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W. T. JOHHSfIJ,
Barim, ayes, Cmtej,
Glassware, Sewing Machines, Paints & Oils.
I WOULD CALL YOU ATTENTION TO MY STOCK OF
Silverware & Fancy Goods
WfllCH I AM SELLING LOWER THAN YOU CAN BUY THEM
ELSEWHERE. YOU MUST INSPECT MY STOCK
TO APPRECIATE IT.
W. T. JOHNSON,
WASHINGTON. GA,
WILKES-WISE.
—A regular brigade of drummers
came up yesterday.
Messrs. Hogue & Quin are painting
up tlieir store very nicely.
—Judge AV. M. Rccic went up to
ClarkcsvHlc on Meudny, to atteim
court.
—Mr*. S. C. Foreman returned
from the Indian Springs on Sat
urday.
—Dr. and Mr*. Ilillyer returned
from a yisit to Decatur on Wcd
neaday.
Mr. John P. Cozart and Dr. Jus.
A. Lane left for New Orleans on
Tuesday.
—The fishermen are renewing
their acquaintance with the angling
business.
—Mrs. Blakey, mother of Mrs. B.
W. Heard, left for her home in Ken
tucky on Saturday.
—There are weddings in tha air,
and you can hear rumors that almost
every eligible person in this or any
of the surrounding communities, is
lobe married very soon,
Coal has recently been considered
one of the most precious products of
the mines, in this community; The
lateness of the spring has caused an
unprecedented demand for it at this
season of the year.
—Mr. J. S Chapman of Barnett,
and Mtae H. E. Walker of this place,
were married here in the Baptist
church on Wednesday afternoon,
by Rev. Mr. Norton of Crawford
rllle. Quite a large number of our
people gathered in the chinch to wit
ness the ceremony. The happy couple
left on the evening train for their
home in Barnett.
—Toe ladies of the Metliedist
cJinreh arc preparing (he children
for a beautiful lUUe play, which will
be duly announced. They will aend
to Boat on and hire ooatumea made
eapecially lor thia play, and Wash
ington will have one of the llneat en
tertainmenta ever given by amateurs
—aomethinglhat will be worthy of a
very large patmnage.
We are glad to see our mer
chants selling matches that were
manufactured in Gainesville, Ga ,
and hope they will keep no other
matches. They are just as good
and as cheap as any matches made,
and by buying them altogether you
will be greatly aiding a Georgia in
dustry. This notice is entirely
gratis, and written simply to encour
age our people to keep up home en
terprises.
—Mr. Edward A. Barnett and Miss
Mamie Hill were msrried st the res
idence of the bride’s mother in this
county, on Wednssdsy the lllh inst.,
Rev. Mr. Watkins performing (he
ceremony? No fairer, sweeter flower
over blossomed into womanhood to
grace a home and engage universal
admiration than this bride of to-day.
Ifcr charming womanlineas will
prove through life even more beau
tiful to him who haa won her, thsn
the pure orange blosaoms of the
wedding day. Ed. Barnott de
servet his good fortune as much as any
man we have ever kuown, and his
host of friends extend him their
heartiest congratulations.
—The East Wilkes Farmer’s Club
met at Mr. Sira Booker’s last Tues
day, and had a magnificent dinner on
home-raised products,according to the
regulations of the club. This club
is composed altogether of prosperous
and thrifty farmers. We don’t know
that the regulations exclude those
who are not thrifty, but under the
benign influence of this organiza
ien a farmer is sure to become
prosperous. This club is doing a
great work in encouraging those
industries that make farms talf-sus
taining and remunerative. It is a
specimen elnh of the many excellent
farmers with which our county
abounds.
—A short while since early one
morning Mr. H. O. Colley’s mare was
turned out of the stable to let her ex
ercise herself in the lot. The morning
was fine and frosty, and the mare was
frisxy and frolicsome. She went
scampering over (he lot enjoying her
freedom, when in passing the milch
cow, she playfully raised her heels
and gave a kick, to knock the stupid
ity out of the cow. and make her join
in the fun. It proved a center shot,
for the cow was struck in tiie head,
snd fell over as .lead as if she had
boon shot with a rifle. It is thought
there was no malice aforethought on
the part of the mare.
