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Democratic Ticket. IHHU
CLEVEIA mo A WD TH PRMA N!
Tor Conor**** 9th District,
A P. CANDLER.
For Representative.
J N- COGGINS
xhoiiaan is making a lively demo
<ratio campaign through Ohio.
What & blessed tuing it is to haye a
climate free from all epidemics.
The Farmers Alliance has pat ont a
candidate for representative in Harris
on county.
The Montgomery Dispatch wants
Alabama to give Blaine an invita
tion to attend her State Fair.
Franklin’s primary nominated
Win. R. Little for the Senate, and
Cross McConnell for Sheriff.
Gov, Gordon and all the state
house officers have been unani
mously renominated.
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
and Louisiana, v ere visited by heavy
frisbets and stoirns—doing great dam
age to ciop-. 20th inst.
The bag iu* . img no lit
tle excitement in congress The swind
lers wiil soon tiiid urn hev are not to
have thing t o v
It is said that the swaggering,
boasting manner of Bill Pledger is
fast killmg out every possibility' of
his election.
Rev, Mr. Pickett professes to be
preaclfng for the sake of the souls
of the people. Will he love them
well enough to continue his mis
sionary work after the election?
The Yellow Fever is about check
ed in Jacksonville. Florida seems
to be the only state hurt much by
the disease, so far. Louisiana has
had two cases in New Orleans.
At this period it would seem
time for Congress to adjourn. An
extra session was never called. If
so, the Observer has never seen it
in print. A majority of the house
do nothing more than answer role
call. Yet they receive their pay.
The news of the nomination of
Col. Candler and the harmonious
work of the convention at Gaines
ville, aroused much enthusiasm
among the people of Banks. Many
of them have already expressed a
desire to see Col, Candler again,
and hear him address the people.
The negroes of Athens are hard
at work raising money to pay back
taxes, in order to vote for Pledger,
They have raised nearly a thou
sand dollars. It will take $25,000
to liquidate all the arrearages.
The whites are also badly behind,
but it is fair to presume that they
will pay up better than the darkies.
The editor of the Nashville Demo
crat accuses the editor of the Nashville
American ot contributing SIOO to the
republican fund in the campaign of
1884. To this the editor of the Ameri-
can denouuoes the editor of the'Demo
crat a liar. In reply the Democrat
editor sajs, “he may call me a liar,
bat I think he can’t prove me one. 1 ’
Every democrat in the county is
earnestly requested to work for
Candler, lhis is one of the most
important political years that has
been since the war. The contest
is between the laboring classes of
this country and the millionaires.
Let every one do his duty and vote
for Cleveland and reform, and Al
len Candler for congress.
An earthquake lias been shaking
up the citizens of Maine. On the
14th inst,, one of the most severe
shocks that has ever been felt oc
curred at Winthrop, A report
like heavy canonading shook the 1
earth violently for 30 seconds—
shaking buildings and ratling dish
es and furniture. No serious dam
age is reported. x
Rev. Thad Pickett may be call
ed to preach, but he will not be
called to congress. He took the
wrong start,
Men who go around proclaiming
themselves God’s holy ministers,
commissioned to preach His holy
word, should not essay to use such
position as a stepping-stone to po
litical preferment. Democracy will
not endorse it. The church will not
endorse it.
Several citizens of Atlanta are
sadder and wiser men since Nel
son, the absconding president of
their savings bank, left. It is a
bad policy to put your money in
the hands of emigration agents.
Deadbeat yankees and Canadians
will continue to fleece the people
o' the South as long as they place
confidence in them.
“Th h worM i * all a flenting show,
For man's tlfllus’on given—
There’s no f an honest man here below.
And very few in Heaven ”
The officers of the High Bhoals Cot
tou Factory in Walton county, have
agreed to buy cotton baled in six pine
boards—three to a side.
It will be a grand come off if the
speculators of the bagging trust get
oaught in their own trap—the pine
board takes the place of the bagging
forever and eternal. The farmer oan
manufacture his own bagging in win
ter, or after ‘‘laying-by’' his crop. The
expense will be nothing except his la
bor. This labor is performed when
nothing else is to be done. The farm
er will profit; thereby saving a nice
little sum.
