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Gray's Station, Saturday. Febrnary 25.
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Congress has appropriated $10,
000 to the Sub-Tropical Exposition
jit Jackson vide. Fla.
It is rumored that Major Hanson
w ill rebuy the M aeon Telegraph and
put Cot. Lamar and Mr. Edwards at
the helm again.
Seven engagements were made at
a leap year party at Woodland, Cal.,
the other night, where only four
teen persons wore present.
In one section of Dakota, it is
said, forty families have indicated
their determination to move south
because of the terrible blizzards iu
that country.
Mn. James G. Bt.aine has written
a letter declining to allow his name
to be presented to the National Re
public convention as a candidate for
the Presidential nomination.
There is a widower in this coun
ty who has been trying to get mar
ried so long that now ho actually
bolioves he is married and lias en
tered suit for a divorce.—Smith
villo News.
President Cdeveeand has sent
his check for §25 to a Grand Army
Post in Washington that was ar
ranging for a bazaar for the benefit
of widows and orphans of Federal
soldiers who fell in the war.
At a mooting of the trustees of
the University at Athens, last Fri
day, no definite action was taken on
electing a chancellor. Dr. A. A.
Lipscomb was elected to fill the
chair of metaphysics and ethics
until commencement.
The guano factory and oil mill at
Americas are running night and
day, and then it isqill they can do
to fill tho orders which come in.
Forty hands are now employed,
and nioro wanted. Tho weekly
pay roll amounts to over 8300.
Savannah News : Congressman
James 11. Blount is said to bo pre
paring a speech on tho tariff in re
ply to that of Senator Brown. Tho
Colonel won't cull many gems from
fancy’s realm, but ho will drive in a
few facts. Ho generally Hits tho
nail squarely on tho head.
The remains of a huge animal
have been discovered near Cisco.
Texas. Tho head is five feet long
and three foot between tho eyes.
Tho horns are six feet long and one
of tho tooth weighs sixteen pounds.
It was probably tho remains of a
deserting blind-tiger-man troiu a
prohibition town—Conyers Weok
iy.
Macon Telequa ru : Tho Mason •
ic lodges, of A tlanta, aro perfecting
arrangements for tho construction
of a t emple at an early day. There
are four Blue Lodges in Atlanta,
the Fulton, the Georgia, the Gate
City and tho Atlanta. Then there
aro tho Chapter, Council and Com
mandery, making in all seven or
ganizations
One of our exchanges says it has
ioutul tho only original “mean man”
in tho person of a creature who re.
fused to subscribe to tne paper but
always drops in on issue day and
looks ever a copy. Bo calm, broth
er ; submit to the inevitable; follow
our example and furnish such enter
prising citizens with comfortable
seats by a nice fire and you’ll be
able to enjoy tho scene.—Middle
Georgia Progress.
The military companies of Atlanta
will join iu a street muster next
Wednesday in honor of Washing
ton’s.. birthday. The Gate City
Guard the Atlanta Ritios. the
Zouaves, the Artillery, the Govern
or's Horse Guard, the Moans Cadets
and’(he Ed gewood Cadets will haye
places in the pageant The division
will be under command of Captain
John Milledge. All the soldiers w ill
be in their new ’uniforms, and the
Atlanta Rifles’ brass band will fur
pish thc uiusie.—Constitution.
A BROKEN NECK.
From the Macon Telegraph, j
Messrs. Herbert Reynolds and
John Kitchens, of Jones
were in the city yesterday
brought the news of a terrible affair,
which occurred Sunday in the
portion of Jones, near Gris wold vi lie.
Sometime ago Charles Brown, an
Englishman, and cigar maker by
trade, went to what is known as
Burden’s district and married a
daughter of Mr. Thomas Stewart, a
well known farmer. Mr. Brown and
wife lived in a one room house,
such as are seen on the small farms
in the country. On Sunday rooming
Mr. Brown left home and did not
return until some time during the
afternoon, when he found his wife
lying on the bed cold in death, On
trying to rouse her lie found that
her neck had been broken. He remcm
bered that there was a cat and some
kittens in the loft and that his wife
had said she intended going up
there to get them. lie supposed
that she might have gone up there
after the kittens, and missing hei
footing, fell and broke her neck. He
informed the neighbors and told
them what is here related.
