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County Directory Judge Superior Court John B. Eaten.. Solicitor General w. A. Charters, ‘ Senator 40th Senatorial District W. J. Green , Member of Legislature K. E. A. Harabv. Ordinary W. 8. Long. Sheriff J. K. Kitcbie. clerk Superior Court, J. SilUtaey. Tax Reoeiver James O. York, Tax colletcor Joseph L. Dickerson County Treasurer w. E. Thompson. County Surveyor w. E. Jones. Coroner william Wheeler. Justice of the Peace V. 0. Kerby. Rotary Public, and Ex.Justice 1>. T. Duncan. County School Commissioner. W. J. Neville Members Board Of Education M. w Swofford, President, W. J. Green, Cicero Blalock, Z. B. Dillard and F. G.Holden. Church Dihectoiiy. Below lira the appointments for the Clayton Circuit: Clayton, First Sunday in each month, 11a.m., 7.80 p. m Wesley.Clmpel, 2nd and 3rd Saturday and Sunday in each nionth.ll a. m. PlueMt., Fourth Silt, and Sun. in each month. II n. rn. Antioch, First Sun. in each month, 8.80 p. in., and Fifth .Sat. and Sun,, 11 it. m. All are cordially invited. ClfAB. W. Cukky, P. C. CITY DIRECTORY. J, t. Hanson, Mayor. Coumrtlmen. tv. O. Donaldson T. j, Coffee J. 'A', Reynolds Marshall C. M, Oliver. Regular raoetings r flp)t Tuesday. Personal Fipe growing weutlicr now. Porter Grceir is up from Turner* ville. Three Weeks till court from Mon day next. J-F- Earl, received a shipment of punts yestcrduy< * A largo crowd ati ended the ser vices on Black Rock Sunday. Roper Webb, of Hartwell, Gu-, Iff registered at the Blue Ridge. The road commissioners of this district held a meeting here yester day. John B. Duncan, of Scaly, gave opr affioe a pleasant visit Inst Fri day. Dr. and Mrs. Bell, of Walhulla, were in town several dfiys the past week. The revenue officers have raided in the epunty this week and, we arc told, have had success in their business. Mtrs, Ella Swafford sent to our office a pea pod that measured 88 inches in length. How is this tor a pea pod? We hear of many well attended and glorious times at the protract ed meetings in different parts of the county. Mr. M. W. Swafford brought melon to town yesterday that weighed 80 pounds. He says he has better onos. V v e are still agents for the daily Constitution. If you desire to re mit through us hand in the amount next Saturday or Monday. Col. Paris tells us the the Jus tice's court in the valley tomorrow will be ono>of the most interesting and important of many years. Dr. and Mrs. Bell, of Wulhatinh S. C.. and Dr. Dover, and Miss Blanche Wall visited Tallulah Falls and Tallulah Lodge Monday. T. N. Carter and Clarence Mil ler, prominent business men of Westminister, came up yesterduy and have gone to the valley to-day. Thanks to M, W. Swafford for some fine iarge tomatoes, the flesh of which is not surpassed and the shape of them was simply beauti ful. Mr. W. C. Norton had the mis fortune to lose one of his mule yes. terday. It is thought by some (hut it died from paling sneeze weed. . Mrs. James M. Bell, who has been in feeble health for some time and is now at the home of Squire DerrtcK under special treatmont. is slightly improved. Mr, B. B. Bleckley, of Anderson, S. C , killed pn the wing during hi* vniit here taut week a -'Blufe cram; that measured 6 feet from tip to tip and stood 5 feet high. Sheriff J. R. Ritchie iucarceru and Gleanings J" 0 Blackwell, of warwoman, Sunday morning on u charge of entering the dwelling house of S. P. Powell with intent to steal. Mrs. J. C. Cannon and children, of Xtlintu, have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Green since Sunday. They left, yesterday for Highlands and will be there until about tlid first of September. We greatly miss the presence of “Uncle Jeff” Duncan who is now a popular guide at Tallulah Fails His friends are inquiring almost daily of hint. Uncle Jeff, if they snub you down there come home. Whily cyit 111 company with J.F Earl on his farm a few days ago we counted 27 Irish potatoes from 011c hill. These potatoes are of a beatiful red color and a new variety in this section, and we believe are excellent. Revs, Sanders, Evans, Taylor, Barrett, Maney, Dillingham, Pitts, and Allman are conducting a pro tracted meeting at Pleasant Grove this week. They are having great success in bringing sinners to re pentance. J.F. Earl went to tbe Falls yes terday. J, A. Green has returned to Dix on,-Go., after a visit with home lolfcs here. If you hear anyone making in- quyjr about odd pants tell themj, F« Earl has them- Our popular, townsmen L, N. and Jesse Robins ate visiting for a few days at Seneca. MU'. jX. Henson has been quite sick for several days, Mr. ‘‘Bad" Allman, of naoon Co,, N. C-, is visiting relatives and acquaintance* in town. Mr.and Mrs. Logan White, of Wanromsn, are visiting the latter* parents,' Mr end Mrs, Bell. life‘Milleriiteited fbr bis home. .G*., to-day after' Several stay |u. town, the guest of r He OMdajaaey friends • r- ' Protracted Services. Beginning Sunday, Aug. 6 1899, we will continue the services at C fay ton. Rev. A. A, Tilly, former pastor and ex-Chaplain of the 2nd Reg. Ga. V. will assist the pastor. At WesleY Chapel, Rev. HJusy B. Mays, of Jefferson, Ga., trill as sist. M*Y Got! direct these services sad bring to oar people much end lasting good. | • 2nd. Thessolpniana, 8:1- 18.,. Chen. W.Ourtv, P. C. B. T. Polmout, of Gainesville, special agent of the old Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, has been among oiir people for several days talking insurunce talk . He has written applications for quite a number of the best citi zens of the county. W. E. Thompson sent a wagon load of leather in the rough to Sen eca yesterday. W, E. and Caney do more work and suy the least about it of any men wo ever saw. If wc had these mountains filled to the tops with such men, whut u country we would have! It 16 a very common occurancc for old Indies to keep small articles of various kinds, but never did we hear of a cigar being Kept 15 years. Fifteen years ago J. T. McConnell gave Mrs. Dr. Long a cigar and she kept it until a ( few days ago. she gave it to her grandson, J. m. Long, and he declares he never smoked a better one. So far as we are able to get re- ports of crops in the county there will be an unusually large yield. The corn crop around Clayton is immense. The mast, both bitter and sweet we are tn]d is unusually heavy this year. So it seems we are in a land of mils and honey, and we all should ict real pretty and feel grateful to Him who giv- oth. G, V . Garrett has painted the Blue Ridge Hotel, the store house and new dwelling house of W. H. Duncan and the residence of “Bud” York and will soon begin painting the court house. Now, if Pope Barrow and some others will follow suit our little moun tain city will begin to compare with other progressive towns. Let the good work goon. Mr. J. A. Swafford Corne lia running the Hotel G&nu. Tlvc fjfjeiids of B. \Y. Grant are sorry to know ot his health fulling him. There lias newer been u man of more push and energy in the hotel business nor one more populur. He has made tor himself. an-.enviable reputation. We hope he may soon be restored to his usual good health. j The contest for the five .dollar premium for the largest melon raised in the county has begun, Lust Saturday morning Mr. J. F. Earl asked us to witness tbe pul ling of a melon that he wished to put in the contest. It wc.ghed 35$ pounds. This is the largest melon brought to town this season. We understand B.E.Rumey has one on the vine that weighs 41 pounds and he expects it to weigh by the time it matures 60 pounds. Deputy John Godfrey brought to town yerterday Eve Reed, hand cuffed, for violating the internal revenue laws. Among the hqn- dred men Dept. Godfrey has ar rested in the county this man Reed is the third one he has put the cuffs on. We*doubt if there is in the state a more popular officer in the service among his home people. He is one of our best friends in the newspaper business.. He was the first subscriber to the Tribune and has aided us continually sinoe our stay here. A lively party from Anderson county, 8. C., have been quartered in town in tenti since last Friday. Tbe names of the party an, Mr. and Mrs. A. 8. Far mland their little daughter, Alberta, 8. B. Elrod, B. A. Buchanan, W. E. Buchanan, Miss Leila Buchanan, Bur- nice Farmer .ond Genie Harrisson. col ored. chief cook and buttle wash er and general superintendent of,, the <f»wd. Soma of tlie party sggot on dating here last rummer and they were so well pleased they came bank this year Tbs nasty is Dept. Collectors Vigal and Berg- j strom while on a raid in Moccasin! | FROM SOUTHERN'RECORD. Mr. Steve Whitmire is spending some time in Rabun, where he has some valuable property. Arnica mine whic.i he is having worked up there promises great things for Mr. Whitmire. Dr- Cady’s Condition Powders. are just what a horse needs when m bad condition. • Tonic, blood purier and vermifuge. They are not food but medicine and the best in use to put a horse in prime con dition. Price 25 cents per pack age. For sule by J, L. Hamby. . The intense itching and smarting incident, to these diseases is instant ly allayed by applying Chamber lain’s Eye • and Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases have been permantly cu--ed by it. It is equal y efficient for itching piles and a favorite remedy for sore nipples, chapped hands, chilblaines, frost bites and chronic both eyes. 25cts per box. For sale by J. L.Hamby, PROGRAM For Rabun County Teachers As sociation. to be held at Clayton, Saturday Sept. 2, 1899. 1. 10 a. m.—Opening oxerciess. 2. Minutes of last meeting. 3. Aims nnd' methods in teach ing history, by Nin Ramey and Virgil McCrackin. 4. Spelling—by Garnett Wil liams and Miss Susie Ramey. 