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1 he colored folks ui c going
have h Ghi islinns tree.
Mr. Win. Welmnt died in this
county n few (lays nun, aged Sii.
Most of the st udends are at homo
■MHqn
< 1»L* J1«i
f|,i j-t inns eve gilt.
\\V have been sick a few days
jiijg week Imt here is your Nugget | to spend Christmas with their pur- j visited Harmony Grove, Ga., Inst
Prof. and Mrs. Steed are
ing Cti list mas at Mneon.
When stealing our office wood
please don't take that already cut.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ricketts
ic same.
II is tepoi
ted here that, Mr, .1.
outs.
Yesterdays mail brought ns
i week.
Prof., Hiller is Likin;
in Savannah.
I) m'l forget those nice Christ'
mas iroods iitjW. 1'. Price, Jr.
Itoth Porter (springs and Mace
donia churches are going to have a
it'hristmas tree.
a On Saturday we had rain, sleet Tax Collector Walden closed his
jPiihison, formerly of Da hi on-J hatch of twenty subscribers at one j aud icicles, which reminded us very Look last Monday and issued fi..
now oi Gainesville, wm
likely he that city’s chief of police.
that some
Prof.
\Vc ate glad to learn
0 f out farmers are rending
puvrs* weekly letters in the Nuo-
, T „ „| coining mu h vulualde in
formation by so doing.
li\. not often that you see or
11 Oil"f snakes being found in this
C oi,.i,li'\ in December, but nevortho-
less a friend of ours killed one the
jltli ins! , ten inches long.
•|'[ie weather is quite changeable.
pop.
Mr. Tom McAfee was wedded
yesterday to Miss Gertrude Shol-
ton of Thomuston, Ga.
Mr. Charlie Moore is going
much of winter,
Mr. Eli Jackson returned fr.ow
dowu
Ian extended visit
country last Monday.
Mr. Eli Jones, after an absmoe
’fas. against, all defaulters.
We regrot to learn that M>r.
Uwi flumes Cprbin, a former citizen iff
this eoiu\ty, died a few days ago.
Col. W. A. Charters went dowiu
Christmas j Marshal's Report.
The Marshal's report of DaJj-
lonega for November .i-s as follows:
.Sanitary tax - - & $.76
City tax property <• Jr».2,7
Street tax - - - W.i!iKJ
Finos and cmt -. - iitf.OU
Amoiw.ut «t4'ect tax wur.kcd #.00
Handn Dots.
'llihe eommunity grieves the lloss
Mining Notes,
Up at the Gorge the dam is ^
a ootidiitioii to he rI.U to stand
most Uttiy fiiesiiel thnit .may
w.ithouii' any damages being n.vjf-
tiwuod.
Mr. Wharton Anderson of the
Calhoun mine, avuh in Dahlonega
last Sunday and ireported word;
progress-iiqj ^ueceesfuilly .dow#
itjlmrc as iwnuul.
Mr. W. If. '.Bryson i-s stall pros.
down to Milner, ,Gn., to <1(5 Imsi- of many months from Dahlntiega., to Atlanta this week to n.r$nwe two
ness for Mr. W. M. Rice.
Pl’of. and Mrs. Vickery left last
Friday for Hartwell, where they
will spend Christmas with relic,
lives.
paid the city a visit last week.
Mr. Price Charters, after an ab
senco of some time, returned home
last Saturday to spend Christmas.
Quite a number of our patrons
Cncle Newt, Alston, that good have renewed their subscription
old time preacher, was in Dahlon- this week, and will read the Nua-
Snndiiy before last the day was ! ( .(rn hist Friday shaking hands with okt weekly during 19Q4.
uiough
for
last
wm hi and pleasant
grasshoppers to he out. And
Sunday we had suow and sleet.
A subscriber at Kansas City.
]\lo., Ini I this to say about the
yuan i in renewing his subscrip
turn last, weak: “Wishing you
abundant success in the good work
vou arc accomplishing, and con
.iM'alulaliug .V‘»u on the splendid
pa|uu veil are publishing, I re-
«iaiu, A:."
A. • Piled last week, it had
becu reported here that Mr. S. A.
Kelley ha I died not long ago in
Texas, lint after we made mention
lust week of hearing from him it
was right interesting -to hear
Messrs. J. B. Brown .and John W.
Walden, t wo of his old com fades
iu the Confederate war, sit in the
court house Saturday and tell both
the pleasures and hardships the
three had experienced.
Out new su bee libers for the
present mouth are located at the
following places; Dahlonega,
Porter Springs, Ga.; Randa, Ga.;
Walnut, Ga.; New Bridge, Ga.;
Ins many friends here.
