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________ " Town vr \ mm *. Crawford of La von ia was in this week. **holP’ crowd of Red men eat oysters Tuesday night. J. N. Edwards of Shoal Creek was In the city Wednesday on busi ness. Richard McMurry and daughter of Avalon, were in Toccoa Wednes day. Rev*. W. A. Cooper and Searcy of Avalon visited Toccoa Wednes¬ day. Messrs. Sandy Ingle* and George Anderson of Tumervillc were on our streets Wednesday. C. P- Frisr and family of Atlan¬ ta visited relatives in town this week. T. j. Jackson has purchased a ten acre farm of T. C. Wright just outside the city limits on the Stone cypher road. Maj. Jno. M. Freeman has rc turned home from Blacksburg S. C., where he has been for several weeks visiting his sons. Mr. G. W. Edwards is thinking of starting up a new Handle fac¬ tory. Mr. Edwards will doubtless make a success of it, as he docs everything dee he goes at. Rev. B. Oliver, the pastor in ©f the colored Methodist rch at this place for the past four years, ha* been moved to Ilills boro, Ga. Rev. Bibbs takes his ce here. Rev. Bibbs comes M Athene, Ga. Rev. J. R. k iff was reappointed presiding Elder of this circuit. Conductor Sid Baxter, of the Sonttwri)* left Atlanta Tuesday . Ight with bis train for Toccoa and then be arrived at Belt Junction, pi mil©* this tide of Atlanta, he fund a tramp with ins arm cut off. |||iie tramp had been riding and fell off, the brake beam on his train ©ad was run over by the cars, cut¬ ting the arm off. The Sherwood youth bund iil I Uri , paraded the streets of Toe in, jpMd ^ s '> Tuesday, exhibiting their mu* talent. The boys are quite KdR ASM eliltning to be from 4 to 14 psn of age. The music was.very good, considering the age and size 0 the musicians. All the small and Mgt of the town were out m HBKiuaMl* 0 the rounds with them. The by the band was credi jjiMe, and showed thorough train §§g, They alto gave two concerts — ^ijraisinMigs, citron, . etc., at s cheaper than ?an buy them. ■ 1 .3 & Cook. , $0 I at I. D. McCollums 10 had the misfor IP'# fine , horse ^ Tuesday. , , Craig visited : if: % Madi - Satur* of as a grob sheriff of his • l * 111,8 w “*« *» to Nm-.f % pggyi .. ;..— ■* ;........ ... Hou. W. R. Little, the popular and able senator from the 31st dis¬ trict,passed through Toccoa Satur¬ day enroute to his home in Carnes ville for a few days rest from his legislative duties at the Capitol. Col. Little is among the most able members of the State senate, being on and chairman of a number of important committees which has necessarily kept him very busily engaged. Duty to his constituents is the first thing with honest “Bill” Little, consequently this was his first leave of absence since the legislature m«?t in October. There is considerable rivalry among the citizens of Toccoa just now, as to who has the largest hog. Each one thinks his is the largest. But Swift Davis is the most pro¬ fuse in making claim for his, “He will not down” when some one says Frank Mabry has the largest hog in town, Swift will say, “I know it, but mine is twice as thick as Frank’s,” and when somebody else remarks that Bill Vickery has the thickest hog in town, Swift will say,“Oh yes I know, but mine is the largest. Why” said Swift in one of his enthusiastic moods, “when my hog was swung up it actually looked like a cow, and if you will show me an¬ other bog in this town or any other man’s town, that looks like a cow when it is hungup, I will pour out my Christmas “licker,” which I have actually bought and have on hand, and I won’t touch a dad dinged drop during the “hull” of the We intend to re¬ our stock of if we lose per cent on them. can get a suit at cost for cash at Kilgo & Cook’s. Go to I. D. McCollums to get Oranges, 20 cts. per doz. J. C. McConnell of Cornelia was in the city Monday. A. M. Gribble and R. Greene legal sales at Clarkesville Messrs. Jones andMcCleland of Tri-State Lumber Co., were in Monday on business. Col. Jno. Owen has been ab¬ sent from the city several <?ays of this week attending to business in Banks county and at Clarkesville, this county. The Masons of Toccoa will give an oyster supper on the 27th. Rev. Allen left yesterday for his field of labor at West Point. Dr. Lamb ami family, JHr. Car¬ ver and family, and Mr. Dunton, from Demurest, arrived Wed¬ nesday an^ will hereafter make their home. The depot at this place >vas the scene of a lively crowd of Frank lin county immigrants Texas bound j a#t Xueaday night. At the present ^ immigration from that coim if the removals are confined to the third party, the democrat* will be in the lead. 4 soon . Quite a number of drummers h|ive J n the city this week, ^ the cleverest one of tlgpm all, and one of the cleverest th ever “Grabbed a grippe,” is Tom Bill of Gainesville. Tom is « moun tain boy, consequently he never gets “skunked” when he strikes k town in this section. fer with her little 1 M “ is visiting rela I