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return
bill
Mrs. ,1. ,F. Monro has
,rd from Gainesville.
Tho N. G. *\. College will
^15,000 this year if the house
pusses the senate.
Messrs. Tom and John Pitner
nfAcworth, Ga., are visitors to
Dahlonega this week.
Teachers will see notice in this
tissue about the teacher’s institute
to he held in Duhloncga.
For rent—Two farms. One one-
horse farm and the other a two-
horse farm. B. li. Mjc^nKps.
Those wishing to stand the civil
service examination .should i/oad
notice on our (irst page and re
member the .date.
Mr. F.G. Bowpadl of Cumbcr-
,ln;id, Maryland, is Mr. Grant’s suc
cessor. who will proceed with the
business of the timber deal of
Lumpkin county.
Misses Alice Whelchel and
Emma Crenshaw, of New Bridge,
Ga., have been hero for several
days, taking music lessons under
Mrs. M. F. Whelchel.
All those anticipating doing any
painting are requested by Dr.
Jones to go and examine Mr. John
Moore’s residence. The paint
used is sold by the Doctor.
Last week the highest price paid
for corn in Dahlonega was.75 cents
per bushel. Fodder $1.85 per hun
dred and oats $1.50. This week
fodder sold tfor $1J}0.
On Thursday of last week Miss
Manda, a daughter of Mr. Win.
Wacaster, of this county, died
after a long spell of sickness, aged
W, and was buried at Soul’s
Chapel the following day.
Fruit jars, extra tops and rub*
bers and fruit acid, galvanized
wash tubs, best galvanized well
backets ever brought to Dahlone-
£u. Stove pipes and elbows. Call
aad examine my stock.
M. J. Williams.
The game of base ball that was
to Lave taken place between the
Da h Iomega aod Porter Springs
teams last week,, failed to occur,
ft hen notified to.como by the Dah
mega team the Porter Spring
am failed ito respond. Tho Dah-
mega team has been challenged
!>’ one at Nachoocbee, which will
!CC Pt and a date fixed later on.
Mr. A. B. Crenshaw, of New
lidgc, Ga., while in our office
F Tuesday, informed us that
iveu of the power plant poles,
ilonging to the North Georgia
Metric Co., were struck by light
ly near his lion so on Monday
ring a storm. The fuse was
oviirnt out at tho power plant,
jt•caused a delay of only about
minutes.
Hint love letter found on the
cts the other day written to a
Inied man was certainly a sweet
"“mint. It was mailed to him
he Dahlonega post-office, and
r leading so many loving words
tinted with joy and the letter
Pl'ed from his hands and was
before he became conscious,
temple must use love in mods
j*°u, else she wiil kill the choice
r heart.
I(j unknown man who was
lo the asylum from this
I ~ 80me ti no ago, died a short
'th 1 !' he was admitted, with
er talking any. While in
" al Dahlonega, parties came
other states, thinking
v/as wanted for murder,
’ °ne know him or where he
lul11 ' Mo lived iu the woods,
j'minty, .for quite awhile
h's arrest.
Iu "* tho people of Gaines-
Dvo selfish to live com-
'■ A short time ago some
' 10,11 Florida started to
^ ua to spend the summer.
"A ‘bached that place tho
[®J'8 were told that the roads
antl rough and they
11 . < ill ’ e< I for if they came,
l>ito rs believing this lie
1 , n ’ 0, Fhe ones who did
" lvL> something at it now,
' ^moied in this way will
Swains
to Ini'
Mr.
Uni re
tuey.
I Call Sii ickland, of
| boro, Cm... is up on a visit
got j ,l 'hitiyc8 hero this week.
Mrs. Prator is visiting
j \i 1Jo this week, accompanied
I her daugher. Miss Nellie.
Last Sunday Mr. Ilarve Gaddis
■uid Miss Sarah Collins were mar
ried in this couuty hv Rev. J. W.
fa attorneys.
He Superior
U a mes
hy
v i do r
Mrs. Hubbard Blackwell, once
a citizen of Dahlonega, but now of
Atlanta, spent last Sunday night
in Dahlonega.
Mr. Will Hartman is hero
ing hands with his many friends in !