—On Tuesday Mr. T. M. Green
purchased the Andrews place from
Mr. H. F. Slaton for Col. Garnett
Andrews, formerly of this place, but
now residing in Chattanooga, Tcnn.
It is very gratifying to our citizens
to see this beautiful and historic
place pass back into the possession
of the Andrews family. lit natural
beauty attracts the admiration of
every passer-by, and no stranger
ever sees it without stopping to gaze
on its beauties, and when the grove
is in lull foilage ft a isgreit resort for
otir people. The consideration paid
for it was $4,800. Mr. Green does
not know what Col. Andrews intends
to do with it, if indeed he has ma
tured any plans further than a desire
to possess this grand old homestead
te which he can but lie greatly at
tached.
—The Georgia railroad has done
the handsome thing by the public and
put down rates to New Orleana te an
astonishing low figure. There is a
general expression of astonishment at
iheaxtreroecheapness of the rates.
Round trip tickets from here to New
Orleans are only fifteen cents higher
than round trip tickets from Atlanta.
If there wore forty competing lines
fioni here to Atlanta the people could
not have better advantages offered
them than aro now being offered by
the Georgia railroad. It is one of the
best equipped and most accommoda
ting railroads in the United Slate*
and few roads have as rapid and con
venient passenger service. The Geor
gia railroad has the universal admir
ation of flic iieonle and the censure of
noue, for iu excellent management
and great accommodation.
—A man named Louis W. Par
tridge of Lincoln county, was up
before the county court in tills place
mi Tuesday, charged with raising the
‘gures on a cotton ticket. It ap
peared from the evidence that the fig.
ores were raised Horn 530 to 630
pounds. The ticket was brought from
the depot and handed to Mr. Bensor.i
who had bought tho cotton. The
change had been bunglingly made,
and the ticket was sent back to the
agent and the torgery promptly dis
covered, Partridge testified that tho
ticket had been in no other bands but
his own, and the testimony was over
whelmingly against him. This was
simply a commitment trial, and he
was committed to jail in default of a
bond of two hundred dollars.
—Mr. Iliglcy of Brooklyn, who
had been hero prospecting with a
view to locating, is charmed with
Washington. Ilehasbeen elsewhere
in Georgia prospecting, but has de
cided in favor of our town. lie was
here again the first of the week, and
left Wednesday morning for Atlanta,
where ho expected to meet several
relatives and friends, who had been
induced by his descriptions of Ibis
part of the country, to also come down
witli a view to settling. If they can
buy such property as they want
they will become permanent citizens
of Washington. They want to liny
homes in the suburbs of this place.
Judging by the gentlemanly hearing
of Mr. Iligley, this colony will be a
most desirable acquisition to AVash
ington, and wo can assure them of
the heartiest welcome to our midst.
Mv.Higicy,who is a memberof Rev.
Henry AVaid Beecher's congrega
tion in Brooklyn, is so dolighicd
with our town (bathe is endeavor
ing to got that distinguished gsmle
tnaii to yisit this place, while he is in
the South. He thinks Mr. Beecher
will eoine here.
My Rockery.
’Twixt mo and you (dial’s entre nous,)
I had some rocks I painted blue.
There came along a girl or two,
AVho laughed at these same racks of
blue.
But now if they were painted green,
(The rocks,and not you girls,l mean)
l’ray who could tell the rocks from
you ?
Of course all this is entre nous.
Washington, Ga, March 13, ’BS.
•
The Smallpox In Thomson.
AVc have nothing new to report of
the smallpox tills woek. It was
thought several days ago that another
nogro child in the quarautjrie scc'ion
Imd taken the disease, lint as no
eruptions have occurred and the syinp
lions are disappearing, Dr. Durham
does not report the case.
Too smallpox has long since ceased
to be a subject of inquiry or conversa
tion In Thomson, and is rarely men
tioned unless some wild eyed lunatic
from a distance comes in town loaded
to the muzzle with senseless rumors.
The Journal, we well know, lias
been accused of concealing or mis
representing the facts of die condition
jor the disease in Thomson, but die
town and county officials and every
citizen will attest the truth and cor
rectness of all our published state
ments.—McDuffie Journal.
Mn. Prather, the now photogra
pher, arrived yesterday and is ready
for business. Advertisement will ap
pear next week.
