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jS. / County Directory judge Superior Court John ]i. Estes. Solicitor General w.A. Charters, Senator 40th Senatorial District W. J. Green Member of Legislature It. E. A. Hamby. Ordinary W. S. Long. Sheriff J. It. Pltcliie. clerk Superior Court, ' J. S.^Kamey. Tux Iteceh er James O. York, Tax eolletoor Joseph L. Dickerson County Treasurer tv. E. Thompson. County Surveyor tv. E. Jones. Coroner william Wheeler. Justice of the Peace V. C. Kerliy. Notary Public and Ex.Justice D. T. Duncan. County School Commissioner. AV. J. Neville Members Hoard Of Education M. w Swofford, President, W. J. Green, Cicero Blalock, B. Dillard and V. G.Holden. Mrs, Amanda Green, of Turner- villo, is visiting her son. Dr. Green, for a few clays. Rev. R. S. Sanders is having fine success at a protracted meeting at Tallulah church. We do not remember ever hear ing of us manY mashed feet and skinned heads before. Cnuitcii DiiiECToitr. Below arc the appointments for the Clayton Circuit: Clayton. First, Sunday in each mouth, 11 a. in., 7.30 p. m Wesley Chapel, 3ml and 3rd Saturday and Sunday in each iiinnth.il a. m. Pine Mt., Fourth Sat. and Suii-in each month. II a. in. * Antioch, First.Sun, in each month, 3.30 p. m., and Fifth .Sat. and Sun,. 11 n. m. All are cordially invited. (.'HAS. IV. CUItllY P. c. Spine men pay annually millions of dollars for advertising,but others #ay it doesn’t pay. John Godfrey arrested Peter Leal yesterday fur violating the internal revenue laws* Low prices and kind attention bring cash customers. You will find both at Henson’s. W. C. Donaldson is making a, a nice improvement on the proper ty of W. A. Matheson. Our hotels are making prepara tions for court and the fair sex arc preparing for courting. W, C. Farmer, of Leathorwood. Gii., returned home Monday after a visit hero of a few days. B. C. Reynolds, of Tallapoosa, Gu.. was the guest of relatives a a few days during the past week. Religious services ore being pro tracted at Rabun Gap by Rev. 0. W. Curry with good results. J. T- Church, representing John 15. Daniel, druggist, of Atlanta, was here yesterday talking drugs. The chestnut crop is t failure this year- We do not believe old Screa mer imuntain will produce one bushel. flenry Cannon opened the con test for the largest Irish potato grown in the county this year by bringing three large-fine ones to our office last Saturday, Mr. C.F. Potter, cf New'York. who has mining in this county, will he tjie guest of Mr. S. S. mil for some time. Mr, Potter has many friends in this section, Willie Duncart is still at the Grady hospital in Atlanta very’ Simmon Mr. J. L. Henson showed us some tomatoes, one of which weighed 14 ounces after being taken from the vine twenty-four hours. They were grown hJtfSre enwood of Dil- sAn^wyaricty to lard. They :ft us and a beautiful one. Tomatoes like almost every -thrn^Tn the vege table lint, grows with great p lusion here. Mr. J. N. Crunkleton, of Per- happened to a painful sick." His father, Mr. A. ,T. Dun- al,d what ' llla .Y P rovc t( > be a fatal CITY DIRECTORY. J. L. Ilonson, Mayor. Couneilmrn. W. C. Donaldson T. j, Coffee j. A. Reynold* Marshall V. M. Oliver. Regular mooting*, first Tuesday. Personal and Gleanings s- August Court next Monday. Our jail has r.o inmates, llavoyour house painted. Old time August weather A.nice line of groceries at son’s. Mrs. Slurley continues fo iin prove. Mr. D. T. Dulican is quite sick ^ to-day Hen- S. to Marshal Oliver is silvering from a mushed foot. Our temple of justice has receiv ed a coat of white. Sliver leaf lard at Henson’s. There is no bettor. John A. Earl made Russel, C., a visit Saturday. Mrs. E. A. Bell will return Walhalla to-morrow. Mr6. Henson says it pays her to advertise in the Tribune. Dr. Green left for Atlanta this I morning for a few days. That