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rpHE 1 PARTNERSUIP HERETOFORE iwVnis. t’; I I
between Croake Sc E ; is
day dissolved by mutual ••••■;; •. Mr. ;
Edward Croake will confine, -ie - i t
the old stand Vtl iivU-i. fi. -.••
will be paid by him. and ail acco ::;; due
said firm will be paid to him.
Edwabd Croake,
N. C. Edwards.
Sharon,Ga., May 22,18ro.
TO my FIHESUS.
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my friends for their lib-nal pn.v-na.te and
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CRAAYFORDMLLi; GEORGIA; EIDAY, MAY 26 1882.
POETRY.
TRUE l.OVE.
How much I love you, mother dear !”
A little prattler said :
“X love you in the morning bright,
And when 1 go to bed.
“I love you when I’m near to you,
And when I’n. far away ;
I love you when 1 am at work,
Amy when i am at play."
And then she slyly, sweetly, raised
Her lovely eyes of bine,
,‘T love you wljcu scold you love me.too.” me best,
And when you
0 The. in filer kU-'d her darling child,
And stopped a tear to hide ,
“My precious one, Hove you most
Win n X am forced to chide.
T could not let my dtarliag child.
In sin and folly.go l •*>im>timos ; elude,— , -v <
And.this is why
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SHAROjX 7 SHAVINGS;
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TRS3B li nr -r. A. KENOKIUK.
SHORT SQUIBS ABOUT PROMINENT PEO¬
PLE AND CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
sandwiched together x ok iiiK
palates Of our readers.
—Pleasant again.
—Ptams are getting ripe.
— rises are becoming numerous.
—Pitches are going to be plentiful.
—Croquet has almost been abandon
ed.
—Ring marbles are all the go in Sha¬
ron .
—Major Jadtason is having his store
house ic.nodeicd in .side.
— B’liy is love like a candle? Be
cause tiie longer it burns I lie less it be¬
comii.
Hill sup-plies our town with
beef every Saturday, John is a shrewd
trader.
—There was a pic-nic at Moore’s
mill last Saturday. A very enjoy able
time was had.
• —Miss Mattie Moore, a* fascinating
Crawford Villa belle, is visiting the fam¬
ily of Mi. X). A. Moore.
—A moonlight picnic will be held
hero in June at (Jroake’s park. Our
young people anticipate a line time.
—Shat on is one of the healthiest pla_
cesainy wi.ere around. There is scarce
••ounty’d ter young Uuires, is visiting
f. itud relatives in our vicinity.
. At sty she enjoy tier trip.
—What is the difference between an
a/reeliminto lover and a rejected one?
One kiss s nia miss, and the other miss¬
es his kiss.
—Our farmers are having some beau
til'iil weather to harvest their grain
crops. lie hope it will continue good
ferabout two weeks longer.
—F. F. Darth n, is one of the best far
tners around. He brought a sample of
iris turnips in. They were the finest
ones we have seen this season.
—L. A. 31 ,tore i Inis had his engine
| r. campaign. modeled. Also He is Croake now ready and for Ken- Hie
I tiricu, vill tackle some of it themselves.
—Meat is almost too high to eat. j,
would be ;i good idea if the farmers
would kill some of their old cows, as
the merchants are getting short wind
ed.
i’rd. Ware is teaching writing in
B o ihington, G'a. lie leay. s his school
ai lam piace Friday afternoon and gels
back on Saturday. We wish him sue
cess.
—Last Wednesday morning about
ten o’clock a circle was seen around
tiro sun. .Some of the people grew un¬
easy about it. We ueyer saw anything
like it before.
— Ed Young can tell a joke with as
much effect as anyone we know of. He
kept a crowd Tuesday roaring with a
recitation of different anecdotes. He
can tsro.v lots of vim and expression
‘ !l! ° CVCiythlllg ilC Saj’S.
--Mrs. Dri Sheehan closed her eavth
U- pilgrimage on last Jfouday morning
ill liel' l’CSidel'ICO if) ituVtOWIJ. Ucl'l'e
- . illtcrrCu. . , c'L . tiltj . . i i , , l <
ill til 113 VVLJlli OKI
Be cemetery. Wo extend our hem t felt
sympathies to the bereaved family.
-—Edward Gallagher has bought Mr.
