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Dr. V. 0. Lockhart, \ __ FAitors .InO. 15. KTON, } Hemooratic Tioket. 1888* CLrVSLAND ANPTHURMAKI For Representative. J. N COGGINS The Western crops have been great’y damaged by storms. T’ e Mills Bill has passed the House by a majority of 13 votes. The carpet-bag negro is now seen in Indiana and Ohio. He is trying to stuff tlie negro vote for Harrison in November. The editors of the Carnesville Register speak of receiving some fine apples from a tree over sixty two years old. Gen. Sheridan is dead. Thus an army's leader is laid to rest. Peace go with his soul to a haven of rest in 11n realms above! The Gainesville Eagle and Jack son Herald, as yet, have not put up the name of the democratic nomi nee for Senato • from H is district. None b:i■ and mimic ; -hould be allowed t aid in no* mnating dem ocratic candidates, -v the O’co nee Enuuprise. Tim ! rue, but that pc ' feeling y<u: now! It is < night t vote in Clatke .vill give \ ! r. t< k, demo crali ■ n-.rnin?e for nmivsenlative. some trouble. Tb y leave a negro v C7> j republican candidate themselves. The 6th inst., Alabama’s state election came off. The democrats carried the state by 100.Q00 majori ty. The city of Montgomery g ive a hi democratic vote. A few days go an engine ex ploded in Franklin county, near y ow’s store, killing a young man named Smith, and scalding a ne gro. The negro is not expected to live. The She (field (Ala.) Land, Iron <fe Coal Company, have sold out for $2,000,000. The purchasers are Northern men. Who says North ern capital is not beginning to come South? Few people have the least idea how hard it is to publish a newspa per, During the excessive heat and dull times, is the very time people expect a newspaper to be bright and newsy, Sen. Thuim in does not need a platform. Ilis record is sufficient, ho says some of the exchanges. This may be true, but Mr. Thur man stands on the democratic plat form immovable. The Warren County Clipper says, that county was a Whig coun ty before the war; that there is a number of old men in the county who voted the Harrison ticket in 1840. It is said wise men change, but fools never. It is to be hoped they are with the former. No* only ia the pr B'dent a ton ot a P esbyterian o’e’gvman, and iiarriam the eon in-law of a Presbyterian cler. gymao and a dp icon in e P csbyoriao ebureb, but C a'rniHn Quay of the re publieao ntt unal commit te-, aid Chairman B ice of the deunc a ic i*x >cutive ioiumitne, aie b:h Mona o> Presbyterian clergvm'M-.—[ E igle. The repiri® t.um l hums are of a ••li liu-ter t-> mike the democracy hopi f of carrying that state. A large murder of re, u ltcHD- have come oil foi C.eveland nui tariff refo m It is thought that the dm cacy w ll ga : n t'vu or three congressmen bom that s : am. 8 hoc ot itie iu iuigere.oji (ho repub lican campaign want tor engage Anns Dck neon to explain Me# Harrison’s CSb'tu ee reined An' aMyBl com'i high, but • he will c uue ab|<#f<e<as near inak line t i beirers ‘"ik^rttr*t am Hr r I) hat* any ftSfio Accos tas . n ih i-r the ti phkdciaki. re lik ly to hu.e.- [O' qr-onlU' no'” p Hugh Maxwell, ! who ki 1 C'K\ 6 yWl us in St. Louis, several r ago] and put his body in a.trunk, was to hang this month, but through the influence of his father with Lord Salisbury, be will get a respite on the grounds that both he and Cluverius were for eigners. Nashville papers say that city is over run with the professional bum and dead-beat. They are known from i heir dress —a red bandana adorns the neck, while a red-flan nel shirt of six weeks wear, looks through Iwo half moons in the seat of their pantaloons, worn from the effects of a dry-goods box in the shade of some alley of a beer saloon and free lunch house. Ike Vincent, Alabama’s default ing treasurer of $22,000, of 4 years ago, and, wdio has since been con fined in the state’s prison to serve a sentence of fifteen years, has be come morose and dissatisfied, A few days ago he sent for one of the state inspectators, and told him he was going to make a full confes sion, and tell all the names con nected with the steal. This will, no doubt, connect prominent men, whom the people little expect. “We met, on Tuesday last, on our sirjeis. Rov. Tbadeus Pickett, who in < n bi.i grand rounds shaking Lands, smiling and making himself pleasant among the masses, seeking to des'roy the nominee of the Giinesville Con vention as an independent deraoc at He hopes to get the republican vote, and all the so called democrats who will be dissatisfied with the nomime of the Gainesville Convention. Mr. Pickett will no doult get a good vote, bi t if ibe organized democrats will on. 1 do their duty he will stand but lit tle chance of success. As to his cam paign programme, we know noibiug, probably an announoement may be made socn. He is rme ing with but Ittle enci uiagement here."