Dahlonega, being tho first time lie I J ° U1
has been back since leaving Dah
lonega.
Mrs. S. Crawley and Mrs. H. I. ;
Weaver, of Roswell, Ga., are!
■spending a few days in Dahlonega
for their health, stopping at Hall’s
Villa.
I he other night during services
at the Methodist church, a dance
was going on just one block away.
1 his looks like mixing the thing
too much.
You need not send your job
wqrk away from home to have it
done. We will do it for you just
as nice and cheap as it can he done
elsewhere.
Most of the Dahlom
! attended the Dmvsonv
court this week.
Mr. 7 onug Ahecrombie, of this
county, who is charged with riot,
' made bond hist week.
j -Judge.I. C. Brittain was mar
| riot ' 0,1 Thursday evening of last
week to Miss Mary Perry, ({. H.
| McGuire officiating. Tho groom
18 years of age and the bride 25.
I he mail carrier on the upper
line from here toHaincsville is one
of the eleveiiest men we oversaw.
Last Sunday before reaching Dah
lonega lie let two follows have his
team to go in another direction
and brought the mail into town ou
his hack, not being quite a half an
behind.
I he school recently opened at
Ashley school house under the
management of Mr. Ivey, is well
patronized. All the patrons seem
to like the teacher, and for this
icason it will he a prosperous
school, [he patrons are going to
supply the school house with a
good sizo hell.
llii' Signal failed tojippear last ^ |
Wo noticed the
Hale, Jr., and wifi
name of Dr.
of St. Louis,
on Hull's Villa register last week.
Mr. I*. P. Catchiugs has boon up
Gen. A. J. Warner left for the
oast Iast Monday, to bo gone some
ten days or more on business of
interest, not only to himself, but
to every citizen in .Lumpkin coun
ty.
Dahlonega was in darkness
last
A recent notice in tho Atlanta
Journal stated that Mr. Baldwin,
"ho lately purchased tho
Gainesville & Jefferson railroad,
would meet in Savannah this week,
organize a company and ask for a
charter to extend the road from
Gainesville to tho Pyrites minos in
this county via. Dahlonega. All
Dahlonega needs is a railroad to
make her one of the most proper-
OU3 places in Georgia.
On Friday last. Mr. Cade Baker
was painfully injuried down at tho
Lockhart, mine, believed at first lo
be serious. Ho poked Ins head
Monday night on account of the I out at a window and the pump bob,
tube bursting by the heavy rain
Sunday, but it was repaired and
everything all right by Tuesday
morning,
Geo. Turner and Mrs. Mary
Turner, a relative of his by mar
riage, were bound over to the Su
perior court this week for acting
naughty. The warrant was swore
out by Mrs. Geo. Turner. It 00*
carred m Nimblewill district.
During a recent meeting out at
Philippi some boys and girls mis
behaved very badly, we are told,
by laughing and talking during
services. If it occurs any more
they will be prosecuted by mem
bers of the church.
A short time ago a man tele
phoned Dr. Whelchel to come to
sec his sick mother, out in Crum
by district. The Doctor hastened
to the homo and when he got there
tho lady was out fishing. This
shows how much that son loved his
mother.
Last Sunday many of the citi
zens residing in the upper part of
this comity, went down to attend
church at New Bethel in Duw-
and the rain that fell that
I fro ib
uo good.
afternoon raised the water courses
until many of them couldn’t get
home until 11 o’clock at night. A
number of ladies were along, all
throughly drenched.
Anderson & Jones have just re
ceived a nice lino of fall and win
ter clothing—the nobiest hue ever
brought to Dahlonega. They
have a small lot of spring and
summer clothing they are closing
out at greatly reduced prices. AL
so a small lot of ladies and chil
dren’s hats, at and below cost.
Now is the time to get bargains.
Dahlonega has t lie praise of be
ing one of the nicest, cleanest and
healthiest towns in Georgia, not a
single case of typhoid foyer in the
place. Now let us keep it this
way. It will not cost us much to
doit. Eycrycitizens should take
enough prido to keep his premises
clean without being forced to do
so by the city council. Burn up
your trash and old papers and not
depend entirely on the scavenger
wagon. No longer than last Sun
day a visitor who spends the sum
mer in various mountain towns in
Georgia and the winters in FiorL j
da, told us that he saw no place !
cleaner than Dahlonega. This
should cause us to feel proud. |
Throw no melon rinds on the
streets either ami all will be much j
which works up and down, caught
his head, mashing both jaws and
nose against the window sill. Dr.