J. A. Cox out. Mr. Uox is going to
retire to private life. Mr. Gallagher
7:11 make this his future home, and
we wi hi the young gentleman an abuu
dance of success iu bis new field of la
bar.
—It is thought by some that Mr. J.
Y Cox will make a handsome living
Hv hiring his JiorsH to IvPii
driek and vloore. 1 here is littie proba
bi ity of#Ioore keeping him up; but j
Kendrick is about exhausted. He had
<”>*»• f-" w -, »
—MessiS, Croake a: Edwards ai-solv
.
copartnerahip last Monday morning
hy rautuuT consent. Mr Croake
bought Mr. Ed wards s interest. Tins
Vdwards in town We
lln to Mr as a citi
zen, as he is too good to loo.. .
Cn. C. Edwards told us this morn
in» tint lie 'Mers1ionAFiy.it had rented a nart of the
storethat are in. He
will sell strictly provisions. He says
his old customers will find in him a
triend . Thanking them for the past
patronage, L he solicits a continuance of
1 ’ t ’
—If you want the best ... cigar m . town ,
ca n on Kendrick for “Brock Bros, No.
“ElegantLeisure,” “Silver Moon”
had the pleasure of selling .Toe IXarra
cott two" boxes recently, and he is per¬
fectly’carried away with them.
—Ed. Keating succeeded in catching
the negro that cut Bob Portwood, some
time back. Ed. picked the negro up in
Sharon last Saturday night, and deliv¬
ed him to the Sheriff in ers wfordville.
Ed. is a keeir one at this and we would
like to know if he would act as sheriff
should his friends elect him for the
next term.
—We sold J. J. .Moore, of Raytown,
one of our grain cradlers. He was in¬
to see us a few days ago and he remark
ed to us th.at the cradle that he pur¬
chased from us was one of the best
cradles that he ever cut grain with. We
have just received uuothorlot which we
will close out at roclFbottom prices
:V~Thei»- is a gentleman that wants
ria 10 tieesdu nine rows and live
iu oacii fow. He says the first
ynergetic young man that will work it
him, can h*Yo his accomplished. daughter, Luie We
is sweet pretty and
have the diagram of it; but our advice
to her is to leave n^off. town last
—Court was held in our
Monday night. The gentleman tried
was found guilty. We will not give
fhe particulars as our friend Young!
was present, and besides we havn’t
j time. The case was one of the most
interesting cases I ever heard. The
| j aW y era were men of fine natural sense,
! and the Judge did credit to himself.
—Mrs Kuyi Mershon is one of the
most business Judies we know .of^ She
can have as much done, and keep' eve¬
rything in as good style as any one garden. can..
She has an extraordinary good
JFhen you go to her house you can al¬
ways count on a real good meat She
keeps an excellent boarding bouSe, and
a good many of the drummers stop
with her,
— 1R> would like to When give some ad-,
vice to the fair sex. a young
man with gets so “soft” ho can bo “dipped”
up a spoon, the best thing to do is
io dip him up and pour him over the
back fence, lie is not of much conse
quenee when thus afflicted* A jjuung
lady told us of this and request (1*1 hat
we publish the information for the ben¬
efit of our lady readers.
—Col. A. xv. ii/eishon has a severe
at tack of sore eyes. Thomson,mid He very pri^iably doubt
caught them in no
if he remains in our town lie wifi ..dis¬
tribute them promiscuously, ’ .Yfejfltjiro Bin
a move to have him sent bag
son,.until ho recovers. Wo M ■s*4CbC
lieve that be will momeut’sufpSi.taUfm. comply re
quest without a
m*w 1 he suit colonel of eiiiHics, js • steppfftff,.ardmut audTIie Sharoiiiti: iu
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Milhk that w ' •>
ffjge’ff badlyx tiiihe.i'' in W&mBST' ./dire. a..or.
looting, ____
FiTKijivai'd of the l>r.r.rocL.\
spent Monday ahd 13(lfe4ery Tuescbiy
friends m Sharon. popular
here—among both belies and gentle
man—who welcome him always with
pleasure. Ho also spe.nl the day here
Sunday. Reluming from (Jrawfordyille
vve met him. He had a lovely bouquet
on the lappel >f bis coat. We asked
him where he got it and he said one of
Sharon’s most beautiful young ladies
ave it to him* Tuesday lie also car¬
ried off a magnificent bouquet. We
don’t exactly understand how tilings
arc working, but we fear Sharon vvill
shortly lose one of its lady citizens.
