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liu Supt. i’rnyor meeting Thur*clity even
mg*.
Mktiiopiht Cntmcn.—Rev J.O. Langston
Victor. Preaching Sunday-school 2nd stud 4th Sunday* W in
nu ll month. 0 a. in. . A.
Gralimn Supt. Ladies’ Prayer meeting Tues¬
day afternoon. Young mens’ Prayer mset
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
J. E. raullin,*S *D. Coleman, J. F.
Creel, A. L. Foster,* J. N.. Bigbie,
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Tax Collector, W. R. Harrison.
Tax Receiver, T. R. Davis.
Coroner, J D Owens.
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
Darlkt Lenox, N«» 17.—Regular nieet
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LAXAVriTR 2nd Saturday ClIArTBR overling. No. ri-Ropular \V. A.
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tiruham,
AY. A. (Indium Council, No. 22—Kefrulnr
meeting 4th Saturday evening. \Y. A. Gru
*uun, T 1 G M.
K of II. (lainen Lodgo No. 1887—Rcculnr
hj<u*ting 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights \V. E
Lighttoot, Reporter. T M.Uvovm, Dictator
fOUNTY.
SiTziunn Court.— lion. W .1 T Cla’-ko live, judge ch rk
i H Uucrry. solicitor. J But
f T McAllister, fthcritf. lingular term, 4tb
Monday* in Murcli and September,
Court op Ordinary;— IT. T.
Foote, Ortlinarv. cneli ltogu!«r iiitctlng 1st,
Monday in month
County Court— G. G. Lark,
.1 mitre.
I it WIN & WARWICK,
attorneys at law.
Will Practice th Superior Courts of
Putauht Circuit. tf
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The Chief R for tho great sno
•ess of Hood’s Sarsaparilla U found In the
article Itself. It Is merit that wins, and the
tact that Hood’s Sarsaparilla actually ao
compllshe:* what Is claimed for It, is what
has given to this roedlrUie a popularity and
•ale greater than that of any other sarsapa¬
Merit Wins rilla or blood puri¬
fier before the public.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures Scrofula, Salt
Rheum And all Humors, Dyspepsia, Sick
Tleadaehe, Biliousness, overcome* That
fired Feeling, creates an Appetite, strength
ens the Nerves, builds up the Whole System.
Hood*. Khrmpnrlllit Is sold by all drugr
gilt*, ft; sli for $5. Prepared by 0.1. Hood
k Co., i.pOtUccaile«, Lowell, Uasa.
Frost in June.
Frost in Atlanta on tho first day
ofJuiie^
It is tho coldest June day, in the
tomperaturo record ot the south.
The alleged “cold snap in June,
1883,” was mild compared with
it.
Ib fsot-, the alleged cold snap of
June, 1883, happened in May of
that 3'ear.
On May 23d, 1883, tho mercury
went down to 38.5. This morning
June 1st, it registered 39.4; or one
tenth lower even than tho cold snap
of May, 1883,
With tho cold ednie frost, Tho
clouds wore scattered beforo the
sharp nor’westcr, and then the
nor’wester died on its path, and
tho air bongcaled. At 4 o’clock
this morning it wag cold enough
and still enough for iroSt to form.
The spirit thermometer showbd the
temperature to be 39.4?
When persons talk of 40 or 39
being the frost point; thoy must be
taken os meafiibg more than thoy
say. Thirty-nine is not the frost
point. But when tho thermomotor
in a comparatively dry place, reg
!slers 39 it is of course understood
that the evaporation of moisture at
tho earth's surface chills the air
and the temperature is lowered,
just as when ether is Sld#n on the
bulb of a thermometer, This is
how frost forms at a point above
the frost lino on tho tube.
I'he warm wave that was expect¬
ed has put in its appearance. This
morning, between 4 and 7, the mer¬
cury went seven points. Mr.
Conk says that the tcmparalure to¬
night and to-morrdw will be warm
Tho cbld end of the wave of raw
ffir fhat followed in the wake of tho
storm, reached Georgia last eve
n j n g * a nd made cotton planters and
dealers sick. There hits *, \ be
never
fore been so much interest mani
fested in the range of tho mercury,
Whether it went up or down was a
question that might mean millions
to the south, and the undoing of
lhe blessed charm of rain.
