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bus rotiu»r«l Mrs. Elixihcth Moss
I’rof. Gaillard
j from Griffin.
I Mr. Wm. Rico is confiod to (VG
I Strickland has returned n» i l»oit this week. Mrs. Prank Weaver of El mini,
niinsboroi j (\ uncilmnn Strickland bus cone 1 M ’ s u °) v on rt v ' s ' 1 * lcl ° to llcr
p Stow, lifter u trip of several (down to Gainesville. jbiotber, Maj. lillsnn.
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died last; Gen. Hardin of Kentucky, wbo ! Rev. .T. M. Gurley, after a few j Sec notice of lost
Monday near New Bridge, in this always lias an interesting anecdote j.days visit to his friends and rein-1 whore,
county, aged 851. to toll his many friends here, came lives here and in l nion county,
returned to his home in Missouri
notes oLe-
ran I
in last Friday.
Mr. W. D. Chamberlin of
country, returned
da)
lust week.
]p (‘dihins of White comity,
"bound over last Thursday by
‘ , O. 1 nr here charged with
Com. J)|U "
blockading-
y )0 aI -e glad to rcet'ive the news
■ m < from any section of the
county, hut some times they are
crowded out and do not appear.
Judge Murray of Tennessee,
who Hiked hy everybody here,
gr rived iu the city last Friday, ex-
* e( .,jr, :• to Spend several days with
us.
j. .j Thursday George Corn was
i , i mvi.i* in a $250 bond 1 >y
c „i r iV J. Worley to 1«jep the counly a property will
peace, ms asked by Mr. Ashley who a few tbonnnd dollars
jwore out the wart ant.
After lingering for about three
wcr ks the little two year old girl
of Mr. F. Williams of Two Run,
died last Thursday afternoon. We
deeply sympathise with the par
ents in the loss of their loved one.
Since Lincoln Wchunt, the hat-
jess man has wedded in this noun-
tv, he bus been seen wearing n
coal. He promised before he mar
ried that he would cover his head
with a hat, hilt so far has failed
to can • out this obligation.
Miss Carrie llarbison is visiting Correspondents must send us
relatives in Gainesville this week, j th(Ml ’ n " mc9 ’ iK,t f<n ' P w,)Ucat,ou it
i they do not desire it, but for our
By throwing at a barber
- Kl ^ n : protection.
Tuesday night, Marion Edmonson
got into the lockup. Ci( ' n - W “ rtK ’ r ,s lixin * to ,no V c
this week down to Mr. John Hul-
Young John Forest, rocked Mrs. S( , v ' Ss S( . vcn m il, ?8 this side of
Adams house the other night andj
is now absent from Dahlocega, ,
Mr. II. D. Gurley, Jr., who has
Mr. J. C. Tate, after spending
some months in Alabama, is up on
Gainesville.
been located in Atlanta for some
j't iy. last Monday.
ton, O., in renewing his subscrip
tion last week said: “1 depend
upon your paper for mining news,
keep mo well posted.*’
Mr. and Mrs. E. 1*. Kirby of
Jacksonville, III., wore among tbo
visitois here last week. Mr. 1\ir-
by has an interest, in the Grown
Mountain Gold Mine.
Thcfamiliar face of Prof. J
S.
You who wish to attend the N.
G. A. (Golb.'go should not forget
that the time of openm*; has been
changed to the ind day of ■Suptom-
ber instead od' tha !Mh.
Any one wanting Mason* frtiii
jars cull at Audersons+t Jones.
Miss Rawsour of Atlanta, a
daughter of Mr. Luther Uamsour,
is hero as the guest of Prof, and
Mrs B. P. (5-aillard.
'I’he appraisers last Thursday
valued the household effects of
Mi's. Hutchins, deceased, at $211.-
05. Mr.R. F- Anderson, the county
administrator, will dispose of the
Stewart was seen on our
time,
with his parents in Lbihloucga.
Potli pastors of the Methodist
a vi-di of a couple of weeks.
We are glad to learn that Mr.,
d. \\ itt, who has been \ l '' .V j end Baptist churches, alter an ah-
sick, is able to get up and go to | swl( , e fnmi tho cily 0 f some two
:Ih> table now. j or three weeks, returned lust Sat-
'Phe valuation of Lumpkin ) unlay.
fall short
this year,
Lust week a letter rcceiycdfrom
attov oyW. 1). Harris, who • at
tended college at Dahlonega many
years ago, states that Mr. J. P>.
