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TOWN AND COUNTY.
Where, oh where me our corres
pondents?
Mr. I). D. Hollenbeck is recover
ing from a severe attack of illness.
Mr. Wiley Jones is adorning his
now residence with a neat coat of
paint*
The Mao .in Pub’ic Library will
celebrate the 4th of Julj m grand
style.
Mr. R II. Barron, of Mrtcon, vis
it'd Gray Monday aud gave us a
pleasant call.
Mrs. J. W. Jones ha* been suffer
ing witli neuralgia this week, we
me sorry to learn,
\V T e nr* muchly indebted to Mrs.
Annie Stewr.rt, of Clinton, fora
basket of delicious peaches.
The corn crop was never better
or finer, in this section, at this
fcivwoii, than it is at present.
Tho gii>t mill which is being
erected at Gray by Col. I*. V.
Hardeman is nearing completion.
There will bo a union meeting of
ibo Jones County Alliance at
RlonnUnlle July 4th, so we are in
formed.
Every one is invited to attend
Sunday School in the II eadmoiit
building, Sunday morning at 9
o'clock.
Mr. J. R. Hightower is hauling
stone from the quinvy to the depot
and w ill soon have a large quantity
ready for shipment.
Wo call attention to the new ad
vertisement of the Macon Baking else
powder Co, which appear**
wli“re in todays issue of the Head
light
Miss Minnie Hightower, the high
ly accomplished daughter of Mr.
,1. Ri Hightower, who has been
teaching in Quiltran for some time,
has returned home.
1 hose who arc indebted to us and
who can possibly spare the money,
wo would like to have it now.
Our expanses lately have been very
heavy.
Thomany friends and admirers
of that excellent young lady, Miss
Belle Stewart, will be glad to know
that sho has closed her school at
Mt. Vernon and is now at homo
agai n.
The avorago lemalo darkey
adopts some of the mn*tcaptivating
costumes when sho comes to toA*n.
•It would be a stroke of enterprise
for Puck to send a representative
lure to get sonto caricatures—
natural ones—and Georgo Wlton
could get numbers of original ideas
—Millfcdgevii'e lor minstrelsy by simmering here,
Chronicle.
We take pleasure in calling atten -
tion to the new advertise mot of
Mr. James T< Campbell, Sr., which
appears elsewhere in this paper.
Mr. Campbell secured a patent sever
al years ago for his famous horse
collar, and is well known to us and
the trading public throughout the
United States, and a more honorable
ao<l accommodating business gentle
man would be difficult to find. By
enterprise and hard work he has
firmly established biia-ie'f in the
confidence of splendid tho people, bnsinoss. and has He
built up a
needs no words of reeao.n n nidation
from u» as the uumeorous testimon
ra's will speak for themselves- This
oilar U given up to bj far superior
i n quality and make to any other
thit has ever been invented. It you
are uotalread convinced try one of
t be.n and-you will never use any
o thsr. i.
CLIN TON LOCALS.
Clinton is a’ive with visitors.
A re fresh lug ra n fell here Thurs
day tvght.
Col. 11. V. Hardeman visited the
Central City this week.
Mr. It. L. Finney spent several
days in Macon this ivoek.
Wo regret to learn that .Mrs. G. T.
Purseley is still quite sick.
Mis. II. S. Greaves and Mrs. Jack
Barron visited relatives at Pine
Hid go Sunday.
Misses Harriet and Kaytc Morgan
visited the family of Mr. Jab Stewart
at Pino Ridge Tuesday.
We are pleased to learn that Mrs.
K. G. Hardeman has recovered from
h' r recent spelt of illness.
Miss Lucia Brantley, a charming
and beautiful young lady from Alii
ledgcvillo, is visiting Mies Maude
II urdeman.
Mrs. A. P. Penn and daughter,
Miss Mattie, of Monticollo, visited
relatives and friends at Clinton and
Gray Satin day and Sunday.
Miss Berta llardomnn, ono
Macon’s sweetest and most accom
plished young ladies, is spending
some time in Clinton, tbo guest of
Miss Lois Johnson.
Mrs. Julia Kendrix, after an ex
tended visit to relatives at Union
llill, returned to Clinton Wednes
day evening and will spend some
time with her brother, Mr. 11. T.
Ross.
The many friends of Mr. E. M.
Landrum, of Emory College, will
learn with pleasure that lie will
spend his vacation iu Clinton. At
present, he is the guest of Mr. U. A'.