-—[ Dahlon ega Signal. The 3AI inst., at the voting pre cinct in the 10th district of Clai borne county, Tenn., Burnside Yoakrm shot and killed James Smith, the independent republican candidate for coun’y trustee Smith and Yoakum's brother were engaged in a hot discussion over the election, when Yoakum walk ed up and shot Smith through the temple, killing him instantly. Yoakum escaped. All the parties to the dispite are republicans. A great many of the papers if the state are scorng Jo Brown and his betterments. If the state owes Mr. Brown she should pay him. If t e road ha l not been leased to Sen. Brown twenty years ago, per haps some oil er state would now be its owner. If Mr. Brown has made money out of the road, it. is more than tlie state was doing when the road was lea od. His large speculative brain, indomit able energy, and unflinching cour age, made the money. Mr. Brown deserves credit. The Farmer and the Home Market. ' ■ rirr • g al r mat 've'i** pn v> <■> V- ir t i to to hi-mb all t U'ii in \Y rri tor i'i > ■ ii- r i m - re v i b < ' ail thi-i> * o <• u a* go Tflis Hr- mill* i ' M!1 t 1- thongh. :i . in** ri t • • t he market pGy-no pni' >■ h <v r i fix ing the p ices o 'he s :p> egrico ' prodoc on*. T? e iri e of c< t corn, whea, bacon, bird an I o tides are fix‘d n f "ei</Q moket o which the surplus of then** production are expor ed. lr is and nhttul if 1 parceutagc of rg it au and prod c • which is tsken by the home market >r 88 great n it was hall a century ago, and there is no prospect that the de m id of the b< me market will ever be ia I to the supply. In the meantime, however, the mo nopolies and tiusts which are made pof-s ble by the high protective tariff fix the prices which the farmers pay for their farming implements and maoh : n ery, and their clothes, blankets and other necessaries of life. The farmers have to take what they can get for what they produce, and pay the prices which the monopolies and trnsts fix for what they need. The home market is a delusion so far as they are cd. It is a one-sided affair, all the benefits of it being on the side of those who are the beneficiaries of the protec tive system. Representative Cox, in the hill pro viding for the taking of the next cen sus, has arranged for finding out the a muat of the mortgagee on the farms of the country it is sale to say that the information relative to farm mort gages will be if not start ling There is reason for believing (Continued on 3td page ) A. C MOSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOMER, GEORGIA. Collectors made and pn mptly remitted p M> EDW ards, Attorney at Law, HOMKR. GEORGIA. fiWF"" Wdl practice in all the Courts ot the Western C remt. W. L. TELFORD, Attorney AT LAW, H'IMRK (iKOPGIA. ~ G. WTHROWN” Itlnysville, tieorgin. £KSF~ Will do a general practice. Collecting a specialty. James M. Merritt, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Mrtysvillr. Dr. A. H. Stapler. HOMER, GEORGIA. Spicial attention 'ivh to 'Mirgery, Obstetrics and Cli’*'"o and >'-se-of long *t n iii’g V. D. LOOK H A KT. PhysiciaN, Honu-r, (iporsla. J. W. Sumpter, GENERAL BLACKSMITHING leomer, tieuigta. ffe #"•! Waggons made ’ i Ih'l nx a Specialty, Dus. H ARDMAN & SHARP, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS. Harmony, Grove,Cia. JOB PRINTING ' Neatly done at this Office at !uw | rice* Come and examine work. Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, Post lers, Dodgers, Tags, Circulars, Mort gage note, Justice Court Subpoenas, Fi Fas, Summons, Title Deeds, Etc SUBSCRIBE FOR Banks Observer, MHJP The representative and only paper in the county —published at the County Cite—devoted to . the Local, Agricultural and Mineral Interests of u tv and neighboring sections. 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