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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. srnseUTP-fioN t:a1tRs. 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, T A r '<- ti Xh. i&v W**** m THE BANNER-MESSENGER. YOUR PAPER ! PAY FOR IT, READ IT, AND BE HAPPY, ONLY ONE A YEAR N * * V ADVANCE.