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Y0L. XVII.—NO. 22.
COUNTY GOSSIP.
As it Comes to Us Over Our
Grapevine Telephone.
A FULL PAGE OF COUNTY NEWS.
Upon Which is Recorded all the Hap
pennings of Local Interest as
They Transpire Weekly.
—Everybody busy.
—Winter iu full blast.
—March is verily with us.
—The bad weather continues.
—Spring cleanings come next.
—Farmers indescribably blue.
—Easter comes early thisyear.
—Soon be time for April fools.
—All sorts of weather this week.
—Lexington verily is a live town.
—Farmers still buying farm stock.
—Winter seems lo have just set in.
—Local news somewhat scarce this
week.
—Meson’s roll still gradually in
creases.
—Lots of corn being bought by
farmers.
—Our real estate agency bids fair to
be well patronized.
—Visitors note bad as well as good
features of a town.
—Burning new-grounds are to be
seen on every hand.
—Spring goods are being received,
and are unusually pretty.
—Small grain received a backset by
the cold snap of last week.
—Are we civilized? Not when we
fill up on blind tiger whiskey.
—The cooing dove tells us that corn
planting time is again at hand.
—A life insurance agent would reap
a harvest here just at preseut.
—Lexington has a possible poetic
genius in one of her small boys.
—Only a small crowd iu town Tues
day ou account of the weather.
—Lexington’s young men are plan
ning for an entertainment soon.
—We hear of several wells having
caviid from so much wet weather.
—That threadbare caution about tires
during March is never out of place.
—All items of news furnished us by
our friends are greatly appreciated.
—Picnics for Easter Monday will be
rather crowding the season this year.
—An increased amount of the “o
be-fightful” afloat again Tuesday last.
—There was only a small crowd here
Tuesday, but excitement was intense.
—Farmers don’t stand back for bad
roads over which to haul their euano.
—We know of a splendid this yoke of ox
en for sale. Particulars at office.
—The average youth once finny tribe. more
dreams of fish hook aud the
—The barber from Athens did not
come to trim up our populace Tuesday
last.
! —Lexington merchants are selling
i more supplies this year than ever be
) ifore.
—Setting hens now afford the house
wife enjoyment and employment as
well.
—Almost daily new enterprises and
improvements are spoken of for Lex
ington.
—Peach trees conlinue to look fresh
and sound nothwithstandidg the recent
• freezes.
—Anti-prohibitionists glory they in the be
scenes of Tuesday. May never
repeated.
—After to-morrow The Echo will
feel independent—in its own home and
it paid for. lady is interest
—The average young
ed to know whether or not the plum
crop Is killed.
—It wouldn’t surprise us to have a
colony of northern farmers settle in this
county next fall.
—A freight blockade in Atlanta and
other places is inconveniencing some
of our business men.
—Oats sown early in January are
looking fine, and those farmers who
have them feel proud.
—Our new office was visited and
muchly admired by a majority of visi
tors to town Tuesday.
—The demand for lumber grows
greater and greater here. The supply
is nothing like equal to it.
—We extend a cordial invitation to
all our friends and patrons to come to
see us in our new quarters.
—Now that we have more room we
expect to improve The Echo both as
to appearance and readableness.
—A telegraph office becomes more
and more a necessity for Lexington.
She should have one by all means.
—Guano has been non-procurable
with some of our merchants the past
week, but they are again supplied.
-Street tax has been raised from two
and half to three dollars in this place,
and of course there is some kicking.
—Last ^ Friday morning the thermom
eter registered two degrees lower tl an
it has any time during the prst winter,
—Zaradatha Masonic Lodge will hold
a call meeting in Crawford to-night candi- to
confer the Master degree on a
date.
_We know of an Oglethorpe sheep for sale,
who has twenty head of
He is one of a very few who own
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jnanv.
LEXINGTON, OGLETHORPE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1891.
The Echo Imitated.
Since The Echo began to write up its
prominent sons, the Atlanta Constitu
tion and Journal and several other great
dailies of the State have started like
features. And this is not the first" in
stance in which The Ecitojlns ledjtlie
great leaders. But thenjt is only the
good that is imitated, you know.
Looking Over the Line.
An advance guard, so to speak, of the
engineering Northeastern corps of the Macon &
Railroad passed through
didn’t Lexington learn Monday morning last. We
his name, He was only
making the a tour of general inspection of
road country would at large. He didn’t Lexington. say the
come through
An Error in a Date.
