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State News Paragraphs-
Plenty of botne-made corn can be
had on the streets of Buena Vista at
$1 per bushel.
Thieves, says the Constitu ion, are
working Atlanta for all it is worth.—
Burglaries and roboeries are of nightly
occurrence, aud nobody seem- to be
r-tfe.
Mr. W. II. McAfee, of Dahlonega,
last week bought Hiat he supposed to
1 e butter, but on examination found
the bulk to be mo-tly of cooked Irish
potatoes. This is a goon year for pota
toes, and a large profi is made in sell
ing. them for butter at 20 cen. b per
pound
Americus Republican: Jere Aius-
ley, of this city, is in the constant use
of a Mexican saddle which he brought
home with him from Mexico when he
was a soldier in the tfar between that
country and the United States. It is
q ite a curiosity, and is valued as a rel
ict of the past.
Atlan a Constitution : The finding
oi a human foot and leg by officer
]<ynoh, Sa urday nigh 1 , in the rear of
Beerntann’s tobacc > store, is still a mys
tery, Sunday dhd yesterday a great
deal of time was devoted to the mys
tery, but with no good result. The limb
appeared to be in a healthy condition,
and why it should have been severed
from the person we would like to know.
By direotion of Chairman Fox, of the
Board of Police Commissioner*, the leg
was buried in Oakland cemetery.
Pike county News: An old darkey
going along the streets a few days ago,
was heard muttering aboat the hard
times now in the country. His mur-
inurings were so sad and mournful as to
be heard by a gentleman who is full of
sympathy for all in trouble. Stopping
him, he asked what was the matter.—
“Well, boss,” said the old darkey, “I
>• topped at Mr. R’s. store while ago,
and sold him 1,000 of the finest pota-
ttie draws I could find in my bed, at
15 cents, and he had the cheek to want
nv' to insure potatoes as big as a gallon
jug to come from them ; shorely, boss,
bard times have struck him with the
force of a cycoon.”
Ac extraordinary trial is going on at
Douglasville, Douglas county, in the
case of the State vs. Willis Bagwell
and his two sons, for the murder of
Mary Bagwell, the daughter of Willis
and the sister of the other two defend
ants. In digging out the debris which
had collected in an old mining shaft near
Villa Ric* a few months back, the
workmen came upon the skeleton of a
woman and infant, which were identifb d
by means of a breast-pin, and such
other parts of the woman’s dress which
had r- sistei decay, as the remains of
Bagwe'l’s daughter and her illegitimate
child. T..c father and brothers were
thereupon suspected of throwing the wo
man and infant into the shaft. They
were lodged in jail, and the grand jury
lately found a true bill against them.
General News Paragraphs•
Crops in southern Mississippi are
good.
Baltimore prohibits the sale of toy
pistols.
Dallas, Texas, is threatened with a
water famine.
The public debt was reduce $14,-
000,000 in July.
Hog nholera is very bad in some
parts of Alabama.
A colony of Swedes have settled
near Mammoth cave.
President Arthur has vetoed the
river and harbor bill.
Lexington, Kentucky, has shipped
125,000 bushels of wheat this season
A p- ir of coach horses sold in Lex
ington, Kentucky, a few days ago for
$1,500.
There were 435 arrests made by
the police of Nashville, Tenn., during
last month.
The honey crop of H. P. Graddick,
of Orange county, Florida, is eight
hundred pounds.
The girls of Tampa, Florida, are
adepts in the art of r >wing, and most
of them can swim like fi-h.
Col. Hugh S. Thompson has been
nominated by the Democrats for
Governor of South Carolina.
It is said that there are spots with.-,
in fifty miles cf Raleigh, N. C., where
nojrain has fallen for weeks.
A vein of silver thirty miles long
has been discovered in the eastern
portion of Minard county, Texas.
An official report from Cedar Keys,
Florida, says the dengue fever has
made its appearance, an is now epi
demic.
A disease similar to spinal menin
gitis in the human family has killed
a number of horses in New Iberia
parish, Louisiana.
Mr. W. R. Johnson, of L<’e county,
Alabama, made this year $1,500
worth of oats on the same land that
produced $365 worth of cotton last
year. Let our farmers cut this out
and paste in their bats.
Travelers with baggage are now
allowed one hundred and fifty pounds
on lull fare tickets and seventy-five
pounds on half fare tickets on the
railroads. All over the above named
weights will be turned over to the
express company and express rates
charged fort lie same.
Commissions have been i-suel to
the following Ge >rgia Postmaster®:
Solomon Mobley, Okefinokee ; S. M.
Perkit s. Perkins’ Junction ; J. F.
Water.-, Sylvester; W. A. Dodgen,
Cicada, and B. W. Daniel, Aucilla.—
A new post office has been establish
ed at Harvilie, Bulloch county, with
special service from Areola.
During the spring and summer
Gainesville ships daily 2,700, or 16,-
200 chickens, and 6,000 dozen eggs
per week. The Atlanta market is prin
cipally supplied from Gainesville, while
other cities receive large shipments.
Crawfordville Democrat: Eggs are
worth eight cents in this market. We
have not seen them so plentiful in many
years. [Here they are scarce and high.]
THE TRUE CITIZEN.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
AT WAYNESBORO. CA.
Subscriptions are positively casid
John L.
Ashton,
Attorney
at L, a w,
WAYNESBORO, GA.