Jones was summoned, who
straightened up his face, but little
could be done to hold die nose in
position and likely will be a little
flat when it gets well.
Col. II. P. Farrow passed
through our city last Friday on
his way from Porter Springs to
Gainesville, where he has been de
tained for several days on account
of tho sickness of his wife. In a
few days Col. Farrow will issue a
circular stating things which he
was prevented from doing before
the recent republican convention,
held in Dahlonega, which will bo so
warm that it will almost burn
some of the hands of those referred
to when they go to read it.
Mr. and Mrs. Buckhanan, of At
lanta, arc iu our city on a visit till
Sunday. Mrs. Buckhanan use to
reside in Dahlonega and left hero
near 35 years ago for that city with 1
her father, Mr. Henry Wootten,
and this is her first trip back since
that time. The few days have been
very pleasantly spent by Mrs.
Buckhanan, nee Miss Lizzie
Wootten, in meeting her old ac
quaintances and very few school
mates that are loft, all of whom
were proud to see her once more.
this week putting tho electric pow
er of the Gorge plant in working
order, transmitting it to the Crown
! 'fountain mine.
Both the mayor and mayor pro
fern have been absent this week at
tho same time hut every body he
lm ved nicely and their official ser
vices were not needed.
Although Mr. Wylie Carroll has
only been clerking in the Dali Ion
ega post-office hut a few weeks, ho
can handle the mail as fast as if he
had many years experience.
.Since laying by their crops tho
farmers have had a little spare
time to go visiting and take a short
rest. \o strike takes place among
tho farmers accounts for their
prosperity.
It is a little singular about tho
peach crop in this county. At
many places tho trees at e breaking
down with fruit, and maybe on tho
adjoining farm not a peach can lie
found in the orchard.
B. R. Meadors & Sons arc en
larging and repairing their store
room and getting it in good shape.
When completed it will he twice
ns large as heretofore and present
a nice appearance.
Col. JoDes, after being in this
county for several weeks, left for
his home in North Carolina first of
the week. Ho was expecting to
meet some parties here but sicks
ness prevented their coming.
If tho bill becomes a law to tax
brandy distillers $50 there will he
no brandy made legelly in this
county. It will all be blockade,
but will taste just the same, and
cause a poor man to feel rich.
Since the decrease in the price of
cotton goods the poor country edi
tor has a chance of appearing more
decent. Instead of wiping his
nose on his sleeves he can buy a
tenses closing out sale still
continues, and if you are in search
of bargains now is the time while
the opportunity is offered in Dali-
J onega.
Mr. D. C. Stow is
in (iftinesville.
now located
Mr. David Scabolt, of Lumpkin
county, who had forfeited bis bond
in the l . S. court, was renrrostod
by Marshal Grizzle last Saturday
and carried to Atlanta.
good sized
nickle
handkerchief for
Parties wishing to cut off the
weeds and clean out the cemetery
are requested to leave their sealed
bids with W. B. Townsend, chair
man of the street committee, by
the '15th inst. The committee re
serves the right to reject any and
all bids,
Those desiring medical readers
inserted in Tjie Nugget will please
bear in mind that we will not
mix them with locals at any price,
j for nothing is more unpleasant to
'a person than to take up a paper
aud find eycry other paragraph on
Iho local page a medical reader.
The party near Dahlonega sel
ling wine especially on Sunday is
going to get into trouble. When
peoplo sell wine it must 'bo
made from berries grown on their
Soon after young Bishop was
killed while out hunting in this
county latt week with his father,
Mr. Wylie Bishop, it was report
ed here that the old man . said he
didn’t know how it happened.
