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.Or V. D. Lockiurt, j _ Edi(or| Jno. Barton, $ |M - • -r-r- imm —————— Democratic Ticket. 1888- CLEVELAND AND THURMAN! The net amount of gold in the treasury June Ist., was $13,000,000 less thuu on tho Ist. of May. The Lookout Mountain railroad has been formally opened to the public, Schoobboy oratory is becoming ypry popular. "Paopli like to bo huui bag, god,” von know. thnperoi Frederick of Germany i dead. My hie e< ul find peace in fhe Royal Kingdom [ Last Thursday wa* thought by a number of Athena’ cititens tha hot t**Ht doy o' he seaor.' no to that date. Suit is now in progress against Ex-treasurer Tate of Kentucky, and his bondsmen to recover $247,- 000. Mr. Thurman !A*s his *eulT. 8o have r- h r great men bears him He ’vili " e Ohio i>-• n and rn'-'crtrlc lme next Fore - her, ?h rn O n '' -d ij r-. fcve bean fiil ing . ro' 3>yoiotmems ia th’s C: t; ';’V: *• Dietric As “yit** they ha' aiidtoeiii o . B n*• •• Too Meil ami l uck contest for representative in Clarke has been settled. Both men had warm supporters, and their strength was firm and heated. Fair promises to Jje of the selion this fall. Why can’t Banks present cxh; t s? Such would class her with comfea more enterprising. Csnd’er led the pary to v‘e‘orv; L er led the party to defeat. Ah Mr Pickwick rnce said, ‘What an unfor tunate conjunction of spp*araDOe.“ It is astonishing to note hovr many men a p e in professions that would be better without them, and they would he better off at something else. As it is they are a dead load for the world to carrv. a* It is the desire of the Obeervr *o en hrge at an early day. Give the paper vour encouragement Heed not pettv liar mongers. They are in all part* of the world and will continne, until like Ms si anic followers, they have a home of their own. The Erie c?d&1, oonnet tirg t' e Hud* foa river at Albany end Troy with Like Erie at Buffalo, is 363 miles long 7 feet deep, 70 feet wide at top an i 66 feet wide at bottom. It was begun iu 1817. and finished in 1825, costing |7,602,000. Hon. Yerig Chang is the eupho nious cognomen of a Brooklyn law yer lately atrnitted to the bar in that city. He is said to be the on ly regularly admitted Chinese law yer in the United States. While in A'brns it was the pleas* oro of Judge Hill and “ye Editors" to make the Banner-Watchman head q arterj and make the acquaintance of a number of the staff. M<j Pm* itt ii a wh de-bald-bsaddd team kirn •elf. Mr. Pope, the propriot r though a young men of short experience ; n the De**piper bmite.*, is quite pleas ant and entertaining, and of fine ad drees. Tb* y report the B inner Watchman in ad mrishing coalition With the emancipation in Bra zil, slavery has ceased to exist in the Western Hemisphere, except in Cuba, Porto-Rico and a few re mote spots among semi-civilized people. The wonder is that so monstrous a system should have ■urvived so long. The King of Spain has the meas les. Later.—The King’s sister has the measles. Still later,—Several of the roy al juveniles are feverish. Contradicted. —It is not the measles. The latest.—lt is measles. The King himself is all “broke out,” The family officially an nounces that it is measles and no mistake. The Classic City. Wo visited Athens on last Wddnes day evening, and so eve walked into Broad Street, wo landed in the middle of a big political meeting. Mr. H. H Tack, candidate ft.r tLe legislature, tri< the speaker. Ho is a stump speaker o r no mean degree, and draws a big crov7d. A rich fand of anecdote and keen satire, accompanied with tbit po collar gesture known a th 4 halleluja liok,“ carries the audience all 4 ihe way with him. They say Tu k is a trick, Tuck is a brick, and if ho g ta there El Brown will be mighty witk. We had tho pleasure of raeeTng Hon. R. B Uufc.