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Lexington, Ga., Ft' ..y 1 S March 12th.
COUNTY GOSSIP.
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A Kaleidoscope Filled with the Sayilifts*
Ilappetiiiifts and Doinfts in this County*
■Turned by the Engine of the Echo. As Oar
Reporters Find the New*.
... .Cyclone season.
.. .Cold# still rage.
.... We feast on shad.
.. .It’s planting time.
... Seed corn wanted.
... .More money afloat.
... .Bright nights again.
... .Flowers are in bloom.
. .. .March winds in season.
.. .Our jail remains empty.
... .In the midst of farm work.
... .Our tanyard should be run.
_____Some spring showers Tuesday.
... .March is borrowing from April.
....Exceedingly dry for the season.
.....This is the hard month on cattle.
... .Spring oats tip and looking well.
.. .There’s a scarcity of small change.
... .Spring road workings are in order.
... .Freights are heavy on this branch.
_____No great number of guano haulers.
___,J. M. Paul has onion sets for sale.
... .Gardens begin to look like gardens.
... Not as much terracing this spring
•as last.
... No complaint from fanners of being
behind.
.. .Gentle Annie keeps on her woolen
clothes.
... .Peach and plum trees have blossom¬
ed in places.
,.. .Several of the Court-house hands are
learning to skate.
... .Mrs. Upson is having some repairs
-done to her residence.
... .Ouly four young lady members of
the skating rink now.
... .There is an epidemic of influenza
over the entire county.
- ____Our stores are beginning to show the
signs of coming spring.
,.. .None of our merchants will go on
after goods this season.
... .Jonquills are in bloom and yellow
bouquets are in vogue.
....Oglethorpe's granite is getting a
world-wide reputation.
... .The Plumbago mines in this county
are being inquired into.
... .Our rural friends are too busy to
bring any news to town.
.....Athens has greater at! raetiveness for
several of our young men.
... That store on the.burnt osrner lifts
not died a premature death.
....We only have sufficient showers to
make the ground plow well.
. .. .The clever Gray Little. Crawford, is
selling worlds of garden seed.
... .Greene and Elbert courts have at¬
tracted our lawyers this week.
... .Gentle Annie has had pretty much
her own way for the past week.
... .Never was there such a general, epi¬
demic of bad colds in this section.
... Miss Nella Moss returned from her
visit to Alabama last Friday eight.
.. .If there is anything in late bloom¬
ing, we’ll feast on fruit this summer.
... .Poster has decided to pay the town
■tax and continue to run his pool table.
. ...Mocking birds are adding their
charming songs to the signs of spring.
... .A small move in a quiet way is be¬
ing made to open our granite quarries.
... .Ere long the lovely maiden will don
the lovely white and trip to the picnic.
...The Washington iiioniiiiierit nt Au¬
gusta was cut. from 'Gglet-horpegrarite.
... .The town council re used to reduce
The license upon pool and billiard tables.
... .Lexington's voting ladies are being
made more precious because of thcirsearci
tv.
.. .There is great, interest taken in the
library at present by the ladies of Lexing¬
ton.
.. We regret very much to see Mr.
Will Stewart quite feeble for Che past ten
days. .Edwards’ und planter
... corn pe& eon
tinues to draw forth the admiration of far
triers.
... .Rough Lester declares Elbert county
the garden spot of the globe. His heart is
there. %
... .Miss Maggie Knox went to Elfbrt
■county Monday to again take charge of a
•school.
... .It is against the law to hunt birds
•or other game after the fifteenth of this
month.
.. . .Torn Crawford and Will Dead wyler
Wise-ly made a visit to the flatwoods Sun¬
day last.
... .One of Poyner & foundered Arnold’s fine hack
•torses has been badly for the
|j*i*t " week
. Mr. Crit McMahan did not fall deep
enough in love with the land of flowers to
move there.
... .Our people talk of giving a big
beeue when the corner stone of the coutt
liouse is laid.
.. .The whites of the Glade district are
disposed to Jet the negroes ernmigrate if
thej want to.
... .Major Roane ha# been in . Lexington .
most of tlie past week w.th a drove of
-cellent mute^.
... .Two of Lexington’s c.tizens will
it Augusta to-morrow on important business
for the town
___Miss Claude Thompson is spending
this week at home recuperating from her
recent illness.
... .Samples of our granite have been
■forwarded to Chicago, Savannah and Au
gusta thi# week.
... .There is already thirty-five hundred
dollars in the treasury to the credit of the
new court-house.
____Mr. M. A. Pharr, Sr., of Washing
ton. has been visiting his daughters here
for the past ten days.
... .Sheriff Maxwell will begin in a few
d-.vs to srather in some timber for our Su
the roof of the Iloanc House.
. . A. 4 R JV. Robertson n VC.L.GH Athens has lias piaceu nlaced
a nand-ome slab over the grave of the late
-J. H. Me\4 horter, near Maxeys.
... .The authorities have given the Ath
ens branch a new and neater smoking car
for which our people feel grateful.
... Her many friends will sorelv regret
to ’ know that Miss Jo? Marv Sanders will nroh P & '
'* '- V j? V 8 ; 1 ,e 5 *:?■•.
Fascinating T Miss ... Alice Smith vtsited
..
....Capt. Hutchens, of the Athens
branch, has been siek for the past week and
the accommodating J. M. Wages has filled
P g?'
.Clever Tun Tobe Clark, w from « Mercer T L - m
...
verity, Macon, spent several days lu. t
week with relatives in this vicinity, return
ins Monday. '*
Impistved Implements.
