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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
And Other Timely Topics Briefly
Chronicled'.
The picnic season is upon us.
The bicycle fever has reached our
town.
See notice of house for sale, in
other column.
Whooping cough and mumps are
prevalent here.
If our people want a cottcn factory
they can get it.
Marshal Jackson is putting in
some good work on the streets.
Plums are almost large enough to
satisfy the craving of the girls for
green things.
Now that the spring seems fairly
opened, The News intends to appear
soon in a new dress.
l r you haven’t “given in” your
tax you’d better see the tax receiver
when he is here on the 20th.
There was a big picnic at Tallulah
Falls yesterday. An excursion Ira’ii
was run from Atlanta to that place,
So fai the base ball plaj ing in Toe*
coa, this season, has been done with
the mouth. Why not organize a
club?
For Kiekapoo Indian medicine
call at the Alliance store.
Here it is past the middle of May,
and fires and overcoats arc needed.
Gentle Annie, Whfn will the real
spring time come.
Davis’Variety Works has secured
thH contract to furnish boxes to the
canning factory. We are glad that
the boxes will be made in Toe*
coa.
We haven’t had an opportunily to
write up a‘‘blind tiger” case in two
or throe weeks. Have the tigers
taken our advice and gone in a
hole?
The people of Hartwell have
subscribed about $50,000 to erect a
Colton factory, which will be built
soon. Let Toccria follow suit, and
our towtl will prosper,
For the benefit of “Cotopaxi,”
terms one of our correspondents the
“Red II ; 1I war horse,” wo remark
that “Vashti” is the name of a fomale
and the contributor in question is
lady.
One peculiarity that wo have
noticed about the weather forseveral
months is, that after each r.-'in when
the clouds disappeared the wind has
blown hard and dried the ground
rapidly.
Next week our new type, if it
reaches us in time, will be used to
chronicle nn event that will have an
important b- iriog ufibn Toccoa’s
llllilre. Don't (to any gWasin?, - but
writ and read.
The public schools at this place
will close on tiext Friday, At ll'e
white stho'ol there will be no public
exercises, blit an entertainment will
be given lit the colored school on
next Thursday night.
In another column appears an ar¬
ticle from M ij. S; \V. Crawford, to
which we call the attention of our
readers. It treats of a matter in
which all gout! ditizens should be in*
tcrested. \Ye should be glad to hear
from others on this line.
On Monday the mayor imposed a
fine of $2.50 and costs upon E. V:
Henderson for disorderly
jusv after the Gvibble-Thomas fracas.
An itinerant Irish brick mason, for
loading up on tiie 4 crayther” and
in.lul#l*i in-lu>U-«ale l-rufamly,
assessed 5«1 and costs.
Are you going to tho World's
If so you can buy a round trip ticket
FCre good on any passenger train of
the , n R. &. D, n railroad .. until Novem- v
ber 15th. Tbe p.ic. of » ticket from
Toeeoa to Chicago and return will
be $34.25. For further information
apply toJ.G. Nelms, agent.
In Toeeoa cows are considered a
hi.rher ," order of \H6 animal
h * n , hn «*' -p. \ he ( °T T,h,
to roam our streets, but ihe latter
must be kept confined. If the h^gs
could speak, like the members of tlm
Alliance they would doubtless de :
round “Equal rights to all.’’
wish the cows had no more rights
than have ti e iioga.
The K. & D. made another change
in i»s schedule last Sunday. This
nff*-cts only tiie mijlit .train and the
early morning train. No. 5 has been
taken off and No. 35 put on. Tins
Charlotte to Atlanta in eight hours.
After leaving Seneca it stops at
tfiree pieces, Toeeoa, Gainesville and
Lu!». until Atlanta is reached, leav-
ing here at 1.13 a. m. On ds reiurn
If trip it becomes- No 3*3 aud <tfiT ec
Ore at JMAMJ p. m‘
Life i> marie op of extreme».
