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THE BAMHER-MES3ENGER.
■'ll e Official Organ of Haralson County.
HtfCHANAN, GKOllOIA, MAlt. 10, IH>1.
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
,j>ne Year - - $1.00
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I’oree Months - - .25
That was a.-searable man who-remarked
that “an editor’s life is not all sunshine.”
■“There Is no telling the luck of a lousey
■.If.” No- lie 4« just about as apt to die
ns to live.
Will the Tribune of-Rome please dis
barge Livingston and thereby save the
.
Alliance from utter destruction?
Firewood has been quite an item to
“ioso who have had to buy it this winter.
We are ready for a few more loaf s to go
in subscription.
Tl;e Tribune-of-Rome is deeplyintemd
d in the Alliance. It is fearfully alarmed
‘test Livingston should do something to
.-jure the oanse—of ring rule.
The flying Jenncy which has been in
■peration at Carrollton for some time has
pulled up stakes. We hope it will spread
its wings in a different direction to this.
There was .a min der committed in Car
roll county last Sunday evening. Bill
Hill stabe-d and killed Byrd Perkins.
Whiskey and cards were mixed up in the
affair.
The wild geese are flying toward the
North and gentle Annie is about to war
ole.—Columbus Sun.
Yes; about to warble out with the
grippe.
“We need a Noah in this seciton,” writes
a Georgia editor. “All of our rivers
We would like to see the dove return
sag with a pine straw up this way.
We hear it said that our farmers have
been putting in good time this week. Wc
don’t know how much time they have put
in, but we venture to say they have put
in a quantity of guano.
There was a slight change in the sched¬
ule on the C. K. & C. Sunday. The trains,
however, seem of late to have forgotten
■here was ever eucli a thing as a schedule.
They will please take notice.
The board of education of Carroll coun¬
ty issued license for two public schools
Whitesburg. Whitesburg is too small
place for two schools and the Advance is
making a just protest against the
of the board.
About the best evidence we have that
the little secret- Alliance caucus held in
the Governor's Mansion should be con¬
demned by all true Ailiancemer,, is from
the manner in which a great many papers,
that have heretofore "opposed the Allli
ance, have been saying all they could in
favor of this caucus.
“The fight is on,” said the Governor,
but on quite differently to what no ex¬
pected it to he. Yes; it’s right square
on top of the Governor. The people say
if there is anything wrong with the lead¬
ers of the Alliance of Georgia, there is a
better way to get at them than through a
secret caucus. The people are right.
Editor A. E. Nix is making a bright
and newsy paper of the Buchanan Ban¬
ker Messenger. . Having served our ap
jmntieeship ou tho Banner, we naturally
feel an interest in its prosperity.—Heard
< 'onntj Banner.
Thanks, Bro. Abrams. $Iay your Ban
ner re ■- • r ,.rmv less, but continue to flour
itfk ii dure as it lias in the past.
Eet’s Start The Kail to Rolling.
Mr. W. R. Ault’s head is level when lie
says that Buchanan needs more manu¬
facturing establishments, and he has been
talking up one that would no doubt be a
paying business at this place. If our bu
tsincss men would form a stock company
they could easily raise fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars which would put the
factory Mr. Ault has in view in operation.
Just why something is not being put on
foot for Buchanan wo cannot tell, unless
it is for the want of co-operation. Noth¬
ing but co-operation among citizens of
towns of small means will ever start such
towns to growing. Let us do something
to make Buchanan a real live, progressive
town. Our farmers are interested in
Buchanan. This is their county seat, and
the location of the Alliance store at this
place shows that they are interested in
Buchanan. They want a good market
and we believe that a goodly number of
them would take stock in such a manu¬
facturing esrablishment as Mr. Ault
speaks of. In union there is strength;so
let us all pull together for Bucliauau and
Haralson county.
Judge J.viu-k Upholding Prohibition.
Court is still in session at Cedartown.
The Standard says:
Naturally great interest has been felt
by the public in the result of the cases
against express company agents for de¬
livering express packages containing li¬
quor. As Polk is a prohibition county,
much concern was manifested by every
body as to the probable outcome of the
grand jury’s actions in indicting the
agents of the Southern and United States
Express Companies for delivering sealed
packages containing liquor to parties in
Cedartown. The trials resulted in con¬
viction under the ruling of the court,
Judge Janes holding that packages sent
C. O. D. from any point outside of Polk
county to Cedartown without any previ¬
ous order from the person to whom it was
consigned, was a violation of law ou the
part of the agent delivering such goods.
Such was proved to be the case, and
that formed the battle-ground over which
the contending lawyers fought with all
their eloquence and logic. The court sus¬
tained Solicitor Richardson’s views, al¬
though the cases were skillfully handled
by the opposing attorneys. It is under¬
stood that these eases will be carried up
to the Supreme court, and if that tribunal
of final resort sustains tho court below,
the express companies will find that the
revenues of their offices in Cedartown will
hereafter materially diminish.
Tno case of the State vs Mr. Gus Lee
has been set for Monday, March 23d, the
fitli week of court.