Farmers of this county seem 16 have all
of a sudden taken to improved labor-sav¬
ing implements on the farm. At almost
every store in town some kind of a corn
or cotton planter is kept for sale, and we
constantly see them being hauled away by
our farmer friends. This is no bad move
towards progress.
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Another I-taai.
In order that nobody will be damaged by
ditching off the frog ponds on Town creek,
it is now proposed that the county sell its
present pauper farm and buy in its stead
the one embracing the lands through which
the ditches must run. This would prevent
any trouble besides getting a better county
farm in a much more convenient place.
We favor the project.
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Will go to Gainesville.
Dr. W. \V. Burekhalter, a recent grad¬
uate of the Atlanta medical college, was
in town the other day shaking hands with
his many friends. He bad about decided
to locate in Gainesville for the practice of
his profession. lie is a young man of un¬
usual promise and any community is lucky
to get him. We had hoped he would stay
among us, but wish him success wherever
he may go.
Once in Oglef itorpe.
The Mr. John Coffee, who killed Depu¬
ty TJ. S. Marshal Merritt, at Lula, Ga.,
last Saturday night, and for whom a thou¬
sand dollar reward is offered, kept Mr. W.
I. Tuck's bar, above Crawford, for several
months last year. It is thought he passed
through the county the first of the we»k
with some apple wagons, but this is not
definitely known. Sheriff Maxwell has his
eyes open for him.
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Will Plum Heavily.
We have recently talked with farmers
from every part of the county and the gen¬
eral report is that more corn will be plant¬
ed this season than ever before. And most
of them say they have taken advantage of
the good seasons and prepared the ground
with especial care. Some corn has already
been planted, which we fear is a little too
early. There will not, in all probability,
be too much of the cereal grown.
A Knilroiid.
Whenever we mention a railroad to Lex¬
ington we lay ourselves liable to jest from
the unenterprising and miserly, but we are
never loth to advocate the scheme. Just
now there is a move on foot which looks
more like being a success than has been
any in the past., but we are not allowed to
give the particulars. In the meantime we
are willing to receive the sneering jests of
these croakers, most of whom live right
here in the town to be benefitted.
Sir. Latimer Moves.
Tuesday this entire community was sad¬
dened to bid farewell to Mr. R. G. Lati¬
mer and family. On that day they moved
to Athens, to live on Lumpkin street, near
the college campus, Mr. L. to lake charge
of the postoffie.e as soon as he gets settled.
Never has Lexington hated to give up a
f&auly more, for it was one without an en¬
emy but carrying the highest regards of
every citizen. They carry with them the
very best wishes of tlie entire county.
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A Good SuK««.‘*lioi».
Editor Echo: Please allow me a small
space in your valuable paper to make a sug¬
gestion lo the builder and building com¬
mittee of the new couvt-house, and to the
survivors of the old companies that were in
the i'ette civil war from this county. It is
that a muster role of each of the volunteer
companies and that of the militia, together
with a short history of the same, bo placed
in the corner-stone of the new court-house
for preservation. Q. of E. A.
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A Missinniai.v Quilt.
A'Committee of Lexington ladies were
out Monday canvassing for a missionary
quilt. Maybe, readers, you don’t know
exactly what a missionary quilt is; we ad¬
mit we don’t. We suppose, though, ladies
make squares enough for it, then the boys
and men pay ten cents each to have their
names worked on it, and it is sold and the
money sent to build a school for the little
heathen Chinee. We were honored with
the use of our name twice to the tune of
twenty cents.
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Onr Slew S*<>stnl Koalca.
The death of Congressman Reese’s father
and sickness in his immediate family has
kept him at home forseveral weeks recently
so that he could not look afler the two new
postal routes which he has promised to get
for this county and of which we have made
mention. We hope that he will, upon his
retllrn * 0 Washington, ~ give ° the matter his
«otire attention. He could not please a
lar 8 e number of his constituency more than
to cause these mail routes and new postof
flees to be established,
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A ItimawHy Couple.
On Thursday last just after the Echo had
gone to press, Lexington was treated to a
little excitement. It was a runaway mar
ri age coupie. The groom Mr. Lewis Sax
had gWleB hjs ® bride-to-be from
“ ho "'’ atld homed to Lexington to find „ ,
*-“® Ordinary and Justice of the Peace,
This he did and at the residence of Justice
W. B. Lester Mr. Lewis Saxon and Miss
Mary Johnson were married. We hope
that they may in all the future find less
troubled seas over which to sail.
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Raiberi in Lrxlairtoii.
The United States Consul General to
Cairo, Egypt, was partlv raised in Lexing
to, . „ V John T Cardwell /. » it • m h« - nnma n«ne. and i t his
father once owned a larger portion of the
property around town and yet the title to
some of it still rests in the family. When
o
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Lester, of this place, is now in correspond
« nce with hiln WIth a view t0 getting ap
p^intment under him in this far-away . land, ,
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Last Monday our town was tnrown lnw :
excitement over the cry of fire. It was ;
found to be a negro house in Mr. J. R. j
Cheney r-u • s yard . at the old m Deupree ti.„,™ P laee
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which was totally destroyed with its entire 1
Luckily the wind blew the
flames and spark# direct.y from the dwell
ing or that would, in all probability have ;
been burned too. The loss was very heavy
upon the occupants, but liberal contribu
tions from our people supplied tbeir imnie
’ The A fire originated h bv ' a cat
catching fire . and running in some bed- 1 ,
d thin".
A WEEK’S RECORD
Of die Work Done on flic Square. TIicFoun
dation BernLaid, the Brick Yard Opened,
anti all the Work Moving along Nicely.