°f Wednesday 'color, afternoon Joe Baldwin,
frfts gloriously 'draft k ahd
shine, “happy as a dead pig in the sun
* according to his
Thursday own state¬
ment. he tvas very ebbef,
and forking fir the town free of
charge. And after he shall have
served eight days on the streets he
may have to answer to th'e state
for stcalina a plug or two of tobacco
from Edwards df- Dance.
Tiie News desires to be fair in
the treatment of matters of public
interest. Last week we published
an account of a case of vitriol throw-
tug hi our town, and gave the met-
dents as gathered from good au-
thority. Mrs. I annie 1C. Denham,
who is accused of using t^ao burning
lupiid with deadly intent', sends us a
communication this week. It is a
remarkable one, but we publish it in
full, though not literatim and “punc-
thatim.” She ends her article with
a sonnet expressive of deep feeling.
This leads us to thinking. Is the
atmosphere of our county jiil pe-
cu'iarly adapted to the cultivation
of the Muse, or is this verse but tiie
natural resu’t of being under the
same roof with that writer of rhyme,
Mr. Harry B. Wyman, whom the
Clarkesville Advertiser terms “the
bard of
f'OR SALE.
Corner lot 50x100. Has on it a |
five room house and a store house-
Terms easy. Apply at this office
Closing Exercises.
The colored public school wil! close
May 2Gt!i. Public examination
Tuesday,23d, and closes Wednesday,
2kh. The public is invited to at-
tendi especially the board of educa*
it ion. Concert Thursday night, the
U5th, at ihe Baptist church. Supt.
Jas. E. Alexander is expected to ad-
dress the school and patrons on that
night. A lively time is anticipated
11. C. T, Km li s, Principal.
New S^tiadule.
'I'lie Richmond ’& Danville R. R.
change their sclie bile May 14th,
when a new fast train in addition to
the “Vestibule Limited” goes on.
This train will be known as the “U.
S. Fast Mail” and will carry Pull-
m » n through to New York and
first class coaches through to Wash-
iugton.
Tl)e‘‘U. S. Fast Mail” northbound
will leiive Atlanta B:30 p. in. and
arrive at Washington 2:55 next day.
and New York 9:20 at p. in.
All classes or tickets will be ae-
cepted, tis this train carries coaches
m addition to the Pullman cars, and
it will not he recessary to take Pull¬
man accommodations unless desired
Pcinic.
Yesterday, Toeeoa Sunday-schools the time .selected bv
the for a
union picnic, was rather chilly for an
occasion of that sort, but this Tact did
nut prevent the gavheiing of a large
or >wd at Garnet springs near town,
s “ n ' cc l' ,ae “ r " r a l; icni< ;
riiere are springs ot mineral and
freestone water, good shade, secluded
places, wild Rowers and pretty scen¬
ery. With such suiroundings and
Ruoh-a congenial party it was only
natural that the picnickers should
have spent the day most pleasantly.
Especially was this true of the chil¬
dren.
Owing to “pressing” work we were
unable to be there, but we sent one
of our forcie, who s said to have rep
resented The News most ably when
lie circled around a templing spread
of fried chicken, cakes, pies and nu¬
merous other delicacies.
Cotton Factory.
Toeeoa has made a pretty good
start on the road to improvement
during the last three or four months,
tmt ours is not a finished t<).vn yel.
Let us not grow weary of doing well,
qq, e more enterprises we can secure
ror „„ , wn lbc |, tt lcf place we will
, have.
Lei’s discuss the cotton factory
' ieglion ’
•
I hat the erection . in . mir . tnwn o _ a
$n;0 {„ r , b e manufacture
i r s „ 0 ,, 3 „ 0 „|J illcre!ls ,. the
population nn 1 prosperity of our
town, there is no room for ric'ubu
The question is, can it be done? Wc
think so.
Never before was H so easy to
make good tern's w ith makers of
-nnohinerv for cotton nii,>„ract„ri„ P r .