For Sai.e. — A yoke of cuttle 5 the Philippine Islands,
years old. weighing about 1,900
pounds each. Apply to II. <C.
They even want the Nugget in
Lieut. 8.
A. Harris, in renewing Lis sub
scription this week adds; “Just
Payne, Ihihlonegti, (In.
-t Kceop sending the Nugget to the
same address.'’
H. C. Shclnut of White county,
It's right funny that some peo
pie will pmst their own lauds and
at the same time go out and hunt
on other peoples, showing that
they have no use for the golden
rule.
Lester Lavender was arrested
last Thursday by City Marshal
Walker and placed in jail on a
warrant sent him from Pickens
county, charging the defendant
with assault with i-u-teui to mur
der.
Mr. Ephrain Kitchen, who rosis
tied near the line of 'Lumpkin and
Dawson counties, died yer.y sud
dotdv the other day. Fie was sit - Swci (water, I’cnu., hut before we
ting in a chair enjoying his usual j could reply nothing more could
health when the, summons of death be heard from them. It may lie
came. i that they either fainted or jumped
on the train and left.
Charlie Rice, who has becu
eases before the Supremeteour1..
The merchants are retaidiUig corn
meal at 70 and SO cents per bush
el. 'The ones not ad VC Hi sing sejl
the highest.
Tile sermon delivered Ly A ho
young minister from .Blue (Ridge
last Sunday, was said to tie ■very
interesting.
- Meadors & Sons will leiivve .short
ly after Christmas with a dot of
mules for tho lower country. So
will Mr. J. M. Brookshcr.
Many of our citizens are scarce
of well water on account of tho ex-
w.ho is charged with selling, iho tremedr.y weather we have had dur-
1 poison liquor you have heard about,
was arrested in White county the
j other day on a warrant sent up
from the sheriIT of this counl y.
Some one passed a counterfeit
silver dollar off oil the tax collec
tor of this counly last week. It
was tin ned oyer to U. S. Com.
I Baker, who will make an effort to
Mind out who it is passing such
j coins here.
Some one called for us ovei the
photic last Tuesday evening at
iug the summer and winter.
I ^
Wanted.—A car load of mules,
i from four to eight years old.
J. M. Bhooksiiku,
illhihlonega, Ga.
I If you want something real nice al! the publications received by
for a Christmas .pro-sent call at the southern coMngce are practically
j Drug Store, where you will 'find j worthless. Mr. Tate also intro-
something for both old and young, j duced a hill relating to the prose-
The baptizing that was to have
occurred here last. Sunday was
indefinitely postponed ou account j down in Alabama lor several
months, returned homo to spend
Christmas last week. N\ bilo on
Two Ruu, Ga.; Muskrat, Wyo.; of the unpleasant weather. The
Bound Brook, N. J.; Saugerties, |date will bo fixed at some future
|N. Y.; Charlottville, Va.; Worces-
jtei 1 , Miss.; Quincy, 111.; Caibon-
jdale, Li. Baltimore, Mil.; Al-
jtoona, Pa.; Adel, Iowa.; Irwin, Va.;
■Houses, N. J.; Spencer, Mass.;
|Bitteford, Me.; Norfalk, Va.;
.'hnttanopgu, Tcnn.; Quebec, Ga.
Mr. Aaron Caldwell, formerly
bf this county, but now of Pickens,
^ame aver after Lester (lavender
iwl Melius Gmullock Iasi Satur-
Wi "’ho hail been arrested ou a
varrsmt scut to the city marshal
N re lor their capture. There are
Ibi'eu warrants against Lavender.
Fne for assault with intent to
puiriloE aud two for misdemeanor,
jho one against Nelious is for mis-
eincanor of sonic kind. Mr.
Caldwell is now deputy sheriff of
nekens ami is making a good
la- f-
P"'UT, HO we are told.
Go hoys tell a good one on Mr.
Jlks Logging, who resides in the
leighborkood of the Turkey Hill
l110, His house is liigli off of
|*e groiuul sitiii tin other night, I .. ,
|G'i die family had retired, aj
■Bailing made its wav under the | Last Saturday we were shown a
pmises, and when its horns be-! letter from W. 11. Cook, Jr., who
| au to strike the floor Wilks, feel- Inis been gone from Dahlonega
time when the weather is more
favorable.
Mr. liar vie Kilgo and Miss
Nancy Montgomery were pro-,
noudeed husband and wife by Rev.
J. W. Rider last week. By her
marriage, the lady makes her
own brother and sister her uncle
and aunt. The young nun is from
Jackson county.