Since last Friday there has been some
little change in the work being done on the
square. Previous to that time the old
court-house was being worked upon, ex¬
cept the stone-cuttuig. but on that day,
work was commenced on the new. The
grading and tearing away of the old foun¬
dation was finished Friday evening and
immediately the laying off of the founda¬
tion for the new structure was begun. This
was no small job, for if a mistake of only
an inch had been made at any one of the
corners it wou'd have affected the entire
building. Messrs. Bondurant and McCur¬
dy knew their business, however, and Sat¬
urday evening found the square a net-work
of strings and a conglomeration of stobs
and planks. As soon as the first correct line
was made hands began digging the trench¬
es to receive the foundation stone. These
are about three feet across and of a depth
sufficient, to reach the clay at all places.
Clay was not far away and their average
depth is not over two feet. By Monday
night they were open sufficiently and the
Armistead Bros., who have the laying of
the foundation in charge, began early Tues¬
day morning to place the large stones upon
which the building is to rest. In these
ditches only rough rock is used, coming
nearly to the top of them. On these will
be put quarried rock which will have point¬
ed laces and somewhat of a smooth surface.
These are to be laid in un everlasting ce¬
ment which insures their safety and will
forever hold them in place. By Tuesday
night most of the rough stone was in place
and yesterday saw several of the above
ground rock go in their place, there to rest
until generation have come and passed
away.
The latter part of last week Mr. Bondu¬
rant had a force of hands busy erecting a
large shed on the square in front of Mr. J.
W. Bacon’s residence, under which lime
will be stored and a carpenter shop run.
Tuesday wagons wore busy hauling a car¬
load of lime from Crawford, placing it
therein, while a carpenter was hard at work
on brick mouldrs and putting together
wheelbarrows to be used at the yard. Mr.
McAfee, Mr. Bondurant's partner, came
Sunday night, and together these gentle¬
men on Monday scoured the surroundings
of the town to find the best mud and a
place best suited for their yard. This they
settled upon in the evening. It will be on
the creek just below the Shaking rock,
where they say they have found mud as
good as any in Georgia for their purpose.
Wednesday morning the squad of bauds
that arrived Monday were put to work
cletring it off and getting it in readiness
for brick making, which will probably be¬
gin th's morning. Mr. McAfee expressed
himself as well pleased with the progress of
tlie work so far and says that if they can
only have a month or so of open weather
that it will not be long before the new
court-house will begin to assume the vestige
of a reality. He says that they have not
as yet made a start upon the work, but that
in a few weeks, when everything gets fully
straightened out and everybody down to
work, we will see things done at a speed we
never dreamed of. They still stick to their
intention of completing the job as early as
possible, not to rush over and slight the
work. The foundation will all be laid in a
coupie of weeks, and by the time it has had
a month in which to settle, a kiln of brick
will have been buuted, and brick laying
will commence, possibly by April court.
The quarry men and stone-cutters have
for the past week kept up pretty much
their last reported work. Tlie two huge
columns have been roughed out and will
probably be brought from the quarry to-day
or to-morrow, when Messrs. Hugh Larney |
ami Pat Shovelin, tho two boss cutters,
will take them in charge and begin to chis¬
el them round and dress them. Each of
these will take three weeks’ work before
they receive the polish to be put upon them,
and most of our citizens are anxious to see
what they will look like. The greater part
of the other granite is ready for the build¬
ers, unless the addition of granite corners
is made which will be a job of a month or
more for the force of hands now at work
here.
Some of the inside wood work has been
shipped and will reach here in a few day#.
This has mostly been made by machinery
in Atlanta and will only have to be put
together upon its arrival. As soon as
enough of it is received carpenters will be¬
gin the work of putting tho window and
door facings together, us they have to be |
ready by the time the brick-laying is begun.
This part of the work will have to bo done |
by experienced and first-class workmen,and
they will probably come from the shops in
Atlanta. All in-all the entire work, in ils
different branches, is just getting under
full headway and within the next week
1 w j]| b e such as will make more show than
heretofore I
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MAJOR W. B. P. HANEY.
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Another of Oglethorpe’* Oldest and Best Cit- 1
l7.cu* Suddenly PttMue* Away.
We are again called upon to chronicle j
the death of one of our oldest and best cit
zens. On Tuesday last Maj. W. B. P. j
Ilanejr, living near Sandy Cross, was in his
usual health and did a good days work for j
one but of no his supper, age. saying He ate he a had hearty no appetite,. dinner, |
and by 9 o’clock was a corpse, having died !
with something ... ... ltke apploplexy. , , Maj » f •
Haney was a citizen known and respected
by almost every resident of the county, be
ing seventy-eight years of age, and having
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efficiency and honor to himself and the
people. He was a man noted for his kind
ness and , honesty . and , there , is not a being
who can bring aught against him in any
way ' whatever. Though he never * professed ’
^ , f ( . hnslia character . und ,
" a
n 8‘ , lt member of Joppa Lodge of Free and
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Accepted Masons at the Glade He leaves
' 'r ,; ej mourn
'heir loss, are r comforted to know they have
^ ' trus , 1Hs rel 'j ing « ( . re laid Iwlv
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" 8ar ' Y• ^Irnl Y p^M”) # Mdk 16 w.th 5 masonic ’ «■ honors, m '"l,
lj8in S followed to the grave by a large
number of admiring and £nef-?trieken
friend=. May his example be t iiien by ”
tho^-e who • j;oc after him. *
SEYf SPRING GOODS.
j Wlio lias tlie Alnst and Prettiest ofTlieui. For
Our If eader*’ Sake, we Look Them up.