flour at Henson’s is roal good-—65 cents for 24 lbs. " Eddie Norton has been threat ened with feyer for several days. Blank notes for sale at this office. Call court wee* and get a supply, i Mrs. Huntjngton. of Atlantj, is ing themselves. Nothing adds more to your build nig than paint. Mr, Garrett, will do your work with neatness and dispatch. Marion Long and Will Bruce went out hunting yesterday and c.iine jn with a string of squirrel Is and a large ground hog that weigh ed ten pounds. Why not have your house paint ed? Mr. M. V. Garrett is here now in the business and will tin your work op short notice. I will pay cash 121- cents per pound for nice fresh butter ami 10 cents per dozen for fresh eggs. Mrs. D. A. llentfon. John Qualls, of Whetstone, S.' C., had the misfortune to get his foot badly shot or) last Monday. The affair was an accident. Mr. Waller Dickson, of Fair Piny, S. C., lias been up among bis friends and relatives. lie re- Iturncd to his place of business Mon day. Wo will publish the names of those contesting for the largest tur nip and the largest Irish pot tit o grown in the county at the close of the contest. Mrs. W- B. Grant, of Jackson ville, Fla , will be the guests of the Wall mm so for the season. Mr, Grant will join Mrs. Grant here in a few days. Lafayette Dickson presented us yesterday with a beet of the turnip variety th,\t weighed five and half pounds aril measured 25$ inches in 1 circumference. Canyon beat this beet,? A‘ large party of pleasure seekers frrtm Harmony Grove. Ga.. passed thfottgli town last Friday en route to the Nnntuhala river. They were all smiling and seemed to he enjoy- can, is at his bedside and writes home that Willie is delirious and his condition is'disemiraging. Since writing tlje above we learn that there are no hopes of his re covery. Charlie Williams, son of E. h. Williams, of Wolfcreek. . was in town yesterday to have a, ton am putated. A cow stepped on his foot and severerely bruising it, so as to have his toe taken off. Wo want to attend court at Clay ton, Ga.. next Monday and Tues day, and request that; all our pat rons who may be there be prepared to settle what is due on their ac counts, and .we will he under ob ligations. —Franklin Press. The Southern,Record comes to us this week with a two page ad vertisement of Cornelia Institute and Cornelia’s business, men. Cor nedia is a town of destiny and it has more natural born merchants than tiny town in NorMi East Geor gia. and the 'Southern Record knows exactly how to present men and things to 1 lie public. The peo pic of Cornelia are showing their good judgement bv advertising their school, town and business. Dr. Ilenson showed us two gold miggetts that were taken from the .mines in Calafornia in the fifties* by Mr. Jiime c M. Ritchie of the valley. The two weighed one half ounce and Dr. Henson paid ten dollars foi‘ them. .Or. Henson will take pleasure in showing t hem, Mr. H. A. Kilby <?f Quarts, who was bitten by a rattle: snake pilotc the first of July last, was in town Friday with his urhvin a swing. Mr. Kelby was uncon scious from 4 o’clock on the morn ing lie was bitten until thirty hours hilerl He is iffit u well man yet and suffers u)uqb pain." An old pherotvpe picture was found in tearing . an old ciiimneY from the residence of Ordinary Long Monday. The face of the image was nearly perfect and the accident a few days ago. He had trimed his pencil and laid his Knife on his knee and some pupers start ed to drop from his hand and mak ing a quick grab for them stuck the blade of tlie knife into bis wrist joint, from which he is suffering greatly. M. L. Shirley, who has beep con fined in jail here since the last day of May, charged with shooting his wife, bus made bond in tho sum of eight hundred dollars for his ap pearance tit the August term of the superior court. His