AVk announced two weeks ago
that the firm of Jordan A Pope of
Augusta, had dissolved by mutual
concent. Mr. Pope haa associated
with him Air. Lamar Fleming under
the firm name of F. B. Pope & Cos.,
and will continue the business at tho
old stand. Fred Pope, as lie is fa
milialy called bore in his old home,
is one of the most energetic and in
dustrious business inen who overgrew
UP in tiie great old county of Wilke.,
and his county is proud of him. With
Mr. Fleming the firm is doubly
strong in all those features that go to
make up a first-class business house.
With ampla capital, experience and
enterprise this ie one of tho most ex
cellent and accommodating cotton
firms in existence. They are now
industriously engaged in shipping
to every part of the country a fer
tilizer that has won the golden opin
ions of farmers everywhere—the
Navassa.
Blount’s Whits Prolific Core:
I have a few bushels of selected
seed of the above corn at. 52.00 per
bushel. I made last year on poor up
land and poorly cultivated, 22,
bushels per acre. If planted early and
worked well it is almost a sure crop.
It makes the best meal, and is tho
most prolific corn known.
9-2 m LORENZO SMITH.
Messrs. Wood & Jackson liavc the
finest and largest lot ot slock ever
brought (o this place, and now
at this stock-buying season no man
who is going to purchase should fail
o call and sec what is in their stables.
Buyyonr Garden tools of W. T.
Johnson, who leeds In low prices in
all kinds, of Hardware.
Remember a crop well planted is
half made and donl forget to buy
your farm & Garden tools ot W. T.
Johnsons.
Horses and mules for sale on easy
forms. Jas. A. Benson. '
Some of the Indian agents buy cali
co at 4 cents per yard and “distrib
ute” it to the Indians at 20 cants per
yard.
▲a When She waus Tonne.
“I have used Parker’s Ilalr Balsam
and like it better than any similar
preparation I know of,” writes Mrs.
Ellen Perry wife of Rev. P. Perry, of
Coldbroek Springs, Mass. “My hair
was almost entirely gray, but a dollar
botlie of the Balsam lias rcsiorcd the
softness, and tho brown color it had
when I was young-not a singie gray
hair left. Since I began applying the
Balsam my hair lias stopped falling
out, and I find that it is perfectly
i harmless and agreeable dressing.”
ATLANTA AHEAD.
$120,000 Worth of B. B. B.
Sold to One House,
The Heaviest Transaction
Ever Made in tVie United States in the
Sale of m. Patent Medicine.
[From Atlanta Journal.]
For several days past a Journal man has
heard the rumor that the Blood Balm Com
pany of this city, had sold the enormous sum
of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
worth of their famous blood and skin remedy
to one mau.
The report was hard to bc’.ieve, and deter
mining to in restigate the matter and learn
the truth, the reporter called at the busiuess
office of the company. On entering the office
the Journal man was confronted by Dr.
J. P. Dromgoole, the manager of Blood Balm
Cos.; to whom the reporter made known the
object of his visit.
“Yea, sir,” replied lho doctor, as a smile
illumined h‘s face, 4< tho report is true.”
“Gracious!” ejaculated tho scribe.
“Tbe contract is signed.”
“Who buys it?”
i “Mr. J. W. Holman, of Denver, Colorado.”
“Doctor, how many gross for that con
tract?”
“Oyer two thousand. The freight alone
will amount to over $33,000.”
“Do you pay freight?”
“No, sir; tho party pays his own freight
bills.”
‘Tell mo something about the gentleman
who bought tho medicine ?”
“He is a thorough business man, ami a
capitalist of large means, of Denver, Colora
do. Hearing of tho wonderful efficacy and
tho gigantic sales of B. B. 8.. and being a
gentleman of teen business sense, he con
ceivod tho plan of buying at a stipulated
price and controlling seven of the Northwest
ern Htates and territories, including Colora
do. He visited Atlanta several Avecks ago,
and propositions have been so shaped that
we hav closed the contract, which we pre
fttiiro is the largest patent medicine sale ever
made in tho United States.”
“It is no commission nirngcuunt ?”
“No, sir: a square strai htout sale. Every
bottle to be paid for before being shipped.’
“Do your sales continue to increase V”
“Yes, sir; B. B. B. sells right along; the
demand rapidly increasing where fairly tost
ml. At many points it simpy wiped out all
other Mood remedies. Our cures are simp y
wonderful, and one feature is, the
blood Balm Company is not compelled to de -
nounce other remedies in order to vindicate
our own. Wo claim there is room for all,
while ours is the hkkt.”