Hanlcman.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
It :r estimated that 40,000 per
sons will bo employed in taking the
United States census of 18J0.
Two eases of genuine leprosy have
develop >d in Now York city, which
are causing much excitement.
It is expected that- the total cost
of the Paris exposition will he about
ten million dollars. Most of this 1
contributed by the government, and
tho city of Paris pays nearly all the
rest.
An cel suicided iu Forsyth county
the other day. It hooked itself, and
failing to effect its release, deliber
ately tied itself around the rope in a
hard knot, thereby choking itself to
death.
Birmingham offered the National
Alliance a building sitoand the sum
of $100,000 if they would locate
their warehouse and contval office
in that city, and the offer has been
accepted.
A dispatch from tho city of Mex
ico says it was rumored there that
the Mexican congress, in secret ses
sion, was discussing tho question of
adding Lower California to the
United States.
It is said that tho receipts of the
Southern Presbyterian church dur
ing tho year just closed wei e $96,000,
an advance of $8,000 on any former
year. Seventy-three missionaries
are in the field.
A Kentucky man who was dying
alone left his will in lead pencil on
the head of a whiskey barrel, and it
is held to be valid. The only thing
he left, however, was a gallon of
whiskey in tho barrel, and that
isn’t worth fighting over.
A sharp lakir is making a good
income by advertising a sure meth
od of killing all insects. When you
send him 50 cents you will receive
a printed card on which are these
words: f‘Got your insects to smoke
cigarettes, and they will die within
an hour. So long. ”
The furniture and decorations in
()nc room in New York city
cosl §»00;000. It is not uncommon
for such, places in large cities to cost
as muc |, aB $50,000. Moreover, last
the hear consumed in the
United SU tea averaged thirteen
gallons to every man, woman and
child iu the com) try.
An Austin inventor , has devised .
a steel corn hunker, which, drawn
a toatn< picks and busks tho corn
«t , me t , rate . o f c W • » ,t , or ,. Vl .i V( . .aces a „.. ( . F
“ according to tue capacitj ol
tho team. Tho team and machine
move astride the row, one horse on
each side,- and every oar of corn,
largo or small, is picked up. C »m
Ijnskin^f threshing can K now lasting bo but done tew ju-t days. as
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THE GEORGIA EL'ITO. S,
I-eiving Nashville Monday tiiglit.
Tuesday niornin; found in in
Chattanooga, the trip from Nash
ville having been n.ad > over the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St, Lints
R. !{., by special train. Arrange
tuonts had been made at the Palace
Hotel and all repaired there until
9 o’clock when a trip was made up
Lookout Mountain over the Chatta
nooga & Lookout Mountain Rail
way. Or. arriving at the lop of the
mountain, we found the scenery to
be profectly gran I. A picture of
the Association (in a group) was tak
en on that roman.io spot, Lover's
Leap.
In the evening a great many visit
ed the pretty* lakes, and battlefields
and o'her po nts of interest iii and
around the city.
All were charmed with the hospi
tality received in Chattanooga and
the day there was spent as pleasantly
as any during the visit.
A nights run or night us to Atlan
ta over the Western & Atlantic H.
R. and we arrived in the Ga e City
Wednesday* morning in time to
enjoy a good breakfast. A gr« a t
many of the party left us here for
their respective homes ami the re
mainder reached Macon at 11 o’clock
that morning feeling none the worse
lor the trip,
Friday was tho longest cay ivthe
yar.
Griffin lias doubled her population
since lb'80.
Tho 4 th of July will bo a big day
in Atlanta.
It will be hot when the legislature
gets ot work.
The cheek rein has been abolished
in England by law.
Two children were oaten by
wolves near Rosier, Mo.
Washington and Lincolnton aro to
beeonneutel by telephone.
The days will now begrn so short
en a little, as they grow hotter.
A 39 days’ to Europe and return,
is advertisod from New York, for
$150.
Tom Wool folk wu found guitly
and 8civ»cncel to be hung Aug. the
16th.
The drouth in Dakota has almost
totally destroyed the wheat and oat
crops.
The only way to keep a ben out
of the garden is to go blow but
shoo’er.
A farmer m Forsyth county, who
is scarce of "took, works his son in
stead Of a mule.
The Masons of Franklin are mak
ing arrangements to build a two
story brick temple.
Thu price of everything in Paris
is now like the great Eiffel tower—
the highest in the world.
An insect resembling the lighten
ing bug is playing havoc with the
corn in Randolph county.