Last. Friday we were in Athens and oc¬
cupied some of our time in looking out the
places in that town where our readers in
Oglethorpe could find the best selections
and the prettiest dress goods, millinery and
clothing to buy this spring. We dropped
in «t
>r. MY’EltS & co.’s,
and while we found that Mr. M. had not re¬
turned Irorn the northern markets, we saw
heaps of new goods being opened and placed
upon their shelves. Mr. M.’s long connection
with the trade of this section together with his
good taste and skill as a buyer always insures
a selection second to none at thei r store, and
this season he seems to have more than excell¬
ed his former stock. Beside dress goods and
trimmings, they have shoes, gentlemen’s
ready-made clothing, hats, and in fact every
article in the dry goods, clothing or shoe line.
This store will be popular headquarters this
spring. We found that
MR. J. A. MULI.ANE
had got back from the north on his first trip,
but he informed us that he would make a sec¬
ond this week returning about the first of
April with one of the largest and most com¬
plete stocks he has ever purchased. He lias
established a branch house at Birmingham,
Ala., and buying for both houses at once in¬
sures very low prices. This is why this house
has become so famed for the low figures at
which it sells goods. We also saw here sam¬
ples of what was to arrive and were struck
with their beauty. Nothing will ever keep
such a man as Mr. Alullane from selling goods,
for we never saw a man with a better business
tact coupled with as much energy and pluck
as he has. He knows how to buy and sell
goods cheap and does not. hesitate to do it.
MR. J. COHEN
is still in New York buying largely, so we
were told. Friday his mammoth store was
undergoing a cleaning and straightening up
ready for the new goods which were arriving.
Alex Davison told us that this season they
would surpass all others in their selection of
stock, botli as to quality, and prices. They
are making their tailoring department a spe¬
cial feature and are turning out some hand¬
some suits. Besides they carry a tremendous
line of ready-made goods.
MICHAEL BROS
seems to be somewhat ahead of the balance
and have already in their enlarged store a
full line of millinery and dress goods. They
sell at both wholesale and retail, though, and
had to open their goods eaily in order to sup¬
ply the trade. These two excellent young
business men have stepped right into the front
ranks of Athens’merchants, and we are glad
to know that they are meeting with unbound¬
ed success. Our Tom Biggs Lumpkin cau be
found here to wait upon you.
JIIRSCIIFIELD & BLUMENTIIAL.
These gentlemen, so well-known and popu¬
lar in this county, have already received and
have ready for inspection one of the most com¬
plete lines of choice fancy and staple dress
goods we have ever seen. In pretty prints
they are behind none, and in limey articles
they are among the leaders. This spring they
will offer great inducements in both prices
and goods to their Oglethorpe friends and will
receive a liberal patronage.
BALDWIN & FLEMING
were busy receiving and opening one of their
always complete stocks of shoes and boots.
The styles for both ladies and gentlemens’
shoes this season are exceptionally tasty, and
this house will keep the most stylish and noth¬
ing but the best. The hold these gentlemen
already have upon the trade of Oglethorpe
county makes it almost unnecessary for us to
mention them—they are about as well-known
as we—but we must say something about them
for the season. We have no fears but what
they will get a share of the trade.
SNEAD’S SHOE STORE
is another place in Athens that is fast getting
un an enviable reputation as a place where
good goods, low prices and courteous attention
is found. Mr. Snead, the manager is undoubt¬
edly one of the most affable and pleasant gen¬
tleman in our acquaintance and one thatthor
oughly understands the shoe business. He
will not be found behind with his stock for
the season, but is receiving a line of goods
that demands the attention of buyers.
CHAS. STERN,
the old reliable clothier, is still in New York
buying and shipping one of the largest stocks
of clothing ever received by this house. Slo
man, the Co. ofthe firm, told us that the styles
for the spring are very neat and that prices
will be low. This is another house too well
known to our readers for commendation and
we only mention them as a reminder. Their
line of hats and gentlemens’ underwear will
be larger than usual also and ofthe latest pat¬
terns.
Besides these our home merchants are all
filling up their stores for the season and in
due time the Echo will tie an index to all of
them and more from other places. We only
recommend such houses as we know to be re
liable and hope our readers will give them
their patronage. They will certainly never
regret it.
Spare Not Hie Rod.
A negro boy in teaching a night school
at the old hotel place, arid has for his mol
to: “Spare the rod; spoil the child.” He
numbers among his pupils his aged father
who seeks for knowledge, but the perental
head sometimes stalls on the simplest prop
osition. The other day the dutiful son
thought it necessary to grease his teachings !
with ..... “hickory oil in order ill- that his anee.s- (
tor might take them in and when he had j
showered down about twenty licks with all 1
his might, making it rather too warm for
the old man, he exclaimed: “Wat ver
mean, boy; don’ yer know Use yer daddy!”
~ An< „ l . or ~Mpn.. ll «r j
u ay v f x. W Brooks * 11 ' received J> ' ftn _
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other lot of those pretty ginghams to take
th , ace o{ thosfl ,, ,„ ck | y soM 0 , a a
Wfte ^ tr °-V r ther ' 1 with *i number J of pieces '
beaut,ful spring prints. . He inv.tes . the
ladies to examine them early before they
goods beginning . to .
New spring are arrive
and 0. H. Arnold wants his many custom
egs to bear it in mind that he will receive
as good a selection as will be in Lexington,
He will buy them at low figures to suit the
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hard times and , will sell them likewise. See c,.„
his before buying.
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High Htandlng.
