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Jso\i i rTctjT KU/ST: | Editors. 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.” t 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. g. ~~ 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. 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