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Constantly on hand,
House.
mayl9,’82.t-f.
Whole ale and Retail,
at the Waynesboro Ice
C. E. SCHERER,
Proprietor.
T. D. OLIVER,
A. T r r O XX JV E Y
WAYNESBORO, GA
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SULLIVAN BROTHERS.
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Will practice in the Augusta, Eastern and
middle circuits. Special attention (riven to
Justice Court practice. inay5,’82.b-y.
Waynesboro Barber Shop*
At Evans, Thomas & Fulcher’s Corner
A. M. WILLIAMS,
TONSORIAL ARTIST ON HUMAN HAIR.
Shaving and Hair-cutting in the latest
style. Whiskers Dyed and Hair
Shampooed in the most artistic man
ner. We have tne only first-class
shoo in town. Clean towels furnished
to each gentleman. Bay Rum and
Hair Tonic FREE. Barbers polite,
and prompt attention to customers.
Give me a call. ,Tune9.’82.t-o-o
A negro man, engaged on the pub
lic r.»ad some miles distant from Mil
ton, Florida, came to town and pro
cured a jug of whisky, and set out on
his return t > camp, and becoming
too drunk to proceed, fell by the
wayside in a svvatnpy section of the
read, where he was besieged and lit
erally cove r ed with mosquitoes, and
when found lie was dead. Sucked
to death by Florida gahinipptr®.
DENNIS’
Y or Blood Purifier
For working out of the system the
malarial poision that is causing so-
much sickness, and will cause much
more unless the system is cleansed.
Rev. Henry Walker, the colored
preacher, having authority given him
in the Gospel, Luke 9:1, cured and
prevented a large amount of sickness
and saved expenses in his churches
with it until he was stopped, THE
TRUE CITIZEN says it acts like a
chiim, but is obliged to send to
Aueusta for it. June9. 82.too
,WM YOELKER,
Undertaker*
~ Memphis. August 1.—A. E. Sholes,
Dalton Citizen : We learn of a trag-, .... „ .
. . . , ,, the publisher of the Memphis*city
ecv that was enacted in the upper end
of this county, last week, which is un
paralleled for brutality and fienishness.
A negro, whose name we failed to learn,
appeared in the neighborhood with the
small poi. When it became known,
the ciiizens of that section quarantined
him in a cabin isolated from other
houses, and warned him there to re-
nain until the disease had subsided,
lie patient then being iu a state of con-
descence. But when the negroes at‘
rk on the Red Clay and Ooltewah
lection, now in progress of constuc-
, learned that a case of small pox
Waynesboro, Georgia.
Undertaking in all its branches at the
lowest prices. A full Stock of Coffins
Independent in All Things,
Neutral In Nothing.
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Not Pledged to Any Party,
Faction, or Individual.
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A JOURNAL FOR THE PEOPLE.
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always on hand and from $5 to $80. .principles of government by the people and for the people—a just, upright
Also, Cheap Coffins made to order
trom $1.5?) to $10.
JOHN HAENEL, Agent,
julyl4,’82.b-v. Waynesboro, Ga.
directory, was arrested this afternoon
on a warrant charging him with
libel. The complainant is C. F.«
Wc»th'*rbee, formerly in the employ
ofSholes, hut wh«> is getting out a
directory of his own. Sholes the
other day published and distribut'd
a circular warning the public agains*
Weatherbcc, and stating he had been
discharged from his (Sholes’s) cm-
p'oyinent for unreliability. Hence
the arrest.
St. Louis, July 31.—On the 7t.h of
the month Guy Smith, the 12 year old
BLACKSMITHING
IN ALL ITS
BHANG HE S.
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Devoted to the interests of the people of Burke county, their in
struction, entertainment and advancement—a faithful and impartial
chronicler of all Burke county happenings—a fair recorder of all import
ant events elsewhere occurring—a sturdy advocate of correct Jeffersonian
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near by, several lawless and heart- ■ son of Milton G. Smith, living near
undrels, fearing a spread of the
*e, armed themselves a few nights
roceeded to the patient’s cab-
bo lay in bed shot him
low, tired the h use,
ed
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS
Repaired at Short Notice aud in the Best Style.
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Kirkwo i«l,.quarreled with hi* broth
er Louis, Vd hi? fither gave them
both a whipping. Guv gut a shot
gun. r turned t>> the kiiclnui where
his iailo r was mi einriti"d one barrel
tho poor victim. | ol the gup into his h-dy, i<.Dieting n
de their escape.— | wound from which he died in a few
vo bspn issued; lmur*. Gay'was arrested an
n- ’ for murder, and on Su unlay wa
e par-, fouMi guiti.y He will probably b
iCO'I to dea
T.
HE undersigned begs leave to inlorm
the public that he is prepared to do black-
smithing in all its branches, at his shop,
opposite Mr. S. A. Gray’s Stables, ai:d
asks a share of the public patronage. He
makes Horse Shoing a Specialty, and does
his-work promptly and well, lie has se®red
the services of a competent carriage maker and
hero is no c
. j Wheelright, and is prepared to make your
11 *' 1 broken or worn Carriages’ Buggies and Wag-
is as good as new.
I-iff Prices to suit the limes.
l>j5U t live him a trial.
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mid honorable journal.
In all these things the GlTIZEN hopes not to prove retniss in its
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 call promise that the man
agement will do its duty, and if the public will do theirs, it will pr. ve «n
immense power for good in the community
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