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D. M. Dodson ofCampbell county
Ijhs an apple tree standing below
llathcoek’s mill which is 45 years
old. It is loaded down with fruit,
and look3 as if it might live forty
live years longer.
A gentleman of Murray county
h is a genuine curiosity in bis pos
session. It is the deed to a tract
ofland in Kentucky bearing the
signature of the famous Daniel
Dooue as witness, The document
is musty and yellow w hh age but
notwithstanding this the chirogra
phyofthe old hero of a hundred
battles appears in characters still
bright and legible.
All Celestials are not like the
ianious Ah Sin of “ways that are
dark and ricks that ar vaur’’ A
few days ago several young ladies
went into a Clunaman’s shop at
Atlanta to sea what curiosities he
had in there. One of them, noticing
the little roll of wira-lige hair that
John curries under his hat. became
curious to sec whaiapigiail looked
iika Ive never seen a Cunamun’s
pigtail,”
At Aker’s mills, eleven miles
from Atlanta, is an old man and his
wife who have a remarkable sot of
ch’ldren. One of the sons, who is 28
years old, is called Bud. He has
never been any farther than Ma-iet
ta since he was born, at a lit’-le
white cottage perched on a hillside
near the mill. Another gen is 21
years of ago; and he has never seen
a town in his life, having been no
farther than Mclver's station, one
and a half miles from his h mu, The
girl , of the family ig known “bwe-^
as
nai," out sne is caileu. A>r
short, The family talk cracker
dialect, ... sleep tn a two-room house ,
and do all the cooking in pots in
the yard. ‘Where ignorance is bliss
tis folly to be wise.”
A remarkaVe case was tried at a
justice court in Pickens county 16
centiy. Mr. Stephens Kirbv sued
the Marietta and North Georgia
Railway Company for damages to a
hog by reason of the loss of one of
the hug’s feet in a collision with the
train. A fter a strong legal fight for
three hours, m wliica the defend
ant’s counsel contended that the
rule of assessing damages was the
los8 in weight of the hog by reason
of being run over which was one
foot, weighing; half a pound, at
cents per pouud, 5 oe'nts, and
plaintiff’s counsel insisted that the
ru'e for assessing damages was the
value of the hog when hurt, with
the cost of nursing and medical
treatment in curing the hog,
er with such damages as the en
lighted minds of-he juvy
proper for the mental pain and
anguish of the hog—the jury
tbfiplaintiff $5,
On Thursday night last Mr. H
T. Huff, a well-known coal dealer of
Atlanta, while cutting down a bee
tree on his farm, five miles from
Atlanta, on the Sandtown road,
made a strange discovery. The bees
were in a hollow tree, and Fel.x
Jackson (colored) was put to work
with in ax to hew it down.
“Lawd a mercy,” exclaimed the
negro, as he dropped his ax and
jieered into the opening be had made
by the light of a torch. The negro
had discovered an arsenal whose
2XHSH muskets
tree were eight o’d army
and two bayonets which had bouQ
stored away ^fbe by Boidiers twentyflve
year. ago. stocks of the giins
had nearly rotted awav, and the
b. m! ,roa... ifc. r w
grown about one uf the b y- .nets
and made it-immovable.
AMBI7I0H IS ,r ° MAKE A VERACIOUS WORK, BBLIABL1 IN ITS STATEMENTS, CANDID
IN ITS CONCLUSIONS AND JUST IN ITS VIEWS."
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
A movement has been started in
Hart county to have farmers decline
to hire hands unless the hands can
show m writing that they either
fulfil ed their previous contracts or
have been honoiably released from
the same.
Lawrence Keowu of Gwinnett
county has four children with a
difference in -their ages of two yeais,
and just ton pounds difference in
their respective weights. The first
weighs 2 .j-, the sei ond 35, the third
-15 and the fourth 55 pounds.
Several days ago a lady in Ferry
saw a jaybird eating a chicken on
top of a fence post. Only a short
while before the chicken had been
seen in the yard alive. Of course
was a small chicken— only several
dayso’ld—yet almost as large as its
captor,
Here is an interesting bit of war
history. In May 1804 Rev. Isaac
Padgett went on the mountain to
hear i lie guns at the battle of Ressa
ca, thirty miles away. While lis—
tening he placed a good sized rock
in the fork ofahickoiy tree, stand
ing then, as now, on the top ol the
mountain, Recently lie climbed the
tree and found the rock nearly out
of sight in the tree, where it had
quietly lain for twenty-five years.
In Atlanta Wednesday the little
eleven-year-old D’Alvigny, daughter of Dr.
diaries who lives out
near Grant park, was sent out on
an errand and her pet Maltese cat
followed her. On her return she
L pjAV'i Up LiiO VWV V* when' •S~. 'A****
1 ; } . cr trB!8 she met
some boys with ... a dog. , T lho . ,, dug , r
bewail lc au to worry J the cat. which
°
ma le a desperate effort to g.-t away .....
from the child. She clung to it,
and the animal attacked her fero-
ciously, biting her three times in the
calf of the leg and in the foot. Her
ff0Un(]a arQ qUlte pa i n f u l, and scr
ioua results ate feared.