In Atlanta, a slight frost that
, b&reiy formed its crvsta.s before
were dissolved by the warm
■ A L ot f i the L li sweet . south, , || *
is re
ported; but it was not severe
Clough . ^ , . to do . tfamage. »
any
This is probably the first frost
that ever formed this far soiffh in
n,0n,b ° f Junc;
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But the warm wa\ e is coming . to
f*- V !'• Wih i, .Ireed,
being felt as it comes from the great
P lains ofl?Ve southwest, charged
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with the temperate air of the prai
ant|. the gulf.
northern portions of
tho SDUth have not been beard from
U is bcU oved l b *\ no » crioM dam '
. bas . been done. .
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1 be cotton belt at least is safe.
The frast merely touched the hem
onuakin,, Journal. .nddiaolv.d.-AU,n
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Mrs. Parvenj-Qharles, pFofifcfeedijje yon know
L ou
would re to mi durinc? tho raw
Mr. Parvenu-Yes, my dear, I am
gradually the tapering off. Take only
halt amount of water with my
whisky that I did, and hope tftdrop
it altogether in July. Then I shall
begin to reduce the amoou of Ji
quor itself. Trust me to cep a
prom : sc, my dear.-Once a Week
It Was a Real Touching Sermon.
Alice—O, mother, we have had
such a beautiful sermon !
Eva—Lovely!
Kate—Most eloquent!
Mother—I am more than sorry
that this swollen face has kept me
away from church. Who was the
preacher ?
Alice—A stranger. Tho verger
could not tell us bis name.
Eva—But a most striking l«ok
ing man.
Kate—And his voice was heav¬
enly.
Alice—And we shall never forget
what he raid.
Mother—What was uis text.
Eva—Jl : .8 text! Let mo seo. Al
IcS, where was hia text?
Alioe—I think it was from St.
Luke.
Kate—O, Alice! How can you so
Why, it was Deuteronomy.
Alice—That I am suro it was not.
Why, he kept talking of the evan¬
gelist.
Mother—Perhaps, my dears, if
you told rise tKo words I should
know* the placo.
Alice—I nevor eould lomcmber
words.
Eva—Nor I.
Kate—They don’t think anything
of more verbal repetition at the
high school. (
Mother—But I should like to
glean somo information of this
beautiful sermon. What was it
about ?
Alice (after a pause)—Well, moth¬
er, it was about religion.
Mother—I preeuffie so; but that
is rather a wido subject, and capa¬
ble of varied treatment. What
particular branch of it did he take
up?
Eva—O, mother, his action was
so graceful—iict too violent, you
know, but just sufficient to enforce
attention.
Mother—And, as it was sufficient
to enforco attention, 1 am waiting
to hear a few particulars of what
he said.
Alice—There were some striking
anecdotes.
Kate—Yes; that one about the
bear, for instance. A Laplander
was once pursuing a bear—
Eva—Now, Kate. The bear was
pursuing him.
Kate—Well, it was one way or
the other. And tho Laplander had
a Bible in his brbkst pocket which
his mother bad given him.
Eva—No; his grandmother.
Alice—It was not a Laplander at
all, Yon aro confusing it with
another anecdote. It was a young
Efiglieff sailor.
Kate-Well, Laplander or English
sailor, or whatever ho was, ho was
just close to the bear when— *
Eva-You are leaving out tho best
part of the story. Beforo be start¬
ed his grandmother had said to
him—
Kate-Ah, yes; but if you remem
bor, he had first said to bis grand¬
mother—
Eva-You are qui^ wrong.
Kate-Do let me go on. At all
events he and his grandmother had
been talking together.
Alico-You forget, Kate, that the
grandmother was deaf and dumb,
That was the touching part of the
story. So she pointed to the Bi
ble—
Kate-Non6cnse, Alico. I am
sure tho gi andmother—
Mother-1 - _
am afraid, dears, you
will not make much of that * anec
dote. , But _ let know the
me main
drift and design of Che sinion.
Eva-Mother, dear, *&<*' yon aro a lit
«• «"*»*•• *>« .expect
us to repeat th e sorraon right off
I, g.v. f, . great deal of meet ox*
cellor.t advice.
