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TOCCOA, GA. JUNE 20 1891.
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'UABBR8HAM COUNTY AT THE
COLUMBIAN EXHI¬
BITION.
Will it pay ?
Will it be worth the labor and ex¬
pense required to make the advanta¬
ges oftlie county known to capital¬
ists and industrious people,and invite
them to come here, invest their mon¬
putin factories, build towns, es¬
tablish industries of various kinds,
and aid in developing the resources
of the county?
Let us see.
At the Columbian exhibition there
■will be capitalists from all civilized
^nations-; men of energy, of enterprise;
•fiven who invent and build the vast
machinery of the world; men who de¬
velop mines, build factories, rail¬
roads, towns, cities and transform the
wilderness into fruitful fields. These
'men are ■seeking places to invest their
capital, and where to establish indus¬
tries of all kinds.
Among Habersham county’s great¬
est needs is a
HOME MARKET FOR FARM PRODUCTS.
Our farmers, their wives and chil¬
dren, work hard year after year but
find only a meagre market for their
crops, poor prices for the products of
their hard toils.
Then there are the necessary county
expenses to be met, roads to be kept
good, bridges to be built, churches
.and schools to be supported, build
ings to be erected,and all the various
public improvements, the cost of
• Which must be met by taxes from the
hard earnings of the people.
Suppose the advantages of Haber¬
sham county for investments should
be made known to the capitalists in
attendance at the Columbian Expo¬
sition, and some of them be induced
to utilize the magnificent waterpowers
running to waste on the Soque, Tal¬
lulah and other rivers.
Let us suppose for instance, some
OB* could be induced to put in
$100,000, enlarge and set in motion
the Soque mills now lying idle.
Let us conceive of another person
investing $100,000 in establishing a
factory of some sort by that splendid
Water power of Capt. J. H. Nichols
on the same river; of similar invest¬
ments at various points on the Tallu¬
lah and Tugalo rivers.
Suppose other capitalists could be
induced to invest $100,000 in a
COTTON MILL IN TOCCOA
making a home market for the cot¬
ton raised in this region; also a like
amount expended in building
hotels and improving the
Toccoa Falls property and
making it a resort for tourists;hkewise
similar sums invested in costly hotels
at Mt. Airy, Cornelia, Demorest,
Clarksville, Tallulah Falls,—high
priced houses, that would draw the
patronage of the wealthy classes
from all parts of the world, and make
these cities a resort for tourists and
health seekers the year round.
What would be the result?
The sound of the axe, the saw, the
hammer, and the heavy tread of ma-
chinery would be heard all over the
county.
Laborers, mechanics and artisans
would have plenty of work at good
wages.
Farmers would find a home mar¬
ket for all they could raise, including
vast amounts of fruits and vegetables
for which there is now no market.
The cities would grow;the popula
tion would increase; additional capi¬
tal would flow in; money would be
plentiful; the per cent of taxation
would be less; more people and more
property would be here to help pay
the tax3s; to help build reads, bridg¬
es, school houses, churches, and pay
county and city expenses; real estate
would advance in price; farm lands
would iucrease in value from $2 to
$25 an acre, up from $20 to $100.
That all this is possible is demon¬
strated by what has already been ac¬
complished in our
Factories are in successful opera¬
tion of various sizes, from the invest¬
ment of a few hundreds up to more
than $100,000 each; the county has
long been known as a summer resort
for tourists; within three years a new
and vigorous city has been establish¬
ed, showing what energy, activity and
advertising can accomplish. What
has been done can be done again,and
•v.ttsh more.
That the results outlined above
can be obtained for our county need
not for a moment be doubted, The
success depends entirely upon the
united, determined and persevering
efforts of our citizens. With such ef¬
forts the wealth of the county will be
increased many millions, and the
advantages of the farmer enhanced a
hundred fold.
THAT ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
Tnis amount, for the whole state
of Georgia, is not a large sum, es-
pecially when the possible millions
resulting to our state are considered.
Undoubtedly a number of arguments
can be advanced in favor of appro¬
priating said amount from the state
revenues, the most important of
which are that it will distribute
the expense equally among all the
people of the state, and that the in¬
vestment of a few dollars which brings
back many,is a sound business trans¬
action and a wise thing to do.
The objection to the above is,while
the people would equally share in the
expense, they would not equally
share in the profits. Some counties
will be directly and greatly benefit¬
ed, others indirectly and remotely;
in some counties millions will find
investments; in others, perhaps not a
cent.
