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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1888)
The Democrat. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CLEM. C. MOORE. CRA WFORI) VILLE, GEORGIA. Bntored at the pottofHoe at Crawfoi drills, Georgia, at aecoiul-riaM mail matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 21), 1888. A clear skin—Beating a friend out of borrowed money. An old colored minister invariably begins his sermon with tins sentence, “Brethren, my sermou is basted on the following text.” It is all well enough to say that thir¬ teen is an unlucky number. But this country started in business witli thir¬ teen Stales, and seems to be still hold¬ ing her own. The colored people of Georgia own property to the value of 812,000,000, and are rapidly increasing their pos¬ session. A stronger argument in fa¬ vor of a Democratic government could hardly bo made. The man who goes fishing and sits in a cramp-inviting posture on a nar ¬ row thwart from early morn till dewy eve and calls it tun is the same chap that never goes to church because the pews aren’t comfortable. One of the prettiest girls in town can back her ears and rake the corn off r,f seven roasting ears with her beau¬ tiful teeth at one sitting, and without the assistance of paregoric.—McDuffie Journal. Hon. T. E. Watson, of Thomson, is a candidate for elector for the state at large on, the democratic presidential ticket. Cleveland and Thurman could not have a more forcible and eloquent advocate than the silver tongued ora¬ tor of McDuffie. If there is anything in this world that will inspire a woman witli a de¬ termined desire to learn shorthand, it is to find among her husband’s papers a sheet full of mysterious wiggly iparks, interspersed here and there -jgHji the Initials of tha^jjuinan^abc .Some one remarked that a cerlitin distinguished lawyer was at dagger’s points with another leading member of the profession. “Oh! that’s nothing,” was the com¬ ment of another; “lawyers are liko the blades of a pair of scissors. They never cut each other, but woe to wliat evei chances to come between them!” From I>r. \V P. lIurriHon. NAsiivu.i.K, Tknn. May 2, 1888 — 1 have used Swift’s Specific in my ily for same time, and oolieve it to be an excellent remedy for all impurities of tho blood. In tuy owu ease, 1 lieve that I have warded off a attack of rheumatism in the by a timely resort to this efficient rem¬ edy. in all cases where a pemauent relief is sought this medicine itself for a constitutional that thoroughly eradicates the seeds of disease from the system. W. I*. IIAKU1SON. Cun cor of tho Eye Cured Atlanta, Ga., Febuary 14, 188S. The Swift’s Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.—Gentlemen: About three years ago, Jerry Btadley a coloren man, had a cancerous sore on his face, near the 1 .ght eye U caused I ..„1 a great dealof l>am, and he lost the sight of the eye. but was tinullv cured of the ulcer by the use of Swit’s Mpecffic. This case is well known in Wilkes county, Ga., wlirvi, lu. liviw, near 1............ ,.„J o, this iitse, 1 myarlt hnil coisona! edge. T. C. McGLKNDON, J. P. Treatise on Blood and Skm Diseas es mailed free. The Swift Srix n u Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Peter lloke’s Money * Arrived Safely. Last week we noted that Mrs. Peter Hoke ol Kuimitsburg, Md., bad drawn $6,000 in the Louisiana State Lottery, and we give the following: About two weeks ago Mrs. Hoke sent one dollar to M. A. Dauphin, by express, for one-teuth ticket in the May draw ing, and received Ticket No. 2t,4'.*2. After she learned that ticket No. 21, H>2 ItaV ttnwn the Second Capital '’rue efie'i? ,V00 the ticket was sent by express to New Orleans. Just seven days after the express agent at this place left a letter at Mrs. Hoke's eon taming a draft on a New York lkuik for the amount, $50,0tW.