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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. •♦- 4 ' 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.