail rod graded to it and
trains were to run over the road hy first
January. The town is on a boom. They
had .just graded the streets and were to
have a land sale soon. We left the moun¬
tain at Miller's gap, four miles south of
Huntersville. There we struck Brown’s
valley and went by the way of Warrenton
through a good country, wherein time of
high waters, the Tennessee river covers
four miles.
- Wc left the valley at Warrenton and
went on the Brihdlee mountain. This
mountain is broken in parts, but is more
level the further out. We went out off
the mountain eight miles to Grassey post
office. That is a good fanning country,
and a very good range, especially for hogs
and sheep. They raise them out there.
Corn is worth fifty cents per bushel on
the mountain. Mrs. S. A. Brannon, the
mother of Mr. W. C. Brannon, lives on
this mountain. She is doing weli;lins
plenty of hogs, sheep and cows and plen¬
ty of corn. She made last year sixty or
seventy gallons of wine from her vineyard
and sold it at $1.(10 per gallon by the bar
el, which beats a cotton crop.
While there we went to see the Tennes¬
see river, for the first time. She’s a big
one sure. We were gone a little over a
week and saw aheap of good land and a
heap of big rocks. It’s a long ways out
there, and if the world is as big the other
Avay, she is a big one, sure. We came
through Centre on oiir way. back.
aio not on any railroad, but they have got
a good court house. Why not us have
one, too.
Uncle Asa.
The .above communication was sent in
some time ago, but having been liiiss
placed Ave failed to publish it sooner.—
[Ed.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons having demands against the es¬
tate of J. A\ r . Biggers, deceased, arc hereby noti¬
fied to rendered in their demands to the under¬
signed according to law; and ail persons indebt¬
ed to said estate aro required to make immedi¬
ate payment. Dee. 31st, 189Q.
T. .T. Biggkrs,
Administrator of J. AV. Biggers, deceased.
E3PAEING AND FLATS WOES.
I fun now prepared to do any kind of repair
work—Clocks, watches, Sewing Machines,
Make or repair Buggies, Wagons and Carts.
Gold and silver plating by electricity.
Just west or Backbone mountain iy 2 miles
west of Buchanan.
J. S. DEAN.
EXECUOR'S SALE.
GEORGIA—Hakalsok County.
To all whom It may concern:
A. C. Helton, Executor of the last will of
Amos Helton, deceased, has in due form applied
to thifundersigneil for leave to sell the lands be¬
longing to the est- te of said deceased, anil said
application will.be ueanl on tiie first Monday in
Feii., next.
Tiiis Jan. 1st 1891.
S. M. DAVENPORT, Ordinary.
Sheriff Sales for First Tuesday in
February, 1831.*
■Will lie sold to the highest Milder for cash,
wit,tun tlio legal hours of sale, on the first Tues¬
day in February, next, before the court house
door of Haralson eoiuil <!a., tlio fallowing
property, to-wlt:
Lots of land, number . Ills, till), 1120 and
1122 in 19th district and dnl section of Haralson
county; levied on as the property of V. .1. \V. 11.
Stephens to satisfy one 11 fa issued from .Justice
conijt 1077th district, (1. M., Haralson county in
favor of Stephen 1‘ollarcJ against said Stephens.
ALSO at the sume time ami place will lie sold
land lot No. I Hi 202 ! 4 acres more or less in the
7th district ami 6th section of original Carroll
now Haralson county, (la., together with the
farm anil improvements situated thereon: it
being the farm know as the AV. -1. Head place,
three milfts south east of Buchanan; levied on .
as the riroperty of \Y. .1. He ad to satisfy one
i ortgage tifa issued from the Superior court of
said county in avor of tho Georgia Loan and
Trust Company against the said AY. J. Head.
Property pointed out in said tifa.
Till* lamiary, 1st, 1*91. *
\ !v. Hulcomhk,
Sheriff.
Fetation for Charter,
GEORGIA, Haralson Cot MV.
To the Superior court of said in* utv:
The petition of 8. L. Hilton, AY A. Smith J.
