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GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL.
W. ADDISON KNOWLES. Prop’r.
VOLUME XIV-NUMBER 39
A GREAT BUSTLE!
HOW FASHION BECAME TWIN
WITH AGRICULTURE.
THE ENORMOUS PROTUBERANCE OF THE
PERIOD PLANTED AND PLOWED
JUST LIKE OTHER CROPS.
Now, we don’t mean the great business
bustle which belongs to the early fall and
winter trade, nor the great bustle of the
humming and whirling marts of manu
facturing energy. We mean the great
bustle of modern fashion.
Nothing has outstripped the bustle in
its gigantic strife for prodigious excel
lence. It is paradoxical that this “out
ward form” of fashion, which has never
been literally in front, has still left all
other modistic rivals behind!
We can recall when this startlingly
reproductive fruit received the distinct
impetus which has borne it through suc
cessive stages to the present extraordina
ry condition of development. The bustle
got a wondrous impulse from an accident
and alarm of the late war. We have in
tently observed its onw’ard march toward
immensity for more than twenty years;
and now that it is grown large enough
to comprehend this commentary, we pay
to its historic origin our respectful com
pliments.
The bustle of the war period in the
South was cut crescent-shaped, was hand-,
sewed, and was then padded through an
open end with cotton or sawdust. It was
a modest, unobtrusive bustle in its man
ners, and when properly adjusted was
quite invisible to the wearer and nearly
so to the world. Like certain lunar
eclipses, it could be viewed only from a
very limited area.
When Sherman’s Christian battalions
were beating through the backways of
the Georgians and Carolinians, it was
deemed for prudential reasons best to de
posit domestic treasure such as money
and valuables where they would not con
front these patriots. It was not at first
suspected that the soldiers would appro
priate these effects, but it was feared
that the gilt bric-a-brac and brooch and
bracelet jewelry might attract their ad
miration and impede their march by
tempting them to stop and examine the
precious wares.
When brought into full relief by pow
erful field lenses it was at last seen
that Sherman’s Christian battalions were
an army of incontinent kleptomaniacs,
and that new ingenuities would be in
constant need to baffle their keen and
acute methods for detecting the secret
places of hidden treasure.
Hiding places were numerous in truth,
but their instinct for stealage was quite as
diverse and quite as many.
At this crisis the bustle played a liis-
tone part.
It became a safe deposit vault for im
perilled jewelry possessions!
Both cotton and sawdust bustles were
now brought into anew use. They
were ripped and rid of their waste,
and then were rewadded, but this time
with small wares and valued gems. Two
abnormal effects followed, the first being
a disturbance of the symmetry and grav
ity of the former bustle, the second
being a marked increase in its propor
tions. This made it the more observable,
and this, too, led to its eventful detection
by certain of the soldiers, which discov
ery culminated in the theft of many bus
tles, together with their precious and
highly prized contents.
What was next to do ?
Shrewd and resourceful maidens soon
fell upon another device. There was
continual peril of loss while the bustles
were worn in their allotted places upon
the person, but there was hope of escape
for them if they could be successfully
concealed elsewhere. But where, oh!
where? In the house? No! for Sher
man entered with lurid faggots. In the
woods ? No! for his marauders roost
ed upon the boughs.
So the noble women resolved to bury
their trinkets in the fields. The broad
acres thus became the depository of their
charms and treasures, and the earth cov
ered up their—bustles.
See yonder dune where the tasselated
stalk is nodding to the breese and you
hear the rustle of the com blade? Well,
once you could hear the rustle of the
bustle! See those tiny hills whence the
hopeful germ of the happy potato is
looking toward the sun ? Well, those
little hills were once sown broadcast
with those beautiful suggestions of drom
edarian architecture known in the par
lance of worldly fashion as—bustles!
What became of them ?
We cannot answer for them all. Nor
can we repress the thought that had they
all taken root, and ripened and risen in
luxuriant loveliness, what a harvest of
bustles there would have been! But,
like other tender and precarious vegeta
tion, bustles had to take tlieir chances—
and more too.
Some of them, as before, fell to the cu
pidity of Sherman’s Christian soldiers,
who relentlessly uprooted them; others,
after the passage of military peril, were
resurrected, to be transplanted elsewhere;
and others still, being unmarked, were
never found by those who had hastily
and hopefully entombed them!
But a great and unexpected day had
dawned for bustles. Of the number that
were left in the eai th a vast proportion
of those which had been filled with saw
dust iu time took root, and exuberantly
blossomed and flourished. Those which
bad contained cotton, however, went
generally to seed.
We would say here that from this
startling botanic phenomenon and the
impressive date and situation we have
been enabled to locate unmistakably the
rise and progress of the American bustle;
and we have been convinced, too, that
nothing short of the most pertinacious
and painstaking care and watchfulness
could have brought this indispensable ap
fiurtenance of modem female beauty to
ts present extraordinary size, vigOT and
variety.