Parks, died on July 1st very sud
denly at OcnbUry, Hood county,
Texas. This was Pen Parks who
also went to college here in the
seventies, residing .
count v.
says the tax receiver.
Mr. Guy Reese of Atlanta, who
recently got slightly injured on
the street car of that city, is up on
a visit, for a few days.
Tho farmers are, about through
with their crops now and will get
a short rest. He who feeds them
all is entitled to some rest.
A fellow came into town with a
large clock under his arm tho oth
er day which he had brought ten
miles to have it repaired. He was | Bor.ed in this county to the United
not a subscriber to the Nuggkt ! States Leather Co., is busily en-
and had not learned that the jewel- : «aff6d now in making maps of each
or w«fl otr for a short while. | district containing any of this tim
ber.
Mr. W. II. Courtney of White,
,vas down this week, who reported
tho crops as growing finely and
the Loud Mine turning out a large
yield of gold as usual.
Oui cilizens arc contributing
very liberally towards the im
provement of the cemetery at this
place, and in a short while when
all pay in, each name and amount
will be given through the Nought.
Mr. I'sahell of North Carolina,
who is interested in much of the
timber lands that are being ops
kSo.mo of you may think that tho
Nought is most too personal but
it is the only way to give tho news
j of tho town and county, This is
why it prospers.
One night lust week one of Mg
W. B. Woodward’s children aj'ut^u
in his sleep and walked out. on the
wui! poiOi and thinking lie was at the
who Mr. D. P. Myden of Atlanta, up- i^rook., w^ado a dive,off of tho porch
spend u day am *o\preeLtes the Nuuckt. we finite W;U! pretty ,b«<iJy Juwt top
wlud bo says as follows; ‘-‘We | ,i W hilo..
cannot do fvitbowit tlwa Ntiuu-KT. j . , ... .. .. , ril
. ,,, , . - . . aV subscriber wixiito*-HS wmi* ,obc
It is like tho no giro said about the , . . , ,
. , . husuol received a copy of t'lua
potatoes, it is oread and meat |
both.”
treets ' things next Monday.
spout the most of this week ! I,wl Wl,t, i.rduy after au absence of To show our readers how
t'hr.oe weeks,
some two .«.»•
came homo
with his family.
Mr. Ike Reid was arrested last
week on the charge of furnishing
material to still by Marshal Griz-I 1 M ’ ,N uuukt in more than a month, al-
zlc, who made a temporary j 1 ’** 1 ' though the subscriber has beo(
bond until yesterday and after an j Tbe companies preparing to j going from placo to place. Her*
investigation was hound over, purchase limber lands in this hods must remember that neither
. county are hound to have a I'uil* {(he mails nor editor is to blame
, 1(111,11 mii’lni*'- |ls 1)1 ,l I()1K | to transport their lumbor, j f or them not receiving the papoy
p u .u hi t ot in i.i) .bin, wm slumps and tan bark or liquid, j regularly when thoy are traveling
approaching bur bourn ami ran wlli(jh wi || |„ quite an item to ll.oj from town to town. Wo can’t
railroad, saying nothing of the mi- k GC p up with them n,ud Unetc
ca and many other now industries
The tax receiver lasing unwill
ing to receiye the Sobly jiropcrty
at $1,000 valuation by the agent,
Cupt. .T. \V. Woodward, an ar
bitration was held with merchants
Maj. Til'son means to put the
boys through hereafter, cither hot
or cold, rain or snow, by using the
hoys old dormitory to drill in dm
; H. D. Gurley and G. McGuire as ing rainy weather
then in Hall J arbitrators, who valued it at $51,000. } arrciunil at other
and the
times.
drill
The
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Prewitt of
Mr. Grit. Evans, who had his I Silver City, Ga„ were among the
?yo hurt, recently while sawing I visitors here last Tuesday. Mr.
-hiu,vies in Ibis county, went down Prewitt H that wide-awake mei-
:o Atlanta last week in company
ivitii Dr, V/hclchcl, to have it ex
’.mined and tho physicians told him
Hint it was out. He goes again to
day To let them see whether it is
necessary to remove tho ball to
keep from injuring the other.
. bant who sold for ten per cent
and built up one of the largest
merchantile concerns in upper
Georgia.
ground is being graded and put in
tip top shape now.
The furniture of the boys old
dormitory has been removed this
week to the Consolidated Hotel,
recently leased lrom the company.
