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Decatur will shortly be adorned with
a town clock.
Atlanta thieves arc on a boom, and
still a booming.
Dawson has already received forty-
eight new bales of ootton.
There were sixty-five carriages in
Senator Hill’s funeral procession.
A eat fish, weighing fifty pounds,
has been eangbt out of the Etowah
river, near Acworth.
J. H. Polbill. Esq., of Jefferson
county, has been unanimously nomina
ted as State Senator from the 18th
Senatorial district.
According to the census of 1870, the
pcpulatioo of Emanuel county was
6,200 in round numbers; ia 1880 it
was 9,300, an increase of ten per cent,
in len years.
E. C. Wade, Esq., late Collector of
Internal Revenue, has accepted the
appointment of Chief Deputy United
States Marshal for the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
The Eatonton Chronicle is in favor
of Hon. J. C. C. Black, of Angusta,
to fill the place recently made vacant
in the U. S. Senate by the death of
Hon. B. H Hill.
Georgia receives eight of the new
appointments in the Pension offioe:
LenryS. West, R. H. Simmons, E. A.
Wilcox, A. T. Atkinson, C. A. Bealle,
J. Fitzpatrick, A. B. Jones and T. M.
Dent.
Governor Colquitt will fill certain
appointments for Col. Hardeman*
whose health is such as to prevent
him doing so himself. Gov. Colquitt
will speak at Valdosta, Quitman,
Thomasrille and Camilla.
A runaway horse in Atlanta, the
other day, mistook a cigar store, on the
corner of Decatur and Peachtree streets,
for a livery stable, and succeeded in
kicking the show cases to pieces and
otherwise damaging the store furniture.
On the 15th instant, Moses Thomas,
colored, an escaped convict from Put'
nam county, while trying to arrest him,
was shot and killed by the Sheriff of
Greene county the other day. M"ses
refused to be taken, and showed fight.
There are now twenty-five candidates
who have already announced themselves
for different county offices in Scriven.
We derive this information from the
advertising columns of the Telephone.
18 .Scriven county made up of office-
seekers ?
Maj. Joe Morgan, of Atlanta, has
placed in the hands cf an ai chi wet de
signs for a monument to be erected in
that city to the memory of the late Hon.
Ben. Hill. He proposes to organize a
society called the “Ben. Hill Monu
mental Association,” and solicit sub-
s riptionsfrom all parts of the State.
Greenesboro Herald : We heard a
man say the other day that the farmers
, ought to all use cotton seed oil and use
cotton seed meal. He said they haJ
General News Paragraphs•
$5,000 worth of sponge was sold in
Key We»t last week.
There are between 1,500 and 1,800
blind persons in Tennessee.
The average price of corn in Texas
now is thirty cents per bushel.
Collin county, Texas, has shipped
800,000 bushels of grain this season.
Texas puts a tax of $500 a year
upon newsdealers who Bell the Police
Gazette.
3,000 Federal soldiers are buried
in the National cemetery near
Natchez, Miss.
Judge Andrew?, living near Tus-
carville, Fla., has 135 pecan trees livs
ing and doing well.
Virginia has 172 tobacco factories
which consume over 48,000,000
pounds of the weed a year.
The village of Lindenburg, west
Prussia, has been burned, and 200
persons rendered horael ■«.
The National C >tton Planter’s As
sociation will hold their convention
at Little Rock, in October.
Mr. McClintock has 2,500 cocoanut
trees set out on his place, near Key
West, all in a flourishing condition.
A New Hanover county, North
Carolina, truck farmer sold this sea
son from three acres, cantaloupes to
the amount of $1,500.
Mrs. Albert McBride, living in
Cranberry, N. J., lit the fire with
kerosene oil, the can exploded and
her body was burned to a crisp.
A correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle says that the cotton crop
of the State iR largely oyer rated, and
that it wiill be as short as last year.
The first bale of new cotton for
Mississippi was received at New Or
leans on the 19th inst. Just three
weeks later than the first bale in
1881.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE YELLOW
FEVER SUFFERERS.
Washington, August 21.—Acting-
Secretary of the Treasury French to*
day received a telegram frem the
governor of Texas asking that the
government take charge of the hos*
pital and yellow fever patients at
Brownsville, Texas. He replied by
telegram that Surgeon Murray, of
the marine hospital service at Mem
phis, had been ordered to proceed at
once to Brownsyille, via Galveston,
and that the health officer at Browns
ville has been requested to commun
icate with him immediately upon bis
arrival. A revenue cutter will meet
Surgeon Murray at Galveston and
carry him to Brownsville. Dr. Mur
ray will at once take charge of all
hospitals and sanitary arrangements
there. There were thirty-five new
yellow fever cases and two deaths re
ported in Brownsville and seven
deaths at Matamoras to-day. There
are but few new cases. The weather
is showery and sultry.
