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The (Slayton Tribune. Isioad Every Thursday Official Organ of^tabijji CountV. Entered at the I’ostoffice at Clayton Oajw aeccml-clftsH matter J. A. REYNOLDS. Editor and Business manager. TERMS. • One Year -——$ 1.00 Six month* - - . ?S0c. IN ADVANCE. We are told that when the new penitentiary is built in Atlanta that persons convicted of illicit dis- tilljpg will be pat to bard labor from six mouths to two years for each offense. Our authority for the -Above comes direct from United ptatesofficer of high stand' ing in the department, and the penitentiary will likely be build Within two years. All persons now engaged in the work of illicit distilling are subject to be at rested in the future and suffer the heavy penalties. With a standing crew of officers located here, and the fu ture pending danger of sure penal ty, we think it our duty to let our people know something of the situ utjon, present and future. - Persimmon. It is thought* the Willingham temperance bill will fail to pass in the Senate. The Southern Record came out last week with a beautiful illus trated advertising supplement. ANnr Industry. C..J. Harris, of Dilaboro, N. C hftfi*iocate^ a locust pin factory at DillartMnis qountv, Mr. Harris extensively in this business having n number of factories in Macon and other coun ties of North Carolina. We understand that if proper encouragement is given the pins will be shipped via Tallulah Falls The factory at Dillard is under the supervision of Messers J. N. Sherrill and M. E. Addington, of Fmukliu, N.C. A costly Paper. A story going the rounds tells of a man who was too economical to taae his homo paper but sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. Iu his haste the boy ran over a two dollar stand of bees and in ten seconds looked l.ke a warty summer squash. His cries ached the father, who ran to his rescue, and,failing to notice barbed wire feuce, ran into that, breaking tbe fence down, cutting a handful of fish bait out his anat omy and ruining a four dollar pair of pants. The old cow took ad vantage of the gap ip the fence,got in, ate forty cents worth of alfalfa and died of bloat. Hearing the racket the wife ran out, upset a four gallon churn of cream into a bask «t of kittens and drowned the whole mess. In the hurry she let fal l and broke a’$7 set of false teeth. Thg. baby crawled through the flood of -cream Into' the parlor end ruined a During the exciter at the oldest duugter ran off i g tantalising, read-headed sew chine agent who has been the old man ever 1 dOg broke up seven set- Robua Oip. Upper (Tiger. UpporWervomeN tad Others. THE BLUE RIDGE Ordinary's Citations. Georgia—Rabun county, j. To all whom it mas^onoern A LOV ELY for the • COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. TABLEFDRRISHED WITH THE BEST 'he market affords All persons intorevpd are heieby notfled that. If no R<>0(1 cause be shown to tbe con trary, an order will be granted by the un dersigned. on the 21st day of Dec. 1899. es tablishing two changes on tbe road leading from Rabun Gap to Persimmon district. 1st change commencing near H. M. Hop per’s residence . and running through the lands of H. m. Hopper, L C Whitmire, J t Dickerson, J B Moore and I u Keener, and intersecting tbe old road at old school- house place, ,2nd change commencing oh top of the hill east pf I x Keener, and run ning through the lands of In Keener and H A Die xenon intersecting the old road on top of the hill ;nearH. A , Dickerson’s, as marked out by the commlsioners ap pointed lor that purpose. B, Long, Nov. 18th, 1899. Ordinary NOTICE. I will receive sealed bida up to 12 o’clock, Monday, -Dec, 4th 1899, 'for the contract to blast the rock ont of 8mash wagon ford,and out of the road on the east side of said ford. Said contractor wtii he required to give bond for the faithful "performance of said work. s Hammers, drills, powder and fuse fur nished by the county. I deserve the right to reject any and all bids. Plans and spec ifleations on Hie in my oftice. Terms cash, when completed and received. Nov. 20th 1899. W. 8. Dong, Ordinary Rabun Co, Ga, & i PnW Cuds. W S Paris ATTORNEY AT LAW, Clayton. Go. Will practice in all courts of Georgia Offie. No. 4 Courthouse. REA Hamby Some Fine Sarcasm. The following sharp piece of sar casm has been going the rounds of the prpss, without credit. It.is ad dressed to the Filipinos: ‘You ought-to knrivV what a good thing you are missing by not wanting to become a citizen of this grand country of ours,: TftbreV nothing like it under the sun; You ought to send" a delegation over here to spo up-*-llic land of .the free —this land df'clu,relies and 4QO- OCX) licensed saloons, Bible^.fyrts and guns, booties’' of prayer, mil lionaires and paupers, theologians abd times, ChristiniW'-aiid cilhin* gangs, politicians afotf 1 poverty- schools