It is not what we say of ourselves so j
much as whut ^ others i 0 f M world.'* that gives j '
«“»*»*«* 'he We
as an honest and truthful jeweler a
good optician, and a fine workman, Skiff,
.fie jeweler.
... I’ullin,!
C. K. Collins, formerly Collins
has moved to one door above J. L-hen’*, Ath
en*. that he niav b« pK»re convenient to pi** i
9^lcriiorp-: patrol;
THROUGH THE MAILS.
urn gets or j\*k o s bkj\*t ij\" hi*
.STAY /./A COHJtJBSrOvVltAWTS.
Tli«» Work ot* tlie .Manipulators of the Otlirt*
Fuel* of Our <irai»cvii»« Telephone. Ogle¬
thorpe Comity Ijoealizeit by Section*.
ANTIOCH.
TINKER.
Planting corn.
Putting in guano.
Sowing oats in March.
Mrs. Joe McWhorter is still improving.
Turnip salid was never known to he so
scarce.
If you want good guano go to Hunter &
Freeman.
Farmers are striking as never before. Suc¬
cess to every one.
Mr. i5en Hansford and lady, also Mrs. C. E.
Jackson, made us a pleasant visit last Sunday.
Antioch is improving. We have had a
wedding and have established a chair factory.
There is no doubt but that Mr. W. C. Birch
more, of Moneys, would pull the heaviest load
in the next Legislative race.
If you want good meal carry yflur corn to
Air. James Young’s mill and Air. Townsen
will make you the very best of meal. Try
him and be convinced.
There is a certain widower in Bowling
Green that says he lias seven ladles in view
and he can’t decide which one he will take.
Loot out, girls.
We think “Trip’s” question is rather a hard
one. It must be wedlock on our part, as we
have never possessed enough money or brains
to know whether either of them would be a
pleasure or not.
BUFFALO MILLS.
PA'I RICK.
We I- now of five fish traps in Buffalo creek.
Callaway & Butler sell goo Is at Lexington
prices.
Some attraction in the flatwoods for Bill
Dead wyler.
Some fine succors are caught from Barrett
& Bums’ mill pond.
The fish fry and picnic at Barrett it Binns’
mill will ha about the middle or last of April.
“Hover” told us something new(?) when lie
said Jim Crawford and Boh Slaton were “on
the carpet” as candidates for matrimony.
We would like for some correspondent to
answer the following riddle : Win may “Ho¬
ver” and “Nemo” he called Bible correspon¬
dents ?
Last Saturday night some of the young la¬
dies sat up until 2 o’clock, a. in,, waiting tor
the serennders, and then had to retire sorely
disappointed.
Miss Alice Smith, after a visit of several
days to Miss Lucy Clayton Johnson, returned
to Lexington last Monday, to the regret of her
many friends ill our midst.
One of our gallant gents has his dog so well
trained that it will lake notes to and from his
“dulce riilnilrm Lalapen dulce, buquentem."
If Edgar Wise will agree to it, we will pub¬
lish one of the notes and the names.
We hear it rumored that on Wednesday
night there was a very novel marriage in our
community. Though the bride and groom
have been engaged for a long time, they never
met until about a week ago.
Some of our farmers have just finished sow¬
ing oats. Jt is very late, yet we think this is
better than to plant the same land in cotton,
as it is predicted by nil that cotton fall. will not
be worth more than 0 or 7 cents next
SIM 3 TON.
ROVER.
Cool winds.
March days.
Putting in guano.
Spring oats are up.
Edgar Wise is badly mashed this time.
hood, Mr. Tom quite Draper, of the chills. Chapel neighbor¬
is sick, having
Edgar Wise was certainly at the organiza¬
tion of that Sabbath-school last Sunday.
Mr. John English had the misfortune to cut
his foot last week, which causes him a great
deal of pain.
Working the roads is now in order and it
certainly should be attended to immediately
if not sooner.
Tom Crawford and Will Dead wyler, two of
Lexington’s birds, w as in our section last Sun¬
day. Come again, gents.
Mr. and Mrs. It. B. Sisson, of Wilkes, were
on a visit to Mr. (’. M. Callaway and family
last Saturday and Sunday.
We read with regret “Miss Q.’s” farewell
to the columns of the Echo. We wish we
was u mail boy, und this would not be.
Mr. Albert Wynne has a flourishing school
at Chandler’s Hill. We are glad to note this,
for Mr. Wynne is u worthy young man.
We enter solemn protest against brother
“M.,” to use his own language, of accusing and us
of a thing that we are not guilty, responsible would
say to him that we are not for
what our neighbor brother correspondents
may or have said, but just bold to what’s ours.
The wheat is making little or no show as
yet in our section, and it is thought by several killed
of our best farmers that it is so Imdly
till it will not make tlie seed that was sown.
This will be extremely hard on the farmers,
for many of them have not enough to last un¬
til harvest time. But Bill Bawghn says the
land is in good fix for making cotton.
NEAR CRAWFORD.
KX POST FACTO.
Koine arc planting corn.
Locating melon patches.
We all have the distemper.
Butting in guano in earnest.
No peach blooms yet with us.
Maxeys has become tlie center ofgravita
turn.
A slanderous tongue is ten times more in¬
jurious tlian a dynamite cartridge.
friends If we better can’t speak well of our neighbors or
keep silent.
is Mr. George wi*h Bowling, son of T. J. Bowling,
quite sick fever at the time of this
writing.
It is said that money makes the man, but it
makes rascals out of many of them. Or the
love of it floes, at least.
Mr. F. T. Berry and his good lady spent
last Sunday with Cncle Jesse Arm'stead, one
of our county’s most intelligent citizeirt.
