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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. Ono A'ear - - - §1,00 t>ix Months ■ - - - .50 Three Months - - .25 '--- 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.