The neighbors, however, suspected
foul play. Ji'she fell from tlie ioft
and broke her neck, death was in
stantaneous, and she could not have
placed herself in the bed. There was
a blue spot on the back of her neck
that looked suspicions, and they de
cided to hold an inquest. It was
being held yesterday morning when
Messrs Reynolds and Kithons start
ed to Macon. The result of the inves
tigation could not be learned last
night.
Items From Janie's Station.
Miss Sallio Woolfolk is visiting
her sister Mrs. Bon Stewart in Ma
con.
Our friend Sam Griswold and his
wife ing Charlie. spent Monday k at James visit
Mr. L, P. James spent three days
past with his family. Ho takes
tlicso spells twice a month.
Miss Eva Pitts of Haddocks is
practising keeping house this week
while Mrs. Kingman is absent.
No Headlight at this office this
week. Subscribers don’t know
what Holiday last week was, bat
suppose it was Lee’s birthday and
will be George Washington’s this
week.
[The Headlight was certainly
published last week and sent to ev
ery subscriber. Wo are not respon
sible for the papers after they leave
this office.—Publisher.]
Professor Rubin Nash opened the
1888 term at tho Academy on Mon
day with a good attendance. The
boys say Mr. Nash suits tho Pa
routs but ho don’t agree with the
hoys.
Mr- 0. T. Griswold who is quite
sick hasroturned to James in hopes
of recuperating, his family accom
panying him. Charlie lias a hast of
friends in Jones who join us in wish
ing that ho will soon bo on his feet
again.
Mr. and Mrs. R. II. Kingman
will takoin Savannah and tho un
veiling of tho Jaspor Monument
this week. Thoy left Monday morn
ing and take the limit of tho ticket.
We wish them a nice time.
Mr. E. T. Morton passed through
James last week on his way to
Waycross a delegate to the Agricul
tural convention. Mr. Morton is a
life member and has already sent
some of his prolific corn to some
his brother farmers.
J. B. McLauglin who was agent
and operator at this station
or four years and who Inis many
friends among tho young people
here, may possibly fill an agency
on the C- A M., we will know short
ly’ and hope it will bo near us
though wo wish him well every
where.
Our neighbors are
cotton seed meal acid Phosphate
and Kainit and anything else that
wilt cut the cost of Gnano. Pity
more farmers didn’t follow this plan,
Some who have tried it say that
the seed meal, acid and Kainit pay
as well as the best manipulated
Guano and only cost 820.
Aleck Smart.
[For want ot space, part 0t Vh ‘ 8
commicatiou has been omitted.
ITEMS OF I MEREST.
Arkansas . , City, i- Kan,, , has house .
a
which is constructed entirely flora
boanis taken from shoo boxes.
There are in the Sunday schools
of tlie Christian world 10,447,S>00
scholars, 1,952,1(17 teachers,
ing a grand total of 18,400,157.
Many of the stylish port
mormaics for ladies are made
hoc constrictor skins. Hamburg,
N. J., has an establishment where
the skins are prepared.
Fashionable walking sticks for
next summer will weigh five pounds,
it is said. This is an indication
thal the average weight of the
human brain is decreasing.
In Pekin, I!!., a baptismal gar
ment. known to he 183 years old,
is still jo use. It is made of silk
of different colors, and is in an
excellent state of preservation.
A man in Irvona, Pa., lias just
cut a squash which weighed 140
pounds. It was one of a family of
thirteen, all of which grow on a
single vine, aud the smallest of
which weighed 117 pounds.
Here is a most remarkablo alliter
ativo coincidence. An Englishman
named John Haight, who lives at
Haight, Carroll county, Md., will be
88 years old the eight day of tho
eight month (August,) * 1888.
A plant , , has been discovered . , in .
India which, when chewed, obliter
ales absolutely thc sense of taste
for the time being Making up
w,th a bad taste in the mouth will
soon, doubtless, become a thing of
the past and the occupation of
sproadmg carmine paint by starlight
wiil have lost one of its terrors.
An England traveler told a Be
lize, Honduras, newspaper man
that ho had eaten a “scorpion pie”
while in Mexico, and that he liked
it. The natives told him that
young scorpions were frequently
utilizod for food for the lower
classes, who dig them from their
nests in hundreds, remove the sting,
and make omelets of them.