We have not space to fully present our
deductions from the important circum
stances that surround the bustle or from
the beautiful physiological female crea
tions that stand immediately in front of
it We cannot contrast the early and al
most nnnottceable product we suw plant
ed in the past, with the prodigious and
illimitable fruit of our day, without the
encroachment of wonder upon our
thoughts and a sublime mid poetic ten
dency toward blank verse.
If we view the matter iu a practical and
dispassionate vein, we sre forced to the
conviction that hustles make a better crop
for profitable or ornamental farming tlian
hreadattiffa. We hell.ivo there la no
known alo'idgmeut to its dinteuaioua,
and that faithful and assiduous tillage
will produce bustles of good ■ uglify quite
a* large at hast aa not-wlr bsilouus.
Tbi ii must ha mors money in $ crop el
bustles of this size than in several bales
of cotton.'
When the bustle has been developed to
its probable limit we think Ihe lady
who wears one will escape recognition,
if not, indeed, observation. On a re
cent visit to Augusta our attention was
called to a bustle of the “pneumatic” spe
cies. This is a graft of the bulb variety,
and is filled with atmospheric oxygen.
It was propelling a young lady before it
much as a perambulator is engineered
by a nurse. This bustle was the admira
tion of one of the main thoroughfares of
Augusta. The lady turned to gaze upon
the elegant stationery in the Chronicle
windows. Being then en profile, the ef
fect was at its best. She wore a terra
cotta chimney-pot hat, and with the pro
longation of her body growing out of
the new “pneumatic” bustle resembled
very closely a rural summer cottage with
a stove flue fixed at one end. Modestic
art has indeed trenched closely on an
atomical perfection when an exquisite
female form can be made to counterfei t
a farm shanty with a ventilating shaft
at the gable.
The Department of Agriculture will
confer a national blessing by distributing
the seed of this species of bustle postage
free. We should like to alternate the
pneumatic variety of adjustable bustle
with Bermuda grass or Bermuda onions.
The State Fair.
The State Fair this year promises
to be unusually attractive.
Every one who preposes to make an ex
hibit at the Georgia State Fair, to be
opened at Macon on th e 25th day of Oc
tober inst, should send to Secretary E.
C. Grier, Macon, Ga., for a premium list.
Applications for space should be made
to Pearce Horne, General Superintend
ent, Macon, Ga. The Fair will be con
tinued two weeks. Ten thousand dol
lars in cash premiums have been offered
for best exhibits, and every department
of agricultural and mechanical industry
is fully covered.
In amusements, many special attrac
tions will be presented, and the Fair offi
cials are exerting themselves to make the
best and most comprehensive Fair ever
held in Georgia.
Articles for exhibition must be on the
grounds on or before the 25th of October;
arrangements have been made with the
railroads for the carriage to and from the
Fair of all articles at one rate of fare.
Passengers will be carried at reduced
rates. The public houses of Macon will
furnish accommodations for all visitors.
Over S3OO have been offered in pre
miums in the needlework department
alone.
Ample space has been aligned to agri
cultural clubs and other departments.
Heretofore old Greene has been a con
spicuous competitor in big corn, hay and
other crops, and we think will be heard
from this year. She could parade any
number of fine mares and colts as well
as Jerseys. We presume the ladies of
Greene will be represented on the occa
sion.
Athens Fair.
By reference to the card of the North
east Georgia Fair Association on our
eighth page, it will be seen that the sec
ond annual exhibition will take place
in Athens on November 9,10,11, 12 and
13, inclusive. The present exhibition
is designed to excel in all respects the
maiden effort, and from the handsome
preparations being made it will abundant
ly accomplish its worthy aim. Those
wishing to contribute exhibits should
write for prize lists at once, and every
body in at least this section of Georgia
should encourage the splendid efforts of
the association by their presence. For
particulars address W. D. Griffith, Sec
retary, Athens, Ga.
Money in Grass.
Every farmer in Greene should ponder
the following from the Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Amkricus, Ga., October s— [Special]
Last winter when the Ohio excursionists
came to Georgia, among them was a
young man by the name of F. W. Smith.