This alone, to the News, is a suf¬
ficient objection against any state
funds being appropriated for such a
purpose even though it were consti¬
tutional.
But there is one objection that
overtowers all others, viz:
The people of the state or nation
should be taxed only for the neees-
sarj expenses of government. This
fundamental principle should be the
immutable guiding star of legislative
bodies. The departures from this rule
should be few and far between; the
instances should be exceptional, and
of the most pressing and urgent char¬
acter. The $100,000 appropriation
as proposed in Atlanta, is a violation
of the above true principle of public
policy, and the News is therefore
em phatically opposed to it. The
funds must be obtained some other
way; in what way the tfuws will
hereafter consider.
A GOOD MAN GONE.
Col. A. J. Heard, manager of the
Soque Woolen Mills, died at his
homo near Clarksville Friday June
12th from Brights disease.Though he
had been sick for some time and his
death was not unexpected, it was a
sad blow to his family and many
friends.
He was widely known in railroad
circles as being a first class railroad
man; having held responsible posi¬
tions at, various times with a number
of roads, at one time being road
master on the Richmond and Dan¬
ville.
He was a prominent Mason. His
funeral and interment which took
place last Sunday at Clarksville was
in charge of the Masons, and was
probably the largest Masonic proces¬
sion ever formed for such an occa¬
sion in this section.
Col. J. E. Redwine of Gainesville
conducted the ceremonies which were
very instructive and impressive to
all who witnessed them,
The deceased leaves a wife,
four daughters and two sons
to mourn his death,and they have the
sincere condolence both of the Ma¬
sons and of a wide circle of friends
and acquaintances. XXX.
At Dahlonega Warren Smith,a min-
ing veal estate man from Nashville,
has been making infidel and spiritu¬
alistic speeches in the court house
Sunday evenings. Ilis audiences have
consisted mostly of young men, prin¬
cipally students. The faculty 0 f the
the North Georgia Agricultural Col¬
lege now prohibit students from at¬
tending Smith s meetings. —Savannah
News,
A gentleman who lives in Sumter
county thinks he lias struck a valua¬
ble phosphate deposit on his plac* 1 a-
long the banks of the Flint River. II*
has sent samples of bis find to the
state chemist to be analyzed.
In response to a call published last
week thirty six gentlemen met at
Kettle Creek church and enrolled
their names as members of the caval¬
ry company soon to be organized in
IFare county, Georgia. The compa¬
ny will meet at the court house at
Wayeross to-morrow night for the
purpose of organization, when it is
hoped others wilt be present and join.
— Savannah News.
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funded. Price 25 cents per box. For
sale by W - H. & J. Davis.
OUR SCHOOLS.
The city schools are all closed for
the summer vacation, the boys and
girls are released for a time from the
restraints of teachers, and from hard
studies.
Mrs. Dance had a large attendance
at tier school, and the pupils made
good progress under the superior in¬
struction of this experienced and pop¬
ular teacher.
Miss Linn seems a permanent fix¬
ture iti Tnccca; hei love and sj'mpa-
thies for the little folks,her kind care
of them, as well as her excellence in
teaching young classes, have secured
for her the confidence of the parents
and the affection of the children.
Prof. Alexander and his able as¬
sistant, Miss Jones, did excellent
work in the high school. They fin¬
ished up with an examination that
showed thorough instruction and drill
on the part of these teachers, and
good progress by the pupils. The
following is the report of some of the
pupils in Miss Jones’s department,
which is highly creditable to them
and their accomplished teacher.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT FOR JUKE.
Reppard Mabry 97
Arthur Dixon W ^1
Earl Cook <£> O
Robt. Bryant o O
Marian Carter to C
HIGHEST TERM AVERAGE 3ltD. CLASS .
Reppard Mabry 97
Sallie Levis 96
Arthur Dixon 95
Earl Cook 95
HIGHEST TERM AVERAGE 2ND CLASS.
K, Dixoa 961
Alex Craig 95
HONORABLE MENTION.
Charlie Burton, Eva Payne, Robt.
Simpson, Sam J/cCrosky, Ella Math-
eson, Bernice Cook, Bertha Payne.
Jas. E. Alexander, Prin.
THE MUSIC AND LITERARY SCHOOL.