A traveler in Japan was recently
shown the interior of a nrfove
printing office. Ho found a “ease’’
four feet wide by sixty feet long,
where twelve compositors worked.
They did a wonderful amount of
rushing about in search of the
types needed, for over 50,000 differ
ent characters repose in the divis
ions of this vast construction.
For speed in making matrimonial
matches Dakota is in the lead. A
young lady in Scotland, 1). T.,
named Louise Shock was married to
a Charles Doltzor within a few
hours after receiving au introduc
tion to him. The match was not
made through correspondence, for
neither one had ever heard of the
other until the day they were mar
ried.
A liueman of an electric light
company in Springfield, Mass.,
found in tho glass globe of an elec
tric light lhe body of a small gray
squirrel burned to a crisp. It is
supposed that the animal had been
attracted by the brilliant glow to
the top of the tall pole where the
light was and had fallen into the
globe by accident.
A Jersey City man who deals in
second-hand furniture found §520
iu an old lounge which he was re
pairing. He was honest, so he sent
word to tho man from whom lie
had purchased the lounge, it turn
ed out that the man who sold the
lounge had hidden tho money’ in it
when he was drunk, and forgotten
all about it. Then he had accused
his wife of taking it, and tho row
that ensued broke up the family
and causod tho sal ° of lhe furniturc
A good story is told concerning a
Stingy’ citizen ot Prince Edward s
Island. He had a horse ior sale
aud found a purchaser who agreed to
S' vo him ?175 tor the animal, lhe
customer was about to hand over
tbe money when ho remarked:
“The halter goes with thc horse, of
course, I have none witti me.”
“Oh no ! It you want the halter,
pay tor it." “How much ?” “Sev
enty-five cents.” “All right; here’s
your money.’ And tlio purchaser
passed over the change, quietly
took off the halter, put the 81,5
back into his pocket, stepped iuto
b>» buggy and rode away, leaving
| the overgrasping owner to lament
the loss of briderless a good sale horse and tp get
homo his t* best
could.
ToTil iritom It May Concern.
GEORGIA 1 Aii persons iu—
Y terested are here*
;qses CouKTr< ) by DOtiB(id that,
jq d CftU80 ba shown t0 the con
&n ordcr wi H be -ranted by
the undersigned on the 24th day
0F j IARCH 1888, establishing a now
.-oad in said county as marked out
by the Road Commissioners ap
pointed for that purpose, eommen
cing at John Barr’s shop about }
mile N. W. of Round Oak on the
Clinton and Hillsboro road, on lands
of Mrs, Mattie Williams, running
North east acr0 s 9 lands of Mrs.
Mattie Williams, Geo. B. White, J.
w. Barron and S. F. Glawson a dis
tancc of about three miles into the
public road leading from Hillsboro
to Milledgevillo about 100 yards
west of the residence ofS. F. Glaw
son.
Witness my hand officially this
21st February 1888.
Richard Johnson,
County Judge.
SHERIFF’S SALES FOR MARCH
GEORGIA Jones County.
f)N the first 1 uesday in March next
oduringthclcg.il murs o s.i o t
fon thc ? on!t 1It ' , US0 do °* ,n 6ald
<Joun ©'’ 1 wlU st ' H , al k ubhc 0Ktcl T
hundred acres of land more or
lc98 « boin S one fiundrod and
acres off of lot seventy two, all of
Sftid lot 80Uth of L <mg Slash, and
fd - e8 off , ot sixtv siith , paral i el to
Iot fifty nino in the District of
sajd State and County and km
as theTom Stewart place-adjoining '
, ands of John Bakor Mrs . Kancy
mkwm and othur8 . Levied on by
virtu0 of a fi fa issiIcd t0 (hc ipri i
Tem 1888 of Jones Superior Court
iu favor of Elizabeth J. Lowe vs.
Lafayette Balkcom, as the property
of said Balkcom, the same being in
his possession. Written notico
levy served said Balkcom as tenant
in possession. This 25th of January
1S83.
W. W. BARRON,
Sheriff Jones County.
Printer’s fee $0.90.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
GEORGIA—Jones County.
