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■' *<4 INDISTINCT COPY Slate News. Paragraphs- pia’es for a ight Crawfordville wat;-h. The small-pox. to in Atlanta, almost epidemic Had worms are inj.iriiig th< corn in H uncock county. General News Paragraphs- Washington, L>. C., May 16.—The news from Senator IiiTt this morn ing is very gloomy. Somebody writes to the Philadel phia Times asking the best mode of learning journali-m. He is evident ly a Georgia Bourbon editor. Honey is plentiful around Lexington A Nt>w Yo rk letter says: The land ai 15 cents per pound.... i on which the Drexel bui'ding stands cost its present owners at the rate of the 1 far'well Cun has been feasting! on strawberries li inches in diameter. A. snake was hillnl in the parlor of Mr. J VV. Farm r, of (Jraw.ordville, tlu other day. Goner..! Gordon was accompanied by l.iv family on his- European tour. They flailed last Monday. > f Mr J, S; Herrington and Miss 4'an ie Odom w<*r« married in Scriven «■' nnty on the 2d inst. fcff. Red.fini; J-’ims, of Washington, ha* f dder in his barn that has been I ho re tor twenty years. Prospects for wheat on the line of Gwinnett, Mi’ton, L'obb and Paulding a.« hotter than since 1857. i Sylv nia Telephone : The ten thous and djtl ai liquor law for this county wen! mt-- effect on ihe Is* inst. fhe highest; Ra'afy drawn by any ; o**t master ( •V-eirgia is #3 001). 'I bis is paul 4 fnv tVintcy in Atlanta. Ins*; Krday morning t c track of Renouncing the World. Social circles have hceu strongly moved since Friday last by the an- nouncenmet that Miss Emily McTav- ft J ish had enter* d the convertatMount de Sales to became a sister of the Vis itation. It liad been thought until the last moment that V1 iss McTavish would leave for New York on Friday last, with h<-r mother and sisters. Thu rest of the family departed. The young lady, after mature considera tion and careful considered advic« from her spiritual friend*, determin- Fort Smith, Ark.,- May 16.—The I fid thtit she should remain, and that nuuib'T ol people killed and wounded ! hereafter her life was to be devoted ,000.4300 per acre. THE TRUE CITIZEN. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, AT WAYNESBORO; G A. by tiie recent cyclone at McAlister, Indian Territory, sums up 120. Beri in, May 16.—The betrothel of the Princes Beatrice will, it is said, soon be announced with Prince Fred erick Wildam, son of the Landgrave of Hesse. to tho Church. Instead of taking the train fur New York for the unial season of enjoyment, in Europe where she had been again and again before, on the gay Gen. Grant was sixty-five years old last Thursday, May 4th. He will goon be rijo enough for another term, or another D. H. cruise, we are not certain which. In New Orleans they calaboose the editors just f »r contempt of court, yet titer are some people who think that an editor’s chair is a seat of roses without any pins in it. Montgomery Advertiser: During the mont: of April 5,520 boxes of strawberries were shipped by express from this city to Nashville; 4,472 were shipped to Louisville; and 5,- . .. i ... ”, . , , „| 020 to Cincinnati, making an aggre- fU ( oorgU Pacific ratomed tlie end of i e+r c * „ , I gate of 15,012 b>r the month, ilit tinnier,, mile going westward. | Fiyo or : ix hundred d liars have ‘ t o subscribed towar I bo ing an ar- siar. wi ! on the sqn .re- in VV ashing- ii. . . . . • .... i'iu. library .beh‘n ting . the ITni- v *r* i "y of Georgia how contains 15*000 Gieetings • hmwtf, white new ' works are b.iu <• (^foully add d. The Episcopal church of Illinois has taken an advanced position on tin* question of woman suffrage in tiie church. It )»as in diocesan oon- v> uiii*n adopted a cannon allowing women to vote at general parish dialer the educational bill repored Washington, D. C., May 15.