Pastor John F. Cheney requests us to
state that theUnion meeting of the Ogle
tion thorpe district of the Sarepta Associa
will meet at Bethany (Indian
creek) fore Baptist church on Friday be
the fifth Sunday in this month
instead of August, as stated in the last
minutes of the Association. All in
terested will govern themselves accord
ingly.
Shipping^Lotsjaf it.
large Major Doyle is just now shipping
quantities of granite from his
quarry ford. Most between Lexington and Craw
of it is finished work for
buildings and monuments, be having
twelve or fifteen stone cutters at work.
Mr. Doyle is bidding on several large
contracts, he so we are told, which will, if
secutes them, give even a larger
force than he is now working employ
ment for several months.
Will Lose a Citizen.
Oglethorpe is destined, lo lose one of
her best citizens and his interesting
family by the removal of Mr. E. B^
Clark to Madison, whither he will go
shortly. He goes to enter into busi
ness with his brother Z. II. and broth
er-in-law J. H. Hunter, they having
bought a chair factory in that place.
We regret exceedingly to have Mr.
Clark leave us. Our best wishes go
with him for that success he deserves.
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Shot Through the Train.
One evening last week some miscre
aut whose body would suitably orna
ment a telegraph pole, shot at the fast
train on the branch while it was run
ning between Winterville and Craw
ford. The ball struck the glass in a
window of the first-class coach one seat
in front of two gentlemen and passed
out through another window on the
opposite side. No punishment would
be too severe for the shootist could he
be apprehended.
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A New Road Ordered.
The County Commissioners held an
other tame court last Tuesday, there
The being only hardly any business before them.
issuing of important order work done was the
an to have opened at
once a new road to avoid an impassa
ble place at the ford of Long creek on
theLexingtonandSalem M. Bacon, E. B. road. Messrs.
R. Clark and J. S.
Callaway have were road appointed a commission
to the opened with instruc
tions to act at once.
Continues to Improve.
Vince Witcher continues to improve
and that rapidly considering the nature
of Ilia hurt. He is now considered safe
ly on the road to an entire recovery.
His cheerfulness has all along been in
in his favor. He jokingly said to his
father the other day that if he (the fa
ther) would make a good cotton crop
he would be able to pick it for him in
the fall. And it may be that time be
fore he has entirely recovered, yet it is
almost a miracle that he is alive.
We Have a Marshal.
dent Tuesday’s expreience made it evi
that the policy of the new coun
cil not to employ a regular marshal for
the town was not a wise oue, and at a
called meeting of the body that eve
ning Mr W. N. Guill was elected to
that office and given instructions to
keep the peace. That Mr. Guill will
make a good officer we feel entirely
safe in saying. We hope and believe
he will command better order on our
streets than we have had for some time
past.
The Tigers Must go.
Since the disgraceful scenes of Tues
day last a number of Lexington’s best
citizens have pledged themselves the to
spare no efforts to relieve town and
community of blind tigers. They have
formed themselves into a vigilance
committee, so to speak, and will be
diligently on the lookout for these
peace-breaking enterprises, and when
one is located certain and persistent
prosecution will follow. It is high
time the beasts were abandoning their
lairs in this section.
A Truly Sad Case.
Yesterday Mr. John W. Hawkins,
from the Clouds Creek neighborhood,
was tried before Ordinary Bacon and
adjudged a fit subject . for the 4 . will . lunatic be
asylum. read This announcement Mr. Hawkins 1
saaness oy
many friends. He has been one of the
coun ty’ s staunchest and most success
j u j y 0un2 , farmers, and was highly es
i by a jj w bo k new bim. Sever
j a ] months ago his mind began to fail,
j ^ recent much spell of sickness made him
g r0 w so worse that it became
necessary to confine him. It is sid
j cerely speedily hoped restored that and his that mind he will will be
i soon
be returned to his wife, children and
1 family.
IN ITS NEW HOME
The Echo will Greet its Patrons
and Friends After To-morrow.
ONE OF THE BEST INjTHE STATE.
Comparativly More Costly and Better
Arranged Than the Six-Story
Home of the Constitution.
By to-morrow night we hope to have
Tiik Echo snugly ensconced In its new,
neat, r„o„, .»d well apposed build.
iag which we;have just erected especial
ly as a home for the paper. To-day
and to-morrow will be given up to mov
ing the material belonging to the oflice.