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A responsible citizen of Bruton
tells Wrightsville Headlight that
the hail storm which recently passed
over that section was.undoubtely the
heaviest and most destructive that
had ever visited there. In many in
stances it literally annihilated the
cotton and corn crops, to such an
extent really as to necessitate the
ground plowed and the respective
planted over again. On
C. L. Holmes the bail
k.lled outright all the fowls on the
premises that wore not under sneltcr,
besides doing like damage on the
place. But the. most remarkable
part of the story comes with the
sequel viz. Two days alter the
storm had parsed, it is said hail
was found from 12 inches to 18 in
dies m depth in certain localities
where it had drif ed.
An e’ephant stampede is reported
from Riga, in Russia. Eight trained
elephants were performing in a
circus, when one of the animals, in
stead of going quietly through the
performance, raised his trunk sud
daily and began to. trumpet. II s
comrades at once lecame unruly
and made for the dour. One of the
leviathans burst it open without
trouble. A lady who attempted to
run across his path was seized
gently around the waist and safely
deposited on one side, ne huge
SESSHH their cariosity and they
10 to excite excite their cn-ionty am «y
examine examine i 1 it »tm m nute’y. ante. y. Tney They the the » »
entered a small courtyard and began
reg,^..- iv™. u«en»i
piercing cries as taev pM<ccJ
Eventua- kOT * J" .y were ni ne
walk-d off to ihu:r quarter j,
GKAr, Georgia, satubd^y. may 25 isss.
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• • DR. J. T. SMITH, - •
MOETICELLO, - GA.
Office in building formerly occupied
by Dr. Dozier. When not at office
eau be found at Mouticel’o Hotel,
All of my Drug's are Fresh.
April 1st Cm.
OR. R. A, JOiES.
RESIDENT DENTIST
MONTICELLO GEORGIA.
I will be in Hillsooro second week
in each month.
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MOSTTICELLO, - - GA.
Mrs. AT. A. Suerill, Proprietress.
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I OFFER REDUCED RATES FOR MONTH
LY BOARDERS. I HAVE COMFORTABLE
BOOM S AND NICE NEW BED’S.
3-7 -’83.
Loans Negotiated
On & Town Prnpartv
IN BIBB AND ADJOINING COUNTIE?
L- J- AHDERSOIT & CO.
SUCCESSORS TO
ELLIOTT E8TE8& GO
HIS Second St. Macon
BUY YOUR
Trunks* Satchels- Pocket
Ecoks> and FancyLeather
GOODS,
FROM THE FACTORY AT
FACTORY PRICES.
Macon Trunk Factory,
J, Van & Co. 410 3 rd St. Macon G a
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LeCOITTE BUR 3 EF.Y,
SMIT1IYILLE, — — GA.
All Kinds ofFruit Trees F'or Sale,
SPECIALTIES:
DeCoxte and Kieffek Fears.
Japan Fersimmon and Grapes.
8®“Speoial prices to Alliances.
Send for Catalogue Fl/e.
IF. IF. THOMPSON,\
Proprietor.
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odgebs Worsham & Co.
-120 and 422 Third St., Macon, Ga
Wo offer our services to the farmers of Jones amlJaspor
Counties for the season 1883 and 1889.
We have now in stock pure TEXAS RUST PROOF OATS
GEORGIA RUST PROOF OAFS. RYE and BARLEY.
WE ALSO HAVE A LARGE STOCKOF
and TIES
FLOUR, GRAIN, BACON, TOBACCO’
etc., at the LOWEST PRICKS.
t\ e have made the best trades of our ]iyes in
'Fertilisers
an<3 wo assure planters that their interest will be served by
calling on us before buying elsewhere.
Fornextseason we are GENERAL AGENTS in Middle Geor
gia for
ii S MILEEIvACO S., famous Bono Fert ilizers.
‘PLOWBOY’S BRAND” a com fe M 1 *.
uunu j , isuoi me
MACON OIL and FERTILIZER CO., cotton seed meal.
\\ r e bav.e also imported a very large lot of genuine
QeRJMJI [C\W'T KMQ OfPoj\3^|.
Estimates made to Alliance Clubs. AH farmers are cordially invited
to call or write us for prices etc.
RODGERS, WORSHAM & CO..
- 9-2 Gra. 420 and 422 Third St., Macon, G t.
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Formerly of BEHIND BROS. Suceessor to BERN!) & KEN C
MANUFACTURER OF
Site, Im Cite, 1 .
AND DEALER \U \ \
Leather, Saddles,Harness
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and Shoe Makers’
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Supplies.
WILL BUY Hidaa; Sheepskins, Furs, Beeswax, Wool, Etc
CALL AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU BUY.
410 CHERRY ST.,
m M AUUaN a daw , GEORGIA