W before ILL BE tlie SOLD Court at Houee’door public outcry in
the town of Clinton on tho first
Tuesday in March next, between the
legal hours of sale, the following
property to-wit: One sorrel horse
mule, Rock, one black mare mule,
Kite, one black horse mule, ;Scott,
one" bay horse mule, Pete, one sor
rel horse mule, Sam, one bay mare
mule, Beck, one bay horse mule,
Jeff, one bay horse mule, Bill, one
sorrel marc Valley, one 'iron gray
mare mule, Jessie, one sorrel maro
mule, Ida, one light soirel mare
mule, Duck. Levied on to satisfy a
mortgage fi fa issued from Jones
Superior Court iu favor of W. B.
aud O. G. Sparks vs. Sam Barron.
Property pointed out in mortgage
fi fa. This the 25th of January
1888. W. W. BARRON,
Printer’s fee, §4.95. Sheriff.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA—Jones County.
P/ILb be SOLD before the Court
|| House door in Clintou, Jones
Couuty, Georgia, on tho first Tues
paj m March next, between the le
gal hours of sale, tho following
properly to-wit: Ono eight horse
power engine, Talbott make and one
fifty saw’ cotton gin and one rubber
belt. Levied on as the property of
Robert Lundy to satisfy a fi fa is
sued from the County Court of
Jones County’, in favor of Talbott &
Sons vs. Robert Lundy. Also at thc
same time and place, one hundred
aud fifty acres of land more or less
in Hawkins District: Jones county,
known as the Ivey Place, adjoining
lands of Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Mrs. Wimberly aud others. Levied
ou as the property of Robert Lundy
to satisfy a fi fii issued from the
County Court of Jones County, in
favor of Talbott & Sons. Property
pointod out by Plffs atty’., written
notice served on Defendant.
W. W. BARRON,
Jan. 25th 1888. Sheriff.
Printer’s tee. $5.75.
ROBT. V. HARDEMAN.
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CLINTON, GEORGIA.
Practices in Ocmulgee Circuit.
Office in Court House.
TO THE PUBL IC.
01 intone Alive.
THE RED FRONT STORE, OCCUPIED BY
W. B. BOLSBRBBOB,
Stands alone with his FULL STOCK OF GOODS, at unusual
3P3ELXOIH3SS I will make it to the interoat of all passing through
Clinton to buy from me. This is
fito’Snla fi*«* t* tit#** ¥
and I intend to build up and keep up my trade by keeping polite clerks
FAIR DEALING, house lull of Goods, and LOW PRICES. Thanking
you for past patronage, and hoping you will continue same,
I am truly yours,
ltf W. H. HOLSENBECK.
T. B. Artope, &
Cy ■S ^oo-ejTi:
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—AND DEADER IN—
MACON OuSL
GEO. T. BEELAND,
| WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY,
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Hjitrkrlfs $tul& fens
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®aK>EDERS BY MAIL WILL RECEIVE
Wjff PROMPT AND RELIABLE ATTENTION,
^NSgii! mr 320 Second Street,
MACON, GEORGIA
A .Cold Fact.
—WE HAVE NOW THE LARGEST AND MOST—
farted Stock ©f SM01ES
IN THE CITY OF MACON,
Udi alt a! 3iac| Gallant jiriecs!
Our stock is selected with great care, with a view to Wearing well.
We don’t keep a shoddy' shoo at all, but
We Have GOOD SOLID SHOHS
at prices you ordinarily pay for worthless shoddy shoes.. Give
us a trial and bo convinced.
§» i ggtttt!****'* !»«g§l«s
are made by the leading manufacturers of Philadelphia and Boston, and
in this department you will find nothing but the latest fashions aud of
tho best quality. A large stock of CHILDREN’S SHOES.
boc a*
107 (Old No. 3,) Cotton Avenue,
SffA.Cai!' Ct A.
(Successors to Mix & Kirkland, established 1840.) ltf
<$
The largest stock in the city. We have any article that can be called
for, and guarantee everything to be of the best quality and at the LOW
EST PRICES. Fine
Jewelry, Bronze Art Goods, etc.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS FROM MONTICELLO
AND JASPER COUNTY
Watchesand Jewelry Repaired
BY SKILLED WORKMEN.
^REMEMBER THE PLACE 314 SECOND STREET MACON
GEORGIA.
J. H.&W. W. Williams