It is with pardonable The pride Echo. that we It re- is
fer to this move of
no small indication of the prosperity of
the paper. Though its new home is an
unpretentious one, it is larger, more
costly and far better appointed thau the
the tremendous Constitution six-story home the million of
Atlanta or
dollar marble aud granite quarters of
the New York Herald—that is, in pro
portion to the wealth aud volume of
business done by The Echo in com
pamou with those great tell journals,
They used pages to of their
uew homes and raised great furors
when they moved into them. We
don’t propose to make much ado over
ours—not even to give a picture of it.
But maybe Tiie Echo’s friends and
readers at a distance who have no op
nortuuity of seeing the home of their
beloved county paper would like to
read a description of it. It is on
Greenesboro street, about one hundred
feet from the corner of Washington, on
a part of the lot upon which stands the
store occupied by Mr. W. A. Latimer
and the post oflice and only about a
huudred yards from the court-house— for and
a situation quite convenient us
our patrons who come to town.
The building and is twenty-eight lacks five stories by fifty- of
six feet in size
being ned to six suit stories the needs high. of the It Echo. was plan- Id
front of the building is an editorial and
business room fifteen by fifteen feet
aud a stock room twelve by fifteen
feet. Back of these and taking up the
balance of the building is the composing
and press room 28 by 41 feet. All
these are well lighted in style aud and ventilated
and finished up neat go to
make up such an oflice as we describe
in the beginning of this braggadocio) article, and
(we Ray it without any one
of the most, if not the moat connnodi
ous and best arranged country printing
offices in the state.owned by the paper
occupying it.
it we as an
outfit for the publication of the paper
and for doing general job work as is
found in any office outside of a city.
We have an abundance of type, bor
ders, rules, etc., and two of the best
and fastest presses—all especially
adapted to the needs of our patronage,
Of all this we are proud, but in our
pride we do not forget to be thankful
to our friends and patrons for them,
Their good werds of cheer and liberal
patronage has enabled us to procure
this office and our complete outfit.
They enable us to get out a neat and
readable paper which we alwayp strive
to our utmost to do that our apprccia
tion may be evident. In our case we
have particular reason to be proud and
thankful. It has been but a few years
since the present owner, with faltering
hands took The Echo in purchased charge. He
was inexperienced, he had and hardly dollar, the
paper when a
But we had friends and well wishers,
and our lot was cast among a forbear
ing people. They spoke to us words
of encouragement, aided us in many
different ways and overlooked our
shortcomings. These acts upon their
part as much as whatever efforts we
have put forth ourselves have enabled
us to build up our business to where it
requires the quarters it now occupies
and the outfit now necessary to carry
it on. To them belongs a large share
of the credit and it affords us pleasure
to accord it to them.
Mingled with the pleasure of moving
into the new is no small amount of
sadness of leaving the home in which
The Echo has lived for fourteen loDg
years. Looking from its windows as it
perches upon its hill top we have seen
many changes take place in the
town and county. While published
therein The Echo has chronicled
many a happy aud many a sad event;
told many a tale of prosperity and
many of adversity; chronicled the com
ing and going of thousands of people;
encouraged many an enterprise and
said much to build up the county and
section. Could the walls of this build
ing reflect all that has been printed
within them what a mass of varied
matter it would be; enough to fill many
massive volumes. What will become
of it now we know not, but so long as
one stick in its structure rests upon
another we will look upon them with
a feeling akin to reverence. In it our
career as a citizen and public
be^an Under its roof we have labor
ed°as hireling and commanded with
authority. It is our birthplace, as it
were ’as into public life and it will as
Ion- it stands, share with the dear
oklTiorae standing upon an adjacent
hill top our tenderest feelings.
But this is an age of progress. Its
walls could not stretch to encompass
the crowing business of The Echo.
Larger ouarters became necessary. We
are ?n these where we bid all welcome.
On the front door thereof the latch
strin- hangs as we have ever hung it.
LIQUOR’S WORK.
Men Under its Influence Become
Murderous and Unruly.
A PEACEABLE CITIZEN SHOT AT.
And Then Indescribable Scenes Fol
low That Would do Credit to the
Wildest of Border Towns.
It makes us blush with shame to
chonicle the scenes which were enact
of no credil t0 the wildest of Western
towns.