Va., and Balti i» week*. —> th — A young lady of Toccoa whose sister was visiting in Hartwell last Sunday', remarked ort Monday eve ning: “I know the reason she didn’t send that package by the Elberton train today. I heard that she was out riding all day yesterday with a young man from Athens,and she forgot it. That’s the reason.” Since the third party of Frank¬ lin county gave two of their effi¬ cient and worthy servants “husks” for dinner last Saturday, wonder if they won’t be returning to their father’s house. Come along boys, the calf is fat and the rings are ready. A We are selling the t a best dress goods 20 per cent cheaper than our competitors can buy them. Big bar gams 0-0 in« nvprv C\ei> dav Udy dur- UUI mg December at Kilgo & Cook’s. All kinds of fruit at I, D. Mc¬ Collums at a low price. Messrs. Dunton & Lamb will soon open a first-class bakery and confectioner’s store in Toccoa. Mr. Dunton is a first-class baker and confectioner and no doubt will do a good business here, as his practical experience will enable him to turn out the best goods at the lowest prices.' Palmer Simpson attended court this week at Homer. Mrs.-B. P. Brown paid a visit to relatives at Ayersville the first of the week. The Baptist church of Toccoa has engaged Rev. E. A. Keese, of Bowman, to preach for them the second Sunday in each, month, the coming year. Rev. Keese has ably filled the Baptist pulpit here for the past two years, and his friends will be glad to know he will continue to preach for them. His first sermon in the new year will be preached next Sunday. We are pleased to note the im¬ provement an the condition of Mrs. W. F. Perry, wife of Prof. W. F. Perry of the Toccoa Public Schools, who has been very ill for the past two months. Mr. Steve Taylor, who lives four miles south of town, was suddenly completely paralyzed last Friday, not being able to even talk. Mr. Taylor has been blind from youth. Mr. W. M. Busha is visiting relatives in Atlanta. Rev. B. P. Allen, who 1 ms filled the Methodist pulpit in Toccoa for the past three years will go to West Point, his new field oi labor. Rev. Allen has many friends in Toccoa, who are very sorry to give him up, but wish him the same abundant success and pleasartt duties in his new heyne as he has made in Toe coa. Rev. Mr. Dillard, who has been stationed aX La Grange, will preach to our Methodist friends here next year, / * C. S. Christian, the restauranter, paid • visit to Gainesville on ness Monday. Judge B. E. Edge- and his I eons Alec and Warry, with Glenn Davis, are up in the mountains hunting.” Bob Dans, the druggist, took Thanksgiving ner with Rev. Keese at last Thursday. A crowd of nimrods of Messrs. Geo. Edwards, D. Sunpson and several others, Thmk^vmg in hunting the Av.k» - - m*.’. .. ay m on hi. ta- ggagpii 7 1 ■ Mi«e, Berta and Eva Payne 23SW ^ Mr. W. H.Tayloe,the Southern’s assistant passenger agent, was in town Tuesday in the interest of his road. The prohibitionists have amended their previous nominations and now put forth the following ticket: Sheriff— Williani K. Nix ; Clerk Superior Court— C. Bangs; Treasurer—N. J. Gideon ; Tax Re¬ ceiver-Frank Norton; lax Col-' lector—William Fry; Coroner— W. J; Edmonds. When you need Fine Job Printing, why not patronize Home Industry, especially when you can get your work done as cheaply and as well by this Paper? A sour old bachelor takes a fiendish delight in calling attention to the fact that there is one thing women cannot do anyhow, and that is tie their mas online cravats. “They may wear ’em,” be 6ay?i « b ut they can’t tie ’em. I’ve seen vests on ’em, ’’ ho continued, warm¬ ing np, “that in 10 minutes would drive a man into imbecility if he had to wear the like gf them.” The pension list is beginning to turn the other way now. So it will be from this on. The immense sums paid to sol¬ diers of the Union army will not bo a source of irritation to certain persons much longer. They have begun to grow less. This year there were 92,123 fewer pension claims than there were last year. Postal trolley cars from cities to their suburbs and between outlying villages will soon bo tho common thing. They wijl greatly facilitate tho distribution of mails in rural and semirural districts. The system apparently could bo applied with advantage to star routes, whoro it costs $1 a letter to deliver the mails. A man was lately fined $25 in Chica¬ go for publicly making fun of and laughing at a lady bicyclist who wore the bloomer 6 uit on her wheel. If this woman’s rights business keeps up, the time will soon come when a man will not even daro to call his mother-in-law “the old woman.” A QuMir AlrituD People. Strange stories are told of the Dokos, who live among the moist, warm bam¬ boo woods to tho south of ICaffa and Susa in Africa. Only 4 feet high, of a olivo color, savago and naked, they have no fire. They live only on ants, mico and serpents, diversified by a few root 8 and