Poor Down-Trodden Ireland!
Ireland needs sympathy. She
needs relief. Her land-renters are
driven to the wall of poverty and
despair; the door of pauperism is
open to them—seemingly their on
ly relief. The enormous rents
from land-holders—protected by
that satanic Tory Government,
have driven the poor Irish farmer
to want and ruin. His only hope
is to flee from the land of his birth
—like the flames of Calcutta come
upon him from the Omnipotent
Ruler.
Over 3,000,000 acres of land lay
uncultivated, owing to the enor
mous rents asked by the holders.
Within one generation Ireland
has depopulated from 8.500,000 to
2,500,000,
Parnell and his followers, in pro-
testing against that cursed govern
ment that has brought this evil,
have been imprisoned, to die like
that patriot Mandeville, behind
the bars of a dark dungeon in a
filthy jail.
When the masses of the English
people get all these facts before
them, they will be compelled to
elect parliamentary representa
tives feho will grant home rule to
Ireland, or take their stand before
the world as the most brutal na
tion of this civilized age, ' The on
ly hope of the Irish rests with the
English masses, the common peo
ple, the workers of the land. There
is nothing to be expected from the
classes, the aristocrats, monopo
lists and landlords who now hold
the reins of power.
Gigantic mail robberies have
been going on in Chicago for over
two years, which the detectives
were unable to ferret out. Over
$1,000,000 were stolen; but the
other day the thieves were overtak
en and some of them arrested. A
trunk wa3 found filled to the top
with letters that had been opened.
In another room, another trunk
full, and in another place, a valise
full, A key was also found that
would open any letter-box in Chi
cago. This key had been made by
an accomplice, and given to a man
named Oberkampf, who, it seems,
was at the head of the mail rob
bing gang.
Mysienon- Murder
New York. Aug 20—A rnvateri
on* murder occurred about 4 o’clock
’.his afiernoon on be staiis leading to
the > uilding on the north side of the
entrance to the Bo klvn bridge. Many
persons were pas-bg by at the time,
and yet the unko <vn mnrdtrer, with
a -evolver in his l and, edged through
the crowd, dropped the revolver about
thirty feet away, and escaped. The
dead man, whose name i also un
known, was shot in the bead so that
his left eye was forced from the socket.
It seerrs that he was sitting on the
Stepß at the time he was shot, and
was probably under tho influence of
liquor. He was instantly killed. There
was nothing on his person to indeatify
him. From descriptions given of the
murderer by a newsboy and a couple
ot newspaper reporters, a printer of
Brooklyn named Bernard Manning
has been arrested on suspicion. Man
ning refuses to talk. He will neither
deny the crime nor confees it.
Terrible if True. •
Broken .Ridge, Col., Aug. 20th, O.
O. Lee left this place Angust 10th for
Silver Plum over the Argentine pass.
He reached the top of the ridge about
dark and missed the road at a very
dangerous place, and by following an
abandoned trail undertook to cros9 a
broken bridge. Missing his footing, he
was precipitated to the bottom of the
valley, twenty five feet. The injuries
sustained were a broken arm and both
lower limbs broken in two places. In
this horrible condition the traveler
remained on the mountain for six days
and six nights, suffering untold torture,
with no food or drink, exposed to the
severe storms which have prevailed for
the entire month. He cried and prayed
for help, but no succor came until six
days, a traveler happened to cross the
range. The helpless man was yet con
scious, but unable to Bpeak. After
giving the sufferer a drink of water,
the rescuer went fifteen miles for as-
sistance, and upon Lis return found
Lee still alive, but ueconscions. He
was carried to a carriage and placed
upon cushions, and the painful journey
to medical aid commenced, bnt before
five miles had been passed he died.
On Snnday a Jersey bull, the prop
erty of Mr. Nathan Johnson of Rock
dale county, was depredating upon I
Mr. William Brooks’ crops, and he un*
dertook to impound him, and was fry
ing to get the animal into his lot
when suddenly and without notice, it
rushed at Mr. Brooke, fatally gating
him. Mr. Brook’s entr*k were torn
out and it is thought ho cannot live.
