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Local Hewe.
p 0 l \Y, A. Charters is attending
HiillSiip< rior Court this week.
residing at Gaddis
\ fur mo i
I nion county, brought a
Ridge
Ljistown,
|iW ,l()f liny "cross tho Blue
:' lS i week to Dahlonega for sale.
4flcr Miss Anno Worley accept
Bast Sunday was a beautiful
warm, sunshiny day, almost like
spring.
Mr. W. H. Satterfield killed u
poi ker the other day weighing 4-
I I pounds.
Mr. G. II. McGuire purchased
a fiddle the other day said to bt
105 years old.
let
When you miss your Nugget
us hear from you.
1 here is some complaint about
| packages coming through tho mail
| being often broken open by some
! one full of curiosity.
Mr. Marion Gurley of Gaddis
town, hoarded the stage here for
I Gainesville last Friday who said
M r.
for AI
.T. I- 1
Will Hi
ibanut
goms left yesterday; Misrepresenting the Southern J. F. Moore & Co.'
Gold Mines.
. (l ftl Kl Miss Cora Byers has taken
the position.
prof. Gilbert also suspended the where they go to work.
I public school here on Thursday at
110o’clock so tho pupils could be
I present during the Gordon memos
rial exercises at the college.
Marriage licence wore issued
Jlast week for Mr. Mendan Pruitt
.judMiss Maiy lteese, daughter of
Mr. John W. Reese of this county,
and "’e suppose tho wedding has
j occurred by tins time.
It is said that a man by the
Iname of McDonald residing in
I Jackson county, is tho lowest bid
der on tho Dahlonega and Gaines-
Mr. Tom Sargent of this county, ,1(! "’ as "‘"ling to go West.
revenue officers visited
I of Chestntce twice
woek. They found the place
second time but the operator
absent.
j,]assistant teachers phiee in the j who went on n visit to Culifor The
public school here the lady dcclins ; nia a short time ago, has returned. j di
<tr
Mr. Gordon and Charlie Rico
loft last Monday for Alabama,
tho
last
the
was
"ore I'i Go., by advertis
ing their Lumpkin county maps in
l he Nugget, are receiving orders
j for them by parties in the north.
Mr. J. B. Housley is hack from
Alabama and has hung out Ids •
b iot and shoe sign at the stand
j formerly occupied by Mrs. Mar-i
I low.
Sale.
Bargain
Boyd,
A man up at Glarkesvillo, Ga.,
I calling himself \. M. Grahme, not
| many weeks agu wrote an article
to tho Industrial Record of New
j Volk, coneerrdug the Southern
j gold mines. We havo not read I
the article hut judge from a letter j
received from a gentleman in St. !
j Louis a few dai’s ago, that he gave 1
Davis j our gold mines the black eye, or at ^
Profs. Vickery
and l\*\. Mr. 1 urnor went up! least tried to do so. This caused a
near the foot of Cedar Mountain gentleman to write to him about a
Mr. .John Jackson, who went
out to Beaver Ridge a short time
ago, returned last week.
Cabbage retailed here la<t week
for two cents per pound, snakes
or no snakes.
\ on can always tell n public
spirited, enterprising person. They
subscribe and pay for their county
paper.
On last Thursday Mr, ,T. 10,
Dangler was wedded to Miss
Lcoh Williams up at Two Run, at
■\y t , ; the residence of Capf. F. M. Wil
| T illo mail line-upper rou'e. w e i
to move tit i tn this county.
If hive persons, who had joined
the Baptist church at this place
sometime ago, were baptized in
the creek down at W
jweek down at ihe Hand mill with ■ Hi>t Sunday afternoon.
L electric wire whilo assisting his ; After an absence of
If you wish The Nugget, it’s a
very easy matter to send a money
order tor it, 1 his is cheaper than
waiting till you get a chance to
come to town.
Last Sunday wo were shown an
almanac by Mr. Moses Moore of
this county, published in 1850,
called the Family Christian Al
manac. It has 58 pages and con
tains much valuable information,
lie loun I it while looking over
some of his grand father’s things.
“Shotgun ’ Walker is building
him a large house. Ho has thir
teen in family and wants to shel
ter them and all his friends who
go to si e him, should ho take a
notion to run for county tread*
Igtipposo ho proposes
cither end or along the line.
[not ho cannot carry it.
