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THE ^OGLETHORPE ECHO, LEXINGTON, GA.: FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1895.
E. I I a W. F. DORSEY
-*8 CLOTHING * AND 5K FURNITURE. 8<-
Now is the time to get the bargain of your life.
For the next two weeks we will offer to the trade our remaining clothing stock at
50 cents on the doHar straight through. It is our intention to never carry
over goods in this department to a following season.
Our new goods are soon to be put on the counters and we must have the room.
If you want a suit of clothes cheap now is the time. Come and see us.
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COUNTY GOSSIP.
As it Comes to Us Over Our
Grapevine Telephone.
A FULL PAGE OF COUNTY NEWS
Upon Which is Recorded all the Hap¬
penings of Local Interest as
They Transpire Weekly.
—A few peach blooms out.
—Beginning to talk picnics.
—Eggs plentiful at ten cetits a dozen.
—Flower yards beginning to show
up some.
—Almost another blizzard Wednes¬
day night.
—The few late sown oats are up and
looking well,
—Pretty good cyclone Saturday
morning last.
—We have about got the plans of
our ark ready.
—May will be the month of seed
time this year.
—So much high water will make the
fish crop a big one.
—It just seems to have forgotten
how to stop raining.
—Services at the Baptist church to¬
morrow and Sunday.
—Some of those wells that were dry
are now overflowing.
—Maybe we are to have wet and dry
seasons as iu the West.
—March wiuds put in their appear¬
ance Wednesday night.
—Some of the finest horses in this
yicinity are home‘raised.
—Guano haulers seemingly about as
numerous as ever before.
—Tuesday was the last day birds
could be lawfully hunted.
—A few bushels of extra fine cotton
seed for sale at this office.
—A few vegetables were up to be
killed by Monday’s freeze.
—Courts in neighboring conuties are
makiDg our lawyers scarce.
—The flowers are beginning to
bloom in the spring, tra la.
—What bothers us most is the set
back iu the blackberry crop.
—Drummers on bicycles are not un¬
common in this section now.
—Tuesday is the last return day of
cases to be tried at April court.
—Xow is the time to begin to talk
up a colt show for this summer.
—One a week is about the way in¬
spectors of our quarries come now.
—Even that Friday night club has
been knocked out by”the elements.
—All branches were creeks and
• creeks rivers last Saturday and Sunday.
—More new advertisements this
week. It will profit you to read them.
—Always give our advertisers the
preference of your patronage. It helps
us.
—There are rumors of another can¬
didate or two in the field for Commis¬
sioner.
—A county court is growing in pub¬
lic favor. It would lessen the jail ex¬
penses.
—It has developed that about all the
fig bushes were killed by the January
freezes.
—To a hungry editor it is a long
time between Christmas dinners and
picnics.
_Bi<r compost heaps are to be seen
on every hand in voinv through the
country
—A \ mar-iaerp marriage that that Dame Dame Rumor humor had naa
on the bulletin for this week has failed
o occur.
—April court comes as early this
year as it i 3 possible for it to come—on
the loth.
-A general fence building boom is
on here now—a forerumor of other
building.
—Several of our good correspondents overplus
mu 3 t have succumbed to the
of moisture.
—Justice courts all over the county
continue to bold frequent and impor¬
tant sessions.
-Have vou noticed how much the
wind has biown from the east the past
three months.
—Oats have been known to make
good crops when sown as late as the
first of April.
—The fact that they are so far be¬
hind is causing some” farmers to buy
more plow stock.
—It is very seldom we have so hard
a freeze as that of Monday morning
this fate in the spring.
—The jump in price the past week
about cleaued up the few bales of cot¬
ton held in this section.
—A maddog was killed here a few
days since and several have been re¬
ported from the country.
—The universally good condition of
stock shows that corn is not getting
scarce in this section yet.
—A gang of thieves and sharpers are
doing the State. No telling when they
will strike this community.
—The Methodists paid off that little
balance Monday and their church is
entirely free from debt now.
—Lots of millet and sugar cane will
be planted to take the place of oats in
helping out the corn supply.
—Somebody suggests that we notify
some farmers that it is too wet to plow.
