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Dr.V.D. Lockhart,) _ Editors . Jko. Barton, ) Democratic Ticket- 1888- CLEVELAND AND THURMAN! For Representative! J- N- COGGINS Blaine has returned from Mos cow, Scotland, Reports euy yellow lever hue broken Out in pome parts < f Florida. The New v ork W' rid continues to B y that Mr. Randall is troubled with a cancer. Philadelphia is troubled with ty phoid ferer, caused from foul wells and defeo’ive sewerages. The directors ot the Chautauqua em phatically deni* the report that they hare invited Mr. Blaine to be present. Chicago and Bt. Louis are rcuffling the largest population. The form er claims claims 900,000. While a crowd of unill hoys were bathing in the river at Columbus, 8 C., th * Ist inst., an alligator seized a 12-year-010 ad aid swallowed him Qrn. Bb‘ii an’ft condition at the seashore in n'>t improving much. It was though' tb*> sea brpeze would help his frail Condi riotl Birmingham claims to have had over four suicides per week the last month, and says the cause is a mystery. Fionr Norihoiri sta'p- comes the re port of the extierne warm weather. Ae yet there haw been eca'eely any sun strokes, bnt the heat has caused much noknens and deaths. Quite a atu was created in the sen ate the other day, when 8-o. Black hum appeared in a red flannel shirt Fo great wrs the stir that the senator repared to his room and pnt on the usual “biled shirt." It is estimated that the Mills Bill, as passed by the House of .Representatives, proposes a saving to the toiling people of the United States, of the enormous sum of seventy million dollars annually. The moonshiners around Bir mingham, Ala,, have been depre dating that section. Only a few days since they robbed and killed a farmer; taking from his person $250. Also put a United States Marshal to flight, A committee met in Atlanta the Ist. inst, and decided that the S ate Road was worth $760,000. If it is for sale a purchaser will be hardtofiud. Sen Brown declines to purohase at these figures, but he wants his betterments all the same. Roderick Lowry, a nephew of Gov. Dowry of Mississippi, who so brntally beat his young wife of four months’ marriage several weeks ago, was oap tured in .New Orleans the 31st inst. He plead the old, old story, whisky the cause. His wife is suing for a di vorce. She wants it before her bus band is tried, as he will, no doubt, go to the penitentiary. The survivors ot the Third Georgia regiment will have a reunion on the 8 h and 9ch of August at Midieon. The two days of the reunion will be glorious, as extensive preparations have been made by tbs people of Mor gan county to en'er aiu the veterans aud thnir friend *. Col. Candler stood at the post of duty until the Mills Bill had been passed. While he was doing this Col. Lester was making a strong fight to rob him of his well-earned laurels, and Thad Pickett was go ing over the district preaching himself into the good graces of the people as a stepping stone to polit ical honors. But the people have rebuked them. The value of a faithful representative is not to be thrown aside to gratify office hunters. All honor to Candler for his faithful performance of duty. Belton, July 31, ’BB:—Editors Observer:—We are informed that B. F. Suddath and T. B. Griflin have formed a combination to defeat Hon. J. N. Coggins, the democratic nominee of Banks county, Neith er of these gentlemen had the mor al manhood to try the race single handed with Mr. Coggins, but must combine to stoop to artifice and trickery to defeat a good and true man. The object of these two men is to try to divide the voce so they can defeat the nominee and one or the other come in. The whole plot is to defeat the nominee regardless of const quences uni to gra*- ifv their own particular ambition. We call on all good and true democrats to stand firm and set down on *nv snch dcsiguißg politicians that are not work ing for the good of the democrats par ty of the country, but to antagonize it, and break it up. Democrats, keep yoar eyes open. Democrat. The Ellijiy Courier has the follow ing: “The people of Jasper were shooked to learn that a murderous at tempt had been committed by one Ben Davis on John Maun. The parties last year had some difficulty, but had about bridged over that. Davis has oeen drinking heavily lately, and left his home early in the morning mad with everything and swearing that a man would be killed that day. He accordingly went to Mann’s home about 8 o’clock and oalled him op out of bed, as Mann was sick at the time, and together they walked down the road about fifty yards from the honse. Af era few minutes talk Mann ran to wards his horse crying, “I am shot, he has killed me!’’ As Mann ran Da vis fired two shots at him, each ball taking effect in his back jnst below the shoulder blade. He ran through his bouse out through the garden and over to a house, abotft one mile away, thinking all the while Dav is was alter him. Davis fled as soon as he shot Mann and has not since been seen. The citizens are scouring the woods in his pursuit. The gener al belief is that he was in faultf, and should be dealt with to the extent of the law when fonnd. Mann is bleed ing inte'rnally, and is not expected to live.” Congress has commenced the in vestigatiou of the Whisky Trust. J, M. Atherton, of Louisville, the first witness before the committee, said he was president of the Atherton company; that most of the large distillers of Kentucky entered into an agreement by which they bound themselves to produce no whisky in the year 1888; that the agree ment grew out of the fact that there had been a very large over-pro duction of whisky, which could not be consumed in the country, and had been exported to Europe to find a market; no buyers being found it had been imported back into the country. In order to pro tect the owners of this whisky from this over-production, they had agreed to suspend operation from July Ist, 1888. That they, as an association, attempted to in - fiuence congress to have the bond ed period extended. This is a sample of the lies the whisky ring is trying to foist upon the country as an excuse for the continuance of the internal rev enue system, and there efforts to influence Congress to extend their privileges by keeping their whisky in bonded warehouses without pay ing taxes. W, H, Thomas ofLouisville, Ky., testified before a committee of Congress, that he was a whisky dealer with a trade of 10,000 bar rels a year; that he was not in fav or of the repeal of the Internal Revenue Tax; that he thought ev ery farmer with a stream near his farm would go into the business, and would ruin distillers (big dis tillers) by over-production; with no tax on whisky, he thought there would be ten times the amount of whisky drank. Mr. Atherton, his partner in the whisky-ring, said just before him, that there was already an over-pro duction, and that the trust had agreed to not make any more whisky for 1888; that thousands of barrels of whisky was re-imported from the old country, because it found no sale there. Mr. Atherton, a member of the whisky-ring, was before a commit tee of congress the other day. He stated that he believed nearly all of the distillers north of the Ohio river, were members of a trust, each distiller having a common in terest in the business of the oth ers, The headquarters of this trust was at Peoria, 111. The gentleman admitted that the “common interest” of this as sociation was to influence Congress to retain the Internal Revenue system. Gainesville, Ga., July 27.—A five room house belonging to Mr. John R. Brice, and situated on West Washing ton street, was totally consumed by tire at 5 o’cloek to day. A. C- MOSS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOMER, GEORGIA. Collect ions made and promptly remitted P. M~ EDWARDS, Attorney at Law, HOMER, GEORGIA. far Will practice in all the Courts of’the Western Circuit. W. L. TELFORD", Attorney AT Law, Homer. Georgia. G. W. BRO\m, ok Nlaysville, Georgia. fIT Will do a general practice. Collecting a specialty. James M. Merritt, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Georgia, Dr. A. H. Stapler. HOMER, GEORGIA. Special attention given to Surgery, Obstetrics and Clmmic diseasesoflong i>t*n(ling. • V. 1). LOCKHART. PhysiciaN, Homer, Ceorgla. J. W. Sumpter, GENERAL BLACKSMITHING. Homer, Georgia. J Buggies and Waggons made to order. Repairing a Specialty. Drs. HARDMAN & SHARP, ~ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, Harmony, Grove, Ga. JOB PRINTING ttjdf ' Neatly done at this Office at lowjrices. Ootne and examine work. Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, Post lers, Dodgers, Tags, Circulars, Mort gage note, Justice Court Subpoenas, Fi Fas, Sammons, Title Deeds, JSto. 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