Mr. R. L. Armistead has returned Irorn the
medical college with his diploma. Sheep
H km, bear skin, or I don t care what kind or
;i akin f, e has, he is bound to make his mark
in the professional world.
Mr. L T. Berrv has a plan by which lie can
<!'“
lar per tamily right, and guarantees it a sue
or 1,18 mouey will be refunded.
gument that the us6 of guano is the cause or
cyclones. Sirs, if lying und cheating and the
open bring disregard of the Sabbath dav does plague not
on a eyclone and every other
we need not fear the use of guano.
In running off cotton rows a few days ago
we catlie to a small mound and for the proper
course we appealed to McCnrry’s terracing ,
Visas
SS
W e took the command to ourselves given to
the isrealites at the Red sea to go forward, and
ori we went round hLdlrnved round onward and on
k’nole, at the crown of
the and after measuring we found the
row to be 7,825 yard* long, or four miles and
a jnthe portion over a'half,or about 11 acres pounds of land
one row, and it took near 200
of guano to fertilize the same, putting desired 75
pound* to the acre, the amount we to
use. Now, who can beat my row tor length ?
Our county can pass some ofthe most scab
by. ulcerated, or Consumptive orders of any
\
T. Herndon’s a public road is one of the above
mentioned sickly orders. It is 11 b ;
<^1 t" / T t'lV. ■’ 'countv ' f .
c v c r.-^ i n *- ii 1 bl^o gran"^ aud onVny tic-order
other
grounds than bis cleverness, for it to no ad
vant »ge to anyone else, only those going propose/ to >
and from his residence. Now we
that the couhty authorities look alter the road
t’sat leads from the railroad to Mr. W. T).
Gaulding’s, and others that we could mention,
and give all an equal chance, and more par¬
ticular attention should be given to t he road
notv thrown away leading from the railroad
below Mr. F. T. Berry’s via Mrs. Norton’s to
the new court-house, so those who live near
tlie Edwards’ grade can go 10 the county cite,
three miles away, without going eight. That
is what T call healthy orders, and besides I
think this county bound itself that if the late
Mr. J. M- Norton would give them the road
through his land to keep it up as good a road
as could be kept. Now look out that the
named county's don’t got changed to what is
(.■wiled our business, or a family business.
CORSNTM.
CRITIC.
... \\ e went ...... to Athens with . , T Doss . Elder, who
patronized the drug stores.
\Vc see that “Courier” has begun a new era
,h< ? mWMRti# I "? e - He, 88 1 b' 0 ' ,,ls »'V 0
days in the week and pulls the bell line over
a mule the balance of the week.
Every one in Ibis ... section are more or , less
behind with their farm work. Several have
had a great deal of clearing to do and there
hasbeen several log-rollings.
L e spent last Sunday with Mr. Jim I'am
brn, of Oconee county, and ive never spent a
more enjoyable day anywhere. Ills son Snru
}„„„ ,i,v i„„ „Ti,, y
W e called last week on that clever and en
te,prising young mend,ant Bud Tuck, «n the
Athens and Ivexmg on road He has by Ins
honest dealings with Ills patrons, I, in It »p an
excellent trade, and now sellsi as much or
more tin,,, any country store. He sells almost
everything cheaper than the same article eau
be bought m Athens.
I , went , to . Athens die other day, , and i T 1 tell . |
yon things around there were looking hvely.
1 lie streets were crowded with wagons loaded
with cotton, which w,is brought there to sell,
an, o her wagons, loaded, some with guanc
ami others with .corn anu meat. It is one of
the strangest things in the world that the far
niers of middle Georgia should have to buy
corn and incut when they could easily raise it
at home. The farmer who persists in this
ruinous policy devil will and surelv the deep keep blue himself sea” long “be
tween the as
as lie lives. Some of the best citizens of Atb
ens are Oglethorpe men.
ARMISTEAD’S academy.
HONEY.
Everybody was at Antioch Sunday last.
Which is the lightest, a full moon ora half?
W. M. Coiie preached a “hitman nature"
sermon at Antiooh Sunday.
Mrs. G. W. Berry lias a very sweet-toned
organ bought of Hasletou.
Ham Daniel drove It is new horse to his new
buggy last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Brooks, of Lexington,
were in our community on Sunday last.
The passenger train broke down in front of
C. W. Berry’s residence last Saturday.
Cicero Daniel is a boy that will make
friends wherever lie goes.
Miss Berta Daniel speaks of attending sehool
at Wiiiterville the present year.
It scemes that we are gifted in having nice,
pleasant and gifted school teachers, ’itah
lor our side.
Mi-s Leila and Armistead sehool will hoard, take mu¬
sic lessons go to in Crawford the
present year.
It is our predilion that there will lie a full
attendance in school this place. We have a
leached to draw them, you know.
Mr. J,. M. Arnold lias taken his mill to
pieces and re-moddled it, and is bettei pre¬
pared than ever to please his customers.
Jim Smith and his bewitching sister visited
the, family of Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Arnold last
Sunday, also Joel Arnold und his sister. Miss
Nannie, at tlie same time.
Dr. It. L. Armistead returned from the
medical college, of Augusta, last Tuesday
week Ills location with his diploma, but has not decided
yet. iVitii emphasis we say,
“Hurrah for Bob!”
J. M. Armistead says that his father has
some laud that if yon can get a slalk of corn
to grow waist high it will produce from four
to live shoots and u peck of corn in the tassel
on every stalk.