Little Jim Griffin was badly
jlmmed on the faco one day last j c! ’ ec h down at Wimpy’s mill uror, which he thinks of do
ing now.
At the last term of Lumpkin Su
perior court the grand jury recom
mended that a bridge ho built
across the river out at Jay provi
ded it could be done for two hun
dred dollars but the ordinary can
not find any one who is willing to
construct it for this amount and
there will be no bridge.
(father. He fell from a platfoim | weeks down
Lbont 0 feet high but fortunately
struck on his feet. One side of liis
face is badly scorched,
I Preacher West was unable to
leach Gaddistown with the mail
last Thursday on account of the
ice and snow on tho mountain, al
lbough teamsters made it all right
|o and 1 from this county with their
jragone. It’s a little strange that
Jliey can go where a preacher can’t.
several
in Dawson county
and Atlanta, Mrs. Maud McGuire
returned to her home in Dahlon**
oga this week, very much delighted
with her visit.
hist Monday on a rabbit hunt and
had a nice time.
I wo citizens of Hightower dis
trict, broke tho Sabbath on the
17th, but didn’t mean to do it.
Mat Stallings took his gun and
some corn and hunted his hogs all
day, and Mrs, Tilda Marlow put
in tho day knitting. Both thought
it was Saturday.
It was said that young* Mart
Wehunt of this county, who was
recently bound over for working
in an illicit distillery', and carried
to Atlanta' the other day, worked
in this concern for t wo men at 20
cents a day. He didn’t even get
what he could drink—Only smell.
Mr. T. S. Waters of Dahlonega,
informs us that he has accepted a
position in tho hardware store of
Davidson & Prewit, Gainesville,
Ga., and in a short time will move
his family to that place.
The news reached here last Sun
day that two cars containing
tho mules of B. R. Headers &
Sons were wrecked on Saturday, coimiulll *catiou
enrouto for Augusta, Ga. Later on
The finest home made syrup we
(rer tasted was made by Mr. J.
Clements of this county last
leai’. The cane was a new variety,
be syrup is well made and has no j it was learned that the stock bo-
itrong taste at all, and the mer-
hants pay him *40 cents per gullou
for it. Ten cents more per gallon
[han any other.
Dr. L. A. Ledford, from Dr.
ceilings' Gptical Parlors, Guineas
fide, Ga., will be in Dahlonega
longed to some one else and that
Meadors’ were all right.
Some of the weekly press of
Georgia may have larger papers
than The Nugget but a number
of them will be found a good deal
of plate matter. The Nugget
For two weeks, about all the
talk was the fight said to bo be
tween Hon. G. D. Bruce and Mr.
J. C. Wallace, over at McCays,
Teun. It, all turns out to be a
false alarm as will bo seen by a
elsewhere. It’s
Strange that such reports will get
started without any foundation
whatever.
certain gold mine in this county,
ami although ho has never been
here and knows nothing about it,
said everything he could against
the mine, and even stated that he
“didn’t believe tin* president of
the company knew that his name
was being used,’’ notwithstanding
the fact ho had written the presi
[dent a letter before that, about the
mine, which was rend at a meeting
j of the directors an 1 a scot ching
! reply made to him by the presi
dent. Deleaving him to he a
blackmailer wo wrote a letter of
■ enquiry to a friend of ours at
j Olarkesville about Grahme (being
| the way he spells his Inline to his
! letters) without even intimating
At B. R. Meadors & Sons’place | what lie had said or written, or
find cheap underwear and j what our object was and this is our
j friend’s reply:
Cr.AUKRsvn.i.R, Jan 16, 100-t.
I Mr. W. 13. Townsend,
Dahlonega, Ga,,
i Dear Srit:
| A party by t he name of Graham 1ms
j l)oi*u hero six or eight weeks. Said he
came from Towns county here. Says
! he is n mining man. About nil ho
knows is to talk. Don’t think he
amounts to much. Talks too much. A
lady came here to meet him from Den
ver, Col., a month or six weeks ago.
She is liis wife. Graham don’t seem to
have much money.
day and tomorrow for the pnr-j entirely home print, all wool
lose of fitting glasses. No eom-
Bcut or introduction is necessary,
i the work he did here in Decerns
ir * s highly satisfactory. Re
member the dates.