A. Cantrell, A. H. Tomlinson ianil 1,1 oiln Dean
shows that they have entereil|"intn an associa¬
tion and desire to hoj^lnuorporated ruder the,
name and style of the Haralson County Carm¬
el's’ Alliance Co-operative Association—that the
object of said association is pecuniary gain and
prolit to the stockholders, and the particular
business which they desire to engage in is tho
owning, managing and operating of a mercan¬
tile establishment upon a co-operative pla of
buying and selling dry goods, groceries, hard¬
ware and such other articles as are usutv kept
for sale in a general merchandise store, reti
im tlier the right and power to is¬
sue oertficates of stuck, to make contracts, t..
sue anil be sued, to rent, lease, buy and sell such
property, real and personal, as maybe necessary
to promote the object 3of said association, to
transact any and all kinds of business incident
thereto, and to exerob e all power usually con¬
ferred upon corporations of a similar character
as may be consistent with the laws of said State,
Petitioners show further that the principal place
of business of said association shall be in tlio
town of Buchanan in said county, and thevjask
the privilege of establishing branch stores in
said county, should they so desire. Petitioners
further show that tiie capital stock of said
association is ton thousand dollars, and that
fourteen hundred dollars of said capital stock
has been paid in. Petitioners pray the granting
of an order by the court, Incorporating them
and their successors for a term of twenty years,
with the privilege of renewal at the expiratio
of said term, for the purposes hereinbefore se
forth. And petitioners will ever pray.
Craven & Thomas Attorneys for Petitioners.
Piled in oiticc December 25tli, 1890.
J. P. M. Bigg bus, Clerk.
A true extract from the minutes of the court.
J. S. M. Bic.oijiS, C. S. C.
Petition for Charter,
GEORGIA, Haralson County.
To the Superior court of said county:
The petition of C. AV\ Ault, J. K. Holcombe,
(i. M. Roberts, T. S, Latham, Isaac AVeatlierby,
M. J. Head anil Lloyd Thomas, citizens of said
county, show that a school has been es¬
tablished in tiie town of Buchanan in said coun¬
ty, known as the Buchanan Academy. Your pe¬
titioners further show that ihey and their suc¬
cessors in office desire to lie invested with cor¬
porate authority to enforce good order, receive
donations, make purchases and effect alienations
of realty and personalty, not for purpos, , of
trade and profit, but fur the purposes of promot¬
ing the general design anil looking after the gen¬
eral interest of said school. Your petitioners
pray that they and their successors in office lie
invested with the corporate authority aforesaid
and su li other and further corporate powers as
may he ncecssarv to successfully conduct ?aid
school and not inconsistent with the laws of said
state nor violative of private rights. Your pe¬
titioners pray the granting of an order investing
them and their successors in office with tho eor
porate authority and power aforesaid, to remain
offeree for the to* 1 !. of twenty years, unless
sooner revoked by law. And your petitioners
will ever pray.
>1. .1- Head and Lloyil Thomas Atty’s. for
Petitioners.
Filed in office December 25tli, 1890.
.J. S. M. Bionnus, Clerk.
A true extract from the minutes of the court.
J. S. M. High Kits, C. S. O
(GEORGIA— Haralson County.
To all whom it may concern :
All persons are hereby notified that a petition
of twenty free holders of the 813tli district, G.
M., said county lias been filed with me asking
that an election he held in said district as pro¬
vided for under section 1155 of the revised code
of 1882, on the question of fence or stock law.
AVitness my hand and official signature. This
tliesth day of dan., 1891.
S. M. DAAENPORT, Ordinary.
ELECTION NOTICE—SCHOOL BONDS.
Notice is hereby given that there'Will he an
election held at the Court House, in the City of
Tallapoosa, on the 7tli day of February, 1891, to
determine the question whether bonds shall lie
issued hy the said Cityjfor the purpose of build¬
ing suitable school buildings for said City. The
amount of bonds to lie issued is Ten Thousand
Dollars, with interest at tne rate of Eight Per
Cent, and payable as follows, to-wit: Four
Thousand Dollars to be due and payable on the
31st (lay of Deetmber, 1855; Six Thousand Dol¬
lars to be ilua and payable on the 31st day of
December, 1900. 1 Tiie interest on said bunds to
be paid annually.
A. I. Head, Mayor,
M. A. Cason,
J.H. PlummeR,
J. R. Tumlix,
R. M. Strickland,
G. R. H UTCltENS;
C. Talu erho,
J. R. Driver.
Tallapoosa, (la., Jan., 6th, 1891.