Blind tiger whiskey can safely afloat be said
to be the cause. It was at an
early hour in the day and all during
the morning men otherwise quiet and
peaceable were filling the air with
oaths, obscene language and murder
ous threats. That such was permitted
bespeaks discredit to Lexington, which
has so long bore a good name for its
good order and morality. But under a
recently adopted regime the town had
no regular marshal, and no one felt it
his duty to act as such,
Men continued to till up ou the afore
said fluid, and matters grew worse.
They reached a climax about three
o’clock when two pistol J. shots
rang out in the air fired by Mr. It.
Cunningham at Mr. M. II. Arnold,
without any provocation, as the evi
dence goes to show,
Mr. Cunningham was one of the
number who had imbibed too freely of
the ardent. Being of the blind tiger
variety, it made of him a senseless de
mon, Othewise he is a peaceable,
quiet citizen. He was in the company
of some friends standing on the side
walk alongside Bill Fleming’s Crawford, stables hap
when Mr.'Arnold, of Cunningham
peued to pass by. Mr.
asked Mr. Arnold if he did uot want to
buy a horse. Mr. Arnold answered jesl
ingly that he did not need any more
stock, but thought he (Cunningham)
needed oue.
This incensed Mr. Cunningham, and
without further words, he whippod out
a pistol and taking aim a3 best, he could
fired two shots at Mr. Arnold. Lucki
ly his aim was maturate, the balls
whizzing past Mr. Arnold and going
towards a crowd which had gathered them
further down the street, one of
striking the edge of the door of Ar
nold & Stewart’s store, narrowly miss
ing several gentlemen, the other strik
ing close to two parties who were
standing in front of W. II. Reynolds’
store.
When he had fired the two shots Mr.
Cunningham realized what he had
done, and turning he would began permit to run him as
fast as his condition
up the hill by the jail. Justice-of-the
Feace Lester happened to be ou the
streets and deputized several parties
to overtake and arrest the fleeing man. do,
To overtake him was not hard to
but when arrested he becamo quite
boistrous and began to rear and charge
like a madmau, so that it required and Bal- the
effort’s of both Sheriff Winn
liff Salmons to bring him to the court
house.
By the time he had
court-house several of Mr. Cunning
ham’s friends who were also under, the
influence of liquor had gathered around
him, making more or less efforts to
free him from the hands of the officers,
These followed him into the building
where Recorder Reynolds was to try
him for disorderly conduct. organized
By the time the court was
the room was full of Mr. Cunning
ham’s associates, who being more of
less in his condition, cursed and swore
and made all sorts of threats against
the officers and the court. The scene
beggars description, Pistols aud
knives were brandished and pandemo- Re
nium reigned. All efforts by the
corder only made matters worse. See
ing that to attempt to proceed further
with the trial was out of the question,
Recorder Reynolds ordered Mr. Cun
ninghant and several of his boistrous
friends locked up in the calaboose,
When the officers proceeded with to carry
out this order they met and stout rc
sistance from their prisoners, were
assailed by more of their friends with
threats and attempts to release the men.
By the time the jail was reached the
wildest excitement prevailed. lock- The
prisoners swore they would uot be
ek up. They were encouraged by their
friends, who swore they would not per
unit such to be done. More officers
were deputized, but to restore quiet and
was impossible. The excitement
mean whiskey had made maniacs of
men. The air was full of oaths and
threats, and it looked for awhile as if a
riot was unavoidable, and not until Mr.
Cunningham was placed in the lock-up
by main force was anything like order
restored. By time this was done some
of the effects of the whiskey had begun
to die out, and gradually those who had
been so boisterous became quiet and
reasonable.
A few hours later Mr. Cunningham de
sent word to the officers that be
manded a trial. He was brought be
fere Recorder Reynolds, but some of
his witnesses being absent, he waived
trial aud gave a fifty-dollar bond to ap- ife
pear before him next morning,
was then arrested under a warrant
charging him with shooting at another
and placed under a five-hundred dollar
bond to appear at the next term of the
Superior court. His trial came off be
fore Recorder Reynolds Wednesday
morning and he was fined ten dollars
and costs for disturbing the peace.
Other serious cases grew out of the
melee. Mr. T. D. Wlieiess was found
to have upon his person a pistol and a
sling-shot and will have to answer for
the double offenso at the Superior
court.
We sympathize with all parties in
their serious trouble. They are all
peaceable citizens when not under the
influence of whiskey. We hope this
will be a lesson to them to let the ar
dent alone, and especially the rotten,
druggy stuff which is dispensed by the
blind tigers.
We hope uever to see another such
day in Lexington.
PURELY PERSONAL.