This was the fact, for he said it in
the presence of Mr. Tony Hughes
and another gentleman, and didn’t
own to killing the boy till after
Dr. Whelchel examined him. The
old man’s weak mind accounts for
this. It was the only hoy ho had
and Mr. Bishop loved his son too
well to murder him. In the ab
sence of a coroner, Squire Martin
Ducket, of Porter Springs district,
bold an inquest and the jury found
kill-1 time any opposition was raised
own lands, then not on Sunday,
and when a person is dealing the
j stuff out who owns no land there
I is no doubt about him violating
the law.
The citizens of Lumpkin county
should never forget tho untiring
efforts Representative Bruce has
used in tho interest of the N.
G. A. College while in tho legisla
ture. Not only the citizens of
Lumpkin county, but every friend
and patron in Georgia who have
been reaping tho benefits of this
noble institution. From the time
the act to increase tho appropria
tion came before the committee
Mr. Bruce was promptly at his
post working for it and continued
till it passed the house. Every
Mr. W. G. Campbell, of Dah
lonega, had his first moss of swept
potatoes last Sunday. Although
lie resides in the outskirts of town
he raises potatoes to sell every
year.
'It commenced raining last Sun
day hero at 3:30 o’clock and con
tinued fill night, causing cyerys
body to he happy, being the most
that has fallen for months. And
it has rained every day since.
l’rof. C. W. Davis, who has boon
absent at Amos, Iowa, since com
mencement of tho N. G. A, Col
lege, taking a course in the state
college of Iowa, will return to Dah
lonega in a few days now, leaving
there about the 10th iust.
Several parties from Daldoue-
ga went up toMacodona Sunday, a
few miles above Dahlonega, to at-
the all-day singing. It is certainly
a treat for our town friends to lie
able to get out iu tho country and
hear good old time singing.
Some of (lie boys claim that they
play ball for exercise. If they
would swing an ax awhile it would j
make them halo and hearty and be 1
of some benefit. As it is, some of J
their parents have to either .chop
their wood or hire it dune.
Dr. Jones, of this place, recants
ly bought two line pigs and put
them in his lot at the office. A
few days afterward a chicken of
his, nearly half grown, took up
with them, and since that time it
has been sleeping with them every
night. When roosting time cones
the chicken chirps til! the pigs lie
down.
A fanner of White county,
drove twenty-four miles last week
with a load of fodder for the Dah
lonega market, thinking it was
still worth $2.50 per hundred. If
he had -boon taking TRh Nugget
lie would liavo been posted. Do
ing without a paper is a big dis
advantage some times, causing
people to lose botli time and mon*
ey.
Tho jury revisors of this county,
have been busy this week passing
upon the competency of men to
sit on tho jury. This is a very
difficult task to perform, for where
the revisers arc unacquainted with
all the peoplo throughout the
county, some times competent men
are left out of the box and incom
petent persons put in. For this
reason it is a very unpleasant duty
to perform.
The first melons of the season
here, were brought to Dahlonega
; last Saturday by Mr. Dick Bryant,
j of Half county. A portion of hi*
i farm lies in Lumpkin county, hut
| he resides in Hall. Mr. Andrew
Pierce, of the same county, came
in a few minutes later with a load,
i Both loads soon sold out like hot
j cakes at an old time muster,
the farmers returned home with
j several extra dollars in their pock-
| ets. Tillers of the soil work hard
(>hituaries are published in Tub
Nugget at two cents a line.
Dr. Glenn writes parties that Ijo
thinks tljo fall session of the N.
L. A. College will open with pt
least 250 students.
( ol. \V. P, Price hopes to Re
able to get a post-office established
nt the Etowah mine, near Aurarin,
f ° be called Etowah, soon,
Wo regret that Mrs. .JJ. P, Far-
row’s death is expected at Porter
Springs qvery moinont. Sho was
stricken with paralysis oq Sqpday
morning at 3 o’oloqk.
/'hose were fiqe peaches that
married liply sent to her .friend.
He appreciated them so that .{je
ate the peaches ami. carried spine
of tho seed home to plant.
We are glad to state that Mr,
W. H. Jones who was loliovcd of
a large tumor hv skillful physi
cians in Atlanta a few days ago, is
getting along.very well,
Non residents should qjoupjpja
the dates printed on their Nugget
and repew whon tho time expires
if they want it continued, for w.e
can’t notify each one by Jotter.