He hired to a farmer in this county for
$8 per month, and worked through the
season of cultivating the crop He said
he knew he was worth more, but he
wanted to familiarize himself with our
means and methods of farming. When
the crop was “laid by” his time being up
with Mr. D. W. Bagley, he set about find
ing some land on which to farm for him
self next year. He rented a place from
Mr. S. W. Smalls. Upon the portion of
the land rented was a twelve acre field
which a negro tenant had planted in cot
ton and abandoned to grass. Mr. Smith
at once saw that there was something
that could be saved. With his own
hands he cut six days from this land on
shares for Mr Smalls. He stopped at
the end of six days on account of sick
ness. His part of the hay amounts to
twelve ton 6, which is nicely cured and
housed. He has been offered for it $l2O
where it is, a few miles from Ameri
cus, but declines to sell, as he knows
good hay is worth more than S2O per ton
m the Americus market during the win
ter season. It is the axiom that only
money saved is money made, and it is
certainly true that to save produce on a
farm is as important as to make it.
Crop Report.
Commissioner J. T. Henderson and his
assistants have nearly completed their
last monthly crop report for the present
year. The averages indicate an improve
ment, but none of the crops are full.
From the advance sheets of the report
the following was obtained:
Let 100 represent the average of a series
of years; not less than five; thus 110 rep
resents a crop of 10 per cent, above, und
90 one that is 10 per cent, below the aver
age.
Corn—prospect compared to an aver
age, 91 per cent.
Sugar cane—prospect compared to an
average, 88 per cent
Sorghum—prospect compared to an
average, 94 per cent.
Sweet potatoes—prospeot compared to
an average, 87 per eent.
Turnips—prospect compared to an av
erage, 72 per cent.
Cotton—prospect compared to an aver
age, 79 per cent.
Tobacco—prospect compared to an av
erage, 95 percent
Number of stock hogs, ouinpared to an
average, 92 per cent.
Cholera is repoi tori as having prevailed
among hogs in all sections of the Htate
to a quarter or less extent, but more mod*
daily and sitended with iiiuro disastrous
results in North, Middle slid South west
Georgia,
DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE.
aREENESBORO, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8. 1886 -EIGHT PAGES.
A CLEAN SHUT OUT
THE ROUT OF RADICALISM IN
GRAND OLD GREENE.
THE DEMOCRATS SWEEP THE COUNTY
FORE AND AFT, AND WIPE OUT
FINALLY ALL OPPOSITION.
The result of Wednesday’s election will
surprise no one, not even, perhaps, the
negroes. The latter had uo object wor
thier than factious opposition or race
issues for their inspiration, and they
were doomed to suffer defeat, just as we
predict will be their fate as often as they
wage their campaign on those grounds.
That they had no higher motive than the
mere ascendancy of the negroes over the
whites is shown by the fact that they
ignored every candidate on the regular
ticket, and even omitted the name of Mr.
Lewis from their ballots after having
pnblicly endorsed him.
To the Democrats the result is reas
suring and significant. It will probably
terminate this class of campaign in the
county, for the negroes are not too blind
nor bigoted to see that their purely nu
merical majority in population cannot
withstand the determined pressure of the
wealth, intelligence, progress and tax
paying preponderance of the white peo
ple of Greene. If the negroes had even
elected their men they would have been
emptily represented in the legislature,
where the unbecoming basis on which
they placed their candidates would have
surrounded their legislative attempts
with distrust, and would thus have ren
dered them officially helpless and hope
less. The negroes will find in time, if
they do not know it already, that they
are better served at Atlanta by the Dem
ocrats than they can possibly be by their
own race and color. More than this,
they will discover far better employment
as wage-earners than as ballot-wielders.
Those of their people who have the polit
ical “bee” badly are, as a rule, the least
reliable and smallest in importance among
them.
We give below the tabulated returns
from tne county, omitting as unimpor
tant the slightly varying vote as between
the officials on the State ticket:
A . a
S .00 r-*
o .2 g 13 “ 2
Precincts. & £ £ £ M
o®s s o o
i-4 < tc i- t>
Greenesboio 191 204 202 200 239 238
Siloam 86 87 88 88 39 39
White Plains 59 68 66 68 59 59
Reynolds ... 83 90 92 89 40 42
Union Point 35 43 42 44 28 28
Woodville... 82 76 79 78 35 ’.33
Penfield .... 44 48 47 47 61 61
Powells M’ls 74 85 85 88 22 23
Greshamv’le 61 61 61 61 57 55
Liberty 71 62 70 68 53 53
Wright’s.... 57 60 00 60 .33 33
Foster’s
New Salem
Totals.... 843 884 892 897 666 664
Democratic majority 231.
The Weather.
All memory of Wiggins was frozen out
of human thought on the lstinst., when
the present atmospheric refrigeration set
in ou a declining temperature and a ther
mometrical tendency toward par.