Ii,0> w,!i,n ». 80,1 lnp
are i : to on S t,me .
ar.d on easy terms. In fact, some ot
them are willing to put in machinery
when a site for a factory has been
purchased and the nececssa f y buil¬
dings have been erected,'and take its
value in factory stock. In some
places they build factories on the
installment plan, the stoekho *0 ers
-kin, moot,,., p.ttoc.itefwr . £ or
seven xears.
. It is quite likely that if our citi-
"2.
] ar ^ cotton factory established
j ier e.
This project looks feasible. Let’s
invcstigale^tho matter, and if
ticubje, then take £<?mo slep$
‘.ecuring another foi manufactytir^ ^ " es-
our t' 0 0 ,
TWO MARSHALS FIGHT.
Oribblfe 'md ThoiiVR>3 Tife ujp
in Tocfcoa.
*acrs kin COKES OCT SECOND BEST.
Toeeoa r H Mar.-hal Carve? ’he Depu¬
ty Who Tried to Bulldoze
Him. Thomas Gives Bond.
Marshal Gribblc, of Toeeoa, i g
not llie man to monkey with if you
‘drin't want to get into trouble. Dep-
hty Marshal J. C. Tin man, of Allan-
ta, could subst antiate this statement
if lie felt so disposed', and if he
doesn’t an ugly gash on l.is neck
and a stab in his side testify to the
truth of our assertion.
On our streets late Tuesday after¬
noon the two men just mentioned
had a difficulty. It resulted in
Thomas getting knocked down and
bruise 1 and receiving, a severe knife
wound on the back of th'e neeft and a
slight stab in the side, while Marshal
Gribblc was unhurt, with the cxeeps
tion of a finger that he
while making his fist connect with
his antagonist’s head.
i'he trouble was brought about in
this way:
About two months ago Dej u y
Marshal Thomas swore out a w an ant
against Marshal Gribblc, cl arging
iiim with , selling w hiskey. Gribblc
was tried before the United States
court in Atlanta. At t.'.i: tiialThom-
as testified that lie hal bought whis-
key of Gribblc, and one or two oilier
witnesses, relatives of Thomas, tes-
tified that Gribblc lu.d sold tl.cm
whiskey. Ibis evidedec didn t seem
to have much weight with the jury,
for Gribblc was acquitted*
Since then Gribblc and Ihomas
have not been warmly attached, and
and have made remarks about each
other not of a co.rq limentavy na¬
ture.
Thomas was rais^ 1 near here, and
on Monday he arrived in town to vis.t
relatives. On Tuesday he was seui
on our streets, and to several of
citizens he made threats against
Gribble, saying that ho would shoot
the lifer before night, lie was ad¬
vised to keep out of a difficulty .
but he jaid no attention to adtici
and continued to boast of what he
would do to Gribble,
Several parties 1 u ! 1 Gribble
riiomns , threats. , ^ Our marshal , , said . i
little, bit he kept his eyes wide
open.
Gribble*s sta'etr.ci t of the diffieul-
ty is a* out, t hi*:
“1 was leaning up against a tree in
front of Chntlie Miller's store clean*
ing my linger nails. I saw Ches
Thomas coining actoss t he street,
but thought he was going on by. He
stopped tight at me and said, ‘Grib.
I lu ar you said I swo;e a lie on you ’
‘I replied,’ ‘Yes, I did say so.’ ‘IFhat
did \ on s iy it for?' I 6 asked, ‘lie*
cause I b have you did sweSr a lie
and lean prove it, I said. D — n
you l’.l fix \ou‘’ says h •, and he
reached be ind him. I caught a
glimpse of his pistol, and I struck
him with my fist amt began lo cut
him. I got him down an 1 look
his pistol away from him and thought
one I would shoot him, but ue threw
up his hand and begged ino no* to
» h ^ Ur -. Kol,3r I "'! d
about that , lime and J 1 gave hi n the
pistol.” approached by
When Tiie New
Mr. Thomas did not seam disposed
to be communicative. Fi tally,ihough,
he spoke in sub»*anec as follows:
‘T had lieard that Gribble, said I
swore a d —n he against him. I
couldn’t stand tl.aU so I went to him
and asked him If it was true. Wish an
bath he replied ‘Yes, l did,’and
let i« culling me. In the souffle
a pistol that 1 had in my coat pock<
fcll on the ground. Re assaulted me
w j\h provocation.”
t cveral persons wtid were eye
witnesses of the affair say that Thom¬
as was d-awing his pistol before
Gribblc touched him Gribble was
unarmed. Owing to the advice of
friends he had Is ft his pistol at
. hontc.