Some of our Randa subscribers
have been complaining of not re
ceiving their Nuggets regularly.
We will endeaver to liud where the
fault lies, as they are carried to the
post office hero iu time for them
to reach that place in the after
noon every Thursday.
We were shown a couple of
watches in the jeweler shop the
other day that are no doubt a
hundred years old. There has
boon nothing like them manufac
tured for many years. They were
in the possession of Undo John
Simmons of this county, when lie
Those who have registered in
can't write.
Up to t'he i’i the tax collector
and his assistants received the tax
money. Now the bailiffs are do
ing and it costs each defaulter one
dollar extra, and more later on.
Oranges, nuts, candies, dried
applies and peaches, eggs, fresh
the train asleep, Charlie says he
bad the misfortune of getting his
pockets picked to the amount of i Remember wo carry u full line of of confinement may he in the ucar-
«• 11, fancy groceries. F. L. Reese. , est county jail. Mr. Tale also in-
$45.
Mr. G. II. McGuire, I he jewel
er, expects to move to Dawson
county on the 15lb of January. If
you have any work wished to be
done in his line bring it in, and if
jyou have any at his shop you are
requested to call for same, else it.
wild he sold ■for charges.
Mr. G. H. Breluuer, at Conns
dersport, Pa., in renewing his I
I' s0 confident that it was a
G'Lr under the bed, lit out
uuh 'Dicker than it takes to tell
"as soon hold of a double
| a ‘H'l shot gun. The night was
cool hut the man hastened
[ 0llll( l 111 dio house before learn-
inany years and .elieyed to be
dead. He is in the hospital at Los
Angels, Cal., with both legs
broken, caused by the fall of an
elevator. He had only returned
from the Philippine Islands a
short timo ago, where he had boon
iu nothing
- "a,it it whs tin |^y was plenty five years. He didn t know whole
his folks were at and wrote a letter
hoping that, it would fall into the
hands of some of them, and sure
enough it did.
As stated last week this will be
the last issue of the Nugget until
fancy groceries,
It was believedtby some a .few
days ago that no new teacher
would be elected to assist in teach
ing the public school at Dahlon-
egn, nevertheless the hoard of
«f ft-wo old citizens, Bill \\\ ehiuR ' p’^'ting,on it&c Turkey Hill prop,
who died last Thursday, and Da.vc (>l 'bY wi<0h <j;ood uesuflts. fo T .e-HfVowv
Brooks who died last Sunday | <‘d us a couple of niiggots recently
night. The fm mcr was Imried at discovered last Saturday. Tl«e
New Hope and the latter at Metho- | smallest weighed fifteen grains
dial Nuublewill. ' and the largest, one pennywejgJjiT
K'hcre is no body .married yet, I and a half,
but one is expected -soon. 1 Hands are engaged now in clean*
The N. Dra. Cl. wiitl give an en, iug up itho machinery at Qrew,p
tentnioment at the school ihouso ; Mountain .power plaint, getting
next Saturday -night. They play | ready to ttumime work at ithe mine
‘TTncle LewisiGohin/” They show by about ^he first of it’lie year as
the treatment <»f (lie “negro in the I d. w hoped .that enough aain wilt!
50’s.” Admwsiim, tl.® audconts. j fold 'by itHiat itiipo no cihJV'-
Kvcryhody come ; them •(.<> go right a'head wit)h>t?h«
j work till t he Gorge power lis.conc
Of Interest to Many Citizens ; * ... , •
J the MeAleo Lm mine is piu
ol Lumpkin County. j (hieing better results than were at
j first, iv pee bid. WUum th 0 avatitf
■Cona>reasman Tate introduced a | was-tmiwd ont'iie null last wuqk,
number of bills iu the SJouso of J ( ,| l0 nlliciats were present and kept
I Representatives last weak,of spooial 1 11U ;i( . ( . (Mm , (l f ft f, nv hours run,,
interest. C')qo provides that only | c Uianed .^p and nscerttviuad oxjr-
Ihe real valuahlo government j n.at,l y itho'.value oft.hu ore. -Gpi
publications be giyeu to the col- uiiis ten staipp .mill .after,a run <F
leges. As the law is now nearly i imurs only thoy.e.leanod up aufl
burned off Jfip pennyweights i<f
pure ^uU(.