’t he pleasure was ours on Sunday last to
dine with that cleverest of liosls and hostess,
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Berry. This is one of the
nicest homes for one’s enjoyment ill the Slate,
ami besides our alihlde school teacher hoards
here, and that you know adds a great deal lo
the family circle and also to our society. She
has eloquent manners mid is much loved by
her scholars.
It is a perfect scandal to people that can
have ns good a Sabbath-school as we can
around this place und still not have it, allow¬
ing our children to play in the sand with little
negroes them all Sundays pin, rather that will than be profitable to semi or #
carry to a e to
them and also beneficial tons. Parents, may
you realize thesolemn responsibility that rests
upon you as such and arouse to action, while
yon have inestimable opportunities and un¬
fathomable privileges.
BUFFALO VALLEY.
NICMO.
Farming in earnest.
Looking up your old straw hats.
Zttck Arnold gave an old-fashioned log roll¬
ing last Thursday.
rheumatic” Ye correspondent had a slight “tetch of the
last week.
Henry Johnson looked ns smiling as a
elothes-wringer Just Friday night.
Will Arnold was sick last week, but is bet¬
ter at present.
Mrs. Lydia Saturday Binns visited Mrs. C. M. Calla¬
way last and Hunda\.
Col. P. I*. Wynne paid a Hying visit to
Madison last Thursday.
The young people lied a singing at Mrs.
Hopie Johnson’s Gillian.'and Friday night.
Messrs. Boh Jim Hurt visited
friends in our burg one day last week.
For beauty and the power of fascination,
the flatwoods girls can’t be excelled.
Itev. J. VV. Binns preached two very excel¬
lent sermons last .Saturday and Sunday.
Bud Butler, Jeff Landrum ami Lee Thomp¬
son are the biggest of the Nickle-villiuns. .
Thomas Wall visited his father, Mr. if F.
Wall, last SunHky.
Dr. Tom Colley visited Mr. Frank Wall
U«st week. IJe is on a visit fr oin Texas,
Frank Burton has a smile on the back of
his head 11 is a little girl.
We hod a pleasant call from l ucle lYiinus
last Sunday,
vf r . Phillips, of Jackson is on a visit to
friends and —- in our midst,
|{ ro “Rover” shouldered tlie arms of the
WKnt *T l f
le.irmng Hu-hard tlie ail, his .
‘ r - *’ ,s ’ >*
t V“.s„'n *„■?. UilTsnv that dudine*
'* relty ‘ We say to him call
Miss Alice Smith, the belle of Lexington,
visited Mikh Lucy L\ Johnson last week. We
hope she had a pleasant visit.
There seems to he a Rang of dog poisoners
in our midst. We hope they will be caught
»nd dealt with justly
prof. Wynie opened bis school at Chan
J 1 b,Hi an vxcenem u>r
' ’
•
1 he Sabbath school at White Oak organ
i7Mi[ ' ast Sunday. A good attendance report-
8 d- j
Messrs. Will Dead wyler and Tom Crawford
dusted arodVnl in the “syllabubs” ofXiekle
ville last Sunday. Gome again. !
Wiikes Ji,„ Crawford last Sunday. and He h.s mother went to |
savs be went to see
),ig“dony”. Success to you, Jim.
Some of the young ladies sweet I v smiled
wheB ,hev saw that prince of cleverness,
^ ( ^ plrtbejudi
„ ul w(|()<|l) being , ast Tucwllly built
cial palace in Lexington.
Lee Thompson bougie him a “Jirn Dandy” !
the Dr. of clothes DeSaucer Ust at week preaching ami Sunday. noimdy knew j
Ye E<1. must excuse our short-comings this j
week, ss Duie we have for have been pushiog the liau-1
dies cf a '-ome lifne.
WATSOW’S mill
r* JOE.
Dr. J. Gibson visited Mr. J. W. Eber
hart last week.
Mr. Joe Ij. Worthy Goolsby. spent two nights last week
with Mr. P.
Mr. John Chandler will now draw the lines
over a newly purchased gray,
We used to watch the world, but now it
takes all the time to watch ourself.
Messrs. G. and J. 1C. Watson spent several
days at court in Danielsville last week.
Mr. L. 0. Chandler was on a visit to Mr.
John Chandler last Saturday and Sunday.
Uncle Gip Oliver is still suffering wiln Ixffls
and neuralgia. We hope lie will soon get re¬
lief.
, Miss Miss Annie Sanders has returned home ami
j in^ton. Mury is now visiting relatives in Lex
| The of debating club failed to organize on ae
| count, the weather, but will try it over soon
a t tlie Hay-Stays, .'***„.
; ! , Ihej r . organized a Sunday-school , , at . the , new
: Sl .|,„nl house last Sunday evening with forty
scholars, which w ill meet at three o’clock in
the evening
The Movements are still passing. We ad
vise everybody to pass them on and let them
keep their stoves. We expect to sec others
sa dly of our opinion next fall.
locate sstiarsisr*? and wish him m™ i
Hear bv liiueh .success,
T|]e , mpn organized a debating club
the |(„y.*tHck J school.bouse last Saturday Satnrda'v
Ilight ,> |lt y wiu meet everybody H g aill uc!tt
jj v u , ‘ j who wants to
ta e „ J t wit h Ils e( mc . Come over,
.. B L W ’ ,, an(J help „ s out .