Unless you have an aim and ambition
of your own, you will some day find
yourself turning some other fellow’s
grindstone.—Tribune of Rome.
When a newspaper is taking a most ac¬
tive part in building a city, and is work¬
ing hard for the interests of its citizens,
it should be supported by an advertise¬
ment from every business man within its
limits.—Brunswick Times.
The daily and weekly press of Georgia
will compare with those of any state. No
state can boast of neater, newsier or abler
newspapers than those of Georgia. They
are unpurchasable and honorable, main¬
taining the right, and staunch friends of
morality, good order and law. All honor
to the press of Georgia—Marietta Jour¬
nal.
GEORGIA—Ha r a Laos Cocxty.
All persons interested are hereby notified that,
if no good cause be shown to the contrary, an or¬
der will be granted by the undersigned on the
20th day of April, 1801, establishing a new road,
as marked out by a majority of the commission¬
ers appointed for that purpose, commencing at
the depot at Waco and running a northernly di¬
rection by J. R. Entrekin, J. Shellnntt, A. P.
Bush, J. A. Hudson, H, C. Alston and 5T. A.
Bhickstpck’s, intersecting the Buchanan and
Bremen road half mile south of Bethel church.
S. M. DAVENPORT, Ordinary.
This, March Kith, 1831,
A Caiil From Tsix Kceiver Keene.
From Newnan Herald.
To tlio Tax-payers of Coweta county:
As 1 am informed by the Comptroller
Gonerul of tho State that mudh com¬
plaint exists in that office as to'the man¬
ner in which property 1ms been returned
heretofore for taxation in Coweta county,
I have thought perhaps it would not be
amiss to let tho tax-payers of the county
know what the legal requirements are.
in order that they may be property guid¬
ed in wiving in their property for taxa¬
tion. I have received lengthy instruc¬
tions from the Comptroller-General on
this subject, and think perhaps it is best
that I give a brief synopsis of the same
for the information of tho public. I am
actuated in this matter by no other mo¬
tive than one of kindness and •considera¬
tion for my fellow-citizens, who, 1 am
sure, will be glad to get all the informa¬
tion possible on this subject. My instruc¬
tions, in brief, are as follows:
1. Comptroller-General Wright says,
“In order to hare a full and fair return
of the taxable property it is absolutely
necessary that you ask each party mak¬
ing a return the questions which I have
arranged for you. Such questions 1 am
compelled by law to give you, and they
arc given for no idle purpose, but are de¬
signed to bring out and exhibit all taxa¬
ble property in the State,” etc.
2. Each white tax-payer, when making
Ids or her return, will be required to give
a list of all the freed men in his or her
employ between the ages of 21 and 60; al¬
so, the number of bands employed be¬
tween the ages of 12 and 65.
3. It shall he incumbent on the Receiv¬
er of tax returns in the various counties
of the State to enter on their digest the
name, in full, of all tax-payers.
7. bands shall he returned as follows:
number of each tract or lot, with
land district find section, num¬
ber of acres in each tract or lot, and its
value must be given under oath.
[I here quote what the Comptroller-Gen¬
eral charges upon the Receivers: “I es¬
pecially call your attention,” says he, “to
Cue value at which lands should be re¬
turned by the tax-payer, and that is at
its true market value. Our lands are
worth a great deal more than they are be¬
ing returned for taxation, and you cannot
be too careful in the discharge of the du¬
ties imposed upon you in receiving their
returns.”]
5. Concerning the manner of returning
city and town property he says: “There
is a very just complaint against the cus¬
tom or practice of taxpayers returning
this class of property to the Receiver of
tax returns for the State and comity at a
very much lower valuation than tho same
property is returned to the corporate au¬
thorities for taxation. It must be mani¬
fest to every one that property is worth
as much when returned for taxation to
the State and county as when returned to
be taxed by the cities. Look closely to
the returns of this species of property and
endeavor to correct this evil.”
0, I will here call the attention of the
public to an act passed by the last Gener¬
al Assembly, which says, “that in return¬
ing property for taxation all property
shall be returned at its value. Promisso¬
ry notes, accounts, judgments, mort¬
gages, liens of all kinds and all clioses in
action shall ho give in at their value,
whether solvent or partially solvent.”
7. The law requires that all returns
shall he made under oath, and conse¬
quently one person cannot deputize an
other to give in his property for taxation.
This custom has prevailed for many
years, but it is clearly a violation of law
and will not be permitted by the Comp¬
troller-General. Each year tho tax-pay¬
ers of the county must make return of
their property in person, and no proxy
can be recognized under the law.
There are some other items connected
with the duties of the office of Tax Re¬
ceiver that I would like to call attention
to, but will not do so at present. I would
suggest that if there is any ono whose
land numbers are not available that they
call on their neighbors, who may own
the adjoining numbers.
In entering upon the discharge of my
duties as Tax Receiver I most respectful¬
ly solicit the aid of all good citizens.
J. P. EKI38K,
Tax Receiver of Coweta county.
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