—Miss Annie Favor entered school
at Meson Monday morning last.
—Miss Lucy Lumpkin is visiting rel
atives in Athens for several weeks.
—Mrs. T. L. Gantt, of Athens, was
visiting friends in Lexington yesterday.
—Mrs. Chas. King and children re
turned to Greensboro Monday morning
last.
—Miss Sallie Sanders is Crawford visiting the
family of Dr. Gibson at this
week.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Tucker, of
Crawford, spent Sunday last with rela
tives in this place.
—Miss Sallie Fannie Shackelford
visited relatives in Athens tho latter
days of last and first of this week.
—Editor Clem Moore, of the Herald,
gave us a very pleasant call Tuesday
last. He is always heartily welcome.
—Bob Maxwell says he has not re
ceived a letter in so long that should
he receive one now he would fear some
of his relatives were dead.
—Mr. Hinton, the photographer, this
will -o to Woodstock from place
in a few days, Ho has given general
satisfaction with his work.
—Presiding Elder Parks was down
Saturday and Sunday last to condnet
quarterly coufereuoe in this place and
preached very interesting sermons.
—John Bearing is his name. He
first saw the light in Covington Callaway, Satur
day evening last, and Lee
his pa, is, we know, as proud as a king.
—Editor and Mrs. Si. Hawkins ar
rived in Lexington from Covington
Wednesday night to pay Mrs. II.’s pa
rents and family a visit of several days.
They aro truly welcomed visitors.
—From a private letter w« learn that
our young friend Jas. M. Johnson, who
left this county some months since for
Atlanta, has moved to Memphis, Tenn.
Whereever ho goes he has our best
wishes.
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Breakfast bacon at Eddie Itoanc’s.
Sending Out Samples.
The Blue Grauite Company is mak
ing all preparation to bring the stone
from their quarries made more widely
known. Samples are being gotten out
which will be sent on and polished, several
and then put on exhibition in
leading cities. This can but The bring a
large demand for the stone. com
pany is also arranging to open quarries
to supply the many orders they are al
ready receiving for stone for building
and other purposes.
Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea for Dyipepsla.
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No Use to Fret.
It may be too wet or too dry; too
cold or too hot, according to our wav
of thinking, but it will do no good lo
fret about it. You don’t always know
what is best. But you do know, or
ought to know, that the best and jewelry,
silverware, watches, clocks specta
cles can be had of Skiff, mind tho jeweler, he
and you should bear in that
has adopted the one price, low price
and cash price system which enables
him to sell low down.
We sell more of DeWltt’e tittle Early Itinera
than any other pill; their action la easy, do not
gripe or cause pain, are the best regulator of the
Liver, Stomach and Bowel*. M. U. Little.
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An Affray at the Quarry.
. Tuesday morning last there came
near being a serious affray at the quar
ry in this platfe. Mr. Claude Itowe
and Will Bolden, a negro, had charge
of the blacksmith shop. The negro
gave Mr. Rowe some impudence which
he resented, but the negro being the
stouter of the two overpowered heavy blow Mr.
Rowe and struck him a
across the temple with a piece of steel,
knocking him senseless. He was tak
en home aud his wound examined and
found to be not of a serious nature the
lick bavins' been a glancing one and
by the next morning Mr. II. was able
to return to work. The uegro left for
parts unknown immediately after hav
ing struck the lick.
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We have just recieved a fresh supply of
Bejfgs’ Little Giant Pills. They give wonder
ful satisfaction whenever used. Arnold’s
Drug Store.
we want our ray.
We have upon our subscription books
the names of a goodly number of sub
scribers to whom we have continued to
send the paper some months after the
expiration of their subscription. We
Lave done this because we expectec.
them to pay us during the money and sea
son. That is about over now, we
must prevail upon them to come for
ward and renew their subscriptions or
we will be compelled to drop their
names from our list. We can t afford
to send out the Echo on credit at its
present low subscription price, and be
sides we urgently notified need the weeks money. If
you were not some since
of the time your subscription expired,
look at the date opposite your address
and you will see it.
$1.00 A YEAR.
DOWN IN GEORGIA.
What the Editor of Turf, Field & Farm
£53 Found there to Write About.