A terrapin a little larger than a
dollar was found in Mr. M. F.
W hoidiel s lot this week, having a
bottle on the lower part of the
body as perfect as if it had beep
painted by an artist.
Mr. Henry Smith, of White
county, was m Dahlonega Tues
day witli a lot of nice melons fpr
sale, Mr. .Smith has six grown
sons, and the father and all tijo
sons take The Nugget. The re
sult by reading and kooping post
ed all are prosperous.
Pierce Cody, once a eitizon of
this place and who was reported
dead several years ago, is stiR
alive. He is in an aims house jq
South Carolina and y/rote to Mr.
B. R. Meadors a few days ygo.
Tho old fellow is wanting sopjo
lntormation which would assist
him in getting a pension for ser
vices rendered in the Mexican was.
Mi'. W. M. Rice, of Milner, Ga.,
“ brother of Mr. Stephen Rice, of
Dahlonega, came up Tuesday to
spend a short while in the town of
his boyhood days—the loviest place
to a man on earth, if it was not for
tho sad recollections it brings about
of departed friends and relative?.
Mr. Rice was accompanied by Mr.
Charlie Moore, of this county, who
has been in his employ for several
months. Mr.,Jlico has planted for
a 200 bale cotton crop this year.
Our town was visited this week
by Rev. A. F. Norton, of Clove*
land, Ga., being the first time bo
lias been here in about six year?,
and we were all glad,lo seo hinj.
Mr. Norton went to,the homes of
the oldest citizens and spent, an
much time ns he could, doubtless
being the the last time he will see
•some of them unless he makes
more frequent visits, for ho too is
growing old.
On Monday, between daylight
and sun up, Win. Anderson, a son
of ‘‘Smoking” Jim Anderson,
and went out to feed tho mules, and as
he was getting fodder a rattle
snakes’ pilot bit him on the mid
dle finger of the right hand. The
for what they get and wo are al- application of tobacco and drink-
that the boy was accidentally
ed by bis father. They were both j 1
out hunting, each haying a gun,
and while the dogs were running a j
rabbit aud Mr. Bishop was stand
ing near a big rock with Ids gun i
ready, and just as the boy came in
sight ou the other sido the gun
tired and the load took effect in
the back, or left side of his o;on,
who was about seventy feet away,
and the boy expired soon after be
was carried to the house. The
jury returned a verdict in accord
ance with the above facts.
Aimpkins able representative met
! it with such facts that tho oppo
nents words went up in the air.
There is a number of legislators
who use to attend the X. G. A.
College, who are its friends .and
rendered valuablo aid, causing all
interested in it to feel proud of
j t hem. Yes, Mr. Bruce has made
! Lumpkin county a good represen-
; talive, having secured this institu-
; tion larger appropriations than
any of our former representatives,
j and deserves a great deal more
, credit than he is get tint
ways glad to see them handle mon
ey-
A few days ago Rev. J. B.
Brown and his son, Jim, decided
to pay some parties a visit on the
Blue Ridge, in the neighborhood
of where'they once resided. When
reaching the foot of the mountain
they saw a heavy cloud rapidly
approaching, and-started across
ing of corn liquor kept i( from
killing Iho bov, although his hapd
was considerably swoIod. A few
mornings previous one of Mr. An*
derson’s mules was supposed to
have been lufcfen on the leg by the
same snake. It also got well.
The man named Ward, who re
cently mairied Mrs. Tessie Owens
in Gainesville, seems to»bo troub*
near way to an old friend not very led already by someone telling him
far off to get shelter. After leav- that his wifes disabilities were not
ing tho public highway they found
that-the old road had growed up,
and soon lost their way. It was
removed at the time her husband
was granted a total divorce in
Lumpkin county, causing her last
nearly dark, and the lightning j husband to write and telephone the
flashed, the wind blew and the rain
down in torrents. lm-
poured
lerk of the court and
awyers here about it.
some of the
If this is
agino their condition and feelings, j the only stumbling block to his
wandering about in the darkness married
of tiie cloud, away off m the moun-jaud go
tains among
wild animals for
fore they could
life he can kuock it down
ahead. The jury sot her
j at liberty to marry as soon as she
i found a man that was uiliimr to