"Weekly Journal", Homer, Banks County, Georgia
Issue date Thursday, October 3, 1889
Front Page:
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The cigarette bill that became law the 17th, prohibits the
sale of any tobacco that will bear wrapping as a substitute for cigarette
smoking for minors; it also excludes cigarette paper.
The duelists, Calhoun and Williamson, have been arrested
and appear before Gov. Seay of Alabama, this week. The laws of that state make dueling a penetentiary offense. What disposition Gov. Seay will make of the
Georgia duelists is hard to tell.
The mails seem to have been crooked last week. On Monday we received three of the daily Constitution,
besides several other papers and other important mail matter, which had been
mislaid, doubtless, somewhere on the railroads. But as long as the republican party insists
on putting irresponsible negroes in position, we need not expect anything
better. It is an insult to the wealth,
intelligence and virtue of our people, but we must stand it.
The people are beginning to receive the vengeance of republicanism.
The race troubles now boiling up all over the South are nothing more
than the legitimate fruits of republican victory.
From the day that Harrison was elected, negro insolence and brutality
began to assert itself; and now Mr. Grady of the Constitution, boldly asserts
that the races are in a strained relation to each other.
Let the white people of our section stand firm to their rights, but let them at the same time accord to the colored
race equal and exact justice. We are
glad to see that the colored people are trying to behave themselves; that
they eschew politics and attend to their own affairs. If they continue to do so there will be no
cause for alarm.
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BANKS' PROPERTY.
The amount of property returned for taxation in Banks County
for the present year has decreased over $36,000. A man with half an eye can see that there is
something wrong in this matter-something radically wrong. It is a fact known to every man who will take
the time to look around a little, that our people are in a more prosperous
condition than they have been in any time since the war. New farms are being opened everywhere, new
machinery out in operation, new residences built, and in fact, everything
points to the prediction that we are gaining more and more wealth and property.________,
lands are advancing in value, and still there is a decreased showing on the
tax books, while the value is increasing, the taxable property of the county
will reach $1,500,000. (Note-Poor copy)
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COGGINS AND MT. BETHEL
On Monday last the bill to prohibit the sale of liquor within
three miles of Mt. Bethel church was defeated in the house of representatives;
Mr. Coggins opposing the bill. On Tuesday, Mr. Foute of Bartow, moved a reconsideration, the bill
having already passed the senate. Mr.
Foute declared that the bill had been defeated by a thin vote, and that the
reasons for the passage should be known. Mr. Tuck, of Clarke, also favored a reconsideration for the same
reasons, and declared that he has proofs locked up in his desk, why the bill
should become a law. Then came Mr.
Coggins and opposed a reconsideration. He
said he was the representative from Banks, and knew what they wanted; that
he would be responsible to them, and
knew they would sustain him; that he was opposed to the passage of this bill
because the people of that district did not want it.
Mr. Candler of DeKalb, said that, in this instance, he should oppose
the wishes of the representation from Banks.
The church had stood there for fifty years, and now comes a bar keeper
and sets up a saloon near the church. The
bill did not seek to put liquor out of Banks county, but to put it away from
this church and the academy. He considered
it a duty to vote for the bill. Mr. Coggins replied that he had introduced six bills of this kind
for Banks county, but in this case he had in his possession a petition signed
by 123 people within radius of three miles of the church, opposing the bill.
He asked the house to vote down the motion to reconsider, but they
refused by a vote of 59 to 57.
Transcribed 2005 by Jacqueline King