As mentioned last week,at the earn-
est request of prominent citizens,Miss
McLaury added the ordinary acade¬
mic studies to her music school. This
of course required an assistant teach¬
er. A limited number of intelli¬
gent, beautiful girls was admitted,—
all for whom there was room.
They were classified with a view to
complete as far as possible, their ele¬
mentary studies, and to prepare them
for advanced work in Female Semi¬
naries. The rigid lessons, the
thorough music practice required,the
vocal training, and the drill in phys¬
ical culture,involved labor on the part
of these young ladies, which no one
could appreciate or understand with¬
out having frequently visited the
school.
That they made excellent progress
in music, vocal and instrumental, was
abundantly manifest at the concert
That they advanced in like manner
in their other studies mar readily 1>«
inferred, for all of which they deserve
and receive the high commenda¬
tions of their teachers and doubtless
of parents and friends. It is evident
that a school of this character is great¬
ly needed in Toccoa.
THE CONCERT.
Very charming was the scene.
The sweet little girls and the
beautiful young ladies, decked with
many colored flowers; the delightful
music swelling from the stage, or
floating from unseen voices from a-
midst sylvan bowers; the occasional
chiming in of Mi. Frank Greene’s
(hsep voice, all accompanied by the
rich tones of the piano skillfully
played by Miss McLaury; the eon-
slant surprises which greeted the au-
dience in the vocal colloquies sung
and enacted, of solos, duets and cho¬
ruses, and the various scenes of the
Operela gave continued delight to
the large audience, which was main-
fested by repeated and prolonged ap¬
plause at every interval.
The News would gladly specify
individual names, but where all did
so well, every individual singer de¬
serves to be commended, which we
regret to say our limited space for¬
bids. It is not invidious however to
allude to the excellent singing and
graceful acting of Miss Carrie Daven¬
port who was crowned queen; her
sweet rcice reached the high notes
very clearly, and enunciated the
difficult passages smoothly and dis¬
The encore to Miss Annie
Matheson's piano solo was especially
marked, as well as the manifest
pleasure at, the finely delivered reci¬
tation of Miss Bessie Davis.
Piano pieces well executed by the
young ladies added variety to the
exercises, and the graceful motions of
the calisthenic drill, especially the
combined movements with the dumb
bells were a fitting close to one of the
most delightful entertainments ever
held in Toceoa.
Very little timber was received at
Darien, Ga. last week.
CARNESYILLE, GA.
Dear News: —Not hearing much
from our part in your worthy paper,
I thought I would scrabble down
some things.
Wheat harvesting is the order of
day and the crop is very good.
The farmers got behind with their j
last spring, and, as the Irish¬
man said, “they hold their own
well,” they are behind yet.
Our cotton is like what old Uncle
Jim Bradberry said about his rye: “It
was not doing much on top "of the
ground but he guessed it wasplaying
”
the devil under the ground.”
W6 were very earnest in
resolutions last winter to make les ;
cotton and more grain; it seems that
our wise Creator is assisting in
work, as our wheat is good, corn very
fine, but cotton worse than sorry.
Apple crop good, peach crop slim.
Plenty of rain, grass on a boom.
There is a heap of sickness such as
as flux and fever and some deaths.
The Alliance is quiet, and will re¬
main so until we get through work,
then we aim to move the back band
forward, set the plow deeper, hunt
the unturned soil and put it in prop¬
er cultivation, so that all will be up
and doing. As for politics we are
watching and waiting; we are like
the traveler just after the revolution¬
ary war who met a squad of men;
they halted him, called to know
winch lie was a whig or tory. “Sirs,
I am a whig ” They were tories and
they frailed the fellow for all he was
worth. After leaving he soon came
to another group; they asked him
which lie was; said he, “Sirs, I’m a
tory.” They were the other kind of
fellows, and again beat the very
starch from him. He met another
crowd who called to know his poli¬
tics. Now said he, (“Gentlemen I’m
just whatever you are.”
Now follow reader, I’m for the
people’s man on principle. If this
is not Democracy' in its purity, I
don’t understand democracy.
If our leaders have gone to specu¬
lating on, and oppressing the poor
laboring people for their own hellish
designs and «e are forced to act for
the protection of ourselves, wives and
our children,to try to crawl from under
that yoke of tyranny which is so fast
taking away our freedom, let ’em go.