—E. 1*. Moore, and year (orrespon
dent visited up in Greene last Satur¬
day, found the grain crop splendid, bad
corn and cotton looking a little in
some places. The condition of the
farmers iu Greene shows that she is
blessed with energetic business men.
We stopped at Mr. Darks Carlton’s and
6 ok supper. We found him and his
good lady in splendid health. When
ever we yisit the>’e it seetns as if we
were at homo. They are so v ery pleas
ant and entertaining that no one could
feel any other way. After viewing ov
erything 1 pictured to myself how hap¬
py they must be. Everything around
them showed Unit no lazy persons lived
there. They have only one child, Dar¬
kle, about ten years old. lie is a bright
intelligent, and obedient little boy.
Next morning we left for Union Point.
We went to Union Point, and Mo ore
he went to the “Point.” We had a
pleasant conversation with our fried O.
A. McLaughlin, lie is a gentleman
of fine seyse, and a good conversation¬
alist. It is a great pleasure to be in com¬
pany with those who are our superiors
in intellect to get some of their good
ideas. Union Point is blessed with
two good Sunday schools. This shows
that they are religious workers. I like
all tha people whom I lutye inet up
there. They are sociable.
woman.
better than the bmiles of kings.
To bring health and happiness to the
homes of suffering women is a mission be-
7 lanS
pare with one which protects from
“That dire disease whose ruthless power
Withers beauty’s transient flower ?”
which smiles nives for tears, ease the for pain, of joy health for sorrow, for the j
roses
pallor of disease, the light elastic step for j
bounding rigor for languishing duHuess, i
the swelling line- of full grown beauty for
the sharp and life withered-form of cmacia
tion, a long of mental, physical, social
and domestic enjoyments for a few sad
days of pain and tlie gloom, ending in an early
«r results a ve ? Such is mission such are the
of Dr. J. Brailhelds Female Regu
lator, which isi hence truly and appropri
atelv styled “Woman’s Best Friend."
ILpph.e,-and blautv a* oEvomen disappek
like magic before single bottle o this
wonderful compound. Physicians pre-,
scribe it. Prepared by Dr. J, Bradfield,
Atlanta, Price- Ga.
For trial size, 75 ctsdarge ’ size, *1.50,
sale by all pruggists, may28f
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—Reid A Held have the finest lot of
ssstt ^. wta ^ tr ‘ w -
m ds DIYG US WORD.
sK$ vrt: • !'• “OPR KEIGUHORING TOWNS
ARE DOING.
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OflL. } i'ON, BARNETT,'RiUON. FOINT
i OTHER PLACES AS WRITTEN' UP
I! democrat specials. *
* BAH --- NUTT. \ *
X lairs of That Thriving Place—
ion Various Topics—News Mat
Itemized.
ifiP’ Correspondence Democrat ,]
ih , and oat crop magnificent,
'it .land corn both loqk better
si . ’ turned warmer.
o had a splendid rain last Mon
Ja ijgpe weather’ia line now.
1(j .Fielding ia taking pretty pict
| er all, for the girls in town.
worms are very bad this sea
mot' wiri jtV'Vip MheJ cool nights seem to agree
a{... r A. a J. Hillman passed Barnett
8 m, jL, ijrtnient torning at Elim. on his way to fill his
him -’lev,
A. I. Hartley preached at the
Ban « L #hurc]u last Sunday. There
was fwi'A co^pegation to hear him.
? ght Itev. Bishop Gross dined
■Pripsf wiri .;jtnn(Ed. S. O'Brien last Monday:
on his way to Macon from
Sin' in • #
A. T. OTaptuan has purchased
M an * 'no and separator and will be
j) thresh grain its soon as it is
hav ed.
* f A. Wicker was in town
the0(.lier day. When the colonel fails
to Ijtve atjy news, we may know that
the o it none in the country.
.KiMr. Ed. 8. O’Brien, of this place,
Mp*e;»rly A ife. When completed finished his it elegant will bo resi
one
jpPbost iifTt' finest this sitUs of Atfgnsta and
not less tliiin 110,000.
N-s’tiero is not as much corn sold
noSi 'jRitfil.ii %i*re was a few Afeeks ago.
oati.which liters are beginning to for feed on
is much better horses
anjx%suh’S than Western corn.