5. Recitation—by Miss Belle York. 6. Grammar—by J. C. and Vir gil Green. 7. Writing—by Martin Chas tain and M, S. Moore. 8. Recitation—by Miss Lena Bleckley, 9. Methods in teaching arith metic—by W. T. Daniel and Jack- son Crunkleton, 10. Recitation—by Miss Ruth Smith. 11. The best method of teaching simple language independent of text booxs—by Misses Manda Earl and Beulah Green. 12. Recitation—by Miss Ina Coffee. 18. Value and methods of mor al training in the schools—by A, A. O’Kellv and J. M. Bleckley. Commute on Program. district last Tuesday, were grcatly.fa inconvenienced by the loss of one ot their buggY wheels. They had stopped Thursday night, at the house of Mr. John Tally, near Pine Mountain, and next morning some one took from their buggy one of the front wheels. They went 8 miles to Highlands and borrowed a wheel and arrived two duys later in Clayton nnd from here they went to Gainesville some what embarmsed. We think the boys tried to keep the joke, bt”' 1 it leaked out on them. H.JL,. jfikpv- kins found the wheel lifthe woods last Tuesday near Mr. Talley’s house nnd lie will ship it to the owner at once. Mr. HnwKins says the par ties had it hopelessly hid but lie found it. just the same. Are You P Are your checks Hollow and your lips white? Is your appetite poor and your di gestion weak? Is your flesh soft and have you lost in weight? ] These are symptoms of i anemia or poor blood* < They are just as frequent j in the summer as in ’the I winter. And you can he j cured at one time just ss 4 well as another. Seoff'e i Emulsion 1 of cod liver oil •with Hypo- j phosphites will certainly 1 help you. Almost everyone i can take it, and it will not d 1 disturb the weakest stem- 1 ach. It changes the light color of poor blood to a healthy aad rick red. It nourishes the brain | gtvm C wer to the nerves. It brings ck your old weight and strength. IFV'! 1 Bowwx, chemists. New York. We clip the following from an old copy of th? Clayton Telegraph of July 8,1898, The paper was a two column quarto nnd it’s editor was A.B, Sams: OFFICE RULES. Eelow is Uncle Billy Bowen’rules to govern those that visit Ills printing of fice: “Persons having no business, only to talk and laugh, and thus pass time away f will be lees iu the way of our business by being somewhere else. It Is against the rules of this office for persons to ehew or smoke tobacco, and spit on the floor or walls. Also to sit in the window in time of business, thus excluding air and light. It is also a violation of rules of this office to indulge in loud talking,or laugh Ing during office business.” The American Union,. - •if. jsofWftiYL ntvpnew*^ "'"^Ja Another-exchange adds; ' It is, or ought to be, against tho tulm of all newspaper offices for anyone to read a part of tbe printed paper before the same is printed complete. Also to read the copy while being set up in type by the compositor. i Cotton Soot/ 1 J^ree What The Negro Ii Doing. Harve Fenland has gone to Toccoa this week with a load of Irish pota toes, cider and apples. OM Aunt Nerva Coffee, aged 75 years, and who has been sick since hut winter, is somewhat improved in health. Aunt Mem has been the trusted washer wo man for this vieinlty for many years and has never tatte^ till last spring respond ing to the oaflfc tram the people. Leender BAbM is seen on our streets oepuiotudly selling honey and. other pterin ctaof the farm. Reis man at the jafl often trying to buy land if Mr. M. L. Shirley. We an told Love don’t have foxhunt thp xppep to buy f With The Atlanta Semi-Weekly W Journal to everyone sending one 4 dolLr for a year’s subscription. % Jackson’s African Limbless Cotton, k grows 8 to is feet high, and Is said . to produce double the quantity of f ordinary cotton. It costs nothing la b Fy l( - The seed are scarce, but 2 The Semi-Weakly Journal has w secured a quantity and offars to any k one sending one dollar for a year* 2 subscription 500 of these seed free. ^ TJatm ago, y Spurgeon, ^ SCoeeAor. A collection of select sermons by f these great divines sent free to any ^ one sending on«_ dollar for^a_year’s o subscription to Tho Seal-Woekly a Journal. j Sam Jfones* S •Cotters. tlH r Sam Jonrs writes regularly for The % Atlanta . nirnal, and hta letters ap- j pear in tlte Semi-Weekly 1 J Sfgonts Wanted V Cuerg whore. «ffB V A live agent wanted at every town k and hamlet In the south. Liberal a commissions to agents and extra W Inducements in the shape of attract- k Ive prizes to those woo seed large 2 lists of names. In Addition to Commissions In addition to liberal coasmlssliMie . agents who send us too cash mb- § scribers for a year before next May 1st, will receive a bonus of fid. Those seeding jo will receive J Extra fifbes or hundreds in thesm proportion. Send the subsermi along and keep account of them. 5 Tbe Semi'" Weekly JOURNAL, Atlanta, Georgia. rfTJgH