— Jud ge Cunningham is back from JNew York and expects to leave for com 'll I he house, GeorgiV* quo a for her j th ' 1 South to-night He feels -4’> < 0fi4) i literate vo ere will be nearly j f°rt»b!e regarding the judgship. The Tb 00d j«cr annum. nomin'uion was up in the Cabinet 4r. VV. A Huff, of the Markham \ one, At'.'ioU baa leased for a term < J > oar,- ?ho popular Rummer reso.t, the I ’t-w Ho land Bp rings, of Atlanta,. tv ol HMkn-ip- Hhiith of Wilkes'coun- fun a o t'fitfb or nix’ hundred dollars she '‘turned her back on the world and renounced till its pomps and vanities.” Mi<s McTavidi’s fund- ily are descended from some of the most prominent people of this coun try, nnd their relatives are closeiy connected by relationship with a number of the great families of Eng land. Through the Cantons they are very closely related to three noble houses, and Gen. Winfield Scott was the grandfather of the children of the present generation. The step taken was to many friends a sudden one, hut it had been long considered For years past Mi-s McTavish had been remarked among those of he? religion as one exemplary pious. Wealthy, of the best family, exceedingly hand- 8"nie, graceful, well educated, well read, appreciative of the pleasures and healthfulness of out-of-door sports—the spirited dash after the hounds across the country, for in stance —what the ou side world calls a sacrifice is marked widi greater • mpli'isis. ! he peace, of the cloister it had hem decided, L preferable to wonb’rs of the wur! ; . The no.idate is three months induration. When tiie final vows are token the work entered into is for life. It is largely educational. The Sisters at Mount de Sales have patiently trained and taught many and many a one who look back to them with thanks to what Las proved a blessing of years. Mount de Sains in a noble building, located upon an eminence on th** Fred erick road,,with a fine for St beyond it, and ii spread * f farm land about, well ca r nd for and most attractive.— Baltimore American. -BY THE- .SULLIVAN BRO TERRS. -:oOo: to-day, and it is possible a nomina tion will be sent in this afternoon. Senator Brown, who arrived yes • terdsv, will make a strong effort f*>r McCav with Mr. Brewster nnd the President. Wasjunton, D. C., May 13—Mr?. 'The III a ii and Alligator. Ameri' us Republican. ‘‘A few nights ago a Dooly county farmer, whose place is on the river, was walking around near his stock yard when he heard ;i squealing among ids hogs. He looked over the fence to learn tho cause, when lie found a lar Independent in All Things, Neutral 1st Nothiiwl -o:0:o Not Pledged to Any Party, Faction, or Individual, -o:0:o- ,, , * 4. i *i „:n ,,„,i a;,,. _ ’ 7 i learn me cause, when no round a Jar e 1 ' h ' it v'v ’ * 1 , ^'T^ant Mason, sans tiie htiby, but ; a ,l,gator had .a dead hog, v/IAh it. had li .0 . -e, l nt va, States tumi atlinla- f ,( companied bv a friend, was grant- killed, and was trying to m ike its way Ut H/tiiii dr. Anderson # Whitmire, who was i'.umng Mr TnrreiPs steaan mw mill, n .lackwoti o«»4i»4y, fell perovi Uie saw, ; oil »>tts flawed completely in two, last »' fd y. ”■*' ' ihe find tiah: (rf Georgia cotton cvci t.: ip; cd over the Georgia l’acifierailr ad iNas bought in Atlanta on the ihh in-t. i'y.S. 'VI. inman & to., at bl cents } < ,pound. , , e< t «n interview yesterday. She made an effecting appeal to tiie President for Executive interposition in her husband’s behalf. The President ns- towards the river, lie ran to the hou e for his gun, and called to several oi his hands to go with him to kill the alliga tor. On arriving at the lot tiie hogs | had disappeared, and so had the Mater sured Mrs. Mason that he had the j monster. Ihey followed i i the riv$r case under advisement, but g«ve no! ^ an ^» au ^> instead <d alligator tracks. indication how or when he should j those of two persons who , „r I hud the skin of an alii. a'< r, ard had act. The probabilities are that. Ms-; uge{ j j t to son will be pardoned after Gui'eau is hanged. A JOURNAL FOR THE POPL — o:0:o- Paksons, Kan., M;ty 10—A terri ble cyclone passed over McAlister, a Cel. U. [). Jones, o’’ Augusta, is mak-j mining settlement in the Indian Ter b p peed he.adway with his History of! ti’ory, Monday. Seven people were killed outright, and four fatally, eleven dangerously