The dwelling, kitchen 'and smoke
NscofMr. Davis were destroy-
p by fire in this county one night
|»t week, together with a good
pany household goods. The tire
Mginatcd in the kitchen. A
ptition was afterwards carried
Final as usual in such cases and
r citizens of Dahlonega rospond-
f in 11 prompt (banner for the re-
|®f of the distressed family.
w ™t tso the trouble of look-
up some of the past grand
r 1 .' presentments while the
Imi'ty owned the paupers farm
y ot * ler day and found that it
r Iun much cheaper than under
l e piescnt system. Often there
| a>1,111 0,10 or two inmates on the
| lln ’ "Lich was run by a man for
f ^ l )cl ann 'im and some times
f 1 ess, the expenses running
f® throe t() four hundred dollars
P y atkl nwv the cost of keeping
I * ‘e paupers amount to more
F*.< ?500. \Y bon the county bad
1 ‘ Ul11 n ° 0110 was given aid unless
p went to it.
[Ld. 1 rice says wo misunder-
j° 0( l nuw ha woek nbout rcc()m _
ln £ that tbo old school books
^ e <* m this county until fall.
" l *H he didn't mean that. But
j n whub \ve understand it may
1 1 later until the new books
gotten, as it is said that the
I ,ln .\ having the contract to
li’ tbcm for the state claims
1 « ha» a year from the time
8isns !t to furnish
, j | ie law says that it must
e ,i “L by tho first of March but
n get onf VVllether any company
, as roany books as will
a in 1 C< m thc schoo!s of Geor
gs than two months.
and a yard wide. Send for it and
read it a year and you are sure to
be pleased.
Many of our subscribers are re
newing their subscriptions right
along. They don’t even stop for
the Sabbath. We received $2.50
hist Sunday, and one of these days
we are going to give it to some
good preacher. Not one like we
heard of the other day, who went
around town and assisted a certain
blockade! - in selling his liquor. I Dahlonega and opened a complete
Very often there is more matter
going across tho Blue Ridge by
the Gaddistown mail than one horse
can carry. Last Monday morning
little George Sissum started out
riding one horse and leading an
other, with as much mail packed
on the animals as they could car^
ry, resembling some ono crossing
the desert. Some of the postmas
ters over tho r e will sit down and
write to as many publishers of pas
pers as they can think of for sam
ple copies. This is the way they
secure their reading matter and
what causes so much mail going
over there.
Mr. D. O. Johnson, formerly of
New Bridge, Ga., has moved to
you w
line shoes. Ladies shoes from 99
cents to $2.50. Usual price twen-
live to fifty cents more. You of
ten hunt good shoes for children.
They have them. They cost a lit
tle. more hut will last twice as
long. Mens shoes at one fourth
less limn regular price. They have
a nice China dinner set, 102 pieces,
that was a special order but got.
lost on thc railroad for six weeks,
worth $20, but they oiler it for
$15.
Rev. ,T. E. Blackburn will preach
at thc Baptist church next Sunday
night. After that, if the weather
is favorable, hp will begin a series!
of meetings again at private!
houses. By adopting this plan,
Mr. Blackburn has gained a mini- ■
her of members and accomplished
much good. This divine is a
poor man and cannot continue this
long unless he gets some help. He
receives no salary. Now let all
well wishers of the success of
churches give him some aid. We
will for one. Who will be the
next ?
Adoration.
Wo don’t believe it is right for
preachers to do a thing of this
kind.
People from all parts of the
country, both far and near, like to
read The Nugget. Two gentle
men in renewing their subscrip
tions last Saturday concluded their
letters as follows: Mr. Dave
Hyden of Atlanta, Ga., says:
“Keep The Nugget coming, for
it is the only way for me to know
just how my old homo town and | F7 7 ,, .
j, . J , „ . I which enables tho
friends are getting along. And
Mr. James Saunders of Petrolia,
Canada*, Out., concludes his letter
this way: “Be sure and send The
Nugget regular to the same ad
dress. I do not want to he with
out it.”
stock of goods in thc boil.ling on
the corner opposite Mr. JL L).
Gurleys, and asks the citizens of
Dahlonega and Lumpkin comity
fora share of their patronage. He
lias fixed the prices of his goods so
it will be to your interest to-trade
with him. Tho. highest market
price paid for country produce.
When visiting Mr. Johnson’s store
j you will be treated so clever and
■ nice that you are sure to go again,
ihe business is not new to him
gentleman to
know how and what to Iniy to suit
his customers. Give him a call
and bo convinced of these facts.