Let us as Alliancemen be true to our
cause, our country, our fellmv man
whether alliance or non-alliance. Be
honorable, truthful, upright in deal¬
ings,never shirk from an honest debt,
and by so doing our order will live
when we are gone. Yours, P. S. A.
An epidemic of small-pox is feared
in London.
There has been no ram in the
Sandwich Islands for seven months.
The gold premium in Buenos Ayers
reached 301 per cent.
Strikers were convicted of con-
spiracy and riot at Uniontown, Pa.
Sing Sing prison was overcrowded
and the warden sent fifty convicts to
The aldermen of Cambridge, Mass
refuse liquor licenses even to drug¬
gists.
Lieut. Perry’s North Greenland ex¬
pedition has reached North Sidney in
safety.
Three white men who were ped
filing whiskey in the Sac and Fox
countries have been killed by the In-,
dians.
Houses, churches and a portion of
a forest were swept away and people
killed and wounded by a hurricane
in Hungary.
I he Russian Czar has presented
Stanford University with a complete
collection of Russian and Siberian
minerals.
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia
are holding a convention at Chatta¬
nooga to consider their mutual inter¬
ests.
Fifteen bids were opened at Wash*,
ington for the construction of the na-
val exhibit at the Chicago fair, rang¬
ing from $100,000 up.
The police of Bradford, Pa. are all
under arrests, except the chief,
charged with making illegal or un-
necessarily violent arrests on their
part.
A WONDER WORKER.
Frank Huffman, a young man
of Burlington. O. states that he had
been under the care of two prominent
physicians, and used their treatment
until he was not able to get around.
They pronounced his case to be Cons
sumption and incurable. He was per¬
suaded to try Dr. King’s NewDiscov
ery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds and at that time was not able
to walk across the street without rest.
He found, before he had used half of
a dollar bottle, that he was much bet¬
ter; he continued to use it and is to¬
day enjoying good health.If you hare
any throat, lung or chest trouble try
it. We guarantee satisfaction. Trial
bottles free at W. H. & J, Davis’s
Drug Store,
HOARD ON THE SEASHORE.
Ex-Gov. Hoard is one of the best
story tellers in the country, says the
Chicago Tribune. On the recent trip
to Galena, when the Grant monu¬
ment was unveiled, hi3 fund of sto¬
ries seemed inexhaustible. One of
them was this:
‘I was down at a lijtle clambake in
New Jersey last snminer, and after
dinner was called on t<o make a speech
1 started off sa 3 'ing that I had
featen 30 man -V of their low-ncck
clams that 1 wasn’t in the best sort of
condition to make a speech. When
1 used the expression, low-ncck’clams
an old chap sitting directly across the
table from me, whose face was long
enough to enable him to eat oats out
of a churn, scowled at me, and then
said in a stage whisper: ‘Little neck
clams, little necks—not low necks.* 1
paid no attention to him and finished
my speech. When dinner was over
he trailed me out into the hall and
said: ‘You are from Wisconsin, ain’t
you ?’ ’
‘Yes,’ I replied.
‘You don’t have many clams up
there I reckon?*
‘Well,’ 1 said,‘we have some, but
it’s a good ways to water, and iD
driving them across the country their
feet get sore and they' don’t thrive
very well.’
Tie gave me a look that was worth
a dollar and a half, and in a tone of
the utmost disgust said : ‘Lord !clams
aint got no feet!’
‘He turned away, and approaching
one of my friends, inquired: ‘Is that
fellow governor of Wisconsin?’
•Yes,’ replied my friend.
‘IKa-1 1/ drawled the old man with
a good deal of feeling, ‘he may be a
-smait man in Wisconsin, but
be is a fool on the sea-
shore.’
H. B. Randolph, Brunswick. Ga.,
writes : ‘‘I was under the care of nine
different doctors, but not o.ie did me
the good Botanic Blood Balm has
done me.”
There are moments in the life of
an oyster when to eat him is simply
suicidal. 7t is pretty generally known
that the oyster is an unclean feeder,
and devouts sewage; but if he has
once digested this unsavory dainty
lie may thee be eaten with impunity.
If, however, lie is captured when in
the act of sucking iu the impure mat¬
ter, he carries typhod into the blood
of anyone who may afterwards swal
low him.
^EORGIA, HABERSHAM COUNTY.
Court of Ordinary of said County.
Sitting for County purposes.