Mrs. WhiteUng, who poisoned her
husband and two children, was hung
in Philadelphia the 25th inst.
There are two biothers living in
Pickens county whose names are
rep*ctive!y Je-uis (Jurist aud John
the Baptist.
A milk-white horse that was rid
den by Gen. Grant during tho war
is now owned by D. B. Flint, of
Boston. The anhnul is 29.
Rev. R. >S. Lumsdca, of Carroll
rounty, now has the third crop of
tobacco from one setting. Tho
tobacco sprouts out every year from
the old stalks.
A ncgio was a candidate foi school
commissioner in Indianapolis, a few
days ago The Democrats did not
participate in the election, leaving
tie Republicans a clear field. The
whit? Republican was clc.-ted, and
it is said that the negro candidate,
though a very respectable man. did
not get a single white vote. How
dearly the Republicans do love the
negro!
YOU CANNOT AFFORD
A t this season of the year to be
without a good reliable diarrhoea
balsam in the house, a-* cramps col
ic, diarrhoea and a'.l inflammation ol
gt , imach , bowels are exceed
ingly daugerous if not attended
at one**. One bottle of BEGG.S
DIALRIHL V BALSAM will
more goodiu cases of this kind than
any otlcr medicine on earth.
B niarantue it. For sale by I). D
> LSEN-BECK.
Vi o would like to have a few ot
the watermelons .it this
plufcc that arc being shipped on the
U. & AI. 11 H.
I)r. A. J. lint tie win* has hold the
h iuo.-uMo position ol‘ President of
Mercer University for the past seven
teen years has tendered his re-iguu
tion to the faculty.
A RAT WITH THE FACE OP A
CHILI),
A singular freak of mituto is on
exhibition at tho rooms of tho Nat
ural History Club of Houston Tex.
It was brought in a few days ago
by a German family ri’uAod’Sohwoin
feldt, living in the suburbs of that
city, who tell tlm following remark
able story in connection with the
strange creature.
A few months ago they were
aroused one night by a shrill scream
of pain from their year old baby.
Hushing ti tho cra-lfo nothing was
aoea or heard, but the next morn
ing, while bathing the child, the
mother observed two red spots on
the arm. nhar the brachial artery,
looking as if they had been punct
ured by a needle. The arm win
swelled a good deal and was still
very sore. In about a week tbo
baby was found dea l in its cradle
and bathed in blood. The jugular
vein had boon bitlon through.
Tho physician who was called in,
on seeing tho small but fatal wound,
which consisted of a nolo the size n
darning ncod'o might have made,
and hearing the history of the
swelled arm, immediately said that
both bites had been inflicted by* a
rat.
After tho baby’s burial, the
Sellvvcinfeldts natuia'ly determined
to rid the house of the dangerous
rhodouts, and consequently traps ol
every fashion were placed about.
Many rats were caught and drown
ed. One night, several mouths after
tho death of the bah}*, a rat wns
heard running about its narrow
prison uml simultaneously the cry- J
ing of a child was hoard near by
The head of the family, pr. curing a
light, rushed to Ihe place whence
tho cries seernod to come. To Ids
astonishment it proceeded from the
rat trap, iu which could be plainly
seeii one of those animal*.
Taking up the trap he examined
tbo rat cl"sely, and was further
amazed to find that the creature’s
face strangely resembled that of a
human being, whilo yet it rctainod
tho characteristics of a ra*. It
cried piteously and so much like a
but t chil l as to bo easily mistaken
for one when out of sight.
It is tin* rat which is now on ex*
hihition at the Natuial History
Club’s rooms at Houston,Tex. lis
eyes are much larger am] more hu
man looking and have more dis
tinctive lids than are usual. The
nose, however, is the most remark
able feature, being de -idedly marked
aud prominont, with swelling nos
trils. The mouth is small and has
unmistakable lip*, but the teeth are
long, keen and ra’-Iike. Tho foot
show a slight resemblance to the
human hand, although tho nails are
curved like claws.
Dr. Pinning, presidont of tho Nat
ural History Club and a noted nat
uralist, agrees with tho Scliwein
fel Its in thinking this must he tho
offspring of the rat that killed tl «
baby, and the phenomenon is duo to
her milk being formed from the
child's blood, which she Slicked.
Mr. L J. M. Bell of Heard county
was bitten by a mad dog last week,
and on Friday he had the mudstone
owued by J. A. Brett applied to the
wound. The stone a llierod three
hours and thirty minutes before
falling off. It was then cleans jd by
bemg boiled in sweet milk and again
applied, and adhered two hours and
ton minutes. On being applied tbo
fourth time it would not slick.
