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Food England is now behind the
.... wVvai am liter at W„ P. Price’s store.
Martin Wohuut, g e n or ally
barters left for Danville, known here as “Red Fox,” loft
Fiidoy. last week for Oklahoma, so we are
i • ,i , „ , informed,
bring lie that wood
Some of the public roads cf
MeChiro of Daw Lumpkin county ure said to be in
i Ms family here in- lm<1 con<liU,m wl»eh "’ill give
the road commissioners trouble if
they don’t mind.
Mrs. B. O. Jones died l ist Fri
day at her homo a few miles above
Dnhlonega, leaving a husband and
many other relatives and friends
to mourn her loss.
Mr. J. W. Robinson, formorly
I of ibis county, hut now of White,
who has been engaged down on the
Seabord railroad for the past three
months. Was up last week in search
of teams and hands,
Mr. T. C. Magucss hr night to
j our office last week a couplo of
peas raised on his farm, measuring
24 and 2(! inches. They were
among some bean seed purchased
uud are the longest ever produced
in this county.
..nd house
children.
ursday little Bob Dau-
i large rattle snake as it
ing under his mother’s
, miles from town.
.lay afternoon a happy
W( .,v so busily exchanging
,|, [ |>nt even the runaway
,,, )] H . public square attract
I atietitirtn.
.1. II. Moore has just corns
In nice large ham on Col
and it. if the most sub
I 1 convenient building of
mu cvi
M la
r of
iiilt in Dnhlonega,
■collection.
cresting meeting has
: miss at Nimblowill
his county, for some
• counts there were a
i la.iessions and sever-
• Revs,
were
A
tin
Mr. Sosbee of originally Hall
but now of tins county, the color
the church. Revs. of the 43rd Georgia in the
; v ; and West were rlvl1 Wlir ’ P ai<1 our 1<nvn il vis,t
in attendance, l!ns woek > fu,, . tho Vm™o <-f wit
nessing a pension claim for some
v ago Mis. II. D. in | i,l,i comrade. Mr. Sosbee still has
' ‘ 11 ' 1 donated t<>, the f ,l(l Hag containing many bul-
"ivga public school , ol !u)ll . s>
('lalice hooks, which
much interest to the i A few days ago Mr. \V. J. Il.igh-
i| a thi . institution, and the j lower of this place, visited two
feel very thankful to this large saw mills over in Fannin
Dal
twenty To
will l»e of
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trust
im.
nit
county, where thoy are sawing
lumber and shipping it north.
One is fifteen miles from the rail
road and the other is ten. Certain
lumber that is worth only ten dol
lars per thousand here, they re
ceive fifty dollars per thousand.
If we only had railroad facilities
here, many persons who are now
without any ready money would
soon be worth many hundreds of
dollars These saw mill men over
I hero make from six to seven buu>
dred dollars per mouth.
“Polly,” the wild man, recently
found to be a lunatic by a jury,
after eating some soon after his
trial, is fasting again, being one of
the cheapest prisoners Sheriff Da
vis over had in jail. Hast Saturs
day thc"sheriff received a letter
from a gentleman residing in the
lower part of the state said that
“Folly” had visited that
section first of the year and
after remaining around in the
woods for awhile left out. Ho
stated down there that ho was
from Germany. About six or
eight weeks ago this same man ate
dinner at Mr. Forest Barret’s in
While county, also saying there
that he was from Germany, and
when asked what he followed re
plied that he didn't work. His
hands are as tender as a childs,
proving that lie told the truth
about this. Any way you take
him, he is a strange being.
The legislature will have to give
each county tax assessors so as to
make taxation more equal. The
way ii is now, a few men of each
county pay a big majority of the
taxes where the receiver fails to
do his duty by not making all
come up alike. Now, in Lumpkin
county, we know of men returning
325 acres of land, including their
farm, for only ten dollars. Anoth
er 800 acres for two hundred dol
lar.-., and yet they have the most
of it optioned to a timber com
pany for otio dollar per acre. One |
ot the best farms in this county is
only given in at $1.00 per acre,!
and much other property is not j
returned at one-fourth its value.
What do these people mean (
Don't they know that it. is just as
wrong to make false returns as it is
to swear a lie about anything else?