—Emuiits burg ;Md.) Chrouicle, May 2fi. Distress after eating, heartburn, sick headache and indige.-laMi arc cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, it also creates a eissi appetite. •'ll At KMFTArK a lasting and fra g TA Ilf f»vldhi l*tTfU»m rriiY *i ' a pm’ »«* f s At THE DEMOCRAT, CRAM FORDVILLE, GEORGIA. FIVE CODS TIES. i WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS Are Doing as Recorded in Their County Papers. I1A.VCOCK. JSHM AKI.l rK, June 2a. The sad news was brought to Spar ta this morning that Mrs. Job" Un derwood, of Culverton, fell on sleep last night to awake no more in this life. Mrs. it. 11. Lewis and children are visiting relatives up in Taliaferro county and the Judge speaks of join¬ ing them next week. Correspondent from Mayfi.U says: ‘•We caught a turtle the other day with a hook and line that weighed fully sixteen pounds. Let us hear from tne one who beats that.” The many frienlsof Rev. A. J. Hard¬ wick will be pained to learn that he died at his home in this county on Tuesday night last There was a considerable wind storm that past live or six miles south¬ east of Sparta on Tuesday evening last, doing considerably damage to fencing and the growing crops. WARKENT CHIPPER, June 22. A religious.revival of considerable in¬ terest is in progriss at Norwood. Mayfield is on # boom with two of the best and most enterprising mer¬ chants in the country, Messrs. J. M. Reynolds and Cason Bros. We are called upon this week to chronicle the death of one of Warren county’s oldest’end most respectable ladies. Mrs. Martha Williford died at her home in the southern part of this county on last Monday ni^tit. --READ THE NEXTW -Sg - - V. ; ■ ...mi i-'II. r,^.» J l-Lh — COLUMN ABTIOUMT— Mr. Sol Scruggs, of Mitchell, carries szzszJLm with a nice ripe one on last Tuesday, ^etsflfesday *t hair team ■ ight o’clock, nt the residence of the bride's father, Mr W. J Freeman, Mr. J. Walter ihompson and Miss Annie Ware Hiui Freeman ni imaii were were unite united ,1 in in marriage by Bev. F. G. Bugle. WILKES. CHRONICLE, June 22 . An election for ordinary will be bold on July llth. Yesterday evening a crowded opera house witnessed tho closing exercises of l’rof. Tappan’s school. Governor Gordon has appointed Mr. J. A. Dyson clerk of the superior court, to fill tho uuoxpired term of his father, 'V"Z\ ,! Z« t it ri yesterday for a visit to friends in Mil ledgeville. One of our young men looks disconsolate. One of our young men who chooses his language with great pains, said to his girl last evening, “1 am as warm as a fowl doing the Incubating act amongst the .. undergrowth.” , Mie , didn’t understand and he had to say, » . h.„ »tu, 18 „ high Huta -1 U.o. Hudmg their Mm outgrowing their space, are preparing to make .oom enough to accommodate their business. Within the next week or two they will begin the erection of a house JoxTOft. to be used as a gin factory and plaining mill. They will also lmilil ■'» -111 ftnffino W 1-0 im Mtrra.hM. ECHO, June 82 Some of the early farmers have laid j ^ corn. The Fanners’Alliance continues to grow. A young Lexington farmer cleared eight hundred dollars last year and «»I double it this. On the 15th lust. In Alabama, near Birmingham, Mr. J. . II. Hopper, formerly of this county, affectionately known as young Wylie, met his death in a railroad accident. IV. M Howard returned from his Western trip Thursday uight of last w<H ' k - He saw great sights and has entertained crowds describing them this week. -V l^xiugton yom.g man not finding ;l tau good enough for his girl in the American market is having one made to order in Londoi*. the duty and ex¬ press on