October had been standing at the wing
watching the antics of September. The
latter had had thirty days of general
gymnastics and giddy self-will. We don’t
suppose another September ever had ful
ly comprehended that its position in the
comedy of the Almanac was one of so
much play and importance. Most Sep
tembers have kicked up considerable dust
for a few days, then flushed the land with
equinoctial torrents, and then fluttered
from the scene in a mire of mud and mal
ediction. Hut this last September was
not a creature of that kind. It caught
an earthquake contagion from August,
and it held the ball to the end of the
thirtieth inning. It came burdened with
bad odors and it pranced out in bad
temper. Whirlwinds, cyclones, storms,
torrid sultriness, dry periods, deluges,
meteoric pyrotechnics, volcanoes, earth
quakes, elections, and—Wiggins, marked
September. There was nothing that
anybody particularly needed that flowed
from its cornucopia, and multitudes of
commodities not wanted were contained
in its Pandora’s box.
What a rebuke, then, to its caprices,
its whirls and wiles, is the soft, tender
and cool mouth which is now shedding
its crescent moonbeams and balmy morn
ings upon us! The nights have now a
nectarine air and mellowness and the
days are bright and rosy. The tempera
ture is of that bracing quality that urges
yet does not weary, that tells of the com
ing frosts, but warms us while it is tell
ing.
Without wishing to seem “too previ
ous” on so tender and perhaps unstable a
subject, we desire to congratulate Octo
ber on the first six days it has contribut
ed to this year’s calendar.
The Tax Receivership.
Editor Home Journal:
It lias been circulated in some portions
of the county that Mr. C. B. Swanson’s
health would not permit him to hold the
office of Tax Receiver if elected, and also
being a cripple that he is not able to help
himself. Vt e pronounce this a falsehood
from beginning to end. We have known
Mr. Swanson eight or ten years, and have
never known him to be ill iu all that
time. As for helping himself, he can
hitch up his horse without help, ran also
write without trouble, and is fully capable
of performing the duties of the office if
elected; ami wo hop* every true eitizen
will do his best to help him get the posi
tion. Foiik Votku.
Ureahamville, Kept. 29, 1880,
- ■—♦ - - ■■
For County Treasurer.
To the Voter* nf fJrevne County /
I hereby announce myself as a candidate
1 fur ths office of C'ouuly Treasurer at the
next (January j election. If circled, I will
I ne my hat efforts in serve (ho people with
l the same fidelity in llte future aa i have in
iUt past. James u, I'ahk, Jm,
A GREENE RIFLES. A
THE ENTERTAINMENT PAR EXCELLENCE
OF THE AUTUMN SEASON.
The assiduous labors of the excellent
ladies’ committee which has undertaken
the arrangements for the forthcoming
entertainment for the benefit of the uni
form fund of the crack military corps of
the county—the Greene Rifles—already
assure the most complete success to the
scheme.
The committees include that on man
agement and another for the solicitation
of necessary subscriptions. This latter
have added the names of active ladies
from every part of the county. The peo
ple of Greene are reminded that the
Rifles are a county organization, and of
course an honorable and equal promi
nence in the effort will be shared by all
points within that geographical limit;
and the committees have expressed grati
fying confidence in the hearty co-opera
tion of.the whole county to the end that
the affair shall be worthy of the spirited
interest which has inspired it. Thus far
the contributions have been flattering to
the energy of the ladies, while of meats,
bread and other substantial they do not
doubt that ample donations will reach
them from the county. They will require
considerably more of this description
of edible then they have thus far been
promised. The ladies of the county are
accordingly requested to canvass among
their friends and neighbors for the pro
curement of poultry, turkeys, pork, beef
and other food of this class.
A meeting of the ladies of the commit
tee will be held this (Friday) afternoon
at Mrs. Letitia Daniel’s to perfect all
plans; and ladies from all parts of the
county have already been or are by this
publication invited to unite with them.
The programme as far as determined
on includes an exhibition drill by the
Rifles, to which an admission fee of ten
cents will be charged. An address to
the Rifles and their friends will be deliv
ered by Col. Joel A. Billups. A hot sup
per will be in order from 5 to 10 o’clock
p. m. This will be served at Zimmer
man’s store, as the most commodious
place for the purpose.
A cordial invitation is extended to
every individual in the town and county
to be present. The ladies have put the
price of admission within the reach
of the poorest. Only 25 cents is charged
for a supper and a hot cup of coffee.
For ice-cream and cake 10 cents extra;
children under ten years 15 cents.
The festival will take place on Friday,
October 15.
ODDS AND ENDS.
JUST A LICK AT LOCALS THAT WOULD
NOT BE CROWDED OUT.
—H. H. P. is
The best Liver Medicine in the world.
Try it.
—Now is the time to secure a bargain
in Furniture; several suits sold sinco last
week. Come before the assortment is
broken.—Copelan, Seals & Armor.
—H. H. P. is
The best Liver Medicine in the world.
Try it.
—Hardware, Tinware, Woodware,
Crockeryware, Glassware and wares too
numerous to mention, at rock bottom
prices, can bo found at Copelan, Seals &
Armor’B.