!low would they fee! if they
Miliary and now his 1 had a case in court and some one
kir l lady for the very valuable do
nation. \
What is the matter with the Sig
nal is nr. One week he states that
dec:, mining won’t pay here, and
tin.-n the n> xl ii( i says that the only
way to mine Mieccssfully is to go
,j. •,a from ■> to a 1000 feet. We
( a ell you. If he gets mad with
: ]■ : in this man’s mine won’t
p:i'-, while his friend's operations
an dir li i. !! is a very poor
way to seek revenge and this man
ner of blackmailing will not make
that paper any money or friends.
Contrary to la v, the local trus
tees of the public school here have
adopted a rule, allowing all chil
dren nearest this school to attend
it just the same .as those in Dah-
lonegn, free of charge, which has
-wollen the attendance so that
anotli a teacher is being called for.
Heretofore the outsiders had to
pay a d liar per month. Should a
now teacher he added it will bring
nliout a law suit by some oue
enjoining the city authorities
from collecting the taxes, is the
tall; is now.
Fn Thursday afternoon Mr.
brace Crawford’s horse got scared
!ll, d ran across the square from
dore to the corner at Sat.
tertiolil. '. There it made a turn
an i went on to Dr. Jones’ and
around the roar of J. F. Moore &
Gi. tore before it could he stop
I"' 1 b\ I 1 ::;ier Tolbert, who was in
!ha buggy. Borne times there
"'('!■■ only two wheels on the
- |: l|! ' at once, but the boy held
F place .an I guided the animal in
::,i ‘ a manner that the driver cs-
r ' 1 11 •■•ing hurt and the lmggy
l:,! ! 1 rse only slightly injured.
■' ; i:e four years ago Win. Shed,
' ' 1 ' ■ Joel Slic’d, formerly of
l: ' ; but now of Jackson
• commit ted some offdnsn
" :!; ' ntenced to two years
: dunenl in the penitentiary.
1 "die means his relatives sue-
‘ '* hi netting him into the
t long ago he reniark-
0 r ihat he had rather
'■! to the penitentiary and
hh time out then*. So,
of that circuit, upon
-■ this lias ordered him re
!| ' ) ni the asylum and sunt to
■m
to got him pardon-
m die < at. the asylum
vi-i'or that he was as
u received us he is
v hoc nothing wrong!
ms we imvo'oflon said,
Hie
would swear that they wouldn’t
believe them on their oaths? Fv
CM . V tH an returning property at
such prices should he dropped
from the jury box, because it is
not supposed that they will do
lv numbers of persons sent j U stico between man and man,
'sylum that ought to be in j when they are guilty of making
ni 3'ing and this goes to Loch false statements about their
t. taxes just to save a little money.
New fodder opened up here at
$1.50 per hundred.
Now stildeuts to the N. G. A.
College continue to come in every
day.
There are now nearly 100 pupils
attending the Dnhlonega public
school.
We have certainly had rain this
week, causing all out door work
j to suspend.
Mr. N. W, Cripple of Cordele,
Ga., came up lust week to
take a look at the mines.
When you want a good nice suit
of clothes, drop into the store of '1'.
J. Smith & Bro., where they can
suit you both in price and quality.
Hutcheson Bros., Freda, Ga.,
manufacture shingles of every de
scription. Write or call on us.
All orders promptly filled. tf
Dr. Pftlmonr is hero with his
dental tools and long experience
ready to wait on any ono needing
work in his line, to be found at
Hall’s Villa.
Marshal Hurbison is going to
commence enforcing 1 ho vagrant
law as soon as he receives a copy
of the same, so as to know how to
act.
Mr. and Mrs. James Elliott of
Andrews, N. C., relatives of Col.
Bryson, Messrs. M. J. William?,
Win. England and others, are here
on a visit.
Mrs. Strickland has gone to At
lanta this week to lav in her fall
and winter millinery, and will
bring back the same lady who ass
Sisted her last season.
Miss Annie Maud Burt, daughter
of Mr. WT J. Burt of Burtsboro,
died in Atlanta last Sunday night
at 10 o’clock, whose remains were
brought home for interment.