They don’t seem to know it.
—The unusually heavy rains of
Thursday and Friday of last week did
great damage to roads and lands.
—Were the A. & C.’ Railroad built it
would open up other fine granite fields
in the eastern part of the county.
—Cotton about six cents now. but
there will be plenty of time between
now and fall for it to drop to four.
—There has been a general ditching
of the creeks around town and many
acres of fine bottom land reclaimed.
—Lexington is preparing to take
care of the delegates to the Union
meeting to be held here next week.
—Yesterday was, by the almanac,
the first day of spring. It is to be
hoped the almanac is right this time.
—Those afraid of cyclones (and who
is not) have been made nervous by
many ominous clouds the past few
days.
—Between the incessant rains and
so much guano hauling it will be a
long time before roads are smooth
again.
—High waters have made it rough
on country mail carriers the past week.
The one to Anon missed his trip Sat¬
urday.
—It is to be hoped that a goodly por¬
tion of that guauo being hauled out of
town will go under corn. Farmers say
it will.
—A breakdown of the engine on the
branch caused us to miss a mail Friday
evening last. This is quite an unusual
occurrence.
—Several of our citizens have in¬
vested in fine breeds of hogs lately,
and we may look for no scarcity of
pigs hereafter.
—If our friends could only realize
how it helps to have news items hand¬
ed in to us we know they would do
more in that line.
—If farmers will be as persistent in
planting corn this spring as they have
been in planting oats during the fall
and winter all will be well.
—An inspection of our advertising
columns will tell our home merchants
why they have reason to complain of
trade going to other places.
—An Oglethorpe farmer carried
twenty-five dressed pigs to Athens a
few days since and found ready sale
for them at prices that beat four-cents
cotton way yonder.
r ry black-draught tea for Dyspepsia.
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Remember the Meeting.
Bear in mind the Union Meeting of
the Sarepta Association which convenes
at the Baptist church in this place
next Friday. If the weather is favor
able it will bring together a large num
her Baptists from the scope of
^ a =, or j a H 0 n ard j^^gton other visiting bids' 5 IlaD
all a
hearty welcome and will sustain ber
1 .station for entertaining
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Grossman Bros.’ celebrated gar
den seed at p iyy Callaway’s,
No New Developements.
There have been no new develope
ments in the work of opening our
quaraies since our last issue. The
Messrs. Venable Bros, have not made
I known their decision as to which of
1 the routes to the quarry mentioned in
our last they will accep t, but it is
bought they will make up their de
cision and have a force of hands at
wor k excavating dirt from the rock
' and grading jusGas settled. soon We as the understand weath
er becomes
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ABOUT PEOPLE.
The Echo’s Eagle Eyes
the Moving Masses.
VISITING AND BEING VISITED.
And Other Things Folks do Which Get
Their Names in the Paper. A
Report from the Sick.
—Judge McWhorter has not yet de¬
cided as to goiug to Athens.
—W. L. Brown, Esq., is attending
Hart Superior court this week.
—Next week is off week with the
courts aud Solicitor Howard will be at
home.
—Mrs. W. A. Shackelford is spend¬
ing several days with her parents near
Bairdstown.
—Miss Annie Weaver, we regret, to
know, was quite sick several days the
first of the week.
—Geo. C. Thomas, Esq., of Wednesday Athens,
was here several hours
evening on business.
—Mrs. John W. Bacon continues to
improve, though slowly, her many
friends will be glad to;know.
—There are unmistakable sisns of
improvement around. Joe Smith has
donned a new suit of clothes.
—We are gratified to know that Mrs.
J. N. Smith, whom we reported last
week as quite sick, is convalescing.
—Miss Lillie Reynolds visited Miss
Lucy Olive Lumpkin in Simston dis¬
trict several days the first of the week.
—Miss Lucy Callaway is at home
from the G. X. & I. College, Milledge
ville, recovering from an indisposition.
—The Patton Bros., the well known
Xorth Carolina drovers, of have mules been
here this week with a lot and
horses.
—Mr. Andrew Arnold, of Center¬
ville, gave us a call Wednesday. He
and family will move to Atlanta in a
few days.