-ell, a genial, clever gentleman with pleasant eug: ging manned, aud a Roman nose sol in the direction of the solicitor-general's of fice. He is aaid to be a fine lawyer, aad was a popular member oft the last legislature. Albert Henly, one of the Homer boys ot ye olden time, is in Athens practicing law. ho is on the ladder of fame and looking up. A Bad Case, We have read Sen, Ingalls’ arti cle in the North American Review, upon what he is pleased to term “Fetchism in the campaign.” It is certainly one of the most vulgar, beastly, and malevolent attacks upon the president, upon the dem ocratic party, and upon the South, that we have ever read. Ingalls must be certainly filled with gall —bitter gall. The peculiar acridness and bit terness of that excretion asserts it self in the climax of hie article in which he treats of “Negro suffrage iu the South.” The senator’s stom ach must have been overflowing, and we imagine his visage wa# jaundiced until his eyes were green when he ejected the following; “There are 153 votes in the Elec- Loral College assured to the demo cratic party without any other ef fort than that required to write the certificates o!’ election. For ty-eight more in the North will give Cleveland another term, dur ing which the Supreme Court will be reconstructed upon the basis of hostility to the constitutional amendments and the statutes of freedom, Not only among tho white politicians, but among the white voters at tho South, there is a settled and avowed determina tion to eliminate the negro as an element in the political problem, and to suppress his vote, * * The negroes are to be persuaded from nothing! There is no longer any disguisement or concealment of this purpose. They aro citizens entitled to vote, and generally re publican in politics, and in several states are in the majority; but the election machinery being in the hands of the democrats they are either excluded from the polls, or their votes or suppressed. * * The South obtained 38 additional members of congress by the en franchisement of the negro. If they wish to deny him the right of suffrage, justice and honor demand that they shall relinquish the in crement, so that the equality of suffrage may be restored and the equilibrium, between the North and the South be maintained.’’ We suppose be must have felt better when he disgorged this aw ful load. Senator Ingalls ought to carry some blue mass around with him in his vest pocket. A Sad Picture. ‘‘My father* made yonr burden hea vy; I will add to your yoke. My ta b <r. chastised you with whip*, I will ohastise you w th scorpion*." The whole policy of the two day old German Emperor, William II ap pears to be summed up in this utter ance ot King Rehoboam; and the civil ized world looks askance at his suc cession. Racked upon a bed of death for many a weary month, suffering the most intense tortures from the scalpels ot hi* physicians, Frederick 111 has been doing his utmost to preserve tbe peace of Eorope. Fearless and brave as a lion, the dead emperor was none the less essentially a man of peace To Lira the altars and the homes of his people were far dearer than the most magnificent Wf a warrior’s tri umphs. From the very first he was a vigorious opponent of that system of military despotism inflicted by Bis marok upon tbe German people alter the pantomimio farce at Terseilles, in 1871, which resalted in a united Ger many. The views of Frederick 111 were as pacific as those of Bismarck are belligerant, bat wbat reforms were possible daring a brief reign of four months, the. greater part of whioh was spent upon a dying bed? ~ What has the new William II (Continued on 3rd page.) A. C MOSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOMER, GEORGIA. Collections made aad promptly remitted P. M. EDWARDS, Attorney at Law, HOMER, GEORGIA. Will practice in all tb? Cotfrt* of the Western Circuit. W. L. TELFORD, Attorney AT LAW, Homer. Georgia. G. W. BROWN, Maysville, Georgia. Will do a general practice. Collecting a specialty. James M. Merritt, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MitySVille, Georgiu, Dr. A.H. Stapler. HOMER, GEORGIA. Special attention given to Sureery, Obstetrics and Ctnonic diseases of long* -binding. V. D. LOCKHART. PhysiciaN. I?omer, Georgia. J. W. Sumpter, GENERAL BLACKS MITHING. Homer, Georgia, Drs. HARDMAN & SHARP, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS. Harmony. Grove, Go. 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