bondsmen arc L. N. Shirley , James E. Bleckley , II. 1$. Stonecyphtr and J. L . Watts Mr, Shirlev was a proud man when lie was given his liberty. Betty’s Creek Miss May Garland is still on tho sick list. Misses Laura and Texie Hopper, of Persimmon, are visiting relatives today. The bo vs and girls are attending ! the protracted meeting and we hope arc doing much good. Mr. Sam Cary and wife of North Carolina, were the guests of J. P. Norton Saturday and Sunday. A crowd of the Betty’s CreeK t nd Persimmon folks went to a bee tree cutting near Isaac Ramey’s and got two gallons of honey. Persimmon need not brag so big, Betty’s CreeK has corn ro big that lightning bugs never know when daylight comes. The stalks are like plill logs and the grains will soon be iikc iron wedges. Mr. Synev Bradley and wife vis ited their son J. M. Bradley Sun* day, L. M. Brooks, L. L. Long, J, J, P. Norton attendeed the associ ation last, week at Hamburg, N . C. Cornelia Institute, CORNELIA, GA. the guest cf Dr. und Mrs. Green. Sheriff Ritchie is officiaiy serv ing witnesses on Tallulah to-day. Remember your county paper next week. Plcuse dqn’t forgot US- • * ;> .- •Dr. J. C. Dover made a profes sional trip to South Carolina yes* tetriuy. Sortie of our citizens suggest that * ve hold a funeral over town today ' - ■ •. it . * It ia SO quiet. Babe Lacounte, Judge Long and W. C. Donaldson have knocked a bit of the monotonous dull and hot days in town by tho sound of the hammer, saw and the ring of the steel dressing granite. . Thomas Price, one of the party who was maugled in tno moon light ride Aboqt. & week ago, js still in u very critical condition. His recovery both physically and men tally is a matter of doubt. (V Stands as the most successful and thoroughly equipped school of the kind in the state. Location, in Habersham county, which has the lowest death rate of any county in the U.S. Health . pure air and the finest mountain scenery make Cor nelia an ideal location ' for such a school. Two railroads, Southern and Tabulah Falls. Building brick, large modern and well furnished. Heated by hot air furnace which is perfect. Faculty composed of young progressive, Christian men and women. Dormitories for boys and girls under care of teachers. First term’s enrollment 200, 22 of whom were lrotti Rabun Co. No shoddy out of date methods but everything up to date. Expenses reduced to the minimum. Confer With the President. A.E. Booth, Cornelia , Ga. Germany. We are having some flue Weatlift*?* People are alt visiting. We had a fine quilting at Cal York’s Saturday. Clerk I. S. Rainey was shaking hands with frietuis here yesterday. J. M. Justus, who has l>eeq visiting on Germany, will return home soon. Virgil ard Miss Deska Justus went to Wolffork Sunday. \ Marvin Powell says if lie had a dollar and a half lie would take it to the ordi nary. Col. S. G. Dunlap has been made manager of the Tallulah Falls Rail way, which runs from Cornelia to Tallulah Falls, a distance of 25 miles. President George Lewis Prentiss of t he road was hero a few <*iys ago and closed up 1ho deal with Colonel Dunlap, who assumed film was about all that was left, | control of the property last Sutur- the tin having almost entirely cor roded. No one here has the least idea whom the picture is the like ness. An Old Landmark Gone. day morning. Col. Dunlap’s successful manage incut of the Gainesville, JetTefson and Southern railroad attracted the attention of President Prentiss, When it comes to large mon flic Democrat is uble to put Milos Dar den, who lived in Henderson coun ty, against any of them. He was born in Northampton county, N- C., Nov. 7. 