— Woodville had attractions for John
Booth Sunday and a runaway scrape from
with a horse will not keep him
going again.
—Mr. E. M. Drake is fast recover¬
ing. lie visited his mother at Wood
stock, Sunday aud Monday, Mrs. Drake
accompaning him.
—Judge McWhorter has bought him
a latest improved typewriter which his
nephew, Ilamp McWhorter, is learn¬
ing to manipulate.
—Mr. G. K. Smith, who moved from
this section to Jackson county two
years ago, has again taken charge of
his farm near town.
—We regret to hear that Miss Reba
Reynolds, who has been an invalid for
several months, has not been so well
for the past few days.
—Mr. J. Hudson Hunter, of Madi¬
son spent Monday last in Lexington
with his nephew, C. M. Hunter, and
niece, Mrs. W. L. Brown.
—Some interest is taken in the fre¬
quent visits made bv ’Squire Ben Gil
ham to Antioch. He may be visiting
home folks and be may not.
—Mr. J. F. M. Alexander was elect¬
ed deacon of the Presbyterian church
last Sunday. He will, be ordained at
the next regular services of the church.
A Literary „ bocie . y
There is a movement on foot by the
young people of Lexington to form a
literary society, the the object literary o talents w ic
! will be t« improve
of its members as well as to add to
their social enjoyment. It shou d re
celve the hearty co-operation of every
young lady and gentleman of in her the place
an d the encouragement older
people too. There will probably be a
meeting tonight to discuss the matter.
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Drugs and Seeds.
Palmer & KiDnebrew, those reliable
Athens druggists, have a card on the
opposite page of this issue. It is not
j 2 enerally known that they carry as
complete a line of drugs and medicines
j as are ( 0 be found in any house in a
] arge c jty. Tbeir prescription depart
nleut is especially complete. They are
a j 80 ex most'complete t e D a ive dealers in seeds, carry
in g a line of the best
tr r o Wn warden seeds together with grass
and other seeds for the farm. Cal! on
or wr j te them for auylhing wanted in
their line.
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i In our furniture department we receive new goods daily selected with the greatest
care. We can always interest you in this department.
^y e are now receiving a complete assortment of Furniture in Oak. Mahogany and
Cnrlv Burch.
A word to the wise:—We have the stock to select from and our prices will always be
such as to meet any competition. We will interest you.
A $25,000 FIRE.
Col. Smith’s Ginnery and
Bales of Cotton Destroyed.
WITH NO INSURANCE THEREON
Five Hundred Tons of Cotton Seed and
a Car- Load of Bagging and Ties are
Burned Also. A Heavy Loss.
Monday evening last between three
and four o’clock Col. Jas. M. Smith’s
large ginnery, at Smithouia, and its
contents were destroyed by lire. The
gins were running at the time aud it is
thought the fire originated from a
match in the seed cotton.
So suddenly did the flames break
forth and so fiercely did they feed
upon the inflamable material in and
around the gin, that, notwithstanding
a large force of hands fought them al¬
most” from the start, hardly anything
was saved from the house and adjacent
yard. contained four seventy
The ginnery condensers and feeders
saw gins with
and all necessary shafting and belting
aud cotton presses. There was stored
in the house one hundred and twenty
five bales of cotton in the seed and five
hundred tons of seed, all of which was
destroyed together with two hundred
and twenty-five bales of ginned and
packed cotton and a car-load of bag¬
ging and ties in the yard, making a to¬
tal loss of $25,000 or #30,000, witheut
any insurance.
It was by the hardest work that the
oil mill, grist mill and engine bouse
aud guano factory near by were saved.
Five hundred tons of cotton seed meal
and five hundred tons of guano which
were stored near by were barely saved
from the flames.
The gin-house was one of the largest
and best arranged iu the State. Just
last fall Col. Smith had spent §2,500
for a lot of the latest improyed eleva¬
ting machinery and other equipments
and in re-arranging the outfit of gins,
presses, etc.
Coming, as it does, with the low
price of cotton aud the general de¬
pression in business, Col. Smith feels
this loss greatly, yet ne is not one to
be discouraged by e/en such a large
calamity, aud we learn that lie is al¬
ready arranging to rebuild and equip
the plant. He has universal sympathy
in his misfortune.
