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discovered. Mr. Birtow faogan was
in possession of the house and the j
loss fal ! s Heavy upon hirti and Mr.
Moss.
A fine line o chemicals,puiedrugs, i
toilet articles, fancy goods of every
description, musical merchandise,sta
tionery, &c., can be had at the city
drug store. We can in favor of the
drug store say that every department j
has undergone repairs and a neater, j
prettier stoic would be hard to find,
Call and buy. j
Miss Sue Surles has invented a hat
box that promises to be a success,
Miss Sue has secured letters of pat
ent anti doubtless will push (op?Qt)
her invention.
Miss Lucia Hunt, of Stinson, was
the guest of Miss Mittie Story Sun
day. Miss as Pauline Sledge, Quin
ton Pursell ar.d Mittie Story returned
home with her Sunday evening for a
short visit
Col. E. C. Averett . • • Co
. is visiting
lurnhus
Mr. R. L. Burkes, state secretary
of Farmers’ Alliance, returned from
Florida Wednesday, after a two
weeks stay on alliance business.
Dr. T. L. Jenkins has done up the
road between here and Rings Gap
in good order, If all roads were
done like this it would be quite a
convenience to the trave'ing public.
mw if op* mnti.
Miss Lizzie Houston is teaching
schoo at the Academy at this place.
Mr. Sab Cook has been veiy ill
for the past few weeks. He is not
improving much yet.
I saw in your Journal before the
last where the 11 mleman correspond
er said,what is the m tiler with Tom?
So.I will write yon a few htnts to let
you know that 1 am not dead yet.
New I lope 1 Sunday School is still
'
m)in» b on. The co d winters never stop
n
it. We think that we have the , , best
membership . .
in the county. Our
may not be so large as some, but are
ahvats up in lessons. i
Leap here, we , know, and ,
year 3 is
he ; widower , . he . only ... hoping
as is a is
of . the , girls . , will ... by,
that some pass
and in passing will smile on him. He :
is on a vis. to southeast Georgianow;
to sec relatives. iV.U be gone about
two weeks. We hope we will have a ;
good piece from him when he returns!
j 10 , | J
Farmers’Alliance * have organized a _!
lodge , . at barge* . s school , - , house, ne.t ,
here and they have a fine membership.
We are glad to see the old farmers
dubbing together for their interest.
Thjy have been put to some trouble
about getting fertilizers on account of
the scarcity, but have some now. and
it seems that they are going to .farm
ing with more z-al than ever before,
Mr J. A. Cochran, P. M of Har¬
deman, was in our place to-day.
We are always giad to see him.
In conversation with some parties he
was telling what good luck he had
o ce with a'fis nap near West Point,
Said he caught abundance of fish, j
but was surprised one day when he j j
went to his trap. When he began to
draw near he heaid something male
ing a noise like somebody in distress,
and in going up he found a man' in
there. He had gone above and div
ed under into the trap After atring
the fish on a rope he then tried
to make his escape but the water be¬
ing so strong he couUI not dive out as
he had come in. There was no other
wa V for hi '>‘ 10 g et “ ut bei - au3e the
trap was made secure and Inched to
keep out rogues. We have good
many just such traps all over our
J It is easy to go in but
get out unless some one , helps
never
them.
Still waiting,
Tom.
Local and Personal.
Read the new card of Mr. James
E. Cargill.
The weather continues down near
the freezing point.
Rev. W. D. McGregor visited La
Grange last week.
Mr. Cf ft Cook and Rev W A.
jr ar j e y visited Columbus Wednesday.
That man is living too fast who
canno t find lime to read his county
paper.
Mr . Tonl Hogan and wife are on
a v i slt t o the ‘amily of Mr. A. F.
qq uett
Buchanan returned to
^ ^ a , M Ala „ yesterday
morning.
Mr. A. P. I horn as, the , genial • ,
tourist for . Patterscn 0 , 1M l homas, of
Columbus, with .. , Ins friends .- • » , here
was Q
* • c ‘
The sec0,ul 1 uarteil >' confe,enc *;
for the Hamilton circuit will be held
at Mount Zion embracing the r first .
Sunday in May and . Saturday 0 . , before, <•
The Iaw office of Mr - Mllton K
Hood, at Ocala, Fla., formerly a
r « lderit of Han,.Hon, was destroyed
b V fire a few days ago. His loss is
estimated at upwards of $. ,000.
“Regulate the Reglator.” w
. bl°°d , , _
means poison „ e a v
system. Make it pure and grow
strong with \arneisji , , g « -o
>
saparilla. It is safe and ®erlain.
120 doses for $1.00. All diuggists.
The Columbus Enquirer says, “If
you cannot take but one newspaper,
let that be your county paper,” ami
the Journal says, if you live in the
county of Harris, and can laze but
two, let the otner be the Columbus
Enquirer.
1 he Atlanta Journal had yesterday
a ver y interesting article on How
People Read Newspapers. Not a
few r borrow this Journal fiom the
P ost offices, sneak around the corner
an( l reaf ^ >b an< ^ frequently forget to
return it, so that its rightful owner
never gets it.
Mr. W. O. Johnson, editor of the
Columbus Enquirer, we learn will be
a candidate for the senatorial office
which under the rotation system falls
to Muscogee county this term in the
24th district. Lannie has many
friends in Harris, where he was rais
ed. who will take great pleasure in
doing all they can to secure his nom
ination. He is deservedly popular
with all who know him and would do
the state good service in the senate
chamber as he now does in the edi¬
torial sanctum. He will be hard to
beat.
