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THE BANNER-MESSENGER.
Tiie Official Organ of Haralson County.
I517CH ANAN, OKOUOtA. FEU, IS, I SO I
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
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Olio Year - 51.00
yi* Months .no
Three Months .25
Carrollton is to lay her sidewalks with
planks.
Colonel Seaborn Jones died at lius home
in Rockmart last Friday.
It’s farmer Gov. Northen now, but it
will be former Gov. Northen next time.
Bro. Sharpe, of the Free Press, believes
in raising corn. So do we, and cotton
too.
A horse swappers’ conventin will be
held in Edwardsville the 20th and 21st
in st.
There are 14<W justices of the peace do¬
ing business in Georgia and no end to the
amount of L. C’s.
Bro. Almon's forms must have played
leap frog last week, as the Advance ap¬
peared back side foremost.
Another victim of the deadly cigarette
is reported from Mass. First led to in¬
sanity then suicide. Horrible’
You hardly see a brighter paper than
Editor Nix is making of the Baxmkh
Messengek.—C arrollton Evening Times.
Who is tiie author of that advertise¬
ment of Mr L. C. Mandeville’s in the
Carroll County Times, Wanamaker
-ought to employ him.
We are told that labor pays about
three-fourths of all taxes,))!’* ownsabout
vine-fifth of all the property. What is
•this but legalized robery!
Whisky drinkers say that good whis¬
ky is the best medicine known. But
why do they drink the sorriest of pop
scull when they are neither sick, lame
nor blind?
The various opinions from the press
concerning Gov. Northen’s shabby treat¬
ment towards Mr. Gould is given in the
Constitution, but the Journal quotes on¬
ly one side.
Gov. Northen refused to meet J. Gould
because of Gould’s “methods.” Very
well. Mr. Northen rides on free passes
issued by Mr. Gould’s road to the State
Agricultural Society. Oh, consistency,
thou art a jewel.”—Carroll Co. Times.
We see. where you are right, Bro. Fitts.
Cleveland had as well drop his feathers.
It's a dead certauity the masses are not
going to elect a man to the presidency
of these United Stages in 1892 to rule over
them in the interest of the gold bugs of
Wall street. No, sir. The democrats
must trot out another man.
George Smith says he saw a whole
town recently floating down Big Talla¬
poosa river, fiom the rear end of Mr.
Kramer’s store. He says he thinks it was
Drakotown as he saw ducks on top of
the houses.—Carroll Times.
Did you see Senator Golden’s fine house
Mr. Smith? But seeing ducks riding up¬
on floating houses is no sign of a nest.
One of our merchants put his foot into
it the other day. Somebody had been
playing an aecovdeon for an intolerable
length of time in an adjoining store,
when, his patience being worn out, be
said, “wonder what fool that is playing
that accord eon, when the young
whom lie was waiting upon meekly re¬
plied, that she though it was her brother.
—Carroll Free Press,
Bro. Shape, of the Free Press, speaks of
the weather as being very *‘flckle.” Out
of a vocabulary of nine thousand words he
could not have found one more appro
priato.
If Governor Northen refuses to meet
Mr. Gould on account of his (Gould's)
“methods,” why doss he accept one of
his (Gould's) methods, viz: riding on free
passes over Gould’s railroad? Ah, Gov¬
ernor.
Mr. S. T. Barns made last year off of
twenty acres seventeen bales of cotton.
Off throe of these acres lie made four
bales averaging 483 pounds each. This is
what wo call good fanning.—-Carroll
Free Press.
The Times favors a law that would com¬
pel medical students to practice upon
themselves exclusively. Then probably
there wou'd be less deaths from incom¬
petence and carelessness.—Bi unswick
Times.
If such a law was enacted,then probably
wewould have a less number of doctors.
Under the caption of “What each side
is saying for itself” the Atlanta Journal
quotes a whole column in favor of that
little Alliance caucus held in Atlanta
the other day, and not a word does it
quote for the other side. The caption
would have been more appropriate had
they said, “only one side of the ques¬
tion.”
True Alliancemen all over the state are
denouncing that little caucus held in the
governor’s masion the other day, and are
endorsing the Southern Alliance Farmer,
as they should. Bro. Brown has proven
himself to be a true and conscientious Al
lianceman, and the strength of his paper
is beginning to be realized since that lit¬
tle caucus met. The Southern Alliance
Farmer will live, despite the efforts of the
governor and a few others to down it.
Long may she live.
When Governor Gordon gained his vic
Sftry over the Alliance in Georgia the par¬
tisan papers, both Democratic and Re¬
publican, said without hesitation that it
meant the dissolution and complete break¬
up of the Alliance, as it was gone without
any possible chance. It is now in order
for these partisan papers, since the de¬
feat of Ingall3, to make the same prophe¬
cy in regard to the Republican party. It
would be just as reasonable, and much
more likely to be verified.—National
Economist.