There has been trouble in the
camps among the colored sisters
and a brother out on “Pea Ridge”
and the result is, Fred Trammell,
Arthur Singleton, Ida Stevens and
Lucllii Myers Were fined two dols
lars and cost each last Tuesday for
their actions. On Sunday night
Ida and Luclla had their racket,
the former having a little pistol
she wished to fire at her antagonist.
Will Anderson was arrested,
charged with presenting the lover
of his heart with this weapon, hot
the evidence was too much in favor
of this negro for him to ho cons
victed. The other woman, Fred
Trammell, called Author Single-
some ugly names on Monday
not being willing to use any bad
words, on account of his member
ship in the church, Arthur threw
a rock at the woman and didn’t
even hit her big mouth.
The killing of ono of the Armour
brothers in Alabama gives all citF
zens, where they roamed, a good
deal of relief. Not long ago they j
were in about a half mile of Dah
Ionega and ate breakfast out at
Uncle Mart Harshaws, an old ne
gro man who lives between Dah
lonega and the Hand mill. Tho
night before they stayed awhile
with Mr. Griffin at the electric
plant, and both of them were nev**.
er caught napping at the same
time. One watched while the oths
er nodded. Now that one has
been killed tho other wil! have no
one to watch whilo he sleeps and
sooner or later he will eithor be
captured or killed.
Tho long oath that all the tax
payers haye to take when return
ing their property, has no effect
on some people. In looking over
the tax digest the other day this j loud shrill noise was heard, which
could ho plainly seen. We noticed convinced him that it. was the
We learn that Mr. Buddy Cain,
residing in the upper portion of
this county, got terribly frightened
last Friday night. Hearing some
thing, he got up and wont out on
the porch. At first he thought it
was Mrs. .J. A. Tate, who resides
nearby, hallowing, lie answered
and she replied that nothing was
wanted. By this time another
On Friday the 15th, as soon as
it was known that Georgia should
once more reverence a dead chief,
the N. G. A. College and her fac
ulty responded with a respect that
was worthy of her name. At 10
o’clock the audience assembled in
the chapel and voiced its sympa
thy by songs of praise. Then Mr.
Cochran of the Decora society,
came forth with a splendid little
speech. J. D. Gartatawsky res
ponded with a well prepared euol-
gy from the Phi Mu. The battal
ion formed and marched to the
public square repeating the ca
dence of the sixties when “Dixie”
stirred a Saxons soul on for a
cause that was to die.
Georgia’s hero is dead I
Shall wo mourn?
No! Loaders of men have lived
and died. Their time is spent.
Their course is run. They lived
only to fill their mission, and
when their earthly services are
complete they must pass away.
SImlI we, praise?
Yes! The highest mission of
man is help to man, and tho great
est reward is praise. So, as the i
ages pass on let us not darken our
pathway by unnecessary sorrows
and I of things that shall be done. O
Time! thou merciless and cease
less course! Why leave me by tho
wayside? Yet, should my prayers
be answered thy crystal planets
would cease to revolve and the sun
would cease to shine!
J. F. Broach,
N. G. A. C.
Wallace and Bruce Had No
Difficulty.
McCays, Ten\.,
Jan, 1(3, 1904.
Ed. Nugget:
1 see in this week’s paper that
Bruce and myself have been fight
ing over here. I was very much
one fellow particularly. He is sup- panther that was heard so much in surprised to see it, as it was the
first that I had heard of such a
a thing. Will, wish you would
brand the* report as an infamous
lie and I will certainly do like-
enough to see, he, together with [wise with the starter of it as a li-
laat
and
went hack into the housi
ing. As soon as it
posed to be a good religious man the ncighboi hood
but this is the way he gaye in his; kept on hallowing,
taxes under oath: Eighteen acres
of farming land $J5, household
goods $8, 2 steers and a cow and
calf $10, twoihorso wagon $1.
Total $29. This is a pretty cheap
outfit for a well to do farmer, isn’t
it ? A toy wagon for children to
play with, costs more than this,
yet he hauls wood to town with
those steers, on this dollar wagon
and charges 50 cents a load. The
year. 11
Mr. Ciin
til! morn**
was light
his son Luther, and JussoTate, gol jar from the stiunp. I. haven’t got
their guns and started out in
search of tho panther,
previous, some of the boys had
turned tho water on “Long” John
Anderson’s overshot wheel at his
saw mill. Tho bearing get hot by
running without oil, and when a
man came along and turned thc
tax receiver could remedy this i water oil tho next morning tho
if he had tho nerve to do it.
panther was heard no more.
a better friend on earth than Lone
l'hc night j Bruce. We never had a cross
word in life. We were right hero
together every day whilo he was
at this place and never had a hard
word of any kind. Can’t see how
or where it started.