“Your big sale would suggest that its rep
utation is becoming world wide.”
“We have not used any large amount of
money to push out rcinidv.and although only
seventeen months old, it is now known far
and wide and keens us humping to supply
the demand. When it comes to MERIT
alone, all opposition is a mere ‘pufFofwind.* ”
“Any speciul cores lately ?”
“Every day we got letters Irom parties who
enclose cirtincates of it wonderful cures of
Scrofula, Rheumatism, Ca'arrh, Kidney
troubles, Blood Poisons, Hkin Diseases, e'c.,
in an incredibly short time. Look a these,
cerliflcates received this morning. It is im
possible to publish all of them. The skepti
cal and doubting Thomases are invited,how
ever, to call at our office and examine tho
originals, which we keep on fi e.”
And still Atlanta leads the van, and the
Journal is proud of her enterprise.
Petition for Incorporation.
NOTICK OF THE FORMATION OF A COM
PANY FOR THK CONSTRUCTION OF A
RAILROAD FROM AUGUSTA, GA., TO
CHATTANOOGA. TKNN., AND ITS IN
TENTION TO APPLY FOR A CHARTER
IN ACCORDANCE WITH TIIR GKNKIIAL
RAILROAD LAW OF THE STATE, AP
PROVED SEPTEMBER 27, 1881.
We ths underaign-d. Paul R. Sledge, W.
M. Tiinburlake, Alfred Baker, Z. McCord,
George T. Barnett; T. D. Casawell, Clement
A. Evana, of Augusta, Ga., and Wm. A.
Courtenay, James K, Edgerton, George W.
Williams, Jr., John B. Peck, and J E Adger,
of Charleston, H. C., do hereby agree to form
a company for the purpose of constructing, in air
t.ining and operating a railroad for public uhp,
in th* conveyance of persona and properly from
the city ot Augusta, in tho county of Richmond,
and state of Georgia,on a line as near as practicable
as a straight lino to a point in the county of Ca
toosa, in said state, on the line dividing the statu of
Tennessee from tstate of Georgia, and at tha
point to be connected w.th a railroad to be con
structed under the laws of the Httte of Tennessee,
either connecting with some railroad in the Htatc
of Tennessee, now entering the city of Chattanoc
ga, In said State of Tennessee, or to be constructed
direct from said point of intersection to the said
city of;Chattanooga. The following being the
counties in th s Hi ate tlironsJi which or into which
the proposed railroad is intended to bo made :
Richmond, Columbia. Lincoln Wilkes, Oglethorpe,
Elbert, Madison, Jacksdn, Franklin, Banks, Hall,
Lumpkin, Dawson. Gilmer, Fannin, Pickens, Mur
ray, Whitfield and Catoosa. Haiti company to be
organized and conducted in conformity with all the
regulations, provisions a* and requirements of the
statute of the state of Georgia, known as tbe gen
eral law for the incorporation of railroads,approved
September 27, HBl, and entitled an act to provide a
general law for the incorporation of railroads, and
to regu’Ate tne same.
The Company thus formed shall be known as the
Augusta and Chattanooga Railroad Company, and
tbe railroad constructed by said company through
said counties and between the foregoing described
point*, shall be, as near as can now be ascertained,
two husdrel and twenty miles in length.
The capital stock of said Company shall be four
millions of d< lla-s, divided into forty thousand
shares of one h uaired dollars each, Tho principal
office and residence uf said Company in this Htate
shall bo in tho City of Augusta and comity of Rich
mond.
In witness whereof we tho Undersigned, have
hereunto *l#tied the foregoing articles of associa
tion and htvo affixed opposite to our signatures
the number of ah area agreed to be taken by ur in
a id. company, together with our reepective places
O residence;
Paul, It. Si.edok, five shares, Augusta, Ga
W M TiMUEKLAKK'five shares, A ugusta Ga
jCl.Prki) Baker, ten shares, Augusta, Ga.
r A. McCord, ten shares, Augusta. Ga
Geo. T. Barnes, five shares, vl ugusta, Ga
T. I). Caswell, five shares, Augusta, Ga.
Clement A Evans, five shares, A ugusta,Ga
WM. A. Coubfknay, five shares, Charles
ton, 8. C.