A Carrollton young man boasts of hav¬
ing the finest sweetheart in this country.
She has a $125 diamond ring and she
wears it one day and him the next.—Car
roll County Times.
That young man dosen’t go to see liis
sweetheart often we presume. We don’t
know about his sweetheart being so line,
but that’s a pretty fine ring to cost so
much these hard times. If it takes $125
to dress her little finger, will the young
man please tell us how much it takes to
dress her whole body? Perhaps later on
he could tell us more about it.
We see a great deal of hay being ship¬
ped into this place. What do the people
mean or what are they doing and liow do
they ever expect to get out of debt so
long as they keep buying, not only that
they eat and wear, but that their stock
eats? It’s astonishing to see how some
people do. There are people around this
place with good garden spots and with
less to do seemingly than we have to do,
still they come to our house to buy col
lards. Yes, collards! “Perished out for
something to bile!” Why under the sun
don’t the people get a move on them¬
selves and make something to “bile,”
and quit buying so much! Now is the
time to commence. Fix up your old gar¬
dens; dig up the dirt good and deep, it
wont hurt you, but will develop your
muscles and make you strong and active.
Yes, girls, you might get out and break
a few clods, pick up the trash and help
your mother plant the seed, set out slips,
The failure of Mr. Wanamaker to get
Congress to endorse his postal telegraph
scheme, will hardly be the cause of any
general grief. Now if he should try to
secure one cent letter postage and should
fail, there would be really something to
grieve over.
We hog pardon of Pro. Fitts for speak¬
ing of Carroll’s five papers. The weekly
Times having out grown itself is now is¬
suing a sprightly little daily, which
makes six papers for Carroll. We again
say hurrah for Carroll, the home of our
boyhood where many relatives and
friends still live; whose sunny hill-slopes
and fertile valleys remuiuitli fresh within
our memory,
Haralson is moving right along financi¬
ally. If you don’t mind she will turn
Paulding down in some respects. Her
public roads are good and she has half
enough money already collected to build
a new court house and by Jan. term of
court 181)2 she will have it completed. So
you must move up or you are left. Our
new Judge gave satisfaction generally.—
G. W. McBrayer in Paulding New Era.
Rome’s whisky traffic at this place is
simply enormous. Hundreds of gallons
of whisky is being shipped here and not
a eeut of revenue does Buchanan or Har¬
alson county receive out of this traffic.
Men buy it, drink it and get drunk, as
though it was sold right here. If this
business is to be continued, we say open
up your bar room here and let the town
council collect the license and see to it
that law and order is kept.
Congressman Clements says: “The sil¬
ver question is so prominent now. and
will be so prominent in the next cam¬
paign, that we cannot afford to nomi nate
a man who is not in sympathy with his
party and the majority of the people on
this question. Mr. Cleveland is a man of
courage, but the principle of free coinage
is above any individual. His coming out
at this junction, it seems, was for the pur¬
pose of assisting the anti-silver men in
preventing fffee coinage legislation at this
session.
Congressman Grimes says: “I still
have great respect for Mr. Cleveland, but
it would be suicidal for us to nominate
him now.
An Iowa woman has named her twin
daughters Gasoline and Kerosene.—Ex¬
change.] The old man’s name is proba¬
bly l’eto Roleum.—Boston Commercial
Bulletin.] We hope the babies will grow
up a paraf-fine girls.—Bostou Herald.]
The mail wlio marries into that family
#
will strike oil.—Cape Cod Item.] But we
fear that sparking in the immediate
neighborhood of tho girls in question will
he a very dangerous pastime.— Muusey’s
Weekly.] Look out for an explosion if
they are red haired. They ought to be
bright lights in society.—Savannah
News.] It would be dangerous for those
girls to court, as they might strike a
match.—Brunswik Times.] Should they
marry, they would then doubtless go into
the wholsale business. They ought tube
kept in a tight vessel, lest they soil their
clothes.
The Constitution, after all, pronounces
W. T. Sherman “a great man.” It would
seem more natural to hear the Constitu¬
tion say that Sherman was a consummate
scoundrel, for did he not promise Maj.
Calhoun on surrendering to him the city
of Atlanta, that life, liberty and property
should be protected? But what did lie
do? He burned the fair city to the
ground I and more than that, he laid waste
by the torch many homes of innocent
women and helpless children from the
breezy hill-tops of North Georgia to the
sunny slotn s of her sea-board, 'fell me is
this tbe acts of a great man? Had be
lived a thousand years be could not have
outlived such inhuman acts, nor does
his death lessen the crime. Though dead
bis memory to many a poor widow wo
man and orphan child of the good and
noble state of Georgia will he as that of a
handed fiend,
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