which will be $8.00. Tuesday evening last Mr. O. II. Ar¬ nold had a mule colt which was run uing i„ »pasture near town to die. ^ tl d oil Wednesday morning another followed, both being >omew it >t. .::ge ly affected. Investigations led to the conclusion that lx>th the animals had eaten either sneeze weed or bucke; e bushes, both J which were m the pas til IV OREKNE. SUN, June 22. On last Monday night Miss IJfelle Cawthon died at the residence of her father Mr. J. W. Cawthon, in the lower part of this county. The other day Geo. N. Smith, of Ruth neighborhood, caught the cat fish which has ever been caugly from Richland creek. It weight.. twenty-six pounds, o One of the largest cabbages we ha* , seen this year was brought to Greenes! boro the other day by Mr. W. F. Ar-I mor. It measured about three feel across, and was very heavy. The head was very firm. The stingiest man in Georgia has been reported at this office by aj’nend. It is said the man is so stingy .. he . will not move from his house on sunshiny d, IS o, mowlfeU nights tor to, !,» Bhadow will ask him for a chew of tobacco. jg Dr. Keunedy, the dentist, known in Greene county, has returned from a trip to southwest Georgia. He managed to elude the rayenous jaws ol the alligators and shows up smiling He says the hull-frogs in southwes Georgia must be the largest in th world. Many of them, he asserts, are as big as a water bucket, and one leg answers for dinner for a family a dozen. Their skins, he insists used for buggy robes in that part the country. - 1 “What Aim TOC?” You dot/* , know? Then „ why , don , t you tPY WARNEIt’S SAFE CURE Oh, my Kidneys are all right! “Ai®' they?” , You perhaps don’t , know ttD , ,, CONSUMPTION, NEURALGIA RHEUMATISM, STOMACH DIs ORDERS, MALARIA, CIIILI,5 AND FEVER AND AGUl> HEADACHES, LIVER DISEAi ES, INl’AIRED EYE siGirl CONSTIPATION, ABSCESS Ep ERUPTIONS, IMPORTENC’G LAME BACK, LUMBAGO,BOILS, CARBUNCLES, COMPLAINTS* and, among wouk 11 ’ FEMALE pro 1- '** 1 W* ^ insist that they have no kidi^y diseases. They had and don’t kte>w 1 ‘ ' it fRy. | ed & Kidneys restore thei'anraspeoied that blood by great fcAFE tonic and purifier, WARNER S ( ’URE J ' ~ — —— _ - —-- SHILOH’S CATAKKOl HEM EDI’ -a positive cure for Catarrh, tiptheiia and Canker Mouth.—At lleid’ X drug store * 65 JSM§§! / MOST POPULAR NEW BOOK I , of the year Abovn mImt trrrlforv or hlghnnl cximniiMHlonn p»td I'nduHlve Rond ctrcnl&r and and SO days credit ' n E r r " for terms t»i A|fo ota. - ft*. W.ZlEAiLKUACO.,720 Che*tuut St. VhHi. P|» ADR 1 ^ O w ' ,i / POPULAR 'w tlSI FOB ONLY B ;i»W« l ,0 , Rliu*mi* < pie" n«»ihi’ ! . S at* mailnd, prat paid, to ad (irons „ fkanki.in any Stnmps tftkpn. suvrs io„ n«x 1404 , phii»d»,p«. We will semi all the above books CJ I LtWLLHIl FVFI AN □ U »t. THURMAN^ p s JjSKf^'SSSrSU? SS tffimZSrgg, * taftftkiui MWI 00 ., l*o*. rwioWfUa, >*. W..IU,«to .b... to*. .1.1, Th, l.t,.™,,-,.,.,,. r.rh. EMPEROR .WILLIAM » «RD HISTORY OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE XSS , “c?raa Tnu*. h ' , P ‘r“” i t B A 1 ' ‘' sum. r 5SS5W Box rfc c0 1,01 i>kmociiat"i t moriths* k ’8?.!»f T S 2 for months .TO cents. Cloth bound, 60 cents extnl - . _ __ Prohibition Of the LIQUOR TRAFFIC. » By Re?, S. I. YERfOR, D.D. « * Th« most tctlve and a KSTressive period c V ' I known in temperance work renders timely he appearance of this crisp, original and vigoi to us volawe. It is a book <juite out of the be, a:ea track, newsy and piquant, bristling with tel Mg points, brief, clear- sprightly, candid, earnest, convincing, facts and bright fair, dispassionate, full of tinging with sterling truths. It popularizes the burning question of "Pro¬ hibition,” brings ;t down to even mind and ct*r science, fnirshals its many startling facts in net and surprising forms, clarifies and invigorate*, “reKi™ blights U* ^ungtr. wbste'er and it the tonchea. poison of Clolb whose (i.oo brer.: Paper jo ct». Supplied by ^aTerm.