In the New York Turf, Field & Farm
of the 27th ult. we find 'the. following
from Editor Busbey, wbojjwas one of
Col. Echols’ partyjWhich recentl.v.visit
ed this section:
On Monday, before leaving the old
and historical town of Lexington, Ga ■ ?
we took a walk along the banks of a
winding stream to a strange rocky for
mation. A boulder estimated to weigh
eighteen tons is so truly and delicately
poised that it will shake in the winds
or rock under the touch of hands. It
rests on two pivots and it rocks down
to the third pivot of the South triangle. Shak- It is
known through all the as
ing Rock, and many distinguished men
have walked to it, under Ihe shadow of
stalwart pines. One of the names
carved on it is that of Gen. Robert E.
Lee. Near this rock an extensive gran
ite quarry has been opened, and a rail
road spur has been built to it. The
spirit of development, is now abroad,
and very likely Lexington will have
lost its sleepy look on my next visit to
the place, judge Lumpkin, of the Su
preme Bench, rolled occupied of a scat in our
car when we out town.
The only 'grass that’shows: vitality
in the upcountry of Georgia is the Ber
muda, but the planters give it very
little show, for the reason that when it
once gets into a cotton field it is diffi
cult to exterminate. It extends over
the plantation, andjis usually [followed
by a growth ofyoung pines. We found
livestock small and thin, principally
for the want of grass. Col. Smith has
a largo herd of cows, which he is try
ing to breed up by using a Holstein
bull, but progress is slow. The scrub
of the cotton belt is a dwarf which will
stand an immense amount of lmprove
ment. The winter feed of these cows
is in the main the hull of cotton seeds,
and the buLler made from the cream is
as while as picked cotton. A bale of
cotton will produce seed worth #5 f«r
conversion into oil. In the present |45;
market a bale of cotton will bring
and if a tenant succeeds in growing and
fathering 50 bales per annum he will
"keep a long distance from the poor
house. Colonel Smith gius the cotton
grown on his plantation, turns the seed
into oil, manufactures guano to sell to
his tenants and runs a store where
credit is given to men who are not
much behind in their accounts. At
the cud of the season the Colonel Inn
pretty much all of the surplus cash of
the neighborhood. He has built and
equipped a railroad branch to the heart
of his plantation, and this investment
has paid him handsomely. He sent
his engine to the main line to meet us,
and he hauled our car back to the line
when we got ready to say good-bye.
Big gangs of convicts every day swing
axes in the old field
Everywhere we were shown the great
est, courtesy by prominent members of
communities, aud Mr. Bonner voiced
the sentiments of the visiting delega- North
tion when he remarked that “the
and South were closer together than
some people thought.” The humble
members of communities also treated
us with the utmost respect. I recall
a typical Georgia cracker who warmly
welcomed Col. Echols, Mr. Lamber
ton and myself to his little grocery,
lie iuvited us to try his grape and
peach eider, and finally closed the doors
and, with his long, bony finger pressed
to bis lips as indication of silence, tip
toed to the sugar barrel, removed the
cover arid dragged to full light of a moonshine mysterious
stone jug. It was
whisky, freshly distilled, and, although yards, it
it was equal to death at 1,000 good
was pressed upon us with extreme
nature. The cracker was dealing in
something forbidden by the law, aud
he reasoned that he could not offer us
a greater compliment. He took us in
to his confidence without ever stopping
lo think about the weakness of our
stomachs. lie also called our atten
tion to a king snake in a box, and ex
plained that it bad been worth ten dol
lars to him. When a visitor came iu
and asked to see the snake, the mer
chant required that his curious visitor
“trade” with him to the extent of 25
cents. The snake had been taught trade.
tricks, and each trick meant more
The homely old faee of the cracker
fairlv glowed with pleasure when he
enlarged upon the virtues of his strange
pet. Col. Echols told us that he once
witnessed a fight between a king snake
and a large moccasin. The agile king
rapidly circled the sluggish <>f moccasin, the head
aud seized it by the back
and killed it by constriction. The ne
groes crowded around our car and
looked at us with gaping mouths. As
we were from the North and traveling
in some luxury, we were objects of un
bridled interest to the colored brother
toiliDgon the plantation.
—A superb system of secret commu
nication is in operation in Lexington.
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Constipation poisons the bioo l: DeWitt’s Lit
tie Early Kisers disease cure Constipation, The cai*$e
removed, the is gone.
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—The freeze of Friday morning last
caused much uneasiness about fruit
trees, but they seem to have stood it.
Begga’ Cherry Cough Syrup, price 2m , oOe.,
and$l per buttle. Always get the best, it
costa no more. A rnold's Drug Store .
A BOUGr VOling Ilian Want
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