The milk, afteri-ho stone was toiled
in it, had a green, poisonous appear
ance.
THE PRIDE OF WOMAN
A clear pearly and transparent
skin is always a sign ol' pure blood,
and all persons troubled with dark,
greasy, yellow or blotched skin can
refit assured that tlimr blood is out
of order. A few doses of B]£GU3
PURIFIER & HI,001)
MAKER wi'l remove the cause and
skin will loecotue clear and tram
parent. 'J ry if. and il satisfaction
x: iven it will cost you nothi 3 ‘i.
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IX IX
MACON BAKING POWDER
Is made in Macon Ga. , of
STRICTLY PURE CREAM TARTAR
AND SODA.
Ail is 1APBANTED to lie Superior to all ota.
If you want the BEST ask for and insist
on having
MACON BAKING POWDER.
Address,
Macon Baking Powder Co.
Macon, Ga.
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BAKING, COOKING and ROASTING.
. -IS ATTAINED BY THU USB OF THE CELKBltATED
NEW SUNSHINE RANGE,
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SB is [Uaarnnteed III.* to bo El)Ul to
t»»l. Pirk* th« M«ct|
Ctvoa, UlmFut Vino omt Motu*
• If to pie.
.. [■••••■ The Clrculnr Roll Box ip
Patented, and no other mu*
nufafcturcr can one it.
Bond for Circular. No
j! trouble lo communicate with
1 parlies chines. wanting these ma
| Old Gins Repaired at abort
notice aud cheap.
Massey Cotton Gin Work*
JHACONs taw.
Henry Smith, another white mur
derer, has been sentenced to hang in
Birmingham. This maks five mur
derers under, sen ten eo of death iu
that town. On the heel of the
sentence of Smith, two dead bodies
were found murdered hi different
poitions of Birmingham.
Mr. Marion Tatum who lives near
Trenton Ga.. Insdi*cover?d a <-avo
on his farm in which ho thinks the
Cherokee ImUaiu buried an immense
amount of va'uabh s. He says he
has already found several old
bayonets, etc. The cave was entirely
covered with rock when found,
The largerst artificial body of
watt in tho United.States is said to
Ik; neat* Glean, N. Y. It is a third
huger than tho Conem utgli reser
voir wus, and it is said to be liable
to break its banks at any time. This
reservoir was formerly used to fee J
tin; old Gonno«*e valley canal, but it
is now used only by fishetn.cn. If
not attended to, there may bo un
Oletin horror after awhile.
In the trial of a criminal case at
Lexington. Ay.. 1 iuirsday last,
Judge Morton ruled that the fact
of his having formed an opinion
should uot dt.oiualify a man as a
juror, • , lie n, su'd , ./ that , one ot { the
h, , . he3t q'ta'.ifi ctions for
o a juror
was the fact that he had formed an
opiu-on Iroin what h ; had read in
the papers, and that a man who was
not capable of forming an opinion
was notqualiii-d !o ./.in tin.
lox.
A TRUE TONIC.
When you don’t feel well ahd
hardly know what nils you, give B
B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) atrial
It is a line tonic. *
T. O. Callahan, Charlotte, N. O..
writes; “B. B. B. is a line tonic, and
has done mo great good.'’
L. W. Thompson, Damascus, Ga.,
writes: “I believe B. B. B. is the
best blood purifier male, It has
greatly improved my general health.’
An old gentlemen writfs: “B. B.
R. gives me new life aud now
strength. If there ia anything that
will make an ohl man young, it ia
B B. B .”
P. A. Shephard, Norfolk, Va.
August 10th, 18-38, writes: “I
depend ou B. B B. for the preser
vation of my health. I have had it
in my family now nearly two years,
and in ad that time have not had to
have a doctor/’
Thus. Paulk, Alapaha, Ga., writes
“I suffered terribly from dyspepsia.
The use of of B. B. B. has made
me feel like a new man. I would not
take a thousand dollars for the good
ii lias done me,”
W. M. Cheshire, Atlanta, Ga.,
writes. “I had a long spell of
typhoid fever, which at last seemed
tosttle in my right leg, which
swelled up enormously. An u!c*r
aho appeared which discharged a
euo ’ full of m titer a day. I then
•v * ?). B. 11 a tU .1 ard «t cured
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