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Dr. V.D. Lockhart,) Editors.
Jno. Barton, l
Bob Taylor has been re-nomi
nated lor governor of Tennessee,
Several of the Northern states
have been suffering a severe drouth
the past month. Fear is entertain
ed the wheat crop in these states
will fall short their usual acreage.
The Salvation Army has about
I laved out in all the principal cities of
Georgia; son lo of them being charged
with gross immorality and indecency,
and held to snswer in the courts.
The debate on the Mill’s Bill drags
its weary length along, and it is now
thorght that a vote on it will not he
reached before the assembling of the
Sr. Louie Convention.
H,n, II 11. Carlton of Athene,
made his maiden speech in Congress
tho other day, in favor of the bill to
create an executive department to ba
known ts the department of agricul
lure. The bill passed the house by a
vote of 233 to 13.
A great flood has taken plaoe'inthe
Mississippi, which for destruction and
snffeiing is unpie o lei ted. Hundreds o
families have been rendered homeless,
and thousands of acres of growing
ciops ruined. Farmers are camped
out in small huts on the high lands,
while live stock anti poultry have
been drownel in the floods.
With this ifsue of the Observer Dr.
Lockhart assumes chaige of the Elito
rial columns. The doctor is an old
newsps} ermsn of large experience—
well posted in politics and matters o!
gene ul interest. It is to be hoped his
editorial work will make tho Columns
of this paper readable ar.d pleacant.
The E tg!e has been treated to some
soda water lor which Editor Blatfsre
turns thanks. With the delightful
climate of Gainesville, its numerous
pretty girls, and its refreshing soda
water, we do not wonder at the Eagle
being a bright paper, overflowing
with newsy efferv^ssence.
Tho Bloody shirters of the "big
nairth” have been very busy for sever
al years trying to* convince the world
that the poor negro at the Sonth is al
most totally deprived of the right of
free suffrage. But ex Gov. Bullock,
who was a stalwart republican, and is
of the 6ame opinion still, gives the
Bloody-shirters a black eye by writing
a letter over his own signature, in
which he emphatically declares that
the negro vote at the South is not in
timidated, and that their prosperity as
a lace is 6afer, for variocs reasons un
der democratic administration than it
would be under republican administra
tion. lie goes further, and shows that
the rights of the negro, <o vote as he
pleases is respected far more in the
South than in tho Nmh. We hope
that this manly and truthful state
ment of Gov. Ballock tmy put a quie
tus on some of the ugly stories circu
lated in the northern papers concern
ing political methods at the South,
and also enforce the old maxim that
■"Charity begins at home.”
We notiee in several Jf onr exchang
es that the sleek tongued Mormon Eld
ers are getting in their work in some
of the rnral dir.ric sof Georgia. A
more detestable set of scoundrels nev
er disgraced any community, and wo
advise people to politely request them
to retire as soon as they make their
appearance, and if they don’t do so at
once, ride them on a rail, or tar and
feather them a few times. Give them
to understand that they must go, and
go at once.
Our jail is now without a ten
ant. Where is there another coun
ty in Georgia, with a population
of 20,000, that can show an empty
jail? Does not this speak well for
the morals of the county? We have
before remarked, and we assert it
again, that there is les9 crime in
Gwinnett, according to population
than any county in the state, —
[Lawrenceville Herald.
Banks must be accepted as one
of the counties without a prisoner
in her jail for seveml months.
Candidal* tor th*- Legialatnte are
coming to tho front in alj)iniu<' coun
ties. We lean that lion. R. S. West
is a candidate for re-election iu Habet
sham county, with li Lewis Davis
and Mr Ivytle as opponents. II >n.
H. W. J. than has announced for re
election in Hall, and several othei
candidates ate prominently mention
ed viz: K L. B )om, F auk Dtvie,
W. F, Finley and O'.hets
li there are any cai.dt>la <?s for the
Legislature in Batiks, they ate on a
still hunt, we suppose, as none id them
hare made public announcements, so
far, though the names ol several men
hive been handled pretty freely in con*
nection with the o flee.