A. AY. Anderson, by ringing the
wrong door hell on last Mon
day night and causing tlio
inmate to ho alarmed, was fined
one and cost by Mayor Baker
Tuesday.
The ice cream festival Saturday
night at the old boy’s dormitory
by the Corona Society, was enjoy
ed by all who attended. About $20
were raised to pay on a piano re
cently purchased by the society.
We are glad to learn that Capt,
Iugersoll, who had an operation
performed on his foot a few days
ago in improving rapidly. Tie
wound is healing up nicely and the
doctor thinks the Captain will be
itble to get out next week.
A few days ago a spelling match
occurred between the pupils of-the
Palmour school of Dawson and
those of Fairview of this county,
resulting in the later defeating
the former. Miss Cinda Chap
man, a very small girl beat them
all. The spelling took place at
the Etowah school house.
Rev. J. N. Austin will preach at
Shady Grove every first Sunday
at 11 o’clock, a. m., Jones’ Chapel
3:30, ]). m., (same day), Soul’s
Chapel 4th Sunday at 11, a. m.
Rev. AY. G. Spencer will preach at
St. Paul Second Sunday at 11, o’
clock; Peck’s Chapel 3:30, (same
day); Auraria 3rd Sunday at 11.
and Davis’ Chapel same day at 8:
30.
The case of Mr. W. J. Loveless
ys. The Consolidated Gold Mining
Co. has been settled by the com
pany paying Mr. Loveless $2.25—
attorney receiving half. This suit
was brought about when Mr. Love
less was injured in a shaft while
at work for the company some
time ago and Col. Dean of Gaines
ville, entered suit for the sum of
$1,000.
There was preaching out in the
country last Sunday night at Si-
loam church by Revs. James Higs
gins and Jim Wehunt and we un
derstand that the wine used by
some who attended and conduct
attracted more attention than the
ministers. The Jaw compels no
one to attend church hot requires
those attending to behave them
selves and stay sober, and the peo
ple present that night should make
the facts known to the next grand
jury.
Mr. John Ricketts and Mr. Will
! Weaver are back no a visit from
Alabama.
i Mr. Matthew McDonald aims to
have turnips for all. He sowed
eight acres.
Mr. Paul Castle.bu.r,ry ,\ve.ut to
Gainesville .this week 4o accept n
bookkeepers place.
A oil will find the college letter
heads at .). F. Moore A Co.'s, for
students and professors both neat
and cheap.
Last Sabbath at the Baptist
Sunday School, Claud England
was awarded a nice Bible for good
! attendance.
Dr. AY. AA'. McAfee of Atlanta,
who has recently interested him
self in mining in this county, came
up last Tuesday.
Mr. J. V. 1 jiineo, one of Lump
kins best and highly respected cit
izens, died at his home out in the
country yesterday morning of pa
ralysis.
Clothes eli janeil and pressed by
Alonzo Benson. Prices from 25
to 75. Located in the Clark
House, at end of bridge near Dr.
Stowe’s office. $oet
Lust Sunday night at Pleas
ant Ridge church after services
had closed a boy and girl fought,
ms they were leaving. No one in*
terfered and they fought till they
got tired and quit.
The Dahlonega district has but
one road commissioner since Mr.
R. \Y. AYalker has gone to Ellijay
and Mr. Logan Campbell has
moved to Dahlonega. Their
places should bo tilled by Judge
Hull' at once so there will be no ex
cuse for the roads of this district
not being in good condition by the
time court convenes.
Our friend, Mr. AY. H. Court
ney of White county, remained in
Dahlonega awhile lootli Saturday
and Sunday last. \A r e scarcely ev
er disagree on any business except
the stock law—he is for it and we
arc against it. Mr. Courtney owns
hundreds of acres of land and it
costs big money to fence it. AYu
own but little land and have a cow,
which we couldn’t keep if the stock
law was in force here, explains
why we differ.
Occasionally we send out sample
copies of the Nuggkt, and ibis is
what a gentleman who had never
seen ono before says, under
date of September the 12th: “En
closed, please find $1.00 for sub
scription to the Nugget for a year.
I received the copy sent me and
must say that I was ycry highly
pleased with it, and if the copy is
a fair sample it is one of the very
best papers in North Georgia.