BLACK-DRAUGHT V,% cares Constipation
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Taking Our Advice.
We understand that several who
have been troubled by runaway bands
being harbored and concealed will
probably take advice given by The
Echo some weeks since and prosecuie
some harborers and concealers. If
these parties do they will do their fel¬
low farmers a good deed indeed by
putting a stop to the absconding of
hands. Let the good work go on.
Fresh lemons at Roy Callaway’s.
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Wanted in Conyers.
Wednesday evening Sheriff Maxwell
received a request from the Sheriff ot
Rockdale county to arrest and hold one
Mark Taylor, col:, until he could come
for him with the necessary papers.
Before eight o’clock that night the said
Mark was'behind the bars of our jail,
lie is wanted for some devilment done
at Conyers, from whence he came to
Lexington, but is not known what that
devilment is and Mark won’t say.
Several good young mules at close
prices at Maxwell’s Stables.
And Still They Come.
mont, the heart of the granite fields of
that State, was here Monday looking
at our granite with a view to establish
ing a quarry. This gentleman is an
extensive quarryman, owning quarries
in Scotland and iu Chicago, besides his
home quarry. He wants to establish a
! Southern branch of bis industry.
Like all the balance, he was well
pleased with the quality of the stone
found here, as well as the surround
ings, and will make an investment if
all things else be as satisfactory. It
does look like we will have to enlarge
our granite fields ta accommodate all
who want interests in them.
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And He’ll Make Corn.
Sheriff Maxwell, has by some ex¬
traordinary ditching, reclaimed the
large marsh on Troublesome creek ex¬
tending from the road leading mile to the
old Robinson place about a down
the creek, and where aiders and rushes
have been wont to grow in profusion
ho will hereafter make bloom and
blossom in corn. And it is expected
that he will have the finest corn field
around town. To do this two ditches
nearly a mile long and from three to
live tect deep had to be dug. Few be¬
sides Ed. Maxwell would have under¬
taken such a job.
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Go Away for the News.
IIow often do wc see the adage of
going away from home to hear the
news verified. Yesterday’s Athens
Banner contains the following in a
special from Elberton: “Solicitor
General W. M. Howard will be a can¬
didate for senator from the Thirtieth
district at the expiration of Senator
Long’s term. It is Oglethorpe’s Howard time
and a better man than Mr. it
would be hard to find to fill the ollice.
Elbert county will probably cast her
vote for the brainv young lawyer.” If
Col. Howard has any idea of being a
candidate for Senator he has not inti¬
mated it to his friends here. Howev¬
er, Oglethorpe county will gladly give
him its hearty and universal support
should he offer for the place.
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Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
World’s Pair Highest Award.
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Seeing is Believing.
Read the prominent advertisement
on the opposite page headed as above.
With their usual perverseness to
“blowing” M. Myers & Co. make a
plain, straightforward announcement
to the buying public inviting an in¬
spection of their stock of new spring
goods before buying. We have feel seen
this stock, and, like them, we as¬
sured that all who inspect it will be
thoroughly convinced that nowhere is
a more complete one to obtained. be found rr
more genuine bargains Ev¬
ery department of their commodious
new store is packed with the latest
styled and newest makes of goods, all
strictly first-class. They carry full
lines of dress goods and notions, fancy
goods, laces and trimmings; gents fur
nishing goods, carpels, mattings and
rugs, ladies and gents’ shoes, etc. Of
course when you make your spring
trip to Athens you will not pass them
by.
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California dried peaches at The
Racket Store.
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JOHN GIBSON INSTITUTE.
LEXINGTON BOY.
—More students every day.
—Quarterly examinatiqn last Thurs¬
day and Friday.
—The domitory is frequently visited
by a band of fine musicians.
—Don’t ask Sam Brooks why he is
al ways walking down the Railroad
—Gip Glenn says that the “Two
Keys” novel is the best one he eyer
read.
—Don’t ask Bob Ginn where his
derby is for he has not seen it in two
weeks.
—The rules of the institute were sus¬
pended last Friday night, Saturday and
Sunday.