After ti combatants ,
e had been
separated it took t hree men to get
'f[, oinas f n ihe drug' "lie store t.o have In
woun , is dr-ssotl. strugaled t..
get looii ami ravcfl wildly. Dr. .Me-
Junkin was over an h*uir in dressing
M>,e, wounds. Thomas Med like a
being satura-
While Thomas war, in the drugstore
a^ large crowdgathered on the streets,
Ihe citizens feit t.iat he, on
«T.be siiboio.na'y-osHion S.
under the United c'ates
thought he could bulldoze the town,
ail q they determined that he should
not escape arrest.
Mr. Gribble swore out a warrant
against J. C. Thomas, charging him
with assault with intent to murder,
and Deputy Sheriff Kellar executed
the warrant. Thomas proposed to
give bail, and E. L. Goode, e_ . P.,
assessed his bond at foOO H o was
was not put in the calaboose. Mr.
Kellar lwking after the prisoner at
gavc bond in the sum of S500 for
Tiis appearance at tiie next term of
Superior court, and ^25 for his ap-
pearaiice before Mayor Hayes.
Thomas wounds are not cons d-
Cr ^d dangerous, lut ti.,evha\e xen
causing him a good deal cl trouble,
PURELY PERSOXAL.
About People You Know a n<5 Some
You Don't Know.
Mrs. M. J. Hunter spent Monday
in Westminster, S. C.
Mrs. Tom Payne is visit'ng iela-
lives near 'Caru«sville.
Miss Lula Jiurruss, of Camest ilie,
i9 the guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. IJ.
Btuoe.
Mrs. Jas, Wilson and Miss Maggie
Wilson are visiting friends in Char*
G.
Mr. Mast in Fuller, the ‘ high”
sheriff of Habersham, was in town
yesterday.
Roh Rrucc entertained a party of
young friends very pleasantly last
Friday night.
Miss Birdie May Jones has re¬
turned froni a pleasant visit lb friends
at bowc-rsvillc’,
Marshal Jim Trice has recovered
sufficiently from his recent sickness
to be able to resume his place on tiie
*
force.
Mr. M. B. Sisk, o; Constitution',
DeKalb county, Ga.,a former citizen
of this county, spent a day or two
recently with relatives near here.
On Monday Mr. Sisk paid The News
a call.
Prof. Alexander attended the pic¬
nic at Avalon last Saturday, and re¬
ports it tc. have been a in jst pleasant
affair, lie went via Tugalo. We
presume that he considered that the
most direct route.
Or linary Hill stopped over in
I’oec >a v. eJnesday. lie was on his
a ay to confer with the South Caro¬
lina people about repaying the Jar¬
ett and Prather bridges. We tiust
’hat these brdges will soon be put in
good order.
Attacked by a Snake.
The snake season has opened m
his county, according to Mr. J.F.
Pi ice, who relates n very snaky
perieuce lie had a few days ago.
Mr. Pric i lives on the plantation
of Iv. M. Wlieeler, of our town, on
Rllc! $ c j. ee k. Tiie other day while
walking across the field unconscious
of danger: ML Price caught a glimpse
of a swift moving object. In an
instant lie realized that his leg was
encircled by a powerful snake. The
reptile was a coach whip about seven
roet long, and , was wrapped i so tiglo- i .
f
, l • , render that
a ' )UUl U:i as
iimb useless.