•t n a cooversatioii \vith an old
miner recently he had this t • say
about the Josephine Mine: “With
pick and pan 1 have prospected
the Josephine for days, aud i cap
itrutUfully -say iit;'.H a wond^ifpl
urine, ttt.oimfaiiis t'lmie hundred
and twenty acres, and if .it was lo
cated in the great western mining
country it would make sixteen
mining claims.” It is so weKl
adapted to hydraulic mining the
hills rise.on all sides .iff .the T'-tu-
wah River add the l'ivqr forma a
horse-shoe in it. winding through
the propeufcy and must be rich ip
gold that hns been washed ,duwD
.{com the many .veiiui »fqr agee.
Cetpt. .LUly’jjrfathor Once took mrt
gold enough in one day to pay
fourteen hundrod dollars near the
run. This is but one of the many
rich finds that lias been made ,o.p
cation of offenders against the in-
this county by proxy had better tcrnal revenue laws. I his pro
come in and he present when their j vides that in all eases where the
names are entered, even if ,t!mv ^ offender against,the law is a small
distiller of not uioi;c than iloO
proof gallons lie may give bond
upon seizure and go on with his
business ponding trial. That is
the practice in dealing with larger
establishments. The bill also pro
vides that in small eases where the
fine is light and the imprisomueul
is less than one year .such cases
crackers, Quakor oats, cocoa, En-1 nmy be tried Oeforo a United
glish breakfast tea, IJiro coffee. | States commissioner ami the place
trodued a bill for a ,public build
ing at Gainesville, fin the last
congress Mr. Tate secured an ap- j
proprintion for a site which lias
since been purchased, lie is now
, , ., | after a $1U0,0UU appropriation for
trustees here, thought diBorontly ; , hc bai] ,ii D2 ._chc..„kee Atlrat.ee,
ami elected Miss Anno Worley of j
this place, which is a wise select!
lion.
Mr. W. 8. Chastain, who left I
Kill or ■ v< Cn>:tk 11 in Effort.
subscription to the Nugget speaks [ I'mon county J9 months ago for
in the following complimentary I Texas, dropped into see us yester-
mauner about it: “Please do not day morning. He says the Lone
lot it run out. Send it along. I Star state is a great country and
do not want to lose any of them.
I came near forgetting when my
lime expired,”
The company that received Har
ris Poatell, just after court here,
has written time and again to the
sheriff that he is not wanted on
account, of not being able to do
manual labor, owing to sovere
burns received several months
ago. What will be done with him
we do not know.
Last week Com. Baker disposed
of the following defendants, to * j The'matter,
wit: Geo. Grogau and Wm. Lee
of Dawson county, were bound j Marshal Grizzle has been pot-
over., having been found operating ting in pretty good time for the
au illicit distillery. Anther Hul- past few days in search of blocka-
A letter was received at the
Now.Holland post office Monday
addressed to “tho'head men of the
red men.” The .communication
will return for the purpose of j vvas bristling with venomous .pro-
making it his permanent home, ! fandy and threats directed against
provided his family is willing to certain members <;f the I. 0. R.
| M., which has a flourishing tribe
at New Holland composed of some
this property whichiLh.ou »the fa
mous Pigeon Roost heJt. (Is only
a milo fromitbe(Barlow Mine, be
ing imthe suiiiGiinimmil zone. Qld
Uncle Jimmy Wood, .who died on
ly a short time ago, ,-{it Atirana,
Ga., mined on this property .and
look out slugs of gold nearly half as
large as a man’s hand from the hiHl
side below the McCleskey branch.
.Many living'hure today can testify
to’the same,'having swen-She .gdlfl
as taken out. If this is a sample
of the richness of the surface find
ings what will be the result of the
On Tuesday night some one of lho bc( . t meQ 0 f that comrau- lar f lotleB? After the hydraulic
broke into the storo of Parks ,&
Bowen, out at Garland post office
in this county, and carried off a
shot gun, coats, shoes, hats and
nity.
works are completed one man with
r „. . La giant can bring dowu more ma-
Tho anonymous writer sent the i b . , . , ° ^ ,
' terial in one day than live hun-
missiyo from Cleveland. He says
some of the Red Men have been
other articles. I he party oi reporting their stills, and asserts
parties who did it arc on danger-1 j.| ic moonshiners will “kill or
ous ground as the post office is in
the .same building, which will
cause l ucle Sam to take a hand in
croak” in their effort to get cyen
with the reporters. He says they
have deprived him of a good liv
ing, and bitterly curses the al
leged reporters.
dred men could dig .out iu the
same time from under ground.