It is one of the most convenient
and best finished houses in Dahlon-
tliat will spring up horoaftcr,
In Oklahoma the wind blows so
hard that bees can't livo in that
country and honoy is 20 cents a
pound. Last week when Mrs.
Gaddis left here for her homo out
there she made arrangements to
have about two hundred pounds of
honey shipped to her. This and
many other reasons is why we pre
fer the old red hills of Georgia for
a home.
Last Thursday morning while
ega, and if the hoys are displeased
To tbe l'ogret of bis many friendp |W hlce llley c . m - t be s „i, c d
here, Mr. R. W. WalUm- left for
Walker left for
Eiijav yesterday, where he expects
AltlionoT) the Signal man didn’L 11° l°cute foi aish.le. Mi.\NaIkei
uhseribe « cent towards the jm„ | has been living iu and near Dahs
lonega for seven years and his
friends in this section are number
ed by the hundreds. We wish him
success in any business he under
takes.
, he sug-
run it.
ivovemcnt of the cemetery
jested, who and how to
This is very poor encouragement.
The citizens very well know the
sale nf lots is not sufficient to keep
up the cemetery, because the price
is only $20 per lot and some years
none lire sold and no provisions
arc made for the cemetery.
According to announcement, a
Mb Ilncknbay of High Shoals, Ga.,
appeared here iast Thursday and
stretched his lent for the purpose
G giving a show, after exhibiting
U P »t Mr. Frank Jones’ store, a
fmv miles out in the country. The
outlir consisted of a tent, about the
s:/ " °f a small wood house, a wag-
< u :!n ‘ buggy, and a pair of poor
°kl tnu! . loo' lean for the huz-
'"'"'"i and a couple of performers
"'ho did the driving. After dis-
n.mting a f inv complimentary
! and ascertaining the amount
; !l,Xl ' s fm* such a performance
" v Pulled iip stakes about the
lU ’ L ‘ f ()l ' tho balloon ascension and
'; i! 0l, t in the direction of Aura-
ria.
" :, !ue people innj r wonder why
lr: board of education of this
e.iity !u ls debared the teachers
' ; 1 irc.ni teaching here on-
: >’ are ; xnmined and receive
' in Lumpkin. It seems to!
' ll '” for applicants to yiass iu I
'ban iu Lumpkin and for
"•'sun many incompetent
■' 're sent out. Some teach-
<)ni 1 "ion were employed iu
: "’ U! Py last year and their ina-
b> teach caused eoufnsiou
• ; ue!i tm
anywhere.
Henry Edmonson, who was
poisoned on liquor a few days ago,
made his appearance out first, of
the week enjoying his usual health
except his left arm was para
lysed and a little out of res
pair. Some one said that he Died
... another kind of liquor the other
Cupt. II. 1). Ingersoil enjoyed bis d in(je he faad heen out . Wo
lirst mess of l ousting e.us 1G1C ( suppose it was for a test to sec
whether he was poisoned with the
li
this season lust Monday, being of
the Golden Swecd variety. The
Captain stands in the load, as we
have heard of none so early else
where. Had it not been for tho
cold spring he would have had a
mess m June,
planting.
I t may seem strange to some of
you when we tell you that John
Hester, who is perfectly blind, has
gone over to Duektown and secur
ed a contract to cut wood. He
can't cut a tree down but can
do about as well ns anyone when
he gets the tree down. He gener
ally has a partner to fell the tim
ber. This shows what viin and
energy can accomplish.
other or not. Some times the
quantity gives a good deal of
trouble as well as the quality.
Last Monday Mr. John Moore
This was the third j purchased tho town property of
Messrs. Crane and Berry, known
as the Ann Forster house, op
posite the Clark house on West
Main street. It was on the corner
of this lot in a grocery where
Sneoc 1 killed Campbell and was
legally hanged in 1S42. Judge
Huff, our present ordinary, is
one of the few here now who wit
nessed the hanging. In those days
when a man committed murder he
was soon tried and disposed of in
short order.
The representative of the Bell
[’ek 1 phone Co. wants the citizens
and hid. People who run from
preachers and printers will never
get. to heaven without any change.
Mr. R. C. Wood left last Mon
day for Leroy, Kansas, to he gone
for some two or three weeks. Mr.
Wood has been engaged in putting
up an up to date saw mill on his
property near Cavondcr’s Creek for
some lime.
A certain gentleman in speaking
of the Nugget the other day, paid
us a very high compliment but ho
is too stingy to take one of his own
and depends upon borrowing.