The frightful head of his snake-
ship was raised towards tire his face, and
Mr. Price grasped serpent by tie
neck with one hand, while with the
other one he got his knife out of his
pocket. He opened the knife
his teeth and then attempted to be¬
head his assailant; But the wary
serpent kept dodging its head about
^ r 1 y |dl J tUt 1)e turije( j his attention
1:0 * 110 . sna kt! s body. As soon as he
began to cut through the tough hide,'
tJ l0 snake quickly loosened its folds
egc ‘ ^ and wont into a | lole ; Jeav .
. bloo trail be und.^
ln .4 a .)
But while Mr. Price's attention ^ ( .
W as entirely occupied with one snake^
another one of similar hail ap-
peared on the scene, and there it lay
near by with head raised. That gen*
tlernau began to call loudly for help,
and his wife who was not far off came
to the assistance of her husband, and
with a hoe dispatched snake number
2.
After returning to the house Mr.
Prlc8 . complameu , • , of ,
a smarting sen-
on his back, and an examina-
tion showed several whelps there
three or four inched in length, which
he is sure must have been made by
the keen tail of the coach winp. The
bit him on the hand, but that
hits caused him no serious mconven-
tence-
Mr. Price says lie served through
the war and was in some dangerous
n P | rtCes t, u t vt-ac never before so bad-
ly en«ou»..«d
those snakes.
Last Call-
w M. Jordan, the receiver of
state a!,(1 county tax returns, will be
at Tc ccoa May 2(3ih; also at ; Clarkes-
v j]l e Juno Sth,9th and 10th. This
hi ,
Oall and examine our line of
goods, consisting of ebamtiray s, chal-
lies, percales, white goods and fine
beuriettas. Brown & Mitchell.
remedies Save money by buying all patent
at offi - euf
Du. Jas. N. West.
Just received a new lot of -?3.<_K)
*i4.00 and §5.00 Douglas
best shoe o;; earth. Try a pair.
W. M. Kii>;o.
Come ond see onr stock of men’s
and boys’ clothing before bu• ng
elsewhere: v\e will save you m*> cy
1’sown & Mitchell.
ETest #2 and *2.50 ladies shoe in
the city,” Every pair guaranteed.
Edwards & Dance.
OQt-e cn first floor for rent.. A r
ply to 1 h, Jas, N. West.
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TOGCOA FURNITURE and LUMBER CO.;
--MAN U FACT C1 iE RS OF--
fi|l f MEDiUM GRADE F0RK1TURE, ~| f |a||
--ALSO LARGELY i y
DEAL L&--—.
DRESSED LHMBER, FLOOR5WC CEILING WEATHER
BOARDING, MOULDINC BRACKETS, MANTELS,
Sic j/ it Dry Zulu capacity 12,000Jcel per day .
Orders promptly/illecf*
K.C. DAVIS,
Practicing F > 'h. 2 ,’ r cicia.n ’
MIZE, Git.
J . wmMom
fig ■ <S\ COWPOUND.
am ered. Beware of unprincipled
envelope, Address to ladies only, I'ord 2-tamps, I.ily Comnnfiy.
Druirgli-ts.
IbmkimmN ********* I COURSE BV MAIL
WITH THE
LEAVE N WORTH
ffuSI^ESS COLLEGE.
TO ADVERTISE
OUR COLLEGE
We will give a thorough course of
ins'ruction in double and single en -
try Book-keeping Commercial Arith¬
metic by mail Fkee of Charge to a
limited number or persons. 1 his
course will he completed in forty les-
sons. No charge f>r Diplomas.
Address :
i-ROK V. J V A N I) EIIB E RG, PRES..
$02, 304 wl 306flilwra.ro St., iaivosworih. Sis.
SUCCESSFUL FRUIT CULTURE
Is Hot Possible with Cheap Trees.
None but first-cUss Southern grown trees
should l»c planted. Procan: tliem from a
nursery that burns all i> -or stock and sends
out nothing but good trees carefully packed
in damp m<my} that they will reach you in
pert’oet con.'iiticn.