- Mnneett j sv. • Father ’James O’Brien was
“ in i Monday, lie came up
lutosje IrSii.tfon with the Bishop, and took
at Mr. Ed. O’mien’s. # lie're¬
tail fi ia the afternoon to v IMtehiug
xTr. F. P. Johnson rode out in the
co< trv fast week on horse back. Ke
ui g about dusk his horse became
i W wed, ran against the fence with
j ud hurt Ids arm so that he could
»Jt for several days. *
” '-. psb’f!'
'• operator Mt * I'***, the the position Augusta oi
in
RtW‘ wdiiod private secretary to ^tajor
! T ^ r * Huest is a thorough
j JM.V 1 * man, and wo miss him very
u.ipp- * Mr. Edward Young, of The I)km
0 (; rat, paid us a visit Monday. We
we -0 indeed glad to see him. He is
.q.jisant and agreeable in conversation
;in ,I makes friends at once. He dined
W j|h Mr. Ed. O’Brien, and left in the
u f(;jernoon for Slmion. We hope he
wl ljl visit us often for The Demgcuat
j 8 j), splendid paper and he could work
U p a large list here. From our short
Iju). pleasant acquaintance with him,we
be! ieve Young will never grow old.
UNION POINT.
S | u irt SqililiK of Interest to Democrat
Headers as Penned by our Special.
(Special C>rrespinilencc Democrat.]
-Warm days.
-Cool nights.
-Gardens are looking fine.
- Mrs. J. C. Thomas, of Crawford,
is \ dsiting relatives in the village.
-Our farmers are cutting wheat
anc I oats. The yield will ho unusually
got id.
-Mr. W. T. Heard telegraph opera¬
tor at Florence, S. C., is visiting his
son at this place.
-The coal scliutso and railroad
a |i(,]is are lining white-washed. This is
quite an improvement.
.-Yiccination still continues. Won
jj er if the Sharon localist lias had the
“pi irformanee executed. ”
..-Miss Celestia Gox, a popular young
lad f l’roin Atlanta, and Mrs. O’Kief
are on a visit to their old home.
-Wo are pained to chronicle the
S(3r ous illness of Dr. Moore. IFc hope
l„, will soon be restored to his usual
her 1th.
The railroad company is digging
OIie , of their mammoth wells at this
, , e and will move the station from
Jef Person Hall back to the Point.
- Mrs. J. F. IIart, who has been
_
S)W adhig several weeks with friends in
An irustii and Thomson, has returned
h*>i to th© delight of her many friends,
-We noticed a couple of Sharon
ls jn our town last Sunday,
c[U<e nfc, and our young >—>*«,w nien had better tr
\,yj t to their laurels.
-Torn Ilendry says he has already
tur ned n <x1 loose loose sixty xixtr-five nvew-iiis cents on a cei*
tail 1 young lacy a. this p.ime, and , he ,
int mds to get ahead of Jim Kendrick
takes two dollars and a half.
“ / r ( >k out Jim or it may be lively for
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&*nHatehisoh Lefsbcro AnrilW 187b.
J 4 Wat It affords me
1’^ virtues of
r “Neuralgia” for the cure of neural
and sick lieadache. It is the best ram
‘u 3 c„r these most distressin* shouid^je complaints
a ,-e ever used. It in every
c-« a “ illy In the country. Fours truly,
Geo. R. Head, Mayor of Leesburg, Va
M
ALL AROUYD US,
gathering the news from our
EXCHANGES. i
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BEING TITE DOINGS !
AND HAPPENINGS
of OUR neighboring counties as
,
CONDENSED FOR our readers— i
Oglethorpe, warren, Greene
AND OTHERS.
HANCOCK,
t Sparta Is hmaelile. J
Mr. Henry Rogers, an honored citizen of
Hancock,is dead.
Mr. M. W. Harris has just, received a
| fine engine ami separator
j Dr. Watkins lias onions growing in his
; garden fifteen Indies in circumference.
Mr. II. F. Riley has a chicken, about one
month old, with three legs and five feet.
The walls of the new Court house ave
steadily rising. The foreman cleared the
foundation of intruders last Thursday.
WARREN.
[ Warren ton Clipper.]
Stella Lodge of Knights of Honor No.
1080 have over (ii) names on their roll.
Some one broke into Mr. Ben. Mayes’
store at C’aumk last Wednesday night, and
made a big raid on bis cigars tobacco and
ground-peas, They get in at the hearth
as is usual on tlm (ia. It. R.