Compliments alone are not worth ; Miss Susie Riley was sweeping the
a cent to a newspaper. ! yard at Mr. F. M. M helchels,
i where she boards at this place,
Mr, Robt. Payne, who recently I h(j fo(md ;l bettnt : fll | nugget of
went down near Marietta to work „ () , (1 in th(J (ihftp(J of half of a leaf, j
on the railroad, has returned ll *"' I vv , oi< ir hin« p three pen-nywoighis. |
ter selling out his team. Bob T | d 8 ia th 0 poo d luck of a young j
lady who has come to Dahlonega to
spend the -summer. Let others
come. There is no telling what
they will find in our beautiful
mountain city.
The name of Wm. Dotson of this
county, has been placed on the
government pension list again.
Last Thursday he secured a vouck-
43,r for the sum of $CJ8 for back
jxiy and will hereafter receive $8
per month. Bill has boon work
ing m the gold mines here a Jong
time. He is growing old and
feeble now and this money will be
a great help to him, and from now
on ho will be called Mr. Dotson,
like the rest of the people having
plenty of money.
The largest rattlesnake wo haye
heard of in this section was killed
recently on the mountain by Mr.
J. C. Self. It was five feet long,
with sixteen rattles and a button
and would have tilled a half bushel
measure. Mr. Self and his little
boy were out squirrel hunting and
the son discovered tho snake, and
would have stepped on it the next
time while it w.as in its .coil. T hero
the little feSlow stood within reach
of it should it strike, and the fath
er with a rifle, expecting it to do
Sam doesn’t try ,to.
it. ds.claimed Ivy The prouClKM S
that all is peace and happiness in
heaven, but what is going to ho
the result of some of those haugh
ty people should they succeed in
reaching that beautiful land an*!
are given a pair of wings and n
harp no better than a poor persons,
says the'sun travels a heap faster
up here than it did down there
where he was at work.
A gentleman was telling ‘us the
other day about seeing a preacher
sitting iu the door, out in the
country, playing the fiddle on
Sunday. Maybe he was just prac
ticing to see if ho could be more
successful in fiddling than preachs
ing.
We understand that one of the
pastors of the churches here re
marked that he didn’t see why they
wanted to build a railroad to this
place. We arc not at all surprised
to hear of such language when it
comes from one who has not
enough influence in his business to
cause the conyertion of a single
person in six months, if not long
er, and if we were in his place
we would throw up the sponge
and follow some other occupation,
and not be guilty of receiving a
salary for services not rendered.
The absence of such sore-heads
would he much more preferable.
For when a preacher has no more
interest in the town where lie is
located than just to receive his
salary his absence wouldn’t be
missed.
At the request of Mr. W. E.
Ricketts, who has been soliciting
UICKCUB, Wilt) liiis ijcuu
of certain places on the proposed gn j )Bcr jj ) t; l)n8 for the improvement
telephone line between Dahlonega j ^ ^ coino t e ry, a meeting of the
and Dawsonyille, to insure the
com par.
will not
-nil.
•tin ■
1; >t several
factbi
results
had to he dismissed
1: ; 's employed. Others did
'■td are teaching iu this
11 ' "gam. Wo understand
' : the hoard of
fly an
•k cxrd
j citizens was called to convene in
'the court house last Triday night
to appoint a committee, the duly
of which is to see that the money
i subscribed is properly spent. The
meeting was not as largely attend-
ded as if it had been for the pur
pose of looking after the interest
Cant. Isbell of North Carolina,! of some far off Chinaman or Ja
ins'returned again, representing | panise, nevertheless enough citi-
)hc pnjuM Stab's Leather Co. This zens were present who felt an in-
limu | ie brought estimators who | (crest in this much needed iraprovo-
si) much per month. 1 his
be done and we don’t
I niioiv whether the lino will ho
| built or not. Telephone lines arc
I like railroads, they build up busi
j i'.uss and we don t blame the citi
zens for not
• ,i i -M 11 f so every instant, bo us quick as
Tho pnvi bon in tho drill hold os ,, . , ■ i .