^ Axentn and Ww. mailed postpaid *0 $ny saidres* by FrukUiiX(wsCa K VI'Yifca-a,*, FKUodtlpU*. Pa We will sei d the above book, with Th Democrat 12 month > : 2 or -:x mont! nls Cloth cents extra Notice. the regular meeting on the first Tues law Count? Commissioner. .As tire re ; res that all applicants fur this position must be examined by the President of the ^«>ard or by a committee whom t lio Hoard 5l .v appoint, I hereby give notice that I '«,^.^« court h<m.^ at^^ock ^ of r who wish , fl , ining any person may to nt themselves as camh<la|t^f<^ this President of Board. June 12th 1S88. TATE OF GEORGIA Taliaferro jjK-'oOHTy. Julia 0. Googer, administratrix M D. L. Guoger, represents to the in her petition, duly filed and en on record, that she has fully admin Eitered M. D. L. Googer’s estate. concerned, Tins is, to cite ail persons and creditors, to show cause, if ny they caili why said should not be discharged from her admin a pril25th 1888. IlENKV II- FlYNT, Ordinary Taliaferro County. -THE SECRET OF OLTI SuccesS I we spare neither trouble or expense to -. for phase our patrons. Come and see yourself that we make as good pictures as can be had in the South for less money than can he had at any other first-class Gallery. Children's Pictures made , . quarter m a of a second. We never fail. Old pictures copied and enlar ged. at the We were awarded the first prize Piedmont Exposition for \ novs of Have picture of your residence. — READOUlt l’RICKS. — Fine Cards only per do*. Fine Cabinets only 9f. per doz. Views of HuiUhu'S, large enough to frame. UxHin. show them whether yon wish pictures or not. < loudy £ days equally as good as ,v),. ar> as we sc the instantaneous process. EDWARDS & SOU, Gallery of Photographic Art 5U'T Whitehall St. ATLANTA, GA. THE > 8 £Sf WAV To get a Flnt-ClaisWatcti HIE is In our Co-Operative ITCHES Clubs. g mss. v n A, W5 : I AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES »" 9 H 01 8 fl fl yji A 11/ n A If Thousands of t»«st $38.01) SlSfflttffiSXOT ™neStM^ absolutely made theonly Hunt and I>amppn>tf Move «em(» in the World, and are Jeweled throughout with UENVINX; jcirniES. Th« /;“»««* 1 Stem triad amt «e«latlie strongest ffT. and re firings an,, $7S Watch. Our co-operative ClubSystco them within the reacli of every one. r=^ THE keystone •MX !*»«» WATCH CLUB CO. m Wm c tu?i * »ao < heitnnl St,, P. O Box 928. Philo. Pw _V\Lva We merciaj refer to Agency. any Con,., IWAMTID AGENTS Clnbs Constantly ( Join New yominf. and 8ave Money. ; -- UPHI IA8B & O CO Afl ^ ^ iVf ^ V 1 ' J Pactoiy: p , Cor, . lith . , & Madiion Aws. Size OF Factohy, CO feet front by 100 fact deeD, 4 stonea. i Capacity, 40 pianos p< . r w..h »«■»«, Write us.' ZZZ1 0w 8 c 11 “• ?*“ w ='-hr of tie Miattmtk Cnttiy. | | Aif.uK'lin'LSS 1 ociSlN^r ^“^vj-.^triai re youfoS f0 ’»’-’»■ R^h.cy Dcai dwllnM P i 6r . dSSfflCSS^WiiSSSSSa J ! ” 9 , off f rm make to in trod Uceotrr Hanot. lVi.lure, f„r$i.-,o Cml. Sefirany BuHneu JOHN J. SWICK, o«naiu«« [ 1 ^■rK'kc |h, WAT Ell "THE- :© NAT-ufKrni Prescribed by the most > eminent Physicians of Eu* ^ rope edy andAmericaasa for Kidney Disease, rem¬ Rheumatism, Gout and Dys¬ pepsia, and as a PREVENTIVE OF BRIGHT’S DISEASE. For sale by afl first-class Grocers and Druggists. Still water in Barrels and * V Demijohns, water charged with Natural Carbonic of Gas in bottles, put up only ^{*3 IjK,. st the the UNDERWOOD Springs, CO., Falmouth Foreside, Maine. MYERS’ COLUMNS . — . - X X X X X X X X SPIUf! SDH! lu C. MYERS -DEALER IN DBY GOODS, * 1% FURNITURE! HARDWARE. GROCERIES! —AWP— EVERYTHIN m G. X X X X XXX X X CRAWFORYILLE,