Jas- E. Edokkton, five shares, Charles*
ton, S. C.
Geo. W. Williams, Jr., five shares, Char
leston, H. C.
John B. Peck, five shares, Charleston, 8 C
J. E. Adar.n, fire shares, Charleston, 8. C.
Of whom the foregoing twelve persons shall
be the directors for the first year.
Sheriff’s Sale.
OEOHOU, WILKES COUNTY.
WILL be sold before the Court house floor in
Washington, Ga., on the flrat Tuesday in
April, between legal hours of sale, the following
personal property, to-wit. One fifty-saw Pratt glu.
one fifty-saw Condenser, one fitty-saw Feeder ana
one cotton press. Said property sold to satisfy a
mortgage fl fa issued by Wilkes Superior Court in
favor of Daniel Pratt Gin Cos. vh. Turner k Latimer,
Witness my hand and official signature, this March
12, 1885. J. W. CALLAWAY,
U-4t Sheriff W. C:
T.M. Green
50 Doz. Georgia-made
Misses’ Hose at 10 and 15c.
20 Doz. Georgia-made La
dies’ Hose, at 25c.
20 Doz. Georgia-made
Mens’ 1-2 Hose, 20 and 25c.
These are the best value
of any goods sold.
20 TONS KAINIT,
05 TONS ACID,
25 TONS MASTODON,
formerly Patapsco
All of these Guanos are
the very best. Come and
see. T. M. GBEEN.
Here You Are !
THE BEST
Plows, Harrows, Cotton Planters,
Feed Cutters, Disc Harrows, Reapers and
Separators in Town.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
It is an early bird that can undersell FICKLEN on agricultural
implements. Don’t fool away your money on second class imple
ments, but buy the best or none. CLOVER AND GRASS SEEDS
at COST. lIOYCE FICKLEN.
• .l, ..-.11.... .11 ■ - ■ ' ■
JOHN W. CARR,
COTTON BUYER.
(Repaenting Geo. H. McFadden k Bro.)
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Will always pay the highest cash price
for Cetton, and asks the patronage of every
planter in Wilkes and adjoining counties.
NAVASSA GUANO.
The Most Reliable Fertilizer
OIST THE MARKET.
Made from Navassa Rock, winch ia Thirty to Forty per cent. Higher Grad*
than that Obtained at cither Charleston or Beaufort. It hag given
entire satisfaction the past season where all others failed.
READ WHAT THE GEORGIA FARMER’S SAY..**
Navassa Guano Company :
Dear Sirs—l have been using your Guano,
Cotton Fertilizers and Aeld since 1878. Have made
frequent experiments with them and various other
brands, and am free to express my opinion in favor
of yonr brands. I have adopted their use exclu
sively when I can get them.
J. M. GRESHAM,
Social Circle, Ga.
Stellavillk, Ga., October 28th, 1884,
Jordan k Pope, Genera! Agents Navassa Guano Cos.
Dear Sirs—l have used all of the standard Gu
anos and am as well pleased with the Navassa as
any I have ever used. I put it down by the side of
other fertilizers and could easily tell the differ
ence, Navassa being three to four Inches taller
and of better growth. It matures well.
JOSHUA A. SMITH,
WRITE FOR TERMS TO
F. 13. POPE Ac CO.,
Geu. Agents for Georgia and South Carolina. AUGUSTA, GA*
Sa-moa, Ga., October istb, IM4.
Mxsrm. B. Croakh k Co.—We hereby certhy
that the Navaeea Ouano we bought is first-class
and as good as any we have used in fifteen years,
and recommend it to our friends and the general
public. JOHN B. XBNDBIOK.
T. M. BROWN, Sharon, da.
Norwood, Ga.
Conyrhs, Ga., October 17th, 1184.
Messrs. Jordan k Pope, General Agents:
Dear Sirs—ln reply to yours, I will elate tha
in selling the Navassa Guano Cotton Fertiliser and
Acid, that I seld only to substantial termers; men
who were competent to test your goods, and with,
out a single exception they pronounce the goods
as good, and in many cases the best fertiliser that
they need for 1884, as inclosed testimonials will
show. I used some of yonr goods and do not hut'
ate to say that it Is tho best I ever used*
The demand hero next season will be great.
Yours, J. P. TILLEY.