fruits. They let their nails grow long, like talons, the better to dig for ants and tho more easily to tear in pieces their favorite snakes. The Dokos used to be invaluable us slaves, and they were taken in large numbers, The slave hunters used to hold up bright colored clothes as they oamo to the bamboo woods, where these human monkeys still live, and tho poor Dokos could not re¬ sist tbo attractions offered by such su¬ perior people. They crowded round them and wero taken in thousands. In slavery they were docile, attached, obedient, with few wants and excel lent health. These queer people have one fault—a love for ants, mice and ser¬ pents and a speaking to Yer with their beads on the ground and their heels in tho air. Yer is their idea of a superior power, to whom they talk in this com¬ ical manner when they are dispirited or angry or tired of ants and snakes and longing for unknown food.—Popular Magazine. Henry E. DUey 1 . Country Friend. I happened to be at liberty one even¬ ing in New York when Edwin Booth chanoed to be playing King Lear—prob¬ ably the last time he played that part before his death. In the man sitting next to me I recognized an old friend of my boyhood days whom I had not seen for many years. And though Booth was on tho stage giving his magnificent im¬ personation of King Lear my old friend coaid not repress the expression of his joy at meeting me, “I “Why, Harry.” he exclaimed, am awfully hum! to see you! 80 you oome to sew Nod Booth play King Loar, did yon! I come in from the country to him play Hamlet last night, and I •wow he didn’t look a day older than he did SO year ago. He waa so chipper mad peart that Itboagbt I’d come to sighs and aee' him play King Loar, aqn I’m ge , tti ”.°L CO np there, aa it Kiog Lear I*m goto to have my Ml A -C- • tfgjU. LIPJF INCOTT’S magazine 1895 . of LII^PIN The special feature COTT’S—A COMPLETE NOV¬ EL In each issue, in addition to the usual SHORT STORIES, NOVELETTES, ESSAYS, PO¬ EMS, ETC., All combined, make it one of the ipost desirable maga¬ zines now published. We avoid the objection held by so many readers to a continued story. During the coming year novels mav be expected from CAPT KING, AMELIE RIVES, GER¬ TRUDE ATHERTON, MRS, 5 TICKNEY, MRS. ALEXAN¬ DER, MISS TRAIN (Author of “The Autobiography of a Profes¬ sional Beauty.”) Price $3.00 per year. Single copy 25c. Send five 3 -cent stamps for specimen copy. LIPPINCOTT’S MAGAZINE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. FOUR Route Best Line . To and from CHICAGO Solid veslifeyjed trains with buffet cars parlof cSre, dining ears ano and Wagner sleeping cars buffet private compartment furnished cars, magnificently each compartment. accessories in ST. LOUIS. A with buffet Solid vestibule*! trains coaches, dining cars and Wagner sleeping curs. • BOSTON. The only through sleeping car line from Eicg mt Wagner sleeping cars NEW YORK. The “Southwestern Limited” solid trains with combination elegant and smoking coaches care, and Wagner dining passengers in New York at the Lid Positively FERRY TRANSFER. Be Sure your tickets read via “JBig O McCORMICK, D B MARTIN, Passenger Traffic Manager. tie#’* Pass. It T. Cincinnati, 0. Warwick u til W THE LEADER IN CLE CONSTRUCTION The Warwick Is the wheelman’s favorite. represents his ideas. It is strongest of the light and lightest of the wheels. Every rider wants when ONCE HE SEES The ’94 models are some light running and ally guaranteed. fail ask Don’t to to see You will be reasonably sure purchase. The goods please are already half sold. Catalogue free. \ Warwick Cycle ManuFog Springfield, Maas. WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL dictionary rtfOw M 99 M c. 'M al 1 jf-. m S£ * SAtJE ANfc Feed Stable. Hogsed & Garland, Proprietors, TOCCOA, GA. The best rigs and teams always on hand Drummers and engaged taken at reasonable rates. anywhere desired. Special rates made to Tallulah Falls. Drayage done and trunks deliv¬ ered to any part of the city at very reasonable rates. Parties desiring teams for Sun¬ day will please make arrangements for same the day before. ^ Horses and mules always on hand for sale and trade ps 0 4 U 3 - tVU IS -~r r mCT 4 i (Eh W h THE ONLY PERFECT .FAMILY MEClWffs^ USB. Send for circulars and price list to the Wheeler & Wiiaon Mig. Co., Atlanta, Ga. For sale by _ . T A CAPPS & CO., Toccoa, Ga. D. M. SNELSON, dentist. Office over Matheson Merchandise Co’s, store on Doyle Street. Toccoa, Gkoroia, I keep constantly on hand a fine line of fruits, such a* Apple*, Or¬ anges, Grapes, Citrons, CurrtWH, Bananas, Mixed nuts of all kinds. VVill sell you cheaper than anyone else. I. D. McCOLLUM, —DEALER IN— Fruit & Groceries TOCCOA GA Hartford Bicycles Are the best for the money, and represent true ccoiiomy. h sf- X - iJgS Ml They are honestly made and ful guaranteed. if think of them and you will -t but ope answer. r : " ' ■ " ' ' ■' ■ - 1 psr’-jrS"; — - - ~ ' m ...rU