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State News Paragraphs- 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 Subscribe for The Citizen. 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 1 attest! middle circuits. Special Justice Coui t practice. ion given to may5,’82.b-y. SULLIYAH B R 0 THIR S . ■:©Oo:- 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. BLACKSM1THING IN ALL ITS BRAN D HE S. 0 Horseshoing : O: Specialty. CARRIAGE, BUGGIES AND WAGONS Repaired at Short Notice aud in the-Best Style. : O : Not Pledged to Any Party, Faction, or Individual. -o:0:o- A JOURNAL FOR THE PEOPLE. —o:0:o- J V) ; , • M X l: v •'! v- *■'. i . • • 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 principles of government by the people and for the people—a just, upright and honorable journal. In all these things the CITIZEN hopes not to prove remiss 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 ban 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 ; -o:0:o- Ti 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. apr 14 t-o-o I. O.BYRNS. nun «r strascaamrossi r One copy one year, Cash in advance, “ “ six months “ “ “ “ three months “ “ BdHT* Advertising rates liberal, to be obtained on application. $2 1 s. Address, L. SULLIVAN, Business Manager, WAYNESBORO, GEORGIA. 38S