and 39 more or less hurt. Ffty-eight houses were totally demolished and thirty others badly wrecked. The cyclone cut a path through the timber ^u*t as a svthe would mow through gras*. Damage to the Osage Coal Mining Co. was very great. The population of the settlement is only 800. The suf- f> ring caused by the visitation is vt ry serious. « etirgia. The first volume is about. <:uly for the press 'l he entire work will be comprised io three volumes Thc-a. fVl Hiudehur.st, Joseph .). Ar id , and Wtn. A. Taylor have been ap pointed as n committee, by the Grand ur v •ol .8criveo,/to investiga e the sale <1 intoxicating liquors upon the steam- boa's plying theSM«nnah river. I )ne day lout week the Savannah. .1* it ridaand Western railway had among u it ticiptfl 18 hales of cotton, 41 car ttJVls of lusnher, 1 car load of bacon , » , 1.3 )8 baryels of naval stores, 566 bnr- n .'i* /A oota.toes^, 33 barrels and S95 b. yea vegetables. < CrawloRlriHe Democrat: Col. Sam UbufCDAt, 1 Wvlbg near Crawfordville, li Irh u* qf & curiosity. A swarm of Gu ta lure tt^fcen up'their abode in one i f the, olunnejt* of hi The attorneys of Guitcau are con- stuntly asserting that “ifGuileau had killed an ordinary man there would have been no such vindictive prose cutions.’’ In answer to this the pub lic takos notice that the killers of many “ordinary men” have swung from the gallows for crimes commit ted long since the assassination of the president, nnd yet. after ten months i residence, andi(; u j^, uU holds his levees and pockets Idfre i black j m ot,ev, nnd talks boastfully to the T Mtk jii eavewd wiih juicy honey, and | public from his comfortable quarters S thousand dolUrs for it. It is daily 1 b—perfectin W ssliington. ^ • visited by hundreds. Devoted to the interests of the people of Burke county, their struction, entertainment and advancement—a laithful and imparii; accomplish the pm-pose ot j chronicler of all Burke county happenings—a fair recorder of all importl stealing hogs and making the cwner, j iin t events elsewhere occurring—a sturdy advocate of correct Jeffersoniar ii he should discover them believe it! principles of government by the people and for the people—a just, uprigh was an alligator, l'he rowing of a and honorable journal, boat down the river con Id be distinctly heard, but there was no hing to pursue in, so the matter was dropped until a better opportunity was offered for catching up with the perpetrators. In all these things the UlTIZEN hopes hot to prove remise in ite . I duty—it is a public institution, and every subscriber and patron is’ a stockholder— the Publishers are merely their agents, and their duties and responsibilities are reciprocal—we think we can promise that the man agement will do its duty, and if the public, will do theirs, it will prove an immense power for good in the community A Child Eiepitaul. Montezuma Weekly. We have been to the home of a color ed mother on one ot our hack streets, and found a remarkable monstrosity in a week old babe, fi is partly envelop ed in mi elephant’s skin, and could no be told from the bide of this animal un less seen on the child. It has a thick, rough, s ia!y cxtexrior, covered with : just enough long hair to easily discern j it. The child Ims a long, pendant oni on that side of the head covered by this skin ; wo view it as a fac simile of the ear of a baby elephant. This sk n One copy one year, Cash i preludes a quarter of an inch above the I “ ‘W g i x months natural skin of the child. Its cries are " three months low and plaintive like an animal, not a lrumau being. The mother states that she attended a circus last fall, was ? frightened by the elephants, and rc- j gardsihisas the cause of the child’s] strange deformity. The child, or ^ii- I nial, us it umy turn out to be, is large | and healthy, and scorns likely to live. . What a curiosity if it should live. One of our citizens has offered die mother a -o:0:o- TEBStS OF SUBS- advance, I Advertising rates! Address, S, L. jeriil, to be obtain' d on applieatioi UV.iM Business Man a AYNESBORO