If you need Billheads, Letterheads,
Notes, Mortgages, or Legal Blanks
bring your work to The Citizen
office, and it will be promptly and
neatly executed at city prices. May 26
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THE TRUE CITIZEN.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
AT WAYNESBORO, CA.
BY THJE-
T. B. OLIVER,
A.T TORNEY A T JL* A W
WAYNESBORO, GA.
Will practice in the Augusta, Eastern and
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middle circuits. Special
Justice Coui t practice.
ion given to
may5,’82.b-y.
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Five men were poisoned near
Fort Worth, Texas, by eating cab
bage that had been boiled in a kettle
in which a centipede had fallen.—
They were all quite sick, but re
covered.
Workmen are busily engaged in
fitting out the monitor Passaic. She
has been lying at the navy yard at
Washington for at number of years
and has a house built upon the deck,
which will be removed.
Galveston, Aug. 19.—The News’
McKinney special says: “Tback
Caldwell was hung yesterday, in the
presence of a vast multitude, for
murdering William Norvall, who re
fused to pay him three dollars.
The health officer of the port of
JNew York complains that several
Southern vessels have passed up to
the city without waiting lor inspec
tion, and intends enforcing quariu-
tine rules to their fullest extent.
A party of pleasure seekers, two men
and two women, while returning
Waynesboro Barber Shop*
At Evans, Thomas <fc Fulcher’s Corner
A. H. 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
shop in town. Clean towels furnished
to each gentleman. Bay Bum and
Hair Tonic FREE. Barbers polite,
and prompt attention to customers.
Give me a call. .Tune9.’82.t*o-o
DENNIS’
Y or Blood Purifier
For working out of the system the
malarial poision that is causing so
much sickness, and will cau^e much
more unless the system is cleansed.
Rev. Henry Walker, the co'ored
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 be was stopped, THE
TRUE CITIZEN says it acts like a
ch: im, but is obliged to send to
Augusta for it. June9.82.too
WmT qelker,
Undertaker,
Independent in All Things,
Neutral In Nothing.
wo shipped cotton, watched it, di earned from a dance were crossing the Man-
about it, slept with it, and had made ituba Railroad, near Anaka, Minn , a
it tlieir king; therefore, they ought to. few days ago, in a buggy, w* re run
into by a passenger train, completely
demolishing the buggy, killing the
four occupants and the horse.
At a fair of the Congregational
church at Palestine, Tcx^s, forty
young women gave an exhibition
drill with fans, showing how graceful
and bewitchingly these articles can
bo used. Then the fans were gold by
auction, the prices depending on the
popularity of its concributor, the
whole profit reaching $350.
London, August 21.—The gov
ernor of Iceland has notified the
ministry at Copenhagen that a fain'
inc is imminent in Iceland, because
of such bad weather for over a year
us compelled the people to kill the
stock they could not support; also
that the measles, which has not been
in Iceland for thirty-six years, has
attacked Keykjarrk and is spreading
over the country.
eat it, drink it, wear it and use nothing
else/
Eatonton Chronicle : While work
ing the road, Mr. Presley and hands
killed sixty-two high land moccasins
and copper-bellies. This number was
found under two ordinary drain bridges
about three feet wide crossing the road.
The snakes measured from 1 to 3 feet
in length. Mr. Presley says that he
has ten more bridges to bear from.
A marietta Republican : At the home
of F. M. Pilcher’s in Schley county, on
Saturday night last a difficulty occur
red between two negro women, Mary
Hunter and Emma Silas. A negro
doctress told Mary Hunter that she
must draw the blood of Emma Silas to
be cured of a disease. So the blood
was drawn at the exponse of the doc-
tress, who was held for a hearing at the
Superior Court of Sohley ccrmty under
A bond of $800.
Waynesboro, Georgia.
Undertaking in all its branches at the
lowest prices. A full stock of Coffins
always on hand and from $5 to $80.
Also, Cheap Coffins made to order
trom $1.50 to $10.
JOHN HAENEL, Agent,
julyl4,’82.b-y. Waynesboro, Ga.
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CARRIAGE, BUGGIES AND WAGONS
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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, and
asks a share of the public patronage. He
makes Horse Shoing a Specialty, and does
his work promptly and well. He has secured
the services of a competent carriage maker and
Wheelright, and is prepared to make your
broken or worn Carriages* Buggies ahd*Wag-
ons as good as new.
tar Prices to suit the times.
ttk, Give him atrial.
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