Motbor-In reference to what?
heard Eva O, our conduct, calculated f never
one more to do
good. The illdstrations wero es
pecinlly %G.er-As, clever.
for .instance ?
Era-It would be impossible to do
cm justice, yoa see, jf you sepa
«l. tho B from th,,c»Mez«
,
Mother-W ell, then we wijl drop
illustrations. I shall be satia
hea with the heads oi the dis
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Kate-How can you say so ? I am
sure he spoke of coming to the last
head, though I forget what it was.
.Eva-We met the Tidfits coming
out of church, and they heartily
agreed with us in our admiration
the sermon.—Chicago
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Here is an incident taken from
th9 hickory ol* this flood, which for
dramatic, thrilling and awful in¬
terest can baldly bo equaled. It
reminds one of “the voice in the
wilderness” warning tho people' of
their impending danger, The
horseman did not, perhaps, stop to
consider the cost to himself when
ho galloped through the slroots to
announce the coming of that tidal
wave of death; he acted on the no¬
blest impnlso that ever transfigured
human nature—tho impulse to pro¬
claim salvation to others at tho
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possible expenso of his own 1 1 To.
But read it for yourself and think
better of mankind in the future.
“Just before the disaster of Fri¬
day broke upon the town a men
came riding down tho road that
passes through Connemuugh to
Johnstown, liko some angel of
wrath of old, shouting his porteb
tous warning, “Run for your lives
to the hills!” Tho pcoplo crowded
out of tboir houses along the thick¬
ly settled street, awestruck and
wondering. Nobody knew the
man and somo thought ho was a
maniac and laughod. On at a quick
pace he rode and shrilly rang out
his awful cry. In a few momonts,
howevor, thoi’o camo a wave of ruin
down tho broad streets, down the
narrow allej's, grinding, twisting,
hurling, ovor-turning, crashing, an¬
nihilating tho weak and tho strong.
Forty feet high, sotho say, thirty
according to othors, was this sen,
and it traveled with inciedible
swiftness. On and on raced the rid¬
er, and on and on rushod tho wave.
“Dozen i of people took hoed
tho warning and ran up to the hills.
Poor, faithful rider; it was an un¬
equal cbntesi. Just as ho turhst
across the railroad bridge the
mighty wave fell upon him, anc
horse, rider and bridge all wen
out into chaos together.—New
York Herald.
Mr. Biitard’s Bucolic Joys
’While Mr. Secretary Bltiico is
doing business with Bismark, Sal¬
isbury, Crispi, ilkcdonald and a
lot more sober old muffin-eators,
ex-Secretary Bayard is treading the
rosy path of love. Ho is to be
married in the Jockey Ciub-scont
ed mohth of Juno. The littlo birds
aro singing for him in tho dewy
forest glades of romantic Dela¬
ware. Tho disturbing fact that
thoro is a member of Eli Saulsbu
ry’s family in every peach orchard
aud shoep pasture of the toy com>
monwealth cannot rufflle his hen
stiched calm. For him thero is
music as well as malaria in the
brooks. The dew on the huckle¬
berry bushes brings pe?’r!y tears of
happiness to his eyes. tta Thq plain¬
tive toot of the quail, queru¬
lous gabble of the turtle-dove, tho
melodious moan of tho melancholy
doDkey—theso and other sweet
sounds make his thoughts as light
and airy as apartments to let. Who
would be Mr. Blaine if he could be
Mr. Bayard ? Depend upon it, Mr.
Bayard is all right.—Chicago
News.
•is
Five Ways Tiire d C’ol^,
1. Balho tlio feet. in hot water
and drink v. pint of hot lemonade.
Then sponge with salt water and
remain in a w r arm room.
2. Batho the face in very hot
salt water every five minutes for an
hour. -
3. Snuff up the nostrils hot salt
water every tnree hours,
4. Inhale anyonia or raonthol.
5. Take four hours active exer
cise in the open air.
Tho Medical News, which reco
fnend8 the above says that summer
colds are the wor.-t of colds often¬
times,,as it is then very difficult to
protect one’s self properly. A ten
grain dose of quinine will usually
break up a cold in the beginning.
Anything that will set the blood
activoly in circulation will do . it,
whether it be drugs or tho uso of a
bucksaw.