Prof. M. H. Norris, who advertises
himself as “the eminent young tra
gedian, comedian and elocutionist,”
a native of Greenville, exhibited
himself at the college Tuesday even¬
ing, to a highly enraptured audience.
He came here with laurels fresh upon
his cheek, won by his maiden effort
the Friday night previous, before an
enthused audience in his native qity,
and the victory he won before a. ciit
ical Hamilton audience was almost
:
overpowering. That "ictory added
fresh laurels to his monumental
cheek, whose magnitude is only to
be matched by the amazement of ai!
who hear him.
Agents Wanted to work and travel
in Harris and adjoining Counties.
Will pay Salary of $50 to $100 per
month and all expenses. Write for
particulars and state Salary Wanted.
Sloan & Co., Manufacturers, 294
George St.. Cincinnati, O.
T he latest news from the German
capitol reported Emperor William as
dying. It will be rembered that he
celebrated his ninetieth birthday
only a few weeks ago. His eldest son.
the crown Prince, cannot survive
him many days.
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Big; Flsli of the Caspian.
In the southeastof Russia is the great
est salt lake in the world, the Caspian sea,
which has an area o FH 130,000 square miles
—that is, an area greater than all the
British Islands put together, with an ad¬
ditional island larger than England
thrown in extra — is intimately connected
with the fresh water fisheries of the Volga
and the Ural, for the fish migrate from
fresh water to salt and from salt water to
fresh there as elsewhere. The great
fishery of this region is that for the
sturgeon and its kindred; also for the
salmon, white salmon and knife fish. The
sturgeon family attains to an enormous
size, especially the beluga, which some*
times measures twenty feet in length and
weighs 2.500 pounds, though specimens of
over l.OUO pounds are rare. The sewrtiga
is also a giant, but the other sturgeons
are seldom taken above six feet in leintli
The number of these giants disposed of
annually at Astrakhan has in some years
been enormous—800,000 sturgeons, 100,
000 belugas, and millions of the others.
No wonder that there are complaints of
the failure of the supplies, and, as is
i usual where ignorance prevails, the mis¬
chief is attributed to every cause but the
; right. “It is because of the steamboats,”
says the moujik, and forthwith the moujik
j hates the sight of a steamboat. Bi\t steam
or no steam, the sturgeon of the Caspian
may soon become as rare a curiosity as
Thames salmon. Astrakhan, the princi¬
j pal Caspian port, is one of the most im¬
portant fishing stations in the world.
From this region alone the Russian reve¬
1 nue nets about £1,000,000 for fishery
licenses, and during the fishing season
' 20.L00 strangers, ranging in degree from
simple laborers to gigantic capitalists,
I come in to compete with the regular in¬
habitants for tiie profits, from the fish in
; < i 11 s 11*i es. —Chambers’ Journal.
; Story of Pugilist Sullivan.
t
j A fri ml tells me a good story of John
j L. Sub''van. Some years ago, when the
I r doubtable Boston boy was making a
tour ( f the country and marking his
I progress u ith victims of his massive mus-
1 ies. my friend happened to travel some
data nee on the same train with
i \Y icn they stopped for supper Sullivan
became an object of interest to the swarm
ol people at the station, and after supper,
j when lie went out on the platform and sat
down to read a sporting paper which
had bought, a mob gathered in a semi
' circle at a modest distance around him
and stared at him in mute and admiring
wonder. The big mail was in good humor
mid smiled as he looked at the pictures in
his paper. All old farmer finally broke
through the line and approached him and
f am:
"Mr. Sullivan, will you do me a
j favor?” ••Why not, daddy?” replied the cham¬
pion. amiably. “What is it? * »
j hu “Let “feel me,” hat said there the list .ancient of vours?” agricultur-
1
Sullivan, with one of his superb, power¬
j ful gestures, put out his arm, with a
j clinched list at the end of it that would
have filled a hat box. The old farmer felt
: it nil over. The arm*:ehl firm, like a baij
j of iron, and its owner grinned, while the
crowd began to snicker.
*\Ah.” said the farmer at last. “If you
was to hit a man with that, Mr. Sullivan,
I guess it would hurt him.” (
“That’s what they say I do, daddy,”
responded the giant, resuming hits perusal
of lbs paper.—Tiumble in New* York
News.
Wh a Pump Operates.
No pump draws water; a pump can no
more lift water than it can lift itself; it
lifts nothing at any time. The plunger or
bucket of a pump displaces the air wliici
is in the barrel of the pump, and exhausts
time which is in the feed or water pipe,
called by custom the suction pipe—prob
ably because it doesn't suck anything.
After the air is displaced from the
the pressure of the atmosphere pushes the
water to till the vacuum. The pump has
no other office to perform than to get the
air out of the pipes. Further: the size of
the “suction” pipe has nothing to do
the action of a pump; it does not make
the pump work one bit easier whether it
i- large or small. The size of the alleged
Miction pipe has an influence on the effi
acy ( f the pump only, and so far
“easy” working of the pump is concerned
it would act just as well if the pipe was
one inch in diameter as if it was four
inches. A great many persons think that
unless a feed pump is packed very
indeed ir will not “draw” anything, hav
ing a notion that, in someway, the bucket
or piUngeT has a puli on the water. We
have explained the falsity ol this in
ions tinu». we need not repent it. bu
if a mimp barrel is in good ord-w and the
bucket works true in it. very litile-pack¬
ing v’ ; ll make it air tight. The foregoing
remarks refer t• * lifting pumps s< > calletL
but i:-i forci pump- they do not altogether
apply —Milling Lughieer.