, , , , , . i he could raise lus gun he aimed at
tho college p ouiul I,y boon to o lm)n5lel .- s llca ,|, knowinK if ho
atvay and it anyone tlostros to w.t- ^ km R jn8tlnt | v lhat u wouW
ness tho military exercises hercaf
ter they must lie content with a
position in the open air, with no
protection from tho sun. This
payilion was first built by the citi
zens of Dahlonega and located at
the Lessor mineral springs a num -
her of years ago by subscription.
loing this.
nion
are now enga:
mates of the
jed in making esti-
timber along Blue
Ridge. What docs it meair
A
railroad, tanneries, acid factoiios
and various other large enterprises
1 aspirants for office j that will spring up in Lumpkin
'ins this unsatisfactory I county, giving employment to
"ruing out teachers in i hundreds of hands, and bring thou-
! sands of dollar-' into this
ment to transact the business of
tho evening. Rev. W. IT. McAfee
was elected chairman, W. B.
Townsend, secretary and \V. E.
Ricketts, treasurer. Committee
appointed; J.
H.
bite bis boy. At the crack of the
gun the ha!! hit its aim, certainly
giving the marksman much relief.
Lust week when sheriff Davis
and Constable Walker went out to
arrest Geo. Corn on a peace war
rant, they were confronted by his
Soon after its construction an in-1 wife with a loaded pistol. The of
cidenL occurred which we will long J curs took possession of the weapon
r e m c m b e r. Key. Goodman ; together with a gun. About that
Hughes, a Methodist preacher who time Rev. Mat Grizzle and \\ illis
has long since passed away and ; W ehunt appeared and the lady se-
roeeivod his reward, contributed cured another pistol and desirous
hu gely towards its construction, of “cleaning up the patch,” corns
The day it was completed Uncle | menced snapping at the new com
Goodman and Aunt Emily went j crs. To say that they run doesn i
over to visit the place and when : express it, although tbe divine had
they got there dancing was going oftoubeen heard in the pulpit to
on with music furnished by colored ) invite his hearers to come and go
chairman,
Ricketts, 4.
1 larbisom
musicians. At that time it was
not believed that church members
who danced could reach heaven,
M. Brookshcr, land tho two good old people, with
Moore, W. K.! disgust, turned their vehicle
W. Boyd and J. V.
1 around and never saw the place
! any more.
with him to that city on high
where honey and wine is free to
all, and its streets paved with gold,
but both of thorn decided to use
tho paths of Nimblewill district a
while longer and eat green beans
and drink buttermilk.
who while here on earth won’t ev
en sit on tho church bench with
one, and if one not dressed up to
date passes By will turn their nose
to one side liko the hinge of a
gate? Can such people us th:s emp
loy themselves in heaven whop
thoy arc placed on the name foot
ing with other people# No. >
'Guo day last week lve Dotson,
the nineteen or twenty-year old
sen of Wm. .Dotson,of .this QQvi»ty.,
outraged tho little gin! .of JMi;.
Floyd Brookshcr aged about .nine
or ten years. Ive docs not stay
at home but for a long time has
been living alone in a littlo house
on the Ivey property not far from
town, doing his own cooking.
But that house is vacant now. Ho
is gone. This little girl and a
much younger brother were sent
to this lad’s place of abode Tqr
something, when iho took advan
tage of the opportunity, gave the
little boy something to play with
at the house and coaxed bis sis
ter off into the woods, pretending
to hunt a hens nest and in this way
succeeded in accomplishing his
hellish dosirc, telling the child so
she says, if she ever told it he
would kill her.
Last Sunday wo wont out to tho
Baptist church to hear Rev. J. M.
Gurley, a resident of tho west,
preach. lie is highly .educated,
has a good dcliyory, a ^pduodid
voice and preaches woH, interest
ing everyone present. Before 'be
ginning his sermon Mr. Gurley
told of tbe many changes that had
taken place here, and where ho
lived since he had gone away
when quite a youth. Tho ground
where his father ouco farmed is
now grown up in large trees and
ho wouldn’t have known iho place
had it not been for tho distance.
This caused us to get to studying
and notice many changes that had
taken place, evo*i in the church,
since wc use to attend when a boy.
Out of a largo congregation we
saw but two faces, Ca4.1t. \V. iL
Worley and Col. W. P. Price, who
wore there thirty-five and forty
years ago. The amen benches,
which wore occupied by old peo
ple and furnished good old time
vocal music, vvero almost vacant.
The music is ground out now by
an organ, not often used or enjoy
ed by aged people. Wo saw just
two of our old school mates. They
too have changed and the course
of long years are telling on them
rapidly, Nothing looked familiar
except tho contribution basket.
It was brought around as usual.
Not by the same persons wbo
.earned it years ago, but by now
hands, Tho others have long since
passed away and gone ito reap
their reward.