*
Newtown . the . centre of . . with
18 gravitation
the p, V Ve sometimes feel like we are l.a
iu g drawn, but have not yet gone over. We
( ,Wt think we can hold oat much longer,
WatS(m , s submiHsive to the Cll ,| ani , has
ll0 po „er to resist. Bar * perhaps 1 it is well
„ ™'« , . h . to a ■ not , the lmr . thlU .. . Bt _
18 r0Hm ‘
Mr. J. I. J. Eberhurt, while in Athens last
Saturday He night, came very near being robbed,
stopped at Mr. Gunthers’ store after dark
t" warm, and while in the store bought a glass
of cider. He had about fti.5 on bis person,
and bill having no change from. gave There Mr. Carithera »
to get his money were two
young men in the store at the time and on
seeing his money left immediately. After
staying somo time Mr. E. left for the bobbin
factory, where 'lie two youngsters knew he
was going. As be was up the hill past tho
pond at the water-works he was halted by
someone which he thought was the same men
lie saw at Carithera’, recognizing them by
(heir voice. It was, perhaps, their first at¬
tempt and were not buhl enough to carry out
their plans.
CENTRAL HILL, CLARK CO.
COURIER.
Health of community is very good at this
time.
Money is a thing of the past through the
country.
51 r. R. T. Tribble is one of our most suc¬
cessful farmers.
Gardening is now in order. Planting Irish
potatoes and other early vegetables.
Miss Fannie llugg’s school still continues
to increase, it numbers 25 at pre-ent.
Central Hill does the biggest bartering bus¬
iness of any village of its size that we know
of.
The average woman now smiles when her
husband comes from the field. Guano the
cause,
“Anonymous,” can you inform us whether
or not Willie N. Goes to Pap's as often as lie
used to ?
Oreaslonally a book they peddler passes through
our however. community, but give us the go by,
We will state to the boys little of other sections
that we have some sweet girls in our
community.
It is an evident fact that a gentleman will
be one under any and all circumstances and
a rascal ditto.
We think it very wrong in parents to use
language before children that tiiey prohibit
the sume from using.
Mr. W. It. Tuck lias some cows that lav the
Jennies in the shade. They are as tine as vvu
ever saw raised in this country,
Mr. <t. T. Nicholson, one of Oglethorpe’s
most clever boys, passed through our viilceit
route for Athens not long since.
We will wager that Mr. YV. F. M. Veal can
chew his tobacco more t imes in a minute than
uuy other two men in tlie county.
Occasionally the peaceful waters are troub¬
led with a negro fight. With that exception
everything is calm along the Patomae.
Our friend “More Anon” was in our com¬
munity last week on the hunt of cattle. Suc¬
cess to you, old boy, in the beef business.
Most of the young ladies through this sec¬
tion have just coice out on the carpet, and
you may bet they try to see which can look
the sweetest.
We were sorry to learn that our friend Alec
.Jackson, of Oglethorpe, had the misfortune of
falling from a sea (Told while working on his
house last week and was painfully hurt.
Mr. Taylor Akin has moved from our coun¬
ty to the old Young place, in Oconee county,
and h gentleman by the name of Carter has
moved in the old Puiycar house that Mr. A.
left.
Qiiiirforly meeting convenes at Temple would next
Saturday mid Sunday, ami all who
like to hear an interesting and instructive
sermon would do well to come out the above
stated time.
We have never seen a man that is always
telling iny wife said so-and-so but what was a
contrary person in his family. will find Notice when
every you will and you it the case
nine times out of ten.
Master Henry O'Kelly is now traveling in
the interest id a book, titled The Royal Path
of Life. He take* it afoot through theeoun
“7- A food idea, we think, especially oyer
houcli a roiii»h one as some m tins ami adjoin¬
ing sections are.
It seems that the spirit of terracing has
struck our county broad-sided. Nearly every
farmer is either doing it himself or having his
land terraced. It is it good indication that
they are on the upward move, and we are
proud to see it thus.
A singing school is very much needed in
this community. One of the right kind, we
mean. One that can teach the round note
system. It does a person about the same good
to play in tin; sand as to try to leai n any oth¬
er at this day and age.
We had the pleasure not long since of at¬
tending the vhibbath-scbool at Corinth, and
must confess that we were very much enter¬
tained with the manner in which their worthy
superintend.ml, <'ol. \V. II. Morton, condnot¬
ed the sei vices. The music was charming, it
being conducted by the amiable Miss Claude
Thompson, of Lexington fame. Taken all in
all, it is a very instructive school.
— --
Scrofula
Are miy m , !mbers of your fa , n , ly thusafflie
ted? Have they scrofulous scrofulous swelling of tho
{/lands? Huve they any should be neglected, sores or
u j (; ,. rs ? If so, and it iuejfm the
peculiar taint, or poison, may producing de,.,»,t
the substance of the luiris. CON
sumption. Look well t> the condition of your
remedy taunlv ami without if tbus^afflKted del.y. liuy give that the p-oper which
L7v."
take our word—you need not know our names
is all yyu seek. Ask vour neighbor-,
ask your driup.'iHt, ideates, ask or writ** to sh-isc who
gjvetheir eer and be convinced that
B. I!. B. is tli^y quickest and most perfect
Blood I’urifiet *vur before known,
...
Kurt »» Bone scraping.
E-lwanl Shepherd, of Harrisiuwg 111., says:
“Having r,w!ved so umch benefit trooi l-.lee
trie Bitters, 1 feel it iny duty, to let suffering
t"‘" an ' , y know it. Have Ijad a running sore
»■> myleg tor e. S bt years; mv doctors told me
Arai^sS‘re ‘ ij‘>- ’ ™“dmy“^ ° to ^“loum^mid
Electric Bitters are sold Wat at fifty cents a bot
tie. and Buckle.,’* Arniea 25e per
box by M. G. Little,
I'sc Itnsli's Horse am! Catllo
Pottdtn.