H. 11. P. is
The best Liver Medicine in the world.
Try it.
—Miss Ella McColgan, an artistic and
stylish milliner, has just returned with
large and well selected Millinery. Come
at once before the rush begins.—Cope
lan, Seals & Armor.
-H. H. P. is
The best Liver Medicine in the world.
Try it.
—Young man, next timo you are in
Greenesboro call at Copelan Seals & Ar
mor’s ask Zeck Stanley, who lias the
Clothing department to get you a suit.
He can fit you elegantly and sell lower
than ever.
—H. 11. P. is
The best Liver Medicine in the world.
Try it.
—Largo assortment Carpets, three
ply ingrain and Brussels with beautiful
ingrains to match, also Oil Cloth and
Matting at lower down prices than ever
before seen in this market.—Copelan
Seals & Armor.
—Largest assortment, nobbiest styles
and most elegant fitting Cloaks, New
markets, Boncle Jackets, Boncle Jerse ;
Jackets, plain, fancy and hr .ided, we
ever offered to the ladies can be found at
Copelan, Seals & Armor’s.
—Galvanized Well Chain, well Wheels,
Grindstone apparatus, Plow tools, car
penter’s tools, bolts and screws all sizes
and lengths; in fact the most complete
line hardware ever seen is this county at
Copelan, Seals & Armor’s.
—I,OOO pounds assorted Stick Candy,
cloves, banana, strawberry, cinnamon,
mint flavored; 40 boxes Crackers; Corn
Hill’s Ginger Snapps; Pearl Oyster, etc.,
just received fresh from the bakery, at
Copelan, Seals & Armor’s.
—Zeke Stanley says if you doubt Cope
lan, Seals & Armor’s Clothing being the
nobbiest and most durable, buy a suit of
him and you will go home the happiest
man in the country, being satisfied ’tis
the best bargain of your life.
Rev. George G. Smith.
This zealous and gifted gentleman be
gan a week of religious work at the
Greenesboro Methodist church on Sab
bath day last. The labor of Mr. Smith is
addressed principally to the young, and
hiH addresses are spirited, heartful and
impressive in the extreme. The meet
ings have been held three timos daily—
for the ladies at 11 a. m., for the children
at 4 p. m. and for all at 7.30 night.
The attendance has been at limes very
encouraging, but we do not ibink it has
been commensurate with the nature and
importance of the undertaking nor with
the devout and admirable efforts of the
leader. Mr. Smith is well known in
Greenesboro, and, iu fact all over the
South, us a faithful, hopeful and iudom
italde Sunday school laborer, anil no other
field in the whole land, perhaps, has
more needed just such a religious awak
ening ait he has during the past week
striven to inspire in our city.
— .■
Ilupl Ist Church
ltev. Edward H, Harris, of Monroe
(brother of the late Ur. Harris of this
city), will presell ou next Sunday at tits
i usual hours In lira iixjitiit church. Ail
i are luviied,
CORRESPONDENCE.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NOTES
WE PUT IN PICKLE.
THIS DONE SO THAT IF SET ASIDE FOR
A FUTURE RELISH THEY CAN BE
RELIED ON TO “ KEEP.”
UNION POINT.
Clarence Watson, of Washington,
was dp Sunday.
... .M. W. Wooding, of Atlanta, is vis
iting friends in the village.
The Union Point academy has an
attendance of over seventy-five pupils.
The express office has been moved
from T. M. Bryan & Co’s store to the
depot.
Mrs. M. V. Hart is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. G. E. Thomas, at Colum
bus, Ga.
... .Miss Jessie norton returned from
Augusta, Monday, where she lias been
spending the summer.
Miss Susie Newton left for Nash
ville, Tenn., Monday, where she goes to
attend the normal school.
Mrs. Sibley is having anew fence
put around the lawn in front of her home
which greatly improves the looks of the
place.
Mrs. W. T. Williams and daugh
ters, Misses Emma and Mamie, who have
been spending the summer here returned
home Saturday.
Mrs. T. C. Newton, secretary, re
quests the members of the Pickwick
Club to meet at the Terraces tonight
(Friday) at 7 o’clock.
Mrs. J. A. Cromer gave a delight
ful tea party Tuesday night, and M. L.
Watson followed suit Wednesday night.
Both were given in honor of the “North
Georgia Marooning Party,” and were
quite enjoyable.
Three bales of cotton shipped by
P. M. Moss to J. H. Rucker, Athens,
caught fire on the depot platform Wed
nesday morning and were damaged to
such an extent by the fire and water as
to be entirely worthless. '
H.
PINE GROVE.
.... We are glad to note that the Messrs.
Barnhart are convalescent.