Dahlonega is fortunate in having
so bright an exponent of her many
virtues and you should be proud
for giving so readable a paper.
It is tersely written avid your paras
graphs show a very high order of
the newspaper art. A\ r e need
more papers like yours, edited at
home and speaking what the writer
feels and thinks.”
Last Sunday at 11 o’clock was
the hour fixed by Preacher Marks
to set himself right at the Metho
dist church here for things he had
said about Dahlonega and her col
lege while off down the country
some weeks ago, but the old man’s
heart failed him. He felt that he
had made a wc!> and was caught in
it himself and had no way to ex
tricate a single limb, and therefore
failed to come to time. After
singing “Amazing Grace” and
asking the Lord to “keep us
from walking crooked and forgive
us of all mistakes made,” he arose
and said that upon consultation
with friends he had decided to say
nothing of a personal nature today,
and if any one had come for the
purpose of hearing it and wished
to retire could do so without being
considered disorderly. This gave
us an opportunity of getting out,
for we don’t wish to hear anyone
preach who is guilty of going off
among strangers and endeavoring
to injure either the town or college,
and at the same time being kept
up by the former.
■ i '
AnutHtv' Letter About The
• Mountains.
(Jurreu, Canada Disr.,
Sept. 1st, 1303.
EniTon Njjugbt-:
As promised, J will tell you
about.nuy trip to Bli nd MoiiiPsdn
and second day’s fishing.
Sunday morning, bright and
soon, in company with wife, chil
dren and two very pretty young
ladies, started out on sight-seeing
Ac., and of course had good well
tilled lunch baskets with every
thing that was needed on a trip
like this, and we didn’t) forgot to
take some glasses with us either,
and I want to say right hero that
: I never aaw a more promising out*
I look for snakes in my life, and I
I tell you, I kept close to t he Unwell
basket too. Mr. Editor, a good
[ preventative taken in time, is
worth a whole lot of curatives.
1 believe in being very cautious
and well prepared for any emer
gency, especially snakes.
AYoll, we had a very nice time,
indeed. Blood Mountain is grand
and beautiful. It is worth the time
and risk of snakes to anybody to
make the trip and view the beau
tiful scenery from this loft\
height. Grand, beautiful, glo
rious and Heavenward this stately
old mountain is standing 1500 feet
above the sea. AYe had a glorious
timo. I would like to camp on
this piece of earth ono night and
see the sun rise the next morning.
It is said to lie more beautiful
than .words can paint, and I will
not attempt to describe it. Now,
wo fished next day at the foot of
Blood and Slaughter and had line
luck, and went prepared to fry
our fish on the spot, and we fried
them too, und Mr. Editor, such a
feast, no mortal ever hud. Chick
en, bacon, coffee, fish, eggs, bread,
glasses and a good hot tiro to fry
our fish, and didn’t we eat? AYoll,
just ask Grant, and he can lelj
you.
In looking over my notes in my
form r letter, J find that 1 some
what stressed the full glass story,
;u)d some of the brethren may
think .that J have fallen from
grace and 1 asked Grant if all the
people who visited his hotel ac
cepted his hospitality as I did and
;he suit] yes, and J want to say
that some very prominent people
have been stopping with him too,
and the ladies were no exception
to the rule, either. AVhy, there is
n good old dutch family just he-
fiow us on the creek who, after the
blessing is asked, puss around the
pitcher well filled, and nothing
thought of fit, and you never see
one of them down in the mud.
I havn’t seen a single person un
der the influence of strong drink
while here. I think nearly all
use it, but are very temperate in
its use; You find here good
schools, well attended both week
ly and Sunday schools, and I nev
er saw more clevier people as a
whole in my life. This is a beau
tiful rich country, and the state
ought to help build good roads
across the mountain gdps, so the
people could more easily get out
and in.
In conclusion I wish to say that
you ought to make ono trip over
in this country, and you will nev
er try any other place. You will
always be wanting to come back
here, for there is no place like
this beautiful Canada district.