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Cowboy Say, you! I-o you ran
this engine ?
Jjocomotivo Engineer— Yes.
What can I do for you?
. Cowboy I want a situation as
cow-catchcr. I've been on a ranch
for tho l*st ten years.—Bosloe
NO. 45.
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Georgia News.
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As Told by Our Exchanges.
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The young men and boys enjoy n
sjame of ball every afternoon.—Mon¬
tezuma Record.
Small shipments of Irish potatoes
are beirtg rriijdo by some of onr truck
growers.—Camilla Clarion.
The books of the county tax re¬
ceiver, Mr. P. T. Ennis, wore clos¬
ed on Saturday evening last.—
Milledgeville Chronicle.
Fifty loads cf lumber can easily
bo seen passing ,,through Acworth
every day, being hauled to the spot
where the new houses will soon Start
up.—Acworth Page.
Tho postoffico at Kdgewood and
tho store in which it was located
were robbed on Juno 5th, but the
bnrgulars made a light haul. There
is no cluo to tho robbery.
Judge Wray, of Walton Springs,
Grocne county, keeps a horso sad
dlod and bridiod to answer the
calls of couples bent on matrimony
There is an epidemic of marringos
in that county nbyr*
The city council has passed an
ordinance limiting the territory in
Valdosta in which liquor may be
sold. The object is, wo suppose, to
keep it within tho bounds of police
survoillancc.—Valdosta Times.
Ftinhln superior court has ad
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journed. Considerable business
was transacted. Judgo Winn fined
ono man $100 and costs for soiling
a coffee pot for $1, cyidenco being
adducod showing that said coffoe
pot contained brandy.
Work is progressing slowly at the
culvert. Fears arc being entertained
that all of the rock arch work that
supports the massive bed will have to
be removed, in which case, it will
take several months to complete it.
—Georgetown Courier.
Terrell county Is to It live two new
towns. Last week notice was given
that h bill would be introduced in
the legislature to incorporate Parrott
aud Now Duval wants to bo incorp¬
orated, and a bill will be introduced
for that purpose.—Dawson Nows.
Mr. Church Crowell, ; of Sqsser,
killed a huge ratt.’c-snake last Tues¬
day morning at his bonne. A hen
and the reptile had a terrific combat
which terminated in tho dea^Lf the
hen. Tho snake was of immense
size and had ten rattles.—Dawson
News.
H. L. Hill <k Co. started the*? brick
works Wednesday morning, and are
grinding out brick at the rate of 12,
000 a day. In the course of ten days
they will have a kiln ready for burn¬
ing, and will no doubt be as good as
can be had anywhere, as the material
and facility for making them arc first
class.—Montezuma Record.
Application will be mado to the
Gonoral Assembly .in July for a
charter for the Southwest Georgia
Railway,., Lumber and Banking
Company. Tho Early County
News says : “This company has,
planned an enterprise, which, if
carried out, wiM bo of great benefit
to Early and Mil lor counties."
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Mr. William Lockwood, who resi¬
des in the GrangcrviHe district, had
the misfortune to have something
over $300 in specie stolen from his
house one day this week,. Suspicion
rcstes on a negro, woman, who was
employed abo^it the hou^e, as She took
a “Walk” just before the loss was dis
cor^red- • We hope the. guilty party
will be apprehended and. brought to
justice.—Montezuma Record.
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The protracted drouth which'was
broken by.copious rains,last week
has provpJ a serious. injury to the
melon crop. It is feared that the
rains or.mq too late. The growth
of tho yincs .and the fruiting of the
fianiq has been set back fen.or fif¬
teen days, and in many instances
the vines have died outright. \Ye
can not hope now to ship as many
melons as wo did fest year, by a
considerable amount.—Valdosta
Times.
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A minister at Trenton engaged to
marry a young man of that town for
$10, and went to the trouble of pro¬
viding himself with a new r,uit in or¬
der UjofFiciate in style. The minister
then walked seven miles to the
grooms house at the appointed time,
and learned that ike couple had been
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married the day before. A bill fcf
$10 has been sent to tho young man,
and tho Dado County Time* nays if
the hill in not paid the preacher will
enter suit for it.