A sad occurrence took place near Mesona
m this county last Saturday evening. A
young man by the name of Mr. Virgil
Newsome, on Mr. J. M. J. Thompson's
place, wept out into the fields for pleasure
after dinner and took along a gun to shoot
rabbits. lie had proceeded scarcely a
quarter of a mile when the gun went off
accidentally, pouring the charge into the
upper put of the left chest nearly under
the shoulder, the same coining out under
or about Hie shoulder-blade in (lie rear.
He made towards the, house calling Ii is
mother. She finally heard him and on ap¬
proaching and asking if lie was hurt lie
made some reply, fell over, and was soon
a corpse. Tills was a shocking, scene
indeed for the eyes of a poor widowed
mother depending on her boy for a sup¬
port.
» VI* DIM-’U1 U.
t McDuffie Journal.]
The weather is entirely •maceounttiWo.
Something is evhfenfly wrong.
We hear of couskl^rahle damage to
crops and (jhrileiis by the frost last week.
The picnic of Prof. Fanibrougli’s
on Friday atfafr^ las', vv.qs a very pleanant ami
joyabte
A sample of Col. Bush’s oat crop meas.
lives six feet two and a half inches in
bight, and has a head of its own.
The interesting game of marbles is quite
popular in Thomson just now. Marshal
Si in Morris wears the champion licit.
Many of our fanners speak of plowing
up and replanting their cotton. There is
no doubt that piuch of it lias been killed
hy the cold, wet weather. But nobody
has ever seen such abundant oat and
wheat crops.
Mr. Walter Curtis speaks of attaching
a mill for grinding out meal ids steam
flouring mills, in this placo. This is a
move in tin; right direction. The surplus
oat crop of McDuffie county is amply tail
fieiont to supply the population with bread
for a whole year.
Willis Hillman has adopted another one
of the Barling kittens. Ha was deserib
ing his pet to a young lady, one evening
last week, when she requested him to
name the kitten for her, and right then
and there Willis was foiced to confess
that it wasn’t that kind of a cat*
We do not remember ever to Iwye seen
peaches ripen as early as the 13th of May,
but oil that day last Mrs.L. Hardaway,
of this vicinity, sent us two which, though
small, were ripe enough for use; and we
arc informed that I hey were sufficiently
matured for shipping several days earlier.
WILKES.
| Gazette.]
The Female Seminary lias forty four
scholars.
Mr. E. Y. Hill is having bis wind mill
erected this week.
Mr. E- M. Hines is superintending the
affairs of the new hotel.
The adjourned term of Wilkes superior
court will meet one week from next Wed'
nesday.
The appearance of the cemetery lias
i been greatly improved by white-wash!tig
the fence.
Mr. Hamner Smith left last week to take
a position as express messenger on the
Central Railroad.
Mr. J. Madison Cooper, a most estimable
citizen of Wilkes county, died at his home
last Sunday night.
A goodly number of steam threshes will
be run this sea m, and the toil for thresh
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|j l( . fifteenth.
it is rumom „,' j that there are two cases of
sn , a n. l )C j u the county thoiudi the 1
doctors ”, . are very mum on the subject, . and ,
not)lil deCultc could be obtained from
1
-
BALDWIN. 1
[MMedgsville Union and Recorder.] !
Milledgevilla had a fire the other fiigUt
Loss light.
Mr.H.Nowton, near -. cordon, . , hasahen ,
that lays two to three oggs daily.
c Sevens , . s Pottery •> wants an ice-house .„a and
cotton factory.
The bovs about Gordon hide their con
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Yol. 6.— No. 21.
Fast driving through the streets of MIN
ledgeville is prohibited by a town ordN
nance.
The amateurs of Mllledge’viUe will short
b’I'lay “Matrimony.”
The city council of Milledgeville made
their annual report last week in tlie columns
of the Union and Recordin'. Receipts for
year, §2,310.83; disbursements, $1450.GO.
Balance on hand, §G81.24.
MilledgevUle has a wagon factory in full
blast.
I’lum excursions will supersede pic nies,
and in two \ve«ks the succulent blackbeny
will “hold the fort,,”
The teachers and children of the Metho¬
dist Sunday school had a pic nic on Friday
near Johnson’s hill, oi^Fishing creek,
Mr. Henry Newton from the neighbor¬
hood of Stevens’s Tottery brought us on
Saturday a cotton stalk a foot high, that
had several forms on it.