1799; was married to Mary Jenains in 1820. By this marriage he had seyen children, and by his second marriage four children. He moved from North Carolina to west Tennesse in 1829 and died six miles west of Lcxing* |lon in lSf:7. He was 7 feet 6 inch es high, and in 1845 weighed over 1,000 pounds. In 18539 his cout was buttoned around three men, each weighing over 200 pounds, and they walked across the public square at Lexington, Tcnn. In 18-jO it required li$-i-2 yards ot cloth one yard wide to make him a coat. His coffin was 8 feet long, 35 inches deep, 5$2 inches across the breast, 18 inches across tho head and Iq inches across the feet. It took twenty four yards of blacK velvet to cover it. His hat meas ured 27 inches around flic crown, and is now in possession of the Slate Historical Society at Nash ville.—Carroll (Tcnn.) Democrat. Mr. -William Stonecyphcr. of j >vho half been, negotiating with him Burton, an aged and highly re-1 for some tim«. Col. Dunlap re spected citizen of the county, died; mains recover of the C. j. & S. at his horn Tuesday night about railroad, and will divide his time midnight, from ihe effects of a fall from a ladder the same day. Mr, S'onecypher bus been troubled with something like paralytic strokes for some time past nod it is /bought lie w’as so affected tit the time he fell. Mr. Stonecypher is a native of the county, having bec'n born near his Itome place and spent his long and useful life near the place oi his birth. The deceased had many relatives in the county. Ho is an Uncle ot Sena tor \Y. J. Green and our Clerk of Superior Court J. S. Rumey, The bereaved family have the sympa thy of the entire community. between the two lines. Everybody feels confident Col. Dunlap will push the Tallulah Falls line and make it a profit to its owners. Consumption I do not want any shooting hunting or fruit gaTlTering done on m}' lands, or tresspassing in any way on my premises. Mrs. E. A. Bell. GOOD FOR 40o\ In order to advertise our p.v I per. tuw subscriber* inuy clip unu send, ! f soon, this coupon and 60C. (stamps taken)to the ILLUSTRATED YOUTH AND AGE lSuoc*Mor to Youth’a Advocate), NASMVILLM, TKHM., and U will be sent one year as ‘trial subscription; 1 * or will scud it the first 6 mos. *’ liar price $1 per year. It is an li fer 30C* Regular price iustnUed, *cmJ-monthly journal, of 16 to 3a pages. ** ’ t Adventures bySea and Land, to tresspass on my land. mi.:. * . , •». I* . • . Fiction, Powry, adventirm by Bit 1 Ins 18 to notify ull parties not WrrANDHumor, History, Biography,Travels, Science, General Information. w»i ‘ ~ • . r DCUUVCB, unnaRAL information. nvMAN’s De- paria Ot partment. and Gov. Taylor's Department. " lor** Lore Letters to tho Pebllc are of spe-; 1 Interest. Sample cony free. Agents Wanted. fifth land district. Any persons|FREE! 5hS’Sa7J2a.^<r^i«w' , mbSJTi> trespassing by hunting, fishing oriStiitJuS? •4&y-. taking fruit or any other property will be prosecuted to, the full extent of the law. 1>. A. Henson. ;> i-C .V^'t Hi 1 who will secure enough new subscriD* • regular rates to equal the regular price> cle selected, wo will (rive free: bicycle, 1 i, diamond nog, fir a scholarship either! gold watch,. nl Drauahon’s Business Gal veston, or Texarkana Bulncu Colteg. or Lii Sobrjhi In lit N.shvlll., Tcnn.,; Oram In almost »uy; /School. Write us. i TRIBUNE, CLAYTON GA. is robbed of its terrors by the fact that the best med ical authorities state that it is a’ curable disease; and one* of the happy things about it is, that its victims rarely ever lose hope. You know there are ail sorts of secret nostrums advertised to cure consumption. Some nuke absurd claims. We only say that if taken in time and the laws of health are properly observed, SCOTT'S EMULSION will heal the inflammation of the throat and lungs and nourish and strengthen the body so that K can throw off the disease. ^We have thousands of testi* moniuls where people dahn they have been permanently axed of this malady. soc. and $1.00, atl druggist*. SCOTT * BQWNE, Chwmsts, Hew York. IS