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Local Xcw’.v 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