The petition of Major Young April Davis, Term IS! 11
J T Ed¬
monds, \Y m Buslid, W F Sewell Esq. and
others, Militia District praying the establishment of a new
out of and from the Toceoa
and Currahee militia distriets.and the appoint
ment of three commissioners to lay om
ami define the lines of the same, having been
read and considered; it is ordered by the
Court that commission issue to W G Davis,
James Smith and Robert J Moss, Esqrs., au¬
thorizing aforesaid and empowering them as conuiin-
sjoners lines of district to lay prescribed out and define by tin-
a new as sec tioi
4S3and following, oftlie cole of Georgia.
B. E. EDGE, Ordinary.
COMMISSION.
To W G Davis, James Smith and Robert .1
Moss. Greeting:—You are hereby appointed
Commissioners to lay out and define the lines
of a new militia district to be made out of
Toccoa and Currahee militia districts of sail 1
county, to lie known as Broad River District,
No. — G M. as made known to me as Ordina¬
ry by of the said petition districts, ofa large number of citi¬
zens ized and empowered to you proceed are hereby author¬
to lay out and
define the lines and bounderies of said dis¬
trict as prescribed in the code of Georgia seo
tions 483 and following. Given under my
hand and seal of office this April 7lU 1S91.
B.E. EEGE, [L. S.]
Ordinary Habersham Co.
REPORT OK THE COMMISSIONERS.
GEORGIA, Habersham Countv,
To the Hon, B. E. Edge, Ordinary of Hab¬
ersham missioners County: We, the undersigned com¬
out aud defir.ea appointed district by your honor to lay
new off of Currahee
and foccoa Districts, T beg leave to
make 'the following report: We, with
the assistance of the county surveyor,
met on the 21st of this month and
oak, located north a line beginning corner on a white
Whiten’s cut, or the right Richmond of way, at East end of
Railroad, on and Danvilh
and running in a Southerly direc¬
residence tion along the ridge road by Frank Ifulsey’s
to the Low Gap on the Currahee
mountain and made a corner on a BlackGum.
Thence S. 42° 30' E. 112 chains to a White Oak
in Currahee church yard. Thence along the
Leatherwood public road to the ford of Leatb-
erwood creek in Mrs. .Mary Bank’s field.
Thence down said creek to the line of Frank¬
lin and Habersham counties. Thence along
said line in an easterly direction to the Toc-
CO;i District lme, thence along said District
bne in the direction of Toccoa city to what is
known as the Coker crossing on the Elberton
rail road and the Toccoa and Carnesville pub¬
lic road, thence along said public road to the
corporation line on the west side of said Toc-
eoa city, thence along said corporation line on
the west side of said Toccoa city to the north
side right oftlie of Richmond & Danville Rail Road
way, thence along said right of wav
on the North side to the beginning corner.
v\ e tind upon investigation that there is more
than enough for a captain’s company in the
older Districts of Currahee and Toccoa and
more than enough in the proposed new Dis¬
trict as the law requires. We find that the
proposed new District is of great public utility
and convenience, and respectfully ask your
Honor to pass an order creating said District
living as petitioned by a large majority of citizens
in said new District.
W. G. Davis, 1
Jas. Smith, Commissioners.
R. J. Moss,
April, 28th 1891.
^ffiURTOF Ordinary,Habersham county, j
Sitting for County Purposes, f
the Upon commissioners reading and appointed considering^™ to lay Report of
define the lines of Militia out and
of and from Toccoa a and new Currahee District out
C nd .^PPearing from Districts in
statutes their re-
SbESrfS h m such cases made
?de e b “,h/;" ,T M(1M nith
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a copy of these
he court house door of said county and in
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He also cariies a large stock of Medium Grade Furniture such as
Bureaus, Bed Steads, Safes, &c. SpeeialPrices will be o-iven for
Cash.
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Fittings for ENGINES and Mil LS inc luding BELTING andOIL.
REPAIR SHOP. We make a Specialty of Repairing all kinds of Ma
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it made to cook as good as a new sinve. Stoves that fail to
draw and bake evenly, 1 guarantee to make bake and draw.
I am also agent for tin Lambert Kv purator,used for drying
Fruit, Vegetables, and Berries. The Evaporator is attached
to any Cooking Stove, and will pay for itself in three days.
Every family should have one. ThcFiut and Vegetables
Evaporated retain their ongmd Flavor and Color. Bring your
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