Dame Humor reports two marriages
in our community ere long.
Rev. J. S. Callaway is looking
highly pleased just now. A little girl
the cause.
Mrs. Mays Jenkins, after several
weeks of severe illness, we are glad to
say, is now up.
Miss Durham, after a pleasant visit
to her friend, Mrs. A. E. Thompson, has
returned home.
Mr. Fred. Linenkolhn is now lying
dangerously ill with fever. We hope
soon to chronicle his recovery.
Jim Mullins and his girl have made
up and started in anew again. Guess he
will think over the subject a little longer
this time.
....Miss Lula Thompson, an interest
ing and accomplished young lady, is on a
visit to her sister, Mrs. Winslett, of
Greshamville. May she have a pleasant
stay.
On last Saturday night John Moody
on his way home from work was attack
ed by something in the road like a wild
cat or panther. John found that he was
in a predicament, and drew his revolver
and emptied every barrel at the supposed
animal. The shots having no effeot,
John made tracks forborne, and the var
mint after him. He reached home safely.
Some of the neighbors went down the
next morning and measured John’s
tracks, which were 13 feet 8$ inches
from track to track.
Tattler.
POWELL’S MILLS.
... .Cool mornings.
.... A good deal of sickness around at
this writing.
....Mr. William Neal was over our
way last week.
The cotton crop throughout this
section is nearly all open.
... Prof. G. M. Stovall and C. D. Wil
loughby visited Watson Springs on last
Sunday.
Now is the time to pay your sub
scription. Subscribe for the Home Jour
nal and get the news.
Messrs Powell & Davenport are
driving some of their two year-old colts.
They make splendid time.
Miss Essie Few, one of our most
popular young ladies will leave in a few
days for Carnesville, where she will spend
the winter.
We met last Sunday with brother
“Uno,” and spent a few minutes in
social chat. Also with “Straggler” of
the Herald.
.. ..With pain we chronicle the illness
of Miss Annie Moore, who is dangerously
ill with typhoid fever. We hope to hear
of her recovery soon.
....Mr. James Thrasher has accepted
a position as clerk with Mr. John Mar
shall. Jim is a clever young man and
we wish him successs.
—Miss Lizzie Leverett, of Gresham
ville, returned to her home last Sunday
after spending several days very pleas
antly with Misses Fannie and Lillie Sto
vall.
... .A few days ago we wandered over
to Mr. William Stovall’s, where we found
him as ever, the same courteous gentle
man. He took us over his farm and
showed us his crops. He has the best
crop of cottou we have ever seen.
Lectus.
RUTH.
.... Politics booming.
.... Dr. Credille is a bachelor for three
months and he—ain’t happy.
....Mr. Alex. Monfort has had his
dwelling house newly covered besides
other improvements about his premises.
.... Mr. James B. Williams, traveling
salesman for Bain A Kirkpatrick, whole
sale hardware, Atlanta, accompanied by
Ills wife, spent Haturday and (Sunday
with Ills father, Mr. 11. P. Williams.
... .Mr. G. TANARUS, Howland, of the firm of
Hmltli A Howland, publishers, Atlanta,
I >aid a living viait to ilia mother, Mrs. J.
I. Copelan, last week. Mr* Howland lias
a boat of friends iu Ureeue who are ai
ways glad to see him.
....Dr. W. K. Adams addressed a large
political audience on Tuesday night of
last week at the academy. The Doctor
delivered a most eloquent address upon
political topics. It was delivered in that
style that only such men as Dr. Adams
are capable of rendering.
.. .Mr. Wynn Copelan, one of Ruth’s
most promising young men, left on Tues
day of last week for Edgewood, where
he will enter the high school at that
point. Wynn leaves a multitude of
friends in Greene who wisli him much
success in this important step.
... .Mrs. C. S. Credille, after spending
the summer with Dr. and Mrs. W. H.
Credille, left on last Friday for Edge
wood. She was accompanied by her
sister Mrs. Dr. Credille and her charming
daughter, Fannie. Mrs. Credille goes
for the purpose of educating her daugh
ter in the high school there.
Fate seems to antagonize success
with some people and often does. We
see our door neighbors ill stored by its
slavish fetters. We thought of this as
we passed the domicile of our neighbor,
Mr. W. V. Griffith, not long since. It
will be remembered that his com was
burned up last spring by the incendiary’s
torch, and now his cotton on account of
it being so late is burned up by Old Sol.
Eli.
GRESHAMVILLE.
.... We are having chilly weather.
Prof. T. C. Conaway spent a few
days in the Fork last week.
Mr. Maner Sanders and Miss Mudge
Gresham spent last Sunday at Gresham
ville,
... .Mr. J. F. Turnell, of Greenesboro,
spent last Sunday in Greshamville. We
are always glad to see him.