The Miliedgeville Chronicle saya, a
certain young lady of that city decided
on Sunday night to attend eampmeet
ing at Culverton, Monday, nor de
cieion was suddenly formed and she
had made no preparations for the trip.
Mouday morning she arose, and nnaid
ed, washed, dried, and ironed enough
clothes to last her week, and was ready
to take the nine o’clock train Monday
morning.
Breckinridge’s Bills.
Washington, Aug. 20th, Represent
atire Breckinridge of Arkansas, intro
duced five tariff bills in the house to
day. As stated in the titles, they are
intended to correot certain abuses aris
ing under the present tariff laws, and
Mr. Breckinridge defines these abuses
more closely as growing out ot the sys
tem of trusts. He does not expect that
the general tariff bill will be passed
during this session of congress, and in
troduces these bills in the hope that
congtess may put a check upon trusts
by passing these specific bills reduc
ing the duties on articles in which they
operate. By the terms ot the bills
duties are imposed as follows:
All sugars above No. 13 and not
above No. 16 Dutch standa and in col
or. two aud fifty two hundredths cents
per pound; above 16 and not above
20 Dutch B : andaid, two aud sixty one
buudreths cents per pound; above 20
Dutch standard, two aud seventy-one
buudreths cents per pound. Oral oil,
petroleum or rock oil, crude, refined or
distilled, is made free. Distilled spir
its containing filty per cent. of anhy
drous alcohol, is to pay a duty of nine
ty ceDts per gallon; alcohol containing
four per cent of anhydrous alcohol,
$1.90 per gallon, provided that no
charge of duty shall be construed to
apply to what is known as beverage
whisky. The existing law in relation
to collecting duties upon the ar
ticles of greater or less per cent, of an
hydrous alcohol per gallon than herein
specified shall remain in full foroe and
effect as determined by rates of duties
herein imposed. Cotton seed oil and
cotton seed shall be exempt from dnty.
On and after March 1, next, jnte, jute
butts, gunny, sisal grass, ramie and
China grass are to pay 15 per cent, ad
valorem. Bags and bagging and like
manufactures, not specially enumerat
ed or provided for in existing law, in
cluding bagging for cotton, composed
wholly or in part of jute, gunny cloth,
gunny bags, or other materials, three
eights of one cent, per pound.
The bill introduced in the house by
Representative Anderson of lowa, to
define trustß and to provide for the
punishment of persons connected with
them or carrying them on is the same
bill introduced in the senate last week
by Mr. Reagon.
Sometime ago in Pleasant Talley,
Stewart county, the storehouse of Mr.
Hobbs was burglarized and a negro
man and negro boy were arrested and
tried. The boy was discharged, but
the man was committed to jail in de
fault of bond. Since then another ne
gro has been arrested for the same of
fense, under the following circumstan
ces; ne confided to his wife that he
was the guilty party, and she, good,
honest, upright wife that she is, "let
the cat out of the wallet.”
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The exchanges are all quiet about
the renominating of the state officers.
A. C. MOSS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IIOMBR, GEORGIA.
Collections made and promptly remitted
p. mTedwards,
Attorney at Law,
HOMIB, GEORGIA.
WtF" Will praotice in ail the Courts
of the Western Circuit.
W. L TELFORI) ~
Attorney AT LAW,
Homes. Georgia.
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Maysville, Georeriw..
Will do a general practice,
Collecting a specialty.
James M. Merritt,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
Maysvllle, Georgia,
Dr. A. H. Stapler.
HOMER, GEORGIA.
Special attention givu to Surgery,
Obstetrics and Chronic diseases of long
standing.
V. D. LOCKHART.
PhysiciaN,
Homer, Georgia.
J. "W. Sumpter,
general blacksmithing,
Homer, Georgia, *
and Waggons made
to order. Repairing a Specialty.
Drs. HARDMAN & SHARP,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS,
Harmony, Grove, Ga.
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