Yours,
J. T. M.
If we were just a little nearer-to
a railroad our farmers could make
money furnishing tan bark. They
arc hauling it from Dawson conns
ly over into Pickens now to the
railroad and receive $(i.5Q per
cord, the price recently advancing
from $5.50 to $0.50. Old chest
nut logs at the railroad arc worth
$1.00 per cold. This is why far
mers and others living near the
railroad are more prosperous than
those residing in this county. AVo
have plenty of hark, logs and tim
ber but are too far from a rail
road for it to be worth any thing
to us now, but we hope the day is
not far distant when a chaugo will
come about by the big iron horse
being put to moving through this
county.
y—
The Timber Dealers.
Our city lias been visited this
week by Messrs, A. H. Isbell of
Murphy N. C., M. AY. Low of
j Young Harris, Attorney 0. G.
j Cowan of Webster, N. C., and
| Clins. T, Riuvls, Mayor of Ashe
ville, N. C., all interested in the
| timber deal in this comity that
j Olivers about. 55,000 acres of laud,
j recently optioned to AmLrson A
Jones and Tate of Dahlonega, and
i sold to the t nited States Leather
Go. Mr. Low is the original pro
ipoter. While here some time ago,
acting as a commercial drummer
and seeing so much tine timber in
tins county told certain gentlemen
that ho would get a purchaser if
they would secure the lands. La->
ter on he sent over Mr. Isbell and
the ball was set to rolling. Attor
ney Oowan is engaged in examiu
ing the titles now, assisted by Go*.
O, .). Lilly of I)ahlonoga.
They Spoke I lore.
According to appointment, Prof.
C. II. Willoughby, of I In; Georgia
Experimental Station, and lion.
Harvic Jordon, director, together
will) Prof. C. VV. Davis of the N.
G. A. College, spoke here last
Thursday m the interest of the
iiirmer, gardnur and dairyman, in
tended for those, interested resids
ing in the counties of Dawson,
White and Lumpkin, Imt wo re
grot lo say that the audience was
composed mostly of others than
tillers of the soil or cattle men, not,
being over 2d or 25 farmers .pr.es -
out. Most of the fanners ol this
section appear .to have as much
knowledge of the business as they
wish and take no interest in things
liko this whatever, which would
certainly benefit them and make
the country more prosperous if
they would only lend a little of
their time.
The School Census.
The recent census show Lump
kin county to have 2,080 children
of school nge, 1,053 mules and
1,037 females. 138 of those are
colored, GO males and 72 females.
Out of the 2,080, 18(5 can neither
read nor write nod 17 never (its
tended a school. There are with
in the corporate limits 297, a gain
of 25-ainee the last census, 18 of
these are colored, 23 males and 25
females. 4 of the 297 can neither
read nor write.
By districts--Auraria: Whites,
121 males and 122 females. Col
ored: 9 males and 10,females.
Cairo Crook Whites: 33 males
and 30 females.
Crumby -Whites: 25 males and
3(5 females. Colored: 2 males
and 5 females.
Chestatoo— Whites: 53 males
and 79 females.
Dayis—Whites: 18 males and
58 females. Colored: I males and
5 females.
AYahoo—Whites: 51 males and
51 females. Colored: .12 males
and 1 I females.
Frogtown Whites: 23 males
anil 10 females.
Martin’s Ford Whites: 1.1
males and 13 females.
Nimblmviil—AYliites: (51 males
and 51 females.
Jones’ Creek- Whites: 29 males
and 25 females.
Mill Creek—Whites: 15 males
and 17 females. Colored: 55 males.
Dahlonega, out side of town
limits—Whites: 75 males and (53
females. Colored: 13 males and
13 females.
Porter Springs AYliites: 17
males and 38 females. Colored: 2
males and 3 femnles.
Yahoola—Whites: 75 males and
(52 females.
Shoal Cueek—AYliites: 58 male*:
and (50 females.
Hightower -Whites: 03 males
and 57 females.
Auraria bus 27 that can't reud
nor write and (5 that have never
attended a school; Cane Creek, 7;
Crumby’s, 12; Chestatee, 11;
Davis, 12 and 1; Wuhoo, 8; Frog-
town, I; Martin’s Ford, 11; Nim*
blewill, '9; Jones’, 1 I ; Mill Creek,
14 and 8; Dahlonega district, 13
and 3; Porter, 7; Yahoola, 0;
Shoal Creek, 13 and 1 ; High
tower, (5: City of Dahlonega, 11
and 3.