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rJL. ..jm DEYOTEl> T& INTEREST OF RAHUN COUNTY SAND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. VOL II, dtzz Missing Link Sure to Come qLAYTON, RABUN CO., GA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER ] 2, 1899. NO. 38. On September ,21st the Chatta- noogn (Tenn.) News printed a map ^ion over 55 miles, Beisdes this, jt opens up a short line to the Gulf from Chattanooga reducing the distance 150 miles. Yeit will see By examining the map, that there po railroad crossing the Blue News printed a map n t >T „ Missing Link ^ .nm» n,„t »n. Gu - vt« Ashville, N.C., a distance °f the _ road. In the same issue that, pa- _■ per gives the following prospectus.)^.f 00 ? to connect the great the road I rail read systems of the east and tet.ua examine the map of door-, *J e Wefit ’ and 5 8 for ,his rea *? n giaand tee. Let us take Blue! TJ! U « ges 5 . nammg thl9 ro > d Ridfea. a,nucleus, and from there*i th ° ‘ M,S8mg L,n *' ’ .™? s road ’ eaaaiine the country about. Front ^ tbe Cot,tuni P‘ ft ' ,jd hnp fron » Blue Ridge west lie the counties 6f , Gbhttaoooga to Clayton, Ga k is rahftln, Union, Rabun and Towns, neftr y “ ^e l.ne-and what is . :«;^emtory of 100 ^ ^ that the .Wile, in Width, which h«fl» no mli-l'f? str,k( f ““^f each road. The mineral weiflfh bf th1s> c ^ u,,tY i tll ^ u * h - wh,ch the r ° ild * I passes; besides other small towns* Cane may take Place of cotton From the Constitution, ifS;! 1 <list#)£t i. unsurpassed by any in ^hteij 'ltlid^'world, and so declared by ^’H^jj^lfcitgteatest scientists of thd presr lapjg^-py. It ** not only the aliuod raralliHffiit gold 1 A “tiled fifty years before Cali - ; had been discovered, and I* en * s (, \ rer 3 > ewl Young Harris, a college town, bgilt and endowed by a rich Geor- gittn .Bowie fifteen years ago. and of twenty miles. At present all the traffic If rom the Gulf States is carried by tiie Southern Railway to, Atlanta, ana if any of it is intend ed f&i Chattanooga, it is by ,wav of that city. iitmie MfSsing Link is ic not only the aBur*d-tf ”, . , , , ’ ' TT, . that has'been foundfe* ” gl f * ' v ™ ds ' ■*" "strtutibn has from 850 to 400 stn- and the majority , T „ ... jvfirea , nnu |! - , . ' , . mm* is yet mined Jin tbc, P '*,[? hauled, from Murphy m gW- ,.|feK Kithi. section—but nstde from L aBks *- f ‘ Young Hai i is, a distance following minerals are -jind ip paying and worKuble ihnitie. , VW* Oromic iron, man— ^ magnetic iron and red and _„||i:|jpir.tt hematite, in great Jqimnite*. ■vW ■' Confedum and its crystals, the ru- “■“""'■a •? by, asbestos, mieg,'copiser tn,s * lU be changed, v. In large quanities near the ,town Jf 11 to P ^hotter and more . Of HlSwussee, in Towns countthrough line to the North imOlWW deposits of 6ulpJiur.ds.i and S0Utb ! by Wl ' y of ^attanoo- ^ *»i,»|ii^l»#dd,.|riie,, k apj it) the iK’orld»tgiid large till ,* and the timber fur 100 miles SMl? tirhich the road ■ ,\Vill pass “ ts fbr quanity and* quwtlUiy the Ohio river, liidelfiNrth tli« mineral and timber, i ;b<Micounties have the finest brought i.Ute and purest water to ‘he found l bulfdl »K the Cincinnati South- H»y where.and the agricultural and | possibilities are great, and ,nafBr,al lid, for the purpose of father ..iWiftg wlmt may be relied upon f- Tlif traffic.besides mineral and tim- 'piAy be stated that tlious- bf sheep and'cattle are yearly from,Union, Towns and cCpunties, and which are i|f’driven to Murphy N.C., a M of thirty and fifty miles,or the Blue Ridge, to Gaines- a distance of fifty miles, luce, such as rye, wheat, Oeowpens, potatoes ,• eggs, poultry, etc., are taans an* if the Cincinnati Southern of »-dI-y.' wwnefity years agb.