Respectfully,
G. C. Wallace.
Clothing at greatly reduced
prices. A $5.00 3iiit for $4.00.
■V $0.00 suit for $5.00.
Best Melton suits, $10 to $14.
Clay worsted suits, $7.50-best
value ever offered in the city.
Good corduroy suits, $0.00.
Overcoats, $2.50 to $0.00.
Boys’ 2 piece suits, 75 cents to
$8.50.
A few mackintoshes, from $1.00
to $3.50.
A few pairs long rubber legging
at 50c a pair, original price $2.00.
FulJ line of hats and caps,
hull line of up-to-date shoes,
including gents and Indies, patent
leather.
A small lot of odds and ends in
men s, ladies and children’s shoos
at greatly reduced prices.
Ladies’ size, 8, button shoes
worth $1.50 to close at $1.00.
Ladies’ button shoes, sizes 8 to
L worth $1.25, 1.50 and 2.00, to
close at 75c, $1.00, 1.50.
Boys' shoes, sizes, 18 to 2, to
close at your own price.
A few pair of men’s shoes way
below cost.
Good line of men’s rubber hoots.
Overshoes for nun ladies and
children.
Cooking stoves. $10 to $25.
Heating stoves, $1.75 oil up.
Carpeting at lOe a yard.
Rugs, 75c to $2 00.
Good lino of furniture.—Good
home-made chairs at 25 to 40 cents.
A iliow clothes baskets, below
cost.
Hall’s map of Dahlonega gold
belt, only 25 cents.
FULL LIN E OF HARDWARE.
Carpenters tools.
Ox bow pins.
Broad axes.
Augers, up to 2 J . inches.
Handled axes.
Double barrel, shotguns, worth
$12.00, to close at $9.75
Sewing machines, $18 to $25.
Sewing machine attachments.
One 24 inch wood saw, mounted
on frame ready for use, wholcsalo
cost $82.50., special price, $25.00
1 harness makers leather split
ter, $5.00.
Fancy and staple drygoods, no
tions, Ac. Blankets, comforts, bat
ted cotton. Big line of Black Cat
socks and stockings.
Gents, ladies and children’s un
derware.
A few ladies’ black sattien skirts
at 50 cents, worth 75 cents.
DRUGS! DRUGS!! DRUGS lit
Planter’s Old time Cough Syrup,
25c size for 17 cents.
Sweet Gum and Mulluin, 20.
Cheney's Expectorant, 20.
P. & W. Quinine, i of bottles,
10c.
Dr. Tichenors Autiscpie, 50c
size, 30e.
Johnson’s Sarsaparilla, full qt.,
C8e.
Cherokee Sarsaparilla, 50,
Syrup of Figs, 39c.
St. Jacob’s Oil, 80c.
Simmons’ Liycr Powders, 20c,,
or 3 for 50c.
Epsom salts, 5c lb.
Sulphur, 7Ac ih.
Brimstone, 7ic JL.
Dr. Granges Stock Powders, 3
pound sacks for 25c.
Castoria, 25 and 80. Celery
compound, 85. McElrees Wine of
Cardui, 90c. Dr. Shoops Rheu
matic Cure, 90c.
FARMERS, ATTENTION!
Big lot of turning plows at
prices that will suit you. Don’t
buy till you see our plows and
prices.
MINERS.
Aetna 40 per ct. dynamite, 15c,
small lots, or $0.95 per ease of 50
pounds. Dynamite caps, 75c box.
Double tape fuse, 50o per 100 feet.
Quick silver. Copper plates. 1
giant, complete. Pipe thtings.
Shoe makers steel dies for cut
ting soles, half soles, heel-taps, all
sizes and prices right.
Window glass, 8x10 to 16x32.
Putty, 5c 11). Glazier points, 15c
box. Tripod house paint, $1.35
gallon. White lead, 7c.
Crown Brand linseed oil, 75c
gallon. You can buy some other
brand cheaper, but the best is tho
cheapest.
Come and see us, wo havo got
the goods aud are going to sell
them