.... Mr. Robert Boths caught on the
Dawson pond last week with a seine, one
hundred and fifty pounds of fish.
Major Gresham has the finest patch
of tobacco we have seen. The Major lias
success in anvthing he undertakes.
Mr. Oswalt and his sister returned
to their home in Alabama last week,
much to the regret of their many friends.
... .Mrs. J. E. Nunnerly and Miss Stella
Wray, of Monroe, spent a few days in
the Fork last week, the guests of Mr. W.
T. Foster.
J. W. Averett and wife, of Augusta,
is visiting his son, Mr. F. A. Averett. We
are glad to see them and wish them a
pleasant visit.
....Vollie Perkins is now behind the
counter of Messrs McWhorter & Bro., at
Buckhead. Vollie is one of our best
boys, and we wish him success.
... .We heard a splendid sermon from
Rev. Mr. Swanson on Sunday last. Any
church that secures Mr. Swanson’s ser
vices gets a good man and splendid
preacher.
.... Mr. J. H. McWhorter and family,
of Woodville, have moved back to the
Fork. They are liked by all the people
of this neighborhood, and we are glad
to have them back again.
Miss Annie Markwalter, one of
Greenesboro’s most accomplished and
prettiest young ladies, spent Sunday in
Greshamville. Miss Annie is liked by
all the people of the Fork, and she will
always receive a royal welcome.
....Everyone that sees Berry Stovall
notices his sad looks and says, “Berry,
what is the matter ?” Berry shakes his
head sadly and says, “I do not know;
think it must be heart disease.” You
must not look sad, Berry; she will come
back again.
Uxo.
VEAZEY.
....These cool mornings remind us
that winter is approaching.
.... Rain is much needed in our section
to briog up the small grain that has been
sown.
has to wear a duster when he goes spark
ing. We reckon Bill will wear his over
coat the next time he goes.
As sure as comes your wedding day,
A cain to you I’ll send;
In sunshine break it over liis head,
In storm send him off to roam.
Mr. J. A. Jones, while attending
to the gin of Mr. E. A. Yeazey one day
last week, was thrown by the large belt
against the frame of the gin, breaking
both bones of his arm. Dr. W. F. Hailes
was at once called in and the broken arm
was skillfully dressed. We are glad to
state that Mr. Jones is doing well and
will soon be all right again.
There is no use talking, Mr. n. P.
Williams has opened [up at Ruth a nice
line of goods; and they are arranged in
an attractive style. From the very ap-
Cearance of things one sees that he means
usinsss. Mr. Williams is a man of good
business qualities and considerable expe
rience in the mercantile line, and with
the assistance of his two sons, C. 11. and
W. L. Williams, we bespeak for him
much success.
Massasoit.
A Pleasing Coincidence.
During his pastorate at the Methodist
Episcopal church in Cassville, in 1848,
the writer officiated at the marriage of
many of the young people of what was
then Cass but is now Bartow county,
Among others whom he united in holy
and happy wedlock, was the young and
beautiful Miss Fannv Trippe, second
daughter of Judge Trippe, of honored
memory, to Mr. Abda Johnson, the talent
ed son of Hon. Lindsey Johnson, of the
same county, and one of its most influen
tial citizens. The other day we received a
handsome invitation for self and family
from Mrs. Abda Johnson, the esteemed
mother of the bride, to the wedding of
her daughter, Miss Lilly, who on the 6tli
inst. will be married to Mr. W. A. Brad
ley. The happy couple have our best
wishes for long and prosperous life. The
event calls up many very pleasant mem
ories of other days to the writer.
Revival Work. •
We alluded last week to the excellent
work which had been accomplished
throughout this county in the way of
church revivals.
At Crawfordville a most interesting
and fruitful series of meetings has been
progressing under that soulful and inde
fatiguable pastor, Kev. C. A. Conaway.
Mr. Couaway reports wonderful spiritual
interest and enduring benefit to the par
tieipante.
11 ■" ' • • ffi i—
lan lio For Mule.
In exaellent running order, with tcoU
and uiUuhnienU: 16 iucltei awing, etui
lie run by hand, borne or a teem; nearly
new. K very thing in good order. Will
be aold leeaoiiahly if |itirt* baaed at onee.
Ceil and axamiue it.
I'euilald, Ua. Uku. H, L>ay ant.
TERMS:—S2.OO per Annum, In Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER fiß9
ALL IN A NUTSHELL
LOCAL LIGHTNING DART3 IN
DAZZLING FLASHES.
HOME HAPPENINGS CAUGHT, HELD AND
CATALOGUED IN A TRICE AND
TREATED IN A COLUMN.
—Delicious Weather.
—Mrs. R. W. Griffin visited Augusta
this week.