^just such a condition prevailed at Cin cinnati,..which city , su that time, 1 j:\ivno SouttiBnl outlet, except by the Loulsvilfe <fe Nasliville, and by i which road Cincinnati was hoy- iibout the The departmei|t' of ‘agrtculture is daily teceivih'g hnswers from or dinaries of the different Counties giying the extent of the.'sugar cane culture and the.names of the grow ers of sugar cane in the state . The reports so far. indicate that that the growth oi syrup cane is far more exteusive than tbe com missioner of agricultuie realized, and that as a substitutc^for cotton, the merits of sugar pane are al ready upppreciatedjM^pfciny farm ers in the state. The reports-arp ^surprising from the counties north of Fulton, the soil of which.it jyas believed was not adapted to the growthjof cane. A&for north as Whitfield, howev er, ‘.he/ imhouncemcnt comes that cane ik being produced successful ly, at/d'that sirup is made from the cane-fit three; hundred gallons to the acre. IB At 40 cents per gallon, which Georgia siirup brings on the mark et, and $120 an acrq for land plant, ed in cane, the department of agri culture urges /hat from a money making standpoint this, is far bet ter than file wholesale production of cotton, qyen pt a bale a y acre. The aiMWiwft'Bailiahfen of’ sugar dine in NViiiifiiildCminTy is Rev. L. G. J'dhnson, pastor of tho First benefit to Cincinnati and the two Gluitta- mm cities nooga. Since the last war with Spain, jt has become apparent to tlle great Northern and Northwestern rai 1 - road systems that the South Atlan tic and Gulf seaports are very desi rable points to connect with, anjd all the great trunk lines arc seeking .outlets- that wav. Thoy fpresee that when the 1 great ditch is dug that will connect the Atlantic with the Pacific ocean, these Southern ports will naturally be the entry THREE FORKS. People are generally done fod derilig on this side and those who 1EMESEE VALLEY . Too late for last week. Mr. Paul Martin, a bright young are not done are trying their best man of Clay Co. NiC.. is visiting to get done. The frost d-idh’t get relatives Ln the valley. . much fodder ovet here, but I think Mr, Lee Ritchie, ohe of our best I citizens, visited Pine Mouritaih on it got some on the Blue Ridge Meeting at Hail'Ridge last Sat- business this week, urday and Sunday. Miss Genelal Mr. Geo. Greenwood Kell joined the churoh and was Clayton Tuesday. / < , baptized Sunday. Mr. Thos. Ford j Mr. Noah. Garland, an enter was the preacher. | pricing liyery stable man, of Toe Mr. ISaacc Duncan and wife, of coa, with his wife and childr Seneca, S. C., have been visiting, relatives and friends in Rabun and part of Macon, N. C., for the past two weexs. • MVI j. M. Hoppet went down on the river somewhere last Saturday and came back Sunday. Girls, yo.u had better lookout down theie or he’ll be frying to get some of yoir off over to Macon county. Some of-the boys caught a kit ten coon one morning last week and think there is nlore where they caught it. Bead picking, pulling and dry ing is t he order of the day and has been’for some time. ' There are no apples to speak of in this sett 1 ament and the cabbage are all rotting oh the stalk. '> The Bridge We Do Not Gross. v I ovv«i iiiQ tauiia* ■ y / daily by many- wagons ito pbrtsof the United States for the mi. .. .. PsipifiA ftorlA 'VTiccino- T U'U i markets. The passenge; 11 be great. Thousands*' i Come from all parts of l Atlantic and Cfalf. Statek i summer seustm in thfe I of North Georgia, and, »get to their respective -i theyhave to be-bawled B for many miles. Thoas- uld yearly visit here, be* travel from 'Augusta, al and Columbia, i by tail from Vtniteti Pacific trade. The Missing Link Mvilh,furnish the cotanectiiig link between the trunk -lines that trav erse the country on the Northeast and Southwest of; the Blue Ridge mountains, connecting the systems Ot Qhuttanooga pn.the East; andUll tjiesystems on the Southwest side ■rprtl^t point like bees to pL f biyep-r a^,W»lbaUa, S., C. At WaHurlla ,1^,Missing Link connects. wUlit^e Augusta apd Pqrt Rpyal fiJi/lroad.. 