and scalawags, trusts*'and tramps, virtue apd vice,-' •*** ‘A land where we haveiifdii >k in congress with three wives and a‘lot of men in the penitentiary for hiv ing two wives, where sonic- make sausage of their wives, and some eat them raw, where we make lx*, ogna sausage of dogs,.canned .beef of horses and sick cows, and corpses of people who e.it it! where-we put a man in jail for not having the means of support and on a rock pile for asking for a job of work. ‘Where we have a congress of 400 men to make laws and a su preme court of nine men to set them aside; where bad whiskey mulces bad men and good men make good whiskey: where newspapers are naid for suppressing the -truth and made rich for telling a lie: where professors draw their convictions and their salaries- from the same source; where preachers .ire . paid 25,000 a year to dodge the devil and tickle tb.* ears of tbe wealthy, where business consists of getting property in any way that won’t land you in the penitentiary; where trusts hold you igp and poverty holds you down: where men vote or what they dou’t want, tor four fthey will get what' they want, by voting for it. ‘‘Where women wear false hair, and men doc* thAr horses ta.ils v where men vote tor a thing one- day and cum it 864; where we have prayers on tbe floors of the Nation al Capitol and whiskey in tbe base ment; where we spend 15,000 to bury a congressmen who is rich end $10 to put ewav a working men who is poor. “Whereto be virtuous is to be lonesome. Georgia—Rabun County. To all whom it may concern: All persons interested ate hereby noti fied that, it no good cause-be shown |to the contrary, an order will be granted by the undersigned, on the 29ih day of Decem ber, 1899, establishing a new road as marked ont by the road commissioners ap- Ipointed for that purpose, commencing at the 8. \V. corner of R. J. 8. DicXson’s field in said county, and-running in a northern direction up She Creex, through the David oreen oap, through the land* of R. J. 8. DioKson, Sylvester Ramey, W.J. Rainey, K.L. McConnell, .1. W. Smith, A. M. Williams, A. L. Carves, K. A Bleckley, B. E. Rainey and- Johii W. {Green. and ip- tersectsng the war woman-'road Bear the residence of John w, oreen. w. 8. Long, Ordinary. ■November 22nd, ltitlp. Notice to Debtors and Creditors, Georgia—Italian County ' All persons having demahda against the estate of William Stonecpyher f 'late ft lia- 1,1,11 county, deceased, are hereby notified; to render in their deitiandk lb the under signed according to law, and all )iersons indebted to said estate are required to make limned late paylueiit. NoV/Dtli 1899, , V, ,T. Stonci V [Vlier. AdiuluisIratiV. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Olay ton. Ga. Will practice in th Northeastern cir cuit, also injotlier circuits by special con act Special xtontion will be given both criminal and civil cases in the U. S. Courts for the Northern District of Ga FLETCHER M. JOHNSON, Attorney At Lao Gainesville, H. H. DEAN, Galnsville Attorney at Law Ga- -J-H- WILKEIStR Will repair yoHr Watches, clocks aid Sewing Machines, ...Go To I WATTS, Two and on* hal/milrt »«t of 7.-«R ni unon. AdminiFtrutor’s Suhl.typ Personal Properl jii-’ • '■'* :: Will'bc sold at the lute resi dence of Win.- Stonecyph$r ■ on Tuesday the 28th day • of. Novem ber 18W) nt publip outcry to the highest bidder, the..following prop erty to-wit; One mule 16 head of bogs, 200 bushels of corn, 1500 bundles of tops and.,fodder 'one ^ u gKy. one wagon, one set of smith tobls funning tools. sorghum..niiil 8 bee hives i household and kitchen furniture, one new organ and singer sewing machine and various other articles. Terms of sale. All amounts of five dollars and upwards on eleven months time with note and op- proved security at 7 per cent inter- t f All sums under five dollars cash on day of snie. V. T. Stonecypher ' Administrator. WALL HOUSE - v Strtdiy PlratrGlass ELEVAtED . LOCATION BEAUTIFUL SGENERY J M YORK —la Still In the Bing with a lot of— STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Consisting Of...... Floqr, Candy, • Canned Goods and other things Os' cheap 08 can be found. Call on him at clayton, Ga. Spring and well water Clean Bcd6. The best furnished table and the most delightful stopping place in the mouutuins. ..When You W.xt. caskets or coffins CALL Off Clayton. 1 ; -Ga, i.«.«vnn, Volfonok. Cot/tt.gathering and rye-sowing is abdut done in this section ..And reasonable crops were gathered. The tax collector was around get ting All. the surplus money this week. * A. W. M. Chappell bought a large ox the other day, for a beef. This shows he is going to havc some thing to eat. PiM Beeataia. A nice stoox of General Herchan disc. When around Pine Mountain give us a call and SAVE MONEY I want to buy young steers and bulla from one to two years old. Cosh paid for them. Address,