The old primative way of mining
brought profit to the workers of
mines, but when the gigantic
plans of the company are car tied
out great wall be the resiiit. '(Time
will goon tell, for.by January Ibth
the mill will begin to drop its
Bor some time past a liquor. . ,
.. . . . stamps and that will demonstrate
from Hie mountains has i
•to all the .values m the ores. At
wagon
[ a ' ll b although dad
r't liis night robe.
the
mayor and aldermen’s j
aa'tion hist Saturday R. H. Baker ]
; 1 U( -J i('i, aiul Vickery, Smith,!
resend and McKee
were giv-
|euch for aldermen. The the 7th day of January, 1904, it
1 11 Laps who took such an ac bein 0, the custom in the south for
ivo p -
Jr to
-sow and Lark Audorson of Lump ders and their stills, 'having been m,u ^ ^ 'i s 8 , k ‘ . i,*the-same time the mill is being
kin county, were also found vio- ; quite successful, which will doubt- j n F 1 ° * cw ° ,int 1W 1 € riinu on dry ore, the ireservoir
luting the same law., all of whom : less cause'Christmas tUams to he ll ls uot koown t,nit anv Rotl iVt(jn 1 «- !J
were asked to make bond or go to j scarce iu some sections. He cap
. . , . . . , . ditch and pipo lines will be laid,
particularly has taken spooiull ...
1 J 11 and the mammoth hydraulic
jail.
tored 4 in XximblewiH district this puios to prosecute or repovt itho
msi- wcek ’ 118 f<ullo ' vs and carried them j ’misrness, the order is opposed to j * h ^ ator frolu the j.; to wah River
the illicit traffic.
pump installed, wliich will throw
Elsewhere will be found a sensi
bio article on the subject of cau-
,, „ C y, OI lie Mincy, Charles Magness
didates using liquor hi elections, ;> A „ wcrc
before Com. Baker: John K. Miu-
cy, Ollic Mincy, Cl
and Thomas llowcll.
the author suggcstiug that some , niiu u;„ n „
s ,er« bo taken to prevent it. This I >» mml 0 '”' «*«>l" ° ll,e
’ I’M in the mass try ! j co „ n "try etlitol-s to take « week off i i» » S™” 1 ™ovo and »te hope it will It i, hoped that the city eonoeii j tho „ rUcl . Ci ,„
» portion of the’ tick dnrintt Christmas. Right hero wo b« gtven attont.cn tor ,t a man year will ebango the or*- hwe sever
‘Ikln’t conte out to „ ,11 „i,l. t„ return thanks to all our has a notion of mak-mg a taco o.nanoein reference to st eel taxon, L„ or fo , , )(! , or0
out to vote at all, wish to return
one exception. This | friends for the liberal support
t. a Warning hereafter to they have given the Nugget dur-
‘ Wo
lill
ah i )(1 (
>011],
‘“"cats, for the republicans! ing the past twelve months
lM you as a cat’s paw and have done our best to please by
fail to accomplish their | giving you an interesting paper
|k e 111 lho mass meeting thoy| an( \ W e feel confident from the
01 - yefS’H W ! patronage received that we have
thiscoimty he generally has to j go as not te-force good laborers to j
calculate his liquor bill to be from work out their taxes at £0 cents a
one to two hundred and fifty dol-; ( ] U y, It is not justice, and wo for
lars. The executive committee : 0 ne are opposed to -it. Allow u
could easily regulate this, by cans , band what he is worth. Don l
ing all candidates to obligate them-. force him to either pay tho money
Tho letter, which is one which
federal law forbids to ho sunt in
the mails, was turned over to U.
S. Commissioner Gaston, and if
he discovered be
several charges to au
before Uncle Sam’s court.
Gainesyilo Eagle.
Notice.
Belves Bot to use liquor during the | Q ,. j ali0l ,
and if one is found do
Parties indebted to me must
at thirty cents a day i come aud make satisfaction, or
^oaiocraf w'ho 0 will^aliow^^lns succeeded. We now bid you | , n ^ a0 to drop hie name from the
less than
by them on such ! adie for 1903 and wish one and roll and pot out another man to
all a merry Christmas.
, fill his place.
custom
three hundred reet on Logan hill
where it will bo stored, for tho
pipe lines to carry to the giants,
when they will begin tearing-down
t he mountains and cx»uv*ay it heir
precious values to the mill. This
last week has been a busy one at
the Josephine. Eleven loads of
lumber arrived in one day, more
men have been working on the
clam and work is being pushed as
rapidly as possible, and ,if no
lieayy rains come will be finished
in two weeks’: Last week's 'NU£-
kvt should liHX'e said that tfiie.uc**-,
country. The road law is a hard-! out for collection.
the will put their -notes -eint acconntdij fJ j. ju j nine these ores when itbe
ship on all poor people anyway