—Bradley Hansford says he will sup¬
port Cleveland the next time and all
the time if he wishes.
—The boys made good of this sus¬
pension of the rules for it will be ten
weeks before they are suspended again.
—The college girls gave a magnifi¬
cent entertainment last Friday night,
which drew a very large crowd and
was enjoyed by every one.
—The domitory has a very large col¬
lection of pretty girls and nearly every
boy in college has some kind of an ex¬
cuse to go there. At least that is what
they say.
GTo8sm.ni ‘ Bros’ A celebrated ' gar- ^
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Birds of a Feather.
We al! know they will flock together.
This is true in humankind as well as in
the feathery tribes. Those who really
want bargains will always flock to
those who have them to offer. That is
why so many buy their watches,
clocks, spectacles, etc., of, and, have
tbeir repairing done by, Skiff, the jew
eler.
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Wanted! All the eggs I can get.
Highest 0 market price paid. LS,
At £
MAXEYS MATTERS
As Our Special Correspondent
Finds Them.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
A Half Column or More of Interesting
News Notes From a Live Town.
Furnished by Pet, Jr.
—Spring is yet to come.
— Warm climate is in great demand.
—A few showers now and then help
to keep the ground soft.
—Our town is still infested with
boomers. Don’t know what will come
next.
—A. J. Gillen made a short visit to
Union Point Thursday to consult his
attorney.
—Mr. S. Bailey was very sick last
Tuesday and Wednesday hut is some
better at present.
—Gillen Bros, now have one of the
uobiest lines of dress goods that has
ever been handled in this county.
—Our commissioners are jolly good
fellows. They get the boys to
work their roads between showers.
—J. W. Hammond who has been in
the land and immigr ation business for
several monlhs, mat! e his first deal last
Tuesday.
—One of out boys has a watermelon
patch already planted iu boxes and the
vines are trailing across the floor look¬
ing for sunshine.
—C. F. Brightwell says lie has con¬
cluded to settle down in this county as
he has found ono man that is two inch¬
es taller than himself.
—Mrs. William Bryant, Hr., who has
been very sick near here, we are glad
state, is improving iu strength very
fast since her illness.
—Maxeys has or will soon have
some of the prettiest flower yards you
most ever saw. The girls lavish all" of
their affections on them it seems.
—One of our good old farmers who
held his cotton until a few weeks ago
almost had a fit yesterday when he
s iw it had gone up three points iu
New York since he sold.
—If you are still at sea just call at
Gillen Bros. and see theD spring straw
hats and you can get in the swim, for
they have the finest and prettiest line
you ever saw iu all your born days.
—It is reported that Cupid is again
hurling his darts at one of the fair sex
iu our community. It is to happen
soon. We are bound to go as we have
an invitation. This did not stab us as
deep as the other.
—March winds don’t effect Parson
S. T. Gillen very much or the summer
showers. lie can be heard from the
early morning until the sweet shadows
of uighl come singing some good old
Sabbath-school hymn.
—We have seen lots of good things
but we happened to heai of a good fel¬
low who nobody would eyer thought
of such a thing as spooning who was
seen on last Sabbath casting fond looks
at his dear little wife that anybody
would envy. Who would have thought
he could do such a wee small thing as
that, his notions beiDgon business mat¬
ter all the time. We are glad to know
he is capable of such. It shows he is
not made of stone.
Fresh lemons at Roy Callaway’s.
Sweet potatoes for seed at the
Racket Store.
Several good young mules at close
prices at Maxwell’s Stables.
DO NOT FORGET
'V hen you want anything to read
go to the Racket Store. I he most
complete line of novels to bo found
anywhere, authors, such by a hundred different
as:
Bertha M. C!«y. F. e. Phillips,
‘ Mre^SdeV
Km iieZo!a. Bev. DeWitTaimage.
Hawkshair. onida.
"^"nceWaT^n.' £Haggard.
b. Watford. iiobt. Buehaonan.
ifaxweUGray t. a. Young 5 '
ttudyard Kipling. John strange Winter.
And many others, all of which I
rent for 10c each or sell them for
20c. each, 6 for $1.00.
The Racket Store,
Ed. T. Roane,