—Now is the time to subscribe for the
Home Journal.
—A large line of Tobacco at low pri
ces at It. Tappan’s.
—Cotton coming in freely. Full prices
paid by R. Tappan.
—Mrs. Edward Young spent a day or
so ip Atlanta this week.
—2J Bagging and Arrow Ties at R.
Tappan’s at lowest current rates.
—Mr. J. Conklin Brown has returned
to our city after a visit of several months
North.
—Mr. Charlie Smith, of Washington, is
in the city visiting the family of Mrs. J.
W. Smith.
—New goods arriving every day. Call
and ascertain prices before purchasing.—
R. Tappan.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Copelan left on
yesterdayj (Thursday) to spend several
days in Atlanta.
—Mrs. Newton and Miss Susie Newton,
of Union Point, visited Mrs. W. E. Rey
nolds last Monday.
—Mr. John Sparks, of Louisville, Ky.,
spent seversi days with his many friends
in our city this week.
—Our dress goods are arriving daily
and they are the finest we ever purchased.
—W A Kimbrough & Cos.
—Mrs. J. B. Y. Warner and family re
turned home on Wednesday after an
extended sojourn North.
—Miss Jennie Linton, one of our most
popular young ladies, has gone to Atlan
ta to stay for several months.
—Miss Mittie Smith and little Grade
High returned to our city from Wash
ington, Ga., on last Tuesday.
—The first Saturday in October was
characterized by a very large influx of
visitors from the surrounding country.
—Cotton has been coming in with reg
ularity during the week, and the con
sequent impetus to trade has been nota
ble.
—We regret to learn that Mrs. J. W.
Smith and family will move to Augusta
next week, where they will reside in
future.
—Advertisers will find a valuable me
dium in the Home Joubnal to reach
tlxe trading public. Write to us for es
timates.
—We have just received a full and new
stock of fall and winter goods, such as
clothing, boots, shoes, hats, etc.—W A
Kimbrough <ft Cos.
—Mrs. Joel F. Thornton and her daugh
ter, Miss Annie, left on Wednesday last
to spend a monrli with Mrs. Fannie Wil
liams of Barnesville.
—Our merchants note a fine opening
trade, and expect it to be uninterrupted
for the season, which is one of almost
unexampled promise.
—We understand that Mr. Walter
Griffin will soon begin improvements on
his residence near the Presbyterian
church, and when the work is completed
will move there to reside in future.
—Quite a number of improvements are
still going on in our city. Among them
we notice the painting of Mr. C. A. Davis’
handsome residence, his store and busi
ness office; of the iron front store of Mr.
Geissler, and the residence of Mr. William
Jackson.
—Miss Kate Robertson, of Louisville,
Ga., who has been spending several weeks
with the family of Col. S. D. Linton, of
this city, returned to her home on Mon
day last. Miss Robertson made many
friends during her stay, who will always
give her a cordial welcome to Greenes
boro.
Pleasant Reunion.
Mrs. Force, of Atlanta, and Mrs.
Thomas, of Columbia, Tennessee, are at
present visiting their elder sister, Mrs.
Leonora Clayton, of this city, where they
were all born. They have all occupied
prominent positions in social life, and,
what is better, been active and useful
Christians. They all worshiped together
on last Sunday, and side by side, in the
Church of the Redcemor, commemorated
the dying lovo of a risen Saviour. We
trust many years may be added to their
lives, and that the sojourn of the esteem
ed visiting sisters in their old and quiet
home may bo pleasant.
Crowded Out.
The pressure of advertising matter,
upon our space has been such for two
weeks that the department usually de
voted to Sunday Reading has been, per
force, temporarily eliminated. This de
partment has received conscientious
weekly treatment, and we have been
averse to its abridgment, preferring to
omit it altogether until we can make
place elsewhere for the cards that crowd
our last page. This will soon be done.
Miss Sarah Zluu.
This is the place where the children most
do congregate. Miss Zinn is now antici
pating the festive season that wreathes
about the early winter holidays, and is
already stocking her establishment with
toys, candies, fancy goods, etc., to an ex
tent that will adequately meet the sura
demand that is soon to set in.
White Plains,
Rev. John S. Moore, D.D., Professor of
Latin iu Emory College, Oxford, G*.,
will preach at White Plains next Satur
day and Sunday, October 9th ami 10th
in place of ltev. J. D. Gray. P. E., who is
sick; and the fourth Quarterly Confer
fereuce of the charge will convene Satur
day. A full attendance is very ueeeeaa
ry- _
Cotton Report*
Cotton during the past week has been
coming in freely. Our cottou buyers
are giviug the highest market price. Ws
note:
Good Midi!ling us
Middling tt
Low Middling u
| Augusta Market—Quiet,