According to the Washington
correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution, Chairman Candler of the
Educational Committee, speaking
of the Blair bill, said that he did
not wish the bill smothered, but
desired the committee to report on
it, and would attempt to have
them do so. As to the bill, he
favored it with those provisions
stricken out which give the feder
al government control of state
schools and text books. Without
this stricken out he is opposed to
it. —[Gainesville Eagle,
The Observer is with Mr, Cand
ler on this point. Strike out “fed
eral control of state schools and
text books,” and the bill is a good
one.
The Marietta and North Georgia
Railroad is one of the most import
ant enterprises in the State, and
penetrates one of its richest sec
tions, and yet our last legislature
refused to extend its charter so as
to enable it to enter the city of At
lanta, for the reason that it would
injure the state road.
We do not think the people are
ready to fool away the state road,
but if this property of the state is
to cripple enterprises and prevent
those who have the means and tl e
will to build up Georgia, and de
velop her great resources, then we
say it would ba wise to dispose of if,
It is the intention of the pub
lisher to enlarge the Observer at
an early day. We intend to give
our readers a live newspaper, de
voted to the local interests of the
county, and w*e hope our patrons
will be patient with our short-com
ings and give us all the encourage-
ment they can, A good newspap
er is the representative of every
interest in the community, public
a'hd private. We assure every one
Of our readers that these columns
shalbnot he used to promote the
interests of any clique or faction/
nor shall they be used to encour
age petty quarrels and contention
among neighbors. The “public
good” alone is the shiboleth by
which we intend to so onward and
upward to success.
Already our subscription list has
increased .te respectable propor
tions, and we promise that before
many days shall roll round we will
give our people a paper that will
be an absolute necessity to every
family in the county.
Cor,. Candler's Position.
In a recent speech delivered in
Congress by our able repreenla
ive,Col.A, D.Oandler, lie states his
view r s on the tariff question and the
internal revenue in a very clear
and forcible manner, and we be
lieve his speech will meet the ap
proval of all this Congressional
District. He expresses himself in
the language of the good, old-fash
ioned common sense and democrat
ic honesty as follow's:
Go back to the old democratic
landmarks, revise your tariff laws,
adjust them with a view to raising
revenue, and if they can, in doing
this, afford protection to American
manufactures, let them protect.
That is legitimate protection, not
robbery.
That is the democratic idea of
protection as taught by Jefferson
and Madison and Jackson and the
Chicago convention of 1884. It
would put no duty on articles of
prime necessity w hich are not pro
duced in this country, I w T ould
put a light duty, if any at all, on
the raw materials used in our own
manufactures, and on those articles of
prime necessity which are partly pro
duced at homo and partly imported
from abroad, and i would put the
heaviest revenue duty poseible upon
the luxuries and superfluities of the
rich wbo are able to paj for them how
ever heavily taxed. If, after all this
is done, a sufficient revenue f©r the
support of the government, efficiently,
honestly and economically administer
ed, is not raised, 1 would, in the lan
guage of Mr. Jefferson, “by the sup
pression of unnecessary officers, of use
less establishments and expense'!, re
duce the necessary requirements of the
government.’* By the repeal of these
very laws a horde of “unnecessary of
ficers’* can bo “suprassed,” and the
1,000,000 dollars paid to them annu
ally for salaries would be saved.
A. C MOSS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HOMER, GEORGIA.
Collections ma-le anil promptly remitter!
P. M. EDWARDS,
Attorney at Law,
HOMER, GEORGIA.
&T Will practice in all the Courts
of’the Western Circuit.
W. L. TELFORD,
Attorney AT LAW,
Homer. Georgia. (
G W. BROWN,
oJe
IMaystrille, Georgrinu
FtF* Will do a general practice.
Collecting a specialty.
James M. Merritt,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
Mnysville, Georgia,
Dr. A. H. Stapler.
HOMER, GEORGIA.
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V. D. LOCKHART.
PhysiciaN,
■Vomer, Georgia.
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GENERAL BLACKSMITHING.
Homer, Georgia.
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