By reference to our files we find that the
cornerstone of Oglethorpe University was
laid on the 30lh of March 18,'S7 Colonel
Joseph II. Lumpkin delivered thu address.
The annual May picnic at the Asylum
will not be given this year,
OGLETHORPE.
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A young lady of Lexington—beautiful*
good ami accomplished—has a temperance
pledge which she makes her admirers
sign. The pledge Includes cuss words as
well as tobacco and whisky. She is accom¬
plishing much good.
The young Indies of Lexington practice
blushing.
A choir has been organized in Lexington
to sing at all the churches. *
Our farmers are now paying lfi’^cents
for meat on time. *
A Lexington young indy—one jjiat is in
a condition to know -gives thu following
definition of love: “An inward inexpressi
bility of an outward all-overishness.”
Not many will go to the springs from
Lexington this summer.
We have beard of but olio man in this
county that failed to get a st and of cotton.
The recent cool spell killed out cotton so
much that a great deal of it will have to
be re-planted.
There are nine reapers Wting run In tills
county.
Someone, last Friday night, shot a cow
belonging to Kemp Thornton, a negro.
Malice evidently prompted It
TranffM are aliundant around Maxeys.
I)t\ Mark Willingham will averags’75
I iKd ot outs to the* aero on his plants-
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Catarrh of the Bladder.
.Stinging, smarting, irritation discharge, of the ini
nary passages, diseased cured
Bnuhiipabia. Lamar, Rankin $i. at druggists, (fa. De¬
pot, Macon, (fa. A Lamar, Atlanta and
THE WEEK’S DOUVGS.
SHOWS PKim MV I f H V tV II ICIt 1C Ills,
I I 1,1.I’ll IIV IMOMOCKATCON-
1IIONSIOK8.
UKI.MKS, CASUALTIES ANDGi’HKK 5IAT
TERS NOTES OK SHOUT LENGTH
TELLING HOW PEOPLE ELSEWHERE;
ARE ENGAGED- VARIOUS ITEMS UF
INFORMATION.
•There isn't a city ill Georgia lliaf
would not he improved hy the enforcement
of thu vagrant act. The towns could he
bettered in the same way
—Manp Georgia fanners, we fear, are
still engaged in the happy pastime of ruls
ing large quantities of cheap cotton to ex¬
change for dear provisions.
The Glynn County Fair, to bo held
this week, promises to surpass all previous
disyh'ys in variety of exhibits and general
iitlracliveivfps.
— Bid, Peoples of the Gwinnett Herald
says North Georgia is better titan any sec¬
tion he, saw in seven hundred miles travel
in South Georgia and Florida.
—The Beaufort News of Saturday says :
Mr. M. M. Kingman left for the North
this week via Sat annuli. His health is
very precarious, and the sands of life have
almost run their course.
Ten brick houses will be built iu Jack
son this summer.
—Mr. Henry Rogers died at his residence’
near Sparta, on the 18th inst., in the 86th
year of his age. He was the father of
Mrs. F. M. Richardson, of Atlanta, and
grand-father of Mr. F. II. Richardson, the
Washington c ^respondent of the Consti¬
tution.
—The U. S. Fish Commissioners placed
425,000 young shad in the Tennessee river
last Saturday. *
—A file at Llkton, Ky., on Saturday, de
»troyed property to the value of over &0 r
«_____________ I lie l nit< d btati s mtlulged .,, in 124 ... fail
u ( ’ 8 ,aftt week. Of those 17 oecured in the
Eastern States, 33 in the Western, 36 in
the Southern ’ at in m the me Miuuu, Middle 12 1- in in H the a
Paelnc and lerritones, . and 3 in New York
This is an increase of 7 over last
week T1)e failures in the cite J of v Q ew ,„
York V olk are are nwt me ^’“bcant. siVuifi.-mt and 1 business .
' r oub‘.’s have been seldom fewer than now,
ton, Kentucky, Kent!ckv°bas has ^ been sold ‘i’i for *60,000.
It includes 321 seres of choice lane’.
—Bob Anderson, one of tiie murderes of
the Browus, was convicted and sentenced
to be liung at the may term of McIntosh
0 ourt iu mi, The jury did not remain
out but a short time before they returned
a verdict of guilty. Judge Fleming gran*
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