It our agent lias not called on you write for
prices before you Lqiv elsewhere. During
the fruiting suiwn samples of fruit will be
sent free to a iy address on receipt of ten
cents to pay postage,, Agents wanted every
where - catalogue free. Address
CHEROKEE NURSERY CO..
Yy,vYCROSS Ga.
WHISKEY AND OPIUM
* >: CURED
HABITS
at your home;
wirasuT tiie 02 ztvnvzvzvv.
Jo-enl. stopped innnediately . - on , beginning . ^ tn*atmcaf
Fm-trcd m^ciinpule wTh' giv.cn
amt succc^ful »u«rease »a i-r.at.ee.
FQR MY BOOK (F CURES, FREE.'
B. M. WOOLLY, JO. B.,'
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ATDAKTA, ojC.
Office. 1011 Wit chall Street.
Sb^ixa pc
NoJ.
Lca^c_ Jlai twell 7 .'5 a m
Arrive Row us\ il’e 84-3
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No. 2.
5*. a vc Btiwer-v i le 900 a m
Arrive Hartwell 043
No- 3c
;:ive Hart.weia'• 1 33 t Rl,
Bowersvida 225 *r m
v o. 4, ,
L-avs Bo-ri-rsv tlij 2 40 p fa
Arrive llartwrll 2
f u i£N?o\ r
GO TO
BROWN $c MITfiHMl/
for Bargains in——,.
groceries, 7 dry goods, 7 cloth-
1
ING, hats, boots, shoes,
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farm implements and ;
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____ high hade
fertilizers,-
S/si t/’S d Specialty .
on wtu save money by trading with Money saved is I
.. us. money
made.
VICKERY ?-
9 ■ ■ BROTHERS
FANCY (^ROCFRIES-
FINEST CANDIES IN THE MARKET-
Zargesl Zol and Zinesl Grade Ci/jars in ‘loccoce.
Flour- Canned Goods Fruits.
fSWELERS,- - - Repair Watches and Clocks:
(Orders for Jewelry, Watches, and Clocks promptly attended to.)
Sen’ing Machines. — 2he Dost, - - Wheeler & Wilson ,
^READ THIS; It’S SO!!*
* i' ‘
'
You may!not have seenjit in the New York Sun, but
so’ that we have bought tiie stock of merchandise of T,
O. WHICH r. <f
It is so also, or ' ; .lsc so, tlmt we have got t/» sell a good-
many of these goods to make a living, and we are not anx¬
ious to kick the bncket-.soon
Moreover, likewise and also it is so that we hf.vc on band
a pretty good line,of Fancy an l.Family Gv-»cerics, Dry
Goods, Boots, Sho'% Hiits ? Notions, Hardware and so
forth qnd so on, that wc want you to have., because, you
need ilicm worse than we do. If you want anything
we’ye Now if got come believe and get it —Cl!EAR,
you what.we say is so, and so :t *3. when
you are needing anything in out line call on
BHI^HT, MCJUNKIK & CO/
At T. 0. Wright’s Old Stand. TOCC0A, ga.
1*. S—If you dpn’t believe what we say come anyhow.
Scchig is believing. Ain’t that su?
MJKW SFMMCr €JO©BS^
lam jeady for tfie Spring trade with j better line of goods
. l>t now a
than was ever offered to the Toeeoa trade. I have thd finest line of
GOODS. LACES.- EMBROIDERY AND 1
m&HtVST 33S3S1E
ever brought to Toeeoa.
ttofsixe Mylincof ITBXIniltyi} (tO’ODSt
anfl MATS an'Ufkat. I sell nothing bfc‘
first-class goods.
I n ake a speci.dty of fine sl»< e*. I am so’e agent for the JceLbrated
W. Tv. DOUGLAS’ STTCE3 f< ’ r la,lips and gentlemen
My s-o-.:k of STAPTK AATTTv ■ -r;- jL - -wT - 7 -* ---
:s compic-.i. My prices are lock bottom. Come to see me*
n. khMo;