4gd Wie the Port Royal aiktfLa.ivr- ens a bee line to Columbia’, S- C.v the Bine Ridge, and it Sei\iifca with '*h;«n*t J .Rwthegi. ( system making a straight shootiftjt, 1 * Methodist church of Dalton. He writes for tbe benefit of tile farm ers of the stiv/e that bis cane has u uniform weight of eight leet and a maximum height of ten feet, which is 46 good, it is said, as t thc best cane produced in Louisiana. The efforts of Commissioner Ste vens and his able assistant. Colo nel A. F. Wrighti in advocating the general production of sugar cane, have just begun, and when all the figures showing the - extent of the present production are in un address will be issued, giving the views of the department 1 and its recommendation. By inducing Jhc planters of Georgia tq put so ninny acres in sugar cane the department can then arrive at the number of sugar and %inip mills that will be needed, as well as the capacity of each mill.' A large sirup mjll at- Adrian, <ja., is now practically assured as d restllt of the recent visit of Com missioner Stevens to that district. How oft we trouble borrow, ; And,suffer mentul pain, Cjpujujring.clo.tid6.te*iuarrow, Wtiile v«!t no sign of .fain. Future gloom forbordlng, At night, on pillows toss. In fear (>f pnloading . The ljuidge wC do,pot cross. From a road there is no draining That we can see just now, Trouble ahead diierning, To avoid ws know not how. And so we roll and tumble At night with sleep a loss, And hear the distant rumble On the bridge we do not cross. > We see no silver lining On clouds or fancy pajqtjf!j| s.» . No stars through rifts qrc shining. Blackness our path attaints. When daylight shoWs our folly, We then may coum tkpeost,^ Passing strh'ihs Qf meloncholy, Tho bridge we have.nqt croossed NeUts-Letteb. en visitedjhis mother this week Messrs. W, J, Neville and Z. B. Dilliffrattended the regular meet ing of the board of, Education at Clayton TuesdajB^fljj^ Misse Estelle andLizzie Gilispie have both been quite sick the past week., but are better at this writ- Ethel and Margie Powell, who have been sick [diptheria, are im proving rapidly. Mr, John Carter* tmd wife, of Toccoa, huve been v.siting Mrs. Lee Ritchie.- Miss Ruth Smith, the accom plished assistant teather at the academy', hus- been sick this weex, Mr. |MboreV trayullhg salesman for Beck-uhd Greggs, was in the valley Monday. : . Oscaf- /PiWvCll,' vrhb has been Bpending his Vacation with his iioni9 folks, leftSundnly for Tallu lah rfvef lio resnmehid-duties in tbe. kchool . monl training, the young • Tdeas to shoot,.' fdeas tn shoot.' ' Mrs. Dr. Gurland and her little son Claud, fetnrned from Frank lin Sunday, after spending a week ' her father. Having a Great sale of Chamber lains coogfi Remedy. Manager Martin, pf the Pierjspn drugstore^ informs us that he is having a great run on Chamber- 1, , t- *y'j'_ Pic sells five It hr s beep denionstrted repeat edly in every state in the Union and in many, foreign countries that Chamberlain’s Cough remedy is a certain preventive and euro for croup. f It has beepme the univers al remedy for that disease, M, V. Fisher of Liberty. Va. only re peats what’lids been said around the globe when he writes; “I have k^sed Chamf5eriam'’s Cpugh remedy ill fey family for several Years and always \yijh perfect success. Wc S De l a t it is not qnly the best cough remedy, but that it is a sure Cure for croup. It has saved the lives of our children a^ number of times.” This remedy is for sale by alldcalor's. ih the meantime a strpng effort is’ Iain's Cougli reniv-.., uvo being made with he railroads of ^ bottles of that medicirje to one of squth Georgrqrto gqt 44ie, promise of any other kind anct it gives great loty’rktos fc the fu- i v t<| iefr tHrphfejle Wibo suf fer; from aSteb-sotetieuw kpow that Chamberlafe.'apain balm relieved n1A affai* a niinilinM .-.f me after aNiumbcr of.Vother fe ei1 ** ,oinpR.ftnd a doctorli-td failed. It is JkA ftw: satisfaction.^ Jn tbfop days of I la grippe t hera ‘is nc.tTiipg like Cham- periuin’s cough remedy to stop tbe coligh, heal up tfie so ( re ihroat and lungs alld $Ve relief within a ,very short tifee. The sales aj;e growing and Iril wfib'tfV it'are plpnsed with atiliMwereyfe* kndw'tt iw prompt action.—South, Cbicmo l&Ai4afeite,6ii. | I>ai| y© flrt, " tet '* ! Sold by all 4eal- ured of rheu ® rs - ; :r. . , ,i, 5pfc ap- For I: camd into our mng from a se- ritea ptei . td«te •»*«*» ! at o Ice. i