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A very:sad accident occurred on
Friday, May 25,. at thq school of
Miss Julia Moore, who teaches near
the residence ol J..C., Whittaker in
this county.i. Tho.children were at
play and some of . thorn went into
tho loft of a ro0m adjoining tho
school room. Fiinnie-Cox, a little
daughtor of \V\ M. Cox, of Wash-*
ington, stopped, on a loose plank
and fell a distnneo of about nino feo4
inflicting injuries from which she
died onljnnday evening.—Millcdgo
villo Chronicle.
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Wo liavo noyer kaoty.n tho timo
when so few, country pooplo ootno
to town. Of coorso this makes busi¬
ness 4uU. hut tho morchnnts aro not
complaining. Thoy know it is for
tho host. Tho feet ifl oitr farmors
nro sticking closer to work and buy¬
ing less than ovor beforo, and tho
present crop will bo rondo on a
smallor expenditure than any-sinco
tho war, and for this it is said that
tho Farmer’s AUijvnco is ontitlod to
most of tho crodit.—Camilla Clar-*
ion.
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A pretty,livoly fight has beon in
progress in Atlanta for fcomo timo
botwoen tho Appletono, Lippincotta
and Van Antwerp, Bragg & ,Co., as
to tho arithmetics to bo used in tho
public schools. At a, mooting of
tho board of education Juno 6th thq
Appleton mon wero victorious und
will supply tho whole series. l
In this connection it is reported
that tho Applctons will make At¬
lanta their southern headquarters,
and contemplate tho eroction of a
quarter of;a millipn.dollar building
—Macon Telegraph,
Quito an unpleasant littlo occnroneo
happened to some of the Shellmauited
that visited Cuthbert on Sunday last.
A,;Cuthbort girl came homo with a
p*».rt of the Shollman crowd, and a
Shcllman girl camo home with a
drummer, stopping at that place, all,
caused by misuudorstgniijg they say.
So great was tho uneasiness felt: by
the parents of tho Cuthbftrt girl,'thq
father came ovor in serch of her about
11 o’clock, that night. Ho fbuud|her
safe and sound and feturned homo
that night, a wiser and perhaps a
sleepier man. * !
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Judge. Hook, of ,Atlanta, thinks
ho has discovered a good clow, and
oxpects to fiud tho thief who stolcv,
tho examination ijneslions. Tho
thoftdidnot bcnef.t tho thief vory
much, unless ho said tho papers for
pretty, good prices to applicants,
for te^chofs placos. The questions
stolen wove.net used in,tho rocent
examinations. Cinco tho thoft, sov-.
oral, w,eck8 ago, Judge Hook has
beon vory busy looking for a clew,
to the thi<jf„ .Ho has ei*iistcd the
actiye support of tjio 130 school
commissionors of (Georgia, and the
,spccqiator in school questions will
b’c caught up with.
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Several days ago Bk Ballinglon,
living on Cedar Creek, near Vien¬
na, walked do^n back of his plan¬
tation, and, w.hijoi passing a big,
Ijnio sink, saw a fishing polo.stick¬
ing in the bank, and went up to sea
who the fisherman might be. On,
approaching the place ho could find
no one, and going up to tho edge
of tho hole he began to look about
him. Jjooking down in the wator
ho saw tho body of a negro map ly¬
ing on tho bottom. After inquiry
it was ascertained that’ this negro
was subject to fits, and had gono,
fishing tho day before. The sifpv
position is that while sitting on tho,
bank waiting fqr a bite he had been,
taken yrith a fit*, and falling into
tho wator was drowned.
^ A rcsi'JentofBeidsviltc—call him.
John for short—went with a party
seiuing recently, an,d after a good
many fish had been caught an alii*
gator was pulled out and killed.,
John said: “Boys. I have beon
told often that the oil stewed out of
a'gator is the best thing in tho
world to keep the, flics from wor-.
rying horses. Now,. I want tho.
grease from tha,t ’gator to rub oti.
my horses.” Permission was giva
<5,n him to use the carcass as bo;
chose; so he cut off tho "tail and,
held it up and cricrf: “Look —look
at the fat!” Ho carried it home,,
some six or sevon miles, and had
his wife to boil it two days, but.
found not a bit of grease. Ho thinks
he wrs sold.—lieidsville KnteiS
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